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DUTCH PAPERS.

AII4TERDANI. ACT. 19.
The intelligence of peace having been signed be-
tween Austria and France, has not been confirmed.
This piece of information arrived in Dolland by
the way of Stutgard end Cassel. lit both cities,
the public rejoicings, ol!ieli took plaee in son-
sequence of these lialyy have becu
succeeded by general consternation end legr t.—
Every thing, however, seems to indicate, that, on
the Continent, peace will be opted ly concluded, it
that fortunate event should not already have taken
place.—(Royal Amsterdam Courier:, of Oct. 19.)
rams, ocr.
According to letters from Strasburgli, of the 10th
inst. it was generally reported in that city, that Ills
Imperial Majesty meant to arrive there on the 15th.
The troops of the Duke of Saxony, under the or-
ders of General Romges, who for some time have
fonseil part of the army of the Duke of Dantzig,
have marched to Vienna, by way of Upper and
Lower Austria, and are uuw in cantonments in the
vicinity of that capital. Ilia Majesty the Emperor
reviewed them atSchiseribrunn. .
The Tyrolese are stated to be in the utmost
want of several articles ; their cutuinumeattan aith
tltis • neighbouring states Wing at present store
strictly intercepted his ever been before,
it is utterly impossible for them to obtain any sup-
plies of provisions, merchandise, or erumunition,
especially since the re Brier of the neighbouring
canton have adopted proper measures to shut up
that pelage.
ZARA, SEPT. 4.
The Governor of Zara has received intelligence
front the Major - General of the Grand Army,
that the Austrian troops have been ordered to
evacuate Dalmatia. The above intelligence hie

bees communicated to the Commander-in-Chief
of the said troops. Should riot this officer have
yet received the order of evacuation, it is pro-
bably to be ascribed to the same acLident which
has prevented several French couriers, dispatched
by the Empe►or. from reaching their place of des-
tination; they having been arrested., notwithstand-
ing the armistice, and despoiled of their dispatches.
—( i'oteriaad Courant of Oct 13.)
SPANISH AND POR ItlitESE PAPERS.

I

I.ISIiON, SLIM SO.

The French have evacuated Zamora and Toro,
and formed • junction in Salamanca. It is not easy
to determine whether this movement is in conse-
quence of the approach of the division of General
Ballasteros, or with the design of contracting,
and attacking the said Geheral, or the army of Ge-
tters' Mani I ezabal.

•CT. 6.

Certain intelligence has been received that the
En lids army was to march against Talavera de la
Reyna, which it has probably reached by this time,
and we feel convinced that the operationb of me
combined armies will prove this time more deciaiv♦
than before.—( Lisiii`n Diary, Oct. ti.;

•( T. 7.

By a packet lately arrived from 11,41 Ie .Iriseiro,
• decree has been received from the Prince Re-
gent, ■ppointitt Lord Wellington Principal Mem-
ber of the Regency, Commander-iii-Chiel of all the
Forces, and Principal of the Departments of War.
Trade, and Finance. His Lordship is expectNl
here daily ; the Palace of Quisiiilla ii prepared for
his reception. No movement of any consequence
has taken place in the armies.
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017. 9.

The army of La M inch*, reinforced by a curl)s
from that of Estrenvidiirs, has advanced from the
banks of the Guadiana, to resume the offensive ; its
outposts have already arrived at Teinblegise.
According to letters from the frontiers of Alen-
tejo, some English troops have marched for the in-
terior of Spain.—(Gazette.)
An Officer, just arrived from the army, gives the
following account of the French force on the Ist in-
stant:—Marshal Ney, at Salamanca, with 14,000
men ; Soult, at Plasencia, Zarza Major, and Mid-
plaids, with 8000 ; Victor, (head-quarters at (ho-
pes.), with 4000; Monier, at Talavera, with
10,000 ; General Sebastiani is said to be on his
march to Guadalatre, with 10,000.

OCT. I I.

Lord Wellington arrived here yesterday ; it is
not known how long he will remain here ; hut we
infer, tilt's) his having left .the army, that there is
no apprehension of any attack from the enemy at
INIANSZIA. Stn. 14.

By intelligence received from the neighbourhood
of Gomm. we learn that the enemy. on the 11th

LONDON.
TIIURSOAN", OCTOBER '26.

We have received Simuish papers to the 10th,
and Portuguese to the I .:ta instant, from which we
have made extracts.—They contain intelligonce
from Lisbon to the oth, •t which date it is said the
Spanidi army of I .3 Mancha had regained offensive
operations, amid the British army wsti again advanc-
ing into Spain. ‘Ve lint e that this intelligence is
nut correct.—Lord WELLINGTON may advance for
a time, but he must finally retreat before the over-
whelming force which the peace with Austria will
enable BoNsra•TE to bring against him.

‘Ve have received Dutch papers of the 14th and
lath instant. At that date the intelligence of the
conclusion of peace lietween France and Austriw
remained without confirmation, It appear* to ha►e
been trausinittcd to Amsterdam from Cassel and
Stutgard, in both of which cities it was an-
nounced, oceording to one of the Paris papers re-
ceived on Tuesday, in their official Gazettes.—The
account of the actual conclusion of peace, on the
3d instant, was, therefore, premature; or, Bs we
ventured to state, Ros AIF4 RTC wished to defer the
official annunciation of this important 'measure, un-
til his retina to Paris, with a view to give eclat
to his arrival.

There is something in the present situation, and
in the apparently approaching fate of the Spanish
nionansby and nation. peculiarly calettlitsd to
awaken our commiseration and regret. The other
European States have been overrun. or conquered,
or intimidated. Spain has been betrayed, bound,
delivered up. and thrown at the feet of a flagi-
tious foreigner, by her own Sovereign. History
presents nothing so base, so abject, and so pusilla-

niftiest', as the dereliction •af No men honour,
C,esln ■nd SHI4CCSS, by Cuant.ts• iV.; aui . if,
as the French Papers inform us, he and his Queue
are now subsistingchiefl pm the sale of their jewels,
at Marseilles, neglected and iiespieed by the ter-
tian who dethroned them ; the retribution is only
just. What shall we say of the depravity and de-
gradation msuifested by the Queen of Sr.'s, who
did not blush to become the vile instrument of Bo-
N•PARTE, by uccusing herself of leadenly to her
husband's bed, in order to disprove her inn's right
of SUCCeISIIIOII to the throne I Is.ISELLA of BAVA-
RIA, Queen of France, whose name is become pro-
verbially infamous, acted its this same manner to-
wards her son, CHARLES VII. in the fifteenth cen-
tury. Thus, history offers perpetually the 'erne
scenes, and the same events. under different manses.
How sublime a cdsitrast does the unfortussate Me-
ats A StOINETTE present, who, amidst all the hor-
rors of the Coseciergerie, in the tnidst of imults,
privations, and sufferings the must acute, never lost,
for a moment, the consideration of her own dig-
nity, and displayed es unconquerable elevation of
soul !

We repeat, that, consideri iig all the circnmstances
of CHARLES the stler situation, aud the immense
resources which a King of SPAIN possessed, his con,
duct exceeded, in pusillanimity, an, thing recorded
in the amialsof time. That a great and powerfiil Ma-
llard), in atter defiance of all his duties to himself
and to his family, as well as to his people, should
plot the destruction of all, and enter into u syste-
matic conspiracy to deliver them up to a revolutio-
nary adventurer, would appear to bc incredible, if we
had not witnessed it. That the Spaniard* themselves
should remain torpid, inactive, and without manifest-
ing any ineligustiou„ when their fortresses were sur-
reitilerell to French troops, when the flower of their
armies was sent to subjugate Germany, and when
MURAT, with a large military force, wus admitted
into Madrid ; corms, we own, an inexplicable sole-
cism. Was it apathy, or indifference to their poli-
tical fete ? Wits it passive obedience to their
Sovereign? Why did not the nation demand the
emivocatiou of the Cortes, when they beheld! the
Monarchy engulpheil in the political whirlpool of
NAPOLEON ?- Why did they wait till he had con-
sumtnated their shame, aud involved ill confusion
or anarchy every province of the Peninsula, before
they invoked the assistance of the British Govern-
mina ? If the Spaniards, in 1806, *hen they be-
held! Spain prostituted to the purpose* of DONA,
PARTE', immeasurable ambition; had then display-
ed any energy of character, the calamity might
have been arrested. Do they not too well merit
the contumelious rep.orclies with which the Mo-
niteur loads them ; and which are repeated by Jo-
IF.PII BONAPARTE, in the last Madrid Gement,
What can Spain expect," Lays be, when now
no longer protected by strong frontier fortresses, or
by the barrier of the Pyrenees ; when a great part
of her provinces are occupied by the enemy, and
the greatest of heroes can at ally time over-run this
kingdom with his invincible leg:ons ?" They have
too well merited, it 10114 he owned, this insnltileg
languarfe from the invader, whom they did nut
sooner slyest..

Can any rational expect 4;inti of saving Spain be
still entertained . We are well ir,t are, that the yues-
tion aell be generally aosono•ed io the negatiie ;
our do oe vrialre to contest it, though we still
nourish considerable hopes. That an enlightened
British Adiniiiistration would, in all probability,
have extricated them, last Near, between July and
November, when Navot.cos was engaged at Er-
forth, arid Joscria was driven to Burgos or Vittoria,
we are convinced. But, instead of waling armies
to Portugal and to Galicia, to Lisbon and to Cu-
rounii, us our ignorant and timid Ministers did,
they ought to have directed their whole efrorta to
Biscay anal Catalonia. We asserted it then, and
we remain of the saute opiiiion to-day, that Wet.-
t.vst.EY'd force should have been landed at Porto-
galette and at St. Andero ; while MoottE's and
Bstan's ought to have been transported to Tarns-
gnus mill to Itosas. Then we might have stopped
the French at the foot of the Pyrenees, arid all
Spain would have joined our standard. lu order
to illustrate the ease, let us suppose that BONA-
PARTE; having got possession of London, of Dover,
Harwich, and Portsmouth, together with the per-
sons of the Royal Fatuity, en army of .50,000 Spa-
niards, called in by us to our aid, were to be sent
here by the Government of that country; would
any Government, that was not infatuated, order
these auxiliaries to be landed at Falmouth, or• at
Milford, or at Barwick-upon-Tweed ? Would they
not rather ,seftd them to the coast of Kent and
Sussex, through which counties the enemy had en-
tered, and could alone contiuue to enter. Catalonia
is, moreover, even now, iu open insurrection ; and
Gerona, a city not forty-five miles front the French
frontier, continues, by the latest accounts, to defend
itself; nay, to repulse and to repel the assailants.
—if, instead of an insensate attempt to penetrate
to Madrid, Sir AMTKV a had been sent round from
the Tagns in May, o► June last, to the mouth of
the Ebro, to Tortosa, or to Tarragona Barcelona
would. long ago, have fallen into our possession.
Jostpx would then have tiembled in Madrid, and
would, probably, have abandoned it a w•nnetd time.
Arragon would have risen anew. D., we not see,
that, by recent accounts, Calitayud, and HAMA._
tro, livo of the most considerable places of that pro.

vine, situated, OM to the south, sod' the other
the north of. the Ebro, hate driven; or ensipelkd
the enemy to retire ? How sublime wits t►e dentst
of Saragossa! But we attempted to restiscttalli-
only the morbid and gaugrened portions of the
Peninsula—Leon, in particular; of which kingdom
Mr, rimes says, in one of his letters to Sir Joao
Moon*, wNo man owns himself a Ltonese ;"
while we never had the energy. nor the intrepidity,
to hatiard,sendiog a single reginient to the support
of the Catalans. Even sow, if it be thought wise,
or judicious, to retain any troops in the peninsula
the remains of Lord WiIiLLINGTO3I.II array ought
to in transported to Catalonia. The SupremeJuuta '
ilppears to be utterly incapable of either them-
selves or their country. But. let us riot, therefore,
consider *pain as lost beyond redemption ! There
are great energies arid powers of vitality yet latent,
ender that seemiugly torpid and exhausted mass.
They require only to be called out by able hands.
and' to be directed by superior =tads, to change-
the aspect of Spain. But, what can be expected
flow Ministers such us those. who, since the begin-
ning of 1807, have conducted thy counsels and the
arms or Great Britain

S.