In all the bulletins and proclamations of Buonaparte the English were held up to the Spaniards for indignation and contempt: they were a people, he said, who fomented war every where, and distributed arms like poison, ♦14TH BULLETIN.♦ but who shed their own blood only for their own direct interest. At this time it is probable that he sincerely despised the English as a military nation. ♦GAZETA DE MADRID, DEC. 18.♦ Can any thing be more ridiculous, it was asked, than that England should pretend to struggle with her land forces against France? ♦DO. DEC. 24.♦ she will realize the fable of the frog swelling itself to rival the ox, till it burst. “The day,” said Buonaparte, “wherein we succeed in seeing these English will be a day of jubilee for the French army. Oh, that they may dye with their blood this continent, which they have desolated with their intrigues, their monopolies, and their frightful selfishness! Oh, that they might be met with to the number of 80,000 or 100,000 men instead of 20,000! that English mothers might feel the evils of war, and the English government cease to sport with the ♦14TH BULLETIN. 12TH BULLETIN.♦ lives and blood of the continental nations. All the evils, all the plagues, which can afflict the human race, come from London.” He represented the Spaniards as complaining that the English had given them arms, powder, and clothing, but had sent troops only to excite ♦14TH BULLETIN.♦ them, lead them astray, and forsake them in the hour of danger, when 40,000 British at Espinosa or Tudela might have balanced the fortune of the war.... That number of British troops would at either place have turned it. Great Britain possessed at that time men, means, and generals equal to any service; but the nation did not yet understand its own strength, nor had the government yet learnt either to direct it wisely, or to make exertions commensurate to the end whereat they aimed. The lessons which books and history might teach had been neglected, and experience therefore was to be purchased at a heavy price. ♦THE BRITISH ARMY FROM PORTUGAL ENTERS SPAIN.♦