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these novel scene% that the ides of personal clanger.
could produce upon her the slightest effect, or
baud her freut her benevolent and patriotic pur-
pose. The 104 of women sod boys during the
stile was very great, and fully propswtionate to that
of men ;in lac they were always the must fur-
ward; awl the difficulty U 41.11 to teach them a pru-
dent and proper aenee of their danger.
Luring the night of the tarp of August, the
Flitch lire was particalarly ilisatrautive, and when
their ImitterioN ceased, flames *ere observed to
burst out iu massy parts of the buildings in their
possession ; and on the mo iii itt g of the 14th, to the
greut surprise of the Arragemese, their columns
were seen at a distance retreating over the plain,
on the road to Pamplona. Their departure had
probably been hastened by intelligence that the
Junta of Valencia hail dispatched tiooo men to
jinn the levies in A rragoti, destined to relieve the
capital.
Thus terminated the siege of Saragossa, mind),
whether it be considered with reference to the supe-
riority of the 1110110 of annoyance in possession of
the enemy, to the utter incapability of the place to
resist a re;zular and continued attack, to the in-
stances oleo lei:tire and individual courage, to the
patience and heroism of itsdefemlers, of either sex,
and us every• situation of life, eau bra deemed second
to none recorded in the annals of glielelit or modern
tunes.

E BRITISH PRESS.

Inst.:ON,

THURSDAY. Aran. 6.

We untlert:ind that a running ship from the West
Indies anchored, on Tuesday night, off Gearesend,
and has bionght au account that Fort Bourbon hos
surrendered, h which eveut we ore in e Mete pod.
fetlS.oll Of the whole Island of Martinique Guada.
loupe will he next attacked, and is expected to
shore the some fate speedily.

Government, yesterday, received an account
from llolland, stating, that the writer had received
a series of the Motsitrier to the .Bth last. BONA..
PANTE wv; at that date still in Paris, and had sum-
moned en estraordivary meeting of the Senate on
the let instain--at which it was supposed he would
moist in verse's, and open the proceedings with a
speech upon fair preparations of Anotriti. and the
general state of Europe. Hiss next step, no doubt,
would la; to set. uhf immediately for the unity.—
Tl.e. occuinsts P.oits Hollaild state, that the Aus-
trians have mutton sodden irruption into the Tyrol,
and that on the 19th of last mouth an action took
puce. in which the French were defeated.
Troops are pouring into Germuisy in all direc-
tions.
Upon the strain of Split' the Nomura,. preserves
a profound silence; a circumstance from which we
may infer that' it has nothing favourable from that
quarter to communicate.
General DUPONT, who surrendered to the. Si*_
iiiards smiler Cutsta, is said to have been brought
to trial, and condemned to death. Ile was shot
by torch-light. This punishment is understood
to have produced Lima, tuurnsuring union the
French Officers.
While NAPOLEON is cuisloyed. at the same mo-
ment, iu endeavouring to complete the subjenra-
Lim of the Peninsula beyond the Pyrenees, 111111 to
overturns the House of Austria ; his restless, impla-
cable. cud vigilaut policy, which never sleeps, has
impelkd him to attack us in a most vulnerable
part, at the other extremity of thee The re-
.cent *driers. received at the India House, from
Governor Dont:AN, of Roinhuy, 'listed 30th Octo-
ber, and 451, of November last, having, not without
reason, excited some alarm in Leadenhall-stri et.
He mutes, that he hid hitherto prevented the emis-
saries of the enemy from forming nay establish-
ment on floe westeni coast of Guaitrat, or in the
Ray of Kutch. which separates Gusurat frmn the
countries Ii Mg along the hanks of the River Islam.
But he likewise infante. the Secret Committee,
that lie was melee grooms apprehensions, that
Gestural G SIMS SI my. had iirbiessleor would prevail
na FATALII Scutatt, /Dog of Periii, to cede to the
Corsican Emperor, wore than one important port,
or Wend, in the Golf of Persia. No absolute car.
'allay had heel attained, when Governor Den.
letters crane away, retqwcting the places in
train of tiegcoiatios. The two ishinds of (Mous, and
ofliishwi, were unquestionably among the titian.
her. The former, though only about five miles in
circumference. was, as is well known, previous to
the discovery of the issue sge to India, by way of
the Cape of aonil Hope, and the urrival of the'
Portuguese under GiIEA and At.noontailet, the
Queen and Mart of the East. Its 1622, it was de-
aroyed Small ANNA% the Gecer, in conitine-
tion with the Ecglisis East India Cainnaniy. Yet,
!iltatox, alluding to Its wealth and prosperity,
save.
" Pei on a Tlarone of royal Mate, whirls tn.
" tlat.hune the wealth of (Num, or of bol "
At pre., in it is only a sterile rock of salt-petre,
senrcely inhabited, and almost foretten, during
near two e..eitnries ; but its pervitinu. at the Harrow
entracce of the Persian Gum between 60mb:trona'
to the North, iris the main-laud. and Mascot, nod
Arabia, will always resider it NAME important, either
to Ens Ar rt., or to us. ('lute to Orient, to the
south, lies the island of ; AS much larger
in tottenst than Orono*, as °Wenn, en the French
roust, is to the iseighhonriog isle of Rise. Kishmi
produces the tined grapes and ninon* of ley place
in the Pennon territorier. Both Wanda belong to
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PATAI.I.SCSAL and it was Meal feared that he
would cede thew to Franc*. We must retake
them it any rick, or leave the commerce awl emu-
usunication of the (3udot' Persia, to the enemy.—
It was likewhie reported at Surat, in October hot.
that the small island of Carek would oleo fall into
N♦eusLUN's hands. It lies much higher up the
Gull; cleanly midway between Orions, and Burros,
on the Euphrates, liner the two factories of Ilushire
amid Bundericke, which are great marts for the
East India Cowpony's broad cloths, and other
articles ►ent animully into Persia. 'llte►e facts
are tniquestioteible ; though, probably Mr. Tart:
LlaiSON is too much cr.:copied with giving writer
ships to his cousin, to trouble his head ttleint i.datuls
in the Gulf of Persia. A• to Mr. CANNINCt, we
knots that information of the most preciee nod ac-
curate nature, relative to the probable iuu•rgues
and exertions of Boss tesure, et the Court of
Scherax, to gala possevsiou of the Islam's ill the
Perim' Galt; was sent to the Secretary of State for
the Foreign Depurtineut, within 4 few mouths of
his coming into office. But Ise never sew ally
thing at the end of his telescope, except either
Prussia or Spain.
There is another small rock or Wood, situate
exactly at the narrowest part of the (led See, be-
tween rise Arubian and Abyssinian shores. It is
very small, stn ale, and liar no water on it. But,
like Omits, its putative' renders it most import-
ant, in a us well as in a cocuittereial point
of siew. We occupied it iii I 79:), and IWo,
while the French held Egypt ; but we have diner
evacuated and abandoned it. Narni.vusi rill
not neglect or aleepiee Perim. though Mr. CAN-
N Ng may. These facts ere at least as much de-
serving Alinisterial attention, id examining Mrs.
CLAitta:, or writin4 treasury letters, to enforce at-
tendance front the most distant quarter* of the
kingdom, ill order to acquit the late Commander-
in-Chief of a fact, of which the whole country
believe him culpable. It is it feet that Mr. Fos-
Tee's nephew, the Member fur Dubin', was on
board the packet, I under soil for that city, front
Holyhead, when the Messenger dispatched by Mi-
nisters overtook him, and brought him back, like a
mats in custody, to Loudon. We do not find this
4;eisileinatt's name in the list of the on
the Duke of Yogi's ease.
H'r have given, iis our [act page, an urtiele
intitled Obsercations by as Austrian Patridt,
which has been privately circulated at Ilamlotrgh,
where it is considered as the sub stunce of the De-
elaratiott of the Court of Viemitt agaiust Euice.
Its want of official form, and its circulation only in
manuscript, under any other circumstances, would
eutirely destroy its weight ; but from the enslaved
state of the press at Hamburgh, in the Ileitis of
the French, however to slerate end just the senti-
ments which it contains may be, it mina be
considered no person would dare to publish
it mienly, however well coming:oA of its an-
thruticit)•. As mu argument in favour of the
claims of Austria to the good opinions of Europe,
and a vitidiention of the measures of vigour and
precaution which she has taken, the statement
it fair one; but it dots not appear to possess any
other merit, nor do we see any good effect that
it is likely to produce. Declaratious of this kind
are chiefly titterer:Mg, as official acknos led;, Meats
of the nettled relation* between two powers, upon
which some doubt or mistinderstandilig way rest,
as lung to the mind is left at the mercy of public
rumour and interested speculation. The official
form and distinct avowal of the government, are, oh
course, the most important features of any instru-
ment intended far this purpose.

Yesterday morning flog MAJEncY and Princess
Aucusra, accomparied by Lord 111•RDINIJ, Lowly
Tres neralo SPENCLII,GWIr NNE, NI A NN Int%
and Fl riftfilf, Hon. Mr. 111.416 Mr, awl Colonel
TAYLOR, rude in IViiiileur Great Park,und
raturn-
ed et twelve o'vlock.
The QUERN. mai Princesses SOPHIA and ANGLIA,
ere much better ; lint the weather being so very
cold, they cannot venture out of the Palace, for
fear of a freph
There have rioted the Duke of Yoak, from the
Imh .0 the .24th of March, Noblcinen, General
°therm, and Military Officers in general, to the
number of 614.

Yesterday, the Dukes of You and Cu II SEA-
-1.4 D dtlw.l with General Het.ae, Lseutoi.aut-
tinvernor of Chelsea Ho.pital ; there was a nn-
inerons party of Geuentl Officers to meet tlo it
Highotesiies.
Tuesday, the Dukes of Yogi( 311(1 CUMS Ea-
i. Vn, Mr. CAN NI No, ands numemits party, dined
aid) the CI% Nc1.1.1.401t of the Ex( SICQU LK.
The Duke of l'ulta will leave toasts, this morn-
log, for flatlands, to aceoinpuity the Ditches* to
11'intlsor, ois a visit to their NI aJ ES rims, where they
will remain till Saturday.
The Town and Borough of Deal, at an assembly
hell on the 30111 silt. after voting the Thanks of the
Court to Nfr.lVattni.s, Ur. Host.rwuon, one of
the M.eitiltera for the County of heat, Lord Foi.u-
Seontl. Ste. for their manly contiact on the recent
inve.telatton, add the following Hew:Anti 311
:
"That this Court heg to declare their firm attachment to
their Sovereign end to tier Conatitutinn, but at the sanw
time they canto,' Rehear to capers., that, as long as public
&noes exist. the Comae" CMS nes er expert to enjoy the
beneficial sod happy effect uf Limit Vinistitatios which la the
pride of Eartishmea, and the ailaiirstion of the world.
This Coact therefore humbly hopes teat the Honourable
llimor o 1 f'utousons will persevere in the investigation sad
?crony, of such abases, till corroption, which has been the
dortufall of tither 'aides, is fully routed out, and the moot*
wily have He astiatactiaa of knowing sad (nine: that Ike
soreificee they make me fur the politic plod, and nut per. "SW to lase or iiisevrer purposes."
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