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Hy** Rey. CHARLES BURNEY, U. D.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FROM THE SPANISH PAPERS.

SEVILLP, NOV. 11.

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The agreeable scenes of the 15th and 36th of
/a.t July, have heen repeated in Madrid. The
French have all fallen back upon the Retiro, and
the regenerated Spaniards have ptititimuselves tin-
der their protection. Infatuated wretches !
There cannot he a clearer proof of the proximity
of our army to the capital, and of the state of the
tlielli)% force ! The people of Madrid, with up-
l►fted arms, and our armies suppli►d with every ne-
cessary, marching, withont intettelission, towards
the enemy, overcoming every obstacle—W hat a
glorious prospect!
We have just learnt, that the patriotic troop's, to
the number of 14,010 infantry and 4,000 cavalry,
have entered Aranjuvz.—(Diary, Nov. 13.)

NOV. 12.

The letters from Barcelona, whtEh come down to
the 10th October, are expressed in the following
manner Here we endure much misery ; but as
our difficulties are more or loss, we infer that we are
more or less near the termination of our captivity ;
and in prelim lion as these increase, so do our hope
and sattsfaction."—(Serille Diary.)

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woe. t S.
Lieutenant-General Don Manuel Fseire. Gene-
ral in Chief of tke cavalry of the army nf La Man-
cha, has wri►tan, under date of the 6th inst. the
following dispatch to the General in Chief:
tt six cietoek its the mein.

f hare just alighted in Madrilejm, after pursuing
the enemy. who has retreated from Mora, u he has also
done from Commegra sad Cameras, so that the cavalry is
stationed in the towns moisten. to it, excepting &Mt the
regiments, which were to have teemaimed al Ueda, hare ad-
visers/ to Coassegra. The whisks day has bum use continued
ir.taelt from Puerto Limier, In two leagues beyond that
town. The three upparied to us, at the time 4.Bkmat
I estimate at from 2,600 to s,nn• minim ; the wavy het
cavalry at Tumbling& sad I.a Geordie ; to-morrow we *hail
me if they will share the same fate as these. The troops
bare displayed the greatest valour, and °Merced the brio oi-
lier; we hue had both WWI and wounded; at I casuist
yet laferur year Exceilmey ort this particular."
Here follows a detailed account of 1 severe battle

fought en the sib November, iu the vicinity of La
Guardia, by the troops under General Freire, which
terminated in the defeat of the enemy. lli s dis-
petclr concludes, by saying—

" At eight o'clock at eight, the encrim P•lketlated Ammo,
*ad proceeded towards Aratsjites,.accooling to intellignice
received from that town, this moreing.—Dated from feet-
4tlique, the ott. Nur. tang.
(Snood) " 91ANVEL
(Gocentecif Geset(e,,l4l4 Nor.)
gar. 14.

Our cavalry continues to cover itstlf with glory.

The enenWs horse, pursued at far as °cans.
endeavoured to take post between that place and
Guardia ; but they were speedily dislodged, with
the tom of 250 killed, although our troops did not
obtain victory at a cheap rate. The head-quarters
have bean removed from Tembleque to Barrios ;
the army is pushing forwards, without any delay,
and the ta%ntry hangs Loutinually on the rear of

the French. The Duke del Pardue occupies the
heights of Pena de Fr:mcia, where he i. Wirier no
hind of apprehension of the French, v.i.o have ar-
rived in the vic;nity of Salamanca, with a force
stnountim; to about 30,000 men.

The enemy has relinquished the intenlerl en-
terprise against Lerida, where a fresh pular army
is forasinl4.

The French eentinne to fortify El Itetiro, and, in
the house, they hate tnounted caution,
pointed against the city. When they were in
La Mancha, they sold that they would he followed
by an artily of 100,0 mi even, to mike the conquest
of Seville. A corps of !norm 111r0 has marched
from Toledo, in the direction of Tuliit•era.—(T4e
Seville Spectator, ri Nureasber 1.;.1
_

NOV. 1.5.

Our head-quarters must have arrived at Arun,
juec ; the French in OM Castile endeavoured to
dra« the Duke del Farque into the
(Spectator.)

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csniz, woe. 7.
In company with other English ships, escorted
by the Ajar e'.ip of war, arrived in this port the
transport Harriet, and the brig Maria. The former
brought, by order of her Government, fut the as.
instance or Cie Spanish Patriots, 10,000 muskets,
as many bayonets mid accoutrements, 100,000
Sint*, 0160,000 cartridges, and 10,000 sabres. The
Maria brought tents, and other field implements,

for 30,00 u torn. Two other •hips of the ',arise or-

tion have alb arrived, with glinpowdrr, grape-Ant,
end othrr warlike stores.—/Gaverivorat Goutte,
Nor. Iti.)

114NREfiA. NOV. 1.

Vl'e learn from the neighLourimod of (Scrim°.
ander yesterday's date, that in consequence of part
of our army hating v114,1101(1 is poloinn, the enemy
has been tlaint.o into lie utmost emihisimi, and
obliged to reinforce his lwe ; further, that saute

Lm DON,
EDN ESD A Y. NovEmitim

VICTORY IN THE 3IEDITERRANMAN.

Dispatches were received last evening from Lis-
bon and Cadiz. The latter were accompanied by
letters and papers, from Seville, to the 17th instant.
Their arrival excited a great sensation at the
Admiralty. A report having generally prevailed,
that official disnatehes had been received from
Lord CoLt.tactrtion, containing the details of the
rumoured action in the Mediterranean, the Office
wow crowded, and a great hustle prevailed there.
'Dust an action has taken place, is now certain ;
hut ne do 'relieve that the accounts of it received,
last evening, by Government, are not from Lord
COI.I.INGWOOD, but from Admiral Mavis, at
Cilia, and that they contain, of course, only
the infoins ition which he has been able to col-
lect on that station. lied any official accounts been
received of the action from I.ord Cut.t.t as:WOOD, we
must presume, that they would have been sent to the
Luau Nlavoa, last night, but, on inquiry, we learn-
] td, that n• communication upon the subject had
been made to the city.—The following articles,
extracted from the Spnuisli Papers received yester-
day, form, we telieve, part of the intelligence,
transmitted by Ad mil al Pt itv is
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SE% 11.12, NOV. 12.

The convoy, consisting of 50 ships, which sailed
from 'Coulon, and. according to some. carried pro-
visions for Lamelona, or, according to others, troops
to re-inforce the army besieging Gerona, has 'seen
destroyed by the English. All the letters we have
'cerise(' from the eastern coast of Catalonia, state
this important intelligence, observing, that the
shores of Toss. Caddques, Palamos, tee. were co-
vered with wrecks of ships, and a considerable
number of dead [iodic., winch the sae had thrown
up.

They write from Tarragona, under elate of tlia
Ist instant, that the English squadron was in pur-
suit of the French ; and, on the 2ri biers. that they
had already engaged, the result of which was the
hurtling of six French skips ; we expect the details.

Nov. 15.

Don Rosen& Porlits, Commander of his Ma-
jesty's frigate, called Nuertra Senora de eltocka, has
reported to his Excellency Don Antonio de E-.
calm, from Tarragona, wider date of the 51h iiist.,
that the Captain of the English brig of war, 414-
(sky, informed him, that a division of three sail of
the lir :!and two frigates having sailed from Toulon,
on the emit of October, convoying 20. transports,
buund fur the comt of Cask!ossist, it was attacked by
Bear-Admiral Martin, on the oil Cede, who
pursued it with the seven ships under his orders ;
the result of whicis was, that there of the enemy's
ships weriedriven on shore, two burnt, and the re.
mainder rendered perfectly unfit for service.
Af-
terwards 'several ships of Admiral Callingwood's
flryt attacked he convoy no Cape Creuse, took
five sad, sunk four, and the* remainder•took shelter
in the 13.1 of Roes', where four snore were hunit
mud live takvo; w that the tival result of these

operations was, tftat one frigate only, and OfIC
transport, out of slo, escuped being taken by the
Eugli►b.—(t;orenunert Gazette, Nee. 16.) ,

A perm°, arrived at Itamsgste, whir left Dun-
kirk on Sunday morning, states, that the report of
an action in the Mediterranean was prevalent in
that city, and that tbis -loss of the French was
stated at 16 sail. This woold amount to the al-
most total destruction of the French fleet.

It appears from the Spanish Papers to the 17th,
received yesterday, that the French have evacuated
the Mitnediate city of Madrid, and are fortifying
themselves in the Retiro. The Retiro is situated,
with respect to Madrid, as Hyde Park is to Lon-
don.

The Gazette of last 'light contains an account
or the entrance of the Spaniards into Salamanca.—
It is given in our last page.

German Papers, to the iyth instant, have been
received ; their contents are unimportant, with the
exception of an article from Montpelier, mention-
ing the defeat of a division only of the Toulon Beet,
with the destruction of the ships already named :
and another article, stating that the Tyrolese bad
offered to capitulate. They also contain some ar-
ticles, corroborating the Account in the Paris papers,
of the submission of the Tyroleaus.

It must be apparent to every person who con-
templates the effect* of the two recent Treaties dic-
tated by France and Russia, at Vienna, and at Fre-
derickshaio, that no further opposition can be made
by the centre, or by the north of Europe, to the or-
ders of NAPOLEON. Austria, deprived of any pert,
or means of communicating, either with the Adriatic,
the Mediterranean, the German Ocean, or the Bal-
tic, except by Bostsrsare's permission and suffer-
mice, most patiently endure the depredation, and
the calamities, of every description, which her own.
pusillanimous, or incapable counsels, together with
the want of all ability in the British Cabinet, hove
inflicted on bar. Russia, it is true, seems still to
retain sonic maritime sources of revenue. Al emel,
Pillow, Colberg, and Stettin, are all port: of con-
sequence. Though she has lost the key (tithe Vis-
tula, yet she remains mistress of the Niemen sod the
Oder. But this supremacy is more apparent than
real ; and FREDERIC WILLIAM is. necessitated to
submit to the severest commercial interdictions,
that his conqueror may think props to impose.—
Germany, which, scarcely twenty years ago, reposed
under the shade of Austria and Prutria, has now
recognised another inciter ; who, thdugh he has not
yet thought proper to assume the title of Emperor
of that couutry, exercises an effective controul over
every portion of it, from Ilanaborgh and Lubeck,
to the gales of Lintz and of Vienna itself. Swe-
tica is as inneh subjected to A LT:ZANDER. as Ger-
many to Nsrot.son : but the remote pi:nation of
the Scanditiaviau powers, which, together with the
interposition of the Baltic, renders any access to the
Swedish coasts nearly iwiprocticeble on the part
os France ; these circumstances will probably pre-
serve Cnt.e.t.es XIII. froM undergoing the iiriva-
tioas inflicted on Fitt sus, and ou FEVDERIC
tm. Cottenbureh, we have little doubt, will
still remain accessible to our Alps, sad to QUI' COM-
mere!.

Under such a iiressure of irresistible powered the
':hire and on the Danube. enstained by viellatice
and energy, such as that exhibited by NAPOLEOII,
we ran only look fur resistance to his further inroads
on the anciziit re:usiuing emit:ire:aid fabric, in two
quarters—namely, in the Peninsula beyond the Pyre-
nees, and from the Ottoman Empire. Notwith-
standing the incapacity of our Mioisters, and duis
temerity. as *ell not imprudence of our Common-
ders,.Spain still persons tut aspect of deurcailiell
hostility. Armies, comman led by Spanish Gene-
rals. appear even to be passing towards Madrid, on
the north-west quarter : while Gerona, as far us we
are able to judge, continues to maintain the most
determined resistance. Eiicouraging as these 'lmp-
toots of patriotism amid loyalty may seem, they can-
not, however, ja,tify any expectetions of ultimate
success. NAPULEOP. liberated from all further
anxiety or necessity for exertion, on the Danube,
will, we may be amatied, pour his troops into rata-
loisia, reduce Gerona, and probably advance Mtn
Andalitsia. Unless, indeed, the powers of his n 6 nti,
as well as those of his body, are more debilitated
than we are warranted to assume, it is not to be sup-
posed that lie will remain at Fontainbleau, or at St.
Cloud, when the complete subjugation of the Pyre-
nean Peninsula can be facilitated or accelerated
by his presence. As soon as eighty thousand
fresh forces have entered Old Castile, we shall
hear of him on the Teems, or 03 the Guadalquivir.
Little effectual opposition can, we fear, be made
to the French, by Lord WELLINGTON'S
sickly, and d arppointesl army ; which, however it
may protect the access to Seville, through Estre-
mailura and Merida. can lament uo impedimeht
to nor APAirre, on the aide of IA Manilla end
Cordova. Nor do we lend more faith to the pre-
tended infusion of new vigour and concentration of
authority in the Junta, mode, or asserted to lie
made, by Lord Wst.t.sitessr, previous to hi. de-
pismire front Spain. We snort witness some effects
of this vital polisiehl fire, before we annex any
weight to the anpposed fact.
Tlin Turkish Empire, however :at advanced in

dem, ao4 apparently Ivrea, to its extinction, at
lead, on this side of tls ItioApro‘; yet, in our
judgment, pteseats a noisiser of 'Xi-sources, and of
defensible poiate,lo a nation, ,erru;tress, like Great
Brffain, of every 4ea.t. ,Austria is shut in, and pre-
eluded, fven from access to the coast; while all the
ports of Frannie are hermetically sealed. But, how
vast, numerous, and almost incalculable, are the
maritime mesas of the Ottomans ! How accessible
is she, on the Euxine, the Egean, and the lonian
seas! In the Morea, and in all the islands of the
Archipelago, what positions may be taken, that will
either baffle, or overturn, or curb the beat concerted
plans of Narouton ? We do not hesitate to say,
and we pledge ourselves to prove, that, in the pre-
sent vanquished, or subservient and intinsiduted
stets of all the Christiau Princes, Catholic, Pro-
testant, •r of the Greek Persuasion; and in the
almost desperate condition of Spain and Portugal;
the only ally from whom we can now draw efficient
aid, is that of Turkey. Happily, we here a Mei.:
stet at Constantinople, Oa clamed class from the
FRERES and the Vt num ; who, we have reaszn to
believe, will exert the most active efforts, and pro•
pose the most judicious measures, for establishing,
before it is too late, an offensive alliance between
Great Britain and the Porte. That the Russian
arms have been too successful on the Lower Da-
nube, we have grounds for supposing; but, after
the capture of Ismael, of Ibrialow, and even of
Silistria, though ALEXANDER'S forces may reach
Varna, yet such are the prodigious impediments
opposed to their progress towards Adrianople, by
the snows audeleffies of mount Hatinus, that no
reasonable apprehensions can be entertained of
' their advance" on that quarter, before the next
campaign. It our Ministers are not utterly
tote of all information on the sole means that now
remain, we will not say, of saving Europe, for
that, we fear, is already last, but olarrestiog the
Corisican Conqueror, and of meeting lain, if we
mac so express ourselves. on teen ground, they
will turn all their exert towards the Levant.
'fh:.re, we repeat, he may be stopped at every
step; compelled, perhaps, to aloantion, and to re-
nounce his views of farther aggrandiz-inent. The
subject is at once most copious, and most impoit-
ant. With our first leibure, we shall resume, and
fully discuss it..

The Mainnil ‘‘.SELLEaLEY will kiss nis MA-
JEaTY's hand, at the Levee, this day, as Secretary
of State for Foreign Atrairs.

The Margins iVELI.F.SLEY, after landing. on
Sunday, •t Portsmouth, slept at the George Inn,
and proceeded, on Monday morning, to town. flies
Lordship %vas accompanied by Mr. Foatsva, Col.
AvisTautvu, and- the Hon. Mr. Ct.rs.r. They
all arrived in town, yesterday, et two 9'cluck.
Yesterday, Sir DAVID h)LKt is hula • public
ti.:y at his (Kee in the florae Guards, and gta%
audiences to Generals Amit.stin and WkIETHAM ;
also to a number of other Militate OM,ers.
By the Danid ScoU rolintry ship. whir.h arrive 1
at Portsmouth, no Monday, front Bombay, we have
no intolltgetice, as she is laden on private uc&nont ;
the dispatches from that Government are suppro,tri
to be oil boatel the %hip Bombay, which sailed hum
Bombay, with the barid Newt, on the 15th June.
A email box of private letters has been forwarded
by till ship: she left St. I.leleria the 9d F,eptember.

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' A Prussian vessel is arrived at Fubouuth from.
Timirdeaux, which she left on the 10th. French
'troops are marching into Spoin in great numbers.
Tuesday snorning, His '1 4.II::•TY'S sil) Druid.
Capt. SdrW.,Bl) LTO M, ar,ived ;,t erne, with a large
French privatecr, wbicis. she captured. The
privateer, after having struck. tired a broadside
upon the Druid. when most of the P'-'ol,le "ere on
deck, 11/111 wounded a considerable
Bunt-
, her or her CTCW.

IVe find by our Dover letter, that our troops had
romnu•nced the evueuwiott of Widlcheren, and the
thi:lohtion of the works meted there.

The change in the form of the Swinish Govern-
ment, is confirmed by official intelligence of that
event. The convocation of the Co►trs is definitively
fixed for Ist ef Jaiimiry, and, it is supposed, they
will he able to begin business on the IA of March
following. A very spirited Proclamation has been
issued by the Junta on this oecusion. The Direc-
tory, or Executive Council. is to be composed of
seven members, with the Marquis of Ainsakoa at.
their hen&

Sir elAU;;I Snumaarz is arrived off Yarmoolv
from the Hattiv.

Letters limn Flanders state. that the whole
of the Boulogne flotilla had Leen removed to tlit
Si7heidt, arid that great preparut•nur were toning
for an attack on the bland of Wale heren.
tly a military convention, concluded in cons....
ipienre of the I2th article of the Trroty of V ittlliA,
am versa arrangements are made respecting • the eea-•
caution of the remaining terr;tories of Aut.trio
the French, and the formal delivery of those eedeil
to the latter. The Austrian troops ere•re not to
formally occupy Vienna until the with of Novem-
ber. the final evacuation of the A tarttimi pro-
vinces is not to take place till the 4th of
'RIO.

A Portuguese ship, fitted oat fcr the Artie:to
trade, lifts been seised in the lt4tr, 44 no infroetiou
of the law for the Abolition of the :4!;11's- Trade.
It wag trader the care of a l'ortugue.e I louse, by
which it is alleged, that the vessel 041 prepared
for that commerce was the property ~f she ous-
ter and supercargo, who are both stsij..ets of the
Queen of PiotTistat.. The roaster trill pro-
bably hr decided in the Conri of 4,l;oiral.y sifter
the Christmas Recess; and we trust that its reseoon
of the tiolitive law of the land will he suffered by
ally pretence whatever. .
The M *siren and WA MIN q of the fl.. kers' ('nm.
pany waited sill the 1.11110 AI A ymute:ster ley, to set
the surmize and poet! of bread, Lis I otest-tcp, niter
ettssoiriin_g the Mealwrighers* isecons,s, ordered the
price to be 1174141111101/ at Is. 411. I lut Q tatter., Lost
Wlatve.s, anti lioulthold I. al,

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COVENT•GARDEW•

Lirt night The School for Prejudice and Don .
jams were performed to u respectable house,
though nut an much crowded is it %A. the preced-
ing evening. The Dramatis Persona, itt both these
'Arco., are too well known, to require Hoy comtnent;
*office it to say, that the Comedy was gone through
with the utmost spirit, and was listened to with de-
light and attention. After h.ilf-price, a parcel of
the oemonerits of the Mana,zers stood up in the
pit; but its there were no insignia, 0. P.'s, or
sot da's visible, we can °sly suppose that they were
r,1.0.d to the deceived. There were certainly more
via disorilcr thou ake customary in public
n!•,r him: any thing like the spirit and ►trength of
tl P.ism. there was not an appearance of. As
ae I:nve s.tid for this week past, that business is
over ; though there may be some OM:1310MA
fpnreS, before the body (of whout many are wound-
ed, defeated and onus), are reduced to perfect or-
der. These. however, cannot materially affect the
I)rauta. still the public may stow in safety return to
their wonted enjoyments, without the fear of inter-
ruption.
After the curtain dropped, there were a few lads
in the pit, who gemmed; hit whether at their own
disammititicio, or the private boxes, we could not
positively ascertain.
The house woo cleared quietly by half--past ten
o'clock, the lights all put out, and the doors shut.
I.Y (AUDI.

The excellent Comedy of The Inconstant was
performed at this Thelma, last night. It was,
in al; its principal feat forts, new-east. Mr.
is Young .31ira.%el, was very successful. His
performance vistd:ived rase, spirit, and discrimina-
tion. Of NII4. V 0; Visarre we cannot say
winch in Arai-r. It nilri e.nie-e, and greatly deli-
tient in delicacy. hut sufficiently spirited. 11r.
CAMP.9I Ilitrelefe was actually bar/tope. We
have seldom seen Mrs. Om:Ea to more advantage
than in sou•,l scene:: of (hiatus. Thhtt in which
she affects inslnitv wa, given ith great truth and
effect. Mr. Downie, in Old Mirabel, was excel-
lent. The house dildn) ell an elegant and crowd-
ed audience.

Li)RD ItititßAL.
The remains of this sitoa-lamlitteil Nobleman
were reinwvelf at 1131 E. 1114,4 right o'clock last moi oing,
from Lordship's late house, no Seymour-on,,
to the f.tati:v-vattli, I..ate Burton, Lincolnshire, for
;Wynne:it. The Pr..eesitou moved from towu iu the
funny' tag or.ir r

Teo Slntes nn Rorschach
E:gitt floras Will, 14 ilh Hatlia ids and Silk Searh %.

A Geodewan on k, hearal a Cowart us a a;imaany

Vetv;t Cs9sltints-

The Hearer, drawn by Six Hun..., decorated with Black
Plows
Two Mournir.g Cartelsrs and Six, in which were some of hie
Dasextice;
The Family evach, drawn by Four Horses.
The I)orr.igi.r Lolly MONCON'S marriage closed the
procession, Lie met, on Saturday morning,
sit ten o'‘..;ocle, at Liiienlarliar, by all his Lora.
Ship's ti-cants.

Iler Ladyship and her mother, the Countess of
Itlsxoottor w.re to le:tve tows) this morning fur
Burton.' Ilcr l.,dt slop, in addition to her jail).
tme. •, the loon re:sideiter furniture, /cc. The
Executors :ippuoited by his Lordship are, the E•irls
of Ern:F.x end MfiasonouGit, Lurd Es.DON, and
Blr.Waiuur.