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yOL. l.] * PRINTED BY DANIEL STARNES & Co. WEST END OF BRO AD-STREET, proposals ,y DANIEL STARNES & CO. f IN TH£ CITY OF AUGUSTA, TO BE ENTITLED Mirror of the T. imes. THE universal promulgation of m A t ht eentral dcrtribution of know- objects of the firft importance m where liberty ha. left traces I £ footfteps, under every government ; kic h consult. the happinef. of Man— f*id ‘ b * Great Lord Bac “ n . DO wer/' united with virtue ’it certainly ■ rhertv ’ Where ignorance reign* there triumph, and despotism governs. A. n become, enlightened aut horny w.l! be Cttd & morality restored—Knowledge & ... Jt are the bases of freedom—the one inftrua. us in our rights, the other teaches „our duties; the firfHhews us how to "ft nift the belt possible form of goTern- Knt the lad require, us to obey it when con t,fai. It is therefore advantageous every *here, hut ia a Hipublic it is ablolutely ne ffJ that corred information fliould be widely diffufed and easily obtained: For fate the profit who govern. 7bty never intentionally choose bad leaders or approve rung measures, yet they are liable to error _givc them true details and they will judge correctly —for on plain grounds the people al n«form just opinions ; whenever they mif uactbtir own intcreft ‘tis owing entirely to irmtcf information in the many or want of konefty in the few. But extensive political in teuton is not to be acquired without much k tur, and few have ltifure to ftucly the , hfteir.s,compare the opinions, & peruse the pjts of Locke, Sydney , Gibbon, Hume & Vittel. If an acquaintance with the true pteplcsof government u* duties of a citizen wild be acquired only from huge folios i Ljitfule treat lies, it wculd be leldom fought trif fought, the plough, the hatchet, and iklawmuft stand (till. Some cheaper and cafier means of fatisfying curiosity and ptucuring information mult therefore be ioked for; and where i. intelligence, dteapnefs and convenience united with more tl an in the closely printed col uim of the humble News paper ? Our wmtrymcti appeal so well convinced of tit uletulncfs of periodical prims, and have hwqliberally encouraged them, that we .a it unncccffary to insist on their merit ntUlmua hesitate to request public pal ""F for another Ncw.-papcr eftablifli tet. V\tun promise little except what attea kfflihonefty & industry can perform. The yr.nripl.es of our Paper, like our own. will be lepoblican, “ but the fame freedom of opin miwhich we claim for ourfelve*, we wish «thcr.to enjoy ” Civil and Religious r? " ,be birh right of cvry man, and **, W, U not ej'end the fame indulgence till parties, and all fe«£k, which he wishes -is own, u already or deserves to be a t Tofapporf Religion and morality will ! *sir pnde— 1 0 encourage literature our rZ~‘nv COraniUnications calculated to 1 W bt refufed; no hint will be Ktl'aw ft* f n e u Countr r ic » necessary ! Ikkaown l! ftoU u- be neither vague nor it,... P ubl 'cadls of the State leg a;;d reforebepubHihed asthe x R ° F r THE T,MES w:il Lvtd Ca,Hafs ! 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Captain Kelson, of the Ham. burgh ship Cotnmercium, has po litely favored us with London pa pers to the JOth December, five days later than were before receiv- I ed. Captain K. sailed from Ports mouth on the evening of the 16th December , read the London pa pers of that morning, but was una- ! ble to procure any of a iater date than (hose with which he has fa vored us. A packet arrived at Portsmouth the day before captain K. sailed, in lour days from Corrunna. She brought the most unpleasant ac count ofthes'ateof events in Spain. It was stated that Nepoleon and Joseph Bonaparte were both at Ma drid, and that considerate anxiety was evinced for the British troops in Spain, who had been unable to form a junction with each other. All the troops which had em barked in England had been re landed, k the transports dispatch ed to bring home the British troops from Spain. The Swedes had suffered severe ly in Finland, and it was expected that they would be compelled to make peace with Russia. Notwithstanding several French regiments have been removed Irom Naples to Spain, the troops in the former country are still estimated at 60 COO men, two thirds of whom are French. Admiral Berkeley is appointed to the command of die British IL-et oil Lisbon, in the room of Sir Charles Cotton- Marshal Soult is created duke of Dalmatia. A public meeting was held in London on the 9th December, to open a subscription for supplying the Spanish armies with clothing, &c. Chareston Courier. Vienna November 2. By a courier who arrived here a 1 fewdayssince from Constantinople J intelligence has been received that I Mr. Adair reached the Dardan | eiles on the JOth October, & imme j diately commenced negociatoins, tending to the speedy restoration. o| peace between England and the Sublime Porte. It has been ob served for some time past, that the English ships of war which are crui sing in the Archipelago allow Tur kish vessels to pass unmolested, & do not in the least obstruct the in tercourse t>f trade. Trieste November 3* In the Adriatick there is at pre sent an Eugiidi squadron, comman ded, as it is reported, by admiral Colling wood ; the frigates belong, ing to it cruise on the coasts of is. triaand Dalmatia- Within these fourteen days, the English have sent three flags of truce to the Russian admiral’s ship in our port, which each tune gave occasion for holding a council ol war, at which the Russian consul attended. It is said that the English admiral has demanded that tire four Russian ships & 2 frigates, which are in our port be unrigged, disarmed & their cannon carried on shore, until six months after peace. It appeals that the Russian admiral is not inclined to comply with this de mand. He has brought up his fleet nearer to the walls, and a cou rier has been disdatched to the Russian ambassador at Vienna. London, November 30. Wi th respect to the military ex- 1 ertions of Austria, they afford new proof of the lively snsee ntertained by the government & the people of the dangers which ultimately threa ten them Irom the unboundeu am bition & gigantic projects ol Bona parte. In addition to the Hunga rian insurrection, which has been rendered a permanent force, at the i disposal of the emperor of Austria, “ HOLD THE MIRROR UP TO N ATU R t.”~ StiakcSpeqrC. for three years, tin* states have un dertaken to raise CO,OOO snore re cruits for the defence of the royal throne and the country, in case of its being attacked by any foreign power. Tin- king of Prussia Ins been ob liged to deliver to the French bis! famous service of gold ; it was con- 1 veyed to Berlin under an escort of 1 general Blucher’s hussars, called the “ Deat’h Heads.” A serious affray’took place between these t hussars anrf some French troopers, who had insulted them, and sever al lives were lost before order was restored. December 6. Flag of Truce. A French flag of truce arrived yesterday mornfoir % J it Dover, from Boulogne. She lias brought a French & a Russian | messenger, together with a captain ; of a French man of war, and ano ther gentleman, but who or what he is, we are not informed. They had not yesterday evening been suffered to land, though the vessel was permitted to come into the harbor, and lay close to the cjuav with a guard over her, waiting tor an answer from government to a te legraphie dispatch sent Ivom Dover to London yesterday morning at eight o’clock' An answer was re turned yesterday by telegraph, and it is said thac permission was gran ted them to proceed to town. The vessel which has brought the mes sengers over, was formerly one of the parage vessel beUvcn Dover and Calais. It is generally and very naturally supposed, that the communications they have brought contain a reply to the answer sent by our government to tile late pro positions from Erfurth. The re ports at Dover were, as may be ex pected, various. It was said by j officers who had gone on board, j that Bonaparte had actually re turned from Spain to Paris, pre vious to the setting out of the mes sengers from that capital. Ano ther current report was that they bring over such overtures from Napoleon as England cannot re ject. This last observation, it is veiy likely, has becui made by the Frenchmen. We shall be very glad td know that this is true. \Ve wist) for peace as much as any bo dy ; but we must confess that we see very, very little reason to ex pent any thing like an offer at the pre»eut moment, winch the inter est or the honor of the country will permit us to accempt. Bonaparte may attempt to de lude us mto a Iruitiess ncgociatiou, in order to raise the hopes of the pacific in tins country, to sow di visions among us, (iu which we are sure lie will be disappointed) or to paralyse our hostile exertions, by creating false hopes of peace. He | may aim at. appearing pacific in the eyes of Europe, and try to tiing the blame of continuing the war upon Great Britain, Tnat he makes any proposition, or writes any answer to us on the subject ol peace, in the spirit of peace , 've cannot believe, and we need only refer to tbe bulletins of ins army in .Spain, to be convinced that ins hatred & rancor against this coun try, so far from subsiding, increas es in proportion to tue means we exert to secure our independence and our national greatness. It can scarcely be imagined, when be has t to the fullest extent committed I himself in an attempt to execute , his disigus in Spam, that he can : have any admissible basis of treaty j to propose to us, connected as our interests now are with the cause of Spanish independence, the ao- . knowledgement of which must be with us an iiidispetisible condition, December 3. The messengers now in town from the French and Russian gov ernments,are, we understand, the same persons who brought the for mer message. Thev were accom- O | panieu to tow n from Dover by Mr. <Xoit, Dm king’s messenger, to Mr. sha w’» house, where they con -1 tinned last night. Their delay at ! Dover was, we learn, principally occasioned by tiie fog, which pre vented the communication from government. They are expected to set out on their return this day I jor to- morrow at farthest. The dis- I patches which they brought were 1 yesterday the subject of a cabinet • ouucil, & the answer, it is stated, will be ready to be transmitted to day. It is added, that a British officer is to carry our dispatches. File harbor of Brest was reeou j noitered by the in-shore squadron I of lord Gainbier’s fleet on the 23th oh. when tile enemy’s force consis ted of eleven sail of the line, one of them a three decker, and three frigates, all ready for sea, with sails ! bent, and top-gallant-yards across, I besides a corvette with topmasts j struck, and two or three vessels unrigged. By the Elizabeth Packet, arri ved from Corunna, we have re ceived Spanish papers up to the 2d inst. Gen. Moore, with his troops arrived at Salamanca on the i4th ult. From an address of the Central Junta to the people of Madrid, it appears that some of the British troops had arrived at the Escurielon the 21st ult. The intelligence from Arragon is exhil lrating, but it does not reach later than the 3d ult. December 10. The disagreeable intelligence we communicated yesterday re ceives more general belief. To re move all doubts upon the truth of the severe reverse, and serious disaster, which our brave allies have suffered, we need only to state, that orders were received yesterday at Portsmouth, for the disembarkation of ail the troops j that had embarked for Spain, with | all possible dispatch. In conse quence of the fineness of the wea ttier, the transports immediately ran near shore and disembarked the horses belonging to the. 3d and 4th regiments of dragoons. At Portsmouth, it was understood, that the transports were to be sent out empty to bring back troops. A cabinet council met yester day about two o’clock, at the fo reign office, it sat until seven in the evening. When it broke up, Mr. Hunter the messenger, was order ed to proceed with dispatches to Spain. As i uesduy and Thurday are the days on which cabinet councils arc assembled, much im portance was attached to the extra ordinary meeting of yesterday, on account of the haste with which i: Was summoned and the continu ance of die deliberations for so long a period as hv c hours. It is understood that subject under i consideratiou was the situation of our army in Spam, and it was re ported last night that Mr* Hunter carried out with him the approba tion of government to the pun of retreat suggested by sir J. Moore, and orders lor the whole of the Bi i tish force to be concentrated in Portugal. Transports have been ordered to Corunna and Vigo, and evoi y arrangement has been made to facilitate tnts operation. The intelligence pf the defeat of the army of gen. Castanos is said to have been conveyed from Ma , drid to sir John Moore, who imme | diately transmuted it to sir David : Baird. It reached him at his head I quarters at Astorga, on the 29th, ’ oi November. Bir Johu Moore , at the same time communicated to him, that he proposed immedi ately to retreat loworda Port ugal and ordered sir David to retire upon V igo, in order to re-emha/k onboard die transports, which haci been previously sent thither from Corunna. All embarkations lor the Peninsula, we understand, are suspended. Our readers will see with admir ation, what is voluntarily doing in me city of Loudon iu j AVor oi tier inhabitants, an the same place MONDAY, March 6, 1809* | where the merchants of London ! entertained the Ypanidi deputies a short time back, the body of the inhabtants have met, and com* me need a subscription toward* supplying the wants of the Spanish soldiers, which is filling with un exampled rapidity. There is in | this something so magnificent, j that it must strike every eye, and i operate powerfully as an example j throughout the land. The bad news we have just heard will not damp the ardour of liritish sym pathy and ge»ero9ity. The neces sity of assistance and call upon our liberality, are only increased by the vicisitudea that attend the che quered fortune of war—“ What is lost in the field, in the field may be regained.’ We shall never gave up hope, till we see the Spaniards despair of their country. At 1 o’clock yesterday noon the messengers returned to Dover, & were to sail this morning early, in the Nancv, captain Hayward— Our Dover intelligence states, that they are accompanied by six ladies, of whom three are neiees of Talleyrand. We know nothing further of these ladies. Probably in a month or two we may hear of their elevation to the rank oi duch esses, in some of the new arrange ments of rank and title that al most every dav brings forth. Substance of private letters from Spain —One of those things most complained of by Sir, David Baird, is the want of regular com munications, not only b> tween the several armies directly, but so far as he could judge, between the several armies and the government. Sir David Baird had received no information with respect to the state of the Spanish ai mies, much less any with respect to the strength, position, or motions of the enemy. 'The Marquis de Itomana had, it seems, the same complaint to make. He expected to find the army of Gallicia near 40,000 strong when lie came to take the command of it, but he found it defeated and dispersed. He was left to collect it bv his own efforts, and he knew not that there were any reserves to recruit & reinforce him, when he had got out of the reach of the enemy with such part of the wreck of the gaL lician army as fie could save. The marquis is said to have writ ten m a still more desponding style to his comryinan, the Mar quis de Villadares, who is come to Corunna from Portugal with a corps ol about 2000 Spaniards sent long siuce from Gallicia to assist in expelling the French from Lisbon. The re-embarka tion of our troops will laku at Coru mu but at V.go. Paris Nov. 20.• A statement of the finances of the empire, was lately presented to the legislative body, by which it appears that the expenditure for the year 1809, is estimated at 730- 000,000, francs. J he conscription for the kingdom of Italy for the year 1809, is fixed at 12,000 men and will be im mediately carried into execu tion. THIRD BULLETIN or THE ARMfT Oi SPAIN. «< T’l “ Burgis N w# XAt The army oi Gallicia is Hy ing from Bilboa, and i. pur9u ' d by marsnal the duke of Bcllona, m the direction of Espinoso, and marshal duke of DunUic ia that of V llluicayo. Marshal the duke of, Dalmatia h*»j proceeded to iteynosa lo cut off their retreat— so that very important event# may be expected. “ General M U hand has entered I ulencta with his divGious of ca valry, & tent detachments to the passes ot Keynosa in pursuit of a pai k of artillery, belonging to th© army of Gallicia. File young students of Sala manca who thought of nothing [No. XXL]