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THE BIIITISH PRESS,

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LONDON,
FRIDAY, Messiest' t.
We have given, in our eceding columns, th•
Spanish Proclamation, on the abseil:Ming of the
Cotta.

A letter from Plymouth, received yesterday,
mentions the arrival of the Go/et/inch, of to guns,
at that port, from Spain, with on acconat of ano-
ther victory gained over the French army.—No dis-
patches have been received by Government, but it
is said hi letters from Gijoii, that General
Lutz, with a Swaiiish fisrze of 4000 men, attacked
a strong corps of French, which had tome from
Bilbea, and, having defeated it, afterwards pro-
m:did to St. twitlern. They also mention, that
the Spanish General Votert. with a considerable
film, had arrived in the neighbovrhoo.l of St. sin-
mite de Is ILI-corm without ropposition.

A letter, slated Iliddiebirgh, the 46th lust, says:
" From she preseut asp.et of atfair. in this quarter,
we are in daily expectation of receiving orders to eva-
cuate the Wend, notwithstanding Geoerel Dow still
thiakr there no intention wheteter olgiting it op.
The troops in Flushing are all employed iu embark-
ing ammunition and stores of all kind* ; and the re-
gitneuts lately errived from England are not per-
inittelitodieembark. I find there are very few French
troops yet arrived iu South or North Beveland, hut
a goat proportion of General Officers and Staff at
Poe!, and only about 4 or 3000 Dutch troops in the
whale Province of Zealand. There is therefore.ito
risk of our being much annoyed in embarking.
From the present bad state of the roads it is inapossi-
hle fur them to brio: artillery: I heir they were
obligati to leave all their horsy guns oe the road
from Bats to Goes, notwithstanding tbcir hating
2 or 16 horses to each cur.."

An article appeared to 111te Costrier of !Ist hizlit,
porptortiteg to he an anticipation of the ~tote of
p wit-. in Cie tar., Houses of Parliament, in the en-
irerScesina. In the Commons, it says, there are
to bs dart., parties : lat„ the Misinterial Party ;
2 lly,the pVipoititiou, coat.istiitg of tbe Gaanvt LETA
Ftoitrasoduid Stamm:sus ; and 3tlly, a middle
coinistatg of Mr. CANNIIMIh. 1.0r4 CASTLE.
tr. aou, Mr. flusamoU. and their reblieetire Our'
brain. The article stage,, '-‘ on to state, that this
third, ni middle part r, u,m.t, if cousiatanit„ jo:u
Mito.,tr; rt•itt 4:1!14 t-. 1 the writer his twenty times
inserted, k on,y ritay time, that the marring) was
false, it say., that the opioptitiou are divided ll%i. II
leader ; and that Mr. ilk.aN r v, ~.who has belongod
to ail partie,.. 1.1 a how leader than Mr. PONSON-
BT. ahu net. below:A to any " but the Foistus."
Haring diEnilted the CUMMOMI with this pretty
complimen. in Mr. TIERNEY, the writer proceeds
to the other Il.nse, of which lie gives the (elbowing
acrontit.

I:i the house of Lords," he says " parties are
more errielly balanced than iii the House of Com-
mons. Th. Nlariiiis Wr.i.usaisse will he an an-
tagonist, huLt.i eudizeus. of Lord Gaentit.t.E.—
the Earl of I.lt.t:aroot. will take care of Lord
Guy—Lord HA rIIU RST will he more than sufficient
for the Markiia of LANaDOWNE—Lord tiannow-
alr will diappSe of Lord llOLJ.A.ru—Lord Et:
DON will be at lead a match fur Lord It:rot:mt.
and Lord MCLUILAYS will occupy Lord SID-
MOSAIC

Such is the manner in which the Bobadil writer
in The Courier disposes of the Opposition is the
!louse of Lords. The Putney Heath duel. between
His illutsrir's two princiial Scums.ln of
STATIC, appears to have suggested the idea of this
node of " killing off" the Opposition; but whe-
ther the waiter wu serious or jocose. sober or
otherwise. when he committed Isis plan in paper, e
careful perusal of his article has not enabled us to
discover.

Several privets letters were on Vi ednesdav received
from Spain, which, on the whole, are of a favourable
description. Gerona, according to account. from
Tarragona, of the tol iit.t. continued to hold out,
and rigorously to uppoae the enemy, so late as
the Mb ult.

We have received Bombay Papers to the 1 I th of
June, but they contain nothing of any iulen,t re-
specting the state of the interior; nor any Intent-
oversee whatever of the seven missing ship..
The Gnu Officers of the uth Light Dragoons,
whose trial commenced yesterday. at Chelsea, are
charger' a ith itunibonliaation and improper colt-
ut flounatow litirrock..—A firth, who was an
actor in the same scene, made uu apology.

It appears that considerable progress hos already
bees mule in the symetartion of Wilelieren. The
• enemy shelved a disposition to interrupt the pro-
ceedings, or more probably to prevent the destruc-
tion of the works; but our eriairors were on the
alert, and gould, no doubt, render any attempt of
this kind alowti‘e.

WARWICIIiIOII. 44
By the Kai( George packet, Capt. kiwi, arrived wit► a
t•ad from F:aohloix, Captains Smith, Light, mid Marti, of
the Itutai A.: J:• a.y, Captain Cutoutly, ul Ike
Captain Jutiosun, ruJ Cautans kl'N rale, of 11w Nllll regi-
ment, risme pasiteusere They left Flushing ini Mandy hut
ob.• doy brines die pier w.hal ilemul.elied, and moues tires
prepared for blenviing up the furtiticatiuns i the (rapt,. rats
taunt bed on the Thursday liefoie. Every piu•autiuw was
taken by the men .4 sae hi prevent an attack by swept'*,
(vim th► em toy, as iunre appearance hut been discovered ter
• 11111:1110.4 the evarciatuto of the island wail aatmoded.,
▪ ik eeuld be eat ‘4•011/ 0165 .

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