The Sun.
London, England, 1809-01-23 00:00:00

TWENTY.THIRD BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OF
SPAIN.

BENEVgNTE, JAN. I.—The • Duke 'of 'Dalmatia.
arrived on the .30th December at Mancifla, where
was the left pt the enemy, consisting of the Spa-
niards under General llumAn. a. Gen. FICANORSCHL
overthrew, them in a single charge—killed a great
number, took two standards, and made 'prisoners a
COlonel, two Lidatenatit-Colonels, 50 Officers, arid.
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Ott the 31st the'Duke of 'Dalmatia entered Leorr,!.
where he found 000 sick. RostANA has succeeded,.
.BLAKe in the cummand after the battle of Espinosav,l.
The remains of that veiny which, while before ND.
boa, .consisted of 50,000 men, were reduced to a 1...,
most bow at Mantilla. These wretches, without
clUutlat, and oppreSsed with every misery, filled the
hospitals. •
The English are held in detestation by these troops,
whom they despise, and by the peaceable inhabi-
tams, whom they abuse, and , whose substance they
`devour, in order to Support their own artn.y.
The mind of the people of the Kingdom of Leon
is much changed. They loudly cry 'Out, for peace
and. their King; they curse the English andApjFiii
fallacious insinuations. They reproach them,, with
being the cause of the shedding of'Spinish bleod,in
order to feed the English monopoly and perpetuate
the war on'the Continent. The perfidy of England
and her motivotate now obvious to the meanest and
most illiterate Spanish 'peasant. They know what
+f hey sutler : and ,the authors of their sufferings ate
before their eyes.
Meantime the English retreat with the utmost
haste, pursued. by the Duke of 'lstria, with 9000 ca-
valry. Among the magaiines which:they burnt at
Begevento were, independent of tents, 4000 blankets,
and It great quantity • of, rum. We picked up up-
wards of 200 waggons 'of baggage and ammunition,,
left on the road from BClleVtisitt, ,to. .Astorga., Thw
shattered remains 01 IS.,)NIANA's army threw them
selves `into the latter town, and increased the con-

lion

fusion.
• The events of the English Expedition to Spain
must furnish materials for a tine opening Speech to
the English Parliatnent. Tile English nation meat
be informed, 'thee her army reMained three mooths
in a state of inaction, while it was in thefr power to
assist the Spaniards ; that its leaders, those whose
orders they executed, hat e be.en guilty of the ex-
treme folly of making a movement for Ward after the
Spanish armies had been destroyed; that, in a word,
it entered upon the new year by running 11W11,,,,
pursued by an enemy, whotu it did not dare to tiOt,l
and by the curses of those Wilolll it had stirred. u.p.,•0;
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resistance, and. whom it %CIS its duty
to support. 7-
Such enterprises and such r.;sults L. 7411 !wrong only toi
a country that has rso government. rox, ,ur even!
Prrr, would not have beam guilty of such bluottets
To contend against France by land, who has one bun 7
-tired thousand cavalry, • 50,t)n0 [torso for all sorts
of noitary toipatent, pnd nine hundred thousand
infantry, were, on the part of England, carrying folly
to the uttnust extrebie ; it betrays indeed agreedineis
fur disgrace it is, in five, to administer thei affairs of
England just as the Gibillet of the Thuilleriesicould
wish. them to be administered. It betrays no small
igooftince Id Spain, to h4V.e imagined
.that a 'y
impoitance could be, attached to popular' :COL
.motion, or to indulge the smallest hope aline y
. .
kindling its that country the flames of Sediti
such a *contlagratiOn could be 'attended withAni• :
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sided result or any material duration. A 'levy itt a-
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ticul .13iiests are quite stitficient to composeaniff'pro
pagate libels, to cairy a momentary dis Order into the
minds of men ; but something else is leituircd to
cause frnation to rise to 'arms. At the time of the
French Revelation, it rel mired *bleu yeuni suul the
presence of the Convention to prepare the means of
military successes; And who; that does, not knovi
to what hazards ii'rance was nevertheldss exposed;
Prance was, .however, stirred. up:. Supported by
the LIMIUIIIIOUS resolution to reassert riglAs L etch
she had, been deprit'ed in times ,of'Obicluit
. In Spain it was kiew men who stirred up the
ple in order to preserve the exelOsive prissetsio "t rift
rights odious to the people. I'hose who fmt
tho,lnquisitiot?, forqw Vilincit4cans, anti J0i7.1
rights, might be animated._ by an ardent zeal for

their perbotial iiiterests, :but could never ininse into
a whole millet) a firm resolve or a permanent opi-
nlyn, of 'Ole Englibli, feudal rights.? the
Fraueiseans, .and the Influisitioo, have no longer
any eminence in Spain.

After the Capture iit".llps`as,; Qeneral Govvrom
SINT.CI it shaped 4is tilarch itipinst P4reeloua4 at
tho lead of the 7th 'corps. Hl3 uiverst.ql every thing
that he fouti4 bvfore that plat and formed a junc.

dill General DunEs:a. That juntilon brought

"liii-a my to 40,000 men.
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" '4l eDukes of Taavrso and AIIRANTES have ca •
qii‘ti iat the outworks at Saragossa. The General of-
'lltngeekAtt..,l.4cotrr, is preparing the
14 possession of that city without any loss.
Jim King of Spain is gone to Aranjuez, in order
to' review the first carps, commanded means of get-
by the Duke
of Ilau.tiso. . .' -

TWENTY.FOURTH BULLETIN of the,*ftiVlY of

SPAIN.

ASTattOA,JA:: s,sai;eror Arrived ham'
on Siae Est. 'The mad liinil-Zeneinen-itt to Astorga
is covered with dead torsesOelonging to the English,
with travelling carriages;,artillery,caissons, and war-
Ike stores. There were "roand st«Astorea, tillt
;;crit-es of sheets, blankets, and the tools and io4/110
isaments.of pioneers.
~an rliCsibfetangaNit's. army, it is reduced
. almost to.
~pnopilog. The small nomber that remain are with
it3b4it pogs, shoes,,p.ty, food, and it is no. longer to
Abc considered. any thing.. •

,The Empererinis charged the Duke of Dniroat:a
.with the glorions tnission of pursuing the Eoglidi to
the place of their etuharkation,,and of driving then)
into the sea, at thnpoint of the sword.
The English willlearn what h'is 'to make an in
considerate movement in preserice of the French,
'army. 'the manner in which they have been.drivch'
from the. Kingdoms ot. Leon and Pallioia, and this.
Alestruflion of a part of their army. will, iio doubt.,
teach them to be more circumspea in their

ions on the Continent,
Alf that remains of the Spanish insurgent troor
ahs been without pay for several months back.

MAILS.
Gotzenburgh.

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