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the same moment when the Trocadeiro was carried, his
Royal Mistiness ordered the Spanish flotilla of Goads-
letto, consisting of twelve gun-boats, to issue from
Port !ante Maria to unite itself with the squadron.—
The M,Ma set sail it break of day ; 15 of the enemy's
guaradvanced to oppose its passage, but the flo-
tilla viesplready under the protection of fort Santa Ca-
talina, whose fire, together with that of the brigtil-
loise, which had beep purposely dispatched by -Rear-
Admiral Rotours, speedily compelled the enemy's ves-
sels to retire. The brig commanded by Lieutenant Le-
masan pursued them under the batteries of Cadiz, and
even fired CM the city.
di Whilst these brilliant affairs took place, all the other
troops, not only at Chielana but along the whole line‘
were under arms. The best dispositions were made by.
Bourdesoulle.

[The remainer of the Bulletin is occupied with the
names of the Officers who distinguished themselves,
and accounts of the nature of the services which they

performed].
(Signed) " Shim-General Count GUILLESIT NOT.
" Head-quarters at Puerto Santa-Maria, September 1."

DINNER TO MR. BROUGHAM AND MR.
DENMAN AT GLASGOW.

Thursday being the day appointed for the public din-
ner for Mr. BROUGHAM, about three o'clock the Stewards
repaired to the Assembly Rooms. About the same time
numbers of spectators began to assemble from all direc-
tions. By five o'clock the street in front of the hall was
thronged to excess, every window was filled, and the
tops of the adjoining houses were crowded with specta-
tors. 'The peuple continued peaceable and in good spi-
rits, and they repeatedly cheered the illustrious guests
on their arrival. The Gentlemen began to take their
s:ats in the hall about ten minutes before four, and in
about a quarter of an hour afterwards the whole.were
occupied. Those that remained afterwards were aCtom-
(=dated in a side. room, and after dinner joined the
company at a side table, At half-past five the Noble
Chairman, Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON, accompanied
by the Duke of HAMILTON, ,LOTii KINNAIRD, Lord
Bnr.trAvert, SirJoas Maxwer.t., Bat. the Hon. Admi-
ral FLEMING, and Messrs..BaotratrANt and DENMAN,
entered the hall, and were received with the most en-
thusiastic cheering. The cliA/RMAN was supported on
the right hand by the Duke of HaNtryrox, Lord KIN•
NAIRD, and. Mr. DENMAN, and on the left by Mr.
BAGMAN I Lord Bctitaverr, and the Hon. Admiral
' FLEMING The Croupier, R. A. OswALD, of Auchen-
I •
cruivey.was supported by A. SPIERS, Esq. of Elderslie;
A. Sirens, jun. Mr. KENNEDY, M.P. Mr. MAXWELL,
M.P. P. Srteks, Esq. and A. 41. HAMILTON, gsq. of
Dalzell. In addition to these there were seated at the
four tables in the hall and in the ante-room about three
hundred and sixty Gentlemen.
_ _ .

After " The king," " The Duke of York and the
Army," " The Duke of Clarence and the Navy," and
" The [Nike of Sussex," had been given, the Chairman
gave, " The rest of the Royal Family, and may they
never forget the principles that seated them on the Bri-
tish Throne." The next toast was—" The cause of li-
berty all over the world."
The Noble CHAIRMAN said he had now to piopose
the health of Mr. Brougham, who bad met with a re-
ception worthy of his character, his fame, and his prin-
ciples—(Applairse.) 'This meeting was assembled to
congratulate Mr. Brougham on his character as a pro-'
fesstonal man and a Statesman. lie was completely at
a loss to know to which of the two clwacters to give a
preference—(Applause.) This was a meeting worthy of
such a guest, and he was sure his friend would be
flattered by the assembly before him. There was a time
when it was hardly possible for twenty persons to meet.
without being slandered as Radicals, and stigmatised as
enemies to the prosperity of the country. lie was happy
to see so many men met who bad the independence to
think for themselves; and met to commemorate those
principles which he had laboured for twenty years to
establish. Mr. Brougham stood unrivalled in ability,
zeal, and firmness—(.lpplause.) He stood pre-eminent
as a Gentleman, a Statesman, and a Lawyer. As a
Statesman what public question had he declined? As
he had been a witness he might enumerate some of his
exertions and talents, and he might say of that indivi-
dual, as was said of an ancient, that whatever he does,
he does it in a manner as if he were born for that spe-
cific purpose. He concluded by giving " Mr. Brougham."
The toast was received with enthusiastic cheering,
which lasted several minutes. When silence was restored,

Mr.llnouGuan rose, and returned thanks for the ho-
nour done him, which he attributed to his intimacy
with the illustriOus House to which the Chairman be-
longed, and to the steady undeviating conduct which,
since his entrance into public life, be had observed
in following the steps of Mr. Fox and those great
men now unfortunately lost to the country : he also at-
tributed no small share of the kindness sliewn to him to
the altered state of public feeling in Scotland—" I
might almost," said the Learned Gentleman, " say the
revolution of sentiment which has taken place in Scot-
land within the last fifteen or twenty years. Gentle-
men, this is a topic on which I can speak as a witness
and an observer. It is now nearly twenty years since I
passed aay considerable part of the year in this country.
It is fifteen years since I was in this part of the country,
and indeed since I have even crossed the borders of
Scotland for more than the space of two or three days.
I well remember the last Public Meeting at which I
was present in this town. It was as long ago as the
year 1794, and I doubt whether more than one indivi-
dual in this room was there besides myself. I allude
to my excellent friend, Mr. Gibson, than whom a more
firm, able, and honourable Whig does not exist in this
country—(Applause).—lle rememboos, I doubt not, as
well as I do, the result of that Meeting, which was
most numerously attended, on an occasion the most'
interesting to all freemen, for the purpose of peti-
tioning Parliament against the Gagging Bills—(ilear).
That Meeting was as peaceably assembred as it was nu-
merously attended; and yet, a man, whose name will'
live in this country as long as any regard continues fie
private worth, amiable manners, and brilliant talents
united with political integrity. I mean the late Henry
Erskine, was deprived of his place at the head of the
profession of the law—a place which he had earned by
his labour, his learning, and his genius, because he dared
to address a Meeting of his fellow-countrymen, assem-
bled for the purpose of petitioning Parliament, as it was
their right_ and their duty to do, against being gaff::
slaves—Voisase). Well "I,
which

conduct of wicked rulers at home.-ot the vile, detestable
principles of execrable tyrants abroad ;—(Eatisasiasti/
eieers).-upon the abuse of privilege—upon the pros-
action of power, whether by Princes, or Nobles,
or lawyers, or the creatures of lawyers. Gentle-
men, I have made the tour, which I am just about
to finish, in Scotland, with a degree of interest
which I can hardly describe to you. The country is
most interesting to a stranger, or to any one who has
become a stranger by long absence from it ; but I freely
confess to you, that it is not on account of its romantic
scenery that I have felt that interest—it is not for the
sake of its tufted battlements, of which some of the
poets of thevountry speak with just admiration, though
they value not what I chiefly value—it is not for the
sake of its natural scenery that I have visited it with
delight, for these tufted battlements were just as roman-
tic 100 hundred years ago, when they were the dens of
outlaws, or feudal chiefs, more pestiferous to the country
than outlaws, as destitute of all principle as the Holy
Alliance, and resembling the pestilential freebooters
who inhabit some of the provinces of that Holy Brother-
hood, against whom, with all their excellent police,
they have never been able to wage successful war,
though they can turn their arms against their own peace-
able subjects, and against the free and peaceable sub-
jects of other States—(Applause). The mountains and
the rallies of Scotland were just as picturesque and fer-
tile when the slopes of the one were covered with half-
fed savages, slaves to those who monopolised the wealth
of the other, or 'shared that wealth with a lazy and
luxurious priesthood. Neither the natural beauties of
the country, nor the productions of art and genius, by
which the powers of nature are extended, if not outdone,
in all parts of this favoured land, and in none more re,
markably than in this city, were the objects which
chiefly attracted me, but

mmummos Alen, high-minded men,
Who know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain."
This was the interest which operated on my mind.—
these were the objects which I came to see, and which
I have seen in Scotland. I have seen a priesthood of
pastors, who realise the wish of the prophet, to be kept
equally apart from the temptations of poverty and from
the seductions of overgrown wealth; who feel, and whose
whole conduct proves that they feet the distinction,
which separates them from the priesthood of another
persuasion in Catholic countries, and that it is the duty
of a good pastor tend rather than to shear his flock
—(A Laugh). I have seen a community composed of
a people moral, pious, well-educated, cautious in the ex-
pression 'of their sentiments, but who, as they take a
long time to make up their minds, and to form resolu-
tions in matters of so much difficulty as State questions ;
so, when they have once formed resolutions, and given a
public pledge to maintain them, are as immovable as the
rocks that surround them, though their passions are as
unruffied as the surface of their native lakes—(Applause).
I have seen, too, many distinguished individuals—would
to Heaven that I could say among the ancient nobility
of this favoured country—who join with my Noble
Friend in the firm and zealous support of those princi-
ples which have so justly won him the affection of the
people—men, who through good fortune and bad for-
tune, have never swerved from those principles, and who
have never failed to stand forward in the cause of the
People, and approve themselves the faithful guardians
of the liberties of their country, whether attacked by
licentiousness on the one hand, or by the Crown on the
other, ck by a third, and the most detestable of all fac-
tions, the band of Continental Despots, who dared to
raise their voices, though while such men as you exist,
And are true to your principles, they will never dare to
lift their hands against the free Constitution of Britain
—(Loud cheers). Gentlemen, allow me to express my
honest sentiments, when I sincerely and unaffectedly
tell you, that I depart from Scotland with a degree of ex-
ultation and thankfulness to DIVINE PROVIDENCE which
I can hardly describe to you on the present occasion. I
consider Scotland now among the most interesting por-
tions of the civilized globe. I consider Scotland now
as advancing in a career of continued improvement,
and in a spirit. of opposition to every remaining
abuse, which cannot rest where it is, but which
must be carried many steps further. Gentlemen, if you
go on propagating this spirit, it will become infectious
—(a laugh); it will spread through every part of this
island ; it will communicate to all parts of the Sister
Kingdoms, and while England and Ireland catch the
sacred flame, bright as it burns among you, they will
catch also the steadiness and discretion with which you
know bow to adhere to the principles of Reform, and
assert a cause which seemed almost desperate when I
was last among you, but which now, on the contrary,
expects to receive from you its greatest aid. I beg leave
once mole heartily to thank you for the honour which
you have been pleased to confer upon me, and to con-
clude by requesting my Noble Friend to propose as a
toast, the " Prosperity of this great, flourishing, and in-
dependent city of Glasgow, the second city of the Bri-
tish Empire." The Hon. and Learned Gentleman sat
down amidst long-continued peals of applause.
The Noble CHAIRMAN next gave a The Rights of the
People,"with three times three.
Mr. Professor Mtrais, Professor of Moral and Poli-
tical Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, next ad-
dressed the meeting in favour of Parliamentary Reform,
as the only means of preserving the rights we possess.—.
The Professor concluded by giving as a toast, " A sub-
stantial and speedy Reform in the Representation of the
People.".—Drank with applause.
" The Memory of Charles James Fox,"—drank in so-
lemn silence.

The following toasts were next drank :—‘6 The speedy
abolition of those Laws against liberty which were un-
known to our ancestors."—" A cordial union and co-,
operation of all the friends of freedom in the causeQf.
Parliamentary Reform." -
Admiral Flamm° proposed the health of a Nobleman,
whose feelings, in favour of the people, were unequalled
by any other public character of the day, and who was
too well known in this country and throughout Europe
to make it necessary for him to Say any more than give
the " Duke of Hamilton"—(hesesene Applause).
The Duke of HAMILTOK returned thanks for, the very
flattering manner in which his name had been men-
tioned, and his health drank, by so numerous and respect-
able a Meeting. He deeply felt the compliment, and
would always be anxious to merit their opinion.
He regretted that while the principles orgerty were
advancing among the people of this country, the Go-
vernment should so conddet its foreign affairs*: to bring