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auction of the Bin. If it related to attainder for fe-
ipi.) alone (except i, cases of murder), he coefeued
Tim: his objections to it would not be 16 insurinount-
al IN ; but he would newer consent to the first step
or a measure which had for Its object the destruc-
tion of one of the strongest defences of else Co.nstt.
tution.
The question WR3 then-put, and lest. .Ihis 'bent
to brit% in the Bill.
Sir S. ItOMILLY afterwsra moved . fo; leave 6i
bring ,in• a Biti to alter the liunisitsieut of high .
Treason.—Leave given.
MT /WARS"?' sonied for it .. es
a ortain Letters from Lind • sot. . te,
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.wait it : but time Will teach this army, as well as
. • 'the General who commands it, that it is not iwith
impunity that • parts of our territory are invaded; ..._
that it is not-with impunity that the Freuch honour
1 MADRID, MARCH 9.—.1p
Is insulted. 'tine of the Cortes of yestri
, Soldiers ! the General wbo commands the army ' War speared in that assentbl).
' against which we combat every day, has had the au. gency,. and read a letter from
ducky ,to htvitg,you and to invite your countrymen
Commander-in-Chief of the
.to revolt and . seditiots. its speaks of peace; and
March 4, dispatched by an ex,
the firebrands ordiscord, are in his trail. He speaks
! 'which he states, that he had
of veate ; and ko easetfea:tbe.French to civil war.— ! channels, that our King, Ferdi
Thanks, then, behtivets to him, for having thus made ,
through Tholouse, on his w;
os acquainted with his.,projects ! From this moment that, though he had taken every t.
four force is increetettaii hundred fold; anti from this , the-approach of his Majesty, he did net yet; knout
pomenehe himself follies round the Imperial eaglet, i
i whether he had arrived there. There were reports at
those who, seduced by "deceitful appearances; had ` Vich, that his Majesty was already on the Spanish
been Ole to believe that he made war in an honour-1 territory, which, however, Senor Copons 'did dot
elate ominter.
. ".lie has dared to insult the national hortour,he his !•credit.-
It was also announced, that the President of the
had ilia burliest to excite the French to betray their Regency was prepared to set oat to meet hisMajeaty,
oaths,
.and to be guilty of perjury towards their
when his arrival wasascertained.
tizior : this offence cannot be avenged but in ,
1 Senor Martinez de la, Rosa congratulitted the
1;4 ? 'Fo arms I Let this cry resoutid through, the Cortes on the approach 01.-that period so much de-
riiole south of France. There is nova single French- sired by all good Spaniards, sewn they shd have
wan who has 'tot to revenge. himself, or he abjures the inexpressible satisfaction of seeing the Kind take
his country ; and from this moment he ought to be the oath to the Constitution in the boson-4 tl.e
reckoned among the number of the enemy. :Yet c Congress. An end, he. trusted, would be put to
few days, and th4,,e who have been capable of
he-j:iotrigues, the lips of calumniators would •bitfinsjid,
tiering in the sincerity and delicacy of the ld English,. and those wo be undeceived • who had beetrtaught
will 'learn t 3, their coo, that their 'artful promises to believe that it was wished to establish n, teßoblic
had no other object than to enervate their 'courage in Spain. .
1 'if
and to subjugate them. They wilt tall to astindthose ,
[REMARK OP' T.
pusillanimous beings who calculate the sacrifices 1 On the above, we shall
, o hick they mum make to save their coantry ; mere fact of Bonaparte hurl'
that the English:tit this war have no other object than Of be is sent) by the Most ci
F If red, the French to . . .

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The inhabitants made a sally, and the retreat of ,
.411 i-enemy was decided. He was pursued a league
'from the town. Three citizens were taken prisoners,. 1
1 hitiing pursued the enemy with too much ardour. It 1
is said that two of them have just returs having,, .7.—...
escaped by swimming over the Oise. • .-- .' . .
The zeal of the garrison, of the Jait a, the'
couutry people, and the officers wheal * the de-
fence, is above all praise.
• The cannon damagikl seveiel houses the town, ! .
We
but the uiischief is slight—nobody was 'oituded. . have given some further extracts from al
..To..dey (the 16th) the enemy has Up liornedisnd . French Papers, which cannot be said to convey any
we are tranquil. . .•• , i. . i important intelligence concerning military affairs on
• PAiiii, MARCH. 114.—The garrison
,• •J 'bat tplheocCiamonatti
jovnent ;ftyubnelveiseswtedheinDthuakteligohft.
TDhairs.mapapeasviess,
made a sally,-and pushed as far sear - it Welt lit.
000 t, - .. _ .
-hich
eqil plient

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from the several receivers in chat city fiatica
seised all the articles of clothing and twvl4.
righaikestet book on the war itself, in whim,
steange matters;" and as far as wb
lected by the.eisemy, and carried thew .silheithout
omay believe the letter of the test, or that the French
'seating any Aletacle„ ,
14161ibistaishektitiossavrisos of Mets has outOo a aoc- :.people will believe it,,events of magnitude ma, be ex.
cessful sally, and taken from the enemy artillery and Vected to grow out of its chief topic. Ordinary war
other important articles. I seems of itself,and from itself, brought nearly to a close.
The political eye, and more especially the humane
eye,. is open to a stretch, to discover what may be the
course the Cabinet of Great Britain shall resolve to
pursue. Perseveranceoccompanied with our subsidiary
influence, has done marvellous things; we'have what
the
.lesesch call "la parole." Let us then speak
out frankly., as becomes the voice of a great nation.
If our Mitnsters should be tempted, from selfish
considerations, or which is not less powerful at this
moment,, from apprehension of losing the coun-
tenance 'and 'support of what may be deemed the
war -Action of England, to play a double part ;
that proud eminence which we now possess, may be
irrecoverably lost ; for it should at all times be
remembered by a wise Statesman, that paramount
power, and unrivalled prosperity in.commerce, never
fail to excite hatred and envy in surrounding States,
which may, • nevertheless, show a Mattering and de-
lusive obsequiousness to the temporary views of
such, fortunate government. Bat the ordinary war,
as we have observed, has run out its length; and the
fearful consideration now is, whether its ashes are
to generate a worse kind of war, A cynic WAR..
The question is put in a way which irresistibly urges
to an answer, an answer without delay. The so-
phisim of the supporters of the abominable systemo.l
11 others, have so strongly coa.l
its worst to ittiOivg this country,
liberal, •and-loyal, in suspicions
the a nspeakable benefit

to destroy ranee by toot, to , ~tune ,
--- ---. s ;lister. 'Jews with: edilett thi
servitude, like the Portuguese, the Sicilians, add
.W 't. to.. lc Ititsteieti *lag • hevieipeete.-
the other people who groan under their yoke. . . ;aLueseet aletikining till thltiqiiiK treirtyrets -.
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" The history ef the past will offer itself to Mr . -"'"'" •
n; let him reply tlie Treaties wig.. ....., - : ithich `meld hredbgraced -s.
remembrance of those anti-Frenchmen, who prefer`
let him continunlie war ; and, dm t.tmepstveree obe .1.14110.. leirtflie Carthagefilans 1n'.611 very criiiia
transitory enjo meats to - the safety of the' greati '
jests of Boneperte Velli•ceems. t* hoes .thar worn- 'pun ntlbsar 'history. We tett fitNlitlifef eettrby:.l
Emil , • swill.- oaf,- the English caused
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Frenchinen to be butchered at Quiberon by the bands i l'• r_._ oisr OfdilingenuUnsness, lay ourselves open: to •the
of Frenchmen ;• they Will see the P:nglish ut the. head ! 4411 it nigit.; a officer 111/"I from 11°4.. *WillUng" : iseidilyeXto misrepresent our patriotisit; by insinuat.
• ton with the details of the :battle of Ortbes., three,' ,_ •
of every -conspitacy, of the overthrow of all u ii
•r " thousand prisoners, 12 pieces of cannon, the diaper-110g that, bkiLeri iive aro 'enemies td, an .ambiguous
c#ples, of the destruction of 'all the establishments of 1
sion of the enemy's army, and the field 'capered with i apt! teinporisibe may, we are not- friends •tes bur
greatness-or industry, to gratify their inordinate am.
; dead bodies, and liens thrown away by the Ngitirees Country. We trust we 'have for, therment 00411
bitioeand their insatiable avidity. Does there Exist ;are the results of this victory.,
ehough to ihnie honest representatives of .rase
on the surface of the globe a single point known to,
BILBOA, Fse..26.—The fort of Laredo leas nor. ;
tbe*English where they have not caused to Le de- people itho ire° aviry teased with the maxim,
rendered to our troops on the 23d ; the garrison, 1 • .1 .
toiled by, seduction or by violence the manufacto- that in nations, as tindividuals,
WI h " honesty is the.
i amounting to 260 men, remaining prisoners of war. •
-elm, the productions of whieb rivalled or eclip
• sad This event must straiten the French garrison of San- i best Policy ;” we hope mewls not wanting, to exhort
their own 2-• *Such would be the fate of the French tone, as it deprives them of free entrance into that . them to watch over the fate and fortune of this .41lt.
establishmente,lf the English attained their end. harbour. • 1 ties at this trying moment, never forgetting that,
• " Soldierial Let us devate to opprobrium and ge. 1 MADRID, Frs. 21.—An Extraodinary Casette of ;
neral 'nitration every Frenchman who shall havecharacter is of itself FORTUNE,. for that no State,
I the- Itegency anuounces a dispatch from the Baron de
favoured, in whatever isianner,the insidious- of 1s
t however oppressed no individual however assailed
Eroles, stating that the fortresses of Lerida, Me. , . ..
was
lbc enemy i even him who, though for a moment're-ever wholly destroyed, if cherac-
and iby "witty, - 1
'quilleuzal and Monzon were iu our power,
sabiected, shall not have tried ell imaginable means . ter, that le, if 'Moll remained at the bottom of
garrisoned by national troops. They were in the .
to insiure them. 'Let us devote to opprobrium, let i
'best state of defence, with a numerous artillery, and the box of evils.
us not acknowledge for Frenchmen, those who, ;
provisioned for two years. What Englishman 'ldentified with Ms count et and
though able to defend themselves, make use of spe— The Baron announces that he hopes soon to be whose consciousness of 'deserving distinction, arises;
sinus pretests to dispense themselves from ir.—.lo3to to communicate " the ulterior fate of the ord. 1
From this. moment there is no longer any bond be- ,as well as the from its former high reputation, van' po other awe
sons, which amounted
to 2500 men,
tween thematic' us ;.and we may anticipate inexora,l.
painful anxiety for the part tie Cabinet di
names of those persons who contributed to this great feel a
ble history, which will transmit their names with ex- and important wait." We are left, however, in Great Britain may act under this wniderfni,and happy
ceration to posterity. t
the dark both as to the time,when and the' manlier [(as it may be made) change in the elltuntstances of
" As for us, oer duty is marked out ; honour and
in which we became masters of these places.
fidelity !I that is oar motto. To combat to the last iwtottio 1 Europe within these twenty month, past! Who can
MARCII 3.—lt was yesterday announced . den that ~ ,
the enemies of our august Emperor, and of our dear aeny, if there hats any sincerity and desire
to the Cortes that the French garrisons of Lerida,
to act up to what has been given ott.ts as the result of I
France ; to respect persons and property ; to pity .
. Mequinenza land Monson capitulated in Martorel.
the misfortunes of those who are for
,a moment sub. '
of ,:. • • •
ton the 18th rebruaril remattungxasoness ' She councils of the kingdom, a solid and a safel
jetted, and to hasten the instant of their deliverance;
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. peace, may not now he made? What new prize'
obedience and discipline,' implacable hatred to trai- I n
i DENICARLO FEB. I#.—Tortola, Peniscola, and
tors,. and to the enemies of the French name, inter. must be set up as the goal of oprpolitical and War*
Murviedro, Would have been In our power, bed it iiike tace
mivable war to those who shall attempt to divide in./ ou'''' t we can guess, and the public will I
not been for an unlucky chance. An Aid-de-o*i , •
order to destroy us, as well as to the wretches who lloon see what it is. The vane is yet moving to and
1 of Sachet formed the plan of procuring an ordir•un.
should desert the Imperial eagles to range themselves der the seal of that General for General Robert, re- .pros but it requires no great perspicacity of sight to
snider any other standard. .
I quiring him to surrender the above places. Ile en. discover, at which point of the compass it will set-
" Let us have always in our minds fifteen ages of . tered Tortosa, and had a confirenee with Robert
giney, and the innumerable triumphs which have : , tie at last, since the breath of a very few persons isi
who intimated to him, that he could still resist a I
rendered our country illustrious. Let us contem- : i able to fix it, perhaps fatally to fix it.
four mouths ;. but in obedience to Suchet's
plate the prodigious efforts of gots great Emperor, . orders he agreed to surrender them within eight Nothing can more clearly show the ominously ER-
4,a his sitpoll victoriest• which will eterttise the
'Jays..
French name; let us be worthy of him, and then In the mean time, he sent spies 'to Barcelona, ciWating 'disposition of our Government at this junc.
and learnt 'the true state of the case, upon which he ' ture, than the following authentic letter from Deals t
we may bequeath to our posterity, without a,
from , resumed hostilities.
stain, the inheiitaiice which we have received dated half-past four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon :--•
our fathers. =Let Qs be Frenchmen, and let us '
• The, namen of Don Juan Vakalen, a Spaniard, and tal.
- 64 Mr. Gee. the Messenger, arrived here to-day ,
. Aid-de-Camp to Suthet, is mentioned us befog one of those 1
die with arms in our hands rather than survive our i persotn. ' with dispatches from the Ministry for Lord CasTr.r.:.
dishonour. I
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REAOtt, at Chatillon-sur-Seine, and was .abut *
iSigne4) . BEv. EFAcEloN.—John Vickers, late private sol- embarkin a flag of truce for Frarice, when a. tipii.'i
a The Magna of the Empire, Lleut.-Gen. of the Emperor, I
4, The Doke of DALMATIA. Idle* in the avid Welch Fusileers, and In-Penslbiter. graphic dispatch' from London arrested his departure [
Bead-learters, March 8, 1814." ! of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, has by his will,
till further orders. The dispatch, at the same time,
v.
n I dated the Ist June, 11410, devised, on the decease ~
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envenom:, MARCH 16.—0 n the 14th the ene- of his cousin, Thomas Posbrook, now a pauper suet trn oniunicated the pleasing and important intelli
in .1
sly showed himself before Cpmpiegne, from the Lunatic Mary-le-bone Workhouse, the sum of
.o ence of the capture of Bourdeaux, by a tart of the':',
a
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other-side of the Oise, coming from Noyen ; ,after four hundred pounds, three per cent. Reduced Sank' combined army under the command of the Miterquct
few cannon shot, and a fire of small arms, here- i Annuities, forlf 'WELNOTOtis
the special purpose of pfomottng the This event has s
LI probably been the
9i041. ', I welfkre and advancement in life of the Female came( Mr. Gtrr's temporary detention.".
7i-iihp nest day he returnedin force with three pieces Orphans of.theßoyal Military Asylum at Chelsea,
r l'tioThison, a howitser, cavalry, and infantry. The having no fathers, at' the dlicretion of tlie Commis- We are never inclined to speak with levity or tits-
f 0 C. it was sumMoned three times in the day; the brave dollen for directing tie Wail% of the. said Itistitetioe. becoming freedom OD the conduct of the great Coe-

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re to the Administration of Sir Geliersteow,
ref nor of Madras.—Ordered.7'c i
'he ether Orders-of thg Oey were,.*, Asrebeetied
after which ttilt!llouse ad oar ~. 1.• . r .
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'Allen*,. timett 100.-:The . • - of Dalmatia
just asidresaairdt liiiarmy a rgoetnatation full of
rgy.. Weextract the following , ges :-.,
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' SoLottest—Yon are called t w combats ;
re will be ne repose for us, %girth !robe the asl-
ants or the aspeiledt till eisisitostilOirmy, formed
uch estran,rAlkory element shall be annihilated,
till 4 shalit UK tstrritory of. the
ris4,isetintever 1)41 ti.wayerical ed*riority,, antl
fever lifirgreserfney wake t does not suspect
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dance's which surround' iv „or the perils which

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PAPERS., 1
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1 the Eatraordietr,y Sit-
:erday, the Seditary at
My, by order of he Re-
rem Senor Cdgiss, the
1 Ist` army," Vich,
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extraordinariy... er, in '
learned, thronglr. rions
rdluand VII. 'hid pes*ed
way to Perpignan ; and
very measure to ascertain

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Major of the 138th, who emir gathers, answer' Art. Mails • -nee
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ed, " bring me an order from peter, had you
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shall enter the town." „ • e:k• •.e.a • . 41,6 40 Malta
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The eannotsade and Are* ,• 4 , ink :.!.,-," , . Cad's ••••4#1•••07 ..... .. 'tl
',ft - t. • • _..„1,0 • Holland ...44.#.• .. 1,..,.. 1
the. bole isv_i_ the InhOldtentb•. il '1 .'. • . ..vt, Lbbon .... ~e, ....f. e
At_ ipliniMlN'ic• The people. of t , . • •...3! -1
vibo • ...• , - -40.:- , --..i
ftgle rollt ba:Mass at the 4st can cn.s .t. .' W they "PItIcE-OF STOCKS THIS DAT .4sT OKI4.O'CLOCK.
heard in the morning, and hastened to the itsiatanbe lam India Bonds
lip.fit he town : 400 of them drove away 300,hiliitHry ,11 = serctedis: 70 691 i =isukit p
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-wblich occupied the mountain of Margny, fog! muse I 11 Gems, Pay ditto Obi 51 p.
hteshot from Comptigne. • •-• -' L., (~ b trait. 97i 7* •Gonsola for Acct. 701 70 691,
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'IIE CONCISO.] I wet 11$ well as many
It only observokthat the ; defined, bas done its
zing sent King Fe_l:dhl*R4-4-soturatty generous, lit
:ircuitous routeralsowsaboi so, amenities,
.for
he ,hateful Co J4.,k noir --SA4all4
ofd.
Ferdinaattd;*ltiti,
ing a constitod.liol•
• *Stalitatr'
Treaties with Milts
tar