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HT'SFROM LAS GAZE E TT. - S • WAR DEPARTMENT. DOWNING STRIZT, NOVINUIR 1. A Dispatch, of which the following is an astrai was yesterday received at Lord BATHUMIT 9 IIOffiCei I addressed to his Lordship by Field-Marshal the Mar quis of WELLINGTON, dated Vera, October 18, The enemy moved General Paris's division from Oleron to the neighbourhood of St. Jean de Pied de • Port, as soon as our left made its movement on the 7th instant. On the night of the 12th the enemy attacked and I carried the redoubt in the camp of Sarre, which was - held by a picquet of 40 men of the army of reserve of Andalusia, who were taken, as well as 100 pio neers. There is reason to believe that they were sur prised, as the reserve for the support of the redoubt had not time to give the picqua assistance. This redoubt was certainly more distant from the line, and horn the ground from which k could be supported, • thin I had imagined it to be when I had directed chat it should be occupied, and it was so near to the houses of the village of Sane as always to be liable to an attack by surprise, I have therefore not allowed Ft to be reoccupied. • •4 • After having possession of the redoubt, the enemy - , --iwasle an attack, on the morning of the I3th, upon the advanced posts of the army of Andalusia, under "the command of Mariscal de Campo Don Pedro Gi. ron, with a view to regain possession of those works which they had lost tin the Bth, which they construct ed in front of the camp of Sarre. It was at first ima gined and reported, that the real attack was on the side of the Hermitage of La Itbune ;hut it was con fined entir, ly to the advanced posts of the army of Andalusia, and was repulse.' by them without difficuity. I had every reason to be satisfied with the conduct ' of Mariscal de Campo Don P. Giron, and die Gene ral Staff and other Officers, and the soldiers under his command upon this occasion. I had again occasion to observe particularly the ,steadiness of the regiment bf Ordenes, under the ' • , '-etibmand of Colonel Hore. . . Nothing of importance has occurred on any part of the line, but it appears that the enemy have been reinforced by considerable bodies of recruits, raised by the recent. conscriptions. I hAve received no reports from Catalonia since I addressed your Lordship last. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, NOVEMBER 2. Copy of a IA tttr from Admiral Lord Keith, K. B. to John Wil solt C roke•r, E'q. d.ted on board his Majesty's ship Sultan, in Caw,int! Pay, 34th October, .1813. Sta—Captain Tobin, of bis b{ ijesty's,ship Andro tnAche, arrived here this morning with the French frigate la Trave, of 44 guns, which he =puked on the ‘2',;(l inst. after a short action. . This frigate is the consort of the Weser, taken by the Rippon, Scylla, and Royalist, on the 21st. I enclose a copy of Captain Tobin's letter, report ing this capture, and am sorry to observe, that his First Lieutenant, Mr. Dickinson, is severely wound ed.—l have the honour to be, &cc. (Signed) • - KEITH. Admiral, Andromache, October 2Sth, 1813, Scilly, N. N.E. Distance 22 Leagues. My Loafs—As the day opened on the 23d instant the Andromache gave duce to a frigate under jury masts in the N.E. quarter ;—about four p. m. (the Salutes bearing E. by S. fourteen leagues) sbe open ed a fire on us from her stern guns, which was not returned until a position was taken on ber weather quarter, when, after a feeble resistance of about fif teat minutes, she struck her colours ; indeed such was the disabled State of her masts previously to our meeting, that any further opposit i on would have been the extreme of rashness. She is la Trave, of 28 French 18-pounders and 16 18-pound :arronades, only nine months old, with ti crew of 321 men (nearly all Dutch), one of whom vas killed, and her Commander, Jscnb Van Maren, Capitaine de Vaisseau and Member of the imperial Order of Reunion, the Second Lieutenant, OA°lme, two Midshipmen (one of them since dead), and 21 seamen, wounded. The Andromache has received no injury in her hull, nor aught to mention in her sails or rigging, while 1 lament to say, that Mr. Thomas Dickinson, the First Lieutenant, is severely wounded, and one seaman slightly.--L have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) GEORG% TOBIN, Captain. To Admiral Lord Keith, K.B. &c. acc. &c. P.S. It seems, that la Trave had two men wound ed by an English brig of war, on the 19th. Extract of a Lever from Viee•Adntiral Otway to John Wilson Croker, Esq. dated at Leith, the 29th October, 1813. The Clio has sent in a small Danish cutter priva. Leer, of three guns and 22 men, captured on the 22d inst. off Hiteroe ; had not taken any thing. Extract of a Letter from the Honourable Captain Percy, of kis Majesty's ship Hotspur, addressed to Admiral Lord Keith , and tilansmitted by his Lordship to JohuWilson Croker, Esq. His Majesty's ship Hotspur, at Sea, October 26. beg leave to inform you, that I have this day captured, after a Chace of six bouts, the American schooner letter of marque Chesapeake, of two hun dred and sixty-five tons, five guns, and twenty-nine men, from Nantes. WHITEi - TALL, NOVEMBER 2. Nig Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased. in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to give sod grant unto Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton, K.B. Colonel of the seventy-seventh regiment of foot, and Representative in Parlia ment for the Borough of Pembroke, his Majesty's royal licence and permission, that he may accept and wear the insignia of an Honorary Knight Commander of the Royal Portuguese Military Order of the 'lower 2n4 Sword, with which his Royal Highness the Pr:uce Regent of Portugal has been pleased to honour him, in testi....ony of the high sense which that Prince entertains of the di,tiugoislied conduct of the said Sir Thomas Mon oat do yen important occasions. [For Bankrupts, dca see Wry.] • "mks P 4 Pitt . COPENTOOEN, OCTOBER 14. Hit Majesty on the Ist instant ordered, tight there should be read from the pulpit, in all the Churches, a short exposition of the causes of the war, which' Denmark now maintains is her own defence, against Sweden; and that that alien afterwards be a solemn prayer for the soften of ilia Majesty's arms. VDENFA, 'OCTOBER 15. The greatest staguatidn reigns in business; every body complains of war, and sighs 'after the prompt establishment of peace. Is, short, there is not one class of citizens which does ' not suffer, We are ex posed to requisitions of all kinds, in men, in money, 'sn horses, in goods. Money is more scarce that, ever. The Austrians still remark with al-honour and cha. grins that the authors of the masa war are almost all intriguing strangers, who have arrived, one does ant know hoe, at the first employments ; and who are always inclined to violent measures, to satisfy their ambition. We are not da.zsled by those pre tended idicesses with which the journals of this capi te are every morning filled ; we know that the army kiis.experieoced great losses, and that they are very mutt embarrassed to repair them. This order of cannot long exist. Besides, the misunder. t s i tt s ing which has appeared in the different branches of the administration, requires the Sovereign's pre. sence. His- stay with the army is hurtful to public credit. England promised subsidies which she doe* not give ; she has still excuses for delaying payment of them ; nevertheless Austrian blood flows for her, and we cannot forget that she has, without pity, sa crificed us in all preceding wars. ROTHEMBURG, OCTOBER 15. The day before yesterday, about sir in the morn ing, an enemy's party, consisting of about 400 Prussian infantry, 100 Cossacks, and a mountain gun, appeared before the fort, and attacked the mill post, defended by a 'serjeant and 15 men, who cou -rageously maintained themselves, The artillery of the fort fired very succeufhlly, and repulsed the assailants. The enemy, discouraged by these fruit less attacks, retired in the direction of Bremen, leav ing the Commandant and about 30 men k!lled before `thee place. To-day, about noon, a column of 1100 infantry, , 200 horse, and two pieces of cannon, coming from Haarburg, arrived : other troops ate expected. SEMLIN, SEPTEMBER 30. The Turkish army, which is on the banks of the Moravia, is commanded by the Pacha of Widdin, who has been appointed a Pacha of Three Tails. This army, on the 21st inst. took the fortified Isle of Bosetsch. The Servian garrison was put to the sword. The Turkish flotilla contributed greatly to this advantage. The enemy aftertlards occupied a camp at Peleka. Some Servian troops are opposite, upon the Semendria road. The Servians havebeen allowed to send from Bel grade to the Austrian territory, their women, children, and goods ; but men capable of bearing arms must remain to defend the fortress, and the country. An. article, dated Frankfort, 20th October, after stating the great increase of secret societies in Ger many, says -0. The-end which these secret societies- of tie pre. , tent moment affect to have, is the citation of means of resistance against France ; but this is not the real; motive, or at least is but secondary. It mast Fie re collected, that they were instituted et an epoch when war did not exist : that what they witit, is the 'Over throwing of the social order now estaTalished. They flatter themselves with substituting another for it, which would be' the regime of the most perfect . tqu tlity. The real design of these secret societies is evident in every thing that emanates from them.— They speak of the sovereignty of thepeople as the French Jacobins did." SPANISH PAPERS. CADIZ, SEPTEMBER 25. Perhaps a sketch of the recent politicatevents which have taken place in this city may not be uninterest ing, and I therefore transmit you the following : You will probably have learned from" our journals that the Extraordinary Cortes have finishid their sit tings, and that the Ordinary Cortes have assembled. They have not. et, however, proceeded to transact public business, 'hut have been engaged let the verifi cation of their powers, and in the election of a Pre sident and Secretaries. But during the period be tween the rising of the Extraordinary, and the assem bling of the Ordinary Cortes, a deputation of the former continued permanent, and held their sittings from day to day. The professed object of this mea sure, so little analogous to the practice of British le. gislatioa, is to watch over the observance of the Con stitution, to secure the regular assemblage of the Ordinary Cortes, and probably to retain a superin tendance over the conduct of the Regency. In fact, it has so happened that an opportunity occurred, in which this permanent deputation exercised a very marked influence on the determinations okthe Re gency. The question with regard to the removal of the Government to Madrid has several times occasioned a considerable conflict of opinion ; and it appeared, that those supposed to be attached to the old political system, have been anxious for that removal, while the friends of popular rights have constantly urged the propriety of remaining in Cadiz, till the enemy was completely expelled, Pamplona recov d, and the frontier secured. For the side whi each of these parties took, it would not, perhaps, difficuk ie to account on other grounds ; but at present, it will be sufficient to state the fact of such diversity of views. About the middle of this month, in consequence of its being ascertained that a fever prevailed at Gib taltar, the people of Cadiz, peculiarly alive to every rumour of contagion from the dreadful pestilence which raged at Malta, were soon agitated by reports that the same fever had made its appearance to their city. The Council of State took the alarm ? and iv commended to the Regency the immediate removal of all the Departments of Government to Madrid.— Influenced by this advice, the Regency had even is sued orders to that effect on the eveniag of the 18th, which were to be executed neat &y. The populace of Cadiz, filled with ersisternation, assembled in crowds in the streets, sad wen wit very measured in their ezpressiois d resestsuent against those who had authorized a measire which they thought unnecessary, and which they probably con ceived would materially affect their interest& No disturbance, however, took place, though the alarm was considerable. • At this moment the permanent Deputation of the Cortes interfered, and summoned an ialtDOCUllte meet ing of the Extraordinary Cortes, who had already been dissolved, but the greater part of whose mem bers still remained in Cadiz. That body met accos dingly, under the Presidency of Senor Gordoa, and immediately proceeded to call for the examinations of the Physicrans and of the Board of Health : from their representations, it soon appeared that the alarm was unfounded—that no dangerous fever prevailed— and that the general health was much the same as at similar prriods of the year, when calentures are more or, less frequent. In consequence of this, and of the general impres sion that seemed to pervade the Cortes, the order for the removal of the Departments of the Government was withdrawn. That body, after a session of two days, again dissolved, and affairs returned to their regular course. In the mean time, perhaps it may not be uninteresting to you to transmit you the speech delivered by the President of the Permanent Deputa tion of the Cortes, in the sitting of the 15th instant. It at least assigns the motives for the existence of a body which may by some be reckoned an anomaly in legislation, and chews the anxiety of the Spanish polrucaans to maintain the influence of the people. SPEECH OF THE PAEHERINT 01 THE PERMANENT DEPU TATION OF THE (MITES ) IN THE bITTINO QY THE 15TH SEPTEMBER. 44 All nations must have been early aware of the necessity of fixing limits to the Government which they had formed for the establishment of general or der, justice, and tranquillity; and Spain, not less prudent in regard to its Kings, whom it obeyed with respect and veneration, than brave and energetic against its enemies, whom it always combated with heroic constancy, created a National Congress which might curb that tendency to arbitrary power, which, by a mournful fatality, seems the inseparable compa nion of those who govern. It is impossible to view with - out admiration the pleasing recollection of those Cortes who, amidst the continual wars by which the kingdom was agitated and exhausted, assembled for the purpose of electing the Monarch who was to go vern, dictating the laws which were to be obeyed, imposing the taxes which every one had to pay, and thus securing the liberty and the rights of the nation. Unfortur.atiy, that inestimable Institution, which, like all the other works of men could not be exempt from the vicissitudes incident to human weakness, was constituted with those imperfections which were I.ecoliar to times K hen war was the pridcipal occu pation of the Spaniards, and a cunning policy availed itself of the opportunities they afforded to frustrate its high ends. The law specified neither the epoch nor the day at which the Cortes should be periodi cally assembled, nor was there that permanence of representation which is the principal bulwark that can be opposed to the ambition of the Prince or the Minister. Hence it was not extraordinary that the legitimate posters of the Cortes were gradually Unlit ped, their meetings suspended or discontinued, and that the institution itself became an empty name.. Front-that montent,--sh e ie genos and spkndaar, of "the iribnaratY" felnittlo tit at length, in Our days, a cunning and perfidious userper dared to con ceive the criminal design of subjugating the country. But the Spaniards, who, though influenced by foreign nations, and governed by foreign families, still re tained their unconquered valour, and the unsubdued pride of their noble character, roused themselves against the hosts of the tyrant, and while in the act of forming their Government, it was impossible they could forget the primitive institution of their ances tors. They therefore convoked the Cones to mu. late their means of defence against a foreign 011103 T, and to secure their liberties against WNW enemies. I The General and Extraordinary Corms werwatstaUed between the batteries of the enemy and do ores of the ocean; and while the legions of blapolipon were launching their incendiary bombs, and endeavouring to storm the last asylum of Spanish lawny, the au pot Congress, undisturbed and immovable, framed i die political constitution of the mooarthy, or rather retouched the fine picture of the ancient mitigation, giving it a more mellow colouring, mad MOM exact' proportions, with additional durabi mind consistency. iienceforward a profound and seductive ambition will no longer be enabled to execute its daring enter prises : an ever-burning torch will disclose the bad arts with which it has hitherto combined its dark and secret plans, and the Permanent Deputation will de. flounce them to the ensuing Cones for puniehment. 'The General and Extraordinary Cortes, aware that the intervals interposed betieeen theirs:winkling of the different Cones, were the principal cause of the pro. i gressive decline of the national representation, and of ' its ultimate suppression, have established theprincipie of the indissolubility of the Congress; and while that own sittings are suspended, they have felled up the vacuum with a permanent Deputation, whicfrnhall guard art infracdone:of she Cositandlin, prepare the ins' dun of the apOoaching Co rt es, and Corm the last ink to unite the chain by which despotism must be for ever bound. This is the first time that the permanent Deputation has had the honour of addressing itself to the respectable Deputies who have been selected for their virtues to occupy a place in the august Congress of the nation ; and.as the faithful organ of the Extraordinary Cortes, it cannot omit expressing the just confidence which is inspir ed by their intelligence, their patriotism, and the general choice of their respective provinces.— The chief foundations of the national prosperity rue already laid ; and to you, illustrious fathers of your country, belongs the invaluable privilege of crown ing and consolidating the grand and majestic edifice. Rooted abuses which have grown up under the pro tection of a weak, arbitrary, and dilapidating Go vernment ; opinions received in education, and au thorised by the prejudices of the times ; —interests which are opposed to great reform; conflicting shocks of party, which are inseparable from the compli cated circumstances of a revolution ;—all these powerful causes have been able to . retaid, for some time, the accomplishment of the ardent wishes the Cortes, and the Uttering hopes of the nation : but your zeal, activity. and wisdom, will soon sur mount these obstacles, which are already in part over cone; and if the Extraordinary Cones, who began their sittings when all the provinces were occupied as invaded, had the satisfaction of closing them wheat the enemy, pursued by our victorous armies, re. passed the Bidassoa, covered with ignominy. there i reserved for the Ordinary Cones, who are about to bt installed, when the roar of cannon is again heard it. the North, the immortal glory of reestablishing ou• beloved King Ferdinand upon the throne, and of gis ing the nation a real and solid peace, which may s• cure its independence and prosperity." SOU? II AMERICA. GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.—CArvatoen A, Aso. is oFIICIAI INTALLIGEVCS. BULLETIN, No. S, FROM THE ARMY OF THE WORT' LIBEItATION OF VINF4VELA. " The vanguattof the army took posseseicas city at one o'clock in the afternoon ; a body of eaa cavalry having defeated and made privateers a de tachment of fifty men, who. by orderef 'the Cum mandant of the catahy of Fiscar, and dtrapaesari Julian Antalya, were posted at the entrance. " The Cornnspier m Chief, with oily the Cam mandant of the vanguard and the Stair s wend the city, and immediately ordered detacbutests of caystri to pursue the retreating Span:ards as fps as the tow) of Arauve. The booty we have taken aismants tt more than 20,000 dollars in tobacoo and surd* dine. (Signed) (For the NitljOf.GtltCTAl of the A r " The Major of the Vanguard, LUCIANO DIVLUZAAt " Head-quartera, lit July, lets, third 'sal Brat." BULLETIN, No. 4. " The Spaniard, Fiscar, being aware that our vat guard, as encamped at the village of Barrancas, ft al leagues from this capital, with intention of attacking his head-quarters at day.break this morning, the cow. and took advantage of the dal kness of the night, ac companied by his satellites, 400 infantry and 100 ca 'airy, who, by the account of the stragglers, bar, already nearly all deserted him. The intention o Fiscar is to embark at the village of Nutrias, fin Guayana, carrying with him the plunder of the mans innocent victims he has sacrificed in this province and flying from the sword of revenge. 'lh.! enemy have left in our possession a park of artilery o 13 pieces, muskets, powder, lead, cartridges, swurds halberts, cartridge-boles, and other warlike stores which they could not take along with them, throne the precipitation and disorder with which they fled . Thus have we accomplished the destruction of an army without giving battle, and taken so much am munition by only shewing . ourselves. Conquistador de Santa Fe has disappeared like smoke; the divisior of 800 men under the cranmand of Marti .has like. wise been routed by our vanguard, and that of Jon.: finds itself cut off from every resource but that of throwing themselves into the river Orinoko, to escape from our persecution. In fine, the tithe Spanish Commanders, Fiscal . , Marti, and Jones, can only withdraw alone, covered with ignominy, ani loaded with the execrations of the people, whom they have beggared by their rapacity. (Signed) . (For the Major General of the Army, " VtiCtAtio D I ELLUTAIt e Major of the Vanguard. • Head-quarters of the Army, at Varrnas, 51h July, ISIS, thipekeed THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 3, 1813. The REvoLunommaa frigate has captured and sent into Plymouth the American schooner Firefly, Cap. taro &walk, bound from 13oston to Bourdeaux. Captain Et.witu. reports that the President frigate, Commodore Items, bad arrived at Boston, previews to his leaving it. The gallant Captain Sir J. P. !Inoue, of the SUAIIIION, arrived at the Admiralty this morning.... The SWIM NON arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from Halifax. She sailed an the 4th alt. but brings papers no later than the 49th of September. which were be• fare rece►ved in this country. A Lisbon Mast arrived this morning. It bring. us rather gloomy intelligence from the Mediterranean on this subject of the contagious fever now prevalent in that quarter. The accounts from the North of Spain, received at Lisbon, are ant oftecent dates : m LISBON. OCTOBER le. " Our amounts from Gibraltar continue very tie favourable ; the fever still prevails there with consi derable virulence. This city is remarkably healthy, more so, indeed, than has been remembered for sew -1 ral yams. ilse.77th Regiment sailed a few days ago for Cofenna. " The Governor of Pamplona sent to the Spanish army to demand food for their countrymen within the walls, saying', that they had not more than sufficient to serve them to the 25th. This was refused, and he was told that a French soldier should be put to death for every native who cried of famine after the 23th, if the garrison had rations. " Ma this reply the Governor sent a second mes. :eager, who was sent on to Lord Wellington ; the nature of his proposals has not transpired, bat it s supposed the Governor wishel to surrender upol. terms" Yesterday his Royal Highness the Panics Ricawr held a Court at Carlton House. At three o'clock his Royal Highness held a Privy Council, which WAS attended by— The Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Brat Lord of the Treasury, the three Secretaries of State, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the Matte General of the Ordnanco, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the President of the Board of Control, the Chancellor of the &the• quer, the Chiusi.ellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, together with all the Olken of &ate and the Household, who are of his Ma jesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. The Speech of the PRINCE REGENT for the opening of the Session of Parliamcat, to-morrow, was read and agreed upon., s