The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-08-17 00:00:00

COL I.INOWOOO.
• See the iltspaieh Com Lieutenant-General Sir Hew
Dalrymple to Lord Viscosist Caorleivagh.

I tun, &c.

Copy of a Letter from Sir Charles Cotton, Bart Admiral
of the Blue, &r. &e. to the Utiouarable W. W. I'ok, dated
•n board the Hibernia, off the Tagus, lb• stal July, 111011.
Sta—laiclused herewith I transmit, for the inform-
ation of the Lords CmonliAsioneis of the Admiralty,
copy of a disnatch received by me this day from
Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood, detailing the de-
feat and surrender of General Dupont's army, to-
getlus with the capitulation of the filree under
General %Veda to Getisral C.:whims; by these
fortunate events the whole of And..lissia is said to
be cleated of French troop.. I have the honour to
be, Ike. 'Signed) C. COI7ON.

Oct.., off Cadiz, Judy 24, 184.
By the Scoot I informed you. that the French
forces, ender General Dupont. have surrendered to
the Spanish army ; and haring to.dsy received
from the Presidi iit of the Supreme Junta of Gri-
vernment at Seville the olictal amnnut of it, I .to
myself Ow honour of transiantiog a t-nvy of it tor
your information. C 01.1.111 GailyoD.
Admiral Mir Climlts Comm, Burt. C.umand:r
in Chief: !cc. 3be. Jac. oil tte T•guA.

Most EXCELLENT Loan—!t is with the greatest
satisfaction that the Supreme Junta informs your
Excellency of the happy success which Our arms
have hail over the French army under Generals bu-
pcmt. Wedel, ssud (lobed, they having laid down
their arms. as is set fortit in the inclosed papers,
which accompany this fur your information, being
persuasled of the noble interest your Excellency
takes in our most just cause.

Thy victory conk' not have been more complete,
and there does uat remain one I/Fetichism, in An-
dalusia ; their not lie`ieg a single individual of 'be
three divisions, which, by digit trw a start/tents,
amounted to swore than 40,000 m.n, that bus not
been either killed or tskea prisoner.
The rejoicing is soroend oaken lively, that on
idea of it cannot be given ; and we expect it w 61 be
the same in your Lordship's egosdrosi, through the
favour which the Spanish nation outs. to liiritish
generosity.--Gocl sine your Excellency.
(Signed) FILANCLICO DE tiAuraitt.
'VICE'', TS Hoar.
ANTONIO Zramstatio.
Aunass AIiNAS.
.110/11 BIPTIsTA EWTLLI.ER.
Setretary of State.
Palace of the Road Mom Or *lrak,
Jay IPM.
To Us Esoilkosy Aiatr9 Coainrood.

LON DON,
WEDNESDAY, Aucusr 17.

The Gesetie of last night contaius ofßcial dis-
patches front Sir flew DALAI 31PLL um! .tdiniral
Co ti.isiciwooo, announcing the surrender of
Durose, with the force nuder his command, to
General CASTANOS. This important question,
which so touch occupied and agitated the public
mind, is tlitiyiet completely at rest. With such
a Into" of eoncorrent testimony its support, no
reasonable doubt could, indted, have been euter-
trilled upon the subject; nor do we btlicic that
there was any one so iiicr...dulous as to question
the authenticity of the several reports of that event ;
but stiil it was natural, in a case of such interest
and importance, iiot to be satisfied with any thing
short of the first and most authentic information ;
and that, the public, we are happy to say, now
have. There was no battle ou the stoth at
Audujar, so previous accounts appeared to in-
initiate. It was the battle of Baylen, on the loth,
that decided the busiiiess. In it the French,
as we stated yesterday, lost 3000 men is killed
assd wounded, and this loss indaced DOPOST
to propose a capitulation, the arrangement of
which lasted until the evening of the enth, when
it was fluidly determined that DIMWIT'S force, re-
duced to 8000, should surrender prisoners of war,
and that IVRIIIEL'S division, amounting to 6000,
should surrender their arms until their arrival at
llnclifort, from which they are to be lent to France
along with throve's. We almost regret that
Weors's division ohtsinetl such favourable terms;
but they ere worthy of Sunnis!, heroism' and mag-
nanimity. lir hint duriiig the truce treacherously
attacked the Sominrds under NV; -Jr-General
surprised the battalion of Cordova, and

taken them prisoners, with two Gekl-piees....
DUPONT's force, when surrendered, amounted
to 14,030 men. The Spaniards, by whom they tech
defeated, did not exceed 35,000, and of there
flits
half were peasantry. llieir Las autounted to about
1200 killed and wounded. Pending the neLlac,
tion also, Genera! CAsTAN on received en intermit.
ed dispatch to DUPONT, ordering him to rett,,t
immediately to Madrid, as the army of Galli( ia ate
rapidly advancing to that city. This slictos the
desperate situation of King JOsEni in his new
capital, and how much more desperate it mug
have been rendered in consequence of the army
of CASTtNOg being left at liberty to ward,
against him. The Gazette does mot eoht,i,
official intelligence of his 'flight from that e,,
pital, but it rucitei a variety of authurite,,
which leave no doubt of the result hi any a.
fleeting mind. The evacuation of Madrid by tit
French, commenced on the 29th, and was Eft.
tinned on the :list July, on which day Joltini !eft
the city, with all th • plunder that he could collect;
and on the Ist instant, it is supposed, that there
was Dot a Freac!anan remaining in the Spaaih
capital. .JosCrit took the road to Segovia, oa
way to France, accompanied by the Spanish u, .
tore, who had entered into his s,frtier, and generaiii
by all the French nho had been settled in Lunar*
at filtdrid.

At length, then, fortune, or rotifer that sea
eras which is the natural and just result of su-
perior wisdom, energy, and judgment, seems t
have forsaken the Corsican. Well may the Mo-
n/tear be silent, and the Continental Journals mute.
V. isely does the Tyrant act, in redoubling his has.
icnoos preenutiona, to prevent his disgraces b, ing
known ai Ilolland, in Germany. and in France!
We CS:I u. longer bhime a ferocious Usur*r,
writhing under defeats and losses. baffled in his
schemes of ambition, and apprehensive that his
slaves should learn the information of his disaster.,
for issuing rivaiirlates of the severest nature at:ahot
any vessel ryproir:lting the coast, after leaf:aT
England. In every loovapriper transmitted fri4a
this conotry, he knows that Saragossa, and Coin.
and Aoditior, cud Valentin, must inert the eye of
those who read. Ile just!) dreads the contifOuni
operation of ey.aniple oa the human mind ; and
he apprehends drat the Austrian or the Pro•-ia:i.
in vpite, or past misfortunes, may emulate the fame
acquired by the Arragonese, or by the Atifialiefiaa.
Nor man he be insensible to the effect of defeat unit
capitulation on his own osotley troops, fanned cl
many notions, dragged by conscription from th.
homes, to be saciiiiced on the Ebro, on the
sus, and in the mountains of Castile, in order ni
set a vile adveliturer on the Throne of Spoil,. Ai-
ready, no doubt, he vainly regrets the presump-
tion or imprudence which seduced him, througi a
sea of carnaga, and by the eonimission of iya
crimes, to comriCrt to hewnl the inconceivstile
ration a loch lie hail reached. Ile will wove,.
tionably call oat all the powers of his subtle, p-
romo!, and active mind, to repair the error aLa
he Ins committed. either by war or by ni,gsi. pad s.
Wiling. in his gripe the legitimate Sova'regi,
,hots he can release at will, and ninon *
may render tire itistruments of his policy, or tilt.
inemis of cameiliatiou ; he will avail himself fif
eery eircurna:aace to circumvent. to delude, aad
to sustain himself io his present situation.

On what day Jusent quitted the Capital of dies
Castile, becomes now of comparatively smell
portance. Enough is fully ascertained to
the ill success and complete disappointment of IN .•
ooteast's plans. Ile has failed before Surtr.:,,
and before Valentia. 11. s fleet at Cadiz, and In
army in the Sierra Morena, have surrei.dereil—
Jursor remains insulated at Lisboa, reinate boa
assistance, and ahatiolot.e.l to Ins own Prr)llfCtP.
Every province of Spain, except three that are lull
in awe by the troops which Culottes 11. nuaklr
allowed his perfidious Corsican ally to introduce,
have proclaimed FERDINAND VII. The Patriot
insurgents, animated with indig•r:trion against the
ruffian who, w ithout provocation or preteuee, ex-
cept from his lawless ambition, has rendervd
Spain a isst theatre of carnage, here, with manly
firmness, torn the Imperial mantle from los slim I-
dem. mid exposed him in all his moral deformity.
Their immifestos, appeals, and invocations, .1.
which he is designated, lint as an Emperor, or as
Sovereign, but by the epithets of an Usurper, a:A
■n adventurer, will wound hint to the quick. :1
is not incurious to mistreat these effusions of Spot-
energy, with the base and prostiLlits aduhitint
of German servility, when, in Jatinary
scarcely tern months ago, the literati of
Leipsic raised this flagitious tyrant to the skit..
and placed him among the constellations. For
the first tune since Boa ararres assumption of
the supreme authority, our own Government has
ventured. in an official paper, addressed by a Stare-
tary of State, to the Envos of the Asturias. to
denominate him, •" the Atrocious Usurper el
Franc•."

This olteration in the style anti !ranging-. or
Great Britain is by no means n matter of iritilfhl-
'nee to Nara' EoN. Nor will it tail to pi-wince a
corresponding effect on the Continent of Eire'''.
He cannot, like GEonoc the 1.1111111,Pr like Flt All.
CIS the SECOND, bear to lie subjected to the opera.
tion of reason, of ridicule, or of examiiviion.--:
While .6 (mussed by conquest's crimson •• •

:*bile maselliog from victory to vietory ; while car=
rvilig terror to the extremity of Austria, or of
prussic; he injglit defy, or trample npou, opiaion
he 'Moist, by the bullet, the bayonet, or the cord,
extinguish inquiry, act' suppress iuformation
he s no loager the triumphant Compieror,
dictating his orders from the apartments of MARIA
Tarrsia, m• of Fasussaic the GREAT. He can
no longer su muoa Emperors to si;:n treaties of
pewit in a windmill', or to meet hits on a raft.
After a resirleuce of three moatlis, in a provinci sl
city, war the frontier.' of the country, which,
though he invadei, he did not venture to enter ; he
has w'tlulrawst himself, without parade or ostenta-
tion, into the interior of France. No triumphal
arches, no congratulatory orations, or laurel wreaths,
will distress or impede Ills Imperial Majesty's
progress. No artists will he invited to com-
Rp,onwate the defeats of llisueEx, and of LE
FLEVItE., or the surrender of ItoA LAN, and
,44 Hermit% No odes will be composed to
celebrate the inauguratioa of Don Jost n, or
to anticipate the new Dynasty placid by Pro-
viileace oa the Batiks of the Matixamirsa, to
reign over Spain and the 'tidies. %erne, and
terror, nAti suspicien, will accompany his steps,
whether he Iliac) himself at 11404b0Oillett or pre-
sents himself to the gaze of Ins Parisian subject:,
in the Palace or the Thuillerics. lie must prepare
fur a new scene, and for other exertions thou those
of AuerstaJt, or of Friedland. lie has, by
mixture of enormities with indiscretion, aroused
a great and a gruerous peopl,. He is too far
advanced in crime to be able to retreat without
loss of reputation, a loss which he cats neither
sustain no; retrieve. Such ii the Corsiessn's po-
sition. We must soon hear of Isis arrival at Paris,
and of his operations ; for lie has not a moment
to lose. After the end of October it becomes Im-
practicable to semi armies through the Pyrenees.
Nor can the Mossitear, in eloquent and ses playful,
whets detaintsg the hero's exploits on the Danube
or on the Vistula, remain for ever silent relative to
The campaigns in La Mancha and io Arrows%t.
We wait with curiosity and impatience to see in
abet eolouis the Corsican will blazon ha achieve-
ments, or rather corer his disgrace.

The Gazette of lai.t 'light contains au account of
some captures, which it give.' in the last page;
but dor,. not notice tLe laudini; of General NVEL•
11.7;61.1A % expedition.

We are concerned toaunounce the loss of the
Pickle schooner, of 10 guns, Lieut. M. CA K N AHLY.
as she was going into Cadiz with dispatches. The
Piefde was a prime sailer, arid was one of the light
• vessels attached to Lord Nathoies Beet, is his
last memorable chase of the French feet to the
• West Indies. The account of the loss of the
• Pickle has been brought hotne by the Redwing,
' leapt. Listirrt, arrived ut Plymouth with dispatches
. from the Mediternmeau. Previous to her depar-
• • tor• from Cadiz u report was prevalent, that all
. the French ships, and 16,040 French prisoners,
• were given up to the

A Gottenburgh mail a. lived yerte►day.—lt con-
tradicts the report of a victory obtained by the
Russians over General Kr tricsi.oa, in Finland,
and asserts, ou the contrary, that the Sosnlish Gr-
oans' obtained a victory over t',e Rushians.

It was stated in Tmeßatitstt PROM last week,
. tl,at Bcssitut s had Linen bock upon Burgos. It
is supposed that hr will endeavour to collect there
the ecuttered remains of the French forces, and to
make a stand attaiirst the Spaniards.
Dispatches were sent MI Mit eveniog to Spain by
Government, in emisequence ratite iinportant
dis-
patches received by theta from that country.
TIN Duke of illo.rfeusee i'ATaason ; Cey/OS,
HUDSON ; and ll'a/po/e, CIS Ott their
arrival at Bengal, from Prince of IVideis
were to proceed to Madras anal Boinlia:.
The Surat Castle had arri►td at Pnacc•e of Wales
blend, and was to proceed fur China.
A' fleet from the Baluc and Gottenburgh is an in Yarmouth Rota', wider convoy of His
MAJESTY'S brig Piercer, Lieutenant 'F►sast.t.,
Commander. They sailed from Corlscrona on the
22d ult. On their passage throti2ll the Belt they
were.at tacked by the enemy's row-imats, but they
were frustrated by the exertions of 11.. 3IAJES rY s
brigs Piercer mail Ezerlidii, and the //Jpeschooner.
of Barneehlt, armed with six t ?-pound carmnsrles.
Yesterday the Loco t!.►TOR, after examining
the inettiweighers' re:si ns, ordered the price of
bread to be continued the saint as last weak, viz,
11.00. the quartern loaf.

Another Expedition is about to sail from Cork.
Th. following information respecting it is from the
Cork Paper of the loth instant:
WAR. AUGUST 10.
Lieutenant-General Sir DAVID Hugo and Bri-
asdier-Ceneral SLADE, are expected iii town to
join the Expedition preparing to yuil from Cove.
The 26th Regiment has arrived at Ferinoy, and
Cie 31 Battalion of the rth regiinto.itut Middleton,
wherethey are to be quartered till rtieiwis arrive in
our harbour for their conveyance with the filth Ex-
pedition.

This day a company of Ow 70) Battalion of the
Artillery, under the coition-v.l of Captain WALL.
morebea into this city from lonjtv-d.
Yesterday the 2,1 Battalion of the elst Regi-
ment marched into this city from the Curnigh,
and this morttirm. at semi o'clo6c, marched for
Kinsale, where they-ars to remain until the trans-
ports arrive, as it is supposed all the trnoi in-
tentl,ll for the Expedition will be quiirtered co.)-
vertient to Core. They were inspected. this m 0.%).
i'lg, !,y General GRAILiii, and ars a very Sue aa.ly
of you:4 men.

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ORIGINAL POETRY.

A WAR SONG, TOR TH2 SPANIARDS.

Mourn, Tyrant of Europe, for now sets thy star,
Which so long with false splendor ;
The Holiest' milli horror bchi.l3 it afir,
Like a comet, inaligaant and w3J.
Treason, famine, and Death, glaring red in its train,
Still menace with ruin the world;
Bat let tcpaniards be true--they shall menace in vain,
The star fruits its sphere shall he burl d.
it .uric, Tyrant of Europe, our land was nut sold,
Whet' her Princes low beaded the knee,
it'heti their hands were too feeble our fetters to bold,
And tiny, trembling, einigo'd them to thee.
Those fetters to bre.tk, we sills energy toil,
And our rountr7 her freedom regaius,
Then call off thy legions, as and thew their spoil,
For we yield them uo spoil but oar cholas.
Lo ! Britain, whose sons have come forth in our cause,
From her annals a Imam has sheen,
How a despot orre de Al to infrlnge on her laws,
And deserttil his Tbrunr
But a William was rated to the helm of the State ;
All tempewts, afl perils he brar'd ;
O'er a tyrant If imolte, frith r,,Plerrit awe,
lie triurnpleil—•and Europe was "Kyle.
Give to Spain, then, a trailer, 0 Parent Supreme,
As wise and as stedfast as be,
That Europe again may her glory redeem,
And 'Spain may, LIKE BRITAIN, be free.
A. RYLANCE.

Ilikko 1,11%

-ON RCADIVG T:IAT 111:CsIERVI IVAS Oatol-

MALLS' /041 ArCUOCHFUR.
Iris said that timid MarNbal Itrasi-res
An Arcnticherr was destin'ol to he
But the Fwocoog he elto;ed fur a 11.:Prat,,
And a Tram:pet pref.. r'd to a rot !
That you should the way into air world
Show, your Daddy intendrd, ao doubt ;
But you've straurly his wisues tui.takeu,
Au./ eon wily show t. 14 Kay net !
0, 3hirshul Bcssicres, in su
Hu listening yos sadly reserve;
No T.naats you 'tire to the er.:the,
but isjoy, alas ! to ihr !seta ! !