The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-09-03 00:00:00

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rOF THE HOSTILE ARMIES
difficult to procure (Mel aence for any time, in the and Juntas in their neighbourhood encouraged them lOWA
encouraged
(pith. .ill SAIN' ON MB 14th JULY ISA.
se- $s
Immediate vicitii.y of the capital, the intelligent ob- to persecute those Spaniards who have proved -
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servers suspect that it might even be necessary to less to their
.co.untriy, and those who have. parchaseil .. a,
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TH-:
d 4,..ALL.IED ARMIES
.or eNGLAND
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ahaarlon Madrid, and to place themselves between and are administer eg the national domains, the pure
W lingtep s Army at Medina del Campo, Ear 1
the D:turo and Ehro, ss nere they might concentrate vey nrs of the etteray'e -troops, and, in shoq, all the : ll*V •
idait.44o.. 60,0110
their farces, and draw s pplies• from France. Such Sparilardt who leaki irt,ssstapsieelp ,thoPee.reilses•-• , .
* :The Gueiillita 11111,bsiit qt iht,courffr‘ al ufthill . 8.4,16,7011? Galurcian Army under Ge
. is as totiows:—
is the opittion of La Croix, who is one of the Im.„ , .... _ . ast
theipe le Mier • add,Derslo General Cabrera, Henevente ,090
perms
• • Commission of Sequestration ; who are soititeaann of scarcky and eal ity, p+
ire find- aud NI Do. General Santocildes, Avorge 10,0,A
fearful of the fate of Andalusia, that they have BSI by Alieir depredations; bit Mee Buffet ffeeffigs Guerillas, in advance of the above, Leon
ready given positive orders to collect from that pro- ten, when the re than ahatkliag.illitilliluderitteepeinsielertny, Wet General Menesam, _ .2°4-20°01
i,irlhe *, , ota gtnrgliatiggioners. . • Ilailmeindo . 10,000
'since, all the goods at d treasure pos4hie.. •• • ' General Hips Army at Lleribea, British, for
6.-Nledrid is wit in want of provisiong, but the i 44 14. The frltiriell, kitta i the *daunt ofl to ease", andlpailaeds • . 20.000
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prices of all V.., necessaries of HP are excessive. It their force in Spain, are always disposed to me._ Sili;iisonor:l (Alt; , British and
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st..
is aPPvitite"eled, that _the prices of wheat and barley N•geratetiveir nnodeltrr. • It Isintrtitty Yrascertaitt the , alp
1/oque.ittel alarbells .. . • . , rebuo.
in- • 2d and 3d Spanish Armies, General O'Dea-
will contioue to rise, as, they, area r;.• in all the pact number of their troopik.tbut, from the best
principal townie particularly where the militery ma- , te: mation which can be-premed, the actual amount 1 nel,..lurcia, . , . tomeo,
Ist Spanish Army, General locy, is Mori
getittes are i•stablished, whickhove already* bran W- of the French army (brute Peninsula may betaken 1 bated as fattens t- a• • •• • ,
mast exhausted by the supplies which are sent tot at 165,006 men, including the 45 or Sooooo.on their I,• ' : Garrisonorfortleva • 1030
Marmont's army. a I Iliad to France. A short time since, these forces •
, . In ltiamane Farrigas
•. . Colonel Milan'., at Arens de Mar SOO
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64 7. Tee Royal Gator! of S'rangers, and of the.' were distribdted in the following manner ae- Baran D'Eroies, bt 'fakes . 7000
Thogarrkersos j Itßrigadier Sabeelt. in Villa Franca 41100
Juratneti,ados, censios.d 3000 mete
~, Ip the towns and provinces of Madrid, Gonda-
Brigadier Manso, in Ripolls . VW
of %Aid, mid el 'be towers adjacent, very ,verylialiri,Cuenca, Aranjuez, Toledo, Talavera, Avila, . • Brigadier Grey, in Reus 4030-43,000
much, as tiny are criiitinually employed lu furnish.l Valladolid, Astorga, Benevente, Leon, Zamora, Sa- British and Spanish troops on their way to Cats-
17,030
big e.corts to convoys and couriers; bet they may be ; lamatica, Toro, Burgers, Santander, Soria, the Rieja, , baths .
estimated at 5000. In Gitadalasara, there may be I the Biscayan provinces, and Navarre, 81,000 men. 175,000
about WO. In Cuenca, about 2500. In Toledo, ,In Arragnn, Valencia, and Lower Catalonia, under
Amities, Yeps, Priory of At. Jean, and towns ad.. the command of Suchet, 32,000 men. Its Upper
j4441`.'.44 'lllwai do °f 5000 of Marmont's army' The , Catalonia, 16,000. In Andaiusia and Estremadura,
rest of Marmont's divisions, amounting to 15,000, ' 36,000 me„,
aro distributed between T „ Talavera, Avila, and Vella-' -
The number of French who have entered the
dotid. In Astorga, Banevestte, and Leon, Bonnet'si
„A 1 Peninsula since the 19th of October, 1807, to the
division of 80u0 men. In Zamora,
Salamanca' and
i end of December, 1811, may be estimated at 675,000
Toro, about 6000 men. In Santander and Burgos, .
med. Of this number, 45,000 have returned to
and the neighbouring districts, upwards of 20,000 ,
France, besides the 10,000 sent from Lisbon after
men, because the facility of subsistence is greater in
the Convention of Cintra' in health : consequently,
that quarter, and many of those men are supposed
the total force which has acted in Spain and Portu-
to be intended for France. I g
loal, has been 620,000 men. Therefore, the total
a.B. The Royal Guard is well clothed, and re-'
ss of effective men which the French have suffered
gnlarly paid ; the rest of the troops are ill clothed, from the commencement of the war in Spain, till the
irregularly paid, and badly provisioned. end of December, 1811, in killed, deserters, pri-
" 9. The several regiments of Juramentados at
soners and sick and wounded, returned to France;
the capital, itt*Guadataxara, and Cuenca, may amount amounts to 455,000 emu, supposing 165,000 to be
to 1,000 men of all descriptions. In general they still
in Spain.
dislike the French. " 15. In managing their revenue, the French have
46 10. The French do not expect any reinforce- • ,
not followed the old system of finance, and it can
:Tient% of consequence, until the late conscription for scarcely be said that they have adopted a new sys-
-120,000 men has been carried into execution. Som rn
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n..a
te. in an, they continued collecting, in
troops may then enter Spain, if the course of events 0
1809, the duties established at the gates, and Cus-
ill tin* north of Europe should admit of the Emperor . t m-house, in addition to the ordinary contribntions
which
sparing any for the service in the Peninsula. In the .
were paid for ' Trutos &riles,' ." Regalia de
last year, the following number of m
en entered and Casa,'Aposento,' &c. InAhe year 1810,• they
left c1,,i0 by A:I% of Yrnn and Navarre. changed both the tarif dutimr, attliapt'pOrie of' col-'
"Ry 'Venn entered Infantry 42.585 Cavalry 7,824
"By Navarro Wintry 12.000 lecting them; and the taxes tattled-at siws-gates pro-
- - -- duced 18 millions of rials and these of the'Custom.,
54.585 Cavalry 7,824
the ye
Total 62,409 house 8 millions. In I
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.I.sl.l„.tbeyelotowed
In Health nearly the same plan ; and the produce of the taxes
1,719 was only one-half of that of preceding year.
Tutu( 48,615
These resources
) are very inadequate to the mantle-
" Since the beginning of the present year about
nance ►of the I alace, the Guards, the Juramentados,
1,610 melt, and 21 pieces of cannon, have entered
Spain. the Civil Officers, and the provisioning of the troops
in the capital; consequently, the Government low
c' The general opinion is, that all the corps of the
required loans and contributions from the opulent
French a: mi.-. In Sitaitt are sending troops to France.
people, and the Corporation of merchants, whirl,
The Poles left Valencia on the 15'h of February;
have produced seventy-three millioni of dais. They
awl being joined by some Germans and French, will
make a body of 7or 8000 men. The have marched have seized all the plate ia the churches and private
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houses. They have sold all the effects in the royal
hem Saragossa to the frontier of France. The Poles
manufactories and establishments, in the suppressed
who were in Estremadura and Andalusia have reach-
convents, in the houses of the Grandees, and other
et, Madrid; amid together with the 48th re4imeitt of
persons whose pi °petty has been confiscated. They
the lice, and detachments from other corps, will
have also raised cottsiderabla sums of money from
amount to 2,200 men. On the ad of March the
the ~ale of national property... They have appro.
Marshal Duke of Bellunn left Madrid for France,
printed to the general treasury all the municipal
vitt) an escort of 800 cavalry, 600 Dutch infantry,
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two gulls, a long train of baggage, and several per- taxes, which the town corporations formerly collect-
sonsed; and the town corporations have, therefore,
of distinction, amongst whom were the Mar-
been obliged to impose new duties in their several
cltionese of Ariza, her daughter, and her son; the
D Ike of ',iris' the Duchesses of Montehermoso and .itisdittions. They have demanded a heavy contri-
Mahon, the Countess of Borbarane, the Senora
button of grain front the principal fanners. They
Morlin, and three nieces of Urquijo. have demanded from the proprietors of houses 10
cc 1. The Poles, on their road to France,
ime. per cent. of their income, and 15 per cent. from the
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give that Napoleon will form them into a national persons who rent houses. They have decreed, for
army, and will revolutionize Poland by promising the year 1812, 25 per cent. upon all proprietors of
the inhabitants liberty, independency, integrity of huses. They have invented duties on commissions
anod licences, which embrace even trade and occupa-
dominions, Diets, Assemblies, and a Constitutional
lion; and they are now publishing a heavy stamp-
King. The object of this policy is to withdraw
Poland from the dominion of the Emperor of Russia.
" 12. Toe following is an extract of a letter from "At first they censidered all the revenues Of the
duty.
towns in the provinces of Madrid, Guadalaxara,
Paris, dated the latter end of January, from one of
Cuenca, Toledo, and Segovia, as belonging to the
the Madre! persons belongieg to the army in Ger-
paign general treasury. They have seized the produce of
many :-4 Every arrangement is made for a cam
aganst Russia. I have received orders togo to. May-
the tithes belonging to the chapters, seignories, and
military orders, &c.; and they have imposed addi-
of Spain. I shall follow the movements of the army mice, with the same office which 1 held in the army
tional tithes of them. They obliged the people to
commanded by Oudinot, to which I am attached. contribute rations and supplies to the Government,
While we are fighting in the North, what will be and to the different Generals and Commanders ; and
done in the South? Your conjectures about 'Spain although at first they promised to take the receipts for
are unfortunately about to be realized; and I perceive those supplies in payment of the ancient royal eon.
tributions, and in the purchase of national property,
that tranquillity and order are banished from that
country for a long time.' they have never kept their promise. Since the year.
1810, this system has been changed for the mere
1* Other letters relate the d-parture of many Ge.
nerals and persons of rank from l'aris for the North. oppressive contribution of grain, which is divided
! amongst the Generals of the different districts, for
They all agree that war wiTh Racsia is inevitable.
'l'lle, write from 11,yohtte, that they had received the subsistence of their troops. But notwithstande
the P mperor's enders to prepare for 30,000 men on ins this, the individual exactions of the different Ge.
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their road from "pain, who ate to be weplaced by I.nerais. MP SS ,great and as oppressive as ever.-e
It only remains to be 'acted, that notwithstanding
Coeserirts from France. They wiite from Paris, that .
the'?grit roe's baaaage was to set out on the 21st of i the oppressive burthens which have been imposed
Feb tine, at the tiifartion of Fulda.
i upon the people, the Treasury is always empty.-e-
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G's 13 Pc_s leli:lns which are best Itnewn, and
!The personal expellees of the King and his Court aae
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regularly supplied; but the expences of the town and
which act to the reivirons of Madrid, are thra,e of i
garrison of Madrid, of the hospitals, and of the
the M.silco, Goniaz, Soalechero, Temprano, Garri- !
do, Temnie, E. Almelo, Moraleja, Torment°, Seetto,lConomistiariat, are very irregularly and insufficiently
CutterreA, Milli, &idles, and El Cocinero, who, al. itnadied The Government endeavours to satisfy the The Edinbargh Realer; in ooticing the Sixth RI.T.
port of. the African Institution, sires the tel,Wilitle„'
together, have more than 1600 cavalry. The Eat. demands of their must clamorous creditors, by paper,
in i description of an African King :--t-
Pecleado is at present at Arcos with 1000 men, hay_ which is at 80 per cent. discouot, with/ twopeety • 2, . .: 1
lug been reieforeed, since hie late defeat, with sinnan , the royal manufactories, with furuiteree Said leatly,l- at:; lb° et i% jas. erre* than any of his subjects. I Moe mar,
of Valacempars troops, Both Villaeamspa and Hisse. I with orders for quicksilver from the wises of •Alen'. I Green Gore h000f:, "1
'Jibe !tdislifefolfhietirrfolitishrt_Sno:nectlimes 1111114 .
Court have p'paiate parties. The parties of Durau ',
(Idgi ; the produce of which,- the
.pulal-of: Dalmatia
•to tbo
.1..v,...4.
,titiki,. • Awn.t self, if he has ne wives and children; ite;-has only the name of
ler tarn country c nth% on the bed; he it'ohoged to cork hit*.
.Ichig, witho .t the poteer; he cannot do, as he pleases; when
;ad Montijo antbutit to 4000. men. 1 has aieady appropriated. --1-7--. , •
tysmr
4 Tit.- advantag a derived from these Guerillas ' ern'''. _
olottuedasopsoonanaisasmthuchtv awsitHhetoKtheingk'iaundg.Lhe*
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leelOsite is apa ear, roust have it settled !Wore the rest of the
are, that they oblige the French to maintain a strong ' "It lir Ircl.thiknOlUK4ichill3Williiingii
garrison i!! Madrid, and to keep up a number of Rita tO•111%e
po,i. i if, vitinity ;to employ a great number of iderixttry is yratieeiv ;AM :the evetwityli'or.„tniill.hgoivaereearalii
considerable stuns of money have Iligii.itirilliits'd,frieo„,6:a se marines is the coaditioa
,c'ttnatbpeeleriptreloi7rmediatua.,brt,:aleasoly:li.ialazeaffltiCit:sviilegiottatreinrbssdiv,irta*l!rhKreinueinigciir
winnetritmahtleseyl
soldi ri in ehcortirig couriers and convoys. The'France to Spain for the payineptef,the troops ;•104
King Joseph receives from his btether, a monthly ose
Gaerillsis also impede the regular payment of con-
tributioos, and the arrival of supplies at the differ- allowance,
,bi, waj, of kali), of twa ireilliosis of del., amnesia lie Stec, • below buMerlef it? says,
•Itenisaod) resent
eta ntagnabses and posds of the French army. They whiCh come to Jidatirid under strong escorts." ' ' will wwwwwww ten hios /to has g eatea of the country, 'and it
alo sustain the spirit of patriotism and resistance ; i .
__,______, is dew for the youttcprople to eat as he Jay done; if the pre-
sent coesitti of rum, they all mine have a mite of It, if there
prevent the occupetiou or national property by those i Op Friday last, the fietterai -Officers who earth, t nleTerhelae,eitebiesllo9"fili fug each ;if tohaero, and there
ow 41;0. to Kt ,e every mem leaf, it must be eat so that all
to a+ horn it has been sold by the French; facilitate tute the Board of Claims, of which Idieeteneilts-}e, y tree piece I, sioe tau Ole often' the King grts tone hottle
the escape of the ,Inramennons and of prisoners ; neral Sir 11,teitit B,uattaao is President, held a Meet. tie Wit a,ennutry this g;tr "poor Kings to live in! The trade
imicoesage desettion front the French • aod, lastly, ing aa-their Ofll,• in Weirtminctes r, at which al CoW4r ...no' ayu 1 rites -no Woks of Adeairalty—ne sots f Ott St
rear I'm-044" A Civellernari. No Revenue-no Privy Parse
baressanel diminish the numbers of Ale enemy by derable, numb:lS-of wounded soldiers attended to sob- for Fetes'. fur. seArale llotnehokb. • Even the Mt ‘tirrd ofl the
r Princesses ae further than soother man's; and at a pa-
repeated attacks and surprises. The aderpto, might stautiate their claims for losses in fie 4,eld; 44 fin
w we, if the Aliiitary Commanders which they ebtlieed ann
- Peaog itit, xver, hiliSnsetaka 0 pet itstancst to with more, if. so . ziocb, at-
Ipo of Ft4l ►ere
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Total troops acting against the French

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TRINCII ARMIES IN SPAIN.
French Army under Marmoot and Bonnet, at Valla.
dolid . . . . 40,000
Under Joseph Bonaparte, at Madrid and Toledo 15,000
Under Soult and Monet, at Seville and Cordova:
Souk, at Seville, 12,001 Infantry, 2,200 Cavalry.
Drouet, at Cordova, 7,501 2,000
Before Cadiz,
At Itornos, and 12,000
At Granada -- --
31,900 4,200
Under Suchet, before Alicant and in Valencia
French Garrisons its Catalonia, Amon, Castile, va..:=
lencia, &c. . • • 90,0011
Total French force in Spain . 1.10000

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ST4TESMAC

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Sin,—The following singular fidelity in the sac-
cessios of the Kings of England, I have extracted
from The Political Review, or lyonfhly Mirror sf I
the Tines, for July, said to be.s.Propheey delivered
by a British Bard, in the time of:William:the Nor-.;
man, and preserved by the Monkish Annalists. TIT'
substance is an anathema, or curse, signifying that ao
more than three Monarchs should ever again reigss
over these kingdoms without some violent in.!
terreption. It is, however; undeniable, and demon-
strable to the observation of every one; that Iliirittll'
nals of our history hays hitherto proved it .root cir-
cumstantially true. I place not much reliance in
Prophecies ; but the following appears to me so
wondrous strange, that I am urged by intilination to
send it you to be inserted in your Paper, if yeutisissii
it will be interesting to your Readers :
William the Norman 1 Henry VII. I
William Rufus 2 Henry V 111. 1
I Henry I. S I'dward VI. 3
-Interrupted by the Usorpatioa Interruption by the Election of
of Stephen. of Lady Jane Grey, and we
Henry 11. 1 Bastardization of Kist Hen.
Richard I. 2 ry's Daughtcn.
J oho S Mary 1
Interruption by the Usurpation Elizabeth I
of Louis the Dauphin. A foreign It Ing called In to
Henry 111. I assume the Crown.
Edward I. 2 Jams I. • 1
Edward 11. 3 Charles I. 3
Mica- Inter•---lon )1, the Deposition

"By Yrun returned front Sick
Spat i 4606

Interruption by the A... Interruptio- :y ti.... _
Hon and Murder of Ed- of the Monarch, and ibe
ward 11. ectahlishment of other forms
Edward 111. 1 of Government.
Richard It. 2 Charles 11. 1
Interruption by the Deposition .tames 11. 2
of this Monarch. Interrupted by the Abdication
Henry IV. I of the King, aqd the election
Henry V. 3 of a foreigner.
Henry VI. '3 lVilliam 111. 1
Interruption by the Hone of Anne 2
York. Interrupted by the Parliament-
Edward IV. 1 ary appointment of a to.
Edward V. 2 1 rigner.
Richard 111. 3 George I. 1
Interru,itiou by the Us"ritation George 11. 2
of Henry Rieman'. Gorge 111. S

It must be admitted that th s reign has been Inter-
rupted by the incapacity of the sovereign, and a
Parliamentary appointment for exercising the sove-
reignty. If the arguments of Opposition had pre.
railed, and the Prince of Wales had been addressed
to exec.te the duties of the King, his hither, during
the suspension of the Royal faculties, there might,
perhaps, have been some pretence for saying, that
66 there was no actual interruption of the Regal Au-
thority ;" hut, as if the prophecy was to be literally
fulfilled at all events, and against all the resistance
which the power or wit of man could devise, the
Parliament took upon them to declare the Royal
Power suspended, and provided a temporary eitercise
of it by a new and unheard-of authority,—thit Of
the Lord Chancellor, expressed by the Great Seulif
and they made an actual transfer of it, sat? mode, La
another hand after a certain period, on certain condi-II
tiens as new to the Constitution as subrers74,l
hereditary and successional i ight. Hot 'e'verr
relateato the more early part of our •history innstobey
viewed as'bearing the most stt :king coitformiTY with'
real events, and regularly consistent through, a War
succession of ages.—l am, Sir, your's, ti0.b..% 134' .3 1