The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1811-02-15 00:00:00

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FOREIGN !NTH LUG ENC E.

LISBON MAIL.

AYAINIONTR, JAN. 9.
The Generals Soult and Monter, on the tat of
this month, marched from .Seville, with all their
troop., 1,100 carts laden with provisions nod other
cry,,A., and a considerable train of artillery, direct-
ing their course for Estremadura. A Frew:h move -
utile catmint from Cordova advanced to Azuaga,
and joinewhich d that of General Girard. Part of the
infantry wallet Guadalcanal was attacked on
the lit of tins month, by two corps under I. ientral
B at:micros who left the ground covered with
French, without oily other loss on our side than
two killed mut teu wounded. Another division tit
the troops of the .1111111 General attacked likewise in
' Cacalla, but not with so good u result.
On the 3.1, Ballpiteroi received notice of the
i min eitient of the French from Seville, in court
of which tic ordered his retreat,
CADIZ, JAN. 23.
The accounts received from the eastward 1111'.
11 more the unfortiniate loss of Tortoni. To satisfy
tile ittiblie curiosity on this important event, we
think it proper to invert the itrticle relative to it
front fire Extraordinary Vdt:rtte of Catalonia, of
the sth instant, whit h is as toll Owl
" 1111' C111111111111(61.•111.Chirl ad interim of this
Army, being aris.iictsly °ermined in advancing the
glory of the province, and the Congress makiti4
every exertion to prepare the necessary means to
rave the country, with tl.e least sacrifice possible
• to the people, ald omitting nothing to isii co
the
fartra-a of Tortoso ; this happy moment was fully
expected, but treason mid infamy appear to have
united to frustrate rt once the exertions of the
army, the counc:la of the Congress. and the hotws
of toe principality. Neither the General nor the
Congrrto have yet received any official advice*, but
by Poe account of three soldiers of the regiment of
Soria, who were in garrison at Tortola, who have
arrived here to-day, we learn that that place, though
(numbed with provisions and military stores suffi-
cient for a long time, not having suffered the tire
of the enemy for snare than a fee hours, without
being assaulted, without basing loin one of its
forts, and without having suffered in its walls. was
shamefully delivered up to the enemy ea the
of this 'eolith, at four in the afternoon."

On Tuesday evening. about right o'clock. es n
young man, the son of a respec.alde butcher in
Wandsworth, was pawing on the Wanilswortn told,
on Ins way Intim.. lie was stopped by five G 0110416;
one of theist presented a small pistol to him ; they
then dragged him into a heV. and knocked bin
into a ditch. from which they afterwards pulled ht in
out. They then proceeded to rifle his pockets. and
robbed him of. Ins coat. Thy nett proceeded
to pinion his arias back with his necktioth. and be.
cense hr looked et them, he received vinlesit Wows
on each side of his fact. After they had listened
his nen., one of them pot the motile of a horse.
pistol to his nose sod told him to smell the content..
which he should have in Min if he looked after nr
parsatd them. He remained in the position in
which theyAkiiiminkc ilikupt threi tfatt:tm.ufen i
*WV and Ventured into tl.e.ried, isfWwviki.c4 ~
to ibe Britanisia public.heut.e.' o her'elhe'. related%
what bed happened. and got hos arms 0 li-,sel. 1%0
robbers were all dressed like geptlemen'swounit.
On the lit instant an unfortunate end distresstng
accident happened to one of Mr. Lorrus's chaire-
d. ivers, on the Shields road. A party 11 be had been
spending the day in the neighbourhood of Shields,
on their return to Newcastle. observeg the driver
of the chaise% be siaishVg, ntexicated, Mr. Low-
TIM. who was himself one the part), apprehen.
sive for the safety of the
,pan, ,orderedliin off the
dicky, desired boa to walk honlie, and talk the
rein. stud drove the chaise himself. The driver,
it appears, had, unknown to spy one, come up to
the hack part of the chaise while it was going, and
on laying hold of it had 'Mumbled, by which the
spikes caught hold of the handkerchief roam! his
neck, ash being so intoxicated that he could not
eV mate imuself with his Minds. he was is this state
dragged as far as Bykt r Turnpike-gate (nearly two
mile.) before he was discovered. His tore, Joints
were almost rubbed off by the friction of the road,
and he wits taken to the infirmary with little Hopes

of recovery.
Irish Papers of Erit'uty and Saturday last Lee
been received. They contain farther accounts of
the trials of the persons charged with being con-
cerned in the recent outrages in the Sontheru Mo-
ines of that country, before the Special Commis-
sioners. Lord NtutaußY. Chief .1 dice of the Com-
tism' Plena, and Sir S. al ;RAW(' Chief Baron of
the Exchequer, now sitting at (loomed fur that
purpose.—On Tuesday the 5,h instant. Jame.,
Mitcham, arraigned under Lord Etttrialiantuit's
Act, for Acing a loaded goo at June SII;LE. with
intent to k:Il burn, was rtegatiteif, the evidence um
sustaining the indictment. Oil the Same day Di-
rt 1 Lanny, arraigned under the same act, for fien,ie
a gun, loaded with ball, at GEnaux Mines, verb
intent to kill him, was found gushy. and aeteence
of death was immediately 'oard ate him. Mastics.
Alsrphy was 1 4 pill of highway rubbery. I
Thursday the 7th Inst. the prneeeditics of the
Cointoission closed at Clonmel, three tinfottunate
men having been convicted that dm..
A dreadful 6re broke out on Sunday morning at
FOll.l. oil and colour warehouses near Limenouse-
hole Stairs, by which four warehouses and twelve
dwelling-homes were destroyed. The damage p,
esttinated at upwards of sixty thousand nomads!
Astaatcam Pts cs.—A valuable discovery has
been lately made respecting the species and
of the pine trees growing on the Lneat estates,
now in the poesy .ion of the flon. Colonel FiIASIR,
on the stile* of the navigable tide-harbour
Loch Waal!. When these estates f.ll auto 1/101.
ae.iimu of Government on the attainder of Laid
Lower, the commission for intionging property 01
this description. recommended seedlinz plaids of
the ;best American fir tribes to be coltivated on
them. winch was accordingly done. Col. Fagots'
ha. lately caused longitudinal and transvinie sec-
bons to be ,cede, whirl, unequivocally evince they
have roamed geounir turpentine timber; sod
will verfara4ow with shot without splinteriiia
ot driving out the 'toms ; will bvad to any shape in
aisii.huddium cal/gutsily, mad soppily knee., brims.
and .pvirs, In resist decay H. w .ter. is ships, lan-ita,
bridges, (rooms whistbi, and tke like.

war•m4,'

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PLIRQUIS OF 1:0.11nIN.1.

1.1•9011, fill. 2.
Oil the lid lauuary 1811, died, at the hea-
spiarisos, Owosso, aged 49 yeiirs, Ids Ecelleerdy.
Signior Don Pedro Caro & Surer's, MSIffill:11
Ito))) tinindee of Spin, Knight tirsi d Cross
of the Royal S;ninish Order of Cir.rles ill., Cap-
t the armies of HO Catholic Niajesty,
and a Klkalte 01 the city of Palma, au the island of
Majorca.
Alter an education corresponding to his high
birth, *Loch he made • 111.1.;„-ess to
the Latin, tireek, and IL brew lenguagi i., bring
vett fatedisr with the claseical embers in thuse
tongues, ewillous of his father, who gh rionsly t et-
itithsted hi- life hi Ithe field of honesty, in the r
a-
pet:chin to Algiers, in the year 1775; hr corn-
uo reed Ills milii..ry career, it, the marine guard of
IL.. 11.10 Ott t, w nh,cli he continued till the lie-
toilary 1041 C MI6 Frauce, at hich rpm la, br-
ing Caption of a lii, ate, he ewers-it with the tank
of Colonti 11).0 the orii.y of Nl.,s erre, sirc.cr the
orders of his unck, Lientenai.v-Geiteral Ile Ve,
tura Ce.c., suit afterward. into that of Catalonia,
in which, by his valour and sighs' services, hr
stortli.l obtained the successive posts, and attired
at the rank of Lieuteitaist-Gentral.
In 14111, he was appointed Cisptaiu-General of
Catalonia, and President of its Royal Audience, in
which employment lie had woolens of =tidiest-
ii.g his great abilities and political knowledge ;
he
1133 afterwards Named General of Engineers, and
Councillor of War.
The lush-Lows views of the Tyrant of Europe
inducing him to separate from Spain the greater
part of her bed troop*: its the command of winch
Ice conducted himself with all that propriety and
delicacy he was so looted fur, till he was informed,
in the midst of the snows of the North, of the state
of Isis beloved country : he vowed to succour it with
his troops, to accomplish winch he overcame a
thousand Jacobite and dangers.
In the command of the Army of the Left, he ex-
ecuted moist skilful retreats sod movements. sus-'
pending and frustrating the projects of the enemy,
which by his conduct and military science he or.
complished, dr!ring them out of the kingdom of
Gal:icia ; to the edintration of the enemy them-
...lse:, sod till those who were acquainted with the
trilling waits he possessed.
A short time slier. he was eAled to the Central
Jusod, where he Ereeesited himas If nut as a victo-
rious general, but as the most moderate representa-
tive, manifesting only all the filter of his character
in the vote that he save in the raomh of Ocsoher
109. noon the necessity of immediately frainiog a
Council of Berney.
On the ilith of Jemmy, Endiog the Supreme
Got-eminent dispe..sed by the iimasion of the l reach
in Andalusia. Ise ri•:urind to take the command of
the army of Eareinsdura, where his presence was
of such impornins.e. tear to it in • great degree
was owing the enihnsiasin manifested in Bedujez
and throe lout tl c pr.since. The emleavours the
enenv rni7le from drat time, and the decenty with
v.ii,ch the Magnin Bodittos knew how to oppose
einial-fatat tht:r piitos, etc o ell known osutil
Gr.., and Niassena -elvancing upon
ilsash lets of *sires Vedras, lie haste' sit with 110
divisions G. his ai.ns to the sossistanee of the Allies.
On his way, and is the city of Lisbon, be received
many proofs of estimation ; and afterwards he con-
stantly assisted at the side of his illustrious hired
Lord Wellington, the worthy appreciator of his
merits end virtues, and whose testimony alone
would be sillScient to prove the great loss which
Spain, and the common cause of this Allies, have
suffered :in his death ; were we even without the nu-
merous proofs of the public enthusiasm which his
name and fame inspired in ill pmts.
The barge which conveyed the body of this il-
bistrinsei General arrived at Lisboa on the night of
the 25th of January. On the g6.h in the morniog
it was taken on hoard the Portuguese frigate Pa—
role, On the g7th at noon the corps was lauded at
Belem, accompanied by the barge eif the Portu-
guese Admiral, and some English ones. in which
were Adm. Berkeley and many ;Akers of marine.
The great square of Belem. and all the ground to
the monastery of Sr. Jeronymo, was hued with
English and Portuguese cavalry. The Portuguese
infantry regiineut of the line, No. 12, a Corps of
the Royal Commercial oluntecra. a brigade of
the Royal Marines. and a regiment of English in-
fantry ; a sqiiadron of the regiment of Portuguese
cavalry. No. li, another of English dragoons. and
an English battalion of infantry. led the proces-
sion.

The corp.e. followed in a coffin, borne on th•
almolders ii auldters of the Royal Crrwhir:eess ;
psll sas borne by the ()Ricers of his Excellency's
Staff, •nil by Ei.gli II Officers! by, the sides waik-il
the .rtvattl. hi the lobt:o• with waxen fimribeatix;
then followed the Eoglish sod Portuguese (Jr.
neral Officers, both naval and 14 the land service,
the Engtish and Spanish Nlioisters. sod a ',rest
number of Officers of the three nation... The
whole cone'uded with two coaches of the Royal
Household.
IVithin the walls of the monastery was erected a
cenoteph. on winch the coffin was placed what
the religious offices were reciting; and thence it
ens tak-n to the house where it is to he cl:•posited
till it it is conveyed back to Spans. 'lite entraii.,
which were placed in a cidfits, were buried peer the
centre of the Sacristy. The ceremony m the church
hiring concluded. three discharges were heed by a
battalion of the Royal Volunteers of Commerce.
the park of Portuguese artillery posted near the
mon .stery. wnii thr park of P.n2lish Arts:lvry in
the io•tress of It. 1..•.. In thi. manner concluded
the Liner d ("Vt.. ttttttt y, which in nil its Mecums
stow...* wa• saved to the regret sod grief due
to the nugatory of this v. at man.

A R•ntlemsn of !him& hey prwftm•d a nr•or
thoul of µrms.% tog flit 141111.1 of prti,roi .hipwrrt'k•ti.
prooLipoily by h..ing she rootir....w. nytd to *lwo.
forrneti of cork shortngs. Ifr +taproots. lbw if rich
inistiriwo we■ tilled with th• shove in propforon

equal to the •.1r port of r smitle noon n tnaao Of tboto
eli•neraivsyboard. Itnitt4l t..orther by tore at ouch
corner. would form an extenovr met, r 11.14. of
OSIIIII)Pf of Mol. aINI C art, m to
the ',peke or .hor-, oitb for mote 0.1.9, litoo COM.
men rode, arh,rl, are irrealtira.iy .11.1ale1lert by ol.r,
Worm they receive.