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THE ARMY.

The depot of the ;tits► Regiment is removed
from Chichester to Sheer He‘s.

The detachment of the 14th Light Dragoons,
heretofore stationed at 'Coleraine, has received
a route to Londonderry. ,
The detachment belonging to•the. 20th Regi-
ment of Foot, stationed at Ballaghadcreen, have
received orders, on the arrival of a similar detach-
ment of the 84th Regiment on march for the
purpose of relieving: them, cb proceed to their re-
gimental head-quarters at Boyle. •
A company of the 41st Regimetil of Foot has
been ordered, to proceed from the head-quarter
of the Regiment at Naas to Baltinglass.
The following Regiments anti: iattaliOns have
been disbanded :—The 23d Dragoons, 2d Bat-
talion 53d, 2d Battalion 60th, 2d Battalion 66th,
2d Battalion 84th,.six companies 103 d, and the
Garrison Companies in the West Indies.-
The detachment of the 84th Regiment of Foot,
(2d battalion) .at present stationed at Castlerea
and Miltown, have received orders to be in readi-
ness 'to repair,to head-quarters at Athlone, on the
arrival of the several parties which have been or,
tiered to replace them. It is conjecrmed that o,e
calling •in of the detuched parties of this hattalign
is preparatory to its being disbaoded,•_which kill
take place on the arrival of the Ist battalion in
England, at present on its return from the East
Indies.

CtlptaillS DAVIES, • BRADBRIDGR, and MoYLE,
of-the Bth or King's Foot, who were lately-tried
in Dublin; on charges preferred by Lieutenant-
Colonel ROBERTOW, for refusing to. supply their
companies with the bread contracted for by their
Commanding Officer at Mullingar, are cashiered,
purstiant to sentence jU3t promulgated. iDAviEs
is a Captain of ten years standing, Momit of
nine, and BRADBRIDGB of six years.—(Ennis
Chronicle.) . .

Four young couples in the neighbourhoa. of
Grantham eloped on the same day from r heir friends
about three weeks ago, and have been
.rOpee-
tively joined together in holy wedlock. ,

SPAIN AND HER COLOMIES.

(Continued from Monday's SliN.)

At no period does there appear to 'have been
any just-ground for accusing clot South Americans
!of pArtidlity to France_ That they were not de-
.-sirons of obeying a French king on the throne of
Spain, their copritter -at tlaiat time indisputably
roves; not a symptom 01; such a disposition ap-
peared in the Caraccas, irThienos-Ayres, in Mex.
ieo or in Chili. That :they ever desired lo be
Enhjects of the Freii'.f empire, independently 01
Spain, is inconsi,oent with their views and pro-
-fessions, and in itself perfectly unintelligible. It
should be rev,irded to their honour that they dis-
dained the i;origues and promises of Buonaprrte,
and his vlempts to confound t!eir cause with his
own ambitious projects. The secret•instroctions
givers to Duinolard, which were lakell, and -ate
published in the 'Outline of the Revolution in
Spanish Ameiica,'—prove the extent of 131:0(14
frame's designs, and the exertions of' his agents
and it is well known_ how completely those de-
signs and exertions failed. It was reserved for
the more refined intellects of European States-
men to decorate• Napoleon with the attributes of
freedom ; to• lament his fall as;the extitaction of
liberty, and the triumph of desPotie,and illiberal
principles.—But the less cultivated Americans
treated' his pretensions to this character with na-
tive rudeness, and seem to have concluded, that
the invasion of Spain, the attempt to subjugate
and enslave an unoffentling people, and to force
his brother on their throne, were not the hest
claims to- the admiration and support of nations
contending for their own independence.
It is not then without extreme astonishment,
and an 'emotion of the ridiculous-, that am tug the
competitors who are expected to attempt to share
in the tempting prizes, which these magniticeut
regions offer to ambition and to avarice, we have
heard mention of the name of Joseph Bamiaparte !
That the military officers of France,, driven- by
political events faint their native country and un-
able to hear the inaction and insipidity of peace,
that ambitious spirirs of every nation should enlist
themselves in a cause which flatters the hopes of
distinction and of interest, cannot be matter of
surprise—but that king Joseph—the bottle-king--
the laughing-stock of his own palace—who can
scarcely have recovered his breath since the flight
Of Vittoria—that he should ever be the candidate
-Mr a ,second throne, will appear most singular
even to-this generation. • But how infinitely will
that weroder•be increased, should we find him se-
lecting-SOut h ,Amer ica for the. second display of
ltisregal and military virtues ! By that country
his pretensions were rejected with universal con-
tempt.—. His emissaries were no sooner de:ected,
titan they were cast rut° pt isou tkonselves, anti
their papers and proclamations into the fire ; or
they were sent to Europe by his loyal subjects for
the information of his enemies.

IVe have said enough to show that it is from nn
ill will to the Spanish Colonies that we are doubt-
ful as to the probability of their immediate erec-
tion into empire's, and decided as to the policy of
encouraging and aiding them in drat enterprise.
This latter-opinion is not in any-degree strength-
ened, in our minds, by the view which is taken by
the Abbe de Pradt of the effect to be produced
by American success ou British power and pro-
sperity.

,As the Abbe de SFeyes produced a constitution
fur any, country on demand, the Abbe de rradt
apptars to have a hook prepared for every rli-
tical sultjt.ct : no wonder therefore that he has
written and is writing Most copiously on the im-
portant subject of the. American Colonies, which,
be- has well remarked, will now become the
principal oject of attention to the European
6tmes.

The sante vivacity of style, the same vein of
acute observation, and the same ambitious pursuit
of effect and of white bears' in' writing, as they
were termed h) Lord Chatham, will be foam; in
this, as in all the Abbe's former works. But we
must confess that his talents appear to us better
adapted to the lively description of characters,and
to the invention of an excellent sobriquet, than to
the diseussion of great political questions, and the
Eotletnent of political difficulties. His passion
for generalization often obscures the subject which
he is anxious to illustrate; and at other times in-
duces him to express, in stately and solemn dic-
tion, trite matters of fact, and truisms as new as
they are profound. There is a chapter in the
first volume, Des Colonies,' on the Constitu-
ent Principles of the Colonial Order.' These be
has by great labour reduced to the small number
of ninety-four ; but when the importance and no-
velty of those which lie has introduced are ma-
turely considered, the only cause nt.surprise will
he, how lie has been able to refrain from adding
several hundred more to this list.
' 45-. The independence of Colonies is nothing more than
the declaration of the majority.'
34. Money does not return from India.'
' The separation of Colonies leads to the Establishment
of a great number of States.'

86. The nation which is sovereign in India is superior to
those which arc nut su.'

These and such as these, are the Aln's pro-
fotiod maxims of stare-policy, arid at a strik-
ing proof of that simplicity which is the charac-

teristic of great discoveries.

The Abbe desires the independence of the South
American colonies, becluse it must lead to the
general indei)endence of America, and, by ceriain

consequence, to the emancipation of Europe from
the intolerable yoke of Engla►►d, which he repre-
sents to be as severe as the oppression of Buona-
parte. He foresees the formation of independent
and naval powers in America, who, with their
combined fleets, shall in the fullness of time come

to the relief of oppressed Europe. lie predicts
the birth of the Admiral who is destined to cap-
ture the bridge of London ; but the English

.„ ~
reader will be somewhat consc►led by hearing, that
the production of this tremendous infant will not

follow for many ages the death of the General who
attempted to blow up the bridge of Jena. We

cannot be too grateful for t!►i3 long; respire. But
let the ci-devant Archbishop offer a few watch for
• himself.

The Reroluron, he says (p. 414.) 'has given up the ocean
to England, and with it all the colonies and all the. navies' of
Europe. By its position in the centre of the European ocean,

England stops all communication bitween the nb;:th 14,1 the
south. Where can they have any intercourse ? Every thing
that would pass through the Sound would be stopped at Heli-
goland and Ferro; it would have to pass under tint !nag
battery which extends from. Yarmouth to Plymouth ; the
'Channel is a sea enclosed by the Englith ports, and, is .rom-
pletely an English roadstead,. through which the sqoadrons
of France and Holland world not dare to pass,. At the first
signal, Brest, Cadiz, and Toulon, would be hlochaded. Gib-
raltar commands the entrance to the Nieditetraneau, Malta
occupies the centrt of it, and Corfu rules the Adriatic ; where
can we unite, or through wlrere'can we pass ?- It is just the
same in every Other part of the world. England has possess-
ed herself of situations which deprive other nations of any

hope of inccess; so that a coalition between all the maritime
powers of Europe against England is a creature of the imagi-
Some of the parties tot his coalition are ton much

mit ion.

exposed both In tlreir commerce acid in their colonies not to
prefer their present sufferings to any aggravation of them,
which. would be the inevitable consequence of a rupture with
England. She has just left them colonies and commerce
enough to form a bond composed of fear, and of an attention
to that conduct which she is always dictating. An everlasting
states quo is the only calculation of those powers; provided.
that lasts, they are satisfied. At the Cape of Good Hope, at.
Ceylon, at Trinidad, at Barbadoes, and at Halifax, the Eng-
lish are in the same position with regard to the colonies, as
t hey are at Heligolond, Gibraltar, and Malta, with regard to
Europe. Every thing it in subjection to them there as it is
here. Whilst .things are in „this state, all the naval force of
Europe is a useless expences subject of triumph prepared
for England, aria, since we mhst speak out, a complete ab-
surdity. Europe must not look at home for the means of
obtaining maritime freedom ; she cannot rest the lever firmly
here, which will raise the burden that is crushing her—it
must be rested in America. From henceforth her liberation
must originate there. We have just haul a proof of this in
the war which the United States have been waging against
England : they I: we tormented England more than all the
navies of,Europe united together have done. The reason of
Allis is very simple: it is the distance of America. England,
at such a distance from the seat of empire, lost part of the
advantages which render her so formidable in Europe; conse-
quently the greater number of States there are in America►

similar to the United States, the greater number of allies
will there be for Europe: fur all these States being, like the
United States, in their nature maritime, and possessing an
infinite number of ports •and rivers inviting navigation and
commerce, will have the greatest interest iri the liberty,of
the seas, arid in forming an alliance between the weaker ma-
ritime powers against the stronger, who are the natural op.'
pressurs of the former; consequently every standard of liber-
ty planted in America will cover the seas of Europe with a,
tutelary shade. Let us suppose some free states in America,
like those of Brazil, the United States, and Mexico; and on.
the other side of the Continent, Peru and Chili, to he in that

state of freedom whirl' they must arrive at sooner or later.—

Is it not plain that in them are raised up as many rivals to
England, and as many fleets and as many arsenals as there

are in the United States, and all of them at the service of
Eurnk, against the common enemy, the mistress of the sea;
evhatever name she hears; fur by being. the.mistress, she is
'an enemy to all who are weaker than herself, and all are

equally enemies to her.' Is it not plain that a general contest
for the intlependeneeof the sea will arise with :titans of sup-

I porting it, a contest which, in this can', would not fail of
hawing its effect, favoured as it would be by the position of
1 the nations who would talie part in ,it, while it is iMpossible

that Europe alone should-institute such a contest, on account
of its position and its proximity to England? She is an enemy
sebum' we cannot affront till we have drawn her from home,
and forced her to divide Ler strength. When England shall
have to blockade at once both the whole of Europe and the
whole of America, that blockade, instead of being an iron
chain, which it is impossible to break, as has been the case
for the last twenty years, will be only a cobweb which can be
pierced ut pleasure. When her vessels shall hare to guard
stations at the distance from England of many thousand
leagues, and wi,hout secure harbours; and when her com-
merce, banished from the two Continents, and pursued by
swarms of crilizers, shall stretch its suppliant and afflicted
arms towards the mother country for peace; then will a ma-
ritirne independence be established for Europe, which it is
not able to obtain by its own means.
' The chief error in the policy of Napoleon was this ; he
wished to render the seas free by means of Europe, whilst it
was only by means of America that it could be done : he
turned his back upon the object he aimed at, when he went
to seek for it in Russia, where it certainly was never to be
found. Such is still the error of Spain : she does not perceive
that by labouring to re-establish the dependence•of America,
she is only confirming her own dependence upon England, who
will thus be enabled to turn all her force against her, which
would otherwise be required against America.'

We sho►►ld not have trespassed.on the patience
of our readers with this long rhapsody, did we
not know that the sentiments it conveys are the
common property of all the Revolutionists ; that
the numerous disciples of that
.school.of anarchy
which Fiance has scattered over the world, affect
the same terror of the naval power of England,
the same tender regard for the insurgents of Spa-
nish America, and the same hope that, by the fer-
ment at present working in that distant part of
the countries of Europe, now settling into repose,
may again be roused, and kindled into confusion,
plunder, and regicide.
Contempt for the whole fraternity, of which
this man is a feeble echo, must not prevent its
trou► such remarks as are dictated by a regard to
the peace and happiness of mankind, and by the
love of that genuine liberty which can subsist only
with law% order, and legitimate authority.
In the station which England has acquired,
during the long war reluctantly waged by her in
defence of the civilized world, it is not even pre-
tended that she has obtained any other than de-
fensive posit ions ; or that, having acquired them,

she has applied, or shown a disposition to apply,
their possession to any other purpose than th,at

of securing general tranquillity.

(To be continued.)

Lord GAGE, a few days ago, sent to the PRINCE
ItEGaNT, as a present, a Pike which weighed 28
pounds. This fresh-water shark was taken in
Marestield tuiU-pond, on his 'Lordship's Sussex
estate.

'PRICE or BU woN.—The only variation in the
price of bullion yesterday, from the preceding ac-
count, Was in New Dollars, which were at ss. 4d.


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SOLEM QUIZ DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT ?

LONDON,
TIIIIRSDiIk, DECEMBER 11 , 181 7.

Boston Papers to the I,Bth nit., New York to
the 15th, and Charleston to the 7th, atrived this

morning :
(From the Boston Palladium of Nor. 11, 1 A 17.)
FLORIDAS,
Capt. Attrunri, of the ship incey Ann, from
Bonnie4ux, has brought out dispatches for Go-
vernment from the American Minister at the Court
of Spain. It is presnmed that thege dispatches
relate to the negociations carrying on between the
United States and Spain, as to the purchase of the
Floridas. • It is distinctly understood, and,. on very
good authority, that Great Britain has said to Spain,
"If you choose to keep the-notifins, is well, but
if you determine to sell them, we think we have a
right to the preference, and we shall expect the first
offer." This language has off«mded andembarrassed
the Court of Madrid, although We do not believe
it will influence its determination ; indeed we fed
confident that the determination is made, and is
now in the United States. We come to the con-
elusion from a 'knowledge of the fact, that the
Spanish Minister, Don. Onts, has at this moment
in his possession sealed dispatches f:otn his Court,
which dispatch.es he is'direeted not to °pin until
the Meeting of, Congress.

Accounts bare been received from Caraccas to

Cct. 6:h, which represent the Spauir.h Royalists
as completely successful in that quarter.' A Pro-
clamation of conditional amnesty, on the part of
King \Falun NAND, bad been published, and num-
bers are accepting of it. Prisoners -are released
•
as embraced by-it.