The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-07-29 00:00:00

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ILong Ann... 2O 13-1 Lottery Tickets—. 144 14s'
• Imp. S per et Con. for Acel.BlB9ll4lBo*
0,0 In answer to the st sond epistle signed "Joseph
Ady," we take occasion to inform the applicant that the
Report of the proceedings at the Mansion House. on .
" the complaint" concerning which he enquires, may las.
found in the Morning Ihrald, of the 24th instant.
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neonens hoe or Gombella,
beasts 700 'ftee,lbldonglag to Morales.—
Padilla bad taken alike ses•foreeof Morales in
the Lsgoon,snd keeps him entirely surrounded—bas cut
B, I off all his resources. Momlers cannot now escape.
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Stocks fell yesterday; and an Ultra paper is this
morning anxious to chew that there exists no reason why
they should fall—" because Molitor is advancing from
Grenada, to join Boarmont and Bourdesoult, and that,
when they have effected this junction, there will be
24,000 French troops before Cattle, instead of having
retired behind the Ebro." Yet they may, after all, I e
compelled to retire. The assembling of no army is no
proof thit it will be able to effect its purpose.; and there
is some reason why the French funds should fall, which
will not be removed even when Cadiz is taken. It is evi-
dent that France is too feeble for the task she has under-
taken. The portion of it which they hoped would be per-
formed by the Spaniards is left to their own execution. They
are no where assisted in their efforts to restore thedespoti ems
Those who are not with the Cortes, are not against them.
The Freech find either hostility or indifference, as far
as the mass of the people is concerned ;an they have
extended their force so much as to leave it absolively
powerless, where circumstances admit of any organized
resistance. The first town invested by the French, on
their entrance into Spain, still bids them defiance ; nor
have they the most distant hope of its surrender. This
speaks sufficiently the inadequacy of the French force to
accomplish its object :—And every day developing this
fact the more clearly, the parties who have been im-
posed upon by the pompous description of the irre-
sistible power of a French army of 100,000 men, find
that It Is broken up into a number of small corps, barely
strong enough to march from town to town, and ~o
more formidable at the places they occupy, then they ,
were at the places they leave to take up new positions.
There is no ptospect of any thing decisive warring :
Our warfare against America is revived in this contest
between France and Spain. The object is the senile in
both cases;—to establish a depotism against the will of
the people. We were, in the first instance, more trium-
phant in America than the French have been in the
Peninsula.. Wherever our soldiers came, they were
conquerors, for may years. The hope of victory scarcely
entered into the mind of an American officer. AU that
was expected, was to be able to itarrass, to weary, and
to exhaust. America had few of the advantages for re-
silience, now possessed by Spain ; and yet she ulthave
ly triumphed, because she was determined not to be sul-.
deed. It was soon discovered that no military fort a
could be large enough to occupy a nation. The conse-
quence of this discovery was, that the Britisliarmy only
held the ground upon which it stood. When it moved,
it left its past conquests to resume the attitude of hostile
defiance. it could effect nothing, because it could
**care nothing. This will also be the ease in Spain,
if the Spaniards pews; Xiii.eitlcats resolution, and
American perseverance. Mina has shewn himself already
a worthy rival to the military fame of Washington :—ar d
there is no indication of any intention on the part of
Spain, to submit to the yoke of the invaders. We bear,
it is true, of Spanish Royalists :—So we did of American
Loyalists; and when there was soy Woo) be given swat','
they were found in swarms about the British camp : but
in the field they were a sort of " Army of the Faith," far
more troublesome to their friends, than formidable to
their enemies. Thus in Spain there are a few scoundrels
who, In the hope of making terms with tyranny them.
selves, are ready to sacrifice the liberty of the nation
and there are also some men credulous enough to follow
such leaders, thanks to the bad soil in which the real n
in. Powers have been left to wither. But the number of
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both classes must be comparatively small. He Awn be
l'•
leoorant, or fanatic, indeed, who would wish for the de
graded condition of a slave. Few intellects can be
reduced to such an ebb, and have the ridiculous appear-
ance of the Army of Faith !—the timbers of which are
'diminishing instead of Increasing. This is another gaol
indication .of the state of public opinion in Spain.—
The check before the walls of Corunna has been the
parent of the panic which begins to seize the Ultra-fund
holders—the speculators for a rise ! The affair itself
was glorious; but the consequences are likely to be still
more beneficial. It is curious to hear an Ultra Scribe
lament the waste of life in these contests. He " fears
" the only effeat of Sir Robert Wilson's efforts will la
" to cause a great loss of life, without the prospect of
" any ultimate benefit to the cause he has espoused.;
What mean, what despicable hypocrisy is this! The
scribe fears no such thing. He fears that the loss of
life, prodnoed by tire resistance of the Spaniards, will
either save the town, or compel the French to purchase it
at a greater price than they will find it worth to them.
His fears are, that the Holy Allies may be defeated is
their infamous purposes. He begins to speak respect-
fully of Sir Robert Wilson, because the French havefels
that be is opposed to them. The Spaniards, entrusted
with the defeats sf Corunna, know that any weakening
of the French army is'of incalculable advantage to them ;
and, we trust that if Commis mast fall, many thousands
of the French army will be destroyed before it, or buried
in its ruins. We have no pity for them; because they
have no business there. If it be said the" poor soldiers"
are not to blame—that they cannot help it—we answer
THU csw.—They can tell their officers they will not be
led m the butchery of the innocent, and to the deso-
lation of an nnoffending country; and if their officer
are the determined tools of tyranny, they can shoot
them instead of the Spaniards; and thus put an end
to the contest.

The Freneh bulletins continue to be the most amnsinr
things in the world. A melodramatist might pick out
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a good story from the alleged adventures of Mina ; who
in spite of frozen feet, and mortal sickness, has set out
again for the rear of the French army, and bids fair t•
raise the blockade of Barcelona, by a diversion on the
frontiers of France. The Drapean Blanc, a Frentb
Ultra paper, as furious and as slavish as any of our own,
is blaming Marshal Moncey for hating made three
grand faults in hit pernsife of bItNA: One of them is,

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