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tenal to elapse, without tusking the greatest exer
Liens to recover the capital ? if they are capable
of 'such iuertiun, they do not merit to he free.
We believe, however, not only that they will turn
their arias tote r& Madrid, but we are assured
that new co-operations, on our part, are about to be
made. 'Three regiments are under orders to No-
kirl withoot delay ; and, us we conceive, for Spain;
but their 'particular local destination we do not
pretend to ascertain ; 'nor, under such Ministers as
ours, do we entertain any confident expectations
of stiecess. IVhat ciiii he especttel from a Cabinet
which sent DALILYNWLE to supersede %Vet.t.s:si.ax ;
and which dictated the contradictory, impractica-
ble, or uniutellible orders, by which Sir JOHN
Menus was finally sacrificed ? if Spain, or if
Austria, possess virtue, firmness, and resources,
to stand the revolutionary, as well us the military
shock of the common destroyer, the ancient d)
uus-
ties, and the ancient order of event., may yet be
upheld, or restored. We by no aprons despair of
Germany, hopeless 115 the position or that country
appears. Even in the midst of submission and
prostration, we see sparks of loyalty, and manifest-
ations of weariness, or abhorrence, of the Ajaccio
breed of Kings. lu Westpbalie,.lxaossix's power
and person . ars held iu emitempt. Prussia and
Saxony seem disposed to mike one more struggle
for emaneipation. If, as some of the Foreign Ga-
zettes assert, the Austrians have repulsed Matt
Most, on the side of Curniola, and secured Trieste,
while their farces are advancing into Bavaria; and
if, on the other side, the troops of that power have,
by a rapid movement front Bohemia, possessed
themselves of Dresden; the game is not yet up, and
Europe way be saved. We dare not, it is true, en-
courage say saligitiue hope% after our past expe-
rience ; but the next advice' from Germany may
open new prospects.

General CLawi.ctNii NAS yeetenlay taken into
eaatudy by the Sk.rjeutit at Arm; of the num of
Commons, and committed to Nengate.

Yesterday inorniiig liis Manny. and 'lnures
AUGUSTA. accompanied by Liarls CHLATERPIIILD
and WINCHIL764. Generals DE BUDE, NIA%:.10E11.
and FITZROY, aad Lady A,.ststA CEMIREII.4IIO9
rode in Windsor Great Park, and returned at half
vast twelve o'clock to the Castle.
Princesses Sorsa.' and Amtmea area little better.
Iler MAJESTY. we are sorry to say. is slightly in-
disposed.
Yesterday, at two o'clock, Sir DAVID DUND4I
held his first public day, at the Commander-in-
Chief's Office, since its appointment to that Office,
and gave audience* to about thirty General Offi-
cers. Among theist were, the Nlartiois of Ile NT..
LEY. Lord CLAaINA. Sir Evitt; COOTE, S.r
MAIL[ WOOD. Gen. BaLrova, Gan. TIMISTON,
Lieut.-Gen. BaLtottn, Le. Ste. Sir 13Avto warn
dressed in full uniform, but :recited the °Serra
out of Uniform. The Adjutant and Quarter-:das-
ter-General attend Sir I)►vlD I)LINDAS every day.
at his Office.

An American vessel, celled the Hiram. which
had broken the eintstrgo, arrived at Greenock lust
Saturday from Savannah. She has brought papers
to the 14th tilt. A Resolutiou had heels proposed
in the House of Rowesentatives, and reti•ired to a
Committee, proposing to authorize by law the
cousinatiders and cress of merchant vessels of the
United States to °pixy* and to repel force any
attempt to search them by British or French armed
vessels. If such law be passed and persisted ill, it
most inevitably produce hostilities between this
country and the Vatted States, 1111 it would involte
the very existence of our maritime rights and su-
periority.
The Princess ELIZA, m she is tenfied by BONA-
PARTE, and whom he has declared Arch-Duchess
of Tuscany, with the title of Imperial fligh-
tless," is the favourite sister of die Corsican. 1.1
St. Domingo, while her first husband. General Lc
CLEac, governed and desolated that beautiful
island, she awaseed an innuEnse fortune, which,
tozetber with her connexions, procurtil her a at-
voila husband, the Prince BORGFIEII6. During her
resident:cut Paris. some years ago, Madame 130 NA•
PARTE atel she were Limon to live on the worst
terms. This revolutionary Princess is near forty-
sue years of age, possessed of no personal amity-
-I.IOIIN, lett urine, Isigh.spinted, rapacious, end fond
of dominion. The Tuscaus universally deprecate
her arrival among them at Florence.
Yesterday, a Court of Director.. was held at the
Indio House, when Captain T 1101441 HERBERT
11 KRIS, wax *warn into the ermine:nod of the ship
Retreat, and took his final leave of the Court, pry-
violas to departing for Madeira, Madras and Bengal.
On Monday the Rochester and Chatham, Vo-
lunteers. comer:mks' by Lieutenant-Colonel Two. I
moti. mid lately forming • port of the North
Avlesford Legion. assembled ou their parade. at
Chatham, and were informed, that a letter had
Lees received by their eninenutaling offieer,directing
that the member* of the corps should deliver in
their arms and accoutreinetits, Hi. MaJiarrY not
having any further occusiou for their services.
A short time since the three companies corn-
mended by Major Tnomsort received a notice to
the same effect ; as did also the troop commanded
by Captain TYLDIEN.
The Drape, Avant, from Iluyti and Jamaica,
for Liverpool, is totally lost on the coast of
ForiWa.
The Hanle, GROV F. from the Brasile to Bristol.
was taken the 4th inst. A•-taken the 14th, and sr.
rived at Ilymouth the .24d iust.
A Gentleman who arrived front the Continent
on 'Tuesday last, states, that France had declared
war against Austria, hod that the declaration was
published at Paris on the 17th iustant.
It is stated in one of the New York Papers, tliat
two vessels were immediately to he dispatched to
England and France, with the whieletese of the
American Government, and that if it were not ac-
ceded to, war would be the consequence, and the
Mme %Isere!' would convey home, from loath coos-
tries, the American Ministers cud Consul•.