The fact is, as I have already stated in my letter of yesterday, the Mobiles fought only tolerably well, and some of their battalions rather the reverse of well.

The Line, for young troops, behaved very fairly; and the reckless courage of the officers, both of the Line and Mobile, was above all praise.

It is, however, a military axiom that when an undue proportion of officers are killed in a battle their troops have hung back.

Good soldiers cannot be made in two months, and it is absurd to expect that raw lads, who were taken from the plough a few weeks ago, would fight as well as trained and hardened warriors.

This however, we are called upon, in defiance of facts, to believe, because "the soil of France produces soldiers." It is difficult to guess what will happen now.