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London, England, 1808-09-16 00:00:00

CASTLEREAGH.

Adman'l4', Sept. 15.

bis Lor.o—l have the honour to acquaint your Lord.
that Captain Halstead, Ftrst Captain of the Ifihae-
t.ta, a'td Captain of the Fleet under the command of Ad-
a:nal oat Charies Cotton, °tithe Tagus, has arrived at the
Miniralty with dispatches, stating the surrender, by apt.
toi..tion, .4 the Russian Elect in the Port of Lisbon, on the
fa:lowing terms t—r be ships (nine sail of the line, and one
fiigate,) to hr held in deposit by His Ma3esty, till siz months
after a definit.ve treaty of peace between His Majesty and the
Emperor of Russia, and is be then restored.

The Rtiftiaa Olken acid *tames of the Beet to be sent

iws.diate!} to nu.sia without conditions.

I have the bosomy to be.

Yultr Lordship's humble Sernatt

T. the RiOt Uou. thr Lord Miler. MULGRAVE.
‘V hen our readers shall have perused these offi-
cial letters, they will not be surprised at the deli-
cacy of the Lout Msvoa, and bahkwardness of
Ilioistera to expedite the circulation of the
aura from Liza Taws. The French troops
are to evaccate 'Portugal, and not as pn-
sown of war ; that is, they are to carry
off ail the precious property of the Portuguese, of
which they have made plunder; they are to be
safely conveyed, we understand, in British ships,
and as soon as they set foot on French ground, we
know they are to be seat to the Rhine, to serve
ap.ast Austria, or to swell the ranks of the
Army of England, destined to renew the threat
of the invasion of this country. In the simplicity
of our hearts, and the weakness of our fears, we
tad been ruminating upon the retreat of the

10,000 Greeks, under Xtriontoit, from Asia ;
and bad anticipated the retreat of JCNOT through
Spain, to the Pyrenees, as a masterpiece of
generaknip, rivalling that of Illoatoc. But Joao/.
has dope much better. A march through Spain,
thon,;h croismid with brilliant success, must have
cost him 04IC half of his forces. By the present
Convention the whole may be landed safe is
France, to aid in any attempt which NAPO
limn may command aptiust Euglaud or her
Allies.—A. to 11/4e Basilan Bert, it appears that
tLe ()nicer& awl men arc to be sent immedi-
ately hone without conditions ; and although
we do not vouch the assertion, we believe that
it is ati puleted to restore the Russian Beet in com-
plete that is, in a better state than we now
Clod it. Aar lite boosted ►esults of the glo-
'ion+ victory of N'einieca, and the sanguine hopes
held oat lay :tl.a;aters, it is imoossib'.e for the
tcsnper to read this account with pa-
tieace. It was accordin;ly stated, last night, in
trio Miaisterial circles. that a fast-sailing ves-
s,•l vets to be iinta-.4.ately dispatched, with
ordrn t prevent the exciiiitiou of this Conven-
tioil ; but we sio not twl:eve they will interrupt
it. progieis. The Portuguese appear to have taken
of t:icaes,:ye, anal their religion and, on get-
. • IA of :ac Fiettcli, to have cared little about
:.• •• No Paper)" Administration.
It may Lc observed to the preceding account,

t :at it was Ion; after sunset sk hen the Park and
"..rver bans w:•re (.ed. Ileis is very unueual.—
urnleretaad 0;4 a da?• v....ace of .:pinion, a he-
tie2y shoul<l be fired at all. occasioaed the

%Ye have reef:l.:el, by the hope, from Havre,
Papers to th,.. Cal ;war. They contain Oaicod
Docothe...ts, 1.n.: before the Senate by the 111 -
I.: I::: of Fcrtiz.n Affairs, and of War.
'l..c tiro is r'..ited the Ist of April 14.4, and dttads
the ie...sans for the appointment or Joscru lirr
NAP aTE to the Throne of tivain. AsnowAs.t
ieawna, it charges the fate F;l•ani-h Goverumelt
Vi Ls! an inclination to joia nith England is a lifin

coalition against the peace of the Continent. It'
also litilteb, that it is the policy of France to hereon 1
that throne a friendly power ; hecituse, as Stain
can be the most effectual friend, it also can be 6.
the most decided enemy. It refers to the muter-
ti ~, between Spain and France before the cow-
ineneement of the erestiat century, awl argues,
that whilst a foreign family sat upon the Spauish
throne, the two empires were at war for three hun-
dred years ; yet the moment the relationship be-
tween these empires was cemented by the finally
compact, a century of sincere and efficient friend-
ship was the consequence. There is considerable
stress laid upon the influence of England in the
Spanish coualiels ; and the late Government is
charged with having encouraged the introduction
of English agents in that peninsula. This docu-
ment is signed by CHAMPAtiNr, the Minister for
Foreign Affairs.
The second document is dated the Ist Sep-
tember, and is signed by Clarke, Minister War.
It positively asserts the necessity of subjugating -
Spain. and of a military•foree of 200,000 MOO for
that purpose. It n torn mends t hut the Conscription of
1810 should be called out; and that to fill up pre-
sent vacancies, 84.000 men he immediately added •
to the armies. It renews the menace of invasion
against England, and that OW million of Nuip should
be immediately in erne for the consummation of
that object. There is also an allusion to the Ame.
rican Embargo, a measure made necessary, as it
asserts, by the oppressive commercial tyranny. of
this country. In pressing its recommendation for
increasing the military establishment of France,
it particularly comments upon the elevated situa-
tion that empire has to hold in Europil; and,
though placing the most unsluttod confidence in
the friendly 9onasels of the Russian Csettrt, and in
the evident policy Of Austria, it still urges the ne-
cessity of military preparations, and the finale,
tion of fresh levies and conscriptions.
This is the substance of the Paris news. The
pressure of other matter obliges us to defer the ar-
ticles at length until to-morrow.

The Hope. American schooner, is arrited at
Cowes, in the lsie of Wight, from Havre, with
dispatches fur the American Minister. She iies
broutht also Mr. ['ALLY, who was charged with
dispatches for Gen. AILMSTSONII, the Anwricon Mi-
nister at Paris, and will return direct t' America
with him and Mr. ATWAYTI4. •

The New York lettere and papers brought by
the Mail, the arrival of which we anisounced yester-
day, were delivered in the -morning. They are to the
7th last, at which.date the Embargo was rigidly en-
forced. So late as the c:.cf, it will be seen in oar
extracts, that an crier was issued in that spirit. The
soccessful progress of the resistance to Bossesitv
in Spain was, however, known in America and the
Wed Indies, and had already disposed than more
rani u rahly towards England. The A mericau writcrs
complain loudly that the ports of Spain and her
eednnies will now he thrown open exclusively to the
English, while the disputes with this country will
keep them abut against American commerce. The
summer has been uncommonly hot in America. The
'heat has been succeeded by heavy rains, and some
apprehensions are in consequence entertained of
a visit irons the yellow fever.

We hive received Ilambergh Papers frees the
loth to the :3 hit last, from which we hare made
some extracts. They abound with aceounts
of the movements of troops on the Ithitie.—
The French army assembling on that river, be-
tween Stra3burgh and Wesel, is to be called " the
Army of Beane of the Rhine."

We have given in our preceding. columns the
Manifesto of the Supreme Junta of Seville to the
Inferior Juntas, inviting them to meat and form
a new Government. It proposes that Deputies
shall be chosen by the respective Provincial Juntas,
and shall assemble as speedily as possible, in some
secure and centrical place.

To attempt to examine the Paper, denominated
a Au official account of the late events in Spain,"
and published by Boa APARTI4 upon any of the
pnncipli-v that are supposes' to regulate the State
Papers of other Nlooarcirs or Governments, would
be loss of time. The French Tyrant, though writh-
ing under a sense of accumulated disgraces,
and tholigh compelled by the universal notoriety
of his defeats to reuder some account of the trans-
actions on the Guadalquirir, oa the Guaiialaviar,
and ou the Ebro, which have covered his late vic-
torious arms with so much di►honour, yet neither
respects truth, order of time, nor intelligibility, in
his narration. We are coliveyed from Aodujar to
Saragossa, or back to del Rio Secen, or
forward to Valentia, or to Burgos, Bilbao, Madrid,
and Barcelona, just as the necemity of supporting
the illusion dictates to the composer of this fable.
But, to Lisbon, or to Cadiz, to JUNOT, or to Ro-
rattY, our attention-is never directed. All men-
tion of them is carefully avoided. The classic allu-
sion to the fate of SAISINUS Trruitti:s, one of
CESAR'S Li. utenalit 4, who was defeated and killed
by Ails:oats, King of the Eburone., a story drawn
frain the fifth honk of CissAa's Commentaries, and
which is applied to the conduct, as well as to the
fate of DueoN T, may be very amusing, but is by
un mean: s.milar or apiirop fate. DLPONT may,

tewetet, anticipatetis Iltoter's sehtenee, efter this
indication ; ;and if he revisit Frianei, int niuy v felt'
rely on the some teheption which l'itt.&iittivE re-

emved at Itenr.cs, after his di.feat iii 3'nifalgur; or
as
_Biters hits recently experienced on his return,
Stnikiiiol. He inky perfittly understand
the most <Amcor. INI4AItZtS of Nleuuttitt'A official

account ; and we should suppose that he would
prefer the captivity of Grenada, or of Cadiz, to the
air of Itoclifort, or of Puns. Notwith'standing,
however, the perpetual effort to coweeal, suppress,
or mutilate the facts uarrateil, enough is iris-

closed and admitted, to sati•fc the itio:t sceptical
politician, relative to the atliii;•• is Spaiii. It is al-

lowtoi that Saragossa and VA+.ltntia ha►e reitulsrd

his troops ; that in every province his own au4 his
brother's Government is spurned with abhorrence ;
that neither Joverm's "majestic attitudes:" nor
his " virtues,". have had power to overcome the re-
bellious prisieiple of loyalty awl adherence to the

Sovereign whom he holds in prison ; lastly, that
" almost all the Spanish troops in Gallicia and An-
dalusia had taken part with the insurgents, while
the troops of the line at Madrid, St. Sebes/tiro. Bar-
celona. &c. left those places to join them." Is it
pomade more niqiressively to prove, that Spain is
universally hostile to this ferocious tyrant, and to
his brother ? We may rather -congratulate, then
lament, that such a paper. and such% confession,
hare been extorted from the Far xca Memos,
by his reverses beyond the Pyrenees. It will pro-
duce an adequate impression throughout Europe.
Even iu Delimit*, and in Muscovy, annotators will
be found to elucidate and ei.plain enc. !mysterious
I passages. The ernes or PA LA.F.pi, of CAsTA N Oa,
Ind of so many other Spanish llemes. will supply
:01 the ambiguitivs. we may safely learn to the
/ decision of mankind, whether NAPoLcort and Jo-
sum have or have not effected the reduction even
/of any one province of Spain. After the Mord-
teurs of ISOU and 1807, it mint he owned that
Ithe humiliation of being compelled to publish such
in exposition as the pnicid, moat severe on the
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Corsican Emperor.
With what different' sensations do we turn,
ifter perusing it, to the " Manifesto, or Addreis
'lsithe Spanish Nation," issued by the Junta of
Irvine es the 3d of August which we publish
thisday. What a contrast does it cresent to the
seances, sophistries, and ►iolatiorrs of fart, ease
toned in BONAPARTE'S oanstive ! Ilow temperate. ^
plow salutary. and judicious, is the line of conduct
pointed out to the Spsoish oatioo to purview, at a
moment when a diticiilens ruffian, clothed with
the insignia of Soverituin potter. lois imprisoned
their rightful Prioce,deelareri tsar ou the nation,
sad extinguished the•►regular Government 1—
Haw admirable is the advice given to the compo-
nent Provinces and Juntes,of The Spanish Monar-
cliy. to delegate Represeu teases Gan each, who may
fonts a central and supreme Government, which
ell most obey ! With what modesty and patriotism
are the -rights of Andalusia, and of Seville, stated,
and yet waved ! Dow obviously is the selection of
Ciudad Real, or of Alusegro, in La Mancha, as
the
_portion of Spain, from its position the melt
inaccessible to the of France, dictated by
wisdom ! What temper, what coolnem, and what
firmness are titillated, while a for. ign Usurper
threPteos to reduce them to his opprobrious yoke !
It sipsreserved for the Spanish people to exhibit
this ausimatiog spectacle -to Europe, after the hoc-
rots of a French Revolutiso; followed tr: the still
mote destructive ettemOieutfis,Corsican Dynasty.
It were far better to perisla with the former, than
to survive es the conscriptsand the slaves of a mi-
litary despot, intoxicated with victories, savage in his
anger, lawless in his power, regardless of Treaties,
and a stranger to all the sympathies of our Com-
mon mature. Such is, indeed, the only alterna-
tive apparently left us. Subjeetiou pad extermi-
nation, or victory and independence, must equally
be obtained at the point of the bayonet, by the
people of Spain, and by those of Great Britain. •

The embarkation of the troops to compose the
expedition, under General BAIRD, fitting out at
Cork, commenced on the gth instant. A paptr of
yesterday announced that the" expedition had r-
tustily sailed ; but this statement was probably
premature.

On the 16th ult. the Coderriere frigate, Captain
Srt Exit, captured, on the Jamaica station, a French
privateer cutter.
Dispatches were received at the Admiralty yes-
terday, from Sir J. B. W•sssx, Commander-in-
Chief on the Halifax station. Likewise from Ad-
miral Rowtgv, at Jamaica, and Admiral Sir ALEI-
•NDRIt COCHR•x E, on the Leeward Island nation.
The Medical Staff for the Expedition is now at-
fink/oot, and assembling at Plymouth; it. is to

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consist of Dirpnty Inspector off Troops. Iloso ;
Staff Physicians, Nett, Musat.sv ; Surgeons,
PLSNDERLSATU, Coos, Dancer. and FOllllll6,
Capt. SKILLXO, who is arrived at Boston, from
the Isles of France, states, that English Indiamen,
some very valuable, and (Aber prize vessels, were
carried in every day. A French frigate from Eu-
rope was watering for a cruise, which had re-
turned after an action with a British frigate. The
Surveilleiste sailed 17th April for Bourl.on, to con-
voy • valnahleEnglish ludiaman, which had been
captured by a French lateen-rigged vessel, of one
gun and sixty-five men. The Indiaman had 500,u00
dollars on board, bsside indigo and goods. An
Indiaman bound op the Persian Guipli, valued at
' 600.uszo &Mrs, had just been carried in. The
Camunsiere frigate wa-= out cruising.