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Foreign Intelligence. PAULS, Nov ember 20. A statement of the finances of the empiie, v. js Liely presented to the leg islative body by which it appears that the expenditure iuMhe year 1809, is esti mated a’. 7 30,000 00' > francs. The conscription for the kingdom of Italy, f*r the y«ar 1809, is fixed at 13.000 men, and will b« immediately tarried into execution. THIRD BULLETIN’ OF THE ARMY IN SPAIN. I'MOOI, KOTKMJP.* 14. 4i Thr army of Gallic,ia is flying from IVilboa, and is pursued by Marshal the l)uk« of Bcllona, in the direction of Es jflnouo, atid Marshal the Duke of D\n *tc in that of Marshal the Duke of Dalmstia has proceeded to Kaynnsa to cut off their retreat—so that very important event* may he; expected. *• Getter.l Milhaud has entered P*l ettcia with hi. division of cavalry, and arm cl eta t m.nta to the passes < I Rey noso, in pursuit of a park of atillery, bel mgi u„ p n the *.rmv ®f Gaificia. “Th 1 uiijj stutUn** of S.dam.Tßca, who thought of ivibing short of the tempi V of France, and the fanatical peasantry *h>vt already dreamed cf plun dering Bayonne and Bordeaux, and con ceived that they were every where con ducted kv s-lints that had appeared to their cheating monks, now see all their mischievous illusions vanishing; their despair and confusion arc at the height, they lament over the misfortunes to which they luva bccoma a prey, the 1 fi!s<.hoods they hart been made to be lieve, and tiie causeless s'ruggle in which they have involved themselves. “ The whole plain of the Castile* is already covered with cur cavalry; the ardor and s.al of our troops enable them to march fourteen or fifteen miles a day, with great tusc. Our pieque?!* are up* i on tne Douro. The wnolc coast, from 1 Li. Andcroto Bi’boa, is cleared of the 1 antmy. j “ 1 he unfortunate city of Burgos, a ; prer to sli calamities of a city taken by ! storm tumbles with terror. Priests, ‘ monk*, rik! inhabitants, took to flight upon the first tidings of the battle, o;»- prehensivc that the soldi ura of the army of Eatrentadur* would, as they gave out defend themselves in their houses, and that they would oe first plundered by these, and afterwards by our soldiers, who, having driven out the enemy, would find no inhabitants there. u Such men as M. Von Stein, who, from the want of troops of the line, themselves incapable of opposing our eagles, encourage the extravagant idea of un insurrection en masse, ought to be sensible of the evils resulting from it, and of the very inconsiderable obstacles which such a tesource can offer to reg ular troops. “In Burgos and the environs, a (quantity of wool has been found, to the amount oftbirty millions, which his Ma jesty the (Emperor has ordered to be put under sequestration. All the wool belonging to monks, or any other per sons who have joined the insurgents, will be confiscated and appropriated in the first instance to the indemnification of the losses sustained by the French ; for even i.t Madrid, Frenchmen resident there for forty years, have been stripped t of their property. Those Spaniards who have been lnithful to their King, were declared exiles. The property of the most virtious und enlightened min ister Azinas, of the most able seamen Massaredo, and of the best soldier in Spain. OFarrcl, has been publicly sold. That of Campod’Alanje, respectable foi iii* virtues, his reputation, and his, wealth, being the owner of 60,000 Mar-j inos, and having an annual income of j three millions, lus become tha prey of j these frantic proceedings. “ Another measure ordered by the Emperer, is the confiscation of all En glish goods and colonial produce landed in Spain, since the instruction. The merchants of London do very well to send their merchandize to Lisbon,j Oporto, and the ports of Spain. The more they sand, the greater the contri butions with which tiny supply us. “ The city of Valencia, governed by aw vrthy Bishop, has received our troop* with kindness. That city suffers none j of the evils of war. * A virtuous Bishop, vrho observes j the doctrines of the Gospel, and who L ; inspired with Christian chanty, and lVoin whose lips flows nothing but lion-j cy, is the g. - vtest blessing that Heawn j Can bestow up >n a people ; but an atn- Litious, rancouruus, and wicked prelate, ■ w:>o preaches nothing but insurrection, disobedience and disorder, is a monster that God has sent in his wrath to nations to mislead them, ty polluting the very ; fuuntuin of morality. “ Id the prisoni of Burges are a great nuuiber of Monks, who were stoned by the peasantry. Wretches, (said they to them) it is you that have pitmgvd us in to this gulphof misery; perhaps we shall never again behold our unnappy , wives and poor children. \\ retches ! a religious God will punish you in Hell for all the calamities you hav* brought on our families and our country." FOURTH Bulletin of the Army in Spain. “ Burgoiy Xvvember. 15. j “ His Majesty yesterday reviewed; the division of Mai chnnd. Ile appoint-, td the most meritorious office is and' sub officers to fill the vacant commis sions, and bestowed reward* upon the sokinr* that distinguished themselves. Ilis Majesty was highly pleased with these troops, who had just arrived, without a single halt, from the borders of tne Vistula. “ The Duke cf Elchingen, has set oft' from Barges.' “ The Emperor reviewed his guards this morning, upon the plain of Bur gos. His Majesty cflervaids inspect ctl the division of D*«o)ks, and filled jup all the vacancies in that division. k - Event* are in preparation, and all is in progress. Nothing cun succeed in war thut is not the result of a Weil digested plan. “ Among the prisoners were seme who.had on tl : v buttons «n eagle re- ■ versed with t arrows, and the motto, I “To the Conqueror of France." By j this ridiculous bravado, we may easi;y j j recognize the countrymen of Don j ' Quixote. “ I? would be impossible to find worse : troops cither in the mountains or the pi ins. Clownish ignorance, silly con-1 ccits, cruel*» towards the vvt.k, and* baseness and cowardice townrus the j strong, iuch it the scjhc wc iiav? be-1 . fore us,—The monks and the iuquisi-j j ti.in lmc plunged this nation into b*r-j i barities. ! “ Ten thousand light infantry and i | dragoons, with 24 field piece*, march* j. ; ed off on the \ Itti to attack the rear of ; the English division that was said to be at Valladolid. These brave fellowß • went over 34 miles of ground in two days, but our hopes were disappointed. We entered Palencii and Valladolid, and advanced even G miles further, and found no Englishmcn, but abundance of promises ami assurances. “ In the mean tune it appears cer tain, that a division of their troops has disembarked at Corunna, and that ano ther division, at the beginning of this mouth, entered Bad. j vs. The day we fall in with them will i>e a day of festi vity to the French tinny. May they moisten.with their blood that continent which they have desolated by their in trigues, their monopoly, mid their hor rible selfishness ! May they instead of 30,000, be 80 or 100,000 strong ; that i the English mothers may lorn what j the calamities of war me, and that the English government may not always continue to sport with the lives and blood of the people of the continent. “ The greatest falsehoods, the basest means, hare been employed by English machiavclism to mislead the Spanish nation ; but the bulk of it is still good. Biscay, Navarre. Old Castile, and the ; greater part of Arragon itself, arc well disposed. The nation in general be holds with the most profound sorrow, the abyss into which it is plunged, and will speedily curse the authors of so many calamities. “ Floridoa Blanca, who is at the head of insurgents, is the person who wai minister under Clutrlts 111. He was always the sworn enemy of Franca, and the zealous partizan of England. It is to be hoped that he will, in the evening of his days, discover the errors of his political life, lie is an old man, who, to the blindest attachment to the En glish, adds the most creduloas super stition. Ilis confidents and frier is arc the most fanatical and stupid cf the Monks. j “ Tranquility is restored ct Burgos i and the environs. To the first moment 'of fury confidence has succeeded. The i peasants have returned to their villa ! ges, and ure again pursuing their la i bouts.’’ j LONDON, December 14. j Accounts have been received from ' Saragossa, dated the 24th, stating that Gen. CusUnos, iip-.ii hearing that the | French were moving a corps upon .So | rio, from Burgos, and passing the Ebro, J at Logrono, hail assembled an army of 40,00'J f »ot, and 4CGJ horse, and had taken a position in an oblique line from Tudcla to Borgu. This position was unfavorable, as Fudela, the right and ; the advanced part cf the position, was commanded by heights, and was inde fensible. The French look advantage of this error, and having collected an army of 45,000 men, commenced their attack on the Spanish right, on the 33d and deflated two divisions of Valenci . en% and Murcuns, who retreated with : considerable loss, towards Saragossa. December 15. We have at length received the French « fiicial details of the late action in Spain ; they are contained in eight additional Bulletins, from the fifth to the : twelfth inclusive. They are not so un favorable to the Spanish cause as we had denied to expect by the previous re- j ' ports. The Monilcurs come down to ; the 11th inst. but the Twelfth Bulletin j is in that of Clh, and the psptrs of the j 7th, Bth, 9th and 10th. tio not contain; one word of new s respecting Spain. We ! may there'ore presume, tivattn* French did not obtain any important advantage after the victory over Gen. Casta nos. With respect to that battle, the French by no means claim so complete a victo ry as we were told they had gained. 1 ha Bulletin states, that the action took place on the 23d ult. at i udeim. It commenced at 9 o'clock in the morn ing, and tndedin the complet* defeat of the Spanish army, of which S3GO, including 300 officers, were teken pri i soners, ana 4000 were left on the field of battle, or driven into the Ebro. r l he r rnainder us the defeated army wi re j pursued by the French cavalry, parfti the direction of Saragossa, and port in i , the direction of AgrcUa and-TarTupona, \ *on the frontiers of Arragon. Ihe pur- j suit was continued to the 25th inclusive, j on V'hii 'f day *» division of I renbh ca valry orrivt bat Boa. 'i he number of • prisoners taken in the Intel vai, be twtm 1 that fc the 23<J, amounted, wt are told,* I to 5000, all * t the iine, with 30 pieces ot i ; artillery. No quarter w«a given to the I | aimed peasants. The French, accnici- \ ing to own account, lest very few ! men in this affair. It does not appear, that though de feated, the Spaniards were disperser.: ; j on the contrary, the Bulletin slates, that j they had ictreatad upon Saragossa."— Another strong proof, (if any addition-j nl proof were wanting) that CastanosS , aimy is not annihilated, is, tint the j French, notwithstanding their victory, i have not ventured to advance very Gr. The battle was fought, asvre haveatat ed, near Tudcla, and the last Bulletin is dated the 38th ult. at Aranda de Du ero, which is in Old Castile, about 45 miles to the S. E. of Valladolid. The accounts therefore of the Fiendi having entered Madrid, is unfounded; they have not even reached the fro lit n vs of Ncw-Casiile. The Bulletin, however, boasts, it is only a pleasant walk. The French Generals particularly engaged in the action, were the- Duke of Mon tebello, (Dunnes) ami the Duke of Cor negliano, (Moncey.) Had the division of the Duke of Elchin, (gen. Ney) been j in iuposition, it is sa;o, not* Spaniard * would have escaped. Ihe Bulletins, previous to the Jlth, relate chiefly to the operation «g.*inst Blake’s army.— : The French force that defeated it, c n- 1 sisted chiefly of the divisions of the; Duke of Btdiuno, (Victor) Duke of Dal- j matia, (Soult) and the Duke of Dant zic, (Lefebvre.) He spieling the British troops, these papers furnish but little intelligence. The infantry, they mat*, is on its re treat to Portugal; as to British cavalry, the French had seen none of them. A division of the French army had commenced the seige of Rosas, a sea port in Catalonia. Important 8c gratifying News. Wo are happy to have it in our pow er to comm micate to our readers intel ligence from Spain, nut only of a less gloomy cast than that which we have recently received, but such as affords ua strong ground to hope that Bona parte’s career of success will speedily be checked. Dispatches have been received at the Admiralty from Admiral Lord Colling wood, which contain accounts of the complete failure cf the Fiench upon Rosas. The exertions of the g«iiant j garrison were materiaFy aided by his Majesty’s ship Excellent, which was fortunstely enabled to approach near enough to the shore to bring t er grape shot to hear upon tfie enemy, with which she did great execution. A par ty of marines were also landed, and con tributed very essentially to the defence of the place. The precise loss ot the French is not stated, but it must hava been very great. Government hsve also received dis patches from Sir John Moore and Sir David Baird, which ver* brought by th« Clift cutter, and the ir>n lUgeno she brings it certainly of a cheerful na tuie —she left Corunna on the 9th inst. We are happy to find that the reverses which the iip&nish armits have sustain ed, so far from exciting a feeling cf despondency, have only stimulated that gallant people to greater exertions, and to more determined resistance. The inlr-.biuntfe of Madrid were lurk ing every possible preparation to defend the capital to the last extremity. This determination cn the psrt of .the Spani ards, and the junction of the corps com manded by general Ilopr to the army cf Sir John Moore, which took plucedn | the Ist instant, at Salamanca, had in duced the 1 \tter to send orders to Sir David Baircl to advance. '1 his order, we understand; w as received by Sir Da vid Baird on the 7ih inst. We may, therefore, confidently hope that, by u.i* ' lime, a British army of 4®,000 men is happily assembled to assist the Spani ards in the defence of every thing that is dear to that gallant and noble-mind? td people. December IS. The following bulletin was this morn ing issued by government: \ 4 * A ship of war has arrived w th dis patches from Corunna, which she left on the 9th inst. Accounts are brought by it that the greatest enthusiasm had : burst forth at Madrid, and tbet the peo ple were determined to mAe every ef fort to defend the capital. Gen. Hope had joined S;r John Moore, st Salarnan | ca, end Sir David Baird was at Villa 1 Franca on the 7th, find had suspended ' his retreat. Bonaparte was m Aranda | d* Donor* ; his advanced corps had i made itself master of benr. biefra, and j a French corps bad re&chtc Segovia.'* i Sub-sequent accounts from S&iagossn* ! of the 24m, sub ■ that the Arragoptse | and Andalusian divisions din not suffer | much, ami had hern a -L- ,o retire in cr- I der. which ; confirmee by the French i accounts. j Vue us'- route t»ken by Gen. Ca*. tunos’s hrrnr is not givrtu Saragossa was in be defended by 13,( 00 men. | Gen. Hope’s 'ivisiun arrived &f \ ill* (histin on the SfUh tilt. i.t a Would be at i Arevola on Uit iSui, on his route to Siiiamrnca, in the neighborhood of i which place it whs ,;.peeled 'lie wouid | form a junction will. Sir John Moore. Nassau, (n« p.) Feb. 16. By the brig Raxgjix, London ac counts were received in town to the 10th of December, containing relations of a gloomy nature as regards our Al lies the Patriots in Spain; we are how ever, happy to state that those subse quefitly received by the bl.ip Fortune, w| ich are to the 16th. are mere pieus ing. It anptars indeed that in the se veral partiei engagements between the army udei Gen Blake and the French) tl c so * was considerable on both sides,- e.nd mat General B. was obliged to fall bark; General Pa’afcx, inconsequence of the-determination nude tinder those, cir- un-stances, by the council ot w!^ ! dkcwise retreated in crier to ccncen j tiate tlie* Spanish forces, by nearing the , British armies, and to induce the French ; to *dv. r»ce —severs! sanguinary attacks were made upon the rear of his army ! by the van of the French, yet without any advantage on either sido.- Our ar mies under Generals Sir John Moore, Dope, and Sir David Baird,’have suc ceeded in forming a junction at S*w«- manca, and part of the Portuguese xr my, which was rapidly organizing to the amount cf 100,000 men had already arrived upon Spanish ground, and the Spanish armits became more concen trated, whiic the public spirit of the na tion remained undaunted. 1 lit inhab itants of Madrid were lordlying that capital to resist with effect the invading foe, should his temerity carry him so. far us to risk a nearer approach. Th* Central Assembly at Aranjuez, have, in confoin ity to the solemn oath taken at it’s installation, displayed all that en ergy and patriotism, combined with wisdom and prudence, which the actual circumstances required; And French perfidy, attempted by gold to seduce even it’s President to swerve from hi& ; sacred duties, In-re failed. ■ i . -«seJ ■ • t ■■■ HI I imiMiw I ■■■Ml HIM imim—m~— ASSIZE OF 881 AD, AUGUSTA, For Flurch, 1809. ; The price of Superfine Flour being five and a half-dollars per barrel, He 12 - cer.n hdj j uml 12 £ oz. mutt weigh ~lb. j The S j do. Mb. 6 ot* Nf.wxL W. Hkubkbt, Clerk. BLAlwb of every description executed at this ofiicc, with lieatuw* ajid dispatch.