The National Register.
London, England, 1808-07-24 00:00:00

THE EXPEDITIONS TO SPAIN AND POItrUGAL.

Sir Arthur Wellesley's army has sailed, and by this time is
not far from the coasts of Spain and Portugal. The army from
the Baltic is also preparing to sail.
Sir John Moore was on Friday to have resigned the command
of hip army to Lieutenant-General Sir Ilarry hurrard, of tlw
Chards. It is understood that she arrival of Sir Harry and
Lord Paget will be the signal for the Beet's
The army from Kent is houris expected at Portsmouth, the
least shift of wind will bring it there, and it will be expedited
thence with the same speed as the Baltic army.
A fourth expedition of considerable force is talked of, and
volunteers to it are expected from the Militia and Volunteer
; most of the line regiments for it will come from Ireland
The expedition lately gone, and now starting, consists of—
Sir Arthur Welleslev's Divisoti—Roval Artillery and Engineers,
40th Dragon:is, sth. 9th, 36th, Stith, 40th, 45th. 60th (Rifle
Batt...lion), 71st (highlanders), 91st ditto, 95th or Rifle
Corps; the 4th Veteran Battalion to relieve the 42d or Royal
Highlanders, who join from Gibraltar—in all, with Com-
missariat, 11;500 ---

Lostion,
SUNDAY, JUL\ 24, 1808.

POLITICAL EVEATs tiP THE KERN.

RUPTURE BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND FRANCE,AND
THE DEPARTURE OF THE FRENCH AMBASSA.
DOR FROM VIENNA.

The following important letter from liamburgh was
transmitted to us just as our Paper was going to press.
We give it to our readers without comment : but the re-
spectability of the person who has communicated it, leaves
us no reason to doubt its authenticity :

" HAMBURGH, JULY 19, 1808.

" Every one here is in the greatest agitation in consequence
of accounts received yesterday from Vienna. Avuitsossv, the
French Ambassador, not having received eatisfactory reparation
for the insult given to his Master, by the Em PER 0 R having or-
tiered prayers to he offered up in all the Churches fur the safety
of the Pore, is said to have used the most itoolent language to
Count STADION, the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The hiller
has always been a decided enemy of the French. The personal
invectives directed against him by the French (u►rernmrnt,
which appeared in The Moniteur,iminedintely after the peace of
Presburg, have not contributed to anaken this aver-ion. In
consequence of his spirited and dignified reply to the French
Ambassador, the latter threatened to quit l'ienna. A few days
after this circumstance had occurred, AN Mt MOSSY received a
Courier from Bayonne, and immediately demanded audience
of the Emrenoß himself, which was declined under the pretext
of indisposition, and he was referred to Count STADION. But
whether he refused, in consequence of the late violent alterca-
tion, to confer with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, or whether
he acted in conformity to orders from BO N A PAI4TE, is nut
known ; however, certain it is, that he then addressed himself
to the Archduke CHARLES, who declined every kind of inter-
ference, on the plan of incompetency, and from his unwilling-
ness to break in nu the department of a Minister, who tripled
in the most distinguished manner the cenfideuce of the En PEKO*.
The most extraordinary circumstance in this important trans-
Action is the knowledge which the public immediately acquired
of it—whether by the connivance of the Austrian Government,
which perhaps was willing to feel the public pulse, or through
the indiscretion of ANDREOSSY, remains a inystery. it has,
however, produced a very great fermentation in V ie►uta; and if
the Austrian Cabinet is willing to resist the insatiable ittobilina
of SON A PARTE, it is now fully convinced that the public ice
the greatest horror at the perfidious treatment of the Pore and
the Ito VA L FAMILY of SPAIN. They expressed their intlig-
natio9 so strongly as to hoot some persons belonging In the
French Embassy. The Government, in consequence of these
sli3Pt°nut) and to prevent a scene similar to that which before

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sensorial, 11.500 men.
Lieutenant-General Sir.lulm,Moore' 1 Ivision—Roynl Artillery,
Royal Engineers ,('' ;.4th or King's Own
(Lord Chat . 'l5• , isßattalion, 79th or
Cameron ice!. • ighltioders, 95th Rifle
Cor R, a iiit,, , l'iliont 12,000 men.
The by r,"; I- ',
q ith Light Dragoons,
.141 18t tib• ice` , ibf.Queen's Regiment,
oth 43d ***,' '
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• H i Mr%
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Friday a . ‘..:.2Z."\ - IL marched into PoM-
mouth, in char',''
ii.. ' , . 4.,..„ . gong of treasure, pro-
ceeding with the a • f'. . , Portugal.