Freeman's Chronicle

Spain and England.

Spain being cleared of the French, has yet to expel the English. The Spanish newspapers freely speak of the barbarities and outrages of their "dead allies," in a manner that shews the press much freer than we expected it was. A Cadiz gazette of the 27th Sept. has a long article detailing the monstrous proceedings of the British on the people of St. Sebastians, after the fall of that place; ravishment, murder and conflagration was the order of the day. The churches were robbed, the hosts dashed on the ground and trod under foot, and the priests beaten. The place was destroyed, the author decidedly declares, because its former commerce had been injurious to the commerce of Great Britain; for the inhabitants had been remarkable for their adherence to "the cause of liberty."

It is a tale of horror. The city was generally plundered neither the infant of ten years of age nor the matron of sixty was exempt from the brutal violence of the English—"the woman who resisted paid the forfeit of her life" "the houses were filled with dead bodies," and numbers of the martyrs to virtue were burned to death.