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and returned a prisoner, on his parole, frets Eng-
land. It will not be p.eiended that Ju,ster. who
brings back *army, with their property, if not
with their phluder.,.4iods is u simibu predicament
to NittaEative..-<Wes bletrou, who capitulated
in Egypt, disgraced by NAPOLEON So far from
it, that he has been constantly' employed ever
since, is ut this hour Governor-General of Tus-
cany, cud we rather think is, like .111140 T, one of
the Corsican revolutionary grandees or Dukes.
When, as we all recollect, at the battle of Ey'au,
in February, last your, one of the ic;.,iinients of the
French army was repulsed, and lust their eagles;
how did B011•PARTIt act Ito disgrace, or
break them ?—..No! He seprimanded them ; hut,
like en able General, lie promised to restore to
them their military ensigns, as soon as they should
deserve that honour, by acts of valour in the tired.
He is ton well aware of the cubic of a veteran
army, inured to the climate, and which may
serve hiorrlaa more effectually in Biscay, or ill C -
. talonia. than they could have done in Portugal,
ant to employ them' against the Spaniards. It is
gulch enemies as Sir Ilan DALRYMPLE, end such
Conventions*. those made on the .29.11 and 30th of
August, that he desires to meet. If CAITAR oft
bad been armored by the same spirit at Binder), .
ow it PAt.irox had coldly calculated at Saragossa,
the impediments to any defence tapittnt his titinit-
wins inottilents, neither Andalusia, nor Arragoti,
hail repulsed and huirdiled be legions of the Ty-
rant. If BY NG, or if CALLiee, haarcoMmiaialeal at
TmTidgar, perhaps the event of that glarioas day
might hare resembled the 27th of July, 1778,
bets ems Karim'. and rl'Onvit.t.tLes. The victory
gained by Viarrionovott at Blenheim might
have• proved asldefeat ill the hoods of Or.sman-
Of stseiveonitnandeis we may say with Houkce-r.-
a Nun has juveutus unit percatihns,
" Infecit solar sanguiee Nolen,
Pirrboairpie, &inmate= ceeidit
krAiorissius,..hasilasksyse airun.n
They are the ‘Vat.t.ast.ave, the Iluatuans, one
the bAI.IIY.I4F ILES, whom we must employ, alien we
are to used and to vanquish the Generals of /Jo-
AP.tarc.
A full report of the proceedings of the Meeting
of the Comity of Ewes, held at Chrhurionl, yea.
tertlay, is gives in our preceding ealetrias. The
result precisely what ire anticipated flow the
fears and intrigues of Ministers, and the instruments
which in that county they lord in their heads. he
Answer to the City of London Address, thee
hoped. would damp the spirit of the country, but
they have been clreeired. Their machinations, and
the miserahte and disgraceful intrigues of their
creatures, yesterday, ut Chelmsford, will not Ott-
-Inalsly prove snore rervierahle to their cause.
Yesterday, at two o'clock. u Cabinet Council was
held at the Foreign-office, which was attended by
the Date of PoltTklaD and all the other Cubinct
;Ministers.
The 9th Light Dragoons are this dayto receive
seven piano& each mail, part of the prize-me:ley
of Buenos Ayres.
Centro! SPRIIeER. is sliortly expected Immo from
Lisbon. Ile was tict ready to take Isis departure lir
the .11fricaPer lately arrived at Portsmouth.
Geueralalluoae marched
oil the 13th from Lisbon.
We bare sincere pleasure in stating, by the lee
occoulits four the. Bettie, that gallant 011icer Sir
JAMES S.tuatAßiswasrecovered from his late
dispositl6ll.
A report prevailed, yesterday, that Marshal Net
had ensteineadot sect-re defeat, in which he was token
prisootr, iltji 14,000 of :his troops. by the emu-
'dank TII airport has not been.traraidEo ally good
authority.
Sir IlaW DALItimPLE attended on Thursday ut
Mr. CANNING', Offiee.
Notwithstairdiug the prohibition of the lauding
of the troops at f:orutitte, until leave was obtained
bun the "eat of tlovernment, the horses, we are
told, were to be disembarked immediately, and
every exertirs nerd to complete the arrangement
Ina& some days pervious, upon the application of
Lientimerit-COlositi ENE sloe, for the reception of
• traaps.
Private accorrots from Holland state, that a New
Tlkcree. more rigorous than any which preceded it,
wet intted on the 17th inst. The following are the
principal ait:eles contained in it
I. All 6s4n.nation is respeaded sari! farther orders.
" 11. The reprrintendime of the coast shall be divided
Into three drstnets I. From the Helder to the ideal of
Wisteberm shalt he commanded by General Datmeneree.
g From the Helder to ilarlingese 17 Admiral 1M Wilder.
a. From timeline', to the J:that bey Gym:al Castanet.
" 111. The couitaattiag Centrals rhea be personally re-
sponsible Re .4 the el‘istius meassres tclating
to the total shutting of the ports of the kinplotn, the corn-
snouirstioe with the Clbenly. it well MI for all Ilium se may
hereon.. order. There shall he a daily repent made by them
to !Ise Minister, or ',immediat to tie King; ..n.l teary are
required to sire an account of the ntgligeoce or (halfwit-
minus of the civil and military 'cents.
" IV ill fishing hosts shall be compelled to return to the
piece from *hew* they sailed, and they shall nut Ile ad.
motet) any • ions elm, even unties the pretence that obey
Ins, received damage. If they shall he found to bare any
proofs of baviag emonmeiested with the enemy on hoard,
each es strangers ant belonging to their creos; the least
package of reerebandite of any kind ; letters or newspapers,
alms shall become the property of the Civil oe Military An-
" a u hi/ ie.sisit ip attisimg Orris, as, mono mi the legality
• •. it( she al isiwe shall have been (kit: mined by the Judo-, a In,
Baal prosmosee a delleitioeseetedee iii the course of Rfeeen
, 1 I dorsal thrtiersyl,
V All succebant vume', whether hearing the pat.-It Oe
a lonise flag, which shall attempt to enter any of the her-
bears dt made iu the oho% c-nsotatinord district-, he
earned et by a boat, and upprseed that they lie tired
epos if they attempt to cuter."
• This Decree is stated is be the reault of an en-
vitemeut agreed upon b. the two Estes:awes at
Erfortis. They hare, it is said. tumoral) pledge d
thews: Ires, that none of the ports or places under
their eimtrool shall he Open to any l'oreign cern-
surrey. The lig of' esclusion is to extend from St.
Potet.tiArgh to jaionne.

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