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LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1812.

PRICE On.

CADIZ PAPERS.
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• CASts, Nov. ,s.—The accounts from Algiers are
very satisfactory. The flay after. the artivat at. tha..
port of the Engtish ship the Invincible, there entered
there seven Spanish wines, the crews of which •
amounted to more than 150 men; but we 'hare the
,satisfaction to announce, that the Dey lens sine..
.sbewn the strongest (I.‘sire for amity with the timid-
rirds ; 'as a proof of which he immediately gave.up
the aboto prizes, and set at liberty nil the crews, a. A
well as others Spahinrds who' were in (+sins. We
are yet ignorant what shitretheiN,,lish rata hi bring,-
lug abotst•this favoirable event • but we have reasee
to belie, that MI contributed much to the rest°.
trottroWitarmony with the Regency of Al,!,ierA.
About the mi:htle if October, teki- levorlisoo e
•Berja, ccinsigtidg of Gi men, turrendetta to the j
trosngs under Genera! Deem Much property %%Y4 !.
found in the fort,
.General Merino, with 9000 men, has marched
from Cordova for La Mancha.
REVS (CATALONIA), Oct. 6..--On the Ist• inst.
matched from hence 800 infantry and 60 horse,
with Genernl.Sroles. At. three in the afternoon of
the td, they routed in Aumellons, near Arbeca, a
'column of more No 500 infantry of the garrison of
Lerida. They were all put to the sword, with tile
exception of 150 men, whom the General reserved
iin order to restrain the excesses of Governor Hewittt
i to whom the same was communicated by a Fp rj ea II t
i severely wooinded,who war sent to llenriot. The pri.
savers have sitwe arrived here, and were yesterday
embarked at Salou.

at an act of this kind, ntsdo loud lamentations, fent-
log something might be intended against my person.
Tinisentiments of affection expressed by taos.! good
Spaniards made egrdater impression on ino than this
military unparaves, which I did not conceive to car-
LreNpotul with the dignity of my station, nor is it
patsible to beliero. that. it was :by your EY cetleue

-orders.
46 Front this moment I had cetitinets plena& epnli
Ine, and received orders from Brigndkr .Virtie' to
set out .earlv in the morning for my destinatimii,
Coosa, wl ich i shall comply with, leaving the Chh.f
of. the Stall to (Udine,: op the •ariwy, than 'which I
think, there is not. a better in Barope, thorium been
-organised, regulated, ertnipped, :instructed, and
disciplined, in only snit fortnight. But I canteat
!rt: reprsattt kei your Highness, •that if my seerlees
Hhfrve steritecreiry attetiiino, 1 could wish that the
destination of f:etita might be elmsgml to the pro.
vinceef 7llstrematlarn, end, If pessible,ito 'Fregetitl, •
or its vicinity, ,as I had my health mush broken ; •
and in that couutry, not withstanditig my misfor-
tdoos;• could maintain myself 'with respect, and
my existence would not lie burdensome to soy

COMO rT.
" This is the manner in which I have been treated.
with respect to my person; but. I hive felt Moro
sensibly the attack msde en my reputstioa in irto
annexed paper*,, which Virues has. published 1—
Ile supposes in it that d have distressed the ;pAs-
ple of Grattala, by levying contributions,' vrhiett
never thought of, but which, on the contrary,.(
always oppos:d, though I asked money of the tit-
tendant, which, however, he refused, except as
loan, which I was to repay from the first funds I ob-
tained.
" I shall proceed towards my destination, but
if my indisposition increases, I shall halt at Coin,
where your Excellency may address to me your a:.-
swer.
" God preserve your Excellency many years.
FRANCISCO BALLAIirIA.O9."
" Granada, Nov. 11."

sITTTrito OF TM Cf)RTT.4I, OF OCT. 30.
The Secretary to the War Department read n me-
morial, in which he set forth the deplorable state of
the nation when the Regency assumed the reins of
Government, and the progress of affairs since the
eaptore of Ciudad Rodrigo by the immortal Lord
Wellington, down to our present situation:
lie then mentioned the orders issued in February,
for the alimentation of the army of GoMelo; the'
general orders for augmenting the army with 50,090
-men ont'of the 30,000 decreed by the Coetes' in No- i " NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. •
! vember, ISIO. These orders woe issued, for the " The Regency of the iiiugdom has been pleased
j Ist army, to Lacy ; for the 211 and 3d, to lain;
j the bth and 6th, to Castattos; and under his orders,
for tto discharge senor Dint Fr:incise° Is4lasteros from
'the command of General-in-Chi.f of the Foliate
Ito Galluazo, for Old Castile ; to the Marquis del' krmy, and the Captaincy-General of the four king-
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Palacio, for Estremadura • and to Espana, for New - (humor Atulaltufet, aud to nominate in his stead, al
-esstite. In regard to the ith army, *ha orders for I "(nl,,
.
.
Ma Joaquin, Virues,
_Brigadier of th. 3
, the levies were not issued to the General, but to the 1 itoyal Armies. lii consequence, the coatributiott
Intendants. • i ordered by him is sespanlel till corresponditt,4 or-
The 4th army has been augmented with four hat-1 Burs are revived from Govertuneut ; the Irib:ie.,
tenons, sent from 'the Isla. All the stores abandoned' ta ,
erefore, aro not required to make the several .pa.y—
-i by the-enetny have beau ordered to be coltectel ; hot . ine„.„,..ts.iii;m,a to them.
tae War DePartment lass hot attained a full account • • " VittlfEe."
• of the*, bectuee the collectiOn has been hitherto in
I the hinds of the fetentinetS.
! With regard to GaIIIChi, orders were given, on
' the 01st of February far the enlistment of 60,000
I men-;,but it has net been poskin:. hitherto to effect
it, from the want of 'the aids ItentriSil by •Govern-
ment to that province, ned front -the delays which the
lexecution of these orders 'has' elsperie,:ced, on the
part of the provincial Jitnta. The Gavernmeat,
however,believes,that the Intendant will immediately
[ apportion the allotments of men, according to the
latest
1
' reenters..
I In February the army consisted of 117,747 m°n ;
in July it was augmented by 39,500 more; and at
present it consists of 157,'297 meat, besides 5000
sent to America from the 4th and 6th Armies.
Orders have been given to the Generals in Chief in
the armies to act iu concert with, and in obedience to
the Duke of Chided Rodrigo.
The wor!:s of Cadiz have not been neglected ; up
to the 2:th of October, 156,999 cubic yards had
been excavated at the Trncadero,aod about 900 men
were daily employed in that undertaking.
The reserves are forming In Andalusia and Galli-
cia, and the cavalry in Estremadura. The Govern-
ment now reckons upon 80,000 men more.

* The followiug is tit.: priuted Paper referrt4

to :

"la, Ott. SJ, 131-?."

arn.rcritiNs OP RP1'41:431 nrinsza ON Tilt CO'S.
A'. CT OF CC\ PRAT, um.r.Asrtreos, wuteu t.go 14)
1111 DISMIS,ION Eltlll TILE COLITYAND OT THE 41011

AEWti.
The first duty of man in society is obediiencelb
the imitictate constituted authorities—without thin,
no nation e.rer existed on the face of tho earth—orn
disobedience allowed in a simple individual is capable
of causing the ruin of a state—what then would Os.
the effect of the same in a General at the head of MN
troops ? The military arm, considered as the strongest
support of a state, and the protector of the liberty of
its inhabitants, will be viewed with the utmost exe-
cration, if in.place of being employed in their de-
fence, it is converted into n wicked instrument fSr
their oppression. Every Citizen is obliged to oh/
' the Government, but those to whom is confided the
forceof the nation, to repel the aggre sion of it 4 lane.
mice, are unpardonable, and guilty of the worst of
crimes, when, abusing this confidence, and taking ad•
vantage of this force, they separate themselves from
, the due obedience to the supreme authority, and
use it for their own purposes, and do slot considn
the country to whom it belongs, and whe has octa-
-1 sion for it.
• REPLY I Let us now see what has been, the conduct of
or DON FR tNCISCO HALLASTEROS TO THE nisearcu , General Ballasteros, .successively and rapidly e'e-
BY WHICH IIE RECEIVED Ulf DISMISSAL YROM Ulf I rated, by the Government, from the subaltern claws,
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COMMAND. 1 in which ho four years ago retired, to the command
46 MOST EXCELLENT Stn,—This morning, while 1 of an army and provinces in Andalusia : it *out*
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engaged in the ordinary dispatch of my business, I I 1
appear, that his heart ought to have been filled w!th
received your Excellency's dispatch, discharging satisfaction, at seeing his bravery so prodigally rev
me from the command of the Captainship-General i warded, and that the union and Government -hod
of the four Kingdoms of Andalusia, and of the : a right to expect the most unequivocal profit's ad
Fourth lively., informing me, at the same time, that his gratitude and devotion to the country ; but Gen.
my troops had formed, and were marching in the di- ; Ballasteros, placed in the command of the Fourth
rection of Alcala. I immediately .mounted my horse,: Army, and of those provinces, was loosening thn
Ito learn from what source proceeded a Measure so ' bonds which !suite it to the rest of the nation, anti,
contrary to the, spirit of the Royal Ordinances and, as if the forces which bad been entrusted to him, anti
discipline with which I have always endeavoured' the revourees wiich were within its reach', had 's
Ito inspire the army, and of which I hare given so connexion with the rein:limier in Spain, he acted.ar,
Melly proofs. On going out ef the village, I met a cording to his own ideas, without subjection or
I piquet of the first battalion of Royal Guards, with considernlion of orders transmitted him from lupe.
iadianced sentinels and arms, ready to give fire, 'and rior authority, wllich in vain end'eavouied to com-
a number, of peasants in front. I was surprised at bine. the operations of all. 'tinder pretence of at'.
this novelty, and sliced. the Officer what it meant? tending tathe subsistence dthiserinY,•nottrithstant.
He answered, es did the sentinels When they came ing having been assisted greatly by theGorerninenf,
up, that he had orders not to let me pass. A Colo- be couducted himielf with almost entire Independence',
.nel then came, to whoin I stated my displeasore at bothin civil and military affairs.
being treated In .this meiner, which I considered as: When, in the month of March, this year, thip
"disgraceful. . ! powerful attention of the' enemy towards Estremit,:.
cc The peasants now 'broke oat into • strong ex- • dura and Granada, by the tooronseats and inlpoil.
pressions calculated to make an• impression on- the ant o.peratloris of oor allies, tile lines df the beidep.
soldiers, for *born they anew I hid made so "any,. ers.befbre .Cr.Fta. became iciiiik , the 'Governor i -
ilecrigcl.s. li however, inenerd them, ordering. dearearedlo.bwrovethe oisportuoltY, and free *
'them to retire. 'I then proceeded •to my'hOURO, 'en-, city front Ifs troubic ,oma:Siage?'anci thut Olean
1-sitity feelleia trostmankiehich I *Bore Was neVer advantage of -the - greatest :consideration, both' in
*per* la 'the spaldth •arellea'-'hy• the niot: yoR stticalmtitt military ioint iit' vie*, General .
.evinidnalias hen ofitat4:..ltswsheitrthne ettflai.ilb tasters hid pialtiaa Ordertito !goalie' teat 'of
batten!! appeased in front 'Ofol y .hoose ad* guard '-eisealy Sisal a respectable co* was read:), tole '
was placed at the dooriefiC• Ma 0040* -ills IWO 'et oittft .gotsta 3-.*.eillottot di -:
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