ing of our Baron to send money to our wounded officers," he will do himself the "pleasure to supply them with what mo"ney they may want." This was very important indeed, because, in all probability, the very existence of many of the officers would depend upon a supply of money; and, therefore, were it only for the sake of the relations of those officers, it should not have been omitted, though I am willing to believe that the omission was not wilful. After reading this letter of Mortier, and duly reflecting upon the situation of so many of our countrymen, now in the hands of the French, it is impossible suficiently to reprobate the conduct of the hired wretches, who seem, by their falsehoods against the French army in Spain, to wish to whet their knives against the throats of the e unfortunate men. They seem to wish that all these poor fellows may be cruelly treated, and may be left to rot on their sick-beds, merely that their sayings may be made good against those, whom they hate only because they are afraid of them.Leaving these wretches to their labours, which, let us hope, will not produce their intended effect, let us look at the other parts of this famous Campaign, and see what it promises us.➖➖➖➖➖ "While these events occurred on the "banks of the Tagus, the 4th corps re"turned to Toledo by the bridge of that "town, and the division of Michaud on Here we see Joseph Napoleon returning in triumph to that capital, which SIR ROBERT WILSON (good heavens!) was about to enter! Really, it would seem, that we are never again to hear a word of truth! What! that corps whom Ney met and made scamper away into the mountains, was about to enter Madrid in the face of Victor! If we were only suspected to have a grain of sense left, they would never attempt to treat us thus. But, we wish to be deceived; and they know it. Yesterday at noon the king return"ed to this capital, under salutes of artil"lery. He entered on horseback, at the "head of his guards and corps of reserve. "His Majesty proceeded to the church of "St. Isidor, to be present at the Te Deum. "When he prayed, his Majesty descended "from his throne. The church was full "of civil and military officers, and com"mon people. After the ceremony his Majesty proceeded, at the head of his troops, to the Palace. In the evening "the town was brilliantly illuminated."Oh, aye, to be sure! Brilliantly illumin"ated," just as our great town will be when the gin-drenched rabble, armed with mud and brick-bats, shall sally forth at the word of command from the Jews and Contractors, and other" Blood-suckers," as Lord Chatham used to call them, who, during the last half-century, have preyed upon the people of England.-Aye, aye; a brilliant illuminution;" yes, and Te Deum too! All the sham, all the cant, all the hypocrisy, all the baseness, and all the blasphemy, that belongs to such a transaction.. -Well, but, come; do you, hirelings of the press; do you, incompara ble knaves; do you pretend to say, that, when the people illuminate their houses, they are not pleased? Or, do you say, that they are pleased? Take your choice; for, if you choose the former, then away "drive the enemy from this strong posi-goes all your proof of English loyalty "tion, to route them completely, to take a drawn from such an act; and, if you "great part of their artillery, and to occa- choose the latter, then you confess that the “sion them a very serious loss. The ene-people of Madrid love their new king, "my left on the field 4.000 dead, and we have made about 4,000 prisoners. We "have also taken 35 pieces of artillery, "with 100 powder waggons, and 200 "other waggons. Several standards are "among our trophies. An incredible "number of wounded increase the loss of the enemy, who, unable to re-unite, fled "in every direction."-Thus is Vanegas disposed of Then comes an article, nder the date of MADRID, 10th of August. the same day forced the passage of the "river by fording at Anaver Del Tago, "which was defended by six battalions "and four squadrons of the enemy. On "the 10th the troops of the 4th corps "formed a junction with the feserve, at "Nambroca. On the same day gencral Vanegas concentrated his army, 30,000 "strong, at Almonacid; and on the 11th, the King gave orders to attack him. An "action of three hours was sufficient to 06 66 66 Difonuts, Joseph Napoleon.--The truth is, that the people have no will in the matter. The illumination at Madrid was the act of the government; and, in a less direct way, so wild it be in London, the sensible inhabitants of which will, one would think, keep as close to their houses as if a pestilence were raging in the streets, for it is impossi ble but they should be ashamed to see one another's faces by the help of a light proceeding from such a cause.Let us hope, THRE the nation.. however, that the king (who has certainly as good a right to issue proclamations upon the subject, as the people at Lloyd's hive) will be advised to express his disapprobation of a measure, not less insulting to him than to his people. A Jubilee, indeed! A proposition for dancing and singing and ringing and rejoicing, while the nation is weeping over the scenes at Talavera and Walcheren! Surely no one having the common feelings of humanity about him could have suggested such a thing! I should like to know the name of the individual, who had the heart to conceive, and the face first to mention, first to give an articulate sound, to such an idea. There are a hundred reasons, good and solid, why such a thing should not be; but, if there were no other, the scenes now before us are quite sufficient; the melancholy fate of so many of our countrymen, during this, very campaign, to say not a word of the effect which that campaign must have upon the character of -But, reasoning of this sort makes for the thing, instead of against it, with those who have had the impudence to set it on foot. They know very well how improper, how indecent, how unfeeling, how cuttingly insolent it is, towards the people of this country; but, they also know, that they stand in need of something to produce a diversion of the public mind; they know well, that that system upon which they thrive, stands in need of something that shall, for a while, at least, attract the attention of numbers of people, and, which is a great point, serve as a pretence for filling up a considerable portion of the public-prints with something other than accounts of those events, which, if any thing could do it, would bring this bewildered nation to its sober senses. Those, who have taken the lead in this scheme, put forward great pretensions to loyalty. This is a word of vast use with all the tribe. It was worth 30,000l. at the least farthing, to each of the DUTCH COMMISSIONERS, and, perhaps, three or four times that sum to Alexander Davison, whose loyalty was of a nature so exuberant, that it broke out into the forming and clothing, I believe, of a volunteer corps, at his own expence. I used, at first, when I returned to England, to suppose, that loyalty meant a real attachment and devotion to the kingly government of the country; but, I found, in the course of about eighteen months, that a pension, a Sinecure place, a contract, or a lucrative job of any sort, was a vivifier of this attachment and devotion.- -What has the king to do in this scheme? No more than his coach-horses have. Those, who have set it on foot, mean him no compliment. What they wish to do is, first to advan e their own pecuniary interests, by getting favour with those, in whose favour such a diversion will operate; and, next, they wish to contribute, by this means, to the propping up of that system upon which they thrive, and which is ruining the rest of the nation.Let the loyal men, who propose this Jubilee, be told, that, on the day, on which it is held, we shall, in one respect, at least, be restored to the situation, in which we stood at the beginning of the period, which they mean to commemorate; namely, that the promissory notes of the Bank, in Threadneedle Street, shall be paid, on demand, in coin, bearing the image and superscription of the king. Let them be told this, and you will hear them talk no more about a Jubilee. The premium (which, through haste, 1, in my last, called discount) upon the coin of the kingdom, would be fit matter for these wise acres to take into their consideration; but, is it no impudence unparalleled, while the coin of the country has fled its shores, and while their own paper is made a legal tender, for them to call upon the wretched people to dance and sing ?—It would be of great public utility for some one, who has the means of doing it, to make out an accurate List of the names, places of abode, occupation, place, pension, contract, job, or the like, of every one, who has taken, or shall take, an active part, in the planning this thing upon the public. Such a list would be of great use. should be able, from it, to form a very admirable scale of loyalty; and, the day may come, when it would be of great use in other respects. I hope such a list will be undertaken.- -The people of Warsaw are about to hold a Jubilee on the birthday of Napoleon. Well, and why not? Is this a proof of his being hated, then? Is this a proof of his being a tyrant? Is this a proof of his approaching overthrow? Oh, you hirelings, publish any of your brilliant accounts if you dare: we will immediately publish alongside of them, the briliant accounts of the loyal celebrations in honour of the Buonapartes, and we will stand our chance for public opinion. If the people be gulled and cheated out of their senses, their property, and their freedom, it shall not be our fault.This We that this war was first openly proclaimed sort of delight, with which a flock of kites Jubilee is connected with the Talavera Campaign inasmuch as those who are the authors of it were the authors of the Fer-ed by the ever-greedy audience, with that dinand War; and, when we contemplate the retreat of Sir John Moore and its dismal consequences; when we contemplate the miseries then experienced by our army, whom the Duke of Dalmatia was sent to throw into the sea; when we contemplate a fine army of forty thousand men, so harrassed, worn down, so famished, so bruised and emaciated, as, after having shot their horses and left their sick and exhausted to die by the way, to come tumbling on board of ship in such a way as for no man to know where his officer was, and no officer his men ; when we look back, only about eight months, to the manifold miseries of that army, not to mention the disgrace of being chased, like so many hares, by that enemy, whom we had boasted of having humbled; when we contemplate these things, and think of the present situation of another army, fleeing from the same country, though, taking the Spanish army into the account, superior in numbers to the French; when we contemplate the crowded hospitals at Talavera, a place whence our general says he could not advance for want of provisions; when we see him appealing to the humanity of the French in behalf of the unfortunate souls in those hospitals, to that humanity which our hirelings assure us is displayed in the impaling of women and the butchering of children; when we considered to be in honour of the Spanish Deputies; the miseries, the disgraces, the expence, to the poor people of Spain as well as to us, then let us always bear in mind, that the real authors of this war were the faction of Seat Mongers, Jews, and Contractors, amidst whom it was first officially proclaimed at the Turtle Dinner. How many thousands, how many hundreds of thousands, of innocent people have suffered hunger; how many hundreds of thousands have been literally starved to death, and how many more have been set to cut each others throats, in consequence of the decision proclaimed at that feast! When the Seat-mongers, Jews, and Contractors meet to guzzle and to gormandize, let the people tremble; for they are sure to pay the reckoning, and that, too, at a most enormous rate. But, as to our present point, let it always be borne in mind, that the war for Ferdinand VII; that the war of the Cintra Convention; the war of Leon and Galicia, the war of the Corunna retreat; the war of Talavera; let it be always remembered, but, the fact was, it was a settled scheme for the purpose of giving what might seem the sanction of the whole of the City of London to a war for Ferdinand and the "an"cient order of things;" and I have not the smallest doubt, that all the toasts were written out and discussed in divan before hand; and, in short, that all the actors had their parts as much prepared as have the actors in any dramatical piece. The sentiments were to seem to flow from the hearts of the people met; but, there is no doubt of the whole having been previously hatched and arranged, down to the very songs and the number of cheers.—The crew assembled upon that occasion, no more spoke the sentiments of the people of London, of the City of London, properly so called, than they spoke my sentiments; but, this was the appearance that the thing had to many of the people throughout the kingdom, and especially as all possible aid was given to the fraud by the truly "in"fernal machine," the hireling press, which 1 is, in great part, supported by the crew. Thus it was that this nation, as much in opposition to its opinions as to its interest, was plunged into the war for "Ferdinand VII, and the ancient order of things in Spain;" the consequence of which war we are now lamenting, and this is the moment which the Crew chuses for compelling the people of London and Westminster, upon pain of smashery, to illuminate their houses in sign of pleasure" lieutenant-generals, had decided not to and rejoicing! "ing from intelligent officers attached to "the Expedition, it is with infinite grief "we understand that advices were yester<6 day received from Lord Chatham, stat"ing, that from the information he had "received, of the numbers which the ene"my had been able to collect for the de"fence of Antwerp, and the extensive in"undations they had effected, his lordship, " in concurrence with the opinion of the WALCHEREN EXPEDITION. probably, never have a faithful account of the losses, attending this ill-advised undertaking. Some of the news-papers 86 "advance from South Beveland against -We shall," that city; so that the meditated attack upon its arsenal, and the French fleet, is "altogether abandoned. Our readers will "recollect, that about a fortnight since "we expressed the serious apprehensions "we felt in respect to the apparent tardi"ness of the proceedings, and happy "shall we be to find that the delay in our "operations, which we then foresaw would "enable the enemy to collect the means "of opposing an effectual resistance to our "future efforts, was rendered unavoidable "by the untoward circumstances under "which our commanders found themselves state the number of sick at from 12 to 17 thousand; and, indeed, from the circumstance of so many of the general officers being ill, it is clear, that the troops must have suffered severely.This part of the loss is very serious indeed, especially when we consider what pain must have attended the illness. Nothing is so painful to think of as a military hospital, under such circumstances.- -As to the millions of money that the Expedition has cost," placed. Never certainly was an enterand great part of which has found its "prize more wisely or judiciously planned, way into the pockets of those, who were " and we cannot dissemble that it rends our most loud in their praises of the enter- "heart to contemplate its failure in any prize, that is an evil, which, sooner or "particular, satisfied as we are that the later, will bring its good; and, in the "most ample means were provided to enmean while, the nation are very deserving "sure its complete success. The most of the pecuniary squeeze. It is quite just. "formidable and best equipped armament It is thus that its folly and baseness should "that ever sailed from the shores of Bribe punished.I pretend to have no "tain, was upwards of a month in the knowledge whatever of what might have "Scheldt, and instead of its projected been done upon the Scheldt; but, I must "operations being simultaneously carried confess, that I see no reason for any part of "into execution, the greatest part of our that blame, which so many of the public "force remained inactive during the whole prints have been labouring to throw upon "of that time in sight of the enemy, who, LORD CHATHAM, who, I would venture my "from the unfortunate delay, were enabled, life upon it, was not authorized to stir an "not only to collect numerous corps from inch without orders from home, being" various quarters, but effectually to inunwithin four hours sail of the coast, and "date the country to prevent our approach. within six hours communication with "The contemplation of so unexpected a Downing-street. If the thing was to be, "result, grieves our very soul; nor can our and was to fail, I should have preferred its ແ grief be alleviated otherwise than by taking place under a Pitt; but, I will not "our Commanders being able to give a satisjoin in throwing blame upon a commander, "factory explanation upon the subject ;when I can see no reason for it.The "this explanation, we trust, they will be leading hireling news-paper, the Morning" able to afford; and resting upon that Post, began the attack upon Lord Chatham, in the following paragraph of the 2nd instant :" Contrary to our expec"tations and predictions, founded upon "the wisdom of the project, and the ex"tensive means employed to effect its success, as well as the information we hope, we shall not attempt to prejudge "the question. For the present, we de"rive some ground of consolation from "the prospect, that notwithstanding the "abandonment of the enterprize against "the fleet and arsenal of the enemy, "means may nevertheless be found so to ❝ were in the habit of occasionally receiv-« obstruct the navigation of the Scheldt as " assertion. a "to make that river useless to the enemy. Į of disguise; and that my Lord Chatham "The possession of Walcheren may enawas sent out for the express purpose of "ble us to effect this great object, which, being made a Marquis. It was not 'till "if accomplished, would produce a most I heard, that MONNET (with whom, by "important cffect, inasmuch as the ene- the bye, our army appear to be very "my's fleet would thereby become use- angry) was pelting us with his balls, and "less, and in a great measure compensate that, too, for several days, that I began to "for the failure of the enterprize against suspect any thing of the real state of the Antwerp."Here we have a palpable case; and, never was I more surprized at attempt to throw all the blame npon the any thing in all my life than at the resistCommander, who, it is plainly enough as- ance of MONNET, who, of course, I looked serted, might have gone up the Scheldt with upon as having been bought, long before a a part of his force, while the rest was left ship left Margate.--To deliver the Spato take Flushing. This, however, is bare niards seemed a pretty tough undertaking, Nothing is offered to us in and has proved to be such; but, to delisupport of it; either of the nature of fact ver the Dutch, in spite of their teeth, and or of argument. A hypocritical hircling their snickersnces, and their dykes and may affect to have his heart rended," their fortresses, commanded by French and to be "grieved to his very soul," Lbgineers, is, surely, the maddest thing of though, like Hudibras's Bear, such an the two. To deliver the Dutch, by knockanimal would more becomingly complain, ing their brains out, in the defenceless that it grieved him to the guts;" island of Walcheren, was no difficult matprofligate hypocrite like this (one of those ter, but to push on, in the work of deliwho aided in the suppression of 22 docu- verance, up the Scheldt, the banks of men's out of 27) may affect to be grieved which are well known to be bristled with at what has happened, and may, in order fortresses, the best constructed in Europe; to obtain his villainous pay, accuse the to lay a "plan" like this, and to let this Commander by saying, that our whole plan be publickly talked of, for weeks beforce remained employed against Flush- fore the deliverers sailed! . . . It ing, instead of a part being sent forward is impossible to find words wherein fitly up the Scheldt, which unfortunate delay en- to express one's contempt of it.——This abled the enemy to collect troops to de- precious plan, too, was, it is said, hatched fend Antwerp. A prostituted hireling by the Crew of Jews and Contractors; may say this, but, where is the proof, that, or, at least, that the intelligence, whence at any time, it would have been safe to the plan originated, came, through some of enter the Scheldt with an army? Lord them, from their Dutch Jew correspondChatham, in one of his dispatches, states ents, who wished to have a share, doubtexplicitly, that the government had given less, in the guineas and dollars that such him, or, at least, that he had gone from an attempt at deliverance would cause to England with, faise information as to the be squandered. This Crew is our bane. state of Antwerp, which instead of being Such expeditions are what they love, be defenceless, was in excellent order for de- cause they bring them profit. They love fence; and, are we not to believe it possi- war generally, because it brings contracts ble, that there was false information in and jobs; but they are particularly fond other respects?----When I first heard it of this expedition sort of war; these sudhinted, that the armament was intended den armaments; these excuses for paying for the Dutch territories, I could not help them enormous sums of the public moexclaiming, impossible!" I did not think ney; for enriching them at the expence it possible for any man to entertain such of all those who labour or who have a project; but, when it became notorious, estates.Still, however, it is the nation's that an army was intended to be sent up fault. There were not a few amongst us, the Scheldt, I did believe, that, at last, our who were foolish enough to believe, or guineus (who never shew their faces at base enough to pretend to believe, that the home) had paved the way for us as far as Dutch were waiting with anxiety for the Antwerp, and never could I have dreamt arrival of our armament; that they were of any thing so mad, so stupid, so sicken- ready to throw themselves into our arms; ing, so nauseously foolish, as to attempt that they did so hate Louis Napoleon, and to get to Antwerp by force of arms. I made were so cager to get rid of his “ yoke." sure, that we had made a safe bargain; that Instead of this, our armament found the the armament was to be a mere measure Dutch very well disposed to cut our throats |