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THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON.
TUESDAY, SEPTCIIILI 6.

A transport, which left Alaffrs on the i6th, is
arrived at Penzance. She brings an account that
SsrJon 14 Moo as' s army was tl ter* w th theAudariosts,
of 74 guns ; that neither our army nor the French
had made any change of position subeetpiont to the
Cid ; that au armistice had been agreed on, and
that a General Piker had been dispatched to Sir
C. COTTON with particulars. Thu French Gene-
ral KiLLIPP44A remained Sia How Damentleb.

roc's cusp.

In the Marlborough packet, Capt. Butt, which
reached Falmouth on Thursday, in 17 days from
Gibraltar, came pussenger, Sir FICRDINAWDO BIAS-
cELLo, a messeogrr front Ilia SICILIAN MAJSSTV.
with dispatches for Government, with which he set
off immediately for London. This Gentleman re-
ports, that the Commander of the British forces in
Sicily meditated a descent on Naples. Ills force is
stated at 13,000 British, WOO Sicilian troops of the
line, and 4000 twined peasantry•. We believe, how-
ever, that the number of British troops is overrated.
was expected that he would sail from Sicily in
eight or ten days after the departure of this mes-
senger. It was known in Sicily that very• few
French troops remained in Italy, from whence
e;reet ussua'uera hail marched for Spain. Calabria
hail brew entirely evacuated by them. The Pshalm
acre gener ,I*, well infurinetl of the ►uccessful pro-
grew: of the Spanish Patriots, and such is the de-
testation 41 whiehrtha French are held throughout
.Italy, that the moat confident hopes were enter-
' taiuud in tae British army of the whole country

rising to join the Itt.ltisl: fitnentl tie anon Ss lie Ap-
ptars. The next arrival &run the Metlittr.t!tseon,
4tore .4?..maleutiy tvuxY, aanomme the oppoir.g gt
trY hely to aml commerce of
Enif anif. :1.1,94.1:Tra110, who wtiled wine'
time (Orr iu a !wicket i In Falmouth, is to have

A comulaud iai the Expo

On the 9th of Augn.,t, Hit 544J'wrei skip
7''i pderer, of 73 guns, airivefkiit I(7fibtailtar, sad
on the 13th laialtd the fo;loitiiiii rs:?nages gifret
namely hit Royal Highness Prince I.eoPut.pt Baß►
nom', secotici sou of the KING. and loNot of Sq.
LILY, the Prince DEL CAMBER() and his sou, the'
Duk 44tieot.1, the Marquis Sr. C t.4tac, the Mar!,
gills Di i• Tout:, and the. Prince's roadolential
Counsellor, the.. Chevalier TOMASI. These per-
sonages were ail going into Spain to learn
the actual state of the patriotic cause; and
it was believed in Sicily, that one object of the
Patera :a viii to Spain, wat to offer himself to
succeed to the Spanish Crown, in the event
of FERDINAND the Vdlth not being restored.
But this seems to be a preposterous notion. The
Spanish Cortes (or Parliament) meet this month ;
and however they may labour to reform the abuses
of their Constitution and Government, it is not
likely that they will violate the right of FEaot-

NAMD, ih 1010-SC ulnae they have fought and hi•

therto conquered. That would be to dissolve the
tbaran which unites them. Till he is restored, or
die'., a regency till no doubt be appointed to go-
vern in his name. It is fur more probable that the
journey of this PRINCE to Spain, with so splendid
a retinue, scis undertaken with the view of uniting
the two peninsulas in a coalman amuse against the
Oppreiwor of both.

- -
There is no instance, in modern history, of any
country, which, in similar circumstances, has achiev-
ed its emancipation from an enemy become
ab-
solute master of the capital and principal fortresses,
with so much celerity, and in so short a period of
time, as Spain has done. It is hardly more than
three mouths since the nation, as by a simultane-
ous effort. took up arms in elision every province,
nearly at the same instant. From Gallicia to Va-
lenti*, sad from Cadiz to Oviedo, the people rose
against their oppressors. A snore hopeles', or ra-
ther desperate attempt, was never made by any
body of men. Let us corridor it for a moment.—
Madrid was occupied brrillikiaim, and fifteen
thousand troops. MI the frontier garrisons, to-
wands Feaoce,,Xere delivered up to the enemy
by the Spaniir Government. By the base arts
of corruption, and by the splendour of his victories
in Germany, added to the reputation of his invin-
cible arms, BouzstAarr. actually reigned. while
Coasts IV. nominally occupied the Spanish
Throne. The Panicle of Peace, a traitor to his
Sovereign and to his country. betrayed both to the
Corsican Tyrant. his emissaries were placed in
command of the harbours, and arsenals, and fleets
of Spain. All the choicest of her troops were sent
to fight the battles of NAPOLEON, at the ex-

tremities of Europe, on the shores, and in the
Islands of the Baltic, where they were surrounded

by I)anisli and French soldiery. To complete the
reduction of Spain to a foreign Usurper's pleasure,
it only remained that the ROYAL FAMILY should
voluntarily put themselves into his power. ny an
artful and perfidious nil:rare of blandishments
with menaces, and of terror with professions of
friendship, the Corsican induced or compelled both
the father and the son to commit themselves to his
honour. He then deposed, imprisoned, and sent
them into France. Spain, for a short space, lay
stunned and- prostrate; incapable of supposing
that proceedings an flagitious, and treatment s•
subversive of every principle of truth and smity.
could proceed from an ally and .a friend. It is
evident that Kos:ATARI'S mistook this momentary
suspension of resistance, for submission and obedi-
ence. Well, indeed, might he do so, when he con-
sidered the prostrate cenditien of a country, dis-
armed, occupied by his own troops, and deprived
of every individual of its Royal Family ! From
this abyss of ruin has the kingdom driven out its
invaders, and reduced them to abandon the far
greater part of the monarchy, with infinite loss,
slaughter. and disgrace.
We'rtpellt fbr 'aisertion, that it is not the aerak.
or the military force of Spain, which has expelled
MORAY. and vanquished Dcroree, MIIIICIZY, Les
Feasts, and the ablest Generals of France. It is
tie people of Spain, the pi atantry, and even the
women. Saragossa has six tines repulsed, and
cut to pieces, the very legions which oterturnel the
disciplined forces of Austria, of Prussia, and of
Russia. The same men who earned victory to the
frontiers of Lithuania, and of Hungary; who cap-
tured Duntzie, and entered Konigsberg a few
months before; were unable to make themselves
masters of an Arragonese city, ill fortified with
Moorish walls, and defended only by the loyalty
or the patriotism of its inhabitants. A fact never
is be forgotten, and which stands alone in the an-
nals of modern war, is, thut PALAFOX actually
oper.ed two of the gates of Sarugossa, in order to
admit the covey into the lilac" whom he after-
wards annihilated. lie had net under Ins com-
mand any regular troops. I was placed," says
be, in his letter of the' 10th of August. addressed
-to the Supreme eouneil of Castile, in a worse
situation thins the other Provinces. in consequence
of not hiving a ring!: replier to &rage,' ; and my

being exposed to attiek in front, and on the silt
of Catalonia, Castile, hind Navarre; but notains
standing all this, my affection for my beloved Kiug,
FERDINAND VII. my religion, and my eonutii,
made me prefer every risk I might have to e„.,
counter, to a state of indifference which 1 considered
as criminal." Language has no words in which
duly to consign to the admiration and imitation of
future ages, heroism, and magnaininity, and loyalty
so pure. Even the French, base awl degenerate as
they are, covered with the blood of their Ktr:ts,
and wearing the opprobrious challis of a 10a,4a
mad, A flie,,itious Usurper, even they will sooner or
later awake. The doom of the tyrant is obviously
II rat:Mag. Like BEEAWAZZAR, his sentence is al.
ready pronounced, and written by an invisitile
hand, in awful characters. Ile may protract, but
cannot escape his destiny.
Wc trust, nevertheless, though such is our con•
viction, that, until Portugal and Spain are emu.
plcteiy emancipated, till the last Frenchmen i. CN.
polled, and till the last fortress is recovered out of
the hands of BoNAPARTE, our Government will at 4
employ the British troops in any other quarter of
Europe. We are well aware that the Neapolitan%
theTuscaus, and the Piedmontese, anxiously desire
to rise against the oppressor of mankind. We hes
lieve that the Switzer!, the inhabitants of Witten-
berg, the Tyrolean., its well as the Silesian, Null
Poles, are all ripe for bursting their fetters. Brea
jn Holland, in linden, and in IVestplialia, a taleet
fermentation prevails. The Arragontase and the
Andalusia's have shaken the foundations of the
Tyrant's throne, and broken his iron sceptre: Bat
time must mature and bring into uetion tLese
events, the complete liberation of Spain ought to he
our only and exclusive object at present. Much 16
done; but much remains to be effected, I.
NEILS evidently meditates to make • stand la hind
Vittoria, to entrench mid to maintain hinistathire.
Having theEhro before itim,though at some distanm,
Biihoa ou his right, and Pampeluna on his lett, be.
hind hint St. Sebastian and Bayonne, he may still
cover and retain Alava, Gaipuscoa, and NIKE7r,
perhaps even Biscay. Figueras, the key of Cata-
lonia, and Montjuy, the citadel of Barcelona, re-
main in the Cervican's possession. Winter, which
commences early in the Pyrenees, alresaiy iu.
pends ; and BON•RARTE will naturally make every
effort to keep Rimini on the territory of Spaia,
rather than divulge his own shame and defeat, by
letting this mock King reside in France. Lull
these circumstances, we hope that no prospects of
producing insurrections at Naples, sr revolutions
iu other parts of Europe, will ever induce Si to
suspend our exertions, till Spain is once more free
from the presence of a single enemy, and iu posses-
sion of all her fortresses. Of Portugal we enter-
tain no apprehension. A few days, or perhaps
hours, will, we doubt nut, bring us the most ph
ing and decisive intelligence from that quarter'.

Twelve thousand mere troops urc °Mend to Per.
tu,.1•0, under Generals Baran, CRAUFURD, awl
Fa.tsEt. Orders have bven received at Deal, for
the immediate embarkation of the brigade .1
Guards there. The brigade at Chatham is din to
em bark.