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subjects, whose zeal and boondissa devotion to
their Sovereign, and spirit manifested on every
occasion, form a remarkable epoch iu the history
of nation.,"

COTTENBIIRGH- MAIL

GtoTTENIMItaII, SEPT. 1.
General Armlet& returned.l Stockholm yes-
terday afternoon. The troop. were drawn out to
receive him. He alighted at the entrance of the
gate and walked along the front of the ranks with
his hat in his hand, amidst the reiterated hussar of
the soldiers and populace.
srociutot.w. Aun. 18.
A letter wri ten by General Count Wrede to His
Majesty's nctual Adjutant-General of the army,
and dated Ohissfors, the 19th inst. contains tht fol-
intelligence:
"This 11111 l Dent so express arrived here by sea
from Admiral Puke, relative to his extiedttinuv
passage from Ilernassind to Ratan, lintl the land-
-1114 etiveled on the morning of the 17th inst. The
whole Russian force had- taken op a position on
this side of the river Uinta, seedy to cross it on doe
17th at night, hut havieg the same evening re-
ceived information of the rieseent etl;stted l.v nor
troops, the commanding General of the Ripisinn
troops ordered part of them to march to the north-
ward, and the remainder to halt mar their former
position. As bite as yesterday we remained per-
fectly ignorant of, the occurencea, in coneerpence
of the Russians, who form the cordon, guarding so
closely the lines of their position, that no kind of
intelligence could be obtained bt nor scouts. But
Gen. Erristen having this day moss-1 Irwin Ronnie.
the communication was %Dimmed, slid ne shalt now,
without delay, cross the Ore ; the il.:Bculties, how-
ever, which we bare to encoutiter, see very greet.
" From want of regular bridges, we have been
ohliged to form a bridge of boats, m order to con-
vey the artillery and train across the rii..r; and the
seine obstacle will obstruct onr advance at every
rivulet we trivet with on our mart li, the Russians
having burnt all the bridges between this place
and 'Jmea, a eircumstaiw:e which cannot but strong-
ly impede. the rapidity of our inovements."
(StockAolas (.azette.)

LIST-INDIA SHIPPING AND PASSENGERS.

It is with pleasure we announce the safe arrival
of the followiitg ships, off Portland. the 7th inst.
Mader convoy or Majesty's ship, NaysGo.
Exeter, Meritun; Elpleinstene, Craig; Alm, irk Castle,
Pte.ssstt ; Wineholst.s, tiufat ; °teat., David
rs:set, Lock, jun.; F-gsex, Nisbet ; Walourr 15.• Ads ;
COML. Dun:ford; Rural Gentle, Gritsltle; Osamu, Loch-
ner ; 81,1111: Thuwaa Gre lvule, Pa;terani ;
SaikJ tram China the 7115 Mireb,an.l Irma Peuan, the
ath April; arrived lit St. Hchuia the 75h July.
Caranarth..n, Russ, from Bombay, with se-
veral whiikri. iu rollipally, sailed front St.
ou thk. 17th of Joh .
The Warlea, Montagne, separated from the
China fleet the 6th Julie, tiff Point-Natal.
The Dianred 111411 oh Miff sailed froth St. Helena
for India, to join Admiral Drury, the 14th July.
The Doris, Capt. Cole, WAS at Prince of Wales's
Islaud, the Silt April, where the Wilkelaniera frigate
was lying as guard-ship.
The Lim inaii-of-war, which convoyed the Beet
to China, and from thence Meek to St. Helena, re-
ossified to °augury to England the Beisgel fleet,
daily expected at that istasid.
Majesty's ship Lion, with the China feet
under coavoy, sailed from China the 7th March ;
made Polo Auro the ly,h ; entered the Straits of
Sincapore the 19th ; joined hy His Majesty's ship
Blanche, Captain Dawsou ; anchored at 1I:11117CH
the .22.1; weighed ez.ld ; anclimed at Peini4 the
dist ; sailed front throve the Silt April; the tith,
spoke a convoy from armed, under His Majesty's
ship Semarang, (small to Penang ; the ,2711 i. in
lat. 4. S. long. 94. E. the country ships Castlereagh
and Resolution parted company, Island to BOW.
bay ; and, on the 17th July, arrived at St. Helena.
The present arrivals do lint bring any positive
information of the missing ship-s, of the last, or
preceding homeward-lemur, fleets. During their
stay at St. Helena, however, an American ship
arrived, the master of which reported that three
Inchworm had been captured and sent into the
Mammas. Ile could not recollect their 11411ICS
but it is conjectured by some, that these ships are
the Glary, Erperiment, and the Lord
which were supposed to have foundered un or
shoat the 46th of November, to the westward of
the Straits of Sande, where they were last seen by
the Albion, jil the greatest distreso. Others suppose
the captured ships to he three of the four missing
ships of the last fleet ; rm. the Bengal, C(/nova.
Jane Ditches, of Gordon, and Lady Jane Amin,.
It is, hooever, generally believed, that the last-
mentioned missing ships hue put lino Mailagmemr,
where they will remain dorm.; the prevaleme of
ow periodical westerly wools. and that. in the event
of their having received damage, they will return to
Bombay to repair.
The pursers of the ElpAinstone, Exeter, and
.Winehilsea, arrived yesterday too gat the Ito.
dia-House.

l'ivief•nrxers per Royal (:eurixe
W. Haring, Ears I Major and Mrs. Vining, and family.
Peeewngers per narrow (;rertrille :--
Catathl Mrs. Oakes; pent .Cul. Boyle, Sumba) Marine
Pillmirtieers per Cmtfon :
Mr. arid Mrs. Morton; Capt. W. :Vaughan, Itunib.iy !Us-
rine ; Mr A. Wallace.
r triarh;lmes :
CAnisin 1.. Phillips: Mr J. Bowes, assistant antgran ;
Mr. E Mei tnn , Mr H. Greig.
isa.p4ert per Wade, :
cs:dain and Mrs Evirs and Madre*, M... A. TlaWne ;
DIU 11. Gained ; Emits French, 67th Regiment.
Pa.erpt!ers per Abpoiek resrges—
Dr. and Mrr Scott and ChilZrea ; Mr. Fusall ; Captain
Scut t.
I'moetigrer per Exeter :-
I.leutenant 3. G. Alden.
l'Asireig.-ra per 'Er:lnter Cattle :-
I.lrittraset J. Catilitld; .J A. Aid, Esq.; and J and R.
Nsirvir

lis.senger. irr Eiphintlone
1.1411.11 I) FJpl.istotoue, L. 11.; and Lieut. Pearch, of His
Ma4esty's6.-AL kiegimerat,
I'ASSeDVAr.III(.I. (IcPan:

Liral.-Col.nrel. Steward, lieutenant Campbell ; and W .
Fraser, Fag
Plummiest per norieishire :
Liestrimert A Glutei..

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THE BRITISH VRESS.
LONDON,
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER g.

M'e have received Paris Papers to the 2.3.1;
Frankfort to the 25th ; Berlin to the .27th ; and
Ilamburgh to the Slat last, from which we have
made some extracts. Their general character it
pacific, hut they contain no facts decisive of peace
being actually signed sand concluded.

A Gottenborgli 'ALA has arrived with !otters and
papers to the 2d instant. The Russians have not
I tthaticed further than Omer, in West Bothnia.

Oar troops are retur ll tt g rapidly from Walelteren.
The 1/ilia's transport, (marked F. W. .11:Fratt-
lON, arrived on Thursday at Harwich, from Flush-
ing, with sick and wounded soldiers. The following
officers are coin• oil shore:—vii. Brigade-Major
Macmt., Capt. GARDNER (Staff), Lient.-Colosiel
DAAPER, lion. Major BLACQUIRRE, Capt. ELPHIN-
STONY, and Capt. TWISDF.I.I.. They appear to he
perfectly well. Another transport (marked A.
arrived on the same evening, with sick and wound-
ed ; others were expected yesterday, Ws three regi-
ments, under the command of Major
l.r•.lru, are intended to laud at thit place. The
Lady Frnnces packet, Capt. ItirrTits, also arrived
on Thursday with a mail from Flushing.
Capt. SMITH, of the 5:111 Regiment of Foot ; Mr.
Scrms, Cominitsary-General ; Capt. BROWN, of
the 40th Regiment of Foot; and Mr. Davi., Pay-
master-General. game passengers by this pueket.

The Basilisk gun-brig has arrived at Yarmouth
from the Baltic, with dispatehes from SirJautia
S 4t;IA•IIEZ, and letters from the fleet. The Basi-
lisk was attacked iu the Baltic by four Danish
[imams, with very heavy metal, and fifty meet each,
for nearly two hours, in which she suffered in her
rigging very materially, every thing being cut away
except the braces and ties. A br.rze, however.,
fortunately sprung up, and she made her e►cape;
otherwise she must have struck, as two prawns
were placed on the bow, and two ou the quarter.
—The Basilisk had stone killed, and only two
wounded.

If the present Ministers were not the most im-
provident, and short-sighted, of any men to whom
the administration of a great country was ever in-
trusted in tunes of emergency, they would not
have wasted the national blood and treasure, as
they have done, at a moment when the fierce and
subtle Tyrant, who has nearly subjected the Con-
tinent, is about to attack us with redoubled means
and energies. For if. as is too probable. he ►hould
he enabled to dictate terms to Aastria, in couse-
(pence of our not having midriff that power, by send-
Mg a force to her assistance, as we might so easily
have done from Portugal, and from Sicily, he will
completely nullify and extinguish her future inter-,
ference in the concerns oft:l:many. Faattcts the
Second, who has already lost the Netherlands and
the Tyrol, will now, by being deprived of any coos- I
inunication with the Adriatic, cease to retain the
faculty of actively co-operating in any futare coin-
mon etihrts for the liberation of Europe. Indeed,
after the recent events which we have witnessed,
who, except the must credulous, or besotted, of
mankind, can any longer seriously hope or expect
the restoration sif that order of things which pre-
ceded the French Revolution, and the appearance
of BONAPARTE on the scene as Consul, or as Em-
peror? New measures, and new tactics, political,
naval, and military, adapted to the new situation,
and new relations, of the continental. revolutionary
powers, that have sprung up 'Mile 1799, must be
adopted by us, if we mean to preserve ourselves
from being sucked into, and ingulphed in, the vor-
tex which bas swallowed up so many states and
monarchies. Let us not deceive ourselves, or
fandly imagine. that, with two such pilots. as Mr.
CANNING and Lord CASTLERC•OH, at the helm,
we can survive the wreck of ancient Europe, rind
safely behold the floating timbers of Anstria, Prus-
sia, Rolland, and Spain, from the eminence on
which we stand ! Our presomptuous and incapable
Mini,ter. seem to say with Lt.:totems—

" gIIAVO thank Wilt certainties maim tueri,
Per canapes instructs, tag *imposts peneli

They will, however, find, that the Corsican, as
soon as lie has fet•ered Austria, and extended his
paramount muttonl over every portion of Ger-
many, will, without a moment's delay, recross the
Pyrenees, and subject the whole of that peninsula.
Ile will do wore. lie will breathe and infuse into
that inert, exhausted, and torpid mass, a new vita-
lity, and new energies. Under the BOURBONS.
001101 subservient, it only sullenly and reluctantly
yielded to the impulse of NAPO 'SON. For,
Cusatets the Fourth, imbecile and pasillimimons
as he was, yet retained his wishes, and abhorred
the Ilagitiinks despot whom he olwyeil. Bat Jo-
PII BONAPARTE, aided by the Minist(i.s, and
guided by the direction's of brother, moll rege-
nerate, and recreate the Spanish Monarchy. The
ports, the navy, the production's, and the incal-
culable resources of that beautiful and highly-fa-
voured portion of Europe, will all Ike called oat.
They will be pointed against ns: and, in particular,
azainst the most vulnerable, as well a•, the most
proximate part of our dominions, Irdassd. Fermi,

Vigo, Lisbon. anti Carlit, will again lie 'min ri to
fit oat n naval force for our destrifetion, as they
%ere in I ie3, under Pall IP 11. But, under /I
V./L(ler us lunch supesior, in his roper tiro of ,bin.
nig and volt:fling the machine of war, to I'm LIP,
us the ,Vlaniaters of the present day tare inferior to
tbioic of LI.CLAIIE u, in WIS lOtll. foresi.4:it, and
every Nieines of iliforucttion. It iv to In eppre.
lie:tiled, that the Spaniards themselves, when they
hare digested the first natural lee:toga of !mini.
bated ride, at seeing their Monarchy transferresl
by one Corsican Adventurer to another, will not be
ittNeienble to the real and radical amelioration which
most take piece in the interior of the country._
(:au they, in fact, desire to lutizuish under the
complicated ea!ainitiel of a Vicio,i. adiniaec
of oppression, and of pt•terty ; while, Its vmt !:„x
to a new and orresottiiile power, they will eineree
into consideration, and resume, in some measure,
that rank among the Eitropern Stair%. to ‘Ol.lll
they have so Just u title ?—We may our-
selves with the exaggerated mid itilluteii as eonots
Of our new AMBASSADOR'S reception It caille. We
may derive u puerile anti ephemeral gratification
from the perusal of the marts, the 1111PUOO. and the
devices exhibited on that occasiun. We may laviAt
our admiration en the dismterestedness of Jusro
Luau°, the shoe-maker; or on the piotis
lions breathed by the assembled conspauy for the
of Pius the Filth, from captivity.; But,
do we recollect on what day this ostentation, enter-
taioinent was given It took place on the 7r/t of
Augsorr, the very tiny preceding Lord Wrt.tisii-
TON'S Isat dispatch ; and at a time. when, ttf!.r
leaving lii. wounded to tl:e cure of CO gsT A• who
immediately tnade them over to the mercy of VtC-
Tut
; he, our Commawler, had precipitately re-
treated across the l'agus, harassed awl Immn d te.t
the enemy, whom he tells us, or rather whom his
MAJ EST]'. Nliiiisters have the assurance to tell u 5,
he had just vanquished nt Waver*. Really,
there is something at once insulting to our feelings,
and to nor understandings, in these--

F_

V:vais Etrviando Septtiao, y Jorir Tereevo,"
f.ollowed
Cwrsts y VVello•sley
and the other ill-timed exhibitions of exul'a-
tion and loyalty. at a time when CUEATX and
WI-lAA:stet- are probably at open varimoce ;
and when our diminished forces must, acconl.ng
to wli appearance, norm evacuate both Spain and
Porugal ; if the Supreme Junta do not make their
peace with Nseor,KoN and JosEPti, by delivering
up the British arm) to their new masters. IVe re.
peat. that the Catalans, and the Arragoneie, the in.
habitants of SkinigOmba, Will of Glll'oll4, merit la-
mortal honour, by their invincible firmness, and
glorious resistance. The I:8111C of Mantssio At.-
TARIM. like that of Psl.4FOl, awakens, mid well
fur tier inspire, the liveliest admiration. Bat,
are these .oiltliine feelings, and this insurmountehL
antipathy to the invaders of Spain, general through-
out the Peninsula ? Do they animate the mita-
Ntants of Castile. of Asturias, of Leon, ;rod of Gal-
lic-is ? We know, that the very reverse is the fact.
Do we not Lind, by the most recent accounts re-
ceived from Coruitna, that the populace in that
place were exercising summary vengeance on the
traitors with which the city swarmed ? Hal any
man read, and can he forget. it h:r has done so, the
detail given in this• Paper, and, we believe, in this
Paper only, on Wednesday, the 30th of August, of
the sudden and unexpected occupation of the Prin-
cipality of Asturi-is, by the French, in the month
of May last ? lie may there see, not merely the
cowardice of the Spanish troops, but the treason
that pervaded every part of the Constituted Au-
thorities. The Alcaldes, the boatmen, and the
Goverrior of Gijon, the inhabitants every where, be-
trayed and atmullonesl RONANA. That province
may be safe y pronounced rotten at the cure, cud
devoted to France. We fear, that Madrid is in the
swine predicament ; nor will we answer for Andaln •
sia, whatever frees Lord tVet.txst.c• may receive
at Cadiz, or at Seville. The Spanish delusion is
sinking fast ; and, instead of new victories under
Lord ‘Vatta.tenTdsr, we may be well contented if
he effect hia escape, and 1)81114 back some portion
of his army to Portsmouth, or to Plymouth.

The Media. Incite lam captured four French
Itigers, slid carried them tutu Plymouth.
-The Pirkk achooni rei eiitly •rrived (rum
Spaitt, lim. Imnight !untie twenty-flee of firer and
soldier* who had matte their tbeape (sum Val -

A letter from Dover, dateil Se/deinber 7, says--
' Last tv4lit, the ftfitaberfa, of Direr, Ila} ward.,
arrived from Nlorletis, where rive had !Kea with.
French prniasicrs, frien sorte-
tioncil at the tinie : on of %viito dint wink the-
ve.iel lay here winil•bound, the.. died nil their
passage, and two more arra nearly dead on thole
strive' in France. When the primineis were about
to laud, it was perceived they had secreted a Krcat
number of letter+ ; aline had been - .-wied: op in dif-
ferent party of their apparel,. and nine concealed,
in their crutches, which had heuts excavated. fat
the pisrpo•e. They tout 4re.it care, however, that
no deception should be pile tired on themselves,
a‘ they had women on 11.),tril to search owe,
(seven io number, solrlicii• mires) who 'awe
back in the road. A ilentletnaii, s Lieote-
neat in the nary. named Wallace, who wee
tak, sa pr*Aouscr 0.1 brood the Alberta. four !rut.
was the only pamw.n.;:c. beAde the peoplc•of
the tvttr.l. lii usar is.funcrtl l'aitt several perseil
had Irately been slot fur refie.in4 to join the cosy.
The report there was the semen. here resnectatg
peace hieing coneltided with Ando.; I, bat, lilts oo:
they had got no confirmation."