The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1823-06-25
Foreign slnteHiaenrr.


LONDON, MAY lS.-A well known mill
iiary gentleman,ju returned from Spain,
gives the following account He passed
on his way from Madrid, through the
beiiigerent armies and saw the due d. An
gouleme. The destruction ofthc French
armies by famine, diseases. and the guer-
HAS, is, he says, confidentally calculated
on by The Spaniards, whose great anxiety
is to draw them as Ear into Spain as possi-
ole Disease prevails TO great extent
already among them. Great want Of
provisions is felt, although they pay
largely for whatever they can procure !;
and the cavalry have already been oblig.
ed to retrosfade, from want of forage
In short, hcsays, things are going on as
well as the best friends 20 the SpaDiards
could possibly desire. He allows that
the peasants in many places, have receiv-
ed the French well, but this was only on
account OF the money they laid out, and
none OF them joined the invaders. Tho
least attempt atcompulsion would at once
convert the whole of them into hostile
gueriIlas. e.
| Letters are received from Tolosa Of
the s9th ult. The inhabitants of this
part of the country -hy from the army Of
the faith, who are mere banditti, acting
without principle, and caring for nothing
but the filling of their pockets, and
wreaking their vengeance ON their per
soDal enemies. The number Of French,
up to present time, who have advanced
from this quarter, is $1,000 Infantry,
5000 cavalry, and So field pieces; no
heavy artillery has been seen on the road.
For this reason we are inclined TO think
they will only pretend to blockade Pam.
| plona and st Sebsstians. The former
is already observed by Prince Hohenloe,
with 5000 men and the second with
about the same number of men, by gen.
Canuel. The garrisons will do their du-
lty. The duke d,ADgouleme made an
| offer Of 100000 of francs, to the two
commanders, if they would surrender the
| places but the proposal was treated
with contempt. The French, il would
| seem, would rather buy and corrupt, than
fight The Swiss troops, in the French
SERVICE who were al Bilboa, have gone
towards St. Ander but we do not know
that they have entered the place.
PERPIGNAN, MAY 3.-Several soldiers,
i'll OF fever, have arrived here their dis.
order has been occasioned by the heavy
rains, which rendered their bivouacs very
unhealthy towardsthe end of April.
A convoy has been captured in the en-.
viron OF Salines by a party of guerilias.
II was composed Of military effects, and
the enemy made themselves masters of
il by the guard being al the moment at a
distance. sE'' -
The duke of Reggie is said to have
moved on to Paiehcis, to support the
Portuguese army under Amarante, 9TH
erwise he would have gone straight TO
Madrid. --
SPAIN.
sAYoNNE, MAY 1.-The day before
yesterday, convoy of45 sail entered our
port in the afternoon, laden with proyi.
sions and wariike stores for the army of
Spain. Several of the vessels are laden
with hay, which it is estimated will have
cost when 1t reaches the province OF
biscay, SO francs per cwt.
MADRID, APRIL 30.--The government
has received the report Of gen. Ballas,e
fos, dated from his head. Quarters at Ia
ragono, 18th inst. This brave defender
OF liberty commences his dispatch with
fluctuations that his troops have had the
glory to be the FIRST to measure swords
with the French. He announces after
wards that on the. 18th two brieades of
the division ofCoi. Figueras were attack
ed In the environs of Arnedillo, bv a
force four times their number, composed
OF four French battalians, with 500 cayal-
ry,and two battallions Of Afrancesados.-
The brigade Of col. Araoa was charged
by all the enemy's force and notwith
standing its enormous superiority, our
troops fought with the greatest enthusi>
asm, and retreated in order upon Armed
lilo, where they united with the remain.
der OF the division. The combat was OBJ.
stinate, and the French sustained con-
| siderable loss. The colonel OF Russars
| of the lower Rhine was killed in the first
charge OF the cavalry. At the same time
the. column Of the brigadier Don Juan
Sanchez, was charged, and received the
enemy with the greatest GOODNESS but it
had the misfortune to lose its brave chief,
who was made prisoner of war.
The battalion of active militia of Lo.
groDo experienced loss sufficiently great;
but II has nobly sustained the honor of