The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-02-10
POLITICAL.
COUP D'OEIL.


1t il said that the French army that has enter
ed Spain, consists of eight legions commanded
as III 1S03.o %, and 1907, by as many msrshals-
These are, Ney, Monesy, Bessieyes, Gfortier, LIZ
Jeopre, Vietov, SOllft, and enc oui.er, whose maine
does not appear but from the cotemporaneous
advices, we find that Berthie,, DGvoust and Yu.
not, were on the march the first, no doubt. to oc-
cupy his important position, as chief of the gene.
raj staff Davoust, with his select grcnadiers.
and Junot, with his Portuguese catitulaats !; the
latter had entered Spsin about the date of the
battle of Valmcseda. Taking the corps named.
as the only corps, which was the course pursued
in 1867, each corps complete, may be estimated
at 25,oO electives, which alone gives 200, eOe
men. But we also learn, that there is to be a RE-.
serve, and unquestionabiy this will be the course.
Perhaps the general rendezvous will be 1ouiosse.
IN the department of Upper Gsronne. 1t stands
m much the same relative position TO Spain, that
DGos served for Germany and Italy, ii is equally
convenient to supply the passes Cor kcys) of the
Pyrcnees, which, for the benefit of those editors
who have not the requisite knowledge for their
stations, we state to be between Orthes and O.
rogne, and ST. Teand de LaS, on TIE Bayonne side
lrun being within the pas, and PampcIuna about
IS miles farther adyartced into Spain, & the chief
place of Navarro.
On the othcr coast, that is to say, of the Medi-
terranean, the principal pass Cor key is between
Bcllegsrde on the French side, and Jonquiera on
the Spanish side ; Figueras, Il strong position, is
in Spain, afew miles from Jonquiera, and Roses
is a seaport of Spain, farther from the KEY.
There is a pass i'll the mountains called Saint
Louis, between tue sources of the Legre, which
runs into Spain, and the let river, which falls in.
othc Mediterranean near Perpignsli,atte Which
place 1T IS sometimes called, as well as after Col
lourc Il few miles further south.
There is another which leads by the sources of
one of the fol Ks of the Gar0nne, through, the val
ley d'Aran, which presents miiitarvro,,tes cover.
ed by the rivers Iyu1s A..ot-ra oI Dy-L-
but as Catalonia is already occupied, aid the
roads by the two coast passes are equal 10 any in
Europe, on the French side it is not to be sup.
posed that they would. without ne necessity, resort
to any other, nor to two smaller routes which are
to be found i'll the neighborhood of Barepcs and
RonccvaIes, which lead directly into ARA.
gon.
II IS now evident, that the Spanisrds are be-
hind their neighb0rs IN the science of way, AS in
deed they appear TO be, rs 81 nation, behind every
other in Europe two centuries. Tley have dis.
played their incaracity for IA contest against Inc
con.querors OF Europe, III the whole conduct OF
their measures.
They appear not only TO be destitute of disci-
pine, but oftlic knowledge how particular troops
should he employed. Among other strange mis-.
takes, they threw a corps of rilemen into rcg,.
lar fortiicatIoH to defend a siogc with Cannon and
An attack by sap-lnstead of forming , plan of
campaign, and employing able men to cxecutcit
lAN1 AAI Il III
yrOconsuls in the early part OF tieir revolution,
toplsh their generals forward they have not
indeed sent CafHofS nor AferHa5, nor Laezes but
counsciiors OF the inqaisitioii, and generals Of the
%cioister whose superstition was to s0pgiy ana
muRltion, and whose maths AVID vcspeis were TO
silence the cannon iav OF modern tactics.
The Fpblai system was the ONLY system for
such a peopie-ior such 4 country for ANY pco.
pic without discipline, and with room to move in.
The Spanisrds, to succeed, must net come a.
pitched 6GfHeS-but [ey0sxfes, tho lie has had
the c:cditof writing down Romance, wrote in
VAN lor his countrymcn, III expecting 60 succeed
were to the eyes oi common Sense AS ridiculors
as Don QliXotle in his attack upon the wind.
mill
There can be no Teoson TO expect any other is
sue OF tie war, than tjc immediate and complete
Subsection of spain. Tie f%ugitiyes who have
been 50 fatally blinded as TO hazard all fot a choice
of masters, and who had not the intellect nor the
virtue, to stand forth ior that Hbt1y which makes
defence tic cOismOn csuse OF otegy man who
IS free tlp:sc infatuated bigots nay take refuge
IN Jieak 'aiiics or declcViLes Of Ga.ticia . Oh
W ireary mountains OF Grenada, ami main.
tam 2 futile warfare till ticy arc c.tlcr ~snbiura.
ted by cOiiceH,rlc columns as were the TyySisc
or extTpatcd like their predecessors the kioors.
Those silly men who arc e~tcrnaily prating with.
out Stamina ~ thought, and mhU RVS atsu. On.