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EXTASCF FROM THE SEVENTH BULLETIN.

Some Spanish Officers, of the regiment of Za-
mora and Princesoa, who were in the North, and
who escaped from Zamora, were made prisoners.
• 44 You took an oadi of allegiauce to the King," said
some oar to them. They acknowledril they did.
44 You have violated your oath." 44 We only act-
ed in obedience to our General." 44 You formed a
part of the French army, and you recompensed the
kindest treatment by the must infamous treachery."
They again replied, •' That they were under the
orders of their General, and that they had only
obeyed him." 44 You might have been disarmed."
it was observed, 44 and perhaps that measure ought
to have bceu adopted. But reliance was placed on
your oaths. It is more to the glory of the Empe-
ror to have to tight von, than to have been induced
to a step which might have been censured for too
munch mistrust. Nou are no longer protected by
the laws of nations, which you have violated. You
ought to i.e put to the. jOstircl. 'rite Emperor cOn-
&wends to pardon you a second time." For the
rest, the regiments or Zamora and Prineessa have
suffered most severely. Very few of them were left
with their cofours.

PARIS. PFC. 4.
TENTH BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OF SPAIN.
anApeA is DUNA°. NUT. 21:i.
It uppers diet the Spouts!' forces sououut to
180,000 effective men.

Eighty thousand effective men, making 60.000
men under arms, who composed the armies of Gul-
licia and Estreutadura, and were cuilintimiled by
Blake, La Ronint.a, and Galuzzo, hare been dis-
persed and put hors de combat.
The army of Andalusia, Valencia, New Castile,
rod Arnigoii, rommanded by Castaiins, Peoas, and
Palafox, anti which likowise apiiearesi to amount
to 50,000 men, tivit it, to iiti.unu under arms, will
in a few days meet its fate.. The Marshal Duke of
Montebello has received linters to attack it in
front midi 30.000 men, while the Dukes of Elchiu-
gr..* and Belluno are already ;misted on its rear.
The remaining 60,00 hi effective teen may 'mon nt
to 40.000 under arms, 30,000 of attain are iu Cata-
lonia, mid 10,000 at 31ailriii, at Valencia, and in
other garrison towns, or in motion.
Before he proceeded a step beyond the Doer.,
the Emperor released toarmihrlste tree armies of the
centre meal left, and to iefiict a similar fate on that
oft ;eneral Castaainson the right.
This plan once executed, the march to 'Madrid
will be but a prmansade. This grand design must,
before the present moment, have been accom-
NVith respect to the corps of Catalonia, which is
compose!, an u great measure, of the troops of Va-
lencia, Mutely, and Grenada, these provinces be-
ing threatened, will withdraw their troops, that is,
if die state of thecommunications will permit. At
any rate, the 7th corps, after the conclusion of the
siege of ansas, sill give a good accouut of them.
At Barcelona, General Dutiesrue, with 15.000
men, and supplies for six months, answers for that
important place.
have rind nothing of the English forces. It
seems that nuedivision is io Callicia, and that ano-
ther made its eripeare nee at Badajos, about the end
of lust mouth. lithe English have any cavalry, we
must have perceived it ; for our light troops have
:Along reached the frontiers of Portugal. If they
have infantry, they probably have no inteuton to
employ it in behalf oftheir allies; for it is now thirty
day:6llMM the campaign was opened ; three large
armies have been destroyed ; an nonsense quantity
of artillery is taken; the provinces of Castile, La
Arragon, Sons, &c. are conquered ; in a
word, the fate of Spain anal Portugal is decided,
• uothing is heard of any movement of die Eng-
glib!' troops.
At the same time, one-half of the French arm)
is not yet arrived. Part of the 4th curl), of the
army, the whole of the sth and kith corps, six regi-
ments of light cavalry, many companies of artillery
and sappers, aud a great number of men belong-
ing to the regiments which are in Spain, have not
yet passed the Bidasvos.
In truth, and without doing injustice to the
bravery of our soldiers, it may be asserted that there
cannot be worse troops than the Spanish. Like the
Arabs, they cau lurk behind houses, but they have
no discipline, no knowledge of manoeuvres, anal it
is impossible for them to make ally resistance in a
field of battle. The very mountains have afforded
them but a feeble protection. But thanks to the
power of the inquisition, the influence of the
monks, their dexterity to seize all pens, and to
make them speak all languages, it is still believed,
throughout great part of Spain, that Blake has
beets victorious, that the French army has been
destroyed, and the Imperial guard taken. What-
ever may be the aininentary oneness of these
wretched shifts. and of these ridicnlims efforts, the
reign of the inquisition is over; its revolutionary
tribunals will no longer harass any country in
Europe ; in Spain, as at Rome, the inquisition
shall be abalislied, and the horrid spectacle of
orrito-dallis shall never again be repeated. This
reform shall be effected in spite of the religious
zeal of the English, in spite of the alliance which
they have formed with the monkish impostor*, who
eve given our Lady del filar sod the Saints of
allaJohd the power of speech. England has for
allies, exclusive monopoly, the imputation, and
Franciscans : all ale alike to her, if she can
sow discord among nations, and deluge the
went with blood.
English brig, the Ferret, which left Ports-
't the I ith of this mouth, came to an anchor
• in the port of St. Andero, not knowing
1w place was in the occupatiou of the French.
ad on board important dispatches, and a great
ty of English papers, which were secured.
St. Andero were found great quantities of
bark and colonial produce, which were sent
,onne.
'Julie of Dalmatia has entered the .I.sturia.s.
towns and many villages have begvcd to

, .
oubmit, in order to void C411:111‘ 111,14 the kin.*
(lIIA tor them by the t• ttt ii 1111 Iwrur.ti airy
the passions of the otultitticte.

INVIkat:krEED

VA*lllloa, *WV I t.
The Spanish army which Wll. at hon.',
to 22,000 mew, he; bees complete' rooted. I..Wrr)
escaped as w... 11 as be could. Pert of Omer, rer
limber, soloists anus or areoutrra,eMsnfanytied. Tr,
number of the dead ie iscouccivahle, for the 1., csewl,l
made a dreadful cartage.
The troops have bed no pay for sr•Priti Jays, It:: riot,"
but a very assail ratio of bread, and •rry little n... 1, wh,d,
the sold.rs eat raw aids great oppri tie,
ILIIPIP.obri Lee 111.111 Ti II AI, MOT 9
Dv •R M —lt is using to the arty un.c).if
our Lord God, and of the MOM H.ily Mary, the alutl•er
art
;rttf, thrt we were sot tithes proaine.s by the French .It
our *liole thrisius, rime we rs.ie cut off *pm • height yea
three Jays. We suffered cauell* fsuut imager wad sireway
began to talk of capitulatiug. This army lam'ssiffered very
much; we hal e beets without tweed or wine aunt All Sense
day (Nov. tat), we had not even water, mid we pas*‘..l the%
night exposed to the incleuscociea of the air. tior
is greatly impaired, and such a state of &Lugs cannot Lot
Thu army Grilse kft to very unfortunate. Would to God we
were in that of Castile ! Here is nu kiud of suburdtuatioa.
We are assured that the chief command of this army is govt'
to the Marquis de ta Rosmana, and that this General La at
Reynosa, four leagues from St. Anders.
We have made a retreat of lb leagues, bream., we eeu'l
not subsist where we wrre. They talk of our gout atoll
farther. This is bad ; sad every day things get worse sad
curie.

My dear mother, it your son's life is deer to you, parrot
my removal, as speedily us possible, front this scot!,
must infallibly perish. This war has no rest in4lance to
others. I place all my ►ope am your attachment for me-.
You hare a very hoirmicahle pretext fur calling itie to pos.-.
Endiarunr to obtain sue ous of the plat es shirk the Cabal
Junta is guinz to create. Th s hariatrs adopts of uu
if you wish to save toy life. I canuot lee arcuard cow.
amber, since every body must limo that I behaved well la
the four affairs to o !itch I have becu —Shure, at knit, to
procure UM leave rd absence fur three swaths, for so many
pro aliens hare serionsly injured my health. I entreat
my ilea: sombre, to tate lIIy request Tutu consideiat.on : I
implore it in the same of our Lord, and hie mother rim
ses ea wires a, dre. VICIORIN.L
To my over mother, the 31arekiuseas of P.C.
1V.8.--Thes Fetter wets Written before the battle of Esp..
Rosa; we are waiting for that which may hare Into Ms-
patched the day after that eugageutent. •

VIENNA. RiktV• 45.
The Coat.: Gazette ha* published the loathing
article respectiii4 'Furkev
" The great camp of Daud-Pacha, near f'onstan-
till°Pisi is now occtiuied but be the particular troops
of ~lust,l.iia liairactar, mid by the Sty alerts, a hush
he has or cruised with incooteiiable promptitude.
All the others are goue to the grand army of Ho-
melte, or returned into their pi-ovules". Of this
number, the troops of the Heys and Awns of Asia
form the greater port. These, before their depar-
tine, eigliced theonseivcs by a most sacred oath,
before the Grand Vizier, to sacrifice all their per.
soual animosities, and to appear, at the firm biro!,
to defend the Nlahometan religion and the erupt, e.
Ismail. Bey of Sere*, Kara Amman Oglu, and Ka-
-1,1'130 Ogle, were the tint who set out; they we-e
followed by the celebrated CispinOglo.
Miestepha Bairactar is incessantly occupied in
augrmenting the *pilaus. which he will raise to
Itio,ooo men ; they are to have red, green, and
'white uniforms. These troops will be divided into
bnluks of 1000 men each. There will be for each
',lnfluk a Ilinbeachi, a Muhlehoin (two Staff Officers)
Us Jusbasches, and 160 Onbaachi (Captains and
Lieutenants.) The Grand Visier has entirely dope
away the obstacle which resulted from a drifts-recite
of religion, and which the Porte has hitherto so in-
violably respected. Turks had Greek" are to wpm'
indiicnininately in the corps of Seymans. Mustapha
hits already, at Rudschuck, many Greeks among
his Lod troops, and on. the 13th of October, Ina
confidant and his banker made their entry un-
der an escort of sixty Seymans, who were all
Arminian'.

" Tin Grand Vis:.er caused, in the month of
October, a great number of casgis (rowers mid
fishermen) to come to the environs of the capital,
in order to make them serve on hoard the fleet.
The ancieut corps of Janissaries every day de•
cre.eies. The Grand V islet has juvt caused to by
'xi-rated the moat peat Kul supports of that corps,
who were the mo-t roe erfmly opposkil to the
riougerlid, the ei-drrant Siemen Buschi, and the
inspectors of Arsenals. Oglu aid Molts-
pha Aga. This last hating called to the 2.5 th
Cohort of Janissaries, to which he behing,d, for
assistance, 31ustaphe immediately killed him with
a blow of the sabre; the executioner immediately
cut off his head, as well as that of his onfortui ate
cons pallier,.
"The Grand Seignior has, by a Decree, girt n
to the Vista unlimited powers for the augmentation
of the forces, both by sea and lend. The Minister
completely paid the new troops before the emu-
mem:einem of the Fast, and what is very important
has established a Chamber of Finances, particu-
larly for the Seyinatis, at the head of which be lids
placed the former Treasurer, Bedellsch Effendi.—
He has replaced the Minister of Finance, by the
ancient Cransch-haehi (Marshal of the Court:.
Tolivim-Achmet Effendi, who has for successor
Ilarnatid hinisch Effendi, formerly President of
the Army Accounts. Thanks be to the the nide-
fatigable vigilance and energy of Mustapha Reinke-
tar, all these important chinsges have been peacea-
bly effected. Egypt continues to enjoy the most
perfect tranquillity. The Pache of Hedged ter-
sues with signor the important advantages w 'eh
he has lately stained over the Wecahalates."—(Mo-
niteur, Dec. 9.)
_

CONIITASTIIIOPI.II, OCT. 95.

The Grand Vider has caused Becht Aga. Com-
mandant of the Marine, and the fanatical enemy of
ere,, thing that was not Turkish, to be hrhe.alei.
Thu event has caused • great sensation in fir., is-
pits'. We hare been equally astonished at I.:ori-
ng of the 41C10011.160.11 of Haggs Pacha, Command-
art of the Castles of the Dardanelles, alio t. .a
been sent into exile. Ha has been replaced hr
Bahl{ Bache, who iv cott.iderod as a zealous par-
tisan of the Porte. M. Posgoiwieh has presented
his credentials as Charge d'Affaires from Prisons.
suannuatni. Nor. .21).
The Archduke Ferdinand of Aostria, of
the Emprese, has been appointed Catinander-el-
Chief of tie Austrian troops in Bohemia, 310tarwl•
and dostrian Silesia. Weans still without any no-
iiit.lhgence of the operations of the Engl:sh
squadron, *lnch has resappeared in the Adriatic
gulph, :.nd which menaced to attack the Rn-into
ships in the port at Trarte, as the last letters from
the latter Vact make no viierioin of hotst•l• 44"
rations.

0

'F.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
FRIDAY, DEtehinga 16.

The Plymouth otter of the l.th instant, receiv-
ed vestenlay, contaiiied the folios Mg 1.41.14gra pit :
morning arrived the buleyisiiirehle, 44,
from the NVestward. Two ()Ricers landed fuoin her
with dcipstche,, and immediately set MI for Lon-
duu„ It is rumoured they bring an account of the
junction of the of Sir DAVID BA.IILD, Sir
JOU !I MOOIIE, and ti Nittrquis of ROMANA,
miming a total el near 70,n0n men, and that the
defeat of Carryon is nut of the serious nature be-
fore supposed."

This account was posted ut LL.ort♦'S. yesterday,
•ad excited a great sensation in the City. We arc
sorry that we cannot confirm it. The following,
we believe, is 'lie substance of the whole of the iii-
trilignee received 1, Government from Spain :

Accounts from Sanignsvit, dated the state
that the Arrapaite‘e and Andalusian divisions did
not starer much in the battle of Tinlela, on the
'2.3d. The Valenciaas and NI ureiaas suffered most,
and retreated nt cmilu...ian to Saragossa, which is
and to content a force of 13,000 men.
c„rremi Holm'. division arrived at Villa Cumin,
en the !Nth ult. and would be at Arevola the 39th,
ao his route to Salamanca, iu the neighbourhood
of which place it was expected he would form
inuetion with Sir JOUN llooas.

The French force in the hank of Tilde's was
40,000 infantry, and 40G0 cavalry. The position
of CASTAPOI was unfarouiahle.

'11)0 precise ►oute taken, by General CArtvios
army is not given.

A Mail from Cortnina arrived yesterday, with
ktters and papers from that city to the sth of D.•-
cember. No intelligence of the battle and defeat
of Casiatros, at Tadela, on the ind, had reached
that place, sine is there any account from Madrid
of_ a later date than the 19th. The defeat of
BLAILL.II army at Reynosa and Espinosi4 icv
said to have been less disastrous then they have
peen represented, and the• troops are rallying.—
The last division of General klAtao's army left San-
tiago ou the 13th of November. for Burgos.

Our translation of the eight Brilletins of the
French array in Spoil., ii.ginuing with the fifth.
and ending with the twelfth, as given in TUE Dat-
TOR Pages of yesterday, was, from the shortness
of time, in common with our contemporary prints,
inaccurate in souse places. We this day endeavour
to supply the deficiency, by giving a correct copy
of the tenth Bulletin, containing en estimate of
the Spanish army, in which it is stated at sixty
theassowl effiesSiwer able in Catalonia, Madrid,
&e. subsequent to the battle of Tudcla on the
23d, and exclusive of the reinnaut of the arum• of
CASTANOS.atnonoting at least, as we stated yester-
day, to upwards of 30,000, making to the whole
near 100000 effective men. We have also given
two or three of several intercepted letters from
Officers in the army of General BLAKE, annexed
to the Seventh Bulletin. It is almost superfluus to
add, that they are manifest forgeries, for the pur-
pose of *hewing, that instead of courage and
patriotism, weakness and levity prevail in the
ranks of the Patriot Army. BON had
reconrse to the same means in his campaign in
Egypt, and in his late campaigns in Germany and
Poland. The present is the fourth edition, but
we cannot boast that it is melte audio . of ogee*.

After the moat attentive perusal of the Mani-
genre that contain the Bulletins, which bring down
the operations of the French army to the 118th of
November, we confess that we are utterly at a loss
to perceive the imperious reasons which have pro-
duced the precipitate retreat of Sir Jowl Mooat.
That such reasons may nevertheless exist, we are
far from denying ; but assuredly, though visible to
military eycs, they are not easily discernible by
ordinary understandings. Let ns assume that Bo-
lt AAAAA E's relation of the battle of Tudcla is nei-
ther amplified nor exaggerated ; yet, even on this
supposition, the army' under Casrasos, though de-
feated, is not destroyed. Bat we hare much more
solid and satisfactory ground, on which to form
that inference. It is, that the Moniteurs, though
they come down to the 11th of the present month,
yet contain no information of the progress of events
au Spain, beyond the 28th of November. It can-
not, however, be questioned, that if Naror.EoN
had either obtained any siznal advantage, or had
e-itereil down to the 3d of December, it
would have been known at Paris before the 11th.—
In tact, except the victory of Tudela, we find little
besides declamation, description, and contumelious
observations on the Spanish people, or on the English
Goveivamient and counsels, in the remaining Bulk-
bus of the Corsican ESPIL/014—Far from having
approached the Spanish Capital, be seems, as far aa
se can collect or infer, to have remained at a re-
spectful distance from it. Aranda de Duero is not
lime than a hundred miles north of Madrid. He
a4serts, indeed, in the ninth Bulletin, that " the
utmost confusion teem to prevail in Madrid, and
he eiwie uatt.,n a iciously desires the restoration
I tranquillity ■a 1 peace." A. he pi oduces, how-

eter, no proof whatever of the confusion which he
describes, we may lie perfectly easy OD that point.
The vague cleclaiaCou contained in the sixth Bul-
letin, that " our advanced parties of horse go on
the left, as far as Soria and Madrid ; and on the
right, to Lcou and Zamora," seems to he entitled
to no credit whatever ; since, in the subsequent
Bulletin, the screrith, he expressly says, " The
Cavalry of General Issst.i.a hiss pushed its ad-
yawed posts as far as Samosieri.a." Now wo k.ew
that Sansosierra is about forty English miles nearly
south of Aranda, on the direct rood to Madrid,
and situated among the icountairus that divide Old.
from New Castile. The seventh Bulletin iodated
" November the loth. Burgos." It is curious to
reflect that Gem Hope, with the division of Bri.
tish under his command, was at Guadarrama, on
the 34th of November, which is not more than 45
miles distant from Samosierra. 'set we cannot
discover from any of the French Bulletins, that
they knew or suspected such a corps to be arrived
in the vicinity of Madrid. It is nevertheless diffi-
cult to conceive how they could have been ignorant
of it, when L•SALLE was so !Mir hilO: of JOGLPII
BON•PARTE. his existence, or of the share which
he took in. any of these events, we are left in total
ignorance. Ile probably remained in our of the
tow iis on the batiks of the Ebro, when CASTANOS
was attacked by the French at Tinkle.

It would really appear as if the defeat of the
Spaniards on the 23:1 must have been transmitted
to General )loons: with some exaggerati ~,,, to have
caused on his part so very immediate and decided
of• measures. It is a prodigious distance,
across one half of Spain, from Tudela to Sidemen-
' ca. Nur call we perceive that ally body of French
infantry kid been detached by BON•PAIITL to
the west of Burgos, Lerma,and Arend& But each
of those places is more remote from Salamanca than
Is Astorga ; and we ea t suppose that a body of
cavalry, ►tationed at Benevente,or at Zamora, would
be capable of indecing or compelling Gen. Nluotte
to abandon all attempt at forming a junction with
13411111). Yet such appears to have been the fart.
Nothing can be mere evident, from the contents of
the eleventh Bulletin, than that the victory gained
over CAST• OS was altogether incomplete. It bore
uo siaidarity to NaeoLtou's triumphs in Ger-
many, or in Prussia. We have only to read his own
account of it, to perceive his disappointment and
vexation. It falls on the Duke of EICHINGEN,
who arrived, it seems, two days to late oil the field
of action. Fatigue is assigned as the cause of•this
unfortunate retardment. lint what have been, as
far as we know, the consequences and revolts of
this signal victory of Twirl* ?—None. Saragoisia
lies only about .t miles lower down on the Ebro,
and we are well acquainted with the celerity of• the
French movements, after a great advantage; yet
we rend nothing of the march of the victorious
army to Sarago.,a. On the contrary, we see that
in the twelfth Bulletin it is expressly stated, that
on the 26th, three days subsequent to the ac-
tion, ELLIIINGEN had only reached the town
of Borja, full thirty miles from Saragossa.—
To supply, however, the defect of specific advan-
tages, general, declamatory, and metaphorical
expressions sire used : " Disorder and delirium.
have seized upon their leaders." Elsewhere, we
find that ictory has thus struck, as with a
thunderbolt, and dispersed the whole league of the
enemy." These assurances may pass current at
Paris, but facts alone can sustain the amazing for-
tune and giddy titration of this revolutionary
Conqueror. Much evidently remains yet to be
done before the Beset 4RTS Dynasty is quietly set-
tled beyond the Pyrenees.

Dispatches were received, yesterday, at the Admi-
ralty from Sir E. NIIIGLF., at Leith. They are
the unit dispatches receive., by Government since
he has taken the c wand on that station, but do
not contain any thing of consequence.
Letters from Astorga, dated the 30th of Novem-
ber, received )esterday, from Officers in the army
of Bean, state, that in consequence of the intelli-
gence which had reached them of CASTANOII. de-
feat, they were beginning their retreat to Commie
or to Vigo, from whence they expected to embark
for Lisbon. It is difficult to conceive how so strong
an impression should have been made by the victory
gained over CASTANO‘ on the 23d ult. as ire bud it
relate.l in the French Bulletins.
Extract ore letter from Clonrsel,dated Dec.7:—
" On Saturday night last, a most desperate riot and
tumult took place in the town of Tipperary, in con-
sequence of a prisoner having been taken and his
making. resistance. A mob immediately collected.
and began throwing atones in • most violent man-
lier, and wounded several persons, amongst the rest
a young lad about 13, whose life is despaired of.
RICIIARD SADLIER, Esq. a Magistrate, with his
usual activity, immediately repaired to the scene of
riot, but incautiously without any assistance, when
he was attacked and received several desperate
blows from stones on his body and arms, before the
guard came to his relief. He was tenni:ism enough
to secure two of the ringleaders, whom he pat in
cooduement.

" Yesterday, in the middle of the day. two most
audacious highway robbenes srere committed on
the Cork road, near Csornsanstown, between three
and four miles from Clogheen, the noted ronlv-r
Brewton, and an associate. One of the chaises
stopped was occupied by two young ladies. on they
return trout Cork. from when. they look all their
cash ; the oilier contained two gentlemen, oa their

way to Cork, who were diseocumheresi of their IL 1-
oey, watches, and pistols. Brewstaw, however, re-
turned the watches. The two robberies took place
wit►iu half au hour of each other."