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Victory over the French in Portugal.
SIR ARTHUR WELLESLEY'S PLAN OF ATTACK ON THE FRENCH TROOPS
On the 21st Ult. transmitted by a GENERAL OFFICER:- Accurate PORTRAITS of SIR ARTHUR WELLESLEY and GENERAL JUNOT, exquisitely engraved from the Original Paintings - the latter is the only authentic Likeness of JUNOT. All these Embellishments are given in the TWENTY-SEVENTH NUMBER of LE BEAU MONDE, OR LITERARY AND FASHIONABLE MAGAZINE, which is this Day published ; to which is added a whole-length PORTRAIT of Mr. YOUNG, as ; Hamlet. - Price 2s. 6d. The Plate of Costumes are DISCARDED from the Magazine, to make room for more substantial Improvements.
Among the ORIGINAL CONTENTS of No. 27, the Proprietors have to announce the Lives of Sir Arthur Welllesley and General Junot, ably and professionally written, and interspersed with Curious Anecdotes, relating to the late Victories in Portugal ; a free Critical Examination of the current number of The Edinburgh Review ; judicious Advice to Actors ; Observations on Tragedy among the Romans ; severe Strictures on the Literary Fund ; interesting Bon-Ton Correspondence ; the Anti-Satirist, No. 1 ; Union of Saints ; or, the Rev. William Huntingdon, and Lady Sanderson ; Turkish Letters ; A Pedestrian Tour through France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, and Denmark, written during the Years 1805,6, and 7, to be continued in a Series of Correspondence ; a Perfectly Novel Retrospect of Politics ; copious Review of Literature ; Dramatic Memoirs and Criticisms, &c. &c. &c.
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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.
LONDON,
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1808.
POLITICAL EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
Paris Papers to the 20th, and Dutch Papers to the 26th, have arrived. The former contain the substance of a speech made by BONAPARTE to his troops on the parade on the 19th. After reminding them of the victories they had gained in Italy and Germany, and their uniform success during so many years of service ; he tells them their toils are not over : that they must now traverse the Pyrenees, to take a terrible vengeance on the Spaniards, on account of their rebellion, and on the English for having polluted the Spanish soil by their presence. He is said to have spoken with the greatest vehemence and indignation ; to have employed his wonted strain of invective and depreciation against our Government and Army ; and concluded by saying, that the Imperial Eagles must be restored to the lustre they had so long displayed. Sincerely do we regret that it is not in our power to give the Tyrant's harangue in form as well as in substance. It would be a curious and interesting specimen of the disappointment which corrodes his heart, and of the passions which agitate his soul even to frenzy, on account of the successful resistance of a patriotic people. In consequence of the Moniteur giving