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MAJORC4I. , ...- 1 =TRACT OF A LETTIft FROM PALMA, ISLAND ON MAJORCA, DATED JUNE 10, 1812. • " We have here a good diviiion, above 5000, well organised, comprising cavalry (a small propor. • tion), two troops horse-artillery, one battalion gre * uadiers of the best description, 1500 light infantry, the remainder regiments of the line; a well organised staff in all its departments, the officers well disposed, and the whole machine, though not perfect, wants bat very little. We have been manctuvring in line with arms some time, but they delayed giving . us wren until the last minute, and we are still to receive 2000 recruits, although the formation has been gun more than i year. - The boasted eaertions.of new Governor eht of sPain do not reach us, . • . F Island year,ndnot a h n arg . yet 'paid the war contribution foe ,s Junta refusing all species of sup plies. he quipft (pro P ncial militia) laugh at the orders of the Regency. . - • . a My opinions relative to the possibility of bring ing a Spanish army into the field, are widely different from those of our Government. They will not suc- , teed for many years ; the disposition of the officers I, vices. weaknesses , defects of the Spanish Govern: l :neat, habits of the people, are all in opposition tol the accomplishment of such a plan. We may send equipments and spend millions, but they will be of little service until there is a radical reform—not a theoretic plan, but 4 well-digested, systematic, prac tical one; not destroying what exists, but improving it and taking advantage of it, such as it is. " Their present plan appears to be to destroy the Guerillas and form an army by conscription; but they forget that they have not officers even to in struct them, and that they extinguish the principle which supports the war, and shut up the school for officers, without opening another. 1 4 Among the conscripts sent here are many Cap tains of Guerillas, who have rendered eminent ser vices. All the patriotic companies of Catalonia have been suppressed; and the Spanish General who ct.mmands in M.-. has shot great numbers of the Guerillas. ,• Had , I my choice of service, I had much rather serve with the Guerillas than with the best army they can bring into the field; and we are so convinced of the advantages to be derived from the efforts of these people, that one of us proposed to the Quarter- Master-General to visit all the parties, and draw him up a statement of the best means of giving consistency to their warfare, If the savage Cossack is made an' useful engipe in able hands, what may not be ex: petted from the well.directed efforts of the courage, perseverance, and patriotism et the Spanish Gueni., las I Ow Government foam a wrong estimate of the • Spanish character, and proceed on false principles ti which, I am convinced, will fail them, . a It is a Herculean labour to get these troops to do any thing ; arid yet all the materials are good, but want the master's hand. 44 N--'s prami u respecting the continued acti vity of the new R..—y has been partly fulfilled, and is daily more evident. It will, like the others, go on in the same road, and close when it can go no further, I have had proof before me in a letter from General "V"we.'".9 brother to the It. -.--t, who commands ip Murcia, and which I have read. He says his army is starving and totally . forgotten by she Goreritnienti that he can Only shoot the men and break the officers for their crimes, without he ing.able to pay them. or even give chop bread. A regiment he sent here hat kr.n fleyeß month, With out par!!! o My opiniotl respeg the apnnisb f awn ii un- changed ; trig as good its ever it was. or Getter s in A s much as the people are more enlightened , * have lost Mani' of OW prejficlifeas are .entire sensible of their situat Ansi ;more likely to . sohipil to those iop, privations and exertiops which it r!quires. All that is vraghal ii aJIA 114;c11 1 /en rfiel* croTtuimmitt44 Van themselves of theitown means, end to dispose of those which such a Government would derive from the alliance of Great Britain. At present, the means supplied bf England are given in such way, that little or no advantage is derived from them.— They are given sparingly, and destined to particular objects, in which the Spanish Government, either from a jealous tenacity, or from a difference of opi. nion, take no interest. This division of Maillorca has cost an enormous sum ; bui from the want of energy in the Government has been kept incomplete, until within a few weeks. The division at Alicant e has been generally 7000 men, while WOO French established themselves within four leagues,and ranged the country to the very walls of the town, without a single effort being made to disturb them;' ,• SOUTH OF SPAIN. PRIVATE LETTERS. " ZAMA, JULY 25. T imagine my last to you was from the bivouac of Albuera. Either the very day I wrote to you or the following one, we advanced and drove the Count d'Erlon back upon the mountains near to Constan tin:, and in the direction of Cordova. , g In the accomplishment of this we had not much fighting, mere skirmishing with his rear-guard and cavalry, and some distant cannonading, particularly on the sth instant, when we dislodged them at Usa gre. Head-quarters were established at Llerena, where there were also.two British brigades ; and the remainder of the corps was distributed either in or near the villages of Villa-Garcia, Usagre, Bien Ve • *c. On the 9th, the corps made a night movement upon a body of the enemy, at the village of Ayilo. nes, four leagues in our front. Our success was, however, but very trifling, as they had got intima tion of our approach. • 66 On the 20th the corps was once more put in motion, and by a 'retrograde movement, we found ourselves in the same lines we occupied previous to our retiring to Albuera. 64 Llerena, and the towns in its vicinity, are con sequently again occupied by the enemy. In mai. tary arrangements, it is difficult, in general, to find out a true cause for certain movements of the troops. none ought to knovrthe entire secret, except the lea der ; few ought to know half of it, if any. Thus stumbling in the dark, some of us attribute our re-' treat to the want of provisions among our friends the Portuguese troops ; whilst others say, that it has, been through pobilive orders from Lord Wellington„,l HE not wishing to have us too forward in the South,l whilst his game in the North remains undecided.-- True it is, however, that the enemy did not attempt ] to molest us—and that,from whatever cause we have. retreated, it certainly has not been from their move. ments. The number of deserters who arrive daily 'from them is astonishing. 66 On the efid we took about SO of their cavalry, and killed as many more, in a reconnoissAnce they thought proper to make near Ribeira. We are at present, all expectation and anxiety ; not a word of news, nor a single mail has arrived from Lord Wellington for five days." • -• • 4SIA, JULY so, 1812: ' r ." I am not long returned from. visiting Cartha. gena, Alicant, ice. Italie a very interesting tour, as 1 was enabled to setwith.my own eyes every thing that was passing. It is truly lamentable how you at home are deceived asiw the real state of things. Ministers will not credit the plain statement of honest well informed people ; and no wonder, when every thing like truth is driven from the door. Our agents . are full of deception and of gross misrepresentation. It is their livelihood to be so, and they are credited. You can , have no conception of the miserable state of the country, and of the anarchy of the Govern nient. Even here, on their own locality, neither the Regency nor the Cortes have much influence : else where they have none. Every authority acts for it self, and plunder is the order of the day with every public officer. No where is there any revenue ; our Gibraltar smugglers have destroyed what little there was remaining. England must furnish, must de every thing. Of our supplies not one third is pro perly applied. The state of Spanish affairs is not to be told, much less to come in the compass of a letter. —The Spanish corps that are in exis.ence, devastate. worse than the enemy : they raise contributions on the country where they are, without affording it the' least protection ; as the French, with very infejlor force, carry away the harvest in their very presence. .From what I saw and learnt I am persuaded that every account that the Spaniards give of having ob.. tained an advantage, is false—they have rather sus. tained a defe'at. Fifty French dragoons awe a whole district. While I was there, General Harishe came with only 1200 'men into Huerta of Merci., and quietly loaded and sent off 2000 mules, while Mr. O'Donnel had, within 18 miles of him, 11,000 men, and Mr. Roche at Alicant, only 12 miles, with 6000 men ; yet neither dared molest him. When he had done his work, and was retiring, then came on Mr. ,O'Donnel, who wrote to General Ross that " he had driven away the enemy," with this particular expres sion. I have letters down to the 10th, from Alicant, which tell me that the French have again been in the Huerta, and kladed another thousand mules, and that they had sent the sacks back, with their compli ments, as having no farther use for them. When at Alicant, r accompanied Mr. Roche in a deawastratien, or reconnoissance. I never beheld any thing morel laughable ; I there saw French agents publicly buying and sending away wheat from the Mole, and with use secret permission of the Governor. Out our Go vernment is as bad with their licences, who permit Soult to be supplied with meslicine,chests and surgical ipsuoments from England. We are au jobber,.— From Gibraltar I visited 'Mr. Ballasteros at his then bead-quarters at Algesiras, and saw his army, It is truly laughable how we have been humbugged as to tbis Gentleman: be is 4 good bold fellow, and nothing ' more, equal to command 1000 or 1200 men ; he is destroyed with his present large force, which he was not able to subsist, as we were daily sending him 20 itarrels of flour from our stores of the rock. s , The bombardment of Cadiz is now become very serious, not from the mischiet done by the shells, but from the alarm they create, hardly Itr leaner of the _town b. ing secure howl them. Ilsvy Apw range Where people had fled tor refuge....Thspi i 4 arly a stagnation of trade, the ,Mote arid Custom-house lacing Coatiete4 up ed to 0fP7.4 lie is 44 the fie- 9 - - • , neral residence of the Merchants, who, for verve. and we usenet every day to hear of nience, had their houses in this quarter. If shells ,having been fought. Vitt are thrown early in the morning, business is over for Letters from St. Petersburgh, of t h e the day. Any one wishing not to pay money , maes state that a great sensation pr e vail e d i it them as an excuse for not being at home. The gal- from which was feared that some bad legos who were wont to be employed are not now arrived from our armies ; but every eterp ea to be had, to run about and take up bills and carry ing throughout Russia to continue the smr money—they are better paid for transporting beds. last extremity. The voluntary contributi ons 7 &c. Them is an extreme confusion, as you may well succeeded beyond expectation, and them i s 4;4 conceive, when I tell you that families eat here, sleep enough for the whole of the campaign. there, and transact business elsesvhere,-ond that there Letters from Moscow, of the 29d J u l y , .... e is a total change of residence. All .who can afford the Emperor Alexander bad arrived there tab u ."'" it, and whose occupations would allow of it, have interview with the Archduke Constantine, come out here, so we are throng with folk. Happily Accounts from Revel, of the 23d of &gi p as yet, few lives have been lost, but the houses have that 4000 Russians had cut their way th e Z been knocked about a little—very few shells explode * 12,000 Prussians, and got safe into Riga. Tb s iZ so little injury is done. sians, it is also said, have surrounded 15,000 N In a military point of view, this bombardment sians near Liebau, and it was expected t h ey effects but little, but politically I think a great deal. be taken pri so n ers . nag If it is continued through the winter, it will produce i I OCICROLM, AUGUST I. great discontent. At this season of the year the peo- I (Extract's( a Private Lew.) pie do not mind sleeping in the streets, and tents " Things are far from quiet in Oerm , y O4 have been pitched to receive the poor, in a quarter of friend arrived here last night from Ha safety. In winter this cannot be done. lam only information distresses me much, and l a teejt e d in surprised that the enemy do not attempt throwing once flourishing city. They are creating a rli k o . shells into the Isla, which they might easily do from tionale (in tile absence of the regulars) from aka. many points. This would complete the Alarm. As bitants between 15 and 3.5; Count d'Aubigaa n .c. d yet, they have not molested the shipping. Their de la Police, is at their head ; the douaniers tiring is most irregular—they throw just three or four the service, having no other employment. tin shells then stop , for a couple of hours-11qt it is ge. 1809, after the battle of Aspern , all s t ea m nerally in the night. We foolishly answer eight for they are on the qui v i va along th e Elk, odwit' l one, so there is a terrible expenditure of ammunition. right in Hanover. They even disused* e Puntales there begins to be a sesious destruction I Altoaa, from the Danes having of limbs, as generally there are eight or nine wounded force in Holstein, and augmented the rim chiefly Spaniards, who mutually furnish the garrison, Rendsburg and Gluckstadt.- Our Crown N ub and their battery is in tad order, having no shelter I who is as courteous as he is brave, intend; for the men. Just now we are annoyed with 'de- cing his rupture with Bonaparte on the 16th,T I C monstrations to please the Spaniarlis, who fancy, by pliment to the day. You must not expect *tel t stewing a number of men at the advanced outworks, between the Russian and French grand anniesiefos to give alarm to the enemy, but who, with ourselves, our troops have reached their destitution, as sai l thoroughly understand the thing. We are out at done in concert with our brave Prince. break of day, but more with a view to defensive than I "In every skirmish the French have felt the face offensive measures—however, the Dons have crossed lof the 4ussians. There is no Ulm or Mack in 4. at Sr. Petri, and are throwing up `a fresh work, but ) sia. We have just heard of th e glorious bat t k d . . . . which the French will destroy - at - their leisure. Mt, Ballisteros has been drawn into a scrape by.slitt: French—why or wherefore he chose to make a mini. nient upon Malaga, which he entered, but the Emma . retiring into the Castle, which commands the town,lre was soon driven out of it. Boulr, aware of his move. ments, had withdrawn from the lines all his disposa ble force, and marched theiti to cut of hisJeturn to his old ground : so Mr. Ballasteros, with 7000, has been forted to Junquera, in the Sceria of the Ronda, and whet* he is surrounded with 14,000 men ; Ge nerals Laval and Ney being at Coir, and line of sea. coast, with 7000; Vilhte wish 3500, at Ardeles, and Breton and Cruz, with 8000 men, at Los Barrios and St. Roque. The French cut off some Spaniards who advanced from Taiiffa—they entered Algesiras, but after exacting 8000 rations, retired from it, as our gunboats from the Bay immediately opened on it. Ballasteros writes that he can maintain himself, but I think he will be obliged to disperse, and if so, it is my opinion. the French will again turn their attendee's. to Tariffs, and which mou probably they will now ,take; as ow works on the isle are not near finished, and the Spaniards have been: constructing works they cannot defend, and which facilitate the capture of the town. lt is quite nonsens e to say that the French have. no force in Spoinal. We are rather in. kilned to believe that the grasullicilian expedition is all over; as Mr. Roche, who had embarked 8300 men, and had arrived at Mahon, has been sent Duck and disembarked, and the Ist division of 4000 English who sailed at the same time have gone God knows whither. We are most healthy, but I think the fever must break out at Cadiz, from the pigsty. crowding of the lower classes." Salamanca, which will add one laurel more to die ,brow of your immortal Wellington, and inspire hetb ardour into our brave troops, who will Mull:gem s and the Spaniards. Too much praise cannot he stowed on Mr. Thornton for his frankness in acipak. Ling our Crown Prince with the peculiar situates of your Government. No money was demanded by Sweden; she wanted ammunition and stores, ad they have already reached their destination. It rumoured here, but I cannot vouch for it, that 14,. Thornton is charged with an important overture the Court of Denmark. • 66 In our new commercial regulations we couldn't exclude the Americans ; but the four per cent, Air rican • there not being many articls imported of AIM rican growth, wilt stop their great carrying trade s 66 The ferment in Hesse, and along the Rhine s now a matter of public notoriety, although I hops our friends at H. B. C. will not be too precipinh, Advice.' from Stralsund are very flattering to err fondest wishes. Every thing portends that we al on the eve of great events.' • OOTTINBUROH, AUGUST e. The Gazette of the Court of St. Petersbargh brive the ratification of the Treaty with the Toth, 04. status that the Auesian armycen - the Danube inset irk Maras to join the grand army under the Cur. The Crown Prince of Sweden wab daily myseisll at Gottenburgh, and great preparations femme* there to receive him. ..che expedition writ rhea with zeal and speed. There was a report in Sweden that the Nan** pinion, nudist making his junction with the pet army, cut off 11000 French troops. This affie I however different from the combat at Mir, when*, nine re.ziments of cavalry were sabred. There was a rumour at Hano, (near Carlshes4 that the Prussians had joined the Altai.= t doubt it. Aram 10.--When the news of the cm*" peached Copenhagen, it caused great alarm ; andtke French Minister there intimated to the Gownierain that it was the intention of the Swedish Governing to invade the island of Zealand ; in consomme sp which a camp was ordered to be formed between 14 bkilde and Sorroe, to consist of twenty thousand is. &tiny, two thousand cavalry, and fifty piecTs demo non; but by accounts since received from Coped** gen, by express, the alarm has subsided, sad she troops were ordered to remain in garrison sad quo" ter' till farther notice. A convoy front Leith arrived in the roads ea 3a. turday, and one from London yesterday, under rwr tection of the Aggressor F un.brig. The Captains of the English packets bare bees ollicially informed by the Governor of Gostenborgar that they mat come up the river to their hailer 411 ' cborage. uurrENIIIIIOH. AVGIUST 11. tarv4l , l is r ran. 64 I arrived here yesterday evening ; novae to my - hasten to sketch yrulbe informado GOTTENBURGH SUPPLEMENT TO THE ST. PE I'ERSBURG GAZETTZ. 16ya (SSTs) Iszr, ISM • OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS /ROM THY ARMY, 0,1 THZ Otat (21sT) JULY, 1812. ge The First Army, after pissing Polozk, maks' forced marches towards Witepsk. The corpa Lieutenant-General C. unt Wit gcn stein, whick bap ' been s:rengthened with some battalions of reserve, is now at Dt ibba, in order to observe the movements of the enemy, as well as to secure the Pskov. ich-road. , To effect a junction of the two armies is the princi pal object of our movements. “ it appears by the last dccounts from Prince Be. gration, that his advanced grrd, tinder the cot*. mold of Lieutenant-Gener4l N.ijewskji, is in the neighbourhood of M. grieve. " General Plaioff, who commands the rear-guard of Prince Bagra don, was attac ed near Romanuff by seven French regiments of cavalry of di* King of Westphalia's corps, which were totally defeated, and pursued for 15 wersts. In this action the first regiment of cavalry (Japers) one of the best of the enemy's regiments, and one cavalry grena d ier ree ment, were eptirely destroyed; two Colonels, 16 Olv promise, _ cars, and SOO privates, taken prisoners." I havebeen able in an hour to ailleet li REVEL, JULY se. p embarking troops ; conjecture is it, . This eta by a Swedish courier from heakear.. for an attack on Zealand, mea1...1 la favour of the Russians in Dantzic. The o " cs ten. On Sunday we had bad news from Riga. The have h ad a severe a ff a i r w i t h &i m pure's caysigit west suburbs, with all the timber and piles fur masts, were ordered to be burnt, and were burning when and destroyed his favourites (the Greys,) sal other regiments. Bonaparte acknownwra my letter was sent. Four thousand Russians were obliged to cut through 12,000 Prussians, near Mit. loss of 1160 horses, but ascribes it to the severe'weather. Peace I understand to have tilt, and retreated into Riga. The east suburbs were expected to be burnt to the ground in a day or two. claimed yesterday in the churches throoghoutS —Lord Cathcart has, in conjunction with Sir Jesste Admiral Martin, who has the command of the river s atimaree v i s i te d the Governor of and fart Boldra at the entran c e o f th e r i ver , h as taus- has proceeded up th e country. He will meet las ed a number of gun-boats to be fitted out , so as to gate on the coast , after she has run the gaseww" 0 .6 afford infinite service and protection. General Essen, the Governor of Riga, writes to the Governor here,. that the Prussian tr oops, who headquarter:. dß e -q i u t' arter and ‘ will Th Procee e RussianGetteralS l PPassi t° Gan eggill m" l4-1-A drove.* 4000 Russians into Riga from the neigh- intheipirberelceiutaandmedaatadttlewakisenexitrtebytethscheinee Frentottb.: bourbood of Mitten, are now -surrounded, and he teoursoed pursued;-.yet B onaparte i s believed to be eel s ; hopes by his next to have the satisfaction to announce the .capture of the'whole body.to lei way r to Moscow . Gaiety of heart seems to be 77 I every body here ; and one spirit of resistor* RIGA, AUGUST 4s asperse animates the whole body of the 011oPh• a: The suburbs of the city are entirely being down. ' • talks of asking the British Throws to PI The French army is within a mile of khe place, but vision govern them. 'rater, is a confirm ailw w it iLin the best state of defence, having a garrison of the affair with the French cavalry, and luo o sl. l l it 45,000 men, with ilia months provisions. The enis.. nets are taken, It is understood th e ~,,..,,, -my bar) b e en defeated in three different attacks. 4 ; embark * three divisions of 1 . 0,010 0 t x. '7l 4 is reported that 10,000 Prussia*, with 900 o&ers s ' poits bore amilllreadz ; Captain WI vol A iti have gone over to the R uss ia ns . Th e w h o l e o f the Navy, is goer to die zmferuf Qf g ui l i lb Auista44 41 33 7, we ass hiforn44 ? il new ciAr4etracill 40 14 1 VAINAMI 4 . • 1 • 7