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r - r 7 -, ►- - FROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. DOWNING-STREET, JAN. SP. D -s•ches, of vehisli the following are extract., have bees re ceived at this Office, addressed to the Earl of Liverpool, by Lieutenant General Viscount Wellhigtoo. Car faze, January 5, 1811. ...My LORD—The reinforcements to the enemy's army in this country, which I informed your Lordship, in my dispatch of the 29th December, were on their march in the valley of the Mondego, arrived upon the Alv.i at Murcella on the 24th, which river they cross ed by a ford on the following day, and continued their march to join the army. Colonel .Wilson, who had retired from Espinhal, and crGssed the Mondego upon hearing of the ad vance of these troops, lest he should be involved in an unequal contest in front and rear at the same time, repassed the Mondego on the 25th, and annoyed the enemy's rear on his march of the 25th and 26th from the Alva towards Espinhal. He took some prisoners, and cut of some of their small detachments, which fell into the hands of the Ordenanza. The division which had marched•to Pinhcl, and the advanced guard of which had been at Trancoso when I last addressed your Lordship, was still at hel,on the 26th ;December, when I last he- General Silveira, whose head-quarters rinha. I have letters from Cad'a of the cember, stating that Marshal from the army engaged in the place, with 4,000 or 5,000 of December. • Generals Mt Ballasteros are still at Lleresa and the , ,bourhood of Monasterio, and Girard's division 'rtier's corps at Guadalcanal. No material , has been made in the posi tic n of the enemy's army since I addressed your Lord-1 ship last. The detachment which marched to Cas tel.o Branco returned immediately, and was sent either for the purpose of escorting a messenger or to, obtain Mtelligence.—l have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) WELLINGTON. Cum°, January 111. MY Lents—Since I addressed your Lordship on the sth instant, I have learnt that the detachment of the enemy's troops which joined the army in the end of last month, consisted of eleven battalions of the 9th corps, and of a body of troops which, under the command of General Gardanne, had before attemp ted to penetrate through Beira Bare. The whole are stated to be eight thousand men, by some of the' Officers who saw them, but I should think they must he more. The other division of the 9th corps had not passed the frontier when I last received accounts of them ; but I learn from an intercepted letter from General Drouct to General Claparede, that this division has been ordered to take a position at Guarda. Their advanced guard broke up from the neighbourhood of Trancoso in the night of the 3d instant. There has been no alteration in the position of the enemy's army since I last addressed you, excepting that General Drouet's head-quarters have been fixed at Leyria with the troops which joined with him. The enemy continue to construct boats in the 2e zerc ; and have strewn much jealousy of the measures , adopted by our troops on the left of the Tag us , to, sominand by their fire the communication between the Zezere and the Tagus. I have now to inform you, that Marshal Monier arrived at Ronquillo, with a division of the corps under his 'command, on the third instant. He has. since continued to advance into Estremadura, having formed a junction with the division which had been at Guadalcanal, under the command of General Girard ; and I am concerned to add, that I have just learnt that 'he obtained possesSion of Merida al and of the bridge over the Guadiana at that place, on thelevening of the Bth instant, the Sparkish troops having retired. They have left General Ballasteros' division on their left flank, between Xeres de los Cavalleros and ,Olivenza, with his communication open with Bada loz ; and it is reported, that Mortier s corps is fol owed by other troops.—l have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) WELLINGTON. [For the remainder of the Gazette see the last page.) / at Tor. and 29th De ll& bad marched ions againA that on the 20th and 21st r• t. my right and left (a presage little agreeable) a ,* which would not allow me longer to expose my co ' lumm. I therefore ordered Colonel Lemur, with the grenadiers, to support the artillery, and retire by the road of Benecarlo, and Colonel Rich, with the whole of the cavalry, by the way of Vinaroz, for the pur pose, in case of necessity, of supporting the right. On arriving at Vinaroz, I made a trifling halt, for the purpose of refreshing the troops, aad, above all, to obtain positive information respecting the fate of my left, taking every precaution which so delicate cir cumstances required ; notwithstanding these, the ene- Jny penetrated by the roads which lead to that town , when it was found impossible by the utmost persua sions, or the spirit and presence of the second officer ii command, aided by many brave officers who en deavoured to maintain order, and prevent dispersion, to.reduce the whole of the troops to a state of defence land regularity, and were only able to effect this with jiturt of our troops, and the division of Cuenca. In so dangerous a situation, nothing remained for me to do, but to go to Peniscola, where several corps have joined me. Our loss ha; not been so great as at first I expected, and every 'day we are joined by some of the cFspersed. I have since been informed that the of the left, in a great degree, obtained its ob ject ; and if circumstances had been more favourable, there is no doubt but it would have completely ac complished it. " I understand, notwithstanding our failure, the f enemy admire the march of troops for many leagues without rest, or discovering their proximity till the mo ment of attack. His loss was considerable in our twofirst attacks.—Justice and honour strictly impose the duty of investigating the causes of this disagreeable event, and severely punishing the authors of it." CADIZ, JANUARY 2. SITTING OP THR CORTES, InC. 28. Senorl,l.A NO made the following proposition : "The discipline and good organization of the armies are the basis of the art of war : enthusiasm alone is insuffi cient ; experience in all ages has confirmed this truth. The French Revolution, which will be for posterity an example of the extremes to which the delirium of men may carry them, had demonstrated the same thing. He demanded that the Regency should be in vited to propose measures of reform, &c. for the or denanza, and establish an improved plan for the or ganization of the armies, giving at the same time an account to the Cortes of whatever may require their sanction ; in the understanding that the enthusiasm and patriotic ardour which animate the nation, deter mined never to submit to the tyrant, being considered, the Cortes will omit no means for carrying it into effect. The proposition was received. FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, JAN. 27. OFFICIAL NEWS FROM SPAIN. DISTRICT OF THE ARMY OF THE SOUTH. ARMY OF GRENADA AND MURClA.—General Se bastiani, on the 6th, came in front of Marbella.— After 3 days of open trenches he took possession of it. Seventeen pieces of cannon, several of them t 4. pounders, and some stores, were found in the place. This expedition was attended with some difficulties. It required nearly the labour of two months to make a road for conveying the artillery from Malaga in front of this fort, which is situated on the sea-coast, at the distance of a day's march from Gibraltar. The Adjutant-Commandant Berton, in the mean time. proceeded in tfie front of Gibraltar, drove the `^ • AllaylC? nir tin tett ow Tint maim THI ASTURIAS.—OD the./4th December 1500 Siiniards advanced to 'attack the post of Sato, which *as occupied by two companies of General Bonnet's advanced guard. These brave fellows in stantly formed, and rushed against the enemy. The insurgents were defeated, and passed the river Nalon in the greatest disorder, with the loss of about 9.00 men killed or drowned in the stream, and about 00 prisoners, who have arrived at Oviedo. ARMY OF CATALONIA AND ARRAOON—The army of Arragon is ma king preparations for attacking Valencia. The army of Catalonia has invested Tarragona. A division of French frigates has recently escorted a convoy to Barcelona, with 94,000 quintals of corn, flour, rice, and biscuit, and also a supply of powder. That important fortress is thus provided with sup plies sufficient for two years. PARIS, JANUARY te. By an Imperial Decree, dated at the Thuilleries, January 23.—The Brief of the Pope, given at Savona on the 30th of November, 1810, and addressed to the Capitular Vicar and Chapter of the Metropolitan Church of Florence, commencing by these words— Diled( Ili, salutem, and concluding with these—Ben d/dimes ternumenter imperamur, is rejected as contrary to the Laws of the Empire, and Ecclesiastical disci pline.—The publication of the said Brief, and the giving it any execution directly or indirectly, is pro hibited, and those who shall be proved to have by I clandestine means encouraged, .tratismitted, or com. municated the said Brief, are directed to be prosecut ed before the Tribnnals, and punished as guilty of a crime tending to disturb the State by a civil war. NAPLES, JANUARY It. An Italian courier, who arrived on the 7th instant at Berletta from Corfu, which he left on the Sth, states, that on the 4th two French frigates with troops on board, had arrived there from Toulon. Several transports had also arrived from Ancona, laden with corn and other necessaries. SWINIMUNDR, JANUARY 5. Since the declaration of war by Sweden against England, several large vessels, laden with colonial• produce, have entered the port of Gottenburgh.— They also landed. characterized. He was ready to maintain, that this mode of proceeding was much more analogo us to t h e spirit of the Constitution than any other that had been suggested. The precedent of 1788.9,bis L or d. ship contined, was of sufficient authority, and was binding on Parliament in similar cases. It iris suffi ciently legalized by the speech from the Throne sub. sequently delivered, and by future transactions of that Parliament. It would now, he trusted, he con firmed by the conduct of both Houses, and would then be fully sanctioned and established legally, as a bind. ing precedent in all future cases of the sort. Noble Lords might argue as they chose, and shew as m o d. ingenuity as they pleased in opposing the measure, ,but after all they must come to this conclusion—that some irregularity must be committed. Every other mode proposed was in itself equally irregular. In the unfortunate case of his Majesty's inability to discharge his Royal functions, there was no right inherent in any person to supply the defect. That defect remain. ed to be supplied only by the two remaining brancN of the Legislature ; and the mode that had been adopted in 1788.9, and on the present occasion, he would ever maintain, was the safest and most Concti. tutional mode that could be adopted. The Commis sion must run in the name of the King ; and respec. ting its legality, he had not heard it denied by any Noble Lord that all the subordinate Courts of Judi cature would acknowledge-that legality and act under the provisions of the Bill. The other proceeding by Address was more irregular, as he had already said, and was only to be resorted to in the case of revolu tion,a s the precedents on that point sufficiently showed. . Lord HOLLAND rose again to explain his op:. nions, which had been misconceived by the Noble Earl. He. denied the validity of the precedent of 1788-9, both from its total want of analogy to Con otitutional principles and from its having remained incomplete. In the present instance, he complained also that even that precedent had not been strictly adhered to. He considered the proceeding as remain. ing to be questioned in all its parts, as well as the conduct of the actors in it ; unless, as he before stated. they were indemnified by an Act of Parliament for .that express purpose. Lord REDESDALE maintained that the present procedure did not involve that irregularity which was ascribed to it by some Noble Lords. The precedents en this subject were decidedly in favour of this mode of proceeding. The legislative enactments in the minority of Henry the VI. were passed on a similar authority to that now proposed and on no other. The only precedents which could be relied on by Noble Lords opposite were precedents drawn from times of revolution and force. The first was that of the accession of Richard 111. to the Throne. when the Parliament, with the Mayor and Corpora• . tion of London, addresed him (then being Duke of Gloucester) to take the Throne and Government. That was a revolution, and the measure was a mea. sure of force. The next precedent was the case of William and Mary, which was the revolution itself. in which the same parties acted in a similar manner. It was even admitted by the managers of the Corn. mons before the Lords, upon the impeachment of Dr. Sacheverell, that the measure of the Revolution had been carried by force ; they were thus proceed. ing against Dr. Sacheverell for having given to the Revolution a different character from that which the Commons had put upon it. The precedent of Y7SO-9 was regular, conclusive, and binding. It wai absurd, it was a perversion of understanding, to main that the two Houses had the power of vesting all t;ie royal 'idual ur some or oath b 111.411 UCIAI.UUICIII.II, rizaw.a.a 1 - e hands of the Ordenanza. joined me. Our loss ha; not ision which had marched to Pinhel, and I expected, and every 'aay we :ed guard of which had been at Trancoso the dimcrsed. I have since 1 t addressed your Lordship, was still At Pip....itivisson of the left, in a great 26th 'December, when 1 last heard from ject ; and if circumstances ha ilveira, whose head-quarters "me at T. there is no doubt but it wou! complished it. etters from Cad'a of the Sand 29th De- " I understand, notwithst rating that Marshal Soult bad marched enemy admire the march of I rmy engaged in the ciperations agairbt that without rest, or discovering th 1 4,000 or 5,000 train, on the 20th and 21st ment of attack. His loss was cc per. ? attacks.—Justice and honour s Mendizabel 'and Ballasteros are still at of investigating the causes of Id the neighbourhood of Monasterio, and and severely punishing the al livision of Mortier's corps at Guadalcanal. CADIZ, JAN erial al.eration has been made in the posi- SITTING Or THR COI enemy's army since lAddressedyour Lord- Senorl.l.A NO made the folio : this o the had .ord. was suffi. sub. as of con. then bind. nude [sure, -that other n the large nt in nein. rich( been n, he amis. ispec. r any Judi_ under rig by said, ewed. s opt. Noble :nt of Co':. mined lained trictly as the Kited, nt for 'resent I) was edents mode in the iimilar other. on by f rom s that 'krone, irpora- uke of ament. sneak caw of itself, canner. ! Com- aent of olution roceed- , to the ich the rSti-9 absurd, /` un that e royal r leny w Great gly de. no Bill ad car- ble and mation, to per. trus.ed migh in t.r.3 .31 .ence of d Lord its. In the tri- indwir ; learning ' ad in a prciga would.b v l e e o e s of the without him his wish to • which he •ecedents ut mean- ed Lord, equal to aintained lluded to vs.] In anccd to re, but as i sue, that have put a regular called an the two I. Thera the teeth • days thlt 's likely to business, a, than to isibility of Commis- muter and xreded to ch passed . 1, I to fill np we under- iter, dish >the Corn. in with the SPAIN; VALENCIA, DEC. 14. The fate of arms was not favourable to us on the 26th ult. The following is an extract of Ceneral Bassecourt's account of the battle of Uldecona, fought on that day : - Wishing to succour the heroic fortress of Tor pia, and relieve that bulwark of the kingdom, I gave jthe 'necessary ,instructions to the Chiefs destined for , that expedition: " The action of Uldecona was only a part of my plan, which I thought could not fail, considering the etrcathspection with which it was formed, and the valour of the troops; but fatal casualties, against . which a superior General, who trusts a part of his b.'F►es to subalterns, cannot provide, rendered all my endeavours useless ; and even 'the sacrifice of my ez• istence, which I repeatedly offered to my country, in order to instruct, by my example, the holy duties w!iich the noble cause of the nation demanded. " On the 25th of November at night, I marched f QM Peniscola, and put myself at the head of the co lumn of the centre. On the 26th in the morning, I halted et Panedera del Horace. Here I addressed my,troops, and inspired them with confidence of vic tor'', 4t this time my second in command requested I would defer the signal agreed upon for the attack, sa he was not sufficiently advanced. Time, which was most precious, was lost, and it was now nearly ex, o'clock in the morning ; when fearing the enemy would discover my forces, and destroy my hopes of •urprising them, I 'ordered the Guerillas to advance, who fell ❑pon the enemy's centinels and advanced posts, I endeavoured to sustain the Guerillas with the gross of the cavalry, whilst the columns of infan, try from the right and left should attack by the flaiiks and rear guard, The cannon now opened, and the Guerillas attacked with great bravery, supported by the cavalry destined for this purpose, and I advanced with the second line to an hermitage in the vicinity, Here the cavalry received several discharges from t l je tincampmtnt of the enemy► but notwithstanding this, they made a third attempt to occupy the place. " I would not have retreated had I not observed At slow which 4 that critical mown rash Pa - PARLIAMENT ART PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, SATURDAY, FEB. it. The Low) CHANCELLOR took the Woolsack at five o'clock. AFFIXING TRY GIMAT UAL. The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, that he rose in pursuance of the notice be had given the day before,' to move the Resolution authorising certain Commis sioners to affix the Great Seal in the King's name, to , the Regency Bill, in virtue of the Commission he had yesterday laid on the table, and which he should then move to be read. His Lordship's motion being made, put, and carried nrm. dirs. the Commission was accor dingly read by the Clerk. Lord HOLLAND then rose, an said, that after the discussions that had already taken place, during the proceedings in this business, and after the long and unnecessary delays which had occurred, it was by no means his intention to trespass long upon the at. tention of the House, or to start any thing that might lead to a protracted discussion ; but in the view he took of the whole of this subject, and particularly of the measure now proposed to be carried into effect, he felt it to be his bounden duty to make another de claration of his sentiments, and express his entire re . English from St. Ruch, and caused the fort of Ste- probation of the proposition of th e Noble Earl. Helfunctions in an indivie— as Regent, and to deny to pony to be razed. considered the whole course of the proceedings asithose the power of advising the of eing of the Great The kingdom of Murcia loudly calls out for the contrary to all analogies of the Statute Law of the ! Seal to their measures for supplying the kingly de. arrival of the French ; the chiefs of the insurrection Land. These proceedings had already kept the'l feet. The act now to be performed evanted no Bid are there held in detestation. Since the last catas- country without a legal and efficient Government for of Indemnity. It was its own indemnity, and car• trophe of Blake, the army which he had endeavoured the space of three months, and might have exposed it ried with it its own justification. The Noble surd to collect is entirely dispersed. to still greater dangers than had been felt • which Learned Lord, then, with considerable animate. e, General Sebastiani intended to repair in front of was, indeed, very nearly occurring from the d iffereace observed, that attempts had been made to deter per- Carthagena, to commence the siege of that place. of opinions between the two Houses of Parliament. sons from doing their duty, by terror ; but, he trueed SIEGE OF CADIZ.—In front of Cadiz the operations He contended that there was no precedent to be' that there was firmness and determination enough in of the siege were advancing. found for this procedure of affixing the Great Seal, , those who had that duty to perform, to disregard ,dl On the 14th, 40 gun-boats and 60 feluccas had by which they acted in the teeth of the Statute, which such attempts at intimidation. (Hear.) been drawn across the Isthmus, a space of 600 toises, declared the incompetency of the two branches of the I Lord HOLLAND rose again, in consequence of upon rollers, and put afloat in the canal of the Tro- Legislature to pass an Act without the concurrence, what had been said by the Noble and Learned Lord cadero. of the third. The present measure went still farther j respecting the value and force of the precedents. In A new battery, constructed at .200 toises in front of than the farmer one, which only put the Great Seal ; doing so, he should not make any appeal to the th rall Napoleon, threw shells at all points within the to a Commission for opening Parliament: whereas I buaal of that Noble and Learned Lord's candour; 'circuit of Cadiz. They had succeeded in throwing, this went to the full extent of passing a Legislative but he should appeal to the tribunal of his learning from 15 howitzers, projectiles of 801 b. weight to the Act. No Act of Parliament could be passed by the and his. memory. He (Lord Holland) liaci in a distance of 2600 Wises from the batteries ; the shells Parliament, consisting of the three branches of King, speech on a former occasion endeavoured to prove to flew over Cadiz. Lords, and Commons, but in this case, the absurdity. the House that there was no precedent applicable to The bombardment has thus commenced ; it will of a fiction was resorted to, professing to be in thel the case that justified the present proceeding. He continue to go on with increased effect. The discon- King's name, when it was notorious, and had been ; bail only to tell the Noble Lord , that if he would tent had become extreme in that unhappy city. They resolved upon by the two Houses of-Parliament, that I give him one precedent wherein the functions of the complained there, that the English, instead of sue- the King was actually incapable of the exercise of the I Third branch were exercised, as now proposed, without couring Cadiz, stripped the frontiers of A n dalusia, Kingly functions, a nd c o nseq uently could have no ' the power of assent or dissent, he would give him his and called the . force under Romana to the defence of will of his own. The precedent, as it was termed, of, vote for the measure—(Hear.) He should wish to 'their own army. They seemed to be extremely dis- 1788-9 was not complete • but it must be admitted, hear the Noble Lord's answer to a question which he satisfied with the , present Council of the Insurgents, even by those who contended for it, that it was no pre- thus distinctly put. In looking back to precedents who had formed an assembly subject to English in- cedent in the present particular instance, since the' end authorities, he might be permitted, without mean •fluence, and actuated by the spirit of a furious demo- proceedings of that period had never readied this lug any reflection upon the Noble and Learned Lerd, cracy. stage. The Lord Chancellor might put the Great !'tei remind him that there were persons fully equal to The Bishop of Orense, one of the Regency, hay- Seal to the Bill, but he. must do so upon his respon. Aiim in learning and Wisdom who had maintained in g returned to different sentiments, after being one sileility • and the same responsibility must attach to ! _oleinions very different from his. [Here he alluded to of the most violent of insurgents, publicly declared, the other principal Agents in this unconstitutional Mr, Sethi's, Mr. Serjeant Maynard, and others.] In that ;t was evident that every thing succeeded with transaction. ,He should therefore hold them for such — `the year 1789, the precedent never had advanced to the Empetor Napoleon ; that this was the result of a conduct amenable to the law of the land, until they . the present stage, and he had no right to believe , but as decree of Puovtosecs, who would have it so, and were absolved by a Bill of Indemnity.- the thing was never done, he had a i ;eta to assue, that u hich ought to be submitted to. At thi s di scourse E a rl GREY said, that concurring as he did in all the Lord Chancellor of that de/ would not haveput the Junta took the alarm. They banished the Bishop that had fallen from his Noble Friend, lie must take the Great Seal in this manner to a Bill es a regular lof Orense, General Castanos, and all the Members of this opportunity solemnly to protest against' this mea- Act of P a rliament. This could not be called en 'the late Regency, and threw a great number of the sure, as totally contrary to the principles and spirit of Act Parliament, being only the Act of the two principal inhabitants into prison. the constitution, and as a gross violation of the du- Houses assenting to their own Resolutions. Ther.= The Duke of Belluno, who is especially charged with ties of the ,tirb Houses of Parliament, and of the law was nothing anelagous to this. the conduct of the siege of Cadiz, has the means of of the land. Those who used the Great Seal in this ! - The Statute of Charles the Second "S in the teeth at once embarking and transporting to the opposite manner were, no doubt, responsible for their conduct 'of the whole proceeding. Seeing the gi eat delays thlt shore a body of 12,000 men. till they procured an indemnification. This measure had already occurred, and the great dangers likely to On the 29th, the enemy's squadron advanced would be, at best, but the measure of the two Houses • result from the farther prolongation' of the business, against Fort St. Catharine and the Napoleon battery. assenting to their own Acts, and making use of the he sho u ld no t m a ke any further observations, than to —An engagement took place—.the fire was very i King's Great Seal for that p ur po se . I t w as no t an repeat once more hi s conv i ct i on o f t h e re sponsibility of brisk. Several of the enemy's gun-boats ere sunk. I Act of Parliament, but a fiction, and an absurdity those who a c ted fo r such a purpose under a Commis - We fired teem our batteries upwards of 3000 shot.-1 contrary to law. Not meaning to dwell in detail l i on , wi t h t h e Gr e at s e al put to it in the Manner and 'Our shells blew up the fort of Puntales, The cue - f upon the subject, he must repeat his protestation under the circumstances as pmposed. my's gun-beats, after an a c tion of three hours, chew i against the measure, reserving to himself, at any , The LORD CHANCELLOR then proceeded to off, and made for C a di z Poi n t, to shelter themselves future day, the right of questioning the legality and put the question on the Resolutions, which passed from our forniaible batteries of Se and a4-pounders.' propriety of this proceeding of making those who sos. 411. ARMY Ot* Eseuemenuiet.—The Duke of Dalmatia acted upon it amenable to the laws of their country. : The Earl of LIVERPOOL then moved to fill nP had marched from Seville, with 4 battering train, to; The Earl ot LIVERPOOL said, that although he the blank with the worde o The ifih (as we under take post in front of Badajos, in order to hesiere should abstain from any o b servat i ons th a t m i g h t l ea d stoo d) o f F e b ruary, " which wasagreed to n°'7. din. that fortress, and form a communication with the, to further discussion, he felt it impossible to let the , A messane was then ordered to he sent to the Corn -Prince of Essling. Badajos most by this time have remai Ls that bad been ntetig ley the two Noble Lords ' moos, desiring* conference, to.acquaiut them With th e len. The battering train eoasisted of V) picots of; opposite pass by, witheut some. notice, He pew Resolutions passed by their Lordeaps. isitsvy ordnance, • could bit silently PO permit this measure to be 59 Adjourned till half-past four on Monday. •