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FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, JULY ss. There was yesterday at Trianon a sitting of the Council of Commerce. The Emperor hunted yesterday in the forest of Marli, and afterwards visited the special military school of St. Cyr. Their Majesties arrived this evening at ten o'clock at the Palace of St. Cloud. LEGISLATIVE BODY. SITTING OF THE 23D OF JULY. A letter was read from his Excellency the Minister Secretary of State, in the following terms : " St Cloud, July 19. " MR. PRESIDENT-4 have the honour to announce to you, that Orators will repair to the Legislative 11,,dy on Thursday, the 25th instant, at one o'clock, to make a communication in the name of his Majesty. (Signed) 6 " Count Dwau.n PARIS, JULY es. - _ . TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF NEUFCHATEL AND WAGRANI. _ " Badajoz, June 94. 4g MoNsrtoNzun—Yesterday all the cava!ry of the armies of Portugal and of the South were marched to reconnoitre the enemy's line. The Marshal Duke of Ragusa directed General Montbrun upon Campo Mayor, where he found 1200 Portuguese horse and two Anglo-Portuguese divisions. There was no en gagement on this point. " [ had ordered General Latour 11faubourg to di rect the column of dragoons commanded by General Bron towards ; he encountered no enemy, and returned without having pushed on so far as that pace. General Latour Maubourg having crossed the fords of the Guadiana, between Juramenha and the month of the Caza, with the rest the cavalry of the Army of the South, advanced straight upon Elvas. The column on the right, commanded by General Briche, occupied for some time five English scpiathoos v<hich were opposerl to it; whsle the bri gade of General Bouvier des Eclats, at the head of which was the Ist Regiment of the Vistula, manoeu vred on their right. This movement succeeded. Two 'quadrons of the 11th regiment called the En., Hi Light Horse, and of the Hanoverian Hus sm,, cre destroyed ; 3 officers and 150 horsemen, th t' eir horses, remained in our power ; the enemy 11.. d besides a good many killed, and a great number s‘ minded. The 2d and 10th were principally enga ged ; this affair does them honour. Colonel Lalle mant was slightly wounded, and also ten horsemen. Ten other English squadrons remained at a respect ful distance, and did not choose to engage. " According to the information which has been collected, it would appear that there has been a sepa rati( nof the allied army. It is said that the Spanish troops, cominanded by General Blake, are returning toward% the mouth of the Guadiana, and the County of Niebla ; that the English and Portuguese have already filed off troops towards the Taps, and sent their baggage to Lisbon ; that Lord Wellington has directed his march towards Lisbon ; and that the enemy have sent to that city more than 8000 sick or wounded. The arrival of a considerable reinforce .tnent from England is also announced, which was landed a few days ago at Lisbon. The regiment of Light Horse which met with the check before Elvas, of which I have just spoken, had joined the army three days before.—l am, &c. • (Signed) " The Marshal Duke of DALMATIA, General in Chief of the Army of the South." T O HIS HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF NEUFCHATEL, AND WAGRASI. " Badajoz, June es. Monseigneur—The enemy's army, which had recrossed the Guadiana, continues its retreat. It is at thus raiment three marches distant from us. It would appear to have given up Spain entirely, and to be concentrating itself for the defence of Lisbon. Lord Wellington, on the 26th of June, had al-eady his head.quarters at Portalegre. More than 8000 sick and wounded English have been cent off to Lisbon, with all the heavy baggage. The Spaniards have se parated from them, and have marched towards the match of the Guadiana. 4‘ The remains of six English regiments which were destroyed in the battle of Albtiera, are returned to England. There were left of these regiments only some officers and subalterns. " According to information collected from the in habitants, the English, in that battle, had 6500 men killed, wounded, and taken—many of the wounded are dead. The Spaniards and Portuguese lost four thousand men. The loss of the enemy was triple ours. On the night of the 17t11 the enemy had begun his retreat ; and he would have recrossed the Gua diana, had I thought it right to continuo the attack, but the junction of the Spaniards, on which I had not calculated, having presented too great a mass of troops, I did not think it proper to du so. I had be. sides beer, informed, that the siege of Badajoz had been raised and that the artillery had been withdrawn, which gave me a respite r,f two months to come to the reli,t of that fortress. "" The English are very much dissatisfied with Ge neral Beresfiad, who has been suspended and sent to Engl ,n.l, for having exposed the English troops and spared the Peattignese and Spaniards. It is true that the latter, who were more numerous, were less expo sed than the English, and suffered less loss. " A great number of deserters from the English army come in ti us. They all assert, that the Eng lish feel their inability to support the contest in Spain, and every thing induces me to think, that, when the army of reserve, wfich your Highness h is announced t r me, shall have arrived upon Almeida, they will be coovit.ced of the impossibility even of maintaining themselves :it I,i b'n. " The English have experienced a great want of provisions and money. Money is become very scarce w ill. them ; they no longer Witter it with the same Fr& fusi , n. Ti.ey attribute this to the unfavourable state of the exchange.. The.breaches iu the fortress of Badajoz are re pilling with the greatest activity. The • place has been revictualled Fr seven months—we have just dis cover, d a new magazine of 100,000 weight of goa -1 ou der, which had been concealed in the vaults. !lave caused blivenza to be razed. I am, &c. 46 Tile Marshal Duke of DALMATIA, General in Chid of the Army of the South.r Vanhal Suchet, after the capture of Tarragona, I who had been made prisoners, with 7,800 men, of whom 400 wqe officers, who have been conducted to France. The General sent for me, and in presence of the principal officers of his army, openly told me, that I was the cause of all the horrors his troops had committed in Tarragona, because I had defended myself beyond the limits prescribed by the laws of Literal translation of a report of the siege of Terra- war ; and that these laws authorised him to punish gona, which Gen. Contreras, Ex-Governor of that i l me even with death, for not having demanded a ca place, addressed to the Council of Regency : 1 pitulation as soon as the breach was practicable ; " On the 28th inst. at day-break, the enemy opened ' that on entering by assault, he had a right to put his fire to batter in breach the curtain of the front of ; every thing to fire and sword ; and that, by conse- St. John, at the angle which it forms with the left ! (pence, the besieged ought to have hung out the flank of the bastion of St. Paul. Our artillery and : white flag, as soon as the breach was opened. our infantry behaved heroically ; they several times 1 " I replied, that if it was true, that the laws of war succeeded in silencing their fire, and retarding an ope- prescribed, that if the assailant enter, he may deliver ration which threatened us with an assault. i up a town and its inhabitants to plunder, flames, and 44 The situation of Tarragona was at this moment the sword ; and ' that they in consequence indicate, most critical—for, from the want of shipping, of time that the moment when the assault is about to take and opportunity, I found it impossible for me to save place is the time to capitulate n these same laws, my garrison by sea ; as little could I do so by land, however, do not prohibit the garrison to defend itself, because the enemy surrounded me with all his army, . and endeavour to repel the assailants ; that I had re and awaited my sallying out to drive me back. . sisted because I had a force sufficient to repel his, " To speak of capitulation was unworthy of the which would doubtless have been the case, had my heroic defence which the place had made. The Mar- dispositions been obeyed in the way that I ordered quis of Campoverde had promised to present himself them ; that, besides, I expected succours on the day with an army for my relief ; the English had arrived following, both from Campoverde, and from the sea, LAYBACEI, JUNE 21. two days before with another division of troops for &c. ; that having resisted until the breaeh was prac- i On the 21st ult. two English frigates made their my st,f- n )ort, but they did not resolve upon diem- ticable, I should have passed for a coward, had I not appearance off the harbour of Ruchge, in Istria, and barking when they saw the danger in which the place dared to defend it ; and, in short, that no law for- immediately commenced an attack against that small was of being invested ; and thus, in spite of the aid bade me to repel the assaults. ' place ; but the national guard made such a courage of our troops, and the presence of our allies, I saw 1 66 General Suchet, convinced by the powerful rea- ous attack on their enemies, that the English, nut myself reduced to my owe. soldiers. i sons which I gave him, treated me at last, as well as withstanding their superiority of numbers, were corn " In this state of things, knowing the activity of the other general and private officers, with all the pelled to relinquish their design and retreat. the enemy, who would not lose a moment in attack- i distinction which we had merited by our resistance. : AUGsBUROH, JULY 5. ing me before the ill-combined operation for raising 1 64 The garrison behaved heroically in the defence ' In some parts of Bavaria many of the foxes have the siege could be carried into effect, an operation iup to the moment of the assault; it then spewed some Their mad,. i robably in conse l quen h ce l of g . the , r ear heats . which lasted a number of days, I took that measure 1 weakness, the soldier gave way and was intimidated. bite as t h e same me anc o y consequences as which was due to Spanish honour, to my character, I The officers, on the contrary, always behaved per to my personal reputation ; and resolved to die fight i fectly well, and, sabre in hand, made the greatest that of a mad dog. I ing, rather than think of a surrender. lefforts to keep the soldiers to their duty , and to col - DRESDEN, JULY 11. 66 I saw beforehand the two . consequences w hic h lect them in order that they might resist and attack The magistrates of this city have raised a collec my resistance would. infallibly produce : either the I the French, who were pursuing and cutting them- tion from the merchants here resident, which in the confusion, the defeat, the flight of the enemy, if I was , down in the streets. But their terror increased every first two days amounted to 600 roubles, for the benefit victorious ; or, if I failed, and the enemy penetrated ! moment, and they let themselves be sabred even by of the inhabitants of Cronstadt who suffered by the into the place, a horrible carnage of my soldiers and us, without even then resolving to recommence the fire.—Tie; Princess Anna will in eight deys set out of the inhabitants. combat. i to take the waters at Carlsham. 46 But in tereseeing all this, in determining to re- " Every thing has conspired against this poor gar-1 LEIPSIC, JULY 13. ceive and to repel the French upon the breach, I rison. Campnverde, on leaving it, himself promised The last letters from Petersburgh, and of some again consulted, whether my force was capable of to come speedily to its relief and deliverance, and ' commercial places in Russia, seem to confirm the that enterprize, one of the most heroic which the war I never did so, though he daily renewed his promises, news, that the Ukase, which prohibited all impel.- presents, and to which few men know how to make as may be seen from a great number of letters which tation of foreign merchandize into Russia, will be up their minds. I have preserved, and of which I send copies sub- revoked, or experience great modifications, This " In reality I knew that I had still 8000 of !behest joined.. The kingdom of Valencia sent to the aid of news is of the highest importance to Saxony and and most warlike troops of Spain, who had immor- I the place, General Miranda, with a division of the Prussia. The cloth and woollen merchandize whicle talized themselves in the defence of Tarragona, and troops of that kingdom, who landed at Tarragona, are made in these kingdoms, and which remain now to whom only this last effort was wanting for the i and the following day re.embarked , and was to jo i n on hand in the magazines , will find an advantag eo u s completion of their work. the army of Campoverde. An English division made sale. It is known that the Russian manufactures 64 Resolved, then, to .resist the assaults of the 9 its appearance on the 28th. Colonel Skerret, who are not equal to the consumption of the inhabitants, enemy, I placed, in the face of the breach, two I commanded it, came on shore to confer with me. i VIENNA, JULY 13. battalions of provincial grenadiers and the regiment lOn the 27th the English engineers came to reconnoitre i We learn from Semlin, that the Grand Vizier la of Almeria, with orders not to fire a single m usket, : the front of attack ; and , c onvinced that the place ! not acquiesce in some of the pretensions of Russia, and to throw themselves upon the breach as soon as was incapable of resistance , th e y returned to their the French should appear there, in order to drive i s hi ps . so that they all kept aloof from the place, and as during the time of discussing them he had time back their column at the point of the bayone t ! though they had come to relieve it. This abandon. to receive the greater part of the reinforcements he (for it was thus that this terrible operation was t o I ment on the part of those who c ame in order to save had demanded, he has marched his army towards the anube. A . s soon as the Russian General was in. be executed) ; and on compelling them to retire, ;it was the worst of all : it made such an impression ; D r , such a terrible carnage was to be made among them, hich is ti thing less than aormed o f this movement, w g I on the spirits of the soldiers, that they began to fore- I that they should not dare to return a second time. t h ey :pacific, he gave orders to his regiments to quit thOr ' see that they were lost ; they were cast down ; , present positious. We expect important events, so 1 44 I distributed among the soldiers wine, brandy only continued their resistance in consequence of my my coo l_ , much the moor: between and tobacco. I spoke to them myself so as to inflame I b ecause the news or the prolongation continual exhortations, because they saw of the armistice their courage ; and I took all the precautions which confirmed. the Turks and Russians is i ness, and the confidence which I felt, that if they were proper to be taken under such circumstances.— i executed my orders the French would never effect an n ot PAIMPOL, JULY 16. The result did not answer my expectations. Our; entrance. These reasonings were only of weight for! . The Eleonore has captured a superb American troops received the French with a firmness worthy of a few hours ; the idea of seeing themselves abandon- ! : brig fro m . New York, bound to Plymouth and Lou. admiration ; but they did not altogether follow my I ed soon laid hold of their minds, and completely sub i don, with 1800 barrels of stock-fish, 50J et mrpen, instructions, which were to attack the assailing co - idued them. lumn in its advance ; and the regiment of Almeria I i tine, and 200 of potash. " The English Commandant came on the evening soon yielded the around which it occupied for the ,of the 26th, and asked me what I wished he should I purpose of supporting the grenadiers, and acting AS . do with his troops ? I replied, that if he as ould Cis-' a reinforcement and a reserve. . I embark, and enter the place, he should be received i-- " At last 1500 of the enemy's grenadiers, support- ! with joy, and treated as he deserved ; that he had! ed by 5 or 6000 men, without reckoning the bulk of : on l y to choose the point which he wished to defend, the army of Suchet which surrounded the place on and that I should immediately consent to it. all sides, entered the breach. Our troops began to' "If the Marquis of Campoverde had not promised retire in disorder from the wall ; and a;thougli ell the to come to our relief, without keeping his promise; if officers and myself made every effort to stop them, General Miranda had not shewn himself in th e p lace and prevail upon them to charge the enemy ane w, with his division, only to appear and disappear, like a and defend themselves in the streets, this was impos- :. flash of lightning ; if the English division had never sible ; the soldiers thinking t o fi n d safety in flight, ' come in sight ; if the garrison, in short, had not been threw themselves down on the side towards the sca, . told every Jay and hour of its last extremity, that it leaped over the walls and pallisades, and attempted , was about to be relievcd ; convinced, then, that it to escape ; but they were taken by the enemy's , had to depend only on its own strength, it would have troops, who invested us on the Barcelona side of the . done a great deal more; but this assemblage of cir place. ! cumstances, so good and excellent in appearance, but " In proportion as our troops gave way, the enemy , most pernicious in reality, because they rested on no occupied the ramparts of the old and new town, and plan, good or bad, discouraged the garrison, and entered the streets, where all were killed or wounded have been the cause of that fatality, by which it lost without distinction of c l ass , ege , or sex. This v agedY all the merit which.it had acquired up to the moment was only less cruel, because the French officers, full of assault. of generosity, saved all they could, and even exposed " A great number of officers fled from Tarragona themselves to become the victims of their own sol- to avoid the hardships and die danger, some without diets, who, burning with the thirsted - carnage, thought ; permission, others soliciting it upon pretexts that were only of sleughtering. far from honourable, others feigning sickness, others, 66 At this moment, running myself to the gate of in short, committing acts of baseness to conceal their ; San Magin, to collect there, if possible, some soldiers pusillanimity, and these not only merit no distinction, in order to charge the enemy, to save them during b ut ought to be cashiered, otherwise they will still the night, er to attempt to break through, •I was have the impudence to appear with their decoration; wounded in the belly by the stroke of a bayonet, and and say that they were at the siege. made prisoner by an enemy's detachmeat. The re- , 14 The greater part of the corps were commanded port then spreach that I was killed ; and the general by Captains, from the want of the Commandants disorder increased to such a degree, that the soldiers who had departed. These captains ought to be co. might be seen throwing away their arms, taking to lonels, and those who have gone off, and have been flight, and thus falling into the hands of their ene- amusing themselves at Villanueva and elsewhere, mies, who made them all prisoners. should be dismissed the service ; otherwise justice " Tarragona, in tine, after one of the most obstinate will not be done, and it is necessary that justice should sieges, du: ing which I left untried none of those mea- be done. sures which are dictated by the art ofdefence , and which ~ As to myself, I have never asked any thing, the smallness of my force and means permitted—Tar- and I wish nothing else at present but to be exchanged ragona fell, amidst the horrors drawn on by the he. if possible. I anxiously wish to re-enter the field, and roism of a garrison which shut its ears to all propo- in the mean time I hope that my wife, who is at Ma. sals for capitulation, on die 28th of June, a day that jorca, will 'receive a part of my pay, a thing however will be memorable in future times for the tragical end which I should not ask, if my property was not in the of this ancient capital of Spain, which has been con- power of the enemy. demned to see its temples and edifices destroyed, dur- " Before the fall of the place, I wrote and declared ing the siege, by more than 4000 borlibs or grenades, ' openly, that upon the system on which operations and an innumerable number of bullets and of balls, were carried on, or rather, to speak more properly, which filled with terror the isles of Majorca and Mi - meditated, the fortress, the garrison, and the army, norca, and the coasts of the Mediterranean, the hos- would infallibly be lost. vitals of which are filled with its wounded defenders; , " The Superior Junta of the principality can inform which, in short, has seen at the last moment of its you of this, because I always took care to acquaint existence so many victim; slaughtered. - I them with what was passing; on their side, they did 66 On the following d iy, General Count Suchet I all that they could, in order that the operation of caused me to be conveyed en a litter to his head. i raising the siege might be attempted, the only opera quarters at Constanti, where I found Generals Cour. tion which it was necessary to be employed about, ten, calmer, Brigadier Mesina, ' 0 in* Chiefs; and to execute without delay, and in concert wid4 . , ~. . . ' ' repaired to Barcelona, by way of Villa Franca and Villa Nova. From thence he marched towards the Montserrat. The army of Campoverde is in part dis solved by the defection of his troops, with the remains of them he has retired to Montserrat, whither he is closely pursued. Ste, whatever were the numbers end ;Ware of the enemy's force which we had to combat—but it was all in vain, and every day till this was less thought of at bead-quarters, as will appear Isom the letter of General Campoverde, in which he orders me to 'mid him3ooo of the best troops of the garrison, who were to be embarked in the night of the 27th, under the orders of Colonel O'Roun, who came to me for that pur pose at eleven at night. I gave orders that he should embark with the regiment of Almeria ; but this ar rangement did not take place, and no one has seen O'Rouan again. ti From the same letter may be seen the confusion which reigned at head-quarters, where the Marquis of Campoverde believed that a division of 4000 Eng lish had arrived in the place, and the English Com mandant assured me that be had only 1000 men, who had left Cadiz on the 9th of June. The Marquis also wished that the troops which he demanded of me should be embarked the same night, and he ct.uld not but know that this was impossible, for I had no other means but those which the English lent me, and the latter had then none that were disposable." GERMAN PAPERS. THE EN INC, ST A R. LONDON. TUESDAY, JULY SO. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ON!' O'CLOCK: S per Ct. Cons. for money 641—Ditto for account 63 3 per Ct. Reduced 631} —Navy 5 per Cent. 9's;; 4 per Cent. 790—Bonds 11s. 12.. preen.—Ommum I jai& hiacheq. (3d.) par to 21. pre.—Ditto (3+1.) Ss. 6s.prem. Paris Journals to the 26th inst. have been received, and among their contents there ate some interesting articles, which will be found in another part of our Paper. A pompous account is given by SOULT of the affair in which the picquet of the I Ith Dragoons was surprised. With respect to the battle of Albuera, it is somewhat gratifying to hear the confession of a French General, for the first time, that the English troops bore the brunt of the action, and spared their Spanish and Portuguese allies. We have also ex tracted from the French papers an interesting report from the late Spanish Governor of Tarragona, ad ' dressed to the Council of Regency : it has evidently undergone some alterations in the hands of its French translators, particularly when the humanity of the French officers is so highly praised, but upon the 1 whole it appears to be authentic. It appears that the army ander CAMPOVERDE is still in a state calculated to give uneasiness to the enemy. Marshal SUCIJET, after the capture of Tarragona, is said to have repaired to Barcelona, and from damage to have directed his march towards Montserrat. But General CASIPOVERDE, We are informed, had retreated to the same place with so much of his army as COTO tinued with him ; and it was in pursuit of this army that SUCIICT was marching. It will be seen by the following letter, that some disturbances have arisen in Dantzick, in consequence of the animosity which prevails between the French and Russian troops : "Dania' k, July 16. •{ This place has been thrown into great confusion by an alarming riot that occurred among the soldiery a day or two since, in which between 70 and 80 lefes were lost. " General Rappe was giving an entertainment on his birth-day to a select party of the Officers of the Garrison, which consists of 25,000 men ; and during the absence of their Commanders, many of the mer S bum they w • The The C tion th includ in con balls f tnentii d‘ but th briatc severs is, tit who beclic that 4: i t I . , tl4 I i N tit i fro' yes M: the thr DU' a Rt da •O in jot of .10 to