The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-01-02 00:00:00

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Spaniards make any resistance? There were
none to command them ; nobody knew who he
was to obey ; nobody knew what the General
was about, or even where he was. [lle was
.in
the steeple of °emu.] Guns, muskets, tum-
brels, baggage, all the material implements of an
army, and the army itself, became the prey of the
coneeeror.
If it be not treachery, it is consummate igno.
1 ranee that makes the Junta persist in a system so
destructive. Vithout veteran or skilful officers,
shat can the best soldiers do? The Spaniards
want officer. This they admit, and yet they wish
to continue the war, for the purpose, it should
seem, of giving them time to acquire experience.
There is only one inconvenience attending this
pl in, and that is, they will begin to hate Generals
when they have nu longer any soldiers.
M %Delo, DEC. 6.---On the anniversary of the
coronation of his Imperial Majesty, graml enter-
tainments were given here by the French Am-
bassador, the Duke of Campo-Alange, Minister
for Foreign Affairs, and M. de Azanza, Minister
of Workhip and the Indies.
" At the entert:tiument given by the French
Ambassador," says the Madrid Gazette, " we
remarked several persons of consideration, who,
siuce the commencement of the disturbances in
Spain, had constantly maintained the greatest cir-
emuspection and reserve. His Majesty's return
!After the battle of Deana seems to have been the
1 epoch of a remarkable change in the minds of
men. The satisfaction which begins to beam in
every countenance sufficiently proves, that even
i the most timid lay aside their apprehensions: The
, battle of the 19th ult.—the precipitate retreat of
I the English army to Portugal, who were, the
same day, at Trukillo—the total defeat sustained
on the 28th at Alba de Tonnes, by the army of
Estremadura, left to its own strength—these,
there is every reason to think, are the causes of
this happy change, which permits the inhabitants
of the capital . to.• declare, without any restraint,
their genuine sentiments." . .
.llis Majesty, in a decree of the 2tl inst. calls
upon the rcgltineuts 'of •11w line to furnish) fur
completing his guard, .drafts of such non-com-
missioned officers and aohlierit, 'as may, by their
conduct, have shown themselves worthy of that
mark of distinction.
We learn, that the consequences of the'battle of
Deana have produced the utmost consternation at
Seville, and in some of the Southern Provinces.
Some loudly ascribe them to treason ; others blame
the stupid ignorance of 'their Commanders ;• and
the greater part openly declare themselves dis-
gusted mitt' the inefficiency and oppression of the
Jirota. Alarmed by the complaints which reach
! them from all quarters, the Junta are compelled
to solicit their own dissolution, as the only means
left them of escaping the pnblic resentment and in-
testine division.

VIENNA, DEC. 9.---The Archduke Ferdinand 1
has repaired to Buda, froni his Fluid-quarters at
Bruno, to have an interview nit!, the Ploperor.
It is said that the Archduke John is highly of.
fended at the long official report published by the
Austrian Government relative to the battle of Wa.
gram, and that he has loudly complained of the
passages thetein, which advert to his proceedings.
We remark, pith regret, that several .persons
of ilistioctios indulge in very imprudent observa-
tions against the politi:•al system .adopted by the
Russian Government ; (ruin which it might be in"
fermi that there was a coolness between Austria
and Russia. The cessions which the latter has
obtained from our Court by the Treaty of Vienna,
arc more particularly the subject of the comments
of the discontented, who do not choose to per-
ceive that these sacrifices were perhaps Preferable
to the chances of the resurrection of a great state
in Poland.
By the last accounts from Blida, the Qwsett
was, by the advice of -her physicians, to make a
further stay there of six weeks, previons to her
return to the capital. The Pripet: Royal was I
dangerously ill of the measles. The Archduke
Francis, the elder brother of the Empress, had
recovered of the same disease.
DECEMBER 10.—His Imperial Majesty reached
Preshurg on the 4th, at two u'lock in the after-
noon, in the beststate of heaith. Ile is expected
to return soon to his capital.
• °The Emperor having resolved to make some
changes in the Administration of the Council of
State, has suppressed the offices of Ministers of
itate and Conferences, occupied by Counts Zin.
rmilorf, Zichy, and Meilath, leaving them never-
, Odes% iu possession of the titles and salaries
thereto attached, until his Majesty Anil( bait.
otherwise provided fur them.
AUGSBURG, DEC.B.—Leitcrs from Vienna state,
..
Prince
.ititiif of T.i teratein harrowssoted to
take the supreme command of Upper and Lower
Austria, and that he will forthwith repair from.
his estates to Vienna, to miler -110 - the exercise;
of his functions Among all the Austrian Gene.
rats, he is the principal favourite with the iitha,
bitants, both of the Capital and the Provinces of
the Austrian Empire.

Jas.' Stffles, driver of the hackney-coach, No.
301, .s as fiord twenty shillings by the Sitting Ma-
gistrates at the Worship.strect Office yesterday,
fur gross misbehaviour to a lady of the name of
Cundy and five of her daughters, and for driving
them in a direction dillerent from Oat in which
they wished to go. He was also held to bail fur
an assault on one of the young
Saturday night, about seven o'clock, a yori.ng
man of the name of Peake, belonging to the his,
a transport, lately arrived at Dover, from Flush.
ing, with troops, had the misfortune, in getting on
board by the jib-boom, it being very dark at the
time, to miss his hold and fall into the harbour ;.
notwithstanding immediate assistance was procured I
hu was drowned:
On Saturday last, a Court Martial was held on
board the Gladiator, on Lient. John Root, First
Lieutenant' of •the Peruvian, for flogging ,a man
without the order of the Captain. He was dis.
missed the service; and recommended to thdcousi.
duration of the Admiralty.