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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19.

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ir any thing could place, iii a more conspicuous
point Sif view, the utter incapacity of die present
tlabirset, in sending such an army iisvo. assembled,
wider Sir AeTItU tVi:ttextev, in the mouth of
May, to make a rash irrupt ttttt into Castile. instead
of transporting them from the :Inglis to Trieste it
s, outs! he the intelligence ricently received from
Germany. It corms, to every !mews'', lilt COIIVits.
11(!ti, that nothing, except the appeaustice of thirty
disunion! British soldiers, in she Tyro!, during the
months of July and Astro, was waictilig to have
reanimated all the eouati.a from Cannella to the
Danube, std to ate arrested the course of 800 x-
PARTE. We cannot pc use, without seutinients of
tht Inelie,a concern and indignation, the a coon s
transmitted in the German G artier; even in those
written under the very eye of the T)rant ; which
contain the pastieulars of the existing insurrection
among the mountains of the Brennersberg, the.
Vomlberg. and of the whole tract that extends
along the valley of the Inuthal, to the lake of Con-
stance. It i. evident that LE Fr at the head
of a very considerable arms-. with which he had
peuetratud across all the Tyrol, from hornet, al-
most to the gates of Britten, was driven hack with
immense loss by these undisciplined mountaineers,
whom their own Sovereign, and Goverument. have
abandoned. So suldiant an exhibition of loyalty.
and of the uni onquerable s irat of freedom. In •
sequestered corner of the Austrian dominions.
amidst snows, and precipieee, ou4ht to awaken the
lethargic energies of Switzerland, a country which
has sialisrecl every ?species of oppression, under the
French yoke. Even Bavaria and Wirtervilserg,
from their vietuity to the theatre of war, muss
deeply participate in the calamities inflicted by the
ambition and vengeance of r: ro Leo imr. on Ger-

The prolongation of the conferences, held for the
purpose of isegociating peace; the utter ignorance
which the continent is kept of their tenor or pro-
ceedings; the contradict with which the foreign
Gazettes ebouurl ; and the reports coetinaa. y e
viverl or diffused, of the near approach of peace be-
toren Ateitria and France ; all these ii3rnptorn
sufficionily indicate the impediments tl:at exist.
and which prevent its completion. It is, there lore,
evident, that the Austrian armies, though worsted,
are lint vanquished. Never would BOriAPAaTE
have propelled, with more expedition, the forms of
diplomatic delay, than at the present momeet, if
he had been stile to dictate low to FRANCIS 11. as
he did, in 1886, at Pie.iburgh ! The most cogent
reasons impelled him to accelerate the tersainatiou
of the negociations Ha:4mnd at Altenburg. The
insurreet.on in .the Tyrol, ►he eNpedition In time
Scheldt, the iuvasion of Naples; more than all, the
state of affairs iu where s British army, after
compelling SW:LT to quit Portugal, might have
been employed, either in attacking him in the
Austrian provinces, at the head of the Adriatic, or
in Catalonia ; from whence, after recovering Barce-
lona, they might have menaced the southern pro-
vinces of France. What might not, infect, have
been achieved, if a wise and vigorous Adrninistru-
tion hail, in the summer of inn!), presided over the
counsels of Great Britain ! How favourable, and
we fear, irrecoverable, no occasion has been lest, of
animating Holland and the Netherlands! But,
en the present, as on so many preceding occasions,
BVSIAPARTII has found his nett allies, and his
►rarest support, in the incapacity of his enemies.

If the conduct of the supreme Junta towards
the British forces, in mot providing for them sup.
plies of any kiwi, iticontestibly proves either their
utter incapycity, or their criminal neglect, we fear
that neither more activity. exertion, or inclination,
will be displayed by the Portuguese Government ;
mid we are far from believing, that they possess suffi-
cient energy or capacity to correct, and to repair the
roes., as well as palpable, errors, that the Spanish
Junta hare committed. But the Secretaries of State
who impelled Si► J. Muoau to advance from Sala.
matica to Madrid, nottritlistaridiag the reluctance
evinced by that aisle and judicious Commander,
and in defiance of the reasons which should have
rendered them distrumfol of the Spanish Counsels
and Generals—such Ministers, we may rarely as-
sums, wilt encoarage, if not enjoin, Sir Among

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WELLPSI.V.Ir to remain in Portugal. We trust, that
whenever Parliament au -eta, an immediate impory
will be set on foot, to ascertain whist part 01 the
culpability of the late rlli ll 1•4141 march into Castile
belongs to the Adman:Arista:sit, and what part is
attributable to the Columander- in-Chief. Nut
that, in our judgment, any instructions or 01--
den, however strong, can ever justify a march,
which, in whatever point of view we consider it, ap-
pears to bear, in every feAture, the iudelible ini.
preatimaof temerity, precipitation, Nod want of Ail
salutary precaution. What! iv i thou tti rst seeorill
the two great parses, by which So u vr, or NEv,
might enter Extremadura in his rear; without
►ettling u plan of operation with CUSITA, 014 14110 SP
ability and seal every thing depended; destitute of
horses, moles. or CLirriages, for the trunaportation of
his sick and wounded; lastly, knowing that no
magazines of provisious, ur el bread and biscuit,
were provided ; but relying on the impotent anti
fieil assurunces of such a muck Executive Govern-
ment as tluit established at Seville ; would any
man, possessiog ordinary reflection. even if Lord
Carrheaeaou had been insensate enough to send
him peremptory orders to push on towards Madrid,
have ever undertaken to execute snob commands
We hive seen haw Sir Julia Mutter, when 'placed
in similar circumstances, tcniterl the pressing in-
stances made hint by Mr. l'axitc, end by CIIAR-
SULLY, eustarinell by Lord CivtI.CREAGN, to carry
We army into the central provinces of Sr1:0114
Would that his genius, his wisdom, and 1110 caution,
had survived in Sir ARTHUR !

IVhoever locally knows the province of New,
Castiir, would hesitate long I►efore, even under
wore involuting appearances, he attempted to
make it the seat and theatre of war. Its position,
so remote from any sea-port. and so distant even
from Seville, renders it most perilous. The sterility
of the soil in many parts, the paucity; iudrfference,
or disaffection of the nth: daimons, ad which *ere
well knowu, added to the revisit devastatioti that the
country bad suffered from the presenceof, con-
tributions levied by VICTOR'S, MORTIER'S and Se-
LtsTIANI'S corps, -tnt4ht have, lane should think,
sufficiently instructed ear commander, hi the dan-
gers to which he reflectively exposed his tinny,
from the moment erect that he passed the Porto-
gorse frontiers. It ors little:less titan insanity, to
rush ea to Taborer* without looking behind hun ;
and say man who ►eflected, or who weighed the
facts, might have foreseen and foretold the probable
conclusion.

If, however, in opposition to common sense. and
in &Armee of experience; it was determined by our
Government. that into Spain our troops mast Sod
should lie sent, it was not into New Castile they
ought to have marched. While CUSITA
eora-
muatwled in the province, Vssioas in La Manche,
and Marshal BrAesroma. stationed at Castel•
bronco. ABRANTNS, or Elsa*, protected Portugal;
our army should have proceeded into Andalusia.
and taken post between tke thutialquieir and Gib-
raltar right wing resting on that lustre's;
its left wing being supported by Cadi.; having
Sevilk in front. It would, in that almost in-
attackable position, have covered with its shield
the Government, and the navy of Spain; while
it would have formed a nucleus, to which, and
upon which, every man co the peninsula, dies
posed to re,ist the French, 'night inove fallen brick
and united himself. In ease even of the worst ex-
tremity, we should not need. as at Talavera, to
abandon our wour.ded to the cure of the Spanish,
or to the mercy of the French Commanders. 11 •
diversiou lad been smte, it ought unquustionably
to lute been is Catalonia. Had Sir JOHN STOART,
instead of utturicii g los bia and Proesdn, been sent
to l'alastur, to limier, or to Tartu tore, the Cata-
lans world have risers every where, nod Barcelona
might have been recovered. But, of what avail
is it to throw out throe propositions and ideas
to a Cabinet where Lord CAMDZN presides;
where the Duke of PORTLAND is the head of
the Treasury ; and of which Mr. CANNING
and Lord CASTLERTAGU are the two eyes? We
must have other men, and other heads, to oppose
the Corsic,iir. who, as soon as he con pacify the
east 1111ficentre of Europe, will. we may be assured,
without delay, transfer his arms and his energies
beyond the Pyrenees.

'nor Walthamstaso, Capt. Jos Es. and the Asic
Capt. TREltEtinttitE, arrived at Madras, fro: Cu.
lumbo,oft the 30th March last, tinder convoy of lies
MAJESTY'S Alp Psyche, Capt. EDI:MCI:IIRK.
The Planter, from Surmsm, armed at Bristol.
sailed with several vemsels from Surinam and D.
merant, under eonvny of a sloop of War, and parted
from them the httl) inst.

The Captain man-of-war, Commodore to the
Leeward Idand fleet, is arrived at Plymouth. with
.only two of the convoy. nnstuly, the Hero, Beat.
from St. Vincent's, at:tt the Henry, J ACKSONII from
Martinique. both dirt:raided. Two of 11w Jamnea
fleet have also arrived at Bristol, both tlistnwiterl.
The Tiger transport.froin Coeuuna, marked FL!,
is &nitwit at Plymouth. Mr. DRRRYMAN, of the Bar.
Par, of 9s gnus, came passenger in her, charged
with dirpitches. 1-le states, that the French were
hourly expected tit arrive at Corium:a, and that the
greatest confterion prevailed at that place.' The
Tiger wits obliged to be towed aut by twelve bo as,
and left Coritturn five &rye since. Ali the Spanish
stip+ at frerril were under sailing orderv, end were
nearly ready for sew. The British ships ntiVortiutea
are the Barfieur, of 9R ions; 71,,Nent.. of R 4 g ;
I )tfrure, Triumph, sod Zeninug, of 74 ;met melt ;
and Indefatigable, of 38 gum, elf Fermi.