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Foreign Intelligence.
PAULS, Nov ember 20.
A statement of the finances of the
empiie, v. js Liely presented to the leg
islative body by which it appears that the
expenditure iuMhe year 1809, is esti
mated a’. 7 30,000 00' > francs.
The conscription for the kingdom of
Italy, f*r the y«ar 1809, is fixed at
13.000 men, and will b« immediately
tarried into execution.
THIRD
BULLETIN’ OF THE ARMY IN
SPAIN.
I'MOOI, KOTKMJP.* 14.
4i Thr army of Gallic,ia is flying from
IVilboa, and is pursued by Marshal the
l)uk« of Bcllona, in the direction of Es
jflnouo, atid Marshal the Duke of D\n
*tc in that of Marshal the
Duke of Dalmstia has proceeded to
Kaynnsa to cut off their retreat—so that
very important event* may he; expected.
*• Getter.l Milhaud has entered P*l
ettcia with hi. division of cavalry, and
arm cl eta t m.nta to the passes < I Rey
noso, in pursuit of a park of atillery,
bel mgi u„ p n the *.rmv ®f Gaificia.
“Th 1 uiijj stutUn** of S.dam.Tßca,
who thought of ivibing short of the
tempi V of France, and the fanatical
peasantry *h>vt already dreamed cf plun
dering Bayonne and Bordeaux, and con
ceived that they were every where con
ducted kv s-lints that had appeared to
their cheating monks, now see all their
mischievous illusions vanishing; their
despair and confusion arc at the height,
they lament over the misfortunes to
which they luva bccoma a prey, the 1
fi!s<.hoods they hart been made to be
lieve, and tiie causeless s'ruggle in
which they have involved themselves.
“ The whole plain of the Castile* is
already covered with cur cavalry; the
ardor and s.al of our troops enable them
to march fourteen or fifteen miles a day,
with great tusc. Our pieque?!* are up* i
on tne Douro. The wnolc coast, from 1
Li. Andcroto Bi’boa, is cleared of the 1
antmy. j
“ 1 he unfortunate city of Burgos, a ;
prer to sli calamities of a city taken by !
storm tumbles with terror. Priests, ‘
monk*, rik! inhabitants, took to flight
upon the first tidings of the battle, o;»-
prehensivc that the soldi ura of the army
of Eatrentadur* would, as they gave out
defend themselves in their houses, and
that they would oe first plundered by
these, and afterwards by our soldiers,
who, having driven out the enemy,
would find no inhabitants there.
u Such men as M. Von Stein, who,
from the want of troops of the line,
themselves incapable of opposing our
eagles, encourage the extravagant idea
of un insurrection en masse, ought to be
sensible of the evils resulting from it,
and of the very inconsiderable obstacles
which such a tesource can offer to reg
ular troops.
“In Burgos and the environs, a
(quantity of wool has been found, to the
amount oftbirty millions, which his Ma
jesty the (Emperor has ordered to be
put under sequestration. All the wool
belonging to monks, or any other per
sons who have joined the insurgents,
will be confiscated and appropriated in
the first instance to the indemnification
of the losses sustained by the French ;
for even i.t Madrid, Frenchmen resident
there for forty years, have been stripped t
of their property. Those Spaniards
who have been lnithful to their King,
were declared exiles. The property of
the most virtious und enlightened min
ister Azinas, of the most able seamen
Massaredo, and of the best soldier in
Spain. OFarrcl, has been publicly sold.
That of Campod’Alanje, respectable
foi iii* virtues, his reputation, and his,
wealth, being the owner of 60,000 Mar-j
inos, and having an annual income of j
three millions, lus become tha prey of j
these frantic proceedings.
“ Another measure ordered by the
Emperer, is the confiscation of all En
glish goods and colonial produce landed
in Spain, since the instruction. The
merchants of London do very well to
send their merchandize to Lisbon,j
Oporto, and the ports of Spain. The
more they sand, the greater the contri
butions with which tiny supply us.
“ The city of Valencia, governed by
aw vrthy Bishop, has received our troop*
with kindness. That city suffers none j
of the evils of war.
* A virtuous Bishop, vrho observes j
the doctrines of the Gospel, and who L ;
inspired with Christian chanty, and
lVoin whose lips flows nothing but lion-j
cy, is the g. - vtest blessing that Heawn j
Can bestow up >n a people ; but an atn-
Litious, rancouruus, and wicked prelate, ■
w:>o preaches nothing but insurrection,
disobedience and disorder, is a monster
that God has sent in his wrath to nations
to mislead them, ty polluting the very ;
fuuntuin of morality.
“ Id the prisoni of Burges are a great
nuuiber of Monks, who were stoned by
the peasantry. Wretches, (said they to
them) it is you that have pitmgvd us in
to this gulphof misery; perhaps we
shall never again behold our unnappy ,
wives and poor children. \\ retches !
a religious God will punish you in Hell
for all the calamities you hav* brought
on our families and our country."
FOURTH
Bulletin of the Army in Spain.
“ Burgoiy Xvvember. 15. j
“ His Majesty yesterday reviewed;
the division of Mai chnnd. Ile appoint-,
td the most meritorious office is and'
sub officers to fill the vacant commis
sions, and bestowed reward* upon the
sokinr* that distinguished themselves.
Ilis Majesty was highly pleased with
these troops, who had just arrived,
without a single halt, from the borders
of tne Vistula.
“ The Duke cf Elchingen, has set
oft' from Barges.'
“ The Emperor reviewed his guards
this morning, upon the plain of Bur
gos. His Majesty cflervaids inspect
ctl the division of D*«o)ks, and filled
jup all the vacancies in that division.
k - Event* are in preparation, and all
is in progress. Nothing cun succeed
in war thut is not the result of a Weil
digested plan.
“ Among the prisoners were seme
who.had on tl : v buttons «n eagle re- ■
versed with t arrows, and the motto, I
“To the Conqueror of France." By j
this ridiculous bravado, we may easi;y j
j recognize the countrymen of Don j
' Quixote.
“ I? would be impossible to find worse
: troops cither in the mountains or the
pi ins. Clownish ignorance, silly con-1
ccits, cruel*» towards the vvt.k, and*
baseness and cowardice townrus the j
strong, iuch it the scjhc wc iiav? be-1
. fore us,—The monks and the iuquisi-j
j ti.in lmc plunged this nation into b*r-j
i barities.
! “ Ten thousand light infantry and i
| dragoons, with 24 field piece*, march* j.
; ed off on the \ Itti to attack the rear of
; the English division that was said to be
at Valladolid. These brave fellowß
• went over 34 miles of ground in two
days, but our hopes were disappointed.
We entered Palencii and Valladolid,
and advanced even G miles further, and
found no Englishmcn, but abundance of
promises ami assurances.
“ In the mean tune it appears cer
tain, that a division of their troops has
disembarked at Corunna, and that ano
ther division, at the beginning of this
mouth, entered Bad. j vs. The day we
fall in with them will i>e a day of festi
vity to the French tinny. May they
moisten.with their blood that continent
which they have desolated by their in
trigues, their monopoly, mid their hor
rible selfishness ! May they instead of
30,000, be 80 or 100,000 strong ; that i
the English mothers may lorn what j
the calamities of war me, and that the
English government may not always
continue to sport with the lives and
blood of the people of the continent.
“ The greatest falsehoods, the basest
means, hare been employed by English
machiavclism to mislead the Spanish
nation ; but the bulk of it is still good.
Biscay, Navarre. Old Castile, and the
; greater part of Arragon itself, arc well
disposed. The nation in general be
holds with the most profound sorrow,
the abyss into which it is plunged, and
will speedily curse the authors of so
many calamities.
“ Floridoa Blanca, who is at the head
of insurgents, is the person who wai
minister under Clutrlts 111. He was
always the sworn enemy of Franca, and
the zealous partizan of England. It is
to be hoped that he will, in the evening
of his days, discover the errors of his
political life, lie is an old man, who,
to the blindest attachment to the En
glish, adds the most creduloas super
stition. Ilis confidents and frier is arc
the most fanatical and stupid cf the
Monks.
j “ Tranquility is restored ct Burgos
i and the environs. To the first moment
'of fury confidence has succeeded. The
i peasants have returned to their villa
! ges, and ure again pursuing their la
i bouts.’’
j LONDON, December 14.
j Accounts have been received from
' Saragossa, dated the 24th, stating that
Gen. CusUnos, iip-.ii hearing that the
| French were moving a corps upon .So
| rio, from Burgos, and passing the Ebro,
J at Logrono, hail assembled an army of
40,00'J f »ot, and 4CGJ horse, and had
taken a position in an oblique line from
Tudcla to Borgu. This position was
unfavorable, as Fudela, the right and
; the advanced part cf the position, was
commanded by heights, and was inde
fensible. The French look advantage
of this error, and having collected an
army of 45,000 men, commenced their
attack on the Spanish right, on the 33d
and deflated two divisions of Valenci
. en% and Murcuns, who retreated with
: considerable loss, towards Saragossa.
December 15.
We have at length received the
French « fiicial details of the late action
in Spain ; they are contained in eight
additional Bulletins, from the fifth to the
: twelfth inclusive. They are not so un
favorable to the Spanish cause as we had
denied to expect by the previous re- j
' ports. The Monilcurs come down to ;
the 11th inst. but the Twelfth Bulletin j
is in that of Clh, and the psptrs of the j
7th, Bth, 9th and 10th. tio not contain;
one word of new s respecting Spain. We !
may there'ore presume, tivattn* French
did not obtain any important advantage
after the victory over Gen. Casta nos.
With respect to that battle, the French
by no means claim so complete a victo
ry as we were told they had gained.
1 ha Bulletin states, that the action took
place on the 23d ult. at i udeim. It
commenced at 9 o'clock in the morn
ing, and tndedin the complet* defeat
of the Spanish army, of which S3GO,
including 300 officers, were teken pri
i soners, ana 4000 were left on the field
of battle, or driven into the Ebro. r l he
r rnainder us the defeated army wi re
j pursued by the French cavalry, parfti
the direction of Saragossa, and port in i
, the direction of AgrcUa and-TarTupona, \
*on the frontiers of Arragon. Ihe pur- j
suit was continued to the 25th inclusive, j
on V'hii 'f day *» division of I renbh ca
valry orrivt bat Boa. 'i he number of •
prisoners taken in the Intel vai, be twtm 1
that fc the 23<J, amounted, wt are told,*
I to 5000, all * t the iine, with 30 pieces ot i
; artillery. No quarter w«a given to the I
| aimed peasants. The French, accnici- \
ing to own account, lest very few !
men in this affair.
It does not appear, that though de
feated, the Spaniards were disperser.: ; j
on the contrary, the Bulletin slates, that j
they had ictreatad upon Saragossa."—
Another strong proof, (if any addition-j
nl proof were wanting) that CastanosS ,
aimy is not annihilated, is, tint the j
French, notwithstanding their victory, i
have not ventured to advance very Gr.
The battle was fought, asvre haveatat
ed, near Tudcla, and the last Bulletin
is dated the 38th ult. at Aranda de Du
ero, which is in Old Castile, about 45
miles to the S. E. of Valladolid. The
accounts therefore of the Fiendi having
entered Madrid, is unfounded; they
have not even reached the fro lit n vs of
Ncw-Casiile. The Bulletin, however,
boasts, it is only a pleasant walk. The
French Generals particularly engaged
in the action, were the- Duke of Mon
tebello, (Dunnes) ami the Duke of Cor
negliano, (Moncey.) Had the division
of the Duke of Elchin, (gen. Ney) been
j in iuposition, it is sa;o, not* Spaniard
* would have escaped. Ihe Bulletins,
previous to the Jlth, relate chiefly to
the operation «g.*inst Blake’s army.— :
The French force that defeated it, c n- 1
sisted chiefly of the divisions of the;
Duke of Btdiuno, (Victor) Duke of Dal- j
matia, (Soult) and the Duke of Dant
zic, (Lefebvre.)
He spieling the British troops, these
papers furnish but little intelligence.
The infantry, they mat*, is on its re
treat to Portugal; as to British cavalry,
the French had seen none of them.
A division of the French army had
commenced the seige of Rosas, a sea
port in Catalonia.
Important 8c gratifying News.
Wo are happy to have it in our pow
er to comm micate to our readers intel
ligence from Spain, nut only of a less
gloomy cast than that which we have
recently received, but such as affords
ua strong ground to hope that Bona
parte’s career of success will speedily
be checked.
Dispatches have been received at the
Admiralty from Admiral Lord Colling
wood, which contain accounts of the
complete failure cf the Fiench upon
Rosas. The exertions of the g«iiant j
garrison were materiaFy aided by his
Majesty’s ship Excellent, which was
fortunstely enabled to approach near
enough to the shore to bring t er grape
shot to hear upon tfie enemy, with
which she did great execution. A par
ty of marines were also landed, and con
tributed very essentially to the defence
of the place.
The precise loss ot the French is
not stated, but it must hava been very
great.
Government hsve also received dis
patches from Sir John Moore and Sir
David Baird, which ver* brought by
th« Clift cutter, and the ir>n lUgeno
she brings it certainly of a cheerful na
tuie —she left Corunna on the 9th inst.
We are happy to find that the reverses
which the iip&nish armits have sustain
ed, so far from exciting a feeling cf
despondency, have only stimulated that
gallant people to greater exertions, and
to more determined resistance.
The inlr-.biuntfe of Madrid were lurk
ing every possible preparation to defend
the capital to the last extremity. This
determination cn the psrt of .the Spani
ards, and the junction of the corps com
manded by general Ilopr to the army
cf Sir John Moore, which took plucedn
| the Ist instant, at Salamanca, had in
duced the 1 \tter to send orders to Sir
David Baircl to advance. '1 his order,
we understand; w as received by Sir Da
vid Baird on the 7ih inst. We may,
therefore, confidently hope that, by u.i*
' lime, a British army of 4®,000 men is
happily assembled to assist the Spani
ards in the defence of every thing that
is dear to that gallant and noble-mind?
td people.
December IS.
The following bulletin was this morn
ing issued by government: \
4 * A ship of war has arrived w th dis
patches from Corunna, which she left
on the 9th inst. Accounts are brought
by it that the greatest enthusiasm had
: burst forth at Madrid, and tbet the peo
ple were determined to mAe every ef
fort to defend the capital. Gen. Hope
had joined S;r John Moore, st Salarnan
| ca, end Sir David Baird was at Villa
1 Franca on the 7th, find had suspended
' his retreat. Bonaparte was m Aranda
| d* Donor* ; his advanced corps had
i made itself master of benr. biefra, and
j a French corps bad re&chtc Segovia.'*
i Sub-sequent accounts from S&iagossn*
! of the 24m, sub ■ that the Arragoptse
| and Andalusian divisions din not suffer
| much, ami had hern a -L- ,o retire in cr-
I der. which ; confirmee by the French
i accounts.
j Vue us'- route t»ken by Gen. Ca*.
tunos’s hrrnr is not givrtu Saragossa
was in be defended by 13,( 00 men.
| Gen. Hope’s 'ivisiun arrived &f \ ill*
(histin on the SfUh tilt. i.t a Would be at
i Arevola on Uit iSui, on his route to
Siiiamrnca, in the neighborhood of
i which place it whs ,;.peeled 'lie wouid
| form a junction will. Sir John Moore.
Nassau, (n« p.) Feb. 16.
By the brig Raxgjix, London ac
counts were received in town to the
10th of December, containing relations
of a gloomy nature as regards our Al
lies the Patriots in Spain; we are how
ever, happy to state that those subse
quefitly received by the bl.ip Fortune,
w| ich are to the 16th. are mere pieus
ing. It anptars indeed that in the se
veral partiei engagements between the
army udei Gen Blake and the French)
tl c so * was considerable on both sides,-
e.nd mat General B. was obliged to fall
bark; General Pa’afcx, inconsequence
of the-determination nude tinder those,
cir- un-stances, by the council ot w!^
! dkcwise retreated in crier to ccncen
j tiate tlie* Spanish forces, by nearing the
, British armies, and to induce the French
; to *dv. r»ce —severs! sanguinary attacks
were made upon the rear of his army
! by the van of the French, yet without
any advantage on either sido.- Our ar
mies under Generals Sir John Moore,
Dope, and Sir David Baird,’have suc
ceeded in forming a junction at S*w«-
manca, and part of the Portuguese xr
my, which was rapidly organizing to
the amount cf 100,000 men had already
arrived upon Spanish ground, and the
Spanish armits became more concen
trated, whiic the public spirit of the na
tion remained undaunted. 1 lit inhab
itants of Madrid were lordlying that
capital to resist with effect the invading
foe, should his temerity carry him so.
far us to risk a nearer approach. Th*
Central Assembly at Aranjuez, have,
in confoin ity to the solemn oath taken
at it’s installation, displayed all that en
ergy and patriotism, combined with
wisdom and prudence, which the actual
circumstances required; And French
perfidy, attempted by gold to seduce
even it’s President to swerve from hi&
; sacred duties, In-re failed. ■
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