The National Register.
London, England, 1808-06-13 00:00:00

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The more then •we contemplate the state of adh ts es
Spain, the less ground cal: we pvrreive for ati) ration:
expectation of advantage. :limit armies must perish.
Great armies, in -.7,pain, -surtounded 17y, inhattitants of
didereat parties, and opposed by an enemy of infinite skill
anti bravery., most contend with no very bright prospect
of success: and in the mean time England is lett open.
Let us not be told about generosity. Sell-defence is.a
virtue far paramount to generosity. Let the Government
spate the English people, rather than hurry to aid the
Spaniards. These are net times when Great Britain should
take up her lance and gallop about, with a politica
Quixotism, defending every weak or foolish nation, tha
having in prosperity lost all claims to British alliance,
thinks fit, in adversity, to throw herself upon British '
mercy. To oppress the unfortunate, we trust will neve'.
he the disgrace of Englishmen ; but to botch the holes
that folly has made in her own covvrino, is an employ-
meant dictated neither by necessity nor by honour.
Private letters from Gijon of the 31st tilt. state that the
PRINT,It of ASTURIAS issued the following Proclamation at
Bayonne.
" NOBLE ASTI) RI ANS,
"I am surrounded on all sides—l am the victim of perfidy.
You once saved Spain under worse circumstances. lam now a
prisoner, and do not ask of you the Crown of Spain, but that
you w ill arrange and organize a plan with the provinces w hien
are immediately near you, by which you may Vindicate you,.
liberty, and not admit a foreign yoke. You must•subdue the
rrfidious enemy, who despoils of his rights your unfortunate
rioce, FERNANDO."
" Bayonne, May 8, 1S08."
The Proclamation breathes the sentiments which a firm
and exalted mina, placed in the singular situation of the
PRINCE •of ASTURIAS, might be suppOsed to entertain ;
but from the repeated alarming proofs the world has wit-
nessed of his wretched imbecility, we are slow to attribute
so spirited a production.
The Swiss hoops act reluctantly against the Patriots of
'Spain ; in the late insurrection at • Madrid, one of these
regiments surrendered their colours, and the whole are
supposed to have gone over to the insurgents.

French and Dutch Papers, as well as a Gottenburgh
were received on Saturda v. The Swedish Paperi contain
little information; but private letter from Stockholm,
of May SO, says :
" Intelligence has just been received concerning our suc-
cess in Finland. Gen. hs.t.tsGspoa has advanced to Wasp.
The retreat of the enemy is rapid, and of coarse confused.
The brave Fins incessantly harass and annoy them. • They
have taken several convoys, and cut off considerable de-
tachments. The Russians have been obliged to abandon
the greater part of their artillery. By the end of June we
expect that they will have completely evacuated the Pro-
vince.

• " This morning intelligence has been received from Fin-
land, thit the Swedish army had fought two actions with
the .Rwasians ; one near Cuopio, in which considerable
ijuantities of ammunition, &c. were taken, and the town
Itsslf W. in possession of the Swedes ; the other engagt.-
mew was a very long and bloody one, and in which the*.
Russians were completely beaten beyond Gamla Carleby,
with very considerable lots. The Russians, in their re-
treat, and under pretence of covering it, wantonly set fire
to the town ; 4nd:it k reported the whole of it, the second
in point of magnitude and population in Fibland, has been
burnt down !"-
Our Expedition still continued at Gottenburgh on it,:
6th inst. waiting, the return of CUlone.l blvanav from Eng-
land• • This inactivity is stated in private letters to be the
,tonult of proposals made by the principal nobility of Nor-
way, to general lgoowe and Admiral SAUK4REZ, in which
an offer was made in case the Swedes retired from their
frontiers, and the British force committed no hostility
ftainst Norway, that country should be declared neutral,

and c,ould engage as furoidth us and our ally• with every
possible commercial facility.
The Dutch Papers are of-the 4th inst. but letters fret*
Rotterdam and other places to the tith ha% e beep received.
Notwi' hstandiag the acrimony with which Borrarawrit
pursues his system of endeavouring to cut off all inter.
course between this country and the Continent, we flag
hat he has been obliged to abandon one of the chief means
by which. he hoped to succeed. To alleviate, in some de-
gree, the distress and misery which prevail in Holland, the
clovernment hat been under the necessity of permitting Lite,
exportatioP of certain articles, the produce of that coun-
try. This commerce is restricted, in the Ordinance De-
;ating to it, to the ports of allied and neutral l'owers, atrg
regulations are established for preventing, as far as posiii-
tile, tie channels through which it is to be carried o*
from reacliing England..

It has been asserted, that the Spanish Noblemen, Via,
count Materosa and Don Diego de fa Vaga, have already
entered iato an agreement with Government, by which all
the Spanish prisoners in this country are; mmediately to bit
released and sent back to Spain. Ammunition in great
quantities is also preparing to be sent oil for the use of
the Spanish Patriots.
The King of Spain, his Wife, and Minister, have reached
Fontainbleau, where the diversion of hunting has been pre.
pared for the deposed Sovereign. The Prince of Asturias
and Don Carlos have likewise ,arrived at Valency, their
place of destination ; while he who has thus disposed of
'hem is engaged in the subjugation of thaircountry. With
what contempt must this wretched family, if they have the
feelings of men, view themselves I An account is given in
the papers of the march of the Portuguese troops to Bay.
onne ; but no mention is made of the dispersion of any •
part of them in their route through Castilla. The other
articles are not very interesting.
FASHIONS FOR JUNE.
'Extracted from that unrioalle.d and splosdid Publication Le Beall
Monde; or, Literary and Fashionable Magazine.
LADIES'DRESSES.
Kensington Garden Dress:.--A rich India muslip dres.s,.witla
a superb embossed border, worked in floss silk, white or co.
Inured, made short, walking. length ; high in the neck, and
drawn full round the throat with a turban collar falling over
the sleeves are loos. and NJ, and coolined tight round the wrist;
whilst the back or the dress is loose and drawn into the shape..
The Arabian Tunic worn with this dress is composed of India
shawl-work of a bright primrose, elegantly relieved with
/turban trimming wreathed with green sarsnet. The Arabian hat,
!is a graceful melange of the turban and gipsey forms, of 4 dell-
*ate straw or chip, confined under the chin, with a bow a*
!assel3'of green sarSnet. Gloves straw colpur, and half boots
greenjane.•
A short train dress of white.net, hound with white satin round
the bottom : the back of the dress is made square:mil low as also
the front to match, with.a deep rich lace failing over; a French
body of pink satin, confined close under the bosom ; the sleeves
are short and full, and hound with white satin to correspond with
the bottom; the Catalani tippet of white lace drapery, floisbe4
et one end with a rich white -lace tassel, is thrown negligently
across the shoulder, Whilst the other end hangs down plaln,and
without ornament. The Flora bonnet is made of white chil:4
trimmed with pink snrsnet aud ornamented in front with.a banr.3l
of various coloured flowers. Necklaces of emoralds, or int.iioel
tions of the same, are much worn with this dress t the gleSq
and shoes are of white kid.
GE7fTLEMENI'II DILESSEA•

Mowing Walking Dress.--,•A dark blue slonble-hceasteenat4
with large gilt basket buttons; white bulks
,nd trowsers, and white silk stockings .with is.. Darrow 41osk
,tines with stringc.

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The most fashionable coats for Ersatiag still .reatain dart
blues,. Kith .11:11 size gilt buttons, and ;slack 'than collars,
forest ;:reres, with billions 4.tovered.with elsrth,,and collars of tt..11
same ; wnitt. waistcoats, and clear light drab kerAerner
breeches, with siiktt sing- at the knee. .104,ht.rolot4red mi Tteri
or drab coats are again resuming their station far ftlerieingl)ret
-4—these are roigle siugle-breastetc and, after buttoning on th;
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