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ordered to reinforce the French in Badajos
place, upon knowing General Mgmont
,Diary, July 24.)
MAGAS ON THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OE ASTORGA),. JULY I.
Our head-quarters are established in this place, and our advanced
parties pushed forward as far as Benevente, without.the enemy
daring to molest them. Bessieres has but few troops, and it is
probable he will find himself obliged to abandon all these points.
We shall shortly expect to find Leao free from the 3,500 troops
who garrison it. in Orhigo they have five pieces of artillery.
,Numbers French desert daily.
On the 28th there was a trifling action between the advanced
posts, when we took 10 prisont.rs--(Lisbon Gazette, Jul!) 24.)
VILLAYRANCA DEL VIFRGO, JULY 6:—The French guard the
bridge of Lea() with 2,500 men. We expect they will shortly
retire, because they are wanted at Ciudad Rodrigo, This latter
city is in great want of provisions.—(Spine Paper.)

AMERICAN PAPERS.

RELEASE OF AMERICAN PROPERTY.

BALTIMORE, Joey 17.
Whilst, with every good American, we arc bound to rejoice
at even a remote appearance fsti the release of any property of
our fellow-citizens, held by Buonaparte in sequestration, we
are sorry to• find that the amount designated in use intelligence
furnished by our Correspondent at New York, does not embrace
a greater class of French spoliations. The cargoes not covered
by licenses, which arrived in France after the Ist of November
last, consisted almost exclusively of fish and cotton, transported
In small fast•sailing vessels, which would not admit of stowage
.to any valuable amount. All the property, therefore, promised
to be restored, does not amount probably to more than one
hundred thousand doUars, certainly not to two hundred thou-
sand dollars, for the release, should it ever be converted from
the promise of a faithless despot into a fact, is confined to such
American vessels as arrived in France subsequent to the Ist of
November, and which have been su fortunate as in the passage
not to have become obnoxious to the operations of the Berlin,
Milan, and Bayonne decrees. Nor dots the promise inelude
the restoration of what was seized under the Rambouillet de-
cree, amounting to more than forty million, of dollars; it dues
not even contemplate compensation for the many valuable ves-
sels and cargoes burnt and sunk under Buonaparte's orders.—
Should, therefore, the full amount of what is now promised to
be restored, be really extricated from the tyrant's gripe, it can-
not be considered as any fair pledge of good faith, but rather
. designed for sinister purposes, to answer as the bait of further
delusion, and to gain an opportunity of practising deceit upon a
larger scale.
For let it be carefully remarked and remembered, that no re-
. laxation or change in the French decrees is promised or hinted
at. They remain, the solemn and repeated engagements to the
contrary notwithstanding, in full force against as the funda-
mental law of France, never to be changed till England makes
concessions, which she never will, unless she becomes indiffe-
rent to her own safety, and ready to surrender her Govern-
ment, her liberty, and every thing dear and inestimable to
her inhabitants, into the hands of her revengeful and impla-
cable enemy.
. We are disposed to consider this aspect towards a partial re-
storation of seized property, as having two objects principally
in view:-Ist, to give colour and countenance to the co-opera-
tlng acts of our Government in the Continental System to which
we have become parties in form ;—and 2d, to confuse, obstruct,
and, if possible, prevent any settlement of our differences with
Great Britain, to which the Freed' Government was invited by
the departure of Mr. Foster on his mission.
A little time will verify these suggestions; and should even
. so inconsiderable an amount of property really return to the
bands of its owners, it will be a cheap proof of Buonaparte's
love, which will not fail to swell the hopes and quicken the
zeal of his numerous retainers in and out of the Government.
In the most favourable point of view, it can be considered as
but a very trifling acknowledgment for the condescension ex-
ercised towards him in confiscating both British and American
• property to a larger amount, under the retrospective Act of the
last Session, commonly called the Non-Intercourse Law. And
so we have another example of the cunning tyrant alternating
• his treatment between chastisement and blandishments, in or-
der more certainly to secure compliance seith his will, but
in both cases taking care to render the discipline costly to us
alone.

It is said, we know not on what authority, to be now in agi-
tation among many Protestant Dissenters of this country, to
join the Catholics in Petitions to the Legislature for the removal
of all political disabilities on account of religion.

AMERICA.

The American Papers contain the following
intelligence from Sou:h. America, which is of a
More recent date than any which has hitherto
reached this country.
" By the arrival of the ship Northern Ztikertres, Capt. THORN-
DIKE, from Monte Video, a letter has been received at the
Exchange Coffee-h )use, irorn
-r. ...arrnew BRIDGE, dated
20th May, giving.a detailed account of the military transactions
in that country. By this letter it appears, that on the 17th and
18th of May, another battle was finight betwen the Royalists of
Monte Video and the ludpendents of Buenos Ayres at Piedras"
about nine miles distant from Monte Video; whictl terminated
so decidedly in favour of the Inderndents, that the few of the
other party who survived, fled to the city, an d took with them
all the cattle, horses and sheep they could collect in tVir
retreat.
" As the besiegers are without heavy cannon, and the city of
Monte Video well fortified towards the land, it was expected
the inhabitants would be enabled to defend themselves, unless a
strong spirit of disaffection to the Royal cause should manifest
itself ; in which case the whole country must fall under the
sway of the Independents, of which the Buenos-Ayrians are the
leaders.

" The American trade has been subject to every vexation at
that place. Vessels from Buenos .Ayres, even though arrived at
that place previous to its being declared in a state of blockade,
were, on their egress, liable to capture by the Monte Video
cruisers, and sent in to pay a heavy export duty, which had al-
ready been paid at Buenos Ayres. Sales were very dull, and
effected with difficulty, while the duties were unreasonably
high, and the produce of the country at a most exorbitant price.
We furthermore had every reason to fear' that if the intestine
dissensions of the Province had not rendered it inexpedient,that
the American property would have been confiscated, as the in-
vasion of Florida was known, and tAused much invectives from
all ranks of people,' and in fact the propriety of the measure had
been agitatt.l. by Government."

SUMMER ASSIZES.
CRIM. CON.
CORNWALI..-BODMIN.

FOOTE V. BAYLAY.

Mr. Serjeant Lens and Mr. Dampier, Counsel for the plain-
tiff. Mr. Jekyll acid Mr. Egsfuril, Counsel for the defendant.
Mr. Serjeant Lens stated the plaintiff's case. Mr. Foote is a
Captain in the Navy, and married Mrs. Foote in the year MOO.
In the year 1809, they came to reside at Saltash ; about three
weeks after their removal to Saltash, Capt. Foote went to sea,
leaving his wife and five children at that place. Some years pre-
viously to this, Captain and h I rs. Foote had formed an intimacy
with Capt. Baylay, the present defendant, who resided also at
Saltash, as a private Gentleman, and who engaged to pay every
attention to Capt. Foote'b children during his absence. Soon
after the sailing of Capt. Foote, it was observed that Capt. Bay-
lay was very assiduous in his attention to Mrs. Foote-, and that
he frequented her house very much ; upan which Capt. Cook, a
mutual friLnd of Capt. Foote and Capt. Baylay, spoke to the
latter, and informed him that reports were in very general
circu-
lation respecting the attention shown by him (Capt. Baylay) to
Mrs. Foote, and requested him, as the friend of both parties, to
discontinue these attentions. The defendant upon this declared
that his attentions to Mrs. Foote were perfects) innocent, that
he had never taken so much liberty even as to kiss her, and that
his designs were ..vhally void of crhiinality. Some months af-
terwards, Capt. C'ou'a spoke again to Capt. Bayley on the same
subject, when Capt. Baylay appeared dispkased at the inter-
ference of Capt. Cooke, and repliA rather nasti!y, " that where
he had gohe once to Capt. Foote's house, he would now go
twice." Capt. Cooke told him he bad better not do so, and
left him.
In this situation things remained until Capt. Foote returned tO
Saltash in the month of January last, at which time it did not ap-
pear that he entertained any suspicion of the impropriety of his
wife's conduct, till Mrs. Foote quitted her house on the night of
the 20th February last, and went to that of the defendant, where
she continued until the next morning. A iter waiting for therre-
turn of his wife to a late hour, Capt. Foote went to the house of
Capt. Burkhead, a triend of his, whom he called from his bed, to
assist in searching for her. They searched for her In vain, when
not finding any truce of her, Capt. Foote and his friend returned
i
home. Early on the following morning, accompanied by Capt.
Burkhcal, he repaired again t..) the house of the defendant, and

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