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EUROPEAN NKVVS.
" SPAIN.
TWENTY-FIRST DULLKT1N'
0ftt Frmck .Irmj in 6un-f ia.J
TLe Enelish cnti red Spain on thp
th Dnrinir the M onths of Nov.
and Dec thry bchrld the dct ruction of
tht armr of Galiicia at fcspinoaa : oi
the arm? of Eirematluta at Hurpos, of
that of Arragon and v iicnci ai i uae
U : of the army of reserve at Somo-
Sierra ; in fine, Hiey chdd ihe fall of
Madrid hoot" making a single move
ment, and i hu any nttempttosuccii
the S -anish a'mies. U whom, bower r.
a division of the - English, troops would
havr proved of c ousidtTa'de assistance
In tnc bckin in of Dcccmher, inform
ation was received that the odu nns of
h- British army ere retreating on
Corunna,whercthey were to rr-cmb::rk
;U later accounts, it afitrwards appcai
ni -h.it the? h.id halt, d. and mat on th
16' U December, they set ou' from Sa-
amanca, in cider to take the held. As
arlv hs br i5-h, the lipht cavalry hac
uixhe f'Oia VaUnoIid. I he whon
if the Encl h armv p..sse-l the D ur-.,
nd arriftd on the 23d, in presence ol
ni.kc'of DJmatu xl SaManha. As
ot4nai thcEmpcror was apprised at Ma
rid of this nnrxp?ced d It rmiiiaiion
n tht part of the English, he m-rch-d
in rnltr o cut olT h-.ir retreat, ant
,uruc their rear. Bu notwithstand
ij he t licence exened by the French
reps, the paisr of he mountain ol
iu.dammj. whiJi was covered witr.
row, the incessant rain and overflow
n;: of the torrents, delayed their march
ulltwodats. 0lhc22ithe Emp -or
left Maorid. His he id-quarter
t.rc fcn the 231 at Vdla Cis'tn, on th
2$;h at Tordcsiiles,and on the 27h
M'dmo de Rio-Seco, On the 24lh, at
orrak of day, the enemy h d began to
more, in orler to out flnk th.- left ol
th- Duke of Dil.-nalia, bqv having bee
Ufjrn:tdf during the morning, of tht
Di. rinrot thl took place at Madrid.
Ih-y immediately b gan to retreat a
baadoning thtir Spanish adherents
whose passions they , had i'iflamd, the
mn4nN uf 'hr Ualliciai: A'niy thai had
lonccivrd frth h psf ome iS their
hs;'iuts, a pait of th ir bicgage, and a
ricat tumber of siragltrs. They
committed w'reat d. vacations, the ini -w.ible
result of f. cctl marches ol
tuops in re'reat ; hey carried wrh
ihnn, muirs, hors-s and several othir
ctT - h ) pd: g'd a great numbe
oFcIimit e and 'Co vents. In ihe ab
bey of Si!ujun, which contained sixty
mrikv and wni-.h had all dIonR been
rtvected by tht Frenrh army tticy
committ-d every S'irt of depredation.
Etry wlu-re the priests and monks
crt see flying a th ir approach.
This di rdcrly c oduct ex.iperated
the country against them, and the dif
ference of heir I j' guage, manners and
of rcligtQ coninbu ed not a little to
that disposition of men's minds. They
ttprovthed the Spaniards with having
no longer any army to unite wih theirs,
and with having de- e-ved the English
rvcnimen. The Sai.iants returned
. r answer, th .t Spiin had numerous
armies, but that the English had al
uwed th-m to be destroyed, without
uving made any tfT rt to assist them,
')uring the fifteen days that have just
lapsed, they did not fire a single mus-uct-
The light cavalry only had jriv
n a few blows wi-.h the?r swords. Ge
tr j1 DurcMicl. at the head of 400 light
'se ff the guaxl,f Hin, at the close
" he ev ning, with a column of En
ih infantry on their inarch, sabred a
i 'fiber of oldi rs and carried dis.jr
r into the rai ks. Gen. Letcbvre,'i
r.eites. Colonel of the chasseurs of
ie guard, dcta hed two days beff n.
?n 'hree squidroos of his regiment,
ung taken a grCt quantity of bag-gy-
of women and stragglers an ?
Vutiag the hridgc of Ezda cut down,
ngmed bat the town of Uenaventc
vas cracuated. Carried away by tht
nipt i u ity vri,h nhich tht French sol
ert hate been o often reproache, he
twm artrm the river, in order to
ake far B-naventc, where he fell in
xth tht uhol- of the cavalry of the
rr-guirrt of the EnglKb ; a long
Contest here ensu'd, of four; Luadred
ti en against two thousand. -
There was n- residing numbers
Thos- brave fellows rcc'osstd the rifcr.
1 had htmelf received a wound from
a p-vo hU. and being dismounted was
niaclc pmoacr. Tea of his chasKUrt,
who Had also been dismounted, were
likewise taken. 5 were drowned, and
20 were wounded; This sharp aflYi:
must have convinced the English what
they would have to" dread from such
men, in general action; Gen. Lt
febtre undoubtedly committed a full,
but it was the fault of a Frenchman
he ought to be blamed and rewarded a.
the same time.. The number of pri
soners taken from the cntmy, up to
the present moment, and who an
chi. fly composed of scattered individu
als and stragglers, amounts to 300. On
the 24th, tlie head-quarters of the Em
p ror were at Valdera . : the head quar
ters ofth - Duke of Dilmatiaat Villato
ra. O" his depar ure from Madrid,
the Emperor appointed King Joeph
his Lieuteaant-Oentrai, wnn uic cum
mand of the garrison of the capital, to-
.i r.a nf tht Dukes ni
griner wim mcvuia v.. v.v
h t5r and Rrlluno : the divisions of
cavalrv of Easelle, MdlwtrJ and Latour
MaulKtutg are left for the protection of
the ccn'ie. The weather is extremely
bad. To a piercing cold, heavy and
continued rai s have succeeded. We
sulTcr, but the English must suffer still
more.
Twenty 'Second Bulletin,
Rek AvtN te, Dtc 31 On the 30th.
the cavalry command :d by the Duke of
litria passed the EUza. On he even
ing of the 30th, it travcrseJ Benaytnle,
nd pursued the enemy as far as Puen
u dc la Vilana. On the nine day, the
vad-quarters were cs'abiished at Be
ticvtnre. The English were not satis
ied with de?t-oyiiig an arch of the
ridge of Eteza, out they als j blew up
he buttress with mines, a damage
-hol'y unpn.fitable and which could
rdy be hur ful to the country ; ihe rest
betook themselves to the most shock
ing plundering. The soldiers, in the
XwCss of th. ir continual intemperance,
gave rem to an tne iiccr.uous.ica u
nrutal in briety. J:very : hing in thei r
conduct bespoke rather a hostile arm)
than one which cme to the asststanre
f a friendly power 1 hr contempt ot
ihe English I r the Spaniards gave a
sharper edge to the impression made by
o many ou' rages. This experience
wrll throw a salutary damp on those in
surrections, instigated by foreigners.
One cannot htlp regretting hat the Eng
lish had notsentan armyinto Andalusia.
Fhe army that paistd thn ugh Bena
vente, ten dys ago, mumpheii alitady
in hpi, and al a y h v thtir cdors
hung with troLhtes nothing could e-
qual the nudacity and securi y which
they displayed. On Uieir retum, their
countenance was sadly changed. 1 hey
wrre harrassed with iattgue and seem
ed to be borne away with the shame of
retreating without a battle. In order to
anticipate the just reproaches of the
Spaniards, the English continued inces
santly to repeat that they had been
promised lobe joined by numerous for-
. ii .
ces : ana tne apaniarns repeuea meir
calumnious assertions by arguments to
which there was no answer. Ten days
ago, when the English were traversing
he country, thy wt:II knew that the
Spanish armies had been destroyed.
The commissaries whom they cmplov
td to accompany the armie of the left,
of the centre and of the right, knew full
well that it was 50,000 men only, but
180,90 mm that the Spaniards had pu:
under arms ; that these 180,000 men
had fought, while, for six weeks, the
English had remained unconcerned
spectatorsof their troubles. These com
misaries could not but have made it
known that the Spanish armies had
ccaaed to exist. The English, there
fore, could not be ignorant that the
Spaniards were without armies. When
en days ago, they again moved for
ward, intoxicated with the silly hope of
deceiving the vigilance of the French
General, they fell into the snare which
the French General had laid for draw
ing them into the open country. They
had b-fore made some marches on their
return to their ships 1 You ought, ob
serve the Spaniards, ' to have persist
ed in that prudent determination,? or
else you should have been in force e
ii ugh to balance the destinies of the
French. Abov all, you ought not
at first to; have advanced with such
onfi.lefice6nly afterwards to fall back
with so much' precipitation. You should
not have drawn tke theatre of war a
mong us, and exposed us to the rava
ge of Iwri irmict. Affer h trine
II brought down upon our heads such ar-
A cumulations of disasters, you ought not
throw the blame upon us-AVe have
not been able to resist the French troops,
nor do vou seem more able to make
head against them Forbear, therefore,
to accuse us ; to outratre us all our
w 4 O a w r
mUfortunes we owe to you." The or even fitt, would not have been guil
English had reported throughout the ty of such blunders. To contend a
coumry that they had defeated 5000 of gainst France by land, who haS one
uie French cavalry on the banks of the hundred ?hbu.aod cavalry, fifty thousand
Ezela, and that the field of battle was horses for all sorts of militiry equq--ovtred
with their dead. . The inhabi-: I ment, and nine hundred thousand infan
:ants of Henavente were much surpri- f . try, was, on the part of England catry
zed, on visiting th-. field of battle, to have ing folly to the utmost extreme ; it bf
I und there only 3 Englishmen and 2 trays indeed a greediness for disgrace ;
French . The contest of 400 men ! it h, in fine, to administer the affairs
against 2000, does creat honor to tne
French. During the whole of the 29th,
the river can.inued to swell cons,de
rably so thai at the close of the even
ing, i became impossible to ford it. It
was in the middle of the river and at
the moment he was on the point of be
ing drowned, that General Lefebvre,
being carried away by the current to
the side occupied by the English, was
made prisoners The loss of the ene
my, in killed and wounded, in that af
fair of the posts, has bten far greattr
than that of the French. Ttic flight of
the English wasso precipitate, that they
Icfi at their hospital their 'sick and
'vounded, .and were obliged to burn a
fine magazine of tents and cloathing.
They killed all the horses that were o
ver fatigued or wounded, and which
might embarrass their retrea!. It is
I scarcely here to be rredi'ed how tha.
spectacle, so shocking to our manners,
)i hundreds of horses shot with pis'ob,
is revolting to the Spaniards. Many
persons look upon it as a sort of sacri
fice rsome religious rite which gives
rise, in the minds of the Spaniards, to
very strange pictures vf the religion of
England, the English are retreating
in the utmost haste. All ihe Germans
n their pay are deserting. Our army
will, this evening, be at Astorga near
the borders of Gallicia.
Twenty third Bulletin,
IVkavk n r, January 1. The Duke
of Daimatia arrived on the 30th D.c.
at Mancilla where was the left of the
enemy, consisting of the Spaniards un
Jer en. Romana. Gen. Franceschi
overthrew them in a single charge, kil
led a great number, to k two siaudards,
and made prisoners a Colonel, two I A.
Colonels, 50 officers and 1500 men.
Oi the 3 1st, the tike of Daimatia en
tere. Leon, where he found 2000 sick.
Romana succeeded Blake in the com
mand altt r t he battle of Espinosa. The
remains of that army which, while be
fore Biiboa, consisted of 50,000 men,
were reduced to almost 5 Ouo at Man
cilla, These wretches, without clothes,
and oppressed with every misery, fill
ed the hospitals. The English are held
m detesta'ion by thes. troops whom
they despise, a id by the peaceable in
habitants whom they abuse, and whose
substance they devour, in order to sup
port liieir own army. The mind of
the people of the kingdom of Leon
is much changed. They loudly cry
out for peace and their king ; they
curse tht Engli3h and their fallacious
insinuations, Fhey reproach them with
being the cause of the shedding of Spa
nish blood in order to feed the English
monopoly and ptrpetuate the war on
the continent. Fhe par fid v of England
and her motives are now obvious to the
meanest and most illiterate Spanish
peasant. They know what they suf
fer ; and the .minors of their sufferings
are before their eyes Meantime the
English retreat with the utmost haste,
pursued by the Duke of Istria, wi(h 9,000
cavalry. A mong the magazines which
they burnt at Betiavente were, indepen
dent of tents, 4000 blankets, c a great
quantity of rum. We picked up up
wards of 200 waggons of baggage and
ammunition, left on the rjad from Ben
avente to Asto'ga. Thx shattered re
mains of Romana's army threw them
selves into the Utter town, and increa
sed the confusion. The events of the
English expedition to Spain must fur
nish materials for a fine opening speech
to the English Parliament The Eng
lish nation must be informed, that her
army remained three months in a state
of inaction, while it was In their power
to assist the Spaniards ; that its leaders,
-r those whose orders they . executed,
have been .guilty of -the extreme folly
of making a movement forward after
'he Spanish armies hadbeen destroyed4,
hat, in a word, it entered upon the new
year by running away, pursued by an e
nemy, whom it did not dare to.ghr, tc
by the curses of those whom it had flir
ted up to resistance, and whom it ws
its duty to support. Such enterprizes
anq suco results can belong only ,to a
countrv that has Ho crovernmnnt. Friv
of England just as the cabinet of the
1 huillenes could wish them to be ad
ministered. It betrays no small igno
ranee of Spain, to have imagined that
any importance could be attached topo
pular commotion, or to indulge the
smallest hope that by kindling in that
country the flames of sedition, such a
conflagration could be attended win
ny decided result or any material du
ration.' A few fanatical priest3 are quitt
sufficient to compose and propagate li
bels, to carry a momentary disorder in
to the minds of men : but something
else is required to cause a nation o rise
to arms. At the time of the French
revolution, it required thee years and
the presence of the convention to pre
pare the means of military success ; an
who that does not know to whit ha
Zirds France was nevertheless expos
ed ? France was, howt'ver, stirred up.
Supported by the unanimous resolution
to reassert rights of which she had been
deprived in times of obscurity. Iri Spain,
it was a few men who stirred up tht
people. 1 hose who tough: for the in
quisition, for the Franciscans, and for
feudal righ s, might be animated by
un ardent zeal for their person alf Inter
ests, but could never infuse into a whole
nation a firm resolve or a permanent o
pinion. In spite of the English' feu.
i al rights, the Franciscans, and the in
quisition, have no longer any existence
in Spain, fter the capture of Rosas
Gen. Gouvion Saint Cyr shaped hi
march against Barcelona, at the h ad of
he 7th corps. He dispersed every thing
that he found before that place. & form
ed a junction with General Duhesme
That junction brought his 3rmy to
Si) 000 men. The Dukes of Treviso
and Abrantes have carried all the out
works at Saragossa. The General of
engineers, Lacoste, is preparing the
means of getting possession of that ci
ty without loss. The King of Spain
has gone to Aranjuez, in order to re
view the first corps, commanded by the
Duke of Belluno,
Twenty fourth Bulletin,
Astorga, Jan. 2: The emperor ar
rived at Astorga on the 1st of Jan. The
road from Benevente to Astorga is co
vered with dead horses belonging to th?
English, with travelling carriages, ar
tillery, ca ssons Sc 'warlike stores. There
were found at Astorga magazines of
sheets, blankets, and the tools and im
plements of.pioneers. As to Romana's
army, it is reduced almost t - nothing.
The small number that remain are
withoui coats, shoes, pay, food, and
is no longer to be considered any thing.
The emperor has charged the Duke of
Daimatia with the glorious misstonof
pursuing the English to the place of
their debatkation, and of driving them
Into the sea, at the point of the sword.
The English will learn what it is, to
ma&e an mcoiisiucraie movement in
presence of the Fench army The
manner in which they have been dri
ven from the kingdoms of Leon & Gal
licia, and the destruction of a part of
their army, will, no doubt, teach them
to be more circumspect of their opera
tions on .the continent. All that re
mains of the Spanish insurgent -troops
has been without pay for several months
back
Twenty Fifth Bulletin,
Benevente, Jar.. 5. The head of
Merle's division, forrhing part of the
Duke of DalmatiaV corps, came up
with the advanced guard on the3cf2f
At 4 P. M. it reached the rearcuard
of the English, who were upon thr.
heights of Prieros, a league before il
t a franca, consisting of 5000 infantry &
600 cavalry. This position was .av ve
ry fine position,' and difficult to attack
General Merle made Chisdispositions
Ihe infantry advanced, beat the charge
and tfcv English were entirely routed
Th difficulty of the ground did not per
mit the csTalry to charge. and"nly
200 prisoners were
taken. WnHato
some fifty men .killed or wouridedl " V
General Colbert advanced in seejfhe .',
;avalry fcould f rm , !hishcu wasarri
ved ia ball struck him on f rje forebestdf j ,
and he 1 ived but a quarter, f an hour t
1 here are t wo roams from Astorga tp, ,
Villafranca; c Te English took1 th;
i-giu,. me i ppamaros ine, , ieif ;ney '
iiuii.iii.ir nil iiiiiii i itiiri MBwr r . i u .... r . vi
anil siirrmmripn nv t ti t tvtnrw tai "M.icl " f n
seurs. A ere net at of brigade c a whoio r
iivision laid d?wn their arms. v V. '
since the 27th ult. we have taken a. ,
yovf 10 000 prisoners among whom are .'.
f500 English. V?e have taken also rrtorjf
t.ian 400 baggage w ggotis, 15
gons of firelocks, their magazines and ','
lospitali. The English retreat itt dis K
iderf leaving magazines, j sick and ; e
quipage. i I hey will experience still
greater loss, and if they be able to eiii v -Oark,
it is p obarple it; will not be with
tit ;hc loss of half their army . But '
t Formed that that army was reduced be-
Ijw 20,000 in'-n, the Emperor resolved
o remove his head -quarters from As "
lorga to Bcnevente. : 1 t t
We found in the barns several Eng t"J
iish, who had been hanged by the Spa ' , .
oiards. His Majestyi-was indigriah'U Sc " , r '. !,
ordered the barns to be burnt the pea )
unts, whate.Ter may be their resent J
ment, have no. right to attempt thei,', if,
lives of the waggoners of either', army, , " M
n'3 iti Jcai7 IIU5 oiu rt-u ine rngusrji vj '
prisoners' to be treated with all the re ' v"
spect due to soldiers who have! mani ' -3
fested liberal ideas and sentiments of
honor, j ! " '
On the 4th, at nighr, the Duke of
D.dmatias head q .arters Were ten)
leagues f om Lugo. - :j
Govemdr de St Cyr's division' enter
d Barcelona on the 17th, Oo ihe 1 5 h
he came un with Genls. Rtidding's and
Vv-. N i'-oops at Eleras, and! completely
rmted them lie took 6 pieces'' f. can'
nou, 30 waggons and 3000 ment ;
fWe omit the interveninsr Bulleiins. to
make room for those of the Battle ofCohinna.3 -
Thirtieth Bulletin, I
v Va I. LA DO lip, Jan 21.
The Duke of Dalm..tia Itf , Betari
zos, on the 12:h inst. Having reached
he Met o, he f undth bridge ofiBurgo
cut. The enemy -wis di -lodged front ,
the village of Burgo,- In the mean
while, General Fmpceschi ascended
the river which fie crossed at the bridge
f S la. -r He made; hiinseljf master, of
the high road from Corunria to Santia
go, and took 6 officers and: 60 soldiers
prisoners. On the s: me day, a. bodjr
of thirty marines, who were: fetching
water from the bay near Mero Were
taken. From the village of Perillvj,th v
English fleet could be observed in the v
h t lwr oF Corunna, i , -
" On the 13 hf the enemy caused 2 V
powdc r magazines, situated near t he,
liV ights of St. Margaret, at half a league '
fi'om Corunna, to be bfown up. The ''
explosion was terrible, andi was f-lt'al -
ihe distance of 3 lea gut s. ..
On the 14th, the bridge of Biirgo '
was repaired and the French auillerjr
were able to pass The enemy hiid ta
ken a position, at 2j leagues diahce- '
half aieague beFore Cot Unna. He was,
seen employed in hastily ethbarkmg his
sick and wounded, the number of which
according to. spies and deserters, a,
mounts to 3 or 4000 men. The English "
were, in the meanf ttme, occupied in kj
destroying the batteries oh the coast, 'j
and laying waste the country on the "
ea shore. The commandant hf the
fort of St. Philip suspecting the fate in-'-
tended for his fortification re fiisecl tn adi-;
lull ineiii in i
On the evening of the 1 4th, we '
saw a frtsh convoy of 160 sail arrivti
auiuuir wuiuu wit xuur c,iu5 OI the.
On theiiriormng of the lsth
divisions of Merle and Mermet occti)
pied the heights of Villaboa, where thfe'
enemys advanced guard was stationed
which was attacked and destroyed
Ouri right ,wing : was stationed on the
point where the mad from -Corunria" to
Diigo, and that fni Corunna to Santt
oga, meet. The leFt was placed behind
the yittage pEIvinaL Th4 enerny wa ,
stationed behind some beautiful height sV
tThe resfof the ? l fh was spent in
fixing 'a ba(ejfpiiwelie "pieces ol can-
nonJand n;was not tiirthel 6thlat. 2
i". i . ne ,asam w:as jn ue upon z th
English by the firit -tf igade- flhe di vi- -
sion o( Mm&t iralch oycrturcvr ihsxxk
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