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FRENCH PAPERS.

Moniteurs and other Journals to the ?4th of this
month have come to hand. They contain some de-
tails of military transactions in Spain, but not of re-
cent d.ttes. The customary sarcasms are dealt out
against Lord WELLINGTON for remaining a tame
spectator of their operations I I Can we wonder
that the French should be angry when his Lord-
ship refuses their challenge to fight on their own
terms ? We are told in these papers of the great
tranquillity which prevails in Spain ; the safety of tra-
velling ; and the excellent accommodations at the
Iffins on the roads ! Ask the French, actually in Spain,
how true is all this ?

No attack had been made on Sicily down to the 6th
instant, but MURAT has Pled the British tailor: with
terror by the exertion: of hi: mighty flotilla. All his shot
tell, but the fire of the British never reaches any of
his vessels !

By a late Decree of NAPOLEON, there is to be only
one newspaper published in each department, (with
the exception of that of the Seine), and even that is
to be subjected to the controul of the Prefect. This
precious arrangement is finely adapted to favour the
impartial circulation of intelligence and encourage fair
observation !

The King of PRUSSIA, who it seems had actually
expressed an intention to retire from the troubles of a
throne, has been dissuaded from his resolution to se-
clude himself at Sans Souci during the remainder of
his life. But mark the indignity put upon him by
NAPOLEON :—He is now called upon to reduce his
military establishment to 20,000 men. This force, it
is conceived, will be sufficient to maintain the peace
of the interior of his dominions ; meaning, we pre-
sume, that Prussia must never think again of bringing
a force into the field.

Orders from the Admiralty were received a few
days since to superannuate ten of the artificers of
Chatham Dock-yard : these poor men, worn out in the
service, will receive pensions of about £2O per annum.
The report that Baron AOLLI has escaped from
France, and arrived in this Country, is wholly detti-
tute of foundation.

By the last arrivals from America, we are in-
formed, that fourteen armed vessels have been fitted
out at New York, under the command of Admiral
DECATIN, to cruize from Hampton Roads southerly,
to rid the American coasts from the privateers, which
have long infested them.
Don PEDRO C. TUPPER, member of the superior
Junta of the kingdom of Valencia, and his Majesty's
acting Consul, arrived in the TONNANT, Captain
Srammour, last fromCadiz,commissioned by theabove
Junta, and by that of Guadalaxara, to solicit assist-
ance for the Patriots there, who are in great numbers.
We understand that the regular army of the kingdom
of Valencia amounts to 14,000 infantry, 1,200 horse,
and corresponding artillery, the whole completely
armed and clothed, and in a good state of discipline.—
Besides theregular army of the kingdom, the city ofVa-
lenciahassooo well-trainedmilitia,and theother towns
together, about 10,000, in addition to which there
are above 25,000 peasants armed at their own expente,
organized into small bodies for the purpose of harass-
ing the enemy, and intercepting their convoys and
communications. This mode of warfare is that which
the French dread most in Spain, and it properly
encouraged cannot fail to prove finally destructive to
them.

The fortifications round the city of Valencia ar,
we are assured, very formidable, and it bes;eged b
the enemy, the city promises to become another Sara-
gossa, the inhabitants being already es asp rated at
the former attacks of the French, and determined le
defeLd themselves to the last estremi4y.