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by these, and afterwards by our soldiers, 
who, having driven out the enemy, would 
find no inhabitints there. Such men as M. 
Vanstein, who from want of troops of the line, 
found themselves incapable of opposing our 
eagles, encourage the extravagant idea of an 
Insurrection e2 masse, ought to be sensible of 
the evils resulting from it, and of the very 
inconsiderable obstacles which such a resource 
can offer toregular troops. 
In Burgos and the environs, a quantity of 
wool has been found, to the amount of thirty 
millions, which his Majesty the’ Emperor has 
ordered to be put under sequestration. . All 
the ,wool belonging to monks, or any other 
persons who have joined ‘the insurgents, will 
be confiscated and appropriated in the first 
Instance to the indemnification of the losses 
sustained by the French ; for even at Madrid, 
Frenchmen resident for 40 years, have been 
stripped of their property. Those Spaniards 
‘who have been faithful to their king were 
declared exiles. ‘he property of the most 
virtuous and enlightened minister Asanza, of 
the most abie seanian Massaredo, and of the 
best soldier in Spain O*Farril, has been pub- 
licly sold. That of Campo d’Alange, respect- 
able for his virtues, his reputation, and his 
‘wealth, being the owner of 60,000 merinos, 
~and having an annual income of three mil- 
Vions, has become the prey of these frantic 
proceedings, 
Another measure ordered by the Emperor 
_ is, the confiscation of all English goods and 
colonial produce, landed in Spain since the in- 
surrection, The merchants of London do very 
well to send their merchandize to Lisbon, 
Oporto, and the ports of Spain. The more 
they send; the greater the contribution with 
which they supply us, 
The city of Palencia, governed by a\worthy 
bishop, has received our troops with kind. 
hess. The city suffers none of the evils of 
war. A virtuous bishop who observes the 
doctrines of the gospel, and who is inspired 
with christian charity, and from whose lips 
flows nothing but honey, is the greatest bles- 
sing that Heaven can bestow upon a people: 
but an ambitious, rancorous, and wicked pre- 
Tate, who preaches nothing but insurrection, 
disobedience, and disorder, is a monster that 
God fras sent.in his wrath to nations to mis- 
Tead them, by polluting the very fountain of 
morality. 
In the prisons of Burgos area great number 
of monks, who were stoned by the peasantry. 
«© Wretclies !* said they to them, ¢¢ it is you 
that have plunged us into this gulf of misery ; 
perhaps we shall never again behold our un- 
happy wives and our poor children. Wrretch- 
és!-a righteous God will punish you in hell 
for all the calamities you -have brought on 
our families and our country.” 
Fourth Bulletin of the Army. of Spain. 
Bargos, Now. 15.— His Majesty yester- 
day reviewed the division of Marchand. He 
appointed the most meritasious officers and 
Progress of the French Army in Spain. 
: (Jan. 1, 
sub-officers to to fill the vacant commissions, 
and bestowed rewards upon the soldiers that 
distinguished themselves. His Majesty was 
highly pleased with these troops, who had just 
arrived, without a single halt, from the 
banks of the Vistula, The Duke of Elchin- 
gen,lias set off from Burgos. The Emperor 
reviewed his guard this morning upon the 
plain of Burgos. His Majesty afterwards in- 
spected the division of Desolies, and filled up 
all the vacancies in that division. Events 
are in preparation, and all is in progress. No-~ 
thing can succeed in war that is not the re- 
sultvof 2 well-digested plan. 
Among the prisoners were some who had 
on their buttons en eagle reversed, with two 
arrows, and the motto, To the Conqueror of 
France. By this ridiculous bravado we may 
eusily recognize the countrymen of Don 
Quixotte. It would be impossible to find 
worse troops either in the mountains or the 
plains. Clownish ignorance, silly conceits, 
cruelty towards che weak, and baseness to- 
wards the strong—such is the scene we have 
before us. ‘The monks and the inquisition 
have plusged this na ion into barbarism. 
Ten thousand light infantry and dragoons, 
with 24: field-picces marched off on the 11th 
to attack the rear of the English division that 
was said to be at Valladolid. These brave 
fellows went over 34 miles of ground in two 
days, but our hopes were disappointed. We 
entered Palencia and Valladolid, and advanced 
even six miles farther, and found no English- 
men, but abundance of promises and assur= 
ances. In the mean time it appears certain 
thyt a division of their troops has disembarked 
at Corunna, and that another division, at the 
beginning of this month, entered Badajoz. 
The day we fall in with them will be a day 
of festivity to the French army.’ May they 
moisten with their blood that Continent 
which they have desolated with their in- 
trigues, their monopoly, and their horrible 
selfishness! May they, instead 20,000, be 
80 or 100,000; that the English mothers 
may learn what the calamities of war are, 
and that the English Government may not 
always continue to sport with the lives and 
blood of the people of the Continent. The 
greatest falsehoods, the hasest means, have 
been employed by English Machiavelism to 
mislead the Spanish nation; but. the bulk of it 
is still good. Biscay, Navarre, Old Castile, 
and the greater part of Arragon itself, are 
well dispused. The nation in general beholds 
with the most profound sorrow, the abyss into 
which it is plunged, and will speedily curse 
the authors of so many calamities, 
Florida Blanca, who is at the head of the 
insurgents, is the person who was Minister 
under Charles I[I. He was always the sworn 
enemy of France, and the zealous partisan of - 
England. It is to be hoped that be will, in 
the evening of his days, discover the errors of 
his political live. He is anoid man, who, to 
the blsndest attachment to the English, adds 
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