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rive at Seville on the 24th instant ; and we
can state that it is understood, from very
high authority, that England has been of-
fered the opportunity of restoring peace to
Europe, without having fired a gun or expended
a shilling in that contest which she was so de-
sirous to prevent, and the issue of which both
the Belligerents have at length felt the necessity
of confiding to her moderation and justice. Both
the Earl of LIVERPOOL and Mr. CANNING, when
the resolution was taken to observe neutrality
on the part of this country, repeatedly ex-
pressed their 'anticipation that, by perseverance
in a firm, moderate, and strictly honourable
course, observing, in our neutrality, the same
rigid impartiality and inflexible good faith to
both parties, the time probably would arrive in
the course of the conflict, when the Belli-
gerents would look to England for the set-
tlement of their differences, and when she

%vould have it in her power, by her di-in-
terested mediation, to render more essen-
tial services to the cause of general tranquil-
lity, and to that of the independence of
nations and of the balance of power in Europe,
than by rashly involving herself in the war, or by
shelving an undue preference to either of the
parties embarked in it.—We fervently hope that
the moment for this godlike intervention, %%ith
the consent of both the present combatants, has
at length arrived.

It is proper that we should add, that what
we have written on this vital subject is founded
upon presumptions, which, however, are so
strong, and so well supported by various
corroborative circumstances, as to leave little
doubt upon our minds as to the accuracy of the
conclusion, that negociations are about to be im-
mediately commenced.

SUS-OFFICE, Two o'Cz.ocx.

Mr. Secretary CANNING and Lord FHANC'IS
CON YNGIIAM leave town this afternoon for Wind-
sor Lodge, in order to lay before His MAJI..,-ry
the result of the deliberations of the Cabinet
Council held yesterday.
M. BEco, one of the Cabinet Messengerg, is
held in readiness to depart for Spain with dis-
patches, by the Royal George steam-packet,
which will be sent off forthwith.

No Messenger has been sent with dispatches
to Paris since the sitting of the Cabinet.

ARRIVAL OF THE ROYAL GEORGE STEAM
PACKET.

Sir JOHN M. DOYl.ti, K.C.B. Mr. Paica, and
Mr. CL.►Y, arrived last night in town, with dis-
patches for Government, and the Spanish and
Portuguese Ambassadors, after a passage of
eighty.four hours from Vigo to Plymouth, which
place they left on Saturday night last.
The following is all the intelligence which
we have as yet been enabled to obtain by this
conveyance. We fear that there is no room for
doubting that Corunna and Vigo, as well as Fer-
rol, have fallen into the hands of the French.—
C/CIIIDGA 15 said to have arrived in England by
the Royal George, and to be now in London.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]
Royal George, of Vigo, Aug. 1, 182$.
We have just arrived from Corunna with the Go-
vernor General Vigo and his Staff, he is appointed
to succeed Gen. Rotnago here. Corunna is invested
closely by the French troops, and is daily expected
to fall ; the Burgos Militia, and some Biscayan
troops of the line have hitherto defended it. The
French General with whom I dined on Thursday
ast at Ferrol, which place they have had posses-
idol of for some days, has embarked a battering
Itrain on board a French frigate, which blockades
Corunna by sea, and which has already landed a
sufficient number of cannon to mount the French
batteries which occupy the heights commanding

the town ; when I left, many persons had been,
wounded, even in the streets, by the fire of the
French musketry, so completely is the town at

heir mercy.

AuGusT 2.—General Quiroga and his Staff,
who came with us from Comma, have just re.
turned on board to sail with us for England.—
Every thing is in the greatest confusion. Morillo
is within 15 miles, at Ponte Vedra, joined by
some French troops. lie will not listeu to any
terms, and, as there are no troops here, the place
must fall. Niorillo is, I understand, most anxious
to take Sir IL. Wilson, who is here with several
English Officers.

The troops here cannot be relied on. Eigi.t

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iutictred which were sent ngainst MoriHo, tys 0

Mays ago, went over to him, and the Authorities
are fearful that the remaining part may follow

leir example.

Vico, Aua. 3.—Sir R. Wilson has just engag-
ed a small British schooner in the Newfound-
land trade, to take himself, (.'apt. Erskine, and two
or three others, who are still with him, to Cadiz.
Thu few troops that remain here (about .2 )O)
are now going to Bavonna (in Gallicia)
view of rendering it defensible. Evt.ry boat
in the harbour is pressed for this serrirf., and

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et guns in the citadel have been •sp;keci.--

The Governor-General Romago, his Lady, aud
Aid-de-Camp, have just embarked on board
the Royal George for England. Sir Robert
Wilson's wound is almost well, but poor Colonel
Light, although much better, is still in a state of
great suffering at Corunna, and was not consi-
dered sufficiently convalescent to join Sir Robert
here.

It is supposed the French will have 5,000
troops to send to the army of the South by the
fall of Corunna and Vigo.

At a late hour this day we received no Ex-
press from Paris, which contains the following
intelligence :

( Extract of a LOUT from Bayonne, dilly 31.)
The afflicting news of Saragossa, which [ sent
you the day before yesterday, is most part con-

firmed. ' On Sunday, 20th inst., the arrests com.
menced, and on Monday fifteeen to sixteen
hundred person's, of the most respectable and
rich, were arrested, and were sent to the pri-
son of the inquisition. The populace demanded
of General Fleyres, commandant of the place,,to
pillage the town for three days, but the French
troops who were in the town, to the number of
fourteen or fifteen hundred, restored order.—
It is much feared that the same scene will
take place at Valencia on the same day.—
The necessity of reinforcing the troops be-
fore Cadiz, Barcelona, and corunna, which are
taken from the interior of the kingdom, has un-
happily caused great disorder. Bessieres has
gone to Tarrasone, where they have replaced
the Stone of the Constitution. According to
some accounts Ballasteros has sent a division into
the mountains of Alphaxara (Granada).
General Bourck is gone to Ferrol to take the
besieging artillery from that place to resiege Co-
runna. We are assured that great dissension
prevails between the inhabitants and the gar-
rison.

Letters from Ferrol, dated 31st ult., do not
bring anysonfirmation of the taking of that place
by the French, but state, that the attack was to
be made in the first of this month.

It is reported on 'Change that the Colombian
Loan has been ratified, in consequence of which,
it is expected a new one will soon be brought into
the Market.
IVe copy the subjoined paragraph from the
Gazette de France.--it is a sufficient proof that
our (c boast" is well-founded, that the 6'wzelte de
France has been enabled, since the prohibition of
1111 E SUN, to receive it, and to make the following
remark upon a part of its contents

" TKE Sul; boasts not only of having eluded the prohibi.
/ion, of which it is the object in France, but of having sen
tit° this country still greater numbers than formerly."

New Orleans Papers arrived this morning,
but do not contain any news.

ItIELAND.—We are happy to be enabled to
announce, that by the indefatigable exertions of
Col. Sir Hugh Gough, K. C. 13. the greater part
of tile persons who attacked the Police and Pala-
tines SU Glanasbeen, on the 29th of April last,
have been apprehended and were identified at
13uttevant on Thursday last. Lord Doneraile,
Mr. Law, Mr. Nagle, and Major Carter, met' at
Sir Hugh Gough's house on that day, where infor.
mations were taken against the whole of the
party, fifteen of whom were apprehended the
night previous; This will prove to the deluded
peirsk..ntry, how little faith Is. to be placed in
confederates in illegal transactions, and that Pro-
vidence appears to have ordained, that even the
intention to commit murder seldOM goes un-
punished. This has been, the severest blow
the Rockite system has as yet received, and
it is to be hoped it will have the effect of
opening the eyes of the ;nfatuated peasantry,
by
_shew lug them, that the greater the num-
ber of persons engaged in outrage, the more
certain will their detection be. The speedy
apprehension of the whole party who attacked
Mr. Heffernan's house, the conviction of the inen
for burning Bally waiter Mills, on the infortna-
!ion of Dundon, of Castletownroche, and the
Information given by him as to the outrages which
have taken place in that neighbourhood, and now
the confession of many of those who attacked the
village of Glanasheen, which has led to the appre-
hension of the greater part of their accomplices,
prove that the Magistrates of the County of
Cork are in possession of such information, as
%%111 enable them to put down the disturbances
which have so long disgraced the country, by
bringing to condign punishment, every individual
who will dare to set the laws of God and man a
defiance.—(Cork Advertiser.)

The Russian and French Ambassadors had a
long interview with the Austrian Ambassador
yesterday ; after which his Excellency the Aus-
trian Ambassador transacted business with Mr.
'Secretary CANNING ,• and, in the evening, gave a
grand dinner to the Foreign Ministers. His. Ex.
cellency left town to proceed for Vienna or
Paris this day.
The remark is made in a recent French Paper
that, on the Ist of April, in the present year, the
British Government had in commission 137 large
and small ships of war; on the Ist July the num-
ber was observed to be 153.
It is stated in a letter, dated Stockholm,
July 1, that at an interview had on the part of
the Swedish Consul General with the Vice-
President of the Republic of Colombia, at
Bagota, on the 25th March last, his Excellency
he Vice-President proposed that there should be
Treaty of Commerce entered into between the
:3olombitin State and the Swedo-Norwegian
..rovernment.

Our information from Chatham in yesterday's
mper, respecting the sailing of the squadron, was
lot communicated by an ()peer of the Revenge,
iut by an officer residing at Chatham. It was
ierfectly correct.—( Times.)
Mr. 111 YERS, who some time since gave exhibi-
ions of the life-preserving dress, was drowned on
he c26th ult. in the canal Carondelet at New
)rleans, into which he had gone for the purpose
f bathing. He was discovered the ensuing
corning with his head out of water, and his feet
:irking in the Mud.
THE ACCIDENT AT BILLINGSGATE.—It is now
ctflained that this melancholy occurrence was not so great as
first represented. The hold-guns and buoys, as stated, cer-
ill4 grave way, and, from the general uproar and confusion
at prevailed, 20 persons, some very intoxicated, from their
xiety4 and hurry to get into the boats, were forced by the
rung utto the water ; and it has been since ascertained, all of
use, by catching the ropes of the lighters, succeeded in saving
eir lives, although many were very severely hurt.