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'is month,

bbaatistneenLat Ralnee;ecla on.they td or
and Vitithe h again he leek eeme nr
Ahem:. end Londe bsvend piheuera. This at
nsidernble consolation for the less that the p
Oeliagas sustained in op-potting the eutfanre of the
French into Bilboa on the 91st • nit. They hare
bent hither all-the wounded, and,- Ido astiarevyoa,
thatr4iiliearts are torn to pietes,,aelyee how dread-
Adijrbiaiirted they are: the &ter-tint' Iffil4ieri are
'erijed..l4) slieliciwitidii;' slat* p4;eiris to. private
:houi;es. tea/rat my (Kota tcoasilr.aeriaad
ably. yestctilnytbid nay gtie4,fruintbetvrivey,,,,ho
t,d p rcriously.iseediiti m)onse, -kit its At one
thue 1 had eler,i4AFers:bl4,sottiters, and tilt'
Captious of tranepnate.to attend Tito Marquis
'ha Rowena' is eVetted heN this- evening ; he
slept ut Reynosa Let night: It is said he ii going
Oa take the cottnuandiii-tief of Blake's arwy, he
being thatkierserarssevaini.in rank." •
• " VAI,MASEDAS NOY. at.

" On the night of the 30th, the enemy advanced
two Strong columns to attack the left of G&iertil
bleke's isosition at Sornosa. Goleta Mandizabel.
whn•cotuirianded oar troops on that side; made the
eldest dispositions for un effectual defence. The
enejny made their attack in the t perfect order,
awl with the greatest vigour ; but such was the
firmness with which they were received, that they
were obliged to fall back withooVineking ally im-
pression. At this time they pushed• forward two
strong columns to attack the right of the 4psnish
army, when they were equa!ly well received. The
attack on the left was then renewed. The enemy's
force comdantly accumulating, they kept up a
tremeadous fire of artillery, extending their line to
surround the hill of Surmise. After nine hours
continued fighting, in which the enemy's loss far
exceeded that of the Spaniards, Gen. Blake found
it iitetassari to order a reyeat. This measure was
executed in the beat order. in the evening of the
3 let, the army arrived at Biltma, where it halted
and refreshed, General Blake himself superintend-
ing a distribution of bread and brandy to the sol-
diers. Never woos Clenerais.aadored by en army.
Every man would. hate ioffered himself to be cut
to pieces, rather than full liat4t, except itaolsedience
to his ordeni.- The retreat, therefore, has br ,no
'nexus shaken the confidence of the Spanish sol-
diers, who are ready to renter thecoufliet. On the
Ist the army arrived at Valmaseda, btisind which
place General Blake has taken up hnopositiou.—
The less of.tlMSpiinisli army in the late actlon. was
notTonsiderable;• not more than four or tivehun-
dred men... The French lost much more, as the
favourable position of the Spiluiarchi,.On the bill of
Sernmia, wade their tire tell to advantage...".
smuitus OW TilEllAY OP /1144;AX, 016 T. 0.. ,J
" The ,arinyof ,Jleiier.i) Blithe Ontijities to tpuiA.
.taia its detenuve position, and-the repidaiuceinsidat
of dispatches his CeasuL I have a letter 'from rat-
bffieer in the Army of Castile, now lying before
me, dieted Logrona, the t2oth instant. The writer •
does not profess to give any news, and coutesits
.itanself with observing incidentally. that the army
.of his priainee, lately commanded by General
-Coeds, was theaunderthe temporary command of
Pinateli, who had that day arrived at the head-
quarters. lle is an Arragoisese. The French con-
tinued to ravage the country within the circuit
which the prudence of the Spanish General hail
left within their power. On the Ibtli, they had
pillaged and committed great atrocities at a place
waled nitro. These excesses did not, however, re-
main unpunished. .The Spanish scouting parties
had freipseiit rencontres with the enemy, and 'did
meth execution in this petty warfare. They were
4 the same time about to make au attack of a more
serious nature. A corps of enon Frenchnteu was
stationed At Guardea. A detachment was about
to be eelit to take that town from them. A small
laid); (lanceros) had joieed them from
the areal of Castauos."

DUTCH PAPERS.
•
(From the Rotyrigas Ceara*, Nor. )

!ARIL, NOV. I.

Sii;ce the departure of His Majesty for Bayonne,
we have had no mess, except the following article
from the latter town, dated Oct. 2i:

" Le lust accounts from Spain are not very lin-
Portant:: General Lasalle, it is said, hus advanced
to Ilaro, where he has cut in pieces.* body of be-
tween three and four thousand insurgents, most of
theta students add trienlts,. who hint given thee.'
eelvcs the came of the Battalion of the Literati....
.Alatty of them surrendered prisoners.
" Wake dud Roulette are still at Bilboa, where a
strong French division, assembled at Durango,
wit! soon ne.rcla to attack them. A single battle,
if they should dare to venture it, will be pia& it nt
to destroy these proud Castilians, who have always
fled before our troops.
" Au English brig, with sixty Freud' soldiers
used four Officers, who came from Portugal, has
arrived in the River, but they were refused per-
tim land. Time ship was separated from
convoy by Lid arather.
•• The ttixipb of time tirand Army, yesterday Le-
gate to aril : t ladtgavrtl guard eunsists ofabout
tf,Oun met.. a has itsvo, thistle'', marched for Spain."

( Fro— iiutientaft Couramt, Noe. 8.)
rEBracni AN, OCT.
Co!u. DuLebuie. %jib .5,000 men, uturchrd out

LON DON,
FRIDAY, Nov Fusee 18.

We give, this day, an ail:omit of the proceed-
lugs, yesterday, in the Court of Inquiry atChelsea,.
as far as, in our !tumble judgment, the order of the
Court against ex parte publication, and the ends of
justice, require and allow. Of course we do not touch
upon the evidence, under which head we do not
comprise any thing which we have noticed, whether
it be the display of beauty that attended this chew
of military men, or the extr.ineono speeches of cour-
tesy and form that fell from Sir Hew DAtav m rue
and. Sir ARTHUR Wesi.r.si.uv. We can, upon refe-
rence to our publications, boast, the the Ministers,
walnut the Generals, are the men to whoutwe look for
a satisfactory accennt•of the Convention of Chang;
and that, participating iu the public feeling, we do
not wish to prejudice or prejudge the determination
of a Court of Inquiry, considering it totally incom-
petent to the professed object, and that uotliing short
of a Parliamentary Inquiry can, or ought to atisfy
the country. We do believe, as we have ofteu stated.
that the Ministers, who have instituted this process.
are not quite free from suspicion. We do believe that :
they had not the best information of the internal
state of Portugal—that our army was very deficient
in cavalry—that it could not lund on the south of
Lisbon, from want of heavy artillery to attack the.
forts, and that the Portuguese troops were not
supplied from the Commissarial Depart:not, so as

. . .
to act pith full dims Ur co-operation with 4iit Bri-
tish troops.

We have received Dutch papers to the Dal inst.
The accounts of military operations in 4paiii,
iwe.have extracted front thein, furnish a new proof
of the delusion and darkness in which Bow APAnts
stuales to involV'e the continent. Trivial affairs
sire swelled into important actions, and defeats eon-
neifed into victories.

We thiaday resume our extracts from the Spanish
papers and betters tothe ads inst. received ou Wed-
nesday. Qur readers were apprised, last week, that

ll•saa having re.oecupied Bil boa, advanced to Zor-
n .*; ribeie he defeated the French on the YGth of
October, who retreated bowarde Logrona, and that
he had reconnoitred the position of the enemy on
the si7tli, preparatory to a- new attack. We now
And, from the official report of General BLAIR to
the Junta ofCorunna, dated the lit instant, which
we • have inserted, that the • enemy, having •vw-
cei'ved great reinforcements •frozu• Flax*, within
the last few • days, attacked General BLAU; at
Zornosa on the 31st last. The action lasted the
whole day, and the Spaniards fought with great
bravery, but were at length obliged to give way,
and retreat to Dilbcui. for this advantage the
enemy were indebted to the superiority of their
numbers, and a thick mist, under favour of which
they made their attuck.-1: appears, however, to
'hare been little mere than a drawn battle, as the
french did not directly pursue the retreating army.
Next day, however, the whole French army pre-
boded itself before Bilboci, and General &sag
says it was his intention to evacuate the place,
end to fall back to Valmaseda. So far we
have the authority of General BLAIEL.—The
tinotficial accounts bring down the military
operations inueli farther. They state, that the
French immediately entered Bilhoa. On the lit,
General CLAIM took a position at Velinuseda, to
which the enemy advanced, but were driven back
with a trifling loss; and in case BLAKE should be
unable to maintain his position at Valmaseda, he
,4neeut toSall Lack to Reylicsi, where his stores and

ammunition arc deposited, and which, as well from
its natural strength as from the works which he has
thrown up, he regards as an impregnable position.
Of the action of the 31st, few particulars are
known. It wm at first wild, that one of the regi-
ments brought by the Marquis Dc LA RomaNai
from Fatten, had been cut to pieces, after having
performed prodigies of valour; but we are happy
to find this statement contradicted by accounts
from St. Andem. The account of the advance of
the French army to Burgor, us we rightly con-
jectured yesterday, appears also to have bete
Wll.ll XV email foraging party of 20'1
horse that approached that city,. froth welch it
retreated, ■fte, ha►ing committed some depreda-
tions.

The patriotic insurrection. and still more, ao
doubt, the successful resotance hitherto main-
taiiml by the Spw,itrds against the fotwiCtud uud

perlialon. appreunt a the Cuatirent
have already rou.ed and

most diannt e%tremitien
in the languace, no lesai
Hungarian Diet, winch,
manilla of tied kingdom,
iiarangue made to them

174!, evinces that the

the nation art animated
sad that they make corm
am; N. Nat is It It ss

answer of Votoscts to Ow
divss of lhe'Stotem
that the States of Lowor

convoked. that they a,
Estrettua in person, and

of their deliberutions was
some of their domains for
all tlie4e isielimmii will

Frasier lierveive the determinat,
ther progress, and the sy.tematie

by the Court of Vicuna

its provinces, anti' its national

sunk or eclipsed since the
The precise rnotnent for
attitude, and declaring, ope,

utast depend ou Uie events
youd the Pyrenees. To •-

uow directed with hope,
If Austria has
vigour and energy, another

been used to eou•idt•r as

wholoe Etiropetas proviocei,

latitudes of the earth, are

destined to become the
rite Ku& the.:epteititu
symptoms of reseritation. ItlubTerne
Ten seems deathbed to regenerate the

Empire. to evailluipati its Government

tyranny of the Janitszories, and to enable

to make a lag litadd WA the shore or the

ThOughitre are yet uncertain of the
Lour of this Mtnister, as relutire to Fninee, yet
cannot reasonably doubt of Lis enni,tytoßusiia,uoi
his determination to oppose the :I;;;:raudisemeet

A I.I;XANUER to the south 'of the Danube. The
conft;reueeslield at Erfsa, and the disclosure wade
by NoPutrox to'llis Senate, ou the With of 01.
bersivheseiniic astern the inseparable union of coup-
ciMli flelarin Illauself and *the CZAR, whether fur
WV* or for peace ; -these acts, when puoinulpited
and understood at Coustauiiiiovle, whit, of no
eessity, stimulate BAIRACTAR to new and speedy
efl'orts. ile *Wises:, in the unprincipled. esioura.tius
Id iteksiiiiniary Usurper Rail the !item*
Entrains, the rixuat for the attack and *Oversaw'
of the Crescent:of 37AtionEr. Nor eau he hal to
behold iu England, Spinn, and Austria, the initur.4l

any p
It

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abhor

row
pried
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appr

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whic

load
Yelp
lap
air

sispiiiottemAi4...alheit of the l'oarr.
arritain elseeapitel of the 01 6oinaii empire, which
is regarded as certain, may, therefore, tinder the
present circumstances, 'open a new scene; end
pß-
pare the materials for a somplete the
politics of Tt:, key. Narot.zei, whose v;Ailxner 4
not to be deceived, 110 d. wl/0 has so
ed, by corruption er by terror, a predominant inte-
rest in that country, will assuredly • make. every ex-
ertion to protract, arta avert, so serious tr misfor-
tune. •

Every expression, every speech, and every act of
BONAPARTE, in the present delicate, ardubus, and
problematical position of his affairs, is undoubtedly
weighed with profound reflection, and adapted to
meet theemergeacy. Ile already feels, that his
power, so well consolidated, so terrific, and so irre.
sistible, only five or six months ago, is now shaken,
and may be overturned. It is not with Armies com-
posed of Italians, Switxers, Germans, Dutch, and
Poles, that he must subjugate Spain. The French
in turn must ;deed, in order to satiate his ambition.
They begin,as it would seem, to discover Was secret,
to deprecate his endless wars, arid to yield reluctuat
aid towards the flagitious enterprise now in hand.
Even his conscriptions meet with resistance, or are
eluded by concealment, desertion, and flight.—
The conquest of Spain, it is well understood. re-
sembles in no respect, that of Austria, or of
Prussia. A country. where the Priests inspire en-
thusiasm by their exhortations; where every peasant
or smuggler becomes a soldier ; and where the wo-
men, as at Sanigossa, pour boiling oil on the heads
of the invaders; is not to be conquered like Liu.-
many or Lombardy. Nor can he, whatever
threats he may pronounce at Paris, march to Mo•
dad with the some celerity as ha did to Llerlis, sod
to Vienna ; if he had, before the bth, it wOll4
have been known ut Paris by the 10th or ISth, as
the telegraphic communications convey iutelligence
across France in a very few hours. Yet, down to
the igth, the Miniteurs only related, shiieihry
dwell with pleasing amplification on, the even::
that have taken place in the Gulf of Bothnia, and
in the Bay of Naples. Wasa and Capri, the ex-
ploits of Kaimoskoy. and of Lamargue, furnish
object of exultation. Of Josseis, of Alsrsnal
NLY, axed of the advantages gained over MAI:I4
or CAMINO% they only give reports.
We would not willingly pass over in total silence
the Address of the Deputies of time stew Deport-
meats of the Kingdom of Italy, pf .• the Masora,
the Fronto. and the Metauro." to NoroLsor. It
is difficult to conceive, or to believe, that a etimpo-
'salon, at once so hose, so degrading, soil so Ingo-
ously adulatory, should have been pronounces; !,y

the Cabtinent, on!, sn an! P
I electrified Enro:n.
i, tyrant
4 We pecu'ist:y tiler is
a than in the sets, s,i; seniiii
in for the first time 1,, jet ai
on, since the c,!,4it wit
im by MARIA TUERL.I Speec
NolArli and Dele;ist, and 1'
by the. same seinitn‘ abhor
ninon cause with the Su' P"'"`
toquently displayed is prOVOthe I
loyal and energetLe From
aisles! at Prestrurg. tlr throw
r Austria had been priest
were to be opened by whose
d that one itnportout 4,;:i Italy
rats to be the alienutina saran
Dr the public service."
ill the Corsican Ruler his C
termination to resist hl, she
iystematie exertions mid, *hie
L to regain its iudependei he aF
tronal character, compiest ioutra
the battle of Austerlitz. will,
r Austria assuming a lion, *EDP
openly ogairost NAP(II.10 sppr
,esitti that shall happen *lfs
) that quarter eremeye
expectation, and solicits' Al
:ed these proofs of reties whit
ither power, which ae hat 1118 d
as ripe for dissolution, a *ion
cei, situate in the mu)
ire undoubtedly hog si btys,
joint prey of the Muse taill
Emperors, hos manifest sun
Lion. las:rants BAIRA
) regenerate the Otto and
l• its Government from th "1
vies and to enable Tuik wor
the shore of the Besphoru bee
ertain of the preciviinten at-
s
rclutive to France, yet is to
of his en ru;ty toltusnaaror o Ca'
sore the ::;;;;raudisement r del