The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-12-06 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
TUESDAY, DECEUDER 6.

The telegraph at the Admiralty announced, nt
late hourlast night, the arrival of a Nlcsseuv,er ith
dispatches, we believe, at Yarmouth, from Hussite.
Considerable importance is attached to them.

The veil of silence and obscurity, which has so
long covered and concealed the military transac-
tions of the French armies beyond the Pyrenees, is
at length in some measure withdrawn. The pre-
diction, or rather the remark, which we some time
ago ventured to make, namely, that the personal
appearance and presence of the Corsican !milder
among his troops, would he the signal fur the
" Bulletins of the Malheur" officially to com-
mence, hos been folly verified. Nareeeom is, it
seems, at length not only on the other side of the
flidassoa, but far advanced beyond the Ebro, in
the heart of Old Castile, at Burgos. Doubt-
less, whatever repugnance he may have felt, and
which we are warranted by his past conduct to as-
sume that he has experienced, to commit his
person among a people whom he has so atrociously
sentenced to subjugation, to slaughter, mid to ser-
vitude, he has felt that his immediate interposition
and exertions were become indispeusable. Of Jo-
semi, indeed, little mention is made, end his ex-
istence is stated in one passage only; hut NAII.O
exost appears to direct, if not to conduct, the ope-
rations of the campaign. The two Bulletins of
the Monheur which we give, carry us, however, i.o
lower than the 12th of November. The same style
of superiority and triumph which eletracterised the
former publications of that Miuisterial raper, in
terke, and daring the two succeeding years, mm-
Bled with specimens of insulting raillery or sar-
casm, on the loyalty or patriotism, or constancy
and firmness, of the lasargests in the field,
tlistingisisli these entuutunicatious made to the
French people and to Europe. Happily, as we
are already in possession of all the facts Deleted;
and as the Spaniards themselves have officially ad-
mitted, and have circumstantially detailed the re-
sults of the tiff .ir at Lenin, of the attacks made
on 131.AKIL, and of the defects, or rather the dis-
comfiture of the army of Estretnudure at Burgin;
we receive little information, aid experience still
less apprehension or dismay, from the vaunting
and exaggerated narrations of the French. It was
obviously requisite to signalise, and to continent*.
rate by real, or by amplified and fictitious advan-
tages, the first appearance of this imperial de-
stroyer, in the scene of carnage which be has
created. But, hitherto at least, we trace nothing
resembling his triumphant march to Vienna anel
to Berlin. lit seder to reach Madrid, very differ-
ent, more multiplied, and widely distant victories
must be gained. He seems, indeed, to admit,
reluctantly or indirectly, that the country, and
still more the inhabitants of Spain, bear no resem-
blance to those who looked on, while he vanquish-
ed the armies, or corrupted the Ministers and the
Generals of Austria and of Prussia.

Whatever progress BONAPARTE may have made
in the interior of Spain, since the Ilth of Novem-
ber, and in whatever direction his forces may hare
proceeded from Burgos, it is evident that down to
the igth, on which day the courier quitted Ma-
drid, no such disastrous intelligence had reached
that capitol, its made any impression on the Go-
vernment or on the people. The Addresi of the
Duke De I:lirenTstio, dated the 14th, from Ma-
drid, calling for the offer, or the sacrifice of horses
and carriages. to convey salted provisions to the
army on the Ebro, is equally calm and energetic.
The publications issaed in the Spanish capital,
three days later, on the 17th, which carry every in-
terval evidence of authenticity, are expressly drawn
up and disseminated, with a view to counteract stud
to disprove the false assertions made by the enemy,
of his pretended victories. We see no symptom of
depression, but, on the contrary, every indication
of national energy and deter [[[ itt &dim' to perish ra-
ther than to submit to their ferocious enemy. In
the " Royal Decree. addressed by the Supreme
Junta to all the Councils, dated from Aratijnez, on
the 14th of November," who does not trace in every
sentence—