Foreign Intelligence.

SPAIN.

FALL OF CADIZ.
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We are left entirely without details Of the on.
erations Of the French from the 18th OF Sepiem.
Der, up TO the surrender, which took place Oh
the 9th We find, however, an official article
in Gibralter paper, (regular files Of which we
have received to the 25th Sept.) announcing the
capture of the Fortress of ST. Peir, and it is
said in the Gibraltar papers and letters, that the
French had also taken the whole OF the Isle of
Leon, which gave them possession of the narrow
peninsula connecting the town of Cadiz with the
isls. Whether the Castle of Puntales (directly
opposite the Trocadero) was also forcibly car


rIed by the French, previously to the surrender,
1--we are not informed. Cadiz, however, we should
Infer from the accounts. has been SURRENDERED
without firing a gun, although, as at the Troca-
|dero. there NAV have been hard fighting in tax.
ling the outworks. But we are told, as one rea-
sun for this, that the French, by obtaining the
Isle of Leon, were enabled to cut oil their sup.


plies It follows then, that all the reports we have
lhad, relative to the abundance OF provisions in
Cadz, like majority OF the other reports, were
luniounded.


This war, which is no doubt concluded for the


present, has indeed been singular one, and ma.
Inv people have been deceived by building their


speculations upon the consistency, courage, patr.


otism, and prodiges Of valour displayed by the
lSpaniartls during the invasion OF Bonaparte. Rut
1.-The case has been completely reversed. Then,
1.-The French were unsuccessful, because the priests
,lopposed them, and led the great mass OF the m.
ton with them, and the Spaniartls were more


over aided by the well disciplined armies OF Eng.
,|land. Now, the priests exercise the same con-
] troul over the population, have aided the French
: --and they have been successful. The French
vlhaye advanced from one extremity of Spain &c
the other almost without resistance. For there


Ihas been no fighting worth mentioning, with lht
u Exception of Catalonia, the sege OF Pampeluna
flana the resistance of Corunna, until the frenci
eIurriyed before Cadz. N. Y. Com. Adv.