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THE STATESMAN.

LO NDON:

MONDAY, ArGUST 2, igl3•

The Geneftc of Saturday contains Dispatches to
Government from the Marquis of WELLINGTON,
the pa rticularvbf which we gave in a Second Edition,
on Saturday evening ; it also contains a Letter, ad.
aressed to his Lordship from Sir THOM 1,8 GRAHAM,
With an account of tho storming of a fortified con.
vont near St. Sebastian's. These Dispatches are not
of so mach importance as might have expected,
evil in the garbled state in which they are sup.
.pasnd to have been published by Government ;
and titer* are private letters received by the same con.
•verance, which state, that upon General GRAHAM'.
sending •a tumtnons to St. Sebastian; the French
would nettls ir. admit the Office 4 nor receive his mesas
sue.. .Themost important intelligence from Spain,
however, is,:the appearance of Marshal SOULT in
the South of France, who has taken the command of
the army lately under JOURDAN and JOSEPH 80.
naPARTE, augmented by the junction of CIAUSEL'S
corps, which hadetfected its escape into France. The
united French force now under the command of
SOUL?, amounts to 86,000 men. The progress of
Lord Nr'eta.ixGrox had, of course, been checked by
this formidable and unexpected concentration of the
enemy's force. It had also been found necessary to
. withdraw two divisions from the siege of Pamplona,
, in order to reinforce the main army in front of Mar-

shal Secr.v. •By this diminution of the besieging
army, the fall of Pamplona will probably be
considerably retarded'. This 'new situation of
atfaits will at once remove Strom from any
apprehensions -which he may have entertained of
being intercepted by Lord WELLINGTON. His un-
dh attention will now be engaged by the move-
ments of Lord Wu. BENTINCE., and the Allied forces
under his command ; and it will be at his option to
keep the field against his Lordship, or to retire to the
strong fortress of Tortosa, where he might main-
tain himself for a considerable period. It appears
from this statement of affairs, that the immediate and
complete expulsion of the French from Spain is an
event which call no longer be expected•with the
same confidence, which the people of this country
lasso to" tome time past been disposed . anti eucou.

raged to indulge. The vicissliudcs of war are fre-
quently. so Tapia and incalculable, that moderation
should never be separated from success—nor firmness

from disaster. It is remarkable, that the appearance

of Soult in the south of France, and the formidable;
aspect of his army, should not have been included-1
in that part of lord Wrf.t.INGTON'i dispatch, which'
it was thought fit to publish in the Gaseitc, as on-1
doubtedly this information is more important thaw
'l
any thing that the Gazette now contains..
A packet from Heligoland. arrived on Saturday,.,
bringing Letters to the 23d ult. from uhich we have
selected the following
• 44 lITLICOLAND, JI:LY 21—Intelligence has just'
arrived from the opposite shore; and it is stated,
that previous to the final arrangement for -the pro-
jongatiou of the Armistice, a basis was Weed upon
for the restoration of tranquillity between France
and the Powers of the North, should Great Britain
persevere in hostile designs against the former
power."

Ministers-hare at length thought proper to com-
municate to the Public, through the regular medium
of the Gazette, the official dispatches relative to the
capture of Fort George, in America. The tardiness
of this publicatiou is in the highest degree disgrace-
ful to our Government. Let us not henceforth vilify,
by every opprgbrious term which our languagecan sup-
ply, the Nulerof France, for endeavouring to conceal
from the people of that country any disaster by which
he happens to be overtaken,for we now see that even out
own free and magnanimous Government disdains not,
upon occasion, to resort to the same contemptible arts of
concealment and delusion. And let us remember also,
that %hen concealment is attempted by the French,
it is only on occasions when dismay might really be
excited in their country by the publication of the un-
disguised and onmntilated fact. It rarely, we ima-
gine, happens to them to have orcasiou to conceal an
unfavourable event, in itself of no very considerable
importance, merely because i's publication must in-
fellibly give rise to a universal conviction, that the
misconductOt the Government is the true and only
cause of the disaster. Yet this is obviously the mo-
tive by which .our intelligent Ministers have been ac-
tuated in the instance new under consideration! The
capture of Fort George could lot create dismay
in this country, we are not yet sunk to. so
low a pitch of degradation but though it was
impossible that it should excite dismay—it was
impossible, the Ministry well knew jt was impos-
sible,. but that it must excite indignation. Llndig.
nation, that with the immense nerd power of this
country, 'we should hive to lament ilisastersciliat
the p roper a pplicatien Ofeiitietta sighince ut proportion