Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1812-07-31

men, who came TO exact Contributions. -
Capt. Reig. disturbed the 18Th, about III
| of the enemy who had the same intention,
| and made them retire with some loss.
Eiche de Ia Sierra { Mancha) Aay Is.
The French have in this province pro.
hibited the use of arms to the pessanuy,
who had special permission for 1t, provided
they have a new one, also the tolling ut
bells by day or night, for they say, that il
serves only to advise the brigands Of the
move ments of the imperial troops, OF
whom the desertion is great. The Goth
April Col. d. Francisco Chaees (Curate)
attacked before the gates of Andojar, de.
tachment of sworn Co Joseph killing IL,
wounded MORALLY and gave the life TO
another who came over to US having before
killed one OF his comrades.
CoNcisco, May 90
They write from Belbiestre, dated 30th
April, that general Mendizab.l (Spanish)
was the 22d in Aqlilar de Campo (Old
Castile) with 5000 men, having 10 600 in
San Vincente de la Bafquera, besides 1000
cavalry, and that he arrived the 9Th, near
Herrera, asserting that he went by the way
OF Palencia they add that So Ilt was ex.
pected in CASTLE and that in Vsladolid
were twenty thousand of the enc my in mo.
ton. 1t seems as if the French in that pro-
vince were collecting on the Ebro. Chale-
co (Curate) Is atpresent the hero OF Man
cha. he has united 2COC men according
to the last infor nation he is in the neigh.
borhood of Baiben. The excellent party
oF al ahn 10
want of good leader. They mention the
I'd instant from Witch (Catalono) that the
army will unite there, seemingly tor an ex
petition the day before they took a Con
voy which was going up to Olot. | he
French have 1900 foot and 1900 cavalr,
from V,llamartin to Bomos general Bal
lestsros hae marched towards the Ion of
Gualge KIDD. In Seville the extreme mise.
~ has caused an epidemic and about one
hundred are dy ing every day with it. L:
begins with swelling in the bell, aud keeps
them not longer than one day IN this hnr.
rid state, when death is certain to relieve
them. Almost every day people from the
interior arrived in Cadiz by the wav Of AL
gesiras and Tarfe it was said that gene
raj Ballasteros, who is sending them, has
ten times more applicants tn he is able to
accept, for want Of those requisite means,
and there rs great number must perish for
want OF food he also is sending a great
number OF them to Ceuta, where they be-
come clad, fed and drille d the same way
as in Cad'z and afte wards sent to the diff
ferent armies. Seeing these unfortunate
people coming ashore it is not necessary to
enquire how they are situated in their coun-
Try, for, besides that the greatest part is
without clothing, famine has already paint
cd death 10 their faces, they are nothing but
skeletons, and hardly able TO drag their
falling limbs along to the place where they
are taken care Of. It was said that misery
In the interio, had reache d the highest pitch
ne poor inhabitants, in the part OF Spain
where the war is carried on, are one day
| robbed and ransscked by the French and
next day by their own countr, men. 1t was
generally believed that the harvest would
be abundant, but at the same time that its
success was depending on so many vicissi
tudes and hardly to be believed that it would
escape the rapine of the one or the other
part, and that the true owner would have
to dig the ground for roots or to die of
hunger - he French are very often bonn.
bA,ding Csdlz, but the d,tsnce being 90
great they are obliged to FIJI the bomb with
lead instead of combustibles, in ider to
give them more velocity, without which
they would not reach the place in all the
time that the siege lasts they had as vet
done no damage to Cad,z, and only a few
people wounded.
BADAJaz, May "a
Our allies the British, under general Till
obtained p session Of the works of Alma.
nez the l9'k instant, having killed, wound
ed and taken asa of the enemy cantured a