Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-07-16

in Madrid that the 9TH regiment (S,. ~
had entered in Santander, and made psaAl
many prisoners it was also said that Tia y s
tor, hid killed from so to 40 of the enc y. Dc
tween Talayera and Avifa; and that g
had beaten one thousand French near D u'O4
anda de Bracamonte, of which 400 onI. s"''
themselves. A convoy Of money Which '' w
poleon sent to Joseph, bad received o,J.. W
Bayonne to go back The Inhabitants If !
da (Valencia) put to flight detachme., q
Frenchmen, who came to exact contritpf,
Capt Reig, disturbed the 18th, aboat ~ NV
the enemy who had the same intention
made them retire with some loss
Elche dela Sierra { lNancha) MINI,
The French have In this province prohib;s,
the use of arms to the peasantry, who W.
special permission for it, provided they b,r 49,
new one, also the tolling Of bells by dav,
night, for they say, that it serves only to ~
wise the bTigsnds Of the movements Of ~ |
imperial troops, OF whom the deser,ioO
great The Goth April Col D. Franc;S
Chalees (Curate) attacked before the gste,s,
Anduiar, detachment of sworn Ito JoseDT
killing !, wounded mortaly and gave Il!
life to another who came over to US hayaa
before killed one of his comrades.
CoNscIso, May %
They write from Belbiestre, dated Sotb
pril, that general Mendizabe Spanish W.,
the ED in Aquilar de Campo (Old CastikI
with 5000 men, having 10000 in San Win.
cente de la Barquera, besides 1000 cavalv
a. L. ~
asserting that he went by the way of Palench.
they add that Soult was expected in CagI.
and that in Valadolid were twenty THOUSAND
of the enemy in motion. 1t seems as if the
French In that province were collecting on the
Ebro. Chaleco (Curate) is at present the he
TO OF Mancha, he has united 1000 men; &C.
cording to the last information he is in he
neighborbood of Baiben. The excellent par.
ty of Francisquete goes half erring about for
want of good leader. They mention the d
instant from Vich (Catalono) that the army
will unite there, seemingly for an expedition;
the day before they took convoy which was
going up to Olot. The French have 400
foot and 1000 cavalry from Villamaftin
Bomos; general Ballesteros has marchedm.
wards the Inn of Gualgexdo. In Seville TIE
extreme misery has caused an epidemic and
about 100 are dying every day with it. ltbe.
gins with swelling in the belly and keeps
them not longer than one day in this horrit
state, when death is certain to relieve them
Almost every day people from the interior
arrived in Cadiz BY the way of Algesiras and
Iarlfe: it was said that general Ballastep,
who is sending them, has ten times moreap.
pllcants than he is able to assent, for want Of
those requisite means, and there is great
number must perish for want of food lie al
SO is sending great number ofthem to CeU
ia, where they become clad, fed and drilled
the same way as III Cadiz and afterwards
sent to the different armies Seeing thess
unfortunate people coming ashore it is not ne
cessary to enquire how they are situated IN
their country, for, besides that the greaes
part IS without clothing, famine has ALREADY
painted death in their faces, they are nothing
bot skeletons, and hardly able to drag their
failing limbs along to tie place where they
are taken care of. 1t was said that misery in
the interior had reached the highest pitch
The poor Inhabitants, in the part of SPAN
where tho war is carried on, are one day rob-
bed and ransackcd by the French and next
DAY by their own countrymen. Il twas gene
rally believed that the harvest would be abund'
ant, but at the same time that its success was
depending on so many vicissitudes and hardly
to be believed that 1t would escape the rapMs
ct the one or the other party and that the true
owner would have to dig the ground Tor roofs
or to die of hunger 1.-The French are very
often bon'barding Cadiz, but the distance be-
ing SO great they are obliged to fill the bomO
with lead instead of combuStibles, in order 10
give them more velocity, without which they
would not reach the place in all the time thai
the siege lasts they had as yet done 70 damage
to Cadiz, and only few people wounded
BADAJoz, May a..
Our allies the British, under general Iil'
obtained possession of the works of AlmaneI,
the 10th instant, having killed, wounded anu
taken s58 of the enemy, captured gIeS
quantity of military stores, 8 pieces ofartlHS
ny, sc. and the bridge of 40 boats.
Mrabata is blockaded by our generals.