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reached.. net' eespeZling rise. ea! part U.
oPeratians3n Calabria. In otir,Paper o the.Bth
we copied the following ankle from a Vuteb
Paper, dated Naples, the tOth of July : " On the
Ist instant, 6000 English landed in the Gulf of St.
Eephemia. in Calabria. On the 4th, the General
RlCabilsa, attacked them, with the 421
regiment of the line, and the Polish regiment. He
was repulsed. General Comer:az, who was dan-
gerously wounded, was taken prisoner, together with
SOO Poles."
It required no extraordinary sagacity to discover
that this was, to the Frene, a complete deice, aed
such it proves to have altually been. From official
details, given in our prezeding columns, it appears
that the British troops landed on the lit July, to the
southward of St. Euphemia, in the bay of that
name. No opposition was made to their landing ;
and a reconnoitring party was immediately pushed
forward, who dislodged a body of 4QO French
troops from a wool, making about 203 of them
prisoners. The hardy Calahrian peasants flocked in
crowds to our standards. Upwards of 5000 embo-
died themselves in less than two lays. Provisions
were brought in plenty, and the peasants refused re-
ceiving payment for them ; alleging that they could
not suffer those to pay them, who came to rescue
them from the hateful tyranny of the Prench. Ge-
neral S ruAar published a proclamation to the CI..
labrians, inviting them to shake off the yoke of
French tyronny—he promised them proteftion for
their persons, property, laws. and religion—he of-
fered arms to the loyal and the brave, and pardon
to those who had been debauched from their allegi-
ance by the Usurper.—But the loyal and brave Ca-
labrians required no iacentive but the love of theirs
country, and their hatred of the Usurper. The
English were under the command of General
Stu • NT, and the French under General RIGNIIII ;
who. having retired to concentrate his force, had
~solved to engage the English; but he was an.
Iticipated by General STUART; who commenced
the attack on the 4th of July, on the plain of St.
Euphemia. The French had 7031 infantry,
,upwards of 300 cavalry, and four pieces of ar-
tillery—our own force, exclusive of the Calabrianh
was, we suppose. about four thousand. Thi'
battle was -obstinate, but the victory was decisive
*II our side. The enemy lost in killed, woended,
and prisoners, about 3000 men.—General Cow-
wet, and other Officers of rank, were made pri-
soners.—We had Captain MACLEAN. of the 20th
font, and 40 men killed, and I l officers and T5O
nr!sr wounded. General STI; ART laments that he
had not had a few of the Ts% Dragoons, which he
left behind him at Messina r not a man would then
have escaped. Roth Foot landed during the

azlion, and did signal service. General Renews
retired with the remains of his army tnwarris
Catanzaro„ and Colonels Kamp and Ross were
detached in pursuit of him.
It is not unworthy of remark, that General
RECINItt is the very officer who commanded the
French gatrisnn at Cello, and made a furious
charge against General Memos. in which he as-
serted. that Egypt was lost by, the inzapacity of
Maxon, instead of being won by the valour cf ;he
rnglith --.lt is further to be chtervcd, that C .;•.iir al
STUA AT commanded the English gars ison in Alexan-
dria, and is the very •Mcer whom Ssaitsairtm,
ISOM A IP • itT6.4 commercial spy, is his famous visit to
Egypt. represented as an officer of infierhlr talents.
1 The voiory of 9t. Etiphema, has completely refit-
lted these aspersions.
The official reports. which we hey, given,
do not bring down die in iit.ay oi-era:ions in
Calabria farther than the 4-h of July, inclu-
sive ; but the article in the Dutch Pap:r, dated
toth of July, horn whirls we have made the ahore
eztrasi. adds." that the English, Itariv.ficen joined.
by a reinforcement of 30taiil men, and between 3
and 4900 Calabrian ins:trgents, advanced into the
'ountry, and quitted the pr0m:76044 their ships, one
league ham Coronet, where they were attacked by
j the General txf Division, Vesper*. at the head of
10,000 infantry and duoo cATbiry." " The Eng-
lish," it adds, " were broken, routed, and, at the
moment this was written, eighteen hundred Estg-
lish prisoners had arrived at head quarters ;
and General Vaanite was in pursuit of the
rest of the corps. which •it.WAS hoped would
not be ahk to reach their ships." No farther no-
tice, however, is taken in the Fren:li pipers of this
viAory of General V EtDlir. ; and we .as 1.;;L: deal):
it will prove to have been a defeat. as the acic-miits
I from Naples so late as the sth of Au: as', admit
that the English at that date maintained their
ground at Arnantea, wash they landed on il:e ;.t
of July, and it was hoped' that General li Los :se
would be able to coiled. by the end o: the mooch. an
army sufficient to defeat them." This is suffizient
to shear, that the English were in great force, and
we entertain a con&iesit ezpeaation, that the dis-
patches arrived yesterday at Portsmouth. contain
ACC/413U of 104:rant su:cesses obtained by our