[This liberal and spirited eulogy is succeeded by a list of the Officers and others of the Spanish army, who deserved the high reward of the approbation of their Commander, among whom is distinguished a lad of 16 years of age, who killed four Frenchmen with his own hand. We are sorry our limits do not allow our inserting the catalogue of the names of these brave champions of Spanish independence.] (Signed)

GREGORIO DE LA CUESTA. To his Excellency Don Antonio Cornel,

From the Government Gazette ex

traordinary of Nov. 23.

Two dispatches have just been received from the General Don Juan Carlos de Areizaga, dated 19th and 20th, in Turleque and Daimiel, both of which arrived at the same time.

In the first he states, that the enemy having attacked our army in the centre and on the flanks at Ocana, but making their principal effort against our right with a view to turn it, an obstinate resistance was made for three hours, when they were repulsed by the division of the gallant Brigadier Lacey; but the superiority of the enemy's artillery caused a dispersion, which obliged our army to retreat under cover of our vanguard, and 6th division; that our loss is considerable, but the enemy's not less so, as he was repulsed several times by our infantry, and the brisk fire of the artillery.

The Dispatch of the 20th is as follows:

Excellent Seigneur-I arrived here this night, and to morrow I

shall proceed to Santa Cruz, where I have directed the infantry "should join, and the cavalry of this dispersed army will join in Manzanares, with the exception of a part of the second division, under the command of Brigadier Don Gaspar Bigodet, in order to check the enemy (whose advanced posts have this day reached Madridejos, and of whose main body I know nothing), not to permit his drawing near the Sierra Morena, and to preserve my supplies from La Mancha. Then, should it be possible for me, I will give your Excellency an account of our loss. I can, however, in the mean time, inform your Excellency, that it has been very considerable in good Generals and Officers, which is the best proof that these have distinguished themselves on this occasion with the greatest honour; following the example of the Generals of Divisions, who have given proofs of their skill in their good dispositions, and of their characteristic intrepidity.

God preserve your Excellency. (Signed)

JUAN CARLOS DE AREIZAGA, Head-quarters, Daimiel, Nov. 20, 1809.

Proclamation of the Junta, dated Royal Alcazar of Seville, Nov. 21, 1809.

Spaniards-Our enemies aunounce, as positively certain, a peace in Germany, and the circumstances which accompany this notice give it a character of truth which leaves little room for doubt. They already, threaten us with the powerful reinforcements which they suppose to be marching to complete our ruin; already, probably elated

with the favourable aspect which their affairs in the North have assumed, they insolently exhort us to submit to the clemency of the Conqueror, and tamely bow our necks to the yoke.

No, servants of Buonaparte! [the Address afterwards continues,] placed as we are by your baseness, between ignominy and death, what choice would you wish a brave nation to make, but to defend itself to the last extremity? Continue to rob, murder, and destroy, as you have done for these twenty months past; increase that incessantly eternal hatred and thirst for vengeance which we must ever feel towards you. Shall we fall at the feet of the crowned slave whom Buonaparte has sent us for a king, because he burns our temples, distributes our virgins and matrons among his odious satellites, and sends our youth as a tribute to the French Minotaur!

Think not, Spaniards, that the Junta addresses you thus to excite your valour by the arts of language. What occasion is there for words, when things speak so plainly for themselves? Your houses are demolished, your temples polluted, your fields ravaged, your families dispersed, or hurried to the grave.

Shall we consent to the total destruction of our holy religion in which we were born, and which we have so solemnly sworn to preserve? Our country is laid waste, and we are insulted, and treated as a vile herd of cattle, which are bought and sold, and slaughtered when our master pleases, Remember, Spaniards, the vile and treacherous manner in which this Usurper tore from us our King.

He called himself his ally, his
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protector, his friend; he pretended to give him the kiss of peace, but his embraces are the folds of the serpent, which twine round the innocent victim, and drag him to his cavern. Such perfidy is unknown to civilized nations, and scarcely practised among the most barbarous. The Sovereign we idolize is condemned to groan in solitude, surrounded by guards and spies. Amidst his sufferings, he can only silently implore the valour of his beloved Spaniards for liberty or vengeance.

There can be no peace while these things subsist. That Spain may be free, is the universal wish of the nation. That Spain may be free, or that it may become an immense desart, one vast sepulchre, where the accumulated carcasses of French and Spaniards shall exhibit to future ages our glory and their ignominy. But this wretched fate is not to be feared by brave men. Victory, sooner or later, must be the reward of fortitude and constancy. What but these defended the small republics of Greece from the barbarous invasion of Xerxes? What protected the capitol when assailed by the Gauls? What preserved it from the arms of Hannibal? What in more modern times rescued the Swiss from German tyranny, and gave independence to Holland? What, in fine, inspires at present the Tyrolese with such heroic resolution, that, though surrounded on every side by enemies, and abandoned by their protectors, they take refuge in their rocks, and on the summits of their mountains, and hurl defiance and defeat on the battalions of the conqueror of Dantzic. The God of armies, for whom we suffer, will give us success, and Hh

conduct

conduct us through all the dangers that surround us to the throne of independence.

Spaniards, the Junta announces this to you frankly, that you may not for a moment be ignorant of the danger which threatens your country; it announces it to you, with confidence that you will show yourselves worthy of the cause which you defend, and of the admiration of the universe.

[The Address goes on to exhort the Spanish nation to submit to every privation, and make every sacrifice to save the State.]

When the storm rages, the most vaJuable treasures must be thrown into the sea to save the vessel from sinking. Perish the man whose selfishmess ean render him wanting in his duty, or induce him to conceal what is necessary to be distributed among his brethren, for the common defence! Perish a thousand times the wretch who can prefer his own interest to the delivery of his country! All such the state will severe ly punish. Our enemies omit no means which can be employed for our destruction, and shall we neglect any which can conduce to our preservation? There are provinces which have driven out the enemy from among them, and shall not those, who have not yet suffered from such a scourge, sacrifice every thing to preserve themselves from it. Our brave soldiers endure the rigours of winter, and the scorching heats of summer, and nobly encounter all the dangers of battle; and shall we, remaining quietly at our homes, forgetful of their incalculable fatigues, think only of preserving our wishes, and refuse to resign even the least of our luxuri ous enjoyments?

The victory must be ours, if we continue and conclude the great enterprize we have undertaken with the same enthusiasm with which we began it. The colossal mass of force and resistance which we must oppose to our enemy, must be composed of the forces of all, of the sacrifices of all; and then what will it import, that he pours upon us anew the legions with which he has been successful in Germany, or the swarm of conscripts he endeavours to drag from France? The expe rience we have obtained in two campaigns, and our very desperation, will consign these hordes of banditti to the same fate which the former have suffered. If some of the Monarchs of the North have consented to become the slaves of this new Tamerlane, and at the expence of ages of infamy have purchased a moment's respite till their turn shall come to be devoured, we are resolved to perish or triumph. The alliance we have contracted with the British nation continues and will continue. That nation has lavished for us its blood and its treasures, and is entitled to our gratitude, and that of future ages.

[The Address thus concludes]

Here was drawn, never to be sheathed, the sword of eternal hatred to the execrable tyrant; here was raised, never to be lowered, the standard of independence and justice. Hasten to it all ye who wish not to live under the abominable yoke, ye who cannot enter into a league with iniquity, and ye who are indignaut at the cowardly desertion of deluded Princes, hasten to us. Here the valiant shall find opportunities of acquiring true honour; the wise and virtuous obtain respect, and

the

the oppressed find an asylum-our cause is the same, the same be our danger, the same our reward. Come Lither, and in despite of all the arts, and all the power of this inhuman despot, you shall witness how we will render dim his star, and be ourselves the creators of our own destiny.

(Signed) THE ARCHBISHOP OF LAODICEA, President. PEDRO DE RIVERO, Secretary.

Correspondence between Sir John

Moore and Mr. Frere.

It appears from the printed correspondence between Sir John Moore and Mr. Frere, that Mr. Frere used all his influence, and attempted to exercise his authority over Sir John Moore to make him advance with the army, when it was decidedly the general's opinion that nothing was left for him but to retreat. Mr. Frere talks of the ardent and determined spirit of the Spaniards, and of the desperate resistance which they were resolved to make, but never hints at a concert of operations, of any arrangement that had been taken for this effect, or of any means by which a system of general co-operation might be established. Mr. Frere has not even yet ceased to dream about counter revolutions in France!

"Every great effort (says he) on the part of France has been preceded by an interval of weakness, or internal disturbance; an advantage, therefore, which should be . obtained at this moment would be of double importance, inasmuch as it would render a conscription for a third attempt upon Spaiù infinitely difficult."

And again

"The covering Madrid is surely a great matter for effort in Spain, and much more in France."

The following is the letter alluded to the other night by Lord Auckland, which was sent by Mr Frere to Gen. Moure, by a French

man:

"Talavera de la Reyna, Dec. 3, 180s.

"6 Sir, In the event which I did not wish to presuppose, of your continuing in the determination already announced to me, of retiring with the army under your command, I have to request that the bearer of this, whose intelligence has been already referred to, may be previously examined before a council of war. I have the honour to be, &c.

(Signed)

"J. H. FRERE." In reply to this petulant, presumptuous letter, Sir John Moore makes the following observation

"I have thought it my duty thus calmly to explain to you the reasons which have and do actuate my conduct, and I wish anxiously, as the King's Minister, to continue upon the most confidential footing. with you; and I hope, as we have but one interest, the public welfare, though we may occasionally see it in different aspects, that this will not disturb the harmony that should subsist between us. Fully impressed as I am with these sentiments, I shall abstain from any remark upon the two letters from you delivered to me last night and this morning by, or on the message which accompanied them.”

And in the same letter, alluding to some remarks which Mr Frere had made upon his first retreat, Sir John observes

"With respect to the determination which I made on the Hh 2

evening

evening of the 28th, upon receiving from Mr. Stuart the account of Castano's defeat, I should, had you been with me, have communicated it to you, but should never have thought of asking your advice or opinion, as that determination was founded on circumstances with which you could not be acquainted; and was, besides, a question merely military, of which I should have thought myself the best judge."

How ministers could have the boldness to assert that this correspondence did not at all respect the march of the army, when they were in possession of the following letter we cannot possibly con

ceive:

Copy of a Letter from the Right Hon. J. H. Frere to Lieut. Gen. Sir John Moore, dated Truxillo, 9th Dec. 1808.

"Sir,-After the representations which have been made to you from other quarters, I can hardly hope that a further remonstrance on my part can produce any effect, where high military rank and authority, and the influence of persons whom, I am told, you honour with your private esteem, have been found unavailing.

"The advantages which Mr. Stuart possesses in this respect will, I hope, enable him to urge you with the warmth of personal regard, what I may be allowed to state at least with impartiality and candour, towards a person with whom I am no otherwise acquainted than by the honour which he has done me by his correspondence; I mean the immense responsibility which you take upon yourself by adopting, upon a supposed military necessity, a measure which must be followed by the immediate, if not the final

ruin of our ally, and by the indelible disgrace to the country with whose resources you are intrusted.

"I am unwilling to enlarge upon a subject in which my feelings must either be stifled or expressed at the risk of offence, which, with such an interest at stake, I should feel unwilling to excite; but thus much I must say, that if the British army had been sent abroad for the express object of doing the utmost possible mischief to the cause of Spain, (with the single exception of not firing a shot against the Spanish troops,) they would, according to the measure now announced as about to be taken, have most completely fulfilled their purpose.

"That the defence of Gallicia should be abandoned, muust appear incredible. I am, &c.

(Signed) "J. H. FRERE."

Intercepted Letter from Mr. Cham pagny, Minister of Foreign affairs, to Buonaparte.

PARIS, DEC. 11,1 1808. Sire, The correspondence of this day does not furnish me with any letter to lay before your Majesty.

M De Romanzoff has conversed with me upon the dispatches he received from St. Petersburg yesterday. The Emperor, his master, had the goodness to write to him, upon the affairs of his department, a letter of four pages, which places him altogether au courant. Before he received it he scarcely conceived himself to be minister of foreign affairs; for he was no longer informed of any thing. He had the kindness to give me an analysis of it, it is as follows:

"The Emperor of Russia speaks

of