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WE PRESS UPON THE CONTINPNT.

ALTONA, Avousr s.—The Editor of this Gazette
)I:iving been desired to make known the source from
which he had an article, inserted the 24th May last, in
). 42. Vol. 34. bearing the tide—" Reply of the Em-
vror Napoleon to the Deputies of the Chambers of
the Departments," is penetrated with the most pro-
iniind grief at having merited the reproach of having
i.l-erced unthinkingly an article to which ke could
affix no authenticity, because it is not to be found in
the public prints under French authority !—The duty
of this retraction i,:13 been imp-sed upon him, as well
as the necessity of conforming for the future with the
greatest exactitude to the ordinances of his Govern-
ment, who orders him to ins_ert nothing in his Journal
which can give occasion to just complaints on the part
of Governments on friendly terms with Den Mark—
. du Nord." —l:Pis is what some English lawyers
would call a well conducted press.

TUE EVENING SuA R.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 29.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
S per Ct. Coot. for money 63} 64—Ditto for account 64/
3 per Cent. Reduced 64ift —Navy 5 per Cent 95/
4 per Cent. 801—Bonds 18s. pre.—Omnlum f prem.
Each. Bills (3d.) par to 2s. pre.—Ditto (W.) ss. 6s. prem.

The Oronium, after a slow and difficult rise from 2 per cent.
discount, to about I, has at length gained the favourable side,
ind after much vacillation and struggle for two days past about
par, was yesterday and this day at a premium.

Sir JOSEPH Yonitz has returned to Portsmouth with
his squadron. His original destination still remains
a secret, but it is generally supposed that it was his
pr'ncipal object to see the East.lndia fleet safe home.

The Lord Hobart packet has arrived at Falmouth,
from CaJia, after a passage of 18 days.. By this con-

veyance we have received Cadiz LettersaadPapers

to the sth instant, which convey a mass of intelligence
of variols kinds. The Spanish General LACY has

addressed a Proclamation to the deserters from the

Spanish army, in which he assures them that the loss

of Tarragona is not irreparable, and intreats them to

return to their duty. These Papers confirm the ac.
count of the defeat of the French by the Spaniards at
the bAclge of °brig°, which was alluded to in Lord

WELLINGTONS dispatches.

The following are extracts from the Spanish Papers:

MADRID, JUNE 29.
Ta the evening of the 27th entered this city about
200 prisoners, including 21 officers, 20 of whom were
Spaniards, and four English, including the Colonels
of the regiments of Toledo, and the second,df Cata-

lonia, who were taken in the action of Gevora, on

the 19th of February. An Aid-de-Camp of General

Ballesteros, who was likewise taken prisoner, made

his escape in Seville.
Juxk SO. —ln the night of the '2sth arrived 300
carts bf sick and wounded, who were lodged in the
Convent of St. Francisco, and are said to be from
Andalusia and La Mancha. The Marquis de Mon-
tehermoso died a short time after his arrival. Sick
and wounded are continually bringing in, and to-day
it is reported that 150 of the latter have arrived at
Talavera. The total evacuation of the Asturias is
confirmed. Brigadier General Porlier is in Pates
with 4000 men.

JULY s.—The parties of the patriots continue to
alarm and harrass the French. One of them, in the
Eight of the 29th, advanced to the gate de la Viga,
the guard, which consisted of juramentadas, joined
them, and they marched away together, at the pass of
Getafe : they carried away ten horses belonging to
the Post-house. On the 30th, the party of the Phy-
sician entered Yncas and Villavicosa, making priso-
ners the dragoons and juramentadas who were there,
and carried off six h. rses.
On the 2d of this month a convoy of prisoners was
ready to be sent off, but received counter orders, the
escort intended to accompany it having been employ-
ed to reinforce the convoy of ammnnition, which went
out this morning for Estremadura. On the same day
arrived two OCicers, one from Castile and the other
from Almaraz, they alighted at the house of Belliard,
with whom they had a conference for a considerable
time, without afterwards speaking to any person, from
which, and the ill-humour of Belliard, it was inferred
that the news was disagreeable: what it was is not cer-
tainly known, but there is reason to believe that the
Officer from Castile brought accounts relative to the
movements of the Gallician army, and the English
troops which are upon Ciudad Rodrigo. This con-
jecture appears to be confirmed by the arrival of Offi-
cers, Surgeons, &c. from Avila, and the haste with
whicH dispatches were sent off to Joseph. The sod-
den and little expected return of Joseph has certainly
diminished, in some degree, the impression which his
journey had produced in France and all Europe.—
Letters from Trun of the 25th say, that orders have
be given to prepare for his reception, and that he was
expected to arrive on the 26th.
It is also said that he brings with him 10,000 men;
but, according to others, 6000, which is the number
of troops that have passed through that place since
the Gth of June in various escorts, of which the
greatest was that which accompanied Junot in the
beginning of last month. The army of Marmont is
in the most miserable condition, and cannot enable
Soult to wait for Victor and Sebastiani, and cover
the Kingdoms of Seville and Cordoba.

At midnight, between the 2d and Sd, the French
guards were relieved by juramentadas, and marched

out that morniag with fvrotantions and tits 'horses of
the 26th, and about 200 infantry of the 25th, the
greatest part in the direction of Guadalazara.
VALENCIA DE ALCANTAILA, JULY 27.
The array of Marmont has put itself in march for
the right bank of the Tagus, and on the 20th began
to enter Placentia. His artillery has marched by

Talavera.
On the 20th there wat in Comes a squadron of our
light troops commanded by Don Jose Espino. Soult
has marched in the direction of Andalusia, leaving on
a military road large detachments. In Badajoi a gar-
rison remains of 2000 infantry, and 300 horse. The
head-quarters of Lord Wellington were at Portale-
gre, and it is said, that some English troops are about
to pass to the rtght of the Tagus.
PUEBLA DE SANABRIA. JULY D.

On the 2d of this month the army of Gallicia and
the division of Brigadier Don F. Cabrera made a move-
mentto attack the bridge of Obrigo ; the French who
occupied it were bc.ttcn and driven back a league and a
half, but General Bonnet arrived with a reinforcement
and charged with 6000 meet our forces, who t etired in
good order to Bremedos and Magaz. We had some
killed, and carried off 16 waggons loaded with wound-
ed. The loss of the enemy was greater : on the night
of the 3d 20 waggons with their wounded entered Be-
nevente. The artillery which had retired to Roquijo,
has returned and marched to the neighbourhood of
Astorga, to join the division of Cabrera.

We have this morning received New• York Papers
to the 26th, and Boston to the 30th ult. but they do
not enable us to form any opinion as to the state of
the Negotiations now going un at Washington.
The ATALANTE, of 18 guns, the TARTARUS, 01 18
guns, and the JUNIPER, of 8 guns, were all in waiting
at Halifax to carry Mr. FOSTER'S dispatches to Eng•
land.

The ATALANTE'S prize, the Entreprenante, had 1
not arrived at Halifax when the packet came away :1I
it was supposed that she had been sent to Bermuda.
The Americans still continne to harbour and fit out 1
French privateers. A French armed schooner la j
Franchise, had been permitted to refit at New Orleans,
and h.td sailed again in quest of captures. li
The Captain of the French privateer Diligente had I
not been released when the last accounts left Phila- I
delphia.—Warlike preparations were going on at New
Orleans, by fitting out gun-boats, &c. destined, as
was generally supposed, against the Floridas.
MaDisos's popularity, in consequence of his at-
tachment to French politics, stems to be on the wane.
He is represented as being inflexible in his hostility to
this country. One of the American Journalists, in
opr4ition to his party, declares, upon what he calls
good authority, that the differences with Great Bri.
min would have been long ago settled,notwithstanding
Mr. Eaxisses departure from his instructions, it Mr.
MADISON would have apologized for some personal
reflections against our Sovereign, which were intro-
duced into one of his official notes.

A letter from the Isle of Leon, dated the 25th ult.
gives a melancholy account of the state of affairs at
Cadiz, owing to the total want of energy on the part
of the Regency and the Cortes, and the jealousy too
plainly shewn by those in authoritf, of our Officers
and troops. The Government, too, was overwhelmed
with debt, and the treasury exhausted. The letter says,
" The marine is eighteen months in arrear of pay, and
the army five; pitiful as their ration is, the troops often
pass four or five days without any."—" Mr. Wet,
L len EY is said to he anxious for his recall, worn out
with fruitless labour."—" General GRAHAM was dri-
ven from his command by the resistance that was made
to every point of moment ; disgusted with the ground.
less jealousy so generally shewn, he begged to be re-
lieved:" The letter estimates the whole of the French
force before Cadiz at 18,000 men, but which is not
conceived to be adequate to execute any thing serious.
The letter observes—" Our great security is in the
strength of our locality, from the great extent of
marsh, intersected with ditches at every 20 yards, of
great depth and of equal breadth ; we have forts
every where placed to command all the roads and
approaches, so that we should mow down the heads of
columns,which nowherescouid advance but insections.
Numbers, with determined bravery,will always at last
carry forts ; but I think the sacrifice of 10,000 men
would at least be called for, and as yet, to authorise
so great a one, they cannot collect a sufficient army.
Every day we add to our strength. At last, where I
they had no enclosed fort, but only an open one which
was enfiladed, have the Regency consented that two
should be constructed under our direction, and at our
cost, employing their men. The English force here is
far too small, reinforcements ought to be sent out,
otherwise come odd day we shall find ourselves in a
scrape. The Spaniards may have here about 8000
men, they are commanded by General COPaNAS, who
[;s said to possess some ability. In Cadie the duty is
I'done by the Volunteers, who may amount to 6000,
land who are principally attached to us."—" Not a
' pound of powder have the Spaniards, but what we
supply them with, yet when we ask to lodge ours in
their magazines, they make great difficulty, and
barely accede to it."—" Our men are generally sm.
Itioned mixed with the Spaniards—wherever we have
a centinel, they, without any motive but suspicion,
place one likewise."—" To secure our retreat to Ca-1
diz, if necessary, we are constructing a strong work
at Torre Gordo, this commands the road, and would
enable us to make wood our retreat should the French '1
carry the St. Peter Feint. Two miles from Cadiz
also, we are getting the Dons to finish a strong work,
called the Forta Duca, and where we have always a
picket of 150 men ; this work commands the cause-
'Way from the Torre Gordo. At first the Government
were averse to our conjointly occupying this, and
only yielded upon General GRAHAM'S insisting, if
they refused it, to withdraw all his force from the
Isla into the town."


TIIE KIhIG.

41 WINDSOR CASTLE, AUCeST 29.
" There is no alteration in his MAJUTY'S symp-
toms to-day. •( (Signed)
" 11. IiALFORD. gg M. ➢AILI.tE. " R. WILLIS."
Doctors HEBERDEN, BAILLIE, and WILLIS, visited
the lirsa yesterday morning, about nine o'clock, and
aftef a consultation, Dr. BAILLIE waited upon the
QuEL% with their Report upon the state of his MA-
JESTY. His personal health has happily improved;
but in other respects there is no perceptible difference
in his indisposition.

The answer to inquiries yesterday, at Kensington
Palace, after the Duke of SussEx, was as follows :
" His Royal Highness is better than he was yesterday."
Tor -House, St. James's Palace, now occupied by
the PRINCE REGENT, was erected by QUEEN ANNE for
the residence of her favourite Lord High Treasurer,
Lord GODOLPHIN.

Yesterday, Earl BATHURST transacted business at
the Board of Trade.

Mr. PERCLVAL came to town yesterday fromEaling,
and transacted business at tne 'Treasury.
The young Marquis of DowNstinte is speedily
about to lead to the altar the beautiful sister of the
Earl of PLYMOUTH.

Mr. MUNDAY iS also to be married to Mrs. BAR*

Mr. fiEantEs, jun. a Gentleman who has filled the
office of Private Secretary to Mr. PERCEVAL ever since
he has been Chancellor of the Exchequer, is appoin-
ted Commissary in Chief, a situati.in for which no
man in the country, perhaps, is better qualifiel

It is said to be the intention of Ministers thit Par-
liament shall assemble in October, for A short Session,

the chief business of which will be the removal of the

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restrictions imposed upon the present exercise of the

Royal Authority. -
Yesterday Mons. CLERMONT, the French Banker.
left town, on his return to Paris. It was at first c,,n-
jectured that he was the privy bearer of a preliminary '
overture for peace ; but there is better grounds for
supposing that he came over to arrange the pecuniary
concerns 'of an English Lady resident in France, who
is a considerable legatee in the t. ill of the late Duke
of QUEENSBERRY.
General CAMPBELL, who distinguished himself so
much at the battle of Talavera, is placed on the Staff
in India.

Monday morning, the Nottingham regiment of
Militia, Colonel GOULD, marched from Frankfort
barracks, Plymouth, for Catdown, to embark, with
their wives/and baggage, fur Ireland. They are des-
tined for the Dublin duty. Their excellent band and
drums continued on the beach 611 the last boat went
off, beating and phiying God save the King, Britons
Strike Horn., O'er the Hills and far awa, Farewell
to Lochaher, &c. The ROyal Cornwall Fuzileers,
or Prince of Wales's Light Infantry, embarked for
Ireland the same day. Both regiments will muster
1750 rank and file, in high health and spirits, and in
excellent order.
The transports, having on board the West Middle.
sex Militia, sailed from Falmouth, on Tuesday, for
Ireland.
Friday last, the Royal Merioneth Light Infantry,
commanded by Colonel VONE ; the Carnarvon Royal
Light Infantry, commanded by Colonel EDWARDS
and the Northumberland Militia, under the Right
Hon. Lord Loormais, son of the Earl of Bsvcituit,
arrived in Cork City from Cove. The latter regi-
ment is to he stationed in that garrison ; and the
Waterford, Westmeath, and City of Dublin regi.
ments are to embark for England in the transports
which carried over our Militias to Cork.
A Mail from Halifax arrived yesterday, and
brought dispatches from Admiral SAWYER, but no-
thing of an important nature..
By the FYLLA, the arrival of which at Portsmouth
we noticed yesterday, we have received several im-
portant communications from the army in Portugal.
Several Officers had arrived in the Portuguese Capi-
tal from the British Army, with a view to hasten the
supplies, and facilitate the junction of the reinforce-
ments. They stated, that when they q'. tied the
head-quarters of the Allies, it was believed, from pri-
vate information, that; MASSENA had again returned
to the French army from Paris, and that he brought
with him troops, which, when united with others on
the road, would form a reinforcement of no less than
50,000 men. Such is their statement ; what credit is
due to it we cannot determine, but we should consi-
der it to be a great exaggeration.
When the packet quitted the Tagus, the convoy i
from Portsmouth was entering the River. Several
transports had previously arrived with troops on
board, and at Lisbon preparations had been for some
time made for the reception of three regiments of
cavalry, hourly expected. As they came in, the
troops were progressively sent off to the army.
The letters from Oporto by these channels mention
that two companies of artillery and engineers had
been sent thither by LordWewaceroN, for the pur-
pose, with the assistance of the militia, of fortifying
Oporto and its neighbourhood. Seieral strong bat-,
teries had already been erected on the banks of the
Douro.
Lisbon Papers also enable us to add something to
the last dispatches communicated in the du?licate sent
by Lord WELLINGTON to M. FORJAS:—" I was (says
his Lordship) incorrectly informed as to the move-
merit of the sth corps of the enemy when I made my
last communication from Portalegre. That army
had not then quitted Estremadura, but I now learn.
that it is marching in the direction of Andalusia.—
It is said that Marshal Souls is gone to Grenada."
One fact is mentioned, which would indicate that
Lord WLLLINOTON meditates an immediate attack
upon Ciudad Rodrigo before MARMONT can approach
to relieve it. A division of the light troops, probably
those under General ERSKINE, had already arrived
within a short distance cf that fortress. The project
of the French Marshal to occupy the shores of the
Tagus, and from that situation to communicate in
all directi sus avith his brother Commanders, will be
now completely disconcerted.
The herring fishery has commenced with every
prospect of success at Wick and Frauxburgh, on the
Fait Coast of Scotland.

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1111V4L INIRLLIG!~:VCE:

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FALMOU. AUGUST
Anived, this day, the Prince Ernest
PEntz, with Mails And hont Mew Yob*
and Halifax---`2.0 drys from the latter ; the 1:Y1A tld.
hart packet, from Cadiz, I'S d'iyi pass Fr,
ling packet had arrived there ; Packet,
Capt. Rounrs, front Lis:on, in 1 t days—a eret of
transports, With Troops, from Portsnirrith,
tived there, and the Princess Elizabeth P c.et, Kinn;
was entering the Tagus as the Walsi:lghani calite (nit,
and was expected to sail again on the 18th instant.
The Packets for Lisbon, Cadiz. Mediterratran, ana
Brazils, have received their sailing ordat this even-
ing, and will proceed the first favourable
His Majesty's shipWooLvEntNE and convoy, hound
for Lisbon, that bore up !or this part yesterday, did
not come in ; owing to- the wind shifting they pm-
ceeded on their voyage.—Arrived the Joseph and
Mary, MITCHELL, from Plymouth ; last nig:" parted
with the convoy, undar his Majesty's ship la SEINE,
between the Landsend- and the Liz:lrd.Wlnd W.
PLYMOUTH, AOCUT 17.

Arrived, the HELICON brig of war; from a cruise;
RECRUIT brig of war, from Newfoundland ; Escrmv
gun-brig, from Guernsey station ; Favoairm sloop;
and 'WHITING schooner, from a cruise off the French
coast; and the APELLRS, 10 guns, came up harbour.
Sailed, the NEPTUNE (2) tender, for Dublin.