Star.
London, England, 1808-07-27 00:00:00

AMERICA.

BALTIMORE, JUNE Is.
Condemned yesterday morning in the District Court
of the United States the ship Aligator, schooner Ju-
liana, for violating the Embargo Law, and the
schooner Sea-Flower, for violating the Coasting Law.
Accounts from Halifax state the probability that
our embargo will restore more than 10,000 English,
Irish, and Scotch seamen, lately employed in our mer-
chantmen, to the British navy. Not a ship arrives
from a foreign port without a number of her crew re-
collecting that they are British subjects, although be-
fore the embargo took place, such an idea never en-
tered their heads.

PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 21.
General Turreau has recently had conferences with
Mr. Madison, some of which continued three hour.
This would look as if something of unusual intere t
engaged the attention of the two Government. Vo-
luminous dispatches have been, at different times, re-
ceived from both France and England since the ad-
journment of Congress, but no part of their contents
has been suffered to transpire.—(Warhington Fede-
ralist.)
Mr. Gallatin, Secretary to the Treasury, arrived in
town yesterday from the Eastward, and soon after set
off on his way to the seat of Government, where the
heads of other departments are already assembled.
The meeting of the Cabinet at the present period has
given rise to various conjectures. But for the unex-
pected detention of the Osage in France, the Govern-
ment would by this time have been in possession of
answers to her dispatches, from both France and
England, in which case their assembling at Washing-
ton would be a matter of course. At present, how.
ever, it is presumed they are in possession of no of.
ficial intelligence from Europe that could call for im-
mediate deliberation. They may have been convened
in order to be prepared to meet advices daily expec-
ted ' • in the mean tine, the probability is, that their
consultations relate more to domestic than foreign
concerns. It is known we are on the eve of an im-
portant election, by which the men at present in
power are to be tried by the public suffrage. That
these men have become alarmed on this subject, is un-
deniable ; and it is equally true that the love of power
will urge them to make every exertion to counteract
the effects which are daily resulting from a decrepid
and infatuated policy. To retrace their devious steps,
they know would be fatal to their infleence. Some
expedient then must be devised to arrest the course of
discontent ; an opiate must be administered
.ae wakeful vigilante of public inquiry and general
disquietude. These are the matters of State, which,
without the aid of necromancy, we venture to assert,
the palpitating hearts of our Rulers at this event-
__ moment. To these, all other objects are now su-
bordinate. That our National Counsel should dege-
into an electioneering canvas, is 4, wondrous

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 27.
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PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
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SPAIN.
account of the defeat of General CmasrA at•
Seco in thz neighbourhood of Valladolid, which
tblished the day before yesterday, could not but
ion considerable regret, as it was known to rest
authority of accounts transmitted from Sir
,AS DYER, who was then at Benevento, not far
the scene of action, and the place to which the
ipaniards retreated after Cie action.

deserves notice, that Sir TootAs not only stated
the retreat was made in good order, and that the
ich were not only unable to pursue the advan•
they had gained ; but that they were so weakened
engagement, that they could not even advance
Ice possession of Rio Seco, the village where the
had begun, till four hours after it wait ended.

. also deserves notice, that Sir Mows gives no in-
imation of any thing like preparations on the part of
• Patriots for quitting Benevento.—The inference
fair : that the enemy, though they had gained
advantage, were not able to follow it up ; and
the Spaniards were still in force sufficient to

main their ground. We know also that the latter

expecting reinforcements. Their force might be
expected to increase daily, while that of the French
-04 be constantly wasting.
Last night we were favoured with a perusal of
private letters from the Northern part of Spain.
subjoin one, which is of the latest date. We
not, however, with certainty, whether we
to regard this letter as having been written by,
person acquainttd with the battle of the 14th inst.
whether the writer has been looking forward to
action which took place on that day. The latter
ion is only supported by the absence of any of

those Amiens to that actioet which might have bap
expected from one who had a knowledge of its resultl
but, on the other hand, the short distance of Oviedo
front Xediaa del Rio Seco, which does not much
extend one hundred miles, renderi it extremely im-
probable that the battle of the 14th should not have
' been known there on the 16th. Besides, we are

confident, from the channel through which wt
have received this communication, that it comes

from a person whci must have been possessed of the
latest intelligence that could have reached Oviedo. It
may therefore be conjectured that the writer had pre-
viously forwarded an account of the action, which
by some -accident has not yet arrived. Another cir-
cumstance favourable to this supposition is the notice
which is taken of the union of the army of Gallicia
with that under General CUaSTA. From the accounts
already received, that junction did not take place till
after the battle of the 14th, and the amount of the
force stated in the letter greatly exceeds that which
General Curara is known to have had under his
command on that day. We hope, therefore, that this
communication affords a view of the state of the Pa-
triotic army subsequent to the affair at Medina del
Rio Seco —The name of General PALArox is men-
tioned in the letter, and our Readers will find that it
adds one more to the noble traits of character which
belong to that Commander, whose courage and pa-
triotism have already been so eminently manifested.

On the whole we think there is no cause for des-
ponding respecting the prospect of affairs in Spain.
The Extraordinary Gazette of Saragossa, of the 3d
inst. which we published yesterday, shews that in
other quarters, the Patriots have had all the success
that could have been expected. The attack detailed
in that Gazette, and which took place on the 2d inst.
terminated in the discomfiture of the enemy. Our
Readers will recollect that a previous action took
place at Saragossa on the 25th ult. On the night
between the last day of that month, and the first of
the present, the enemy began with fresh forces to
'bombard Saragossa, attempting, under cover of the
shells, of which they threw mare than 1400 into the
town, to force some of the gates ; from which, how-
ever, they were repulsed with great loss, the fields
around being strewed with their &ad bodies. On the
2d inst. at day-break, the attack was repeated, and
with similar success—and the trench were finally
obliged to quit the vicinity of Saragossa altogether.
—There is one peculiarity in this itcount, which is,
that the name of the French Commander is never
mentioned; one might almost be led to infer from
this circumstance, that Lazavaa was really slain, as

report stated, in the former engagement.
It is likewise mentioned in the same Gazette, that
a courier had arrived at Saragossa who left Valencia
on the Seth of last month ; the dispatches which he
brought contained the particulars of an attack made
upon this latter capital by the French under MO`"CIEY.
The batteries, however, from the town, immediately
opened upon his troops with so much fury, that they
retreated in the utmost confusion, and with consider-
able loss, towards Madrid, destitute of provisions, and
exhausted by fatigue.

" OVIEDO, JULY 16.

" By a letter received from a personage of the first
authority and veracity, we learn, that General Cuesta,
having incorporated his array with that of Gallicia, is
on the eve of attacking the French army from Burgos.
He has surrounded it on all sides, and from the force
the General now commands, which amounts to
80,000 men, including 30,000 troops of the line, no
doubt is entertained of his obtaining a decisive victory,
which will be the means of opening a communication
with the armies of Valencia and Arragon.
" General Palafox has also written to Gen. Cuesta,
and has expressed himself respecting his victory at Sa-
ragossa with a moderation worthy lithe highest eu-
logium. He observes, that in consequence of that
advantage, General Cuesta may rely on him, and the
army under his command, for supporting all the mi-
litary operations which that General might undertake,
and for contributing every effort to the success of the
common cause, defended with so much glory, and
such perfect unanimity by all brave Spaniards."

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