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Yesterday arrived the Peewit
sand fruokith,
with part of' the convoy from nd ; also, the
lutelligna brig of war, with disilistlslies fr4in Malta
fur Eugland.
Affairs in Spain go on mach 'Akinl ti6fhiig
can exceed the sloth and iguarauce of the Sktpreine
Junta, and unless there is a change of Ctoverligneut,
it will hardly be possible to save the country.
The utmost discontent against the present govern-
ment prevails throughout Spain, and the Junta are
ao apprehensive of an insurrection at Seville, that
they have ordered ten thousand men there from the
armies, to protect their persons.
Marquis Wellesley attends the Supreme Junta
twice and thrice a day; but there is reabon to
suppose that he is justly dissatisfied with their con-
duct.

COIDUCA, Audi. .26.
By an English Aid-du-Camp, who has recun-
'mitred the combined armies, we learn that the
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ailte del Marque, General Beresford, and the
Portuguese General Silveira. with the garrkint of
Ciudad Rodrigo, whose forces, taken together,
amount to 50,000 nien, were, ow the 12th, itt Plit-
itencia, and, on the 13th, in the plains of Tor-
ruisuelo ; en which account. and the English army
being at Alinaraz, awl nun iii the neighbourhood
of lbw, the French retreated. Our advanced
guards, on the 12th, passed the bridge of Arzos
Vivo, and met with no enemies.
AUGUST R.
Tn-night his Excellency Senor Don Gregorio de
la euesta arrived iu this city.
AUI:UST
On the 166, in the morning, entered this city
from eadix, on
_their march towards la Carolina.

two battalions of volunteers of Spam, consistiit,•• of
1700 Mal, who. in their exercise, displayed that
dexterity and martial air, %hick may be expretcd
in men commanded and dwrtiplintcl by able officers.
On the oisflit of the •27tli they proceeded o. their
march for the place of their destiiiiitiuu.-.—/Geszrite
of Yr:(riwis, Sept. 1..)
LERIDA, ADO. 1:I.
The celebrated R0111;111CSC maintain and pre-
serve that character for valour and which
is natural and peculiar to them. 'the French lime
nut violated their sacred valley, nor have they en-
tered it. having been repulsed by the loyalty of the
inhabitants. .

GXKONA. SEPT. 6.
The respectable batteries which werr construct-
ed near the Cathedral, and at other points, optesed,
on the 3lst of last month, a tremendous lire oh m
large battery which the enemy has erected Ni the
olive ground ; which was so roughly handled, as to
be almost entirely destroyed, and, consequently, •
period was put to the extreme (ivy with which halls,
bombs, and grenades, were thrown into the tows.

LIITTER Paoli GENERAL, sl.4ics, TO TOE
SECRETARY II! Tilt syrup:llv CENTRAL JUNTA.

a Mort P.rect.t.iier Stii.eilit the home where a French
Officer °Coupes-kw rank, much respeeted by the army, had
lodged, the following words were (mood writteu nu the well
of the eslonet :.•—• People of Spain, how coning!). would
you art, did 'ow dot prefer death to the galling ritte .4
such erect deeastatios ' 1 have the honour to rommuutrate
to ~.er Excellency flirt eiorioeity, mit these the sentunrnts
N those of ...armies, aka are lama barbarous thou tic
rat. nisi preserve your Licari/ger is auy )Ca,/'
J 0.1011.111 MAKE
" Vique, _lnuit 28. IMg "—.'"rhe as)tte paper.

IVIDILMO, 11E17! 4.

Ney's division, oleic* marched through llama,
Ices taken up a pcmitiou rxtrwis from Sal 4.
mama to Toro.—( The same Paper.)

•° • The Owe et the flew Tlieetrr, St. Gilcs. ma die Neit
Theme, Waffle., weriretteined too Isle Sw irsirting.

TH F. BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
SATURDAY, throars

tVe give, this day► sonic estracls from
l'•tpers to the s;th. An article, dated Corduba.
Ifith August, states, that the iromlsined forces of
the Duke DLL General BLltlilli ORD. and
the Portuguese General. Sttvgina, amounted, on
the Mb, to 50,000, at Plasencia. from tthick they
moved next day, into the plains of Turriinueln ;
that the English army being. at the same date, at
Alinitruz, anal the Spanish at Thor, the French
thought proper to retreat. and the Spanish advanced

guards !sassed the bridge of Arsubispo, on the 12111,
awl int t with no enemies. It is most grateful to
lioni a private letter from Talavera. that Mar.
shat AIORTIEII has paid the most humane attention
to the sick and wo ttttt led, about Lord WIMI.ING.
TUN recommended to his care.

We have inserted au euergetic renioustratice to
the Supreme Junta of Spain, which, we understand,
is not allowed to be circulated in that country,
through the ordinary• medium of the pre...

We have already noticed, that the great consum-
mation, to which the Continent has lung tended,
appears to he at length aveninpliehed. Peace has
been made between France, or rather between the
Rider of that countryiand Austria, on terms which,
though not accurately know is. as yet, iu their minute
details, yet, if we tan believe every report upon
the subject, must bring Farina' dowii in the kir!
of Prussia, or ofiavatia. NAPOLEON. then, within
the space of ten years, reek g from his first vio-
lent assumption of the supreme power, by military
force, in November, 1799, has reduced Europe,
virtually. into the condition of a province. thus rea-

lining those viviona of universal manor. 6y, succes-
sively nttnbra•cd to CIIARLIENAGit. toCuatu

V. to Pottle 11. slid to Loma XIV. lii this as-
sertion there is neither exaggenitiou nor deception.
For, does any man consider Prussia, or Spain, or
Russia, as able, after the subjugation of Austria,
to renew or to maiutain the struggle. Of /*swum