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Mere. They must keep up garrisonl in them. * scat-
tering her forces, England will become vulnerable in
a great number of points. The colonies occupied by
England will be restored to the mother country at a
peace, or when the empire will have 120 sail of the
line and 200 frigates or smaller vessels. This pc-
eiod, which is foreseen and calculated, is not far dis-
tant from us. The possibility of having so great a
a naval force, arises from the particular situation of
the empire. The woods of Istria, Italy, France and
Germany, reach us by the rivers of which We corn-
'island the navigation. The Adriatic, the Zuyder sea.
the Scheldt, the roads of Brest and Toulon, the coas-
tiag trade of the immense maritime borders of the em-
pire, serve to instruct our sailors, and furnish us with
the means of manning all the vessels we can build.
aracca.—. 'lee attack upon the Island of Sicily, rhich
frees announced to the world 'Paha preset:optimise anticipation of
sinceess, has been repulsed (3) by the persevering exertion and
indoor of his Majesty's land and sea harms."
Nete in the illonittootoi-This expression is that of a
writer who is more accustomed to the bold assertions
of a pamphleteer, than-of a person who is in the habit
tof drawing up theofncial declaration of a Government.
.--i For the purpose of occupying Sicily, 30,000 men
must have been detached from the Continent, which
Was not deemed adviseable in the year 1810. In con-
, sequence, no pledge of any kind was given at that
time that it was intended to conquer Sicily. The King
of Naples had assembled at Reggio, notwithstand-
ing all the efforts of the English, 630 small vessels,
all mannei by Neapolitan sailors. He kept 12,000
British in check, and compelled England to recall the,
force that threatened Corfu. Effecting daily disem-
barkations in Sicily, his flotilla was.daily engaged and
as often victorious. His subjects gave proofs to the
English of the ardour with which they fought against
them. Sicily will be conquered whenever it is desired.
But is it so trifling an advantage, then to oblige the
gneish to. keep 12,000 men so far removed from
England and Ireland? It is attended with this three-
fold advantage—the dispersion Of the British military
force, the deterioration of their finances, and of a very
useful moral effect upon the minds of the Sicilians.
!Ile appearance of an heretical military force, always
brutal and intoxicated, and of that , British haughti-
ness, so offensive to all countries, has irritated all
classes of persans in Sicily.
(3.) Re,iulre ! The person who prepared the
Speech will be good enough to tell us how it was
possible to repel an attack that was never made.
Sieges...." The judicious arrangements adopted by the al-
ters commanding on that station, derived nutterial support from
the seat and ardour that were mender etl during this contest by
the Inhabitants of Sicily, and from the co-operation of the naval
means which were directed by his Sicilian Majesty to thin object."
Note in the Ibfoniteir.—The English people are bet-
. ter.informed than their Government. a -
Every one in London knows diet' the'Bielliant
were very far from manifesting either zeal or indoor,
and that they hate the English. The Court itself
`does not conceal its aversion for them. But it was ne-
cessary to speak of the co-operation of the naval
forces of his Sicilian Majesty, to induce a belief that
the flotilla of the King of Naples was victorious
merely because the force opposed to it was composed
partly of English and partly of Sicilians. 'fltis affec-
tation of mendoniag the sayelforces of Sielly can have
no other motive. . •
•) Spool," In Portugal and at Cadis, the defence of
which conetitated the principal object of his Majesty's exeitioaa,
i 4 the last campaign,.di designs of the enemy have been frustra-
ted hitherto(c) hnerto (7)."
N.te is 'the iltaliteur.—lt was only a year ago that
limed at nothi - less than

the English Government aL __ .ling
_. . ',Telling the French from Madrid, and driving them
beyond the Pyrenees. Now it is Portugal and Cadiz
-.- wh'cli constitute the principal object of its exertions :
we flatter ours:Ayes that in the speech of 1812, his
Majesty will have equally succeeded in' the
_principal
object of his exertions ; because at that time Portu-
gal and Cadiz will not be the principal objects of his
akertions, but the defence of Gibraltar.
• (6) The designs of the enemy, you say, have been
frustrated in Portugal. Should it have so happened,
that they had made a landing at Edinburgh • that
after having taken possession of Scotland, Norihom-
berland, &c it had driven your armies before it for
15 days at the point of the baymet ; that prodady
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.e torch is one hand, and this steel In Istnels'inas, and furnished nothing to the French army.
had devastated your. plains, destroyed If the English General, then, had maintained his po-
rt. farms, your parks, your country. sition at Busaco only for fifteen days, he could have
having arrived, &c. at the heights of Lon- boasted of having won the campaign, and saved Por.
aing on the sea and the other en the tugal. He would, in truth, have exposed himself to
re M TIC MONITZJIt. Thames, posted nn desert and inaccessible mountains, the imputation of having laid waste thirty leagues of
_,LOVISOIfs IMII. 15.—.-HOUfiE ON LOAM vas. it•
fortified with 15(X) pieces of heavy artillery, thirty-six, country, but he could have found an answer to that
..-. -The Lord Chancellor read the speech of the Regent
aa tweety.foor, and eighteen-pounders, drawn from your imputation, if he had obliged the French to evacuate
• - tr opening the Session, which was as follows:
,a ships and your arsenals, and having your flanks so the country ; and proved by the event that these ra-
ae Here follows the whole of the speech, from which we • •
covered that it was impossible to turn you and cut vages contributed to the success of the campaign.
. select such passages only as are commented upon.] .
s,zEwi_ol., The rapture of the winds of sourhonsoit Ant. you off from the sea, would you then. boast that you All these combinations and considerations were not
born have still further reduced the colonist dependencies or the had defended England ? But the inhabitants of Es- unknown to the English General. He wished to de-1
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enemy." , sex, Middlesex, &c. would tell you, that to burn and fend his position, and he gave battle at Bodice ; the,
Note in the Itfon;tevr.—The naval superiortry of the destroy a country is not defending it ; that Lottdon result of the engagement was the passage of the Mon.-
enemy necessarily placed at his disposal all the small is not the frontier to an army which comes from Scot. dege, the evacuation of Coimbra, and a retreat by
a; French colonies. Martinique, Guadeloupe, the Isle of land ; that to take a position SO leagues from the forced marches to Lisbon. In his
flight Wellington i
s ' Reunion, the Isle of France, must of course belong to frontiers, leaving the enemy master of three-fourths could only lay waste to the extent of a league cm the,
the squadrons which had the command of the ocean. of the country, is neither a measure of defence nor , right and left of his line of march ; and the French
Their garrisons could not have amounted at most to a proof of strength. This is the way, however, in army arriving almost at the same moment that he did,
more than '2OOO men—had they been more numerous which you have defended Portugal. You have ahem. in sight of his ships, found immense gliantities of pro.
they could not have procured means of subsistence. It cloned Almeide, Ciudad Rdarigsr, Olivenza, and . visions in the fine vallies of the Tagus. The French
eras evident that 2000 men, at a thousand leagues die. Campo Mayor, and suffered 25,000 of -your allies to • General did every thing he wished ; the English Ge-
, tame front their country, could not make an dace-' be taken; you have surrendered the country between neral effected nothing that he intended. The battle
. tual resistance when they should become the object of the Minho, the Deur°, and Mongragone —between of Busaco rendered all the ravages he committed,
the successive attacks of 12,000 men. But is the or i Beira and the Tagus; you have burned and laid waste;' and for which he will ever be execrated by the Por-
cupation of these colimies by the English, a nudes,-1 and still you have the impudence to say that the de- !lupine, useless. When they wish to explain to their
tune to France under existing circumstances? i fence of Portugal, the principal object of his Majesty'sichddren the English manner of defending a country, ,
'These colonies suffered much from the strict block- !exertiont, llshoen accomplished, and that the designs I they will point to the ruins of their villages, their
: lade in which they were held—the connection which of the enemy have been frustrated. May Wellington castles, and their towns.
binds these colonists-to the mother country, will be- i one day defend England in the same Manner I That several brigades, hurried on by the noble int-
come more close, and their haughtiness will increase (7) Hitherto. This word is worthy of observation. petuosity of French troops, should wish to bound over
under the tyranny of a Government which finds no . Thus you boast of having abandoned three fourths of i inaccessible heights—that they should not find nn the
-greater pleasnre than that of humbling every thing Portugal, and of having laid waste the country et, -crest of these mountains sufficient space to extend
that falls tinder its power—the inhabitants of Canada - which you call yourselves the protectors, and whi themselves—all this is very possible ; but this does
who have been separated from France for a century, you consider as your own property ; and still you ;fp not 'give the enemy a right to claim the victory. All
are still as much French as the inhabitants. of the not sure of being able to maintain' possession of it. War occurred on that day tends to prove, that the
banks of the Loire. In the present state of affairs, You say hitherto ; this is a confession extorted from composition and the spirit of the French troops weal
Martinique, Guadaloupe, and the Isles of Reunion the English-Governme,nt by facts. As to us, we will so far superior to those of the English army, that the
and France, furnished nothing to the parent State,' tell you plainly, that we wish this hitherto may he very latter neither could nor would defend a position upon
and cost it more than 2O millions a year. These 20 remote ; and that if the day upon which your army which the fate of Portugal depended.
millions would build 10 ships of the line a year, which ' embarks is to be a holiday, it will be only for the The English, then, were defeated at Busaco :
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at the end of the five or six years the the war may English people; that the advantages of the actual whether it was the fault of the General, the Officers,
'probably last, will produce 50 ships of The line. `contest will be the ter for us, the larger your stake jor the soldiers, is of no consequence. An army is
The coffee, sugar, and cotton, which these colonies is. ,It must be laido be decisive ;it must be pro. i composed of all these.. The French General did
produced, are at so cheap a rate in London, that their II tracted to produce an the results we expect. An army every thing he wished •; the English General did
sale will not pay the expence of carriage to Enrope. of 60,000 English encamped upon the heights of nothing, protected nothing, executed none of his plans;
• It is doubtful whether these Islands will support the ILisbon, obliged to procure from London even the very the battle of Busaco frustrated them all.
avarice of the Government and the military, which straw they want ; England obliged to keep at the settee (se—. On which
ations the lentire iberties
deand independence of the
sue F•- fish Government will be - 'iged to maintain ' mouth of the Tagus 600 transports arid 20,000 sailors; Spanish and Portugdese nly pend."
Note of the Moniteur.—lt would be curious to read

naving to subsist not only 80,000 soldiers or sailors, - of a
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but 400,000 men, women, and children besides, who the speeches in Parliament during the last twenty
have taken refuge at Lisbon, and concentrated them. years. When the expedition of the Duke of York-to
selves in one point; being,moreover,obliged to support Belgium was to be defended, it was said that the.
all this expence, with a course of exchange which has war was carried on for the independence and liberty
fallen 33 per cent. gives to France, already, all the of Belgium. When the Duke of York landed in
advantages she could desire from the present contest. Holland, it was for the liberty and independence at
llt is part of the Continental system, which diminishes Holland, so necessary to England, that lie did so—
on one side yourrevenues byreducing your commerce, Such is always the language, without paying
and on the other increases your expence by compelling any greater attention now than on former occa-
you to maintain armies in Sicily and at Lisbon. It. sions, that it is not sufficient to justify a great tinder.
in vulgar language, to burn the candle at both ends. taking, to shew the advantages arising from war fol..
In the mean time, the French army, according to its lowed by victory—but that it- is necessary to celcuo
fundamental law, subsists onlhe.country upon which late the probability of such victory. By this mode of
it makes war, and only costs us its pay, which we reasoning, it would be much the plainer way to land
should be obliged to supply wherever it was. at Havre and march to Paris ; for certainly upon the
In short, if Massena, having received his reinforce. supposition of victory, the advantages and the glory
ments and his heavy artillery, should be inclined to would be incontestible.
advance upon, after having silenced your batteries ; Is it probable that England. can maintain a contest
or if youyourselves, rendered impatient by this ruinous with France in Spain ? This is the whole of the queso
contest, march against him, what will be the conse- tion—she was not able to do so when considerable
quence ? If yon are victorious you will derive no ad. Spanish armies occupied Saragossa, St. Andero, Bil.
vantage from it, for you -will have scarcely made two boa and Burgos.
marches before you are met by new armies. If you The fine army of Moore was even then forced to a
are conquered, you are lost. The loss of 60.000 men shameful flight, in which it lost a great many men,
to England, is as great as that of 500,000 to France.—. horses, a part of its baggage, and even it.. treasure.
The two countries are in the proportion of one to three She could not do so upon the sth coalition. Welling-
to each other with respect to population ; the same ton advanced as far as Talavera ;he gained some ad-
proportion prevails with respect to the extent of the vantages, and almost immediately was compelled to
countries where yotrare obliged to have troops, which abandon his hospitals, his sick, and to escape into
on the whole produces a proportion of one to nine. Portugal. The presence of Moore was unable to pre-
We are ignorant of the intentions of the cabinet of vent the defeat of Blake at Espinosa, of the army of
the Thuilleries • but we wish with all our hearts, that Estremadura at Burgos, of Castanos at Tudela, and
the Prince of issling may manoeuvre instead of at- the capture of Seiagnssa and Madrid.
racking you, and by so doing keep you some years Wellington, victorious at-Talavera, was unable to
where you are. Theconseeuences would be, you would prevent the passage of the Sierra Morena, the occu.
add 100 millions more to your debt, and we should patios' ofJaen, of-Seville, of Grenada, the blockade
be certain of the more complete submission of the Pe- of Cadiz, and the capture of the camp at Sr. Koch.
ninsula. When the question is about a great extent of Wellington has not defended Portugal—he has suf.'
Continent, what are a few years ? An the,i.tinis who' feted the fortresses to be taken: he has abandoned
have been subjugated, have defended themselves for the country ; he has retired to inaccessible heights,
several years ; you alone have exhibited the solitary I where he holds himself in readiness to embark 'with
instance in history, of a nation conquered in one bat- . the first favourable wind. Such are the consequences
de, and so subjugated by the Normans your torque- lof the pretended victory of Busaco. If the English
tors, that your laws, your customs, every thing was I lose eighty leagues of a country after victory, what
torn from you by a single victory. events are they in expectation of to enal le !Clem col
(B) ;wawa —" And particularly by the brilliant part which drive the French out of the Peninsula ? And if it be
they bore is the repulse of the enemy at Busses." i admitted, as no man of sense can doubt, and-as the
Note in his Mosikur.—The affair at Busaco, what. English Generals themselves have declared, since.
ever was its nature, or whatever accuracy there might ' Moore's expedition, that it is impossible for them to
-be in the accounts en either side, did it answer .the ob- defend the Peninsula, why do they run such risks,
jest of the French or of the -English General ? without the hope of success ?It will be said—" all
The object of the English General, as he tells us this is allowed, but still the English prolong the con- I
himself, in his dispatches of the 30th September, ist test—they prevent the country from settling ;is that
the following words—, although I fear I shall not i nothing ?" No man with the least sensible'', or pns-
'be able to obtain the object I had in passing the Mon. ! tossing the common feelings of humaiiity, can con-1
dego, and in occupying the Sierra of Busaco. yet I 1 rain hioindignation in seeing a nation so immoral as
ado not regret to have done so,". was to defend the po. ' to excite every species of disorder among fourteen
eition of the Mendego, the right of which rested on millions of peopleb without any other object deli that
that river, and on the inaccessible mountains of the ; of retarding for same moments the progress of a so.
right bank of the Zezere, which empties itself into the &al organization. But the conseceiences of the con-
Tagus thirty leagues from thence, and whose left ex- ' duct'of England, on this occasion as on many others,
tended on the mountains which rest on the Douro.— I will be to consolidate the power of France.- In fact,
`By this central position, the English General did not " if after Moore's retreat the English Administration
obtain the glory of defending Formal, since he laid . had listened to the advice of their Generals, and
already abandoned thirty leagues of country to the recognising the impossibility of withdrawing Spain
enemy. To defend Portugal he should have raised from the influence of France, had renounced the'
the siege of Almeida, or at least have occupied the Spanish war, the Spanish war would have been ended(
fine positions of Guarda. However, having thought ill the Provinces, united in their integrity and their
proper to occupy the position of Basun, be covered energy, having experienced some checks balanced by
3-4ths of Portugal ; he protected the finest rallies of some successes; would have formed a happy and
the Tagus and the Mondego ; he kept the French powerful nation, under the government of the Prince
army at forty leagues from the capital ;he kept up allied to the far of Ireausce—and the integritrand
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found emplotment for .3001000 Witch ; 'tut Spain;
conquered font by foot, becomes wholly subjugated ;
and it is England herself who has endangered the in•
dependence and integrity of Spain by engaging in a
contest in which it is proved by experience that addle
'chances are against her.
The conquest of Spain will produce effects quire
`riifferent from those of a simple change of dynatAi,
!'which would have turned to the advantage of the
I eion, the plans of reform, and the liberal ideas iW.n -
duced by a Government young, firm and vigorous.
Posterity, to whom yearsareonly as a moment, will at.
tribute the great results which have so conspicuously
combined to the advantage of France, to the diet;.
sighted policy of England alone.
smelt (10)—" Have in some degree affected a pert of 1,1
Majesty's revenue, puticoiarly Ireland."
Nat of the M'oniteur.—Tbis is a remarkable passap,-e,
Last year you said, that the Orders in Council had
all the success you expected, that your trade was aug;
Inented by that of America and neutral powers ; now
you recant all this : you admit that your trade hall
laboured under diffrculties, that your revenues are
diminished, and yet the Continental §ystem has been
only three months in force.. What, will it be then, in
three years ? The accounts of the French finances
prove that it has had quite a contrary effect upon
them. It is true, that in France. as well as in other
places, numerous instances of private misfO-rtune have
occurred ; but these have no effect upon the natiohal
revenues. Bankrupts have taken place, because
cidators, seduced by lucre, become the discounters of
your credit. The canals by which you drew to your-
selves the substance of the whole Continent of Enrnpe,
have been all blocked up by the shocks that you hive
' received. It is for and by England that this circula-
tion of paper has been created; but the crisis is pa,
and new channels are disclosing themselves for the
real trade of the Continent.
The English Government can have no credit wires
that of its trade declines. It feels every private bank.
rupicy. The French Government, on the contrary.
has a credit independent of that of bankers or mer.
chants. Nine hundred millions of revenue collected
in specie constitute the proper revenue of the empire,
represent the riches of its soil, and are more than cut-
ficient for all its expences ; while 17, or 1800 millions
necessary for the expellees of England, can only be
1, collected through the medium of a paper, circulation,
which only supporting itself by that immense currency
which, through Amsterdam and Hamburgh, em-
braced the whole continent of- Europe; While 17 ce
1800 milions are nnt the consequence-of the riches of
the soil or the revenues of the country, but of indus-
try and of a system of credit, which is not sufficieat
to provide for the wants that it has to satisfy, the
moment k is prevented from extending to the Conti-
pent. A three months check has already made the
city of London turn pale; and there is not an Eng-
speculator who can cooly contemplate the per.
spective of 10 years of a similar system. The French
Exchange for the last four years has been constantly
I improving, and that in all the commercial towns of
the world,'at the rate of from three to ten per cent.
That of England is constantly losing. Within the
last three months pit has fallen from 30 to 40 per cent.
Nothing cat, more completely represent the relative
situatiotkof the two countries. In point of finance, as
well as politics, France owes every thing to the erro-
neous calculations of that hatred by which the Eog.
lisp Government is constantly blinded.

A forgery was practised last week on 2 retrect.ll;:e
banking-hount in the city, under singular eircumstan-
ces : A man having taken part of a furnished house
in Francis-street, Bedford-square, without givintr, any
reference (he having offered to deposit three months
rent in advance, and made a. great skew of money).
hired a servant the. nett day, who had advertised for a
situation,and sent him immediatelywith a check to the
'banking house, for £2090 ; the sigaature to which
was so well counterfeited that it was paid without h:-
iitation. He, of course, on seceiving the monvv, tuck
leave of his lodgings ; and from his not beiil known
either there or to the servant whf,nt he hires., ercept
by merely seeing him, he has hitherto chided the
gilance of the police.

800 HS.
Friday last, at Morstearl, near Winchester, the Right Has.
Lady Mary Long, of a daughter.
On tl.e 2-sth uh at I.einster-house, Dublin, Lady C^ .ii;
Hccry, of a daughter.
On thelleal sit at Catty 1-lead, Si7nal Station, tl.e Lady
Lieut Claarrea nin!,, of t!.!• !loyal Navy, of a s o.

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On the sth iast, by the Rev. "1 homes Butler, John Ellrldf.r,
'Esat of Old Park,near Devizes,V:ilts, to Miss Blake, of tibi.
dun, Berks.
At Colombo, the lion, Patrick Stuart, Lleutenant-Calot,l
likh, Foot, to Catherine Ileorietta, angina of the lion. Joi.a
Loduey, Clot, fircre:ary to Government at Ctylna..
' On t!ze !let ult. at St. Stephen's, Cornwall, John Evans,
Alderman, and one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace fart
Borough of Saltash, to Miss Mugg, daughter of the Rev. lieu '
Mugg, C.budleigh, Derou.
On. the 2tth alt. sr. Gilbert Bertram, merchtnt, Leith,
Fophla, youngest Zssghter of the late Dr. Hardy of C!..tiriest.'..,
or.e of the Minister..( E.slipburEh.
At Dundee, ow the tea ult. Mr. Chatles Winchmer, 24.1'0:3't
iu Aberdeen, to Mem Anne Webster.
On the t:lst ult. the Rev. Cuthbert Petherston, of :.f.sssum
to Anne, daughter of Richard Holmes, Esq. of Prospect,
County.
Cohn! Jones, ofthe 18th Light Div:wet, to Miss Amon :a
Swint:name, of Arundel.
Tuoday, at St. James's Church, Lieutenant Colonel tr t...
Barrack-Master at Chatham, to Miss Cbantuati 01

DIED.
• Saturday, at Chichester, after a lirrti•g Birks, Kier E'li`*.
of the .Sitssat
Lately, at Belem, in Portugal, iier Excellency the ~I.•reVer•••
of•Angeta, wife of the Commander-in-Chief at the ritialCe
gent's Ilerces in the Brazils.
In Mbletwurth-street, Dublin, of a nervous fever, hi.
.7W, the Hon. Henry Browne, f jib son of Jolin, Earlin of A --
unlit, and uncle to the late Marquis of align.
Ther.day last, Mr. Richard 'train, of Church-street, Vete. •
with, apo.hecary and drugest.
Lately, in consequence of irjurtes sustained by a Gill feta.. 1
born diiring one of her exhibit:3ns, the female quutriat 1-
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saund.-r..
lAt Eakceebright ,agetl.7o, !antes Vratourtie, Esq. of Far: :S.
ton, late one cf the Badges of that burgh.
At his family...eat of Castle-Grant, on the 18th ult. Sir Irv. •
Grant of Grant, Bart.

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his communication with Oporto, and with all the independence of Spain would have been mere con•
winces on the other side of the Douro, of which he famed thereby. France and Spain, governed by
remained master. The French army of Portugal re- , Members of the same family, would have been in fact
mained separated for upwards of eighty leagues from a revival of the relations which existed since the time
the army of the south, and derived all its subsistence of Philip V. The only advantago that France Would
from a country which Wellington had intentionally • have derived from this arrangement would have been
laid waste, employing all the time that was necessary . the security that Spain would never take par: against
to make the devastation complete. It was thus re- = her in any civil war. Spain, regenerated by the on
duced to the necessity of dtawing its provisions from stitutions of Bayonne, and deriving fresh vigour fio:2l
Spain by impassable roads • and when the rains be- them, would have become more independent tl • n
gan, the communication would be cut off with Spain, ' she has been for 100 years before • and the wish el-
and the army would have been obliged to return to pressed. in the speech from the throne would have
Almeida. The English army occupying the position been accomplished. England. though she knew to a
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