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OFFICE OF ORDNANCE,

. Aug. 23, 120 T,
THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of 1113 111/1,
yEsrrs ORD, 'V ANC,I do hereby give Mace, that
Proposals will -be rec'eived at their OlAce, in Pal!-.Hall, on in.
before ii" eselqy,•ihe zoth September next, from such Persons as
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Ordnance Horses. statbned in the following Distrias, viz.

South West, including Ports-
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Eastern, exclusive of Western,
W arley . Wo'olwich, with its Depot. •
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may, front. Time to Time, be required, either of

North Britain,
Northern,.

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.Iclb. of ()Ars 71b. of Oats,
•tzlb. of I Lay or of t4lb. of Hay,
and and
Sib. et Straw Sib. of Straw.
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the Contractor, trim is alas to tarnish such Horses with Oats, at
8/6. per Ration, as may be billetted within the District Jot 7.4.,hic1a
he contracts.

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tract, may accumulate, making an Allowance for the tame,
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said iotb Day of September next, at Twelve o'Clock at Mon of the
same day ; neither will ;any Tender be noticed, unless the Party,
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.an dgent in his behalf, shall attend.
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L 0 ND 0 IV,

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3,180 a.

Government this day received the official account
of the currender of St. Domingo, which will appear
in the Gazette of to-night. This event took place on
the 17th of July. Gen. CARMICHAEL .went with a
competent farce from Jamaica, and effectually block-
aded the place. The French garrison, conceiving that

our troops were more numerous, or that rei6force-
ments might immediately arrive, vent out a Flag of
Truce,- after three days, and surrendered. The
trench troops arc to be conveyed to France, not
to serve again until, eNchanged ; and Qeneral cAR-
liIICHAEL, who engaged in the Expedition, .as the
ally of Spain, rcAinguishecl the city to the-Spaniards,
aulreturned with .his force to Jamaica.

PRIVATE letters from Holland, of a 'ate date, re-
ceived Yesterday,
.state, that a Treaty of Peace had
beensigned between Austria and France, by which
the-Emperor FRANCIS had abandoned his right to
Austria, and was in future to be merely styled
". Xing of Hungary ,and Bohehlia." We g:ve this
statement as it has reached us, without at present
having any means of contradi&ing or affirming it.

A Gottenburgh Mail arrived last night, which
brings advices from Stockholm of the 9. Ist ult. Up
to that date nothing decisive had occured with re-
aped to the ndations between Russia and Sweden,
and military operations were suspended.

It seems to be the main proje& of the disaffected
Papers to force from the friends of Government some
detail and confession (offensive to our Allies) of the
disappointment our Army in Spain, and the Plans of
i►s heroic Leader, have sustained from the want of

concert, and the breach of engAgentents upon the
part ot Gener:ll CUESTA._WTllether to calumniate
our vitaorious General, or to inflame any possible
rnisunuerstanding and resentments, be the predomi-
nant-motive, we pretend not to judge ; but refer to
the respective taste and fee.iing of those Writers, who
eyp.ty national di6appointtnent their own gain,
acid their own triumph !

One Paper, in particular, has hazarded an attack
so peculiarly vulgar and
.illiberal, that it has pre-
sumed to question the veracity of Lot'( WELLING-
.ON 1..-4 s if, forsooth, an army that had once con-
quered was hound perpetually to advance., in spite
of all the difficulties and obstaeles of ground, scarcity,
and hostile reinforcements ! !—And as if, because
a reinforced army re-advances, it followed that it
could never have been beaten ! Really one may
think that some people were not very ill treated when
they were no more than corporals in the army, if
they draw such conclusions as. these; if they pro-
scribe . prudence whenever valour has been evinced,
and impose upon success the forfeit of fighting after-.
wards at every disadvantage.---Because Lord
IArEL;,isoToN has not given battle a second time to
the overwhelming disproportioned powers of the
united French Marilialsi' he is to be vilified and run
down ! !---,as if there were any thing in his charac-
ter more essentially glorious than not to have been
blinded and intoxicated by the unvaried good for-
tune which has distinguished his military career;--
as if his Country could at this time have desired or
wished to find any other quality and ingredient in
his charaler, after so many vielories which he has
won for her by enterprize and valour, than that pru-
dence and discritninatiOn which, according to cir-
cumstances, make him decline battles-with the same
ccitl'anitnity which induces him to offer or accept
them.

Another of these Prints, improving upon the
iveday hint?, insinuates—sh,ll we say—or a3.serts, that
Lord Wir.t.tNGTOkt is not worthy of credit, because
Marshal SoyLT haiirig received' a complete defeat
ppm) the Douro, is enabled, after a lapse of time,
and the innelion of two Corps crArntees under the
Marshals NET and MORTIEK, to move forward
again I So that, according to theSe exad and disin-
!erested reasppers, no army that has ever been
worsted can re-advance; and no army that has
been succe,fui can ever again have a just motive for
Tetjrips !-7Why, they did not t !link- it-impossible, or
even extraordinary, that BcONApARTE, after, his
defeat at Aspern, receiving reinforcements, should
re-cross the Danube i—They did not express the
4mallest degree of surprise that the army beaten at
4ks,f-kertr should gain the day at Wagram ! It is only'
otlr Own, heroic generals and vieto.rious troops that
are to be dgranded and insulted by such beautiful
9yllitisms as' these I

74:14:1 operations of Lord IN;LLINcIioN ex-

perience no greater degree of candour or justice from
the Times. Who was there in all this great reason-
ing public, that did not expe& and demand that our
General, should attempt to penetrate into the heart
of Spain ? and amongst the ill-disposed and illiberal
has he not been loudly inveighed against, for not
having attempted it earlier in the campaign ? Yet
now that he has done it, .and gathered laurels of
which the CERTAIN fruit is, the eternal honour and
vindication of his country, whether the specific oh-

jest of her exertions shall be accomplished or shall
fail—now that the Spanish virtue and the Spanish
valour are brought to a test by the achievements of
a British Army—'-is he to be run down, or forced
by the artifices of a faaion to an impolitic exposition
of the series of errors, or any thing else, which have
led the raw and inexperienced Commandets of Spain
to disregard his advice and violate their conventions ?
Will any good result from our Government, or fro,n
Lord WELLINGTON urging every thing they might
allege upon these topics against CuesT.s, 0: his
forces ? and what could they say, that is not made
obvious by the result of the battle of Talavera, which
leaves no doubt, that if this Commander had been
willing to make the piojeaed attack on the 24th,
the'arinY of Vicwit must. have been broken never
again to form in a field of battle ! VICTOR was to-
tally discomfited, and unable to rally, even after
he had fallen back upon, and was supported by,
those-numerous troops, which now became his re-
serve, •and arrested his flight front TalAtera What,
tlien, Must have been the result, had Lord WEL-
LING lON been able to prevail upon CURSTA to at-
tack, before he had found these reinforcements ?
The enemy might, nay must have been, we think,
cut off in succession, and in detail. Such was the
projea of Lord WELLINGTON—and even after the
ill-judged determination of our ally, the result might
have been as glorious as the battle of Talavera, and
more fortunate and effeaunl, if by some fatality in-
explicable, or that one can hardly wish to be ex-
plained, he had not abandoned the excellent posi-
tion at Talavera, confided to his care with the sacred
chaise of our ikounded ! I

We had advanced to Placentia to combat once
more the fierce and treacherous invaders of Spain,
leaving to CJESTA the Post at which we had already
gloriously repelled the attack of a French army more
than double in numbers to our own—and that Ge-
neral,..from some mistaken notion of honour, if you
please, or some misjudging view of advantage,
abandoned the position which Lord WELLINGTON
retied upon to prevent the junEtion of alt the French
armies ; What the surprize and vexation of Lord
WELLINGTON must have been, it will not be diffi-
cult for any, man of sense and of liberality to conjec-
ture. He could not have invented a more binding
pledge upon Spanish gratitude and honour than he
left along with the post of Talavera—the care and
defence of his wounded ! And is he to be reviled
and worried by the brutal ignorance of malignity
and faction, for having eXtricated himself from un-
expealed and incalculable difficulties like these, with
a dexterity and prudence only to be compared with
his valour and decision ? Is a hero, who has so often
fought the battles of his country, and never fought
a battle which he did not gain, to be made the mark
and butt of the perverse and envious absurdity of
Newspaper-Generals—shall we call them, or Politi-
cal Assassins, whose ann., whose objeCt, and whose
policy is to decry, and defame and level all that is
great and good and happy in their country ; and
uphold every suborned and faaitions hope or repu-
tation !!- •

With regard to the return of our Expedition from
Flanders, some allowance must be made for the lan-
guage of Opposition. The smallest portiokof pub-
lic disappointtnent is their triumph and fruition ;
and as the Expedition has not accomplished every
thing that has been. sanguinely expe&ed from its
magnitude; and the great and unequalled exertions
that were made to prepare it, it is perfeElly natural
for them to sink the two points that have happily
§uceeeded, and to be extremely loud and eloquent
upon the due which has been prudently abandoned.

The Island of WALenEREN, with the strong fort-
ress of Flushing, has been occupied at the expence
of fifteen thousand killed,. wounded, and prisoners,
to BUONAPARTE ; and a most powerful diversion has
been effected, at the most interesting and decisive
period imaginable; in favour of the House of _Ails-
TRIA, our Ally. • And was that unfortunate, that
fatal Armistice of Wagram, which will be recorded
in the 'blackest page of European history,' to produce
no effect whatsoever upon the ulterior progress and
conduCt, and extent of that diversion, which we
were efleCting in favour of the Power who, to all
appearance without a colour of necessity, has sub-
mitted, degraded, and betrayed itself to this dread-
ful extent ?

If the event of any measure falls 4bort'of their
combination, and disappoints their efforts, it is iM-
possible but both Ministers and the instruments to
to whom they have confided its execution, must feel
mortification, They are so far deprived of .the hp!.

ourable reward of their own labour, and see a benefit

witlt-held from their Country in the expectation of
which they must have indulged the justest and most
delightful contemplations. They must be the first
to feel, and must feel the most deeply. Let us re-
collea, however, that, if not to have attacked Lillo

and Antwerp be a disappointment, it is a dis-
appointment which bas cost us no Army and

no exhaustion : we have sacrificed nothing for
it ;• we now have the disposal of the Forces that
we hoped would have attempted them It is easy to

sit in one's closet, and plan and rivet the success one
hopes tor; but are Statesmen and Generals exempt-
ed
from all miscarriage and failure ? Arc wise plans
never thwarted, even by accident ? One of the Wri-
ters in the most malignant of the Opposition Papers
may not, perhaps, have forgotten the Failure of a
Plan of the Earl of ST. VINCENT, intrusted to the
immortal NELSON, at Teneriffe. Was it projeded
without wisdom, or confided to hands unfit ? And •
though we lost so many brave and valuable seamen,
and ran so near a hazard of losing that Admiral who
since gained the Battles of the Nile, of Copenhagen,
and of Trafalgar, did it ever enter the head of any
man to censure and condemn the Earl of ST. VIN-
CENT or the illustrious Hero lie deputed upon this
disastrous Expedition ?
That the elements were, for an entire.month,
most unfavourable, and beyond all average or calcu-
lation from experience unfavourable to the Expedi-
tion, is notorious; that the unwholesome quality of
a low and vapourish country inundated for so many
leagues—that many circumstances yet to be explain-
ed or divulged—may account satisfelaorily for every
thing that seems inadequate, in the ends obtained,
to the obje6ts proposed by the Expedition, never
occurs to the determined Enemies of Government.
It is to be assailed through the sides of every Officer
it employs ; and, unfortunately for Lord CHATHAM,
as well as for Lord WiLLINOTON, the one is a dis-
tinguished Member of the G.,vernment, and the
other is not the only member of an illustrious tami,
ly, who has defended and is Lkely to defend and ad-
vance its Interests and its Glory I—Sir JOHN Moons
could find Strenuous Advocates in these very quar-
ters, and under circumstances, not quite those of a
skilful and fortunate retreat, accomplished after a
glorious and almost unparalleled vielory : or the
prudent abandonment of one object, which had be-
come impracticable, after a brilliant and perfect suc-
cess in two others of far greater importance !,

There was a report yesterday, that a negociation
had commenced between our Government and that
of Russia, and that a cons►derable and very favoura-
ble approximation had taken place.
Orders have beet) sent otf to some of the outports,
for as many ships as could be got ready for sea, in
the course of three or four days, to be forwarded
without a moment's loss of time. The orders to
Sir RionAar) STRACHAN apprised, that all the ships
in the late Expedition were to have their defects re-
paired immediately, and that they would be com-
pleted with stoles and provisions for one month
longer. The Hero, Revenge, Monarch, Resolution,
Be/Jona, Illustrious, .:11i 4d, Orion, and Achille (of
the line), winch arrived at Portsmouth front the
Expedition, are also ordered to be victualled for five
months, with all possible haste.
tl vessel is arrived in the River from Corunna,
which place she left on the 25th ult. ROMANA'S
army had then marched into the interior, and toe
Asturian army was at Leon. Several persons had
lately been hanged at Corunna for treason.

The Zealwid, of 64 guns, is preparing at Sheer-
ness fir the reception of 300 convicts, who are
daily expected at that place, for the purpose of as-
sisting in the erthion of a large stone wall, to pre!.
vent the violence of the sea damaging the Dock-
yard, the sad effeCts of which were severely felt
tinting the high tides last year.
In the late a6tion in the Bay of Naples, the Cane,
Capt. STAINES, after a very gallant anion, in Com-
pany with
,the Sitian gun-boats, took or demoyed
nearly the whole (46) of the.enemy's gen:bouts.—
Capt. STAINES had his right arm carried off by a
cannon shot towards the close of the action. • .

There is no alteration in the price of Brea4 this
week. .

it is 'positively determined, it seems, that the,
priQes of the Boxes and Pit are to be raised tit the
new Theatre in Covent-Garden, but- this addition is
to be very small and confined to these plAces.--The
Galleries, which peculiarly belong to John BO and
his family, are to remain at the former standard.

The folldwing attempt to escape was recently
made by four convicts at Fort Cumberland, near
Portsmouth. The driver. of one of the carts em-
ployed in carrying gravel, being suddenly knock-
ed down, the four convicts seized on the team,
consisting of t wo- horses, when t woof t hem irmnedi-
ately mounted one of the horses, and rode into the
streams in the hope of reaching Haylingisland, on
the opposite shore.—But the animal not being able
to support so great a weight, became so deeply im-
mersed in the water that the convicts were washed
off and drowned.—The animal being thus released,
returned to the shore in safety. Toe other horse
being mounted, in the interim, by one of the -re-*
maining convicts, he
'rode it down to the edge of
the water, with more speed than yaution, and was
'thrown on his head, and very much bruised. This
horse being now free from ail incumbrance, was
mounted by the fourth convia, but he, seeing
the 6te of his companions in the stream, deemed it
more prudent not to attempt his escape by the same
route; thereforeztook the resolution of riding more
safely across. the mud •of Langstno Harbour to,
Milton Common ; but the horse sopn sticking fast
in the mud, the convict Was taken off its back,
and Ole animal was With difficulty brought to shore,