Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-10-06

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| and In the possession of the Spsniards.
The advanced division of the Spanish
force supposed by general Cu.sta to have
reached Araniuez, within 30 miles of Ma
drid.
A central division of the Spani sh forces
at Toledo, on the Tagus, 80 miles from
Matrid.
headquarters of the Anglo-H spano-
Portuguese army ut ell Bravo, in the neigh =.
borhood of Talavera de la Regina, and con-
| tiguous to the field of battle.
by these positions it appears that the de-
sign of general Wellesley and Cuesta was
to keep the main French force employed on
the Alberche whilst, by pursuing the course
OF the Tagus as far as Araniuez, and then
filing Oft TO the left and following the course
OF the Manzanares, approach Madrid un..
expectedly, which they might expect to
find Invested of sufficient force to defend it
How far, even if they can reach Madrid,
they may be disappointed, we shall proba
bly, soon learn.
There are, in General Cuesta's account
OF his conflict with the French, whe rein he
appears to claim. a victory, two very sin.
| gular circumstances
1. In the combats Of the 9th and 28.h
| of July, the French 7vere the assaiiantS.
2. In the same combats, Whatsoever
side was victorious, the Shaniards and their
allies did nor hursue.
We merely call tse attention OF the rea-
ders to these facts, leaving them to draw
their own differences.
The Baltimore North American is to be
merged in the Federal Republican, another
paper OF the same gems but of worse
Shecies. Thus it is that one monster swal-
lows up another.
The English account of the battle in
Spain throws a little more lighs -poh that
| affair. Ii seems that Joan Bail met with
! the rub5ers. rhe French were not con-
quered, but only repulsed The British "a
lone had 1854 men kiled and lost. and
1913 wounded. This is confessed III the
English official account. 1t is notorious
that the British Always put their allies in
the most periious positions; they invariably
served the Germans so aud there can be
little doubt but they have acted in the
same manner with the Spanards and Por..
tugaese: The English, then, having lost
5Oo1 IN killed and wounded, the Spaniards
and Portuguese, in all probability, have
lost twice as many, whereby the sum tota
| OF the o-Hispano-Portuguese army, in
Killed, wounded, and prisoners, may nave
been fifteen thousand. rnis we tntaA a
/ very probable conjecture; tlk'aS o. 10.
glsh at their word.
The absurdity of the English is very
conspicuous ln-sheIr firing the towers uas,
because they lost 5000 men! BY the same
| rule, 1t they lose the army they nave sent
to the ocheidt, they will fire, not only the
lower guns, but AZ the guns IN the nation.
The british ministry, emphatically speak,
Ing, have subjugased the k,ssdons OF con-.
t,nental Europe: because had they not
! paid the Austrians, the Prussians, the Por-
tuguesc, and other powers, to put them.
selves in hostile array against the French
emperor, the latter woula never have been
able TO unite in his own person and under
his particular individual authority, that
immense mass OF power by which me mas
been enabled to subdue all the potentates
around him. Win any man OF common
sense believe, for moment, that Bona.
parte would have ever resumed To over
! throw the old Spanish monarchy, if, by the
| opposition created TO him at various tim IS
by the English ministry, he had not previ-
ously made himself potent enough to con-
quer SPAN!