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WEDNESDAY, 'SEPTEMBER 19.
South Beve:tutd is alroatly in the pomeasion of the
enemy. A vessel arrived in 1.)01/07, nit Mooduy,
from Flushing, which tdia left on Saturday lot.—
Intelligence had been received of it body of French
troops having passed over from Bergeu-op-Zuoui
to South Ilevelaud. (Joe of our men of a ar's
omits, which, not kanwing the had been
occupied by the 42Lienty. had lauded on it, was
taken.

We this day resume our extracts from the Por-
tuguese Papers to the Guth last.
_The French, it is
said, have raised the siege of Gerona.
The finesse and tricks or tbc minions of Ministers
are almost inexhaustible. As soon as the failure of
the Emirtlitiun to the Scheldt burst upon the a odd,
they attempted to appease the public indignation,
by assurances, that the Earl of CllATltall must be
brought to trial immediately. Oh, yes ! the only
brother of :tit.. Purr, the father of thu scbupl
must be brought to Irish, and condemned, no
doubt, to keep Mader CANNING,_ and his school-
fellows, under that gr:xit Master, iu plies, for
which, neither that great Mltster, nor their own.
talents, ever designed theirs. That assurance, how-
ever itiqvitteful mi their part, does not appear to
Mare appeAsett the public iudigttttitsu; and our J wits,
for Englaii,l, as aril as Spairi, has unfortunately
its little Supreme Junta, has instructed Its partisans
its the politic prints to promisa • still greater sa=
cline..--The Ministerial Prints 'isbw promise a
Cu. ea or ADIAINIATRATION. Die Currier of list
alight.. one of their most cotiveuient toolsasays :
" Fur sassiest • spa there hare be 1174 ',saloon af some ebaagew
bets: abottt to tskc place iu the Ad.nioiatettliuts—At pie.
"rut. we are nut able to speak positively upon the 'Atte!
The eliimget said to IN, is contemplation are supposed to rw;
Sete to three "4 elution. of the presout Cohisiet —I nli3rtsit ion
will ►e the emoie of tbe resignation of one Membee—it coign
when he will, he will ratty with hito the respect of the cutte-
r try, for harms stept.fteiva..4 au.l aceeptati.tif alike at the
time hr diil.—The names of the tee other Members we need
tr.t mention."

We have quoted the precise 'w mils or The Courier,
becimile we mean to ground upon them a chatget
of one of the grolue,t i npostures ever sought to be
practised ilium public I ttttt est y, tinsusiwc!ing.
credulity. Of the three Nli tasters whose immediate
resignation it promises, the Duke of PORTLAND,
the held of the pre, iit if head he may
be called, is evidently nue. Bait iu physics you may
remove the caplet us din* without affecting the
body, and why not in politica? If the people of
England are to have 4 substantial and competent
.for the looses, dirgraces, and disasters,.
wit;e:t they have rece.rly experienced in the con-
duct of their :alms, why are.thTy not promised at
once., cmit.dete an I real chrtagrof guru soil
mra-
sestral—+Nathiieg etir 1.4'1 .ei11;1. the canary ; and it
is 'tile in Mr. C. 1,411110 r. PERCIN.4I. to rx-
'poet, that any mincer nr tiieltster can permmile the
tool4itt.,e galled puldic, tha such a. change hits
been effected, while they retaiii.their seats in the

!tiny further evidence arse %Vaughn:, in addition
to 'mat mass rd information Whin is U al really betnre
the public.. to prove at truce thelinpecliment,. %%Lich
must prevent our success in the interior .of Spain,
sod the injudicious selection which 'Our Ministers
tack, when they appointed Lord WALLA %Grou to
command in that country ; it would be furiiished
by The Gazelle of Satnrclity.last. It is a painful,
but we Heel it to be au indispensable part or our
duty to the public, to comment, without reserve or
respect of persons, on every document *high it offi-
cially cortininnicated by Government, relative to
the operations in various parts of Europe. If the
consideration due to post services of eminence were
to exempt from the examination and discusaiou of
future measures or movement., impunity must be
the necessary result. In •pplying tine remark per-
sonally to the late Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY, now
Viscount WELLIMOToN, we are fully sensible that
we undertake an invidious office ; since the gallantry
and spae of enterprise, approaching, ou some I/Ces•
sic)" to a sort of happy temerity, which have uni-
formly and invariably characterised his military Ea-
r. et, both in Asia, and in Europe, deservedly ren-
der Min a favourite of the nation at law. Yet,
even these pretensions to general admiration, or
approbation, ought, perhaps, in the present instance,
to have operated as dissuasive. and objections with
• wise Ministry, to employ's's; him in Spain.
Sir Awraue's tirst exploit, from which, in addi-
lien to the advantage of Nt aiding in the relation of
a brother to the Governor-General of India, he oh-

tainted a greet, if not an undue and is ~,,, enter, de-
gree of military reputation, was the tailor:. ~,,,•!itied
over the Mabrattas, at Assaye. Dist in tln.. memo-
rable battle, it is well kilovolt that Sir AIITHIta was
completely beaten, his artillery taken by the tacitly,
awl the day lost ; when Colonel MAX WELL, by on
odinirably-timed, unemweted, and most vigorous
charge at the head of a body of. cavalry, in which
be was killed, retook the cannon, broke the Mahrattit
inCintry, and restored the lost honour of the British
arms. Sir Istatia, however, reaped. the fruits or
Colonel mAxwELL's .oref.s,‘ ; as Busuiriate did.
of Desists, at Marone. For the exactitude' of
this fact we nriy appeal to every officer who served

in India at tie time. if we lt-d lost 11:e battle tff
Assiye," the Empire of Great Britain on the Gangeti
would have been shaken to the centre. We ate.
however, well aware, that there are occasions w het e
it becomes meritorious, and even necessary, to ha-
zard in' order to save. all. Allinitlikig that sui
ii
was the case in the action to which we have just "I-
I oiled, we unity, ho;sever, still ask, wit, ther the same
necessity existed on the present occasimi
Sir ARTOUR, in the month of May last, bad
liriren Sou LT out of Portugal, by a aerie* of rapid
and energetic movements, which were attended with
Niece/Is.. -But lie seems, from-the moment that he
compelled the french General to fly beyond the
Minh°, into Gallicta, to have considered Win as no
longer'ati übjeot of apprehension ; searcely, indeed,
us worthy of attention. As little does he stein
to have dreaded, or taken any precaution ugairist.
Nay ; who, nevertheless, commanded another vim-
siderable corps of troops, to Lion, or at Salawntica.•
Regardless of both these Generals, perhaps a little
elevated by his prosperous campaign on the Douro,
ile fitllogs lie Ton with Some prceipitatton, first
into Estresnadura, and subsequently into NIEw Cuts-
tile. The last-mentioned General ably draws hint
, on, retiring before him. Intercepted dispatches,
obviously fabricated to deceive him, representing
S.lucT's distress, and preteuded misunderstanding
with Nay, probably encouraged bun to proceed.
Leaving, therefore, by his own account, two passes
lwiind him ii.adequately guarder! ; ignorant of
SouLf s, Of of Nave/ strength, or position; as little
aware of the extent of Motertries, N'tc•rort's, and
SESA.STIANCI, united force ; having, as is evident
by the result, concerted no plan of corribtned ope-
ration with Cumin ; yet relying on hint, or cm the
Supreine.Juuta, for provisions, of all which he was
destitute; and, lastly, without carringes to trains
porthis svoundesks or to fisiXlitate any of his forward
movements ; under all thei:e disadvantages, and
insitearucted by Sir Jona Mooaa's adninititionsel
'experience, mid misfortunes, Sir ARTIIUkt
to Talavera. Ile even pushes Sir Roamer Meson
forward out the left, with a very small corps, to Es-
t.-atom); in the vicinity of :Madrid. Already he ap-.,
pears to have devoured that capital in imagination.
But, at Talavera, from whence his personal lionours
derive. his military pregrem tentusirates. After a
-victory, such as PYRRHUS obtained over the Ro-
mans, he learns, •,r) his great concern, but, surely,
not to kis astonishment, we should' suppose, that
SouLT, tfie beaten and dispirited SOULT, was be-
hind him, and master of theparees, which, in his
burry to get to Madrid, he had neglected to se-
cure !—'u by should we detail the m-bincholy se-
riesof particulars contained in Sir Anine it's letters,
and which conduct us to his present camp at TfUlt-
illu ?—Disappoititmeut, misfortune, flight, famine,
1 And reversesof every kind, accompany the narrative.
Indirect, accusations of Ce LSTA. sod clearly-pro.
trounced charges against the Central Junta, for
leaving him and his army to starve, while he was
fightiog their battles, (min a most prominent, and
much-tube-lamented leattire of these dispatches.
But, before we condemn either Cu usra, or the
Junto, incapable as we believe both to be of raring
Spain ; we ought, nevertheless, to hear them in
their own defence. Did Cr ESTA ever approve of,
or signify . his di-site, that Sir ARTHURshouldad-
vant eso rapidly towards Madrid ? We very much
inspect, by the account given of our General's in-
terview ith Geueral 0' Do NIIGHUE, and of tile paper
drawn up oil quit sycasiott, that no clear, well un-
derstood, mutual understanding of each other's in-
tentions, and means of co-operatic/a, ever existed
between the &rubies and the Spanish Commanders.
Can we then wonder at the consequences that have
taken' place ? CukTrA, we find, has given in his

resignation. VV4 EGAS is retreating into the Sierra
Morena. Lord WELLINGTON', if his extenuated
troops, who find in famine a much more 'pertina-
ciuwi anti irruel enemy, than in the French, can re-

►iat the aggyarated want of provisions, which they
still Jahour under, is endeavouring to reach the
Portuguese frontiers. While Juss:Pu HoNAPARTS

Te Demos; stud Mownsa extenda, sow&
our wonade,l and primmer., a care and a rrlief
which they tv,4iirecily would not have experienced
fro. 3 one the SpaniarJa. This is a melancholy
tole, it must lie owned._

The Burbled end tentileted stele le which some
of the thspetches from Viscount WLI.LINGToNI
have been given to the public, ha% excited much
discontent. Of such at►ruapts of concealment and
suppression, we ore happy to state, for the honour
of the British character, there :are only three or feur
prct-edents, end all of them 11l Ulle Yml the more
office.

Lora CotAtwowoott, we learn. by letters fnim
hi+ fleet, is coming home soon. We reset to add.
lie is at present in a very ill state of health. lie
ha+ keen out more than tire years. without once
setting foot on shore. His Lordship has accunsu-
Isiesl an nrntrn.e torture—ice belitre, upwards lif
10)0,0001. in pnee-money. Sir J. T. Ductrivoant
is named as hip successor.

Among the anecdotes which have transpired con-
cerning the late bottle or TNlnvent, we learn that
Sir ItogfaT Wti.sol4 WAS, daring that eng.iAe-
inent, within three leagues of Mdclriii, ■nd one
league from the rear of the French. He concealed
sit a wood, hoping to intercept some of the
enemy's Corp.- OH their retreat. Unfortunately
they took another road.• This fore:• was ton feeble
to venture forth after the Little of the SZAtla was
decided,. and Sir ROBERT *ay under the tier...any
of transporting his guns at Hight 011 the right of the
enemy.

',!,.IIr.,N.4Igr•PRIIM4=.

BRIGHTON, S t ter. t .
This watering-place contains a larger amount of
conspaisy than was ever before remembered. uuh -I
on the occasion of some public a clehration, and eh,;
presence of our Mos, mug patron. his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales. The Castle and New
lon I lutels are constantly tilled with the first ea,;,.
puny ; arid the accommodations of the Old Slop
Tavern, nod New Ship Inn, With the Boarding ai.:l
Lodging-houses, have been in complete occupation.
The Stepie nod Marine lihraries, and Cook's
coote.:tionery rooms, iu East-street, are nightly
crowdt.d with fashional.le votaries ; white the theu
etre. with the attractionicof Nlrs. Stdthu:s, ihict
and ;llrs. C. Kenilde, obtains brilliant and 0i..r4
flowing auditorics. Ihi Fri lay and Sat iirday,
Siddons app nun! in iielairtera and Nrs.
in Venice Preserord, and •Strenter. nave ::•r
accustomed excellence; and tfits-w Itht si
increased by the able repeesent4tiou of ./4/14. and
The Stranger, by C. Kestiblr.
Mrs. Seddon* finally withdraws from the ilaighton
Theatre, on Tuesday evening text,. in the part of
Lady Macbeth. Mr. C. Keirilde gives his support
to the piece, in the character of. Nacbeth.
At the iiesvlv.establislieil; fair -fur sheep at this
place, on Mood iv lit:,, sup:ily and attesidisme
fell very *hurt of hlst year. The number is. timed
did nut much exceed 9000, trot of dose hut few
were sold. The best pen of tiwei. %Lie fujill the
flock id T. Kensp, Esq. and reJUU4 a purchase,- at
40s. per head ; others were offered at various ',Pc.
down to 30s. The liimhs that were sold
from In to 24u. Notwithstanding the thficieney
of buyers, the pablie ordinaries were all well at-
tended ; the Old Slim dined vii ; the New *hi,
had its share ; and tite King and t.)4.1401) as many a.
the house could well accommodate.

ORIG INA L POETRY.
THE COMPROMISE.

Quoth William fit the laud he lov'd, • .

I wish your heart would unw rek.ut.
Quuth Mary, though you are appror'4, '4'
I will sot do abut rd repast.
In h.ing kind, tin crimp Con be;
Then CORM, love, Cllll the arraitt
thOle IRCIIIeIIIS EtIMTUS on ute,
The most eflectionste of men.

-. a-:

0 S.r, said she, 1 own your away,
be your favourite I had died;
Yon had burnt e'er, thing away,
Lut for the wintacie of pride.
Plcasam is Lily when uppos'd
lo dignity, the female bunt;
Vilica ou e she y.elds, the Sett,. is clos'd,
The virtue Is nut lent, but lust.
Tiles let us compromise, said he,
To cavil there 6 nu prctrut e
Givelaut the pleasure, love, to an,
Aud you shall bate the caampasse.

Yesterday morning, Ilia MAJESTY', and Prin.
celiac* Aotaata and SOPUIA, accompanied by
Lady TRrsN6, Couat MuNsrut, General I. rrz-
auy, nutlCulourl Dr.anitowL, took their 0411111 1 tde
in Wimlaor Park, and returned to the Palace at
coon,

Thu.; tlny His MAJESTY will arrive in town; for
the porliose of holding a Private Levee at ti
4tisater Palace.
Her NIAJINTY and two of the PittaCISSEI are ex-
town this Jay font Windom. They wall
dice with the Duke of Yogi, at his bowie, Stuble-
) aril, St. James's Palace. Miss Go vow 0 NINY wt
ctend at twelve U.C{OCk, at the QUEEN'S Paiact, to
receive Her MAJESTY.

The Duke of CUMBERLAND left Windsor, gra.
terday morning, and returned to London.
Lord CIIIARLES BRIITINCIL returned to town, on
Monday, from the Scheidt.
The Marquis of HuNTI.Y. whin his lately reinrn-
ed from the Scheldt, will leave town in a few days
for Scotland.

The Earl of BARRY )101a: entertained • select
pasty at dinner, yesterday, at Ina house in Saarille-
street.

The Rev. T. Wii.aissJa and fatuity, from Bed-
fordshire, and the lady of Admiral DALRL sod fs-
frout Bath, arrived last alight at Utaasast a
Ilotel.

The Earl of Essex' is expected iu town, to-
morrow, from Worthing.
The Earl of DERIAt.II Lowe, in (irost•enor-
sguare, is preparing for tint timuang season.

The Bishop of ELPIM74 has presented the Rey.
JAMES WIIITREAW, V tem of St. Cathenise',,
Dui,lin, to the valuable living of KiHeran, in the
County of Roscommon ; v,e,nt by the death of the
late Doi tor SANDFORD, brother of Lord MOVIE
SA7iDIFoRD.
A prlcstrian match, of 20 miles, for 200 euineer.
Wllllll,CritPilned Monday mandate. 0.. the Bagsliol-
ruml, on turf, httwe. u a Ixolessed mimic or of he
nanic of LARION. and a Mr. Cisuue. Tim belt,.,;;
was six to four On Mr. LARKIN at ftlar.o.4. 11.er
competitors, ant bat•kedaliemselves, icgged on to-
gether serest and a h..lf miles in the first hung., then
the fsvouttite inane phy, slid nit miles in the se-
cond hour, rod Ma,. of a toile a-aead.--
lie continued im until the end of thin ;mach, which
was perforated to two hoots and a half.
SAILINti Mnecit.—The Silver Cup and Cover
given by 11r. SIIRPPARD, the proprie:or
nor Vauxhall liittlens, at Milbank. near Chtlatm.
to be sailed for by Clrotterncti's pleasure. (mats, 0.0.
on Monduy otztoto szoileol fi4 by the saute tell Itodt.
which started on a former ovra..ion, the tiosteh
having hireii then di calid ; they stroteol at Imre
o'clock from Blackfrirria-bwirlve, mid ...hail to Put-
ney and hn, k. Thu C:.l tails kit.trr.e.m/t• of
Nine Elms, 4,1'11“ 1111 it, ,t, a.;.1 thin .11. Ccurge,
Guastos, of l'aul.s..Whart. ass la cio-ti.
but another dispute hat nil; t.rts::::, the mate:: .1
minims undecided.

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