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CHAPTER ill.

PRESENT MILITARY ATTITUDE OF THE INSUR-
GENTS IN VARIOUS PROVINCES or THE PE-

NINSULA.

We In MOM turn our eye, to the melancholy picture of
the inatirreehein which has been excited iu our laud by au.
aorilhd interest, and ambition, ass.sted
by toting.' conipiralion, and the dresilfol calamities of fa.
mow and plague with which our count,y has Ives' afflicted
But fur this combination, the total genius col diortud
wrouia ncoer haft found r to Shatu, Vlllore 11111411liaoli4
were iiiianimons in their iny for liberty, uuauimou. in eta
pro ch mul I on, and no:m.ll7loU+ in aoliritiog their llprearota-
tire. for the refiee in of iliose :Ousts *bolt had been so lung
opposed to their to ospertiy and their rizlits.
Spain was atIV,OICIOZ 113.j,sticalty in the career of liberty,
and wan affnreeng a proof, in the tranquillity and content of
her inlinbitanta, of the possibility is this enlightened age of
rissiog without convelsiou from a state of iguorance nod
elesuptom to one Or knowledge and eatioual liberty. The
Cate. were as, mhled, atiuses were reformed, neve institu•
twos were niab4.hed, with so much ruder and hot tnony,
that Sp iin wan tinder ibis new aspect the admiration of the
universe., 04 117{101 as she had before been in the arduous
ouitrrisitio4 of re•istitig Bonaparte. Some nations wished
to imitate her examph-, and, in short, the poliiical role of
Spain served as a I aodel, and was adopted by • I En ria-
p. no rations.

llus glorious cireumstloor, which affords the hest enl.,
coon of our institutions. is per cutely the principal Cill4C of
unr present bUireit, gs. Tho goo ms of derpott.,ni is alarmed,
heath:ea tor the f-x,wl-cr of his eliert.he,l system, fotesers
its total rum, aurlolcrf to the cries of lilicrly which surround
hint, silytaly and weird) prepart• the rtioo of those tivitinis,
which, Itactric made Ih •In‘e!ve• free, will ii allow him to
interfere with their int. trial affairs. Tropp.ii and I.as bach
are the point. in which horrible machinations are con.
strwviti, and it I.ism Troppots and Lnyhteh that uriginate
the evil, w ith whirls we ate rtillteted•

In Is2l th, roil ience of o,6potism was little A It in the
Peninsula. Site, ii!ly. toe Nnii•revulotionaly pro-
jects manireidril there were n, .Pry 'MA propurtion. A few
maiii out tunneled fouls, were all who dared up.
pose the progre,‘ of the a‘el to 'I short (tine the Go-
serum, nt, o WI the ca-epri ar ion of the Collis, pin a slop to
these crimes by an r%, nip! iry pninstireent of their au th,,ra.
lint to lti22, U,e pit a ,eueilioos was spread to an extraor-
dinary degree, in,,aits of e.,e insidious aliggetions
of all knits which ;.aVe 1..11 1,;(e(4,1 !be happy in.
*lila tors whirl, Spain ei,jo,s through the efforts of her tool.
The iteilltreeliom (0111:luilfed in the provinces of Navarre
and Cataldnia about the middle of last Aurtl. At first the
insurgents move readily aesnmed the character of banditti
than of enenitea to the polit,cal system of the Nation. The!,
Otimbree, their condition, and their conduct, to no way illy.
them Coin common highway robbers. In the
month of 11 ay their forrea were ine rrrrr it, and their new sib..
jest began to diacovn itself. In June the conspiracy because
extraordinarily endri Zed, entered from France and
Navarre, the r act f.ll At; epo term to yield, sad Cote.

lonia experienced the tensible 1.. e of the Sew de Vrgal,
with all her f011t.,.51.n. to July 11i sedition of the torsi of
ihe novel tiousehohl gave a.tonielsrag *mint to the nide
who emended thir martiinaliona tem fresh premien*.
and infect►d with their b tram phadsome of the turn if
militia. The defrost ex;,►neoccd Ii? illigna at Madrid oft the
7th of that month, must bast proved aaavbl blow in 00.1,
opers:;6l.., if they had nut been direstioysmat of foreign
protect not:. Tim., 'totted of tieing tatingaustied, they Aaisard
Iwo spit it, and took poseession of she emote of Alespaintees.
in the turtttlo of Au4eet the eunaber df Itse insurgents coo-
firmed to soca-ease, and some bold opentiona West fibidif fred
11111101ae them—such ut the rawer of filen, troops of the 7th
dusts ictin the Zsth, null their reiurns *Web indicate the ,a•
istesier of a biped plan, and tire a fo•eign chancier in
their motemeios This suspicion u tesfirmed by the deser-
tion %shirts took p+ace during that swath of Matte onwortity
Spaniards, Ishii, though in the esjorymeat of ceneldershie
punt• to tbia count, y, tidier put thedisentan at the 104 of
the Msurgent nouns, or formed a rid I. Iwo prounare!
19uring the 'pawessmorneditodhirdisettan taradm
paralysed by the riTorts of Govriounred, which los adopted
nub energy every menenre to which it tar possibly hove rt.
Colll,lr sit the Iscuinscribtd hunt. to *loch its faculties are
reduced.

♦IT. X.-ATTITUDE OF THE INSURGENTS IN
THE FIFI H MILITARY DISTRICT.

Of all the dt•lncts which horde, MI Fiance, the fifth is that
which has longest licen infested with factious lisnihois. 'this
has been owing to the instigations of the quondam G. nasal
Etuis, nod other p• rverse Spaniards. who, residing in
have rnyduynl thetneelvt a in intrigues for keeping
the ■'tjoiuiag 010VIIIICP0 in a stale of rebellion.
Out :Mire the month of April last, at which lime it ap.
pest', the plan for *obverting the Spanish Goverunieut began
to be pet iu motion, the activity of those traitors bas beeu
much owe open and mischievous. They have recruited
ban'h•ttt fur invailini our Sr try; they have made pur-
chases of arm•, clothing, and hors's, fur the same purpose.
They hire hero supplied with I , the source of whisk
it is easy to conjecture, and which have not all proceeded
from the Peninsula, to meet those expenses, and to foams'
and maintain the insurrection in the provinces.
Neverthrlese, the insurrection in the fifth district has no-
thing in II So excite alarm. There hare been momenta when
it was more active, bolt it is now reduced almost to a nullity.
The operations af the factious have bad no driersnmed ott-
ject ; their plait hits merely been to excite *very where cute-
motions. The ringleader appears to be tionsada, though
always dependant upon Egnia. They base been unable to
form any system of administratios ur government, became*
they have never held possession of any territory in this die,
trim They have, however, in pair f their usual
plan, orison/eel a superior Junta at loath, a place situated in
the midst of forests, close to the French frontier, which
they have fortified with artillery, and which forms a kind of
base for their operation. This is the only point they pos•
seas in the whole of ibis district; but it is one in which
they place mach interest, as it et:Millard(' to enable them te
intercept the, public cormwpoudkmce.

♦RT. XI -ATTITUDS OF THE INSURGENTS OF
THE SIXTH MILITARY DISTRICT. AND THIS
CONTIGUOUS PROVINCE OF CATALONIA.

This district wee is the begiosies the most tranquil of
the three which horde► on Preece, bet the factious who
roamed abort its territory aeon encetwided in exciting dis-
cord. blight communions took place iu the mobile of May
and June, but in the month of July there appeared prem.
toms of a general tosurriettun—the coirsequeoce of the
operations in Navarre and Catalonia, the tom Kane IM Ur-
gel, the taking of Marella, ■nd the affair of Stgocusa.
Hut the most important occurrence of that mouth was the
loss of Mequinetiaa. ill the month if August the re-con.
quest of Mequoteuza was seriously routimplated, bet the
excursion of the Trappist from Casalouts to Navarre, and
his return with Qnewd• to Catalonia, required the cootinued
atientiou of ■ll the troops in the district. At l reseal the
province of Calaisynd is tranquil, as is also that of Sersgo•su.
lu the province of Huesca, the tuatirgeois have fortified a
point. They have nluteised I triumphs is this printer,
which have lately been augmented by the detest of part of
the column of Talmetica. The character of the i rrrrr
its this distsict is leas serious than 161 the other two which ad-
join trance, beefiest the cottony is less accessible to (weirs
instigation, and because there alrays has beau since the be-
ginning a disposition to stifle the constitution. The disturb-
ances have sdways been excited by factious frost other der•
trios. The Histamines prioress no fortified point it the ter-
ritory except Miquinenaa, and there is no information of
their totemic °flowered ally system of adulioiatrattun, ur of
their baying formed a goviri.ing Junta.

ART. XII.-ATTITUDE. OF THE INSURGENTS OF

TIM 7111 MILITARY DISTRICT.

In this district the insurrection has assumed 1.0 decided
suJ formidable aspect, that the Gueernmetit bas deter-
mined to establish in it an army of operation. The distu.b•
ed state of Catalonia is the more remask.ble, forr until the
b.-ginning if tire ;new ni year, there appeared DO symptom
of insurrirlion it that pail of the country, and the priscipal
lOw1;3, so •Il a'. Barcelona, Krug, Tarragona, Manresa, Ma.
taro, 6tz , writ. Away.. distinguished fur a truly forum ulimial
spirit; snd the revolution here is the more to be feared, as
the inlunitiiiiuti• nature of the counts y is in au extraordi-
nary degree favourable to resistance.
If she rasol•tion were genets, in the 7th district there
would he 11,0300 to 'tar the powerful measures which the
inhabitants hare it in their power to adopt ; lust, furl*.
'lately, cooly the rural ponulatio• have hitherto taken part iu
the rebelliou ; the populaitou of the towns have decidedly de-
clared themselves taroosi able to Site jest . II has been
found that almost all she small and inland towns base
joined the iiisuitertitiii, while all the I'VEe towns on the
e.isat have decidedly opposed it. Hence at may be inferred,
that the Cal•loonans have been misled by the corporations, or
Individuals who are iuterested to the counter-revolution, and
stsb,,reed by foreign morsel. Where the people are well.
informed, there has been no rebellion; where iguureace sad
surer-thine prevail, it has marched with rapid strides.
II 'troy also be inferred, 101 the present misery of Cats•
lonia, uccasiused by the fever at Bficelous, and abeeve all by
the toes of the Stade with America, has had au influence in
prinincing discontent; for the inhabitants, bring absolutely
deposed of the niesius of subsistence, resolved to take up
arms tu• war which was lectinauseusled from the pulpit, soil by
whirls old rancuoirs and animusiii• a have lova revived. Thus
tney he explained the motive whirls actuated the people of
who have at all times bees so zealously watch-
ful :at their libretti s, and have now declared thenotriers the
defeuileis Uf &iv:illusions introduced Otto the country iu COO.
ayuence Of the nctu hes obtained over their 'incision.
The resulniillll ill C4llllollill was eommenced in the month
of A;iril by Cie broil „r Mims, which was shortly juiced by
that of Mosen Aostoi, Gull. In May it bream: g I, mid
tie funs provinces of that district were is a few days the
prey of eivil From that moment the forces and pro.
credinzi of the ri bets became formidable: fartunately, how-
ever. the f. a troop: of the 7th district loft no time at pip.
reeilsoc so th. principal points, where they obtained sigual
triumphs. Th,! General of the 7th district gave ardent fur
the occupation of all the fortified posts, as well as those
which, though solos ificd, were of any intpoitaisee. Such
was the state of trite district at the latter cud of the
that the General &dared, with good reason, that he should
Mid it impir.sd Ic to maintain its ground without prompt
aid of reply kind. The Gmtrrement speedily adopted every
step which the urgent state of affairs rendered tree y.

In the tuunib of June the ittourrectien increased still more
considerably. The tactinua committed horrible amaruoi-
nalionsrin lud,waluale belonging 10 the cons iintioual pally;
they Invaded Iler dictirta, tacked many tonne, ►ud
mink d 11.,•,r ...Idiom.; but the comfit utmost truum marched
ou cirriy pui.,t, sad destroy.. ! the r..cuuu. ulte.ever they
Met lb* 111, Somal town. glotivogly reestetd the faction.)

even without the aid of the regular Morin ; but is spite f
this Arse mod persevering mewled is the part of the teas/.
mud luiesleitsole devoted is the easetieetien, the 7th district
etialeiooll a essay loss, abreast the fatties' party gaiviitz
possession of the forts of See de Wild.
le July the iaelirreetioa codlimied its progress, slid the
troops emithined to oppose it at gyery puttee. Nosy im -
p,rlset operatilOW sr'," 'Soled, is which the lend militia of
the diffrrriii woos look a consiessoble part, art did also the
eveiteeteres or light troops of the estittee of the entsatry,
raised at the expense of the latoshibiede. Bet the Winner
of the taking of StO de Urge' was sensibly felt amidst ail
these ttreemplm, since it enabled the factious to resintsie a
traeguil position in the midst of the plaid of Cataleeia, awls
in the retiree of this month it was observed \thee they had
osionital• faro of adesinistretion sad government.
Is Ike otriath of Augu.t the iessurremiem acquired sew
efgesigth„ sged though et was hoped shot they wool/ receive •
sleet Mow in the wsoesstrey of kg Sown which tb7
yet that expeetotive was set relsedl. Pro -
telood by their position at Sen de (Tree, the ismoreeote Of -
,110i•VCI • Goveramitil hots fur the protium, sea ettatse.l
to in high a pitch of inemleure as to instal is that lowa • sell.
styled regency, composed of Shies isthrioulls (Mate
Fonda, evens and treks), noted for their Constant
oversees to libr;sl ideate.

In September the issurr tfill received fresh eneouragement
from the retention of boa Item.. and the Tetsuo of the Trap-
pist with she sesidaerenaest of Quelled'. Out it is herd
that the insurreesiou will rapidly diminish, sad Saltily be
totally inppecaiied out the appraianoe of filmteral Shoo in
Catakiata.

♦RT. XIII.-INSUARSCTION IN TVE °TIM 11'10-

PISCES Or THE PENINSULA.

In snipe ot►er provinces of the Peninsula t►ere ha►e been
instinct-tient more or less formidable, according to the lesser
or ireaorr resources whieb the factious ha►e had at their
roissisasisl; but all has heel, suppressed through the ellevilt
of the Go►rrament, the elicietat operation of the troops sad
militia, and the ciicumstaace of the factious being de.
priced of foreign support. Oa the 7th of Jody a formidable
isisurrietiou was pot down at Madrid. A similar, thou&
✓ot au equally speedy sod glorious Tu se attended the com•
motioers of Cordova, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, sad Malaga,
whirls were excited by the mut ley of the Carabiurevs, sad the
•hairs of Seguenza and the &wild& de Rood..

Ou some other points public tranquillity has bees tempo-
rarily disturbed, but as speedily reestablished. The
greatest evil produced by these latter commotion' has been
the interruption of public correspondence for s few days.
The Goveranient has, however, reestablished the committal •
cations.

This is a succinct picture of the preseet insurrection in
the different provinces of the Peeinsola, sod hoe it may be
deduced two cousequeeisees most ffaticrimg to the cause of
liberty:—lsl. That the array is the fratest support of that
team.; tlelly. Thai awing those devoted to it is to be earn-
leered the most enligieleisod, the moot industrious. sod the
usual seallity past of she Spanish metiers.
(The Fourth Chapter merely recapitulates the imraismies
which have already bees adopted to suppress the *tailrace-
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