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London, England, 1809-08-05 00:00:00

LONDON,
SATURDAY, AuGuts 5.

ATtlegrapinc Dispatch Mas, yesterday, rece'rved
at 'lie Admiraly, at four o'clock, announcing the
noNnea.ini.a ACQVITTAL or Admire! unit GAM-
IIIEIL-At tine o'clock this morning our Express
arrived with the ',articular*, which are given in a
suLorquvut column.

No direct and official intelligence, as far as we
could learn, ssa. received front the. Expedition,
when this paper was put to press. Such accounts
and reports upon the subject as reached town yes-
terday, are gi‘en under the head of " The Expe-
dition." The state of the wind and weather suffi-
ciently accounts for the delay.

We received, last night, Seanish Pipers to the
14th, and Portuguese to the 19th ult. The British
Army hail parsed the Portuguese frontier, mill en-
tered Spain. Its head-quarters were, on the 11th,
at Cone, and its advanced guard at Placentia. On
the approach of the British Army to Curia, a Pro-
clamation was issued in praise of the English nation,
and calling upon the inhabitants to treat our troops
with kindness and hospitality. In the south-wrist
of Spain. the Freuch had retired, on the sth, to
Talavera de la Keyna, and in the North, SOU 1.1.
and N 6 If were an their retreat to Castile. The
army of the former is represented in a most wretched
state.

We have already, in a former Paper, p assed in
review the various individtials, taken from his own
family, whom the Corsican EMPERVII has elevated
to the dignity of Kings; more, as far as we can
judge, in virtue of that uucontrolable power, by
which he has dethroned and deposed PO many
Prima:2, than as arrogatiug, any pretended right, front
his owls i-nperial assumed title, to ceder such► its-
ferior titles oil ethers. While his three brothers,
.11071:141, LOVIS. and JFILIIIME, were thus raised to
the rank of crowned heads, and JOACRIM MURAT,
his brothet-in-law; associated with them ; threeUer-
: mita Priares, of the second order, neresallitedby him
as it Mgr, and ordered o, enjoined to nee that mark
or Royalty in future. It seems impossible to have
pushed to a greater length the prerogatives con.
feared try victory, than in thus constituting seem
:Monarchs, who may literally he said to spring
from his own usurpatiou. The Emperors of Gitli-
n 411,1, indeed, sntecedently, as calling them-
selves the representatives of the C.LSANS, arrogate,
and sometimes exercise, the right, of conferring the
kingly title. Lcoent.o the let, in 1700, as is well
known, raised FiIIiDERICIL. Elector of Braudti►-
burgh, to that eminence. But it was reserved
for the succeeding century, to see a Corsican sol-
dier of fortune, after seizing the supreme autho-
rity in France, as Caostwet.t, did in England, by
a process precisely similar, drat cause himself to be
named an Emperor, rod then select or compel his
relations and his dependents, to accept, from his
sanguinary and polluted hands, a revullitirmary
crown. It may, perhirs, be with reason imagined,
that the Elector PALATINE, Duke of Bavaria,
who, fmm the instant of ins accession, in I 79!), ap-
pears to have acted as as, alien and an enemy to
the ancient (Sernitinic system, and who has devoted
himself, his house, unit suljects, to the emigr-
ant..., policy or itinhition oh his Corsican Master ;
it may be coectived that he yielded withont re-
pugnance to the command imposed ou boat, of de..

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mminati% 4ng mniveit If bkvitris. BA if such
was the feet, in his initalace, we imagine that it was
altogether tliffereot hi the ease of the two other
rritices, whom. 5A1001.6014 selected fur Royal 110-

flours.
The tirst of these, FRILDFRIC Atinuatus, Elector
of SAXONY, had demonstrated, at every period of
his long and pacific reign, the utmost detestation
of those criminal and flagitious measures, by which
llotteo Fere had risen to supreme and irresistible
authority. Nluderate, unambitious, and possessing
solid, but not I.:1111111g parts, the tranquillity sad
felicity of his people, the prosperity of his do-
minions, conatited his only care. In 1896, he join-
ed the King of Paussta against the common rite.
my and scourge of Germany but after the fatal
battle of Auerstadt, followed by the total overthrow
(lithe Prussian 31outirclip, he withdrew Ina troops,
and made his submissions to the Conqueror. They
were accepted, because the Corsican had already
fixed on the tinily daughter and child of the Elec-
tor, as the future wife of his own brother di:imam
That Princess, then just twenty-five years of age,
seemed to NAVOLEON to be a proper bride
for this embryo King, newly lauded hi Europe
Gout America. It was intended to revive in his
:august person the extinct I,ingdoin of Poland, of
which the Princess of SAXONY, and tier liesbaud,
were to be declared Sovereigns. The unfortunate
Elector, who beheld himself a prisoner at Dresden,
in the hands of lIONAPARTE, submitted so the pro-
mo!. But, thedeeision and firmness of the des-
tined 'arida, extricated her father and herself from the
meditated degradation. Site declared that she con-
sidered dettowe us the husband of another woman;

and the, if, contrary to her sense of honour, con-
science, and ino•shty, was ilraggiii to the altar,
she would inflict immediate death on herself. It
was net judged prudent or safe to put the determi-
nation to the test. The marriage was renounced.
With it bec•atne extinct the intended kingdom of Po-
bold. The Elector made nevi rtheless a King by
BONAPARTE, was likewise recompensed with a por-
tion of the uticient Polish Monarchy, includ-
Mg its it the former capitol, under the title of
Grand Duke •f WARSAW. Policy sod revenge
obviously dictated this donation ; us Silesia, the.
pieced between the Pohsli and the Saxon tecrito-
ries •f FREDERIC Auousrus, might be with more
facility. at pleasure, resumed or recouquered from
' Prusiia. The King of SAXONY, thongli the vassal,
is not, however, like his Brother of Bavaria, the
minatory instrument of NAPOLEON ; tlnven ut
this time from his native dominions, no less than
from his newly-acquired provinces, a fugitive
equally from Warsaw and from Dresden, he has
takes shelter in in Inn at Frankfort. lf, neverthe-
less, the battle of ‘Vugrain has in truth annihilated
Auvrop he will doubtless be agaiu permitted, by
his Creator, Li resume his kingly honours, and to
return, so long as tt may suit the Corsican's cour.•
nicice or objects, to his palace at Drerden.
last of these involuntary Monarchs, is FRE,-
DEEM( 11. Duke of Wirteniberg. The position
of his dCanantliat, which lie in the route from

Pails to Vienna, and which are therefore exposed
to be overrun at pleasure by France, telt him no
option between a crown and total extinction. He
saw, indeed, in the persous of the Landgrare of
Hesse, and of the Duke of Bauaswica, the in-
utility, no less thou the destruction Atttltditig re.
sistanee ; and he wisely subniittrd. .N Avocets*
has rewarded his obedience and devotion, by large
accessions of territory, taken from Swabia, or from
the Teutonic Order; but his new subjects appear
to hold neither his crown nor his person in respects
Searee'y, indeed, was lie, only a month ago, more
secure nt Stutgiird, or at Ludwigsburg, thaw the
Saxon KING ill his capital. The two blonardua
none wear the samechains, and moat ehare a coats
men Cite. In one particular only is the King of
Wirtemberg• more inifirtunate than the Saxon ;
namely, that the former has been compelled to cede
the victim which escaped at Dresden. The only
daughter of FILEDLUICK 11. by his first wife, a
Princess of Biliuswick, has become the wife of Je-
Rot e, a man already married. This Queen of
IVestplialia even stands in a very near degree of
consangumity to the King of (ireet Britain. Asher
husband, JEaotax, is the great nephew of GEORLIE
111. a circumstance, probably not overlooked by
the malignit; of BON APAILrE, when he ordered the
marriage to lie performed. Our limits do ant al-
low us to prosecute this subject farther. We may
embrace au occasion of returning to it.

The statement which we laid before the pithily,
some few days ago, of the relative numbers corn-
/wring the British, French, and Spanish Armies,
acting beynoil the P. rearei, in the last days of
June, is fully confirmed by the intelligence recent-
ly received both from Portugal and from Spain
iirotri Sir /minus Wst.t.tstisv, no less than from
Mr. DUFF. It now appears. that th • forces coil-
centred, or about to be assembled, `iiiii!er the
nominal 'minuend of moscen Buts seta-.
the vicinity of Toledo and Madrid, would tint
fall I,hoet of 75,000 mcu. Oit the other helot,
the combined army of Crtorrs and VAN suas can-
not, we fear, be estimated sit more than 40,000 ef-
fective infantry, who hove wisiwiotwil, rod About
11,000 cavalry. The British, when they mart hid
front Abruntel, might be calculated at %t4.r.itoo
troops of the line; but the cavalf y lit for N,

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milk:lllocount of the woodier* of horses ircapeble o.
king trintinted, .as wailer 9.,700. %Wit the ex..
ceptiou of the private letter frotu Castello Bunco,
which we inserted on Monday, we have no reason
to suppose that the French Commanders have any
intention of abandoning the Capital, or of retiring
beband the Ebro. They would receive, by the
45th of July, the exhilarating and gratefol informs.
tion, that the advantage Ruined by NieI...SARK
ever the Airsirians at Wagtail), however dearly
purchased on his part, had operated to intimidate
or unnerve the Austrian Government, so much as,
to induce them to see for, and finally to accept,
snspension of arms ; the operation of which moat
he no less beneficial to liostaysate, than it- is
ruinous to FRANCIS. Of what materiels the Spa.
Gish levies are composed 4 cud how iiiadequate
their patriotism is to supply the defects. of. di,-
ciplioe and obedience assoopt them, am *Miy
see too strongly delineated' in Gerreral Iltatz's
letter of the :t2it Jane, addressed to the Joins,
descriptive of the behaviear of his robber* at the
battle of Brichitc. It matters Irttleto the mimeo
cause, to examine whether cowardice, disaffectioe,
or treac!tery, retencontriburterito produce their igno-
minious eight, when their own Commander accuser
them of not only throwirig away their arms but evco
their clothes, before a sisigle corps of the enemy.
The Pore's guards would not have so disgraced
themselves, as has.. th•sse Sp iniarrl., nice whom at
are aiding t, replace a Sovereign, that, with unex-
ampled pusillaiiiinity or wenkuess, abandoned
people and his throne, to pat himself and his bro-
ther into the hands of an Italian rilffisn at I;ayouoe.
That Sir Aaveua-Vect.csiLL:v will do whatever
valour and decision can effect, we are well per-
suaded. Nor will we allow ourselves to bebeve,
that the Spaniards tinder CU errA will imitate their
countrymen under BLAKE. Bat, neither are we
authorised to suppose, that any d.2ti:iency of re-
sources, or of exertion, will be manifested by the
French. Under anal circumstances, whatever vic-
tories or conquests racy be expected be our Cabinet,
and whatever favourable news they may antua pate
from New Castile, we confess that our hopes are very
languid, and our apprehensions I.tr.migly
R•tr2at there eau be none, ease of defeat, or of
tut-fortune. The British must coupler, ormost tar-
tish. Fur, where can they find any shelter Comma,
Gibraltar, mid Cadiz, all are equally dist& it,
Nor would the burning heats of a Stoutish SllRS'iief
in Castile, be less acutely felt by a retreattim array.
than were the snows of a Spanish winter iu Csallicia,
lost December. iVe oust that there conaiderattons

have been well weighed), atid, thorou4lily consider-
ed, before the march to Morbid. was ultimately re-
&okrJon iii the Cabinet. But ae cannot yet oblite-
rate from our remeuilmince, either Libra Hea. &-
BURY'S' march to Parii, or Mr. PITT and Lola.
Mir t.vti.t.e'e march to Amsterdam. in 1799, con.
ducted by the Duke of YORK and Lord Cu&i.
NAM.

[,•t us, however, suppose, that this enterprise,
however rash, premature, or hazardous we may es.
teem it, is crowned with succeNs; that JOAEPNI BO-
NAPARTE retreats a second time over the Orr°, and
that we enter Madrid in trintoidi. Can we possibly
retain it ? Can we cutter Catalonia; or Arragon, or
Navarre, or Biscay ? Can we expel the French
from Barcelona 'Jai Figueras ? Or 13c tee.
with his gallant troops. mount the *mewls at Vont-
pelunit, and at St. Sebastian ? Will met Nara•
1, EON, the instant that he has given law in Austria,
detach a vast portion of his forces into Spain
And can we even hope to be able to contend with
him for the dominion of the Peninsula, aided only'
by the brave armies of Cer.sra, and by the loyal
Proclamations of the Supreme Junta, issued from
the royal palace of the Alcozar at Seville ? These
are not the weapons that will compel the Cow-
Terror of tierinany to rano/vice his views of sub-

jetting Soils, even to the rock of i libralt•r. We
do not suppose that, even i n His M MITT'S Cabin. ts
there is any mac so llllCAplibk..• so i(1-itsfernmal, or
an sanguine, as to expect it. What then is the uh-
jeet that we have in view, by thus sett/hog ue:!t
90,000 of the Hower of the British (nice,, to pese.
trate into the heart and centre of the Spanish
Monarch” ? We wish to o.k this sittest/on of the
Ministerial Advovates, ho approve, and who jitstiff
the measure. 'Fisey wail, we fear, have to 1111SWtf
the inquiry, before the Lipse of a tew ussiothe, so 3
before a higher tribunid.

Prince STAHREMBEIttaI Arlin rap Arotixes, an'
DON 4.'t:v t had II 1.11'41/1..!
with Mr. CAP NING, at tilv Foreign 016,,, OP
Thursday.
The Qircen, Sitelovnan, from flayti to Lowiria
hub been wrecked ol t • co,k4, near Aux Cayell•
The Argo, (;antmva, was well on the enlist of
Peru. iu Jauuan .t*t, ‘%ith 150 barrels of oil.
The Erlipve.Jtv., hub arrived from Jamaica, ic
33 clays.
Such has been Ike demand fostriatl army forth'
Krum" expedition, that RIO orler has been made b!,
the Roerd of OrtlllllllllV, for It,ooo inubkets to he
sat from the depot at IVeedon ; this rtquaatios
bray rot:tired on Saturday beiluiKht, and the whole
win. peeked in erica ind bent off for I,ouiloo
M ley inonon4, hosts. On this oyes'
rams nearly two €4lllipagilcs of the Drama stlitix,
loon, )))) tVeed ttttt well einploye.l on the dalP
The •riti• will be repleeed film
Upwards of 130 pieces of artillery arc Meld to be
at the shove dere', with ammunition waltifoo4
for.v;., &v. all in perfect order for nonsoiliate 'm-
ilt C.