The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-06 00:00:00

At Ciudad Rodrigo there was a great deal of
bustle ; a great many sick and wounded soldiers,
their bandages and clothes still bloody ; every
thing seemed in motion. A Spanish regiment
,was mounting guard, officers and orderly dra-
goons arriving and departing in all directions,—
everybody seemed to have something to do and
was in a hurry. At last we met Lieutenant
Robe of the Horse Artillery, who told us that
the siege of Burgos was raised, and that the
army.was retreating as fast as it could ; also,
that his father, Colonel Robe, was badly wounded,
and on his way to Lisbon for England. We
waited on the Colonel,. who had -been hit near
the-knee by a grape shot, of which he never re-
covered, but lingered, suffering great pain, for
some years. His son was killed-- at Waterloo,
after behaving most gallantly ; he was a most
promisin,, officer. We stopped that night at
Ciudad Rodrigo, and went on next morning, but
every thing was in confusion; we could get no
quarters or any thing to eat ; the reads were
strewed with sick and wounded. Not being at-
tached, we were, in a great measure, our own
masters, so halted to rest, as we found it of no use
to go any farther, and saw the army pass us.
Such a set of scarecrows was never seen ; it was
difficult to say what they were, as the men's
coats were patched With grey ; some had blankets
over them, and most of them were barefoot ;
every step they took was up to the knees in
mud ; women and sick men were actually stick-
ing in it ; if a horse, mule, or donkey stumbled,
there the poor starved (I was going to say half-
starved) creature fell, stuck fast, and, the baggage
had to be abandoned. A brigade of artillery
that had just come from England was, with ca-
valry and light troops, covering the rear. This •
brigade had left Lisbon but a short time before,
and was in high order ; the clothing of the men
scarce soiled, and the horses sleek and fat made
a strange contrast with the others, especially the
company of artillery that had served in the bat-
teries before Burgos. 'We at first took the
latter for prisoners, as they were mostly in French
clothing, many of them riding on the carriages,
sick and wounded, drawn some by oxen and
some by mules and horses. I never saw British
soldiers in such a state. Our Lisbon party
here broke up ; I having gOt through my pro-
visions, and being without quarters, not being
yet attached, thought it best -to go where I could
get- something -to eat, so returned to Cuidad
Rodrigo ; to do this I had to pass over the most
shgclung 'roads ; they were in a much worse
state than when I had passed over them a few
days before, and the number of dead men and
animals that now lay by the road-side was shock-
ing. I heard my name called from the ditch,
and ruoking .round I saw an officer lying on the
road-side, who had been a cadet a few years
before-at Marlow. Some ammunition-carriages
going by at the time, I got him placed on one
of Mein ; he died that evening, and I buried
him soon after, digging the grate myself, with
the assistance of one man only ; the ceremony
was not long, nor the mourners many. I cannot
now recollect his name. It had been " raining
all this time, and I had nothing to eat except
the nuts I gathered on the road side, which I
shared with my horse, as he was nearly as badly
off as myself, the grass and everything that he
I could have eaten had been destroyed by the
I numbers that had gone. on before. We came
f
small • commissariat station, where I fully ex-
to a place which a ew days before had been a
pected something, but the commissaries were
off; and had biunt some biscuit. Soule sol-
diers scrambling for what • they could get, I
joined them, and succeeded in getting out half a
biscuit,- only a little burnt, which was the only
regular food I had tasted for two days. That
afternoon my servant found me out ; we had
separated in the bustle ; he told me he had got
a ration of beef and bread fir us both, which
we eat with great gusto, though we hardly
waited to warm it. I soon arrived at Ciudad
Rodrigo, where I drew proper rations, though
given very stingily, and went on towards Al-
meida. On my way I passed a division of the
sick from Salamanca hospital. Many of them
were in carts drawn by oxen, jolting over rough
roads, the poor fellows in them screaming at
every jolt ; such as were able were obliged to
walk, some with their hands bandaged up,
others with arms in slings, many fainting by the
way, exhausted and lying down to die. I re-
member two Portuguese soldiers leaning against
the same tree : one of them looked so miserably
at me that! I got off my horse to give him some
ruin ott
pointed to the other man, who I sup-
io : his brother, from what I could un-
derstand, dt sup-
posed
r nN.at s
of my canteen : he muttered some-
thing
and
was already dead in a sitting pos-
e. t a ,he
returnedl to the first, but before I could
offers my
canteen he fell down by the tree dead.
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United Service Journal.

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toUe,
o'clock,
a tit of jealousy at the supposed infidelity of her husband,
threw herself head foremost into the water-butt in the
Back yard. No person saw her do this, and she would
have inevitably perished but that one of the lodgers,
having occasion to go out into the yard, discovered her
and gave an alarm, when sic was got out in an appa-
rentlylifeless state; but, by great exertion, she was at
engtla recoverel The young woman is only 19 years of
to and is remarkably handsome, and most ardently at-
to her husband, has just returned from China; tached
but her mind had been wrought upon by some pretended
friend, who gratuitously informed her of her husband's
alleged incontinency, and having worked herself up to a
pitch of frenzy, she left her infant child sleeping on the
carpet, ran down stairs, and made this attempt upon her
life. She is now doing well.

An inquisition was taken on Monday before
mr. BAKER, on the body of a girl named AMELIA BATES,
eierato years of age, who had diet through eating a poison-
ous berh, cdied monk's hood. It appeared that the de-
ceased wasin the service of Mr. SNIITII, the Deputy Super-
intendent of the East India Company's alms-houses at Pop-
lar, and that she was in the habit of eating herbs and buds
of trees out of the garden, stating that they made her "as
merry and as tipsey as beer used to make her father in the
country." A surgeon who examined the body stated, that
he found in the stomach, with some undigested food, a
quantity of the herb known by the name of "Honk's.
hood. It was of a poisonous and deadly nature, and was
evidently the cause of the death of the deceased. It pro-
duced no pain or sickness, but it produced the appearance
of intoxication. The Jury expressed an opinion that the
deceased did nut use the monk's-hood will the view of
destroying her life, but merely to produce those sensations
which she had desm ibed ; and they returned a verttiet ac-
xordinglY• •