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thirty thousand soldiers and a fleet of fifty sail, at least before the battle of Navarin. Her revenues have within' a short time increased to twenty-five millions of piastres Such is the piesent condition of Egypt—such is the, preach wor It of Mehemet Ali ! SKETCH OF THE STORMING OF CIUDAD RODRIGO, BY AN OFFICER ENGAGED. • PROM 'MR tornizt MUNI JOURNAL von JANUARY. 1829. DEA It I have from recollection given you a few circumstances which took place during the siege or Ciudad Rodrigo; but, as I have not kept a journal, I only relate that whichis still fresh in my memory. A few days previous to the siege, the Duke of Wel lington reviewed the light division on the plains of Guinaldo. He was dressed in lull uniform, and merely rode down the line, looking at the troops in a cheerful manner. Just as bis Grace was leaving the ground, which was covered with snow, General Craufurd ap pester', and so in after the troops returned to their quarters. Tlle second brigade acme from Martino, and returned that night—an immense march. I heard that they were benighted on their way home, and you know what a charming road led to that part of the country. A few days subsequent to this review the wh Ile division was concentrated, the first brigade being at Li Encina, the second at El Bodon. On the Bth of January, 1812, the light division crossed the AgueJa, sonsculoile, a cooler! at a ford about seven miles from the town. The day was fine, and, indeed, 1 during the operations of the siege. the atmosphere was mild, although sometimes a little frosty of a morning. The division bivouacked for some hours two miles from the lown ; but when the darkness had set in, six companies, drawn tram the 431, 52.1, and 95th. moved under the command of Colonel Colborne (now Sir John Colboi or). to assault the fort of Fralrcisco. The enemy. fired about two rounds; out good troops did not allow more time, and the fort was taken. It was situated on a rising ground, about 600 yards from the town. It was of a square lam, with two small howi:z rs 4 g en bar , bate, had a garrison of one officer and 40 men, and was neither strong nor weak. The parallels were immediately commenced, the earth * being thrown on the town side. The land Was arab e; no particular military science; all plain honest digging. Oh ! I forgot—we did sop over a gutter nearer to the town ; but the reason f r so doing I never could make out, and at the time! trembled, believing we were about to go under ground and blow up the covered way. The great convent in the suburb was carried a few days befr,re the storming of the town; I believe by the first division. The firing lasted a very long time. The divisions empliled in the siege moved by turns from their cantonments, each taking a twenty-four hours' si ell—but all this. of course, you know. I have never read any book of this siege; all the better ! I might have got bewildeted by so doing, and made more prima kes. thi the 19:h of January the light division was or dered t s the a intik, out ki its turn. At fret it was reported that they • ere to take both breathes, but as the tliirJ d vision were also thin•ing up earth, thtit Get e:4l remonstrated. The truth of this' you v.ill have opporrunitirs if finding out. During the greater part et this day the light division remained behind a con vent rhi u: four miles horn the town. At four o'clock they moved toss ards the ground occupied Ly the first division, onemile and a half fluor the suburbs of Ciu dad Rodrigo. Whether Vie first division remained in reserve during the night I know not, although I should rathrr imagine it did. The third division occupying the ttei ehes, the ga, t isms must have observed the march of the light division from the ramparts, ex ra troops! The G vernm should have pondered on it The third division had relieved the first as usual in the morning, bu. 41d not return as usual to its quarters. If the Go s etn r had kept a sharp look out he must have been expec ing the assault; but I , I guess* he was no great things. I will give you my reasons anon. There were two breaches effected in the walls of this toss n ; the small one was made in twenty-four hours. By this breach the large one was taken in the rear, and. without doing injustice to the gallant third division, I fear that4he attack en the great breach would have laded. had the small breach not been carried. At half past, six o'clock the light dovition was formed behind the convent in the suburb, arid almost exactly oppos to to the small breach, and, as I should guess, about three hundred yards from it. AU was silent mid gill, four or five shells excepted, which were thrown by the enemy into our left battery, and fell not 4 great distance from our column. Now, if the Governor thr•u&ht that the assault was preparing, he ought not to have fired at all from the ramparts, as it prevented the approach of the troops from being discovered by the ear. heard the town clock strik- seven, and at the same time iaw a match lighted in one oi the embrasures— ve y awful j..and at that moment the lot lot n hope and the storming party moved on; in two minutes they were on the brink of the ditch, and the fi. e of the town opened briskly on them. Them was a short check, but no hinge , than might be expected, as they had to scramble in and out of the covered way. The storming party carried a number of bags filled with dried grass. And how the troops contrived to torte the breach I know not. I can only say td, it was well done. The bias( h N as exceedingly steep. about five yards v ide at tt e top, hiving a '24-poundsr placed sideways to block up the passage; however, there was a clear yard form the mitizzte of the gun to the wall, a sufficiei t space for out or two men to enter at a time, besi,ies those who could pass underneath the nuzzle of the gun. The moment the division entered, a number of men sashed along the ramparls to the large breach (o. e hun dred and fifty yards I should say), and then engaged those of the French who were still firing on the third division. At this period a anode* spare magazine, placed on the rampart, exploded, and blew op many grenadiers and many of the light division. Pattenwii, of the 43d, and Uniacke, of the 9Sth, %vele of the num ber. Titus occurred ju-t behind the traverse, which, on the enemy's right.confined and guarded the great breach. On meting the small breach, I found myself with the crowd. Colonel hi'Leod was collecting on the ramparts about two hundred men of the 43d, and was exhorting them to keep together. At this time there was not ally firing on us, but sharp musketry still at the great breach. While the 43d were forming I saw no other regiment doing-the like. I went towards the large breach. and met Unia aka of the 95th; he was walking between two men. One of his eyes was blown out, and the flesh was tern off his arms mod legs. I asked who it was? be replied Uniacke, and w al ked on. He had taken chocolate with cur mess an hour before I returned to the regiment, which was now formed, and Colonel Al 4 Leod instriedi mely detached officers with guards to take possession of sill the stores they could find, and to pewee order. These parties ultimately dissolved themselves. If they bad not done in they would have been engaged in the, streets with oar own troops. I will explain why here. alter. Colonel M'Leod caused Lieutenant Madden, of the 45d, to descend the small breach with twenty- five men, ordering him to continue at the foot of it during the night. and to prevent soldiers leaving the town with plunder. At eleven o'clock I went to see him. I assure you he had no sinecure. He had very judiciously made a large fire, which, of course, :showed the delinquents to perfection. He told me that no masquerade could, in point of costume and grotesque fi g ures, rival the cha racters he stripped that night. Ihe fire was large, and surrounded by the dead bodies of those who fell in the first onset at' the foot of the breach. The troops must have rushed up, and taken it without hesitation. Had the Governor of the town only tied a few baskets together, he must have stopped the entrance of the light division altogether. He had time, as tLe firing from our batteries ceased two hours before the assault, and then from the ramp rrt there was only a gentle slope into the town. He was most culpable I There was no musketry from any part of the ramparts until the head of the light divi sion column was close to the small breach. This I note down to convince you that we were the first who got into the town,where,when the troops had sipped the wine and brandy in the store., the extreme disorders coni menced.To restore order was i mpossible—a whole division could not have done it. Three or four large houses were on fire, two of them were in the market place, and the town was illuminated by the flames. The soldiers were drunk, and many of them, for amusement, were firing from the windows into the streets. I was myself talking to the barber Evans in the square, when a ball passed through his head. This was at one o'clock in the morn ing. He tell at my feet dead, and his brains lay on the pavement. I thed sought shelter, and found Colonel M.Lethi, with a few officers, in a large house, where we remained until the morning. I did not enter any other house in Ciudad Rodrigo; and if I had not seen, I never could have suppnied that British soldiers would become so wild and !warms. It was quite alarming to meet groups of them in the streets, flushed as they were with drink and desperate in mischief. In the morning the scene was dreary: the fires just going out; and absut the streets were lying the corpses of many men who had met their death hours after the town had been taken. At eleven o'clock I went to look at the great breach. The ascent was not so steep as 'that of the small one, but there was a traverse thrown up at each side of it on the rampart : hence there was no way into the town, as t' se wall was quite perpendi cular behind the breach. When the third division gained the sop of the rampart they were in a manner enclosed and hemmed in, and had nowhere to go, while the enemy continued to fire upon them from some old ruined houses only twenty yards distant. lam confi dent a plan would convince any person that the light division extricated the third division from this disagree able situation. The very nature of the ground and the defences speak in plain language. I counted either 63 or 93 men of the third division lying dead on the rampart exactly between the traverses I have already described. I did not see one dead man of that division on the French side of those traverses ; but I saw sonic of the light division. I saw General M Kinnon lying dead; he was on his back, joist tinier the rampart, on the inside; that is, the town side. He had, I think, rushed forward and fallen down the perpendicular wall before spoken of, probably at the moment of receiving his mortal wound. HI was stripped of every thing. except his shirt and blue pantaloons; even his boots were taken off. He was a tall thin man. There were nn others dead near him, and he was not on the French side of the traverse neither. It is said that he was blown up. I bhnu I d say de cided'y not. There was no appearance indicating that such had been his fate. Neither his stin nor the posture in which he was lying led me to think it. When a man is blown up his bands and face, I should think, coul.l not ir.eape. I never saw airy whose f.sce was not scor. bed. M.Kinnon's was pale and free from the marks of fire. How strange, but, with the exception' of the General, I did not see a man of the third divi sion who had been stripped! Neither was there any officer among the dead, or else they had been carried away. I should not wonder, if it is nut uncharitable, that the General had been killed with all the others between the traverses, and that some tender heated soldier bad taken his clothes off, and then just given him a hand over the wall, and so placed him in the position described. _ _ _ Oa the 20th the light division returned to their quar ters by regiment!, having been relieved by the fifth divi ion, which came horn the rear and took charge of the town. A few day, after the assault most of the 011ic. rs of the light division attended Gen. Ciaufurd's funeral. He was buried under the snail breach. may probably have made a mistake about the pum mel-As of the first and third division on the day of the storming. I rather think, on reflection, the third divi sion must have I.ft the trenches just Infirm the assault, to take up their posi,ion behind some old houses, and within a bundled yards of the great breach. Most likely the first division supp'ied their place in tile trench. T Hl 4 ; PW 1 4 % N ING S'l'Aß. IMA IflIN. FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1829 PRICK OP STOCKS Bank Stuck 2‘91 3 per Cent.ltellKi 3 per Ct. ('una Shut IT FOUR *CLOCK. India bald. 69 71 South lira Stock Old Annuitks 3i per Cent. 954 New Ditto 34 per Ceut. he. 1.954 alum) Kiteheq.l9lll67 8 6 9 4 per Ct. New, Shut A5OO Ditto 67 8 6 9 8 4 per Cent. 1826, 1051 tluB and .5200 Ditto 67 8 6 9 8 knot{ Ann. 194 7.16 Advertised I:134 Stock Consuls fur Acet. 874 • FORKION FUNDS, TWO (O'CLOCK Mez.11i15,1825,6p CLUJ Spanish Hilt 5 p Ct. 10 Do. Acet 324 Fr.ltentes,s pe. 107 f 3tsc Porte& lids. 5pC. Eve ange 25130 e Do Met. 534 Do Ac UKITIoH AND FOREIGN SHAKES, TWO O'CLOCK. IMAM 7.1111% 35 20 25 5 40 18 ... 91 15 Ditto Natitinal Muted Altztean One of the subjects upon which the Papers affecting to be in the interest of the Government descant and differ, is tl.e question of %%hither DOD filloun is or is not to be recogn zed as King of Po►tugal ? The pre s is evidently ditri.'ed into two factions ; die one can find no terms of reproach too seve.e for their application to the present ruler at Lisbon—the other as loudly pro claims his right to the Throne, and praises his mild and exemplary Government. The one insists that Don Mom i. an usurper. and that the English Court wilt never receive his Ambassador—the other is prepay lug us for his immediate recognition ; and both sustain their opinions with a violence as inclement at it is sidiculous. The one patty is calling on the Go vernment to choke the Portuguese with a Constitution which they cannot, or will not swallow; the other is in sisting upon an instant adoption I f a change which makes Don MIGUEL the Monarch. The que►tion, se far as it affects our interests, is scarcely worth a thought, but in its consequences upon other countries, we have to contend with many dif f iculties. According to ex isting Treaties, Don Alwyn . has usurped the Crown• but it is an usurpation in which the Nobles have joined. and although we are not bound to invade the country with troops to enforce the Constitution once given to the people and expel the new King, w e are equally bound not hastily to acknowledge the justice of every change which may take plsce in a country where liberty is not valued. Those who affect to know the intentions of Government are wiser thin the Mini•tcrs, for the fact is, negociations, upon which depend the line of our future policy in regard toPortugal, are still going on, and it is impossible in their prese lit stage to cal culate with any certainty upon the result. The present year upon which we have entered pro mises ti be an eventful era in the history of England. The Prime Minister is not, at least, inimical to the ad justment of the Roman Catholic question! This an nunciation will animate thefactiru. views of one party, but, we trust, will net enervate the zeal of the other. The Duke of MILLINGTON cannot be fully aware of the expectations of she Popish party in Ireland, or he would know that there is but one way to settle the question to please them—that is, to giant unrestricted emancipation. If limits be fixed to their ptesent de mands, the field is still left open fin further agitation ; and while one feather can be won, the heavy artillery of seditious cannonading will be continued, as it the assailants were contending fir a citadel, within which food and fuel, and raiment, were alone to be pro- cured. But emancipation on such grounds is the surren• der of the Constitution, of the Church, and of the Throne. So unlimited a donation of power cannot be bestowed. If it be, the majority of the Empire—the Pi crestant subjects—are delivered, in (lick interests end in toeir religion, to the craving ambition of a sect. Yer, if it be not, what is the advantage secured by a partial gift? Agitation, which is the pa rid font from which a thou. sand poisoned springs dilate their vicious course, will not cease. The blood—the young blood of Ireland, as Mr. O'Costim.t. says, will continue to boil. Masked treason will still walk its angry round. And the addi tional power which any half measure will necessarily confer, will be leagued with the means which have been employed to secure that power. Thus the enemy grows stronger—we, the assailed foe, are weakened by our own generosity. Our mercy has not extracted the hatred of our opponents. We must aw ait the sallies of their wrath; and when we engage with them, either in Parliament or in public discussion, the fit st weapon that strikes us is the boon that we bestowed. Thus it is evident, that if any concession be made to the Roman Catholics—and if it be made finally to con ciliate them—it must be a surrender of the Constitu tion. This, therefore, cannot be contemplated. Yet, on the other hand, a partial gift obtains no peace.— Therefore, if in each supposition difficulties crowd upon the thoughts of those who deeply reflect on this sub ject—difficulties which no wisdom c-n remove, nor foresight contravene—what is the course which shoal be put sued? We certainly answer, and boldly too— -1 give nothing to Roman Catholics, as nothing can be with safety given. The advocates for what are called peace and concilia tion, exi.laim, this is a cruel doctrine. Such legislation conducts to rebellion, and the agency of parliamentary wisdom, which ought to effectuate universal blessings for the people, becomes, by such rigorous exclusion, the operative means of producing civil war. But there are two short answers to this delusive benevolence. To prevent civil war, will you rob Protestants of their privileges, by bartering them for the elusive allegiance 4.f Papists? or, will you prevent civil war, by a modi. fied_ Emancipation Bill? For, if civil war is the conse quence of refusal now, will it not be the mournful con- I I sequence of that just fiat whenever it is r.corded, " we will grant no more r In this view cf . the subject one answer remains with the emancipationists, which we shall endea vour to combat ; we think we can successfully overturn it. It is said that granting full. unqualified Emanci 'pation, takes no privilege from the Protestant ; it be ►tows power on one class of subjects, tut takes it not from another; it strengthens the Church of England, by extracting the venom of its opponents, and it leaves in increased security all the institutions of the State, by giving to it an additional supply of new friends, s►ho, from an equalization of rights, will feel and testify an equal zeal pith the Protestant for its preservation. We think we have stated the argument with all its force. Now fur the answer. We ground our reply upon the oath which a Roman Catholic Bishop takes at his ordination, and upon one passage in this oath. 4• I will help them (the Pora and his successors) to defend and keep the Roman Papacy AND THE ROYALTIES ON ST. PETER: That this pas sage refers to the kingly authority of the POPE in these countries, none can doubt that will examine its ►istory, and the other parts of the oath where the words occur. It cannot be interpreted to mean any ecclesiastical or priestly jurisdiction, for the oath is most full in every point w here it was necessary to protect the Pones au thority in such matters. It was sent to Ireland precisely at Me period when HaNitY supremacy was ac k.iowledged. Those who took this oath within forty days, and confessed they were guilty of grievous sirs in acknowledging tl,e supremacy of the King, were par doned. Now, except the passage referring to the rega lilies of St. Pete:, any person, that is. nay Roman Ca tholic, might have taken the oath of supremacy, and this oath also, without acknowledging two Smvereigns• But as HENRY VIII bad usurped the kingly office of the Poi e in Itcland, by an espress Act, this passage in the oath was added, to secure what had been always claimed by the Pontiff. It cannot be 'aid that this passage might not be emitted and the oath alteted, be cause objectionable; because the oath has been amend . ed. a d a mock oath of allegiance added to it. Ye t why dries it remain, when it means noel 41 of cede. siastical or priestly jurisdiction, which is not fully con veyed in other word, in the same oath? But the mo't pc)« erful argument against it ir one. which we are as. tonished not to find in the Digett of the Evidence. on the state of Ireland in 1821 and 1825, by Dr. Phelan and Mr. U'S',Livan. This very passage was brought forward by the eel.. brated Bishop lianzu., as a et rect proof that the Pon exercised and chimed a kingly authority in Leland, uresious to the rebellion of 1641. In urging the proof of this assertion, "the Pops bath another kingdom" beside his ►piritual one, he adds these emphatic words, 44 fhe POPR bath hrre a Clergy, the heads a hereof are by corporal oath bound ono him, to maintain him and his regali ie. CONTRA 01111NEM HOMINZNI, and to execute his im ',Waits to the uttermost of their forces:'—Burnet . Life of Bis4op Bedell—p. 54. Now, u hen we consider that the passage " I will help them (the Poec and his successors) to defend and keep the Roman Papacy anJ the Royalties f Sr. Perak" was introduced into Ireland, when the supremacy of an intrusive K;ng had usurped the tight which the Pontiff claimed—when we consider that it has ever been inter. preted as applicable only to a Royal jurisdiction in that count' y—when we consider, that one of the most un impeached witnesses that ever bore testimony clings to this pass4ge, as evidence convincing that the POPS still claimed through regal supremacy by the fact of his Ii ish 11 . shops taking this oath—when we consider that by the in:trumentality of these Bishops who took this oatf —by the exertions of the Prii sts whom Dish ip Bs• DELL says" moulded the people to the Port's obeJiencer —by the exertions of the inferior Clergy who, he says, were guilty of an "infamous/4Mo as•uming the tomes. c-ature of the Estahlished Priesthood, and' by the le ies of three, four, five, or six pcunds" sshieh the Priests made at tile chapels, that by all these means the rebel lion of 164.1 was brought about—wl.o that considers this weight of evidence, coupleJ with the fact that the oath stiil remains, and still is taken by the Popish Bishops in Ireland, but will acknowledge that its import is dangerous, that it contains masked treason, and is in itself a fountain from which may flow rebellion and anarchy, whenever He, to whom are committed the Keys of &ma as well as Heaven, may please to open the sluices of desolation ? Who will say that the people of IrelAnd, the abject slaves of the Piimthood, could be equally lo) at as she Protestants of the Empire, when the Popish Bishops continue to take an oath which hiswry says ib the oath of A REBEL ? Having said so much, we cannot now advert, as we purposed, to the conduct of the Committee of the House of Lords and Commons, it: 1824-1825. We shall only add at present, that a more miserable farce was never exhibited. The wh , le plan appeared to be to soften down the asperities of P ,pert'—to make the churches of Reformers demi•Npistical, to turn the accusations of hi tory against the Roman Cabolie Church into the dreams of madmen—to win the nation to Emancipation by sophistic.l trigon and delusive words—Ll make pretty sentences, the tees of doctrines and exhibi ions r I Jesuistry, the mos; cnnvincing etsi. dencts that Popery had teased to be loathsome and corrupt. The accounts from the late theatre of war, which • appears in the following extracts from the German Papers received this morning. are of too v4gue and contradictory a natore to require commer t The re ported loss of the Russian man-of-war in the Black Sea, containing the trophies captured from the Turks at Varna, appeared in 0 is Piper a week since : JASSY. Dec. A report is just spread here, that on the 30th Nov. there were saute we're actiuns in the environs pf Varna, where the Turks are said to have made an attempt to drive the Russians front their positions. Wits, respect to the issue of these actions, the most con. Riedel; reports are in circulation; some giving the victory to this Russians, and some to the Turks. Another report which has been circulated Isere, on the authority of letters from Odessa, la, that the Russian ship which had on board the It cannon taken inVarna (and which were intended for the monument of King Wladielaus at Warsaw), together with many other trophies front Varna, bad been driven, in a violent storm, towards the Gulf of Bourgas, when it ran foul of another Russian ship that had been likewise driven thither, and that the shock was so violent that both ships went to the Nitta's, and every soul on board perished. We hope that this, news, if net wholly unfounded, will prove at least to be greatly uaggerated. NUREbIBURG, Da. 24. The Municipality of Sonneberg brought an action for a libel against the proprietors of the Dorf &items of Hildburgbausen, on account of some remarks on the proceedings of the Municipality in their management of the public business. The Municipality having lost their cause before the tribunal of Mildburghausen, appealed to the Superior Court at Wurtzburg, which has rejected the appeal by a decision, the terms of which are extremely remarkable : " The Editor of the Dee Seining." says the Court, "like the Editors of ether public Journals, has taken upon himself, and not without the approbatimeof the readers both at home and abroad. to point out defects and desiderata on public matters, and thus to censtibute to effect an improvement ; and though this use of the liberty of the press has not taken such deep root in Germany as In other countrin of Europe, yet the principle of the press is in general adopted in the modern public law. If the several Governments have not yet determined on the means of preventing the abuses that may occur in the exercise of its rights—if, therefore, the press is front time to time to give an amount of public matters—if the consequence's( defective laws are to be pointed out, information of the injurious pre. mans of organs of the Government to be communicated—if per. suns bolding public characters, such as the municipality of Sonneberg, are at least subjected to a moral responsibility, it can by no means be taken for granted that the observation or blame is purposely dos signed t• give offence. On the contrary, this is to be considered as the exercise of a kind of public office, often, indeed, difficult and ungrateful, but in the conscientious exercise of which the Govern ments and the governed are interested, and which may be vet y ad. vantageous to the welfare of the State, and to enlighten puhlis opinion. Besides, it is free to every body to use the same organ of the Press to correct erroneous statements and opinions. is Now, U the Courts would ages to Mil COnVial°l4444B we et eh marks and give rums 'mad not public Ohl tinning tin' every OCCU proceeding Press, rep uad lateen pal good, a Farm Tribe coosplalot, kw, and di Se legal fee The I pew. frog . Frattat g of two da she Com zity. date • t ppear, ;,om El !move ; 'the Rus strarm of all they I produce terent Po dation in pressed hl that 'c the ten itorial century." M. 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