Bred some shot at them, being irritated at this vexatious opposition to their

friends.

"On the icth the admiral wrote to the governor of Nyborg, that as his entrance into the harbour had been forci bly opposed, he was under no obligation to abstain from hostility, nor to respect the property of the inhabitants; but although these could not be better secared than by the word of a British officer, still it must be obvious to his Exellency, that the Spanish general had >ccasion for several of the small craft in he port, and that unless the masters and crews of them would lend their aid o equip and navigate their vessels, it night not be in his power to secure hem from injury; but if they complied, e pledged himself, after the short serice on which they were required, to use very means in his power to secure hem from injury, and to grant passorts for their safe return.

"Every thing being thus arranged, nd expedition being deemed of the greaEst importance, the Admiral shifted is flag to the Hound in the harbour, nd as, from the circumstances of the eather, ships of the line could not be rought nearly in, 57 sloops or doggers und in the port were fitted by the seaen, in which great part of the artillery, aggage, and stores, was embarked that ght and the following day, and remoed to the point of Slypsham, four miles om Nyborg, where the army was emrked safely on the morning of the th, and without opposition, notwith. anding the very unfavourable state of e weather, and placed under the pro ction of his Majesty's ships at the anorage of the island of Sproe. The hole were landed in the course of the ternoon of the 13th at Langeland, and convention had been entered into beeen the Spanish general and the gornor of the island, which, on the one nd, enjoined abstinence from hostility, d on the other a sufficient supply of ovisions, if this island (which is fertile) uld afford it.

"Some sacrifices of horses and stores ere deemed necessary by the general; d as the admiral considered it right enter into his views and wishes, eveunavoidable act of hostility was rigidabstained from, for such the admiral 1 not deem the bringing away the brig

and cutter which rejected his offers of security, and forcibly opposed his entrance into the port.

"That a plan thus hastily, although most judiciously executed, should have not succeeded in its entire extent, will not excite surprise. Two regiments in Zealand, after having fired on the Frencia General Frision, who commanded them, and killed one of his aids-de-camp, were disarmed; and one regiment in Jutland. the admiral says in the body of his dispatch, was too distant and too critically situated to effect its escape ;—but in a postscript he says that hopes were entertained that part at least of this regiment had escaped to the post at Langeland by the Western Channel. Exclusive of it, however, 10,500 of the Spanish troops are thus secured. There were already 2500 in Langeland; another 1000 were thrown into strengthen the Spanish post until the army could be landed; 6oco embarked at Nyborg with the Marquis de la Romana, and upwards of 1oco from Jutland joined in the morning of the 11th. The admiral bestows the highest praise on the officers and men employed in this short but fatiguing service. As an attack on the rear was to be apprehended, great precaution was necessary; such guns as could be brought to bear upon it were spiked, and the embarkation was covered and most effectually protected by the Minx gun-brig, and the two prizes, and by the very judicious disposition of the gun boats under Captain May, of the Royal Artillery, who volunteered. The most lively joy was diffused thro' every class of the army by this event, and such was the eagerness of the troops to escape from the yoke of the tyrant, that the regiment of Zamora made a march of about go English miles in 21 hours."

Such are, in substance, the official accounts of an event which is in itself a victory, and an important one, and not the worse for being almost bloodless. The plan for extricating those brave men from the ignominious and mortifying situation in which they had been placed by a tissue of craft and misfortune, does equal credit to the wisdom of those who formed, and the moderation of those who executed it. By this most grateful of all succours, we shall establish an additional claim to the gra titude and esteem of the Spanish nation;

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we restore to them upwards of 10,000 of their veteran troops, and with them a commander universally respected and beloved, and who is said to possess the confidence of the army beyond any of ficer in the service. Its effects through out Europe must be highly important. The escape of those men, and the object for which they have been emancipated, cannot be concealed, and the actual state of affairs in Spain must now be fully disclosed. It is indeed already very generally known, but the real facts and the French fictions keep the public mind in a state of doubt and hesitation. So admirably were the above measures concerted, that not a whisper of it was heard at Hamburgh, or any place in its vicinity, until the arrangements for the embarkation at Nyborg were completed. They had heard privately indeed of threats being employed to induce the Spaniards in Holstein to take the oath of allegiance to King Joseph, and that the officers had been given to understand that, if they refused, they would immediately be disarmed, dismissed the service, and have their property confiscated. It was not till the evening of the 10th, when nothing was heard or dreamt of but the preparations for the celebration of Bonaparte's Birthday, that the astonished Hamburghers witnessed the sudden departure of their foreign guests. Two battalions of Dutch troops, and a number of artillery, were ordered to appear on the grand parade at nine o'clock, and immediately march ed through the Altona gate, and proceeded by forced marches to Holstein.

The French General Bernadotte was at Travemunde, when, on the arrival of several couriers, he set off suddenly for Rendsberg. A considerable force of the enemy had been assembled in Holstein, and as it was possible that they might effect a passage over to Langeland, Ad miral Keates had collected as many ves sels as were able to carry the Spanish troops to Gottenburgh;-from whence they were to embark for England on the 10th of September, on board of 40 transports sent out for the purpose. The convoy was the Nassau of 64 guns and three sloops of war. The Marquis de Romana, commander of the Spanish army, arrived at Harwich from Gotten burgh, on the 16th of September, and set out for London.

FRANCE.

The motions of Bonaparte, since he left Bayonne on the 16th of July, have been kept secret. It is said he visited Bourdeaux and Rochefort. He arrived, however, at St Cloud on the 14th Aug. On the 15th (his birth-day) there were open theatres, illuminations, fire-works, public dances, &c. &c. but all at tos expense of the government. The mi mister of the interior, on these occasions, draws up the plan of the festival, and the Parisians become the willing actors in the scene, whether their hero te s Robespierre or a Napoleon, a man c blood in a red night-cap, blood under an imperial diadem. Ni poleon on this accasion received, course, the congratulations of the S nate and other public bodies.

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On Sunday the 21st August, a grad ball was given at the Hotel de Ville, & which their Imperial and Royal Majes ties, with all their relations, ministea, and generals were present.

It has at length been permitted to: French Journalists to take notice of the events in Spain. The Moniteur of the 6th September contains a very long narrative of the events that have takes place in that country since the Freta entered it, although in fact it is the t tory of no one event; it is such a catcatenation of palpable and contra tory falsehoods, as was never beforesued even in revolutionary France. T people of Spain are represented as ving been the only plunderers, they persons guilty of cruelties and excess throwing off all allegiance, disreparci the constituted authorities, and anxi merely for disorder and revolutio whilst the French have conducted h selves with the utmost moderation humanity, giving no provocation the cruelties which have been pra by the French themselves, are ch upon the Spaniards. The accom the war is of the same stamp. narrative rambles from one province another, always leaving off when i triumphant French were upon thep of entering the cities, which there the reader is led to believe were and the entire provinces subdued the single exception of Dupont's it says that the French arms weir riably successful, and even in me ing Dupont's defeat, it says nothing

his surrender. He is charged with bad generalship, and also of betraying ignorance in the subsequent negotiation, though no mention is made of the pur. pose of this negotiation. The narrator, moreover, informs us, that "the mismanagement of Dupont, and the excessive heat of the season, induced the King (Joseph) to assemble his troops, and to place them in a cooler climate than that of New Castile, and in a situation which presents a milder atmosphere, and better water. The King left Madrid on the 1st of August, and the whole army went into cooler cantonments!" It is unnecessary for us to notice further this wretched composition, the fabricator of which has not thought proper to make the most distant allusion to the surrender of the French squadron in Cadiz.

Having thus informed us what has been done in Spain, the official scribe proceeds to inform us what is to be done. We have first an official comment on certain paragraphs in a London paper, in which Napoleon distinctly announces to the people of Spain, and to Europe, his determination to employ all the forces of France to compel the Spaniards to accept of his brother for their king. "The affairs of Spain are irrevocably fixed," he says, "and before the year is elapsed, there will not be a single village in Spain in a state of insurrection, nor an Englishman in that country."

We have next a report of the Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Senate, in which are detailed the reasons for the appointment of Joseph Bonaparte to the throne of Spain, and among others it charges the late Spanish Government with an intention to join with England in a fourth coalition against France; and it is asserted that the French empire can never be secure unless Spain has a government completely amalgamated, as it were, with the government of France; the Spanish people, or their wishes and advantage, being, it seems, a matter of no account. A report follows from the War Minister, which urges the necessity of subduing Spain, and of employing a military force of 200,000 men for that object. He may find it difficult to provide maintenance in Spain for half the number. We have, moreover, a mes. sage from Bonaparte to the Senate, in which he says" I am determined to

carry on the war with Spain with the utmost activity, and destroy the armies which England has disembarked in that country. The future security of my sub. jects, the prosperity of commerce, and a maritime peace, must alike depend on these operations." Such are Bonaparte's avowed intentions respecting Spain, and he is preparing the means to give them effect. A new levy of 80,000 men, is to be taken from the four classes of the conscription of 18c6, 7, 8, and 9, and the conscription of 1810 is ordered out, for the purpose of forming camps of reserve, and protecting the coast. The French troops in Prussia and other parts of Germany are returning with their ac customed rapidity into France, to be sent against Spain, and are to be repla ced by conscripts. The contingents of the confederation of the Rhine have also begun their march for France, and they will, it is said, be stationed at Boulogne and on the French coasts, in order that Bonaparte may be enabled to press with the whole of his veteran force against Spain.

The final answer of Bonaparte to the petition of the merchants of Bourdeaux relative to restraints on their commerce, is said to have been forwarded from Paris on the 29th August. It is, that "he cannot permit any neutral vessels to enter or depart from his ports, consistently with the arrangements he had made with his great ally the Emperor of Rus. sia."

Gen. Murat, formerly, by the grace of Napoleon, Grand Duke of Berg, now "Joachim Napoleon, by the grace of God (as he says) and of the constitution, King of the two Sicilies, and Grand Admiral of the empire," has issued a proclamation, announcing his having ceded his sovereignty over the Grand Duchy of Berg, and all his rights in Germany, to the imperial Napoleon, whose breath made him a Grand Duke, and has now made him a Great King. His wife is to succeed him in the throne, in the event of her surviving him.

Cambaceres, the Prince Arch-chancellor of the empire, has been created Duke of Parma, and Le Brun, the Prince Arch-treasurer, Duke of Placenza.

It is, we are assured, an undoubted fact, that Lucien Bonaparte has applied to the King of Sardinia, and to Mr Hill, the British Envoy, for passports for him

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self and family to go to the United States of America. It is of course Lucien's opinion, (and he has credit for much discernment and ability,) that his brother's power is on its decline.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The London Gazette announces the capture of the celebrated Piedmontaise French frigate, which has done so much damage to our shipping in the Indian seas. She was taken by the St Fiorenzo frigate, Capt. Hardinge, after one of the most severe and determined actions that have been fought during the war. The gazette does not give the particulars; the following are from private letters:

The Piedmontaise having heard that three East Indiamen, viz. the Charleton, Metcalf, and Devonshire, were to proceed from Bombay to Columbo with out convoy, formed the design of intercepting them at Cape Comorin, and had determined to fight the three ships, and to board the first they came up with, without firing a gun. Accordingly, on the morning of the 6th of March, she discovered the three Indiamen off Cape Comorin, and was just going to bear down upon them, when the St Fiorenzo came in sight. She then made off. The St Fiorenzo chased her the whole day, and came up near midnight, when a partial action took place, which did not last more than ten minutes. The St Fiorenzo continued the pursuit during the night, and at half past six in the morning, renewed the action, which lasted an hour and three quarters, when the St Fiorenzo, having her rigging, &c. much damaged, dropped astern to right. The Piedmontaise, observing this, made every effort to get off, but the St Fiorenzo's damage being quickly repaired, she again gave chace, and in the evening, was so near as to keep sight of her all night, and, between ten and eleven next morning, she attacked the enemy a third time, and, after a close action of an hour and twenty minutes, this terror of the Indian seas, so long renowned for her success and swift sailing, struck her colours. Both frigates were very much cut up, particularly the Piedmontaise, whose masts and bowsprit all went by the board after the action, in consequence of the heavy swell. The Pied

montaise mounted go guns, long 18 pounders on her main-deck, and gó pound carronades on her quarter-deck, and had on board 316 Frenchmen and 216 Lascars. She had so men killed and 100 wounded. Moreau, her second captain, was the same desperate ruffan who stabbed Capt. Larkins, after the capture of the Warren Hastings East diaman, and whom Sir Edward Peliew denounced, in his public orders to the fleet, as a proper object of vengeance, if ever he should be taken. More conducted himself in a furious manner during the engagement. He would not suffer the ship to strike, and declared be would never be taken alive by the Ea glisa. At last he discharged his pistol into his own body, jumped overboard, and was drowned.

We regret to add, that the gallant Capt. Hardinge was unfortunately killed by a grapeshot, a few minutes only before the enemy struck. Lieut. H. Massay was wounded. The St Fiorenzo is t ted at 38, but mounts 46 guns, and had only 200 men on board;—of whom 12 were killed, and as wounded.Lieut. Dawson succeeded Capt. Had inge, and brought the St Fiorenzo, with her prize, into Columbo on the 12th of March.

Another most brilliant action has been fought off the Dardanelles by the Sea horse frigate, Capt. John Stewart; the following are the only particulars this have transpired :

On the 16th of July, the Seahorse, of 38 guns, arrived at Malta, with a vey large Turkish frigate, of 50 brass ga and 700 men. She, with two other fo gates, of 44 guts each, came out on pü pose to take the Seahorse. The latter did not decline the contest. She brought them to close action, sunk one of the 44's, after two broadsides, and captured the 50 gun ship, after an action of the hours. The other 44 escaped. The Turkish ship was brought in a complete wreck. When the Lieutenant of the Seahorse hoarded her, he found the cers cutting up with their sabres the poor seamen for not making a longer resistance. She is said to have had men killed, and 300 wounded. The Seahorse was much cut up in her m and rigging, but had only six men kiled and five wounded.

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GRAND MASONIC PROCESSION. Agreeably to the resolution of the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council, on Thursday, Sept. 8. the Foundation Stone of the new Gaol of Edinburgh was aid by the Hon. Wm. Maule, M. P. Grand Master Mason Elect of Scotland, vho was attended upon this occasion by number of respectable brethren, with he Lodges of this city, and the represenatives of the other Lodges in Scotland. The grand Masonic procession, conisting of nearly 1000 of the brethren, walked from the College of Edinburgh o the Highland Society Hall, where hey were joined by the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council, in their robes, receded by the High Constables, and ttended by several noblemen and genlemen, the trustees appointed by the ict of Parliament for the various improvements connected with the new Courts of Law, &c.

The streets were lined by the miliary. The procession was conducted with the greatest regularity; and the Masonic ceremony was performed by he Most Worshipful Grand Master with great propriety and solemnity. Sept. 1808.

Mr Reid, the architect, much to his credit, accommodated the brethren by the erection of a temporary amphitheatre; and, notwithstanding the vast concourse of people present, not the smallest accident took place. During the ceremony, several Masonic anthems were sung by a band of singers placed on the Grand Master's platform for the purpose.

The various current coins of the kingdom, with copies of the present newspapers, and a plan of the building, enclosed in crystal bottles, were deposited in the stone-with two plates. Upon the one was the following inscription :Q. F. F. Q.S.

A.D. MDCCCVIII.

Regnante Georgio Tertio, Patre Patriæ, Edinburgi præfecto iterum Donaldo Smith Armigero,

Architecto Roberto Reid; Florentissima urbe plurimis novis et splendidis

edificiis jam decorata, Quibus omni vitæ commoditate fruerentur cives felices, Ipsi novum hune carcerém tandem strue-bant, quo infelicibus consuleretur; Neque miseri debitores, promiscue cum fa

cinorosis,

Neque vel maxime nefarii, ante judicium, Squalido et insalubri carcere inclusi, Inutili et iniquo afficerentur supplicio.

TRANSLATION.

May GoD prosper this undertaking.

1808.

In the reign of George the Third, the father of his country, in the second year of the provostship of Donald Smith, Esq. the very flourishing city of Edin. burgh being already adorned with many new and splendid buildings, in which the happy citizens might enjoy every comfort of life, they at last began to build, according to the plan of Robert Reid, architect, this new prison, in which due attention should be paid to the unhappy; so that neither unfortunate debtors, by being confined promiscuously with criminals, nor even the greatest criminals, before they were brought to trial, by being confined in a loathsome