586 
at Agreda: nota man could have escaped; but 
this corps being too much fatigued, remained 
at Soria the 93d and 24th, He . arrived at 
Agveda cn the 25th, still sufficiently in time 
to seize a number of magazines. 
A fellow, named Palafox, formerly a 
garde de corps, a man without talents and 
without courage akind of insignificant Monk, 
the true head of a party, which acquired him 
the name of General, was the first to take 
flight. —This is not the first time he has acted 
in that manner: he has done the same on all 
occasions. ‘This army o! 45,000 has been 
thus beaten and defeated without our having 
had more than 6000 men engaged. 
The battle of Burgos had struck the centre 
of the enemy, and the battle of Espinosa the 
rignt. ‘The battle of Tudela has struck the 
left. Victory has struck, as with a thunder- 
bolt, and dispersed the whole league of the 
enemy. : 
Twelfth Bulletin. 
Avanda, Nov. 28 —At the battle of Tu- 
dela, the General of Division Lagrange, 
charged with the attack of Cuscante, ordered 
his division to march by echelons, and put 
himself at the head of the first division, com- 
posed of the 25th regiment o' Light Infantry, 
which fell upon the enemy with such impetu- 
osity, that 200 Spaniards were killed in the 
first charge of the bayonet. The other eche- 
lons couid not come up. This singular intre- 
pidity spread consternation and disorder among 
the troops of Castanos.. Ir was at this mo- 
ment that Gen. Lagrange, who was at the 
head of th= first echelon, received a tall,which 
wounded him dangeroasly. On the 26th the 
Duke of Elchingen advanced by ‘Tarragona to 
Borja.» The enemy destroyed 60 tumbrils, 
which they had at Tarragona 
Gen. Maurice Mathieu arrived on the 25th 
at Borja, pursuing the enemy, and every mo- 
ment taking fresh prisuners, the. number of 
which already amounts to 50003 they are all 
troops of the ihe. No quarter was given to 
any of the peasants who were found in arms, 
We took 37 pieces of cannen. Disorder and 
@elirium have seized upon their leaders. Their 
first proceeding was, a violent manifesto, in 
which they declared war against Fiance. They, 
imputed to her all the disorders of their Court, 
the degeneracy of the race which reigned, and 
the buseness of the great, who, for many 
years, have prostrated themselves in the most 
abject manner at the feet of the ido), which 
they load with all their rage now he is fallen. 
They havea very false idea in Cermany, Italy, 
and France, of Spanish Monks, it they com- 
pare them to the Monks which ewise. in those 
countries. We find among the Benedictines, 
the Bernardins, &c. in France and ltaly, a 
crowd of men remarkabie for science and lite- 
ratyre; they distinguish themselves by their 
€jucation,’ and by the honourable and useful 
class to which they belong. The Spanish 
Monks on the contrary are chosea from the 
dregs of the people; they are ignorant and 
drunken, and can only be compared to people, 
? 
British Declaration. 
(Jan. 1, 
employed in slaughter-housets : they are igno- 
rant, and have the very manner and appear- 
ance of it. It is only over the very lowest 
classes that they have any influence. A citi- 
zen would think himself dishonoured by ad- 
mitting a Monk to his table. As tothe un- 
fortunate Spanish peasants, we can only com= 
pare them tothe Fellahs of Egypt; they have 
no property; every thing belongs to the 
Monks, or some powerful house. The liber- 
ty to keep an inn isa feudal right, yet, ina 
country so favoured by nature, we find nei- 
ther posts nor inns; the taxes were alies.ated, 
and belong to the Lords. The great have 
degenerated to such a degree, that they are 
without energy, without merit, and even 
without influence. We every-day find at Val- 
ladolid, and beyond it, considerable magazines 
ofarms. The English taithfully executed that 
part of cheir engagement; they promised 
muskets, poignards, and libels; these they 
have sen: in profusion. Their inventive spi- 
rit has been signalized ; and they have carried 
to a great length the art of spreading libels, 
as of late they have distinguished themsélves 
by their fire-rockets. All the evils, all the 
scourges which can afflict mankind, come 
from London. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
A numerons meeting of merchants, 
bankers, &c. of London, took. place on 
the 9th, at the New London Tavern, 
~ Bishopsgate-street, for the purpose of 
Opening a subscription to defray the ex- 
pences of cloathing, &c. the Spanish 
army. , The Lord Mayor was called to 
the chair, and several gentlemen addres- 
sed the meeting. A resolution. was then 
passed, that books should. be opened, 
and a Committee appoimted to superin- 
tend the disposal of the subscriptions, 
which bave since amounted to more than 
50,0001, 
His Majesty's Declaration on breaking off tke 
Negotiation with France. 
‘The overtures made to -his Majesty by 
the Governments of Russia and of France, 
have not led to negotiation: and the inter- 
course to which those overtures gave rise 
being terminated, his Majesty thinks it-right 
thus promptly and publicly to make known 
its termination. 
*¢ The continued appearance of a negotia- 
tion, when peaee has been found to: be ut 
terly unattainable, could be advantageous on= 
ly to the enemy. 
*t It might enable France to sow distrust 
and jealousy iu the Councils of those who ave 
combined to resist her-oppressions: and if, 
among the nations which groan under the ty+ 
ranny of French.alliance, or among those 
which maintain against France a doubtful 
and precarious independence, there should 
be any which even now are bafancing between 
the certain ruin of a prolonged-imactivity, 
and the coiltingent danger of an effort to 
: save 
