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ts still maintained a desperate conflict with the
e„..noy. Even iu Old Castile, and in Arragnrt, the
people were not by any mcatis cottiplvely 50p-
p,,5..11. For Cadiz, we ran sot entertain any ion-
mediate appoebolosions. Portugal, perhaps, may
slford sul Jr tof more just anxiety. It is not easy
to see how Lord IVELLING•ron, and Marshal
mesEitu, are to defend that country, Lisbon and
ttioorto, if Naeot.so• can send against them a
[notch superior force ; set, even there, we have not
bofornia•iion sufficient to enable us to pronounce
that the attempt is hopeless. Such, without exag-
geratoo
on tor dii ll iaa ution, appears to us to bare been
the aspect of things beyond the Pyrenees, about the
tooth of February. JOSEPH may resolve to erect
air(' column between the Pillars of Hercules, in
order too tommesnorate the conquest of Spain :"
but he will do oi.ely root to lay the first stone of
thus tophy, till be is troc,,ter of Cadiz. On that
,ce all ryes will now be turned, as they were on
Al.loaltar in the autumn of 1782. While it.couti-
PU•S to repel the assailants, JOSEPH BON APA RTC
i. only a Corsican Adventurer. The Soul of the
Lierntide, the treasures, and the fleets of the Spa-
nish monarchy, are in the Isle of Lt on. If he ever
becomes the Catholic King of Spain, he must be
crooned in that Island. We do not assert that he
will be repelled from before it ; but we regard it as
I f.r UEOPP difficult enterprise than any that NAPO-
tacos has hitherto uudert .keth since the Siege of
Acre.

d' nom Andaliisa, we naturally turn to the Maese,
the Weser, and the Elbe. Resistless as the Cor-
neal' Emperor may seem to be in that portion of
Earripe, we believe that his interminable usurpa-
ton., acts of lawless vi levee, outrage, and con-
&cation, all originating in Bid terror and detesta-
nett of this country, must, and will speedily com-
pel new efforti on the part of the Northern States,
to Aix some limits to his spoliation and tyranny.
The alliance contracted with Austria will accelerate
aril propel these efforts. Time occasion is most fa-
vourable for ALEXANDEU, if he ever mean., or
hopes to break hii letters. All the choicest troops
of the Usnrper are now plunged into Spain. Many
of his most able Gentrals are likewise there. It
will be no easy matter to recall • hundred thousand
men from the Banks of the Guadslqoivir and the
Guadiana, and to send them to those of the Niemen,
or to the shores of the Baltic. Even if he does
adopt that measure, JOSEPH 13011A1PARrt must be
again sacrificed, in • greater, or in • lees degree.
That Russia is about to change her policy, and to
wale sonic appearance of independence, is more
than probable. Even Denmark, however passive
or prostrate that power has seemed for several years,
is arming, as we are assured, and forming a cordon
of troops, from Ritzbuttel, Gluckstailt, and Rends-
hump, across she Isthmus of lisileatio, to -heel. II
this fact be authentic, we may be assured that the
impulse originates from Petersburgh. Even the
letters of Loots BONAPAITE, addressed by that
deposed Rea,/atio•nry Monarch, from his prison
■t Paris, to the legislative Body, and to the Coun-
cil of State in Holland, will awaken in every human
bosom, throughout Europe, sentimenta of sympa-
thy and commiseration for Louts' fate, together
with corresponding emotions of abhorrence and in.
ilignation, at the treatment which he experiences
from lii. iron roaster. If these feelings could be
heightened or aggravated, they would receive ad-
ditional force from the tt note of BOKAPARTE'a
Minister of Foreign A traits, to thy Bayou DI Rot.l.lE,
Ofteasibly holding the same employment in Dui-
land." Our limits do not permit u• to dilate upon
this diplomatic instrument, in which the Despot
of Europe emancipated himself from all restraint,
moral or political ; declaring himself, and the main-
tenance of his own usurpation, the only criterion
of right and wrong, to which be will bend and sub-
ject all other ties, or obligations, or treaties. Ne-
ver has he yet ventured so plainly to expose his de-
terminations, and to set at detiaiice, those laws,
by which man is enchained in civilized society.—
Bid, his approaching nuptials, and his recent suc-
cess, seem to have withdrawn all further necessily,
as lie conceives, for disguise or reserve. We sissy,
perhaps, again advert to this extraordinary• docu-
ment, which merits the attention of every European
Government, but which is peculiarly levelled against
Britain.

The Brazil Packet, which arrived on Wednesday,
..as brought letters and papers to the 17th of
January, but they cotLrin ein news.
A zrcat number of holders of hemp waited on the
41.) Guard, on Wednesday, to tender a quantity
41111$ cnininedity for the use of t;ooriornment ; and
4lohough the proposals were as low as :A 100.
"iir of the.o were accepted.
otraet of a letter from a Soldier in the 71th
to his Father ins Glasgow, dated Ced.z,
I.t.to.iry 17:— . IVe have pay le:s Out og.tio.t
13- French, :rod our hatteties air ph9 ing
tout y base few goons yet ; they are dlr. iog
r.irktiog lotoeroe.: whirl w kivock .loon as Su.ii
thol are trecoed. A fi4g of truce was scoot in
...strrrtay, requtrtog us to give up the toil),
"r would blow It up ; hut tit-, 1 think, is ion-
!" 'l4lO, becaoase it Ish. u ve:ry liar ON pass
t ran rotor to OS. Our glvt)-leiatii are rimer
1"14.. shore, that, when any of the I'veileti xii-
lw•r•!hey fire upon tbein ; the lc is a two-decker 111
".4tl toe boats. The alter night they
"."io upon t•-ie bril4e, and 1,,1;ed about .") Of
we fad only two nottutl,d. The French
'll';',l the Spaniards to go in trout of thin. army,
44.1 t 4 build their hatteties, and shonlol they re-
they put them to tl,!sth."

SAV
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TliF AMES.

LYCEUM.
The new Opera of The Maniac was a second time
performed, last bight; and, hat ing undergone t 4 very
judicious compreb,ion, was received with unanimous
applause, by s most crowded NIA brilliant audience.
Mr. Dowroe's song., 14 hivh were not worthy of
him. have been ~,,, *vied. All the encores of Plumley
night were repeated a enthmiastu. The Farce
of Hit or Miss, followed with all its usual success.
—Her Royal fligline,i the Princess of WALES,
Lady SHEFFIELD, &. &e. acre present.

COVENT-G•RDLN.
Last ni4ht the Piny of Henry IV. display-
ed a coinhination of talent seldom equalled.—
Cookies labraff. however, is not his happiest
performance ; 'hire so ce wants mellowness for a
delineation of the fit e!ious hni.ht. Mi.
KEW') Hotspur was an admirable performance;
and Vla. C. lit•stuts. Ito. no equal in the Prince t:f
Wales. The !louse was hehwe the rising
of the curial°, by a most bnlliaut and applauding
audience.

ORIGINAL POATRY.

TO THE. MEMORY or HARRIET HERE WOESOP,
WHO DIED AT THE EARLY AGE Of TWENTY.
THREE YEARS.
(HER MOTHER WAS THE ONCE CELE LID
110 MRS. WELLS, N till Vr• II MORN AT STRAT-
VORD-4tON-•VON.)

Sprang from the fairest form that grac'd the earth,
Whom SH A Ksremitt's Ar.as endued at bee birth,
Whom Taste and Genius held the Dram/ a boast,
And only wept those purees seemly lost :
Whose grareful 111114111tfe, whether grave or wild, •
Still bore the simple stamp of Natnre's child,"
And who, when praise might spoil, or eatery pall,
Still look'd to home--aneouscions of it all.
0, ►eiress to a form so good, so fair !
Hei eras to blameless looks, and grace so rare !
Whose gentle heart, fur tenderest ogee made,
Wheae'er another's sufferings clalin'd its aid;
Flew, eager dew, iu others' piers to s►are,
Aud joie in ry'ry tear it met with there :
Whim remise (cella" beaming in t►ine eyes,
Defers the tongue *puke truth, wit►out disguise!
And, thu' thy years scarce apeted into life,
Had blessed each lie of--dasiliter, sister, wife.
floatcled from the grave, sii unexpected grace,
And crowded length of praise in Furrow space.
Thus born within thy short and troubled day,
A parrot's )ears of assigns care to pay ;
To 511 thy spaa of lair, by beresi iaspied,
Aud die, as housed, as you lit'd admired.

REGRET.

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Among the fa►hionahles, at Brighton, are, the
Connie.* •f Suarratianae, Lady Amu Allll.llr
COOPER, Lady NZIWIBUILOII, and MM. FITZBER-
11SZT.

Arrived.last week. at 4M'll Hotel, Edinburgh.
the Marquis of Tormional.a. Lord MAITLAgD.
Lord DOUGLAS, and the Hon. Colonel Dount.as.

Dou JOSEPH BONA.PARTR, the ea-demist King of
Spain, when he proposed to erect a column between
the pillars of !ferrules, that is, midway in the
Weights of Gibraltar, villa certainly half-seas over.
Tilt re is to he an hearing, this day, by a deputa-
tion, on the part of the Privy Council, upon the
Petition for a third Theatre. Mr. Snsatusx, Mr.
GRAHAM, and others interested in the Drnry-lane
Patent, err summoned to attend. Mr. SHERIDAN
will probably plead his own cause.—He cannot have
so good an advocate.
The Mr. SCOTT, who offered himaelf for Wind-
sor, is said to have deElined, on finding that it was
not a borough where the Electors paid Scott and
lot.
A NRCDOTE.—" I VOW to God," said GLORON
Rosa, to a friend, I should think myself un-
worthy of my own name—"• Here he was inter-
rupted by a friend, " Why, my dear Sir, if you are
unworthy of the name of Gcoaus Rosc, what is
it possible you should be worthy of."'
• Mr. Rosa's common expression in CunVerliiiiiND.

Mr. Yuan hi. proved himself a great phpirinn ;
for he has ascertained the state of health of the
whole county of Cambridge. by merely feeling the
pulses of nice of his brother's tenants. Contrary,
however, to general report, we are as.iired OA he
will nut he admitted into the Hospital of bseurahles.
SPORTING.-- At the Marlborough Coursing Meet-
ing, Lord Riveas's greyhounds were completely
victorious over all that opposed them. Ile anti the
cup, a sweepstakes, and all the matches be en-
' gaged in. The hares, as usual on the Wiltshire
Downs, ran uncommonly strong ; and, notwith-
!vitiating the nmber and excellence of the dogs,
few were kfficil. Some of the Derbyshire courses
were expected et the me.ting, but did not appear
there. The coursing ground i chiefly the property
of one of the oldest amateurs of the present day, the
veileratile Sir JAMES liA5•I'lEl n, and whose en-
lightened avoc•itions for tile public service call him
away too much from the wishes of his friends ; for,
as his old Trainer expresses it, s, this Judging lni-
sinesx has quite spoiled his Coursing."
We stated yesterday, and correctly, that Mr.
YORK 6 had declired the contest for Cambridge.
shire. The inhaliitonts of the (;o;-Magog Hills
have proved as formidslile to him, a■ the neigh-
bours of (tug and Nlagog in the C. ty•

'rho I loootiruble GEOUGE EOKM is returned to
serve in l'at Ii uncut f.ir the 1!..)r0uu.0 of Ns'w Wood-
stock, iti the roots) or the Honoucttde
Fitt.O..RICK ELLIOT EDF;N,

The iolloolog reicirire a 14trly made by El
"'lv at a howling-school within a rkzesi
nn!es of lislifirs. One of lief sellout-mites. %ho
%cm% prolnig herself o%er the rest of the scholars on
Nei...quit of the superior d:go;•v of her estractlon,
and slluditig to the Doke of as being a ni•ar
telati,ot of he Aritls 11,1101 U), Ilroneraour ecclrtm-
ed Wav`a, I have yet :in lull dints of
uot,le l'1"0,1 in me !" To winch the other Indy im-
m"lie"lY pr.iy, lOW., never g.t
blooded, lest the odd droop should cls.ssies to get
out."