The National Register.
London, England, 1809-10-15 00:00:00

THE NkTIONAL REGISTER.

•.". J.
Lis army. A' this moment he has not 18,(0t) men under arms,
out of the 40,000 which left the ports of England.
The Aluaitenr, of Sept. 30, after giving the following intelli-
gence from an English paper, has these notes
The whole British army has quitted Spain. Sir A. Wel-
lesley has his head-quarters at Elval. (1). at is said this retreat
is occasioned by want of previsions (2). The French have re-
turned to Madrid."'

tale (1.) This is certainly a great F 4 (Test , and the Briti-h
people owe mull) grati!ude to Lord Wellesley, .for having de-
stro.s el a part of their troops ; for having comproini!‘ed the glory
Of their troops; for iyaviag tied si%ty len.gne, pursued, sword
in haod; in flue, for loiving shaudoned their allies. The Kiog
of Eiigland has rewarded the c great services, by conferring on
Cen. Wellesley the title of Lord Wellington, Visrimo; Talavera.
Why does he not give likewise to Lord Cualliain the title of
Luke of ‘Valehereii? Thi, reward would be as well merited, a•
thathirii has been gran,-41 to Sir Arthur. We hope that the
knalish General, who, in the course of this winter, trill hc
driven into the Tagutz, and force) to evacuate Portugal, will
receive tlw tills} of Duke of Lisbon. Thus the French %t ill
find, in the genealogy of the English Generals, the list of their
itteceszws.

Note (2.) It is imPaisihle to find a worse excuse, when the
tag army had, be:ii4d it Seville, Lisboa, and the sea, that
Its retreat was occasioned by the want of provisions! It is im-
possible to sport more with the public credolitYr- The English
fled From the French bayonets; and the French troops, far
from returning immediately to Madrid, pursued these fugitives
as far as the heats would permit.

The Moniteur of the fOth of September, enntainle an article
extracted from an Evening Papei, on the failure of our Expe-
dition •
against Antwerp; in w hich 'it is said, " that the armis-
tice concluded on the Danube couta not but have a powerful in-
fluence on the issue of that Expedition and makes the follo-
lug remarks on• this :assertion --`• What a miserable excuse!
What have the affairs of the Danube to doswith the expedition
to the Schelde I" Can it lora moment he supposed that France
stood in need of the army which is in Vienna to defend herself
piainst the English ? The Et gliqh Expedition failed. because
it. was extravagant; it would atm° have failed, had the -French
been defeated at Wagrain. Ntty,• it would in that case have
snore CAWliiiiily failed of success, beean4e an unfortunate event
vviiiski have d mh!ed the energy of the French in the interior ;
it Would have failed, hecauqe, in Net, fools only could attempt
a similar. expedition in a month and a cliniale where epidemic
fevers carry of noesiniety of the army. Uad it been underta-
ke" in lbe month of,May, the chances. against its success would
have heel) far le* considerable, because that time of the year
tta dread of maladies was to he entertained. The Cabinet of
St.,Jnmes's, actiugin a difibrent manner, cli--plited the uttnbqt
ignorance of circumstances, in a case to which it attached So
ninth importance. The expedition was absurd, because Flush=
lug could not be suppebed to be taken hut after a long siege, car-
ried on in the midst of inundatioul beentise, after the reduction
pf Flushing, it was necessary to dirert further operations against
BaAal,• Bergen-op-Zoom, and *Lino ;* and- 110eattse no attack on
09 strong place of-Antwerp could be made, but nfteeprevious•
sieges to the namber of three. which Must take up at' lealit three
months; and because it was not recollected that the coterth
bat-
jx of the 11Thu/erns of all the army which remain hi Franre.,
form an army of more than 100,000 men, exclusively of the'
;national guards and Bens d'artnes of the neighbouring' depart-:."
/DOM• Ip less than• eight days a corps of 4000 horse Wag'
litssembied at Antwerp, while all the cavalry of Lord Challinm'S
Army did run exceed 1-000.

Let not the English boast of their hOlding..the key of the Scheldt :
shey cannot hold'it. 'Any force which may he desoned to de-
fend that place must in the end be lost to goglancis either h.
capitulation or silliness; and la the former ease. gee shall t.e
more Oan indemnified for the loss of 4000 men who cupitulate6
jn tushing, not 1000 of whom were french.
King has issued an edict, w Welt
silver in ingots, to Ins a•declh-
if the Mint, and to deli‘er op all
nverted into money : one fourth•of
paid immediately on the ilPthet
11-fourths in four months after the
and silver, with the additiotrof one,
)4Y WI Af A reward acnirr,

PIZOVINCI4 LS.

OCT. 15.

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