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ARA y 4. was planted to,the Emperor ALWRNDIII4
who instantly tuidelaisn an•offer of his punt, and
conferred ipon him the. Ma of Colonel in the Quar-
ter Master General's Department of the Russian
army, and he is now busily occupied in organizing an
entirely new Commissariat upon • the Predich and
English system. It is understood that is future, mail
the Russian officers are accustomed to the duties of
a vlgllant and active Commissariat, these functions
will be performed by such English, Germano or emi-
grant officers as may wish to enter'iliSitisslan ser-
vice, the whole to be under the supesintenClance, ad
interim, of Sir ROBERT WILSON and Colonel RAM**.
The services of the former ate well knovm the latter
has served in the whole of Gen. MOREAU'S campaigns.
Every effort was making at St. Petersburgb, to
place the army upon the most respectable footing
and the zeal with which the Emperor has entered
upon the subject of the Commissariat, proves that
he knows precisely where a reform is most wanted.
—The Russian aymies have uniformly lost all the
fruits of their most glorious victories, from the want
of an efficient Comthissariat. Every success during
SuWARROWS campaign in Italy, brilliant as it was in
every respect, was rendered doubly decisive is con-
sequence of the superiority of his Staff and Commis-
sariat. These were composed entirely of Austrian
and Emigrant Officers, many of whom are at this.
moment unemployed in this country.

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The above particulars respecting the sentiments of
General MOREAU, for the accuracy of which we can
vouch, completely give the lie to the assertion, which
we have seen in certain papers, that the American
army, destined for the invasion of Canada, was to be
commanded by this experienced Officer.

His Majesty's ship DIOMEDE has arrived at Ports-
mouth fr, in Lisbon, with twelve sail of transports.—
They left the Tagus on the 3d inst. at which time the
army remained quietly in cantonments, The Mar-
quis of WELLINGTON was expected in Lisbon on the
Bth or 9th inst, a circumstance which gives additional
probability to the report of his Lordship's being about
to visit this country.

His Majesty's ships Colossus, RHIN, and GorD.
FINCH have captured, and brought into Plymouth,
the American ship Dolphin, out 19 days from Phila-
delphia. The American Captain states positively
that Mr. MADISON has been re-elected President of
the United States,

Yesterday Lord CHOLMONDELEY, the Lord Steward
of the Household, had a long audience of the PRINCE
REGENT at Carlton• House.
Yesterday at three o'clock, a Cabinet Council was
held at the Foreign Office.
Yesterday Viscount MELVILLE gave a grand dinner
to a numerous party, at his house in the Admiralty.

Earl MoIaA and suite do not embark for India be-
fore the second week in February.
His Excellency Count PAME&LA, the Portuguese
Ambassador, and Suite, arrived yesterday at the Pul-
teney Hotel, Piccadilly.
The PRINCE REGENT of Portugal has conferred the
honour of the Tower a.nd the Sword on Sir Row-
LAND HILL.

It will be gratifying to the numerous friends and
admirers of the late Dr. RAINE to learn, that an ele-
gant Monument, by FLAXMAN, has been erected to
his memory in the chapel of the Charter-house.
The hospitalities of the season have been displayed
with princely hospitality at Baron's Court, in Ire-
land, the seat of the Marquis of ABERCORN. All the
neighbouring Nobility and Gentry have been invited
to a series of entertainments, consisting of balls, con-
certs and card parties.
The Prince of WOLKOUSKI, who acted as Aide-de-
Camp to the EMPEROR, was deputed to conduct LAU-
RISTON to the celebrated conference with Marshal
KUTUSOFF. Here also Sir ROBERT WlLsori and the
Duke of OLDENBURG were present, LAURISTON evi-
dently appeared much chagrined at his departure.

TEN THOUSAND POUNDS.—The Ticket, No. 543,
drawn yesterday a Prize of TEN THOUSAND POUNDS,
was Sold in Sixteen Sixteenth Shares, at the Old
Established and truly Fortunate Offices of CARROLL
and Co. 7, Cornhill, and 26, Oxford-street, where the
Fortunate Holders may 'receive the full value on
demand.

DRURY-LANE TIIIATRZ..•.• The Opera of False
Alarms was repeated last night, and again attracted
a full and brilliant auditory. BRAHAM, in Edgar
Gayland, introduced a new Ballad, " Come tell met
where the Maid is found ;" the words by Mr. ANA-i
CREON Moons, and the music by Sir JOHN STEVENSON.
BRAHAM sung this fine Air with his usual taste and.
science ; it was loudly applauded, as was the Duet,
of " Vive le Roi," with Mrs. DICKONS. Mrs. DICKONS
was in fine voice, and, as usual; afforded an infinity'
of delib,Yht • ' nor were Mrs. MOUNTAIN, Mrs. BLAND,
and Mrs. DAVISON, less happy in their respective
parts ; while the succes.ful exertions of Messrs.JoHN-
STONE,WROUGHTON, DECAMP, and PENLEY, rendered
the whole performance a fine and finished treat.—
But the favourite Song of the evening was " The
last words of Marmion," which was encored amid
reiterated plaudits.

HAPPY TnnuonT• —Amotogst other ventures which
were sent to Buenos Ayres, after the successes of the
British forces, were, a considerable number of hearth-
rug:. For these, however, as there were no fire-places,
no purchaser could be found, until at length the Su-
percargo of the vessel in which they were sent hit
upon the expedient of placing one of the most dashing
upon a horse, as a sort of saddle. The hint was im-
mediately taken, the rugs were soon sold olf, and in
a few days every horseman was provided with an
Evlith

SP.A
4mmminalb N.
NUMBER S.
We avaa ourselves of circumstantial
obtained from many points of the Peninsula, to ag
the public attention to the state of our relations with
Spain. All Europe has seem that the statement, pub-
lished in the STAR relative to Sicily, in the Autumn
of 1811, were even, we may say, to the very letter of
our publicationskorrect. The general truths that we

have now to unfold relative to Spain, we are confident,
will be found equally worthy of attentions But the
cases of the two countries are very different : in that
of Sicily, we had only to expose the inimical spirit of
a perfidious Government. The people were in a sort
of brotherhood with the British, and it was only the
Neapolitan faction that prevented them from acting.
The Neapolitan faction has since been dethroned j and
Sicily, instead of being dependant on us for pratee•
tion, has undertaken offensive operations On her own
account, and with her own means.—ln Spain, the
case is reversed: we have nothing to complain of on
the part of the Government, but every thing on that
of the People. It is the Spanish Nation of which we
have to complain : the enlightened persctns who have
charge of that Government with which we are allied
feel as much chagrin and disappointment as the Bri-
tish can, that their wishes and efforts are so fruitless.
Personal politics, and personal considerations, are,
therefore, in the Spanish question, but secondary mat-
ters. There will be no end to error if we ground our
opinion of the Spanish cause on the conduct or cha-
racter of individuals. It is only in the worst nations
that the greatest individual characters appear. Good
laws, well-administered, induce a general elevation
of character ; but they overshadow the peculiarities
of those casual men I, who receive from the hand of Na-
ture that erninenreofpower which no culture can oilserwise be-
stow," because they anticipate the occurrence of those
changes in which such characters are only fitted to
act. The virtue and the magnanimity of individual
Spaniards cannot, therefore, be admitted in palliation
of the base qualities of the nation. We ground our
opinion of the people of Spain on their history, from
the days of HANNIBAL down to the date of the ca-
shiering of that Bobadil, VALLEsteeos—on their here-
ditary and habitual prijetlica, or, as we would rather
call it, on their constitutional qualities. National preju-
dices are national characteristics, and they endure,
like the features of man, as long as the incorporation
exists to which they belong. Until Bull-dog: are de-
monstrated to be in every respect similar to Spaniels,
we must consider the inhabitants of the Peninsula as
a distinct race from the English ; and hold all reaso-
ning as irrational which considers them as beings of
the same class, though of the same species. We
put this the more strongly, because we fear that
much of the political blundering that has been com-
mitted in the Spanish cause is owing to our belief of
a similarity in the characteristics of the two nations.
We will give a sketch of the Spanish character, and
leave our Readers to make the comparison.
The Spaniards are jealous of strangers, cruel to
their enemies, and prodigal of their own blood—
haughty, from an innate insolence of humour—ava-
ricious in business, and ostentatious in declarations—
superstitious even to Molochism in their religion.—
Bigotry, which in all other men is an error of the
dead, and as such, is generally mollified in effect by
the influence of the heart, in the inhabitants of the
European Peninsula is a passion of the heart, che-
rished by the perverse inductions of the head. Wor-
shippers of ancestry, they are content with the glory
of their fathers; and they are in consequence arro.
gant in administering the rites of hospitality, Fond
of arms and equestrian exercises, they have ever
maintained the appearance of a military nation ; but
have never achieved any conquest which could be
ascribed to military superiority ; for, although they
destroyed the Empires of Mexico and Peru, it was
pot in consequence of their soldiership, when com-
pared with their European neighboprs, but owing to
the rudeness of the art of war among the inhabitants
of the New Continent. The renown of which they
partook in the time of Charles V. was acquired by
the German subjects of that Emperor. Of all his
States, the Spaniards sent abroad the smallest num-
ber of soldiers, and they were as uniformly the least-
esteemed by their companions or dreaded by their
enemies. They have been frequently subdued, have
frequently submitted to receive Sovereigns from Fo-
reign Powers ; and though accidentally a nation of
'extensive dominions, their whole history is destitute of
(the record of one magnanimous undertaking, but full
of the disgusting details of tyranny and oppression.
This is a harsh sketch, but there is not a feature
in it overcharged; and it may want the amelioration
of complexion, but it is still a better likeness of the
original than that imaginary portrait, which has been
drawn by interested and ignorant orators. The cha-
racter of the Spanish nation, such as I%c have given
it, is that by which it was always recognized in Eu-
rope till within the last foul years. What has oc-
curred to make it now so different ? Are nations so
speedily transformed ? Are nations ever changed
without a moral revolution ? Has any such thing
taken place in the Peninsula?
But without adverting to the new character of the
Spaniards, let us consider their old to have been a
just one, down to the era of the existing alliance
with England—and let us consider the events that
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