Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1809-05-29
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LATEsT FROM SPIN.
Monday, May %, 1909.


LATEST FROM SPIN.
BY an arrival at Philadelphia, from Ca
.iiE, Gibraltar papers TO the Cd, and Span.
ish papers TO the 4th of April, have been
received by the Editors of the Eeenan's
journal, from whose summary we extract
tie following -
After the battle Of Medelin, in Estrema-
dura, of which we have no detailed account,
the French penetrated into Andalasia, and
were said to be within IL leagues of Seville.
The situation Of Spain, which we cannot
disguise, looks worse than we expected, is
not, however, hopeless. Their allies the
British, who ought TO be supposed to know
the real state of the country, have again
sent fine army Of $4,000 men to their as
sistance. This does not look like despon-
dency, nor do we see any thing of il in our
papers-but the verbal reports of passen-
ger are quite the reverse. He appears to
think that Spain must ultimately yield to
the French power.
The American vessels which had been
so long detained at cadiz, had been restor-
ed through the interference and at the re.
quest of the Marquis de Casa Yrujo.
Verbal accounts state that Gen. Reding
was in Catalonia, and Gen. Cuesta in Estre-
madura-That the Marquis Romano was in
che mountains of As,urias-That nothing
vas known OF Blake-That the army Of la
Mancha formerly under Infan,ado, and late
ly under Gen. Urbino, was totally annihiIs-
,ed-That Gen. Cas,anos was confined in
convent near Seville for misconduct, mo
doub. at the battle of Tudela THAT no
thing was known of Palafox, whether dead
or living, but that it was reported that Sar-
agossa was totally heap Of ruins and des-
troyed, having been rally blown up by
inches, and only 10000 inhabitants remain
ing alive out OF $4,000 which were in The
city when the siege commenced--That az
ter the battle of Medellin in Esuemadur-,
another severe battle took place, in which
Cuesta was defeated, while the French, as
stated above, were menacirg Seville. Such
IS the substance Of cur verbal accounts,
which the passenger who narrated them
states were the reports AZ Csd,z.
Crtract ola letter from Very intelf-
gent and re8hec:abke gentleman IN Ca
diz, 10 his friend in !0biladeLthia ia
ted,
"caDIz, MARCH 81, 1909.
owe are assured that Austria has
declared war. II so, the affairs in this
country will take very different Turn.
The British, Notwithstanding their re-
verses in the north of Spain, have ie-
turned to the charge, and thirty thou
sand men have arrived at Lisbon, and
the vanguard are marching on against
rhe French, and may soon expect to be
up with them. An army OF near
10000 Frenchmen are in the adJoining
province to this, and coming down it is
supposed to attack us, but there is eve-
~ reasonable hote to think every thing
will 90 right for my part, / have not
che least apprehensons. The Spaniards
have suffered much--it was natural TO
suppose they would, and the cause OF
spain has been good deal injured by
the alarm given in England, after the
defeat of SIR ]. Moore's army. These
people suffered much, but mere from
want Of information and management
than any thing else. But af,er all, ii
il is true, which we have every reason
10 suppose, that Austria has declared
war, and she makes any resistance,
nothing is to be apprehended from this
side"
London paper OF March Is, states
-hat an American capt. by the name OF
Mason, gave information olfc. st. Vim.
cent. TO Ad. Duckworth's squadron, oi