The Sun.
London, England, 1808-10-27 00:00:00

THE S N.

QUIS DICIRE FALSUM AUDIAT '

LONDON,
THURSDAY, OCOliElt- 27, 1808.

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We have received some more Spanish Paper's' t°
the Igth inst. They do not contain ally further intel'
ligence respeaing the' operations in the neighbour'
hood of Bilboa. It will afford us the most sincere
pleSsure to find that the hopes held out in the Spa'
nish Papers, of: cutting off the Division of the French
Army that entered Bilboa; are well founded. gvsl
thing is'certainly to be expeEted from the bravery
,of the Spaniards and. the skill of .their Comroo9,e
and it
,they shduld succeed, in thts.instance, it W h
ill -
decisive.of the fate of the CaMpaign. We oorOess'
hi
however, that
.our expectations Ripon .that,slle-.,
are not very sanguine.. In the'• course of a, fey/
days we may expeEt some very important intelli‘
gence, as.it was the intention of theSPanishConi-
manders to make a general attack. upon the whole
Preach line bn -the 23d or 24th. instant. •
It is stated in some 'Letters from Plymouth.t
we have reason to believe without any rounclatior''
•
thatthe French Troops in Spain have received a
inforcernent of 30,000 men.

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THE Opposition -Prints, have been very liberal in
'their -attacks upon Ministers, fix- the supP°s-
- in . the march of the British Troops "I
Portugal, and have, with their usual disregard °
fa4s, asserted that the French Troops sent trotn Li;
ttOn would be in Spain before Sir JOHN MOORE W°U
able to co-operate with the Spaniards..
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the fad. is, that Generals 11,100ItE and or

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!.arched from Lisbon on the 13th, and, of course,
e befor., this time reached Spain. On that day
not a :rigle Frenchman had arrived in France from
the Tagus ; but there is reason .to believe that the
second division would reach Rochelle about the-20th,
The first division, according to the last accounts,
was working up, but much dispersed, towards Qui-
beron Bay.

WE have often had occasion to admire the Oppo-
sition Writers for the ingenuity which they display
in " twisting words and meanings as they please ;"
and a Morning Paper of this day has exhibited a very
good specimen of its skill in this respect. In our
Observations yesterday on the illiberal spirit of pre-
Judication which had taken place relative to the
fratners of the Convention of Cintra, we imputed
much of the censure which had been cast upon that
znea'nre, to the disappointment of too highly raised
exPeaation in the public mind, naturally'arising from
the ardent accounts of our successes in Portugal, and
Particularly of the battle of Vimiera, which appeared
ill all the Public Journals in this Country, those in Op-
!• positio
-n as Well as those favourable to Government.
The daily Print alluded to has, with some dexterity,
endeavoured to make it appear as if we particularly
referred to Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY'S Letter detail-
ing that vidory, and not to the very SLifiguine ac-
counts which, derived from various sources, fill-
ed the Columns of the Morning and Evening
papers all over the Kingdom; and excited a
general belief that the action was decisive of the
fate of JUNOT, and that the next thing we should
hear of would be a total surrender on the part of the
French. Weappeal to Sir A. WELLESLEY'S Letter
in Proof, that we did not refer to his account of the
aakm, as he merely detailed the events of the day,
and rendered due praise to 'the Officers and Troops
under his command. Sir ARTHUR does not re-
Present the attioti as likely to be decisive of the
fate of Portugal, or give the least hint as to its
Probable
consequences. With the modesty that al-
ways charaaerizes a great mind, he states no more
than what he saw, and heard from indisputable audio-
! rity, and expressly confines himself to the occasion.
We, therefore, leave the Opposition Paper, which,
has been remarkably bitter in its hostility, not only.
Upon Sir A. WELLESLEY, but upon the personae
qualities of his Whole family, to the free exercise of
its •
Ingenuity, in other fespeas ; but we shall not
permit it to distort our meaning, and wrest it into
a,
a attack upon ra character whom we have often
held forth as one of the brightest ornaments of the
Country, and whose political, as well as military
talehts, we hold in the highest 'rape& and admiration.
boto the Vialory at Vimiera, considered by itself,
•a.llling Could be said too warm in praise of the able
kasposi t.ons and enterprizing spirit of the Commander,
Cr of the valour, 'steadiness; discipline, and perse-
verance of the Troops, as we know from unquestion-
able authority, that the French Generals in Lisbon
say, that they were not only teaten (which must
sometimes happen in the common course of war),
but so lealen that they could not, by all their
eXertiOns, get their men to turn their faces to our
troops, after experiencing three Or four attacks of
the bayonet.

Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, his MAJESTY
i?rrived at the Queen's Palace from Windsor, where
L4e was received by the Dukes of YORK, KENT.,
umBERLAND, and SUSSEX. At two o'clock, his
. b
""4"EsTY held a private Levee, which was attended
y
1341'1116r Excellencies the Swedish Ambassadors, the Arch-
thetP "t. Canterbury, the Lord President of the Council,
three"rs Lord of the Treasury, the Lord Privy Seal, the
tt %ecretaries of State, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Illt Niaste,Y-General of the Ordnance, the President of the
be4:30:4 Trade, the inclge Advocate, the Marquis 7of
(Groom'. Lord Amherst ,in waiting), Generals fiarcourt
Tyler ;- Nlievvaiting) Thornton and Nightingale ; Admiral
3srs Elliot and Fawkner.
Tile followin
to 1)13 MAJESTYg had the honour of being presented
:
Lie f
e,, u'enaot-General Thornton, on his promotion to be Se-
na-„ Nlajor of the First Regiment of Guards.
'ugh Elliot Esq, upon his being appointed Captain-Ge-
Ineral and Governor o.t the Leeward Islands.
tuiigalrigitdier-General Nightingale, upon his return from Por-
.
Admiral Tyler, who brought the Russian Fleet to Eng-
+and, by the Earl of,Carriden upon his promotion. •
.„His Excellency Le Chevalier De Brinckman, the S we-
'lsh Ambassado'r, by Mr. Canning. Atter which, his Ex-
flericv hail a private audience of his Majesty, and delivered
'ls credentials. lie was most gracicnsly received.
, Le Chevalier D'ADLERBERG, the Swedish Am-
bassador
Reavi, took leave of his MAJcs-ry, previous to his
ng England.
io
die MAJESTY held a Privy Council, and gave au-
etl,„
bister' to the Duke of PORTLAND, the Cabinet Mi-
,
Ryt: Present, the Marquis of DOUGLAS and Mr.
Ma Ri the Judge-Advocate, who laid before his
its
AjkTY the proceedings of some Courts-Martial,. •
r ,—uout seven o'clock his MAJESTY set off on his
e'urn to Windsor. .- •
lc Tuesday morning HIS MAJESTY, the, Duke of
ENT, Princesses AUGUSTA and AmeLzA, accom-
panied by Lords WALSINGIIAM and ARDEN, LT Ge-
nerait
4 rid—. aAARCOURT and FITZROY, Colonels DESBROW TAYLOR, and Lady G. MURRAY., took an siring
ir! Windsor Great Park, and returned at twelve
't) clock to the Palace.
Windsor,
night the Prince Of WALES arrived at
Indsor, on a visit to their MAJESTIES.
aHIS MAJESTY held a Council yesterday, at which
n Order was signed for further Proroguing Parlia-
ment from the Ist of November to the 1 oth of Us*
cl
telrnbitr. It will then be still further Prorogued till
the
of business 7 middle of Januar
kt.y, when it will meet for the