The Spaniards have captured Tetuan, and Madrid is in ec-
stacies. Pursuing the safe line of action which he initiated at Ceuta nearly three months ago, Marshal O'Donnell secured his communications with the sea on his arrival in front of Tetuan. His army, weakened by the loss of 10,000 men, was reinforced by a fresh division, and the Spanish navy brought him pro- visions, stores, and a siege train. The Moorish camp lay over against. Tetuan. There were but comparatively few Moors within it, but the brother of the Emperor was there to command. On the 4th, all his preparations completed, O'Donnell attacked the camp, and powerfully aided by artillery, drove out the Moors, with a loss to himself of some 900 men. The effect of this victory was the surrender of Tetuan. Thus, in little short of three months, the Spaniards have fortified the approaches to Ceuta, marched from that place to Tetuan, and lost nearly a third of the army landed in Africa. What next ? The Count of Lucena has been made Duke of Tetuan ; his new estate is the battlefield of the 4th. ; a sign that the Spanish Queen reckons on Tetuan as her own. Will O'Donnell march towards Mequinez, or will he make Tangier his next point ? Or shall we have peace ? These are the questions suggested by the present aspect of the quarrel.
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