The Sun.
London, England, 1808-11-25 00:00:00

ARMY OFNAVARRE AND HISCAY.

Capable to take the field untliediateiy x 54,150.
Will be in readiness by the end olthe year - 40,959

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195,109
• . ,
ARMY 07 CATALONIA.
Capable to take the field immediately. - • 59,670
Troops which Reding will receive - • - - 35,000

94►670

RECA P IT U L A CIO?:.

Army of Navarre and Biscay - - - 195,109
Army of Catalonia - - - 94,670
Auxiliary l ngliah Troops - - - 40,000

Total in readiness to take the field by the end of the
year - - - - - , 329,779
Reserve - - - - - - - 152,900

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TO CORRESPONDENTS.
1.„1, VIA TOrt shall appear as soon as we have room.
The Letter signed NALL Ac, on the similitude between Bkro-
NAvArtTE and Roncsrt ER RE, shall also have an early in-

sertion.
We shall endeavour to comply with the wishes of various
other Correspondents with all convenient speed.

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THE SUN.

ROX.RIt QUIS D:cszz lALSUM AI.:DRAT?

L 0 N D • 0 11,7 , -
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 252 1808.

We are unable to communicate to our Readers any
further particulars respelling the disaters whibh are
1 supposed to have occurred in Spain.' The accounts
that have been received are of so very general and
vague a nature, that it is impossible to speak with
any precision upon the subjea. They state, .that
the Trench had entered Burgos, and had pushed'
forward patroles of cavalry towards Valladolid, and
that they bad defeated
,a Corps that upposed them,:
on their march to Burgos. From this it has been'
inferred, that the Army of Generfil Br.AkE has been
entirely defeated. The faa certainly may be so,
but there are many grounds which induce us to en-
tertain dbubts upon the subjea. Gen. BLAKE, we
knew, after the Aaion at Valmaseda, took a strong
position in the mountains, in which position he
was probably held in check by the right of the
French Army under NEY. And as —General
.BLAKE was'not well.shpplied with cavalry and arta-
' lery, he might not think it prudent to descend into
the plains for the purpose of covering Burgos.—'
•In that- case, while the, right of the French held.
BLAKE in check, and their left watched General CA§.-
,TANOS,- their centre, which was at. Pancorbo, might
easily push .forward to Burgos. As to the Corps
which
:the French are said to have defeated
.on their march . to. Burgos, that might either
have been a detachment -from BLAKE'S Army, .
'.or a division.,.of the AlaiSr of Estremadura, wind)
•we know was advahcing towards Burgos. We
state these as probabilities, because in the absence-of
positive intelligence, we have no other means'of
forming a judgment. We cannot avoid noticing.*
despondency which some or Our Cotemporaries haye
manifested upon this occasion. It was absurd to ex- •
pea that. the SpaniSh 'Troops could be uniformly
successful. ReVerses, and those of a serious na-
tnre, must be •eXpeCted in such a contest ; and
it is most singular, that those who upon all
occasions represented the French, Troops as in-
vincible, ‘,
" when opposed to the - disciplined vete- '
1-arts of Austria and Prussia, should expeCt that they
should he uniformly defeated by the. new leVies of
Spain. We do, hot
_wish ,to deceive our Readers
by delusive speculations, but from the intelligence
before us, thotigh-there may be grounds for regret,
we see rib reason to despond. .. .