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on the Soth alt., without opposition, at Santo Do-
mingo, and marched towards the back of the city,
and were preparing to carry o,i the siege with vi-
gour. A letter received in this city, from an Offi-
cer oo the Staff, corroborates the above, and states
the arrival of the brig Clowsoill, one of the second

A V ERICA.

PORTIIMOLTII, NEW HAMPSHIRE, JULY 6.

On Tuesday afternoon, much damage was done
at Fort Constitutiou, by the accidental explosion
of about 350 ibs. of gunpowder. It appears that ■
quantity of cartridges, prepared for the purpose of
firi,i a salute, had been placed, without being
secured in any thing, noon the platform, chase to
two chests filled with cartridges. and that the car-
tridges having caught tire, communicated it to the
chests. We regret to say, that it is already asccr-
tuineil that eight persons (men and boys) have been
killed; that several are usissiug; and that many
more ore dangerously wounded ; sou►e of whom,
it is espeeted, canner long survive their wounds.
The bodies of the dead and wounded are man-
gled in the most shocking manner ; and the force
of the explosion was such, that some of the sutferer►
were tort limb from limb, and tarried to a great
distalice from the spot, in various direetious. our
of the boodles, which was picked up, yesterday, iii
the river, was totally stripped of every article of
ckithing, except n.e small piece of a shirt, close
to the elbow. Pieces of human flesh have bees
dis-
coveretl, scattered in different spots: • thigh, in
sea place ; • leg and foot, in another ; and a hand,
i• s third. Its short, we do nut recollect ever to
have witnessed a more distressing or isopalliug sight.
Some pieces of women's petticoats have likewise
brill found; slid, as we are itifortuvil, one or more
are mist-ing ; we think they shared the same fate
with the rest. To give some idea of the force %Inch
attended the explosion, we have only to inform our
readers, that ■ leg mid ►oot actually pronto-aril
throngli • double door in the Captuin's ht►ibs and
made its way to the inner part of the room : airuo.t
every wiiiihow in the fort was stove in : sod, in the
lowee occupied by the Comm•odaut, tile doors
were token from the binges; the %snottily& broken ;
the shelves in the closets torn down ; the ceiling
much injured: in short, the Warhol; is utmost
it ruins. If the explosam hail taken place four or
five minutes sooner, it is' next ter ell isonossiirdity
hut that 100 persons more would have been
killed ; fortunately the sound of as fiddle at some
diamice, caused almost every one to flock towards
the spot from whence it proceeded.---(New York
Gazette, Jody 14.)
From The Nero York Erentog Post,Joly 14.
lt•sevlt.t.r, act.r 4.
On Saturday, the 40th inst. the following cats*.
tiophe happened in the house of Mr. Janes Ford,
on the Elbe river, in this State. A rues, of the
name of Crouch, was suspected of having 'toles, a
horse, and was pursued and opprehenoleil at the
house of Ford, by Mr. Reynolds and Mr: Reredeon.
Two brothers of the name of Bustling, who were res
looted to Crouch, heard of his confinement, and re-.
solved to rescue him. They wont to Ford's house,
and, after attempting, unsiortessfullv, to tut the
cord which Crouch was bound vial., one of the
Boolii:gs presented his rifle to the breast of Rey.
Holds ; hy, in self-defence. did the same; and they
fired nearly at the SWOP time. Bowling was killed,
and Reynolds wounded iu the arm. The other
Bowling then presented his piece at the same
itt.tuttt at Boredom, who also raised his rifk to Bow-
breast ; they thed together, aid both fell
deritL The fellow who was in custody run away,
and was pursued by Reynolds, who was unable to
Lire at him with success, larieg invaluable of loading
his rifle, from the disability induced by the wound
hi his

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
FRIDAY, AtIGUST IS.
•• •
• A vessel is arrived at Liverpool, from New-York.
which she left on the 21st last. The news of the
refusal of the Briti,h Government to ratify the
arrangement made by Mr. ERSKINE, hail reached
that c.ty, and hail excited much ditanit4sfuction.—
An opinion gen...ally prevailed, that the Non-
Intercourse Act would in con..•pierce be again re-
torted tu.—The American l'oper%, received by this
ounveyance, are not of a later date than the 17th
inclusive. One of them, of the tith, states, that a
brig had arrited there from St. Croix, which was
hoarded in latitude 51.1 deg. 19 min. Long. 67 deg.
31 min. West, by Hie Majesty's sbip Latona, having
the French frigate Felacito JO tow, 101101 had been
eaptured on the preceding duy.—The Fiend] had
three killed in the action—the Latona num,.

The !ellinisterial Papers premise that we may
expect in future to receive intelligence more red; u-
larlt from Spain. The port of Corwin. hying
perfectly op on. they say it is intended immediately
to re-establish the regular intercourse with that
port by packets. The Marquis de la Rosati' has
mail.. a request to this effect; and it is expectvil
that, by this time. a regular communication will
.hare beta opened between the corps of Rosati*
and the armies under Sir Aernvit WaLLesua
*ad General Cuisn*, etuf between the whole
North. South, and centre of Spain. We hope that
this statement will prove correct. and that an evil
Mt lain complained of, and that must have ope-
rated so injnrinusly, as the want of a regular and
.snietinit :uteri curse between our troops and our
allies, will at length be remedied.—Sir JOHN
IjeHILK, in his letters, repeatedly complained of
want of intelligence from Madrid, and that be
timid not kali what was doing around him. It is
Aso a well authenticated fact, that Gen. CRAII-
nOvit never received • line from Sir Jowl Moot
iyin,ecineut to the 17th of December last, awl that

the army in Portugal had the earliest accounts of
the inlIVI:ItlelliS of the British army in Span' froiu
the Loudon newspapers. •
We have received the Gibraltar Paper nif the 424
July, containing accounts from Minorca to the -2'2d,
and Malta to the 49th June, stating. that the
conthined British and Sicilian troupe had matte a
descent on the kingdom of Naples; that the natives
were Bucking to their standard. and that a spirit
of insurrection amid resistance to the French
dani-
festad itself through the whole cotintry.

We stated yesterday, gyms the authority of ac-
counts brought Ii tht Wender gun-brig, which lett
the Island of N'alchereti, on Sund ty night, that the
bombardment of Flushing had commenced at an
early hour that morning; that flags of truce were
seen passing and repassing during the canna. .of
the day, and that the place offered to surrender,
but that a difference respecting the terms had caus-
ed some delay. This statement is confirmed by the
following letter from Harwich :
" £uth7G.-6 p. sr.

" I have barely time to tell you, hi :ore the de-
parture of the post, that the Master of an English
vessel is this inoment arrived, who left Cainpvore
yesterday afternoon at four o'clock. He blitigs
as ACC that FLUSNIIII4I: atJaItLNDERED TESTUR-
DAY MORNING, at six o'clock, lifter a tremendous
Isoinbarduieut, which is said to have laid all the
fortifications awl 'sodding', fronting the sea com-
pletely Icvel with the ground, sod that an astonish-
number of women and chililrem have per:Aied,
'• The Master h ard the bombardment till thrt a
in the ; after that he did not hear a gun.
The news of the surrender reached Cicuptete by
Es press.

Tilts Master only arrived at Cumpvere, from
Lundon, with a turtle, as a present to the Com-
munder-in-Chief, 011 Monday afternoon, alien seven
sail of 74's ware just getting uuder weigh to pro-
ceed to tlic bombardment.

" A lugger is astern, and he supposes she mat
have dispatches."
The roamer of the vessel alluded to reached
town at an early hour last morning, and states, in
additiou to the above, that another offer to sin ren-
der was made by the Commander of the garrison of
Fluslissig, at half past tau, on Monday morning.
The town had not bean formally taken possession
of by the British troops; but the delay filif arisen,
not from any 'apposition that the garrison could
possibly hold out longer, or any consequent cliffs-
culty respecting terms, but for the purpose of ad-
justing some details of minor importatic.. The
substanc& of the capitulatims, however, had been
settled, by which the garrison were to surrender
prisoners of war, and the British troops were to be
put in possession of the gates of the town, at six
o'clock, on Tuesday evening, when the British
Flag would be hoisted upon the ramparts. The 95ths
and the German Regimeut of Col. ll* teerr, it
was understood, were to take possession of the
gates. The otter to surrender, made on Monday,
having demauded more favourable terms for the
Irishmen Us the garrison than were admissible, it
was peremptorily rejected, and the bombardment
was renewed with increased fury. The loss of the
British army is said to be comparatively small,
the whole not exceeding eight or nine hundred
ill killed, wounded, and missing. The lost on the
part of the line-of-battle ships was not ,known;
but it is fair to cosiclude that it could not have been
considerable. Such is the substance of the latest
accounts and reports from Flushing. It was
swelled out yesterday by aloplitication;verbiage,
sail tautology, into a long article, in the shape of
a letter frosts dLddleburgb, sod published its wide
lines, es a Second &lithos, in One of the Mousing
Papers, although it will be found, upon compa-
rison, to have been iu substance nearly the same
with the accouut which we gave yesterday iu the
whole of our impression. That Flushing has
surremiered, and that the place was, before yes-
terday, in possession of our troops, cannot be rea-
sonably doubted. Up to a late hour last night,
however, uo official *monist to that effect had been
received at the Admiralty or War 011i.v; nor had
the telegraph ansiouisccd that a vessel, ants slim.
patches from Flushing, was COI g jut° the DOTI M.
nor that en officer or issesseuger, with dispatches,
ass upon his way.

If any additional colifirniation could ariie in our
I, of the justice and solidity id those opinions,
which we have already expressed, rehitire to the
march into Castile, and the victory ol Wide-
n, it would be of by The ii2fraorthwan9
Gscottr of Tuesday lie:% Its ',missal, whitener
sea-
satious of admiration it insy eseitt, of the valour,
fir:ones*, and discipline, of out tioops, peacoats a
distressing retwn of their diminished numbers, and
offers dawning proof of the incapacity of a Cabinet.
which knows nut where beneficially to employ that
valour fur the extrication of Europe. Well may
cam of their supporters, turpelied Ly 11111 irresistible
conviction of this truth, exclaim, "Oh, that 10,000
liritish troops had been iii the battle of Wagraui !"
And eddy, were not 10.000 Braids troops in that
action? Whitt iiiipeihments preveuted them from
being early in July on the Danube ? We have re-
peatedly hewn with whet facility they might
have becu transported from Lisbon to Trieste,
in 3lay and June. If they had been sent to that
quarto-. there 1.1. General

• '.l
StUART'S force Imam Messina, the battle of IVa,.
could never have happened, mai Austria
not pow. be reduced to the W.:initiating situation of
accepting terms dictated by N erwecti N. le, Can.
tile, they can only, We repeat, gather laiirets lota.
Fels, unproductive of any permits...it/ beta tel ; slots
BUN Apt um. when he has stinjected, divided, and
tne East, will transfer his conquering
anus to the Vest. Do we intend to await Ili* von*,
ming, mid to dispute Madrid with Lieu ? Or shall
e, u. somi a, we hear of a Peace being concluded
at Vienna, renew the retreat to Comma, of a hielt
so painful a recollection is imprinted on weer) Lop-
atin iu this ;country ? The battle of slavers,
however glorious to our arms, will sicit!.-r sure
Spain, nor rescue Austria, our fortes BO N•PIIIITA
to adopt measures of moderation and justice. What
dm, is it, utility 2—for we do lost dispute its Lail.
li:they. We trust, that Nbilisters will inform us
what consequences, beneficial to the cowman
cause, are expected to retell from it.

But, even as a military monument of our proems-,
it has been dearly purchased. Look at The Gfizeite.
If JOSEPH BON•PASTL desire consolation, or wish
to &live comfort in his &Ica, he may find it in
Sir Alma's WELLLSLEY'S letters. " 5367 killed,
wounded and missing !" How ninny servitors iv..
maul, tit for service ? Can we stand such aino:,r
victory ? The luso of the PMI'S). however, his
been much greater."—" By all accounts, their lose
if 10,•00 men." And what then ? will he nut find
in the remains of SOVI.Vi and Ns's's armies,
ample means of tilling ti,) the vacancies iu his
ranks ? Have we any similar fund on which to
draw ? Do we not, every step that we advance,
recede from our own resources, and approach those
of the enemy ? Have we any possal)l2 retreat, in
vase of occident?—.These are mot rcrious questions.

Sir AltTiluit's letters, th couched in guard-
ed language, open subject for deep reflection. If
Cut STS excite lit) blame, he can claim little
mend:aims. But what shall we say of % r NSOAa ?
What does the British Coottitaiklor s.iv of Imo
It appears that General V Ili N AS hod ,it carded
into execution that part of the plums ul ow-Mimes
which related to his corp.; and that he was still
rt Damiel, io La Maucha." We forbear making
any comment on this fact ; it is, indmrl, alto ether
unnecessary. On the narrative of the action itself,
thotigli it infers matter for much inquiry, tot some
astoirishruent, and for more regr.-t, on one or two
points. we shall likewise to-day be silent. But,
whim this action is derrorninated„ " a complete
and glorious victory," we would venture to repeat,
that the enemy, by Sir ARTHUR'S nefount, " con-
ducted his retreat" across a river, (tire Alberche)
"ill Jibe most relator orders continuing to keep
a rear-guar.l of uliove tell thoissand mil
the heights on the left of the Alberche." flu
the Ist of A iigiist. it is true, that he &Went:vie
this mpg of troops, Fier days after the Wacky:
hut, adds Sir ArrHUR, " I conclude, with un
intention of taking up a position in the neigh-
lourhood of Geadoransu ;" that is, half nay be-
tween Segovia and Madrid, in a position ronuuand-
sug
the parser between New and Old Castile. In
all this, we see nothing like flight, or confusion, or
dismay. But what is the condition of the vie-
torions army ? To us it appears rather ills-
coirraging, if not alarming. " The extreme lir-
tipsy of tie troops, the lowa of provisions, and
the numbers of wounded to be taken care sol; have
prevented me from moving from my position."
At Tatavera,iii fact, Sir AWC.UVR still was on Ist of
August. We must reluctantly confess, that these
victories of ours, bear on resemblance in their re-
sults to the victories of BotbaeallTE. When he
conquers, he pursues. If he did not, his victories
would he of us little real value, as, we fear, nal
prove the battle of 'falavera.

The following, according to the latest sect-mots,
are the IIdIPWA and rates of the French ships of the
liar is the Scheldt, viz :

AlLanais 74 Deguesclin
Ativersata
Alithscieuk
Charlewstior
teutuuteree tle 71 Pultobk
Dalmatia
pruritic
Besides several frigates, ands number of brigs,
gun-boats, &c.
The Maria. HEAMVV, from Sicily to Liverpool,
has beatenaff privateer. after a luny action ; ear-
ri..d away the privateer's top-mast, and killed a
number of her people.
A letter from Alicant, dated Jucc 30. tat)*,
" A Fiench pnvateer has captured au L.:14411.A
brig, Iron" Majorca, with brandy ; anti All .kinal-
Clin vessel, bound to Tarragona, and carried thew
into Algiers."
The Boston Gazette says, that Spanish dollars,
hearing the name of FalLDlllaau the Filth, are in
circulation at Boston.

Congress hap, enacted that 11101/As JEFFS RIO Ss
their late Presideut, stud seud and receive letters,
free of portage.

The crews of the Russian squadron, taken at Lis-
bon last year, were on Ttielishiy put on bo.sid 'ail
of transports, and railed from Portsmouth on 11 ed-
iiesihay afterooon, under convoy of the irhoospeors
frigate, for Russia. Admiral SI NIAVIN sad his
Staff went in the Cliampium.
The country cent lushing hying thickly wood-
ed, the enemy's riflemen were able to take oft' a
number of our men. Our odors, however, sot'u
t le* rd the neighbourhood of shear gentry.—They
rushed through the wood., with their cutlawirs,
and hardly our of them returnrd without a on
or two, which they carried alai's', and proudly es-
hibitrd to tt.e anny as trophies..

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