°1811.] 
knowledgments to Brigadier-general Long, 
\ Brigadier-general Loy (commanding the Span- 
ish cavalry), Brigadier-general Madden, 
Colonel De Grey, Colonel Otway, Colonel 
Lord Edward Somerset, and to Captain Le- 
fevre.] , 
The advantage gained will not only, In 
some degree, lessen the enemy’s superior ca- 
valry, but will, I trust, still further tend 
to render him fearful and timid in all his 
movements. 
s Iam, &c. 
W. LUMLEY, Major-general. 
FRANCE, f 
Bonaparte’s Speech upon opening the 
Legislative Body, on-the 16th inst, is 
as’ follows. 
“ ‘Gentlemen Deputies of Departments to 
the Legislative Body,—The peace concluded 
with the Emperor of Austria has been since 
cemented by the happy alliance I have con- 
tracted: the birth of the King of Rome has 
fulfilled my wishes, and satisfies my people 
with respect to the future, The affairs of 
religion have been too often mixed and sacri- 
. ficed to the interests of a state of the 3d or. 
“der. If half Europe has separated from the 
Church of Rome, we may attribute it especi- 
ally to the contradiction which has never 
ceased to exist between the truths andthe prin- 
ciples of religion which belong to the whole 
universe, and the pretensions and interests 
which regarded only a very small corner of 
italy. I have put an end to this scandal for 
“ever. I have united Rome to the Empire. 
I have given palaces to the popes at Rome and 
at Paris: if they have at heart the interests 
of religion, they will often sojourn in the 
centre of the affairs of christianity. It was 
thus that St. Peter preferred Rome to an 
abode even in the Holy Land. 
“© Holland has been united to the Empire; 
© she is but an emanation of it: without her 
the Empire would not be complete. 
“© The principles adopted by the English 
government not to recognize the neutrality of 
any flag, have obliged me to possess myself 
of the mouths of the Ems, the Weser, and 
the Elbe ; and have rendered an interior com. 
munication with the Baltic indispensable to 
me. It is not my territory that I wished to 
increase, but my maritime means. America 
is making efforts to cause the freedom of her 
fiag to be recognized; I will second her.— 
The King of Spain is come to assist at this 
Jast solemnity. I have given him all that 
was necessary and proper to unite the interests 
and hearts of the different people of his pro- 
winces. Since 1800, the greater part of the 
@trong places in Spain have been taken after 
memorable sieges. The insurgents have been 
beat in a great number of pitched battles. 
England has felt that this was approaching its 
(yemigation, and that intrigues and gold were 
State of Public Affairs in June. 
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no longer sufficient to nourish it: she found 
herself, therefore, obliged to change the na- 
ture of it, and from an auxiliary she is become 
a principal. All she has of troops of the line 
have been sent into the Peninsula. Enge 
land, Scotland, and Ireland, are drained. Enge 
lish blood has at length flowed in torrents, ia 
several actions gloriews to the French arms.— 
This conflict against Carthage, which seemed 
as if it would be decided in fields of battle, 
on the ocean, or beyond the seas, will hence 
forth be decided in the plains of Spain! 
When England shall be exhausted, when she 
shall-at last have felt the evils which for 
twenty years she has with so much cruelty 
poured upon the Continent, when half her 
families shall be in mourning, then shall a 
peal of thunder put am end to the affairs of 
the Peninsula, the destinies of her armies, 
and avenge Europe and Asja by finishing this 
second Punic war.” 
GREAT BRITAIN, 
On the 10th instant the Prince Regent 
reviewed the olunteers of the metre~ 
polis, 20,000 in nuniber, and nearly 
10,000 regulars, on Wimbledon Com- 
mon, 
On the 19th the Prince Regent gave a 
magnificent {aie to 3000 persons at Carl~ 
ton House, in honour of his father’s birth 
day. It had been deferred from the 4th 
on account of increased symptoms of 
his disorder, in which, however, he is 
somewhat amended, 
Tn the Houses of Parliament, interest- 
ing debates have taken place, relative to 
many Subjects of the deepest interest to 
the rights and liberties of the people. 
A temporary Insolvent Billhas been cars 
ried by the great exertions of the Earl of 
Meira; but various important motions 
relative to parliamentary reform, special 
juries, severe sentences, military flogging, 
and capital punishments, moved and are 
gued by Sir Samuel Romilly, Sir Francis 
Burdett, Lord Folkestone, Mr. Brand, 
and Mr, Whitbread, with extraordinary 
eloquence, have been rejected by large 
ministerial majorities, 
The times continue to be distinguished 
by the most poignant sufferings of ruined 
merchants, manufacturers, and work- 
men, of almost every description, and 
the periodical number of bankruptcies 
seems now permanently to quadruple 
what was ever experienced in any former 
period. Still money has been borrowed 
by Government, and the minister assures 
the Parliament that the country is ina 
@ourishing condition ! 
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