1823.] 



before fl»e arrival of the French troops; 

 this column will be at Seville on the 21st. 

 Count Boiirmont had his vanguard at 

 Las Santos on the toth. He will join 

 Count Bourdesoult at Seville on the 



22nd. GuiLLEMINOT. 



Head Quarters, Madrid, June 18. 

 Report of Lieut. General Count Rottcm- 



bourg, commanding the division of the 



Eastern Pyrenees, to the Minister of 



War. 



" Perpignan, June 19. 



" My Lord, — I had the honour to ac- 

 quaint your Excellency by my report of 

 the 16th and 17Ih of this month, with all 

 the particulars that had rearhed me on 

 the motions of our troops, and the bril- 

 liant successes obtained by them over 

 Mina: fresh reports which I received 

 give me the assurance that the affairs of 

 the 14th and 15th, at Ossega Guiltz, 

 liad had more important results than was 

 at first believed ; so that we may almost 

 say, that Mina is no more. After being 

 greatly liarassed by the companies of iho 

 2d and 60th of the line, added to the 

 Spanish companies of Ronjagosa, aflrr 

 having had a great number of men killed 

 and wounded, and after having again 

 lost 1.50 or 200 prisoners. Mina has 

 entered the Sen d'Urgel with 900 men at 

 the utmost. All those successive losses 

 have given a mortal blow to the consti- 

 tutional party, which placed all its hopes 

 in him ; this chief, himself, has lost, by 

 his defeat, the greatest part of his in- 

 fluence; there is no doubt that the 

 successes obtained will have important 

 consequences in the events now taking 

 place. I inuft not conceal from your 

 Excellency, that on the appearance of 

 the enemy, the douaniers of the depart- 

 ment of tlie Eastern I'yienecs, and the 

 national guards on the right and left of 

 the Sc'gre, united between Err and 

 Embri;;th, rapidly took up arms, and had 

 to resist the attacks of the troops of 

 Mina, which attempted to open them- 

 selves a passage at the point of this 

 position. All the troops sent aj;ainst the 

 enemy have shewn the same zeal— the 

 «ame devotedncss— the same impatience 

 to engage him. 



" J3AR0N DE RoTTEMBCrt'RG." 

 GREAT IIRITAIN. 



Public attention has been chiefly 

 absorbed by tlu; development of the 

 extraordinarj' fact, that the royal robe, 

 at (he last Coronation, cost tiie incre- 

 dible sum of Twr;NTY-i oim thousand 

 BEVKN iniNDKKi) I'oiivDS ! I'ostcrity 

 must not suppose that the living gene- 

 ration had not its feelings on sucii a 

 subject. 



The cliaracter of the contemporary 

 generation has, however, been better 



PoUlical Ajfairt in June. 563 



sustained by the corporation of Lon- 

 don, which, in successive meetings, 

 voted 1000/. each in aid of the Greeks 

 and the Spaniards. These votes were 

 followed by public meetings at the 

 Crown-and-Anchor and the London 

 Taverns, which were attended by a 

 body of illustrious patriots, whose 

 eloquence shone resplendent. 



Several Billshave passed, tending to 

 render our Criminal Code less bloody; 

 in the discussion on which Sir James 

 Mackintosh was covered with glory. 

 Mr. Hume, too, has been unwearied in 

 his exposure of financial and oflScial 

 chicanery. On the 261h Mr. Brougham 

 made a most eloquent speech on the 

 desperate and urgent state of Ireland. 

 It related specially to the administra- 

 tion of the law ; and we cannot refrain 

 from giving his peroration, as reported 

 in the British Press newspaper: — 



I have now only to implore the Housa 

 to recollect, that, although the time has 

 been long protracted, and the day of 

 reckoning too long delayed, yet that day 

 must sooner or later arrive, when we must 

 render up an account of our stewardship 

 over Ireland. In that country we ought 

 to find a consolation in peace, and the si. 

 news of war ; yet when, in the memory of 

 living man, has Ireland been any thing but 

 the strength of our enemies in war, and 

 rebels in peace ? We have, indeed, boast- 

 ed of having conferred boons upon Ire- 

 land ; but what boon has ever been con- 

 ferred, unless extorted by the difficulties 

 of her situation? Ireland has been blest 

 by a soil fertile almost beyond example; 

 with a climate scarcely less genial than 

 any other in tlie world ; with a strong, pa- 

 tient, haidy, and high-minded population ; 

 and all the blessings of nature have been 

 poured upon her by Providence with the 

 most unmeasured profusion. Of such a 

 country, so selected by the Almighty fop 

 his bounty, you have been the stewards 

 for more than 600 years. She has been 

 the object of your attention for the last 

 1:^0 years, but never of your solicitude, 

 except the enemy was about to profit of 

 lier strength, or, if there were no enemy, 

 when she was engaged in waving the 

 standard of rebellion against yourselves. 

 A source of national stiengih yon have 

 never found in Ireland; she has never 

 afforded you aid iti war, and in peace you 

 have only sought to rciluce her into a safe 

 possession. Of all that long period of 

 mismanagement you must render up an 

 account. Her swarming population, in- 

 stead of being a blessing, was a fatal 

 curse. In vain had heaven enriched her 

 with a fertile soil, in vain was she blessed 

 with a genial chmate. She was nothing 

 more than an " uuwceded garden." Sha 

 demand* 



