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London, England, 1808-06-29 00:00:00

GOTTENBCRGII EXTRA

GOTTENSURGH, JCNE
His Royal Majesty hay received the following
Report from \lajo. Peterseu, Commauder of the
Freya frigate:—

The list of May I was of Sirens to reemsnoitre the !I
port of Fredesicsa and obtain remain intelligence of the
effective stresgth of the enemy's flotilla, bat in consequence '
of the wind mecum road I atom/out loses again, and was
bead at by some armed ships, but could not &merit
whether they were gun-brats or other irtmeis. The Lid
of Slay, when wi..d and weather became more teem',
able, I stood in again with the land; • geo-boat put MI,
and hied ou the femstr, but oil bout doing any injury. find.
in that the wind w m dytag foot Away, I Munn sof with every
sail act, but was foliimeil by fume gun-boats, which came out
from the port of Frederickswaro, mid joined thuse whir b Lad
lsee,i lying among the Swedish cliffs; on their warm; the
frigate, they howled the line of battle, and a breeze springing
up. I availed nijseif of it, and stood fir the euerny's gun-
boats, iu order to cut ud their etreat. At three tieback,
tame up with them, sad gave them a tirimaaide, winch
the effect that they roade all sad to avmd ail eugavisent
S o'clock 3 other gun-boats put off from the fortrem,
the farmer, and the cautioned"' recomm te enced altuut
my being able to bring thee leaver action, and they foam,
si must advisable to put Mt Lock into port,
" Year Raj al Majesty's frigate Freya, at anchor in Kasten
herboui, the esth May, term, H. O. PET E.KSK.2i.
(Gertadarry Ovum, Jane et.)

According to certain intelligence received from
Finland, a very considerable powder magazine blew
up on the id instant, near Siseaborg, and the ex-
plosion destroyed the barracks and several private
houses, the dock-yard sustuined considerable da-
mage. and several armed vessels of the flotilla were
either burnt or considerably damaged; many lives
were lost; and the tire was net yet ...ot under iu the
fortress, the 4th June, in the morning.
His Royal Majesty has received • report from
Field Marshal baron Toll, dated the nth instant,
whereby it aprears, that ou the 9th, is the after-
noon, a coavoy, consisting of be sail, escorted by
an English bomb ketch, and three erased brig, got
under weigh from Malinoe-read,vrith a fresh billeClß
from N.W. At nine o'clock the nazt morning the
wind changed to N.E. and blew so hard that the
Swedish gun-boots ware obliged to haul into port,
and were not able to work out again until half past
six o'clock in the evening, a hen the wind became
mare moderate. In the Ismail time the Danes at-
tacked this convoy with a very considerable force,
consisting of upwards of lo gun-hoists, besides cut-
ters, red other small armed vessels, and captured
several merchantmen, the number of winch l have
net yet been able to ascertain ; hut four of shoo
acre burnt by the enemy. One Euglish bee ea-
also taken, after having made a long and Nowt
gallant resistauce. The rest of the convoy cleared
Falsterbro' reef as early as to o'clock en hue morn-
The Swedish gun-boats witues.+ed'the action
net about one mile distance.

hi* Maje.ty hos ordered a Court Martial
to inquiry iuto this transaction, and to investione
the circumstances which prevented them from
thing share in the id/cite actiou.—(.ickharn Ca-
sette,June 18.)

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE ,or LORDS—Tossm, Ass as.

ROVIIIRGII PEERAGE..

Mr. Enterer Pais a:sin hinted us the part of Coaittol Ker,
and fir linos eel Itosailly, in irthallof Sir Jaws Iniwo, hero.
a Committee Privileges. They both curb:tided that the
word " estate" mentioned lu the deed of 1041, it:Chid/A di:-
Phies as wcU m real property, that the saute term, Mother
times aad esuutries, war of &general nature, and that pas-
ooze in Dryden was referred to, where these words are intro-
timeed—" Fallen from his high estate."
The Lotto 4.: II A C LIAM., before the Committee, stated
that it was extremely importuid some determination should
be come to in respect to this einue which had been sa
agitated, and with such cons..lerahae expense. Hr had heat
all the powers aids bud; sod inoad to the nitwite of the case,
and he would out venture to state how far the Hoase would
afterwards bud itself competent to decide epos ■ su'iject of
@web great magnitude. On the our hand there wag property
of the atiniukconsideration, sod on the other, 1b.., war still
a more deterininii 011 to he made upua the. claim of
the Peerage. If it could postild) he accomplished that this
subject could he decided in the present Season of Pattie-
meat, it would beat the utmost consideration to the pianist
interested. At nay rate, if their Lordships dhl out, upon
future occasions, give their attendance so far as to meld* the
cause to he prureCiled in beforethe Committee, it might he.
coine necessary to postpone the case altogether. till the west
Session of Parlianemt. Bat this would depend upou their
Lordships' own ifetrmisiation' whether they shield deem It
expedient to cause to o speedy decision upoa the au Meer.
The fuillor proceedings were postpaued till Thursday, at
eat o'clock.

Upson the motion hen agreed to that Lord Walsioehain
leave the chair,
The LORD CHANCELLOR again addreeved the House
upon the question of the Roxburgh Peereie. He stated
that as objeetiou bad been taken in regard to the righeof
Mr. telt:Jen Kee appearing before the Committee of
Privileges. hod also it had beep suggested I at Menden% no
neemiyity for she al/peas:vice of Lady Essex tier lt was ac-
quired therefore uo the part of the Hower, that come i..st rue-
thni be given to the Committee in respect to the appearance
of these persons. As to Mr. Ilekuden her, be bad die
ammo! soy right to the Peerage; he inerele claimed the
estate ur prop. rty lltstritatcd, by a certain clause of the deed
of Hies. Rut he also claimed to be be.srd before the Com-
m tare of Privileges, on this ground, that if their Lordships
should decide, by • repurt or that Comm utter, the eliteee re-
specting the estate also corneyed with it the title, It might
be detrimental to bis interest respecting the claim of the es-
tate. 116 Lordship rentemied this was nut according to
the maxims of courts of Me, particularly in this part of
the island, which would authorise a party to be heard is a
ease where the decision might have some ieduence open a
tense afore:46ls to be deterott.ied ip respect or a ease :mate-
diattly affecting that party. It was well known that hi ewe
of • devise of several puts of an estate lying in different
eimaties,ulerre twenty suds Might arise between those seve-
ral parties, and that nineteen, oar after another, were iu Ear
way of trial, all of which might, ifhc were peramted to use
the term, prejudice the trial of the twentieth ' • yet the par-
ties oldies bet would nut, on that aceoust,„ have any right
Is hatter to be ',cordon soy one tithe 19 precedent. Nor did
the right contended fur by Mr. Beleudea Ker accord o ith the
practice of that House upon former ocessiens, es in the
Anelesca can.. At the same time' it would always he far
their Lordships to use their soused discretion, wher, aay
material informatioa was to be attaiat.l. but in the present
ease, whatever might be desirable would certainly be et-
tended to 1,, the Attorney-General,' and the Lord Advocate
of 1i otlauJ, who appeared en the part of His Majesty—
And further, when the Committee lIIHMIR canal to soother
part of the claim, it *cold still be competent to hear
Mr. Belenden Ker, if it should become necessary. Ora
these grounds Le did out see that Mr. Behnke Key bad
any ri;!,t to he heard, but in respect to Lady 'Lassa 'leer,
the reason was widely different. Her Ladyship hail stated
by bcr (hiunsel that she conceived atm bed • greater right
to claim the Peerage, than thi tee. .4enttemen oho had
already been heard, bet she had not petition, .1 Ili. Ma-
jr...ty on the subject, and therefore be thought that she
ass retitled to he heard before the Cenomittre His Lerd-
shop then moved, " That there he an Instruction to the
Committee of Privileges, that Mr. Retook& her was not
entitled to be beard, but that Lady Eases Ker had •
right to be bend where than." This 'Lemons was egiesel
to unsuitnueuily.
The LORD CM NCCLLOR also requested their Lordships
to take late eousiderstion the iinportatice of this cause, sad
give, if possible, their attendance on Tbamday, at ate
o'clock.
Tee Endo( Sur FOUL stroagly urged the necessity of their
Lordahipe attesdance' and thought it higtfy important to
the parties. It had bae • statele hoer o'clock this dry before
seven Pars ativided, the number required to furs a Com-
mittee; and it *wild also 16 recollected, that the partial
bail been in attendance, and that It cost them, us he was icl-
fornacol, the cuonsous sem of use thousatid pounds every

y
al.be Coffee Customs Bill, sod the Spirit Doly sa4 were.

read a third time; the Bnisit Pubtag; Bill, tli'e Iriab mod
Scotch Spirit Countervailing Duty it,ll, awl Use Assessed
'Fairs Collection hill, pans:A through Cineututteee, and were
reported without ouy amen:Janie.
The this./ reading of the Assessed Taxes Coliseum Bill
was Axed f r Thursday.
TOE COAL COASTWISE BILL. _

Lord WALSINGHAIII presented a petition from
Mr. Robert Hope Lee, kc. of Liverpool, complain-
ing oldie above Bill, that it diminished the duties
en coals curried coastwise on the Welch coast., to
the detriment of the coal iu parts igijaceut to the
rincipality of Wales.
The Earl of Ltmciticu opposed the petition, in
this stage of the Bill, being laid upon the table.
Lord Ilawriesauar, Viscount SIDIWIUTII, and
the LOAD CHANCELLOR, contended for the pro-
priety of admitting the petition; which, after a few
words from Lord RCLICLUtTs was permitted to be
laid on the table.

The Bill %AS appointed to be read a third time
to- anrrow ; but Counsel were not to be heard for
the Petitioners, upou the motion of the LOAD
CIiANCLLLOIL %hen
The Earl of LAUDILIDALZ observed, that it ap-
pmreg to him as if the Pioble and Learned Lord,
having been accustomed to eoals from his infancy,
had coneluiled there was noa, since his removal
from the bar, no Counsel competent to speak upon
that subject. (d Laugh.)
CLERGY• _ . _

I.ord HARROWIT rote to make his promised mo-
tion, in regard to those incumbents whose bene-
fices were so small as to render it worthy the con-
sideration of the Legislature. lu the reign of
Queen Anne, it had been estimated that there were
upwards of 5,000 livings in this kingdom under .501.
a-year. This return had been made at the titne,
and might now be resorted to, but it would require
another return to be made to judge properly of
their situation at this day. He sheaved that the
right existed whereby .the Bishops might order a
return to be made of all the livings in their dio-
ceses generally. He thought that some assistance
mialit lit afforded poor beneficed Clergymen, at,d
after the return made. it might be proper to run.
:;der how far the Legislature could extend the slc-
t-ired relief. He then moved. •• That an address
be presented to His Majesty, praying hon to put its
execution the 45th of the prrteut rcaltu, wiioreby
the (litho:* may be directed to make a retort) of
all Lriu3.. and specifying theoi uotitr 1.101: per

Ttie bul of Bucuxesuitsniae, thc

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY. in se• 21

Spain. at the present moment, enTroteies the I
public attention. Our relations with Sweden and
America are absorbed in the glorioas struggle
which that ancient kingdom is making against the
invaders. We this day present a mass of intelli-
gence upon this iatoresting and important suitpct,
It consists of two sets of state papers. coining from
opposite extreines—fmui the pure loyal spirit of
the Spanish nation, and from the fraud and force
of Box Ar MIT& The former develupe the dispo-
sition of the provinces of Gallicia, Arragon, and
Asturias. The province of Arragon declares its
determination to make the members of the Box A•
TARTE family, and the French Generals, personally
reapon.ible for the safety of the KING, and his im-
mediate relatives ; that in case any violence should
be practised against their lives, it will exercise its
elective franchise in favour of the ♦rchduke
C lIA ate*, nephew of CHARLES the Third ; and that
if the French army shall commit any robberies
♦r murder., they shall receive so gassier.—
The populatiou of Spain is estimated at nine
million., prolmbly including 1,500,000 mea cape-
ble of heonng ariiri. Let them be potted and
steady in these resolutions, sad the armies of
BONAPARTE. however numerous, Inuit moulder
away in Spam ; every day ileilvt thin their ra!,k-,
and every ditch in the country become the grave of
a Frraehmon.

Thw other cla.s of State Papery, reirst,ti-ezSiiwin.
to which we hate 'Owlet, is ex? freat tiac

French Nat'utel G.izette, the Mueiieur. Ou

of t:ia aloe. tl..e Proclamation Fl

ate Sorevine Junta of le Government.—it
reverts to be the la-riguage and sentiments of
aa Assembly of the first Magistrates of the Nation,
but is in fact the laiiguage the luveder. In this
Proclamation the brave and loyal
,Spaniards, who
are in iumirrection against him, are described we
‘, persons led away by an inconsiderate seal, and
by the anxieties of a mistaken loyalty.": They are
assured that the Corte* will he re-established, more
powerful hind better constituted than they had
ever been—the yearly expenditure of the Royal
establishment shall be limited—the Rowan Ca-
tholic Religion shall be exclusively that of Spain
—the personal contributions le#ied during the
present war Will be considerably diniiiiished
useful reforms will be gradually made in all the
departments—public credit shall be reebrved—the
debt shall he fixed, end paid off in a few years
—the administration of itisti:e shall be made
certain—the Sovereign authority shall not bcper-
'pitted to influence its court-agricaltnet will
be encouraged, commerce animated, and popula-
tion increased—the arnsy and navy will resume
their ancient lustre, and all the mean' csiculated
to secure general prosperi.y will be put in motion:
Having thus detailed all the Messier tebe derived
from subjection to the will of a foreign despot, it
then proceeds to pronounce the curie and pitS ,
sishinent that await the refractory and
Ninneromi -Crouch annieskAiey are told,
are crossing the frontiers. The provinces which
do not immediately rewrn to their duty sill
be occupied by the rime') troops, and treat-
ed with all the setenty of martial-law, and
the I,ieutenant.Cieneral ban already gibes or
dens for several divisions to advaucc-aud punish the
rebellions.

Unwilling as we should be to indulge ourselves,
and still more so to mislead our readers, by inns.
gallery or exaggerated representations, we confers
that every account tranttuitted from Spain con-
firms our hopes of the happy consequesico. to be
anticipated from the glorious struggle there cons.
enticed. Nor do we by any means form these ex-
pectations, or found these conjectures, on the Pro-
clamations and Addresses of the insurgent pro.
vitices. Encouraging as those are, they constitute
the least solid grounds of substantial reliance. It
is iu the State Papers and Gazettes of the Corsican
Tyrant himself, in his reluctant admissioos, his
daring ati.renresentations, his dark and• gloomy
menaces, finally, in the hurry and precipitation
which evidently pervade his counsels ; it is in these
'clattered features that we trace his esubarra -titteuts
and angmenting difficulties.
Every act of his administration eloquently pone.
trays Ins secret dread of the Spanish natioti. 1 hat
awful monitor. conscience, .though it may not
appal him by any reproaches on his prettily and
atrocity toward* the Royal Family whom be Ins
dethroned, yet must inform him. that while men
remains capable of diacrimiutiti.ib; good from
every indivotual-ahrongbont Europe intuit execrate
his detestable conduct.- HeMait b• youswaitisis.
that though a deba-ed assembly of Nonles, sur-
rounded by the bayonets of MURAT at Madrid,
or lay the swords of his own soldiery at Eta; ~:itte„
may issue addresses suitable to Ins purposes ; iet
that every Spaniard. in whom hountir, courage,
loyalty, or a sense of national independence, are not
extinct, must abhor his flagitious proceedings.—
1 le cannot be ignorant that force only can sUppretia
such sentiments, or compel any people to he traus-
leered by one ruffian to another, like animals un-
worthy of the rights of human nature. He ninet
isavoluatarily tremble, lest even distant nations, and
remote people, should be animated with honest
rage against the common scourge and nppremor of
the civilised earth. His acute mind will represent
to him. that he is become, like a CaLioota, or
lake CAItaCSILLA, a Ratite devoted to eternal infamy,
which no conquests can efface or ol.hterate. He
may despise the insfortuaate Sovereigns who no•
mintilly reign at Vienna, or at St. Petersburgh.—
He knows that he can at pleasure dethrone them,
or again vanquish their armies in the field. but
be has still en account to settle "situ the peoik
of Europe. Before that Tribunal, we trait dad
believe. lie is about to appear. lu fact, can the
Dane, the Russian, the Bavarian, or talc Norse.
giam any longer contend under the same Wooer,
and in the mme cause, with a monster, whose am-
bition respects neither the lass of nature, or of
nations t Has not BORAPARTS justified the exr
perlition against Copenhagen, on which alone is
founded the ostensible war now existing in the
North? Will ALEXANDER, Or will FERDIRAND
the V lib. venture to face the moral contlemitatem,
alchoreace, and contempt of their own people, by
I tiger acting as the Lieutenants of a ruthless Cor-
sican. who !ramples on all restraint ? If they do,
the ret ibution that awaits them, we venture to pro•
ute• nee. though it may not be tosusedlrete, call be
certain and exemplary. Bom•FARTa will himself
'furnish the means of his own self-siesta action. Tone
s alone wanting to mature the weapons, and to di-
rect their operations.

ornuioc, 'DAV perils Le considered as
only fine-span moral .1, uncf:u,.... but every Ma-
Toilette, every act of Nitrotr um, robe" haw dater.
7,ress•it nuJertaltaag to, he,
4t hr 1.4 s e,• r yet attempted. It

antic he 41),0 in tii>

9',1 IV Ot)

1.1.! vs e0.,t.0n.0i in Isis rim mode
aductiag :Litt dirvtlcyn

h;s guilty terro►s. When be invaded Egypt, et
besieged Acre, he exposed his person. On the
bridge of Lodi, at Marengo, at Austerlitz, at
Auerstadsti at Eylen, and at Friedland, he did net
shrink from dagger. He entered Cairo. Vieuua,
and liouigsber.g. as a Conqueror.—But,
bow does he now act ? Does he head hi► forces ?
Does be vewure to pus the Pyrenees? Does he
cross the Bidessoa into Biscay, and carry terror into
Castile ? Does he, iu other words, attack Spaim, as
be invaded Amstrad and Prussia? No 1 he skulls at
Bayonne; and though be seeds MURAT to Madrid,
Or JUNOT to Lisbon, he is too wise to hazard his
own person among a people whom he weU knows
that he has not conquen..d ; bat whom he hopes
to enslave by the basest arts, supported by the
most savage display of military violence and ear-
wig'''.

Whence arise► this contrast to his former mode of
openetion We reply, from his apprehensions
s.ol his refiectious, he is ton wise to enter Spain.—
Ile will continue to b mour Bayonne. with his Im-
perial Presence. We venture lo predict, that he
Hill not moo enter on the new territory of JusEPH.
Nor do we believe that JOSEPH himself will be
eager to visit Madrid, and to take pomession of the
Escurial. It is passible that :that,. and hitter
may have reasus to applaud the prudeuce of these
worthy Brother*, and even to wish themselves
rather say where, than where they now are. Their
position is evidently critical. Indeed the two Ma-
nifestoes, or Addresses, of the Junta at Madrid, and
of the Delegates at Bayonne, dated the 3d sad the
nth of June, disclose far more of the effect produc-
ed by the Spanish insurrection, than any papers
brought over by the Aketeme.
We are fur from having exhausted this sub-
ject, to which we shall again speedily call the at-
tention of our readers. It is full of matter, and
of tinny kinds. The Corsican, and the Continent,
are bath arrived at a point of crisis. The one must
be subjected, renovated, and enslaved, or the other
must be stopt iu his career of crime and conquest.
Beth, we believe, are aware of this tact; and both
will put forth their utmost strength. But llosa-
PARTE will uct with the velocity of lightning. If
the: Continental States venture once up.re to move,
it is to be feared that their operations will be ♦accil-
lating, uncoinhined, cud weak. Vet, let the Cor-
sican remember the fate of Cusaa BORCIO, of
CHRISTIAN the SECOND, and of IItCHARD the
Tonto. The crimes of those Princes were con-
fined to a little territory ; Bo* aelaTx's enormi-
ties have polluted Europe. We trust that they
hare passed their renitb, and that they will meet
with an avenger in Spain!

• yeaterday, alsout twelve o'clock, Their Mme.'s
TIE* and the PRI !IC ESsk:s arrived at the QUESIC s
Palace tom %Vintlsoe. hi a short time alter her
MA.ll[lll'll and the Pat Nl:Cling honoured Lady
CH A IILUTTIi Fixcit with a visit, at her apartments
•in St.laines's Palace. lit the everting their MA-
JESTIIIB had a *elect party. His literesev will
hold a private Levee and Privy Commit this day at
the Quese's Palace.
Private letters have been received from Holland,
which state, that Ferrol is completely in posseseion
of the Spanish Patriots.
Private letters received by a Spanish house in the
city, state, that the leaders and people of Gallicia,
Leon, etc. well armedand organized, with a Spanish
regular force of the line, amounting altogether to
about 60,000 men, having advanced to the neigh-
bourhood of Madrid, an engagement took
place between them and the French troops under
the coniumual of Murat, the Grand Duke of Berg.
The coatlict was desperate, and extremely san-
guinary, and before victory was decided in favour
of the Patriots, two distinct and succeisive battles
were fought. The French were, hoverer, com-
pletely routed, and Murat was compelled to take
refuge at iteteiro, about is miles from the city of
Motrrid, where he was endeavouring to collect his
oruttered forces for the purpose of making a stand.
The Expedition had not sailed from Cork, en
the le2d.—Sir A. Wettaseev had got reached
that City.
The Mary sad Sesimmek. Cteaxe; Stameger,
IlluhTta; Sir Andrtec Ilainnimed, BARR ; and
Hoke. I.lx DOR, from Jamaica, are arrived off'the
isle of Wight ; they made soundings with 76 sail,
56 of them for Anadon.
The 11/imeri GA RD NF.R. from Jamaica, is ar-
t
rived at Bristo ; she perted from the fleet, about a
fortnight since, at which period it did not consist of
more than 00 or 70 sail, the remainder tniviug sepa-
rated at dadereatt tunes.
Mr. II ARGRAVE, the messenger, arrived on Mon-
day at the Foreign Office, with dispatches hem
our AtaLassador at Stockholm. They are sup-
posed to relate to the conferences with the King of
Swears, respeeting the operation* of oar army in
the Baltic. Sir Jeans Moots: had not reaetical
Istackhalaa so late as the 16th, but 3; it would not
require much time to settle the business, the dis.
p .tehes probably contain the result. Mr. He R.GItA VI
sailed ita ea extra packet on the etst, which has
brought a Gotten))nrelt Paper of that day, stud
also Stockholm Papers, of a biter date by tire days
than taiose previously received.
On Sunday se'nuight, Limit. General Baron
Irloweemn errived at Alierde..n. from the North,
and ininstMiately set elf post for London. He
. landed near Peterhead. o:a Sunday morning, from
ou board a privateer of his own, which hr lately
fitted Up to cruise agninst the attics.. lii. vess
eel, which mounts 20 guile is now among the
Faro Islands, where she has made several captures.
Ile cauw ashore in his boat. and, owing to a fog, bed
rowed ler Ai hours bcfu*e they made the lam . to
tuakilig himself kaorwai at Peterhead. he was very
pvistely received, mad bad every attention land to
hia.a l,r Mr. I LARVLY. of Broad-lard, and Major
H a.: -it is lieu s ate o uf the Deputy-I.:mammas of tbe
cenutys _