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LONDON,
THLTIigt)4Y. Joss g.

Two Spanish Nobler:pea, Viscount • MATEREKA
and Dom Damao De LA Vans, arrived hit morn-
ing at the Admiralty, attended by Captain HILL.,
of the Humber. They name over from Spain in
the Stag privateer, Ind were lauded at Falmouth,
having got on board that ship from an open boat
that took them from Gijon, in the province of As-
turias. They offered .500 guineas for a passage to
England. They have brought the following Intel-

ligence: •
They were in Madrid at the time of the insur-
rection, on the 2d of May, and report that 4000
French were killed, including a large proportion
of Officers. They contrived to make their escape
after the insurrection, sod Li:trite:led into the pro-
vin,!e of Asturias, which they left about the 30th
or filar•. They assert, that one sentiment of in-
dignation against the French pervades Spain, but
particularly the province of Asturias and GnlLicia.
Gallicia hint a Este of insurrection, and even the
women are, by their speeclie3 endemicity:le, animat-
ing the men to take up arms ...whist the invaders.
All Asturias is rising, and has already oa foot an
army of 40,000 men.

There is no want of arms, but a great scarcity of
ammunition: Asturias set the example of resist-
ance, and dispatched Commissioners into Gallicia,
to invite the people to rise in concert with them.
Mr. HCIITE% the British Consul, hating been
sent prisoner by AIJRAT from 31Airi.l, with orders
that he should be thrown lot.) pri,ton at St. A:idero,
the people invnediately rn.a u i.l livra• J him,
and put the French Consul in pri.o.i in his stead.
A declaration of war against the French was tun
israied at St. Audero. These Noblemen enta,tan
little do:-.*.t.. that Bizseuy and Catalowa will itlllllo*
(lately follow the example of Asturias awl Galli-
(la, and they desv.ibe aW Spain to be against the
French. They have net brought any intelligence
from Cadiz.

From the great importance attached by the
Treasury Journals to the intelligence received yes-
terday from Spain by the two Spanish Noblemen,
who have come to England with Captain Hitt.,
we must presume that Government were very im-
perfectly informed, or rather totally ignorant, of
the state of that country. Our secret service
money is, indeed, very badly applied, if any this(
in the story of these emigrants was Dell to Mi-
nisters. We fear, however, that the whoie &tat
is to them a perfect novelty. The Troesury.laarnals
represent them as taken by surprise. Referring lo
the statement of the two Spanish Noblemen, tboy sag
" There cannot be a doubt that a most favourable
opportunity has occurred for this country to do
something. What it may be advisable to do, we
pretend not to define, but we understand that Go-
vernment bare nut lost a moment in taking such
steps as they deemed necessary. It would not, we
think, be impolitic to publish a vigorous Address to
the Spanish Nation, offering them every assistance
in our power, proclaiming our wish to make pm".
a ith theirs, declaring that we du not pretend to in-
terfere in their intermit' Government, and that our
sole object is to enable them to get rid of the tyranny
of France." Such is the language of one of the lead-
ing Ministerial Prints of yesterr;ay! Alas! that all
the wisdom and energy of the vigorous Espeditiou-
famiers should conic to this. They are said to know
nothing of the recent events in Spain, until two
Spanish Grandees escape, as by miracle, to inform
them, and then it is proposed, in the plenitude of
their vigour, to send out the all-commanding aux-
iliac) fosse of a Proclamation, with expedition-
fees to the l'rinters, to lose not a moment in the
execution of this vigorous measure !

A Gottenburgh Mail arrived, last night, with in-
telli....ence from Oat city to the 31st last, and from
Stockholm to the ~:9th. The Expedition under
General Mown remained in Gotteoburgh Roads
en the 30th, waiting orders from England. The
official accounts from the theatre of war, in Fin-
land, nre of the 12th. The Swedes bad obtained
some trifling advantages, but the army remained in
its former position. On the sides of Norway, the
head-quarters of the Swe:lish army continued, so
late as the 20th, at Holmedal, to which it had some
time before effected its retreat. The Norwegians,
now become the assailants, attacked its right wing,
on the Isth, with a superior force, but were repulsed
with considerable lose. The estimate of the Rus-
sian force, which landed in Gothland, at 4000, wes
an exaggeration. It appears, from the capitula-
tion, that it did not exceed 1,13 i men, Officers in-
cluded.

AU intercosrbe with Entri..old and Sweden is pro-
hibited in Denmark, on 1.4 a of death ; and the
bearers of some Engli:-.h from Ilausburgh to

that coistry, it is Ojai Life heen hanged. Sur.*lY
after this lhawavorri will not charge His attliSli
MAJESTY with being Inkriraren in the cans;,.
Three Eaglish vessels, belonging to a convoy,
under the Tribune frijite, hound for the Baltic,
have been taken by the Danes.
Pru4sia can no longer be said to exist as a mili-
tary Power. Her once flourishing army is reduced
to five thotnand men.

The American Minister at our Court free re-
ceived dispatches from his Government. They
were brought by the St. Miehnet, which sailid
from America in the latter end of April, with two
Nl:ssengers, one of whom the landed at L'Orient.
charged with diNpatches for Ge!ieral
at l'arie, and the other came to England, with dis-
patches.for Mr. PIRCUIIY. Report states, that
they a/m.oa pacific tendency, and this eircurn-
*tauter coupled with the iatelligence received yes-
terday from Spain, had a very favouruble etruct
upon the fupdr. T 11:: 3 per Cent. Reduced left
off eft, ad the anxious at 4!. They had been
higher is the course of the day.

Is is Os intention at GorernMent to line the
trout of Essex and Sage With Martello towers, in
the same way u they have covered the coast of
lieut. A ho-:; of 500 men are now employed at
Grays, i■ Eetit:X, making bricks for the purpose.

The P►inre Ernest Packet is arrived at Fal-
mouth, with Mails from Jamaica, in 41 (lays pas-
sage. General Sir ETRE Coo-rE, and some other
Officers of distinetiou, RTC come home n. her.—
The Packet, ill her passage out, on the vett. of
March, fell in with a French schooner of In guns
and 100 men, which she gallantly beat oil.—
Tbs. t nemy fought within half pistol shot, and i. e
attempted to board, but were repuh-ed. . The "adv.
rigging, &c. of each vessel were completely tut aN ;
the action lasted four hours, durin,; which they Were
frequently alongside. At one time a seaman from
the packet caught ►tc t reuch co:ours from the
gait, sad tare them in two. Capt. Petri., with two
of his seamen, (one siEce dead of his wound.) was
wounded early in the active. The Csterrier
arrived at Jamaica on the .IMb March, and the
franchise, as the 14th of A pri I, with a couvoy iron
Portsmouth. The Artthcsa nnaiaed at Port
noyal,when the Packet sailed.—The Prince Eruest
.ailed from Crooked Island on the gth ult. The
letters will be delivered this day.

The Channel Flort bailed Torbay, un-
der the esaituand d Admiral Moisten, to resume
iieetaliton ert :Johant, but the wind being adverse,
it returned.

Thr /wives Virate,_ with the feet under her
convoy, which from Portsmouth 011 .4tll
April, flys the West Indies, is arrived at Madeira.

t mete accounts state, that the fleet io
which has for some time been ready for sea, is ex-
pect*" to sail about the latli of the present mouth,
tf the agate of the weather, and the ale-cure of our
*Mai, 4, squadrons, permit the enemy to eacnie
from lert. Ihe fleet in Flushing consists of eight
sail of the line, three frigates, and some gan-briga.
Two the line-of-tattle ships, we undersuuirl, aro
mama* Lj Jauish seamen: but the crews of tile
other shiEb are very indifferent, biMig chiefly com-
posed of Outer aim : boor,.
Mr. Ftsiess•t RICK, *respect:o4e Attorney, was
committed to the Yai.halsea prison, Dublin, on
the let iustaut, ny the 31}ustee of the Rolls, for
swetri gin an aids vit, that his Client had 10-t a
vsniict at the late Astite,, for the county of
Kerry, by reason of the ill-health, and the con-
sequent intemperance of the Judge who hied the
can.r."

Two new men . f war, the Royal George. of 110
Runs, and the 71wfaigar, of 74, are now building at
Deptford. The) lie in two slips alonpide of each
other.

The Magistrates and Gentlemen of the baronies
of Claamorris and Iraghticonnor, in the county
of Kerry, were called together to meet on the 3d,
at Listowel, for the plirpole of taking into con-
sideration the disturbed ,tote of those baronies, and
adopting measures for the euppre.eiou of violent
gating's..
A list of men who perished on the Island of
Shelling. between the 19th and ei,tJanuary. Meas_
belonginz to lb. litursrv'. lute ship Nora :
Seaniew—Oliver 4rmour, John Rodeo, Alexander Wright,

sod Charles Fiat-lett.
Mali el —ll' . Whitelsead,i4lllel Dover, Jsreph
Buys—Chaska Gerulaiu, 11. R. Cewpor,
Pair-
brother.
Died is Harlingen prison fu February, Islos—.Maurice Fitz-
gerald, Seaman, W.. I..4gclale, Marine.

On Monday a Court-Martial assembled on hoard
the Magnanime, at Shcerip:,, the lion.
Captain Btat AN% 0 President, for the trial 41
Lieutenant N Pe, rommataiiiig the Turbuloit
gun-brig; being accnoed by the Muster of a Da-
nish vesiel he captured, of taking from him
four guinea,. his private property ; when, after a
full iiivesticatieu of the circumstances. the money
was proved u have been given to theoPilot and Mas-
ter's Ante, and iso part whatever appropriated by
Lieut. N °PPS to his own tire; the Court therefore ad-
judged him to male good the same to the Danish
inastcr. and admonished him to Is more circum-
spect i.i future respecting the private property of
our enemies. The Court then proceeded to try
Lieutenant Emir, the Officers and crew, for the
loss of 1111 MAJESTY.* sloop the Ilidgeon, at
Banff, in Scotland, when they were all honourably
acymitt..d, except the Pilot, who, being found guilty
of uegi;.;ence, &c. was sentenced to be mulcted of
his pa), to La. itaprisoued six months in the
111arslialsea.