Star.
London, England, 1805-02-04 00:00:00

NUMBER 4994]

WAR Wl7 I! SPAIN.

LUPFLIMENTAFT LIST OF ►AIIRS PILLSENTIO ST HIS
MAJEVIT'. COMMAND, TO BOTH HOUSES OF
►ARLIAMENT, FEBRUARY a, 1.805.

No. r —Extrad of a difpatcb from J. H. here, Ffq. to Lotd
Hawkdbury, dated June to, i803.--Reeelved July 31.
It is rabic that the inclofed intelligence may have
already reached you through Lord Robert Fitzgerald.
On qutflioning the Pt ince of Peace, he declared that
tlit King had made repeated in fiances tobe informed of
the affemblage of fueh a body of troops, bnt that no
explanati ,n had been' obtained. This certainly does
not appear very probable ; but it is a fa& that this
Government are treated v. ith great neglect on the
fubjea of Portugal, and are kept in the dark as to the
objeta of the correfpondenee which has been paring
with Poch activity between Generals Bournonville and
Lannes.

Cevallni, When I mentioned to him the intel-
ligence which I had received, Paid that he had re-
ceived the fame, but that later intelligence had per
fuaded him that the alremblage would not be fo great
or fo immediate ; and I yellerday received a report
agreeing with this hatter opinion.

(Tranilation of Incten in Nn.
L' Itrad of intelligence front ne, Dated May 30.
I have already mentioned to you the arrival of tome
troops at this place; two other brigades are expelled the
r 3th Florcal, (June 2), ther7th and the a4th. There
will be, independently of the two divifions of noon
men each, intended fur the conqueß of Portugal, a
body of referve of ta,ooo. The camp is already
marked out at Bidard, (a league and a half from
hence). I believe I have already told you that one
of thefe divifions will march by Perpignan, and the
other by Bayonne. Thirty-feven thoufand men are
therefore expelled here ; bat as I have jolt Paid, the
s aiooo of referve will only remain. The army will
afterwards march into Spain. The command of it is
provitlonally given to General Cara St. Cyr, a relit.
tine, I fancy, of him who was Arnbalfaclor at Ma-
drid. General La Marque is intrufied with the orga-
niratinn of thefe troops.
Juas B.—There is for the prefent nothing new, or
at halt very interdling. The arrival of lame bat-
talions, and of a regiment of chaffeurs cavalry the
241 h, hat which in the lag war ferved the campaign
of Portugal ; they are tolerably well mounted, but
badly equipped, or rather badly clothed. We are
now allured, that the array which is coming here will
not exceed 5 or hOOO men, although it is dill report
ed that it will be augmented to 40,000. I believe it,
fur I do not fee that the C.lvernmeut has fo large a
difpoluble force.

No. —Extran of a dirratch from J. H. Frcre, Efq. to Lord
Hawkelbury, dated Madrid, July 6,1 /14,3.....Receiccd Aug. 3.
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Lord-
difpatch of the 241 ult. and I have great Eta
faction in rvfleiting that the !all which your Lord-
Blip will have received from me will (hew that
I !save been fortunate coon') to conform my condo&
to the general (pi, it and tendency of the infiruftions
which your Lordship had laid down for my guidance.
Tht prefcnt (fate of things ib one which is not very
eafy to define. The Ps ince of Peace has not yet
thought proper to commit himfelf by any dillina pro.
pofals upon the fubjeft of obtaining. a guarantee for
ihat neutrality which this country proteffes ant' to
have adopted ; at the fame time there is an evident
intreate in the ill.humour of the French Anibafrador,
and foam ferious altercations have paffed between
him and the Prince of Peace. Upon my making tome
enquiries Opon the Inkjet of the French raffemble-
ment at Bayonne, upon which he had before demand-
ed an explanation of the French Ambalfaclors as men-
tioned in thy letter of the loth ult. he told me that he
at left declared to him that if an army was colleiled
there, he Mould efiablifh a fuperior force in camp
Oppofite to them: Some few days fince General
Bournonville declared dr* the Fionch army was dif-
petted into cantonments, and the orders for joining
It coontermanded. and Willed agaiaa the eltablifb-
ment of aSpanifh camp. The Prince of Peace, how-
ever, told him that it could Ilill be adhered to as a
meafure of precaution. He has Paid likewife that if
the French attempted to farce a paffagi he would
taife an army, and that the King would put himfelf
at the bead of it to oppofe them.
When I hall called upon him, after the receipt of
your Lordfltip's difpatch, I told him, that though I
had already explained to him the intentions of his
Nfajefiy refpe*lfing Portugal, yet that I had received
fuch pofitive infirnaions from your Lord(hip upon
the fubjed, that I could not forbear repeating the
fame declaration in a more formal manner. To this
be anfwered, that he believed that the differences be-
tween Prance and Portugal were in a train of being
fettled, but that this country would (HD continue its
preparations, and that he had given orders for twelve
regiments of militia to be Aerobia, to form part of
a camp in Caltile.

ft (could teem fingular, and even fafpicioas, &at
language of this kind is paling, no pofitive de-
'station should be made to Great Britain, nor any
ei.1119 ttatem:nt made cf the means which might be
"":nary, and which they inight esperft Great Bri-
o: rn contribute in v?ndication of their neutrality, if
attempted to be violated. It is, however, remarka-
h;e+ that many Spaniards with whom I have con
ver:tel, and who were ardently defirous of an alli-
ance againfl France, have never feemed to look for
any alliance from England beyond her co-operation;
nd the various fymptoms ()f ill-humour on the part of
t ie French Miniller are evidently real and unaffeded;
at tile tame time the attentions of their Majefties are
marked to the Portuguefe Miniller and myfelf in a
ma:mei which has excited general obfervation.
The King has been much irritated, in addition to
tl.t.ormer provocation from France, by the violence
which bas been offered to the independence and neu•
trallty of Tufeany ; and both their Mak:lies have
been fineerely and deeply of sSed by the death of the
Kira of Etruria.
The difpofitioa of the people bas bee always fr