The National Register. — London, England, 1812-08-23 00:00:00

THE N ATIONA L REGISTER. ...,.700 ....... to say.• any portion of his aims', he must make a second stand for that purpose he must be strongly reinforced, and tho•e reinforcements must he composed of the ti - oops hi hi: rear, which still ocenpy ()Id Castile, Biscay, Na vane, and uipuscoa. 'Those provinces,,hitherto particu la di-anguished by the activity and patriotism of the Goerill will immediately rise in arms on being freed 4r,•;;4 their garrisons, and an hostile and numeious force will pos•rss theinselve•s of two out of the three great roLds that lei:d from Spain into France. '['he third, vvideb passes through Catalonia, may be secured by the troops belonging to our CYreditiov, and the enemy May tbus be shortly cut ui from a'l communication with his owu country. Mean while .lost:ro who ti►resaw the danger, and who still conti nues his vain attempts to join M A lINION T, probably with no other view than that of re:ii ing into Fiance before the passe, are closed, must be du ow n back by our victory on his Capital, which he had abandon( d. Our a...iny has al ready Intel poed between him and his defeated Commander; and it' it does not pursue I►int now to Madrid, it is because Lord WELLINGTON wishes, bV his wind advance towards the Ebro, to render the re-assembling of the routed trool.s impos•ible. and to leave no means of escape to the rot of the French armies iii the Peninsula. I"nil►le ti, cleet his retreat, Just' , monk commit his liberty and his crown to the fate of another battle, and for that pur pose the siege of Cadiz must be raised„ Andalusia, Murcia, Grenada and Esti emadura must be evacuated, and SouLT, with the still formiclalle forces in the South, must advance to the ca t 'ital, and attempt to break his way through our army.- After his junction with Joscpu, it is possible he mac• appear at the head of 6o or 70,000 men; and should Suc LT be recalled from the eastern provinces, about 20,000 more might be added; but it is more likely the latter would be too warmly engaed in Catalonia with the troops landed by our expedition, to be able to obey the summons, and might himself become the point on which both JosEPu and Sou LT would endeavour to fall. This concentration of force may appear too g'eat to he successfully opposed; and it may be thought a matter of little difficulty for an army of 90,000 men to cut its way any where. But it must be recollected that the very concentration which brings all its strength into a focus, also draws all its opponents together. If SOULT iaise the,siege of Cadiz, he will be immediately followed by the British and Spanish forces in that city, and General Batt AST Enos from the coast. It he abandon Estremadura he will he pursued by General HILL; and if he unite with JOSEPH, Generals 11111 and BA LLAsTE Hos, and the Cadiz army will join Marquis Wei. LINCTON, or contiuuc to act On the flank acid rear of the French, with the armed popu lation of the country. If StiCHET evacuate& Valencia, or the sea roast of Catalonia, Gen. Roe!' t; from Alicant, and the troops from Sicily, will harass his rear, and, communicating through the Guerillas with the left of his Lordship's army, will completely hem in the enemy round. Concentration is only streogili when it is to act against a particular point; but when it only draws multiplied dangers from the extre mines to the heart, it is of no inure avail to an army. than it would be for a man who had repelled the blow of a dagger wi h outstretc bed arms, to fold them to his bosom, as a sure means of pi otecti tig * it. _ We ha v e seen what consequences the victory of Salamanca is likely to produce in Spain; nothing less than the forced evacuation of that country by the French armies, if not their final destruction or surrender. Beyond the Peninsula it will give an impul•e to the human mind, which must sooner nr later terMinate in the twin of that Despot, who only reigns through the terrors of his fame. It will rouse slumbering AUG. f 23. nations to a sense of their degradation, and a desire of ven geance. It will re-kiudle the light of hope in every ev e . t will gleam like a beacon to the Swedish warrior, arming In t ly.ittle at Stockholm, and the Russian soldier, engaging the invaders of his native soil, amidst the wilds of Livonia. It will make the name of WELLINGTON immortal, and embal m it, with that of his country, in the gratitude of mankind. eArTuni: OF VALLADOLID. Every account f,om the Peninsula confirms the immensity of the loss occa , ioned to the French, by the battle of the 22d ult. MAT:MONT had reached Burgos in a litter, but a dispatch from Sir now Ain) Dot:Gt.As, transmitted by Sir Home POP II AM, and which appears in Tuesday's Gazette, contains the satisfactory intelligence, that the allies were still closely pursuing the enemy.—That they 11.1 d entered Valla dolid, where they found 4,000 French, sick and wounded, besides a great quantity of stores and baggage. This commu nication is dated the 2d instant, from Medina del Camro. Lord W ELLINGTON had, at that time, established his head quarters at Cuellar, between MAI:MONT and JOSEPH, which rendered their junction impossible. The loss already sus tained by the enemy during the engagement and pursuit, to the Ist instant, may be safely estimated at :Motto. The kss of the allies amounted to 60-1. killed, 4,2270 wounded, and 456 prisoners. We are happy to hear that the recovery of the greater part of the wounded is going on rapidly. Important dispatches may shortly be expected from Lord Wet. LINGTON, as we hear, from Falmouth, that his Ma• jesty's ship Hotspur had passed by for Portsmouth front Lisbon with dispatches. On Lord Clinton's arrival at the Office of Earl Bathurst with dispatches, an immense crowd immediately collected, to greet his arrival. The drivers and horses of his Lord ship's chaise were decorated with laurels. The eagles and flags taken in the battle were displayed nut of the windows of the chaise. One of the eagles is in a very bloody state. The Park and Tower guns were fired on the occasion. Lord Wellington was in the house in which Marmont un derwent the amputation of his arm, one hour after the opera t ion.—Nlarmont is a little ugly man, about 45. brought up in the old school, very honourable and humane, and entertaining a very high opinion of the English. lie married about ten years ago, the only daughter of Perigaux, the famous banker, who was educated in England. Among the spoils which fell into the hands of our troops at the battle of Salamanca, was a letter from Joseph Buona parte to Champagny at Paris, in which be gives a deplorable picture of his unhappy situation, disclaims being in a clandes tine correspondence with his brother Lucien (as Napoleon had insinuated), and alludes to the death of Louis Buona parte, late King of Holland, whose demise was sometime ago reported in this country, but contradicted. General Le Marchant, unfortunately killed in the battle of Salamanca, was founder of the Royal Military College at Wycombe. and Governor of it until he went, about a twelve month ago, to Portugal. His wife died in child-bed a few weeks after he left this country, and they have left nine orphans, with very little property. His eldest son, about 17, was aid-de-camp when he was killed. He was universally allowed to have been an excellent Officer, having given up all his time and thoughts to the pursuit of his profession.— Lord Wellington was twice hit by spent balls in the battle of Salamanca. When Lord Clinton arrived at Exeter, which was about ten o'clock on Saturday morning, it is incredible how the anxious inhabitants flocked to the Royal Hotel.. His Lord- ,t , PT"'