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

We cannot closes Luis arucie, w‘taout ad% ,0 the
disastrous intelligence received on 'fliucsday lag, of the se-
vere defeat sustained by Castavos, tuieniig
into any details of this loss, or ilazlrding any coiut eture;

as to its extent or ininied.ate consequences, we %111 old,/

give our decided opinion, that were it as true as runimir
represents it, it would be far from extingo'shing the sued
tiame of lijierty which has burst Out so spont.ineolsty,
will still continue to glow in every prow.aice of Span.. The
lemorseless ruffian, 'rho is now deluging that country mini
the blood of her children, has perhaps before now execi:terl
his menace of placin; the crown of tne much-injisied . t -
dinand on the head of his brollicr ; bat the cervoton) of
the coronation, performed amidst, the execrations of the

inhabitants of the capital, is far from sec •-* h.s h
-rota;
the possession of the peninsula. Not a to ntlt part of
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work is performed. The spirit of the Pat:iots is not yet
broke down. Their mouutaias O'er now, as it Out in ;C::
the Romans and Moors, a retreat to persecuted le 1,-. • 110.:S .Z.
The invaders may ravage the country front one extremity
to another, and the inhabitants be reduced to forced sill:-
mission, as loug as the whole force of the invaders occa.
pies their country. But their hatred is too inveterate, the
injuries they sustained too grievous, to admit the Doss:-
bility of their being reconciled to the usurpation, or siitn
;Bitting, in despondent apathy, to the subjugation of their
country. The seeds of resistance and insurrection are too
deedly planted, to be eradicated ; and the immense faNei
which the constrained submission of Spain will require,
gives Austria an advantageous opportunity of inakiag some
efforts for her own preservation and that of Europe. 'l'he
Spaniards have already furnished a great example of pa-
tience, under privations the most cruel ;—The Nobles, the
Priests, the Members of the Pros incial Juntas, and those
of the difkrent Councils, have taken too decided a part,
to hope for pardon or reconciliation ;—They have all coin.
promised themselves too much to expect security from
submission; and when we reflect on their numbers and in.
tint:nee; when we take into consideration the desperate
state of their fortunes, and the impossibility they are placed
in of retrieving it but by the most heroic coura,;e and per-
severance, we feel no dirticultv in declaring that the subju-
gation of that country is absolutely impracticable: Wr
will make here no professions of the profound regret we
felt on receiving the account of the rouses sustained by
Castanos; but our opinion of the ultimate sticciss of the
Patriots is unalterable. It is not to the military force on
the Ebro that we looked for this reseit ; it ... Was from the
unconquerable spirit of the whole male population that is,
expected it. Toe operations of the inexorahle cotiveror
will be bold, rapid, and executed with his tisnal
still u'c:
• but. the Spaniards have orieoded too flinch, to trust lo
:leniency or moderation. The distrust on 1:011. sides is too
profound at.al too just, the abhorrence of t he 1 y rant
too inveterate, to leave an.openim; lot r, et'nr►l a o
The gates of mercy and pacdon are shut for e'er ,0 'he
inhabitants, in their own opinion ; and, for Fix "I"l''''
towns and villages, the pelpit, and tile bar, have resouli-
with execrations and cries of vengeance 3.;:lialSi 130.,11)11V
I'o remove from their minds this impression, neilhcr
nixes nor intri,rue will avail; ;oat whei% l'a".
►l,ot
''eSied, to use the language of their oppressor,
seek, in their owa tieniroi.;e and perseveran(e,
they despair and abhor to receive GUM the invader.