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WEDNESI )4 V. DECFMIIER 7.

We have received letters from Prince Edward's
lsland to the I,t of November, which state, that
Sir GEORGE Plt FIRMA* was, on the 25th October,
naitiog at 11.ilifax the arrival of the 49th Regi-
ment, from Canada, to sail from thence with die
secret Expedition ; and that Major-General MAR-
TI). 11 IN TER returns (loin New Brunswick, to take
the command in Sir GEORGE PREVOST'S absence.
The Expedition is supposed to be destined against
Martinique.

We yesterdar announced the arrival of a Rus-
sian Meirenger with tlispatches of great importance.
lie was accompanied by a French Messenger.—
They
came in a Flag of Truce, which arrived
on Monday morning in Dover Roads, from Sou-
!ague. A boat immediately put off frown shore
to visit her, ■nd returned with dispatches, which
were scut off expreir to town, where they ar-
rived in the evening. The flag of truce afterwards
came into the middle of the harbour, where
she remained moored, on Monday night, with a
guard placed mam her. The two Messengers con-
rimiest on board. The dispatches are from the
Russian and French Ministers for Foreign Affairs,
and there can be no doubt that they contain the
reply to the answer sent by our Government to the
late overture of the two Emperors, from Erfurth.

At a moment when the result of the Convention
of Cintra, by rendering a march through Spain
indispensable, has detained the army of General
Monax a 1111 l ng the impervious roads of Estrerna-
dura, or of Salamanca ; and when the errors of Ad-
ministration here at home have increased the mis-
fortune, by sending BAIRD'S force to the North-
west instead of. the North-east extremity of Spain ;
we derive some coasulatiou, mingled with hope,
from the perusal of BON A PARTSS third and fourth
Bulletins, published in the Msnitenr. The two
preceding Bulletins, loovever &hosed in certain
parts by insulting reflections on the tipaui.h or on
the English nations, yet contained a narration of
military proceedings. and informed us of the sue-
ces.ful operations carried on against the Gallician
army under General MARV, against the army of
Estremadura, and finally of the capture, or rather
entry of the French into Burgos. Those were
certainly events, if not of the most brilliant or
derisive description, let such as might justly clial-
leage commemoration. In the two last official

Gazettes of the tyrant, for such they must be elk.
teemed, we almost lose sight of the French army,
and of the campaign, while we are amused, or rather
disgusted, with contumelious taunts, with empty
menaces, or with savage denunciations of vengeance.
It was not assuredly thus that A I.FIAN OM after
the victory of the Granicus or of bons, wrote to
01.1 arias, or to ANTITATEO, to communicate to
them the intelligence of his triumphs in Persia!
Ila neither vilified, nor traduced, nor insulted the
enemy whom he vanquished. But, with all his
vices, the Macedonian Prince possessed an elcrated
and a virtuous mind, nrigtnally imbued with the
maxims of huinaluty and of philosophy, implaisted
by his great preceptor, till they were erased or ob-
scured by prospenty. The Corsican Usurper is
only a subtle, profound, and able ruffian, de.tituie
of faith, polluted with crimes, and inarching from
one extremity of Europe to the other, w:thout pre-
text or motive, except to perpetuate and to coatinn
his own revolutionary greatness, and that of his fa-
mily, by eon, ertsug the earth into a sa-t charnel-
' house. He nay, and he does impress terror ; but
he nev.:r can attract refl.ect, or insure other adnii-

ration thin that which his tranieendadt abilities
excite—an admiration which Tisane', and CFR.
ass BORGIA, and Louts the 3111th, names con-
signed to eternal abhorrence, in a great degree,
equally claim!
The third and fourth Bulletins embrace only a
very limited portion of time, including barely three
days, from the 12th to the 15th of November. if
Spain is to be conquered by Dukes, and Kings,
and Emperors, then is she lost indeed ! For while
Don Joseph, as appears by the first Bulletin, issues
his Royal Orders to the Duke of CORNEGLIANOt
on the Ebro; and while NAPOLEON reviews his
troops, or composes Bulletins, at Burgos, three
Dukes are sent, by different roads, to intercept, or
to cut off the flying army of BLAKE. The Stu-
dents of Salamanca, as welt $1,..1 the Clergy, regular
and sccular,appear, from their patriotic ardour and
religious seal, to attract the rage, and to provoke
rite bitterest invectives of BONAPARTE. The Bi-
shop of N'A!LENCIA alone forms an exception. A
iirtaous Bishop, who observes the doctrines of the
Gospel,and who is inspired with Christian charity."
Such trilogiunts, from such a man, form the se-
verest inculpation. We believe, however, that
many such Bishops will not be found in Spain. It
is evident that Burgos was quitted by the greater
part of its inhabitants, who preferred flight to re-
maining in the city. It presented only a desert,
and empty habitations, to the invaders, as the Bul-
letin admits. But NAPOLEON, it seems, has found
wool there, to the amount of Jo (uo
doubt of livres) And though this Imperial robber
pretends to be only subjecting Spain for his own
brother, yet lie sequesters or confiscates all this
wool to his own use, buder the pretence that it be-
longs to Monks, or other insurgents, and " will
therefore be confiscated and appropriated, in
the first instance, to the indemnification of

the losses sustained by the French." lie de-
plores the unmerited fate of his worthy adhe-
rent, those excellent Citizens and Ministers,
who betrayed their country and 'heir Prince;
AZAN2I, MAUAREDO, OTAILIZEL, and CAMPO
&MANGE," names which, to the latest posterity,
will be proverbially infamous in the Spanish an-
nals ! His contemptuous reflexion cn the country-
men of CEILVANTES, lie might have spared, us it was
in La Mancha, the very scene of Don Quixote's
adventures, that his army, under Du PONT, surren-
dered, not four months ago. "To the Monks and
the Inquisition, who have plunged this nation into
barbarism," he returns again ; but it is the English
on whom he lavishes, his heaviest imprecations.
These weapons are, happily, harmless and impo-
tent. Besides, N APOLEON affirms, that " the bulk of
the Spanish nation is still guod. Biscay, Navarre. and
the izreater Nit i.f Arragon itself, are well disposed."
PAL•rox, we trust, wi❑ shew him that the in-
Inibitants of Saragossa, at least, hate not de-
generated shire August last. Against the Count
Da FLORIDA BLANCA, the Corsican directs his
concluding shaft; " England and the Monks" are
still uppermost in his mind ; to both these, ri.o-
MD.& BLANCA has always been blindly devoted.—
Credulity and fenaticisin are the characteristics of

the President of the Central Junta. NAroLeots
well knows that his poisoned weapons, corruption
and treason. can find no entrance in the bosom of
this virtuous Minister. If the two next Bulletins
do not contain matter of more exultation or tri-
umph than these before us, we believe that they
will not excite much joy at Paris, or mush pleasure
at St. Cloud.

It has been the delusive effort of the present
Ministers, since their accession to office, to impress
upon this part of the empire, that however irre-
movable theirobjections to the abstract ingestiou of
Catholic Emancipation, they were still determined
to act upon a system, at least in its subordinate
points, practically conciliatory towards so nu-
merous and respectable a portion of oar fellow sub-
jects. How far their conduct has coincided with
their profemious, we leave the British public to
judge, from the following undeniable statement.
In the county of Tipperary, a county of an ex-
tensive Catholic population and influence, the
great lauded proprietors of which, as well Pro-
aestant as Catholic, have recorded their opinions in
favour of relaxation from religious disabilities, a
Ministerial disrespect has been most marked and
most peculiarly felt. Since the year 1793, it has,
without an exception, been the practice to appoint,
at the various assizes, a certain proportion of the
Catholic gentlemen of the county upon the Grand
Jury. Even during those years, when, from the
existence of civil commotion, party dissension and
religious acerbity ton generally prevailed in Ire-
land, no deviation from this practice took place in
the county of Tipperary. It remained, however,
for the present servants of the Crowu to regulate
their official tenure, not alone by the denial of dis-
puted rights, but by the actual abeyance of those
privilege:os hick the Iri►h Legislature had solemnly
conferred for centuries of efficient and recognised
loyalty. Hill 'Englishmen beli,ve it, that in
that county, at the Spring AS-sista fur the present
year, (recollect the first Assizes, when the Minis-
terial Sheriff- lied the seli•cti in) there was but one
Catholic upon the Grand Jury and, at the last
Summer Assizes, that deveriptiou of gentlemen
were tonally and most But
the ebit and the ihss.itisfaction do not teitninate

here. Iu everi rokinty tenth of DiiVio, save Tip.
perary County, the High S:ieriffs are appointtd
upon the recommendation of the It,epreseatutivei:
Fut reasons best known to the limb tluverinetu,
the Members of the county of Tipperary have am
only been overlooked in such appointrnebts, hut YU
individual ta allarn the great majority of the fres.
holders have declared their dislike, and whose pria.
triples arc notoriously hostile to the leilings of the
population, is the mat) invested with that prefer-
enee,'which the constitution and its practice have
coufided to the proper organs of the public opmiois
When Sit AILIMIJC. LLLESLET Shalt be more at
liberty to attend 'lithe duties of his eiiil situation,
we should hope that he will begin tofc,a some bpi,
pathy for millloas of his country:new, chose set;
crime is no atteebment to those tenets of reliziisi;
the support of wench has been one of Vis aro.
meat, io favour of the Coavratiou of Cants, amt
oil die perfect restoration of which he to uhtLus
ously congratulated the Bishop of-Oromro.

Ilia MAJESTY is espactad in town, this (lily, to
hold a Conic at the Wet is Palace.
Yesterday the
.Duke of YORK held a pulihc
day at his office in the I Luse Guards, and gsie
audiences to--
Viscount Castierengh.
Major-General Campbell, wpm his leaving town t 3
the command of the t.ecuud of Guards, ordeeoi
Lord Edward Somerset, upon his leaving town to tale
the command of the sth ItcOnrat of Cavalry iu Spain
Colonel Douglas upon his gML; to Spain.
General Sir John Doyle, upon his leaving town to resume
tircommand is Guernsey.
His Royal Highness also gave audiences to a
number of other Officers, previous to their 'emu;
off for Spain and ilium other Military business.
Most of the Officera,.who took leave of the Duke
of YORK yesterday, previous to their going to Spaiu,
left town lust night.
Yesterday at two o'clock a Cabinet Council was
held at the For..ign Office, which wit till near tine
o'clock. After the Council broke up, Lord Ca*.
TLEREAGH went to the Duke of Yoea, supposed to
be for the purpose of consulting his Royal High.
tress upon sending more troops to Spaiii.
The Mary and Margaret, from Lisbon to Ayr, se
wrecked uear Tenby : crew supposed to be a!
lost. The cargo, conaisting of lemons and can
has been lauded wader the direction of Lial
Castrooa.

The Sally, Riming, hound to England, his
baCk to Oporto leaky, and is condewued.
The SparrisA Hero, Mcisca axe, from London,
for Gibraltar and South Aeue•rica, was all well oa
the 13th ult. Cape Trafalgar South East twelit
leagues.
The Re era, RIDLEY , arrived off Dover, frr.rt
Malta, (one of ilia ...iaiss-ry's snip Standen!:
convoy). put hack to Gibraltar. The Captain stn:. s,
that four or five others of the seine tied also pat
back.
Yesterday, the Loan Maya;, after exatuiinn;
the Meal-weighers returns, ortiercil the joke ut
bread to be reduced are as- ice and a hair; to take
place to-morrow, when the pattern loaf, wheaten,
will be *old for in. 2d. and .lou,„:114:..1 ts. U!f.
On Sunday night au Expres:: sin sent off by
the Duke of Yoga, to the Oifievr tiounnaadingi
►he first battalioas of the id and 3d Regiments of
Foot Guards, stationed at Chatham, to hold th.
ao-
seirea in readiness for foreign service. The 2d
battalions of the mote Regiments, doing duty in
London, received similar orders ye,tertlay; they are
to march this day fur Chatham. The whole dre t
is to amount to about two thousand six hued•ed
niiik and tile ; they are to be under the coinucial
of Major-General CAMPBELL, who had last ..tru-
ing an interview with the Duke of Yoe[, to re-
ceive his orders. They are to be embarked Ali
Thursday or Friday morning for Spain.
will he put on board lighter', and conveyed mesa
the Riser Medway to the transports that ate 11
convey them to their destination.
A fabricated cope of the Speech supposed rn
have been delivered by Mr. JlarEaSolll, at t:.
opening of Congress, it as pul di died at Liverpool
Friday last. The person by a horn it was prime:,
supposing it to be genuine. has, in the liandsara.. :
manner, sent circular letters to the Propriena, of
Newspapers in town, that he published it en the
authority of a merchant (A: that town, and sliest";
them that it is a fabrication.
On Sunday, about three o'clock in the at'
anon, a large merchant ship was captured oil' R
by a French privateer, in siAht of a great num.. r
of people irons the shore ; and it twirl then
calm, that the privateer coo!il make no sad, ts:,
gullies were quickly manned by townspeople wit's
intent to retake the prize; the nit-, however, mat'
ing much sorriest them, they rowed to the Neill
Road for assistance, and there they luckily fount
the Beak and another vessel, from which six othei
boats were manned, pursued the privateer mud bet
prize, and took them both., without athY cont" 1"
able resistance, and brought them tato Bye blare
bour. r

We are desired, from de mad tapas:iv;
autharity, to inform our restless, that Lori
Nasals has not, as was lately asserted at
meeting, a reversionary grant of 1,1u0:. per
or any other stun, after the death of Lord
Bear. The pension of ',shoal. pe• a!, au'
aar some years ago granted to Lora Fiu•
to commence after his father's death, w
yalsised by him on his being appointed
MAJESTY Governor of the Isle of Vi 01:
the public purse bas beau relieved, iustes4
ing been burdened, by that appoiatnient
lisbury Paper.)
Mr. VS HITFORD, one of the Coroners feu
shire, a few day- since took an inquisita
body of a seaman belonging to one of
Jr.ser's ships, who died at tae Royal
Plymouth, in enateionence of the brute
shop-nutte, who, woet. he was koacked do
affray with another man, on Richmond-11'
mouth-Dock. ju Loped on his bony, which
lino, that he languished several daytk au
the greatest agony. The taro •er'a bg.
singe foaud a verdict of /1"i Xavier a
perpetrator, and he hr.. been coinmitteti
ter Gaol, to take his trial for the offence.

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