Indiana Republican, Volume 2, Number 91, Madison, Jefferson County, 5 September 1818 — Page 1

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MADISON, (INDIANA) -SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1818.

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91,

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kspital Scene in' Portugal.

act from I be Journal cf a Jin.

o ncer, in a series of letters

friend.

ELACKWOOD S EDINBURG " MAGAZINE.

The French army had lone;

;rcd terrible privations. We !ncw that Massena could' not

Monger retain his petition,

the Great Lord," (sb the iards call Wellington,) allow-

fair.i e to do the worK o a

;e of bayonets. Our army . wearv of the lines. It felt cooped up by an enemy it despised, and would have

v marched out to storm the

iidable French encampment ;

such was the first idea that

many of us,whcn on the 5th

hrch tne army was put in

hi, and the animating mu-

i)t regimental bands rune:

ugh. the rocky ridges of Tor- '.,) . . : ..

yturas. i5ur. u. was soun ursa!ly understood that the 'di were in full retreat ; there how no hone of a jrrcat pitch-

fettle, ;vd all that I could cx-

was that our army formed f the advance; vwe might -and thenJwye"a: brush with rear fmarr! nf .Vhe French.

1 , n " - pwas you know, composed

ne Howcr of the army, and

Feruled by Marshal Ney, the

west ot the brave." will give, you, in another letar account of the most strikscenes 1 witnessed . during pursuit after our ferocious

; They had been cheated

ft a virtnrv nmr Tin. tlirv

... v,. . . v y arul so in Gallic nresumn-

, ... 1 1 I probablyfelt) when,

:rni)tiu before, M uwiu beM armv which he thrcatcn-

() drivit into the sea, frown()n him irom impregnable ry all bristlinnr with

r,. Itistcid oi battle and

death like dogs, were lying there, horribly mangled little naked infants of a year old or less, were found besmeared in the mud

transfixed with bayonet wounds

conquest and triumph, they had ty to the sub ects of the real world havmg been .stnpped long remained in hopefa nacti- of nature. . TTA t dL Such vity, artl at last their convoys be- Just as I was passing the great there dead, and -to .die. Such in interrupted by the guerillas, cross in the principal street, 1 met were they, who, as the old hag h?y hadenduredyaUthefn,ensesJ an old haggard looking wretch- jXtMst miseries of famine. Accordingly a woman, who seemed to have in I had begun to view this ghastwhen they Woke up the souL of her hollow eyes an unaccountable ly sight with some composure, he French army was in a burn - expression of cruelty-a glance when I saw at the remotest part ng fever of savage wrath. ' The like that of madness, but her de- of the hepttah pontic figure consummate skill of their leaders, portment.was quiet and moral, s.tt.ng covered with blood and aland the unmitigated severity of and she was evidently of the mid. most naked, upon a rude bedtheir dicipUne, kept the troops in die rank of society, though her stead, with his back leaning afirm and regular order ; and cer- dress was faded and squalid. She gainst the wall, and his eyes fix. tainly on all occasions, when I told me (without being question- ed direeily on mine. I thought had an opportunity of seeing the ed) in broken English, that I he was Ave, and shuddered ; but rearguard, its movements were would find comfortable accommo- he was dead. In the last agonmost beautiful. I could not help dation in an old convent that ie he had bitten his under lip al. admiring the mass moving slowly stood at some distance among a mosDt"ely oS anf ,hl? 'S avvay like a multitude of demons grove of cork trees; pointing to black beard was drenched m dot. "ll obeying the signs of one mas- them, at the same time, with her ted gore that likewise lay in large ter spirit. Call me not illiberal long shrivelled hand and arm, and blots on his shaggy bosom. I reinthus speaking of our foe. Wait giving a sort of hysterical laugh : eogmd the corpse. He wasa. ill you have he.rd from me a de- You will find, saidjshe, no body sergeant in a grenad.er regiment, tailed account of their merciless there to disturb you. and during, the retreat, d.stmbutcheries. and then vou will ad- I followed her advice with a pushed for acts of savage valour, mit that a true knight'violatcs not kind of superstitious acquiescence. One day he kitted with his own the laws of chivalry in uttering There was no reason to anticipate hand, Harry Warburton, the his abhorrence of. blood thirsty any adventure or danger in the right hand man of my own combarbarians. The ditche, were of. convent; yet the wild eyes, and pany, perhaps the finest made ten literally filled with dotted k the wilder voice of the old crone and most powerful man in the coagulated blood, as with mire- powerfully affected me, and tho', Bntish army. My soldiers had . h. . r.' ... ji'tr ill :!,,- u nnlv such an nicknamed him with a very

tne uooies 01 um -..v. j -w, . . . 1 . 11 . .. . mrcf snnpllitmn. and 1 rpallir

oiu woinau as uxic uy ate iuj vw.JW -rt . , - where. 1 really began to invest felt as if he and I were acquaiu. he with many most imposing tances. There he sat as if frozen qualities, till I found, that in a to death. 1 went up to the body sort of reverie, I had walked up and raised up the giant'3 muscu-

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and in one instance a chilci ot a preicy long uigui vi aun r "j " about a month old, i myself saw was standing at the entrance to sound, against the bxoody side of with the bayonet left sticking in the cloister of the convent. I the corpse. its neck-youncr women and ma- then saw something that made ' My eyes unconsciously wander trons were found dead with cruel me speedily forget the old wo- ed along the walls. Ihewere and shameful wounds ; and as if man, tkough hat it was I did covered with grotesque figure some general law to thai effect see, I couldynot in the first mo- and caricatures of the Bntish, had been promulgated to the ar- ments of my amazement and hor- absolutely drawn in blood. Hormy the priestswcie hanged upon ror, very distinctly comprehend, rid blasphemies and the most, trees by the road side. But no Above a hundred of dead bo- shocking obscenties, in the shape more of this at present. ', dies lay and sat before my eyes, of songs, 'were in like manner I wish to give you some idea of all of them apparently in the ve- written there; and you may a scene I witnessed at Miranda dc ry attitude or posture in which guess what an affect they had Cervo on the oth day of our. they had died. I looked at them upon me, when the wretches wftt pursuit Yet I fear that a sight at least a minute before I knew had conceived them lay all dead so terrrible cannont be shadowed that they were all corpses. Some- corpses around my feet. I saw out except in the memory of thing in the mortal silence of the two books lying on the floor. I him who beheld it. I entered the place told me that I alone was a- lifted them up. One seemed to town about dusk. It had been a live in this dreadful company, be full of the most hideous obbhek -rim, and gloomy sort of A desperate courage enabled me scenity : the other was the Bib ef b . ' re uu, f thn tn lr.nl- vridfastlv at the It is imoossible to tell vou ther

atlay ac one nine uwu u.i u ;Ww- -- - . , . w

wind, and at another perfect still- scene before me. ine uuuio uouor Fuuutcu ... ness with far off thunder. Al- were mostly clothed in mats and circumstance. The books fell together there was a wild adap- rugs and tattered great coats ; from my hand. They fell upon tion of the weather and the day some of them merely wrapped the breast of one of tlie bodies, to the retreat of a great army, round about with girdles ot It was a woman's breastv Awo. Hurre masses of clouds lay motion- straw, and tvvo or three perfectly man had lived .nd diein sucha less on the sky before us; and naked. Every face had a differ- place as this What 'had been in tlrn they would break up sud- cnt cxpiession but all painful, that heart, now still," perhaps .ondenlyas with a whirlwind, and horrid, agonized, bloodless. Ma- ly a few hours before? I know roll off in the red and bloody dis- ny glazed eyes were wide open ; not. It is possible love strong as tance I felt myself towards c- and perhaps this was the most death love, guilty, abandoned, venin'z in a state of strange ex- shockjwg thing in the whole spec- depraved, and linked by vice in. citement My imagination got tacle. So many eyes that saw to misery but still love, that pethe better entirely of all my oth- not, all seemingly fixed on differ- rished but with the last throb, er faculties and I was like a ent objects ;some cast up to Hca- and yearned in the last convulsion man in a trrand but terrific ven, some lookirf) straight for- towards some one of these grim dream who never thinks ward, and some with the white dead bodies. I think some such of questioning any thing orbs turned round, and deep sunk idea as this came across me at the he sees or hears? but believes all in the sockets, itwas a sortoftime ; or has it now only arisen? the phantoms around with a hospital. These wretched beings Near this corpse lay that of a strerRthof belief seemingly pro. were mostly all desparatcly or perfect boy, certainly not more ponional to their utter diimiUri- mortally wounded ; and after, than x 7 years ot age. Inerewaj

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