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London, England, 1810-12-27 00:00:00

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intLYAN3 TikklifOki
• . . ORLEANS;
Warr pittmAviiee find the rumour of la
as it relates to the takilig of the fort at Baum .
to be true. young Mr. Grand Pre died t
wounds he received a short time after the affair.
tieral Thomas commands, aid, we are informed,
at the head of the executive, Governor Lassus
is dose confinement. The greatest part of
niards mide.their escape, and numbers of them
arrived in this city. At first there was danger
prehended from the people of the Amite and Comite,
but *heiathe mail passed every thing was .
and active
.preparations were making for defence.—
The Coriirention, under whose orders General
mas has acted, and continues to act, are determined
on supporting their independence.
OCT. 5.--. At the moment our Paper was
press, we receiied information that General
marched with • 400 men, as mounted infantry,
Tuesday evening lait, frorn Baton RoUge,
district of St. Helena, to establish order, and
all ihose who will not suliiiribe to the powers
Cinvention. We hope that Mr. Brown,
mandant of that district, and General Thomas,
accommodate their disputes without bloodshed,
form :one bad of Gower:went, which is infinitely i.
than the anarchy with which they are threatened.
We are informed by a Gentleman in this city, of
respectability, that the people of Springfield, a town
building at Bookter's Landing, in West Florida, have
erected a fort, and named it Ferdinand, for their King,
and that they are determined to oppose General
Thomas, and all the acts of the Convention. Our in-
formant adds, that they have ordered drums, fifes,
powder, lead, kc. to be purchased and sent to them.
Oar. 11.—Ve are informed, and we ptesume cor-
rectly, that General Thomas took poitession of the
diitrict of St. Helena on Thursday last, without op-
position—that the inhabitants, who were employed in
erecting a fort at Bookter's Landing, abandoned it and
joined the General': standard. It was reported on Fri-
day morning, our informant adds, that General Tho-
mas was preparing to march for Mobile.
OCT. 10.—The Convention adjourned to the first
Monday of November, leaving at 13aton Rouge Messrs.
Johnson, Leonard, and Hawes, as a Committee of
Public Safety, and to draft a constitution similar to
that of the Uiiited States. The Convention resolved
to send a Minister to the United States after the adop-
tion of a Constitution. A standing force of 104 men
was enlisted to garrison Baton Rouge, under Captain
Ballenger. The militia had returned home. The
tax on the slaves of emigrants to ,4 the Commonwealth
of West Florida" is abolished. It was expected the
State Prisoners would shortly be liberated.

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To-day Souk!
troops and the magistracy went out to meet him.
Notwithstanding the contribution which was lately
imposed has not yet been wholly rekeived, he has im-
posed a fresh one of eight millions:
Seloastiani, whO Marched against Marbtlla, has
been obliged to fall back. The disposition of the
people of Seville is always the same. The proximity
of the Spanish parties, who have penetrated neatly tai
Cruz del Campo and Vinta de la Catos ; the want of
couriers from Madrid, none of whom have arrivei
since the 21st ult. ; the intelligence from Portugal ;
' the march of the French partizans, and other indica-
tions of fear and dejection on the French, augment
the hopes that the loyal inhabitants of Seville have
always pursued of bettering their condition.

VALENZA DE ALCANTARA, DECEMBER 1.
They write from La Mancha, under the date of
the 21st nit. that the French General Boni, while at
a ball given at Hinojosa, on the night of the 18th,
received a courier at three o'clock in the morning,
and at four was upon his march for Cordova, with all
the troops under his command, with the exception of
a garrison which was left in Belalcazar. The cause
of this movement is unknown ; but it is generally
attributed to some bad success which the enemy has
' sustained.
We have no intelligence from Spain, except the
above article, with which the public papers have fur-
nished us. It appears, however, according to some
private accounts, that there had been a battle in Cata-
lonia, from which important advantages would result
to the brave Catalonians. The French were in the
greatest difficulty, and were on the eve of receiving
a decisive blow, which has perhaps ere now given
independence to that province. This event will doubt-
less have an important influence on the militAry ope-
, rations of the neighbouring provinces of the Peninsula.

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.

MADRID, NOVEMBER 2.
On the 31st ult. we received intelligence that an
advanced guard from this city was destroyed on the
road between Puerto de Heviro and the Pardo Ac-
cording .to letters received from the kingdom of Gre-
nada, on the 19th October, passed through Antequers,
150 English. made prisoners on the coast of Malaga
by the French, who paid very dear for the advantage,
by the number of men they lost in obtaining it.
The French spread reports of new projects of Na-
poleon, with regard to the fate of Spain and the Royal
family. Sensible persons hear them with contempt,
and view them as artifices to lull the Spanish nation.
The French officers spread and support them, because
they hope by these means to be*able to finish the war in
Spain, which they carry on with the utmost repugnance
and even with horror.
They write from Castile,' that in the hospitals of
Salamanca, there are more than 4000 French sick,
of whom 60 die per day ; that at Valladolid, sick and
wounded of the same nation continually arrive, the
daily mortality among which is from '25 to 30. They
mention likewise, the great inconvenience the party
of D. Thomas Principle, that is in the vicinity of this
last-mentioned city, causes the enemy.
On the 3d instant, set out for France, the French
convoy of which so much has been said, It departed
by various gates, but united on the road of the Pardo.
There go with it 300 Spanish, Portuguese, and Eng-
lish prisoners ; 5V waggons of mutilated and invalided
French, other waggons with wool, pictures, select sna-
nuscripts,and other precious effects, and many French
people of both sexes. The escort consisted of 1500
infantry. The following day many waggons and
people left this place to join the caravans.
There have arrived from France, 17 waggons laden
with clothing and other effects, in charge of 200
soldiers.
The Minitteis of Joseph are extremely pleased with
the intelligence, that Napoleon has called to France,
Kellerman, the Governor of St. Andero, and others ;
and say that Joseph is named Generalissimo of the
French troops in Spain, and Belltard, his Major-Ge-
neral. But at the same time, they are disgusted by
Aranza having been arrested at Paris by order of Bo-
naparte (this is positively asserted), who has likewis.•
ordered Urquijo to appear there. The reason appears
to be the publication made by the Spanish Govern-
ment, from various intercepted letters ; to which is
added, other charges relative to the managing and
employing of the public purse.
The point which extremely pains Bonaparte, is the
seeing himself obliged to send as much money to
Spain, as he formerly drew from it, and much more
than he can again reckon upon obtaining from it.
NOVEMBER 9.—ln the night between the Atli and
7th instant, marched out, by the road of Leganos,
from 3 to 400 infantry, and 200 horse, with some ar-
tillery. On the following day some more troops set
out ; some accounts say to join the first, others to
m irch to Aranjeuz.
On the 4th instant, official intelligence arrived of a
disembarkation having been made by Spanish and
English troops on the coast of Cantabria • this in
has caused great inquietude to the French
and their friends. The Courier from Andalusia, who
arrived on the 6th, brought no letters from the king-

THE CORTES.—SITTING OF NOVEMBER is.
Senor PEREZ DE CASTRO, addressing the Corte.,
spoke in substance as follows:—,, I have long felt a
desire to propose to the Cortes a resolution, thsorlop-
tion of which appears to me very proper, because it
is very just; 'but the important affairs which have
occupied your Majesty since your installation, and
the multitude of occurrences, if not so importint in
themselves, yet at least all springing from the wish
to advance in the grand career of the salvation of the
, qountry, have hitherto prevented me in spite of my-
self. In the mean time, I have been able to obeerve,
with much satisfaction, on repeated occasions, that
the opinion of many Deputies of the Cortes, as ap-
peared from their speeches, was in accordance with
my own ideas; therefore, I submit them to your Ma-
jesty, in the well-founded confidence that they will
merit your high approbation. I mean to speak of
the profound gratitude which the Spanish nation feels
for England, its generous ally. The whole world
knows how much we are indebted to her illustrious
Sovereign, as great in his sentiments towards the Spa-
niards, as determined in his purpose to protect her
sacred cause. There is not a patriot, who, so to
I speak, does not feel his sensibility excited when con.
templating the abundant supplies of troops, arms,
ships and money, which the generous British nation
has freely bestowed on Spain from the moment at
which it beheld our heroic resolution. Donations,
praises, enthusiasm, all have been lavished by the
English people on their ally ; and posterity, painting
in majestic colours the heroism, the constancy, and fi-
delity of Spain, will place in the same picture the un-
bounded generosity and truly inimitable exertions of
Great Britain in our behalf. England knows our
gratitude, the *hole world knows it.; it is engraven
on our hearts ; our past governments have repeated
it on every occasion that offered ; but it is just, it is
necessary, that the whOle nation, that is, the Cortes,
i who represent it in the fullest manner, should solemnly
manifest it, by voting an eternal monument of natio-
nal gratitude to the worthy head of that great nation.
—Thus shall we perform a sacred duty ; thus shall
we give a public proof of one of those virtues, which
greatly characterize the noble people whom we repre-
sent, I mean gratitude. Let us declare at the same
time, that we will never lay down our arms till we
have seen secured our independence, the integrity of
our territory in both hemispheres without dismember.
ment, and our lawful King free. Let us run the
painful but heroic and glorious course of our holy
war, always in good understanding with, always uni-
ted to the great nation, which aids us so generously ;
and may that union be as eternal, as the ties are sa-
' cred and sincere which bind us to our ally, by the last
treaty of the 14th January, 1809. My wish is, that
since such are the vows of the whole nation, its repre-
sentatiies also may sanction them. If the Certesthink
St to adopt my ideas, I beg permission to read the
heads of a decree, conformable to what I have sug-
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Regency
communicated to the King of Great Britain in the
most solemn manner ; and will at the same tiniete
an account to the Cortes of the plan which 'lt'•
adopt for erecting a public monument, with the exe-
cution of which it is entrusted.
The Council of Regency shall be made acquainteill
with this Decree, to take the necessary means fbe ise
accomplishment, and thatit Se printed, publish* 44
circulated. (Signed) si
Locum Deg. Mort4s, . . Ptealigne.
M&auAt. Lax.se, and
I Secreta its..
EVARISTO PIERO/NI CASTRO,
Royal tae fiLeoe, November it, ISM( .
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We cannot do less that: call to the aktensina down
readers the following circumstance, worthy of the Sr
tendon and admiration of all who have the binder ea
call themselves Spaniards, and even of all presenting'
future generations, to whoa it may serve as a soodeL
Every body knows that there are, in the Cortes/
Deputies who are reduced to such necessity, that thef
would often want their necessary food, if it were not
for the kindness of some ftiend : cases have even hapb
pened in which they had not wherewith to bey a candle
to give themselves light: examples, perhaps, nestana•
pled in history, and which words are wanting WIMP
press as they deserve, particularly when it is c
that they are individuals at .whose disposal this
nation has placed all its means and resoureer —that
they are occupied night and day in the great work of
the liberty and happiness of our native country.
Although we abstain from giving the names of snap
individuals, lest we should hurt their delicacy, yet it
would not be difficult to prove that such must be' the
natural consequence of their situation. For these
being many deputies from provinces occupied by the
enemy, who cannot pay them their stipends, and eithei
depending for support ot% their professions, which they
cannot exercise by belonging to the Cortes, or upon
prebends which they do not enjoy, or upon estate!.
which are trod upon by the sacrllegious feet of these
Vandals, it follows that such must necessarily want
the means of subsistence.
But if it is evident that this heroic trisodention*ancl
disinterestedness redound to the glary of the nation as
well as of the Cortes, it is not less so that the honour
and the interest of the former demand that the father;
of the'country should not remain a single moment as
such a situation.
LISBON. DECEMBER !.
We haie no political news of importance to cells-
Municate ; Massena has withdrawn part of his troops
from Santarem, and they have taken the road to Lein.
It is supposed to be a manoeuvre to draw Gen. Mrs
division to this side of the Tagus, that he may be able
to push a force to the other side withodt opposition;
Lord Wellington and General Beresford were at
Almada a few days ago, respecting the fortifications
erecting there, which evinces appithensions of an at-
tack in that quarter. It is certainly our most valuable
point.
ANOTHER LETTER, SAME DATE.
Lord Wellington and Sir W. C. Beresford were on
the other side of the water on the 6th instant, plan-
ning new fortifications. It is understood that works
are to be thrown up from Palema Castle to the Ta-
gus, and the country intersected by a kind of'ravibe
or canal, so as, that should the enemy think fit to
make an irruption into the province of Alenteije, they
might be prevented entering Estreniadura, and mo.
lesting either Lisbon or the entrance of the harbodr.
To effect this, after the works are thrown np, there
will be no necessity for keeping any large force on the
other side, as should the enemy endeavour to cross,
with the facilities we have of plenty of boats, long
before they could do any thing, we could transport
any body of troops over ; besides which, from our
navy, consisting now of 11. line of battle ships, fri-
gates, &c. we could land in a short time a very respec-
table number of marines, supported, if necessary, by
as many as eight or ten thousand seamen from the
transports and men of war, which would be as good
as troops to man the works.
Decrosslut 10.—The following Edict has been
publicly affixed here :
Jose Lniz Marqles, Captain Commazidant of the
Ordenanzas of Alemquer and its territory, in the
absence of the Sargento Mpr.
44 I hereby make known to all the Ordenanzas
of the said district, in whatsoever part they may be
stationed, as also to the superior and inferior Officers,
that, in consequence of the orders which I have re.
ceived, by the authority of the Prince Regent, that
the Ordenanzas shall proceed to the south of the
Tagus, and there execute the orders which have been
issued ; for which purpose, on the part of the Prince
I require all the ab0vn.n.....:-_ • to

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dom of Grenada. It is-supposed that the Patriots gested. • Regent, _ .--inioned persons .
have latterly intercepted, in that side of Andugar, The motion vras arproved of by acclamation. The assemble at my quarters, at St. Isabel, within the pe,
four couriers going or coming.der the pain of being imprisoned, and, as soon as
decree was then read, which was also carried by at- riod of four days, reckoning from the date hereof, un-
A few days ago entered this per• proceeding ken clamadon, without the alteration of a single word.—
Malaga, a bark *rata with one 24-pounder, and two Joy was depicted in tha'nonntenanqlnof all dast ars- ;dowsed, punish.d as rebels. (Signed)
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2404. if. With the most lively and siatere matitude tow:yds:.
Lilt ireek,' , •-. the King of the United King pf Britain ` :net
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rn Itarage,: ,
,The ntorments of the French troops are cent:not, Ireland, Graeae HI, for the generous interest which
ed of the at in all directions. The garrison of this city does he has displayed, and for the abtuidant aids which
flair. Ge-, mit:actually amount to 2000 men. On the 12th _en be has uninterruptedly afforded to the Spaniskra-
formed, ii embargo was laid upon all the cocoa and sugar in thil
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on, by granting it arms, money, troops, aid dips;
ssus being place, and a great requisition of horses has been
from the first moment when the Provinces raised 4h6
f the Spa- made, for what purpose we are not acquainted. On voice of independence, and of fidelity. to their )444
hem have the lbth, a large mortar was shipped for San Lucas.,
' Sovereign FgatnN AND VII: vilely betrtyed„ tramiled
ranger ap- and on the frame day the whole of the brigades, with upon and oppressed by the usurper of the throng of
Id Comite, their eotreiponding baggage, marched for Carniona. France, Napoleon Bonaparte ; decriie, that $ public ,
i tranquil, —The troops advanced from Las Puerto: have also
monument :hail be erected tn Ctoaos 111. in tes-
defence.— taken the same direction. From this latter place many timony of the national gratitude .wbeich the Spanish
neral Tho- carts yesterday arrived, laden with smith's forge: and nation feels for a Sovezeign so august and generous,
determined other effects. One hundred and eighty horse, whkh as well as for the invincible ' English nation, who
garrisoned Osuna and Ecija, have passed to Estee- have taken so great an interest in the glorious defence
1s ignotintao fhadura to reinforce General Gerrard. lof the Spanish nation. The toues sittriaghetuthe
it :1 The French division of. Grenada is reduced to 6400 same time, that the Spanish' nation win,,e3- JAY
ifantry, on infantry, and 600 wretched horse. When it entered down their arms till they. have Secured their mdeisen-
ge, for the I the province, it was composed of 8500 toot, and dance, the absolute integrity of the monarchy ifOoth '
and confine i 1500 cavalry, subsequently to which it has been re- hemispheres, without the smallest distnentistireapnea
,veers of the - , inforced by 2100 of the foot, and 150 of the latter.— and restored to their King FICADINAiD YA.47121
, the com-ILatterly they have spread themselves in Grenada, acting in accordance, and with the most perfec
10M1S, will Santate, Churriani and Mora ; part of them are occu- with the King of Great Britain, in conformity tq the i
dshed, and `pied in the Alpujarras against an Akade who has strict amity, and perfect and indissoluble allianeei, *.
litely better killed many of their men. stipulated in the treaty of the 14th January 1809 r-V
eatened. w 1 To-day Soultlentered this city from Xeres. The i The Council of Regency will Cause this Decree to be
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