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LONDON,

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1800,

Rumours were in circulation last night, that Intel-
ligence of a very unfavourable nature had been receiv-
ed from Corunna. It was stated that accounts had
been received at that place ?f a Battle haying been
fought in Navarre, in
.which Gen. CASTANOS hick
been defeated and wounded; and that theFreuch had
re-crossed the Ebro. We cannot take upon ourselves
to say that• such a• report might not be circulated
at Corunpa ; but we _know that no accounts of
:telt an event had reached it iu any authentic shape,
government have not received any such intelligence,
and vie have )ittle doubt that the report is wholly
without foundation.

We have too.ofteii had-occasion to notice the in,
4ecent attemptS'wh.!ch.hav'e. been made in the op-
position Prints to bring disgrace on the Officers con-
, .cerned in. the Convention Of Chard,' and we-have
noticed before the accusations- and recriminations
*hi-eh those Papers are now casting on each other,
though -they are in fa& all equally 'culpable. The
truth is, that they are conscious .of their guilt, but
none of them have liberality etiongh to apologise
for their cond4l, and therefore they hope to tie-
ceive. • the public,
.by eharges against each other.—
A Morning .Paper which ;had been •misled y the
njudicibuS zeal of 'the friends of one of the Offi-
cers concerned in -the Convention; came for-
ward yesterday, in a manly way, and expressed its
regret that . it. should have- been so far deceived.
ThiS_:honotyable testiMony '.of regret .has induced'
another Paper to intimate. that the names of the
•• .
Parties who had been the authors of this deception,
`should be.communicated to the world. ,But will the
Paper which makes this intimation' disclose the
names of thole who have with •sO much rancour at-
lacked not only S..r ARTHUR WELLESLEY, but all
liis family, as' well as Sir. HEW DALRYMPLE, and..
Sir HARRY BURRARD? But .the Opposition. Prints
• seem- now disposed 'to abate of their rancorous per-
sonality With respea to the authors of the Con
vention, and begin to' See the Convention itself in
a' new light. -They may, accuse their conipeti-
torS, ;Int hoc.; w:ll they justify thernielves I It
is impotsiblefor them.to, do so—and they must sub,
mkt to the contempt.and indignation of the Public,
for theirfpers..:vering malevolence. It is curious
enough to find.crie of the-Papers alluded-to saying,
in reference to the Armistice, that Government
. . •
onght not, fur Want of explanation, " to havesuf-
.feted t.r,ze Country to persecute, by its indignation, an
individual for hot availing bitpself of a superiority
that alually did ,not exist."- This, is a dextrous, at-
.tempt to shift its own guilt upon llae Country at
large. 4!.4 it is a libel' upop the Country. The
sreat majority of Englishntep are too just, too libe-
ral, and have too much good sense, to prejudge
matters that'are to undergo due inquiry, and never
can ;they persecute those whose defence is unheard.
~But 'Ministers, as well as the Authors of the con-
: •-•
vention, have had their full share of abuse from the
Oppo,itiOn Papers, and particularly on the charge of
not havingSerit forces to Spain. We did not intend
to comment on the proceeding; of the Court of In-
quiry, bat we may be permitted to repel this unjust •
Charge against Ministers, by a reference to the state-
ment Of Sir ARTHUR WELLEst.,Y, who declares,
• that '•when lie was at Corunna in July, he tendered
the Army under his command to the Junta of Gal-
' licia; who decl tied the offer, alledging, that the,
'ajaariiard's theinselves had adopted effeClual means
for drbing the ,French out of St. Andero, and
Strongly eithotting Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY to pro-
ceed to Portugal, in order to force the Enemy out
of that Kingdom. It is indeed hardly necessary.
for us to dwelt on the absurdities and calumnies of •
th'e Opposition' Prints, 'as they are so 'evidently go- ,
.
.by party-spirit,
,to use the mildest terms,
bqt more, particularly as 'they are now so properly
employed in exposing the fully and .guilt of 'each
.• • •
other.

An entire regiment of Swiss, that was in the ser,'
lice .01 p'r'ance, found means to desert 'after the
Convention in Portugal"; They escaped from on
tuard the transports in small parties,,and at length
made application to the 'BritiA f...,'ornroanddr;otrer--
-irig.to enlist in the service of England..-.They'hid
,forined part .t,f the garrison of Elya's, are all'hne
young men, from 'lB 'Co 25 years of :age, and are
abOut Duo in number; reinainiag out of 440(4 who
pas•sed the Pyrenees a twelvemonth age. •' They
Were at length,received on board 4ritish transpOrts,
and arrived at Portsmouth on'Sataeday last. • '

His Acly.al Hi(tic e_as the Duke of ,C4relßltzp6E 1 1t
rent n ytistet day tor Wi)fltior;*qa a Visit to. tliir-Ma.

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