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cies; and the Admiral, on the 7th, sent in return a detailed plan for the conveyance of the troops to the different islands in the Belt, from whence the whole might be afterwards conveyed to the island of Langeland, and from thence embarked. He expressed a doubt whether his means (having only three sail of the line and six small vessels) would be sufficient for the complete execution of the plan; but he expected more ships, and a sufficient supply of provisions for the Spanish troops, part of which had alrea dy arrived, and he relied on the zeal and exertions of his officers and ships companies for surmounting those difficulties which were to be expected. He recommended to the Marquis, however, to drive in cattle, and to take what provisions could be obtained with the troops, to save the present supplies, and provide against contingencies. His information, he further observed, did not enable him to judge how far it would be practicable or prudent for the Spanish commander to seize on Nyborg: such a' measure would indeed secure the inactivity of the gun-boats, but it might involve the safety of the troops in Zealand and Jutland, by inducing the Danes to act offensively, when otherwise they might be disposed to wink at the quiet removal of the Spanish troops. He moreover recommended, that, if the principles of the plan were approved of, the movement should be general and simultaneous; that it should be acted upon in all its parts on the same day, unless a discovery took place, in which case each part should act immediately without hesitation.

"The plan was approved of in toto by the Spanish general, but some untoward circumstances having occasioned suspicion, a premature execution of it became necessary. The wind and current being adverse, the Admiral left the Superb on the 8th, and went in his barge to the Brunswick, off Nyborg, where his flag was hoisted. On the 9th the Spanish general took possession of the town of Nyborg, and the Admiral wrote to him, congratulating him and the Spanish nation on the firm and manly step that he had taken on this important occasion, and recommending the immediate conveyance of the troops to Langeland, there to take post till the arrival of the transports. With this

view he had sent Captain Graves, of the Brunswick, to see what use could be made of the vessels in Nyborg, and was to order seamen in to man 20 of the smacks in the port, and more as the ships should arrive, for the reception of the baggage and artillery; and as seamen might be found among the Spanish troops, he suggested the propriety of the immediate establishment of a marine corps on the most extensive scale possible, and he again reminded the Marquis of the importance of embarking provisions and water with the troops. The admiral at the same time wrote to the governor of Nyborg, stating that the Spanish commander having deemed it expedient, under the present circumstances, to take possession of Nyborg, his duty naturally called him to a cooperation with the troops of that nation, and consequently a frequent com munication with the town; but that, notwithstanding the hostility of the day, he had given strict orders to all under his command to observe the utmost civi lity towards the inhabitants, and that it was his wish to abstain from every hostile and offensive act, so long as no hostile measures were pursued by the troops of Denmark or France against those of Spain; but that, should any opposition be attempted to the quiet embarkation of the Spanish troops, he should certainly, though most reluctantly, take measures which, it was to be apprehended, might occasion the destruction of the town. But although the Danish gani. son of Nyborg yielded to circumstances, the Fama armed brig, of 18 guns, and the Salorman cutter of 12, moored across the harbour near the town, rejec ted all remonstrance on the part of the Danes, and every offer of security made by the general and the admiral. The reduction of these vessels being absolutely necessary, and the Spanish general being unwilling to act hostilely a gainst Denmark, such small vessels and boats as could be collected were put under the orders of Capt. Macnamara, of the Edgar, who attacked and took them, but not without the lamented loss of Lieut. Harvey, of the Superb, an officer of much merit, and two seamen wounded; the enemy had seven killed and 13 wounded. Before they struck, the Spaniards in some measure departed from their general's intention, and

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

"On the roth the admiral wrote to the governor of Nyborg, that as his en trance 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 secured than by the word of a British officer, still it must be obvious to his Excellency, that the Spanish general had occasion for several of the small craft in the port, and that unless the masters and crews of them would lend their aid to equip and navigate their vessels, it might not be in his power to secure them from injury; but if they complied, he pledged himself, after the short service on which they were required, to use every means in his power to secure them from injury, and to grant passports for their safe return.

"Every thing being thus arranged, and expedition being deemed of the greatest importance, the Admiral shifted his flag to the Hound in the harbour, and as, from the circumstances of the weather, ships of the line could not be brought nearly in, 57 sloops or doggers found in the port were fitted by the seamen, in which great part of the artillery, baggage, and stores, was embarked that night and the following day, and removed to the point of Slypsham, four miles from Nyborg, where the army was embarked safely on the morning of the 11th, and without opposition, notwithstanding the very unfavourable state of the weather, and placed under the pro. tection of his Majesty's ships at the an. chorage of the island of Sproe. The whole were landed in the course of the afternoon of the 13th at Langeland, and a convention had been entered into between the Spanish general and the go. vernor of the island, which, on the one hand, enjoined abstinence from hostility, and on the other a sufficient supply of provisions, if this island (which is fertile) could afford it.

"Some sacrifices of horses and stores were deemed necessary by the general; and as the admiral considered it right to enter into his views and wishes, every unavoidable act of hostility was rigidly abstained from, for such the admiral did 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 ja Zealand, after having fired on the French 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; 600o embarked at Nyborg with the Marquis de la Romana, and upwards of 1000 from Jutland joined in the morning of the 11th. The ad. miral 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 90 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 moderstion of those who executed it. By this most grateful of all succours, we shall establish an additional claim to the gratitude 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 1oth, 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 vessels as were able to carry the Spanish troops to Gottenburgh;-from whence they were to embark for England on the roth 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, re-works, public dances, &c. &c. but all at the expense of the government. The minister 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 be a Robespierre or a Napoleon, a man of blood in a red night-cap, or a man of blood under an imperial diadem. Napoleon on this occasion received, of course, the congratulations of the Senate and other public bodies.

On Sunday the 21st August, a grand ball was given at the Hotel de Ville, at which their Imperial and Royal Majesties, with all their relations, ministers, and generals were present.

It has at length been permitted to the 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 taken place in that country since the French entered it, although in fact it is the his. tory of no one event; it is such a concatenation of palpable and contradictory falsehoods, as was never before issued even in revolutionary France. The people of Spain are represented as having been the only plunderers, the only persons guilty of cruelties and excesses, throwing off all allegiance, disregarding the constituted authorities, and anxious merely for disorder and revolution, whilst the French have conducted themselves with the utmost moderation and humanity, giving no provocation! All the cruelties which have been practised by the French themselves, are charged upon the Spaniards. The account of the war is of the same stamp. The narrative rambles from one province to another, always leaving off when the triumphant French were upon the point of entering the cities, which therefore the reader is led to believe were taken, and the entire provinces subdued. With the single exception of Dupont's defeat, it says that the French arms were invariably successful, and even in mentioning Dupont's defeat, it says nothing of

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 message 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 1806, 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 accustomed 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 be had made with his great ally the Emperor of Russia."

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.

montaise mounted 50 guns, long 19 pounders on her main-deck, and 36 pound carronades on her quarter-deck, and had on board 316 Frenchmen and 216 Lascars. She had 50 men killed and 100 wounded. Moreau, her second captain, was the same desperate ruffian who stabbed Capt. Larkins, after the capture of the Warren Hastings East Indiaman, and hom Sir Edward Pellew denounced, in his public orders to the fleet, as a proper object of vengeance, if ever he should be taken. Moreau conducted himself in a furious manner during the engagement. He would not suffer the ship to strike, and declared he would never be taken alive by the En

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 rated at 38, but mounts 46 guns,-and had only 200 men on board;-of whom 12 were killed, and 25 wounded.Lieut. Dawson succeeded Capt. Hardinge, and brought the St Fiorenzo, with her prize, into Columbo on the 12th of March.

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 :-glish. At last he discharged his pistols The Piedmontaise having heard that into his own body, jumped overboard, three East Indiamen, viz. the Charle- and was drowned. ton, Metcalf, and Devonshire, were to proceed from Bombay to Columbo without 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 conse quence of the heavy swell. The Pied,

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

On the 16th of July, the Seahorse, of 38 guns, arrived at Malta, with a very large Turkish frigate, of 50 brass guns and 700 men. She, with two other frigates, of 44 guns each, came out on purpose 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 three hours. The other 44 escaped. The Turkish ship was brought in a complete wreck. When the Lieutenant of the Seahorse boarded her, he found the offi. cers cutting up with their sabres the poor seamen for not making a longer resistance. She is said to have had 200 men killed, and 300 wounded. The Seahorse was much cut up in her masts and rigging, but had only six men killed and five wounded.

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