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SPAIN AND MOROCCO.

(From the Times' Special Correspondelit.)
GIBRALTAR, DEC. 9.

There being nothing going on in front of Ceuta,
nor likely to be with the weather that prevailed, I
ran over here on the Gth in quest, of some campaign-
ing necessaries. " Ran" is not the word; I should
rather say crept or crawled. You in England, who
see,by the map that Ceuta is only some 15 miles
from Gibraltar, more or less, imagine, I dare say,
that one steps backwards and firwards, as you do
from Dover to Calais. -I beg to undeceive you. There
is very little direct communication between the
Rock and Ceuta. English vessels seldom go, and,
perhaps, would be looked suspiciously upon if their
visits were frequent, owing to the belief in Spain
that England favours Morocco. Spanish vessels go
between Algesiras and Ceuta, and many things
occur to delay their departure. Thus it was that
on the Gth inst. the little Spanish armed steamer
Ceres, by which, through the kindness of the
Governor of Ceuta, I had an order for a passage,
and on board of which I hurried soon after, noon,
lay till nearly 8 p.m., waiting• for the 'commander-
in-chief's despatch. With only an auxiliary screw, it
was 11 before we got to Algesiras, and then my old
friend the Health Committee kept us an hour or two,
so that it was nearly 1 o'clock when we, got ashore.
Algesiyas is only about five miles from Gibraltar,
but the steamer is very capricious in its running;
it is A long way round by the road, and a heavy
boat, finding no wind, was 2i hours ou the voyage.
In short, judging by my own experience, I should
be justified in saying that it takes 24 hours to get
from Ceuta to Gibraltar. Such is not always the
case, but it is likely to occur frequently. During
the seven long hours that the little Ceres was rolling
at her anchor in Ceuta bay we'had the annoyance
of seeing; first heavy black clouds gradually de-
scending and accumulating on the heights where
the Spanish camp is pitched, and then a furious
downpour upon our deck warned us that General
O'Donnell's army was undergoing the impi.easant
process of a drenching. Down it came, almost a
sheet of water, and it must have been " hard lines"
that night for the soldiers in their tontes d'abri,
which have proved, as 'I expected, totally insuffi-
cient as shelter at this season. Marshal O'Donnell
may beat the Moors, although they are not foes to
be despised, but will he succeed in vanquishing
other more formidable opponents—the climate and
weather, exposure, fever, and cholera ? I by no
means wish to paint his prospects in black colours,
but I cannot look upon them as brilliant. Almost
every one I speak to, oven the most sanguine, ex-
presses his regret that the expedition was under-
taken so soon. • It was really hardly worth while,
in order to flash off a little powder and drive away
a few Moors on the Queen's Saint's-day, to, begin
before all WAS prepared. The French, experienced
though they are '.in African warfare—or perhaps
because they are so experienced—would certainly'
not have commenced with so little preparation. A
vast deal remains to be organised, and some of the
most indispensable things appear to be wanting, or
at least not to be forthcoming at the right moment.
Thus, in the little action, or rather skirmish, of
the 30th ult., I saw most 'of the wounded being
carried down in blankets, instead of stretchers.
The ground to be gone over was in great •part
very rough and declivitous, the bearers wore
slipping about, and every now and then had to
deposit their uneasy burden, in order appa-
rently to rest and get a better grip. Fancy
the misery to the wounded men. Now, on that
day there were only a few scores of men so seriously
hurt as to require carrying. A great many of the
slightly wounded walked in, with or without the
aid of a comrade. Then there is not, or was not
very lately, an advanced hospital or ambulance to
send the wounded to for a first dressing. They
have all to be carried into Ceuta. We must pre-
sume that better measures will have been taken be-
fore the campaign seriously begins, and that various
departments will have received organization and
supplies which now appear deficient in both. And
the friends, not only of the Spaniards but of the
most common humanity, must desire that the wea-'
ther may soon mend, so as to permit the removal
of the army from their present station, where
they cannot but sicken and die at this sea-
son of the year, and with the exposure they under-
go to rain and cold. Indeed, if the bad weather
lasts the position of the Spanish General will be a
highly difficult one. Without an improvement of
a most decided nature he can hardly, one would
think, attempt a serious movement. He must
maintain his position before Ceuta, and the army
will assuredly dwindle away rapidly from sickness.
Were Ceuta a larger place, his wisest plan would,
perhaps, be to go into winter quarters there, and
wait a more favourable season for the campaign.
But to cram his army and its followers into so
small a town would be an invitation to disease. As
to remaining where he is, to do so much longer
would be to dispirit and seriously weaken his army,
whose health it is impossible to deny is already by
no means good. Cholera, the offspring of misery
and apprehension, is in its ranks, and if, as I was
lately assured, it is by no means of the most malig-
nant kind, on the other hand the cases are too nu-
merous not to inspire uneasiness. Such, at least,
was the state of things according to accounts I re-
ceived at the moment of my departure from Ceuta,
and from officers whom I met on the passage.
How far it may since have been aggravated by
the continued bad weather I, of course, can only
conjecture. Take 20,000 young men, who, although
most of them from the lower classes of society,
have always been accustomed to sleep with roofs
over their heads, and place them suddenly
upon a series of clay ridges with the sea on one
side and a chain of mountains on the other, in the
winter season, when violent winds prevail and
heavy rains frequently fall—pack every three of
them under a tente d'abri, into which the water
flows, and through which the wind whistles ; keep
them there night after night and week after week,
with open air sentry duty for the chief variation of
their monotonous life, and then wonder if they
sicken• and crowd the hospital. " To lie under
those tents and in the open air is the same thing
when it rains," a regimental officer said to me the
other day; " you get as wet in the tent as outside
it." The fortunate few, the superior officers, staff,
&c., who have money, and many servants, of course

make themselves comparatively comfortable, hut
the bulk of the army must aSsuredly endure a great
Leal in its camp in front of Ceuta. And, notwith-
standing the high-sounding notes of enthusiasm
and the promises of brilliant triumphs of which
some of the Madrid papers are so lavish, I can po-
sitively assure you that there are not a few who
begin to cool upon the enterprise, in consequence
of difficulties and hardships they had not antici.:
pated, and that some who wexe most eager to get
to Africa would now be just as glad to get back to
Spain.
At Malaga three weeks ago I heard an opinion
expressed by some of the chiefs of that corps d'annee
that the season chosen fin' this campaign was a pro-
pitidus one, the soldier not having to fear heat. It
is rathe.r.singular that the Spaniards, who live so
near to Africa, should have been so ignorant of its
winter climate, should not hare been aware that
December in Northern Morocco is a month of
storm and tempest, when violent winds often render
the Straits unnavigable. Supposing O'Donnell's
army marches to Tetuan, beats the Moorish force,
that will doubtless give it battle on the road ; takes

the place, and establishes itself there ; if a Levanter
conies on to blow—and I have been assured by Eng-
' lisli naval officers well•acquainted with these seas,
that they sometimes prevail for weeks together,
and not 'a ship can remain on that coast—all
the suPpliei'd the army will have to be sent from
Ceuta, Seven leagues] over a roadless country,
with an . enemy on your flank. Why, at
Balaklava we had but six miles, and everybody
knows 'the work it was to get up the necessary
stores until the roads were made. Meantime the
Moors; snug in their towns and villages, assemble
where they please, without fear of attack or sur-
prise from an army that cannot, under present cir-
cumstances, venture far from the coast, and quietly
watch their opportunity, while small bodies,: and.
even the armed villagers, suffice to molest and
harass the Spaniards, and keep them on a fatiguing
qui vive. The expedition will be of great cost, and
cannot be of large profit. It has been gone into
with undue haste, and I hope, for the sake of many
good friends in the Spanish camp, that it may not
be repented at leisure."
I found Gibraltar full of most astounding "shaves" .
concerning what was going on at Ceuta. There is
some individual of a very inquiring turn of mind,
who sits up on the top of the rock with a telescope,
and the things he thence descries are truly wonder-
ful. Half Gibraltar believed, apparently on his re-
port, that the Spaniards had suffered a great reverse,
had been driven into Ceuta or into the sea ; hai
lost guns, and colours, and reputation. Another tale
was—but I believe that was brought by some mer-
chant captain from Barbary—that there had been
a severe action on the 2d inst. As to the cannon-
ades that have been heard, they are simply innumer•
able. And even when you come from the spot where
all these marvels are alleged to have taken place,
and assure the Gibraltarines of their being pure
inventions, many of them look at you doubtfully,
not to say suspiciously, so strong a hold has the
fiction taken of their credulity. I presume the
Moors have their own way of relating the inci-

dents of the war, and their version of them may

easily arrive here by vessels coming from Moorish

portg, That accounts differing from the truth,

and less unfavourable to the Moors than the glow-

ing Spanish narratives of recent skirmishes, should

prevail here, will doubtless be taken by the Spani-
ards as freA proof of English sympathy- with Mo-
rocco, just as the Gibraltar Chronicle, which b

in the habit of publishing, to the best of its infor
mation, both sides of the question, has been nick-
named by a Madrid journal " the semi-official
Gazette of the Emperor of Morocco." For truth's

sake, and to set the matter at rest, I may here

broadly state that in all the affairs that havo as yet

taken place (those of the 25th and 30th of Novem-
ber, and two or three smallerskirmishes) the advant-
age has remained with the Spaniards. On the 25th
the Moors were very daring, and appear to have
pressed them hard, and to have made desperate
attempts upon their guns, but they were finally
routed with, as I am assured, and have no reason
to doubt, very considerable loss, that of the
Spaniards being, I believe, somewhere about 400
killed and wounded: Now, as to the tales one also
hears in Gibraltar of the slaughter of thousands of
Moors, and which I suppose are intended as a set-
off to the fables unfavourable to the Spaniards,
they are scarcely worth alluding to. There have
been no battles yet, consequently no such slaughter.
There have been skirmishes, one of which may be
said to have assumed the proportions of a com-
bat or little action. The aggression has been for
the most part on the side of the Moors. The
Spaniards, in fact, may be considered to be at
present standing on the defensive, waiting until
circumstances permit them to prosecute the offen-
sive purpose with which they have come to Africa.

If from Coda we are able to contradict the false
reports that may obtain currency in Gibraltar re-
specting the Spanish army, on the other hand we
know little there about the proceedings of the Moors,
with the exception of those in our front and just
around us, and we have rather to look hither for
such information. According to the reports current
on the Rock, the Moors muster in great force and
are eager tc do battle with the infidel. The sum-
mons of the Emperor of Morocco, the appeal to re-
ligious fanaticism, and the increase of pay have all
had their effect, and there can be no question that
the forces which will be opposed to the Spaniards are,
numerically, enormously superior to them. Ido not
vouch for the accuracy of the figures, but I am told
of upwards of 100,000 foot and 30,000 horse. This
does not seem improbable in a warlike population,
nor would it surprise me to hear of even larger
numbers. Persons who have been lately and fre-
quently in Morocco express their conviction that the
Moors will fight desperately under the influence
of fanaticism, and of that utter contempt of death
which is one of their well-known characteristics.
With regard to the armament and equipment of
the bulk of their army, it is difficult to obtain posi-
tive information. The chief arm both of infantry
and cavalry seems to be the espingarda, or long
musket, of which some handsome specimens have
already been taken, and are now in the Spanish
camp: An English officer lately in Morocco, fetch-
ing away British subjects, tells me he saw some of
their cavalry with bayonets fixed to the end of their
guns, which thus are converted into lances of con-
siderable length. The same authority, which I con-
sider a good one, expressed confidence in the bra-
very of the Moors, but said that good European
infantry ought to march through them in the
plains, both horse and foot. The question is, whe-
ther the Spanish infantry will prove good enough
to do this ; whether those youngsoldiers have nerve
and resolution sufficient to withstand without flinch-
ing or confusion the fierce onset of those wild des-
peradoes of the desert, and to receive them with a
close fire and a firm, unbroken line of bayonets.
A fresh east wind is blowing in the Straits, and,
according to all appearances, the weather on the
other side continues bad.

The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 10th inst. pub-
lishes the following despatch from the Moorish
Minister for Foreign Affairs, which has been trans-
mitted for publication to various English and
foreign journals
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"COPY OP A DESPATCH FROM THE MOORISH MINISTER
SIDI MOHAMED EL KATIE TO HER BRITANNIC MA-
JESTY'S CHARGE D'AFFAIRES IN MOROCCO.

" Praise to the only God I There is no power or strength

but in God I

"To OUR ILLUSTRIOUS AND TALENTED FRIEND JOHN
HAY DRUMMOND HAY, ESQ., C. 8., HER BRITANNIC
MAJESTY'S CHARGE D'AFFAIRES AND
.CONSUL
GENERAL.
" We pray the Omnipotent for his welfare.

" We beg to inform you that we have received a printed
copy of a letter addressed by the Spanish Minister to the
Representatives of the Foreign Powers at the Spanish
Court, dated the 29th of October last, in which mention is