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ccutiod of it did not atone for the carelessness about
terms, which we had no right to stipulate. He had
ageio to °tile& to the exchange of civil prisorArs for
Spanish troops—here again We had no right to stipu-
late for Spain, even though the stipulation should
appear advantageous; for Spain should be left to
judge for herself, and the British Commanders had
no coupetence to determine upon such =net's.—
Equally obje6.tionable wertethe stipulations for those
Portuguese who were parillans of France. Stash
siipulations were sometimes' allowable, as in the Ca-
- pitulation of Islands, where the -conquering force
would remain. Such stipulations seemed to give us
the air of domineering in Portugal, and of • acceding
to conditions which we had no legitimate power to
fultiL Upon the etermist ice and Convention, in their
suilitery nature, his Majesty's Ministers did not take
upon themselves to judge, but called in to their aid,
the opinion of military advisers. This- they deeme
the most effectual mode to adopt, not that the
conelad. of the miiitary Commanders might not ap-
pear to them to be open to criticism, and because
any other mode seemed liable to greater objeCtions.-
would have preferred a Court Martial, and
were land in calling for that mode of trial. But a
Ceert Martial seems to presume the existence of a
charge of some specific crime. His Majesty's Mi-
liielere professed to have none, and they felt it
would have been an harsh measure, while so strung a
feeling pervaded the country against these trans-
actions, to have sent any Officer to trial with the
4weig h t 'of that clamour upon his bend. Had Sir
H. Dalrymple been selected as the person, would not
Ministers, with every appearance of justice, have been
accused of partiality, in sending to trial an Officer
Wl4O had to plead his*canty information of the state
of things on his arrival in Portugal, and who had no
time to pause to acquire any ? If GoVernment had
selected Sir H. Burrard, it might likewise be observ-
.:ed, that he had the command only for twenty-four
hours, and had scarcely interfered in the
,opera-
lions; and here again Ministers might appear guilty
Of partiality. Had he been selected, it must be
only on military principles, and this.was what Go-
vernment were anxious to deliver no opinion upon.
Indeed it was impossible. Inr men in civil offices to
decide on matters of that sort. Was Sir A. Wellesley
to be. selected, be who could only be accused of hav-
ing excited those proud hopes which were afterwards
unfortunetely disappointed. What mode then re•
twined to be adopted, but that of an inquiry, when
there was brOught forward no distinct accusation, or
specific:charge, against any of the ComManders.—
Under these impressions a Board of Inquiry- was ree
sorted to, and the decision of that Court we bad rea-
son to consider as final ; for if after that Govern.
tnent sho'ald send any officer to trial, not only would
they have sent him to trial prejudged by popular
clamour, but also loaded with the decision of Go-
. vernment against him. The next 'charge urged
by the Noble Lord and the Honourable Gentle-
man, is the appointment of Sir. Hew Dalrymple.
In the selection of that Officer for the command,
all hie Colleagues in Office were' unanimous, and
they were all ready to share in the responsibility of
it. They could have no personal bias in his fa-
vour. He himself had never seen Sir Hew Dal-
rymple, but on account of the confidence with
hich be had inspired the Spaniards, and the cots
respondence he be had kept up with them, 'he was
deemed a fit and proper person to take the com-
mand, Such being his opinion Of the proceedings of
the Court 'of and the reasons which in-
duced hint to prefer that mode of investigation,
he could not but think the deCision of the Board
as final, constituted as it 'was by Officers of
the first distinciion ; and bowel/et:Pim might seem
to differ upon some points with his Colleagues,
yet he could not but agree with them in proposing
the prei ions question, on the first resolution of the
Noble Lord. For it would• be contrary to parlia-
mentary usage and practice to record 'on the Jour-
-04, of the l louse a barren unproductive truth, which
could now lead' to no practical results. It would
be saying no more titan • what his Majesty had
already said from the Throne, and which must like-
Vise be deemed the opinion of his MinisterS
who had so advised him. But the Hinionrable
Geutlemen has Observed, that when Ministers
first beerd at' the Armistceafrom the Portuguese AC-
river, they could not bring themselves to believe it.
There were then many reasons to justify that dis-
belief. On the 4th September, the Poteuguese Mini.
ster received a copy at the Armistice from the'Junta
Of ()vied.. When it was firer exaMined, it appeared
incredible to Government, .not only on account of
its metier, but because it was drawn up in French
only; bi,cArse it differed in nothing from the form
in which it was originally .peoposed ; and because
ft did not purport to be finally concluded. It was,
not exactly looked upon as a forgery, but as the rough
draft sent to Sir Hew Dalrymple, for his aqui-
eeeence, but in W hichno change or alteration, had yet
beers Made. This was all the knowledge Govern-
ment had of the transa&ion, until the official copy of
ft arrived on the tbill of September. It has ak
been urged as a cause of the failure, that the army
scat to Portugal was' difieiente in equipment, and
Unprosided with cavalry, Had that 'really' been
the; ease, then blame would attach to Ministers ;'
hat hew doee''the thing stand ?—Had the army
been so deficient in these essentials as Gentlemen
would represent; could it have gained not only that
splendid victory, but compleee triumph, which wtis
woo at Vimiera ? But it e ill be said it might have been
more complete, The gallant General whotommanded
well knew that reinforcements would soon melee. It
had even been piescrihe,d-when to wait their arrival,
hit did conceive the force he already possessed to
lie equal to the object; he bad in view. He was not
for fittaelito any blame to his Right Hon. Friend
for not waiting their arrivril the spirit, the bold•
naee, the courage, and the corredness with which
be achieved the vralory,..leroved his means were not
ieeeeepaie, The gallatil General succeeded; but it
was iusemeted l.c ought not to. have succeeded.
Such was his brilliant career, however, till the ne-
gotiation. But Was there no period after, when
,10,idnies might have been reealimieticed I Did not
ieiaii'urceumutits''arrive-on- the eatit h"Angust ? Was
not. time British Army t hen superior - to time of tee
eoerey bath in cavalry, in artillery,'and in every
eviovvio ? Bt'yoimd that period was there any room
fee eatephtint 14n, ether mot ivee induced ;4 collV1C-
„
0014.7 q the iroptit-iy of the Al%lThitlce. AR 10 the ep•
veieoue,nteogitit' Hew rAlrynlpie,. 41rody,
4iil4o44tien,,,iivkii. 0150(1 which It took pleee. It
?deiiitable th;Aillio'krittitt

career ; but, it should be reeolleacd, that it was
the undoubted right of his Majesty to select his Com-
rnauderi, and that he was known to exercise that

I right for the good of the military service. It was a
right not to be interfereti with. The almost contem-
poraneous arrival of Sirs H.Burrard and H. Dalrym-
ple was also matter of blame in the eyes of the Noble
Lord ; but was not that owing to the variation of
the winds, and was this a thing which his Noble
Friend could be expected to calculate ? ' Upon the
whole, he strongly and sincerely felt, that great ob-
jects weed obtained by the Convention, and that
• whatever it failed in was neither imputable to the
Generals who commanded, nor to the Government
that had appointed them. The other topics touched
upon, there would be future. Opportunities of can-
vassing. He should'only say a word on an observa-
tion that fell from the Honourable Gentleman,
(Mr 'Whitbread) at the close of his speech. 'He ex-
pressed a hope that Ministers 'would not be led by
the policy of the Government of Mr. Pitt. He hoped
they never would cea,e to be animated by the spirit
of that policy i n its wide and general views. There
were-none of his side: of the House, who wished to
swerve from it. A few, he believed; on the other,
would hail the direliaion of that system with ac-
clamation.

Mr. BATHURST supported the motion of Lord FL
Petty, and Mr. Yorke opposed it; .and after a few
words from General Ferguson and Mr. Ward,
Lord FL PETTY replied" at some length, after
which, the question being impatiently called fur,
the House divided.,

For the previous question . zo3
Against at - . . 53
Majority for' M inisters - —;o
The other Resolution was then negatived without a
division, and the Houoe.adjourned at Half past Six
o'Clock this Morning:

Flom llw LO' DON GAIZETTE, Feb. 2,1, 1809.

Admiralty-Office, Fob. 21, 1809.
Copy of a Letter from Captain Newcombe, of His Majesty's
Sloop Beagle, addressed to CoMmodore Owen, and trans-
' mitted by Vice-r tininal Campbell, Commander In Chief
of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels in the Downs, to this
Hon. SV. W. Pule; dated the 18t1) inst.

6I It ~

I beg leave to aCqUaint you, that,early, this morn-
ing (Boulogne bearing shunt six Jeagues);
his Majesty's Sloop under in/ command captured a
French Privateer, namedla Fortune, of 14 guns and
58 men, and dormuz;nded by Captain Tucker. She
was from
,Calais, two days, on her cruize, and had
not made any captures.
From their usual intrepidity, they: did not sur-
render until the Beagle ran her alongside, not with.
standing it blew strong with a heavy sea. Ow of
their crew was mortally wounded.
I have the honour to be, &c.
- (Signed) - FIIAS. NEWCOMBE.
To Commodore Owen, dec. dec. dec.

111,7r.glice, Feb. at, igen.-
4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards, Brevet Lieut.-Colonel
Francis Sherlock to bd Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase,
vice Teesdale, who retires. Captain Henry Moore to be
Major, vie Sherlock. Lieutenant Edmund Lally to be
Captain of, a Troop, vice Moore. Comet Konya Warren
to be Lieutenant, vice Lally.
17th Regiment of Light. Dragoons, Cornet Joseph Budden to
be Lieutenant, without ptirenaie.
.114114:1S Cuttayne,
Gent. to be Cornet, vice Iludden.
24th Ditto, Cornet Henry Niitiztt, to be Lieutenant, vice
• Young, deceased. .
loth Regiment of Font, James Brown Stewiird, Gent. to be
Ensign, by purchase,, vice Layard, promoted,
17th Ditto, Lieutenant Thomas Swyer to be Captain of
Company, vies Walker, deceased. Ensign Charles Evans
to be Lieutenant, vice S wyer. Matthew Pickering, Gent.
to be Ensign, vice Evans..
18th Samuel Holmes to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Mtiguire, promoted. ' Samuel • MiClintock, Gent. to be
Ensign, vice Holmes. Henry Gray, Gent, to be Ensign,
without purchase, v4ce GlitYord, who resigns.
2.lSt!VittO, Lieutenant Francis Whitfield, trout Half-pay of,
the 4th Fout, to be Lieutenant, vice Fuller, who ,exa,
changes. • -
' 25til Ditto, Hospital-Mate William Munro to be Assistant.
Surgeon.
32d Ditto, Lieutenant William ,Grundy to be Captain of a
Company, vice Tucker, deceased.
53d Ditto, Lieutenant John Paul to be Captain of a Cons..
pany, vice Reed, deceased. Ensign Wm, B, M'Donald
to be Lieutenant, vice Pahl. - Gore, Gent. to be En-
sign, vice M•Domild.
52d Ditto. To be Lieutenants, without Turellaie--Eoiign
Archibald Douglas. Ensign !Olin Dobbs., Ensign-Win.
Royds. Ensign Thomas Dundas.
541 h Ditto, Richard Kelly, Gent, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Cockiburne, promoted in the 4tlt Garrison
Dat cation.
55th Ditto, Lieutenant John Butler to be Adjutant, vice
Nicholson, ciccea:ied.
6411 Ditto, Robot Ellison, Gent. to he Ensign without pug,.
chase, vice l'ouler, promoted in the 96115 toot.
bilth Ditto, Ensign ianfes Nixon to be Lieutenant, vice Ma.
cautey dce,i,ti.n, Win. Reed, Gent. to be Ensign, vice
Nixon.
72d Ditto, Ensign Ronald M'llonald to be Liiutenant, vice
6,.Gordon, deceased.
Stet Ditto, ,Lieutenant A. Macalpine to be Adjutant, vice
Littman, proinoted.
93th Ditto, Assistant4urgenn Isaac Silcock, front the 6th
Dragoons, to he Surgeon, vice Jones, doceaseit.. .
9151 1)1110, john pAirtos. 1, Ls+ late Lielltellailr in the Ayr.
Ault: Militia, to UClPaylliaSter Of M.:: Zit Battalion, vice
who

93t1 Onto, Ge(gge -Ms ronald. Gent. to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Nhaiip, promoted.
sth Wes‘ Regiment, whit Bethrie, Gent. to be Ensign,
without purchase,' vice Kirkman, siiperseitect.
Royal York Ranger*, Ensign George Icanisay, from the Goth
Poor, Lobe Lieutemuitewithout purchase..
Maj(hradstiaw'b 34 Levy, Arcitroalcl li.emp, Gent, to be
fiipt.
J~KEVET.
Captain [antes SpaNvforth, of the Sat Garrison 13attalion, to
14 !visitant the Army.
sTA FF.

Lieutenant Nicholas Trant, of the Royal Staff COl's, to be
a Permanent Asi:tant to the Quarter-tvlaSter.(;eneral, uf
the Forces, vice Lieufmatki- Culotte!. Sylne*4 tic4;;;4S‘;ti.

HosetTAL sTA Ff.

homier, M. 1). Irwin Italt.pay, to be Physician to the'
FOrCei. Deputy Purvt.yor Joseph Gunton to be Purveyor
to the FUNCS.

The King'i, German Lesion.
Vol Bitttalion of the Line, Ciidet St:de:int Charles Hunieken
to be Ensign, vice iitmetlen, appointeti to Roit's Regiment.
slit Ditto, hnsisrt krnot Baron During to Lie Lieutenant,
vice Lobeae, &mind. Jedeulit C t.aties liolticr to be
Ensign, vice, During.
Chatham lock-Yartt Regiment of Volunteers, Sir Robert
liartow, hut. to De Caitlin:3, VIVe liupC, accc4se4.
MEMOKANdy►t.

The Appointment of t.; L 1 from the 43d foot,
to be Caputo of acomp4hy 'i ttlt Veterith
as Mated ttt the GA.:mut DI the sth Noventher Loa, h hot
taken
Oarancei.Oilicr, )Y b. 20, 11,9.
CPrp! Lngine.rr.

(4„,meman cadet philiiparry to be :wcond Lieutenant, vice
pr-rnoted, dated , 111ug. Gentientan Cadet
flaniznand A. Tapp tubeajtru. C-41itleuLut Cadet Wit,.
heid to hcoitt,., both thttect as above.
Cultutuasioua aisued by the LORI Litaltell4llt of tho Count/ of
Der,y.
Helper HAtt.4llent Ot Volunteer luilintry,
Win. 516411410, l 3cl. tppt-4:apta.to, data Aug. 1, IYOB, I.
ttats, dup. Anthony Strutt Gqiir„ tc.) be

THE ,SUN.

801.11 M Quit DICARL tALIIVIS AUDIAT

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, I'EBRUARY re, 1809.

WE last night received some Spanish Papers of a
recent date. From the great length of the Debate
in the House of Commons, we are only able to
make the foll Owing cxtra&s.
°vizi)°, Fan. 4.---Major-Gen.` Don FRANCISCO
BALLiSTEROS, from his head-quarters of Villanueva.,
under date of the'29th ult. reports, that two of the
Regents of Navarra, named. Don FEl.lyE*ll,Eisz, and
Don IGNACIo GlikOLA; had arrived, and being exa-
mined on their word; of honour, 'unequivocally de-
clared the following :—That on the 29th of January
they were -made prisoners of war in the affair of
Mansella de las Midas, by the vanguard of the
French army, commanded by Marshal SOULT : That
in conversation on the road, they learned from the
French Officers who conduced them to Burgos, the
delen of the,French dragoons by the Engliih cavalry
at Benavente, and that they were amvinced of it,
on arriving at Benavente, by seeing a number of
killed and wounded ; ihat at Pancorvo they saw the
French Emperor pass on. his way to France;
.and
that in all the - army it was publicly laid that Russia

and Austria had declared war against France, adding
at the same time that this rupture was the cause of
his hasty retreat, as also the entire evacuation of the
whole Peninsula, which they also.observed by this
flight ; and lastly, they Were certain, from the dr.
redion of the army, that
.they would he conipelW
to join the army of the North, which- 01 iged. them'
to deiert, and fortunately were able to accomplish
it, which is all they could say to the different ques-
tions put them.

By an ofticial.dispatch of the 29th ultimo, receiv-
ed from the representative commissioned from
this Supreme Junta Don RAMON DR UAW° PoNTE
we learn, that the division of Mandonedo has arm-
ed its inhabitants against the French, pursuing and
cutting them up, and that the inhebitants had in-
tercepted some, and destroyed others of their],
taking, at the same time, some important dic
Exitelstl. In • the town. of Villatm, .the iilhnhitntir.
repuls'ed. a party of the enemy that attempted to
enter it ; and in order to support this Valiant deter_
initiation, we have given them all the succour that
was in our power.

By accounts received from a person jitst arrived
from San Andero, and who, from his situation in
life is intitled to credit, we learn that the inhabi-
tants of ,Trastniera have taken up arms, which ac-
counts for the 'departure of the American vetwl, a

prize to a French Privateer from Santona ; they
were assisted by some soldiers of th:: army of Ito-
MANA, who main►ained themselves if, that quarter
From San Andero the enemy det.tchecl two partieS,
who were both repulsed, one of them to seven
leagues from Santona, killing a great many, and
taking others prisoners, two hundred were also
sent from Unquera, but met with the same late;
and at San Andero, whereat present not more than
goo remained, from IS to 20: cart: arrived daily
with sick and wounded belonging to the division of
BON ET.

It is also said 'here, that the'French have been re-
pulsed in three diffcrent assaults made on Saragossa
with great'slanghter, and' according to a letter taken
from a Frenchman; resident at Valladolid, the Em-.
peror has ordered that the siege of that city should
be abandoned.

By a letter horn Barcelona, of the Loth Novem-
ber, we learn, that on the 16th of the said month
forty thousand miquelettes preSented themselves
Within cannon shot of Barcelona, and that at the
same time the English bombarded the Mould and
the Citadel, in order to draw the attention of the
garrison of. Monjui. At day-break on the following
day, under cover of a great fog, the miquelettca
commenced the,assault on the Citadel. The troops
ft'om Monjui immediately came down to its assist-
ance, leaving but a few men to garrison it ; by these
means Gen. lhotwo was able to assatilt Monjui
without the loss of a man, and in the assault of the
Citadel we had 400 killed and 1000 wounded ; but
both 'places were taken.

We mentioned yesterday the arrival of the Henry,
HANNA, at Liverpool front New York. The desti-
nation of this Ve,ssel, .wtta from New Yolk to Anti •
gua, but the Captain; Was induced to direct ItiLcourse
„ .
to this country, by. two Pasiengers, Who are'sup.
' ' -
posed to have an essential. interest, in cargoes
of twiny vessels that have eluded the'embargo. No
acounts are ,brought by the Henry; of the actual
passing of the Non Intercourse Bill, but it Was t;(,•
Herally expected to pass *hell the' vessel came

rests 11)0 oPiniont and feelings of the American. Pec-
ple respecting the conduct of their. Government 4.
for a Ship bound for. Liverpool, laden timber
and siaves,,,,Which.'sailed down the Myer with co-
lours flying, in violation of the embargo, and in
contempt of the batteries at New York, which fired
on her to bring her ,to, was enthusiastically cheered
as she passed by a vast multitude of spectators, many
of whom were on the 'batteries, which vainly at-
tempted to annoy her.

PLYMOUTH, FHB. 20.!--Arrived the Commerce,
Capt. Caaws, laden with nuts from Gijon, in nine
days. She brought Dispatches for Government,
which were forwarded from hence by express. Shs
brings intelligence of two actions having been fought
between the: French and Spaniards in the Provinci of
Asturias, in which the latter were successful.

Ito
PORTSMOUTH, Fga. .—Arrived the 41111,P
SPENCE, from Salconibe, and the Caridunis, Du:4er
from Tentritre, bound to London.

Sailed his Majesty's Ships i'Vassau, Rosamond,
Clarendon, Hero, Bustard, Dolphin, and Racoon,
for the Westward.

Also the Eliza, RIGHTHEAD, for Landon 31'4
Nathaniel, LANG, fur Sunderland.

FALMOUTH, FEB. 20.—Arrived His Majesty's Ships
La Sy.bille and I.:Eclair iron-) Plymouth ; Antelope
Transport, six weeks' passage, from Lisbon ; and
the Brig folly Batchelor, from. London, int
Corunna, out live -weeks, with the lois of sails, &C.

DEAL, FEB. 2 1 .—The convoy has just fired a gun
for the outward-bound vessels to get under weigh,
and the greatest cart of them aye now preparipg to
sail.

Yesterday morning His MAJESTY, POWS"
AUGUATA,SI)PiIIA, and AlsitiLlA, . accompanied by
Lady ELY, Generals FrrzinoY and CARTWRIGHT,
and Ccl. TAyLoa, code on horseback, in Windsor
l'ark, and returned to the Palace at twelve o'clock.
,Letters from our blockading Squadron off Roche•
fort, dated Basque Roads, the 4th inst. contain some
interesting particulars. It appears, that the French
force at Rochefort consists of 4 Sail of the Line, ill"
chiding the Calcutta, and two Frigates, all ready for
sea. The two Frigates are those which got in from
Nantes, while our Fleet was blown off. To this;
force it was expected would bead:led, in a few dap,
two more Ships, one of which is a first-rate, shoal"
a 74, was built and launched at nocilerur4
and very nearly ready to join the others, Our
Squadron expected to be joined by
two Sliips
and at, Adiciiral from the Channel Fleet. When
terrors cr4une uway our Squadron was at aOCi)Of
within niar. of' the French,Sitips, which wet/
protected try a strung tort.
Yesterday the Lotto MAYOR ordered the price otßread AP be continued at Is. 4d. tho Quilt tern 1.4).11
ot 'Wheaten, And is. lid. Household.

CORN- EItCHANGI3, FRB', '2 . —The ltlppTyot Wheat
to-day is short, Ain prime quality letctws a stnall(Kl'
vance in price, Aome tine OM exceeds our gooniti°l“
Rye is dearer; Barley and Malt neatly at last priors
Beans of the tivd descriptions are rather
dower; t
saplkly of Oats is like Wise: short.; and very flc"'.first rdi which higher prices are Biked Ylua
is quoted at an advance tit si. per sack. .
";

An offensive breath is of all other things the nlQ't
disgusting, especially in the Fair sex; It aries •
Oftener tram avant of attention to the teeth; than
from any oilier cause ; the regular n;e of a Tooth'
powder, to remove- all impurities, and preserve Ole
teeth sweet and cleatr, becomes on this acconnt
.'this
necessary. Of all the eOrripOitions for
..this purpose, Bungles HasTottATivE Tooo-;
POwDEN, from its carminative and restorative tia3.
Mies, has deservedly gained it preference; it renders
the teeth ofa pearly white colour, gives a cleanness
and verntillion hue to the gums, and itudarts 3 /,!:
leLable fragrance to the breath. So e‘tcnsive a"-
been the demand for it, that it forms the itopebdagd
to the toilets of the Royal Family, Nosility, attd
others of rank and fashion.—Sold wholesine
retail, as Mr. livTbca's, No. 4, Cheapside, Corner
of Paternoster-row ; and retail by most Count'',
Booksellers and l'itifumers, -in Boxes, at vs. 9d•
each; •