ver, purposing to attack Valladolid, which, if carried, would cut off all communication between Burgos and Madrid.

A letter from Madrid states, as an undoubted fact, that the Gendarmerie Sedentaire bave been marched from Paris to Spain; a measure which has not been before adopted in the whole course of the Revolution. The duty of this corps is, to maintain the police of the roads; and it is just as extraordinary to hear of their being marched off to the army, as it would be were the London watchmen to be formed into corps, and sent on foreign service, It may reasonably be doubted whether Buonaparte will venture to carry such a measure into execution. He has more than once called out the National Guard; but he has never left France to their protection. At no time when he has been forced to send his regular forces out of the king/lom, has he trusted arms in the hands of the people.

The Governor of Badajos has been beheaded by the Patriots of Spain; it appearing that he was inimical to their cause and interests.

The Governors of Carthagena, Valentia, and Saragossa have been displaced by the Pa riots, on account of their attachment to the French. In Valencia the Marquis D'Alvarez was killed by the people in the market-place,

The accounts from Bilboa state, that JOSEPH BUONAPARTE had at length entered Spain-that he was crowned King at St. Sebastian's on the 9th, that the most gloomy silence prevailed during the, ce

From St. Sebastian's he proremony. ceeded to Toloza, and thence to Vietora, where he was again proclaimed on the 10th, and intended to have prosecuted his route to Burgos;-advices from Marshal Bessieres had however induced him to delay his departure, and he remained at Victoria on the 11th.

The conduct of the Bishop of St. Andero is highly extolled by the friends of the good cause. Buonaparte had addressed a letter to him, full of promises, and inviting him to attend at Bayonne. The following is said to have been the worthy Prelate's answer." I cannotmake it convenient to attend; and if I could, I would not. I judge of your sincerity towards Spain by your conduct towards Portugal, and other kingdoms with which you have interfered. If you are in earnest in your offer to befriend the Spanish nation, let the first proof be your liberating our Sovereign and Family, and withdrawing your troops from among us; but this we do not expect you will do of your own accord; and therefore it becomes the Spanish maton to unite, as I trust they will, to compel you."

DECLARATION of War against the EMPEROR FRANCE, NAPOLEON the FIRST. FERDINAND the Seventh, King of Spain and the Indies, and in his name, to the Supreme Junta of both.

France, under the Government of the Emperor Napolcon the First, has violated towards Spain the most sacred compacts -has arrested her Monarch-obliged him to a forced and manifestly void abdication and renunciation; has behaved with the same violence towards the Spanish Nobles whom he keeps in his power-has declared that he will elect a King of Spain, the most horrible attempt that is recorded in history has sent his troops into Spain, se.zed her fortresses and her capital, and scattered her troops throughout the country-has committed against Spain all sorts of assassinations, robberies, and unheardof cruelties; and this he has done with the most enormous ingratitude to the services which the Spanish Nation has rendered France, to the friendship it has shewn her, thus treating it with the most dreadful perfidy, fraud, and treachery, such as was never committed against any Nation or Monarch, by the most barbarous or ambitious King or people. has, in fine, declared, that he will trample down our Monarchy, our fundamental, Laws, and bring about the run of our Holy Catholie Keligion. The only remedy, therefore, for such grievous ills, which are so manifest to all Europe, is in war, which we declare against him.

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In the name therefore of our King, Ferdinand the Seventh, and of all the Spanish nation, we declare war, by land and: sea, against the Emperor Napoleon the First, and against France; we are determined to throw off her domination and tyranny, and command all Spaniards to act hostilely against him, to do him all possible damage, according to the laws of war, to place an embargo upon all French ships in our ports, and all property and effects, in whatever part of Spain they may be, whether belonging to the Government or to the individuals of that nation. In the same manner we command, that no embarassment nor molestation be done to the English nation, nor its Government, nor its ships, property, or effects, nor any individual of that nation; we declare that there shall be open and free communication with England; that we have contracted, and will keep, an armistice with her; and that we hope to conclude a durable and lasting peace.

Moreover, we protest we will not lay down our arms till the Emperor Napoleon the First has restored to Spain our King, Ferdinand the Seventh, and the rest of the Royal Family, and has respected the rights of the nation which he has violated, as well

well as her liberty, integrity, and independence. And this we declare with the understanding and accordance of the Spanish nation.

We command that the present solemn Declaration be printed, posted, and circulated, among all the people and provinces of Spain and America, that it may be known in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Given in the Royal Palace of Alcozar, at Seville, this 6th of June, 1808,

By Order of the Supreme Junta of Government, MANUEL MARIA AGUILAR, Sec. JUAN BAPTISTA PARDO, Sec. We now turn, with much satisfaction, to the almost certain facts with respect to PORTUGAL. General Loison, after having been driven from Oporto in his route to reach Lisbon, has been, it is said, totally destroyed!-But it is with real sutisfaction we dwell upon the perilous situation of Junot at Lisbon. On the 13th inst. Sir A. Wellesley's Expedition, of 10,000 men, were within two days' sail of Lisbon. There then the attack before this time must have commenced, if the General shall determine it adviseable so to do. Junot's force is, however, we much fear, at least 17,000 strong. On the other hand, by the Jast advices we learn, that no co-operation can be looked to fom Gen. Spencer, who has proceeded to Xeres from Ayamonte, and is thence to proceed to Seville. We have reason, however, to believe, that 5,000 men of Gen. Moore's late Ariny have proceeded directly to join Gen. Wellesley; and as Sir C. Cotton has ten sail off the Rock of Lisbon, 2,000 marines may be spared to him. With this force we look with certainty to Sir Arthur's success-to the conquest of Lisbon-and to the acquisition of the Russian Squadron in the Tagus to the English Navy.

The way thus opened, we look to the whole of the Expedition now on foot sailing for the Tagus, and proceeding directly for Madrid by the great road along the banks of the Tagus, the best and most passable in both countries.

Such is the view of things which our information enables us at present to give; and we are tempted to hope for a very glorious result.

Two hundred thousand pounds, part of the exacted contribution of the French in Oporto, had been discovered and secured by the Provisional Government in the house of Josef De Souza Mello. Other large sums had been secured in two other houses, raised by similar exactions, At St. Ube's, the Patriots had put to death upwards of 500 Frenchmen, and they had determined not to leave a Frenchman alive in the North of Portugal. A similar massacre is said to have taken place at Algarve. At Sardao, a body of Portuguese marched eleven leagues in one day, in

very hot weather, and through the worst. of roads, to attack 900 Frenchimen; they fell'in with them, and put nearly the whole to death. A plot had been discovered, in which many of the Frenchified inhabitants of Oporto were concerned; and the city would have been burnt to ashes, but for a seasonable detection of the diabolical design. The Portuguese engaged in the plot had all been arrested, and were expected to be tried and executed in a few days. The Monks in Oporto had become soldiers. Upwards of 1500 of them took charge of the French prisoners, and disaffected persons, who were in confinement, and performed their duty with zeal and alacrity.

It is a circumstance much to be regretted, that a few days previous to its being known in Portugal that Spain had risen to assert her rights, 76 carts, richly laden with silver from the churches and other religious depositories at Oporto and other towns in Portugal, entered Lisbon, and were delivered to Junot as a portion of one of his forced contributions on the people. FRANCE.

While proceedings so patriotic are carrying on in the Spanish provinces, a scene of a very different kind has been exhibited at Bayonne. There, by a solemn mockery. practised on the Spanish nation, the Junta of the State, the Council of Castile, the City of Madrid, &c. &c. are made to address the Emperor Napoleon, and to solicit his interference to procure for that country a renovation of its Government. The Great Emperor, with his usual regard to the wishes of the oppressed, has in consequence been pleased to issue the following Proclamation:

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Napoleon, by the Grace of God, Em-" peror of the French, King of Italy,, Protector of the Confederacy of the Rhine, to all Men to whom these presents shall come, sends greeting: "The Junta of the State, the Council of Castile, the City of Madrid, &c. &c. having notified to us by their addresses, that the well-being of Spain requires a speedy stop to be put to the Provisional Government; we have resolved to proclaim, and we do by these presents proclaim, our well-beloved brother JOSEPH NAPOLEON, the present King of Naples and Sicily, to be King of Spain and India.-We guarantee to the King of Spain the independence and inte grity of his States in Europe as well as in Africa, Asia, and America; charging the Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom, the Ministers, and the Council of Castile, to cause this Proclamation to be expedited, and publicly announced, according to the usual custom, that none may plead ignorance hereof. Given at our Imperial Pa lace at Bayonne, June 6, 1808. (Signed) NAPOLEON,

H. B. MURAT, Minister of State."
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The French Government continues to propagate the grossest falsehoods with, respect to the affairs of Spain; and, while the whole of that kingdom is in a state of glorious insurrection against the Tyrant who would enslave it, and the French Fleet at Cadiz has been forced to surrender to the Spanish land and sea forces, we are unblushingly told, that the accounts from Cadiz, and every other part of Spain, are of the most tranquillizing nature!

The news of the surrender of the French Fleet at Cadiz was soon known in Holland; but none of the papers dare allude to the circumstance. Buonaparte lately made

an example of an unfortunate Journalist at Bourdeaux, who ventured to give some account of the Insurrection in Spain, and to insert one of the Proclamations of the Patriots; for this offence the Printer was dragged to prison, his presses destroyed, and his paper suppressed! But, lest this example should not be sufficient to deter other Journalists from inserting any artieles of an unfavourable nature, the Moniteur has lately given a caution to all the unofficial Journalists, not to insert any of the reports of insurrections or disturbances in Spain, as there is no foundation for them!

Private letters from Holland confirm the report of the disgrace of Talleyrand. BuoBaparte has not absolutely put him in prison, but he has given hin an employment which renders h. little, better than a prisoner. He is entrusted with the care of the late King and Queen of Spain; and as they are confined to a limited space, their gaoler of course is under the same restrictions.

A gentleman, arrived in town from Paris, by the way of Holland, states, that Buonaparte's treatment of the Spaniards had excited general discontent; and that handbills and pasquinades against him and his family were circulated in great numbers, and read with avidity. The severity of the Police of Paris had been in vain exerted to suppress the increasing spirit of dissatisfaction, although from 40 to 50 persons were daily committed to prison.

Buonaparte has published at Bayonne a New Constitution for Spain, by which he proposed to do away particular local privileges and dutics-it is of considerable length; but from the state of affairs in that country, of but little interest.

Napoleon accompanied his brother Joseph to Andaye; the latter was received at Irun by a body of Italian troops, who escorted him to St. Sebastian.

Duroc, Buonaparte's Chamberlain, and confident, has been created by him, Duke of Friuli.

Marmont, Commander of the French troops in Dalmatia, has been created Duke of Ragusa.

Asker Khan, the Persian Ambassador to

France, is considered the richest subject in the World, his revenues amounting to nearly a million sterling per annum.

Among the presents which the Emperor of Persia has sent to Napoleon, are two sabres, one belonging to Tamerlane, the other to Nadir Shah; 200 cashmire shawls, some cashmire hangings, oriental rosaries, with 99 pearls of uncommon value, with a profusion of diamonds, rubies, &c. stated to be worth more than twelve millions of francs.

French Naval Officers have been sent to all the ports of the Baltic, for the purpose of engaging German and Polish Volunteers for the French Navy. One of these officers, at Stettin, a M, Lierson, in an advertisement circulated in the neighbourhood, invites the seamen of that district" to join the Emperor Napoleon in the project he has undertaken, of sending to the bottom of the ocean the proud Islanders who have so long tyrannised on the surface of it."

HOLLAND.

A report is prevalent on the Continent, and has excited great sensation in Holland, that Buonaparte had announced his purpose of removing his brother Louis to Naples, and of annexing the Dutch Provinces to France.--The statement has acquired increased credit from an order issued in the Dutch Army, for the dismissal of all Officers who are not natives of Holland.

ITALY.

His Holiness the Pope has published a Reply to the outrages of Buonaparte; which, while it is meek, as becomes the character of its author, is at the same time manly. Circulated through Italy, a Country devoutly attached to the Holy See, it cannot fail to produce the deepest effect.

The story of a new Pope having been chosen on the resignation of Pius VII. is unfounded. Prince Pignatelli, Bishop of Palermo, who was stated to have been chosen in the conclave as the successor to the chair of St. Peter, has been doad these two years,

The allowance offered by Buonaparte to his Holiness, as Bishop of Rome, was 300,000 scudi per month.

GERMANY.

The military exertions of Austria are of a nature that clearly indicate the alarm and jealousy which the conduct of Buona, parte has excited in her Councils; and they at least prove that she is not insensible to the danger of her situation, if they do not go the length to manifest a disposia tion to resist the farther progress of his usurpations.

The Emperor Francis has published an Edict, purporting that no child shail be admitted into any public school or hospi

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Buonaparte, some time since, by a convention with the King of Saxony, undertook to defray a third part of the expences of the Polish army; but by a recent decree communicated by Marshal Davoust, he has taken on himself its entire maintenance, and has ordered every possible means to be used for its auginentation.

cal States by French troops. The Emperor Alexander also, immediately on receiving, by M. Ossepow, who was at tached to the Russian Embassy in Spain, advice of the changes intended in that monarchy by Buonaparte, sent orders to Prince Jusserow to proceed to Paris with a formal protest against the deposition of the Bourbon family.

M. d'Ezernichew, Captain in the Imperial Life Guards, was sent by Alexander to Bayonne to obtain some mitigation of the contributions imposed by Gen. Victor on his Prussian Majesty. Buonaparte re

Private letters, and even papers from Gottenburg, talk of a curious and unexplained misunderstanding between the King of Sweden and Sir J. Moore. One account states it to have proceeded from the gallant officer's having listened to the representations of the Norwegians to have their neutrality guaranteed by England, and to be made independent both of Denmark and Sweden. Another account states, that the misunderstanding arose from a demand of the King of Sweden to have the British force put into his own cominand, to regain Finland, although no magazines had been prepared for their maintenance, to which Sir John refused his acquiAll accounts, however, agree in this, that Sir John was at one time under arrest; and some even maintain that he left Stockholm secretly and in disguise.

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Gottenburg, July 8. According to private letters from Stockholm, received by the post of to-day, the King is gone to Finland, for the purpose of having a meeting with the Emperor Alexander. It is stated in these letters, that the reason of the success of the Swedes against the Russians in Finland has been, that considerable numbers of the latter have been ordered to march into Russian Poland, which country, it is rumoured, Buonaparte has demanded; and those letters go so far as to say, that the meeting of Alexander and Gustavus has for its object the forming of a new Coalition against France, to which Austria will join all her force. RUSSIA.

The Emperors of Russia and Austria. sent Ambassadors to Paris, to remonstrate

tion, invited him to his table, and presented him with a valuable ring and a brace of pistols, but declined entering ou the subject of his mission. When M. Ezernichew returned to St. Petersburg early in the last month, the Emperor expressed some soreness at the failure of his mediation, and dispatched couriers to Vienna and Koningsberg; sending at the same time Messrs. Holmstroe and Schenk with important dispatches to Copenhagen: the latter gentleman was, under particular circumstances, to pass into Sweden. The Court of Denmark, on the receipt of the above dispatches, sent the Chainberlain Rosencrantz on an extraordinary mission to Paris; according to some accounts, to obtain the removal of the French, Dutch, and Spanish troops from Holstein, &c.; and by others, to co-operate with the Imperial Courts in their negotiations in relation to Italy and Spain.

A Russian army is forming in the neighbourhood of Memel, and a corps of 25,000 men has been assembled at Riga. These corps are reported to be intended for an expedition into Sweden; but the magnitude of the former shew that it has another and a more important destination.

AMERICA.

The Court Martial on Commodore Bar ron, for his affair with the Leopard, has adjudged him to be guilty of not having made the necessary preparations for the defence of the Chesapeake, and have sentenced him to be suspended from all command in the American navy for five years, and without pay, to be computed from the 8th Feb. last. The President has confirmed the sentence.

The Législature of Massachusetts, on the 2d ult. passed a resolution disappro ving of the measures of the General Go❤ vernment, by a majority of 27; the num bers being, Ayes 246, Noes 219.

A hatter in America has obtained a pa tent for manufacturing hats of the bark of the birch-tree, either to be worn unce vered, or covered with fur, silk, &c.

COUNTRY

COUNTRY NEWS.

July 4. The Young Roscius took his final Icave of the stage this night, in the character of Young Norval, atStratford upon-Avon.

On the 11th, 12th, and 13th inst. Mr. Cannington opened various barrows in the neighbourhood of Stonehenge, under the direction of Sir Richard Hoare, Bart and with the aid and assistance of A. B. Lambert, esq. and found a number of curious remains of Celtic ornaments, such as beads, buckles, and broaches in amber, wood, and gold; one of which, for its elegance and appropriate form, is at once a proof of the nobility of the person for whom the barrow was raised, and the elegance of the arts at the period of the interment, about 3000 years from the present period. The shape of this curious article is conical, and the exact form of the barrow itself, which it was most probably intended to figure. Conceive a piece of wood, imbricated in layers, one over the other, to the summit of the cone, and covered with thin plates of pure gold, and adorned with circles round the middle, and near the bottom with a triangular festoon about the lower edge, in which are two holes for a thread or wire to suspend it.

July 13. The body of Joseph Glendinning was found murdered in his own field, near Workington. He was seen very near the place, in company with a man at present unknown, between seven and eight o'clock in the morning, and was found dead between two and three in the afternoon; and from every circumstance it appears that the murder must have been committed within a few minutes after he was seen with the said unknown person. A more cruel and barbarous murder has not been heard of in any country. He had five wounds in the breast and ribs, eleven in the belly, twelve in the neck, and one in the right leg.

Bristol, July 16. The storm of last night appears to have exceeded, in awful phænomena, any one recorded for many years past. Unlike the tempests of the milder zones, the thunder was remarked to roll in one continuous roar for upwards of an hour and a half, during which time, and long afterwards, the flashes of lightning followed each other in the most rapid and uninterrupted succession. But the most tremendous circumstance attending this elemental tumult was the destructive hailshower which accompanied its progress. It may be doubted, however, whether such a name be applicable to this extraordinary phænomenon, since the masses of ice. which fell on the places where the tempest most fiercely raged, bore no resemblance to hail-stones in formation or mag nitude, most of them being of a very irregular and polygonic shape, broad, flat, and ragged; and many of them mea

suring from three to nine inches in cir cumference. They appeared like fragments of one vast plate of ice, and broken into small masses in its descent towards the earth. The tempest arose in the South-west, and spreading to the NorthWest, gradually died away in the NorthEast. A female in the Rope-walk at Bristol received so much damage from the lightning, that her life is despaired of.— In the house and gardens of Stephen Cave, esq. at Frenchay, there were between 14 and 1500 panes of glass broken, a large field of beans entirely destroyed, and many bushels of wall-fruit picked up; his loss is estimated at little less than 2001.-The row of trees before Mr. Tucker's house at Moorend was so broken, that the leaves and small branches lay in the road a foot deep.-The windows of J. R. Lucas, esq. at Stapleton, and of Mr. Alderman Claxton, at Almondsbury, were most of them

broken.

At Newton, Corston, and Kelston, most of the windows that lay in the direction of the storm have been broken, as well as the glass of the hot-house, &c. in the gardens; and many windows in the mansions of W. G. Langton, esq. at Newton; of Sir John Hawkins, at Kelston; of James Stevens, esq. at Camerton; and of- Jol-. liffe, esq. Amerdown. The plantations and shrubberies of Mr. Langton were covered with leaves and branches of trees, and the pines and other plants in his hot-houses destroyed. In the South and West fronts of Mr. Jolliffe's mansion not a pane of glass was left whole; and the ground was even the next morning covered with ice' that fell.

At Mr. Dickinson's, Kingsweston, Somerset, the storm was tremendous. All the windows on the South-west side of the house were broken; and many rooks were picked up on the lawn, killed by the weight of the hail-stones.

At Radstock, several fields of corn are nearly destroyed, the stalks being mostly cut off in the middle by the masses of ice. At Writhlington, near Radstock, very great damage has been done to the corn. Farmer Hockey, in particular, will be a sufferer of more than 5001.; Farmer Brown, upwards of 360.; Farmer Jaines, upwards of 1607.; and the other farmers in propor tion. The storm lasted about 40 minutes; and many of the hail-stones measured from six to nine inches in circumference.

A boy belonging to Mr. Harding, of Keynsham, was struck down by the lightning, and his recovery was for some time doubtful. A sheep was also killed.

All the glass in the gardens, and a great part.in the house, of Mells 'park, to the amount of 150l. were destroyed: many of the pieces of ice that fell measured from eight to eight and a quarter inches in circumference.