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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
FROM THE DUTCH PAPERS.

!WS, Hey. 21.
THIRD BULLETIN Of THE ARMY OF I,PAIN.

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" The army of Gallieia is flying frotu
and i► pursued by Marshal the Dnke of Beluna,
the direction of Espinosa, and Miushal the Duke
of Dentate iu that of Villarceyo. Marshal the
Duke of Dalmatia has proceeded for Reynosa, to
cut off their retreat ; ►o that very important ecu►ts
slay be expected.
" General Milhaud has entered Palencia with his
division of cavalry, and sent detachments to the
passes of Reynosa, in purism of a park of artillery,
. belonging to the array of Gailicia.
'a The young students of Salamanca, who thought
of nothing short of the conquest of France, mid the
tanatical iwasantry, that already dreamed of plan-
darn% RAF muse and Rounleaux, and conceived that
they were every where conducted by Saints that
had appeared to their cheating monks, now see all
their mischievous illusions vanishing ; their despair
• id confusion are at the height ; they lament over
toe usisfo►tuaes to which they have become a prey,
the falassboods they have been made to believe, and
the muerte.* struggle in which they have iuvolved
themselves. . _

I. The whale plain of the Castiles is already co-
vered with our cavalry ; the ardour and zeal of our
troops enable th.mi to march fourteen or fifteen
miler a day, with great QUAY. Our piquets are upon
tie Douro. 'rite whole etes-t, trout St. Andero to
lidboa, to cleared of the enemy.
41 The unfortunate city of Iftirg,os, a prey to all
the calamities of a city taken by storm, treninte-t
th terror. Priests, Nlook., mud iultaiiititots, t..ok
to fliAltt, upon the tint titliu4s of the battle, appre-
hensive that the 10.1diers of the Army 91 Estreinn-
dura would, ate they gave oat, defend taemselves in
their housru, and that they would be brat plun-
dered by these, and afterwards by our soldier*, who,
haring tiriveu out the enemy, would tied tut inha-
bitants there.
" Sewn teen so M. Vil omotein, who, from the

.BOCRTH BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OT SPAIN.
" Braces, soy. is.
" His Majesty yesterday reviewed the division to
Moreland. He appointed the most meritorious of.
ticers and sub-officers, to till the vacant commis-
sions and !,stowed rewards upon the soldiers that
distri:guisised themselves. His Majesty was lYghly
pleased with these troops, who hail just arrived.
without a single halt, from the borders of the Vis-
tads.
" The Duke of Elclungcn had set off from
Ilurgos.
The Emperor reviewed his Guard this morn-
ing upon the plain of Burgos. Ills Majesty after-
wards suspected the division of Drsolles, and filled
isle all the vacancies in that division.
H Event• are in preparation, and all is in pro-
gress. Nothing can succeed in war that is not the
tosidt of u well-digested plau.
" Among the prisoners were some who had on
their inittiiiis aii eagle reversed. with two arrows.
and the inotto--* To the Conqueror of France.'
By this ridiculous bravado we may easily recognise
the :wino-yawn or Don Quixote.
" It ovoid 1,,e impossible to find worse troops
(Risher iu the:n4iiiitaiiis or the phials. t_lowninh
izooressei-, silly conceits, cruelty towards the weak,
1•4 begareoa and cowardice towards the atroug—
sach tithe iweve we Lave before us. The Mook.
siva the lapsisiti.sa have plunged this natiou into
barbarism.
6* Ten tbeosawd light infantry and dragoons,
with 14 titi marched ott on the 11th
attai k thy- rear of the English division that was
said to Ise at Volliololid. These Isinve feiloos tv, sit
over 3.3 roils of grould in tlVrltlaylk. but our 11.111,S
were disuppouited. We entered l'alcucia and Val-

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as Bern teen as M. Vatiastein, who, from the
want of truopa of the :air, themselves wroistule of
opposing our Eagles, encourage the critter:want
idea awn iusursectiou ea SWIM, ought to Ix .•enais
• ble of the evils molting from it, and of the very
iiironsideroble obstacles winch such a resource can
offer to rreidar temps.
" In B;rgosi and the environs, a quantity of
veril Itus beau feund, to the aseuusit of JO unilions,
winch His Majesty the Emperor has ordered to Ire
rut tinder twtutSirokioo. All the wool beloinir.g
to nonks, or geov,iber persons who have joined
the rusittgoadoslsithaltArggs‘scisted itod appropriated
in the first instates IM tit indemnification of the
I twee sestaised Ity tier French ; for even at Ma-
drid, Frenchmen reniamit there for forty crates
lave been stripped of their property. Incise spa.
niards who have been faithful to their King were
declared stiles. The property of the most virtuous
and enlightened minister, Annuli, of the most able
reasnafs .Mossorodo, and of the best soldier in
SPosin. O'Furrel, has treen,publicly sold. That of
• Camps d'Alene' respectable for his virtues, his
topotation, and his wealth, being the owner of
60,000 Merinos, and haying an annual income of
three millions, has become the prey of their frantic
proceedings.
•• Another measure ordered by the Emperor, it
the confiscation of all English goods and Colonial
produce, lauded in Spain since the insurrection.—
The merchants of London do very well to scud
their merchandise to Lisbon, Oporto, and the
ports of Spain. The more they send, the greater
the contributinn with which they ..apply us.
" The city of Palencia, governed by a worthy
Bishop. has received our troops with kindness.—
That city suffers none of the mils of war.
" A virtuous Bishop, who observes the doctrines
of the Gospel, and who is inspired with Christian
charity, and from whose lips flows nothing but
honey, is the greattr4 blessing that Heaven can he-
a:ow upon a people; but an ambitious, rancorous,
land wicked Prelatc, who preaches nothing but in-
surrection, disobedience, and disorder, is a monster
that God has sent in his wrath to nations to mislead
them. by prollittite; the very fountain of morality.
" In the prisons of Burgos are a great number
of monks, who were stoned by the peasantry.
• Wretches!' saJ.l they to them, • it is you that have
plumps& us iota this gulph of misery; perhaps we
shall never again behold our unhappy wives and our
poo,! children. W'rctchrs ! a righteous God will
punish you in Hell for all the calamities you have
• brought on our families and our country.'"