Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-07-16
LATEST FROM SPAIN.
By CAPT. Dzverhagen, Of ship Severn.
GIBRALTAR, May 10.

They write from Malaga the til inst.
The contributions do not cease and misery
is extreme However we have the consola-
zion that the next crop bears the most pro-
missing appearance. Few people eat bread !;
a great many eat herbs and roots; every day
die 20 to 25 persons by mere hunger and mi
sery. Rats have become in these days re-
calling food, and sought with desire. We ne
yer knew ourselves in an equal adversely.
MURcIA, May 5.
Col Don G MeriDo, attacked 9th ut. be-
tween Amanda and Penaranda de la Posa
body Of or 700 Frenchmen and surrounded
them in such manner that not one escaped.
Directly after it he shot 20 for every one OF the
Junta of Burgos, who were SO impiously muir
dered in Soria 10 for the Secretary of the
Intendency and all equal number for every one
of the officers, who had been sacrificed prior
in the same manner, through the barbarlous
ferocity Of the enemy Immediately alter the
officers together with the commander OF the
prisoners, wrote to the Governor of Burgos,
and demanded to hang the Infamous Spaniard
Moreno, victualling commSsary tor that dis
ttict, with the threat that if he did not COM
ply, they, the mentioned commandment and Of
hcers would be executed-which without
doubt will be verified and perhaps also with
the rest of the prisoners, for the Leader is op-
posed to spare their lives.
CoNc1so. May %.
The General in Chief of the Cd and Sd ar
nov has the Cd inst. officially given notice to
St. Duran, that he demands competent salts
faction from the nearest general of the enemy,
for the murder of members of the Junta of
Burgos, and if not obtaining that he shoots
ten prisoners for every ore Of them. The
brave Merino; after the success of the 9Th
of April, in which he killed by his own hand
IL of the enemy, surprised 400 between Ler-
ma ard Bavon; the most cavalry of whom
few escaped in the first action his loss was
only lo killed and wounded, one of them ex-
claimed "our representatives who are in hea-
ven obtained this victory for US" They men
ton from Sisante, the 18th instant of having
obtained important advantages in Cuenca,
making prize of consideration, though they
do not say the date-and from Ailcant the
great Nina had taken $50 recruits, with 600
men who escorted them, coming from FRANCE.
DIARRo MERcANTIL, May 90.
Agreeable to the las: advices from Catalo-
MIA, Gen, Lacy, had fortified a very high noun
tain near Abusa e hours from Berga) on the
top of the same is plain of one hour and
half, where the troops are drilled and tambours
instructed belonging to the army, whose force
amounts to $4,000 in this form 1000 the
garrisoR in Cardone: Rovira with 5000 in
Ampardum Milans with 1000 in Arras de
Mar; Eroles with 1000 in 1'alara; Sars6eld
with 1000 in Villa Franco del Panadas Man
so with 1000 in Ripoli; and Gay in Reus with
1000 to which ought to be added 1000 re-
cruits. The English Col. Grey is raising be-
sides the Anglo Catalan Legion of 1000 men,
giving every one reals de Velon, (25 cents)
and they are raising 10000 men besides in that
loyal province.
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