The National Register.
London, England, 1808-12-18 00:00:00

Dv% 18.

tip. J. MOORE are of the sth, anti no mention is made of the
arrival of the enemy at Madrid. The Duke of ISTRIA ap-
peared before that capital with the cavalry on the 2d ; the
event might therefore be easily known at Salamanca on
the sth, the date of Moones dispatches ; as the distance is
not more than 150 miles. The enemy is capable of every
art, in order to relax our exertions, or retard our reinforce-
ment ; but we dare not indulge in the pleasing delusion.
In great calamities men should take the worst, and collect
courage to resist, to surmount them. We have the means,
Heaven knows, to overcome greater ditliculties,if there were
num capabie of wielding to advantage the great resources
of this country. Let us, speculate nu further on that des-
ponding subject ; but rather examine what may be still
dune for a people whose cause we have so strongly and
aitlentiv advocated. We feel their anguish ;we are not
callous to their sufferings ; we follow with execrations
the barbarous iuvatErs who are persecuting, who
are driving from their homes, separating from their
families, robbing of their property, and setting a
frice on the heads of the worthiest and most respect-
able characters in that country. We sympathise in
the sufferings, and share the indignant feelings of these
generous fugitives ; but their resources are still great ;
and tho occupation of the Capital has no more influence
as their cause, than that of Burgos had. The invader is
pla.ting a desperate game; the more he advances, the
more hazardous it becomes. Actions of eclat are ueces-

aarv, on his part, to impose upon Austria, and discourage
aigorous exertions on our side. His troops do not occupy
a fourth part of the Peninsula, and the whole of the
southern and eastern provinces remain unsubdued.—
They oiler stroager and much more formidable means of
resistance; and the success of the enemy will decrease the
aannosily of the natives. Though the tyrant may advance
to the very camp at St. Ruch, the subjugation of Spain is,
however, far from being effected. We should, neverthe-
less, neglect nothing, and always have shipping enough to
transport the Patriots to a place of safety, where they
!right be embodied again, in order to rush, as soon as a
favourable opportunity offers, on their oppressors. This
is not a fit season for economy; no expenses must be spared,
if they only contribute to keep up a single spark of that di-
vine tire, which has so ardently glowed in the breasts of the
Spaniards. Ceuta, or the I3elearic Islands, would afford most
eligible places olarnisfor the refugees; and in case of extreme
emergence, we; might collect there an army sufficiently for-
midable to effect, a second time, the expulsion of the ene-
my from the Peninsula. Our fleets should keep up an un-
ceasi!lg. communicatiou with the land, to encourage the
Patriots in their attachment to the noble cause, to hold out
to them a prospect of salvation, and to transport such as
were willing to embark, to the great body of the fugitive
Patriots. But Ileavea be praised, these desperate measures
are not necessary ; and we propose them only in case of
extreme emergency. The cause is still strong ; we have
only the French accounts as yet; those which arrive
through another clntuuel, betray neither despondency, nor
es ince a wish to coaciliate the tyrant by submission.
The French Papers contain a very long account of the
late occurrences in Turkey, and positively assert, that the
proposals of Mr. ADA 1K have been rejected : and that he
was refused permission to proceed to the Capital. This we
disaelieve ; and the. Fast accounts from Malta speak
of L arrival in Coostantiuuple, where he was received