Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-05-01
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
That. no ne,Us; (exclaims some inn
patient Knight of the rueful contenance)
three days later, and no news; how is this
to be accounted for?-
Nothing is easier in this world, if we
will only separate the two ideas of bat
tie, and a breakfast. Frenchmen do not
take a comfortable jaunt over the Ply.
renean mountains, and partake ola sa-
voury meal to which they have been
Hospitality invited by the Spaniards.-
They are going many of them, to leave
their legs and arms behind them, and
while engaged in such serious business,
they make slow, reluctant and cautions
advances to the fields of carnage and of
death. 1t isno triiling thing-no sum-
mer day frolic to march to the mouth of
rearing cannon, or on the point of gilt
tering bayonets. What more intelligence
could be anticipated in the short space of
three days, than the answer of the Span
iards to the address of their monarch,
breathing defiance and disdain to con.
federated Europe, and the preparations
making to remove the King and all the
royal family, from Madrid, to Seville,
town situated on the ocean frontier of
the Peninsula, and rendered illustriOus
by the first stand that was made by
Spanish patriotism to the power of impe-
rial Bonaparte? What more could be
expected, than, connected with such
determined, resistance on the part of
Spain, the rumour, (for every nature
of things, it could be nothing more
than rumoar) that French army of
ninety thousand men were destined to
pass the Pyrenean mountains, on the
very day of the royal famiIy's removal.
more could be expected, than
desertions from the French armies,
rendered more frequent as that body APP
proaches the frontiers of the Peninsula /?
What more than proposition submitted
by member of the Spanish C0rtes,
for that body to exercise their constitu-
tional power of declaring Ferdinand in
competent, and the vacancy of the throne?
What more could be expected, than that
fifteen thousand of the French troops
had passed the Pyrenean mountains al
ready? Ii we turn from this scene of up
roar, to the regions of the invading en-.
envy, do we see any thing more pacific?
DO we see symptoms of internal tran
guilty, when the doors of the French
hall oflegislation are barricaded with an
armed force to preserve public discussion
from outrage and from riot?-Must not
the opposition of the government, be
formidable in the extreme, when the
mere expulsion of a single solitary mem-
Der OF the house of deputies. creates sen.
satlon SO turbulent, that military force
IS resorted to, that bayonets glitter be
fore the doors of legislation, and the re-
representatives. of a great and powerful
people, are seen confined like wild and
|erocious animals in cage? What do
our fellow citizens mean, when they talk
about mere rumours. Reports fly in ad-
vance OF all armies. the same as birds at.
Iached to carnage, are said to follow
they are infalible indexes of an agitatea
state of mind-Of the advances ofdanger
of the various and dreadful vibrations
between confidence and the contradic
tory character of these reportes, only
prove hourly alarm and subsidence
state OF mind more tormenting than ac.
ual certainty of horror. When we
undertake to record what is uttered by
report, that wild and incoherent messen-
ger we are liable to imposition; facts
cannot be correctly stated by a terrified
but even this inaccuracy, this
ncoherent jargOn prove the temper Oft
The times-these rumOurs cOrresnond
exactly with what we certainly Know
There is scarcely talk of peace-paylj
we have it declared from the highest
authority, that peace is more dangerous
than 1Gr.-Balt. Morn. Chron. |
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