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IMPROM*PTU,

ON A ZADIC ♦T NORWICW,

3Y 143. stxr•:NGtia:.t.
Oh! Could 1 now-in one choice word unite
All that delights the mind and charms the sight ;
A voice replied—" AroLz, o' a torpid son !
5' Write iIENR. ILTT A, and the task is done."

e follovAug- is the exad order of march of the
British force in Spain and Portugal, with the
:ttesi'tbe several columns are expected to make,
e probable time of their arrival at the places -des-
tlitlid'for the jundion of the whole, and for their
ltterior 'operations. Sir J. MoORE left Lisbon on
27th of 00ober. He. was to proceed dired to
`llleteyda,*through Abrantes, Castel linnet), and Al-
ttr 'He would pass all the divisions of the
ttle.',illarcliing upon that line, and would reach Al-
of ,14'011 the 4th of November. The movements
vii. British troops have been direted as follows,
toru„cor
e ender Sir David Paiid, •tvhial disembarked at
Astorga.
141,0" re. Brigades under Major-Ceneral )3;restOrtl, by Cointra,
Alrneyth
Akbra,l ee Brigades under Lieutinant.General Fraser, -by :c
Ka Ciudad Reficriga.
AI WO Brides under Nlajor-General Paget, by. Elvas and,.
uantara, upon Ciu'dad Roderigo.
early he attove divisions would reach their destination'
nek.hin November, and would be assembled in the
tni'rurtl4)od of Salamanca by the middle of this
a_trtiriYie,r)c,..onsisting
Val°ll't 'll-°lll the bad state of the roads, the ca-
of two regiments, five brigades of
and tour regiments of infantry, under the '
:11tuand of Lieut. General Hope, were obliged to
15,,,tch by the road leading-from Badajos to Nladrid ;
turning to the left prior to their arrival at Ma-
It'd, they would march upon and halt at Epinar.
se was imagined that the whole army would be as-
ebled
°vett)bat Burgos and Valladolid about the, end of
er.'

,The present of 4000 Merino Sheep, sent by the
Patriots to theKtng, will unquestionably prove}
lti'l)-4„",,l°Lial advantage, by improving the wool of this
°"otn his Majesty, with his usual ben4i.cence,
.nten,.
litre„,,QlL;g to distribute amongst all the pirinc!pal
ai'lcluers and agriculturists st-nail lots of this large
valuable flock.
app retie clsired to contraditi the Paragraph which
Sir
in our Paper some days ago, stating, that
CRAItL" HASTINGS had been absent from Lon-
the tbree years—ai it is only three months since
Last Su
e worthy zi
Broript wt the Capital. of Irnd
the shop
N
the open, and robbed of
Cael-4Fr, tailor, 4Y morning, about five '
in Edgeware-road, was broke
a:nount pieces of cloth and clothes to
of upwards of 3001.
,ees On Wednesday se'nnigbt, one of the large beech
rt at Newbottle Abbey, near Edinburgh, was
01.vit down. These trees are very large, and sup-
t7tilld to have existed nearly three centuries. The
blown down measured 28 feet in circumference.
youht3t Monday evening, about seven o'clock, a
• if, 6 man, of genteel appearance, was observed
ii.tllrow himself from off Blackfriars-bridge, into
1,7 river, and instantly sunk, Yesterday the body
dragged for, but without success.
ver.ll,l2r -,l)vturrrszitENT.—A stationer, after ad-
lif;;4ll3)7_ variety of articles, gives the following
etalis
a 4.--„ To regular customers, be sells wafers
Coitv
hel?'-BXCIIANGE, Nov. 23.—There is a middling
Y 1 Wheat to-day, and thiS trade is very
acid Malt
in sales at a further reditaion in price; Bailey
two kin are each cheaper; Pease and Beans of the
oriv ;n ofearly at last currency ; there are several
art': Oats, but few of good quality, and
this
tlaMed at g
)1162 riation many cargo
es
price:a

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under the
induces Patronage of the Baltimore SMITH family, , —......._
• .
es the belief that .it be derived from their
may pITTH DAY, TUESDAY, Nov. 22.
authority;(Continued from our'Paper of Yestereky. )
unless, indeed, we are to View it merely
The Narrative of Sir Hew Dalrymple, as sub-
as a trick too perate on the approaching
elali eons.—
We ii milted by him, yesterday, to the consideration of the
have heard of a letter 'recently addressed toessceurt, was read by the Judge Advocate. .
a enntlenian in office, from • high h f . Sir HEW DALRYMPLE, in answer to certain ques-
another in ant (10-..-ei , . himof
rity, i Irons pUt to respecting the state the supplies
Which states that the last,' arrivals from both-Lem eheseamy, upthe •
Fran , to morning of the 23d of Au-
- and England ware. of so favourable a naturethigitaatitipaodiaced .a return from the Deputy Commis--
as to warrant'
the belief that the late injurious and , sary of the Army in Portugal, which was read, hut
'
violent Ord . in to inaudible a manner, that it was impossible to
i., ers and Decrees of those Powers would gather the contents cal it.
De ii ai
Peaduy annulled. Although we do not implicitly ! There was also read a return of the. number of
r rale
on this information, we most fervently hope 'it Drench, troops embarked at ,Lisbon, amounting in
hie the whole to 24,735 men, 213 women, 116 chi!-
Y be corre&, and that the Country may thereby
J drone and 'The cavalry horses. •
be
,•
relieved from the oppression and ruin of the Em- Sir A. WELLESLEY then cime for Ward. -and
P
bar
go. begged leave to offer a few remarks won that part
,
N. 13.--It ought to be remarked, however, on the of Sir Hew Dalrymple's Narrative, which bed re-
ference to the operations and movements 'of the
above • . e article, that the Eleaion in Maryland corn- British Army while under his (Sir A. Wellesley's)
Pen
.that Sir He He began by Observing:, , „
ces next Monday. It is not improbable, there- -
fore
, that this is an artifice principally invented tco; ' • •
,in reference to the advance of the army along the
coast front Mondego bay, had said, that he (Sir
o
perate on this occasion. :1 A. WelleSley) had taken upon !Myself' an enter-
T•a2 PIRATE HALEY, AGAIN. An account is now- 1 `Prize of great hazard and danger, and seemed by in-
received fro ference, to demand if he, Sir Arthnie conceived
m New London, the birth place of the himself in sufficient force' -for undertakingriliat en-
infam
woos
HALEY, that he had written to his friend t terprize ; and if so, whether he'' hid .adopted the
there, About his appointment : statine that his re- most advantageous' operations- and route ConSehtlent
ward
was F
. " " ' upon that conception ? In answer to those cplestiOns,
. FIFE THOUSAND DOLLARS awn, and the , ,
that hedid consider himself sti -
he would reply, 1 - tti
privile -
ge of loading with coffee; whether on his own ciently strong to advance against the enemy. He
tigeOun ..
his comniand he recl-On-
had 13,000 troops under s, ,
eis or as a present, to the Tyrant:4k court, at a
*ir,
ed upon being joined' by 6060 Portuguese, under
i -ea when deprived of that luxury by
.the British
bloel; ' General Friere, and the whole strength of the French
~i- '''''' IV 3 does not appear. How long will an in- force he had reason for knowing did not exceed
a .
a'ted people submit to such partiality i This aban- 20,500 men.—Under such circumstances, he. would
doned character was seleaed from twenty who pre-
ask, what would his Government and Country have
seated thought of him, if he had felt the smallest relud- '
_themselves to take out the dispatches of Go- mice in advancing to meet the enemy? That'he had .
Terri
• meat. This fa&, added to the many before calculated the outside of the numbers he should have!
'discover to-contend vvith, was afterwards app
of z.encit arent, as the
ect) and to the disgraceful history ofloading
• French, at the Battle of Vimiera, on the 21st,
Privateers under the prate( of our -
1 lead not more than 16,000 men in the field; in-
'
Zlavy
e (three of which have fallen, fully loaded, into -deed he had only reckoned
I+,ooo. But the mein
(be bands of the English) wilt ..
wt go far to exasperate
doectasion he meant to draw was, that if the enter-
the people•ptv q; was hazardous and dangerous, he was not
of new Epgland, who are deprived of the ..
e
without the probable means of concluding it to a
rights procured and left them by their ancestors, in -abccesSful issue. ..
%der
.As to the second question, whether if his means'
to grant monopolies to bOth foreign arid do-
Itiesti c were adequate; he had adopted the measures most
cJaveurtites .1,-ilepertory.
liliely to conduce to an advantageous result, he
should observe, that he had adopted the 'line of
i march, in his mind, the ..best calculated to form the
advance of his troops. But it was said, that he had
left the French in possession of all the strong mili-
tary positions. He would, reply, that had he ap-
proached in a different direction, he should have-
, beeneexposed to the enemy's cavalry, and he must
; „chive, invested the fortress of Eivas, inferior to none
' 'in strength of the second order in Europe, and by
,altar means have exposed his artnv in a bad climate to
privation and hardship. On the other, hand, by
keeping along the
'coast, his line was unbroken, his
movements were rendered more compact, and he
secured a constant supply from the ships. His object
' bad been at the moment when the cotnrnand ceased
to rehrain with him, to have turned the enemy's posi-
tion et Torres Vedras, and, he could assert, that at
that moment, however much' the difficulty might
have been, the means existed in his hands of brineilig
the contest to a fortunate conclusion. Whatever ad-
vice he had given as to the subsequent Convention,
it only went to approve of the principle of allow-
ing Portugal with their arm s
and baggage. By this means, he saw that the tnat-
fi would be brought to a speedy issue, which was,
in his Mind, a matter of infinite importance, wheu
lilts-nature and intended result of the .service were
taken into consideration. All the jacilitiese which,
~,in the event of his intended operation being success- .
-:, 'fill, would have beep in the hands of the British, re-
'4.l4iaiiiiialilii the possession orelse French ; so that they
tnigisteeby mean Of the number of boats which were
ff in their' eiever, cross over to the other side of the
Tagus, and occupy the forte there, from whence it
eight not be in the power of the British to expel
them for some time. In this case the British army
► must have been exposed to the fatigues of a siege,
during the most inclement season of the year. The
'object nt the British Government, on the contrary,
however, he conceived, had been to lose as little
time as possible, in Portugal, and to proceed to co-
Operate withehe Spanish armies. By, this Conven-
tion, there were liberated for the same purpose 4000
Ay,,fißiii-T, who were on board of the Russian fleet.
Besides these, 16,000 British troops had been ren-
dered-disposable for the same purpose;. and; of the
'French liberated, who, it was alleged, would so
''atleedilY find their way into Spain, not a single man
had arrived, or could exped to be brought to the
frontiers of Spain for some time to come. He again
repeated that.he had given his concurrence to the
Convention ouly on the ground of its being a prin-
ciple founded on sound policy, to allow the' French
to evacuate Portugal. They were not likely there to
be in want of provisions—they were, in fact, in the
po,session of Portugal, in a military point of view.
The British army, on the other hand, must have
been exposed to every went.. 'At the same time too;
thet this agreement was entered into in Portugal, it
was we'l known that there were other operations in
which the presence of the Britisliparmy %SW; ex peeled,
and anxiously required. Su far, therefore, be ap-
proved of the principle of the Convention. There
; were particular points in it, however, from which he
• totally dissented ; and so far from Sir Hew Dalryni-
:.:. pie having been prepared to cultivate his friendship,
if he should be allowed to judge from what had oc-
curreddu ring the discussion of the Articles, he should
-el.; ae. -
imagine lie entertained a prejudice against his opi-
nion. When the approach of General Kellerman
was aenouncecl, he (Sir Arthur) asked of Sir Hew
Dalrymple, if he should go 'to the out-posts to speak
to him? The answer was, No—that General Kel-
lerman had inquired for him, the CoMmander Of the
i Forces, and that he must be brought to head-quar-
ters. Sir A. Wellesley here. proceeded to state the
Articles of. the Preliminary Treaty to which► he had
objeded. First, That the Negociation should not
originally extend beyond the suspension of hostilities:
Second, That instead of private property, the wends
arms _and baggage should be substituted. Third,
' 'That OM 1ti06., should be introduced about the RusSian
fleet. -On the two first of -these the Coiumerider

differed fiom hint : on tho third, 'he was of 'pinion
that it might form part of the Treaty,: but if not ap-
proved of by the Admiral, that then it,should be
struck out. General Kellerman again insisted that
the Russian fleet was a neutral in the putt ot Lisbon;
that it should be at liberty to leave that pert; and
that the British fleet should 'tot be entitled to pro-
ceed in chase of it for a limited time., To this
the Commander, refused to agree, or to permit any
farther indulgence than 'that till the ~ConyentiOn
as to the Russian fleet should' be settled, Lisbon
should be to, it as a .neutral port., Sir Arthur
Wellesley agreed. that it waa,correet, if there was any
thing amiss should appear in his conduct, that he
should be punished 1-or it. He sebmitted; however,
'tl.at there would be something new and strange in
the doctrine, that he, a subordinate Officer, should
be pueished for whatever might he blameable in the
' condnd of the Conepander of the Forcesl He was
afraid the memory of Sir Hew Dalrymple did not
serve him when he stated that it was in consequence
of, a : suggestion of General Kellerman's, and not
froin any d6ire expressed by Sir H. Dalrymple him-
self, that he (Sir A. Wellesley) signed the Prelimi-
nary Artielea, According to his (SirA.Wellesley's)
reeolleCtion of the circumstance, he was in another
morn at the time,, when Sir Hew Dalrymple carne to
JiiM, and informed him. that General Kellerman had
said, when he (Sir H.'Dalrymple) was.going up to
sign the Preliminary Treaty, that it was not proper
for him, the Commander of the Forces, to sign such
a Peper..w.iih General Kellerman, who was only a
General or DiViSion. He (Sir H.' Dalrymple) there-.
• fore asked Sir A. Wellesley if he had any objection
,t0.,,q4 the paper-,-when he -said that he had not,
and that he would 'sip; it as any other paper which
he Might be desired to sign. ley his (Sir H. Dal-
ryiiiple's) authority. He again repeated, that he
. was not. in the room when General Kellerman stated
,the.ithpropriety of Sir Hew Dalrymple signing the
Preliminary Ankles, but it was in another room that
Sir Hew asketthun`-(Sir A.Wellesley) to sign them.
He did not esteem himself responsible for the na-
ture-of the Articles, or for the terms in which they
were drawn up. He gave his advice only as to the
principle of the Treaty, but he did not conceive
himself responsible 'for that advice. If he had, in-
deed, been sent to negotiate a Treaty, he would pre-
. bably have been responsible for the terms of it---at
events, ter the form in which it was drawn up. But
this could not be the case Mien, his superior Officer,
the. Commander of the Forces, was hiinSelf present,
and was, in fad, the negotiator of the Treaty. That Sir
Hew Dalrymple was such, he apprehended, was
clearly shown, he ,having stated that he stepped for-
ward himself to sign the Treaty, and was only pie-
, vented by General Kellerman on a point of
eti-
yuette--a circumstance which could not have oc-
curred bad Sir Hew considered him (Sir. A. Wel-
lesley) to have been the negotiator ! Sir Arthur's
statement then goes on to detcut the dilfereut corn-
munings and deliberations which took place on Co-
lonel Murray's being sent with the Articles for the
approbation of Admiral Sir C. Cotton with, respect
to the disposal of the Ruasiae Fleet. On this sub-
jet 'he (Sir At thur) declared that it had then been,
and still wasehis.opinien, that the best thing which
possibly could have been done was to have left it in
the port of Lisbon.' Things might have turned out
in such a manner as to have put the Fleet. in our
power; at all events,,, the seamen by which it was
manned would not have been sent home to fight
agaihst the Swedes. He proceeded to defend this
oein4n by arguing that the moment the Portuguese
colours were hoisted at Lisbon, it Would, as to the
Russian Fleet, have become a neutral port. The
Admiral, hoWever, would not aeree to this. The
Defiuitive Treaty was, in teeny respeets, different
from the Pre:it-ninny Articles. Sir. Hew Dalrymple
settled the whole
,ot it for himself ; and, in point of
tact, he (Sir A. Wellesley) had, never seen the Con-
vention till he read it in England.
Sir HEW Daeaymi,es, in explanation, stated that
the. Aid-de-Camp whom he had sent on Shore, ,on
his arrival off the coast, to intimate to Sir A. Wel-
lesley thht it was not his intention to interfere in his
commana, had not been able to meet with him.—
He also stated, as a proofe bat Sir A. Wellesley bad
negotiated with respett to the Russian Fleet, that
while General KeliC113;111 was arguing that subject
with Sir Arthur iu French, -a poison whom Keller-
man bad brought :Jong with him had got Sir Hew
to the window, and was eudeavoui ing, in bad Eng-
lish, to enforce on him arguments similar to those
used by General Kellerman, which principally went
to prove the bad, policy of the English in eating
with harshness towards the Russians, who were well.
disposed towards thein

thitg extraordinary in it, as far as the Portupi,se
were concerned, except the n utrality 01fleet of
Lisbon:

• Sir HEW DALAYMPLE, in answer to a question
from the President, whether he had any documents
respeaing the, state of the fortifications, when oc-
cupied by the Briti,h ?• replied, that the reports of the
Officers who took possession of the forts had"not ar-
rived when he left P,4-turrbill and therefore he could
Say their condition.

The Presid,n-4 then delivered some ikritten quet-
Lions to Sir Hew, to he answered in writing. The lat.
ter, upon looking at the piper, observed that there
were some which he could answer immediotely;
but, however, on the whole, it might be as .well to
give -the answers in writing at the next meeting of
the Court.

Capt. BLIGH then called and examined:
JUDGE-ADVOCA/ E.—Was you employed off th
coast of Portugal in the months of August and Sep,
tember, in superintending the landing, and assisting
the British Army ?—A. Yes.
State geterally whether there are any-diffitui-
ties in landing` troop,, provisions, stores, &c. in the
montiiS4A. iitrgnst and September, between Oporto
and the Tagus-and what they are, if any ?—A. The
difficulties'Lare4t.all tunes great from the 'heavy
swell, and were particularly so during the time
that I was assisting in landing the army under Sir

Q. Ace there 'any situations between Mondega
Bay and the Tagus, where ships could a►►chor safely
in these months, and in boisterous whetter?
None whatever.

(11, Could the boats of the country, obtahied at
Mondego, be carried to the Southward, so as to
be of use ? A. They could be carried to the
Southward, but, I conceive, :Kit so as to be of any
use.

Sir ARTH ftW E Lt. E2I:EY, g#e a cursory statement
of a few ,atnenchnents it had been proposed; to
make in the Articles of the Convention, in the con-
ference which he ani other General Officers had
with Sir HeW Dalrymple on the ,ieth of August.
The pi incipil amendment related to the fitth
Arthur being of opinion-that they ought to
have been allowed to carry away no property but
their arms .and baggage.
Sir fInW observed,. in. opposition -to a statement
of Sir A. who hid said, that the Convention had
been afterwards concluded without the amendments,
that some material ameodinents had been made, to
Pro" which lid would
.produce, the original. The
letter which Sir A. bad written to thel3iShop of
Oporto, might, if prodbced, throw considerable
light on the questibn with respect to the RusSian
fleet. He had the ans,l.ver to this. letter, which was
brought to him 'as being addressed to the Command-
er in Chief. The• Bishop and Junta of Oporto as-
sumed the style and charaker of the Government of
the kingdom, which he never allowed them, and
to Iris resistance to their pretensions was owing a
good deal of the hostility which heexperienced from
that city. He had, however, no communication
with them on the subjeti; though Sir Arthur had, as
would appear from the answer to his letter. •
Sir ARTHUR WELL E3LE Y said, that be need not
enter Upon the subject of the pretensions of the Go-
vernment of Oporto, as on that point he perfectly
concurred with Sir Hew Dalrymple. The letter
alluded to must have been written after the Artnis-
tice. .He really had no recollection whether he
wrote it or not. He certainly had no copy of it,
otherwise ire would undoubtedly produce it. He
had seen in the newspapers a copy of that letter,, in
which it was said, that there was nothing extraordi-
nary in the Armistice, except what related to the
-neutrality of the Port,d Lisbon, with resped to the
Russian sleet. He still said, that there was OQ-

Q. What dependence could in point of fad have
been placed on landing provisions and.' heavy artil-
lery,, on the 21st of August To the best of
.ruy recollettion there was a great dent of surf on the
beach 'that day,., which would Prevent the landing
of troops. Provisions and stores were, landed three
days after the 21st, bat the sea rose so much after
that, that it was attended with";extronie danger to
.
attempt

Q. (Ey,Sir H. DALKYMFLE). What entrance
and ..!..I.7Nhelter ectuld the Mondego River .atibrd
froco-a-;6 winds and the swell to ships drawing wore
than eieven feet water ?—A. Cape Mondego affords
shelter from the Northerly minds, but the Loads are
ppen to rite South-West, the most dangerous wind
that btovvi on that coast. Here Capt. Bligh's exa-
mination

General FERGUSON was then called in.
Sir, DAvtp PUNDAS delivered to him a•paper of
questions., which he inforrned him had been pre-
pared for him to answer. He desired him to look
over thg)t.a.od see whether he thought proper to an-
swer them Olmediately, or keep them for.the pre-
sent, and-gWe in his answers in writing. General
Ferguson haVing looked for a short time over the
paper, said, that trom the nature of the questions he
would prefer giving in the answers in writing.
The President then desired that the Court might
be cleared, with an intimation that it would proceed
no. tattber till Thursday. The delay is perhaps oc-
casioned by the absence of Sir H. Bwrarci,
the Dukes of Cambridge and Cumberland were
present as on the previous days.