Star.
London, England, 1812-10-24 00:00:00

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• * Letters from that busy scene.draigtkot, the Iseigh;.
bourhood of Burgos, say 1" *hen- we came tip,.
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It was fully expected in the army that We. were
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continue our course after the enemy and see t :
fairly in their own Country ; and there is not an 0 . -:
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cer of this division who did not isile to se* the Py-
refinear but, like what We were, you :are a., great
dal too sanguine in England in ybur expectation'; of
us. I fear that every thins is done that will be done
this season. We have met a most effectnii Check
here : the eighteen hundred inea in this Castle of
Burgos deride our efforts ; and we have come here
without the means of taking the ...2sile. Engineering
and castle-taking ate not our forte; and in three of
the four attempts Which we made, We ha4e com-
pletely failed. SOUL? tvarify keeps his ground in
the Centre of the kingdom; and if tlm Marquise of
ivall.niorom cannot bring down this ;part of the
army, Sour!. will Maintain himself against Hiu..
.All chi' spay appear stiinge if not unaccountable to
ion in England ; particularly. when. you Sit down
and calculate the number of the- French armies com-
pared with thOse,Of the British, which, united to the. It
Allies the Spanish and Portuguese, appear extremely
formidable. There lies the mystery: The Portu-
rese, mingled with bur troops or supported by them,
do admirably well; but indeed I cannot say so much
of our other allies.. We have 13,000 of them here ;
but althetigh various plans have been adopted, and
though none of our attempts have been successful
against' the Castle of Burgos, the MarqUis of WEL-
LIEOTON has never thought of emplciying any part of
CAStANOPS army Against- that fortress.
. . ~ At Madrid, the numbers of Don CARLO'S' army
ste ii-ow very , formidable ; and MINA, EL MEDICO,
Lopes, and a &son of other Guerilla leaders, have
each their armies, but' we hear of no general junc-
tion of the Spanith irmt in the centre with General
•Hiti, who is now joined by the force from Cadiz.
I sai we hear of nb general junction bf this kind ;
or of General lin.L'i attacking SCULL With this
number he could givaity Outnumber him ; if the
troops are good, he ought to annihilate Sours—and
might, thefeafter, with ,ease, attack SUCHET and
Josent, whci would then be in a most perilous titna-
,tion, having Generals MAITLAND and Ross in hit
.44 with 22,000 fresh troops. All this might be
•eiteseif things were as they ought to be, and if the
)palish troops Were asgood and as staunch is the
came ai mina

But again :--even witheiii the SPiittish troopi,
and With only the handful of British -soldiers (and
they are nothing but a handful) in this AountrY, it
the energies of the people were alive--if they felt for
their cause as the people of England, Scotland, and
Ireland, would ftel with an invader in their country,
who had come ireadieroitsly into it, seized oh their
:prope*ti, carried on. a constant state of depredation,
not unfreefbehtly ravishing their wcrxnen, and taut:
Bering their Children—we would soon drive. every
Frenchman out of Spain. I know facts On this slits-
ject that Would hardly be believed by those who did:
*not IthoW Me. In their recent retreat thruugh this un
happy country the french have committed nuntherleis
enoinsitiel and atrocities on the very peOple
',both they lived dining the last four yeiri. After a:
complete plunder, before leaving the village; I know
that in several instances, just before their departure,
they ravished, publicly, every woman in the place,
bid and young, and, as I have heard, more from the
drollery thin the pleashre, as they boast of their
&As: Yet with all these evils heaped upoti this
wretched Country, there is none of the indignation
that Might be expected, no rising it man the
Spaniards, in reality, diarist our power to sive
them! they think that the French under Bonat.airrit
Will come back, and that We Must retire:
Iridependehtly of all theie drawbacks, we are
grievously disappointed at the small efforts' made its
England to renforce us. tlad you sent one teh or
twelve thousand men immediately after the glorious
battle of Salamanca, and thereby enabled our great
leaciet to have followed up his bIOW, not a French.
man woindshave remained in Spain, and we might
have retired thin the Peninsula. NoW, lam afraid
that that even this force would come too lite : the Freneh
have received reinforeementi. Yohr 1508 Gtrlirdf
.and twelve troops of horse wdlda nothing. They
will not make up a sixth pan of our loud since the
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• etterfrom Madrid• of the 29th uIG we leant
that on . P
...AVARRO SANDOVAL was. banged, on
the 28th, n the Great Square of that city, in pursu-
ance of ate sentence pf a Court Martial, having been
detected, in the habit of a priest, with false passports,
tind a letter from Marshal Sotnir to JosrPie.
By letters from illcaras, of tht 29th ult..wc learn,
that during the whole of the Usurper's match to Va-
lencia, the desertion of his troops was very consiciera-
aniounting to some thousands of Germans and .lu-
ranaentados, and would have been much greater, had
'not the villages they passed through been forsaken,
and had they not been afraid of being attacked in
the fields. Even among the Spanish agents who ac.
companied him, there were some who preferred suf.:
fering the punishment due to their treason, and left
sus intruder.

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