Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-10-19
atgyanDrts zoatIp Gasetta.
fRIDAY, OCTOBER 10.

A letter from the public minister OF JOS.
Bonaparte, at Paris, to Joseph's secretary
of foreign affairs at Madrid, has been in
tercepted, and published in the Lisbon pa
pers. The editor of the Norfolk Ledger
has procured translation. BY this letter,
detailing a conversation the minister had
with Galore, it appears that 100000 men
have been sent into Spain, and upwards Of
2oo,oOo,Ooo francs, by which the treasury
of France was nearly exhausted. Bona.
parte complalsed that Joseph had not rob-
bed the churches to the extent he might and
ought to have done, nor levied contributions
nor Plundered, to pay his army, as he Ma
poleon had ever done: he complained, that
there was great deal of specie in Spain,
but Joseph had not possessed the art or used
the force to obtain it: and that it was use
less to send more armies there on account
of desersion. Joseph's minister tried to
persuade Napoleon that they had robbed all
the churches p!undered all The cash they
could find, levied contributions, &c. and
that des-r,ions were not now so frequent as
they had been. On the whole i, appears
from the letter that Bonapar,e is quite dis
satisfied with his brother and seems al
most hopeless of the reduction of Spain.
From the i'll success his armies have hiihcr-
to had; from the impossi5ility of ever
gaining the affections or securing the obcdi-
ence of the Spanish if conquered; from the
exhausted state Of the French treasury
from the frequent assertions from the loss
of all hopes respecting Spanish South Ane-
RIGA; we think it highly probable thar az
end viii soon be pat to the Spanish war, by
sorue arrangement to which the Spanish will
agree which must be on terms little ad-
yantageous to the French. Many suppose
that lh- empress has an ascendancy over
hg, & that her influence has occasioned his
relaxing his rigor towards Spain. The OPP
position the French have met in S,,ain, SO
great, SO long, SO obstinate, has dishearten-
ed toe emperor. He is fighting people
truely unknowing how to yield" TO
have sabdueda pr. is no security Or the
retention of command over them. Fear
rnay cause < temporary quiet, but secret and
uusuddued hatred will seek the frs; oppor.
,unity for revolt. IF the whole country
were al this T.. on1ent subdaed, vast French
army would be constantly required to keep
it in subsection, such an army as mast keep
Napoleon, with all his men and resources,
miserably poor. The Spanish mind, reused
by injury, has terocious, gallant, invinci
HE, revengefu!, determination. Towards
the French, however, no conduct can be
deemed ferocious, no revenge unjustifiablc.
Their commerce fettered, their specie out
of circulation, the p':nderers find but emp
~ Golfers. They must eat, and the Spanish
take no pleasure in raising feed for their
dcstroyers. And the French troops, espe-
ciaIly the foreign, are So dissatisfied with
their situation, half clothed, hungry and
unpaid, that deser,on takes place as often
as it can be done with safety. Notwith-
standing the dependency Of many relative
to Spain, We sill entertain hopes, even a
belief, that the French will never subdue
them.
DREADFUL FIRE.
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