516 NATION orient, he olose-ved. nos its oiiisolutiots in March, 11108, left us a pub- . lie debt of 7.5i0 millions of reals, an annual dileit of 600 millions, 100,000 enemies within the Peninsula, a destitute army. a swarm of pensioners, a state of diplomatic selations more calculated to procure enemies than allies, and the seeds of disturbance in tbt• transmarine provinces. He then gave sketch of what Spain had suffered since that period, end of the sacrifices which she had made. In enter to shake off a foreign yoke, lumina', at' the same time. framed a wise Constitut ion, even amidst such difficult circumstances. Tit- Report next took a rapid review of the four kinds of re.. venue which went to constitute the old sy►ctem ; namely, the Fe cleleastica!, Geticrd, . and Provincial rents, and the profits of Mono• polka. taiett as those of tobacco, &e. It then proceeded to lay down the three following ba , es : Ist , that tilere ought to be no interior customhouses, from which it was dt doted, that the _provincial rents should he abol;shed ; 2dly, that the proportion of the con tribution of evt ty province ought to correspOnd•to its opulence; grUy. that the contributions ought to be apportioned among all the citizens, according to their respective means. From these principles it was deduced, that the Cartes ought to adopt a direct system of contribution, proportioned to the territo rial and manufacturing opulence of each district. The Corte should, in the first instance, vote annually the amount of the contribution, and assign to each province its proportion ; the provincial deputations will assign their proportions to the townships ; and the constitutional oyantansientos the pro portion of each citizen. The revenues derived from mono polies ought to he totally ab&isbed, in older to prevent a thousand crimes and vexations, and direct duties on the diferent arti cles ought to be sobstinsted. In the transmarive provinces the ex isting contributions may be continued ; but the Regerry should he required to procure every necessary information with regard to them, for the purpose of assimilating them to those of the Penin sula. The substance of the Report of the Committee was eom prised in .18 propositions, and the whole was ordered to be printed. INTELLIGENCE FROM' THE ALLIED ARMY. ORDER OF THE DAY OF LORD WELLINGTON. IREUTA,Lir 9. 1. The Commander of the Forces is anxious to direct the atten tion of the Officers of the army to the situation in which they have, hitherto been armour the people of Portugal and Spain, and that in . which they may hereafter find th eneze l ves among those of the fron.. tiers of France. ?. Every military precaution must, henceforward, be wed to ob- , Lain intelligence, and to prevent surprize ; General anal superior Officers, at the head of detached corps, will take care to keep np regular and constant communication with the corps upon their right and left, and with their teat and the soldiers and tlieir lowers mist be prevented from leaving their camps and canton-. mesas, on any account w Weyer. 3. Notwithstandinz that these precautions are absolutely fiec'es . - : ' nary, as the country in front of the army is the enemy's, the Crifkr;! - wander of the Forces is particularly desirOns, that the inhabitants should be well treated, and private property must be respected.,;: 4. Officers and soldiers must recollect, that their nations arrtat war with France solely because the Ruler of the French nation will not allow them to be at peace; and is desirous of forcing thent to, submit to his yoke ; and they must not forget, that the worst of the evils suffered by the enemy in his profligate invasion of Spain Portugal, have been occasioned by the irregularities of the soldier% and their cruelties authorised and encouraged by their Chiefs, Ito. wards the untbrtimate and peaceable inhabitants of the country) 5. Tu revenge this condnet on the peaceable inhabitarst64 France, would be unmanly, and un wor th y o f t h e nat i ons to wlirom. the COmmander of - the Forces 'now addresses himself, and, at alt. events, would be the occasion of similar and worse evils to the anny at large, than those which the enemy's army has suffered in the Pe. *mingula ; -and would eventually prove highly injurious to the public interests. 6. The ruleg. therefore, which have hitherto been nbperveti in requiring and taking, mid giving reeeiptq, fir the ! , npplics from the . ;inned in the villages on the French frotvit ; attached to each of the armies of the Poio•al he orders from the Commander-in-Chief respicti4 the mode awl i<ctled . or rli3g r ~__• AMERICA. A'66TIiST l5. [YROP4 MC NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.] SURRENDER OF A DINISIoN OF rHE AMERICAN ARMY TO THE BRITISU. WASHINGTON CITY, JULY S.—The following is a copy of a Id :er from inajor-Geniral Dearbon. to the Secretary at War ffead-Quart era, Fort Ceorle, Jani 25. Sin--I base the mortification of informing you of an unfortunate and unaccountable event which occurred yesterday. On the s3d, at evening, Lieub-Colonel Begstler, with 670 men, infantry, artil. !cry, cavalry, and rifle men, in due proportion, was ordered to march by the way of Queenstown, to a place called the Beaver Dams, on the high ground, about eight or nine miles from Queenstown, to at. tack and disperse a body of the enemy, collected there for the pur pose of procuring provisions amp harnessing those inhabitants who are considered friendly to the United States. Their force was, from the most direct information. composed of one company of the 104th regiment, above 80 strong ; from 160 to 100 militia, and from 50 to 60 Indians. At right o'clock yesterday morning, when within about two miles of Heaver Dams, our detach. ment was att. ck 11 from an ambnscade ; but soon drove the enemy some distance in.o the woods, and then retired to a clear field, and sent an express for a reinforcement, (eying he would maintain his position until reinforced. A reinforcement of 3''o men marched immediately tinder the command of Colonel Chrystie; but on ar. living at Queenstown, Colonel Chrystie received authentic informa tion that Lieut.-Colonel nastier, with hi; command, had surrender. ed to the enemy, and the reinforcement returned to camp. A man who belonged to a small corps of mounted volunteer rifle men, came in this morning, who states that the enemy surrounded our Oetachment in the woods, and towards 12 o'clock commenced a general attack, that our troops fought more than two hours until tl:e artillery had expended the whole of its ammunition, and then sur rendered : and at the time of the surrender the informant made he escape. Why it should have been deemed proper to remain several hours in a position snrrounded with woods, without either risking a deci sive action, or effecting a retreat, remains to be accounted for, as well as the project of waiting for a reinforcement from a distance of 1.5 or 16 miles No information has - been received of the killed and wounded.— The enemy's fleet has again arrived in our neighbourhood. With respect and esteem, I am, Sir, yoor's 4kr. lion. Julia Armstrong, Sec. at ar. H. DEARBORN. .! - . country. are to he vont' • end the Como4aries zi aitkreiteiye th • Tk •',' k l ' ... -94;i9n. A _,Xtb ' ' . *• l " '' Tt 04:'.;* - ,.. ‘,/ • : - —_-.)... 4,4'. , k4:4: . • , ,aPF . - c . . • %. 77,kf t ........4 ..,...... ~ .. . , _T?. . , THE FRIGATE CHESAPEAKE TAKEN. The following is a copy of a letter from Commodore William Bainbridge, now at BoAtm, to the Secretary of the Navy : Plary-yard, Charleston ( Mass.), June". Sin-1t has biome my p sinful duty, as Commanding Officer on ' tliis itation, to colivq . tO you the unpicks:unit intelligence of the cap ture.Oethe Ch6apeaki.., by the British fiigate Shannon. The par , 0666' of this unfortunate occurrence are, from what I have been 41e to collect, as follow : I iresteic4 torepobli, the frigate Shannon appeared in .the hay, full in sight Unfit / the hkrbour. 2 At meridian, the Chesapeake got no•?er way 'GM liii.4idrent Read's, niid stood out with a fair wind. Mr. :Knox, the Pilot oft fiottid, left her at five P. M. the light-house hearing !Alf N."distkliee iix leagues ; the Shannon then in sight, and tle,Chesap4kel,prepa'red foi ac torn, standing for her. At six P. M. Mr. Kunix interms, 'the Chesapeake lopened a - fire, which Was return ed 'and' a 'twelve Mihi4s Ott six, both' ships were lying alongside each other as if in the trc't 'of boarding; at that moment an explosion took place on board the Cheiapeake, which spread afire on tier upper ilea: fioM the fore:tria4ts to thelnizen-mast, - apparently' as high as her tops, and envelopi , d l bOth skips in smoke for several minutes. ' Affer the smoke ckai4'd away, they were seen separated, with the British colours hoiAgd on beard the Chesapeake over the American. both Ships standing to the eastivard. The well-proved conrage and skill of Capt. Lawrence, and the bra Very of the Officers and crew, ju•tify a belieflhar the less of the Chesapeake has been entirely owing to some fortuitous event happening on board, and not to any superiority of skill or bravery in the enemy. BUt Alionld they im properly impute it to 'the latter, they will find it necessary tovive mare than one solitary instance to Convince our Officers and brave tars "that they are superior. We Live lost one frigate, but in lbsing bet; I am confident we have lost no reputati.m. • 1 have the honour to be, &c. W. BAINBRIDGE.