480. 
biems of jagrieulture and industry, tet the 
images of peace and abundance preside above, 
Jet there be represented with them, not cities 
sestroyed, but cities rebuilt; not, captive 
rivers, but rivers mixing their streams for the 
benefit of commerce; not fields of slaughter, 
but fields fertilized; notthe war which shat- 
ters thrones, but the wisdom which re-esta- 
blishes:them. Let them engrave on them, 
in fine, as @ substitute for all other inscrip- 
tions, these memorable words—-** J have felt 
that in order to be happy it was necessary for 
me first to be assured of the happiness of 
France.*: \‘ i / 
This triumphal arch of a new description 
will never be beholden without emotions of 
respect and love. It is there that every 
heartwill send forth withoutveffort the most 
exalted eulogy of the greatman, who hasbeen 
the author of so much good. 
We cannot render him our homage ina 
better mode than by putting up vows, that 
his talents as a warrior may soon become use- 
Jess, Secure is be of finding within himself 
ether sources of greatness. Let us not doubt 
3t. Thanks to all that he shall undertake for 
the happiness of the nation. “His renown as 
a conqueror will henceforth be but the most 
feeble part of his glory 
SPAIN, 
‘fhe French are pursuing their- usual 
system of tactics in Spain, without any 
suitable opposition on the part of their 
adversaries. Although they have previ- 
ously effected the conquest of Austria 
and Prussia, by exactly the same means, 
yet the military men in Spain seem to be 
incapable of analysing them, and of 
adopting such measures of defence, or 
counter-attack, as shall defeat the auda- 
cious tactics of the evemy. Whenever 
Bonaparte has taken the field, his uni-~ 
‘form ‘system has -been to compose an 
immense advanced guard of fifteen or 
twenty thousand of his lightest troops, 
and to push this forward at ail hazards to 
a considerable distance, in the rear of the 
enemy, at least as far as horses can gal- 
Jop. without rest, aud men and horses 
subsist with precarious provision. By 
this means the communicauon of the 
enemy’s corps, are broken, -their. maga- 
zines seized or destroyed, a-panic created 
in every direction, the enermy*considers 
himself as being surrounded divisions are 
said'to be defeated, report magnifies the 
nuinber’ of those‘in the rear ; and confu- 
sion, want of concert, disinay and defeat 
are the consequences, In this way Bo- 
- 
paparte succeeded at Marengo, at Uhm, . 
at Jena, and. he is profiting at this time 
by the same system im Spain. This 
advanced corps, commanded by dashing 
» am enterprizing officers, does ‘not rest 
State of Pubive Affairs in November...» 
[Dec. by. 
till it has arrived at a point previously 
agreed. on, and calculated to aid in the 
best manner the operations of the main 
body, Thus, in the campaign in Spain, 
we already hearof the sudden irruption 
of a body of French, who have advanced 
with celerity to Burgos and Valladolid, 
and perhaps even to Madrid, spreading 
reports on their way of the defeat of the 
Spanish army, suffering no one to precede 
them, or escape before them in the Jine 
of their marches, magnifying their own 
numbers, seizing arms,aimunition, provi- 
sions, detachments, couriers, &c. appal- 
ling and disconcerting all. the armies.of 
Spain and England, and producing the 
precise effect intended before it is found 
out that they are nothing more than an 
advanced guard of a-tew thousand men. 
To oppose such a system with success, 
requires a counter-system of greater ac- 
tivity, in which assault should be sub- 
stituted for defence; it requires also the 
organization of a strong reserve, anda 
perfect system of scouts, beacons, and 
telegraphs. | J 
We hope the Spaniards are prepared 
to oppose this system of ‘the enemy, and 
that the last reports from Spain. will not 
prove well founded: : 8 ein 
Bonaparte arrived at Bayonne on 
the Sdinstant. He set out from Bayonne 
on the 4th, at noon, and on the Sth ar- 
rived at Vittoria, and put himself at the 
head of his army. It is divided into 
eight graud divisions, commanded by 
Marshals Ney, Bessieres, Soult, Mortier, 
Victor, Moncey, General St. Cyr, and 
General Junot. ' : 
General Blake, having advanced from 
Bilboa, attacked ithe enemy on the 26th 
at Zarnosa, on the road to Durango, to 
which the French, under General Mer- 
lin, had withdrawn, after they had eva- 
cuated Bilboa. After a ‘short but'very 
sharp action the French began to retreat, 
but continued to dispate every inch of 
ground, during the whole of their retro- 
grade movement. _ General Blake ad- 
vanced as far as Zarnosa, whence he 
meant shortly to make.a.fresh attack 
upon the enemy, who, it was thought, 
would risk a general battle in defence of 
Durango, as the possession of it by the 
Spaniards would place them completely 
in the rear of the French at Vitturia,—in 
this action the Spaniards are said to hate 
lost two thousand men. ‘The loss’of the 
French is represeuted as mucli more con-+ 
siderable. A private letter states that 
a French corps, consisting of upwards of 
one thousand infantry, was enurely ae 
On, 
