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4. .'I'V; -','. j- '' v.- -." .- - . s . r.ntrh verv man confemptates a fpce- writ in December, after comT)lcrIyvarr f entered Ma'drid, t completely yarr quifhing the Spanifh'army . under Gent dT ttMVbe BCcuftamed J elation.. i a I qmOung the bpamlh army under ytxsp life, at leU to far as to enable out farmers Blake "and Palifox, and that. Sir ,: John .Jr Aolr furntnt Drodoota. H . we - iwvum y"" , r" a - , . furtender, our. tight.' to tranfport them, who can come here to purchafc? Engird Lonly ! In this Hate of thing fh would monopolae 7 bur ' produft , id ace jhew amount, and . leOeny their: pike -(he -wouM naturally ' acquire that ir fleuce.,on "our politics which would not be cbmrou! ed, and we fhould. become a fond Por- togal'- . : s . ; - :; ' ' ' I haveTieatd cf ami or Imaginary fyftem . of China, of a eivVized nation foppofed to Moore was within a da I march . with S6.00Q Britiftj troops. , ' ',y: '-'-'. A Frfnch tmejotjftattle Ihrps and two piirp&Wjabnrthe B r'm.h amy m lorce, ard enabling it to '& in fuA.a rnarr er as crcumftance might point out, for he fupjpyt of ihe common caufe. V. - ItU inh'eT ftatfcd on private authority, thi t thdtranfports atCorunna had, on the U init fcegan taiaVeoa board, the heay3 frieates, leTranceort-the 5H,h Ofett . Wggagi belonging tau n aimy u.1- ber, with iupplks'andJtroopilpr Marti- e. tbeordr. t genera uaira, nique. Sir A Cochrane, has alfo pofi ive jittefhatthemollamplemeanshavebeen information of Streb (hips hating left jrod(dfor thefrer9fthe.wM itroopsaridfupptiet which the jf our fore vVve rruit, t tne.nPceHi inMWr foreign commerce; &ol the r com J en-larion of that fyftem,' though not by goermentjof this nation -On this'iub T if-A I have erduued.andvhe refult f has" . Un. ihit' r.. Inch Mlem" exifts-'-1haT nation ftudiouflt aoids . foreign .treaties; yet for a cenmry atid anhalf fhe has en -couraged foreign Commerce vand her own . 'titis!fnsintheiiownfhipaattalyci,ryon : confiderahle foreign commerce with 1 span, f Cstana, nd other port of the Eaft Indies 'But whdt o China admitmg (he limits the "commerce of her fubjefts to her own pio- vincee ? Her empire contains a third or a -' fourth of the whole human race - a grea- t(-r number 'of people that Europe nd A, ! 'mfrica combined: and irear three fourths ' of the population in AH. Her provinces produce alm'oft every thing in the Vnbwn world. Her numbers naturally" fumifli : ' every, order and every tccupaott ; in life, ; Aand her Internal tfitle mild txceed the whole commeree :of Europe.-' Is this nation-4 fet . befo e us as in example? Shall nation , 'whofe furplus produce Uimmenfe, be iffiai ''ilaled to an overgrown nation whose popu.' ' lation ;'on tff and. (hallops nearly equals ours, and who fcartety know how to find ' fuftenance ? ' Shall the fancied iyftetn "of , an abfolute' thief be prpfcred to the laws Of a country prefervii g the rtghts"nd gi ' ' ving" fcope to the enerpies o'f every cirfs in 'focietv i Shall that motical people'whofe ' canvafa whitens every fen, who led he old ,-'world to new ou-cesof commerce, force "the fcaly tribe 'o give full enance to diftant " sitions and cMtntrjcs, and levy tribute On V ! the monfter of the deep hcimpaedto S people ignorant of ftmnomy geomefry, : at.d navga ion j whoTe fears force them to lleep near fight of land, and whvfe fuper 'flirion leads rhemO offer incenle in rime of difficulty in lieu of thofc exertions' on ' ' which humart fafeit depends I Inttead o " fiedom, (hall we lubtVnu ;t fl-rery ? t'tn-, ' fte id Jf 1wowlcgeJ lhl we prepare, the -wiy for igr'orance'f Bold and intrepid " navigators I Ttur country acknowledgrs " your fcrvices, (he admires 'lie war-nth and tendernef of your friend (hipa the extent of your'libera.iry, the tear cf your fenfi , ( bi'iiy an1 your firmntfs and .atience in -ti' of fuflering She will nevt- defen v your interefts. But when the day is over- . caft, when tha tempeft towers, , and the Ilehn'ing ply, fhe piufs to decida on the courfe of the voyage " , France with trooos and fuonltes admiral is daly expelling to meet off Mar ttrJaue j . t .. .. The Port'uguere, wi(b 000, men. haye taken DoffeJBon cf Cavenne , , rhe troops from Halifax: under sir Geo Prevost, hav received orders to prepare ttK oroceed to Burmuda. wheie they are to ' winter, and from thence! reiu'n to Halifax And it is laid that forae of the troops fiaj actually embarked when the lafl accsuatb were received from Barbadoes. . ' ' . Lend n, Decmbtr 10. ', - A Sunday paper ftys, ' fome mintfterlal changes are fpoken of ; the Duke of Porjt ' lu-id, Mi Canning and Mmgrave it is faid,' He to retire. Lord Chatham, i is added,, ii to be ' removed to tbe vrreaiwy,., and: Lord Melville beWffefe'dU'feso' ihe Cain&;V"j, , ..: Mr ' Shaw.the meiTengef, ie'ft Xpndpn " the lOrhof Dec wtthdiipatches for Paris.; I Accounts from Swed n were unf avout-. ab'e Gnce the rupture of the armiftice, the Ruffians puflicd forward with fuch an o; veiwhefming fupcrlorliy of force, that alt' the g-Hnt eiforts of tKetSwedea have been fruitlcft. v;c;;c j: -;V : 'i&U$ : Duich letters received in England (bte, on the authority of f-ccounts: from 'Paris, mat . tne amwer oi tee uritiui government to the overtures from 'Irance and Ruflia, "was very detailed, and very favourable that at Paris, ir was generally luppofd, a peice would fhortly be concluded A Lon don pnper fays, we cannot agree with the Prifian quidnunc, as to the probable refult of the negociation ' ' . .. K V . Auftria ItUJ continues her miU.ary pre- . parations.' - ; V ' i-- . A Rouian Ukafe, notifies to the mer fnr; thrembatkaiion is anpareht. that the account of there being lutfl -ient mean is correA i for we are told, in or three 'theriettetsv tbat large diyiGoni of t'acf pert'had failed from Coiunnat t ; Pferious'to this batt, the Frenchhiid advanced in another direftibn from Bur goito ' Lerma, ' Arinda," and ictofs : the' Uanroi and it appears by. the roclama Un of the Centrarjunta", that thev fThad got tqthe neighbourhood of Samozierta, a (mall town in the 'mountains iBQutjortX m'Hes north' cf Madrid.; j In thisftate of affain the Juma ordered a ftrong force to occupy the iinport; nt polls of Guadarama, whiter th--- Englilh whoCare fid to have heen it the Lfcurlal on the 2 i ft, (but therie probaily is fome error in the llatementl were tbouito proceed tp Co operate with ;the Sp.kiardsV; )fW: fWtf ' It flujali.fee however that the enemy took a different route to' the : capirili;by proctWmgn t direction due fouth; from the Dunro, by Samofierra, Bunriago and the ruad that leads from thence to Madrid and the traerpeaed defeat of Gen C'fta uos having fiulUa'fd all the plans that had b,ef formed' a retreat on fhe parf of our airoy became neceflary. llf that is effec ted in good order, it is ''cofijefluredv that it will concentrate itfelf upon the frontiers of Portugal tci rrv the defence . 'of that country againft Bonaparte, br tb advance agatnd Spain upon alfavOnrable OppoV'u nri VBut the queltron whemer. without Spauu we could defend : Portugal .againil Bonaparte, appears "to have been decided bi our Kovernment,' when it advifed the Royal family to emigrate to Brazil 1 ciint,ccur(l met eStrtav, brr :l J- two o'clock the Fouigt OiTjcfc and-far f-.i Pt .t.-! ' Hti' . - ' ;" uniu levsn ui iMCEiwiing.t vvcen it broke - ;' up, Mi Tinnier, the -meflenser. 'wa r,rl':V:. deied tJ proceed witli dilpatches to Spain.''? i, ;v It fa understood that the fabjea under ? j coufideration was the fi:qation of ; our ;V'-f army in Sparaand itwaa reported lift 1 J nighr, that Mr. H unter carried ' out with : ' t hint the approbation bf government to th J pian or me retreat luggefted by,8ir. ' Moore and orders for the whole -of 'the-Sl BrnCv force to be corwentrated in Portu. gah ; rrAnfports hive been ordered toCo- '- I runna and Vrgo,' and ; every arrangement-SF luv .-vccn mmm-yr lacitirate tins operation-i, v x is uiffnat ,tneicattered . remaii ot the Hnan-fH arm luif nrnrreikeA VnairJ. ' - - ' W V WW W-' W w f.. w . r a. the bierra Morona, and that Don FranciC lo i juiQj is collecting mem jo .oeiera ' i ? s ;? thep&fles pf thofe )oun?ams j(uwjie 1 3 It thet anynforrtation 4u been received oti it&l ji.'. till ruKiAXI' : fm tvHiAlkA 1i (I ,Ca m aiw s,f .wait ui . wuc iici J aiic ilaicimc i. -.is . aounoea connect are only, ' we naye nt t j : 'v inc. uruanuu vi ine remains oi no i a"rmV oftGliiia is mod truV dittreffi4.gifcil4 1 -aad calls moft loudlv for. our active exeri tioila in its fayor.l'hfc Mrquil da )i Ro y ! mana and bis. brave .followers whom ,he i' ref.uid , from hondage in J LlalfleiQr arev :, called and would" be treated as tories. by." " the defppt if again ;Cught "--Lord? Pagec" fay?, thit'he .found no more fikin s6opp ; man of the army at GaUiclaiaflrn'd, to 1 gctlier in Leon, tljough we have been tb'd V:- ,ot; VUOUU Having re united- themwive . under the patriot itandard.' r Evi the Jaft ;-J however, is not a ; number; to , wiihliand 1 j the holt kof Buonaparte, V'vhey nought t' therefore if ppilio'.e, 10 be f-red,frota his ' ' ; : j? nX; i s-f; H-v S''U.- u X Wlil preparing the above fcr prefs we f receiyed Charltflon papers of the, IHi ..mft- ' from which we extuck be foliowii. J , ; '.. Iwjdjr,; Dbcbmsu: il''J?' 'Capitulation . of. I Afi&dfintwite if ',' tb'' rtne$ erinj into that aft, ' . - By the $ ag of 0 uce Vhich returned lft I 3i. i i ''Such is the diftreffing complexion of. 1 evening to Dover, ; with Mr. Sluwfthe i 'the intelligence received and however id' chant of St.Feterfborgh, thst after-ther orredk--tt may turn our to be in i: part; fiilt of January. 18 9, no (hips (hail be tber, no doubl but it may prove in th i uflVred to enter or clear, from the Ruffian main ,0 uc " II ll in 4.m "ow 10 re ! The Britifh fliip Matilda, arr-ved at N' York, in 18 day froroSf. Johns', Antigua! brings Lonuotrppettoioe isou ui . cembvr, snJ Antigu i papers to the 24 h of Jarnaf j, containing news from Lifbjn, V to the ItHlt of Dcetnbrr., V Is repot trd by a paffeogef In Ue btig Ma'ilJa from Antigua, t!ut on tne XG h ol Janeary, a difpatcb wastecciveJ fiom admital wocbrane, Sating that , fir John Moor i, wuh sn army of 30 tKH) men, had Hacked the French amt in the environs oi M air id and completely tod ed them, w th great Oaach'er nn b) h fide. The Enthfli loll 4000 killed. ft ia further (tared, that a Frrrcfi SO ' Pnviit lettm'from Uollirul Aat, tW B inaparte has bidered a relaxation to take place in in the reguta ions enjoined by his JSli'an decree telpeUing neutral, lij the decree alluded to, it was or Jerd that , all ncuirals whichliad touchedat a Britifh port, or Idbmitted to be fearched by a Britifh cruizcr Oiould be confifcated cn entering a French porr, or condemned a legal ph act if captured by a French armed vcffcL It is now ordered, that neutrals fhl be admitted into French ports, ih nigh hty have been fearched by a Bririth cruizr. provided they have not touched at a Bit tifh port. ; Buortaparte by relaxing in the Mi.'aa decree probably ei petit that the A, met it an government will be induced to remove its embargo to far at leal as regards eeflVe bound to France. Intelligence has been received from Spam of even more difaftrous' nature than oar gloomy fortbodings led u with pain to spprhcnd ; 111 defeat of Gene ral Blake, which turn out; a 'xeriing to the information we had received, to hare been complete sppeart, according to the intelligence nw arrived to have laid open ihe central body of the Spaniard under uiamfia raiaioi totneut tdi oar r .lion of th enemy i and his army too,' it the civil tidings are not unfounded, has been comp ctny defeated, if not dedroyed. we ncea m t'e paper, mat ine retreat vert to the complaint of the tardinefs in for wattling. Our troops, who have once more afrrred at the fcenc of adion, afttr tb bat, (li bat bait ftugbti we long fine exprtfTed Our tear of conmmitting this ufuti blunder! - .Bal what is now thought of the iflue of the hpauifh contefU Tho( Who were fo fanguine a fhbrt time (ince are in utter des ! Siair, and think the fare of fhereniniula orever decided. We hefitate tCftdopt tint opinion 1 We with only to be fully nflu- l4 that he whole Spamfh nation is deep ly irapreued with the determination, fo of ttn avowed of continuing the con efl as long as practicable ' We are perfu ided that it the Spaniards re illy fee in their true light the advantages that thty mult detive from the execution of the neble views he ) fore them, the y will pet lev ert with renew., ed ardor.' Bur if they are not convinced that they right for what is worth every f etihee. and tbat death alone u to clou the conttlt, thrn la Spain now fubdued, and the emancip inon of turope hopetcrs fir tine of which no one can pretend to fee the end. - If however, the Spaniards flid fight, they mutt sbandon the plaits, and decline fi so i bittlev. thevmnft 'be?sk themfclves to their moantaini,nj the de. fence of their towns the liege of Saraof fa mul be an example for every place, t the enemy moft be made to buy whatever M poUcfle. Ilin will ha troops be me! ted down, It hi relonrcet exhseftf d We wn, however, ihst this ptofprcl of hope, to wnicn we ia tonaiy 'tung, is cortM : i run (hip with BOO tronps and l"00 ban a vf fluke, by Uavini uncorerei the left cf I Wi:n c,0ttd, fo ''" ,n,, te fcj!y d"if of liur wu captured f:er a Tevre en mrnr, going into Cdadaioupe, I; the Brit'nh frigaes Jafan sni Ctopa r.' . the London paper hite conirjd&ory repot; about Bao4apar e one day he i to be at PU, and the nest t Madtid ; ' Btttflrrt, il Clnltrpbrf, Jtnuorj 17 A few hear pttVioat o ttitt pper( go ing to pcfs,w wet pglrely favored wiih the fuiioarg tommuDu.tiuafiOin I gen tie man ' " , . : . - . rhe Ri g D jve 0 top of wr, trrived t Barbadoct on, tha) 1 4 h inn from Li. ' bon, which poff On kit on the 10:h I)r 1 tea. her, bnni toa fticiandy KctiUit: ol the SjUn'uh line, would tender necclTary tne retreat oi ine whole srmy. We feat this obvious policy has not been putfucJ, and that Uaonspartc has thus been enabled to dctlfoy the whole ctotral dlvifiota of the bpanlards. . . . . ru intel!ig(rxe, at it ht beei given to he puoiic, is to the following purport. t Intcl'tigftwe hsi ben rcceivid from gen t4 I). Ban J, dated Astog9 the 2D huh. b which it appears that the strnf anJvf grn Casta&o had fuftamed a defeat, the particulars of which have not beo re riv.d, C-n lJ. Moore had direvltd fir DiVid B ird to retabark at Vigo, and ptouta us Aeciaveij to ine t iu4 tor uie cernable l"he fofp'tcion which (o c'ofc ly adhered fo tit, that a pop t fa long and patiently enuaved,a people I J ignorant f uncivilized, wouid not luddra'y be ani mated with thit feblirrte and oncorwoer abW low of liberty, which 'h fitua ion of the Spaniards recur td t and le;tra from oCctnof the h'gheft diltirtlioirln Cr Join Jroore ar-ny.but too ltrofg,y ttove toa mi . luipieiont were writ lound l"hy trnnp'am that the B'htfh rry n I Kir nurth met wih rio-hin but tcldnils. sni jeakmfy, snd that ihey perctivtd re liaei lympiomt as ihry wrt led to r iptU CI fiat ajjvotednel w the eel of thrir cofury, Wilhout which bo ho ti COuU U titirtatned. meffenger,' on board, we have receirtvl Pari papers to the 15 h laftant t Their content are of great. Importance The city of Madrid hi capitulated, and the rreneh troops entered on the ih, inlbnt at noon.: . f his m ehiiteiice is d, ted iron tne French camp at Madrid, and is oi&ctal y announced in the MtniUuri of the 1 3;h . and I h. So far back as I hurfday, the 8 h inllaut, we announced the adraoce of French corps of 8000 men to Soroofier. -1 ra, a town about 40 mile nonh of Madrid. ..- For thu loform-tion we LaJ oificial iiu teliigeoce , It was anrjounced in procla.' , mation, addrefled by the Supreme Junta ' , to ine people oi Spain, and panicularly thofe of Madrid, recomrecnoinr the con " duQ, which they ought toobfeive undrr thefe drcumftauces. Hiis nroclarna'ion waa dated frou the Royal PUe of A- ranjufz, on the 31ft ult andionfcquemly we may prefumethat the firft appearance , , of the eiemy af-Samoiierra took nijf about the 18th or 9 h . What became of thtt corps it i.ot mentioned It was pr bably pufhed Npid y forward, for the nw pole of alarming.ihe country, i manoeuvre often praftifrd by the French i h fuccrfi. If fuch were the cafe, it probably retreated ' as rapidly U rt had advanced. , ThatV large por too ef the enemy had ootid-.' vancM u ur at that date w ma pre-, fame, as the eefeat of the force undrr Callatv i upon the Ebro did not take pla e ' , untU ihe tU., rhe detal's cfthesp?r;h .1 .L.t. .A .. II i i. f 4 oi mi rnncn.io MaJtil are contaiacd la 4 the 13th Bui etiri, dated St. Martin, the SJ ina. Jt (la et tha, on the 33 Kelt, I the Duke of Bi-ilun (M nihil Victor nivvd at Sottufirrra with a a ecrpt of , 13,000 mrn, when he loainl the Spiniird 1 in B Orong poll, dr fended by Cttet U cca of cannon lltie, however, at InvM" lb battleof Tudcla, the F-eiich ditivtd great advantage ttom thttr civaliy. A ciurgt made by the Poh !h light hartfe de tided the day, and the Sptniards futin4 total dtfrau Uuonapatte, on the f Ho. ingday,the ill D;(tsber, nmnvt l his head Quarters to StAagultie.an4 on the r tit ti St. Martin, cn whUh day Dule Oi I.lria, w ill ltil Ctvlty, took 'pof . fcton cf the-Ul.ts wh'Ka tmmao, Madrid, srJ :U ialntry wtte eipedJ to si rite on the SI, lire 11 h Ha1 letb tndii btftttwehivtahesdy'taie the MfUmtt add, thaHh; townc,jurt. LtJ. aad wu euuttd bv the Ftench ea
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