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LONDON,
TUESDAY, Avousr 32.

We hare received the Mon/tear, and some of
tile small Paris papers, to the tuth instant. The
refiner papers broke Mr is the middle of the battle
of Talavera ; but the present set supply the def►-
cieney, and give the result, which they very mo-
destly assert was a victory over the combined
Portuguese and British mays. The article
containia4 this intelligence, is dated Talavera,
the •2gtli of Jirly, the day after the Loth" ;
and adds, that Gen. LATOUIt MAUBOURG'S division
entered it that moriairg.—Now, Sir ARTHUI WEL-
LYSILEY'S dittlattellei are tidied Talavera, the 29tit
of July and tat of August ; and we further learn
front then►, that the French retreated, after the
battle of the 2ath, arid, of course, irony remained
alive there, they must have Liven prisoners, nut cun-
t querors.

A:11(111..: 01Ir G./reign intelligence are two curious
140 titles, one the l'orCs Not Eta istrainst the usurp-
ation or his tel owl temporal power by Ho-
4P4RTE ; the other the Decree of His Holiness, ex-
all principals mid aceervaries to
this oe, of violence opitist the rights of the Holy
Sc.e This instrument a eximmtuunicatioil refers
to former acts, not immediately before u.,
therefore, we do not know its poetise extent. The

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fellowship of the Roman Catholic Church ; hut as
Ratite tt TV. to of all relivons that hie pur-
pose, lie muy still, notwithstanding this sentence,
retain the benefit of clergy. Ile has, however,
rescued the Cutlmbe Clturcii fouls the hands of
the Oxides, of Iteassoss, nod other Atheists and
Apostles Wilts. result Reuel sit ion, coil AN is • plumes
himself upon th*.s, he may he still rah.. Ode thro'
a religion to which he atfeets to give a prrierem c.—
Aware how much depends in such cast's UI:011
estop and parade, we are concerned to find Ms Ho-
!mess express his anger in a style se tame and desti-
tute of dignity.—lle out ouly dares not to tneution
the name of Bo &&&&& but lie appears afraid even
to look at the cneninnt‘ upon nhoin he pronounces
sentrt:ce of exclusirsu 110111 the lu.:iclltof the church.
ot this period of the world, these rusty wring
could he brought tutu the field, sod were still Ca-
liente of inflicting a wound. they ought to have
lieen wieldssil with more force acid cooly. Ilia
' Holiness ought to hive come lus word iu all the
tenors of the darker ages. Nut content with a

simple •et of enetwounsumesium, lie ought, sts his
predecessor, f%set NT the Thin 1, putC.,slacd !Cnsg

Joss, to have determined tio longer to keep any
measures with the despoiler and enemy of the
1&oly See, to absolve his subjects from their oaths
of fidelity and allegiance, to declare him to
have forfeited his Crown, stud invite some other
adventurer to assume it, offering him, at the
same time, the property and possession of the Em-
pire of France.—Not content with this, lie should,
as the same Pontiff acted to the sone Eti,4li
King, have fulminated against this most atrotioiiii
ruffian the sentence of interdiet.—A semence, the
execution of which, says Weir, " was calculated
to strike with irresi.tible force the seines of it
superetiticus people. The IlittiOn was of a sudden
deprived of 1411 exterior exercise of its religiciii ;
the altars were despoiled of their ornaments ; mass
was celebrated with shut doors, turd none but the
Priests were admitted to that holy instittiticii; the
dead, instead of being interred in coosecruted
ground, were thrown into ditches, or buried ii, the
cuintnon fields; marriage was solemnised in the
chinch-yards ; soil every circumstance carried
symptoms of the deepest distress, and of the most
immediate appteii• osion of Divine vingeauce."—
Such were the thiiiiderii of the %%dices, mid suet;
their terrors iii the ilark,r ages. We fair that they
hare long since shot their tires, and ire no longer
effective. The greater port or coatinentiii Europa: is
however still Roman Catholic, and if our Ministers
think thin religion can Le as well etoptuyetl abiosil
as at home, for publics, purposes, we have pt-rhaini
to lament, we do at hinne, that the tucaus of re-
sistance to lioske tiers ore out directed by abler
beads, and wielded by abler hinds.

We noticed, yesterday, that Lerd CASTLEREAGH
in his note to the LORD MATOR, stated the total
nunalser or British treops, killed, wounded and mis-
sing., in the siege of Flushing, from the Bth, to the
15th, at 1'.0.-1•r our &men utions, yesterday, stat-
ing that the loss was greater, we did nut mean to
deny the 'accuracy of his Lordship, as his relearn
embraced etily his own .lepartmerit, and a ceutse
coliti•iiied only • return of the army. The loss
in the miry anionet-il to 66 killed sail grounded in
the sante interval, making a total of 164 i. Under all
the eircmit-tmees of the case, this loss is compara-
tively trivial, and if the Isle of Welchem can be re-
tained, we have perhaps no reason to complain.
With respect to the ulterior of jects of the Experli-
bon, we fear that the long delay at Flushing, hat
rendered them impracticable, so far us they lie in
the Scheldt. "They jest at scars who never felt a
wound;" and we cannot, therefore, be surprised, that
the Treasury Journals should, "end yore," send
the Expedition up that river, without one moment's
delay, to take Antwerp, and destroy the squad,
roil under Rear-Admiral Mitsui sit, stationed off
and above that town. They add, for eneourrege-
ntent, that the enemy's force there is inconsider-
able ; bat we cannot credit their staterneut. Ac-
cording to the accounts in the PRA* papers to
the toth inst. troops had been marching from'all
quarters to the Scheldt, from the moment it was
first suspected that our Expedition wits ukstined
for that point.

Lord VaLpoLE returned, on Sunday, to town,
from a tour upon the Continent of Burepc. Re-
port states, that his Lordship has brought the im-
portant intelligence to Government that tile Aus-
trians have hero forced by the exurhitant deinauds
of BONAPARTE, to put an end to the Armistice and
renew hostilities. It is uow stated, us an ascertained
fact, that at the battle of Aspen' the French arn-
inunitiou was totally ealiaatted, and that if the
racers* obtaineal by the Austrians on that. day
had been followed up nub enercy, the victory
must have been complete, and have reduced the
enemy to thr!. last extremity. Frioce JOHN of
LICHTENSTEIN, who saw matters in this light,
offered to pass the Danube with thirty thousand
inen, and cut oil BONAPARTE from Vienna;
but the Archduke CHARLEY unfortunately yielded
to the bilge and corrupt representations made to
him of the French streugh, mid this offer was re-
jected. The wisdom of thieadvice has been since
generally felt and acknowledged, and the error
lead excited considerably dUcuntent in the Austrian
artny.—The Archilue CHARLES, it is said, has in
conserpteir:e thereof given up the command
to Prince Joni of I.ltaireasi elm, under whose
auspices the Imperial Douse of Aurrnta is yet
to at mule fur cite. Lord WALPOLE states,
that the French 'army is iii the most deplor-
able state for every nee, ssury ; and that though
a most fuvouirgble opportunity airs lost, there are yet
grounds for hope that die Atisttians may make a
powerful stand.—Ruch, we iincler-tand, is the sub-
stance oldie account brought by Lord t.Varrora.
Of hie Lordship's amerces of intelligence we are not
competent to judge. There is certainly nothing in
the foreign prints inconsistent alai his statement ;
for although they speak of continued negociations,
they give no facts which favour the idea that peace
will be t.peetitly concluded.
During the last tweiity years, a period of almost
uninterrupted war, ur revolutionary anarchy and
cuilimotrun, we du nut recuilect any moment when
such unusual obscurity overhung the Continent, as
at the present time. Though the. armistice ap-
pears to have been concluded nn the I,:tth of July ;
yet, dui it to the late,t tee is VNI from Ger-
many, JIM inentio!!, or '-veil sllnsina to it, sea been,
made .ILnit-.:1.. Government. platy are we

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Lo account for, or to ciplain,
.11 N'llinrlllllll.ll
letice ? It is ar.t • tit example i s the Ivaco.); of me-
dem diplomacy. If the Emperor Fiteas IS leaves
us del, without light or guidance, Naeottlos
not more eumnivaicutive. Sauce the '2231 of last
es.
month the orieles of triculera l.,te,
from the Cor,iraii shrine, arc Lel-u- t
as thole of be/phas, or of Deriene. 1 et, o+l
the lid) of August, die aimistice, we know, vs.
!,red; and though tiii:•eri dais were idle* be-
fore ilustilitir C.1;11.i tit: i.lieired, yet eiea
period would terminate mi the tßitii of tne
sent month. Lint we may assume, a:di 11101 u
contidem:.., though tint with absolute ettelitiwy.
that on the 12th of August no tierce Lei be, it
signed between France mid Auatna. The '
getter would, at tear seasaii, belie reached biter-
hurgh in four or five days; front. -whence it weeld
he transmitted, by telegraph, to Paris, in as many
hours. The i'4llolol along the French coast, 1.11,i
probably bulleti•is sent out from Boulogne, wmild
announce it to us. HUN APARTE. situated ;is he. is.
and contemns that his assistance is wanted in [Jut-
land, is Spain, and Naples, would nastirestl) not
be slow to divulge such intelligence to Y.urnpt.—
Scarcely cwt we Ise w,d to know while either Na •
rotes: or VT1.1111(111 personally Web at the toei-
mencenient of the present moath. IVe have reaceit
to believe, that the former was either at Sclsoeu-
brume °rat Vienna ;and the latter.either at Enda, or
more probably ut Cmnorn, which is nearer the scene
of negrociation. Lint no authentic, or offieitil
etunent, entailer us to protimiiire with certainty ou
this point. A. little du we know of' the progress,
or the 'intuit. of the pending treaty. " The Prince
of LICIIIENSTEIN makes frequent journeys from
Coutorn to SehOellbr01111." Si. ts an article in
the t'aris I'apera ; but it is tlat‘d from *mina, as
long ago as the 3.1 of July. •
As if to multi to Ile. siegularity of this toyaterif as
reserve, we are left in utter darkness reAst;se to the
part which Russia means to take , in the _present
crisis of athenn If, however, AU:I.:34DM troops
had he.eir at and at Saraloniir, on their
march by way of Cracow, into Moravia, at the time
when the Freilch inserted, they lutist little ardv•il
under the walls, of Olmuta early in August. %at
we hear nothing of them ; and repot',aimailetstk,
worthy of credit, affirm, that (Wheel, or, in ether
words, the Atistrien Poland, has I. taken posses-
mon of in the name of the French, net the Rus-
st AM ENlPFteost. LE this feet be well fohul less, it may
lead to important consequences. It is; norerver. not
easy to conceive; Unit the Cabiuet of Pettreburgle
however subservient or devoted it may bare hi-
therto abeam itself to the Corsican Einneror, will
seriously engage in a war to crush Austria, t•uVely
to render DON teatt rE 01111111101uatt and irresistible.
A LEIANDLIt 11•31, besidt's, eistr`.4ll 011
without sending ramie. in aid L- raise. His iieeps
its Aland, as Well astlese.: :it the head of thi:
of Bothnia, do out iieetn to adiunce, nor hes iuy
peace been yet mode la-tweet, Russia and Swideu.
lit Besaciabia, and iu Belgarhi, he is engaged iu
active and satruitimiry hostility with the 'forks.
But a more serious eiriannatance .ts, the navnl
war carrying tin against him by Great Britain.
While -Sir J.ints Satta•nutt insults Cronstadt,
and eruisea the Golf of Finland ; Arehatigel,
a port, which, front its remote situation, a!-
roo.t • under the 'pole, seemed to he removed
front the calamities and devastations of war,
has been attacked and pluielere•l by an r.tiglish
maritime force. Trade, navigation. and many
branches of national industry, throughout the Rus-
sian dominions, are snapended or extinguished.
Reports of intended ieterviews, not pith Naeo-
LEON, tent with Fltl.3ol3ltlC WILLIAM, have likewise
been spread. finder such circumstances. the stal-
ing of the Chaurpios frigate, from Portsuinutli,
only four slays 5140, • 1111 a conioy of transports,
having on board the Russian Admiral SINIAt IC.
and the crews of his late sqiutilrou, bound to the
Baltic, is not the least extraordivary feuture of
the ptesent moment.
Other most important occurrences, of recent
date, augment our anxiety and curiosity, to know
the result of the late suspension of hustilities op
the Danube. The intelligeuceof Lord CRATHAM'i
having lauded in Rolland, and of his first oper-- -
lions in Walcheren, must have reached Buse-
r:tate, probably about the 6th or 71h, 411,1 I.ollllot
fail to be known at Prie.tue, or at 47i:narm behalf.
the 10th or lktrli of tie vresciit month. It Oltr-t
excite • great seesation in the cabltets of both the-
contending parties, nor can It 1.4i1 rather to
rate, than to relax, the spirt of the Austnan Coun-
cils. Neither will the newt of the repulse of Jis-
sent Boriararre. at the hosed of an army su-
perior at numbers, by the Ii ,ti-di farce., almost
exclusively, in New Castile, be received at
Sehoenbrunn, or at Cousure, without correalsomi-
ing emotions of concern, and of exultation. We
may fairly presume that it would be known.alreot
the middle of August. at Vivian. From Napless
WO. it would appear, that the aced/tits cannot be
grateful to the ear, or to the wind of N APOLEOP-
It is true the% the esulairressumats of Isis positioa,
may accelerate, rattier titan retard, the coneliesioi,
of peace ; because they may impel or 'mince Do-
11APARTE to grant better arid more favourable
terms to the Austnerne. Till, however, we receive
some authentic inforonifam of the events that are
I passing or preparing in the sicihAy of Vienna, we
shed act wisely to eats" rid our opinions on this
lust esemequences to b, ••siesited from the late
armistice.