Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1808-10-04
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Upon the additional glorious intelligence
which we have this day the happiness to
communicate, we most heartily congratulate
the public. We now clearly discover the
bright dawn of happy day for Europe !;
for Bonapartc, we are persuaded, cannot,
in the. present situation OF affairs, ever re-
trieye himself so far as to regain what he
has lost, or to step the progress OF the con-
sequent rapid decline Of his UNANIMOUSLY ac-
CURED extensive power. Though his past
operations have set all ordinary calculations
at defiance, by overcoming moral difficult
ties. he has never yet been able to surmount
physical impossibilities. The force which
he had marched into Spain and Portugal,
and which, we trust, has, long ere this, been
annihilated, was as,large as he deemed ne
cessary, or perhaps could spare, under all
the circumstances of Europe, and with
view to his Interior designs. The error OF
his estimate of the amount OF force necds-
sary for the reduction Of Spain, and the re-
tention of Portugal, was not apparent TIL
late in June, and it was not till the present
month that means were taken by marching
troops from the interior of France and Hol-
land to correct it. The military 'establlsh-
naent of France though large, must have It's
limits, as well in the moral inability to ey-
tend it, as from the political necesslty.tor It's
dispersed disposition. The army, that we
trust has been, or will be annlnllated lp
Spain and Portugal, was little short OF
10000 men, not inferior to the force en-
ployed at Austerlitz, at Jena, or at Fried
land. and vet if In either OF, these cases, the
whole force had been cut off, no person
would be hardy enough to assert, that the
Corsican could, with the same ceierIzy, as
sembIe second army to retrieve his loss, as
he had sliewn in collecting the FIRST But
Spain is contiguous to France. Granted !;
vet it is not from France that the army can
BE supplied, but from Poland, Dalmati:a,
Germany and Italy and it will remain to pc
proved BY the event, whether that be sprac-
ticabIe, OF will be hazarded. France and
Holland had already been drained to make
up the original invading army, and copse-
quently whatever troops can NOW be collect
ed from either, or both, may be sufficient
for reinforcement, but will be wholly, ina
dequate to affect country defended by
above nillion:of in arms 1t is not
by the gems d'armes of France, or the. cor-
script.of the years1So9 or. 1S1o, that the
brave patriots of Spain, having the expefi-
ence of some months warfare, Injured to the
tolls of campaign, flushed with recent VIC
tory, and determined to conquer or perish,
are 10 be subdued. Such an operation de-
nands the best troops Of the French army,
and in much greater. numbers than their
blood thirsty tyraut will dare to draw toge-
ther. IF Italy is to be retained, it Dallpa-
tia is to be kept, if Germany in her present
menaeiiig attitude, is to be watched, if the
population OF the north Of Holland, nay e.
ven of France itself, is to be awed by the
presence Of military force J; if, in fine, the
Corsican be not prepared t. abandon all the
other parts OF the continent, and put even
his power IN France to thehazard, for his
Internal but desperate designs upon SPAN,
he will not, he cannot within any reasonable
time, collectan army adequate to give him
a chance Of its, reduction. This business
must be done, or attempted, by French
troops only. There is something SO electrl-
cal in the TRANSMISSION Of the patriotic lire,
that it would not be safe to employ the
troops of the Confederation of the Rhine a.
gainst the Spaniartls. The animated spec
tacle of brave and gallant, but lnsulted
nation, gloriously contending with the de-
strovers Of Europe, in defence OF their
hearths and their affairs, their king, their
country, and their God, would inevitably
awaken them to sense of native oppres-
sion and the first moment of such retro
spective feeling would detaeh them fromthe'
tvrant, to make common cause. with the
common objects of his persecution and In.
justice. It will not even be safe to intrust
troops made of such materials with the