Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-03-05


shall issue decree, relative to this affair, "a
ereeablc to your directions.-------
" II is not necessary, general, to remind
YOU, that the officer that is to be commission
ed at Aranieuz, must bepossessed OF prudence
and frmness of character, who will punctual-
" observe the orders given to him, and who
will see that they are carried into effect"
(SignedD
Talayera, Oct al.
These expressions indicate without the
least doubt, that Daultanne ordered Toy to es-
cort the mails from Andalusia, and the con-
VOWS for Soults army. Daultanne is chief OF
the Etat Major of the French army, called the
centre, in the same manner as Marmonts ar
nv is denominated the army of Portugal,
Soult's that OF the South, Dorsenne's that OF
the North, and Suchet's that OF Aragon. 1t
appears that Daultanne commands under the
orders of Joseph, and it was his intention that
the army Of Portugal should maintain the COM
municaticn with Andaiusia, to be enabled to
detacb part OF the forces of the army OF the
Centre to sustain the army of Aragon in its
L
gative of Masmont indicates LIST that that
General never thought OF detachIg troops
from his army to reinforce SouIt's, as many
believed I'd, it shews, that between Mar
mont, Daultanne, Joseph and Suchet, there
exists the same fraternity and harmony as We
already knew subsisted between Marmont *
Soult.
Retaliation. The measures of Joseph's
ministers, to which he alludes, is probably the
sale of grain, which they had stored up during
the months that harvest drew near, In the
provinces of the centre of Spain. The total
contribution of grain levied ON the provinces
of Madrid, Toledo, Cuenca, Mancha, Aria,
and Segovia, amounts to 100000 tanegas.
The harvest had been sGanty, and many towns
represented that their quota exceeded what
they had taken in. At Arribas in Segovia,
Almendra in Toledo, and Talavera, the agri-
culturist was inhumanly Wrested OF the fruits
of the sweat of his brow of whole year,
without even leaving seed to sow in the au-
tumn, Dor bread for the winter. In this man
ner they made immense collections of corn,
with the pretext of securing subsistence to
the French armies. Afterwards the grain de-
posted at TaIavera was sold, either on &C
count Of the great want OF mohey, which is
customary at the court Of Joseph, or with the
idea that the army of Portugal was not TO en-
ioy the resources destined for the favored ar
INV of the centre, or with the object of morti-
| flying Marmont, who they well knew was hard
pushed to subaist his army, and whom they
esteem as much as the other Marshals of the
| Empire.
Those points must be where they have
established store houses.
| : 1t is clear that Napoleon governs In the
province of Toledo, without even attending
| to matters of form or appearance, and does not
| avail himself ofthe self denominated indepen-
dent King of Spain and the Indies
i Not to Joseph's Golfers, nor to his court,
| FOR to the store houses of the army OF the
centre. It is easy to perceive Its destination.
| Il Unfortunate people unhappy farmers ss
! iaborers that government which constantly
styles itself your protectors and regenerators,
| and that wishes you to give them the same APP
| pelation, have left you without bread, and
have empticd your granaries {: they have re-
sold to you your own harvests: with the anxi-
! ETY. of cultivating your fields and nourishing
your families, you labored, you made every
exertion, you even ruined yourselves to obtain
those Indispensable objects, and your industry
is repaid by foreiga hireling, called Mar
mont, who deprives you of that same grain
that has been sold to you deposit them in his
store-houses, and then apply to Joseph and his
| ministers for payment, who will indemnify
you with documents of mortgage, or with pro-
misses of future prosperity.