Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-07-03

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From the Washington City Gazette.
THE SPANISH VAR.
This topic occupies the pen, the press,
and the thoughts of the greater portion oil
the civilized world and it is not little
remarkable that the friends OF liberty and
legitimacy are equally sanguine as to the
result Indeed il must be obvious that the
political annals OF Europe for a quarter ct
a century past furnish no parallel, where
by we can come at a solution OF tbs pre-
sent uncertainty: the mere physical odds,
in counting bayonets, we're in favor OF
France before descending The Pyrennees
but then Spain, with her Guerilla and her
Fabian systems, was confidently expected
to be match for her invaders, " no amidst
hostile population, can only be said 10
bold the ground they stand upon. How
ever, all is uncertainty our politicians
are completely at fault, and have as yet
been baffled in their calculations
"Shadows, clouds & darkness rest upon them"
Nina, il is true, has shown himself in a
single movement, which threatens 10 cut
off the French communication with Spain:
Milaps, his coadjutor, has done nothing
Abrsbal, Ballesteros, and MoriIlo are on
| the field, and said to be acting in concert,
| 10 offer a powerful resistance TO the enc.
my but where this resistance is to be
made, or when they are to make atand,
remains yet TO be disclosed. We do hope
that the pblegmatic temper OF the Span.
iards, and their POGO POGO policy, may not
lead them into an irretrievable error,
| which, when they are chained down by
the presence OF French army, il will be
too late to correct The Cortes and the
King have been pushed from Madrid 10
Seville by the movements Of the French,
and a very feeble resistance offered from
Seville the Cortes talk of removing to Ca
dig; and. as our readers will perceive in
an extract below, the Spanish Government
is actually contemplating the total aban-
dsnment Of the Peninsula, and fleeing,
| with the King, over to the Canary Islands
for safety. lfthis be true. and there is but
little re ason to doubt il, once a6oat, they
may next be chased to Cuba and the
Duke de Angouleme wind up his cans
paign, like Cesar, with Teni, midi, pici.
But we do hope that Nina may be "him
| self again )" that be may be successful in
destroying the bfgots aud fanatics Of bis
country who have embarked in the cause
OF the Holy Alliance that his guerillas
may yet be able to break up the commu-
nication along the French line, without
which they cannot exist a single day and
that, when the French troops reach
Madrid, they may find sufficient employ.
meot to guard the regency intended to be
established there. As Madrid is tour humid
red miles from the French frontiers. only
remnant Of the one hundred thousand men
can reach that capital after line Of posts
are secured, with effective garrisons,
stretching to the foot OF the Pyrennees.-
II the Spanisrds ever strike with any
chance Of success, it must not be delayed
beyond the hour The French enter their
metropolis the great extent OF the eDemy's
| line must add to its weakness, at the very
time when. it bias difficult duties TO perform,
in protecting the regency and in organi.
zing new government It this oppor-
tunity be lost for an energetic resistance,
the Cortes and the King may indeed settle
in the ,Canaries, or in Cuba :, for, nothing
short oil a miracle, equal to Buoaaparte's
hlg0t rem ElUa Can restore tnSu W VIC
kingdo Of the Peninsula.
We now commence our extracts, which,
we must confess, have swayed US much
in the opinions we have ventured to ex'
press in this random glance al the Spanish
| War. The first is from the pen Of sbrewd
but sensible correspondent o! the Rich.
mond Enquirer:
Gentlemen 1.-THE Duke Of Ansouleme
lsay you) is no Napoleon" and "his, bull
ietns, (you add are burlesques.' l
really hope you may be correct, and that
your wishes on the subiect may be fulfill.
ed but, possessed, as l believe myself to
be, of rather peculiar knowledge Of Spa
nish affairs, very much regret being obi.
gsd TO differ from you. A short time,
am very appreheBsive, will elspse before
you will agree with me, that although the
Duke shall not prove himself "a NaPole-
on" the French government will prove
that IL has learned wisdom from the errors
of NapoIean and, that it Mill, nay, that
il must succeed. In the first place, per-
nit me to call your attention TO the fact,
that the Spanish government has abandoa'