The National Register.
London, England, 1808-10-30 00:00:00

OCT. SO.

pect that Government has employed iu its reply a tone of
language consonant to our situation, and the feelings and
expectations of Europe.
Shall we now indulge ourselves, as a matter of curious
speculation, in a few observations on the consequences of
a peace. The first result of it must be the reduction of our
army and navy, in order to diminish the unprecedented
burthens the people have submitted to, in order to secure
their independence and existence as a nation ; and to re-
move every cause of discontent and complaint, for all the
calamities of war are far less troublesome than a peace
tortured with suspicion and never-ceasing complaint, it will
be necessary to invite our volunteers to disband. General
CAVLINCOURT, the present Ambassador to the Court of
Russia, better known as the murderer of the Duke D'EN-
GIIILN, or General Jti NOT) we mean the Duke D'Anax isms,
or some other virtuous and disinterested General shall be
sent as Minister to our Court, to cement the auspicious union.
And as every principle of gratitude must suggest to BONA..
PARTE the necessity of providing for the companions of his
dangers and victories, he will find it expedient and just to send
to the principal sea-ports of the United Kingdom a number
of Engineers, in the quality of Commercial Agents.
France, as a military state, can have no pretext for disband-
ing her armies; and the losses she has sustained during the
course of the Revolution, render an augmentation of her
navy indispensable. As Pondicherry must be returned, we
have no right to dictate to her as to the number and qua-
lity of the Agents she will send to occupy it ; besides the
French are particularly addicted to an interchange of polite-
ness, and it is to be presumed they will endeavour to estab-
lish a friendly intercourse with the Princes of Ifindostan.
BONAPARTE has, in like manner, at his disposal contribu-
tions to the amount of four hundred millions of livres, the

honourable fruits of his prowess and success ; and what a
man has gained nobly, he wishes to spend liberally, he
might, therefore, be inclined to relieve the einba rra ssments of
our fellow-citizens, in order to bind closer the friendship
and good-will among the two nations. And—away with
irony-and supposition—when oar soldiers and sailors are
disbanded; after France has augmeated her's; when Ire-
land and India swarm with her Agents ; when the stamina
of our national character is vitiated by an intercourse with
that vile people ; when we have fettered the liberty- of our
Press, and restrained the freedom of debate in our Senate,
in order to avoid entering on a new war with incalcclable
disadvantages—When our youth, among the nobility, and
those endued with a spirit of levity and restlessness among
the middling class, have swarmed to France ; when oar
workmen from the manufacturing towns have been seduced
by every art to abandon their souutry ; when our morals
are degraded ; our spirit broke down ; when the use of
arms is forgotten ; when, after a lapse of ten years spent
mu accommodating our haughty, republican character to
submission and obsequiousness ; the abominable Tyrant
shall pronounce his tremendous sentence !—Then, any of us,
who have the infamy to prefer a life of bondage to
death, will see our country, which is now the seat of free-
dom, opulence, the arts, of private and public virtue, of
30 many social endearing ties, and of so many philan-
thropical institutions, plundered, enslaved, and tyrannised
by a horde of rapacions adventurers !—Oh God ! may thy aw-
ful fiat, sooner than that dread event occur, loosen the.strong
foundations of our Islands, and plunge them into the sur-
rounihng ocean, nith our name, our ir tars, the monu-
ments of our greatne.ii, and every vestigc; of our

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

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FROM THE SPANISII PIPERS.

SPAIN.
r•CTR tORDIN tRY GAZCTTE, OCT. 6.

691

The most Serene Council of the. Kingdom having received on
the ;id of this month a report front General Blake, of the 27th
September, whereby he acquainted their Highnesses that the
centre of the enemy's army was falling; hack to V itoria, by
which retreat he atlbrded our army an opportunity to extend its
advanced posts and occupy very important points, and their
Highnesses having learned that eery disastrous accounts were
circulated in this place, of which they had no kind of informa-
tion, but had rather to believe the contrary, they thought it
right to publish, with that noble frankness which becomes the
Sovereign Council, the favourable intelligence which they
had received, and their well grounded hopes of still greater
advantages. The retreat of the enemy was a relit, intended to
draw our attention to another part, and fall with treble their
strength, on the troops we had in Bilboa. This was the plan of
Marshal Ney, who commands the whole army of the centre,
which was destined for that operation; but the vigilance and
foresight of Marquis de Portago disconcerted Marshal Nev's
plan, because observing the immense superiority of strength
which the enemy could surprise and defeat his division if he im-
prudently remained in llilboa, he left that place of his own free
will, with his whole corps, and all his artillery, and merely
changing his position w it hout the loss of a single man, and v% i t
out experiencing the least check ; hr took post at Ha:seined:l,
and this he did, after having beaten the enemy ; General Re-
guelme, with his division, occupying at I:ist the point of
Oquendo : all which appears more fully by tho said report,
which, by command of their Ilizlmesses, is inserted herein, in
order that the public may not entertain the least uneasiness or
apprehension on that head. The Serene Council hope that the
above movement of the enemy will 'vil to the surrender of Nlar-
shal Ney, and of the whole corps with which he occupies !Whoa.
General Blake havini; very properly fallen back, and taken post
with his whole army on the neighbouring heights, from w hick
position and the reinforcements which lie ninst have received,
we may hope for a complete and signal victory.