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TUESDAY. st.rri.sisEß 12.
Ir any ennsid 'ration can tend to aggravate the
disastrous iss.ie of our E‘livilitions, it is, that
while tile army lls hastily retreating -in
Portugal, the Apatiiards ift the ovii-•-iie extremity
d the Peninsula are really giving iffi• ieut proofs
of that s;:irit i.f mist ince, the total absents° of
*lila, Lot d IVELLINGTOY 10 unequivocally
announers.—Greally as is our general mis-
trust of Spanish accounts, those from .-trrogoa
end Catalonia have been usually :parked by
a diferenee as striking as that by which 00
&Fort/ of tbuse provinces have been distinguished
from the Northern and Western divisions of the
Peninsula. The &fence of Saragossa, of Rotas,
and of Gerona, uave really dipinyod those sonar.
sirs, of which the other part, of the Peninsula hare
only boasted.—Drum these considerations, it is
reasonable to give credit to the statement of a fact,
annotiwced in a Spailiali paper, called the Correia
tie .1 arde of the 28th of last month—ln a letter,
elated Ganef, 21st July, it is stated, that " Doctor
16 IiorENA has entered Roussillon, with a corps

E' itf frhin 4to 5,000 teen; levying ioniributions
44 he adounces to Pont do Molint and Crcaig de
44 Medina."—The daring incursion uf this cuter.
prizing parti;an into tho territory of Frances is a di-,

oer time Out must compel gm French garrisoned the
Pyrenean fortresses, to Xecakeu themselves mate-
rially, for it is by detarhmcuti from them, that
this dying body of irregulars can alone be rer
pelted. aoussillosi is that pruritic° of France,
sa hich adjoins Spain on the side of the blediter.
meal, by which it is bounded on the East, and
tan the South by the Pyrenees. Perpignan is the
capital, and under the new division of France,
this pa. t of Its uasillun is called the Department
of the Eastern Pyrenees. The Niignelats, or Spa,
snug ens, of the Pyretiees, are numerous,
and, like all other smugglers, active, bold, and
otitcriirizing—and their intimate knowledge of
the fe.vtitea.ei of this 4 hain of isouutaine, which,
tun, the Mediterranean to the Ray of 13ii.cay,
extends mgrs than 3UU miles in length, would rill.
der their sabjugation physically impracticable—

were t.iere but points uf security hum wilisuce

they could draw .arms and ausiouuition. 1
Iu the first Espetlitiuti to Spain, it was pa!-1
Fable that we had begun at the wrung cud ut the!
Penitisttla—as we have, of almost every thing else
--son it dues really scent irscompre4n4hle, that
the authors of that unfortunate F;spsilition should,
regardless of eitperience, hare repeated the effort
from toe 64usa pond— 1•110)011. The hitherto
truitl,ss efforts of the 'much to redoes: Arraigns
end Cataluna, *holly ansupportal as they hate
Veen, a it h the ea misfits, of our assistance at itosu,
sufficiently eviller, as well, 'he great strength of
the country, u the determined and active resistance
of the popelutioa of that part of Spain. It is
duty near twelve months since re expressed our
(Ipiskion of th.:- istpt.licy of the first effort from
Vora:4.ll on the N orth •.4) f Spain. To us it ap.
peered, that if the attefirpt to effect the deliver.:
sups of by the presence of an EnglisV
Army in the Peninsulal.were politic (of e,hieh lar
are by nu means cons inetd), the effort should have
been made in the summer of lasf year in' Biscay
or in Coidonto, or in both, with a( least see
Modred thansand men. Lord Cameos:son, in
dieuatio,4 the twoimign in Spain in alehouse of
Commons, denied that the military fesourms of

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Ellland were equal to such an effort. If, however,
our troups in Sit ily, and these which have been am.
',toyed in Spain and in the Scheldt had been united,
it is incontrovertible, that such a force might
have been lauded, two mouths before a single
ri4timesit hail entered Spaln to reinforce
the army behind the Ebro. Had such an effort
, been made, is it within probability that Germany
would have been in the situation in which it
now is ? In fact, with 100,000 of the best ap.
pointed and most effective troops in Europe, Eng.
land.has dotie nothing in support of the principle on
which site broke the Treaty of Amiens. The
power of SAtoutos is extended, consolidated,
and confirmed—and our commercial intercourse
with the Continent is on the eve of absolute
suspension. It is the opinion of many, that
the repetition of our effort in Spaiti was im-
politic.—A ran, ammunition, cloathing, and
money, with the aid of eying squadreus,
w'oich could come into contact with so many
points of the extended coast of the Peninsula,
would hale enabled the Spaniards to find the
French ample occupation in a country containing
near 170,000 square miles, and abounding in fast.
nesses and mountains. Germany was plunged
into war by the temptation which the contest in
the Peninsula held out. Had our efforts, been
commeusurate with the importance of the• stake,
or the extent of onr means, the conquest of
i Spain, or of Germany, must have been abandoned
by NAPOLEON, and, possibly, the wise and vi.
gorous direction of the strength of England,
might have preserved both (rum subjugation.
I After our expulsion from Spain, the direction
of the force which we have since so fruit.
lessly employed there, together with that in Sicily,
and the troops employed in the Scheldt, might ei-
ther from the Baltic, or on the side of Italy, have
made an important diversion in favour of Ger-
; many.—lf the reported disadectiens of the North
1-of Germany, mid the ribration of Prussia, be at
Ball fouudcd in truth, the ',rescues) of such a force
would base induced a general avowal of the
pies said to exist there—and if the side of Italy
had been chosen, the Tyroi ',reseeded a field in
which the energies of the natives appear to he in.
vincible, even after their cause is become ahso.
lutely hopeless. The cinetra.st which oar situ-
ation now presents, is not more humiliating than
alarming. We have wasted our resources, in
efforts, conceived in fully, and executed with inca-
pacity. With the iucestant intercourse that has
been for centuries kept up betweeu this country
I and that part of the Continent of Europe through
which the Scheldt passes, it appears inconceiv-
able that Ministers could be ignorant of the
Mutinies which aro now said to hive frus-
trated the ul.jects of the Expedition. The
situation of the Islands at the mouth of the
Scheldt—the strength of Fl .'iing—the import-
ance of the possess:oil of Call and—the depth of
water in that channel—and the ot!stacles that
would present themselves in the attack upon Ant.
wcrp, must have been known to very many per.
,sons. Mr. Thomas Johnson, who accompa.
.nied the Expeditioo, dutibtivss communicated
'all that he knew—and it is a matter of noto-
riety, that (lucre is scarcely a. port or erect
on the coast of France or Holland into which Mr.
Jonmsox could not conduct a vessel safely, with-
out the assistance of a coast pilot. Fur some years
his residence was flushing, where he chiefly car-
ried un his illicit trade, and hi, intercourse with
Antwerp was frequent ; sir that he must have
possessed every requisite information, supposing
what i, very fur frum being the case—that there
were not numerous British Officers, intimately ac-
quainted a ith the position, and approaches, of the
place against which our armament was directed.
When we reflect on these circumstances, it is
more than extraordinary—it is absolutely myste.
rious—that sic should now, and only now, be
told of difficulties wide!' it k niorally impossible
should nut have. been fureseen.—That slut delay
produced by attacking Fiushing would prove
fatal to the Expedition, to us appeared pal-
-1 pable—but, presuming Ministers and the Com.
maitiltr in Chief to possess information of which
we were destitute-- we therefore., when Flushing
did surrender, ventured only to inquire (ott Mon-
day, August 21,) " Was it absolutely necessary
to redeem Flashing before any thing far.'
CC ther ::as attempted That it is as necessary,
appeared to us incomprehensible—but that it was,
not, appeared (ruin the concurrence of Mi-
nisters in the procectiiiiigs of the: army impossible,
for if the attacks on Wa!ehervu and Beveland,
had been in opposition to the opinions of Minis.
tors, orders would have been traus:nitted to the
Earl °Vett.% rtt ass not to linger at the Mouth,
but iintnedi•ttely to argent thelicheidt. That the
FArl Or CIIATRAW had Orders, there can be
no doubt ; and on the Inquiry, or Court.
Martial, that must take place, as we Seg.
gested several weeks ago —those Orders will.
be produced—until which time they public will act
wisely to suspend Omer judgment. —That the Eir.
',edition h4=': felled, awl that it Might isave succeed.
ed, is the goners! belief. Ou whem the bl.vno"

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