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WEDNESpipi.JULY 25, 1810

We shall rejoice most sincerely, to find that this
account is correCi, but we cannot suppose that a
detachment of or 8000 men, which NEY is said
to have made, could have so far weakened his army
to render it necessary for him to raise, or even to
suspend the siege of so important a place as Ciudad
Rodrigo.

As we:have received many ingwries respeEting the
INTERCEPTED CORRESPONDENCE, which we ori-
ginally, acid. exclusively, gave to the Public, we think
it necessary again to assure our Readers that they may
depend on its 4utheuticity.—We closed the whole
yesterday. •

We are gla,l to find that a. general spirit of con-
tempt and indignation has arisen against Sir FaAN-
IionDETT, for the indecent levity, to use the
enildest term, which concluded his answer to the

persons_ mit, nr tted him to a dinner, in order to
celebrate his. release from prison. Even his friends
ursidcr it us a mark of great iiiitliicretion, and those
Wlio do not understand his chant(ter and dispo.
induced to consider the letter which ap-
pearvd under nis signatore as a forgery. He has been
exposed to much ridicule as well as censure on the
bject, but ridicule is too light fur such a serious
libel upon Government, as the intimation that they
might dra N out the army with a train of artillery,
no! only without due occasion, but for a purpose that
cannot be mentioned without severe reprobation.—
\Va., it to attack roast beef when the soldiers were
called out to defend the metropolis, convulsed as it
wa,, by a violent mob, whom Sir FRANCIS kept
many days as,embled during the time that he -was
practising his deception on the Serjeant at ArMs
Were the military drawn forth to attack roast beef
wt,et) a mud) greater mob were colleEted from all
,fuarers of the town, on the liberation of Sir F.•
tid when to have left the capital unprote&ed by
./ military farce, would have been a criminal negleil•
the part of Government, even without any know-

AI Al LS.
A" i, Waterford. Due—t Lisbon, i Chadiz, I Wa-
terford.

We last nic,fießceived Pans Papers to the 21st
inst. from which we have made some extracts rela-
tive to the state of the war in Spain. The details
are'net given in an official form, as usual, but mere-
ly as an abstract of correspondence, so that they may
be alteredbr coloured at pleasure. We think BUONA-
rmus acts wisely in ceasing to publish the official
reports of his Generals, because it is impossible
that they can be received with any credit in France.
The people of France have been told, for these
two years past, that the Spaniards could not stand
for a moment before French troops,—that they fled
at the very sight of them,—that they were equally
de"titlite.ef disCipline and of courage ; but yet the
war is net terminated, this nation of cowards is
Mill unconquered. Immense numbers of troops
liatiebeen sent into Spain, BUONAPARTE has exert-
ed all"his talents against enemies whom he has re-
presented as being so contemptible; he has employ-
ed all his best Generals against them—Soul:l', NEY,
JuNoT, AuGEREAU, &c. men
who routed the arinies of Austria,. Prtissia, and Rus-
sia, and yet at the end of more than two years, he .
is..not, strictly speaking, master of much more of

Spain than he was whe❑ the contest' commenc•

ed-.• 14 the very otstract
_of correspondence, to
• which .we are now alluding, it is confessed that
. the Spaniards are up in artus-in almost every Pro-
vince of Spain ; nay, even in Navarre and Arragon'
Provinces adjoining to France. Under these cir-
cumstances, BUONAPARTE may naturally feel averse
- to publishing the pompous Accounts of his Generals,
because it is impossible they can obtain any credit.
The people of. France saw that the battle. of Auster-
litz was followed by the peace of Presburgh—that
the-battle of Auerstadt produced the overthrow of ~
the Prussian Monarchy—that the battle of Fried-
land produced the peace of Tilsit ; • and therefore
they must naturally doubt the truth of the reports of
victories in Spain, when they see them followed by
no other result than that of fresh demands of troops
to be butchered in supporting the unprincipled usur-
pation of awir Tyrant.
LOUIS BUONAPARTE has gone to his brother JE-
'twat at Cassel.

The Spanish Ambassador is said to have received
a letter yesterday from the North of Spain, which
says, that NE Y bad been forced to make so
large a detachment froni his • army, in ,con-
s;:quence of the very formidable Spanish force assem-
bled in Gallicia, that it was hoped be would be un-
der the necessity of raising the siege of Ciudad Ro-
derigo.

ledge
of the Itaronet's intention to withdraw in
secrecy, and consequently to endanger all the tumults
that might arse from the rage of disappointmetit.—.
The man who can write in the manner alluded to,
without any compunction for such condnkft as occa-
sioned the destruction of his fellow-creattircs, is in-
deed not an object for ridicule, but deserves to be
stigmatised with the severest_brand of odium.

Yesterday his Royal Highness the Prince of
WA uts took an early dinner with the Duke of CUM..
BERLAND, at his house a: Kew, after which their
Royal Highnesses rode through Richmond Gardens
and Richmond Park, on their way to town.
Yesterday Sir DAVID DUNDAS held a Levee at his
Office at the Horse Goal ds, and gave audience to se-
ver& Military Gentlemen.
We have received Letters from Cadiz, and the
following extra& ofone, though not of a recent date,
contains some interesting particulars :
" CADIZ, Ju 25.-We are as indifferent about
the enemy as ever. We have abundance of pri,vi-
sions of all kinds, and as good beef and mutton as
pin have in London. Twelve thousand troops of the
line', including some English, after driving the
French from Ronda and Marseilles, are gone to at-
tack them at Malaga, whither they are fir(' in con-
sternation, This army will be joined by, at least
(Thou Seranos, and all the inhabitants of that city.—
The English have constru&ed eight formidable bat-
teries between Puente Suaso and Santa Petre, and
the Spaniards have thi own up several redoubts,
which render that quarter as impregnable as Gib-
raitar.- 1

The reinforcements going out to Lord WELLING-
TON amount, it is said, to 10,000 men. It •is
thought, that in the event of the British Army bent
obliged to evacuate Portugal, it will not return to
England, but be landed upon some other part of the
Peninsula.

Extratl of a Letter from Colonel ROBERTSON, Se-
cretary of Government at Curacoa, to Lieutenant-
Colonel Monm.LA, dated Curacoa, June 2, I 810 :-
" I am happy to inform you of the arrival of a vessel
from St. Thomas, which announces the pleasing
telligence of Porto Rico having followed the glorious
example of Caraccas." •
A Gentleman of the name of BROWNE, Captain
GREEN A WAY, and three seamen, -have made their
escape fr,an Auxonne, in France, and fortunately
reached the coast near St. Maloes) w here they seized
a fishing boat, and stood out to sea on Sunday se'n.!
night. Having a sail, but no compass, they were.
compelled to go before the wind. On Monday they
encountered a heavy gale, and had severe 'squally
weather for upwards of four hours, during the whole
of which time they were incessantly baling the boat
with their hats, and every moment expeaed to foun-
der. Fortunately for them, when all their hopes had
vanished, the storm abated, and, by great exertions,
they reached the Cornish coast, and landed Hear
Pul-
perro on Thursday last, in a very debilitated state,
having had nothing but two loaves of bread and a
bottle of water to scbsist on-during the whole of their
perilous voyage. Mr. BROWNE, who had repeatedly
applied for, and, been promised his release, is a
Gentleman of considerable property, and is one of
those persons ID shamefully •detained by the French
Government, on the recommenceMentof hostilities.
By asseciatipg himself with a French Gentleman, he
had obtained permission to visit
.various parts of
France, and was every where received with a civility,
bordering on kindness. He states, that through all
ranks of society, for the last two years, the most ar-
dent desire for peace with this country had prevailed.
The most important information collected trout these
Gentlemen is, that vast preparations are making in
every Naval depot throughout the French Empire
to increase their Navy.--.BUONAPARTE having de-
clared his determination to have a Navy equal to
cope with England. He has instituted a sort of
Committee, composed of sane of the oldest Naval
Officers in his. service, who are to inquire and re-
port to him on the causes of the repeated defeats
sutThred by the. Navy of France, and the apparent su-
periority claimed claimed by the British.

Captain Davis, of Plymouth, reached that port
on Saturday from Morlaix, afterifour years captivity
at
.Valenciennes and Auxonne. He was one of
those who helped to extinguish the fire at the latter
place, for which he was rewarded and restored to
liberty by order of BLIONAPARTE.

A few days ago we extratied from Mr.,Lewis
Goldsmith's " Secret History of the Cabinet of BUo-
naparte," the Secret Treaty of Tilsit, in which the
reader is referred to his formrr publication, en-
titled, " Au Exposition of the Condua of France
towards America," concerning ,the intentions of
the Danes to give up their tfeeti to France ; this
statement we think important to communicate to
the public.

I cannot let this opportunity pass,'says Mr. G.
without taking notice of the Copenhagen Expedi-
tion, which a French Minister in my hearing term-
ed a Coup de Maitre en Politique.'—After the
peace of Tilsit, Buonaparte wished to occupy the
Danish Islands, Zealand among; the rest. 'lwo of
his Naval Officers, % iz. Rear Admiral Majendie,
who was in Portugal when Jonot capitulated, and
formerly Captain of Admiral Villeneuve's ship, at
the bank of Trafalgar ; and Captain liergeret, many • •
yea's a prisoner of war in-this country in the time'
of the Directory, and who was tour years ago made
prisoner by the British in the Eist Indies, and sent
to France do his parole, • but not exchanged to this';
day, were appointed Commissaries to superintend
the equipment of the Danish fleet; to every ship'
there was a French Captain appointed ; a great
number of Danish and Prussian seaman; the former :
taken on board of British ships, and the latter,which
were prisoners of war, confined at different deriits
in France, were sent froin thence to Copenhagen,
escorted by French Bens d'armes ! ! Tie Danish,
fleet would have been in the hands of linoniparte,
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either by treaty, by•iuse, or by robbery!"
It is said that Major HOGAN, whose.memorable
,barouche and Bank-notes made such a noise in the
world, and who thought proper to skulk suddenly .
away from this country, died in Philadelphia on the
13th of June last. It appears, that, alter leaving
this country, he was some time in the capacity of a
planter at Cuba; from thence he went to Washing-
ton -and other parts of'the'Continent,
nand only ar—
rived at Philadelphia almost previoqs, to.his decease.
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