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GIBRALTAR. Juim 25.

N U. Vicente Roach, warier of the Spanish we-
nd La rime* de lea Cetera Sesta. a native or Veleta.
els, 47 yea, of age. mid married in the said town,
his family resides, has made the fottowinz
. ion open Nth, before Lk Feb.l Herrera,
l• Commissary of the Spanish armies, and
Snety
• Coined is Gibraltar:
0 On the eight of Friday, the eth inst. he wailed,
en public service, hum Valeucia, for this lilac-v.-
0d the Veith and !17th of last tuontl), a French
messy. of 12,000 men, having made its appearance
nithim a league of Valencia. is the plain of Quarts.,
Clemens/ Caro attacked them with a few regulars,
bpi a considerable 'masher of armed and Miarneed
inhabitants, whose exertions, however. meld iwit
Prevent the enemy reaching Valencia on the ofith.
!(pop their arrival. they otututootiell the town to
salestoloe, sending in • nag et truce, which re.
tanneJ, with 4 refusal. The lireneh then attacked
irtv tiowto by the goutrte Gate, La Pielnota, and San-
tee latecie. Zino were De VegLllllol 10 the place.
" Om thy peeves/OA day, 50003 muskets, sod a
roataitjty of powder, bad been revived ham Car-
thago.% welch greedy coutnkonted to the
'blies* imam of. the contest. Nine thoulauel
aimed nein/Anson meanest the walls and forts.—
The deponent nerwed a piece of cassia at St.
Atistitis Gate. The attack berm at. teem it.
the *bemoan. and nailed at eight ne the neeleing•
whet. the eaankte-estraated to Quart., (one league
front Voil.ticitt), where he remained the whole
night. Two thousand and five hundred men were
found demi, whom the enemy lied left round the
watts of the tows on the ittath, besides these in the
field,. As the enemy continued his retreat, oft the
troth. by the road of Alcine, he was p.moned by Ge-
nesis' Canoe de eethillon, reinforced h.! General
Caro, their united armies amousitine to woo arils
of 14.000 men. chiefly armed and unarmed inha-
bitants. At the seine time. a nutulter or the latter
were pasted in the snonn•ains of Novella, with
three 0-petuteders, so that the French titre attaektsi
both in heat and rear. In this last action, which
was fought more than ten leagues from Valencia,
thewhale of the French army was destroyed, two
eo• three hn,sired horse excepted, who etre-ted this it
escape. This account the deponeut heart] out the
(ley of his departure, at noon, ite the /fall or the
Board of Government, where he was rece:viitz the
orders relative to his voyage. One of tie Melillo-rot
inquired about 31onery, and the Messenger an-
he had been wounded in the arm ;
;her French General had alm receives]
..atl, which, he thought, 1110,1 have
,ctrl. One hundred Frstaeh prisoners
irron•flit from Cuenca to Valencia, who,
fifty tenor, t•lceie in the nei4hbour.
miter town. sere sent to rartintgens.
erkli came by way of Cahrilla.s. *here
de place, in which thee lest three tlo.tos.
including a few who had been killed pre-

LON DOIV►
FRIDAY, Avausr 19

Two Gottcnburgh 'Mails arrived lost night, with
letters and papers to the 10th instant. It was re-
ported in that city, on the Sth, on the alleged au-
thority of private letters from Konigsberg, that
:Cassia is about to join France in a war against
Austria—and that Russian troops were shortly ex-
pected in the neighbourhood of that town. Out the
Jith, Captain Hort left Gottenhurgh in ma extra
packet, for England, with dispatches from Admiral
Sir J VALS SA 1.'3111.11EL, and shortly after went
on board a gnii-brig for greater expedition.—
The nature of the dispatches was not even the
subject of conjecture; but Captain Hors is Ad-
utirnl Captain on board the Viet,,ry,
and the selectioa of such a Mesvenger, eranbilied
with the speed deemed ticce•amry, slats that they
are of great importance. What poteot charm NA-
POLI:OS administered to the Empero; of IttistA,
in the conferenee on the raft in the middle of the
Niemen ! to what revolution wf enterprizis of am-
bition they may hare humid them .elves by the se-
cret articles of Tilsit, we do not we A par-
tition of l'urkey, and a still mm re gigantic plat%
for dividing the whok European Cmitimeat be.t,
tureen thew, have been mentioned, but they are

only objects of conjecture. In the military ra
paratious of Maria. and the assemblieg of French
troops at Strasborgh, ut a moment when they
were so much wanted at Lisbou and Madrid, may
certainly he seen symptoms of mutual fear and
jealousy between these two powers, and it is not
difficult to conceive circumstances under which
France might induce Russia to take part with
her in the quarrel. When the applicaSon, if
any, was made, A lA:X.IEI/ER contemplated NA-
POLEON as invincible, and anticipated Porte-
gal and Spain as appendages and appurtenances
to France ; but the scene is changed, and ho
now sacs hi.o a disgraced and defeated fugitive
front Bayonne, and the conquerors of Austerlitz
and Auerstadt vatiquished by the arias of the
Spanish nation. That the policy and temper of
ALEXANDER may change with the fortune of NA-
POLEON, experience encoureges ns to hope. The
friendship shirk he vowed on the raft to Bostri-
',tare could not be more ardent than that which
he vowed to the King and Queen of Pausal As when
he visited them in their capital. The engagements
in the secret Articles of Tilsit were not more so-
lemn thug the miduight oaths and vows which he
exchanged with his brother of Prwsila, over the
tomb of :FREDERICK the GREAT ; yet all these
vows, and all these oaths and engagements, A Lex-
Amore forgot, with the fallen fortune of his
ally. lie not only forgot them in the hour
of distress, but he assisted him, who was the coat-
awn enemy of both, to strip his fallen friend, and
deserted the field, clothed in a share of the spoil.—
' May we not then hope, that if tried by the touch-
stone of adversity, ALEXANDER will not prove
more true to NAPOLEON t

Several letters have been received froatSir
TIM aXV CI.LESLEY'S Expedition. The latest dote
is the ist instant, on the morning of which day
the troops began to debark in Miaidege Bay.—The
transports had arrived two days before, bat' the
weather was not favou►able for lending until the let.

The warmest admirers of NAPOLEON, those who
have held his tuleitts in the most profound vene-
ration, and who, like himself, have hitherto consi-
dered the fismily df Bus Arsirtz as destined, by
Trovidesice to govern Europe ; even they must
now begin to perceive, that he has, at length,
checked his own carees. It is impossible any
loatT:n. to doubt of the great, and, we may add, ir-
retrievnb le error, that he has committed, by at-
tempting to seize on, and to transfer the Spanish
Ilanarchy to his brother, without having previously
takes such measurer as might have secured the
success of the enterprise. Whether any erroneous

calculatio►as, or whether tooconfideut a reliance on
his vat victories, and present power, have most
conduced to precipitate him into this injudicious
dilemma, the result is the same. He has sheens to
Europe, that he is no longer either invincible, or
infallible in his plans. By having failed in an at-
tempt, the turpitude and moral deformity of which
could only have been obliterated in its complete
success; lie has irritated the Spanish nation, and
impelled them to rend the veil which in some Mea-
sure previously sheltered the Tyrant. That im-
perial title, and those attributes of royalty or sove-
reignty, witich he has assumed, and which h4ve been
successively avkuowledged iu his person by every
Continental Power except Sweden ; those inferior
emanations or creations. those dignities conferred
on his Officers and Ministers, from Tat LitYRAND
and BIti.NADOTTZ, down to BILLIAILD and JUNOT ;
in a word, all those exertions or acts of despotic au-
thority which he has performed for several years,
anti rivet which time began to shed a sort of au-
thenticity, are now treated as outrages and usurpa-
tions. The Spaniards, conscious that their cause
is not less that of Austria, of Denmark, and of
every gliropran nation, than it is their own, express,
in unqualified and energetic language, their abhor-
rence of his perfidy, cruelty, and crimes. They
treat hint, in fact, as the Roman Senate treated
Neap dnciag• the last hours of bis reign ; or, to
draw a comparison more apt.from the modern an-
nuls of revolutionary France, as the National As-
sembly treated RUBESPIEnan. when they declared
him out of the protection of the law. They have
struck at the very foundations of his usurped
power, by exposing on the one hand his flagitious
proceedings towards the Spanish Sovereigns and
the Spanish nation, while they invite the foreign
troops compelled to become the instruments of his
immeasurable ambition, to quit his standard, and to
liberate Europe.
We must not, however, conceive, that the pre-
sent error, committed by BONAPAITC, though it is
the most important of any that he has hitherto
been led to haaaril, is the only great departure
from sound discretion and able policy th•►t he has
evinced. When history shall iu some future age
transmit the series of his actions to posterity, it is
probable that var►ous other very essential devia-
tions from the path of security and caution will
be pointed out. Some of these arc ohviotts, and
have materially led to the awful crisis in which lie
at present stands. Among the most prominent is
the selection of his brothers to till the vacant,
or the newly-constituted thrones of Europe. Per-
haps a step more Tiregliant with future injury to
an U►urper, could not have heel' adopted. It up-
pears to have baton one of the first likeliWrelf ein-

bruced by him since 170, in which the intoxictu
log influence of uninterrupted domestic prosperity
added to foreign success, may be said to hare tor.
rupted, or eineehled his judgment. lie will la*,
toddy expiate that act of vanity, or of insuleaq,
by his own eventual fall.

Of his four brothers, one only. Lucite, is
dowel with superior talents, or aptitudes for
vcriuneut ; as well as with decision of ehara4.4
firmness, mid energy of mind. Profligate, NI:
cions, and alausJoned to his appetites, no less ilia
to his pleasures ; a sharer in all the enorwitits and
the plunder of revolutionary times ; a Jueolui
from principle, and a Republican from inclaasios;
Lucien has not only rejected the sceptre's tendered
him by NaroLsorti he lies reprobated and co:,.
destined the apostacy of the imperial Csurp"'.
Unable to engage Lveize to ascend u Throne, rr
to assume a Crown. 3oseett was therefore ,
tripled on the patience of inalikitel. From a err/
obscure practitioner of the law, b.! was brut no.
• played as a ►Vegocietor ; and, finally, at Amino,
as an Emboss:War. 114 abilities are tint wenn,
nor his understanding contemptible ; lie is cellos.
ly humane, decorous, moJerute, and, in his imp
natura, unfit for, as well as disinclined to, act, ~r
blood or violence. If he had been born a king,
his conduct might have rendered him an o!,jeci of
respet t. But, as a vile instrument of hi: brother's
perfdy• and crimes, he justly excites abhorrence,
while he wants the qualities to inspire terror.
Louts is. if possible, still less designed by nature
for a revolutionary throne. He is, indeed, 'l'6l,
gentle, and fitted to acquire affection by his privies
deportment. He has even in some measure
terated the mode of his attainment of power, 111
the modest -and meritorious' use that he has made
of it in }Wiwi. But these very (imams:miss*
render hiin an unfit engine of the Corsican Tyn's.
Of denone we know nothing. If we except hi
marriage with Miss Parreason, and his fortunate
retnrn from America to Brest. his utter iusignni-
came alone charactiiims his. -lied Diaeouos
pursued another line of conduct, and instead of
selecting his incapable or feeble brothers, placed VI
companions of his victories on the same elevation as
Itheself, he would have manifested a mind wise,.
clued by prosperity. 4114116ENA, MUILAT, Bust-
perm:, iv Noy, Retrent sit, these associates of h.s
climes. would have extended assistance to bin ia
his distress. Joseen. Louis, and Jeanne, mast
look to him for support. The energies of a rata
may maintain him in his ill-gotten acquisitions.—
The very virtues of an usurper accelerate hit
downfall. RICHARD Caostmetx soon fell from
the eminence to which hirTetiset had attained.
We shall resume this subject shortly, end es-
deavour to rhea- the other inferior acts of indiscre-
tion. or of violence, by which 8011 A PARTIt. witbis
the last year, has preluded. before he rashly and
unadvisedly ventured on the measure of seising as
the Spanish Monarchy. As it is the greatest. so,
we trust, it will prove the last, exhibition of Ins
despotism and. injustice.

We this day resume our extracts from the Duki
and Spanish• Papers: The foinaer coatain some
articles %hie!' encourage the report of a jealousy,at
least, lactircen France and Austria. They complain
that the Austrian territory has become a refuge for
deserters and fugitive conscripts ; and it is obsen-
ed, that remonstrances have been made on this
subject is vain ; and Austria, on the other hand, is
actively employed in military preparations. A
letter from Vienna contains some interesting infor-
mation es this subject. Ain sing our extracts from the
Spanish papersire the intercepted letters from Du-
PONT before his surrender, &c. all of which furnish
new evidence of the atrocious views of the French,
and of the virtues of the Spanish people. General
Cusart, of whom we had heard nothing certain
since the stisir of Rio Seco, appears, by an article
from Salamanca, to have quitted that place ler
Ciudad Rodrigo, on the 2uth of July.

We have the pleasure to announce the arrival of
the Jamaica fleet. The Veteran, of 64 guns, Capt.
Ev•es, their escort, arrived at Portsmouth,. on
Wednesday, having parte,' on the preceding night,
in spite of idwrials to prevent it, in consequence of
which the Sokbay frigate was dispatched after
them. Admiral DACIRS is come house in the Vete-
ran. The Fleet sailed from Ncgril Bay on the
26th June, consisting of 137 sail, and cleared
the (lulpli on the I itli of July. A vessel or
two of the Fleet wee ILlit on the Camnynes. Seven
sail fell a-steno on the 12th. The Harmony, AV it-
sow, from Demerara, fur London, put into Gre-
nada,
By advice* from Joinaies, of the IRth Junes it
appears that upwards of fourteen privateers had
recently sailed from Cuba, to cruise off Jamaica,
and that fifteen captured ships had lately betnseut
into Cuba.

Lieutenant-General Sir DAY t 'Wan, attended
by 1...41Hrt and Goa -
DUN, arrived ut Limerick on the 11th wit., and
proceeded in the melting cor u!tere he takes
0" him tilt! command of th:. ENpedition that
shortly to eratiossk at that port.
•

A retter from Deal tnej&Cons the arrival there of
an Ail frolli Mondial, the Captain ut
which stst, s, that, previous to I. tailing. the Aus-
trian +oat Itussiaii Ilninewalurs imd Lee l isealbil
from the Dist( h Court. V. shall 1.. ii•ost
to rectivu a co.itiatrat..ri of this . .t.

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