The Sun.
London, England, 1809-08-15 00:00:00

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The extreme fatigue of the tioCPs, the Want ot luttniate'd Herti had obtained As glOriouS a viCtory as
Provrsions, and theyumberi of wounded to b 6 taken any recorded in ,the annals cf Britain. We looked
..carq.._''bf;' have prevented' me from moving from My,
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this morning at the Paper alt fled to, eipeCting to
position.
, And some reiriaation of the unirOunded insintia-
- ~Bpigadier-Peneral Craufurd arrived with bis br:-
' lions which had been thrown out against. Sir Art-
gade,on, the 29th. in the morning, having marched
mini VcrEt LEstEt--,-..gom. e ApolOgy for so gross an
`twelve-'Spanish leagues in little more than twenty-
, . . :insult to the public Feeling--some expression of
four lours. ' - 1 . - ,
• contrition for the-past; and some premise of. amend-
Ment•for the future; but. we looked in vain. The
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vietory, indeed, of Sir ARTHUR, could nor be de—
nied; but it was discoiered it was one of thOge,
events which ', confound the calculations of mili7
tary experience, baffle the. expeaations of Profes-,
sidnal sagacity;and renders, the most rational con-

Extradofa letter.frtim Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Wel.
lesley to Lord' -Viscount Castlereagh, dated T4lavera, ist
August, 11809.
When I addressed you this morning, I had not
received the report, from the Outposts. It appears
that the :enemy xVitli,drew the Rear-guard; which
posfed on the heights on the left of the Al-
berche, last night, at eleVen o'clock' and the whole-
army marched toward Santa Olalla, 1 conclude,with
an intention of taking.up a position in the neighbour;•
hood of Guadarama."

elusions of wisdom, fallacious and absurd." That
is to . say,. the viaory of Sir ARTHUR W ELLESLEY
was not foreseen "by the mili!ary experience,. the
professional sagacity, or the wisdom of his calumnia-
tor We believe it; but though the Writer in ques
tion cannot deny the Viaory, he can, with persever-
ing malignity, endeavour to rob the General of the
merit of it. He labours hard to prove that all the
glory belongs to the army, and none to the General
and we are to be told. that 50,000 Frenchfrien were
repulsed by " that very English-army, which its,
al Considered .cas incompetent, four days: before,'
to cope- with 35,000 men. So ihatthe prowess of
Britiih sOldieis is greater than either, their Comman-
der or his antagonist could conceive.".

Wei shall not be suspe&ed of wishing to .deprive
our gallant Troops of any. of that glary wh'ic'h they
bave.so bravely wan,. but we cannot-notice-Without:
indignation thatpitiftil'and personal malignity which
would deprive the General of that shareOf it to which"
he is so justly entitled.—The length of the Gazette
plevents us from pursuing this subjet any farther
at present, but-we'shall revert to it again.

It is no- new thing, that factious Dernagognes
should avail themselves-of public meetings; to mis-
lead the :simple and inflame the ill-disposed ; Or
should endeavour, under professions of disinterested
public spii;t, to make the people instruments to pro-
mote their own selfish views of aggrandisement or
ambition. , So far, therefore, as this Sysietn of-con-

duet was discoverable the proceedings of thegreat
men who took the lead .at, the Hackney Meeting
last week, there was nothing M them. to surprise
any person. of oiclinary observ.ftion. But in some,
respects, the scene displaf.od on that occasion was
Worth 'notice;, as atfording an unusual disclo,ture of
the teel.figs which operate on such occasions. In
a very good account, published many years ago, of
the " Progress of a Petition," we are told, that one.

man signs because he hates the Church ; another,
because he has vowed destruaion to turnpikes; one;
because it will vex the.parson ; another; because he
owes his landlord nothing; one, because_he is rich;
another, because he is poor; one,. to thew that he
Is not afraid ; and another, to "shew that he can
.write. How admirably have Messrs. CARTWRIGHT
and TOWNSEND illustrated this account. The one,.
,it seems, cannot get either 'Ministers or Lords, or:
Commons, to adopt his ,dreams of dotage; or, in
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compliance with his wayward and caprtctons fancy,
at once to destroy the whole'..Vstecn:ol-our national,
defence, and resort to obsolete measures,'very well'
adopted, no doubt, to the times in which they were".
• established, bytrwhich the successive Wisdom and
experience of ages have;- by gradual changes, altered
_to the changing manners and circumitancei of the
country. The Other gentleman, it seems, does not
like to pay hiS Var Son the'Value of his tithes, and
cannot get the parson to accept What 'he thinks
proper to. offer. These, truly., are tremendous
evils ! and what is to be the remedy,?—A Reform
bf Parliament, forsooth. ',The whole establishment
is to be/unsettled; the fabric of the Constitution to
be changed; every thing, in slaort, is' to be thrOwn
into confusion, to procure the chance •of gratifica-
tion ,to the vanity and self-conceit of Mr. CAR'f-
i.VRIGiiT, and to. the interested feelings of Mr. HARE
TOWNSEND. A County Meeting must, be called-r
speeches must be made;—Mr: CARTWRIGHT pro-
claims his superiority over all mankind, as the con-
triver of. plans for national defence ;—Mr. Tow:g
SEND lets the world see how clever and severe a letter
he can write to his titheman ;—and Mr. ByNO, to'
remove, from himself the load of disgrace, and
odium which his trimming, 'tergiversating poli-
tics had brought upon him, excites the clamours
of the mob against an independent. Member of. Par-
liaiflent, who has the honesty and boldness, tore-
fuse to, sit in a deliberative assembly without• the
power of deliberation; and who requires permis-
sion to give his vote 'on questions in Parliathent, in-
the way which his conscientious judgment shall
direa, At the time when those questions shall
be agitated. ..Though the eloquence of. 'CART-
WRIGHT and. of TOWNSEND IS not sufficiently
powerful to prevail on the Nation to adopt the
whimsies of the one, or a parson to be over-reached
by the other, still it has its'power ; it can 'prevail
on those who wish to overthrow the Ministry, and
on those who wish to Subvert the Constitutioh, - to
join n a retitiono wb,,io each of those fn4lions thinks