The National Register. — London, England, 1812-09-13 00:00:00

TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER. .~ COU WjS to m .. ch to Madt id. for othe, wise, it 'might have been in -he power of the latter, by defending tie passes across the mountains, to delay our progress until either Sou I, ror S;UCIIET misty hat e come to his aid. But so , trit•xpected w:.s our advance faun Cuellar, that the Usurper 1! tllought only of securing his per,on by flight, and abandoned el the passes, as wel; as his capital anti his chief arsenal to I our troops. -The rapidity with which these important ad vantages were obtained was so great, that neither SouLT nor Suctt ET could make a single defensive movement, until after M.alrid was in our po-Isession, and when their opera tions could have no other end than to enable them to effect their retreat, Such was the system formed, adopted, and successfully reduced to practice by the genius, the skill, and the acti% ity of our Commander. All his movements were in- ;: tentional, and all his intentions successful. lie destrqed MARMOST's army at Salamanca, and by his single advance I to Madrid, relieved CadiL (at the time when the site Is of i ; the enemy became particularly destructive) from the difficul ties of a siege of two years' duration; freed Seville, Malaga,l and all the south eastern coat, and probably the whole of ;' Andalusia, Grenada, acd shortly no doubt Cordova, La Maitclu, and New Castile, from the ptesence and oppression of the invaders, and compelled them to fly towards Valencia, in 13 , der to maintain their communication with France, through Arrrgon and Catalonia*, if not to repass the pp rnees. Owing to the same cause, not only the Northern coasts of Spain are entirely evacuated, but France herself is drained of soldiers, and whilst M AVSEN A re-enters Spain with 10,000 men, the only ((nee which can be spared, and which is too ;rifling to titrn the fortunes of war, the French shore remains almost defew cl. ss,exposed to insult and invasion. 'that events so impoitant, and so conducive to the speedy liLeration of the Peninsula, and ultimately of all Europe, should have sprung from chance, will, we trust, be no longer maintained. That they are the result of military genius, c ombiniogskill to plan, with ability and activity to execute, will now be dtn;ed by those only who wish to tote all credit for sense or since; ity. A VIERY To MR. WA/TH.IIA Y. Mr Enrron—At the time Lord liciiyon made the ohst rvation on Mr. %V itlitunti's honour, alluded to in your Paper ot. Sunday last, I think Mr. W• the Public would su.pend Mei? judgment till he gl‘c ti.cm an existunution. It you can inform pur friend, whe ther Air. W. has evtr given such exptinatiou, and what it was, You will oblige, Soptember P, 1812. A CONSTANT READER. P. S. Mr. W;lithtetut probably intends offering hitasell as a Mctuber of Pnliament next election. . sorry t h at we are unable to gratify our Correspondent's cu. 1.1086. ; the more so, as we Mire no doubt but Mr. ‘Vaitiiniati's " explanation," if he could gi% e one, would be highly interesting. 11.1 having witholden it from his Friends and the Public, orfors, many yegrs v induce: a well-grounded smpicion, that this deep inquirer into the conduct of others could not satisfactorily account !.;r his own. However, we still suspend our judgment ; and us it is irupos-,ble that he should prt•sent himself on the hustings, and claim a vote in thlParliattient, which lie Inks so Gotten declared the seat of purity and honour, without clearly vindr.:ating his own, we (Our lyrn our Paper . a► a inedioni of 't *ixtittitinicittion with the and 'shi.il faithfully 'insert his promised " explanation,' it he finds ktineeif at.hoit competeot to proAuce one. ' Atter such a lair oiler, hig siloice must Lie deemed conclusive. dCat SEPT. 13. LORD. YARMOUTH and MARIE'S WELLESLEY; 'ln, WHO IS THE BETRAYEIi OF STATE SECRETS ? TO THE EDITOR OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Sitt,—These two Noblemen are now at war, and as the clash of contending clouds produces those showers that ferti lize the earth, so the differences of elevated persons bring to light State Secrets which sometimes benefit, and always astonish the political world. It appears that MarquisWELLESLEY attributes the failure of his late attempts at getting into office, chiefly to the coun teracting influence of the Noble Earl; for he has now directed agdiest him all the strength and eloquence of his chantpion, V ETuF, who weekly fills four or five columns of the . Times newspaper with skilful praises of the superior abilities of his patron, and with arguments to demonstrate the necessity that he should be employ, ed, instead of the present imbecile Minis ters, if we wish our affairs to prosper at home and 'abroad! and who, (lest a glance at the triumphs of.our arms in the Peninsula, and at the exertions made-by this country to main tain and extend the advantages already gained, should con fute him,) modestly ascribes them all to a remnant of Lord WELI ESLEY's inspiring wisdom, a tatter of his ministerial mantle, left incautiously behind in his hurry to abandisis his late colleagues,. for fear he should be charged with their lin becility and ill success! Now, if V ETUS be no other, as it has been currently asserted, and if false, I thus open a door to a public denial, than Mr. RICHARD WELLESLEY, not only must we profoundly admire the modesty and ditinte restedne,s of the eloquent advocate and his patron, but we must ask the latter, how, in his eagerness to exalt his own importance, and, mounted on his brother's shoulders, to pals at the helm of public affairs, he has suffered his advo cate to " display in his own acts," that which, in Lord YAR MOUTH'S case, he denominates " perfidy the most prodi gious:" Ido not pretend to defend that Nobleman's cha racter or conduct; but I maintain, and every other man of sense, unprejudiced by interest or friendship will maintain with me, that all the abuse heaped on Lord YARMOUTH in VETCS'S last letter, for a breach of trust, in publishing Mr. Fox':; instructions six years aster he had received them, applies with equal force to the person who betrayed, or caused to be betrayed in that very letter, the secrets of I.ISIIOnuUSKI'S IniSSion to this country ; and that a though both acts are equally disgraceful, the motives that im pelled their authors vary in their stain of disgrace. Self defence chew from Lord YARMOUTH the publication of his instructions, whilst nothing but ambitious pride can be urged to justify the la. t. Hitherto, it may be said, that I have dealt only in oeser tioos ; now, let the Public read the following passages Com VET us's last letter inserted in the Times on Monday last, and judge, whether the act so virulently reprobrated in the first extract, is not committed in the second. " Yet had (me of (Air Princes been nulimiied Monarch of the Ent pire, and had, oh shame I Lord YAumouTn been his Minister, dread in u; no resistance or reproach from Parliament, —no ahhori coos from a a hone:} but helpless people,—nu exposure from a mulled and reptile press,—what hinuan sagacity could have foretold the movements of a Court so constP uted—su unrestricted ? How smoothly might a diplo matic apprentice, or body-parasite of the palace, have g lossed over the injury and less ii.temperate transgressions of Duo NA PA turz,—damped the pure glow of English Iwnour,—rebtiked the noble spirit of virtuous resentment in his countrymen,--or laid them have t their destroyer without redress ! How natural, how characteristic, would have: been ,ucli baseness in the man, if any such man there be, who stands f rtlt to palpate,—to palliate ! nay, to vialicale,7---to applaud that disgust crime against civilization, hospitality, and truth, of which ifut Lord YA RAI °VIII was himself the victim. in addition to so many, who, n Peers, at least deserved the name of Britons ! But what future guilt , • iir., Sir .13. .Co •.'!;1,/•,1 4 . - : 4 . I r - ... - I • from the Court of Chancery . to try an iNbu 4 , ;,c ,... ,- - • ,: .. 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