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London, England, 1809-05-17 00:00:00

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Valparaiso Oct. In, Ison.
Captain FolTer relater, upon !aiding upon Pit.
Island (or liicatiiiition of Quiros), iii lat. 25
deg. 2 trio. long. 130 deg. by lunar observation, he
coluil there en Englishinau by the name of MS X.
i ill!, the only person remaining of nine, that
ieuried in his Majesty's late ship Bounty, Captain
Win. Nigh.
Smith relates, that after putting Captain Bligh
in the boat, Christina, the leader of the mutiny,
took the command of the ship, and went to Ow-
livite, w.• re great port of the crew left the ship,
excel t Imissrlf, Smith, and seven others, who each
took wives, and six Otaheitsn men as servants,
and shortly after arrived at this island, where they
ran the ship on short, and broke her tip. This
event took phice in she year 1740. About four
years after their arrival (a great jealousy existing)
the Oiaheitans' secretly resoited, and killed crei)
Englishman except himself. whom they severely
wounded in the neck with a pistol hall. The same
night the widuiri of the deceased Englishmen rose
and put to death the whole of the 'Otahelians,
leaving Smith the only man alive upon the island,
with tight or nine women, and several small chil-
dren. He, when he ruporerod, applied himself to
tilling the grouuJ, so that it now maim, plenty

LONDON,
wEDN!2:fioAY, m.ty 17.

L'ollll,.Yr SIII2ADRON.

Intelligence has at length been received respect-
ing the French squ.vlroa from L'Orient. It aas
brom;lit by the Fl awls freelign; packet, which is
arrived at Falmouth, with Mails from the Leeward
Islands. Tie letters will nut be delivered until
this fl.iy, hut the accounts received by Govern-
ment to the 9th last, on a hich day the packet sailed
from Tortods, sta•e, that the French sqiiii.bon
made its appearance in the West Indies, on the
25th March, consisting of the Courage/sr, De le
and ralaweire, of the, hoe, and the Ita-
licnue:nul furiesise irigates. The reader a ill recol-
lect, that this:squadron took no olopartunity to slip
out on the arrival of the Brest fleet off I: Orient,
in the first week in February last—tad that its
destination has beets ever sinew the subject
of much conjecture and anxiety, as no account
whatever had been rteeived of it. course.—On
its passage to the West I I,lies it captured two
merchantmen, which, it is suppas .d. informed
it of the fall of Martinique, as, instead of proceed-
ing to that island, for which it now ippears to
have been bound, it bore away for the Sainics
Island between Goadalotipe and Do:nistica: Go-
vernment have received dispatches from Admiral
COLIMANE to the same e • ect as the above, and
which further state, that the gallant Admiral, be-
ing apprised of arrival of the French, proceed-
ed tat the 7th instant, with four sail of the line, to
the Sainte'', with a view to attack the enemy, but
from the great advantage of the situation of the
French ship., he found the attempt impracticable.
He was therefore under the necessity of merely
blockading them for the present, and in the meats
time made an application to General &amens
at Martinique for troops. He expected that by
the loth last, a afifficient force would arrive, and
as a landim; could be easily effected, not a doubt
remained that the whole of the enemy's s!!uarlron.
with the Islands of the Sainte*, would fall into our
hands. Sonte tioops were also expected from Do-
minica, to join in the expedition.

Those persons who, deeply impressed with a con-
viction of the irresistible force and suciaeis of N A•
POLZON's arms in his present attack of Austria, an-
ticipate with almost moral certainty the destruction
of that faindy as imminent, yet admit that there
are many reasons for believing, that the issue of
the actual contest is more problematical than on
any former occasion. . Even the fabrications or pre-
tended letters. inserted in the a Mowileur," by or-
der of the French Government, in which they at-
tempt t" cover the Cabinet of Vienna with ridicule
and opprobrium, manifest the necessity under
which BONAPARTE is to have recourse to such ex-
pedients. The successive loss of Cayenne aml of
•Martinislae, followed by the partial destruction,
disgrace, and flight of his squadron in Basque
Roads, cannot tend to exhilarate the public mind
in France. It is by no means improbable, as is
asserted in the letter dated " Vienna, 18th of
March," inserted in the " Muniteur," that the Cor-
sican may have put& various propositions to the
Austrian Government, estealabot to gain time. till
lie should have subjected Spain, and driven the
English out of Portugal. The offer of sending J E-
r:one BONAPARTE to reign in the last mentioned
country, and of ceding the kingdom of Westplialie
to the Grand Duke of WISISTEDURGII, though now
denied by BON APART'S. is iv itself highly probable.
FERDINAND, who in the revolutions of the last ten
years, has been successively Groat Doke of Tus.
CART, Prince of SeLlrellußOU, mid finally trans-
(erred to Wort/burgh in Franconia, is the Empe-
ror of AUSTRIA'S next brother. Such a propold
might be considered as likely to please at Vienna,
especially us, in order to render it still more grate-
ful, the brother of the present young Empress,
himself a Prince of the Austrian family, was to
succeed his cousin FERDINAND, as Grand Duke
of Wuserzavao. Sach a trsus!er, if it bail taken
effect, while it conciliated Austria at this critical
moment, would have stationed JEROME at Lisbon,
its JuFrma is seated at Madrid: dins placing the
whale of Holland, Flanders, France, Italy, Spain,
and Portugal, with their immense tract of coast,
ilisrhours, and resources, on the German and At-
lantic nouns, as well as along the bleditertonean,

is the hands of she Aar broth's, of Ajectio.
kingdom of Westphalia might have been recon-
(purred and resumed at any time. However conve-
nient it may now he to •the Maoitea• to treat this
negotiation as chimerical; it carries with it very
strong walks of probability. Those who regard
this court-gi.tette of NAPOLEON, as never deviating
widely from truth, have only to peruse" the bril-
liant affair near Inoiovi," stated to have happened
as long ago as the I Ith of March. Falstaff 'll men
in green buckram, is quite tame in comparison
with the story here commemorated. The scene is
laid au the frontiers of Portugal, where. it seems,
Sir Iloat:e•r 11.1 Lima, with .2000 inruntry of. the
line, the Avila battalion of iwsurgents, and 100
cavalry, " were completely defeated by
only irro of brother JEamiCii 11'estphalian light
horse, win) killed a number with their sabres, and
threw the rest into confusion." This defeat we
know to be altogether imaginary. Yet, snch are
the art., illusions, and fabrications, by which the
continent is terrified and governed.

If we wish to see to what a point of abject de-
gradation and base servility the Corsicusi Despot
has reduced the French people, while lie seta, ks
and enslaves the German, Spanish, and Italian
nations; we may read it in •' the Address of the
Causer% ative Senate, in the last month," to their
Master. Tumulus could have desired no grosser
adulation, nor DOM TI IN have exacted more tame
submission, from the Roman Senates of their times !
We know not whether to feel more disgust or more
detestation fur en assembly, the pretended repre-
sentatives of the public voice of the French people,
composed in pint of those very men who massacred
their Sovereign, proclaimed liberty and equality,
abolished even the tunic of royalty ; and who now,
within twenty years, lick the dust under the im-
perial feet of a flagitious adventurer, who has
chained down these 1111111i:1C, to the floor. %Veil
may the Corsican Emperor trample on a nation
thus fitted for blitvery, who tremble at the lush,
who demand only a master sufficiently powerful to
coerce near-by ; and tile., hating found him in the
Pierson of a foreigner, bend their necks to his yoke,
suffer themselves to hie conscribed, in order to per-
petuate and to consolidate his impious power; and
are led ny him to theTages, to the Vistula, or to the
Da•.o he, as his immeasurable ambition or ferocious
passions dictate ! Vet, not a voice is raised, nor
a murmur heard, throughout the French empire,
against the atrocious, unprovoked, and most per-
fidious attack of the Spanish kings and people—
the allies, the tools, and the victims of a treacherous
Indigo. Such is the fkllen state of the Fiench,
that they confound moral good and evil, crime and
virtue, war and rapine. They applaud and cele-
brate their Tyrant, •• fur bearing his liberating
eagles to the shores of the Tagits;" though they
well know that he had no pretext. except *pollu-
tion, for attacking either Spain or Portugal. They
eulogize lain, who, like an angry demon or comet,
•' from his horrid hair shakes pestilence and war,"
as the pacificator of Europe, the restorer of tran-
quillity to the distracted globe, the TITUS, OF the
ANToNINus, of the Hineteenth century ! . They
talk to biro of concluding a maritime peace, the
eternal object of his desires, and sublime concep-
tions," though th:•y know that his ships of war
are hurncd, or token, or ►tranded ou the shores of
France ; and that though he may toy waste, Of
desolate, or tyrannize the Continent, lie has no
means of even defending his own colonies or coasts
from our attacks !—But, to this complexion is the
French people conic is ! Truth and false-
hood are to than the same, mid public bodies can-
not blush. Should, however, his '• liberating ea-
gles" meet with any reverses in their present flight,
this prostitute Senate will soon recover their per-
ceptions of right and wrong, of honour and of
shame.. Ile talks of cooquering England in
Austria;', but he may equally lose Spain and Por-
tugal in Austria: Not that we anticipate such an
event as probable; yet is Boa APAKTS in a critical
position, as he well kaiows. IC he :moot rapidly
conquer peace," he may yet lie stopped in his
triumphant career.

Whatever may be the fate of Lord Easems's
Bill for preventing the exerci,e of cruelty towards
brute animals, and whatever difficulties may siise
in the practical application of his principles, if
adopted, the Bill itself, and the feelings which have
originated it, will always do honour to its initho?,
to the age, and we may adil, even to human na-
ture. Some of the filets stated by Lord Eusitto a,
in his speech on Monday evening, excite no less
horror than they awaken compassion. Can it be
tolerated in such a country a. Great Britain, that
receptacles shall be allowed to exist in this metro-
polis, where old nod worn out horses are syste-
matically detained in pm:meted existence and
studied torture without sustenance, till the profit'
upon their flesh may encourage or enable the
owner to give the order for their slaughter ? Flow
does such treatment of animals, incapable of fur.
ther service, practised in a Christian kingdom,
contrast with the mild and humane spirit of the
Gnaw ►eligion, which inculcates and carries into
action, the . most tender care of those creatures,
whom age or Infirmity h.:re inc•.pacitaled for la-
bour I. It is well known to every person who has
visited the East, that at Benue+, at Surat, and at

many otitereidacetie EOM, heetkah are ideally
endowed and maintained fur the cure or the protee.
tiou of animals. It is true, that this edge or prim.
tics is grounded in is great degree on the doctrine
of the metempsychosis, or transmigration of souk,
which pervades, more or less, the whole peninsula
of 'Mostar'. But it is confirmed and strengthened
by the dictates of general boeranity towards the
br:ste creation. We trait that Mk legislature will
manifest, On the present occasion, the same enlarged
and beneficent sineit, which characterises the in-
habitants of the Gauges, and the folluWers of
Drama !

We lament that differences of opinion on
! olio-
cal points, convected either with •l'arliatnentar,r
Reform, or with Ministerial acts of Corruption and
of Malversatiou, should, even for a moment, seem
to disunite friends contending under is cointoon
banner, for the bests Rights of our Cinistitution.
And we lament it the more, as it server to prolony
the duration of an Admini,tration, weak, vaecitkt-
ing, equally destitute of system, or of enlar:reil'
views ; feeble abroad, and only exhibiting vigour.
at home, when employed in defending a Duke of
YORK, or a Lord CASTLERZAOR ! A Miuiritry
which, having acquired possession of power, by de-
ception, hypocrisy, and misrepresentation, retain it
by the same little arts and means which originally
called then► into office. We consider, neverthe-
less, the late misunderstanding (shalt we call it ?).
between Mr. WIIITOREAD sod Mr. PONSONBY,
which took place ou the debate, produced by Mr.
hismoucces motion, as a spark accidentally gene-
rated by the collision of two generous and aerated
minds, no sooner kindled than extinguished. It
is like the quarrel between BRUTUS and Cadistils,
which finally cements, instead Of disioniting friends.
flow eagerly did the Ministerial Ilenel►ers catch,
and how ardently did Mr. CANNING attempt to
improve, this opening ! How quickly did they
instruct the waits devoted to their seniee, and hoot
gladly did thee supple agents otsay their orders to
bedaub sir. KINSONBY with their filthy praise, and
thence rodeavoor to throw a suspicion upon the
purity of his motives. Ministers are fully con-
scious that their only solid chance for perpetuating
their authority is the disunion of their udversaries.
We trust, however, that on Mr. Cuawea's Bill.
we shall have to felicitate the nation, on the moat
perfect harmony of opinion and of action, from every
branch of the Opposition.

His Majesty's ship Graaptis. of 50 guns. Cept.
TA IT, with the Pheenix, Surat Castk, Preston,
Anne, and Wexford, from Bengal. have arrired
ofr Falmouth. It was believed on Monday evening.
at Portsmouth. that they had reached the lie of
Wiglit.

We stated in a former paper that the French
would not suffer the prisanevs taken at Afar.:
tinique to land at Qinberen nay. Oar account
was correct. They were, by the capitulation, to be
exchauged rank for rank, man for man ; but on
their arrival at Quiheron, the Governor demurred.
and our Officers very properly brought theta away.
The Belleisle; the Noses, and several transport.
crowded with them, have arrived at Portsmouth.

The Lion, with the Lt A DIMON ; CeINSOII,
LACK k ; COW, DV N 4 FORD ; and Exeter, MORS..
Tom, from Loudon, arrived at China ou the 47th of
September.

Prom the forward state of public business in
both House*, Ministers expect that Parliament will
be able to rise on the loth of June.

Amongst the notices which stood for yesterday
in the House of Commons, was one for revising
Mr. Piu's Bill regulating Public ii;eetings.
Dispatches weie received on Monday at the Ad-
miralty, from Admiral Psttaiii, from the East
Indies.

The Little Mary, cartel, Captain Brooks, is
arrived at Portsmouth from Oporto, which place
she lett on the 19th of Aphl, and brings an account .
thut the following Ent:hell vessels, viz. A talaata.
Battersley ; Mary, Beck; Faintatite, Littdle ; Ammo.
Palmer; Phamix, Tomlinson ; Nosh, Bowman ;
Lord /kaiak, Anderson ; Progress, Borki ng ;
(:harlotte, Watson; Avalon. Thomas ; ✓ehw, Ihy-
wood ; Unity, Gardner ; Eiimbeth, Queen
t'harlos te, ; and Haremoy.,Penson ; lit -rutty
laden, except the Charlotte, we►e raptured by the
French at Oporto on the 49th of March : tte two
latter vessel* are duce lost.

Vestenlav, nt two o'clock, Sir DAVID thIIIDAD
held a public day at his Olive no the Horse Guards.
and gave audicitees to Lunt DYSART. Sir A.
CLARKE, (intend BALYtiI:R) and a number of Mi-
litnry °livens.
Letters from liamburgli all conenr in Malin
that it Courier from Beam had brought the
ac-
count of the retreat of the Emperor NseaLLoN. nt
consequence of a partial defeat ; and they add, that
a whole number of the Ilantbiersh f' rriveridesarts
had been burnt by order of the French Plusister.
because if contained au account of the *access of
the Austrians.

Seville Gazettes to the 11c1 lust, contain a Deere*
of the Supreme Central Junta. It breathes a detei.
mined spirit of resistance to the French,. which we
hope to we followed up with corresponding energy
of action. This is the e:itical moment, while NA-
rot
tow is in Germany, for the Spaniards to rise on
maw, and free themselvis from the presence of the
invinlers. The experience of the late teaspaign 'hews
what they have te ex pect,ai tit how little is their chance
of success, if, neglecting the golden opportunity of
his ■bumen. they content themselves with a slog•
Kish, languid. and partial system of warfare, until
returiiisig ones more to the i'yrtnees, hr earries,
with him an itsoienw Imre that most overeluelta
their country, and resider all opposition is's+ az.