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ceeded with reinforcements ou board, to si.pp,,rt en General a ti*
tiler attack upon the enemy.
" Furti er reinforcementi, under Major neharen, pro, ceded this
day from Kingston to join General Vincent. The British loss has
been my slight. The official dispatches are hourly exp, cted.
(Signed) ,4 E. B. A. G."

The following arc particulars of the action of the 28th
May, extracted from the Quebec Papers. The account is
taken from the Albany American Paper:—
" The British fleet of five or ix sail were discOvered off onr har.
hour curly yesterday morning. By 9 o'clock it was 'educed to 4
certainty that it was their intention to land. Alarm-guns were im-
mediately fired, and every preparation was made to give them a
warm reception. A light wind, and some other canes, prevented
their landing until 4 o'clock this morning, %Oen they effected it
with considerable loss. The action continued warm and general till
six o'clock, when it terminatedin the retreat of the enemy to their,
fleet.

. " Lieutenant-Colonel Mills, of the Volunteers, is among. the
slain. Colonel Rackus, of the .Ist regiment of Light Dragoons, is
said to be mortally wounded. Two General Officers of the enemy
were found dead on the lien'. It is understood that Governor Pre-
vost commanded the enemy. General Brown commanded our force.
The enemy are now making out of the harbour.
" We regret to say. that the Naval Officer who had command of
part of the naval stores, apprehensive that the enemy would carry
the place, ordered them to be z,et on tire in the early part of the
engageownt."— A egos.

Such is the Yankee story; but it is evident that the re-
embarkation of our force only took place after they had ac-
complished their object, and succeeded in destroying the
naval stores, collected by the enemy at their principal d.•
pots. Indeed we learn that of r success was most complete.

The City of Washington was in great alarm; our fleet is
Lynhaven Bay being increased to.twenty-seven sail. A re-
port is in circulation that the city has been taken, .but we
have no authority of this fact.

THE REGVNT'S sPE'F.CI-1.
The Session of Parliament was closed last Thursday by
the PRINCE REGENT in person, who. went in state to the
House of Lords. His Royal Highness was addressed by the
Speaker of the House of Commons, who gave him a brief
account of all the proceedings of Parliament during the
Session. The REGENT, iu his speech, took a review of the
chief topics that had been discussed. except the issue of the
Catholic Question, on which he expressed
.no opinion, at--
though it had been mentioned in the SPEAKER'S address, and
although his Royal Highness took particular notice of a sub-
ject which is not of superior importance, the settlement of
the East India Charter. This silence has revived the hopes
of the Cath,lies. who attribute it, but we trust erroneously,
to unwillingness on the REGENT'S part to slitide to a measure
the rejection of which he disapprayed. The Speech thert
reverts to the glorious achievements of our arms, Ow pro-.
mising state of our relations with Russia, Prussia, and Swe4en.
laments the continuation of the war with America, but ex=
presses a firm resolution not to conclude it by any sacrifice
of our just rights; and terminates by a declaration that an
the advantages gained by our arms, and the powerful means
placed at the disposal of Government, shall only he em-
ployed " to facilitate the attainment. in conjunction with our
Allies. of a secure and honourable peace."
This last sentence is the more importar.t, as it shows, in
direct contradiction to the reasonings of hose who wish to
prove the necessity of an eteinal war with the present French
Government, even should it submit
.to: the sacrifices re-
quired, that the PRINCE REGENT
tasters think differently, and are
our means and-triumphs, it is pbssi,
and.honoura6k peace.”

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of England and his Mi.
of opinion that, through
ihle to conclude ".4 secure
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LONDON GAZETTE EXTR %ORDINARY.
The contents of the Gazette Extraordinary, cf Tuesday
t, will he read with mixed emotions of exultation and
shame—of hope and disappointment. On the one hand, we'
behold the dispersed banals cf a vain-boasting enemy, ahan-
sinning, we trust for ever, a country snr long the scene of
their atrocities ; the British standard unfurled on French
}:round, and France herself on the eve of reaping the just
f. uits el her treacherous aggression upon Spain by the deso-
lation of her own fields. Such are in the western part of!.
,Spain the results of the 'vast plans cf the Marquis of W I L-'
LING lON, ably carried into execution bribe skill and bra-
very of the officers and men under his immediate command.
The day of the camelete deliverance of Spain seemed at !
Tana?; masses of pan iotic Spaniards, of Portuguese, of Si-
cilians, and- of English, were hastening towards the eastern
frontier, .where a corresponding, movement had been intended
by the directing Genius. But that ',art of the operations has
inc .t miserably mi-carried ; English soldiers have been pre
eipi,tately rein barked withont seeing the enemy, and leaving
behind them their stores and their ai tiliery.
Sir Jon N Mu RIZAV cunitnanded that ill fated expedition.
Ile bad shared the early exploits of Lord W ELLINGTON,
and had fought with dktinguished honour on the banks of
the Dpura, but whatever glory he may have acquired in a
itabordinate situation, he has completely lost as Conimander
in .Chief, for which station his mind seems by no means
qnsditir d. It would be unjust to condemn Sir Jona tite
heard, and it would las presumptuous to pronounce, when
Lot_d W EfbLINGTON himself eIL clines giving an opinion;
'but it is not too much 16 say, after reading Sir Jon N't; :.411(1
a'oseritar's account of this expedition, Heat an inquiry is ab-
aulutely necessary, indeed no one ought to be more an \ions
ler it tlern the unfortunate Geiti.Ti al himself.
Sir .1011 N, in his whining diseatch to 1 .ord WELLINGTON,
(the very different tone of a former- ones' ill surely be tecol-
lecied) gives a ftightful enumeration of the dearent cores
•saltich SUCII ET couta? brine against him, and which tic
znates at a. 0,500 men, Les.ides those of General MATHIEU,
on another side, &c. &v. We cannot hoa ever help thinkieg,
notwithstanding those surmises of good Sir .1 onN, that many
of these troops were " men in but ratn." S acne's. .hinise 11.
in his dispatch, says that he had with him six thous:led in-
fantty and eight hundred horses only; and it clues not appear
*that Sir JOHN sent any detachment to reconnoitre and
ascertain his force. We know, besides that, by the taking
of fort San Felippe, we were masters of the only read
through which SUCHET could convey any artillery, and
St:CHET confirms this in the most unequivocal manner;
•surely Sir Jolts must have been aware of this circumstance,
and it might have allayed in some degree, his extreme ap-
Frehensions, especially when he had himself one hundred
and eighty pieces of cannon. But then those fires on the
heights .had such a terrible appearance, especially in the
• night, and Sir JOHN has so much of the lion in him, that,
like that noble beast, the blaze forced him to.abandon his prey.
'l'o resume : we hope, and trust that an inquiry will take
place. We have heard military men, well acquainted with the
• localities, maintain, that with the possession of fart San Fel ippe
and the English men of war on the coast, Sir J. Mu RRA
would have been perfectly safe, had he with him only 6,000
men ; and that SUCH ET knew the art of war too well to de-
ieend from the Mountains into the Campo di Tarrogona to
attack him without any artillery, as he would have been cx-
pOsed to certain destruction. This, independent of any
other circumstance, is a sufficient ground for inquiry.
We shall conclude these observations by noticing a pas-
of Sir JOHN MuRRAY's dispatClll in which be states

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that he had 13,000 Spaniards with him, but that he could
Jtot depend•upon them. Allowing this to he. correct, which
we doubt extientely, no assertion could be more ill, timed
or mere impolitic. It should seem however by this, that
tiir 3c)IIN -MURRAY, it) the Choke of soldiers, is more diffi-
cult to be plelccd than Lord WELLINGTON, Sir ROWLAND
HILT, and Tuom AS GrtAnAM; for the former sent
Spanish ticqps to take Popcorn), and they surpassed his ex-
peetatiow: ; at the bilttlf.! of Vittoria Sir IiowLAND HILL
first sent the Spattidt division. of- Multi t.t.o to storm the
hills on the tight, and Sir THom_As GRAHAM emploied
Spanish and Pm tugoese divisions to turn the enemy-on the
left, which services the Spaniih troops performed to the ad-
-
nitration of the whole army.

Paris Papeis reached town on Friday, to, the 20th instant,
a month after the battle of Vittoria, and yet no mention of
that event. Their contents are, upon all other subjects,
unusually barren of interest ; and so Paris papers always are,
when the interest that might be excited, is not favourable to
the French. BuON APAR TE has come from Dresden to Mag-
deburg. Theobject of hi= journey, farther than a general
review of the foi tress( s and troops in his rear, is not spe-
cified ; but those who delail his motions would wi.,11 us to
believe that he is wholly impassible of fatigue. Active
enough he is, no doubt, but yet he must take some rest.
There is, no questicn, much of fal,ehood, with a studious
afleciat ion of parade, mixed up in them accounts of his pro-

CCCti ings.
A report floe: Src.NET to the War Minister details certain
()et-orient:es in Valencia, after the return of the former from
the neighbourhood of Tan agoua. The recent operations in
the I.alit of Spain arc huntiliatiog concerns, to which ANC wish
thfo ve were not obli::;e6 tot clew. These, however, upon the
X near, aye of no great moineht.
The Ft ouch Papers stilt speak, no doubt in terms of am-
plification, of the levy and twitch cf flesh troops to the
North. They boast, also, of the number and condition of
fortified places in the rear of 11"..:0ti AP ART I.
The rrivate accounts Horn St. PetersburOi -continue to
Teak of the march of large re-inf,irceLnents' to join tire
P..wisian army, and no idea was eutertained in that capitttl
that the armistice would lead to a pelve. The Crown Prince
of Sweden had left Stralsund, it wa supposed on a tour of
inspection through Pon:crania. lle wa, to he followed by
Mr. THURSTON and the other Foreign Itlinisten. Orders
had been issu-ed for a vigorous prosecution of the maritime
war bet wee-u Sweden and Denmatk, and some idea appeals
to be entertained, that the Norwegians will be compellcel,
flout want of provisions, to listen to the terms obeyed to
them by Sweden. Thit ty thousand Norwegians, it is said,
presented themselves lately on the frontiers of Sweden, and
requotell a supply of provisions fro the Swedish General
E,su.N. This request, however, he did not think proper to
com,lly with.
A letter from Stralsund, dated July 5, says, " The army
under the command of the CROWS Pni N Cr. is estimated at
from 60 to 80,000 men. Count ENODT, Governor of
Norway, shot himself, overpowered by his afflictions, lie being
unable to supply the dcmands of tire inhabitants for sub-

sistenee."
The news t,t. the I.ictory cf Vittm•kt reached Gottenburgh
last Sunday Ivi‘ck, and produced great satisfaction. Mr.
Fisn El?, the Messenger, proceeded directly with the th.litls
t!) the bead-quarters of the Al:ics.
The Emperor of Russ' A is to be pre3ented with tilt a.ttir
of the Gaiter. A Chapter, for the election and
by proxy, of his Imperial Majesty, will be held next wii't

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