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party, agahffff vzhoyi they rcvphed,
were massacred in the must
maimer.
dme s-ime hatred to all authority.,
and to all mpn vested with office, pro
duc'd similar semes in Estremadurt
and the Castiles. At Eatkijoz, the j
insurrection broke out on May 3C,j
and was in. an instant manure. The j
hotel of the governor, count de I-a j
Torv.e vdel Fiemo, tfas .assaulted.
These insurgents demanded arms, and
t<>. be enrolled; when the governor,
with de bishops, appeared at the bal
cou .exhorting the multitude to re
tire, but in vain ; the infuriated would
listen to no reason, they overpowered
the guard of the palace, rushed into
the chamber of the governor, seized
him, and dragged him, a-> far as the
palm gate, where with knives and
sric ;s liiey murdered him, exhibiting
the naked and bleeding corpse to his
\/ife, w’dhv they riraai the palace. At
V liadotkl general Don May el Cevai
los v commaudant of engineers, was on
the sth'of June, in consequence of an
order of general Ce*sta, civ-t into the
prison Carbbnero, but the insurgents
drew him out and cut him to pieces
in the presence of- his wife and chil
dr curried his he atlj around on a,
pike, .Vuit divide ! among themselves
the limbs, which were dragged about
th • streets hi taken of trophy. At
Tff; >vcrn, on the sth of June, the go
vernor vV?is disposed to punUu the ri*
©tend; a. rcuoou they cried out for
the head, un i he owe-, bis preservation,
merely t a narrow escape facilitated
to hint by u fe w brave men.
The provinces of’Leon and Asturi
as were at the* same time scenes of the
most tragic events. At Corunna, ge
neral Fisangievi endeavored to miti
gate, by persuasion, the fury of the
peasantry ; he would nave been shot
had not the artillery officer Stepped be
fore him and saved his Ule ; the insur
gents nevertheless, on the day follow
ing, penetrated into and seised ins pa
1. w fich'th.v demolished, he hav
ing suogb.t an-asylum in the convent
of St. Domingo. At Ferro!, on the
2. ■ finne, they plundered the house
of the lieutenant-general of Marine,
Obrqon, and having discovered him
in the manufactory of isqukndp, lacy
incarcerated him at “>t. Antonio.
In the kingdom of Leon, the pea-1
sards drew up in different towns, bur
roughs and villages, liaving cut off
the heads of many respectable citizens;
and it Was announced that the govern
or of Corunna, the Corfegidor ol Le
on; and count Castro, Feurte, colonel
of the militia of Vajto, being placed ,
in thru neb of general Guest a, should
be delivered over to the executioner. ,
In every direction the men who by j
Fa ir worth, virtue, and fortune, had !
excited ui ‘versa] respect, paid with,
th. ir lives ther gallant resistance, and
tiie iove for their country, which they
opposed to dissolution and not; whilst
committees of insurrection made them
selves masters of the public funds, or
ganized them selves, and inspired ah
the good and honest w ith terror. .
The ministers, the members of the
junta of Madrid, and of the commis
sd iiTOf government, used every exer
tion to pacify, hut in vain ; the multi
tude could not be reduced to obedi
ence, ignorant deluded'men wanting:
to grasp at pyveer and plunder.
This'exasperation was the inevita
ble consequence of the state ®f insecu
titv, .the sufferance and misfortune in
i’ > which the government had precipi
tated the bpivmsh nation. She win
prepared, and awakened i y toe art di
et. s'otTM'igland, and. by the disorders
of p- ; lie nationalities, Sprung from
tho-iC of .parties and of the times, it
became necessary to recur to arms to
bn; lie xtie insane unn to o-etSi tl.c ma
levolent.
Marshal l'csscres directed, on the;
owts'et, - different- detachments upon
Logrhimo, Saragossa, S govia, Valla
dolitS.4ptb.St. Andeio, wuich columns,
th'bugli not numerous, had respective 1
I, ;d]'success, hVidncut suffering am j
n/.'O i <’> injiimn • . }
‘ii:c tovvu oi I.ngtwnn® Asu
the standard of insurrection, and cho- ]
sen for its chief a unison, one of the ‘■
unworthiest fellows of the district.!
General Verelier was ordered to march
with two battalions, surrounded the J
city and drove, on the fith cf Jur e the >
insurgents to flight, taking frehv f them ‘
six cannons, brought the most riot- *
bus to punishment , and replaced in the j
government &f the town the principal [
citizens, who had heyn cast into pri
son, .returning subsequently to Vitto*
ria.
General Frcre had marched upon
Segovia, where commotions had also
taken place, and on the 7th of June,
being arrived will bn a quarter cf a
mile of the city, he sent a parley to tlx.
magistracy, in order to bring the in
surgents to a sense of their duty ;
these, 5000 men strong, with’SO c.an
nous, would not permit the parley to
approach, but fired on him with can
non, which induced the general to
make the assault without delay, anc
the place was taken by force, a great
number of the insurgents having been
[Cripple cl,-in any taken prisoners, am
all their canp.cn taken from them. The
city having been freed of the insur
gents, and left to itself, submitted.
General Lasalle drew from Eurgo
to Torquemad.t, where 6000 insur
gents had waited, which, on the y’h hi
caused t > be attacked by 600 chas
seurs, they were dispersed, leaving
twelve hundred dead on the spot;
the village cf ‘*orquemada was redu
ced to ashes.
General Lasalle marched on th<
3th to-’ Paleneia, which he was ap
prpachiug, a deputation", with the hi
shop-iit their head, met him, bringin,
him the submission of die town, wh'ci
immediately returned to its duty ac
cordingly. The 9th and the 10th day
were consumed in disarming the tovvi
and province of Paleneia.
On the i2th he advanced to Du
er.nas, \vh< re he formed a junftjon
with ceneral Merle,and from whence i
die continued his march to Vallado
did. Here the tnai>iu had been dro.g.
!y developed, and general Ceulla.i
! captain-general, had put him ft IT at’
the head of ihe malcontents, and ta
ken poll at Cabesoo, with 7000 infer
j gents and fix pieces of artillery'. Af
|cer having reconnoitred the portion
|of the iniurgents, general Sebathier
was ordered to force them in it, vvhiU’t
general Meric was directed to cut off
his retreat to Valladolid, The firing
da fled but one half hour, and the in
furgents wetc completely beaten,
■ feattered in every direction on the
i field of battle, leaving their artillery,
4000 muskets, and about 1000 killed
j behind.
j The bishops of Valladolid, with
’ the principal clergy of the city, came
to meet general Labile, supplicating
forgivenefs to the city and its inhabi
tants. The French division drew in
to the city, an .fft a multitude that
had merited severe cafligation, and
wnhadmiration beheld t!ie goodnrfs
and forbearance of the Ficnch. The
city and province were disarmed,
uhilft tap members of ihe council of
Paleneia, Segovia, and Valladolid,
were deputed to go to his Catholic
majefly at Bayonne, thete to fupp'i
cate his clemency, in the a£l of ten
dering the fealty of their fellow citi
zens.
The bifltop of St. Andero having
instigated his Diocefansto revolt, and
abandoned himself to all manner of
frantic excesses, general Meric pro
ceeded to the m mntains of St. Ande
ro, where general Ducos had repair
ed. On the morning of the 2 iff he
fell upon the infurgentj, drove them
fiofn all their positions, and took two
18 pounce; s from them which they
had barely been enabled to lire twice,
with grape, without wounding any
body; on then’ part, the iol’s was
conlidirab’c.
On the aoth, general Ducos ar i
ved at sojscslio, attacked the infur
ger.ts, end repuifed them to the dis
tance f> l one mile. On the* 2t f! nc
aid the fame co ‘be road of La V,en-i
• l
! to de I’F.scudo, which was defended |
iby four guns, and 2CXO men. On:
! theca t he \vas but within four miles
cf Andero.
! On the sa l generals Merle and
j Ducos entered St. Andero, the one
on the fide of Torre tie 1 a Vega, the
‘other aWng the way of I’Escudoj and
jno sooner had they mu red the city,
| Aan the peasants returned in all parts
to their home?, and the inhabitants
back to the city. The city of *Ft.
Andero having made fubmifflon,
made folerr.n oath 01 fidelity to his
Catholic majrfly. as Segovia, Palen
eia, and Valladolid had done.
In such tuannerdtd the troops un
der Marina I Bdfieres, in a few days,
take thirty pieces of trtillery, fifty
thnufand (land of arms, disarmed Pa
lenckt,- Valladolid. &c. which ensured
qmetnefs in havarre, Guipufaca,
Al-iva and liifca\%
IVuring the hrfkoprrstions of Mar
sh and Beflieres, tfoVibies had alfp broke
>ut in the fomhern extremities of Ka
y.irre and ‘ rragen.
Grner.d I efebvrir, dcs Vonetres.
set out from P.iutpeluaa at die head
>f 3-no men, moHty cmripofedof iht
S’olilh Pikemen, and the fr !t regimt nt
of s A'lfluld ; he dr< \y up towards
Gidcl-i, wh re a squadron of from
hr e to f< ur thouf.md men had arri
ved ftom Saragofl s ; he attacked and
difprt fed them on the a h of June, ta
king from them fix pieces “of arul'c
rv, and calligated the heads of the m-
Mirreclion He caufeii the bridge
over the Ebro, which had been broken
!<wn. to be ‘e-eflahliflred, and march
and at ihe h ad of the Poirfh pikemen,
ip< n Malten, where the- it.Turgcms,
re-inffrrci and from 6’aragofla, had ta
ker. a frrfh poll. He arrived there
n the 13th, and immediately attack
ed them ; one finglc charge of the
Poles fufficed tr>. overthrow and put
tlv n to flight, leaving the five pieces
of artilh rv which they had behind
them. He prm'eded on the 54111 to
Magon. where the insurgents, f|*rn 3
to 4000 firor.g, were put u> fight,
anti loft their cannon; nor did they
on the tfish offer iuv ulterior refis
t?/nce tn the olive fields and suburbs
of iSaragolfa. The actions of Epila,
on VVontc, Pot vero, on the 23 1 ar.d
29 h, had the fame refdlts.
In all these duff tent expeditions,
the insurgent- had from 2 to 3000 men
killed; and many wounded. Avast
; number of them have been tnadr pti
jfoners, and 80 pieces of artillery taken
jwhilfl ours coriCil bareiy Tom 20to
: 30 killed, and Irma 60 to 80 wound
ed.
General Verdier joined, under Sata
gofffi, General 1 * Übvre, and began
to fhnt up the place. **n the £ f Ju
ly, having played fF two howitzers,
jhc took ‘he Convent of St J ]• ph,
which convered part of the city. From
the 3! to the iStb July arrangements
were made to comptefs the tnfurgents
more and more, and to gether the ma
terials for throwing a floating bridge
over of the Ebro. On the 1 nh, the
trajeß of the riv-r was made by force,
and fome troops were polled on th:
left tide to preted te formation of
the bridge, which on the 12'h at no *n
was comph ted. In the interlapfe dif
-ferem corps had met in the pLin.s to
b'eak the cotnmuircation, but they
wrre : Alumma Calatavcd on th.
Tauffe, defeated, louug irs the various
engagements many men and neceffa
rtes of war. The troops that bes 1
the left bank of the Ebro, before Sa
ragqfia, fujfeined also various attacks
from detachments of the city, but the
in fur gen is were repul fed in every en
counter, Idling altogether, but cfp --
daily at Jousl ival, many men and
many fteiu'picces, all eight pounders*
The blockade of the place, into
which several corps of iiffurgems wh
could no longer hold the field, had
thrown thetmclves, was now complete
ly formed.
General ‘Duhcsme commanded in
his head-quarters at
Barcelona. In fume psrtsjof this
province soaipjais were alfj ccui
j mer.cir.g the work. The fpgrhs of re
yelt burst out in the town* of
and Tarragona. On requifi t j on made
to them they promised submission. N c ,
however, complying with the promise
General Schwarts received direflion®
to tepair to Monferrat, there to make
rt searches, in/ormaion having been
giyen of the new plots. On th- C;h
of June he met the insurgents a*
Bruck, overthrew them, and killed**
number of them. He a!fo obtained
advantage at Efpegucra, Martoreil an d
at Malini* *del Bre. Other atro.jD
asents of ird'urgent peafamry had | o ‘r*
tided themselves with cannon on
river Lobrego; they had poffeiiid
themselves of the artillery which they
found on the coast. General Duhc fe‘
me caused them to be attacked, arc}
from the Bth till the uth they’were
purfut ti at all points, and their attiH
rv taken from them. Thi, expedition
was terminated without anv ! 0 f s
oqr part, whilst the infurgents*
dearly for their temerity.
Fie Pa reinforcements of ? C2 r anl
from the mountains, having poured
d.uv ie.Lo the plains, they cut off, he
Mont gat and Moneada, and brfet th e
small fort of Moncado, where ilvy
entrenched themselves. On (h e
they were attacked, and alm o ft’ a ’
quickly overthrown. Fort of Vl on /
gat was taken, the insurgents loft ma
ny men, their color: and 20 pieces of •
diff, rent calibre.
General Leech], pursuing the f UR u
nves on the heel, arrived at ihe town
of Mattaro, which was put into a U atc
I cf defence and harricadotd, he attack,
ed the town with the fame celerity
, teqk possession of it and carried off i, E *
: guns from the batteries. Gene rd
1 Duhcsme direbled the fame column
: towards the Narrows of St. Pan), on
the 29th he attacked them,end, with,
out uc idy, rui.hf and upon the enemy and
took ten pieces of artillery from them.
An the ictpicl of these various engage
ments, which had in view to feet.re the
communication, General Duhcsme
r< turned to Barcelona. He had
t.arcely toO men killed and, wound
sd, the loi: ol the insurgents was no.
i tat .le.
! During these operations, 3 (refit
din: of insurgents had formed behind
j Lob:ego, which by ihe nulling of the
j that had for fomc days fallen on
j the mountains Had fwdjed confideva
} Dy• luty had crcdled at I -ohno
! del Fie, a battery of thtec guns v. hi;, j ■
! ranged the bridge, that had been bro
| ken down in several parts, and all the
h>rda of the rivet dou.j to the mouth
of it were beset beflde* two hying ftda ■
piece# hovered on,the line.
(7 0 he Continued.)
• Notice.
i Persons wlllmg to contract for supplying t r s
troops in t!:e (lateot Georgia with rations, (in.
1 eluding the Qemulgee Old-Fields) from the
firfl day of January, lUO9, to the l()th day of
Mayg* 181.0, will give in tlieir proposals to the
I fubferiber, on or before the last day of this
inontn; st the fame time mentioning the namts
of their fecuritics.
I he ration, per day, to be fnrnilhed and if
j livered, miiit conf.il of the following arts hi,
viz. one pound and a quarter mi Eeefffor three
quarters of a pound of Pork; eighteen ounces
of Bread or Flour ; osegil of R um, Whiskey
or Brandy ; and at the rate cf two quarts cf
Sait, four quarts of Vinegar, .four pounds of
Soap, one pound and an half of Candles, to eve
ry oae hundred rations.
Levi Shcftall,
November ! —CO United Sfeies’
Marshals Sales
On TUESDA T the Gth December next,
Will be fold a: the court-houfc in Savannah,
tween the usual hours of sale,
Fifty acres of I.AND, adjoining landi now
or late Monet's, Dr. Irvine’s, and marsh. byd.
as the property of Wm. John Davies sail wife*
! adtrbmih'Stors cf Adam and William To.mo.
Also, ou-that and the subsequent day, v-nll be
fold, in Commerce Row*, sundry DRi
GOODS, S.JQOURS, Bcc Levied on h
property of George Foiter, surviving copanrer,
to fatisfy George Newboli and Lawrcu-c -/-•>
i aide re u ..d Go.
Ben Vv J, :.i. and. c.
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