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FDNESDAV, JANUARY 11, 1 ►i4.l!jA

The Gonefleof last ►sight contains the niipatches,
of Sir JOHN Moose:, which fully confirm every part

of the, statement which. we laid before oar Readers
on. Monday. It now appears Obvious, th 4 BuoNA•
PARTE intended,, by one of his rapid manoeuvres, to
epvelope the British Army, and in crash it by an

immense superiority of ntunbers.. 'For this purpose,
Souvr'it Corps,was advanced to Saldana, with the
view of drawing Sir Jont4 Moons to the East-,
ward, while BUONA PARTE himself, with the tnain,
body of his army, made a rapid march. from. Ma-
drid, in the hopes of getting in the rear of the Bri-
tish, and cutting off, their retreat. This 'plan,
We haw' every reason to hope, has been corn-.
pletely frustrated by the timelrretreat of Sir Jonti
Mamie. All the attempts made by BLIONAPARTE
to impede our retreat, by means of his cavalry, have
net, only failed, but have .completely established the
.superiority of our cavalry. In all the, encounters
they had with the French, they, were inferior in
numbers, and in every. one of them they were deci-
cisively viaotious. We are not inforMed of the
precise route by which the- French marched froth
Madrid, but as they of Cbglle advanced in a north-
west dirdaion, we think it by no means improbable
that-they might intercept our retreat to Vigo; and
this appears to have been the opinion of Sir JOHN
IVIOC?* Es as he has evidently directed his retreat to-
wards Corunna, instead of Vigo. There is perhaps ,
another reason why'Corunna has been preferred ins.
the point.of retreat,' which is, that Vigo is situated
in a verydeepbay, which opens to the Westward,
and Consequently it would 'be impossible, in case of

a strong wealeay wind, for our Vciscl3 10.!,voll,
of the Harbour.

'We-trust that the Spaniards will use &try cxer-
.ticitiktii.improve the' advantage which this mAereent
bflttie French Army must 'afford them. lititet,l
ibr following tip .the vi&ory which he had' &lined
over the Army of General CASTANOS, and ad-
vancing into the South of Spain, BUONAPAUTE
has been compelled, in a manner, to, abandon the
fruits of his vidory* .and to bring nearly tne whole
of his army into the* North. If heliacl been ell-
'abled to follow up the Spaniards, after the battle of
Tudela, as he did the Prusians after the' battle' of
ilitierstridt, the consequences might ,have been
lekdally fatal. But now they hive time to re-
dostilitlficim the
.'alarm. which :their defeat at
qutic;la must have Occasioned ; to collect their
• scattered army ; to augment it with new
levies; to arrange their plans of defence ;. to take
possessiOn of, and to fortify the strong. mi,es
which lead to the SOnthern part of the IC„..ingdotn.
and to adopt such measures as the exigency of the
case may require. All the accounts we have see!'
from the South of Spain represent the inhah:-..
tants as much more determined in their hostility
to the French, and Much more energetic thati
those of the North, and the arrival of the Ves-

eels from South America, with a supply of between
four and five million of dollars, will enable the Junta

to facilitate their exertions: We have received aci
counts from Cadiz, of the date of the 2d instant,
by the Melpomene Frigate, which has arrived at

Portsmouth. These accounts are of a very gratify-
ing nature. All classes of people seem to be a6tuated
' by an unanimous determination to resist, by every
possible means, theiTyrant who is endeavouring (0
Wive them.

We regret very much to hear, thatosome appre•
pensions are entertained for the safety of Mr. NW"
Pity, of the house of GORDON and MURPHY, the
Gentleman who has made such patriotic exertions
in the Spanish cause. He left Madrid on the 3d of
December, and kis not been heard of since.

- Some further Dispatches were yesterday received
1414;eit Sii• J. MOORS. They state,:that he was con-
:011016g his retreat towardstihe coast. Their march
was elleamilly covered by the cavalry under (Ito
command of Lord PAGgT and General STEWAwr.

We received the following Letter from a reap e.
able Correspondent, and though it materially .differs
from the aceounts given by the French of a later dale,
60 our R eadars

DEc. seems -wearing a better
aspeA in Spain. Madrid is still- believed ,tobe in
possession of its natiVeinhabitants, and the exertions
of the people are really wonderful : two houses ere
said to have been thrown down at, the entrance of
every street, in order to impede the progress of .ots
valry. The streets . are nearly 'unpaved tO supply
the 441 ant inhabitants with wpm u9iticn, and as
metiOdetertninatinn as loyalty pervades the tv4ole;
aliflicfli all communications are made and held from
th`p roofs of the houses, and nothing is heard, but
the cry of " Death or Freedom—Long live Fiat"
DINAND the. Seventh, and a 'speedy downfsl
Tyrant of Europe."

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM 1,,1,5801i,. DATED D,E9;

18. 1808.

`..A.bave only, one moment to tell yon, that all
your!atko'unts we see in the English Papers, at the
,latter'erid of last, and - beriinninff of the present
mouth, respeCting the disasters in Spain, are coq'.
'si4ernhly magnified. The very Jolt accounts
have here is, that the Spaniards possess Madrid,
after three attempts by the French to take that
City. The British Armies under Generals Moots

and Sir DAVID BAiltD have formed a junands,icm; ands,
amount, by report to 40,000 men, of which a large
proportion are cavalry. The Spaniards have every'
where, with open arms, and all their hearts received
and fostered the British. Something has been suf-
fered on the march, hue that was to be expeled.—.o,
We are not dismayed here—far from it, and every
energy of this Government is now bursting forth.
All ranks are direaedio:be armed. Multitudes o'lsol.•
diers are swept from the, hitherto idle and dis Solute
hordes ofuseless beings about the'streets;' pikes, mu's.,
kets, add new made soldiers are in every corner ;• the
'Very,chililViti have caught the mania,' anti tin kettles,
Ogrrisimpd wooden swords are beat and waved hi:
iteflahce. , and detestation of the French. No Frencit•
man, or man tiuspetted of being so, dare make hi/
appearanCe for these : juvenile heroes hoot, pelt
with stones, and otherwise annoy any thing bestrirlig
the semblance of ,a Frenchman.

fr, I lodge in the house at a harmless Swiss, and
have fortwo days fared but badly, as
,he dare not
stir to market, hiving been hooted from thence as a
and nearly killed on Wednesday last.,
a.zetw era in the history of Portugal, and if
the a` Molts of the Fidalgos (Noblemen) keep pac*
with theirpatriotic pootributiotis and loyal profes-
sions, the populace will follow, and their foruiet