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:l:e cci he nd re- ~g ov ary. This movement turned . and stir -00111,_,1 the e nemy's position, while Palombino's di. tenMen°' • occupied the Spaniards in front, in passing the ti. f g er betwee n Quarte and Mislata. The Captain of 1!, 1 jeer s, OrJenaire, was killed whilst constructing . 1- b g r i c i ge on this point. The left of the enemy pene if% t i i g the design of our movement upon Turrente, eeipitately abandoned the position of Manisses, to r oc id being surrounded, and retired upon Cartaroja, w h er e our column arrived too late to oppose it. Se oul thousand Spaniards had time to escape by the toa d ot Murcia, by abandoning their artillery. The es: o f the enemy's army was shut up in the place. Robert's division having passed the river, near its youth,and carried the entrenchments on the right bat trom the city to the sea, the immense investment ofiralencia was the same day completed. The fol kargig days. the positions of the camp were brought ilea rer. We were able to leave very few troops upon t h e left bank ; the fortifications of our lines supplied the place of numbers. The Valencians much depended upon their canals %cover the approaches by inundation, and fill the ksses of their entrenched camps, but they had not time to prepare these means. When our troops passed to the lett bank, the chief, dhattalion, Pinot, seized upon the sources , and turn -1 ea the waters of the canals into the river. The Engineer Officers constructed redoubts within 100toises of the place upon the roads of Quarte and Murcia; and the convent Jesus, upon the Madrid r ead, was barricaded, and occupied by a battalion.— E v ery where else the canals and fosses secured us against sorties. The city is surrounded by a good wall, almost cir cular, of SO feet high by 10 wide. TheValencians had added a small ditch, filled with water, at the loot of the wall, with a covered way, and formed lattens from the side of Rozafa. and some small works to defend the gates. Their defence rested principally in their vast entrenched camp, which contained within it the city and the three suburbs upon the right bank. This was fortified with bastions, and in a great mea sure bomb-proof. This line extended from the sea to °butte, where it terminated in a point which was weak, as it could be attacked in the rear by the left bank. This, became the point of attack ; but as the enemy could during the siege form interior entrench ments between the river and Rozafa, and had even commenced some works for the purpose of isolating this tom the remainder of the line, a second attack was determined upon point St. Vincente on the Mur clan road. The entrenched camp was defended by I 20,000 troops of the line, 6000 militia, and 100 pieces of cannon. First Night, from the Ist to"the 2d of January. Scarcely had Colonel Henry commenced marking out the first parallel, at 60 tcises from San Vincente, when he was killed ; his loss is sensibly felt by the whole army. Hewes a most skilful officer in the art of sieges: the chiefs of battalions Thiebault and Penot replaced Co lonel Henry:, the parallel was opened at sixty toises from the works. The chief of battalion Plagneol erected a battery within 90 toises, before Olivette; by morning these works were completed. Saw Night.—The parallel and communication of San Vincente were finished, and 'a second communi ation near the Murcian road was began. The left of Olivette parallel was much annoyed by the twin from a house 100 toises in advance. Captain Boucher attacked them with a party of sha!pshooters. wounded and took prisoners the Spanish Officer and several soldier's. The parallel was then extended to this house, 'which served as a point of support.— Miguel; chief of battalion, opened part of a parallel upon the left bank, to give facilities for the artillery to play upon the entrenched camp near Olivette. Third Night. —By the attack on San Vincente, we finished the communication on the right. The wea tier was vcrly bad ; the earth was so soaked with rain that it had lostaill its solidity. Fourth Night. —The parallel of St. Vincente was ex tended 100 toises upon the right, to a burnt house, %hich served as a point of support. On the salient angles of the place attacked, we lormed two openings. Tit workmen were placed under a heavy fire of grape, bit maintained themselves, through the firmness of Captains Bertheis and Gulllemain. We lost some men, but succeeded in approaching within thirty tits of the counterseaip. The two ways towards Crette were carried the preceding night to within 11toises of the counterscarp. The enemy confined to his works by the first parallel at 90 toises, could make no sorties, because he had no place d'armes nor covered way where they could assemble and debouch. Itwas therefore thought useless to establish a second parallel against such works. We proceeded in our mo•mined roads and arrived within nine toises of the ountericarp. The enemy terrified at the rapidity Ind proximity of cur works, and fearing to be carried by auault, a b an d one d t h e i r entrenched camp, and Wight shelter, leaving their artillery and ammunition n our power. We established ourselves on all the Fiats in the interior of the entrenched camp, and rude communications. From that moment the town was ones ; the enemy could not think of defending liemselves within it, not being prepared r a war of ktnes, in consequence of not having demolished the basses in the su b ur b s ' o f S an Vi ncente an d Q uarte , Which advanced to within ten or fifteen toises of the wall. Night—TheFjth artillery commenced a bombard. Innt with eight mortars, established in the Capu ties Conve nt , upon t h e l e f t b an k. Pi not , Ch e f d e ttalion, made communications to the houses in the suburbs of San Vincente, and quickly arrived within ten toises of the town. We established ourselves in some houses of Qnarte. Seventh,.etnd eighth Nights.—Wc endeavoured to debouch from a house in the suburbs in San in= s ante, but the enemy perceived us, and directed his c annon upon this debouch. -We lost three miners, .: a tdthis attempt failed. We were then obliged to de rloch f rom a h ouse 66 feet distant from the town, from a su b terraneous gallery, wh i c h was ear ned, in sixty hours, under the foundations of thew all. Th e enemy defended the left part of the suburbs of particularly the Convent of Uriulines. q" de battalion, and Vacani, Captain of Iced successively through all the houses ) dislodged the enemy, and established it. General Blake now negotiated for rf the town and army. The capitula. td on the 9th. 1. (Signed) IWONIAT. EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY'S. PRICE OF STOCKS 'THIS DAY AT ONE es'CLOCK 3 per Ct. Cons. for money 6211—D0. for ace. 621 S per Ct. Reduced 631-4 per Cent. 794 5 per Ct. 9411—Bonds 17s. I es. pr.—Ontolum Exch. BiUs ss. 7s. pre.—Long Anns. 161 SWIFT'S is the only Office that sold a Prize of £20,000 In Shares, in the last Lottery. A change long desired, and for some time expect ed, has at length taken place in the Spanish Govern• ment. This important fact was yesterday officially communicated to our Ministers by the Duke del Is- FANTADO, who received diipatches from Cadiz in the morning to that effect. These dispatches, which were brought over by Colonel TEXADA, accompanied by a Messenger of State, announce the dissolution of the Regency, and the appointment of a new Executive Council of Five, consisting of the following members: the Duke del INFANTADO, General HENRY O'Dox- NELL, Admiral VILLAVICENZA, Governor of Cadiz, M. Rin,ts, and M. MOSQUERA. Don VINCENTE DE DURANGO, Secretary of the Em bassy, will perform the duties of Ambassador to the British Court till the appointment of a successor to the Duke del INFANTADO. The new arrangement was effected before the arri val of Mr. VAUGHAN, who came to England with dispatches from Mr. WELLESLEY, expressly for the purpose of obtaining the instructions of Government on the point ; but we take it for granted, that it is settled on the basis desired by Mr. WELLESLEY, for a more honourable, a more enlightened Patriot than the Duke del INFANTADO ) the Spanish People could not have at their head. The first three of the Council are chosen for Spain, the last two for the Indies. This arrangement has been adopted in order to give satisfaction to the Co lonies, which are thus placed more upon an equality with the mother country, by having Representatives in the Executive Government as well as in di: Na tional Congress. Great good may certainly be expected from this change, if it be not now too late to apply remedies to the effects which have already resulted from pride, ignorance, imbecility, and superstition—causes which have operated to put a merciless and unprincipled enemy in possession of almost every strong hold in Spain. This new arrangement took place, we believe, be fore the tidings of BLAKE'S melancholy surrender ruched Cadiz ; and it remains to be seen what measures would, in consequence, be adopted for the salvation of the country. The following are the latest accounts from Spain : “ CADIZ, JAN. 21. "Disputes run very high between Marmont and Soult, and both have made representations to their Emperor. We are ignorant whether this influenced the bad humour produced in Soult by a dispatch from Drouet, Commander of the French troops in Estra madura, and the expressions of rage and disappoint ment which escaped him. He was closeted with Gazan till ten at night, and at midnight dispatched two Aid-de-Camps, one to Victor and the other to Dra uet." " VALENCIA DE ALCANTARA, JAN. 3. " Brigadier D. P. Morelle has passed to La Man cha with his division, composed of 2000 infantry, 300 horse, and two pieces of artillery. He has likewise under his orders some squadrons of free Hussars and patriotic parties. It is hoped this operation will pro duce many fortunate results. •, The garrison of Badajoz is composed of 4,500 men, there are many sick in it, and provisions are very scarce." Yesterday being the day appointed to be kept as a General. Fast, the shops throughout the City and suburbs, with a very few exceptions, were closely shut up, and appropriate discourses delivered in the different churches and other places of worship. The Peers and Commons assembled in their respective Hous2s, and the former, preceded by the Loan CHAN CELLOR, went in procession to Westminster Abbey, and heard Divine Service; while the Commons, with the SPEAKER at their head, went in the same manner to St. Margaret's Church.—The LORD MAYOR and Sheriffs went in state from the Mansion House, ac companied by several Aldermen, the RECORDER, Mr. Commox SEIYEANT, &c. and attended by the City Marshals, the Marshalsmen, &c. preceded by the East London Militia, with their Colonel, Sir J. EAMER, at their head, to St. Paul's Cathedral, where they heard ' Divine Service ; after which they proceeded back to the Mansion House to dinner. Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabir et Council was haid at the Foreign Office, which s.it till past five. Yesterday Major CORDON, who brought the Dis patches from Lord WELLINGTON/ was introduced to the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton House, by the Earl cf LIVERPOOL/ Yesterday Sir SIDNEY SMITH transacted business with Mr. PEEL, the Under Secretary of State in the War department. KING'S THEATRE. —The favourite Opera of Henry the Fourth was revived at this House on Saturday and Tuesday evening. It is one of those exquisite compositions both in music and dialogue, whichcannot fail to proie a most irresistible attraction to the admi -1 rers of chaste and classical dramatic representations. The story is the same with that upon which our fa vourite English farce of The King and rise Miller of Man field is founded. TRAM EZZ %NI, as the King, and CATA LA Ni, as the Miller's Dwight:r, delighted the audience as usual with a display . of their unrivalled musical talents. The Ballet of Zell", or the Forest of Adventures concluded the representation of the even ing, and the curtain dropped amid lout applausest kjfP'Ai INTELLIGENCE. FALMdUTH, FEBRUARY 3. Arrived ilte HERRING ichooner, Captain Munn's-, from Lisbon, after a passage of seven days, with dis patches from Lord WELLINGTON, stating the fill of Ciudad Rodrigo ; and the American ship Mary- Eliza, WHITE, from Boston, 23 tiffs passage, with indigo, sugar, pepper, Scc. on the 31st ult. spoke his Majesty's ships FORTUNEE and ENDYNION, which had been in chace of two French frigates, but which escaped. On the Slst ult. spoke the DOTTERELL, from Lisbon bound to this port ; she has not yet arrived. my C 1 Wine, and p 1; Michaud, Chef le Engineers, pier I, in tl.e suburbs, If _,thernSelitS in ii it the surrender r tilt was sign ( ie Yom, LIU PLYMOUTH, FEBRUARY 4. Sailed the 011 ESTES on a cruize, and the Murton cutter for L'Oiient. Arrived the STEADY gun-brig from Cadiz, with dispatches. - PORTSMOUTH, FEB- S. Arrived the SPITFIRE, from a cruize ; and the ROYAL OAK, at St. Helen's. Sailed le VENGEUR, for Basque Roads ; TEMERAIRE, for Plymouth ; and the BRAMBLE and MELPOMENE, to join the Portog.il con voy now lying in Cowes Roads. Dropped down to St. Helen's his Majesty's ship POICTIERS. As fast as the ships can be got ready they drop down to St. Helen's ; the POMPEE, of HO guns, is ready to go out of harbour, waiting a winch—Wind S. YARMOUTH, FEBRUARY 5. Put back the STARLING and THRASHER by con• trary winds. Remain in the Reads, the Solebay, Portia, Starling, Thrasher, and King Georgt(cutter. GUTTENBURGH, JANUARY 24. From our coast opposite to Denmark, I hear that 40 masts, 260 bulks, 90 barrels of tar, and about 4U dozen of deals, have been picked up from some wreck. The following notice was yesterday posted at LLOYD'S : " Pernaml•ucn, Dec. 1 8. " Silt-I am directed by the Governor, ad interim, of this Colony, to acquaint you, that the large NVliie House on Dram's Point, at the mouth of the Surinam River, has been, by a !udders Influx of the sea, washed away. His Exc.. ileney within desires me to request you, to have the goodness to make the same known to the Gentlemen resorting to the Rooms in yt.ur !louse, to pre vent any accident that might happen to vtissels coning to this port. 1 have the honour to be, str, your most obetlient humble setvant, ".1. WnlTL,liecretary." The Spanish ship Gramm), laden with wool, and bound to an English port, has been caiturcd and carried into Dunkirk. The English ship Vedra, from Buenos Ayres to London, has been captured and carried intoltoscoff, near Morlaix. The English vessels Jams and the Mary Anne, laden with rum and tebaccl, from the West Indies, have been captured and carried into I'aimpol. The English ship Hebe, bound from Demerara to London, with coffee, cotton, and rum, has been captured and carried into Ostend. The Briton, \VAUD, has arrived at Liverpool, from Oporto, in eight days. A vessel, with clothiers' oil on board, is supposed to have foundered off the Isle of Wight. One large cask, marked S. No. 13, has been picked up and car ried to Cowes, and another to Southampton. By the Elizabeth schooner, from St. Michael's, we learn, that the island of Sabrina had diappeared, leaving a depth of water for any vessel whatever to pass over. Sunday morning arrived at Plymouth, the Ameri can schooner Abi gail, .1. PELEBURG, master,. belong. ing to and from Newbury port, with a cargo of fish, hound to Bourdeaux, detained by his Majesty's ship NIEMEN, of 38 guns, Captain Sir Mictrism. SEYMOUR, Bart. ; the American Captain was permitted to re main on hoard the schooner with the prize-mat;:er and ctew sent from the NIENIEN' to conduct her to that port. Shortly :tier her detention, and when the NIEMEN was lost sight of, the American C:.ptain a:- tempted a desperate effhrt to re-pos,ess himseif of the vessel, having unnoticed drawn up th.e ladders from the cabin and galley, thereby preventing those who were below from coming on deck, he then with a loaded pistol in each hand, %rent aft to the two FC.I• I men at the helm, (only [Lose being on deck at Ilia time,) and prestmting a pistol to each, commanded them to steer according to the directions they were to receive from him, that in the event of their disobey ing his orders, he would blow their brains out, but the seamen paid but little regard to his threats, as they imme;iately attacked him in the most furious man ner, and as soon disarmed him, when he was pinioned, in order that he might not by his temerity attctnpt to I do mischief. NAVAL. APPOINTMENTS. Captain Browne to the Christian VII. which is to be the flag ship of Rear-Admiral Durham. Captain Shortland to the'Hannibal. Lieutenant Sattorious, from the Caledonia, to be =lag Com mander of the Minstrel. Lieutenants Hurd, Chapman, Benlfanr, and Pickmore, from the Temeraire, to the Royal George. lieutenant Holt, from the Temeraire to the Blossom. Lieutenant Prince, from Vdle de Paris, to be let of the Rodney. Lieutenart Richardson, from Rodney, to be lit of the America. lieutenant Ph:pps, ftum the Blossom to the Temeraire. • Four Lieutenants from the Royal George, to theTemeraire. Lord Algernon Percy is made a Lieutenant, and arpointed to the Trident, and thence to be removed to the Caledonia. Lieutenant Dobree, to the Victory. lieutenant Evans, to the Alonzo. Lieutenant Boynton, to the North Star. Lieutenant Luke, to the Christian VII. Lieutenants Roberts and Stone, to the Jasper. Lieutenant !noes, to the Queen. Mr. Burn, Matter, to the Poletlers; Mr. Nidern, Master, to the Latona ; Mr. Watson, Ma,ter, to the Hannibal; Mr. Bates, Master, to the Impregnable; and Mr. Mansfield, Muter, to the Jasper. Mr. D. Sparshntt, of the flirted, -to be Purser of Conqueror. Nlr. J. Wilcox, late, Purer of the Viretra, to the 11-gard. , Mr. Morgan, Surgeon, front Temeraite, to the Royal George. Mr. Gut hi Ic, Surgeon, front the Rodney, to the Temeraire. Mr. Girvan, surgeon, tram the Royal George, to the Rodney. Mr. Isloo:, Surgeor, from the Centaur, to the Blake. Mr. Foweil, Surgeon, to the Centaur. ; Mr. Proctor, Surgeon, from the Bustard, to the Imperieuse. Mr. MtGee, As,iteatat-Surgeon, from the Hospital, to be Sur geon of the Bustard. Mr. Burnside, Assistant-Surgeon, from the Ville de Paris, to the Temeraire. Mr. Waightman, Assistant-Surgeon, from the Teineralte, to the Ville de Pat is. The Rev. Wall, to be Chaplain of the Centaur. Captain B.itiie, R. M. frem Terreraire, to Royal) C.:eorge. attain Boys, R. M. from Royal George, to Temeraite. it uter.ant Hunt, R.M. tram Tenter:Ore to Undauntest. Liertenac Burr, K. NI. from Undaunted to Tenterate. THE ARMY. COPY OF A CIRCULAR TO PAYM ASTERS OF REGIBIDITS OR MILITIA. " Office of Military Accounts, Dec. ii, tell. " consequence of a communication received from t'•e S cietary at War, we have to apprise you, that in cases v 'acre the Pay of Boy R... , :ruits enlisted for the Militia untie: - the Act of :he 51st of the K ar, cap. Ln. shall have been irsued ar One Shilling per diem each, instead of Ten.per.ce, the 51111 C will allowed ap to the tire when the ()Lacers ccottnanclicg the Curps or the Parties with wl kh the toys were a...tiened, respectively received the ti:-st of the 11ate for Boys havln; b , A n :act at 'renitence a day.—We arc, &..z. (Signed) "M. YAVFAUX. J. STUART. L. ::::LIVAL." Lieutenant-Co!onel N‘ram X M•LEOD is about to leave the command of the 41.11 battalion, to prov.cd. to take charge tfti.e 2d at Musa!: patam, East Lieutenant-Colonel MULLER comes licrrw fiont the `Sd in Portugal, to succeed Lieotenat.t-Coliwl Alnc- Lt on, in the command of the 4th. Majors FRASER from the .1.1, and CAMPBELL. Font the 4th, go also to India ; and the gallant Captain SEEWART, who behaved so by awl).- at Talaret a, when by the side of the late General hl , lckeztE, to shorn he was Aid-de-camp when the General unfortunately received his death-wound in that affair, returns to the Sd battalion at Pottugal. Friday morning detachment. of the 17th and 21th regiments of infant:l marched from Maldon barracks, under the command of Lientenant-Colonel Frresne moxos, for the puipose of embarking for the East Indies. That of the 24th regiment consisted entirely of youths and boys, selected for the purpose. The General Officers who were to go to Portugal in the GRAMPUS, have been moved to the MeLPo- ItIENE frigate, which got under weigh from Ports mouth yesterday morning. Major-General MACKINNON, who lately fell at the head of his brigade, in the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo, was f I one of the most ancient families of Scotland, being a younger son of the late W. Mao- KINXON, Esq. who was the representative of the younger branch of the La'rds of Mackinnon, which branch became the elder about two years ago, by the extinction of the other. He entered into the Cold stream Regiment of Guards at an early age, and served his first camp sign in Holland, under the Duke Of YORK, and was aflerwards Brigade-Major to Ge. neral Nucevr, during the rebellion in Ireland. This gallant Officer was often praised for his conduct in tee different actions with the rebels. He was in the expedition to Egypt. In the year 1305 he served with his t %intent in Germany, and at Conenhagen in 1807. At the end of 18d8 he embarked for the Peninsula, where no action was fought under Lord Wm.- : LiNErrox in which his name was not mentioned with the highest praise in the dispatches. 'f ie Ge neral married, in 1804., the youngest daughter of Sir J CALL, Bart. who, wth two infant children, has to dcplore the loss of the best of husbands. The storming party which cartiod Fort Francisco. five days before the capture of Ciudad Rodrigo, eon ' slated of Captains CRAMPTON, MITCHELL, and TRA• yeas's companies of Riflemen, two companies cf the 4.lid, two crmpanies of the 52d, and Colonel Ei.DC:'.'S Portuguese regiment. Between eig!it and nine o'cloc'k, on the night of the 14th ult. tiley moved ea in silence, and without being observed until within j fifty yards of the place : the enemy opene I a (bead ' ful fire of guns and musketry, but nothing could Withstand the gallarnry of the soldiers—they rushed in, in all ei.rections, without wieting for laaderg, and Fort Francisco was in our possess.on in less toan 20 minutes. Anr,ng the late arrivals from Portugal are M:4joe GREGORY, of the 44th regiment, with Lientcnaitts SAUNDERSON and BURNEY, f the sure reg ment.— We understand .they are returned on the recruiting service, and the Major is to take the comm.snd of the depot, which has lately been removed from Hereford to Horsham, in Sussex. Frcm the well-known teal of these Officers it is generally expected, that in the emit se of a few months the '2d battalion of [tut fine - r g rnent, at present in PI rtugal, under the command of the I-1 , .n. Colonel CAttutos, will be made as tifec- five as the first battalion, st hich has long been deem ed one of the finest regiments in the Mediterranean. Saturday morning, the Inverness Militia marched from Fenton barracks, near Gosport, to Portchester Castle, to do duty over the French prisoners th e re, sr:lich lately bccn done by detachments from fercr.r regiments. This tine regiment has been up wards of two years in the gatmon at Gosport, and have conducted themselves with the greatest pro priety. They arc a remarkably fine budy of men, and their departure is very much reb►retted by the inhabitants uf the garrison. The public will learn with regret that Major-Ge renal WlLualu BALFOUR died at Frederictown, New Brunswick, on the 2cl of December, in the 53d year of his age and 37th of h:s service. He entered the 57th Regitnent is the year 1775, served with it in America, and continued in the same regiment till his death. He formed the lit battaiun of that corps, which so nobly maintained the honour of the British arms at the battle of Albuera. He has left three lossorph.an daughters in Ncw lituntwick. to lament his The great and good Joviu.axos is no more_•-he died of fatigue at Vera, a miserable sea-port in Gat. licia, where he had landed to take refuge from the persecutions of the enemies of his beloved country. Thote who are acquainted with his character as a philusophcr and patrio., wil regard his death as equal to a victory obtained by the enemy—. Civil' erat qut libera poser, V. rba aaimi pruferrr, et vitam impendere vers. Monday came on before the High Coin t of Ind. ciary, at Edinburgh, the tri.tl of Jam: Lindsay Cram. ford, and James !freaky; accused of forg ng certain deeds relative to the titles and estates of the Earldom of Crawford. The result of the trial was not known whetiour accounts came away. • The BARONS of EXCURQUNR in Scotland have re fused to grant a new trial on the motion of the Com missioners of the Customs, on the subject of the long pending question of t}.e bounty of It per yard on printed goods, split after coming out of the loom. — The liw of the question is now understood us be set I,d, and the decision of the barons has given much satisfaction to the manufacturing interest.