The National Register.
London, England, 1809-01-08 00:00:00

TRH NATIONAL REGISTER.

amounted only to 6000. In the same style of impudent..
exaggeration it is said, that this very Duke of ISTRIA set oil
ou the 6th for Guadalaxara, and scoured the whole road
from Saragossa and Valencia. All this took place in the
course of two days; though the former is 200 miles to the
N, K. of Madrid, and the latter, 140 miles east of that city.
The 18111 Bulletin, dated Dec. 14th, two days after the
former, had been published, does out advert to a single
military occurrence; but amuses the reader with the most
envenomed abuse of two members of the Supreme Junta,
and with commiseration for the state of dependence the ma-
jority of that respectable Body was kept by these obuoxious
members, and by the populace. Those two illustrious Pa-
triots, who have so much irritated the spleen, and pro-
voked the scurrilous abuse of BONAPARTE, were deputed
by the Juntas of Seville and Saragossa, or Arragon, as
representatives to the Supreme or central Junta. The
very circumstance of their having been chosen by the
Juntas of two provinces, which have displayed such zeal
and enthusiasm in the cause, is a presumPtive proof that
they arc men of no common character, and entitle them
to the honour of being cordially hated by the detestable
tyrant. For the future we will set down those two mem-
bers, as persons from whose services and patriotism their
country has to expect the greatest benefits. This Bulletin
captains helidesa trifling misrepresentation, or rather lie,
whets the writer says—" As soon as it was known that the
Emezaost was at Burgos, and that he would soon be at
Madrid, they (the. 4uata) published a declaration of war
against France, full of Ally and the most insulting lan-
guage." The fellow had not the courage to speak the.
truth 1 The Junta published no declaration of war; fur
!hat was long before declared; but they bound themselves
by the most soleroo oath never to listen to any overtures.of
peace, which did not establish as principle, the restitution
of their beloved FERDINAND, aed the integrity of the
Spanish empire. This was too sublime a proof of devotion
to their country, and evinced too marked a determination
to resist his usurpation, to be made known to his good
city of Paris. Though the tyrant is not insulted by
the display of such virtues on the part of his loving
subjects, he feels, nevertheless, some reluctance to re-
mind them, how sunk, how lost they are. Ile has been
likewise guilty of a degree of inconsistency and imprudence
we should not have expected from the wary ruffian.
In venting his rancour agaiust Count TILLY he has the
audacity to use the word jacohin ; forgetting that the very
name must remind the Parisians of the bloody and ferocious
part he acted in 17.94, when he headed the jacobins against
the sections. He seemed also to forget that his brother
Lucia"' was a most violent Jacobin ; and that a petty inn-
keeper refused him his daughter, with a portion of 80/.
on that very account; and the imperial diadem must have
weakened his memory very much, or the son of a petty-
fogging Corsican attorney would not have-the effrontery to
reproach LORENZO C&Lvo with being a grocer •f Sa-
ragossa. The Bulletin concludes with some sportive
illusions to the cowardice of our soldiers, who are re-
presented to have run away at the approach of the French,
and to have mounted their wooden horses, (their ships, we
suppose.) What mind the savage fellow must have, when,
in the midst of the carnage and horror that snrrcuud him,
be feels.an iacpuation to indulge in the grossest witticisms!
The Nineteenth Bulletin begins with the surrender of
Bolas ; and la as replete as the former with inrectioes against

the Supreme Junta, with this difference, thak
attacked en masse; whereas in the former only
CAM)) and Count MA I' are exposed to his /mind,
"That Assembly is already become an object o'
with all Europe." If that be the sensation this
body excite in Europe, we are convinced at least
no objects of his contempt, but of his fear and
FLORIDA BLANCA is Stated to have been a re
Spain : he is now ashamed of the dikhonour he h.
upon his old age. The inconsistent villain I A few
he represented this venerable Statesman as sold to
and now he describes him to .have been a rea
Spain. These Bulletins are excellent records of
and frenzy which torture and distract his disa
feelings. However, there is a meaning in his made
he will not trouble himself much .about the inconsi
his conduct,. if he can only excite some suspicion
that illustrious Patriot. He finishes this Bulletin
observations on the fineness of the weather, and
to avail himself of it, by remaining in the ca
league from Madrid. He seems to feel little inch
confide his august person to the care of its inhabii
Besides the Bulletins, there are some addition
ments. In one of these he grants a general pard
the exception of the Duke del INFANTADO, CEVA'
a few others; whose houses he ordered in the meo
be gutted. The members of the Council of Castile
tcribecl as cowards, and unworthy of being the magistrates
of a great nation. Feudal rights and the Inquisition are
abolished ; and he reduces the convents to one-third of
their present number. Apprehensive, however, that his
projected reform might have no effect in conquering the de•
testation of the natives, he concludes with the fulminating
maces---" If all my efforts,ba useless, awl! Grey .do not
" merit my confidence, it will only remain for me to treat
4' you as conquered provinces, and to piaci*• my brother ox
44 another throne. I will then put the Crown of Spain on.
my own head, and I will cause it to be respected by the
" wicked, for God has given me strength 'and resolution
" to surmount all obstacles.'t
" Given in oiir peperial Camp at Madrid, Dec. Vb.
(Signed) •! N.teozzert.'‘
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The Diana frigate has arrived from Corunna I She had
brought a regular series of Spanish papers, dated the
30th ult. The intelligence they contain is very interesting.
It appears that the southern army had established its
head-quarters at the Sierra Morena, whither the troops
which had been dispersed in various directions, were ad.:
vancing. Castanos was in the neighbourhood of Madrid t
and General Pena had advanced to the Capital, with a con-
siderable corps of Infantry and Cavalry ; of the surrender
of which the Central Junta had received no advice they,
thought, on the contrary, after having made the most
diligent inquiry, tlAt it still resisted the entrcmce of the
enemy,

The Junta of Gallicia had received advice, dated Trust•
illo, the Bth Dec. from their Deputy of the Central. Junta,
stating that the Spaniards had possessed themselves of Bar-
celona. If this account were true, it would more than
compensate the loss cf the Capital. It is a circumstance
worthy of serious attention, that the enemy have not been -
able to relieve their garrison in that important fortress.'
We consider it as the modt conclusive proof that their
/force iu the Pcaiusult► is not so great as is rerosented.

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