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Wes wickedness, did net reap the fruits of the sne-
znorable battle of Chiclapa. The whole coast cleared
of the enemy (as it ought to have been), many ships
i wculd have been anchored between Puntales and the
Trocadero ; and consequently sheltered from the vio-
lence of the storm. They would-have had more sea
room, and would not have run foul of each other ;
and even if driven, on shore, the exertions for saving
their crews might have been more effectual."
The nation demands vengeance, and demands it
justly. August Congress ! if ignorance or treason
are the causes of our not having reaped the fruits of
that glorious day, arm yourselves with the avenging
sword of justice, and let the guilty perish.
[From the Conciso, it appears that very warm
40 not r discussions have taken place in Cadiz, with respect to
Angsberg. ; the conduct of the Spanish General Lapena in the
.aetic Diet is 1 battle of Barrosa, and it does not seem to have given
Irnore satisfaction there, than it has done in this
at the Council of country 1)
The Conciso of the 22d of March contains a letter
from an English Officer, on the subject, to which
there is afterwards a reply from a Spanish Officer.—
We shall give some extracts from each. .
The English Officer begins thus— . 4
4, Having heard nothing but false accounts touch'
ing the battle of Barrosa, and being persuaded that
the public cannot obtain a proper knowledge of it
from the dispatch of General Lapena alone, I should
be wanting to my duty as an English officer, If I
failed to lay before the Spanish public certain facts
which fixed my attention. .
" I shall not detail any of the circumstances which
occurred before our arrival at Vejar : suffice it to say.
that the allied troops underwent much labour and
fatigue ; but as the utmost harmony prevailed, it was
cheerfully borne by the soldiers of both nations.
66 On the night or the 3d we halted in a wood
near Vejar ; and at six in the evening of the 4th we
all marched, with the understanding that we were to
halt and take refreshment at Conil, for the purpose
of being. repared to fight the enemy next day.—
The Spanish General, however, changed the plan,
and on the morning of the sth, after a march of six-
teen hours, we found ourselves on the heights of Bar-
rosa.
4, The van-guard, under the command of Briga-
dier Lardizabal, received orders to enter the pine-.
wood, and make every effort to keep open the com-
munication with Santi Petri ; and this operation was
respectably executed by his division.
" At this moment General Lapena ordered Ge.
To ral Graham to march towards the wood with the
SPANISH PAPERS. British troops, in the direction of Santi Petri, which
he did ; but he had not advanced far ipto the wood,
when he received advices, that the enemy was march-
SALAMANCA, MARCH 12. ing rapidly by the plain towards the position which
On the 24th ult. a detachment of Don Julian, on we occupied three quarters of an hour before.
the road to Toro, took Count Sabugal, his servant, an ~ He immediately counter-marched his division ;
orderly soldier, and 11 horse chasseurs prisoners. and upon issuing from the wood, observed a strong
' On the 26th the Videts of Don Julian appeared column of the enemy advancing on our left ; and we
within pistol-shot of this city, and took from the su- were surprised to see another considerable corps in
barbs some mules and horses, and carried away the
possession of the heights, where we had left part of
Intendant's servant. On the same day, the General the Spanish army.
who commands here received a-dispatch from Bes- a I knew not what happened on the heights after
siers, in which he acquaiats him, that he is authorised our troops left them. I have heard that the Spanish
to communicate tharthe Emperor has marched 20,000
- and German cavalry charged the enemy ; I have
men of the Confederation of the Rhine towards the heard that two Spanish regiments of -the division of
frontiers 'of Poland, where Davoust is already with Begines opened a brisk fire on the enemy. I have
60,000 men ; that 20,000 men, from the interior of heard, in short, that they all received positive orders,
France are to march to the same destiny, stating.at from the General in Chief to retire ; but as I was not
the same time as the cause, the late treaties and in- with them, Ido not take upon me to decide upon any
trigues of the Emperor Alexander with other Powers. of these circumstances ; what I shall say is, that when
He also says that the war will be against Russia and we-cleared the pine-wood, no Spanish troops were in
Prussia, and perhaps the Porte; that in this grand sight.
undertaking Austria will furnish Bonaparte with ‘,. Retreat would have been most hazardous ; and
200,00 Q men.—This information may be communi- to attack a height occupied by fresh and superior
cared to the public as a fact; to the French it came forces, wanted little of being an enterprize of equal
like a thunder-bolt, and if any thing can console them,
difficulty.
it is the idea of returning to France. Some say that ~
I understand that General Graham was aware
a great part of Spain will be evacuated, and a mili. of the importance of the position of Barrosa, and
tary road farmed by Somosierra, and Madrid to An- confident of the valour of his troops, determined on
dalusia. Others think that Andalusia will be aban- risking an attack. The heights on our right were
doned ; but the best informed imagine that it will be taken after an obstinate resistance, and the enemy's
'to the Ebro. At all events, the superior officers, from column en our left was put to the rout.
the moment that they learned the news, they freely 66 The enemy being already forced on 211 points, a
conversed about it, and expressed their opinion that squadron of German cavalry charged him, and the
no more men would be sent to Spain ; on the contrary, line made a halt, the General thinking that his troops
that troops would be withdrawn from it, particularly had worked hard enough.
the Imperial Guard quartered near Burgos. " Four thousand men, so exhausted by the want
On the 21st General Gardanne, with a numerous of refreshment and a painful march, and who, not-
convoy, set out on the road to France. withstanding, drove back a very superior force pos.
To-day the General, who went from Asturias to 1 seising the advantare.of position and circumstances,
command the cavalry of the division of Claparede,
require no eulogy. .
returned to Ciudad Rodrigo with a great many in- I ~
During the time when the combatants were hotly.
spectors, and other civil officers, employed in the . engaged, two battalions (Walloons and Ciudad Real)
army of Portugal, flying from the misery which they I incorporated with our division during the march, and
saw in the frontier towns of that unfortunate country.lwhich were directed towards another point when he
• TARRAGONA, MARCH 11. ordered us to enter the pine-wood, were seen making
They write from Reus, that D. Rovira and Senor all possible exertions to join and succour their friends
Milans have entered several towns of France, and . —but they could not reach our line till the whole was
imposed contributions in retaliation for those f the I concluded. I believe, however, that Brigadier Cruz
French in Spain. Sarsfield has gone to attack Mac- and these battalions are. sharers in the glories of that
' donald, who has shut himself up in Lerida. A divi- I day, from the zeal and anxiety which they displayed,
ition of 2000 vandals, who issued from Tortosa, has i to join our troops.
been attacked by the brave troops of Catalonia, and " The enthusiasm which animated these battalions'
bast 800 men. does not suffer me to doubt that the same spirit pre-
! veiled in the whole Spanish army ; but these good.
CADIZ, MARCH Es.
• dispositions, and all the firmness and noble sentiments
;... „On the evening of the' 27th, it began to blow a
Brent, and in the course of the night and next morn- : officers
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*tractive and deplorable. The inhabitants, filled
with a well-founded apprehension of the damage
which :such a terrible night was likely to cause in the ;
ley, crowded in the morning to the sea-wall, where
~ottr of the Spanish nation, were sacrificed to the want of
• strong gale from the east, which encreased every mo-
activity of General Lapena, of his advisers, and the
()mica's of his staff.
sag rose to a pitch of violence greater than any within " Had the smallest movement been executed ;had
recollection. The consequences have been most the Spanish General himself, or any individual 'of his
staff, been present to give him an account of the state
I of the action, he would, by consequence, have been
able to co-operate***; and the result would doubtless
have been attended with as favourable consequences
they witnessed the dreadful spectacle of a considers-
I to the Spanish cause as any other event which has
ble number of ships wrecked, and others in danger
the same fate making signals for assistance. Dur-
ing abe whole day the gale continued equally violent occurred since the commencement of the oppression
af ° and tyranny exercised upon Spain ; and I believe it
is not too much to say, that it would have accom-
and caused new disasters. Words are unequal to
convey an idea of the humanity, zeal, and intrepidity pushed the deliverance of Andalusia,
1 " I declare on my word of honour, that all that I
with which many boats and feluccas (particularly the
have related took place under my own eye ; and I I
English) put out and saved a number of unfortunate
am persuaded that there is not an officer in the Bri-
topple, who must otherwise have perished, as did fish array, nor in the Spanish battalions above-men.
',Many who could not be relieved. ° tioned, who will fail to confirm every word of it. 1
The inhabitants of Cadiz averted their eyes from I 66 C. P. an Officer in the British Army. k
these objects, to turn them, full of indignation, on l. " Isla, March to, IS i i."
the cause of such evils, 4, It is not," they exclaimed, 1 LETTER or D. JUAN DE LA CRUZ MONTI:M.ON TO D. JUAN
" the east wind which has sacrificed so snarly victims, JACINTO LOPEZ, IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE LETTER Oil
which has ruined so many families whose property is TIM ENGLISH OFFICER, INSERTED IN THE CONCISO,I
buried in the sea ;—it is they who, from unpardona- wo. 41.
ble ignorance, criminal indolence, or, to speak at once This letter, which is of' very considerable length.
(since there are Tortosas and Badajos), from WA- begins with complaining of the want of precisiop in
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PARIS, APRIL 9.
The female monster, whom the papers have lately
mentioned under the name of Magdelaine Alberta
found guilty of having murdered her father, her mother,
and her two sisters, was sentenced to death, and exe-
cuted the 206 of March, at Moulins. She was con-
veyed to the place of execution, clothed in a red che-
mise, and having her head and face covered with a
black veil ; which was not removed until the moment•
[.that the executioner was about to sever her head from

her body. •
APRIL 10.—His Majesty held a Council of Trade
and Manufactures the day before yesterday.
The Berlin letters of the 26th of March do not
speak of the King of Prussia's journey to Koningsberg.
An extraordinary meeting of the Helvetic Diet is
summoned for the 17th of April.
His Majesty presided yesterday at the Council of
State.

~..iritiVIIINDE, MARCH 27.
The manufactured goods, found on board the ves-
sels which were sequestrated here, were burned this
morning. The garrison, which was turned out, attend-
ed on the occasion, and also the Prussian civil officers.
The value of these goods, consisting chiefly of cotton-
atuffs,, amounts, according to the invoice, to two mil-
lions of francs. M. Bohlendorff, Director of the Cus-
toms, will set out to-morrow for ether ports of Pome-
rania, where similar operations are to take place.

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ANTWERP, MARCH 29.
Two thousand four hundrid Spanish prisonershave
arrived here to work at the fortifications, the new
town, and the basin. Eight hundred of them have
been put in the old buildings of the town hospital, and
the remainder it is said will be lodged in the ware-
houses of private persons.
HAMEURGH, MARCH St.
The Government Commissioners have published
An Imperial Decree, dated the 2d instant. It con-
tains the following dispositions :
" Three thousand marines, from the age of I'.o to 50 years,
shall be raised in the three departments of the Mouths of the
Elbe, the Weser, and the Upper Ems. The Governor-General
shall make these 3000 marines among tho different towns and ports
of the three Departments. r; These marines shall be conducted ty
an escort of 100 men to Antwerp. This call of marines will be
considered in discharge of the maritime conscription. The Mi-
nister of Marine will take the necessary measures to secure to
the wives and children of such marines, so long as they shall
serve on sea, a suitable allowance , and defray the necessary es-
pence of their transport, and the details of the service.*

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04,014 of the tn.gl;sh-Oirtcejj richer tv_ithiegera
to dates or the-positrons tve seitioris, corps, or di.
visions of the army. To remedy this defect the writer
sends to his friend a ground-plan,of the wh .le, to il-
lustrate the contents of his letter. He then proceeds
to analyse the litter of the English Officer in the fol.
lowing manner :
He says in his letter, 1 know not what took
place on the Heights, after our troops left them, Bcc.'
To this. I re.)ly, that Brigadier Begins and myself
remained up n them with the division under his com-
mand, which consisted of the company of musketeers
of Getares, a battalion of the Queen, the regiments
of Seguenza, eantabria, Ciudad Real, a battalion of
the Walloons, another English battalion, four pieces
of artillery, and all the baggage with the ammunition
of the first and second division, with orders from the
General in. Chief to begin our retreat towards the
bridge, as soon as we saw the troops repassing by it.
.—We were in position at this place when the enemy
were descried manceuvring to seize upon it, without
• knowing whether the English or Spaniards would
come to our assistance!' if not secure of victory, we
were at least in a situation to perish in our ranks, its
order to secure the retreat of our dear allies, which
also was carried into effect; it being seen also how
much our position threatened the enemy, the latter
marched the whole of his columns to attack the trmops
upon it, and not the English, whom they cou:d by
no means see ' • a proof of this truth being, that whets
General Graham with his troops issued from the pine.
wood, he encountered those of the enemy, who had
changed the direction of their columns on account of
our retreat, which Don Santiago Whittingham con-
ducted.

" Having now entered the pine-wood, I obse.-Ted
that the English light infantry had begun the action
with those of the enemy who followed us, and that
the British army had returned by means of a contact.:
march, and was beginning to form in line by wheel:
ing on its left, at the foot of a small height which
the enemy already occupied, with whom a terrible
ire had commenced; then the English hatalion
which marched in front of the column which I com-
manded (consisting of the Walloon battalion, and the
regiment of Ciudad Real; and two pieces of artillery)
marched towards the line of battle which the other
troops of their nation were forming, which battalimi
I followed ; _but at that moment Gen. Whittingitain
ordered me to march my column to support the right
flank, which, gave him most anxiety ; because the
enemy bad already penetrated towards the beach.—
At that moment I countermarched by the left, in or•
der not to obstruct the line of battle which the Eng-
lish were forming, and marched upon Casa-Blanca,
making this movement in close battalion, supporting
the fire of artillery without returning a shot, over-
awing the enemy's cavalry, who durst not attack,
and never forming in line, because we wanted a point
of support.
" On attending to the above, it is necessary to ob-
serve, that if Senor Cl P. when he came out of the
pine-wood did not see any Spanish. troops, it must
have been because of his being fully occupied, or be-
cause for a time they were on the left flank of the lines •
where it was very difficult for him to see them, on
account of the wood and the broken ground over
which my column had to march.
" Doubtless C. P. confounds Torte Barrosa with
case Blanca, since the latter is the most elevated
point in the ridge of Puerco, and being close to the
sea, it was not so important for General Graham to
preserve Barrosa as Casa Blanca; which is the point
that commands all the ground.
" He says, • That the two battalions made every
effort to come up, but did not join till all was over,'
&c. To this I reply as follows :
" As the orders which I had were to guard the
right flank, it became my duty on no account to join
the English line of battle, thus leaving open to the
enemy the pass which was in my rear. Had that
been done, so far from being victorious, we should
have been routed ; for all the English troops were in
one line, and there were no others to mansanvre but
those which I commanded, and those which support-
ed me on my right flank, and which were command-
ed,,b
yFos7athoris reason Beginesl. marched still in close column
of formation against the force of the cavalry and the
infantry, which was posted in front of Casa Blanca,ac-
companiedby a squadron of English hussars. I ordered
the remains of the Ist of Valencia and the companies
of Light Infantry of Siguenza and Cantabria to at-
tack in divisions those of the enemy who had hasten-
ed to the beach to get possession of our baggage.—
This seas executed, and, together with the closeness
of the column under my command, so alarmed the
enemy, that their cavalry abandoned their light troops
and retired in all haste towards the termination of the
Lagoon.
" Observit'.g that the enemy were now neither on
my rear nor on my right, I marched my column to-
wards the right flank of the English line of battle;
whose left was still engaged. In this situation, and
alwys ;advancing, the squadron of English Hussars
advanced, and charged the enemy's cavalry,' who
waited for them with firmness ; but the valour and
Itorepidity of thißritish hussars muted them in less
than a mieute. In the pursuit, the hussars fell in
with a small square of enemy's infantry, who opened
their fire upon them, and the hussars prudently retir-
ed to their line of formation.
44 I wok advantage of this interval, and opened a
fire from my two pieces of artillery, the balls of which
reached this.square body, which forpied in column,
and began to retire. This being seen by the right
flank of the enemy's line, 'Which still kept up the fir-
ing with much briskness, they also began their retreat
in the greatest disorder; at which moment I received
orders from General Graham to suspend the march
of my column and give the troops some relaxation,
as the English also did.
o The whole of the above being an incontestable
fact, Senor C. P. ought to confess, that the column
under m 7 command, consisting of the battalion of
Walloons, the regiment .61 Ciudad Real, and two
pieces of artillery, not only reached the English hue
before the close of the action, but that they had an
essential part in the victory ; cn which account, they
are sharers in the glories of that day, and not for the
wishes only which C. P. justly ascribes to them ; for
if he considers the latter as the only reason for their
deserving praise, then he ought to advert, that as
much might be said of those troops whit were at
Cadiz and the Isla.".
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