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of the ne* Pretteh Empire, hive, if possible, more
especially the forrqer, been eve■ less fortunate than
their predece,sor on the acme theatre, the Duke of
ADR ANTLS. lie, at least, though he evacuated
Lisbon and Portugal, obtained from the benignity,
the facility, or the want of enterprite in our Com-
manders, n Convention, which transported hi. heat-
en army back again to Apaiii, as mvon, or sooner
than our own troops could reach the scene of action.
SOULT, by the adinisl‘ion of the Freisoh Bulletin it-
self, after retrograding from the Vouga to the Dou-
ro and the Mash°, sod after being successively
driven from post to post, "found it necessary to pass
through the defiles of Sidainonde ; and io order to
gain two marches on the enemy, to sacrifice a few
pietma of Calllloll and their caissons, which he order.
ad to be destroyed." This confewion is reline suffi-
ciently explicit and intelligible to satisfy the greatest
sceptic, sail csu leave no doubt on the mind (deny
Officer in N APOLEON'S army, that the fortuneoftheir
Ruler seems to be as much obscured io Portugal,
NS in Austria. The inflated and exaggerated rela-
tions given of Soo ur's victories over the Portuguese.
en the 19th and g9thlof March, afford uo conso-

let ion for his subsequent defeats and disasters. Nor
will the sneer thrown upon Sir AnTuea Vi aLLes-
Listr's " pompons relation" of the action which
took ',lace hetween-Sint.T's rear-guard ut Oporto,
ansi the British furors, even though it were in no
point of view a military one, as the French official
publication asserts, compensate for the flight of the
Duke of DALMATIA across the Minh°, and his total
abandonmeut of Portugal. Nor, as is evident by
the sequel, did &mix, on his arrival in Gullicia
with the miserable remains of his di►conifited aril
diminished forces, find that province much more
tranquil, attached or disposed to support. him, than
was the country which lie had just quitted.
arrival," (Sou LT'S) says the Bulletin, " iris been
useful in every point of view. It has dispersed die
bands of armed peasants, who, profittiug by the
movements of the Duke. of ELCHINGEN (NsT)
against Oviedo, had endeavoured to take possession
of St. Jago and Lugo, assisted by the few English
troops who still occupy Yip." A clearer awowal
than this is, of the actual state of imuirectiou io
• which all Gallicia may be considered, against their
invaders, language commit well convey. ,
It may however reasonably excite some astonish+
meat. that though the French have been corniolcLly
driven out of Portiq,oal, we hear nothing of the opt•
• rations of our own victorious army, fur so long*
p.riod of time as has aireinly elapsed since Sir "Alf=
TRU le% last dispatches. Is he, at so critical a iwo■
ment, stationary at Coimbra, from the total want of
almost every supply requisite to enable him to
march Against VICTOR, or SEBASTIAN, Are there
any political impediments to hie passing the Spa-
nish frontiers, arising from the jealousy ,ok the dis-
inclination of the Supreme Junta to allow a British
army to enter Extremadura ?—We fear that one,
or perhaps both these Causes, may cooduce to his
present inaction. The hliaisterial papers, indeed, •
insinuate, though they do not venture to assert,
that " Sir ARTHUR is closely pumping VICTOR."
This l'act va•e by no means believe.7-tror where was
• ACTOR, according to the accounts of the 6th of
June from Lisbon ? If we can give credit to the
very loose, doubtful, and inaccurate information
from thence, " he had altogether abandoned Alcaii-
tara."—" The cavalry of the vanguard was station-
ed Trusillo, to which place his sick and wounded
had been sent, ii► 300 covered carts, from Caceres:"
while " a considerable part of kit forces are, it is
said, in the vicinity of the bridge of Almeria."
Now, Almaraz lies on the northern bank of the Ta-
gus, within two leagues of the froutiers of New Cas-
tile, cud abort half way between Placentia and
Talaveyra. If, therefore, Sir ARTHUR WELLES-
LLT were,. closely pursuing Vicroa," he would
he already far advituceil on his way towards Madrid.
from which canital Alinarit is not more than ICS
English miles distant. The long silence relative to
all the English or Spanish operations, bider the de-
feat of Sou LT, and the retreat of Vicroa, is not cal-
culated to impress with u favourable opiniou of OUT
affairs, or those of our Allies, beyond the Pyre-
nees.

jai fact, if, et a crisis like the present, when BON A-.
IPAILTE evideiitly stands at bay. sr the borders of
Hungary, NW miles frog■ the Spanish frontiers ;
when he has sustained • signal defeat ; and when
insurrection, famine, diseases, and all the cala-
mities of protracted, or unsuccessful war, are per-
haps about to assail him at such a juncture,
'the Spanish nation does not come forward, to rescue
' the Capital, and the Palaces of their Kings, from
revolutionary pollution, we may pronounce, that
whatever Mr. FREER may write, or Lord C/1111.E..
SEAM: and Mr. CANNING may assert, ,there is no
Spanish nation ; or none that possess the energies
. requisite to expel the invaders. Can &Mint 80.
. NAVIN re vesture to remain at Ararquez, or at the
Escurial; can he even hazard his person at Madrid ;
if, while NAPOLEON is nimble to alrord him any as-
aist.ince, the Spaniards of Valenti*. Murcia, Anda-
lusia, and all the yet witsulojected provinces, exert
it/tail-efforts to drive him out of Spain ? and if they
will not now exert those eif,rts, when are we to ex-
pect them to be made ? These are questions and
sublepts, which it wolied well become the Cabinet
.to discuss, sort which are of vital importance. Our
nextedvices frora the interior of Spain, will enable
us to form a tolerable estimate of the state of the

public mind in that country, relotive to which.
leer, that this country has apl grossly
deceived. EitherJOSEP/1 lutist toe expelled (rein'
New Castile, during the pre,r:it ..itin•ner, or we
may consider hirii or too sealed on his
Throne, to be easily driven from' at u e., mad time.
How

deep, and how *mini, as well as general,
it the impression made nom the public mind it:
France, by Outs late disnotrous events 08 the Da.
nube ; and hew much the revolutionary contti-
trued authorities at Paris, deprecate, while they
dread,any ebullition of popular discontent, we levy
are most eloquently tlepietureil in anurticle, dated
Irmo " Paris, the 19th of June." Its oliect
evidently to eft:ace, or, at lea‘t, to diueinjxh, the
eon-termitiou 'spread over that capital, liy kiting
long list of absurd facts, all fauourable to En_
land, iu the••highe‘t degree, and %Inch. it is pre.
tended, eerie fabricated io •• l,t Mot.
iii:y and hatred toiv,irde Prams ."
not, however, have originated at Aaibttrilala, .17
Ut the Heger, except front reports of more olio
!allay, relative to divisters
PA ETC in Au-trio. We t tt•n • ~, t, , .
.ventca or circulate,: after the iaolles of A
or of Friedleold. not rite Cors'.2ait is to i
:it Jens, or on the Nkomo. lie may tool: ha: Ic
to those h, inlaid ',triode of his career with h., ill:c-
-hild regret. If he fall, his waut of mod. rntion,
and that alone, is the pose; for, so gutty ens lie
established on tber awful and tueredible etnineace
to which hr bad ottaiued, such uonerard temper t
and terror elll lii ainleties and triumphs
SO much was , %run, remaiaing Power ,:r t hivera.
toent disposed, u1:1•1, we are perNusded, it 1!:•.-
tain nut less elf thin others, to reco4h:se, mad tv-
to guarantee, the sceptre of Lot, is XI.I. ti..
adventurer of .tjaecio, in Corsica, that it reef r,. .1
his own arm to destroy and demolish the eel—
that he had reared.
That the Papers, printed et Paris, may er•, if
not invent ; that they may misrepresent tact,, tlio
not intviitionally ; and that they,in.c, have reccur,,i
to pious fruuds, iii order to sestina the gnat
of N *FOLSOM, ugaiiivt Siutaivii rebel. red traitors,
who are unworthy of the benign protection of this
es.cudlent Corsican, may be pretty clearly ilen.on-
strated, by a perusal of the French public-curia.
We there learn, to our surl.•.i,e, but taut to our
oonsternation, that the two Dishes of ELcut muse
rod DALaterta, alias SOU LT and NET, " bRIT
tabliblied communications en the illinho." That
another Duke, A'actott, " has made a movement
in the direction of Alcantrira, to term a jaliction
with St.V LT. who has resumed his pa%i:ivii at Jai.-
'wattle, after leaning 4000 men at Oporto." now
ill-iliformed, it seems, We are in tondos, of what
is goiog on in Portugal ! arid how 'nosh hos Sir
A. 11. Lt.t.ust.mt cited, in believing that he had
driven Sotri.r, not only out of Oporto, butt out -of- •
all Portugal, lute the inonutuins of Gallicia !--
From these accurate. Paris Piper', we find, besides,
" that General NottEr is Governor of St. Au-
dem ;" thatr Arragoti es the ,post sillimissive Pro-

since of Spa and, " thauhe army of Spain
must be very inactive, if, uuited with the .I)stke of
Ilauxito, at Alcantara, it make nu use of its dr.
visions to fall upon the rear of Lord WkLuiswlT.
who has imprudently adrineedfar front ;purto."—
Now, really, though The ,Uortdag Post and other
Goveroinent paper. iu this capital, do now and theta
ituiult aud initiate the public mind, by paaegyrics
on Lord CAITIAREMiII, or on the Cabinet

tively, it must be admitted, they du not carry their
raillery quite so far as the Government papers on
the other side of the channel. Tim haye not,
indeed, readers equlilly sebmie.ive sad subdued to
their and. standings, us ire to be faund.where Ns-
Poi.stion condescends, through his official Org3l:s
and channels. to enlighteu and instruct an ignorant
iwople. Nor have they, if we except The Testes,
any exclusive information, either,- as is evident, front
the " Shores of the Bey of Biscay," sir from Oporto.
We Inuit again remark, that the cause is iu a had
way, which resorts to deception, fraud and falsehood,
for support, whetherit be in England or is France.
iii London or at Paris.
, A Messenger ea, ACUL all aL rtK,ht 0.4.1001 last
night front the SPANISH AMDASSA DOR to the Su-
patine Junta at Sevilir.
MS MAJESTY is expected in town thisday, to hold
a private Levee and Privy Council, at the Queen's
Palace.
Yesterday Sir DAVID DIINDAS held a public ,Tay
at his office, in the Horse Guards. and gave audi-
ence to, a number of military °Meese, Sir Demo
gave notice that in future he should only hold pub-
lic days once a week during the parliamentary m-
ega*.
The horses helonging to the teth regiment of
Light Dragoons, ordered on foreign service. die
in the finest order possible, and the men are is
high spirits. •
A shocking accident occurred lately at the Cspe
of Good !lope. Threeßritish officers, from the gar-
rison, having goue out en a patty of pleasure to
the Tal.le Mountain. were overtaken by the night,
lesser they could regain the plain ; they lost their
truck, waistlercil, and seperateil ; our of them, with
much difficulty. at length found his way into the
town, but no intelligence Luting been received of
his coin:ninious, a party went out in search it
them. They were both found at the foot of a pro-
digioits precipice, ctitsbcd mid mangled in the
most dreadful manner. One of them (an Aid-da-
Cempto to. Earl of CA LLDO):) had already expired.
and the tither was just at the ppiat Of death. Both
of these ualortunate seiii)l-ressi were than in the
prime of iifr, and most protisT34q; officers.


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