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•.• The of yesterday, nude scone libsnrd reurial
urn part <s, lieftt rtaluire cistlirativa If set prevented
b. bus.nes,, se xtll, tu-anorruw, Atha pamshateat apes
that print.
'TISH PRE SS.

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THURSDAY. MAY 23.

• ae-samir-.-
The Col-reap:mulame between the • l ion. Mr.
pumas and the A merit-an Governlnetit has been
!scion: the pitbhe hi this paper, arid most of its
contemporaries. Tier uelj tist lurid iir all ilitirreiscer,
which it announced. was hailed with joy eves) in
the Ministerial circle.; but we are sorry to logy.
that * cfaud has soadrtily t/v crestg the happy
dawn. It is said that !tliniatera begin to think
that Mr. ELIILINC has uot• placed the busi-
•'4 accurately in the way that they precisely
wish. This observation may be rather too
sarong• bait we believe that the idea of some de-
murrer, voniethimg inowittafactoey In the business,
has '4 en rffieirittly prevalent to produce an
application to Alinisters on the subject, by the
Centieuten of the largest interest in the trade wi• it
Ausevica.--41though it will not add a .crople to
. fhe honour at litiisters, it is consolatory to think,
s'anald. an impediment he thrown in the way
of • final and tonaplete adjustment of our dif-,
ferenees with America, that a suMeietit supply of
Utz-setd is on its way, with what has already' reach-
ed the porta of Great Britain and Ireland, fur the
us« of another year.

From the Portuguese Papers, to the 13th inst.
windh we reeeived yesterday, we learn, that tiOrl.T
has at length succeeded in his endeavours to effect
his it•Olt.te through Amur:intr. It say to be es-
pectkil that an ofs.:er such talents would strain
every serve to o'lll his retreat, as the British army
11avarceil upon him. Accordingly we fill, that
after a series of ineffectual daily efforts for the
purpose, from the 27th of April. hr, on the 2d
inst., attacked time Portogirese army at Aillafalitr,
with his whole force, and drove them from ir.
The van-guard, lio‘seser, of the British anny,
could not lie far In hind, as it was at Coimbra on
ht ; and the Portuguese Papers state, that
strong ditisions of Portuguese and British troops
were marching to the Douro, some of s'.ieli
had actually reached Lamer). Whether SOULT
would retreat in a northern direction, into Gal-
Fria, or, sleeping his course easterly, would en-
deavour to reach Zamora or Salamanca, we have
no i.iforniatiou. In the former case hr would
have to encounter the Margins of no A, who,
according to previous accou.its. had advanced to
Chaves, end pushed forward a strong corps to
Braga.. If also, as report states, the French have
beeu driven out of Ferrol andCorunita, his retreat
i mto Callicia would Probeldy lead to destruction.
It is, therefore, more Arty that be would pro.
teed flom Autirame in the direction of Zanions.
In the last Dutch Papers it is said that the Duke

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of 'Farris° is marching font'. Arragon to Astorga,
with from 110 to 24,000 men, and Gen. Kvt.r,ea-
M6W from Benevento to Asturias, with 18,000 amen.
At Zamora hu would join tries' Irces, and united
they would constitute II formithible army.
The Nonpareil schooner, which brought the of-
ficial arenunt of the entrance of the British army
into Oporto, also states, on the authority of a §pit-
aish brig, met at sea, that the Marquis of Rum A-
lt A'S army had entered Ferrol cud Comma, and
that the ['reticle troops in these ports were all poi-
soners.

The declaratiOn, or rather the Wsertien, made by
Mr. WARDLE, at the of Tuesday, at
the Crown and Anchor,-that he was convinced,
if there We, a House of Commons really represent-
ing the people, the Income Tax might be taken off
the first year," will operate, we remote to predict,
with a species of electric effect, throughout every
part of the United Kingdom. There is, perhaps,
no iu, iridual, at the present mninent,, who, from
his recent personal and distinguished services, in
Parliament, is entitled to challenge, or is likely to
obtain, an universal a degree of credit with :lie peo-
ple at large, as a moan, who, single, unstippOrted,
and opposed by Ministers, attacked, and drove
from his oftcial situation, the second subject in the
train'. No words that fell Irons his lips will be
forgotten or disregarded. Nor is it possible, after
the readiness which he professed to explain hole
this great emanciration from taxation could be
eivied and realized, to doubt that he is prepared
for inch m call, and that he conceives himself able to
prove his words. This is, inated.lwinging Reform
before us in a tangible shape ;" a shape as per-

• crptible, and MY intereging to everyman or 601.
per annum, as to the Teller of the Exchequer, or
to the Reversionary Register of the Admiralty ; to
Lord CAMDC%, or to Mr. Practv*t.. The most
successful weapon, indeed, with which Ministers
have hitherto combated every prapoaition or plan
of Parliamentary Reform, is by turning into con-
tempt and ridicule, the idea, that any lisusncial
benefit, any possible alleviation of sii-e national
burdens and taxes,. could ever result from re-
storing Purity of Electioa. .4 is, therefore, throw-
ing down the gaantiet, mid challenging Admi-
nistration to cerue to issue upon this most interest-
point. Wy s o nat•see how they can with tie-
oestcy trade, or decline aaikiug of. Mr. 1V•1111)1.1,

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