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. However depressed mid almost hopeless the pre-
sit condition of Spain tory appear to a superficial
observer, yet those who are best acquuilitied with
the physical mid moral resources of the Spanish
Monarchy, will by no means regard its situation es
desperate. It is unquestionably a painful mid
anxious moment in w hick we atuud, knowing that
the invader lens eutrred Madrid, and ignorant es we
are, i n a great degree. of the events that precedes', or
of those which lime followed, his oreupution or the
Metropolis. We leave nevertheless sufficient evidence,
in time official accounts published at Arauji.ez, oil
the 29th of November, to be assured that neither
At the battle of Tudela. mar subsequent to it, hail
CASTANos lost the means, nor the ardent desire, to
serve his country. Thar who, veasoeing from ana-
logy. and reflecting that the loss or seizure of
View.* in 1804, and of Berlin in 180 ti, by Bo-
lISPARTI;„ led to the disinendiermeut of the
Austrian and Prussian Mounrchiea, and prepared
the way fur the and ruinous tren-
tieii of Preshurg and of Tilsit; sash persons
may infer riauiLtr consequences from the capitulation
of Madrid. But it is highly probable, that the
actual potential of NAPoLSON, however osteissilely
brilliant and imposing, may eventually involve
him in difficulties far more emherrassing than any
which he overcame in his former caMpaigns. lie
is already at a Very considerable distance from
the French frontier, in the centre of a hostile
country, and utterly unable. in case of accideuts
or reverses. to draw supplies of any kind, or
to receive support, except through the defiles of a
range of snowy mountains. If this coimunitication
were by any circumstance impeded or cut off, his
condition, might suddenly assume a most alarming
aspect; nor is it possible for him to be altogether
revere against theoceurrence of such an event. Ile
is at war not only with Spain, but likewise, with a
power, which, mistress of the sea, may unexpectedly
transport troops in his rear, and may even at any
moment appear off St. Ander°, or Bilboa, or even
St. Sebastian. The very deficiencies of the coun
try which he is ravaging, plundering, and subject-
hug ; the want of roads, its sterility in *nue parts,
and want of population in others, as well as the
prejudices, civil and religious. of the people, all
militate aguinst his perManent conquest of the Pe-
nn's:lla. Ile will nut find among the Spaniards, as
he did utuong the Clemons. Poles, and Italians,
the means of effecting new acquisitions of territory,
and of tilling up the vacancies occasioned even by
successful war. Even the vacancy of the Throne
itself, which might wean to augment the national
culansititei„ and which his own insatiable ambition,
combined with perfidy lead violence, have occa-
sioned. may not facilitate to NAVoIxoN, or to
Josers, the acquisitine of the Crown. There is
something in the proceedings carried on at Bay-
onne against I'Lante AND the SevesiTil, at once so
flagitious mod so base, as to awaken all the abhor-
rence which successful crime too frequently extin-
guishes. It is not so much loyalty, as indig-
Indio!' at outraged humanity, winch must ani-
mate every iuhalsitant of Spina, whose boson)
is nut steeled against all the feelings and corn-
puuctioita of our common nature. lf, impelled by
these considerations, and by the irremediable state of
subservience, or rather of complete sithinissiou,
into which the whole European Continent must
necessarily sink under the Usurper, as soon as
Spain is reduced to his obedience, Austria amid the
Ottoman Porte were to take up arms. while Ns-
POLZoII is in Castile or in Anelulusin, his imperial
crown might suddenly be shaken and dissolved.—
This event, improbable as it may appear, we are
assured, is Dot considered to be impossible. That
BowAreaTa regards all the measures taking by
MnSTAPHA Delascrsa, for regenerating and re-
invigorating the Turkish empire, with apprehension
and anxiety, is obvious. Nor does ilti.Ex Crime
dread ally attack which England and Swedes can
make apnea him in the Baltic, with the same terror
as he looks forward to a conjoined armament of
British and Turkish ships invading the Crimea.—
It is, we venture to airiest, in the Black Sea. sad
not in the frozen ulphs of Filihind or of Bothnia,
that we must find the,tneaus of bringiog!mck to

considerations becoming his dignity, the doscendans
and successor of C• Ikt• INE 11. Cher Mill, Oexu-
kow, and all the coasts, or pint., or fortresses, sub-
jet tedo:uring the last thirty years, slung the
Euxine, to the Russian empire, might beaguin dis-
tred from it in a single campaign. NAPaI.EON.
unable to contest for the empire of the sea, could
not even extend any assistance by land to the Rus-
sians, unless with the permission of Austria. In the
late measures of the Cabinet of Vienna, in the or-
ders for ruisiug troops and constructing fortresses,
above all, in the language and the letters of the
Archduke CuseLes to his brother Msxrati.tstr,
combined with FRANCIS'S absence from the inter-
view at Erfurth, we trace, in the clearest manner,
the wishes and intentions of that t'ourt. The mo-
ment is critical, and never could the interposition
or appearance of Austria, acting in union with
Turkey, be more formidable, efficient, and import-
ant. From the reduction of Spain, to the subjuga-
tion of those two powers, only a short interval can
take place. They are already marked Sr sacrifice ;
but resolutions of energy and despair sometimes
extricate nations, as well as individuals, from situa-
tions of depression. Our next advice* from Vienna
and from Constantinople may not be destitute of
interest, though every eye is now directed towards
Madrid.

At a moment when some degree of gloom over-
speads the public mind, on the prospect of affitirs
in Spain, it man afford no small matter of rouse-
latices, we might pedlar say of exultation, to con-
template the pmsperuus and progressive state of
our (W1114'6,11* in India. Except some captures
musk by French privateers, sent from Mauritius,
or from Batavia, who attack our merchant ships
sinvigating the Inshun seas, we siiikr few, or none
of the calainities of war. All the meow-es and ef-
lints of the Corsican Tyrant to induce FATA LI
SCHA H. Soppy of Persia, to commence a rapture
with the East ludic Company, have been ruo.l ably
counteracted by Governor Du !scan, from Bombay.
That wise, economical, and prudent Governor, has
improved and augmented the Company's resources
on the Western side of the pe ll ill stile. from Gu-
zarat and Cambay, down to Anjetsio, the most
Siinthern factory on the Malabar Coast. On the
Eastern bide, complete tranquillity prevails
throughout the Camatic ; and the late troubles
in the territories of the IN I *LAM, which threatened
at one period to involve India in war. have
been suppressed, sifter an action, its which the
insurgeuts were totally defeated. In Beitgul,
the mild Administration, conciliating manners, and
simplicity of style, which characterize Lord M IN TO,
have pined him universal esteem. All the guards,
the supernumerary Aids-sle-Camp, pro as, end un-
necessary train of attendants that encircled Mar-
quis have been dismissed or reduced.
I hr saving in consequence to the list India Com-
pany is immense. We have seen letters from the
Coreramr-Ceiterul, written in June last, Cs more
than one of his friends iu this - country. Ile makes
no doubt of being able to send house, from
700,0001. to u million of surplus revenue in I sttl.
Ilia views are wiss L. turned, not to extend. or to
augment, but to consolidate, and to confirm, the
Company's extensive possessions. The country
powers manifest dispositions the most amicable and
pacific towards us, and there is now a reusonable
prospect of the continuance of peace. Prince of
Wales's Islaod, one of the most valuable harbours
and settlementabelonging to Great Britain, as it pro-
tects and secures the entrance into the Bay of Bengal,
while it covers the Straits of-Malacca, is rapidly ail-
vanciog in trade, wealth, and importance, VI well
as in population. Chinese are perpetually flecking
to it„ and establishing themselves there. We have
seen letters from the present Governor oil the Island,
Colonel MACKA LISTER, dated its April last. iss
one of which he says, e. There is at this time in
our dock-yard a frigate of 36 gusts, fur advanced.—
Timber is cut down in our neighoisrlsoosl, and
collected in the marine mind, stare:Scot to es-monist
two 74-gun ►hips. In mouths frotn this LIMP,
timber enough might be proesired, if ~,leas to the
purpose were received from home, aherewith to
build three or four sltio of 7 t-guns, at only eight
Spanish dollars per timber. A 74-gun ship re-
quires near 00 timber's. to which are afterwards
to he aided planking. metals, worktnanship, cute "
Suck is the present state of our East India a -
Moses, which produce a meanie of near fourteen
willimas strriitig annually; and which, under eco-
nomical staimagensent, may enalsle us to bid
dr-
tiance to the arms, the arts. and the attacks of
Bon A PARTE.

As we stated, yesterday, the Russian arms, and
prodigious superiority of force, have nt tc rilh hi-
'lmphal over the brave but ineffectual resistance,
wide by the troops of Gcsr/Lcus. The degene-
rate and contemptible successor of YET►:R the
GREAT, Is-ionic the ilistrume,i: of n Corsican
Usurper, who employs the Ci 4R to execute hi, cri-
minal or vindictive purposes, has pushed his con-
quests almost within the arctic eirele. 1, is one of
the distinguishing and charaeteri,tie phenomena
of the present time, that the most ►tehided or se-
questered portions of the earth have been visited
by the scourge of war. Nave, au•l countries
where hostility has been unknown Po a4l-4, have
been made the scene of carnage, or of
Tin laud* of Egypt cod the deserts of tiyi-ia—

the plains of Apulia and the rocks of the Aur,„,
—the mountains of Nuriva and ust frntl
1).1
abandoned wastes of Laplau.l—:,ll thr„, itur.
are visited by NAPOLEON, eitiwr iti per.fim,r
his delegates. His immeastirdble auibitus
flamed and fanned by success, propels him. In:
malignant and powerful daemon, from k.ugdit t.
kingdom. The calamity which he cannot il.cl
with his own hand, he commits to oth.,—.
At the head of so degraded a timid, amen: car
Jotcurms, and the Jaausscs, stand. the Esmio,
of RUSSIA. Sovereign of the mast extensive estf.
on the globe. What would CATQGaIriE the,.
coax hare said to such degradatiou ? The v.,
Kiemi, to the left bank of which the Sivedts kns
now been driven. is nearly in the (Ath
latitude, and only a few miles fruits Tomes, at,!*
northern terinimition of the (sulfur Bothnia. Star
have any armies hitherto met on this inhospitai,s,
shore, which has suffered sufficiently from the isp.
nury of nature, without underguing Ilia silditousi
miseries of the sword I %Vito could hire furs., to',
only a few years ago, tlixt the son of tie 311,34cyr,
been of a miserable town in Corsica. become, 1.%
aeries of crimes and victoria. despot of Emelt,
should, while he renders Spain a charuel-Iviii..,
wrier a Cali of &Instate to tarty isleuglittr 5,41
destructioa to the remotest coasts of Lai/laud, 13
the vicinity of the Pole?

The report of the Junan-Anvocrrs loping h,
fore the KIN% yesterday. the proceedings of ti.
Court of Inquiry ow the Coarention of Clow,
prars to he erroneous. Our renders willrecoil„
that in the appoiuteactit of the Court of It.goit.,
it was directed that the report should lit nsa4t
through the medium of the Duke of Yuma.
Lord CAsTLIMEAfiII hw tillii/ACted the busio..,
of Secretary of State for the Home Depeartmeo
since the death of the Earl of Larigarool. on •
ttirday ; and will continue to do so till the funerai,
whcu the present Earl will resume his offieLi
futietions.

Yestenlay a Quarterly General Court was held
at the East India House. when the dividend on ti.e
capitol stock of the Company, from the sth July
to the sth January next, was declared to be
per ceut. The Court then adjourned sine die.
Yesterday *Court of Directors was richt at ti.e
East hubs House, when Captain J. AIL DRAT wav
sworn into the command of the ship liesivoustar,
consigned to Madras. sod Bengal.
A vessel has arrived at Plj mouth, from Sewitc,
but having had a passage of 13 days, lot+ bniinclit
uu late news from the theatre of the war ; nor haw
any accounts more recent than those already be-
fore the public been received through any oth.r
channel. Ministers, it is said, were informed by
the last dispatches that have bee. reeeiretl, that
lord PALICT, with 1500 horse, lied set out from Sir
DAVID liatates army, to endeavour, by forced
marches, to make a junction with Sir Julie
Moons.

Although we do not see any reason to doubt the
statement in the French papers, of the capture of
Nludrid, yet it rather singular that that 'teats
which is stated to have taken place on the 4tb,
should not lave been known at Corwin* on the
uth ; or an account of it should not have reackcd
Sir JOHN Moults, at Sideman's, on the 7th, or
Sir Ddvin Milan on the 9th, ma the French would
of course take every meow in their power to circu-
late the news.

One of the Evening Prints of yesterday dated,
in a Second Edition, that there was a rumour i■
circulation, on the authority of a letter from one
of the out-ports, that a sharp action had calm)
place between our troops in Spain, and the French,
in which the British were victorious. Batty such
rumour acre in circulation," it was confined to the
o: lice of the pap. r alluded to. to letter to that
effect was received ut any of the out-ports.
One of the Treasury Journals of last night, in a
long and laboured vindication of its employer.,
gives Ministers great credit for their support tf
Swede,. ! ! This is indeed carrying flattery to
great length. Sweden, we believe, does not fuel
herself borne down by the weight of the obligation.
Finland is lost to her for ever, sad incorporated
with the Empire of Russia. A support a Inch has
produced such fruits, is not very likely to increabe
her veneration and estceui for the Brici4. Govern-
ment.

A large parcel of letters, addres.ed to Mr. Stow,
of His A44.1E1171.* ship the Imoincible, was found,
Last 'Thursday, on t4c sand. near Calais. They
were examined by the Coinusi.sioner pf Police, at
Si•Vellil of the litter. were imperfect,
and it email only be ascertained that the.contenta
wen! principally ,f a private nature. The Preach
Con iiii has very politely found means to
• :itte the eirt twice to the Receiver-
( ieueral at Dover. It hoc, excited easividerebla
surprise. a,. no English vessel of that mine has been
w reeked nor seen on the coast where the parcel was
p Ltd up.
The Lords of the ,admiralty have appoin-e I IT s
M eit.svir's ship Loire, 438 gnus, Captain A. N •
said Bearer sloop of war, of 18 gun!,
to take under youtay the large mid sa!uable
ward-lowiel West Index Ilcet, rendez% ou+ing in
Cork harbour. It is expiated they will sail about
Clinstnia.. The Boum!. 1... y, ship Nine :it tore,
recciwii it great ninny c..riviets. lA...night round
front Dubin', in a brit torpioyed for the iittri roe.
Tliose•froin t 'orks Waterford, &e. arc expec.cd
did y. S 11.• t%iii .all atlh the Neat-dialia colony.

letrees event Sir J. Ms forties front
Sahunaisca, state. :Lit during the Whole March of
the :11-nish trorsin. f.-oin Portugal an that est), Oki
were provided with a pound of meat, and .k pound
uf hr. ad, each soldier, pry ebr.l4 50 Cif
ulls-rving any . parka of gotlanalasin, t 44 described
:1ft,11112 the Sll.t,A 111:`, the
_' rsllver saw a bits;:i.
s.shiler o.:asant in anus, during th.lr
sy'lich• oar, %, in paitsculsr, wcre
rloi.tly at work. :strata thrir several necup.stams,
awl 011 the approlch of our teen" actually shots
(41. their "'WO',, fOr of their hming emi)ll,4!
to clr.v.s. the .13ratisli artillers. If rev tastfm..,a.
exi-ts nl SSl,uti. sly-. the ss rt;•,r, is bu:,:a only in the
LOYIM 01 the anus •;,.