Star.
London, England, 1813-08-17 00:00:00

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ow, • TUESDAY, AUGUST IT, 1813.
' :Pitt" F STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK:
Red. S*ll-I—Cons. s7}}-.tor ace. 570—Bds. as. as. dig. •
4 per Ct. 72473 791—S per Ct. 87“—Onwittm pr.
%I.:0'14ot Lg. Ans.l4 7-laths F—Ezeb. Bills par 33. pr.
v... The details in the Geeette .Extraordinary are so pre-
cise that an attempt to elucidate would only darken
them. It is one of the felicities of the Marquis of
WELLINGTON, that he not only quickly arranges v, ith'
a comprehensive eye, the movements that .are
• calcu-
lated to insure victory, but is able.to convey to others-
-SO ample, yet perspicuous a detail of his operations,
as to defy all illustration.
It is hardly possible to anticipate the effect which
this disctirpfiture of the French must have on the for-
tune* of the ambitious NAPOLEON. It is known;
that on. hearing of the defeat of JOtiRDAN, at Vit.;
`. toils, he instantly dispatched an order to. Some- to
take the command, with a higher commission than
bad Over been before conferred on any of his Mat-
tbals; that of his Lieutenant. This 1.4" did. before
communicating JEDEDAN'S. disaster even ,to the
psis de PADOR4 oe suffering a bit t.of it to transpire.
hniyed, no doubt, that Sows would retrieve his
affairs on the Spanish frontier, or at least prevent the
Allies'from displaying the Rags of England, .Spain,
and Portugal, on the territory of France. What
then-must be his dismay on learning that his first
General has been so completely baffled and beaten by ,
the British Hero ! What Must be the moral effect in
• Franca if this vietpry lye followed up by a descent
from the Pyrenees into the very territories of the in..
vatler i What the influence Which it must have at the
present monlept An the atillis of affairs in Ole Wopth
of Europe
The actions of men depend as much on their nun-
ral temperament, or disposition., as op the powers of
their understanding, CHARLE# XI, of France wee n
Prince of great compass of mind and profound Vivra,
es well as ambition. He did not want vigour pf
character—but the principle that predominated was
subtlety. Dosarni‘p has all the subtlety of a ma-
Awn Italian ; but, it would appear that hp is in-
fluenced still more by an ardour and audacious impe-
tuosity pf. temper, nourished and: inflamed by success.
He might have enjoyed all the advantages of the
Spanish dominions, in both hetnispheres, and conti-
nued -to draw contributions also from." Portugal, in
peace; but he madly rushed into war, thinking that
be should gain his object at once, by seising the Ca,
pital and chief fortresses of Spain, and, together with'
these, the Royal Family, - A war in Spain, Sapsut-
nary and destructive tnifie. French not less than to
the Spaniard; and portuguese, seems on the eve pf
being terminated, by the total expulsion of the limper
from the Peninsula.
The: same kind of *prate and destructive war
that POsiApARTE, Yielding-to the impetuosity of his
temper, rather this° to tbe dictates of cool reason and
calculation, had kindled in Spain, he determined to
carry into the he pf the Itustian Empire. The
- Russians resolved tint to be discouraged by any sue-.
cess that the enemy might obtain on the frontier, or
even many leagues within the frontier. Thep perms.,
vered in this determination, and taught other nations
that such a plan, acted on with firmness, May defy
the frantic ambition of AoNarAters--who must him?.
self be sensible of this, and lie constrained to tower
his tone in any conference of treaty for a general pa:
cification, Them are at resent grounds for gawp,
ting this ; if the Powers Concerned do net blindly prt.
for selfish, fallacious, and certainly fogacious iota
rests to the geheral good of Europe—He hag meta-.
mophosed Electors into Kings-r-Royal -Slaves 1-,
wearing their Crowns in fetters! These and other
Princes have consented to hold their possessions and'
dignities of an Upstart ; but they inwardly pant for
a restoration of the old order of affairs.
The Northern Powers who, if we may pse the
ign-e, have for some time beep in the act of waking
from sleep, must, one would think, be now fully
roused to the exercise of their long slumbering ener-
gies, The glorious intelligence must soon be known
to them, freed from the disguise of french colouring,
and the effect will be to make the nations of Europe
not only view the publications of the Tyrant without
apprehension, but treat them with scorn and contenipt.
PRIVATE LETTER.
CAMP, PYRENNEES, AuQ.4. tens
le Hey* we are sigain on the French side, of those
ivornense nu,uutains, looking over a great extent of
Gasp try. SJuvr has made a pretty expeclitioti
of it including his stiaiepleis in the mount:tips,' he
is 20,000 {lien how f1f4+1444t ; WE have accounted for
35,000 of them- in the cintail of this weeft. Had
Lord W.e14.15070.5!*• 44irable • plans
exactly into execution, and as he diretted; not a span,
of * amity equld. Itise' returned into thence. • At
one time we !Pei,* nearly bad Ilatch of their Gene.-,
rals— atin!efy: Zulte of.p4pan4.
Lon, C' oat ps Sr. YOLt, Csiobsiti4 and irlotesUW!
"Pampaiun4. Pads,*ooo.4l4•The garrison liar
for the list ten dayi been Orin* on horse flesh.
Al-
ter the fail of PaMpOriria and &. Seb;titipies'

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WALLiNGTON meitn, to invest Bayonne." •
A fleligf4ud Mail Artiveo tills morning; and it
furnishes us with an article of a curi. us description
from Fr. okfort. wliefe We presume &tNnrnµva to
have bees at the date of it on his return to Paris—a
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