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opportunity tor resting his troops.
There are tew examples of a condttct so incon-
sistent with all the principles of the military art. The
General, who was unable to command his army, dis-
covered himself in the negociations which followed.
squally destitute of political firmness and ability,
Like Sabfnus Titurius, he rushed upon destruction,
entirely from a spirit of infatuation, and suffered him-
pelf to be cl-ceived by the artifices and persuasions of
another Ambiorix. But the Roman soldiers, more for-
tunate then outs, perished with their arms in their
hands. This unexpected intelligence, still more im-
t from the encouragement which it must give
the insurgents, the advices of numerous descents by the
English on the coast of Gallicia, and the excessive heat
ofe season, which checked all the operations which
eirctUnstances might render necessary, induced the
Xing to assemble his troops, and to place them in a
cooler climate than that of New Castile, and in a si-
tuation which presents a milder atmosphere and better
abater. The King left Madrid on the Ist of August,
end the whole army went into cooler cantonments.
" So late as the 20th of August the insurgents had
:tot entered Madrid. They appear to be in a state of
compleat confusion and dissension. On the 22d the
Eing was at Burgos, and parties sent out to the dis-
tance of from fifteen to twenty miles could procure
no intelligence of the enemy.
" Every intelligent person sees with regret, that
Inland has obtained the melancholy advantage of
exciting among the Spaniards a civil war, of which the
issue is not doubtful. But what influence can the ra-
tional aneenlightened middle class have upon the ig-
ntaant multitude, when led astray by fanaticism, po-
pular prejudices, and foreign corruption ?
a Gen. Duhesme has again entered Barcelona,where
he intends to unite his corps, and to keep that impor-
tant city in check, all the forts of which are in his hands.
The English cruizers having landed some emissa-
ries at Bilboa, the people of that city were weak
enough to keak out into insurrection, in which, how-
ever, the mercantile and respectable classes of the in-
habitants took no part. General Merlin marched
against the place with two squadrons of cavalry, and
two regiments of infantry. He carried two monaste-
ries by storm, disarmed the insurgents, and re-esta-
blished the Government of the province. The loss of
the insurgents amounted to ,CO men. Our's consisted
in only three killed and twelve wounded.
" Such is a correct abstract of the events of the cam-
paign in Spain. There has been no battle, not a single
acticn, in which the courage of our troops was not
displayed to advantage
" Had General Dupont kept his troops united in a
body, he would, without much difficulty, have dis-
persed the insurgents, their army having consisted
only of three divisions, scarcely forming a total of
20,000 men.—The bodies of insurgents scarcely de-
serve to be mentioned in this war. They defended
themselves behind a wall or a house, but could not
maintain themselves in the open fields ; and a single
squadron of cavalry, or a battalion of infantry, is suf-
ficient to put many thousands of them to the route.
"The principal army of the insurgents was that
which Marshal Bessieres annihilated at Medina del
Rio Seco.

" All that the English Papers have published, re-
specting the affairs of Spain, is unfounded and false.
England knows well the part she is acting on this
occasion. She also knows well what she is to expect
from all her efforts. Her only object is to involve
Spain in confusion, that she may thereby make her-
self mistress of such of her possessions as best suit
ber purposes."

THF, EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER. 14.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Corilas, money, 66{1—for ace. 663 67-omnituti x di&
Each. Bills sc. pre.

The Matchless schooner, Capt. REILLY, in four
days from Corunna, arrived at Plymouth on Monday
evening. She has brought the same report that was
received by the last arrival from the North of Spain
JuNor has surrendered, and that Lisbon and
the Russian fleet are in the possession of the British ;
but whether resting or official authority our Cones.
pbndent had not time to ascertain, as the mail was
on the point of setting off.

Last night we received French journals to the 7th
and Dutch to the 11th inst. Among the former is
a Monittur of the ith, from the contents of which,
given in the preceding columns, it appears, that the
Exfiosi published in the Official paper of the 29th
ult. in the form of Notes upon remarks published in
the STAR of the Bth August, was merely a Prologue
to the details now given of the disgraces and discom-
fitares experienced by the French armies in Spain.

Of all the diatribes which we have ever seen in the
Moniteur, this is the poorest. The effort to appear
simple and candid is so palpably laboured as to
defeat its own object. The minutia of dates and
trifling particulars betrays the anmiety of the writer
to veil from the view of the Reader the real
features of the contest in which NAPOLEON is now
engaged ; and the sang froid with which the defeat of
DUPONT and his army is ascribed• to misconduct in
that General, is at once base and atrocious. Had
DUPONT seen this production before he wrote to the
Governor of Madrid to hasten his departure, he
would have recollected the fate that befell the Com-
mander of the French fleet, defeated by Lord NELSON,
and probably have requested not to be sent to France.

Can the people of France be soblindasnottoperccive
that where the French troops have been so happy as to
gain innume►arble victories, in quarters J o remote from each
other, the resistance of the people can be nothing less
than general and unanimous? Will they believe, on the
authority of a self contradicting document, that King
JosEpti and the whole French army "left Madrid only
with a view to seek a cooler climate than that of New