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London, England, 1808-08-09 00:00:00

vance ; Is, however, ..certain, that on that day,
though.only a wing of the Patriotic army in Leon
was engaged, the slaughter sustained by the French
was peat. After that engagement the Spaniards re-
treated towards Zamora, while the French advanced,
if ych choose to call it so, to Leon. It requires,
however, but a cursory view of the map of Spin to
perceive that this is a retreat, .and no advance. Leon,
which is altogether unfortified, and the possession
of which is of no importance in A military point of
view, lies on the north of the kingdom to which it
gives a name ; and this march of the French -Gene-'
ral i( evidently made in the hope of eifeding a
junEtion with the hostile force which still remains,
certainly in Biscay, perhaps too in some part of As-
toria. This is the quarter from which the storm is
hereafter to burst upon all Spain, unless the fore-
taste of the confliet to be endured by BUONAPARTE,
which he finds in the annihilation of all his scattered
troops, should induce him to refrain from the at-
tack. Be his resolution what it may, we are not
unaware what it impo is : it is a matter of joy to
find that he will at alt events have to contend with
each prOvince, each kingdom; apart. His artfully-
concerted projedt of placing strong bodies in the in-
terior has most unquestionably faded, and it is this
which is the subject of a deeply-felt, as well as loud-
ly expressed joy.
From Portugal our intelligence is favourable. The
first English detachment, the earnest and pledge of
future aid, landed at Figueira on the 26th tilt:—
With this foreign assistance, there is no longer any
doubt that JUNOT must soon surrender, and this
long-expected and anxiously, not fearfully, looked-
for event becomes every day more certain. In the
mean while, the sympathy of all Spain and Portugal
is turned towards the people of Lisbon, whose suf-
ferings i❑ the interval must be great. The latest in-
formation from this place announces an unsuccessful
sortie of General LOISON. Every eftbrt of this kind
bespeaks the distress of the enemy, and must pre-
cipitate the moment of his suhjedion.
But the last intelligence which has arrived has
filled us all with delight. It has been announced by
cannon from our fortifications, and by the firing. of
our troops. This intelligence imports no less than
the Surrender of DUPONT'S Army at Andujar : and
of how great moment this event is we may fairly
infer from the repeated anticipations of its taking
place. This surrender reduces JON:OT to a state of
desperation, even if he had any hope before ; and
the link of communication between the Admire" and
the Tagus has received another and most decisive.
break.

The next point of communication which we ex-
peEt to see in the hands of the Patriots is Madrid;
and when we consider, as is officially stated, that
not a Frenchman exists in all Andalusia, save in
bonds ; that, in Portugal; JUNOT remains in a state
of siege ; that all the South of Spain is free ; and
that in the North, the late Vi',tories of the Patriots
in Arragon have broken the communication be-
tween the French furces in Biscay and Catalonia,
we need not fear the speedy emancipation of the Ca-
pital, and the compression of the French force with-
in the Provinces adjoining avonne. When this ar-
r4es, it will be seen whether the long suffering of
the Powers of the North, as well as of the whole
French people, may not find an end, and, whether
thus Et length .a period may not be put to that ty-
ranny which seemed so firmly established, and
which might have subsisted as a curse to the world;
but for the gionstrous and overgrown ambition of
him who reaped alone the advantages of it. Such
is, at least, the light in which we behold these
events, and the probable results of then.