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of chivalry," as if parity of effect is to be miaow.

ably expected from disparity of power.
It gives us sincere pleasure however, to be able to
anuonnce, that at last energetic measures are to be
employed against the Marine of Laputa. Orders
have reached Plymouth, to cut down the CULLCIDEIft
of 74 guns, to a raw, and moreibips are immediately
to undergo the same change.
Lard AuzLrus BEAUCLERE takes out the squadron
!bout to sail for America. The TIGRE, of 90 guns,
the Quzzw, of 74, and AZERCROUBIE, of 74 guns,
have order's to rendezvous at Portsmouth, for that
purposes
The last time the President frigate was in the
channel, she was boarded by a pilot, belonging to
Cawsand, who was addressed by at least twenty of
her crew, requesting to be informed of the welfare of
their relatives, living about Cawsand, and Plymouth.
When the same frigate was last at Gibraltar, up-
wards of 100 letters were tent on shore, to the Post-
Office, by the crew, directed to their friends in
England.
The fact 104 Hated, speaks a volarnmin support of our
right of search : nor will any Minister of this country
ever dare to propoie its abandonment.
It gives us satisfaction, however, to learn that the
War Department does not slumber, but that pre-
parations are now making to enable Sir GEORGE
PREVOST to open the Spring campaign with effect.

We have received Paris Papers to the sa instant,
They are wholly silent on the subject of ds the Grand
Army;" but; in the mute eloquence of real distress,
den latent, elqinant !
The debris of the various corps which reached WU.
ra—the Imperial Guards, the sacred squadron of
mounted Officers, and the French Marshals who
were left at Smorgonie, have been cut off from all
intercourse with the Duchy of Warsaw nay, the
probabilities are in favour of the supposition that
they are at this moment in the hands of the Russians, as
prisoners, for the Duke of BASSAIIO, (MARE?) Counts
LAVRISTON, NARBONNE, and other Slaves of knee=
note, are on their way to Paris ; and an additional
military force has been called out for the dews of
Warsaw 1 In sober English, the 'Ressian armies
have advanced from Minsk into the Duchy of War•
saw, and have thus surrounded the- French amps
d'annie which remain in Poland:
The Monikur again confers upon us the honoUr of
hotiting our humble efforts, as Journalists, to rouse
Europe from hez lethargy. In the STAR of Tuesday,
Decetnber 22d, we stated the evacuation of Spain to
be a consequence a the ruinous State of the Grand
Army in Russia, and hailed the arrival of Lord
WALPOLE at Vienna, (an article of intelligence which
by the bye, was exclusively our own) as the cont:
menceinent of an era, which would compel i3oria-
PARTE to confine his troops to the protection of France.
We see no cause for retracting our opinions, not-
withstanding the flippant answer of our Parisian =-
They tell us that their Master is pouring
:ements into Spain—we deny it—let them
our columns of to-day for evidence. They
Lord WALpoLE Was soon dismissed from
Ave answer that this is a falsehood. His
0, as we stated, was received at Vienna with
Irk of distinction and favour, and how will
wretches tremble for the stability of their fa-
lynasty, when we inform them, that his Lord-
mission has been attended with effects even
picious to the overthrow of BONAPARTE'S
han the most ardent friends of humanity
ista!

ideuce were wanting that the blow which the
received in Russia has staggered his whole
of despotism, we would adduce these critiques
Ifoniteur. But we have other documents to
nn the record. The King of SAXONY, in a
. statement given in our columns of today,
teclared his inability to adhere to the continental
and we now tell the Editor of the Moniteur,
wn words, that Austria, Holland, Rome,
Piedmont, Belgium, Nice, will shortly
the yoke, under which they have groaned.
usa we beseech you, most sagacious Critics

*here is the ire* which u to keep these eonntrie,
long* in subjection ? even the invalids (as we are

inforined by a gentleman recently arrived from the
other side) have been marched into Paris. All
is gloom, and discontent, and suspicion, in the capi.

tat. Fresh arrests are made daily, and it is not easy
fol. the Tyrant to know how to dispose of those whom
he has already in custody.

J. F. RAM, Colonel of the First Regiment of
Paris, in whose case the punishment Of death has

been commuted for that of perpetual imprisonment,
entered the army in 1783, as a private in the regi-
ment d'Arton : being a tall handsome man he was
soon made a Drum-major. In 1792, when the un-
fortunate Louis XVI. permitted Non-commissioned
Officers to be advanced to the higher ranks in the
army, RABBE was cute of the first to whom promo-
tion was granted : he served in the 62d demi-brigade
till 1796, when he was raised to the rank of Adju-
tant-Major of the Guards of the National Convention.

When BOVAPARTZ mated his Garde Coneulaire, in

1800, he was raised to the.rank of chef de bataillon ;

afterwards he was made Colonel of the First Regiment
of the Municipal Guards. In that capacity RABBI

was called to sit on the trial of the Duke d'EnonEix.

As a recompence for his share in this infamous tran-
saction, (for RARER took care to remind BONAPARTE
of it on his return from Poland) mercy was extended

to him.

Nothing perhaps is more remarkable in the perso-
nal history of BONAPARTX than the uniform system

of favouritism iron which he has acted towards the

murderers of his most formidable rival.

To return to RABBI:. Till Within these few years,
he could neither read nor write—and at the present
moment, we haVe reason to believe that his literary
accomplishments are Confined to the signature of his
name. He used to devote his leisure hours, even
when a Field Officer, to the teaching of fencing,
being unquestionably one of the best swordsmen in
' Europe. His advanced age (being upwards of 60),
and his limited education, will render his imprison-
ment insupportable, unless he dwindles into thehumble
rank of what is termed a Mouton, I. e. a spy upon his
fellow prisoners, a service for which his talents emi-
nently qualify hint.
While on the subject of BONAPAItTE2S favourites,
it is but fair to correct some mis-statements, which
have recently crept into the public papers. It is but
too true that the majority of his Generals have been
Thieves, Swindlers; Galley Slaves, and Footmen t—
but none of these epithets apply to General MONCEY.
That Officer was a Captain in the French army in
1787, and received his commission of Lieutenant-
Colonel of a corps of Light. Infantry in 1793. He is
erroneously described by an ardent anti-gallican
writer as having been a footman.

LISBON AND CORUNNA PAPERS.
DISPATCHES

FROM THE MARQUIS OF WELLINGTON.
The Carteret Packet has arrived at Falmotith,
from Corona; and the GLEANER ketch from Lisbon,
both with Mails and Dispatches. No movements of
importance had taken plate on the pail of the allied
Armies, and those of the French seem to have been
tither of a retrograde description: The Marquis of
WELLINGTON has proceeded to Cadiz, to concert
measures fok the further prolecution of the war in the
Peninsula. We hasten to lay the following extracts
before our Readers t
EXTRACT or AN OPEICIAL DIEPAtCH FROM GENERAL THE
MARQUIS oi WELLINGTON, DATED HEAD-QUARTERS,
ERZTNADA, DECEMBER 9, TO HIS EXCELLENCY DON
MIGUEL PEREIRA FORIAZ
Nothing of importance has occurred since I trans-
mitted to your Excellency my official dispatch of the
2d instant.

41 Some of Marshal Soult's troops arrived in the
•alley of the Tagus on the Sd instant.
4, At the end of last month, the Spanish trot*
Were still in Madrid."
•' LISBON, DECEMBER 14.
'II The troops have come considerably into the in.
terror, for their refitment—some towards Porto, others
in the direction of Coimbra. General Hill's division
is at Corii—the first division, under Stewart, it Vi.
sett : mean time, the Marquis of Wellington goes to
Badajosi from whence it is supposed be will proceed
to Cadii:

44 General Hill Is the nett in coininini, tad his
situation at Coria is an excellent one for that im-
pose; being advanced sufficiently, and Very central.
4, The 6th and 20th regiments have received their
routes for the sth and 7th divisions, and leave Lisbon
directly to join."
LISBO N, DECEMBER 14.
" The Marquis of Wellington was to have been at
Badajos yesterday, Seville to-day, and at Cadiz on
the 18th.
66 It is confidently said Caffarelli has marched for
France, with 4000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry."
LISBON, DECEMBER 48.
64 We have not s word of news—the army is dis-
persed throughout the kingdom, between the Tagus
and the Douro, refitting ; the cavalry head-quarters
are at Coimbra ; the Prince of Orange and the re-
mainder of the Marquis of Wellington's Staff, are at
Porto, from whence they are to proceed to Lisbon :
this circumstance induces us to hope we shall have
the high gratification of shortly seeing our Hero in
this capital.
•' Saturday last we bad a great gale here. The

greater part of the *ends in therfver have salfered I
seven or eight Americans were wrecked on the Xlar
and on the coast. His Majesty's ship Non Pareil,
and the Prince Ernest here Suffered ccinsideribly.a.
The total damage sustained is calculated at six
hundred thousand pounds.

".ttAbAYoz, bEciran tL

41 According to intelligence dated the sth instant,
on the 3d, 21,000 infantry and 5500 French hone,
entered Madrid, and suddenly seiied upon the maga-
zines of bread. Another division, of from sto 6000
infantry and SOO.horse, descended from the port of
Pict) to Tallavera la Reyna ; and by Porine, 10 or
12,000 infantry are marching for Cadalso.
" Under date of the 10th, we are informed, that
the French remained in Madrid, having some divi-
sions encamped in The neighbourhood ; other divisions
had proceeded for Villatavas, and various places in
Mancha.

" On the i'th they mitered Toledo, having left 400
inftntry at the bridge of Montalvan. The national
troops, who compose the 2d and 3d armies, were in
Albacete, and those denominated the 4th, in Infantes.
" According to the latest accounts, the positions
of the. French army on the line of the Tagus are as
follow :—Pontes, Oropisa, Tallavera, Cevalla, For-
tino, Carpeo, Fuensalida, Nagues, Torrigos, Puebla
de Moritalben, and Toledo. In the last city, the
French General Tombousson had ordered 30,000
rations to be got ready.—(Lid on Gazette, Dec. 22.)

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