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eon, eel else inhabitants of Saragossy sad of the
neighbouring villages, attaninweil}teeferred
goveroineat upon 1)on • Jima* -Raisin. the
rimiest of three bronco! elf ase d lir olio air-
tingnihed families io Aspirin.
At the continsuotarene did the rrredutilles this
nobleman bad hem selected frees tier eaten glebe
guards, to be mend to tuninand of the Me eeete
de Castilla,. le whine utestody the Penne ef She
Peace was oseadad aftur his arrest et Araajeselhe
afterwards aconnipanied Veraiantid Vll. he alp
oust, from whence he had reek/oily romped. to
the event of a peasa.:•, to his country seat nem
8 impels.
Tees distinguielied Nobleman is abase thirty4scr
years of age; his person of middling Malan. hhi
eyes lively and repressive, and it. Mode *poet-
Intent that of r perfectly- well-bred luau, accustomed
to the best society. At the tittle when Doss J.
li•tlsfes assumed the connuaidl is§ Arragiin, he had
•vy little aeyesintance with military afbiirs ; fur
t until he had been in tlw lipanish gustily all his
t.i he had newer seen actual service, and his time
It id been prineipelly pinned in the disoipatinnel Mn-
arid, where he had gained no incoin.iiierabledistino.
lion from the splendour and fashion of his tiNorar-
+ince.
At the coninseneeuient of his command, on the
118th May. the neighbouring plosion:vs of Navarre
Catalonia weer posteoted by the French : the
of the Pyrenees, leading directly into this
were epee, and Murat. with the mein

quid .
poises .
kingdom . _ _ _ _
body of the Freach forces, was rdatioued at Ma-
drid. Thus surrounded he his enmity. Grows,
rehires asueterod OW regular troupe quartered at
Saragossa, sod fraud that they sinoinited to two
hundred and twenty woo. mod that the public
treasury of the promote coaW furnish him only
with two thousand reals, a sum in Faqir's!) money
equal to twenty pea 'ldeologies *billings sod eight.
pence. Moog, hoirevrr, u just ventichouit as the
patriotism manifested by dm kople, he twelfth-
Otely declared war iqpiiust the French. by issaiiig
that spirited proclamation, which has berm circulate
ed already us LuAland through the medium of the
public pmts.
Early in the madit at Jour. and before any
OM osuiti posattly be auseated for siexanision a
totes Ilse deo debibes et at the !ranch 'le-
Wind uncut tboimmol in OW Mae booths('
cavalry luau Fatoploov• tOrtinig i 240_,964,""16 As
Me us WM ..muleset on the past o the enemy
wile Ofenalltalld, ibe Minima' ds Loson, the aldeAt
.boatbor ell Dest Jewish 'Prieftru. colleeted some
grated pearanry. end met this force in the nei-h..
7110iiiiriiind of Tiede's, on the tStb of June. The
Arregenere were maw compelled to nitre to the ed.
lege of Italkes. where they bad trio tbe misfor-
Una 4* fled lbs inolSetehey sit . bombel
V worm when ,opposett to regular tioieipigia.
Nom. botarems the canal of Annan.
ea) the nght, and'the village of Mallabea retot
smolsl net bat h....oaluderod as a (Avowable position
for an iregular form.

On the pith of Jour. the French advanced
Alagoas darken( *trout aixtreis lades from Saris'''.
Serum. The inhabitants of this city immediately ow
etteibled, with all the ann. of every description.
which tber resold collect, and actually counselled •
their Crnienal to lead theta against the enemy.—
They hail not *de ,!t,- far from Srregossa, want
they found the Freud' in ardor of built: in u plain :
laalallaa partielltaft3 adValltagroo.lr to the m, 144
theypowiessed both cavalry unit llyiisg artillery.—
The ill-armeol and uhwliaehpli.ted Arrararse soon
felt the superiority bf the enemy. and were obliged
to retire to kistagewm. Their retreat, however,
war entered by the a. 20 ',LT.'. (who had been
peeeionsly jolted by some ftotileer4 of the urnvitier)
with a steadiness and •2*thintry which entitled
t min to the thaidt• of thew General, and excited
tine • osia inn of their enuitt.ryinen. 'Elie French
tuts c ad. :weed voi•liiii a tell' 'short Irtootatire of 511TH-
51,....1, e they took lip a potation in lie
r appetite aide of the towii to that situated on '
. and which was covered by rising' 1410 (((((
rd aide dive trews. Having occupied this
p wt. they deferred their general attack upon the
city lid the morrow ; but a small detachment of
cavalry that penetrate.' into tie town, on the 11th
efJene, paid dearly for their rashness.
The Arragonese lull hastily planted some eau-
nou below the gate. of their city, and also in
favourable Nottiott4 without the town, particularly
at the Terrell', and upon the height near to it.
On the 15th of June, the French scot is &loch-
meat cpsinst the outposts upon the canal, while
their mans hotly attempted to storm the by
the gate called l'ortillo. The Arragonear sittackel,
almost ut the amine Ylomrnt, hoitti its I lielf tattput•to
and at the gates of their town, fought with great
fury. bat without order; their artillery was served
by any peewit; who chanced to be near it: every
one alternately ceinenanded, aiel obeyed ; tint all
were animated bt the sumo itplett, and their efforts,
after a most severe conflict, were Simony crowned
with success. A party of the enemy that entered
Moe town were instairtly put In death, and the
trench Getsenil, cousins:eel tit tt it sal fruitless to
persevere in his attack, withdrew his troops to a
peestion out of r. lick of the cannon r ftheArrie,reinese.
As soon as the French were repulsed on the 15th
June, General Palafox set out from SO /WNW in
girder to collect reinforeetrierits and provi& resew-
era for a siege, and also to place the rest yf the
kingdom ill a gesso, of &fetter, stionfil the capital
fall. lie found from twelve to fourteen hundred
soldiers, who halal coompo'il fruin wad-
ed with them it a,n ill disision of militia stationed
ra Calatayud. With this force, in eninpliaoce
with the urgent desire of his soldiers, he resolved
to attack the Frets, h. lie. marched iintonhately
to Epila, and it an, his itstesitina to hove allot eed
from thence to tow vilhoge of I,ii Nisiela, by which
manoeuvre lie holool to place the French between
his little army end the city of Those
i otentions. however, were frustretyd by a +Harlem
attack on the part of the enemy, in flit uktit, at
Igpila, when die Spaniards, utter a most obstinate
Sit fruitless resistance, were at length comdelkol tot
yo-til to Barrier nninhers and disciplii e. The
wreck of this little force retired from the scene of
action to Calutayurt, and afterwards, with great
difficulty, threw themselves into Sora,rossa.
During this time the French receivedr reinforce-
ments of troops and artillery from Pamplona', and
organ to occupy the several military positions in
alts plain covered with olive trees, that surrounds'
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