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hit•k at Ivitd operated to driful.e a •rn

ble degree of appreheksion uttiong all rahls

people. Those who had istscess to Lwow the .
history e" that tal•iitet, at thy head of which

present ..ord SiDDIOUTH premiled, can atte•l

their terror or the flotilla and arinaraeuts at

logne, stiperceded every other sentiment in hit
minds, and swallowed up all other consideration,.
We speak of 1503 and 1804. Even under Mr.
PITT, in the autumn of 1805, nutty W rsoisi
were accustomed to cmitensplnte Buts APASTE salt
a sort of idolatry, and to slim prospectively tie
stamp of success to all his projects, however via
or impracticable, maintained that we escaped is-
vasion stMI coaquest, only by the Austrian dedi-
cation of war, which mum:Heil ICseommit to Ili.
rest his operations toaards Vienna, instead of lA.
don ; to the Datinbe, instead of the Thaw,—
Since the peace of Tilsit, however, though op ts,
the periral of the attempt on Spain the CorNcji
possessed full leisure and every facility for the
purpose, he never resumed his plans of
front Boulogne, even in the pages of the Mouittur.
That boasted engine is, indeed, now fallen into
sort of oblivion, and inspires Ho more dr,.iJ this
the armada of PHILIP the lid.

To an invasion by flotilla■, succeeded the ducat,
and, no doubt, the intention, of a siniultanows
continentid attack, in which all the navies of Eu-
rope, from Denmark round to Toulon, inclusive,
were to combine ; ■nd which, as the prime MOW
no. were .. to transport the veto
geom., oldie Ceoltinent toour shores:" That Pelt
a plan was by 114) means' in itself chimerical, or no-
practicable, we must ; and if .1011Erll RO-
- Ir.tILTE Could Lave been quietly seated ea the
Spaiiibli Throne, while Portugal vise occupied ki
troops, it would no doubt hate been re-
sunit.l. and probably attt•mpted. Eves RU.,"
icivi Turley twilight have been made subtervient to,
or parties in, the attempt. But this failing. Ec•
n•PAltrt; was compelled to have recourse to other
and inure efficient plans for the destruction of Enr
lend. to feet, boa ever omnipotent on the Nail.
till he invaded Spain, he has never been able
extend his power over the water, nor to subject diet
element In his influence. %Ye belie►e that lie is des•
tilust to remain for ever in the same impotent sta..
on till' OCCIIII, abates er may be the ultiust

his meg tii..itions on tho Continent.
114fIled in tenth those schemes, Li►
spirit, guided Ly pertinacious i:allexibi
tinned Isy alio:J.4 Irre►istible power, and d
cool calculation, sliggesteei new plans
Incapable of turning theta sg•tinst the

Grvat Britain. lie levelled les sesimor

finemem In order to effect Lix object,.

took to compel tbe carious nation sub,

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of attack. di
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, arms, to anbtnit to the most severe renancia..
and privations. Never, iu any age of the earth,
i despotism and tyranny concert and execute a
tin 3,iire more violent, sweeping, and sc‘ere ! To
amine the people, not only of France, but those of
Holland, Germany, Prussia, Polaud, Switzerland,
ant hely, to relinquish their diurnal and most ac-
custn lied gratifications ; to lay aside the use :•-• ten,
&Sec, -agar, spices, and many other articles of
deumt, or of necessary consumption, merely to
facilitate the objects of ainla:tion or of veugcatice,
coacerted by au Italian Usurper, for the &strut-
tiou of his emouies ; was, it must lie coargsstd,
one of the boldest conceptions that ever entered
the lininan mind. Nor could he easily over-rate
its onendion on a commercial country, abounding
in manufactures, mistress of the ocean, posse-los-
ing immense colonies in every quarter of the
glulte, and in whose warehouses were accu-
mulated the productions of Asia, as well us
of the West Indies ; hat %%hie% country, op-
pressed by severe though iieci ts.iry taxation, and
la bowing under the ek of a vast national debt,
added to the pressuie of a liiiii.;-protracted war, re-
quired the assistance of cuuunerce, to enable her
to contioue the struggle. Uminestion:ibly, of all
the engiaes invented by the :infinity of IiONAPAILT6
wad of TAULRYILAND, the most acute and profound
in its operation against Gnat lirilain was, and i 3,
the interdiction of all trade or c 1111111 l unication with
the Continua. America, a hose counsels and mea-
sures, under Jeretasoe'is direction. hare always
palpably leaned towards too French interest and
the French Ruler, gave additional eifect to the
decrees of Nactitros, I y loping an embargo,
throughout the United States, on every article of
exportation. If the Coasicae Esiweapa, Mister
of Portugal, had continued to govern Spain as
heretofore, through the medium of her native
Princes, while he enforced the prohibition of Eng-
lish commerce throughout the greater pert of the
European continent, it is difficult to say how long
we could have resisted the pernicious results of
such a state of things, and of such a suspension of
interennole. But the halal which inflicted healed
the wound. Ills flagitious auterprise agaiu.t Spain
has overturned all his project., while it has opened
to England incalculable sources of future advan-
tage, by admittiug the hob, rto prohibited coca-
madons of this country int., the Spanish ports.-
11 shall pursue this subject in a few days.

In JUNOT'S r;griaf account of the bate of Vi-
-1124 ra, he says he attacked the English iu very
shoot.; entrenchments; that his advanced corps
drove them buck, and that he lust about is() men:
lint judging. afterwards how much more avid, in
present stair a/ affairs in Spain, hts army would
le An that enuntry, he thotigist proper to propose
terms for the evacuation of Portiogal, which, upon
consideration, he trusti His MAJLIITY Will think
as honourable as they are advantageous. No doubt
he will; and should the Count Martial on the Con- •
ventionalists think so toe, with respect to this coun-
try, we shall live to see the same act humourable
and advantageous both to BONAPARTZ and the
Km of Great. Britain !

A Meeting of the City of Westminster is to be
held on Thursday,in Westminster Hall, to consi-
'kr of an Address to Hie Mans TY, praying. 4111
Inquiry into the causes that led to the conelmom
of the late Convention in Portugal. It will be sees.
by the Advostinement in the front of this Paper,
teat it is not to be a merthoy,r, of the Electe.;rs only,
Lot of the inhabitant* generally, comprisiug Peers,
inmates, and every person residing. in Westminster.
As it will he upon the largest possible basis, it is
expected to be most numerously attended. Mr.
SUEaIDAR, and Sir FaArcis BURDETT, are ens ug
those, who, it is said, will take an active part upou
the occasion.

Sir RICHARD STRACHA N attended the Admiralty.
yesterday, previous is his leaving town to take
on him the command of the Fleet, in the room of
Sir JAMES SA INI ARI.Z. who is obliged to resign on
account of ill h.alth.

. —
Dispatches were received. yesterday, at the
Admiralty frum Admiral P(,%'15.
The Iletrereain Danish privateer is captured by
NIAJLSTY'S ship ditiadme, mid carried iutu
Leith.

The Freenensow, Watomr, of Inverness, is lost
neer Bridlington.
Sir Hxw DALRYMPLE is daily expected from
Lisbon.

An application has been made to the POPlTU-
euzse AMBASSADOR, tOolguiti limn the Portuguese
(Internment the same permission for the importa-
tion of our entinii manufactures into Portugal, which
has been recently granted by the Government of
SIAM, and there is, wa understand, every reason to
c.ileillate upon success. We are happy in being
enabled to hold out the prospect of a new market
to our distressed manufacturers, and particularly to
(hose who have suffered so severely frown want of
done considerable to is-
and small craft on the
i.ts ; several vessels, and
On the south.western
'ages of the storm have not
damaj,ee has been done.
'Nand a Scotch brig, were
of Friday se'nnight, on
_ feared will go to pieces.
towed into Ilfracombe. the
overboard. The Asa
wan driven on shore near
will be lost.

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des" employment in Lancashire.
tote The late heavy gales have
it of chief among toe shipping al
eastern ai.tl northern I'o4lql,
many lives have been lost.
tire coast, (although the ravages
no- been Fo severely felt) much I
by The TArceßrutliers, Dobbin,
irk. driven on shore in the gale c
of Barnstaple Bar, ;yam it is fe
A I)ut.lin packet was towelour e-r-vr having been washed
le I Sarah. of Liverpool, wa
by till& ford, and it is feared