1809.] 
artillery and sappers, anda great number of 
men belonging to the regiments in Spain, 
bave not yet passed the Bidassoa, 
In reality, and without derogating from the 
bravery of our soldiers, we must say, that 
worse troops than the Spanish soldiers do nat 
exist. Like the Arabs, they may make a 
stand behind houses, but they have no discip~- 
line, no knowledge of tactics, and it is impos- 
sible for them to make any, resistance on the 
field of battle. Even their mountains have 
afforded them but a feeble protection. —-But 
owing tothe power of the Inquistion, the 
influence of the Monks, and their address in 
seizing every pen, and directing every tongue 
what to say, it is still believed, in a great 
part of Spain, that Blake hus been victorious, 
that the French army has been destroyed, and 
that the Imperial Guard are prisoners. 
But whatever may be the momentary suc- 
cess of these miserable resources, these ridi- 
culous efforts, the reign of the Inquisition is 
at an end. Its revolutionary tribunals will 
no longer torment any country in Europe. 
In Spain, as well as at Rome, the Inquisition 
shall be abolished, and the horrid spectacle of 
of the auto-da-fes shall be repeated no more. 
This reform shall take place in spite of the re- 
ligious zeal of the English, and the alliance 
they have contracted with Monkish impos- 
tors, who have given tongues to the Virgin of 
the Pillar, andthe Saints of Valladolid. The 
alliesof England are monopoly, thelnquisition, 
vand the Franciscans ; every thing is good alike 
to her, provided she divides the nations, and 
cover the Continent with blood. 
An’ English brig, the Ferret which left 
Portsmouth the 11th inst. came to anchor on 
the 22d, in the port of St. A.ndero, not know- 
‘Ing that it was in the hands of the French. 
She had on board important dispatches, and 
a great number of English papers, all of which 
have been taken possession of. 
At St. Andero we found a great quantity of 
Peruvian bark and colonial produce, which 
has been sent off for Bayonne. 
The Duke of Dalmatia has entered the As- 
turias, several cities and many villages have 
made offers of submission, in order to rescue 
themselves from the abyss dug by the coun- 
sels of foreigners, and the passions of the 
multitude. ~ , 
Eleventh Bulletin. 
Aranda de Duero, Nov 27.—His Majesty 
on the 19th sent off the Marshal Duke of 
Montebello witi instructions for the move- 
ments of the left, of which he gave him the 
command, 
On the 21st, the division of General La- 
grange, with the brigade of light cavalry of 
General Colbert, and the brigade of dragoons 
of General Dijon, set out from Logrono by 
the right of the Ebro. 
At the same time, the four divisions, com- 
posing the corps of the Duke of Cornegliano 
passed the river at Lodosa, abandoning the 
whole country between the Ebro and Pampe- 
Jus. j 
3 
Progress of the French Army in Spain. 
535 
On the 22d, at break of day, the French 
army beganits march. It took its direction to 
Calahorra, where, on the-evening before, were 
the head-quarters of Castanos; it found that 
town evacuated, and afterwards marched upon 
Alfaro, whence the enemy had in like manner 
retreated, 
On the 23d, at break of day, the General 
of Division, Lefebvre, at the head of the ca. 
valry, and supported by the division of Gen, 
Morley, forming the advanced guard, met the 
enemy. He immediately gave information 
to the Duke of Montebello, who found the 
army of the enemy in seven divisions, consist- 
ing of 45,000 men, under arms, with its right 
before Tudela, and its left occupying a line of 
a league and a half, a disposition absolutely 
bad, ‘The Arrazonese were on the right, the 
troops of Valencia and New Castilein the cen- 
tre, and the three divisions of Andalagia, 
which Gen, Castanos commanded in per- 
son, formed the left. Forty pieces of can- 
non covered the enemy’s line. 
At nine in the morning the columns of the 
French army began to deploy with that order, 
that regularity, and coolness, which charac- 
terise veteran troops. Situations were chosen 
for establishing batteries with sixty pieces of 
cannon; but the impetuosity of the troops, and 
the inquietude of the enemy, did not allow 
time for this. The Spanish army was already 
vanquished by the order and the movements 
of the French army. 
The Dake of Montebello caused the centre 
to be pierced by the division of the General 
Maurice Mathieu. The General of Division 
Lefebvre, with bis cavalry, immediately passed 
on the tret through this opening, and enve- 
loped by a quarter-wheel to the left, the whole 
right of the enemy. ‘Phe moment when half 
of the enemy’s line found itself thus turned 
and defeated, was that in which General La- 
grange attacked the village of Cascante, where 
the line of Castunos was placed, which did not 
exhibit a better countenance than the right; 
but abandoned the field of battle, leaving be» 
hind it its artillery, and a great number of 
prisoners. The cavalry pursued the remains 
of the enemy’s army to Mallem, in the diree» 
tion of Saragossa, and to Tarragona, in the 
direction to Agreda: seven standards, thirty 
pieces of cannon, with all their furniture, 12 
Colonels, 300 officers, and 3000 men, have 
been taken; 4000 Spaniards have been left 
dead on the field of battle, or have been driven 
into the Ebro. Our loss has been trifling + 
we have had 60 men killed, and 400 woundeds 
among the latter is the Generel of Division 
Lagrange, who has received a bullet in the 
arm. 
Our troops found at Tudela a number of 
magazines.—The Marshal Duke of Corneg~ 
liano has begun his march upon Saragossa. 
While a pare of the fugitives retired tu this 
place, the left, which had been cut off, fled 
in disorder to Tarraguna and Agreda, 
The Duce of Elchingen, who was on the 
224 at Soria, ouglit to have been om the 230 
at 
