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bae+tatatga CeNen! Sir Harry nurrar.l
watt nail in a few days for Emeauil, in the Angela.; ;
he will touch at °lions arid Cortingo ;' be is to he
succeeded in committal here by t.4enteal Stewart,
from Oporto.
Much apprehension is entertained here for the
erkket, a hired ketch, which sailed from Falmouth.
the 17th alt.; from Cornnna for this port, with dis-
patches, on the 13tli alt. and was last seen oil Cape
Fiuisterre on the esth ult.; the Lively frigate has
been cruising in search of her, but without sliccess.
List of the Rigiatents gone with gar John Moore
from Lisbon :

lath Light Dragon's ; ad Foot, tot battalion ; nth ditto,
ditto ; sth ditto, ditto; 6th ditto, ditto; gth ditto, ditto 1:
?nth ditto, ditto ; anth ditto; sod ditto ; Stith ditto, ditto,
Mali di to, ditto; oed ditto, ditto; and ditto, sit ditto;
d tit), tat ditto; *I Light Dragoon, ; 54d Four, od
band.,; ?tot ditto, tot ditto; 19th ditto, ditto ; gist
ditto, ditto; 92d ditto, ditto; gstli ditto, lot bottslion, S
cutapanirs ; gsth ditto, tii ditto, a ditto; tat light inittaliott
of Kin& Gutman Le:itts; ad ditto, ditto ; 2 curapanno of
the staff corps.
Lit of those in Liphon-
9th Foot, od ; a7th ditto, set ditto; egth ditto,
lot ditto; slat ditto, lid ditto; tot has botiolioo King's
Genoa. Loggias, at Altoona; 2d ditto, ditto, at St. Julian's ,
60th dew, stir tiaiopauy, at Csseaos ; sth tine battalion
iLiatroGamita;agiga, and 7th ditto, ditto, at Beller.
List of those in
Perto—
t:.tit Foot, tat battaliosi 421 ditto, ditto; 97th ditto,
ditto ; at Elva% oath Begtoicat.
List of ship* iu the Tagus—
The Hibernia, Sir C. Cotton; Aodasious, igantagetiot •
Gummi, Resolution, Sylph, !Away, Cu,ota rodaanted,'
Myrtle, sad Ntratilaa.

TH.E BRITISH PRESS.

- LOIN DON,
SATURDAY. Novzsussi 26.

Private letters from Coronas, dated the 18th,
contradict the report of the total dispersion of
111..ta6's army. They stlitc. th.,t after fonr days
of hard fighting %Ali General IST, he had retired
shout five leagnes from Bilboa, to collect:trate his
fon .6. In this serirs of actions, BL•lig is said to
have lost 111,000 men. .

A Proclamation, we un4rnbind. has been signed,
and will appear is The Gavel* of this evening, pro-
roguing Parliament to Monde'', the 16th of Janu-
ary next, when it is to meet for dispaHi of busi-
otos. The Proclamation, we understand, is couched
to the terms • used when :t it the intention of Mini,-
tars that Parliament should actually meet upon a
particular day.

made upon the public mind by the
not Iligence received yesterday from Spain, was by
AG utrims dioreportieued to its importance. The

defeat of BLUM'S army, the approach of the
French to the vicinity of St. Andero, and their an-
ticipated occupation of that port; the advance of
■ corps of their forces to Burge,, joined to the re-
port of their having pushed on to Valladolid ; all
these circumstances. are necessarily calculated to
depress our previous.sanguine expectations of the
success of the Spaniards. Without, however, at-
tempting to ascertain how far these accounts are
accurate, or hoe far they may have been magni-
fied and exaggerated, assuming that every fact as-
serted or alleged is literally true, yet no man can,
on that accoset, despair of the ultimate success of
the patriot arms tad cause. We must kni.w more
than we are possessed of at present, before we can
make any decisive inference. We me, even ask
why, when the intelligence received from Lugo,
and from CofUlllll, is.of the lath and lyth of No.
veinber, we should not have received any letters
from St. Andero of •iv later date than the 13th
Perhapii a foiv hours, as the winds now arc, may
solve our doubts upon these points.

That BoNAPaRTE would give to his first entrance
on the Spanish territory, all thelustre !dal eclat of
which such an act was Susceptible, ems to be ex-
peeled. That deep, capacious, alittproviient
amid, had proiided all the inemm-7provisions,
wi4tOrtlllolseeses; uwtillery, reinforceinents. and
Money. uo luau wild. doubt. That he would act
with the utmost energy, vigour, promptitude, and
decision, our knowledge of Irischaraeter and past
actions, well warrant us ill believing. But his
greatest advantage lies, not so lunch in his own re-
sources, vast and transcendent as they are. It is in
our iadccivion. procrastination, and want of any
master ninth in the Cabinet of this country to di-
rect its Councils, that Naeoteuis's incukulable
superiority lies. Let any malt say, what is to he
expected from the DISIITIIIIcKg, the PRATTS, and.
the sus, apposed to the TALI.tyIIANOS, the
CIIAMPAGXYS, and the I%laiti:ts ? Is it Possible
to conceiv , that our Ministers should have turned
account the time that • lapsed between Bo•
P•APARII , departure from Bayonne, and his re-
turn to that city ? Great os the abilities of the
Corsican tyniiit coufesseilly are, he had committed
a signal Lult in ii,soniitig, us he did, that because
he had got into his possession, by treachery, the
tbe Capital, awl the Keys of Sp!in, be was
then are µLister of the kingdom. Tiiis error he
could not remedy, without returaing to Paris, and
afteresrlit going, in person, to meet his 7ilusetirilo
Ally, ALIEXASOCR, in the centre of Germany. It
a is, over, nubs:ramble to withdraw Ins
trioris fruit the Prussia states. and to tranaPart

them over the Mine, across all France, to the
scene of war. The accomplialiment of these various
objects demanded several months. From the loth
of Jetly last, up to the ad of November, Napo.
LEON.* personal exertions were ulto..,:elher with-
drawn from elle theatre of coute.t. How ,irecious
an interval, if it had been improved ! Little as we
are disposed to panel* .ise the late Mr. PITT, we
nevertheless believe, that, had he presided in
MArestv's Councils, he would not have lost that
invaluable period of time. DuriiK.more tha.l two
months of it, namely, August and September, the
French forces in Alava and Biscay, under Bee.
MEALS and NET, diminished in numbers and, com-
pelled to act ou the defensive, retrograded before.
the Spanisharmies. No reinforcements were rent
from France, and they were driven to the edge of
the province of Gnipusecia,while, on the Ebro, they
maintained a doubtful etruggie against the Pa-
triots in that quarter. If, in this decisive moment,
our expedition, instead of proceeding to Portu4al,
where Jusor was in fact intprimmeedi at the dis-
tance of five hundred miles from Uiseay, had been
directed against the French in that province, they
must have been expelled before Box APARTI could
have returned from Erfurt, to Bayonne.

Ile state paper which has been submitted to the•
public eye. since Bosses RTE usurped the'sai*eite
authority in France, is more interesting, nor better
merits the most attentive perusrol„than the Speech
made by the Minister of the Interior, on• the ed of
;the 'present mouth, to the Legislative Body. It :
contains a minute, able, and luminous exposition of
the manuCtctures, peeupiary impOsitions, revenues.
and pri icipal resources of the French empi.re, to-
wards the close of mos. Whatever address the
speaker uses, in concealing or disguising the este-
, citifies and privations that are inflicted by the ty-
rant of France on the conscript slaves, whom he in
mockery do torninates ..his people," it is obviona
how acute, and how severe, are their sufferings
Commerce, navigation, together with the greater
number of those articles of diornal consumption,
wiffel modern habits and meatier, have rendered
rather matters of necessity than of luxury, all beets
felt the petrifying influence of NAPOIAON'S
iron mace, which has shrunk and withered the in-
dustry of the most ingenious :ration of En-
rope. I'Ve know, in feet, that the beautiful and
opulent cities of France, where trade was most
flourishing, in particular those at the mouths
of the Garonne and the Loire, are become
as desert, and as incapable of furnishing or
procnring the means of Vibeitbiellell to, their in-
habitants, as the most forsaken places in the, in-
terior of the country. Bourdeaux and Nantes now
resemble Poitiers and Toulouse : all is stagnation,
suspensism, and depression. Hence arises the de-
testation in which the tyrant is held at Bourdedox ;
a sentiment so well known and underitood by him-

self, that on his return train Boykin* to Paris, in
July, he made a circuit, in order to avoidpassiug
through that place. And though, on hie late-jour-
ney to the. Spanish froutiers, three week+►" se, he
was necessitated to visit. Bourdeaux,' he did it by
surprise, when his arrival we* not expected for
some hours; and having leistily crossed the Ga-
ronne over to the city, he only remained two hours
in the place, before he pursued his sanguinary
course towards Bayonne. That destruction of
industry, aid of the mechanic arts, which is so
ruinous to his subjects, constitutes, as it is natural
that it should do, the more solid prop of the
Usurper's greatness. Where domestic occupation,
and profitable employment, are become so difficult
to promote, it is necessary, in order to find subsist-
ence, that vast numbeis of the middle and inferior
orders should cuter the ranks, and furnish weapons
to their oppressor, for reducing other nations to
the level of the French people. It is thus that re-
bellion, equality, massacre, and anarchy, have
conducted to the silent submission of registered
slaves, under a foreign soldier, who rrords them
as only made fur his use, his ambition, and his
purposes. Never was a more awful and instroctiee
lesson held out by Providence to man, than in
the origin, progress, as d.tessaivation of the French
Revolution.
The Minister of tbe Interior commenceri.iiie state-•
merit of the arts of industry, at this :time, in
France, with " the manufactory oltin ;" in which
article, he informs his auditors, that " in two fa-
brics they have attained a degree of perfection, no
ways inferior to that of the English." But eveo ad.
omitting the accuracy of the filet here adviusceill.-
which is at least doubtful, from whence do they
procure the material itself ? Certainly. not from
France. There are, indeed, in the province of
Bretagne, smile metallic 'appearances, that seem ty
indWate the existence of tits in the bowels of the
earth ; but no unties have yet been discovered or
worked. It Is England alone which can
the French with that metal in sufficient quantity
for their consumption, as well as of the finest rim
lity. Comm come next into considernto.i.
is nothing now," says the Minister, "respect,,. that
object, but what we can make, and v.ry well."
Ile add', " the weaving of the mum) has made as
marked a pmgres,i as the spinning. These two
Limb, or industry sr.r already adequate to the con-
sumption of the erii!ii re ; which is for ever liberated
of the grievous taxtation it has hitherto been under
to the Indian manufactumrs, and to their oppres-

f stirs." To the compliment, at the dc. of
truce, we must cotifess, when we
circimistarrces its the lEstory of O
inort: iu the rtceirt treatment of the
Climatic, we are, it is to be Isar„d
titled. Lord WF.I.I.FOLEY will ti 'id er
we believe. that notwithstatidifig the
made by the French, under N.trot.i.to
and fostering cares, in weaving, es Wt.
Mug cotton, the ninaufucturers of
may be 'cry easy on the score of ,
Gemmel-two:rens a long, a curious, and,
nisterial hands, u melancholy them
'Maim'. It is impossible to make
or humilintiog nsowal of the state of
oto which trade is sunk. The ort,rin
dyed, with. more effrontery than truth,
to our .e nriritime cede, ordinances,
arbitrary itiqutrition." For of N•Poi.
Edict or Decree no mention is motile,
effect of these (mixtures, on our part,
riled nor palliated.. To the Great N,
verned by the brat of Heroes, who, 11,
happy hinisrlf, felt it necessary first to 1
of the happiness of France," are recoav
the only sources of. consolation, -
signation, and invention." Such is
state of that Empire by the confession
Minister.

We have received Portuguese Papery to the
instant, from which we have made sGroe exti
An article from Lisbon, doted the 14th, suits,
Sir Li. kinsaato was to Sall ill a few days for ,
loud. Ile is intake a coasting voyage, in which
will totiePt at Oporto -and. L'brunna. lie will
bably reach England in the beginning of ,
mouth. •Ife is to be succeeded in his command
General STEWART, siao Was expected
for that purpose from Oporto.isiieral STIWASrI
is, we fisheye, brother of CASTLEREACU, a,.4
hoIJA a priticipal place in his Lordship's Office.
, _ •

General Cam:soca railc.l, yeatenley, for Lisbon,
to anaume the command of the Btitn.li truck,,, in
Portugal, vice Sir Lt LiVILAARD recalled.

ansoessm....p.-nnie
Yesterday morning 1-fis MAJErmr, Prinevses
SliPdIA, AIIGUJsTA. slid Ainl.l/1. accompsonee,
Lord U'ALsISIGICIAI, Lion. Mr.(.. VII I It RS, 1.8.1
Ety, General FRrAttor, 'tad Colonel
rode in Windsor Park, at.d riturued at t0,..s
o'flock to the Potter.

CUARI.E* Sah•ANE 'relived yesterday at
Portsmouth, to take Ma pasaago to his goveriank et
in tlaa West Indies.'
rt was reported, last night, that all the crill:rrs
and other vessels, in this Weer, capable of beil;
cchivested-hdo trariaporta, were engorged by tie-
remittent for the purpose of being seat of to
Spain and Portugal, to carry home our tier)" it,
case it ►bonld be forisel.mee,witry fortheen to tra-
nslate those conutrik. •
_Letters front lialifax. brought Ly the last packet,
utesitieW. that 'the expedition under Gen. PRETUst
still reinnie'ed there loan inactive state. It wasaiii,-
posed that the object for a liieh it was irtse.ohl4
aouidriot be attempted, as counter-orders had hero
received from England by the Brisk cutter, lately
• arrived.
The deliberitions of the Cabinet Council net
being finished ou the business they well engaged
in on Thursday, another meeting of Ministers
took:place yesterday at the Foreign (Alice, wbirh
was attended by the Duke of PORTLAND, Earl of
WEITICIRL•NB, Lord MuLeutare, Lord HAWK EIP-
II RY, Mr. C•NNI NO. Mr. I'ULLEY/Ir. Iw. roc.
Alter the meeting broke tip, Lord Haiwct.ssuity eat
off for his seat it Coombe Wood.
About 30 sail of the fleet from the Mediterranean
paired in a wile' on the Dith iust. An enein•:.
privateer is stated to have been iu the fleet at the
time.

Thursday, a Committee of the Privy Conr.. J
met at the Council Chamber, iu Whitehall, to
hear and determine Prize Appeals.
An Order of Conned has been agreed upon,
within these few days, for prohibiting the carrying
coastwise of any warlike arms, gunpowder. &c.
for six months. after the 6th day of Deceinber en-
suing. • This Order is expected to appear in this
evening's Gazette.
A meeting ef the *Lords of the Council will I t
held, this day,' et the Council Chamber iii White-
bull, to hear and determine Prize Appeals.
Thursday arrived iu town. Captain RollnT
CATIKAIT, of the Nary, who sib gallantly lir-
fended His MeJs+rx's abip Seagull, in the Baltic.
till she ludic'. • Captain Caracaar it Veit( rik*Q7.
vete(' front his woulida, and liar been made Post
from the dute of his action. . .

Several of our ;;;M—
-.:1-voraries have inserted two
accounts, this week, of Cabinet Councils twiny
held, to which they have attempted to attach un-
merited importance; they have also given a list .of
the company present, which was extremely mei:t-
ree. Eurl CAMDEN was mfmtimitd at being toc-
mot at both';
.the Noble Earl has not b-en itt
dmi ill the rea, but has been.at his scut. at lie)-
ham •-Abbey.
The 41/Giow,Noionisr, of Liverpool, lately cu;,-
tnreil iii the Orkneys, 'by the Dunes, i%as
upon by the aippearence of the corsair so far, that
they lay within a few cables' length of each other
the .+ hale day, after they bail both been driven in
lei stroll' of weather. "Elie Dane had the tippet
of one of the smacks that trade among at
Islands, and not snore then S men had been seen
upon her deck by the AThinr.'s people, who at night,
after they had veered out *ooze more cable, late tike
4:lie increased, were all Ivelow, except cue hand ell
(leek. A noise was keard on deck, dor Cavt:iio
weld to see what was the matter, and the aver fol-
lowed, when a fellow with a dtat%n sabre drove thrift
clown again. The )aries brave thein their boat, in
which the crew reached rand. after 44 hours herd
sailing, and it was ej hours more before they could
give notice to 'the nearest ship of war, whicii tus-
mediately sailed in pursuit.

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