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MAJORC4I.

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=TRACT OF A LETTIft FROM PALMA, ISLAND ON
MAJORCA, DATED JUNE 10, 1812.
• " We have here a good diviiion, above 5000,
well organised, comprising cavalry (a small propor.
• tion), two troops horse-artillery, one battalion gre-
* uadiers of the best description, 1500 light infantry,
the remainder regiments of the line; a well organised
staff in all its departments, the officers well disposed,
and the whole machine, though not perfect, wants
bat very little. We have been manctuvring in line
with arms some time, but they delayed giving
.us
wren until the last minute, and we are still to receive
2000 recruits, although the formation has been
gun more than i year. -The boasted eaertions.of
new Governor eht of sPain do not reach us, . •
.
F
Island
year,ndnot
ahnarg.yet 'paid the war contribution foe
,s Junta refusing all species of sup-
plies. he quipft (proPncial militia) laugh at the
orders of the Regency. . - • .
a My opinions relative to the possibility of bring-
ing a Spanish army into the field, are widely different
from those of our Government. They will not suc- ,
teed for many years ; the disposition of the officers I,
vices. weaknesses, defects of the Spanish Govern:l
:neat, habits of the people, are all in opposition tol
the accomplishment of such a plan. We may send
equipments and spend millions, but they will be of
little service until there is a radical reform—not a
theoretic plan, but 4 well-digested, systematic, prac-
tical one; not destroying what exists, but improving
it and taking advantage of it, such as it is.
" Their present plan appears to be to destroy the
Guerillas and form an army by conscription; but-
they forget that they have not officers even to in-
struct them, and that they extinguish the principle
which supports the war, and shut up the school for
officers, without opening another.
14 Among the conscripts sent here are many Cap-
tains of Guerillas, who have rendered eminent ser-
vices. All the patriotic companies of Catalonia
have been suppressed; and the Spanish General
who ct.mmands in M.-. has shot great numbers
of the Guerillas.
,• Had, I my choice of service, I had much rather
serve with the Guerillas than with the best army they
can bring into the field; and we are so convinced of
the advantages to be derived from the efforts of these
people, that one of us proposed to the Quarter-
Master-General to visit all the parties, and draw him
up a statement of the best means of giving consistency
to their warfare, If the savage Cossack is made an'
useful engipe in able hands, what may not be ex:
petted from the well.directed efforts of the courage,
perseverance, and patriotism et the Spanish Gueni.,
las I Ow Government foam a wrong estimate of the •
Spanish character, and proceed on false principlesti
which, I am convinced, will fail them, .
a It is a Herculean labour to get these troops to
do any thing ; arid yet all the materials are good,
but want the master's hand.
44 N--'s pramiu respecting the continued acti-
vity of the new R..—y has been partly fulfilled, and
is daily more evident. It will, like the others, go
on in the same road, and close when it can go no
further, I have had proof before me in a letter
from General "V"we.'".9 brother to the It.-.--t, who
commands ip Murcia, and which I have read. He
says his army is starving and totally
.forgotten by
she Goreritnienti that he can Only shoot the men
and break the officers for their crimes, without he-
ing.able to pay them. or even give chop bread. A
regiment he sent here hat kr.n fleyeß month, With-
out par!!!
o My opiniotl respeg the apnnisb fawn ii un-
changed ; trig as good its ever it was. or Getters in
As much as the people are more enlightened,*
have
lost Mani' of OW prejficlifeas are .entire sensible of
their situat Ansi ;more likely to. sohipil to those
iop,
privations and exertiops which it r!quires. All that
is vraghal ii aJIA 114;c111/en rfiel* croTtuimmitt44