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METEOROLOG Y.

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ments, Diagrams, and Linear Tables,

METEOROLOGICAL ESSAYS and OBSERVA-
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Dy J. FREDERICK DANIELL, F.R.S.
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• Wit RTON'S HISTORY OF F.NGLISNI POETR Y.
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THE HISTORY•OF ENGLISH POETRY, from
the close of the 11th to the commencement of the IStk Cen;
fury. To which are prefixed, three Dis:iertations:-1. Of the
Oriiia of Romantic Fiction im Furore-2. On the Introduction of
Leaning into England-3. On the (jests Ronrinortim, by Thomas
IVartom, P. D. Fellte.v of Trinity College, Oxford, and of the
Satiety of Antiquaries, and late Professor of Poetry in the Univer-
sity of Oxford.

A itcwlitian. carefully revised, with numerous Additional Notes
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and other eminent Antiquaries, and by the Editor.
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SPAIN.

EP ROM A MORNING PAPER]. •
There is, we have been assured, a letter from Cadiz
in town, of a later date than the one we published yester-
day,which states, that a considerable number of wounded
had reached Ia Isla ; but it was not in our power to
obtain a sight of the original. If this proves to be true,
Governor O'Donnell will not find the men who have
landed at Tarifa and .other places, of so despicable a
character as that under which he seeks to describe them
in his official Report, published in our Paper of yester-
day. General Jose O'Donnell, the Governor of the
;Lines of St. Koch, is the third brother of that ominous
name in the Spanish service. In Spain, he is called
the Hero of Castalla, from the noted defeat he expe-
rienced in that place, when in command of a force
three times as large as that of the French who at-
tacked him. He was afterwards tried by a Court
Martial, of which we do not remember the result ;
but the fact is, he was not entrusted with any other
command, till Ferdinand placed him at Algesiras.
—There he has had an opportunity of knowing what
was going on, and also of ascertaining the state of public
opinion in the surrounding districts. Ile has teased the
poor Governor of Gibraltar to.death with his complaints.
and denunciation's sea over to him every day. He has
had his spies in every direction, and so well aware was
he that an attack, and a formidable one too, was ex-
pected, that he has generally been in the habit of sleep-
ing at La Isla, and has never been without a fast-tailing
boat in the bay, to escape, if he should be hard pressed.
To O'Donnell; therefore, the disembatkatioa alluded
to was not unexpected ; for he was fully ae are of the
preparations -making ; and also of the principal per-
sons engaged in them. As to the nature and object of
the attempt, we conceive that we have not been mis-
taken in those facts and surmises we have already laid
before our readers, and, in order to make the subject
better understood, we shall further remark, that the
Spanish Constitutionalists who took shelter in Gibraltar,
had exhausted the whole of the means they were able
to scrape together, and starvation stared them full in
the face. Constaatly harassed and persecuted by the
police of the, town, they were daily exposed to the
severest hardships.
Such was the state of things when repeated advices
reached them front the mour.tains and other parts, de-
scribing to them the favourable state of pudic opinion,
'and urging them to return and join the patriots ready
to take up arms. These communications terminated in
the formation of a plan, conformable to existing cir-
cumstances. At first the Constitutionalists hesitated ;
they were desirous that no more blood should he spilt,
at least uselessly. The appeals to their honour 2,4
patriotism were, however, so urgent, and so strongly
reoeated, that as soon as they were made sensible o: the
real state of things on the contiguous coast, they re,
solved to make a last effort to second the wishes of
their countrymen. They resolved to make a lia4gme: t
on the coast, and obtain possession of a district that
might serve as the basis of future operations, trust;ng to
those assurances of support they had previously received.
They attempted a reconnoisssince, and this operatiru
we daily expect to hear has had a latitude infinitely
greater than that part of it executed in the vicinity ol:
Gibraltar, of which the. French liave not hitherto Il1:-
nished us with any other than the most imperfect de-
tails. All 'the little means they had were ready, and
Spanish vessels were mot wanting, part cf those Hhieh
had been driven away from .Majorca and Catal ma,•
through the brutal intolerance of the friars, to serve as
transports—the very same vessels which before had
given shelter to the numbers who bad been driven out
of thelown. A movement of so (-Wins and hazardous
a nature, naturally, must have been accorrzpanied by
particular combinatiot.s. The attention of Algesiras,
the head-quarters of the force inten,!ticl to pr:nect the
lines in front of Gibraltar, was consequently called to a'
demotlstraatiton in
Tariftahaut,qrteignhatteer. order that the disem-
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neatest to Gibraltar. At the same trine, advices were.
sent on to the Sierra of Ronda, tilt the operation might
rba d
el
su,kl),-Ps°,l the -transports
d:t1,11:io° v ibag Ybrorntlslaieiar seinrfeorralsehse: