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136 Progress of the French Armies in Spain. 
onthe 9th—but the enemy retreated in the 
night, and in the morning our advanced guard 
entered Lugo. The enemy left 300 sick in 
the hospitals; a part of 18 pieces of cannon, 
and 300 waggons of ammunition. We made 
700 prisoners. 
The town and environs of Lugo are thoak- 
ed with the bodies of English horses. Up- 
wards of 2500 horses have heen killed in 
the-retreat. The weather is dreadful—rain 
and snow fall continually. : 
The English are marching to Corunna in 
great haste, where they have 400 transports. 
They have already lost baggage, ammunition, 
@ part even of their material artillery, and 
upwards of 3000 prisoners. On the 10th, 
our advanced guard was at Betanzos, a short 
distance from Corunna. The Duke of El- 
chingen is with his corps near Lugo. 
In reckoning the sick, stragglers, those . 
who have been killed by the peasants, and 
miade prisorers by our troops, we may calcu- 
late the loss of the English at one-third of 
their army. They are reduced to 18,000 
men, and are not yet embarked. From Sa- 
hagun they retreated 150 leagues in bad wea- 
ther, worse roads, through mountains, and 
always closely pursued at the point of the 
sword. 
- It is difficult to conceive the folly of their 
plan of campaign. It must not be attributed 
to the General who commands, and who is a 
clever and skilful man, but to that spirit of 
katred and rage which. animates the English 
ministry. To push forward in this manner 
30,000 men, exposing them to destruction, 
erto flight as their only resource, is a con- 
ception which can only be inspired by the 
spirit of passion, or the most extravagant 
presumption. The English Government is 
like the liar in the play, who has told the 
same untruth so often, that at last he believes 
it himself. 
Lugo was pillaged and sacked by the ene- 
mny. We cannot impute these disasters to 
the English general: itis the usual and ine- 
vitable effect of forced marches and precipi- 
tate retreat. The inhabitants of the king- 
doms of Leon and Galicia hold the English in 
horror. Under this head, the events that have 
talzen place are equivalent to a great victory. 
Zamora, whose inhabitants had been ani- 
mated by the presence of the English, shut 
their gates against General Maupetet: Gene- 
yal Dorneau proceeded against it with four 
divisions—he scaled the city, took it, and 
put the most guilty 'to the sword, Galicia is 
the province of Spain which maniiests the 
_ best disposition, it receives the French as 
deliverers, who have relieved them at once- 
from foreigners and from anarchy. “The 
Bishop of Lugo, and the clergy of the whole 
province, manifest the wisest sentiments. 
“Walladolid has taken the oath to King Jo- 
seph. Six men the leaders of revolt and 
maseacre of the French, have been condemned 
so death. Five have been executed, The 
[March 1, 
clergy asked pardon for the sixth, who is the 
father of four children. His Majesty comi- 
~muted his sentence, and said, he wished 
thereby to testify his satisfaction of the good 
conduct of the secular clergy of Valladolid on: 
several important occasions. . 
Trventy-Ninib Bulletin. 
Valladolid, fan. 16.—VThe Duke of Bellu- 
na, onthe i3th, defeated the Spaniards who 
were: retreating in the direction of Alcazar, 
under the. commander Penegas, who was’ 
killed in the action.’ The consequence of 
this battle was the surrender of two generals, 
300 officers, and 12,060 men. . 
{This Bulletin also contains a recapitula= 
tion of the Addresses of the Council’ of State, 
and ether public bodies, at Madrid, to Na- 
poleon. } 
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Thirtieth Bulletin. 
Valladolid, Fan. 21.—The Duke of Dal- 
matia left Betanzos onthe 12thinst. Having: 
reached the Mero, he found the bridge of 
Burgo cut. The enemy was dislodged from 
the village of Burgo. In the mean while 
General Franceschi ascended the river, made 
himself master of the high road from Co- 
runna to Santiago, and took six officers and 
60 soldiers prisoners. 
On the 13th, the enemy caused: two pow- 
der magazines, situated near the heights of 
St. Margaret, at half a league from Corunna, 
to be blown up. The explosion was terrible, - 
and was felt at the distance of three leagues, 
On: the 14th, the bridge at. Burgo was re- 
paired, and the French artillery was able to 
pass. The enemy had takena position at 
two leagues distance, half a league before 
Corunna. He was seen employed in hastily 
embarking his sick and wounded, the num- 
bers of which, according to spies and deser- 
ters, amounts to 3000 or 4000 men. The 
English were in the meanwhile occupied in 
destroying the batteries on the coast, and 
laying waste the country on the sea shore. 
The commandant of the forest of St. Philip, 
suspecting the fate intended for his fortificas 
tion, refused to admit them in it. rR 
On the evening of the 14th we saw a fresh 
convoy of 160 sail arrive, among which 
were four ships of the line. 
On the morning of the 15th, the divisions 
of Merle and Mermet cccupied the heights of 
Villahoa, where the enemy’s advanced guard 
was stationed, which was attacked and de~ 
Stroyed. Our right wing was stationed on 
the poinc where the road from Corunna to 
Lugo, and that from Corunna to Santiago 
meet. The left was placed behind the village 
of Elvina, The enemy was stationed behind 
some beautiful heights. 
The rest of the 15th was spent in fixing a 
battery of twelve pieces of cannon; and it 
was not till the 16th, at three o’clogk in the 
afternoon, that the Duke of Dalmatia gave 
orders to attack. ; 
The assault was made upon the English hy 
the first brigade of the division of Wermet, 
. — whick 
