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London, England, 1808-11-08 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LOX DON,
TUESDAY, Norman' 8.

Jot OS this paper was going to press this merit-
ing, we received Madrid Gazettes to the 26th last,
from which we have made the following extract
ARAN/USX, OCT. *3.
His Excellency Don Francisco Xavier Castillo%
hos transmitted the following report to his With-
ups the l'estaidant srf the Supreme Central Junta of
the kingdom :

•• Move SEILIIIII UMW—From vanons reports
whit h L.-oh-mut General Don Manuel De Pena,
seemui in command of the Artily of And..lusia,
tr„,,,,nitted to n,e, I Lite the honour to counntl-
OiCaleb:, your Highocis.the following intelligence
" Captain Doti Francisco Moreno, uho corn-

Iminds the ttrailivnrs of theadvaneed Roar) of the
division of Andaliu.is; having received intelligence
1 urea% the .rth of Last mouth. that he oas to

be
a.ttatAett tlls Ott day; tesnlrcci m attich the
eiteiny the nut morning% At breek of de7 I:2 fell
in with them near Cenicerovi mad defeated th in.
" on the LAI inst. Count de Aladin, Colonel „f
the Volunteers or Cs' thilisuia, attacked the eat's,
Dear Logrooo. and put thaw to the rout.

lyu
the same days a strong detachment of
French cavalry nppeared la the viciaity of Ledima,
and fell in, with a detachment of the regiment of
llottrbou, commanded by Capt. Don Juau Gomel.
This gallant Officer, relying on the intrepidity irinl
courage of his troops, without a moment', hetita.
tiall attacked the enemy. far superior in tiun:!rtr,
and being euprorted by a detachment of the regi.
meat of the sharp-shoUters, cotutnauded by a.%
liultuntr de Vlllalbs, the enemy wore driven buck
to Lenin.

" All the actions are honourable for the army
which I have the honour to command ; are glo-
rious to the °Meer, sod men she were eng:e_;ed;
and will give your Serene Highness it correct
of the spirit which Fit:ids in Ills Slujesty's army."
God preserve you many cam
" XAVIER DE Gaer,►Nos."

" llegJ.Quarters. A gretla,
Oct. IS, 1b015." Olatfrid Car. of Ort.i:

A Oottenburgh arrived yebterday, with
letter* and papers from that city to :lie Ist instant,
and Stockholm to the 30th last. The Stockholm
letters bring no news of importance. The paper of
the •17th coatains a report from Admiral Past,
confirming the intt•lligence that the whole Russian
fleet has set sail, with the exception of two frigates
which 'remained in Ilogerswiek or Baltic Port, on
the 7th of October.

The following is the only article of any interest
in the Gottenhurgh Papers :

GOTTEXIBURCII, OCT. I.
6, We have not a syllable of nen., • Nothing
further has transpired about the armistice in Fin-
land. His MaJr.spr's ships Victory, Cottaur, and
Implacable, are here, and sail with the first wind for
England. The Africa has had a brash with up-
wards of !0 Danish gun boats off Drago. Some
of theme have been sunk ; the Africa lout 10 tarn
killed, and 50 wounded ; she has returned to Curls.
crone to repair.**

It is impossible, in the present critical sittiatien
of things, long to abstract ourselves, or to with-
draw our reflections, from the affairs of Spain.
All other states and countries of the Continent
offer only matter of minor consideration, and tf
far inferior interest. The emhargos of ALEXAN
DER and of JEFFERSON, who, at the two extre-
mities of the globe, teem to vie in their servile
obedience to their common masks. ; the armistices
of Fiuhiud, and the blockades of Rogerswiek; the
armaments of Austria, and the expeditions of
Jose:nut against Capri, with intent to signalize his
august succession to the Neapolitan Throne; the
severe conscriptions of Jews's, contrasted with
the humanity end leuity of Louts BONAPARTE ;
all these subjects are lost and swallowed up in the
great question of the subjugation, or emancipation,
of the Spanish Monarchy and people. We Lease
that the persons who, from information of vatious
kinds, and from access to authority the most to be
relied on, might form a round opinion on the sub-
ject, are greatly divided in their conjectures,
whether NAPOLEON will, or will not, assume the
command of the French armies, in person, be) 0041
the Pyrenesa ? We seem, indeed, to have his own au-
thority, and express assurance, given to the Legisla-
tive Body, for the affirmative of the propoaitioa. but,
are those expressions accurate, or may they not admit
of a loose toterpretatioa ? Certainly, the crisis, and
the object, are well deserving of his interpositsci.
Never was a greater stake contended fur anion;
men, than that a hicli is now at issue en the terri;,:,y
of Spain. If the tyrant cannot force his brotii. r
on the necks of the Castilians; if he should prep.*
tillable to subject, or to divide the people, his Mr
guinary career is at least arrested ; and as England
has set limits to his Empire on the Ocean,
the Pyrenees have done on the land. During Live
months consecutively, the lustre of his arms ln:
been tarnished, and victory has every where aban-
doned him. ROUSES, rat Cadiz, Dueoar, in the
Plains of Baylen, Moacev, in Valentia. Ls FEL.
vas, before Saragossa, Dunassts, at Gerona, and
Jusor, in Portngal, have all, succeasively, been de-
feated, reduced to capitulate, to fly, or to evacuate
the countries that they occupied. Eicil in the en-
gagement of Medina de Rio Seco, the Spaniard'.
though repulsed, were not vanquished. JOSEFa
himself, after an eight days' residence in the :Juno-
polis of the kingdom, and a precarious existtnes
of some months at Burgos, or in the toans along
the Ebro ; is reduced to abandon Old Casti!e.
and to take refuge is the pros:nee of A ht. A. It
is high time that this Corsican Foiander of Dyne.-
ties should he rescued from his ignomtioom
obsessnly. and re-produced on the theatre of the
world. NAPOLEON alone seems competent to
operate so great a work, to which hi, Generals 5041
his Marshals have been found unequal. Other
obvious reasons seam to render his personal exer-
tions indispensable, and h:s appearance at the head
of his armies absolutely necessary. Shnald he
again immure himself in the Castle of Mar, ac,
he did during SO many months, white he directed
from thence his atrocious machination« o.rai'
the two Kings of Sestw, reflections, iujitriolts
his fames and even derogatory to Ins coar.,,;•