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THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
THURSDAY. JULY 91.

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ire have recei►ed Spanish Gazettes to the 9th
instant, f►om which we have made extracts. They
coodriu the account which we gave yesterday, of
a victory obtained by the Patriots, at SarsgoNos.—
This important event has been annotioced by a
Bulletin, issued from the Foreign Office, of which
the following is a copy.

" Foreign Office, Tuesday, noes **Clock.
" Mr. West has jest arrived from Corinna, accompanied
by Signior Fermis Flans. They left Corson. on the gth of
JOT, when an offieiol account had arrived there of the De-
feat of General Lefever, by General Palarox, oe the olth of
two leagues from Saragossa. The Sift* nadir the
French Gerard asooisted of seas uses, who, after • severe
action of several hours, surrendered to the Spanish General,
The impetuosity of the pessastry, however, such, that
they afterwards rushed me, and, with their arms liars,
(knives and overdo), pat every Frenchman to death.

"TM Portuguese sr. saki to be marching with • name-
roes army to attack Cement Joint."

• The Spanish Gazettes contain the Proclamation
published by General PALLAFOX after the blade.
Tire number of the French left on the fichl of bat-
tle is there stated to be 18,000, but we believe it is
an error of the press, and that its force was: mom.
The Patriots had between 3 and 4000 killed and
wounded. All the baggage, ammunition, and pro-
perty which the French had plundered from tha
Spaniards, fell into the hands of the Patriots.—
Saragossa is the capital of Arragon. situate upaa,
the Ebro. The defeat of the Patriots on that
ground, and the possession of that city, would
hare enabled the French to command the whole of
the Ebro, from its source in Old Castile to the

Mediterranean Sea. It would have also cut olf the
North of Arragon, and the whole of Navarre and
Catalonia, from the rest of Spain, thus giving to
France a solid footing and formidable imp►ession
upon the Spanish territory. The other i ntelli puce
in the Spanish papers is equallyfavourable. Marshal
ISloacim had Leen dispatched to post down the Pa-
triots in Valentia ; but placed between three differ,
cut corps of the Patriots, he is said to have been
made prisoner. with his whole army, near Mon.,.
tells del Palaces, beyond Rognena. But this
intelligence is not given as ofiriaL Meanwhile
Mcaar is io the niustperilons situation at :Madrid.
the Spanidi General Cutters being on his march
against him.
The complete Dt►EAT Of Dcroicr's airman
is again repeated with confidence. This latter
event is said to have taken place between Achintis
ind Montim, aftvr it hid evacuated Cordova. on
the 15th June.
.We fear that this SUCCCSi does
not rest upon certain iutelligruce, although it ap-
pears to be the universal opinion that DUPONT'S

ease was desperate, Intl his escape imprectietble.
The en inouthOthwever, of his confpleta clelhet, were
numerous and confident at Cadi2. The seine cio•
entsistani es, it is mid, which compelled him to
fall hack from Cordova to Aadujar, made it ne-
cessury for him .to continue his retreat towards
the Sierra Morena. In the attempt to gain
the passes, the army, having first, as we are in-
formed, spiked all their cannon, which they were
under the necessity of abandoning, marched in de-
techinents, with the hope of procuring provisions
with greater facility ; but this system rendered
them more assailable, and the Patriots seized every
opoort •ty of attacking them, without risking a
general engagement.
This account was brought by Sir GZOILCIS
Lieutetrant-Golonel of' the i2d regiment, who left
Cadiz so late as the sth inst. and arrived on Tues-
day with dispatches for Government from General
StatiCElt, but it is admitted that no official aceonnt
-ho that effect had reached Cadiz at the time of his
departure. A communication has been established
between the Rimiest of Leon, Asturias, and Galli-
, eia, with the forces of Estremadura, so that they
are enabled to act in concert. An intercourse has
also been opened between Gallicia and the Junta
of Oporto, by which means the Generals who com-
mute, iu Tuy and Orense have a direct interchange
of infantry, cavalry, and ammunition, for their re-
spective objects.
On the side of Portugal, dispatches brought by
the Aegehea schooner, from Oporto, whirls place
she left on the 11th instant, announce the arrival
there of• Colonel Berms from England.—At the
• time of his depnrtnre, every pert of that kingdom,
Lisbon excepted, was free of French troops—the
greater part of whom base beendestroyed ands great
'somber imprisoned. At St. Übe's alone the Spa-
niards and Portuguese rose on the French in that
garrison, and put to the sword nearly 4000 men.
Junot is fortifying the hills near Lisbon. but is not
expected to bold out long. The following forces have
ausrelred from Oporto, to join the troops at Lisbon,
ogainst him, viz 2
Itegimeuts of Spanish Cavalry.
st ditto at Portuguese ditto.
11004 Portuguese lufaatry.
lipartiell ditto. Aid about
muo of the Populace.
The Priests are all armed, and mount guard
regularly.
The French. General Lotsox, who, according
to the last accounts, bad advanced to Artnazonte
had retreated to Miaaofrio, about six leagues from
Armazante, where he had entrenched himself, but
was soon surrousided. by the Patriotic Band, who
eat off all his resources. In this state be requested
permission to be allowed time to ''raw up terms,
upon which lie would consent to capitulate. His
request was complied with ; and in a few hours lie
sent iu a flag of truce, assnring the Leaders of the
Patriots that he would surrender his army to say
General Officer of the 'Portuguese army ; he did
this to save the effusion of blood ; being acquainted
with the iietermitratiou of the Portuguese people
to shew no quarter.
This task was consigned by the Patriot► to Gerie-
ral ISCIINARDINC FttlEith, who is now at the head
of the Portuguese army in the North of' Portugal,
and who had proceeded to Mizeofrio, to receive the
capitulation of' Lotsort. In this army Ltsoftem has
a command; he is the I,ertion who was at the head of
the detachment directed to put to death the few per-
• sons in Lisbon, who had been taken up for having be-
trayed a disposition to revolt against the doctrines
of the French uu their first entrance into Lisbon.
The Patriots, it is said, had protested against tile'
►ife of LSOOSDF..-411 the French at Algarve have
been put to death by the Patriots. At &Mao, a
body of Porttr.guese marched eleven leagues, in one
day, to attack 900 Frenchmen; they MI in with
them, and put nearly the whole to death.
A plot for burning the city of Oporto to ashes
has been seasonably discovered, and the agents in
it, some Portugaese in the pay of France, hare been
arrested.
Upon a general view of these accounts from Spain
and Portugal, we may observe, that there is much
to credit, much to receivewith emetion, end meat
very doubtful. The defeat of the French at Sara-
gossa appears to be the most authentic, but still it
is not official. Had that been the case, it would,
no doubt, have been announced in the weal way.
by a letter to the City.
A letter from Oporto, dated the Bth instant,
states, that BONAPARTg is drawing all his military
force from France, and the other parts of Europe,
■nder his influence and controul, to send to Spain.
An army of 80,000 men was assembling on the
western frontier at Bayonne, and a considerable
force was expected on the eastern side from Italy.
The Patriots, apprised of these proceedings, are
making preparations to meet them. They had
secured the passes of the Pyrenees, in the vicinity
of Roussillou and Rosa%

It is difficult to conceive any accounts more ex-
bilirating than those communicated in our Paper
of yesterday and this day front Spain. They exceed.
iinl.-441, whatever the most sanguine expectation
coulil have reasonably anticipated. That the ve-
teran bands. which overran, with such facility, all
the countries from the Rhine to the Oder.. the
Deritihr, the Vistula, and even to the Niemen.
shuui.l uow be rep.ilisd and cut to pieces, ou .the

Banks of die Ebro, 17 an earthy hardly disci
plined, may well excite mmilmiration. It is im-
possible to doubt General Pa harox's Proclama-
tion of the 17th ofJune,addrewied to the victotious
Arritgooesec As little teason Ss there apparently
to question the surrender of General LOISON,
in Portugal, with a corps of three thousand
men ; a loss with+ must prove highly ...mbar-
rassing to JUNOT in his present situation and cir-
cumstances. If to these misfortunes should be
molded, eventually, as it wrath' seem that we may
confidently expect, the defeat or surrender of Dn-
eoNz's army in the province of Jaen ; the Cori.
cati's affairs beyond the Pyrenees are in a had way.
The persons who arrived on Monday from Cadiz,
all unite in declaring, that DUPONT was reduced,
as early as the 19th of last month, to subsist his
troops principally on the growing corn, roasted,
and mixed with oii. Such nourislinment would
soon enfeeble his soldiers, and prepa►e the Mot for
their finuidisentntiture. filenewhile Mvaaz's army.
stationed st and near Madrid. whether he comminuis
it in person or not, must be every day more critically
situated ; even admitting that he retains, and can
continue to retain, his communications open,
through Old Castile, Guipuseoa, sod Biscay, with
Bo N A I'ARtE. The events which have taken place,
since the beginninftpof May, in Spain, interesting as
they are, must, it is ohvions; be soon followed by
others still more important. Never, in fact,at any
period of time, xl,id a state air a nation present a
more animated and affecting object of consideration
than the Spaniards at this moment. Let as it.
valve it with attention.

A Corsican Officer of artillery, gifted by nature
with an astonishing assemblage of bilentr, civil.
military, and political, availing himself of the
peculiar nature of the times, sod aided by the im-
becility or mutual jealmuty of his enemies, had in
feet cotergleoely subjected to kis cootroul the whole
Continent. Sweden alone istobe excepted. Hie
orders, and even his wishes, were obeyed at Vienna.
Madrid, Berlio, Petarsburgli, and Copenhagen.
not kW rervilely thou at the Hague, or even at
Paris. Time had already confirrnecrihii awful
despinism, sad had begun to shed ate iagnenet
over the Corsican Kings who had sprung from the
iron sceptre of Nseorisoo, and a new feudal No-
bility were created by him. If, in selecting for the
Thrones of Naples, ilolland, and Westphalia. his
three brothers; and for the Viceroyalty of Italy.
his wife's son; he seemed to have Committed sa
error against sound policy; or to have sacrificed
more to private affection and vanity, than to pro-
dence ; yet, iu the prostrate condition of Europe.
not a hand was raised against him. In April kat
Nseoteon reigned from the shore of the Atlantic
to the Neva—Dukes of ABRANTE% of DAPITZIC,
of IVsassw, of Vicenro, and of Fate it, with
many others, perpetuated his own conquests, and
their individne) services. Portugal became a pro-
visice ; while Spain, governed and directed by him.
ailed as the instrument of his passions, his am-
bAion„ or his vengeasice. If England still retain-
ed the empire of sue element, the Continent was
complett ly NAPULLON'd, and time might enable
hint to contest with Great Britain even for the
supremacy of the ocean.
Such was his unexampled position. obeli, unsa-
tisfied with a power to which nothing has iipprowth-
ed in modern ages, be comfhenced his attempt to
ex-thievish, boaster, and finally to re-create the
Spanish Monarchy. Deceived by the base or pti-
siilanimous submission of so many countries. which
he had overrun and had revolutionized, he thought
it unnecessery to wink or to consult she people. To
entrap, depose, anil imprison, As Sovereigns, be
deemed sufficient ; after which, in the full pleni-
tude of his Fwer, he proclaims a new King, in the
person of his brother. Perhape, if he had used
inure precaution, and concealed or disguised his
purpose, little opposition would have been expe-
rienced. But the violence, the turpitude. and the
perfidy of the act ; winch, while it deposed his best
allies, mid sent them as victims into his own do-
minions, appeared to consider the Spaniards them-
selves only as slaves, formed for bondage and con-
scription—such usage awoke the dormant spirit
and energies of the Contabrian and Celtiberian
people, which had slept for ages. Among the ste-
rile rocks of Astoria, the coolie of freedom, where
PELAGII3 and Ron/olive had roused their coun-
trymen against the Moorish Tyrants, many centu-
ries ago, it again appeared in the present time. It
has uow, as we know, spread nearly over ail Spain.
Cherished by England, it has been fed by victory;
and we may hoped will finally, though, pedlar,
not immediately, impose limits to the crime', no
MSS than to the conquests. of Nstotentr.

We repent that Lisbon is the destination of Sir
ARTHUR WELL ►Rt.att's Expedition, owl that 'fan-
gier Bey is the rendeivous in the event of a ells-
pennon of the transports.
The Monks in Oporto have become soldiers.
Upwards of 1500 took charge of the Fre.ich pri-
boilers and .li4aectcd persons, who were its con-
finement, and performed their duty with Teal cud
alacrity..
Letters from ILditrolsitid, received ye,tCnisl, of
the 15th ult. state that lie Larry are ae active at
ever in that quarter %Ali respect to pi iratceriiig.—
They fitted mot lately four crawl's of that alracrip-
thin. which had Nice'. hes eral inert:lmitator:li Gn their
entering the ruses; and we are sorry tuetind tii‘t
since the frigate has ler; that statioth there is Duly
one gun-brig to protect a large range of coast.

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