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,mint illretitiaorosi to order COElyktO halt, lace
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wont, owl li.eet7 Vit TOR in check, while he
tinuest his tParCb stiptiostsbou LT. It'CUEST4 was a
match for "Vtarna at TeleVera: ith would be
still a match for him aad;the British
✓ier might • *have • prosemiterl put..
pose ; ails.. net :found advisable to per-
▪ eere hi this Oen, mid act tepirretely, they Might'
bay., dilated. autfdiearutainecrtlieiigrunad, Or 'acied
vtiensively•togetiefer for,'sciateiling in the state-,
mem, Sorte mid united would Old re-
mein inferior to the emuliiided Britiih and Spaaiah
al tar. E.:t. what •is • the-, course Viscount 'WEL-•
I.INGTON pursues? Be retires' with the:'S,panislt
army acroes•the 'fagot, tweaking doiew the loidges
behind him ; and he retreats to Deleitodu, where
lie hoots-sunlit, remilliVitatural advantages of the
prarr, end coven!d by the Tagus, lie oecupies a po-
ohm wife frouat he attack of the Kreiteli. Here then
trorlacenteireiat nt last, and we have a plain confess
sad, that S 0 tits and Vteraa united are more than
emittA for the.coninued army. The circumatance
which turned the scale, and led to this reeult,is also
apparent. Either SOCLT'S army teat not taken
into areount at all, or, if it: did enter into the coo-
temp latian of V is'coisut rageupg, it has mile
its appearance AllOll the.theatte sof war in greater
force than he expected. His,retrteit.• therefore,
across the Tagui, became absolutely neceesery; and,
upon the same pi inciple, Iwd CUrSTA reinumed ut
Talevers, lie must have fallen Lesieatli an over-
t.% helloing force. Far be it frmn us to wish to
detract from the !ma its or the tame et , any gatJunt
offerer, whether a ‘1" tt el.V.Ir or eCUILSTA, fight-
ing ia the roost glorious cause in which the sword
was ever unsheathed. They are the offenders and
real enemies of their Gone—they who misrepreseat
the motives of their conduct, who distort their
actions, utd tee only through that medium which
best suits the w'slies ,tad. pertoual views and inte-
rmits of their employers.
The cent :ewe of the Expeditions to Spain and.
the Scheldt, it is so,,posed, will out fall short of
ELEVEN ; lull) that it trill he necessary
to call Parliament together in the mouth of No- .
smuttier.
Sir ETRE. Coors has returned with his Staff
from Betel:dad to the Island of Walch,ree, of
which he has hero appointed to lire Continand,
in place of ;en. M.KIESIZIE -FR tliett, who is come
home in boil health. The Earl of KoS4l.ltl alto,
and a number of officers, are stated in *private letters
to have brew pelted with the ague viol Icier.
The Monarek, Remo/460x, Ajax, Hero, and Re-
venge, of 74 grins each, ,a44sii oil T,uatclay at
Portsmouth. with about 3000 prisoners on board,
being pat,' of the garrison of flushiug. They are to
be confined on board ithMs now preparing for thtir
reception at Portsmouth.
Eetract from a letter, dated Messina, in Sicily,
July 17th With respect to political orients• in
this quarter, von have, no doubt, heard of the
taking of the two islands of Ischia and I'rocitla, by
our forces uiwler Sir J. STUART, As yet there is
no prospect of his making a descent upon Naples
or the coast. The lower part of Cidelaria, *loch
has been open a short tone, is again slant against
the Ir7.illisb. All most depend upon the successes
of Austria, whence we have no late acepunts."
Letters have been received Grim Peter-burgh to
the 314 o It. and from Rigs to the tI th instant.—
By these we learn, that the report of a general em-
bargo in the harbours of Russia, and the. Baltic, is
erroneous. It is true, that an embargo has been
inst;ostal, hut, instead of being general, it is corium!'
to native ships only, arid its toile obiect is to prevent
their felling into the heads of the powerful -British
force eriiising in that sea. \Nal) a lieeuee from this
!Lamm ry it is Mideretood that any Russian sliipsistitild
be Permitted to take their deoarture. All the
respecting the Anuniean vessels ice the port
ml IGKtt have team re ttttt ved the *rod uncl el-
showliog ediiddr subsists between the ealisigneet and
the odic& agents of the Rshariaietitriernmelit.
ilit Saturday marched into hal racks
from Linenlii, the lath (gd halt.) to do duty there.
Sii•eley arrived at Plymouth a Greek vessel
front Crete, the first of that sestina triter in that
port. The mew are little, ugly, diminutive, swarthy
looking fellmis..auil Kive one nu idea of a Greek
seaman hi the days of Hemet.
Another nasal has arrived from Bourdeaux,
which left that port on the datii instant. By this
arrival we'have received a repetition of the state-
meld made public a few drys since, tlist.peaee,had
been signed between Fraiiv aced Atistiia ;..red that
Boe severe was expect& at Paris on his way to
join once more his armies in Spain.
On Moulin), last, about -NO -Feenth
.pritonere,
who hed been landed
,at Yartpepth horn the.tter-
vison of Flushing, marched Into Notarial, dialer
net escort of the Berkshire militu ; and on the
following morning proceeded on their Milts for
Stilton barracks, gnarliest by a detachment of the
West Norfolk Militia.
Another escort of 1000 prisoners lauded last ive.ek
at Inphill, on the Tomer, from the prison-ships, at
Plymniitie sod marched, guarded by a party of the
West &wit Militia, to the prisonait Primer, Tor
Royal, and Dart finer.
Tfie Haley's's, BRAGG. arrived at laucaster, from
Tr 'dad; on the itath instant ; spoke, on the tilh,
• the Experiment, NPA trier, from Montserrat, to
London, one of the missing ships in the last Lee-
ward Itlinid fleet L—she was leaky, and had ouly.six
Lamle on basin'.
It has Welt observed that Ministers have avoided
to send •IlfrillA to Spain, tinder Lord Wetttali-
TON, any of the regiments or commanding officers
whin bail served under Sir J. MOORE. In our point
of view this ass trot to be wondered at, as the im-
pressions which these men hid received in the
drat campaiga were out dif-a nature to make them
enter with spirit on a second! ; hut, in another
view, it was eerie-oily extraordinary, that Ministers
did not am:: on such an Expedition, Officers and
troops who bad acquired mcertain knowledge of the
Spanish char:ieter, of the eosintry, and who were in
ROMP degree habituated to the climate.