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-HEWLETI"S BIBLE.
niWING to the destruction by Fire of Mr. Grwer's
.4.# Printing-Office, in which Mr. ligw;.zzz's
primed, the Manuscript Notes for two Parts were destroyed ;
yid it having been impossible to reprepare the same in time to
publish a Part on the Ist of September, the:publication is una-
voidably del..yed ; and the next Part cannot appear, at the loosest,
till 'hr Ist of October.--Nn. 6, Bridge-street, August SO, 1910.
FRENCH PAPERS.
PARTS, AUGUST iL
INTELLIGENCE FROM THE ARMY IN SPAIN.
ANDALUSIA.
The General of Division, Gerard, a young Gene.
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ral of distinction, has completely succeeded in the
expedition to Ronda, The English hastened to the
support of the insurgents, but they speedily aban-
doned them, and disgracefully reimbarked.
The Chief of Battalion, Gaud, of the 100th regi-
ment, who commands a moveable column on the
frontiers of Estremadura, highly praises the conduct
of Captain Leclerc, of the 21st Chasseurs, Captains
Villeneuve and Gelle, and a Spanish company of Se-
ville, in the different rencountres which his patrnling
parties have had with the brigands.
PORTUGAL.
The trenches are opened before Almeida. The
English army remain spectators of our operations.—
It might be said that Lord Wellington has no other
object than to make his army take a lesson as to the
mode of besieging and taking the place.
General Regnier has possessed himself of Pena-
macer and Monsanto, which are two forts of import-
- ance. He found them mounted with 15 'pieces of
Cannon each, and well supplied with provisions. The
fort of Monsanto, in particular, was reputed, in the
country, to be impregnable. The Spaniards aban-
doned them at the approach of the French troops.
44 Where is the use (say they) of shutting ourselves
up in the fortresses, when the English are abandon-
ing us ?"
A telegraphic dispatch, transmitted at six o'clock
in the evening on the 13th instant, has announced to
t?-e Prince Viceroy, that General Count Menou, Go.
v rnor of Venice, died there that morning, after an
it tress of 15 days.
His Majesty took the diversion of shooting yester-
?ay, in the forest of St. Germains.
IMPERIAL CUSTOMS.
The Decree of the sth instant, encreasing the du-
ties on the colonial goods therein mentioned, is to be
put in force at the moment that it is officially re-
ceived. The duties are payable without any excep-
tion whatever, t •
The regulations formerly established respecting the
importation of colonial produce, remain in full force,
without any change whatever.
According to the information of persons who have
lately arrived from Spain, the principal road from
Bayonne to Madrid is now completely free and secure
.;—and travellers, taking merely the usual precautions,
are not exposed to the slightest danger. There is no
want of provisions ; meat, bread, vegetables, and
whesiromAse-lio hadli AM:ld:sure, apiat a veu (4ir.
charge.
There is very good accommodation in the inns,
and the troops that are billeted on the inhabitants,
now meet with a favourable reception. Assassinations
are no more heard of. It is remarkable, that for
1 about a year past, a number of Frenchmen and Ita.
Mans have been settled in the towns, along the great
road, as inn-keepers, restaurateurs, &c. For the rest,
in the north of Spain, the gendarmerie are very ac-
tive, and take effectual measures for maintaining the
public peace ; the brigands are pursued, and exer-
tions are made to exterminate them in every quarter.
1 The most perfect tranquillity prevails in Madrid ; the
theatres are numerously attended, and the people pur-
sue their ordinary vocations. There have been seve.
ral bull-fights there since the beginning of July : the'
Spaniards take infinite pleasure in seeing this diver-
sion, for which the French have no sort of relish.—
Several persons lost their lives upon the occasions al-
luded to.
A number of buildings are going on at Madrid,
• and the city is daily embellishing. In consequence
of the opening that has been made about the castle,'
there will be a very fine public promenade in front of
the palace. The owners of the houses that have been
pulled down will be indemnified. Though the gar.
rison of Madrid is very numerous, the national guard
takes the duty both at the public edifices and the re- I
aidences of the Generals, Ministers, &c. A corps of
Polish sappers lately arrived there; they are em-
ployed on the works of the citadel.
On the 15th instant a ship of 80 guns was launched
at Antwerp.
Atiousr 23.—Her Royal Highness, Madame, the
Emperor's mother, has returned to Paris from Aix-la.
Chapelle.
We hear from Germany that the journey of Count
Gottorp related entirely to family affairs ; and as
their decision must come from Stockholm, he has'
none to Wit temberg, in Saxony, where he will wait
• Its arrival.
On Tuesday the Emperor held a Council of Com-
merce At St. Cloud.
On the 3d instant his Majesty issued the following
Decree from the Palace of Trianon :
1. 'I here shall be only one journal in each of the departments,
with the exception of that of the Seine. •
2. "this journal shall be under the authority of the Prefect, and
cannot be published but with his approbation.
S. Nevertheless, the Prefects may provisionally authorize In
our great cities, the publication of papers containing advertise-
ments in the nature of posting-bills or hand-bills, relative to sales
of articles of merchandize and immoveable property; and jour.
nals, treating exclusively of literature, the sciences, arts, and agri-
culture. The said pubiications must twain no articles foreign to
their object.
4. Our Minister of the Interior shall, on the Ist of September
next, make a report to us upon the said advertising journals; the
publication of which may be definitively determined.
General Wouillernont, Commander of the Depart-
ment of the Upper Pyrenees, has addressed a letter,'
of the 4th instant, of which the following is an ex-
tract, to the Prefect My position in the valley
of Aran having been threatened by some troops who
had collated in the neighbouring valley of Esterry,•
I determined to attack them ; and on the ntght of the
Slit ult. I began my march. Nearly the whole of
the advanced guard of the enemy was put to the
suor.l ; the rest, after sustaining considerable loss,
vi,:s driven back more than three leagues in the valley
di Esterry."
_. The Dutch Guards are expected on the 29th at
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