The principal Foreign news this week is from Spain ;
and until we hear of the complete overthrow of the Queen, and the triumph The principal Foreign news this week is from Spain ; and until we hear of the complete overthrow of the Queen, and the triumph
of Don CARLOS, more disastrous, and to the Spanish Government and Generals more disgraceful accounts, will scarcely be received. We mentioned last week, that MENDIZABAL boasted of having
200,000 soldiers in pay ; and we asked where they were, and what
they were doing? This is a question which the people of Madrid had been asking in loud and angry tones; for RODIL and AtAix, to whom the chief command was intrusted, have suffered the important town of Almaden to be taken and sacked by GOMEZ; though Rom'. bad intelligence of the prjected attack, was only a day's march frora the place, and had an opportunity to relieve it given to him by a gallant Englishman, Colonel FLINTER, who for two days defended the town at the head of 1150 men against the 13,000 soldiers of GOMEZ. On the 22d October, FL INTER wrote to RODIL, with intelligence of his situation. Ronii, ordered him to defend the place for two days, before the expiration of which he should be relieved. RODIL was then eleven leagues from Almaden. FLINTER, as we have said, did defend Almaden bravely for two days; when he surrendered, on the evening of the 24th. On the 27th, RODIL was ten leagues from Almaden; having in the course
of five days marched one league. Of the treachery of this man. we should think there could be little doubt. There are valuable
quicksilver mines at Almaden, the machinery for working which GOMEZ destroyed, and then marched to Estrernadura. Of his subsequent movements there is no certain intelligence. The inhabitants of Madrid and the Cortes were alarmed and enraged at the inactivity of their Generals and the success of GOMEZ. On the 31st of October, it was proposed in the Cortes to send three Deputies to the head-quarters of ROD1L, to ascer- tam n what he was about ; but this motion was rejected. It wai then agreed to appoint a committee to inquire into the Origin and progress of the war: as it could do no good, this motion was ac- ceded to. The Ministers of War and Finance were then required to give information to the Cortes respecting the state of the army, and the means of paying it. A violent debate arose on the con- duct of RODIL; who was defended by the Ministers, on what ground does not appear. There was a majority in the Chamber, however, against his deposition from the command. Marini z ARAL assured the Cortes that he had money to pay the troops up to the end of January.
The statement in the Moniteur, that Queen CHRISTINA had been appointed Regent, was incorrect ; though it is believed that a majority of the Regency Committee are in her favour, and that she will be appointed.
There is much contradiction in the accounts as to the siege of Bilboa; but it is most probable that the siege has been raised. The rumour that SANE had been defeated in the Astutias, and repulsed from before Oviedo, is renewed, but upon slender autho- rity.
LE MARCHANT, Adjutant-General to the British Legion, arrived on Tuesday in London from San Sebastian, with despatches for Lord Patstaasrost. The purport of the despatches has not trans- pired; bat it is suspected that they contain an application to the British Government to bring back the Legion to England. Ge-
neral EVANS is, no doubt, heartily sick of a service in which he has so signally failed ; partly, no doubt, in consequence of the inability of the Spanish Government to fulfil its share of the con- tract with him, but also in some measure from his own incapacity as a commander. But although neither honour nor money is to be gained by remaining at San Sebastian, we do not see how the Legion can, honourably, return to England, leaving the Queen in her present state of danger. That the General can come home without his troops, (and he has sent a letter to his Westminster constituents promising to be in the House of Commons at the meeting of Parliament,) is, we should suppose, impossible. Gene- ral Eva:sts says, in the letter referred to, that he is more firmly convinced than ever that the cause of Don CARLOS is hopeless ; an ill-timed declaration certainly, but probably written under an
as impression that Gomsz was beaten, not victorious, before Al- maden.
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