The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-07 00:00:00

FROM THE SEVILLE G4ZETTE.

BARCELONA) JULY 20.--The victims who were
sacrificed here on the 3d of June last, were Dr.
Pon, Father Gayeta, Juan Massana, N. Aulet,
and a serjeant from Soria. Thu first was a Doctor
of Civil and Canon Law of the University of Cer-
vera, and Rector of the fortress. Being asked by
the Judge whether he had distributed 50 musket,.
he answered yes ; and that he should do it again,
had he un opportunity. Being asked for what
purpose he had done it, he answered, to defend his
King, Religion, and Country. It being retorted
upon him that he was doing the contrary, since
his religion forbade the shedding of blood, his
King did not desire it, and his country abhorred
it; he replied, that they neither professed nor un-
derstood the Roman Catholic Apostolic Religion,
nor acknowledged Ferdinand VII. as their King ;
that they had, therefore, another country, awl it
was no wonder that they should speak as they did.
Being asked to whom he distributed those muskets,
he said to good and faithful Spaniards, and that
he would not betray their names. He suffered the
garrote.
[rho garrote is a mode of strangling by means
of a screw.]
The second was a priest, the Superior of St.
Caytano. He died the last, having administered
the last consolations of religion to the others,
and suffered the garrote with the utmost serenity.
The third was a merchant's clerk, belonging to
the house of Llurdella. He was con►icted of of.
fering to purchase stores belonging to the Com-
mandant. Being reproached by the French Ge.
octal with being a traitor, he replied, " It is your
Excellency who is the traitor; who, under the
mask of friendship, seized our fortresses. I have
but tried to regain what you wickedly rubbed us
of." He was hanged.

The fourth was also a young man, of whom, as
well as of the Serjeant,-the particulars are not as.
certained ; but all accounts agree, that they were
both hanged, basing merited the appellation of
martyrs of their country, and perhaps of their re.
ligion.
Savitt.E, AUGUST 9.—The Duke del Parque,
Captain-General of Old Castile, announces, that
some of his detachments from the army of Ciudad
Rodrigo having approached Salamanca, this Intel.
ligence spread terror among the French and their
partisans; the good Spaniards were so fined with
joy, that some of them incautiously expressed
their satisfaction : among others, an apothecary
shouted Viva Fernando Septimo ; on Thick he

PIWPOSITI TENAZ.

LONDON:
THU ItSI)AY, SLPTEN DER 7.

Wino the Duke of DALMATIA fled before the
Baron of the Douro, and escaped through the
mountains which separate Portugal from Gal!leis,
we were told that his army was irretriez:ably
rained—and subsequently, great pains weie taken
by Ministers, through the medium of their hire-
lings, to persuade the people of England that
the French armies iu Spain destitute of
food—clothes—and money—and disported with
the contest, sought but for permission to
evacuate the Peninsula without molestation. To
the rumours thus propagated, succeeded that of
the flight of King JOSEPH from Madrid. This
delusion was for many days swallozzcr/ b►• the in.
futuated readers of those hackneyed, prostituted
vehicles of falsehood and absurdity—Vic Courier,
&e.—At length the junction of the Baron
with Curt opened the cheering prospect of
a march to Madrid, and the intercepted cer.
respondence of SOUI.T completed the delu.
sion. That the French were subdued, depres.
sed, and meditated their retreat from the Pe-
ninsula, it was at that time as criminal as stupid to
doubt. Such, however, was our density, that
rze never could see matters in the same light with
Ministers and their hirelings, notwithstanding the
vigorous co-operation of Marshal BLRESFORD,
and the modern Xenophon, Sir R. IVlr.som.
To thus• who had swallowed the authentic Intel.
ligence of JOILPII'S flight from Madrid, the pre-
' scrim of this " bibulous" Monarch with the
army of Vicron, was a little puzzling—fur al-
though he certainly had quitted Madrid—it could
not be discovered that he was moving in the direc-
tion of the Pyrenees. The organs of Govern-
ment then cheered the people with the prospect
of the annihilation of the French who had had
the temerity to advance to meet the Baron—
when all our hopes were damped by the refusal
of CULSTA to co-operate in the meditated at.
tack—and the public hail the mortification to
learn, that the French turned upon their heel and
were in full retreat upon Madrid. There was no
hope then but that they might be overtaken—the
combined armies pursued—but in a ♦ery few days
they in their turn retrograded, and finding that the
French were rapidly advancing, resolved to moke
a stand at Talavera. History will record the
lour of the British army in that destructive
battle, which deprived is of live thousand men !
For this disastrous rictory---the Park and To r
guns were fired—the Metropolis presented a set ne
of universal joy aid gratulation---His Royal

Highness the Prince of WALE' himself read the
dispatches to his guests at Briglituo—Lord
siltrs and Mr. Sli Lit IDA !I Made appropri.ou
sp.-whey from their chairs...good humour and

satisfaction shone in every countenanc..l--
and fur what ?—for the bravery with which the
British army had repulsed this enemy ?...that was
already too well c;stablishml to retpoire the confir-
mation of the sanguinary days at Talavera...and
there did not at the 111U3ICIlt appear to be the
remotest possibility, of advantage, beyond'
that of having been able to rei:/the the
salient:. To the most supertkial mind, it
might have been demonstrably erilont, that
except the honour of having maintained the
national character—the success, was of that
species so luminously described, by the nsetaphj.si.
cal Mr. 11'1111)1'am —.negative ; —and in announc.
ing to the public on tho 15th of August the
battle of Talavera, we said —" Our opinion
C 6 respecting the issue of the contest is not
gg altered in the slightest degree by this
ft event, so glorious-to the British arms—but by
gg which nothing but glory will be obtained."—
What was the almost immediate consequence of
this victory ? —The retreat, lira of the British,
and then of the Spanish army—and in a very few
days after the prof uund Cons icr had, in the abun.
dance of as taste and wisdom, compared the day
of Talavera with that of Agincourt, the whole
herd, with 7'he Times at their head, gravely as.
sured us that the victorious British army bad taken
upa sat position—eighty miles in the rear of Nye
,field of battle—leaving behind its sick and wounded
to the mercy of the beaten enemy, under the fy.
ing King Josam—Let not the people of Eng.
land for one moment suppose, that in thus des.
cribing the frivolous levity with which their de.
ceivers have delud,:d them...we do not feel
most poignantly the disgraces...the disasters—
and the• dangers in which this infatuated
Country is now so di.seply...so scandalously,
.we will not say irretrievably, immerged—for
the people) and the people only, can yet rescue
t(ie Nation from the Imminently dreadful si-
tuation, M which it is at this moment
placed. That very Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY,
who, by OF advice of his Majesty's blinis.
tern, has Ira crested a Baron and a Viscount,
has retired from Talavera to Deiletosa, and
is now endeavouring to make his escape
with the British army under his command, from
that very army, for beating which at Talavera he
was raised to the dignity of a Viscount of the
United Kingdom. Of the contents of the din.
latches which have beeti this day received from
him, we are ignorant-- but sufficient has trans.
Aired from the Pickle brig, Lieut. Gooowys,
arrived at Plymouth from Lisbon, which she
left on the 24th of August, to convince us not
only that the cause iu the Peninsula is hopeks:,
but that our armies arc in great distress and its
great dander. T'lte British army is retreating ra.
pidly on Portugal. Let those solve the problem
who can—but the fact is, that our artily is Wei ally
starving—and yet the French, destitute as they ss ere
of every thing, dispirited and disgusted, can follow
us in our retreat, through Provinces which are
necessarily desolated by our march !! ! Indigna-
tion and sorrow alternately predominate in our
hearts, when we see almost a rch,de nation, once,
and that so justly, respected, fur gu AI sence,blind.
ly, nay even accessarily submitting to the grossest
system of falsehood and delusion. We well know
how hateful to the infatuated and deluded are
those who, UNCONNECTED WITH .tND DISREGARD-
! NG ALL PARTIES, dare, as we have the courage to
du, plainly, openly, and honestly, to tell the Peo.
pie of England TILE TRUTH. We well know
how hateful to the reptiles of corruption arc the
naked truths which Mr. CuSZETT has so ably and
and soindependently labourod to maintain. But
the time must come when the People of England
will be roused to a full sense of their really despe-
rate situation—and that time most assuredly is nut
far distant. Those who have su long laboured to
support the measures of the system of the last
seventeen years—by rshich system they have been
enabled to rise to that pre.eminence of wealth,
which is uow the solo criterion of merit, would
do well to reflect on the consequences that must
ensue, if we are at 'length driven over that
precipice, at the very brink of which we cer.
Willy have arrived.
It is very comfortable philosophy, to wrap
ourselves up in the confidence that the sys'etn
may last our time--this is a doctrine perfectly
congenial with the selfishness of aecnmulatiou
but it is unsound, precarious, an.l at this mom, ut
pregnant with danger. Disbelieving and ehre-
.
garding the lies and trumpery with *Well the
public has so long been inundated by the
venal press of England, we have nut hesitated
to tell the people unr real sentim, The
: stern of the press has long heen to tiek'e
the public—just as they would a trout— that
they may wore securer calash them.—Alloct-
ing a regard for that people w hose pockets
'are the sAc objects of attracii ot--!ho Prints o'
the metropolis retail their do.) nal anodyne: .