The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-09-28 00:00:00

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coNDUCT OF TILE; EMMA sir Aikittlfwa 191111
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1 46'Ftrsr periock--:Getieial 45,000
good troops, did nOthing in Novemblii-, 1808, for
the Spaniards. Spain; heirtreteri trot then' $OO,OOO
• mew' 'tinder arms, and ill:her:troops. of the line:
Ttle
.FrettChi head.quartera were at Vittorla.• Oil.
boa was.occupied by the Spinitt army of Gallicia,
more than 86,000. strong ;. the army of Estremadu.
rat,, in number 9Q,060, occupied
.Bitrgos ; 90,000
men, commanded by Casianot, 'occupied 'fudela;
independently of the lit'mies which occupied 'the
pass of "Sotriesieria and the Guadiana, without
'speaking of. Catalonia.
• 14' Genera? Wore had arrived at Salamanca since
the month «f September, and remained there du-
riiirthe•whole: of Ntitember, an idle spectator of
the destiuttion of the Spanish armies of the first
Tine, at..tbi battles of Espinosa, Burger, hild Tut.
Tbe'Fronch army admired uptin
lid and' Aran& ; •he remains, ;Onclisturbed, permits.
the Somosierra to he fureetand Madrid to be
taken, witheat • moving a step. Eight days 'after
he knew' that Madrid was taken, that the Spanish
armies were destroyed and driven back on Anda-
lusia; he pnt himself in motion from S.tiamanra,
and advanced to menace the corps of the I) !ke of
Daltnatia ; but soon perceiving the snare into which
he had 'fallen, the remains of his army shamefully
embarked at Corunna, after abandoning their ar.:.
tillcry, stores, and hospitals. It appeared as if he..
i had only come into Spain .to witness the destrnetion
of the Spanish armies of the first and second line.
If General .Moore hid marched either to Espinosa
to support Blake, Or to Burgos to support-tba
army of Estremadura, or to Tudela to support Cas:

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tanos, conqueror or conquered, he would have done
his duty of friend and ally. If afterwards he had
advanced .upon Somosierra, or Guadiana, lie
.would have covered 'Madrid, given time to or.
ionise the defence of• that capital; he would
liare,roalliekthe remains of the Spanish armies; and,
whether ituccessful or not, he would have tried his
Airtime with honour;
.the insurgents must have
felt gratefill to the
,English, and would not
have been well-founded in their complaints. But
there is a fatality attached to the English armies ;
they are good for nothing tQ their Allies. General
Moore was not more useful to the, Spanish causes!
which was then decided for ever, than he.had been
to the cause of Sweden, when, he saw the isles of
Aland, Sweaborg, and all Finland, taken under
his eyes. lie had been present at the ruin of the
Spedish armies ; he came to Spain, to be present at
the ruin of the Spanish Armies; thus will posterity
fpeek or this great expedition. ,- ,
' " Second Period. —'rho war of the sth coall.'
tion was lighted up on the Continent. The mo.
itient appeared favourable to push the affairs of
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4paie witkactirity, The French Cabinet felt this
anstrongly, that .it had the boldness to engage in
this war, without drawing a single man from the
Army of Snail). The imperial. Guards were the
only troops withdrawn. . By, tans the hopes of the
English were deceiled ; 1/at if ever there . was a
moment when they might have hoped to regain the
super.ority in Spilt..., it 50q p. . ..
" Lor4 elitiigtortl teprOed from Lisa; in,. , The
p.‘ k e of Ilv
.4i91414.1. if Am was et Opor.loi , per-
ei:ived the IMo44olli.st, or ioriiiiiiing with 16,000
f •,.
'thioinrileirtiit ta MO alogliSti, 4101Ipt the ?qui:
'Mese itieurreetiuti, omit against ihe seatterild bands
of the Apanniti-lititrfer.o4ll ; ref flie French ariniei,
Without direction in,ipisia, tentetneil insulated, and
eather did not profit britle eilvantages _which their
experiencealid' disclitlinw refight-have tecti'red, or
dil not-uedireach other, but remained' inaetlee.—
Portugal: was .evactiatect without a battle.' • Europe
then expected that England would tvecsent.herstilf
with honour, and li an impoeing attitarlanntrtuthe
continental theatre; that 60,000 men from Onglend
would•juin hard Welliegton's army,. ataloerrinin'
army of • more than 60,000 men, 'whiallitrWas sup—
:posed that. England could •place under arms; a
force, which, added to.the remains of the:Spanish.'
'end Portuguese insurgents, and supported by the
gold of Menke and,-Peru, would have consti-
tuted an impesing mess' of force. The •Eliglish,-
faitilful to their system, sent •no reinforcements
tn Lord . Wellingten, , .;lilliat General, after en.
terprises lightly taken
,ups, ,with,eut calmilation,
and in the most perfect ignorance of ,Abeifor ,
of his eoemyi escaped,,, 4 a miracles:,tm4jie de...
struction,..4(ter this Wilt A, Talaverail& ;40,141
lust his hospitals, and velsir,44lp 1,4,01144.g00viiiA
ibis army. Devil this peciod;,3oiooo uthele.latiptiste
'troops carnet( perish in'.oll.,Dlttikt "i'f4WArFP,Ptall''
Tlittsl in the second peeiritf.'Ottile t pielkit•War,•;ifte
i Englidi have constantlrettkliedlo wroid wltatcoariltl'
endanger thenthelres, aj.id:tolkOir.illrfinti, Wet; Wri .
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%necessary to..star.tup the: pe0p...,f..- and'. lonia ‘nt civil'
'lwar. If they iripesed themselves td danger for *
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moment; it prasieded Teem folly, and a shatnefuligN,
moaners of continental war. Shortly after, Seedier
and Aetfatusia were taken from the Spaniards;'Otielo
that Junta, the dear ally of the King of. England,
was driven within the fortifications of Cadiz, with.
out this terrible General
.Welliogton having matte a
single movement to assist them, or made a diver-
sion in •favour of Seville, the last hope -of the in-
surrection. . . . -
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• "•Third Period.—The Continent being restored
to peace at Vitrina, all men of sense, and friends to
humanity, expected, that since England' had not
known how to profit by the war of the fifth coali-
tion, and had calculated so 11l as to send 30,000 men
to 'perish in the -marshes of Welchem*, instead of
employing them to drive the French from Spain, she
would feet it her true interest to retire from this
theatre, and no longer render herself guilty of the
blood she has caused to flow, and of the horrors
which were there committed, arid that she would at. .
tempt to preserve, by some atrgOciation, theintegrity
of Spain, which was of •great advantage' to her
Unfortneately Lord Wellesley had, in the Mean
time, been called to tho Ministry. This man, ig.
norant of the affairs of Europe, .only jtidging 9f.
thorn by the principles of policy which•'he had
put in practice; in 11014, And towards Nabob',
induced: the King of &fiend to engage to •ac•'
knowledge mud support tite•insurgenta i to do that
which General Moore had 'net been -able. to. do
io the period of the .strungth and fuzee of, Use

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