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5, My anxiety was ftiriher increased ,by the dis-
patches which Mr. Krere had been so attentive as to
address to me durnig my detention at Cadiz, and on
my journey to Set iile and,the reply of Sir Arthwr
Wellesley to my letter of the 31st July, exhibited the
most afflicting %iews of the condition of the British
army in Spain.
6. Mr. Vreie informs me, .that he has transmitted,
in duplicate, to ):ortthe copies of the dispatches which
he addressed to me. I have, therefore, thought it
sufficient to refer to their dates in the-margin ot; this
dispatch.
. .
7. I inclose copies of Sir Arthur Wellesley's dis-
patches from the Bth to the 12th of August inclusive,
with a copy of- a letter which I forwarded to that
Officer by a courier on the t 3th inst. and another,
marked(4.) forwarded under the care of Lie.ote-
nant-Colonel Doyle and Major Armstrong. I shall
hive occasion AO-req. ui-styour attention to Many parts.
'of thig corr. spondence ; but its most important
and prominent feat'urc is the' severe distress of the
British army, arising from the defect Of its supplies
and means of mo%:ement.

• .
Sir Arthur Wellesley's letter of the sth inst.
reached me on the Itth in 'the morning, as I a•p.
-mooched
.to the city of ; ant although M.
' De Garay informed' me that the Supre... e -Junta
could not grant me an audience during Celt night,
and had fornedly fixed the t 3ifi lust. !Or the de!ivery
of my letters of credence, the urgency of the occa-
sion appeared to me to requ re an immediateap-
plication to' the Government. Undervthis itnpres,ion,
I entered folly into the discus-ion of
.the..'sitstation
and wants of the army, in ruy•conference with M.
De Garay op -the night of the t t the On' the t 2th I
presented the official Note, ofiwhiCh I haVe the ho-
nour to inclose a ,copy, and on the same ni,o;liti•re-
ceived the answer of which a translation: is. also in-
closed. •
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9. The dispatches which you will receive from Mr.
Frere will apprise you of the circumstances which
compelled the British army to retire toa defensivepo-
sitioti behind the Tagus. Sir Arthur Wellesley, in his
letter to me of the Bth inst. (No. 1.) refers to his
dispatch, addressed to Cord Castlereagh, uhder date
the Bth of August,• for a full ex. lanution of that
movement. He then proceeds to state the necessity
'that the Spanish forces, stationed in the Northern,'
Provinces of Spain, should he brongbkinto action,:
for the purpose of drawing the attentiorof the ene7
.my to that quarter, and relieving Estremadura from
the prossure of: the concentrated.:French,:-armies,
which' had been brought into combination against
the allied forces of his Maiesiy and of Spain, on the
banks of the Tagus. In the same letter. Sir Arthur
Wellesley represents, in the strongest tern's, the
necessity of forming magazines- .of provisions and
forage in the rear of the armies,. and also of provid-
ing mules and otlier means of transport for the pur-
pose of securing_ the supply and -movement-of
,the
troops, This letter also recommends -severallim-
provernents of a less pressing oaturq,/for the regula-
tion of the Spanish tro.ops,: and states the outline of-
a defensive system of war for the adoptiCi) of the.
Spanish Government.
fo. The matte's of the most pressing exigency,
contained in this letter, formed the substance of my
note of the tith instant to M. De Garay, and from
'the answer. you will perceive With satistaclion, that
immediate attention was paid to my representation.
I have reason to believe' that. great exettion,hasheen
made by this Government for the purpose. of .giving
spee.ty of ea t..; the plan which I proposed; and
that 1 shall be permitted. to superintend the comple-
tion of the several details necessary to, the con).
rnencement 'of an improved system of supply and
movement for the troops in the field. But the im-
poverished state of the country, the Weakness of the
Government, and the inveterate defects of the mili-
tary department in Spain, render any speedy im-
provement impraElicable, and induce me to 'appre-
hend great difficAlty, even in the ultiMate success of
any plan which can'now be suggested:
i. i. In Sir A. Wellesley's letter, 'N o.' 2, of' the
same date, received also on the 3 ith, the &scrip,:
tion of the distress of the army occasioned by the
want of provisions is in the highest degree aflli6ting.
Sir Arthur Wellesley concludes this letter by stating
th.tt he must render justice to Mr,,Erere in 'declar-
..

G. The last letter - from Sir Arthur Wellesley is
dated on the morning of the 12th . from. Jara;cejo,—
The French troops had. then reciosse4 the Tagus,
.excepting rho-e,,4 hich remained immediately at the
bridge of Arzobispo. On the.gth, loth, and t t rhi
large columns of the French were*.seen in motion
towards Placentia; from which movement Sii,Arthur,
Wellesley concluded, that the enemy was appre-
hensive either of the Duque del Parque's :troops, or
thoSe of General Berea,* in the. mountains of Ba,,
nos and perales,-or.that the enemy intended to in-
vade Portugal. Sir Arthur Wellesley expected ti)
ascertain their position in tbe'CourSe of the t 2th in-
stant, .and it they should have moved towards the
frontier of IR,rtugal, he states his intention to fol.=
lok-it them: This_ letter_ concludes in She tbllowiqz
wi.rds:--•-," 1 he experience of every day strews Ire
abSolute nece,sity treat the British army should
draw
,froni tluS country. Ii is useless to complain_;
hut we are certainly not treated as friends, much lss,
the only prop on 'WhiCh the cause of Sp<iin can
depend.., But la: sides this want of good-wid (Which
can easily be traced to 'tile temper. and disprisition of
the General ci,mmanding 'the Span's!' army, and
which ought to be borne with patience, if there was
any hope of doing OW), there is such a *ant of
resourcein be country, and such little exertiim in
:bringing forward what. is t(') be found, that if the
army were to remain' here Much longer it would be
donielotally useless: e-
_Thdaily and increasing loss
of horses in the cavalry and artillery, from a defi-
ciency and the badness of their food is really alarm-
ing, and the Spanish cavalry having begun to intee-
cept the'small supplies of food for horses, which
we could find., this evil must in-Crease."

1.7. From the tenor of these letters I cannot form
any reasonable expeELition, that the system which I
have attempted to pursue for, the relief of 'the wants
ofl the army, can produce any salutary effea in spf-
ficient time to .enable Sir' Arthur WellVey. to re-
sume offensive operations, or even to maintain a de-
fensive position in Spain ai an early period of the
season. •

18. In the meanwhile the greatest alarm has been
excited by the rumour of the proposed return of the
British army into Portugal. This Government appears
not only to contemplate the probability of that event
with terror and despair, to consider it as' the
symptom of a disposition to abandon the -cause of
.Spain, and to relinquish the obligation of our al-
liance.

19. M. de Garay and a deputation from theiunta
have urged me, in.the most pressing manner to use
my influence for the.pl- pose of detaining Sir Ar-
•thur army in Spain, and ofaveiting the
destruEtive consequences which must ensue if the
.French arms should be turned into Andalusia; and
,the Southern ,ProVinces of Spain. But although I'
am deeply sensible of the-urgency of this. crisis,' I
cannot. attempt any other mode of averting 'the
calamity, than the active-employment of the Spanish
troops in the Northern Provinces of Spain, and the
.establishment of
.such regulations as may ultimately
render; the subsistence of ,a British army iii Spain
..praalicable and secure. l'lte-Government of Spain
-cannot reasonably complain .of 'the natural and ne-
cessary result of its own defeaive management, nor -
does any obligation of the alliance require that the
British army. should be sacrificed to the erroneous
policy of weak Administration:, or to the capri-
cious and impratlicable temper of its officers'. The
reduced. state of the resources of the country is per-
-haps to be ascribed to a variety of causes, many of
which are of remote origin, and-of long operation:
But.it is not just to expect that the British trc•ops
should be expo's...id to the destructive et eels of such a
state of ihingsi because the poverty of the country is
not the crime of its present-Government.
20. I am not. yet fiilly acqt:ainted with am original
motives and objects of Sir Arthur expo-

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