The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-04-05 00:00:00

IXTRACT rnom GENE*AI CUFSTA TO U. DK COG-

NIA., JULY 214.
I hare sin room to enter into (miller particulars, hawing
boos fur three &a's on the field of hattk, with all my troops
flake arms, in total 111• Ill of fund and resairces, as the Com-
Illissaries, anti their dependants in this branch, absented
thmsselees from Seth ram% as soon as they beard the first
Ire."

EXTRACT FROM Na. TSBIte TO MR. CANSIIIIO.
AU MAT 5.
"Oa ipipoetant subject of the supply of the British
army, Isreceived t►e inclosed letter from Sir Arthur Welles-
ley, dated the tads of last mouth, front Talavera de la Bryn',
ion which he states the destitute situation of the troops ander
his command, who had oil, as 1.• says, even bread to cut,
though the Spaaish army aas well *emptied, sad the prison-
ers taken from the army uniformly healthy and sell-fed,
sail eves their horses in good ristedition."

EXTRACT FROM MR. FRIERS TO lEIR A. WELLESLEY.

♦UGUST 3.

" It is useless and voiles* to attempt to drive the Spaniards
ont of a bad argitrnewt. Iss usy rerresponileuee with SI. de
Celestine, a foolish fallacy, half adonis of times refuted in the
toms( of half a year, use reprwhu•ed by lino at the end of
the discussion, with such gravity, is a note to 11.de Auduaga,
buntediately liefore hr (31 de Anduaga) left London,
that lie supposed it to allude In souse formal agreement. It
IS not worth white to quarrel with Ilium, our to waste time in
distension, in order to prevent them, if they are so disposed,
from keepinknvotsloish of bad reasoning in their own ar-
chives, especially when the proofs to the contrary are in
our own hands.

" fa ether respects the Governseent have takes all tke
immures in their power, and are ready to take any that yes
might indicate, to facilitate the petwisiouureut of the army
nadir your costumed. Yu• are already apprised of the
armed requisition w►ich had bees made fur conveying to
your army all the ►easts ef carriage which were to he foetid
is the coustry, and which were to proceed, in the first in-
stance, loaded with previsions. Orders have likewise Leen
seat to arrest all the alcaldes who had neglected locum*
with the requisitioa already seat them, sad to Mkt them ie
custody to Badajnx.
"It may seem to you, perhaps, that • Ileitisb Master
ought, before this time, to have established a regular sys-
tem for smearing t►e imbalance of their armies ; but the
rib Mof • eery deep origin, derived from an old despotic
goverament, sad from • sy►tem of Is yearend' the basest cor-
ruption, iatrirse, end public pillage. TM effect, of all
thread' eautinee, and is part. the areas. It in such as mat
a Sovereign in ordinary times would lad it dilicult to reme-
dy, sad in times like these reclaims as solitarily vary didlirest
from what I have at any time trod myself possessed of. I
hail hardly become acquainted wit► the sew state of things,
and the sew fares, and we hardly recovered from the ems.
fusion of our flight hither, before I cease✓ to be the Miiiister
•f an auxiliary power. At the time that operations is farmer
of this country ley • British force were announced, the
intelligence was accompanied by the intimation of my meal;
mid, since that roue, I have literally been • klicister only
from day to day, looking out far the arrival of my successor
by the first fair abut; a situation very unfavourable to any
thiug like • anstruesling influence."