Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1823-07-25

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you are tUo many ifyou are soldiers, you are
too few" Upon this view of the situation,
the Courier Francais inquirts-' Ii the entry
iniV Madrid, and the proclamation of the
Prince Generassimo, do not terminate the
Wal, what will they do Ballasteros will APP
preach General Moldor, and endcavor To draw
him into partial affairs, IN which he may hope
| for some success. These successes, however
can lead to no great results, for retrOgradc
march Will place us TN open ground, where
the victory will not be long uncertain. II
is,thereforr,on Our extreme right that the chief
danger lies. II is to be presumed that Moril-
Ia, strengthened by the levies of Asiurias and
Gaillcia, by the bands Of the Empecinado,
| Marcos, Abril, Sc. will drbouch upon ST. An
dtro and Santuna, proceed 10 Bilhoa, aud
perhaps menace the troops which blockade
ST. Sebastian, and those " hc!i keep the great
road. The English Wilson, who knows the
ant at war, and who knows the country, by
undertaking TO make this mo, cment with "A
strong division left in reserve at Durango may
parayse every thing"
CONCISE HISTORY OF THE CAMPAIGN.
! Although we have been oyerw helmed with
| reports, and been obliged 10 wade through aud
| publish columns aud columns of details, often
describing movements that have never been
made, battles that have never been fought, and
IN some instances by armies that have never
been mustered, yet sober history of the two
iirst months of the French campaign, will not
he o,ercr0wd"d with Incidents. Still il is
| someM hat curious-indeed unexanpled in
military history, that with SD little fighting, the
Duke ut Angnuleme should drmolish and t.
rect ST many governments. Ii is in this way
(says the London Morning Herali,l that his
prowess has been chiefly exercised. His first
| ieat upon takiui; the field, Was 10 cashier The
noted Regency Ut urgrl. He next set up the
| supreme Junta Of Government" which last
I'D the Whole length or tee march from the
| frontier Ia Madrid. This machine of Govern
| tnent, however, did not work satisfactorily /;
and no sooner had the Prince Pacicatur
rescued that capital, Than he knocked it on
the head, and called M the defunct and moul.
| d@red CouncS Of Castle and the Indies, from
which by sudden uanslnulalinn. he has once
more extracted IL" Regency of Spain and the
Indies" How long this latter body will exist,
we shall not pretend iO uniecture. The late
| letter Of Abisbal produced Il feeling Of dcspon-
dency among those who wished success TO
the Spauards There il, however, since
| reaction. The Subsequent events, scanty
and unlmportant as they are, and scaDtily and
'intaiihfuliy as they are narrated by the French
tell on the whole favourable for the Spanish
Go' crnment. Madrid was entered on the esd,
and an affair took place on the 27th, at Tala-
/
French army, aud a division of the troops
WHICH had been commanded by Abisbal.
| IL Is curious to see how the leading papers
! differ in the opinions they express as Ia the
real situation and disposition of the Spanish
people. The london Morning Herald, for in
stance, an intelligent and liberal Journal, asks
-" How often, and win what eifrontery,
nave Paris Journals told us, that nothing but
| AhlsbaPs harshness, the Contr0nl of military
I nAtt In. H.. &
der regard for the tranquility of Ferdinand
prevented the people of Madrid from opening
their gates Ia the bands of the Faith, and
! prncia inning " The absolute King" How
does The fact turn out on trial ? The Govern
ment. the COrtcs the great mass of the more
respectable Consiitutionalisis, the militia and
other troops with but IA remnant behind, had
left Mo- .Id-ihe Duke Of Angouleme is AT the
I'hrvsEold-and yet when the very Bessieres
who made that capital tremhle not long since,
and was To supersede the French auxiIiarics
altogether demands aud tries TO force en-
! trance, he is repused with great loss on his
part, in slain. and in prisoners On the other
nand, the New Times, an ultra royast paper,
| speaking of the address of the Spanish gran
dces, says, this address " affords another siri-
King exposure Of the receptions which have
been practiscd on the people of England with
respect to the Spanish Revelation. We were
first told that persons of all ranks and profess
sIons were zcaluusly attached To the Constitu-
ten. 1t was soon found that the whole body
ct the Clergy must be excepted this, of
course, was trine. Ii was next discovered
| that the pe0Santy were against it but they,
've were told, were merely ''the ignorant ma
| ny, who ought 10 submit to the enlightened
few : and 1t was stoutiy aud positively main
tanned, that all the wealth, rank, and influence
OF the country was enlisted on the side of the
| C"rtes more partic ulary was it asserted,
that ersry person 4 consequence had retired
from Madrid on the approach of the French
army.-Now, we find between thirty and for
| ~ of the Grandees, that is to say the highest
IN rank among the Spanish Nobility, not only
remaining in the Capital, but coming forward
with AN Address OF gratitude 10 the Duke of
Angouleme."
| II was stated in "A London morning paper OF
The 9TH ~ Il belief, that dispatches from Seville,
| dated the 2jth ult. have been received at the
! Spanish Embassy which bring positive ar
| suranccs, that neither the new Ministers nor the
| CORES entertained the most distant idea of
making any concessions 10 the French or To
| the Government about to be established by
/ them. The Courier says, we believe there is
no foundation for this statement and our
disbelief Is founded Cn the circumstance that
our O"n Government has receive ed no dis
! patches from Seville, since those which
arrived on tie seth uIf.
| prO'iaclai uuta has been named in
/ Saragossa, composed entirely of ecclesaslics
! Immediate y after It's meeting, il published
! degree, ordering q contribution of million
| francs, payable in iwenly-fOur hours, and
'hich will bear particularly on the Constitu-
| iiOna-fs, who viii be exposed to all kinds of
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