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General recapitulation of the losses 

 sustained by the French armies 

 sitice the time they entered Por- 

 tugal and Spain, f The calcula- 

 tion rests on knoivn public data ; 

 and whoever ivill take the trou- 

 ble to examine tJiem, will find 

 that the number is rather lessened 

 than exaggerated."^ 

 First Campaign. — Carried off by 

 diseases in Madrid, Burgos, Biscay, 

 Navarre, &c. 11,000. In Catalo- 

 nia, 8,000. In Saragossa they lost 

 in various actions, and during the 

 first siege, 10,000. In Valencia 

 and La Mancha, 8,000. Killed 

 and taken prisoners in Andalusia, 

 including the French squadron at 

 Cadiz, 30,000. Hanged, deserted, 

 and destroyed by the fury of the 

 people and private^ individuals, 

 11,000. Killed by the English in 

 Portugal, and carried oftby disease, 

 8,000. Killed in the different ac- 

 tions in Old Castile, 6,000. 



Second Campaign. — Lost in se- 

 veral actions with the army of the 

 center, including that of Lerin, 

 3,000. On the 23rd November, in 

 Tudela, 6,000. During the long 

 siege of Saragossa, and in various 

 actions with the Arragonese, in- 

 cluding deserters, 17,000. In the 

 different actions in Catalonia, 

 10,000. Killed and wounded by 

 Blake's army in Biscay, and in the 

 mountains of St. Andero, 10,000. 

 Killed and wounded in I'urgos, by 

 the army of Estremadura, 1,000. 

 In Sepulvcda, Somosierra, and Ma- 

 drid, 7,000. In Estremadura, in 

 the action of Velez, and in several 

 engagements in La Mancha, 4,000. 

 Lost on their march from Madrid 

 to Corunna, including the actions 

 with the English in Castile and 

 Gallicia, 10,000. Carried off by 

 the disease and the dagger in their 



different armies, 70,000. Total, 

 163,000.— Gen^ Mag. 



MARCH. 



1. On excavating the earth to 

 obtain a firai foundation for the 

 new court-houses for the county 

 of Northumberland, where the 

 half-moon battery in Newcastle 

 formerly stood, a variety of curious 

 discoveries have been made. After 

 the excavation of about thirty feet 

 of solid earth, the entrance to an 

 ancient well has been found, which 

 will probably, when dug, develope 

 some remains of antiquity. With- 

 in a few yards of this well, two 

 pair of horns, resembling those of 

 a stag, but much larger, along 

 with the jaw-bones of the animal, 

 were dug out. In the opinion of 

 an eminent natural historian, these 

 bones and horns must liave be- 

 longed to an animal similar in size 

 and species to the American elk. 

 In several other parts which have 

 been dug, about forty-six feet from 

 the top of the mount, a number of 

 large beams of solid oak, perfectly 

 sound, lying in a variety of direc- 

 tions as if to support the super- 

 incumbent bank, have been also 

 discovered, all of which afford suf- 

 ficient grounds to believe, that the 

 whole mount was a work of the 

 Romans, for the purpose of form- 

 ing a commanding station, when in 

 this country. 



A flight of sea eagles have lately 

 visited the coast near Hastings. 

 The very uncommon appearance of 

 these birds on the southern coast 

 has excited very great curiosity. 

 Many of the gentlemen in the 

 neighbourhood have endeavoured 

 to shoot them, from an apprehen- 

 * sion 



