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London, England, 1809-04-20 00:00:00

este PONSONBY wished the Right Hon. Gentle.
were slain. More than 3000 were put to the sword
man .opposite would; have the.goodness to inform 1 . . .
him NV hetlicr or net -the Right HonsSecretarY of : by the cavalry.
State for Foreign Affairs would be- in his place to- i We have lost but 30 killed and 6o wounded.—
morrow, Ass ls.was desirous of putting several ques- i Colonel GIRAUD of the 12th Regiment of Dragoons
tious to film eeticerning the affairs of Spain ; in par-
was stverely wounded b y a ball. The Colonel of
titular with respea to that passage of Mr. Freres.
letter to Sir J. Moore, in which Mr: Frere told Sir .Dutch Hussars was also wounded. 'General SEDAS-
J:•Mooreethatshls Messenger would - explain to' hiriel e.iiirt praises' ieccee.' dingier'. the Chief of his Staff
the 'reasons by which he was . actuated in his ads. 1 e, i ,
*hoe the 'daY before the battle, crossed
vice. There were other questions also relating to ; m°t".l.lEo
Spain, Which he wished 'to put to -the Right Hon. 1 the Gnadiana,in company with Gen. MILIIAUD, in
Secretary. . , I Oder to prevent the bridge being broken, in which
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The. CHANC4 H LOR of the EXCEQUHR replied, l
he succeeded. General MILHAUD, his offi , and
that be could not be positive whether or not his 1
Right Hon. Friend would attend in his place to-more troopardisiinguishedthemselves.
row, but that he would.errdeayour to qualify himself The following day the fugitives were pursued by ,
tO render a satisfaaory answer to the Right Hou. the cavalry and two pi. the enemy's Generals, who;
Gentleman. • , .
~,them, were slain. General- S •
.Were among
The. House then respired itself into a Cornrnittee TIAN! was, on the eeehe at the foot of the Sierra
on the Bankrupt Law Atnendment Bill, in which • Morena, .and found himself oti.a line with the Duke
the consideration of the variona clauses were pro-
ceeded with: of &MM (N'teeo e) who must already leave ad-
.
On the clause being read by which a bankrupt, vaneed beyond Merida.'
alter he had obtained his certificate, but before he j • At the same moment that General SEBASTIANZ
had given' his release fur his alloWances, was to be captured Ciudad Real, and arrived at the foot of the
rendered a competent v.intess in any cause .relating
Sierra Morena, the Duke of Mono won the battle
to his estate in which his assignees were the
claitnants, *,' . of Merida.
Sir S. Rothe .Y, in order to obviate some objet- The troops of reserve of Seville, Badajos, and An..
lions which existed against this clause, proposed as . . .
enema, were colleaed together, rind placed in order
an amendment, that the bankrupt' should not be so
rendered a competent witness, uutil lie had given II of battle by General CLTESTA, upon an elevated plain,
release as to his interest in the particular matter at , between Donbenite and Medellinr and which was
issue. . .. . covered -by the Guadiana. Thiearmy, formed in
A long discussion ensued, in which the Attorney '
and Solicitor Generals, Mr. Jacob, Mr. Wilson; Mr, F three lines, was supported by batteries; -. . . .
Steeveose Sir. S. Romilly, Mr. Morris, and Sir C. ' As soon as the Duke of Beettiikti-n,A ,
iiirved this,
Price participated.. It was contended, on the One
be commanded the cavalry of;Generals LASALLE and
hand, that this clause would introduce an anomaly 5..1 e ..
into the rules of evidence ;on the Other,-the elope.,!Aviv a MAUBOURG to place themselvessioan oblique
elope., . ,
diency of putting an end' to fittitious•leleaSeS, which line ; and lie Ordered aenerat Level. i 6 Olace him-
were now so common, 'ttri".i maintained j as also the self with the division of the- Princes -of. the Conte-
justice of rendering that indiyidoal a competent wit- ' • '
mess, who, in most cases, Was 140 best witness that deratioo of the Rhine, in a el94e:Olumn between
',could posfibly
.be .obtained. Eventually, the clause, the above-mentioned. cavalry.'. • Ile strengthened him
As amended by Sir S. Romillys Was -agreed to. . - with fourteen pieces of artillery',rnu !and placed the di-
A cenyersetion: between Mr. TCroker, SiieSael
en the visions of VILLATIS and RUFFIN in the.rear.
ROmillyeand.the SoliCitorsGeueral tools place
'Clause fpr empowering the Lord Chancellor, Lord • The Duke of Belluno .attaelsed the left wing of
'Keeper, or Lords Commissioners'for the titue being, the enemy, and instantly threw it `into confusion
iutead
.9( personal service, to creditors of Irish i s •
fhe centre and right wing were also routed. Seven
bankrupts in England, and vice versa, to empowerthe creditors in the country of the bankrupt to giver thousand Spaniards remained upon the'peld of bat-
intimation in the DUblin -or London Gazettes, as j tlee 3000 were made prisoners; the remainder are
the case might be: The clause was afterwards I dispersed. Thirty pieces of cannon and nine. co-
agreed to.
Another lenethened discussion took place on the leers have fallen itito our hands.'
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clause for giving the bankrupt an appeal to the Lord, - This important engagement has laid open Seville
!Ow:metiers if ell or filar-fifths his creditors re- to us. The :fugitives are eursued with the utmost
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fused to sign his certificate, l'ile A.ttoruey-General .
aaivity. On the 4th *of March, the advanced guard
wished the number to be- limited, in which Mr.
Jiciib -agreed with him.... Mrs Abercroinhise. Sir C. • of the 'Duke of Belluno was already arrived on the
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original right side of.Badajos, and it hoped to unite itself
Price, and Mr, Steevetis supported the
clause. •
with the Ale of Dalmatia, who it is thought, lies'
The SOLICITOR-GENIZRAL opposed it, as he thought'
lit would press hard on u noinerono elo§4, mtfo, „wlO i already entered 'Lisbon."-e(ltionifeurs, ,April 9.)
bethought were equally entitled to tlieir.attention and j ~.PAitts, APRIL tie—The bead-quarteriSif the Duke
. humanity, wilt the bankrtipts, the hOnestand suffer i , -Bison
s/trikm
, of ASSENA) are still at.Ultn, and those of
ins creditors • as the clause:would ;Bice them to
'sign. the certificate ofstlic bankrupt, however un-
•Gen. OUDINOT at Strasburgh. The Chief of the
principled his conduCt mieht•appeer, apd thus wen.. Staff of this General assumes the title, ' Chief of
tenance (liege fiends he wished to preYent. 13 pros: the star efe the /3 d , ...
o y or .neserve of the Ithinish
posed that three-fourth of the creelittes should be .
substituted for fOur fifths, 4nd that;the law in other. • Army."
, . .
respects should remain as it now Elands.• Concerning the departure of the. Emperor, nothing
. Sir. S. Riietreev, in reply, to prove that creditors is known with certainty. ' . •
in this country can unjustly persecute a bankrupt, c •.• ! A
. . ONSTANTINoPLE, APRIL 1.2.5......1110, treaty of
adverted tothe case of a man who writ kept in prison ,
through the malignity of his assiguee- {who had re- ; peace with Ragland has been. published bete ; it
peatedly declared he should only be removed from s consists 'of twelve articles, and contains no very re-
hismeltable proVisibrei, It treats merely of termi-
prison to hiegraye), from the tnontlf.of October
18.06, to the beginning of !KM: The state of the . •
nation of hostilities, and the liberty of-commerce be-
debtor's health was then stated,- on the authority of
a physician, to be such, through his iinpriSonment, .tween ,the two people.
that unless removed he could not in all probability: , C LiTI/T(IAIiD, APRIL 4.—TLI King repaired this
outlive a fortnight. A petition was presented to, , .
orni• • -
ng to Ludwigsburg, whither the Queen will '; •
the Lord Chancellor, who humanely advanced it, m
when a new detainer war lodged against li inn hrough :go to-morrow.
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the intrigues of his assignee. A new petition was The General of Division VANOAMME went this
!day to Heidenheine where the head-quarters of the
preferred, which the Lord Chancellor likewise acf-
vanced, but some unavoidable delays occurring, the :. e
bankrupt died ; and died through" the continerneht Wirtemberk; troops, arc establish;:d, WhiCh by virtue
he bad, suffered from the inveterate hatred of his as- of nit order from his Majesty the Emperor. Nein-
signee. He did not take uport himself to say, that. j 1•EON are to be placed under his conemancL
the conduct of the bapkrupt had not been such as to ' .
incur diciest resentment of hiecreditor ; but surely OARLSIttIkIE, APRIL '4.—T4e Marshal Duke of
no instances of dishonesty on his part could' justify . Istria (BEsstattas) arrived 'here yesterday, and pure
such rigour ;it was theretere improper to'sufler that sued his journey to Pforzheimi The Prin&t of Neuf-
power to remain in the hands of an etasperated ine
dividual. A very incorrecletam teent had madebeen chalet is arrived at Se•ashnrgh.
of the number. of uncertificated bankrupts now in . FRANTSPoiris APAIL,'9.;---Darmitadt troops have
prison. Instead of hetastetz 20 and 30, he had as- marched towards Dillingens from Mergentheim, by
eerta;ned there were upwards of 100 within the r ton Mend of rho Marshal Duke of Rivoli. •
walls of the king's Bench, the Rules, and the Fleet
Prtsott. ~ ' On the Bth, the Nassau troops marched towards
.After e few words from Mr: Wresote, the clause- - -FtetticOhia, iiforder to unite with the corps of the
was agreed to. .
Duke Of AVERSTAAT. I
Several otherclatiies were then brought up, and , •
!Ana W, AFI3IL 1.-411 Austrian - Gallicia: to
after seme.diacussion agreed to. „
Mr. WEIAEToN brought up the Repertof the Bill, battalions of Feecibles have been formed, Of whiCh
which was received,. and ordered to 'be 'taken into
six have already joined the regular. army in the neigh-
further consideration on 'Thursday
,stennight. The
Bill with its ainendrpentswes.Ordered to be printed. ► bourhisod of:Cracan. Eacit'of these battalions con
Adjourned at half past twelve. - - . sista of 800 men,- and the number of regular troops
in the Whole province amounts to 18,006 They
expel too to be reinforced from the Hungarian In-
sUrreaion:

DUTCH PAPERS.

MADRID, APazr. 2.—General 8213ASTIANI an-
nounceii from Sahta Cruz at the foot of the Sierra
Morena, under date of the 29th 'of March, that on

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the v7th he descried the Spanish army of Andalusia,
to which were joined a vast number ,of peasants,
stationed in order of battle before Ciudad Real ;
that he advanced against them, rooted, and destroy-
ed them without any resistance; that on the 2rith
the feeble remains of that army, Were on the other
side of the Sierra Morena;' and that the p-rodtree i)l

this atrair was 4000 prisoners of war,' 7 standards, and
18 pieces of cannon. Among the prisoners of war
are-197 office% of whom 4 are Colonels, ands 7

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orders w repair to the frontiers.

RATSBON, Arai'. b.—From day to day' it looks .
more srzrlite in our neighbourhood. AcCordiagler
a flying report, the Archduke CHARLIS was to lease
the capital on the vd of April, in order to proceed to
Weds. The principal Austrian force stands_onthst—
Ems. The number of troops which bars:marched
towards the Inn amounts to 3000. But it is observed,
that among the,Austrions,there is much marching
and counter-marching, ax-well from Anplin 'to Bo-
Uremia, as from those,qUartera to Carinthia; and Car.
rtiola: hence it is uncertain on which side the
&voter number of troops are:
The Divisions of Carlll St. Ayr, Legttp.cl,; Boudet,
and Molitor, art still conformed -betWeetilfii! Lech
stpd the liter.
I\TAEtcztls..-.-The preparations for` de.
fence still continue. From Hungary We team, that
tile :52 counties have not poly furnished the pour-
reEtion with the troops rehired, but even volunta-
rily organize still more troops..
In Presburgh, besides therinsurretlion, 6ao cs
valry and two battalions of 11000 y have been SUP-
plied. Other counties hare seers like exainple.
Also the chief Nobility and Nogales have (Nu. iPPe
troops at their own expellee.
PAWS, Ara It. 6.—Major Lai Gaotrox,',4l4os. 4.,.....,
Camp to the Duke of Suderinani*, is thrived
with a Swedish OfficistTettarged-WitrarsiCardir3
from his Court.
• TO CORRESPONDENTS..

*** We are very sotry.that we have been unable t continue
our insertion of the Historical recital of 800 NAP AitTIC
eiltrAtC)/ in ITAiY, which So completely developer
hil
Military Cbaraaer and Coudu:t ; but we hope to resume
the subjed To-morrow, or next Day at farthest.

ARRIVED—I Dublin. Gottenbutgh, t Lisbon,
Waterford.
111tICE OF STOCKS
THIS D y AT TWKILVX O'CLOCK.
Consols . ...... . • 67i

THE SUN.

lOLly 111,111 DICIRRIt r41.14U)4 AUDI*? r s

A -',LONDON,
THURSDAY, lifltlt 20, 1809.'
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Yesterday afternoon' Caatain SCHOMBERGI Qf
M. S. Loire, arrived%' at ihe from th.
fc s
Coast of Spain. The, oire was sent out sometime
aci with* supply of arms and nunonitioa, fat I
Marquis. de RomaNk's arti)y. '441'41 were 11. r
41'
landed at Finisterre. The accounts which Optain
SCUOMBIRG has brought from the Marquis de Rod,

MAMA are of the most satisfatiory nature: If ap-,
pears that no less than three anions have-taken pllre
between t!,.. armies of the Marquis de llorantiA and,
Gen. SOULT, in all Of which the former had so de-
cidedly the advantage, that SOULT was driven out
of Gallicia ; so that in fad the invasion of Portuggl,
was, on his part, a matter of necessity, -rat of:
choice. It is further stated, that the French's/01Y,
13 in so distressed a state, that unless Gen. sato
can .derive effedual assistance from the co-operation
of General VICTOR from the Southward, he will, in
all probability, be compelled to surrender. The
whole male poptgation of GalliCia, we are happy la
add, is up in arms against the French, who are fr'''
confined to the Fortresses of Fermi arid Coruna:l,

Admiral Aropt,c.A. has given an order for 40)"°
!teddies, between six and seven thousand of witidji
have already been embarked at Portsmouth,'
have sailed for Cadiz, and the order is going 011
the rate of between twelve-and fifteen bundred
week. This order was transmitted by the Junta °'
Seville; and is paid for by the Spanish Government'

We last night receivedr.Dutek Perpers, to the 16/b
Instant. They contain an account of'sotno
portant successps obtained by the i?rench in t`'.;
South Spain. We entertain, however, str°D9
hopes
,that these accounts, 'if not altogether
will be found to be very much exaggerated, 1771
cause we have been repeatedly informed,
the same channel, of the total defeat apd
hilation of the, Marquis Di ROMAN at'a • All*
though it now appears that, instead of being Ae.
feated, he has been abje to drive SoULT out of 63.
liCia.

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On the tidings of the, several Movements, the po.. Dispatches were sent last night from the secre6l,s
1 liolCtrocips. which were on the: Ruisian frontiers, of State's Office to Portsmouth,
COP"
bi the Success Frigate, to Mr. Avant, at ,
broke up'on the 2ecl, and Since- the day betbri yes- tino 1"
pe. • / Willia°
terday, have been on. the march towards`the borders The lion. Captain BOYLE, of the R°Va . 'one
COlnalltoil ,
of Gallicia. One. column marches on this side. the Guard Ship at Spithead, is appointed a ca Ilan
of P .
of the Transport Board in the -room,
Vistula, by Radom; and the other, on the further i - '
'ow 11Y, deceased. (be
side By' Lublin. , The. troops are to
,be cantoned on A commercial regulation has been made by
~
KO
frontiers •
the till fort .ier orders. • Junta at Seville, highly favourable to the initle
Inv
to be torwar,az,
•
The Saxon troof.s are marching successfully into with this country. Eve species of Brittsi, r4;n;
failure is, to be
S Aotly ; and on the other hand we ex d'and f ' 'ftl • remote dpetw'';,. of
pet ,other or the convenience o the admitted
.. initao
thet Pp:I:a:J(1) 14iijeS
d the moo- ,
national troops from Thorn or iiintaii. The troops '
of the. Empire .n the western u ori , , co
. i ion° b
- i bacallass of which there is such a prod g 1 soot
g sure'plion; ^is to tic 'received
,
thither, amount to /2,000. men. ' '—"llf i t America in foreign vessels. .