Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-09-30


deal more; but this assemblage of circun
stances, so good and excellent in appearapc
but most perricious in reality, because the
rested on NO plan, good or bad, discouract
the garrison, and have been the cause Of Il
fatality, by which it lost all the merit il /,
ACQUIRED up to the moment OF assault.
+" A great number of officers fed from Tar
raeona to avoid the hardships and the DANCE,
some without permission, others soliciting
upon pretexts that were tar from hcnonJe
others feigning sickness, others,in short Con-
hitting acts of bascness to conceal their m
sillanimity and these rot only merit 10 dis.
tinction, bu. ought to be cashiered, otherwis,
they will still have the imrudence to appes,
with their decoration, and say that they were
at the siege.
{" The greater part Of the corps were com.
handed BY captains, from the want OF the com.
mandants who had departed. These captain,
ought to be colonies, and those who bay.
gone off, and have been amusing themselve,
at Villanueya and elsewhere, should be di,.
missed the service otherwise justice viii hot
be done, and it is necessary justice should be
done.
As to myself | have never asked any
thing, and wish nothing else at present but
to be exchanged possible. anxiously wish
to re-enter the field; and in the mean time 4
hope that my wife, who IS at Majorca, vii!
receive part of pay, thing, however, which
l should not ask, if my property was not in
the power of the enemy.
Before the fall of the place, wrote ard
declared openly, that upon the system on
which operations were carried on, or rather
to speak more properly, meditated, the for.
tress, the garrison, and the army, would III.
falli5ly be lost. The Superior Junta Of the
principally can inform you of this, because Il
always took care to aceuaint them with WHIT
was passing; on their side, they did all that
they could, in order that the operation of rais.
ing the siege might be atten'p pied, the only
operation which it was necessary to be en-.
ployed about and to execute without delay,
and in concert with me, whatever were The
numbers & nature of the enemy's torce Which
we had to combat; but it Was al IN vain, and
every day all this was less thought of at head
quarters, as will appear from the letter of &C.
neral Campoverde, in which he orders me to |
send him 5000 of the best troops of the gaf
lison, who were to be embarked in the night
Of the 9th, under the orders Of Col O'Roua Z
who Came to me for that purpose at eleven a
| night. gave orders that he should embaH
| with the regiment Of Almeira; but this az
| rangement did not take place, and no one ta
seen O'Rouan again.
From the same letter may be seen Ii. .
confusion which reisned at head-quarteH
where the Marquis of Campoverde beliewt {
that a>division of 1000 English had arrivedh I
the place, * the English commandment assure |
me that he had only loo men, WHO had let |
Cadiz on the 9th of June. The marquis ala |
wished that the troops which he demanded
me should be embarked the same night, and
he could not but know that this was imposst
BILE, for had no other means but those whci
the English lent me, and the latter had then
none that were disposable."
The following interesting article we cop
from the London COURIER, Of the 9th OF Jul
ly.
AMERICA.
The conduct and known dispositions of th'|
American Government for the last FIVE 81
! six years, and the infuriate wish fora war with
Great Britain in the more numerous, thCusi
least respectable part Of the Anglo-Amere4n
population, have perplexed the thinking men
among themselves and Disguised the noble
minded every where. From their disjunctlon
to the French revolution, and during the ear
lier periods of the Revolution, in what hight
were the AngIo-Americans regarded by Other
Nations of Christendom As People, who
had required at once glory and national indie
pendence, by perious, and for time most
unequal contest with the then most feared and
and most formidable Empire Of the work.
and this too, their Mother-C Country peopi'
who began, and followed up, this most ha'
zardous enterprise, not to emancipate them
selves-for they already cnjoyed an extent
ofliberty both personal and political, imprac'
ticable in the old world, nor yet to repel any
important injury; but almost wholly in the
hroshective defence of freedom and equal
rights, in maintenance of a frjngaNe As
people, who after the successful close OF their
struggle scarcely allowed the name OF legl:.'
, mate Government to any constitution, IN
which the Supreme Power was not perl0di,,
calIy resumed by the nation and re-delegateGi
l,,, +,a no ;oritv and yho IN tbe jealousy OF