The National Register.
London, England, 1813-12-19 00:00:00

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the Spanish Government, arc strengthened by the following
article in the French Papers received on Thursday :
" Bonn pEAUX, Dtc. 3.—A1l the accounts we seceive confirm the
misunderstanding which exists between the English Government
and the Strani,h Government. They write from Bayonne that they
have just received there a Gazette of Madrid, containing a Decree
of the Cortes, ordering the Spanish troops to obey only their own
Generals, and to take no orders from the English Generals. The
Spaniards rp.nk apart in the army, and do not mix either with the
English or the Portuguese."
The letters from Lord Wellington's army, by the mail
from St. Sebastian's, are to the 7th inst. they state, that the
a-my retains its firmer position. General Mor►llo's divi-
sion rests it right on the Pyrenees; General Sir Rowland
Mill's.head-quarters are at Epilette, he commands the right
eorp,s.diartnee; Sir John Pope is
.a league in front of St.
Jean:de Luz; the Nieve runs in front of the right ; the left
of course rest• on the sea; the position a good one, and no-
body seems to hazard an opinion on the subject of present

advance.
. It is said, that Lord Wellington wrote 'Marshal Snult a
letter, on his entering St. Jean de Luz, in which 'he re-
quested the French Marshal to allow the inhabitants to le-
turn to their houses in St. Jean de Luz, and the villages oe- •
curled by us. Soult sent for the Civil Authority at Bay.
oune, and calmly shoving him Lord .W.'s letter, desired
him tci make a return of such families as wished to return.
A long.-list was soon Irmded to the Marshal, who ordered
all timlemalcs to be marched tp the British lines, and the
males to be incorporated wills his battalions.
11EDUCTIoN IN THE PRICE or BEER.—In consequence
of the reduction in the price of Malt, Ale is reduced 10. s.
and Amber ;is. per barrel, by a regular notice from the Brew.
crs to the Public. Several Brewers also sent notice to
the Publicans of their intention immediately to reduce the
price of Porter, in consequence of which it was yesterday
retailed to the Public at five pence halfpenny per pot.
But this is by no tneans a proper and alequate reduction
in proilortion to the fill which has taken place in the pt ice
of Malt, if that article still continues to foim an essential
1 ingredient in the composition of Porter ? For several weeks
past there have been publicans selling Porter at the old
I price of jive pence per pot, and surely if this could be done
by any, it might have been done by all. Where is the pa-
! triotism of Mr. Whitbread, that with his influence in this
matter, He does not take steps to procure for the lower or-
ders the wholesome beverage of good Beer, at a fair rate'
that their bread (now happily more within the compass of
the Labourer's purse) may not be moistened by a liquid for
1 which an exorbitant price is extorted by monopolizing
ii Brewers ?
1 COPP ER Cocci.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer statea,
in the Howe of Commons on Ft iclay night, that whenever a
II new copper coinage should be issued, the old legal copper
I coin would be called in at its current rate. This explicit
declaration will do away all the inconvenience which was
felt, in consequence of the refusal of tradesmen and others to
accept that coin at its current value for their articles.—The
folloviing Notice has been issued from the different Police

Offices •
" Some don4ts whether persons posicssell of the old copper money
will be secure from los+, at the time any new copper coimige may
be issued, the Magistrates of the Police Offices, desire to inform the
public, that it is the intention of Government, and 4u expressed by
the Chancellor of the Exchequer iu the House of Commons, that due
provision be made for the exchange, or other recompense, at the
current value of the old legal copper coin, that may be it, itirculatico
at the time. At the sam-e time the Magistrates desire to caution all
persOus against the improptiety of refusing, in pa went for small
sum, the legal copper coin). made corieut by lus Maiestyli pro'c