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THADDEUS OF WARSAW, NEW EDITION.
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THADDEUSof WARSAW
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This Woil. has more merit than can be ascribed to the
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The 01,ra:tier of the hero is well-drawn and ably support-
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every virtue, wholly unobjeZtionable."---ii.rui-Jacobin Re-
view, September.
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Sccitti:h Chid's; an historical Romance.

A NOVEL.

tPßltt. ‘SIiPEN.CE iiiiiiitiiii.

, .
in explaining • the necessity Of it; and 'cOrntnuninet-
ing his ulterior intentious to the Marquis of Ro-
mana. " The troops; Says lie; were to haee, marched
from this to Carrion at eight this evening. • I count
termanded them, and shall take immeuiate measures
for retiring on Astorga. There I shall stand ; my •
retreat thence, if necessary; will be secure. , Yore
•may rest assured, that I shall not retreat a foot be-
yond what i's necessary to secure my Supplies from
being intercepted. . I am sensible of the zeal and
a&ivity your Excellency has displayed, in thus hai-
tening to-co-operate with me; for the reasons
contained in the former part of this letter, I believe
the attempt no longer adeissble. It will, however,
b©. of use, and will blind the enemy, should you
trintinue with your corps a few days at Mansilla."
" It Is asserted that " when Buotiaparte received
intelligence that the British were moving to the
Duero, he said " Moore is the only general now fit
to contend with me I shall advance against him in
person ;" that, having properly disposed the march
of belween 60 and 70,000 men, he had no doubt of
being able to intercept our march on Gallicia ; ant:
that . .
Sir John Moore, as appears both by his letters
and his condua, saw clearly the whole of this plan :
he hadsprepared for the danger; calculated his time;
and has acquired the glory of beibg the first general
who has•frustrateu isiVottaperte.‘ • .
" On the 24th, • Sir John began his retreat, and
wrqte to..the- Marquis •of, 1101'1)&0, _ Olci°ltijg him to
:" keep a strong corps at Mansilla to defend the
bridge there," and, when compelled to retire, by no
means to retreat on Astorgaear its neighbourhood,
which, " together with the passage into the Galli-
'cies," must beleft for the British troops." In con- •
sequence of this
.request, the Marquis left at Man-
•silla 3000 men' and four pieces of cannon, nearly
half of his disposable torce, at the.seme time ex-
plaining to Colonel Symes, that the town was not
defensible ; and that. the destruction of the bridge _
would oppoie no obstacle. to the enemy : he also
stated, that " syhereeer else he might
,ao, it was im-
possible for him to send any part ol his troops into
the. Asturias, as the roads were, then impassable, the
snow having fallen in unusual quantity.". Conse-
quently, as tee Marquis was equally' uriable to retire
at that season of the year, into the mountains to the
northward, or to face, with 120 horse, the numerous _
cavalry
_ef the enemy in the plains to the southward,
be seems tObeve thought that, by the secrifiee of half
• his• ferce. at Mansilla, he had purchased at a suffi- •
cient price the privilege of retreating by the only
road on which_ he could find
,a place ck.rettige;
" The order to halt and return to their quarters
became, to the littlish troops, the signal of depair
and itiAthordination. U=sable to comprehend the
obje& of so many contradiaory enot.ements, and
cliSappointed in their hopes of .meeting the eneley,
they turned their fury against the unhappy Spa-
niards, to whose treachery they attributed their
'toilsome and useless Marches. The letters of Dr.
Neale, Mr. Ormsby, Sac. are filled with diseraeefel
itiedotes of their conduct; and Mr. Moore fiads ' •
it requisite to' make the painful eonfession' of their
want of diaciplinee and to fill 'many of his pages
with the general • orders repeatedly issued by the
commander hi Chief. s
"The inarch was, indeed, rendered perfealy se-
cure by the indefatigable exertions of our. excellent
cavalry, which effectually checked that of the ene-
my, arid routed, 'at Majorga and at Valencia, the
detachments, which pursued us too closely. The
Ella was crossed. by Sir, David Baird at
_the ford
of Valencia, and by the rest of the army over the
bridge at Benevente. As soon as the passage was
effeded, „that- magnificent bridge was completely
destroyed ; the only result of which, .however; was
that the French Imperial:Guards, under the command
of Le Felavre,, forded the river, and thus presented
to'Lord Paget the means of evincing, since snore,
the great superiority of our cavalry over the choicest
troops of Bnonaparte's army. A day was lost by the
delay of a convoy of artillery-, which, unable to
cross the river --4 t Valencia,. was obliged. to move, by
the road of BeneVente. The roads, alniost imps
sable by a bean rains,. rendered the fatigue of the
soldiers excessive ; and though the reserve, in spite,
of these obstacles, perforrned the match froMßene-
vente to Astorga in two days, it was not till 'the'
30th that Sir John. Moore erriVed, there, and was;
as we are told, extremely disconcerted to find that
the town was pie-occupied, and' filled- with the
The observations in THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, troops of the Marquis Romana. • 1 •
On the " Narrative of the Campaign of the British This General did not deetroY the bridge at Man-
Army in Spain, commanded by Lieut.-General Sir sills as had' been requested. The'guard he left there
Joliet MOORE, K.B. &c." are marked by such know- I was charged by a party of Soult's Cavalry ; and the
ledge, candour, and judgment, that we are sure our 'Spaniards fled, or surrendered themselves prisoners:
Readers Will approve of further Extrads from a The Duke of Dalmatia then advanced on this road to
Work distinguished by such judicious criticism. Leon ; which city, instead of making the obstinate
" The British army was at length assembled, on deft:nee that was expected, opened its gates at
the 20th December, at Majorga, and mustered about once to the enemy, and furnished them with as
'23,000 infantry, and 2,300 Cavalry ; the latter many iations as they required:"
being in advance within a few miles of Saliagun, " Now we know that partof our own army forded
where about 700 of theenemy's cavalry Were peter]. the Esla, at Valencia ; and that part of the French
Lord Paget attempted to surprize and carry off this cavalry forded it even at, Benevente; wherefore, as
corps, and though his complete sueccs was pre rivers'are usually shallowest near their source, and
vented by an accident, he dispersed theen and brought as Mansilla is considerably higher up the stream than
off 157 prisoners. On the 21st, the army arrived Valentia, we think that the evidence of the- Spanish
at Sahagun ; and on the two following days every General; who had seen this bridge, and affirmed
preparation was completed for the attempt of the that nothing 'cot4cl be gained by its destruction, is
enemy at Carrion and Saldanha. The Marquis of better than that of Mr: Moore, who -probably has
Romana was on the 23d at, Mansilla with also= , not seen it. .
7,000 infantry, 120 horse, and 8 pieces of'artilley, Further, the Spanish General had been told by
expecting dire&ions for the combined attack ; -the ' Sir'-John Moore, in his very last letter to Benevente,
British army was actually in motion at eight o'clock "My opinion is, that' a battle is. Buonaparte's
in the evening ;
shut about ten, they were' ordered game, not ours. We should, if followed, take 'de-
to return into their former cantonments. This was teasive positions in the mountains, .wheredtia caval-
in consequence of information received from the ry can be of no use to him, &c.--In short, the game.
Margnii. of Romana, and through other channels, of Spain and of England,
.which MOM always be the
that Soult had just been joined by a large reinforce- same, is to procrastinate and gain time, and net, if
ment ; that the French armies had been suddenly it can be helped, to place the.whole stake upon the
halted on their march' towards the south ; that hazardaof a battle."
Buouaparte was advancing from-Nladri,i.. Sirelohn, • ""Now it is not proved that it was ea,leis for
eherefote,lUit -no titriC in beginning' his retreat, and the Marquis de la Romana, with 5000 halt-armed
t

Spaniards, two howitzers, and eight fell-pieces, to
proteel Leon against Soult's army, six or seven times
more numerous than his own, than for Sir John
I\loorc, with ,(25,000 British, to grated Benevente
or Astorga against two or three times his numbers.
Romana, deprived of every resource but his own
cour,ge, " has procrastinated and gained time," and
defended himself in mountaio-passes, and played the
game of Spain." ,How the game of England was
played remains to be seen.
" The appearance, says Mr. Moore, of this
(the Spanish) army was extremely melancholy : it
was ill-armed, wretchedly clothed, and-very sickly.
But no reproach ought to be thrown upon these
troops for the little resistance they made : their na-
tive courage is undoubted; and they endured the
most cruel privation's with the utmost patience. But
their deplorable, almost famished condition, and the
total want of officers, would have disheartened the
bravest people. Astorga was one of the depots
which had been formed for warlike stores, .iwith the
view of offensive operations in conjunation. with the
Soaoish amnies ; which Rave an opportunityfOf sup-
plying the Marquis's troops with muskets, and as
much ammunition as they could carry off. The rest
was necessarily •destroyed. The corps under Sir D.
Baird had brought their camp-equipage from Corunna
to Astorga, and had deposited it there. But this was no
country for such con veniencies : there were no means
of removing it, and the whole was ordered to be
consumed. Many Officers had brOught along with
them a considerable quantity of baggage, and the
oVerloaded mules fell behind. But the General
would not suffer a soldier to be detained by the bag-
gage; and gave stria orders, that every horse or
mule that could not ,keep up with the columns,
should be abandoned.".

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