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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
•, GOTTEN,VRGH NAIL. •
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GIOTTENSUILaiII• AUCI. CS.
A report, which was spread to-day, has gained
some credence, that the Pettier Augustenburg had
• been arrested in Noi way, and that his party had
taken up arms to support his cause.
STOCKROLII. AUQ. '24.
itii4 Royal Majesty hat received the fulluoing
rtkelitt from Gen. Cauut tVachtemister
." Owiiig to the skilful arrangements and un-
wearied exertions of Admiral Barmy Puke, the fleet
sailed in thirty-six hours from flemosond to Ruta-
Roast,
_where it came to anchors is a thick fug.
which probably prevents it from being perceived by
the enemy, which you'd neither be done during thu
eel.nte cOurse or the pu,siege, since the Adiuiral
:he measure of precaution of steering
to-:iw,;:i East klitarkan, the, gun-boats teeing in tow
of /1w ship of war. 4t two o'clock this aftetweiii,
the; troops were ordered to disembark. The vim
having been landed with the tiro brignole. me Ad-
jutant-General,Colonel Ligersbring, marched him-
self, with part or the goad troop., to esecopy &beck-
seeleitle, and another part marelierl, snider the orders
of t'elonel Baron Fleetwood, in the direction of
Byrtee. I have this mumeut received the report
that DjAneboda has been taken,. Capt. Ander-
son, who commanded the first division of cliasseare,
was wounded. I intend, as soon at possible, to
pteeh on against Unwa, nod shall feel s xtremiely
happy in being uhle to report to your Majesty the
reduction of that important place.
" G.. W A t.IIIII6ISTr.
Commatuler-in•Churf of the Army of the Coast."
▪ Head-quarters, Rat.m, the i;th Aug. 1.609"
131uckhoirs GarelL VAugast 22.)
AVG. QS.
Under date of the 29th July, Captain Walilatetlt.
Of
the Royal Navy, who coininimiht the armed
ship Neptasse, has reported, that oil the (26th July,
at uiue o'clock in the morning. he got a pilot oia
boar 1, who brought him intelligence that the
enemy must come to author off Pohl, enure the
commutecation with Sweetish ships was not yet per-
nutted ; at II o'clock they dropped auction. Cap-
uto, N'antsteett immediately proceeded to Winner
with a gag of trace, went to the Goverour and in-
quired the r acne why the convoy was not permitted
to sail up to the town? The (governor rusts erttl, that
he hied orders nit to pennit any ships btsien with
Sweeltsh produce to enter the port; but told lion at
tle mine time that the Duke of Mecklenloirg, who
was acquainted with the arrival of the convoy,
wished to speak with the commander of the
couvoy. lend see his orders. The Captain im-
mediately waited on his Higleuem, and produced
his orders, and a return of the ships under his
convoy, and their cargoes. The Dale told
4. dist however painful it proviel to him to let the
convoy go hack, especially as he found that the
grestest part of the cargoesbelottged to hisown sub-
jects, yet he could not allow the ships to unload,
without the French Emperor having -grouted the
necessary leave for that purpose, winch could not be
olstalued within papa than Ili week+, but that hi. High-
sees 'should be glad if the Captain would pro..wed
to IlemhuTgh, and endeavour to obtain from the
French Minister, residing there, leave for tile I'oll-
- to euload is Wie:nar." The Captain deter-
mined to go to Ifitinburgh, and from thence to
Travernunde. where he found the French Minister,
and this ineasare succeeded well, that the Mini-
sters sent orders to Wismar a:ed Rostock, that all
Swedish, Pomeranian. and ociarol ships, laden with
Swedish produce. and foroished with authentic
certificates, should lie allowed to unload mid load
in the above ports.—(Stockkolni Commercial Ga-
zettes Aug. 11.1

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LOIN DON.
TIIURSDAY. Serrano& 7.
A Gottenburgh Miii hits arrived, with letters
and papers to the ]9th last, from which we have
made some extracts.
" 'Dien is co doubt." 82y the Ministers in their
favourite prints, " that the subject of the Expe-
dition to the Scheldt must undergo a serious invea-
ti4ation; and it must he ascertained, why an Ex-
peditioii, so adittirobly planned, was not snore Noe-
cessful ?" Admiralty planned indeed ! liy,
this is begging the question. The pohl;c have no
right to pri,ione that it was brier planned than
executed. The fault lies somewhere ; but whether
with the platinum or theexecutors, Call only h- nicer-
taitiel by a fair and full inquiry into this conilliet of
both, before a competent tribunal. The MiM•ter
as well as the Commander most, therefore, go to his
trial.—Siths:aatial justice ems be done to the coun-
try in no other way. This might he said in the
caws of failure in any Expedition whites er, but it
applies with peculiar force to the present case.—
here the scene of action is remote, as in the case
of Buenos Ayres, there the whole responsilii ity of
the execution rests, printer flicie. with the General.
He is too far removed to receive assistance from
home. To take advantage of circumstances as they
arise, to improve success, or qualify disaster, wort
all depend upon his own genius. The praise or
t'ne blame, the vii.tory or the defe4t, are all his own.
But that is not the case of the Expedition to the
Si.lieldt. The scene of operations might be said
to be at our own hair. :11iiiisters boasted, that,
ith their tele;raplis I signal vessels, they had
formed a direct soil continned hoe of coin
ration with Waleheren. The Ecpislition might,
therefore, be considered as having never been out of
their own handle. The Commander-in-Chief might
as well have his head-quarters in Dmvoiog-strert.
at Middleborgh. Every thing wining at Fltishing
might have bees kuuon at the our, as well as at the
other. with the ilitiereliee only of a few hems. In-
the preparabou. making for the siege of

Finsliiiig, awl the delay end difficulties ewcnunt►r-
ed iu its reduction, were u:1 perfectly well kaowil iu
Liglaud during its progress.--i. Did Altuisters com-
plain of this delay ? lltil they ciludetnit this course,
owl think diet it would have been wiser to here
dashed up the Scheldt at once, than to have waited
for the reduction of Flushing ? If such was their
opinion, they ought to have instructed tl•e Earl of
CUATUAM accordingly ; and if they did not, they
are equally to blame.

Rimy thing could add to the gloomy presnges
1. which Lord %VELUM:COWS Gazette Umpires, it
would be the official information derived from .10-
lIEPH BONAPARTE'S recent publications. These do-
cuments, which we must relectatitly regard as too
authentic, till up the vacuities left in Sir Airmen's
diepatch of the Bth, from Deleytosa. They are
dated from Madrid, on the 10th and lath of Au-
Ovid. • By them we learn with the deepest concern,
that "the first and fifth corps of the French aver-
took, beyond the bridge of A rzoLispo, the rear-guard
of the English army, entirely destroyed it, and tuck
, from it thirty pieces of canna°, their caissons, and
a great part of their equipage, many horses, and a
' greet number of prisoners." Now, is this advan-
tage, thus preteteled to have been gained, eltoge-
*her fictitious and imegimuy ? Or, is it real ? We
*aspect that it w ill turn tint to he true. Lord
litratosutots, iu the fort of his letter that relates
dra his peasing the Tagus, as Ministersheve given it
to the public, is very laconic. He says, " accord-
;Daly, I 'yawned on the 4th, and cro.,sed the Trips
by the bridge of Arzobispo, end have continued
my route to this place, iu which lam well situated
to derelict the peesage of Alinarex, and the lower
parts of the Tagus." •He add., it General Cu errs
crossed the river on the night of the sth; and he
is still at the bridge of AraeOspo." There is r ma-
nifest contradiction between the English and the
Madrid Gazettes., upon this material fact. The
:• ter has every title to belief, being signed as
" Order of the Day," by " Atiousims BELIAARD,
Governor-General." On the other Weird, would
Lord Ws:Luau-roe he silent OK so serious a point
as the deAtruction of his rear-guard ? Or would Loud
CASTLEREAGH dare to suppress it ? Ministers
would moreover wish not to cover themselves with
ridieele, for having advised their Sovereign to raise
to the peerage, r General, who, ia the very next
fArzeke to that which announced his elevatioft.
wou'al seem to base altogether sullied, by 66 pre-
(iodate and roo oo taus a flight, 'the lustre of the
In-
tish arm., and his own recent dignity. Tune will
soon divulge the. secret ; and, meaftuhile, we find
that VCR ILOAt. after covering himself and his
troops with glor7, much in the same manner that
CUESTA has dam, was completely defeated by
JOORPIa BONAPARTE, on the 11th of last month,
in the neighbonthood of Toledo. Of this de-
feat there can remain oie dould, as VLTICOAA
himself owns it, in a letter, under hid own hand.
to the Supreme Joule, writteu on the lath of
August, and adds, that he is retreating, or. more
properly, flying. into the Sierra Morena. If say
further authentication of Lord Weitttuovriti's dis-
asters were wanting, it might even be found in Jo-
seems 800 •PARTIie " Proclamation fro& bus licael-
quarters at Toledo, August the 9th," hi which he
does not hesitate to say, "The Etieli.ll fly every
way in disorder, cud by roads hitherto judged
impracticable to artillery. The 2d and sth corps
see pursuing them." Really, it seems
,as if Lord
%Veto% avow was acting oa the Tawas the very
soetsee so lately performed by SOUL? out the Douro
sod On the 11i
From tic, picture, which is rendered
more penifisl by the premature triumph and re-
compense that preceded it, we would turn to Lord
Cessett•n; and to Zealand, for connalistion. But .
it is not to be found in that quarter. Indeed, who
that knew the Commander-in-Chief to whom the
Expedition was entrusted, ever expected any bril-
liant or glorious molts from it ; except inasmuch
as the indecision. procrastinabon. and habitual in-
dolence, or ineptitude of the General, might be
over-ruled by the Military and Naval Officers em-
ployed under him, or in co-operation With Lis?—
Sir HILUAItO STEM HAS.* letter elognently and
iadignantly delineates his feelings, as well as those
of the Navy. No doubt Parlismeut will make seine
inquiry into the causes that produced the delay,
anti the failure, of the attempt on Lido and on
Antwerp.
As little solid ground for hope do we discover in
the protracted argot 'anon, carrying on at Ranh or
at Altenburg. If, Muria of seuseless Expeditious
to Ischia and I'rocida; or, Mewed of• more insen-
sate and precipitate marches 'to Madrid. we had,
indeed, soled the House of Austria, in Germany,
Own we might, at this iostaut, have enabled
FRANttli she lid. to hold manlier language***
that which, we fear, he must adopt. Even efts,'
expelling SOUL? from Portugal, if we had thew.
I may sent ft om the Tagus, and from Melexeo, thirty
thousaiel troops to the bead of the Adriatic; if
they had only arrived_ there in August ; Bona-
PAR re mug have retried in his demand*, and hove

hi• forees. If the attempt ogaitist the
Fmk It fleet in the Scheldt. ILallo, uud Antwerp.
had been committer, to a General of energy mat
tleei,ion, who had known where to direct Ins blows.
mid had •truck them before the enemy hail been
allowed ample leisure to fortify. to inundate. end to

r soilible am gray for their protectien ; then we
ii. 'might polio!, here animated the Dutch and the
min. to Make some exertions far their own
ancipition. Austria might At fault have bees
sided, if not say.d, ie the Netherlands. But the
imbecility of our counsels ax home, is admirably
seconded by the errors, or incapacity, of our Com-
manders abroad. The one, by his °An admission,
plunges into en elirmy'; coneitry—for such was
New Castilelearing• two pauses behind him, in.

adequately guarded, though he knew that they
would probably be attacked ; and precipitates him-
self upon Madrid, without magazines, without car-
riages, without provisions, and without any con-
certed plan of military operation with his Ally.—
The other, with an army and a fleet, adequate to
have carried all before him, had he at once mount-
ed the Scheldt, sits down before Flushing, which
most hare fallen into his hands after the destruction
of the French fleet, and the cap•ure of A litwerp.—
And, though he rays " he early understood that
the enemy w re assembling in consideralde force,
at all points ;" yet, by a strange species of incre-
dolity, or rather infatuation, in defiatios of all in-
formation, he tells us that " lie was unwilling to
give toe touch credit to these reports," till he found
threat to be Lou true, and that he must therefore
abandon the enterprise. With slush au Adminis-
*tration at home, ;I:111 with such Generals iu the tielJ,
can we wonder that lioN AP AIME ovarruminnd &ab-
ject. Europe ?
We do not recollect atity moment of time, since
the commeaceineut of the presi-in ill-conducted
war with France, when a greater degree Of. gloom
overhung die prospect, or when more melancholy
furcimillugs and apprehensions !pervaded the peddle
I, than at the beginning of September, 1809.
If we look towards Vienna, whether the Austrian

Government succumb under the energies of BULALA-
PARTE, and its own weakness; whether Faaects
consent to sick to a level with i'as:Deatc
itT order to be still allowed to retain the
external honours of Royalty, the poem et eir-
cosset," Ins opera and his guards ;—or whether,
unable to manna to such degradation in the scale
of Europe, that unfortunate Pricce shall finally
resolve to try once more the chance of arms, what
can we rsasonebly hope from that quarter 1 What
ought we to expect Irian a Cabinet, which has
abatidiand the faithful and iutrepid Tyrolean. to
the scourge of NAPOLI:4IN ; while it surrendered
B • . Gratz, and Pre burg, as the price of a pre-
Airiness suspension of hostilities for a few weeks ?
What ()Moll of wisdom, rigour, or resource, has
Austria exbillited suer tbe• battle of Wagrain
True, her territorial arid physical means of resist-
ance are still immense. But, the cepacity to di-
rect three means, seems to he elitiuct. The instant
for resuscitating and reanimating Clemson'', bits
been allowed to poss. Aasony, Frew oina, Bruns-
wick, IlanoVer, fleser, as well as al: the countries
watered by the Elbe, the Weser, and the Etna:.
were ready to have risen in imitation Of the Tyrol.
We eacinot *gaits 1!).311•Ct to aitoers a sef'nmi
effort. Did the Austrian Government look to
Lord CHATHAM for assistance P Auti were them:sitar
ferences at Each, or at Orator% protracted
the delusive anticipation of pleasing intelligence
from' the Bauks of the Scheldt 1 Did Count -
SSA/Mori, or svliciever else may preside in the
Councils of the unfortunate descendant of NIARIA
Tishaarsa, look to the name of Parr, as a tali:o-
- by which the Netherlands were to be re-von-
Tiered for his Sovaitricx ? Alas! names have
ceased, in the nineteenth century, to Impress with '
terror. Even that of Boa ',PARTE would soon cease
to inspire awe, if it were not 'obtained by actions.
Did the Nrgnciatorsou the part of Austria rcully
believe that England, in the person of Lord CHAT:.
nAM, had 'tut over another liii•arasosiott.is to the
Low Countries; and that the victories of 1709, at
the gates of Antwerp and of Ghent, were about to
be renewed on the sume theatre, in 1809? If they
did, if such dellisive phantoms have fur a moment
upheld their courage. they have learned to adopt
more temperate opinions, and olea4 more conso-
nant to fact. That Lord CHATHAM, with an over-
whehniag force. military and naval, has com-
pelled ficiarral MONNET to surrender Flushing,
after a siege and a bombardment, we have seen.—
That he- has lost, by his delays, his irresolution,
and his want of enterprise, the occasion of attack-
ing, and of destroying NAPOLEON'S fleet in the
Scheldt, we have to lament. As well might
the Court of Vienna expect to see the genius of
the first Ead of CHATHAM revived in hir.Carr-
XING, or the talents of Sir NVii.i.tau TENPLE

appear in the person of Mr. Fitear, as to expect
decision, rapidity, and extent of veins, in the prevent
Commander of our forces on the coopt of Holland.
Where, end how, we may Iw permitted to ask, has
he attained either knowledge or experience ? Ex•
cept alto Captum, during a few inontlui, in vng,
and 1780, when lie served iii the %Vest Indite

anti, 'grin, fitislt; the short. but eventful aud
meutur.thle expedition of 179 u, to th- Fielder,

wilen he acte,t ow the Mentor to the 7Weistachrs of
that time ; we tike re that I.nit.l UitATIIAM, Ilk!
Michael eaei4e. is • (irneri6l—
That Ina.? set a elowiron in the field.
I' Nur the tli,iniom u' • loAtte koks••
M.rs liman • .I..••Ser.'
Have the Atistrinn Nientiers looked to Spain for
Mid, !ind. 4att:. they itn;igi-lad that thous') Lord

•
CII4IIIMI should not vanquish Peestanorrc neat
overrun Holland or Flarde►s, yet that from Castile
deliverance an victory would arise? Did they
really think, that Iwcause Viscount Warrtvoiron
drove ou t I; LT, and enter' d Oporto, he soul(' likes
wit, enter Madrid, and expel .losren as easily?
We fear that art only the Cabinet of Corners., but
another Cabinet, nearer house, nourished these
delusions. They must now be awakened to the
awful and hinuiliatiug reverse, which our last
dispatches from that quarter announce. On,
army is no longer in New Castile. It is flying
before a superior enemy ; an enemy who knows how
to conceal, and when to disclose Isis pleas; who,
we fear, deceived Viscount WELLINGTON, drew bins
on, profited of his characteristic ardour, affected to
dread his force; and when he had plunged into the
snare, profited of his error-F.—Where was he on the
Bth of August ? At a village in Extremadura, half.
way between Almarair mid Trustllo. ►Were mete
his sick and his wounded ? Iu Vic roe's keeping.
Where were the French forces, which, it is admit-
ted. did not fall short, under Vicroa. Soutar..
NET. SOULT, and Moertea, of 75;000 men; as we
stated, some weeks ago, on good authority ?' They
were noquestionably preparing to cross the Tagus,
and to pursue the British. lint, where was Cc_
EFTA? where YE:Nauss? It is of little caned quern
to inquire. From such allies, what co•openution,
or what assistance can he expected ? Ctltirra may
not, like MOCLA. and an many other traitors, have
meant to betray us to NAFOLIi ON : hat his rooduct,
as a commander, seems to have been calculated to
produce the most d•omplicated misfortune. The M
'Marne) Papers boldly assure is., that Viscount W kl..
LI heron is iu no ;longer of being attacked at 1)e.
lentos. We do not, by any mewls, predict that be
trill meet with the fate of Beam:mac, at Saratoga;
of Lord Cuanwa cuts, at York-Town; or. rtes
that of the [Nike of Yonx, and Lord C/IA IMAM,
at the Helder. We are even fully persuaded that
he will do all that presence of mind, decision, and
gallantry, can achieve, to extricate, aud to save hi•
army. But, we again repeat, that the Ministers
who advised His MAJEITY to send 30,000 men
into the centre of Spain, there to meet 75,0a0 or
110,000 French, instead of rending them to the aid
of Austria, as they ought to have done; merit in-
peachmern. Sir Anytime, no doubt, has obeyed
the orders transmitted hi:n from brace. Re is.
therefore, blameless ; and his services moy justly
deserve the !moors conferred on him by the
Crowo. We are not disposed to dispute it. But,
if the :onion; as soon as Parliament meets, does nos
Institute an inquiry into the authors of the march
to 3liciriti. and express its sense of their courluet,
we shall be equaldy deceived and disappointed.

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swwwwesevermems
Yesterday, at noon. MS MAJESTY arrived from
Windsor, ut the QuErw's Palace. and was shortly
afterwards attended by their Royal litzhnessee the
Dukes of. Yves, KENT, CARIBRIDGY, mud CUSS*
MERLAND.
Soon after two o'clock His MAJESTY held • psi.
este levee, which a 3% atteotierl by-
-1 he Archbishop of Canterbury, and his Mather the TAM
Chancellor of loola.id, thus !rule of Portland ; Earl Caro.
den; the Earl of Wcstinoiland ; the Eoni of Liverpoola
Each Bannon ; kart of tiarroway Viscount Castlereagh;
Lord Dialgr.ive; .1 a Ballad, (is waitinal• Sir Stepoea
Cottrell ; Sir Cash& Dundee ; Sir Sydney Smith ; General
(aromas 14 sraltitig), Mr. Perceval, Mr. Canning,
and Mr. 12)&1.
'('he followiug had the honour of being pre-
sented to His MAJESTY :
Lard Mamma. •
litear.Adiairai Sir Sydney Smith, on Ids retina from the
chief esvateowunawi to tile Brusils.
Licistenant-Greeral Benson, on Ina appointment to the
command of due tolls hoysl Wrirron Samoan.
sir David Duddy', on his promotion to the Colouitleg
of lbw ystl, reeimeni
Sir Ceoire Rupert, on being created a B leaflet.
His MAJZlTYrfterwttrds held • Privy Council.
and gave amliener to the Duke of PORTLAND, and
the rest of the Cabinet Ministers; when Mr. Kr.
DKR, the Judge. Advocate, laid before His Ma.
J EST 't the proceedings of several Courts-Martial.
About half-past five Ilia MAJIIITY left towu for
The Duke of PORTLAWD, thougb still much is.
disposed, was well enough to attend His M AJUITI'
io Council, yesterday. by whom he was most gra.
cionnly received.
The Friendship, BALTEN, from Bridgewater to
Smithion, fou:whaed on the 2d instant, near Mil-
ford.
The Defence, PARR, bound to Chester, (one of
the Tyrian's convoy.) is put hack to Oporto.
Jortue Jan, JA ISSN, Atrillitlli. BURKS/SKR, JR..
liana, STIIRODER, and four other vessels bola Arch..
angel, were captured. 2‘l ult. by a Danish privateer
of 12 giros and 72 meas. The former is retaken by
the crew.
In The Gazette of Saturday, the vacancy 'Maly
rweasioned in the 95th regiment, by the death et
(len. MAIIIIINOVAII, is tilled by no less than four
Colonel s! A Colonel has been appointed to each of
the three battalions of that regiment, of which Sir
Munn I)ERDAS ha. been iinide Colonel is Chief!
By the'letters from Coronnit we leant, that the
Min.:Ms de la ROMANI Was at Lena; part of his •
forces et Shammies, end Lori at Ciudad Rodrigo.
It was reported at 'manna that he want° be appoint-
ed President of the Supreme Junta. Gen. BACLIES..
TURoll was loarcliing it; Sr. Annero, in order to -
Make oil atteck upon that town in co-operation with ' .
solar EngliNii trogittcs ; soil the vessels ib the har-
t/nor of Ferrol %seri 4getting ready for sea with all
pOsiable expedition, in order to proceed to Catlia.
Great rrjrucings hail taken place at Coronation the •
ov moon of the victory cif Telavera.
Leiters, it is mild, hove been received from Mer.
iirvie, by a vessel arrived at Ply th. which~l
stoic. that accounts had been moriveil there that _
Coaritalosspe had sunandered, by capon:atom), to
Ilia hl AJMlry'. arms. and rinoLAt'd to be l'lsved
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