The National Register.
London, England, 1808-06-19 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

The Spanish troops in the of who seem
to have partaken the feeling of their brethren in t pain, are
said to have been divided into still!l detachments. and s..
9arated from their own officers ► and it is supposed that
the French entertain apprehensions not only lest these
troops should become troublesome, but also lestthe,Srpt:ii:
niarits should adopt measures hostile to France, in i 0
gal, where there are nineteen Spanish regiments, and only
twelve French.

We have seen no reason to change the opinions which we
hazarded in our last Number on the succour of Spain. Hi.
a WELLEsLEY, it seems, is to command an expedi.
Hon for the assistance of that country. The troops that he
is to command are lying at Cork. They arc composed of
the sth, 9th, 3lith, 40th, and 91st Regiments of loot; the
4th Battalion of the 69th, and 4th Royal Veteran Battalion.
MajoriCeneral HILL is to be second in command, undcr
Moon will be Brigadier-Generals FANF and Ca Alm, so.
We cannot look ferwnrd to the employment of theca
forces without sensations of great uneasiness. England has
always been too ready to interfere in eNery continental
quarrel, and hope the overthrow of an empire from the
discontent of a province. As the information which has
determined Ministers to send out such an armament to
Spain has not been made public, no decided opinion can
he formed of its expediesney, Policy and prudence should
alone direct our measures of assistance to the Spaniards
certainly we are not bound by honour, for we have neither
alliance uur taith with Spain.

The news from America is not of a nature very favour-
able to the interests of this country. The;House of Repre-
sentatives have passed a string of Resolutions which appear
to be friendly to the cause of the Preach Emperor, and
which we have given in detail under the head of foreign
news. We have so long been fluctuating between ihe :a-
vour and the enmity of the Americans, th,it a little inch,
nation of the balance to one side or the other makes► ►cry
little difierence in our hopes or fears. indeed we are not
sure that at last the question signifies so much as people
imagine. Till America acquires a naval power, she can
scarcely injure us : for her continental territory, howe►er
vast, is too remote to affect the balance of power on the
continent of Europe, or give occasion for the slightest
alarm on the shores of Great Britain.

There is no decisive intelligence from the North. A few
skirmishes have taken place : hut they have established
nothing. Our Expedition seems still to be inactive : it is
certainly difficult to imagine how a contingency of such
consequence a. to paralize a force so formidable as that
now in the Baltic, could be out of the minds of those who,
sent it there. We hope the explanation will not add to
onr confirmed deficiency of character in the plannin of
Expeditions.

The approaching recess of Parliament will, it is report-
ed, be much shorter than usual.—Both Houses, it is sup-
posed, will be called together again is October.
Preparations have been made at Plymouth for eonve)lng
home all the Spanish prisoners who are natiies of the Pro-
vinces now in arms against Bonaparte. A number of He.
venue cutters have been collected at Plymouth, and placed
under the command of the Port Admirals to be employed
as transports for the Spaniards in Mill Prison.—On Satur-
day orders were received at Chatham from the Commis-
sioners for Prisoners of War. directing the Spaniards on
hoard the prison ships in the Medway to be released, and
delivered to persons appointed to take charge of them, 0.2
their return, to their own country.
The following stores have hem already shipped from the
Royal Arsenal, at Woolwich, for Spain :-30,000 stand of
arms, GAO tons of ammunition, four millioas of ball car-
tridges, with entrenching tools, artillery, Re.
Dutch papers and letters to the 11th inst. arrived on Fri-
day, The only intclliience of importance they curtain is,

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