The National Register.
London, England, 1808-12-11 00:00:00

dalusia. Let new levies be raised; let our patriotic army
be constantly reinforced. Appeal with confidence to the
• arms and purses of Englishmen. Ask them if they are
afraid of encountering the enemy, and they will im-
mediately tell you they are not. Why shonld you
then fear, or relax ? This is not the result you promised
the country three months ago, and what you ltd the Spa-
niards and Europe to expect. Or do you despair of retriev-
ing the state of atraira in Spain? You should have antici-
pated all this last Summer; because you know the enemy
is neither remiss, nor inactive. If you acted imprudently,
if you have miscalculated the moans of the invader, re-
trieve yuur imprudence and miscalculation by your subse-
quent condo; t. Fly not from the scene of action, which is
most unexpected, a most unhoped for occurrence pointed
out to us. We thanked [leaven, six months ago, for its
happening ; and, since that period, we never ceased con-
gratulating one another, that this glorious opportunity had
occurred fur liberating the Continent. Shall, then, ono
unfortunate event blast all our hers, and confound all
our projects ! Were we, for a single moment, ignorant or
doubtful of the means, activity, and talents of the invader ?
We knew them to their full extent ; they were even mag-
nified ; they arc so in this very moment; and now, after
all our promises, all our hopes, after a vast expenditure of
money, which was willingly granted, after every man in
the country had united hand and heart in *meet of the
measures adopted by the Cabinet, we shall resort to the.
dastardly, impolitic, and irretrievable resolution of Mm-
;toning the Spanish Patriots to themselves; and consign-
lug cur national character, and the reputation of our
army to eternal disgrace and abhorrence. Curses seize
the Statesman who is base enough to ad vise it ; and
traitor enough to perform so abominable a treachery. But
no, an English miustcr cannot be so base, so forgetful of
his own reputation, and that-of his country, as to consent
by one act to rivet the chaius of Europe for ever, and ulti-
mately, should that event occur, if our own islands. Let
the orders, then, if they have been imprudenly issued, for
recalling our troops, and countermanding the embarkation
in our ports, be instantaneously recalled ; and let future.
energy and the appearance of bO,OOO British soldiers in
Andalusia, convince the Spaniards and Europe, that this
country is as incapable of violating its engagements as of
fearing her enemies. Let military stores, let provisions, let
arms be thrown profusely into the Southern Provinces, and
the Patriots will rally there in such numbers, that the
invaders will soon repent their temerity. Every port in
Spain is still open to us : let flying squadrons, along its ex-
tensive line of coast, contain arms and men sufficient to
keep the enemy on the alert ; distract his attention and
force. Let us collect the Patriots in every province;
area and encourage them in the sacred cause; and
there is not a province of the Peninsula, where the
eneany will not have the whole male population to encoun-
ter. But if we depart ; if we ignominiously abandon the
cause ;—the idea is distraction, and we shall one day have
cause to execrate our pusillanimity.,

llDutch Papers arrived on Momiay and the day before.
They contain four Bullctins. or olicia/ reports of the opera-
:.tions of the FrenCh armies in Spain. The word ojicial, ail