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London, England, 1809-01-23 00:00:00

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IMPORTANT iNTELLIGENCETtioIiSPAigi
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In actinion to the very interesting accuuntsw--

yve communicated to • our Roaders. on Saturday, ".
are now enabled to state, that the whole of our Ar 4

my has embarked.
In the Bulletin issued by Government on Ptar"
day, it was stated, that as General STEWptur va;
on the lutlt, the Transport.; frail'leaving C ,ronna.
Vigo were standing into the Bay. On the 14th
above ico Transports arrived, and the remaindee
reached, corunna the next day.

During almoot the whole of Sunday the 15th out
*bops were almost constantly engaged in -skirmish'.
WittiJthe Enemy, but they did not appear to be IP
Asufliciexit force to make a serious.attack upon our
.position y their obje& seemed.rather to he to eagle
the attention. of our troops, and to prevent their t at-
barkation until the regmittder of th© French Anil'
which was advancing by..freed marches, lid

On .Monday the Ifith, the expe6ed rcinfl'rer
meats had joined the French Troops in the ralign
baPrhood of curunna, and between ten and cleoti
o clock on the morning of that day, they began vi
rpppear in considerable force, and as the llriti`h
,Generals expelled an immediate attack., our Arie
•
was ,formed to receive the Enemy. It is occeonti
to state, that before this time a considerable part

the Army, particularly of the Cavalry, hid cm'

barked.

Marshal, Souvr, who commanded th`o .Trent''
snent sops 011ie in . reconnoitering our Po"
botbre lie gav,e. 'orders to commence the aircl‘.'
At length, at little after two o'clock, ~they
vaned, ankcommeneed the attack With their 0511'
impetuosity; -Theitefforts-were direeted
against our right wing; which it was obviously
intention to turn, Their furious onset
ceived with "the firmness and coolness Whiji SI)
.tiarticularlk elka,m6lerize British soldiers. hi
t
Bade under LOrd WILLIAM BENTINqx, censishilP
the 4th, 4ed., and 59th regiment,- compose" die
, .
part.of our, line against, which the enemy princil)all,
diretited their efforts; but almost the whole of

Army was eagaged.
The attacks of the Enemy, though violent tald
peated, were repOlsed with great slaughter, all'Af LI
'Tramps in their turn beanie the tooaibnts.

MIA
Ing teen InrOWn Into SUMO COMUSIOn Uy

the failtire' of all 'their -attacks;the Gent& were
ordered to advance and charge them with the bayyt-f'
net, the • Enemy could not stand the charge, )l it
retreated, or rather fled, :with the greatest precipili
tation
.; .and *so complete was their defeat, that fori

fourteen hours, utter the maim] ceased, not one

Frenchman appeared in sight. The aEtion hafted
about three .hours, and concluded about dusk.

Our Joss in so severe an aaion was less than
could. have,beerr expefted, it tilt! not exceed GOO
men-ill killed and wdunded, but we are sorry to
say that our loss in Officers hits been Considerable.

In the early part of the. a4lien Lieutenant;:General
Sir Jotiw NlooßE received a wound in-the breait,'
;!).:1
front a musket-ball; ,the Su rgeotis, iminefitm
ately declared to be Inertal; and he only:survi/edil
fill 12 o'clock at night. The second. in command;
also wounded in 'the

artn„ and the .bone;rwas "in shaitered, that am.
putafion 'heeame irrimediately necessary. Major
INApten, of the 500), and Lieutenant-CelonelMAc-
, xErrzut, of the 43d, were; killed, and. Liet.u.,colonel
NVIKCH of the -4th is wounded. We have heard the
ttm!s of other Officers said 'to tie atnong the list of
killed And wounded, bat as we have not 'received
itny official infOrmation upon the subjeCt, we will
'That sport with the feelings of ther 'friends' by men-
'Cloning their names.
As'sodn as the French were defeated, measures.

'Were takeiy fdr 'etnbarl;;ltg the Army with the
oreuteSt dispatch, and-we are happy'to say, 'that by
•Tuo_day night the whole Army, with all the Artil-
4ery, safely embatked, and on Wednesdays
'When the acCdunts'earbe away, The whole
-Fleet was standing out,of the tiarcif Cordnniu
We cannot omit this opportunity of stating, that
the greatest prai3eis'due to the Admiralty, for 'the
'exertions they made to facilitate the embarka-
tion. Itidependant of the Transports, no 1e541414
12 Sail of the Line were 'at Corruna, and or6dikise
tpritribLit'edinost euentiiilly to the safe entlialVitiVt.'
of the Troops. Two of the Transput ts arrived itt
Plymouth on Saturdv.

This
,inlellige:lce was bi-oiiglit by Lord PAGZT,
'who ttrrived at yalmouth in the. cossack on Fri-
clay :—The force of the ottetny amount to about
65000, men.,

We have This rrtotrtenCreeaived .a'n account, Mat
Sir
.I)AVLD ilATain died soon after lietad undergorre

ampatation.

We catinot rinse .this ateount Withotit,
ing a circumstance which. though Tot inymediattlyi
ontte6led with it, is of a most interestin#lllo
Lure, and which has beiin communicated to

from the most unqueltiomble rintherity. At the
time that Genera' LEt'EllVali was taken ptisener,
livow,PAivrtz was hiMttelf on a' height on the other
kide.of the rivet; about two mites from the scene °fee.-

~ Yion. Gen.ST WA It fWas appii zeA of the .CiTeu msta lice, •
had lie not been restrained by the positiVe oi-
lier" which he had piesiouily received, he wobid have
ientleavoured to have got in the rear of BON Ai' A Itt
,
and have -made a dash at him. Mk orders, tkowei,
,
'being-positive, and the risk r onsiderabley' he dies lot'
think it proper to make the attempt.

Th© perseverance of the American advocate, Mr.
A. B. who, to the credit of his modesty, has dropt
his obnoxious initials, and now doles out the 64-
gestions of " Massa JEPPERSON," in the Morning
Chronicle, under twenty -different tunics, is truly
!astonishing.' The British public is weary of, this
ettrnal gabbling about the Orders in Council : they
have long been convinced that a more etreaual
mode than they present could not be devised for. re.
Covering that carrying trade which the imbecility bf,,
411 the Talents bad nearly lust ; fur ttuninn. the.
machinations of a, most rancorous and unpilay„
cipled enemy against himself ; for correeting itkv,
overweening pride and insolence of an envious lakA4
insidious people ; and. punishing the ingratitude otse.
2alfilh and sordid race, who, connected with Ame-
rica by afFe&ion, with Holland by ointerot, and
With France by the common hatred of this country,
take a base advantage of the security which it, al-
fords. thern; to trainee its GovernMent; and beFome
,the agents and spies of all that oppose its prosperity.
How ,is it that this Correspondent of the Mornins
Chronicle, who certainly does not want shrewdness,
~.lannot scorer that his restless anxiety about tit ose

k

tb:aemodstrate. Snppoie,t hem as pernicioUs as
iirapreients. Why should this disquiet a profeised
partizan of America ? Cannot he permit 'us to ruin
Ourselves in our own way without such incessant
kekMiouring? Huw is he interested in retarding our
OW he who never wasted a thought upon us, but
-hoW to profit by onr cullibility ? The bugbear of
an Embargo with which he attempts to (lighten us,
like a nursery of infants, never possessed one feature
of terror, but for those who imposed it ; the sun
has risen and gone to bed for us just as before ; nor
will all the outcries „of 11 .procure a, tangle.
petition from friend or foe-for its discontinuance.--,
'Rift the plaything of his adopted countrymen alone;
and there is not the slightest disposition in this
-country to interfere, with their enjoyment of it as
iletigahey as, please. Our merchants disregard ;
Nair ship-owners view it with singular complacency ;
and pur•Northern colonies are only fearful that its
(a:lumina:will be transitory. Why, then, are we
Jdailyzand hourly
.teminded by the Americans, and
,the friends. of Americans, ie this country, that the
Orders in Council have the most pernicious effeA
-upon our prosperity.? Such aiarMing notices are
undoubtedly kind; but they are thrown away upon
us, and we beg to be left to our own tranquillity.—
What," • cry they, I‘. can you resign a purchaser
of twelve millions a year with. arch -indifference ?"
Not altogether so but there is a fallacy in the
statement, which it may not be amiss to remove.
That America purchased, -or, more properly speak-
'jug, was annually entrusted with goods to this
aniaint, is not fir from the truth : but .if it be
• I •
meant to insinuate that America consuuted- British
articles to this amount, we are by no means pre-
pared to admit the statement.
The fact is, that America 'is no great consumer :
'more than three fourths of 'the commodities which
she imported front England, she exported to other
countries; and the residue, being articles of prime
necessity, site will continue to import, in despite of
'ti Theiusand Orders in Council, or embargoes. What
she does not take, will not perish in the manufac-
turers' warehouses; but, instead of being exported
in American bottoms, to the 'immense advantage of
that country, will now be sent out in British-bailt,
Swedish, or Spanish vessels.
,Has Mr. A. B. or any
Other of the numerous American correspondents of
the Morning ChrOnide, the hardihood, or rather the
folly to maintain, that this commerce of twelve
millions is lost to us ? We believe not : sincethey
Minot but know that a very inconsiderable part, it
any of it, 'remains on our hands. - If, however,
'they pretend to be really serious, we will relieve
their anxiety for 'our -sutiringte,. by telling them what
we know, and what we challenge .not only thorn,
but the whole body of Opposition, to disprove :
namely, that the customs for this year, itidespite of
-the rigid blockade of the Continent by BUONA•
lAItTa, the. Embargo by " Massa JEFFERSON," and
tii6. Orders in Council, which Have so terrified our
'jai friends will nut, upon a lain of Ovally twelve
or ',v. • - •". • .1. • . •
sterling, be found to have fallen off Five
HufsititenTliouilAND POUNDS !
Lr
hi fl suspicion of this that occasilens the un-
ceasing din in the Opposition Papers against the: Or-
ders in Council. " Now is the time for reprobation !
Now come forward and help America ; for if you
linger till the annual accounts are laid before Par-
'llatrient, her cause is kopeless." ••
There is yet another reason for this preposterous
-fidgetting of. Mr. A. B. &c. The Americans had
recourse to their Embargo in the full persuaSion
that the
.sound of it would terrify us into a Sur-
render of our just rights. Thael: heaven we are
Jelieye4 from
,the !lamb, and they found 'them-
selves mistaken. They now find that they have done
a.. very fu'olish thing ; and, what is worse, one'that
prewetsno very pleasant mode of getting out of it.
At#,pot many years since that it was gravely moved
ir. Congress that they should vote themselves -" the
wisest , body of men in the world !" We have not
heard that there are any thoughts of resuming this'
adjourned question ; but we believe that' tl:ere is va-
nity enough in the country -to make its success pro-
blematital. - Hence the difficulty of allowing the
aukwardneSs of their situation, and of confeSsing
that they have been in-the wrong'e hence, too, al
we have 'already observed, the favity of thei
amts here-to rake 'a party and a cry against the
Or 'in -Connell, and; by compelling 'the Govern,.
liifiartontitighte or annul them, atford-ap opportu-
fiit§l6 the Americans of doing what they most im-,
e ;
Jatieetly and ardently desire to do,, i.e. rt.:Move the
teSpised and • despicable Embargo, without an ac- „
r)kinOwledgineut of its folly_!

This morning arrived a Mail ltom Jamaica,
brottght to Falmouth by the Carteret Packet. She
sailed on the &tit of December.

• Vile. Superb of 14 guns, bearing the Plagof Admi-
ral KRATE4, a Frigate, two Brigs of War, and tile
Gorgon. Store-ship, are frozen up, Aunt nine. miles
from the Wingo, near Gottenburgh.
`The Partlium, of 18 guns, which was reported to
have been lost on the Coast of France, was safe in
Guavas Lake, Cornwall, on Wednesday.

'l7r,v tbe LONDON CilZkrTß, 'Yam. 2i, Igat

:fidr~#irully.O ice,
fan,'2l , .
Rear-Admiral 'll'Auvergne, Prince of Bouillon,
has translated to the Hon, Widiatn Wellesley
Pole a Leiter from Captain Pringle, of His Majesty's
Sloop Sparrowhawk, dated off Cherbourg the telh
instant, giving an account of his having, that dAy,
captured thu 'French Privateer Cutter L'E3perance,
of fourteen guns and filti-four men.

. • . Jan. 2I .
- Captain O'Connor, Commander of His Majesty's
Sloop the Ned Elwin, has transmitted to the Hon.
William Wellesley Pole a Copy of a Letter addressed
by him to Vice• Admiral Sir James Saumarez, giving
an'amitint of his having, on the 17th of December,
captured the General ltapp, French Privateer Brig,
of -eight guns and ferty-,une. men, which had.lelt
Dantzic the evening before.

JAN. 20.—Anived. yesterday;• the
Duke of Marlborough Packet, BULL., with Mails from
Lisbon, nine days passage It was reported it Lis-
bon, previous to her &tiling, that a French force of
14;000 men
.had arrived at Badajos, on'the frontiers
•
of Portugal.

This day arrived the Cossack Sloop of War, of 18
guns, Capt. DIGBYi wiilvdispatches from Corunna,
four days passage; by her came Lord PAGET, and
three Aids-de..camp.
The. Cossack sailed on Tuesday last, at which time.
the Britigh Army, about 15,000 men, had embarked;
,previous to which, on the -whole of Monday, they
kid been engaged. The. loss on each side was
:considerable. We have to regret the loss of Sir
Jortsr Moo as, who was killed early in the anion ;
Sir DAVID. B.61(1) has lost ati ann. Some part of
the Troops had retreated towards Vigo.
The armies engaged with the British were those
under General So uLT and J u NOT which had formed
a jimaion, comprising a force of 65,000 men.
At the time the Cossack left,. the enemy ,had
entered Corunna, and were cannonading the Trans-
ports; There was no doubt but that the' whole
would it,et. off.
.In the action our loss did not exCeeed. 500 killed
and wounded.. General ANSTRUTISta died with
fatigue.

Sailed this evening the Hunter armed Ship with a
Fleet of Coasters for the Downs. '

PORTSMOUTH, JAR. 23... -Arrived his NaieSly'S
Ship Blake from the Duwns,

Sailed his Majesty's Ship bta,....rtda with a Fleet for
the East IndieS, consisting of the following Ships,
viz. Henry ,:tddington, I'Veptane, Cuntlerland; Sea tes-
ty Castle, True Briton, MI re'n'' Has' ti ngs, Lord
Melville, and the Culinells ; also tlailed his Majesty's
Ship Brazen for Cork.

DEAL Jatsr. 23.—S3iie.d through thp. Doynktlte.
Susan, ANDRItSUN, for Hayti ; iirvckbank, Cot.-
LARD, for Cadiz ; Maria, Smyru, for Bertto.id ;
etesar, Fol.vutn, and Lord .IVelton, RATVOIW, for
Jamaica.

Yesterday morning his MAJESTY. Princesses Au-
GUSTA., SOPHIA, :Ind Amnia. accompanied by
Lady ELY, Generals CARTWRIGHT and FITZROY,
rode to. St. Geor4.!'s Chapel, and heard Divine
Service.

A Cabinet Council met yesterday .at the Foreign
Office, to consider of the Dispatches received on Sa-
turday from Sir Jobs, Moons. it was attended by
General STKWART. •

A' Letter froth Cadiz to a respeaable Merchant,.
received on Saturday, mentions that the command-
not of7the port had taken the precaution of sending
all thelrench Merchants and other.residentsbf that
town to the Island of Catering.

By a-late Leiter received (rum Vera Crui, it ap-
pears that the Viceroy, Admiral, and one of the
principal Merchants there, had ctiwed into a league
for delivering that country over to the dominion of
the Emperor NAPOLEON, but that the people bad
seized. on the Viceroy, whom they had sent to
Spain, and burnt to.-the ground the superb houses,
of the two others, who have made their escape to
-New Orleans.

ROYAL ACAbRMY.—The Feb:sink:NT ,and
Members of this Institution held their 31111lial Din-
ner on Wednesday, at the Crown and Anchor, in
honour of Eint MAJOTY'S Birth-day, ''-rhe Meet-
ing consisted of a considerable nuinh.r or the Aca-
demic- body, .and many 'of, their pill/44W frimds,---
Atter the usual loyal toasts had been given, the
health of the Nursing:sr was proposed by Mr.
CALEB WurruFootu and cordially received by the
Cotnpan). The President, in returning his thanlts,
informed the Meeting that lie had reached his
seventy.first year, and it was gratifying to see this,
veteran Artist in the full possession. of I'44.l'm:dries,
and in good spirits. Nor was it Jess gratifying to
see SO many Artists who do honour to their country,
and whose talents eclipse all that other' states can
supply:. Among the tons, after Ttu ROYAL
AC, DEPdY;' .4" Ttift IkITI6HINSTJTUTIO;4" was
Kap dy. giyen, as it has already' brought forward
Many young Men of genius, and promises, in no •
small degree; toadvance the Arts.cithe country.—
The health of the itty. CAnlt was given
qn this occasion, as that Gentle Man first set a
libt rat example to the Noblernen and Gentlemen
who pattenize that Inscitution,, in hating entrusted
a very, valuable Odom_ to it, in order to excite the
emulation et the Sttnlents, and Aired their taste
by the most approved Works of the ancient Masters.
The -day was enlivened by the :vocal:exertioni of
IVICSSIIOLisTE, .N 11440, VAUGIiAN) Goss, GAP:,
and TA nog the Theatre, and the whole wait
marked by a spirit of festivity and good4ornour.

Isuct:stioN has been to-perform fora feiv.urgitts at
th4.l), or tatuouth Theatre: