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

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insurrections
,And that which hard Wellington
had pot been able to rie,:omplish at the •iiiie
when the French armies were iii Vicuna and Itiii.
gary:• It was believed at least that Eie.,land euu:d
m eke great efforts ; and that, supported by the
fortresses of Ciudad Rodrigo and Almeida,. she
would profit by the embarrassment which these two ,
'sieges gave the French, to give them bit :it
turned out otherwise. The English army was ouly .
weakly !reinforced ; and, instead, of deeds, they
rested satisfied with boasting anil bravado. Ciudad
H.ndrigo was invested ; auniana, and the Spanish
'Colonels, flew from the centre of Estremadura,
with tears in their eyes, threw themselves at 'his
feet, and conjured him to relieve the hfave garrison
of Ciudad Rudrigo, where sOOO chosen troops were
shut up.
" Lord Wellington, who had promised every
' thing, when these troops were placed in the tor.
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tress, retracted when it was necessary to come to
•deeds ; and when pressed, he produced in full
Council a letter from the King of England, which
Yorbail him hazarding any thing. Ciudad Rodrigo. ,
•VI af taken : 8000 chosen troops were made pri.
'inners. Upon this news, the English gave assur. '
tikes that it should not be the same with •Al.
Jileida; and persuaded .the Portuguese to shut them.
isitei up in
.the place: " But of what use will
it be," said the Portuguese, " to shut ourselves
up• in Almeida? If' you will not give battle,
`blow' up; the fortress. If you mean to relieve
ft; irhydlit on not give us the example at Cita.
dad Rodrigo ?"..." The mites ate different,'! re.
' -plied 'Lord 'Wellington: " 1 had orders to the
ctitatsery for Spatin ; I have theta m nut for Portuial.
Besides, I could not engage in the pleins...Of Cie-
dadithdrigo'with a cavalry fire
times more 'names
roursvid better able to manceuvre than mine : but
Almeida 13 a country (till of rocks. When the place
is hesieged,• and the Form,' are fatigued with the
i siege, I will relieve it.", The garrison was shut up
[in 'the fortress, General 'Craufurd, by the' most
' foolish of manoeuvres, caused the regitnents elf his
division tb he cut up. The trenches were Opened ;
the English from their ' camps, beheld 'the fire.
The Portuguese requirea Lord Wellington to keep
his promise, and to retielie their'. countrymen.
" I can do nothing, " replied he ; " my ordCre
are to the contrary." A few days after Altneida
was taken. . •
64 It is related that a Portuguese General said
on that uccasii'm to Lord NVellington—" If you
could not defend its, why excite us to resistance,
and to cover our unfortunate country with blood
and ruins. If you are, in foree,.give battle 4if
yob are too weak, retire, and leave us to make
arrangements with the con'querer." By waif .of
answer, Lord AVdlington' su'unded a retreat; with
a barbarity unknown arnung civilized nations, he
ordered the milli, the ferte3, the houses, to be de.
stroyed, the fields to' be burnt tip, and that a r,ist,'
deserestrould separate' the English from the Fresicis
army. This- conduet is atrocious, and witturt
example in modern afloat.. The Turks and Tartars
alone act thus. • • .
64 If the European., Polik .isi had adopted theists
principles, every thing would be devastated on the
Continent ; the province's of Prussia, of Austria,
would be detterta ; every ifiieg there would hair been
given up to flames and devastation. Ilew i 3 Gin.
neral to be excused, who, le afi send?). country, of
which he declares himself pr ,toctor, and witep to
fiiin shisuld be ea sapid •as lit; own, not b•inr. able
:ets preierve; burno;4.`tivag-s, and destrirs it ?' 1,...is
qfius that la lodiithe ii.t.;lisia have ea.e.e.l myriads
orqiiietitiou'to periiik, fiive -dospuitea by tr,sop;ry
.thellittlialt Ptitices, lihi'S'ilei.rOvil teem by poison,
,t4e.,'llehbill what Constiititila tnesitifferenee,li.",,e..ea
Fratvie sand England.' ll•..ithi'llviO"vi
•lOes.'sliliv4e't.ie
French' are. masters, the •forleiN, 'the' kfteperty ;•.f
individualq 'the stores Of the 46411-ant remain 'waists
their proprietors. ' They ohiyinalte near on tlo .
'iteeign: ' 'fhb 'shoos,the 'talks,' the' marVetti, afro
kopeks.',• 'at fdlitierfilund Paste. If England had thek
lsietteti infivience Us' France on the eoutiuent, s,hu
tiviitild icoldiseatellte merihantie and pfoperty of
ilirlivideali; she. wisittd 'go bailt to the „earliest
'tiros of birharitm ;•.*Ould make the Ocipulation
Slates.; 'weiild drag afteV. her fainilies`,..'aW w 0,914
'4liiin them togetherin..heit Ittits,- : `• *
'b." When France 'shill -)!t mistreaut or )lie Sea, her
4495 aiti partatice•of -Pr get*ttnity or her character.
'fba4fiterilltrof 'fret pritiffkeii
.Oil set lib le 4.110
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hoo time' vlw,

ikikokila on lend.' sill nut be made pri-,
adiaertt; if bewail, betribili will protected by
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• its•fia. • • iv. • ••
'.--iy.Werontilide • then;thill Id their first Expedition
i'the utightltavit tieen'useftil to the Spaniards
but Were hettg,-from'theist leicipacity and e,gotistn ;
thatiiithetted6utExpellitliiitihey behaved as if they
*did 'not 'know* with they had to do, lipd
abitteduned^their pity, when they saw
the seriotit'strtiggietri Whlbliv they were engaged :
that itrthelltirtl, they' fluisnitt the same errors, only
tying•wilaeihey could to 'promote the belief of
`libels atia Calumnies, pois,,o upon the
'Peninsula, and fanningilina Ores discord' and
civil ware inshore, titifit§.l havittnt;:respect for
the- lan' .of. nations°;* 4AV' WA elletO nothing is
• sacred ; and the if :they .4erti as powerful as they
are -weak, by land, 'lf they'hat a shadow of the
potter of Fratiee, the. Continent would wear the
chains which they hate imposed upon the unhappy
llindeos. The law of nations ..od' the liberality of
the Continental code-are' due tis'Firance the bar-
barism of the maritime code Is Otaneio el 4 jai).
once of England on the sias."—Vfoniteur.)
AMSTERDAM, SEPT, V.—A Vecree ,of his Ma_
jesty the Emperor, dared St. Cloud, Aug. 182
.cou..
tains the followinc-article:— .
61 The Cities OTAingterdam and Eottcrdam.shall
be pIat:R(I,II,AM- list of citir good CitieC" •
Thu Duke of Plteentlat peatetiath-Generat of -
;One Emperor in Welland; hal. order. by
'Which those whe tirclinfetitEClD ilio clunks of 40
or 00. per cent, on Colonial' predurel are required
'itio pay, the same Into the hands uf different cashiers
,:tof -the Bank, Who are to.-eatentate the sums true,
fiend depogit theth in the Bank, under their own so.
eurfey. For this, the cashiers and the Dank are to
fetrive 8 cent. •
liastatlaqtt, Strr. (ham fe*Ala'ys
hatS•been renewed the often repeated report, that the
Senator Lucien Bonaparte has sailed fur Asnetics
with b,is datrnilt. • •

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