The National Register.
London, England, 1812-08-23 00:00:00

THE N ATIONA L REGISTER.

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to say.• any portion of his aims', he must make a second
stand for that purpose he must be strongly reinforced,
and tho•e reinforcements must he composed of the ti-oops
hi hi: rear, which still ocenpy ()Id Castile, Biscay, Na
vane, and uipuscoa. 'Those provinces,,hitherto particu-
la di-anguished by the activity and patriotism of the
Goerill will immediately rise in arms on being freed
4r,•;;4 their garrisons, and an hostile and numeious force will
pos•rss theinselve•s of two out of the three great roLds that
lei:d from Spain into France. '['he third, vvideb passes through
Catalonia, may be secured by the troops belonging to our
CYreditiov, and the enemy May tbus be shortly cut ui
from a'l communication with his owu country. Mean-
while .lost:ro who ti►resaw the danger, and who still conti-
nues his vain attempts to join M A lINION T, probably with
no other view than that of re:ii ing into Fiance before the
passe, are closed, must be du ow n back by our victory on
his Capital, which he had abandon( d. Our a...iny has al-
ready Intel poed between him and his defeated Commander;
and it' it does not pursue I►int now to Madrid, it is because
Lord WELLINGTON wishes, bV his wind advance towards
the Ebro, to render the re-assembling of the routed
trool.s impos•ible. and to leave no means of escape
to the rot of the French armies iii the Peninsula.
I"nil►le ti, cleet his retreat, Just', monk commit his liberty
and his crown to the fate of another battle, and for that pur-
pose the siege of Cadiz must be raised„ Andalusia, Murcia,
Grenada and Esti emadura must be evacuated, and SouLT,
with the still formiclalle forces in the South, must advance
to the cat'ital, and attempt to break his way through our
army.- After his junction with Joscpu, it is possible he mac•
appear at the head of 6o or 70,000 men; and should Suc LT
be recalled from the eastern provinces, about 20,000 more
might be added; but it is more likely the latter would be
too warmly engaed in Catalonia with the troops landed by
our expedition, to be able to obey the summons, and might
himself become the point on which both JosEPu and Sou LT
would endeavour to fall. This concentration of force may
appear too g'eat to he successfully opposed; and it may be
thought a matter of little difficulty for an army of 90,000
men to cut its way any where. But it must be recollected
that the very concentration which brings all its strength into
a focus, also draws all its opponents together. If SOULT
iaise the,siege of Cadiz, he will be immediately followed by
the British and Spanish forces in that city, and General
Batt AST Enos from the coast. It he abandon Estremadura
he will he pursued by General HILL; and if he unite with
JOSEPH, Generals 11111 and BA LLAsTE Hos, and the Cadiz
army will join Marquis Wei. LINCTON, or contiuuc to act
On the flank acid rear of the French, with the armed popu-
lation of the country. If StiCHET evacuate& Valencia, or
the sea roast of Catalonia, Gen. Roe!' t; from Alicant, and the
troops from Sicily, will harass his rear, and, communicating
through the Guerillas with the left of his Lordship's army,
will completely hem in the enemy round. Concentration is
only streogili when it is to act against a particular point;
but when it only draws multiplied dangers from the extre
mines to the heart, it is of no inure avail to an army. than it
would be for a man who had repelled the blow of a dagger
wi h outstretc bed arms, to fold them to his bosom, as a sure
means of pi otecti tig *it. _

We have seen what consequences the victory of Salamanca
is likely to produce in Spain; nothing less than the forced
evacuation of that country by the French armies, if not their
final destruction or surrender. Beyond the Peninsula it

will give an impul•e to the human mind, which must sooner
nr later terMinate in the twin of that Despot, who only reigns
through the terrors of his fame. It will rouse slumbering

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nations to a sense of their degradation, and a desire of ven-
geance. It will re-kiudle the light of hope in every eve.
t will gleam like a beacon to the Swedish warrior, arming Int
ly.ittle at Stockholm, and the Russian soldier, engaging the
invaders of his native soil, amidst the wilds of Livonia. It
will make the name of WELLINGTON immortal, and embalm
it, with that of his country, in the gratitude of mankind.