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• • • sich ug re iparafe haeins MMus ..te . 4,lpoptalfr,. f .lofx .theitartilerk, irnaggaiiwa and igaisigi i. and tO I mown , t . t hat by reaching.that position, theglirould htiVe beeit turned by the Frehch not blii them but atl fs'e'liiolfgh't more immediately in .front Of Lisbon,' . Palentia, having lost 60 plebes of cannon and 304000, which ground Sir A. Wellesley was so well ac- ; .nth ~..„,.''' • mi l, as to make him anxious to meet the roomy i killed or made prisoners. As this Action seems to' 7 _7 A s an objection against . waiting for Sir John ' have decided the fate of the Asturiati Army, we shall ' 7 1 „„,„05 corps, Sir A. Wellesley said, that there must give the Bulletin which describes it without abridgh.' / b e a n interval of at least ten days before it could be cant . c eable. - The Eletenth Bulletin is also extremely important. Q.—Do you recollect that I urged Sir H. Burrard en the field on the 21st of Au g ust, to continue the „ i rkccording to ir, the movements of the left of the W it suit of the advant a g es which our arm y had g ained French army were begun on the 19th ult. and on the ; c c the eneihy, referring to the convetsation of the ' 21st, a diiision of cavalry set out froM Logrono by acc eding evening on the same sub j ect ?—A. I do not ! the right of the Ebro, while four divisions passed that priestly r ecollect the manner in which you expressed ' r i ver at L o d on, a b an d on i ng t h e di st ri ct b etwee n th e ,„ r d es ire to Sir H. Burrard on this' subject, but I ;:ollect perfectly your pressing him to allow the par- Ebro and lung. Pampe o h to be continued. That you stated that the right I On the 22d the French marched to Calahora, w i n g of our army was several miles nearer to Torus : which was Abandoned by CA STANOS before they ar vedras than the enemy was ; that we had four bri- ' : rived.—On the following day they came up with the des which had not been en g a g ed ; and that 'rbn'es p the path by which the enemy had retired; was p atr iots, 45,000 in number, near Tudela, and arnine Nods , Q. Do you recollect, that I pressed him to allow in the monting'attacked them, pierced their centre, t h e ri ght wing of our army to drive the left of the and cut off their right.-r'The 'line under CASTANOS . enemy back on Torres Vedras ?—A. I d o , saying at then fled towards Mallen and Agreda, having lost t h e s ame time, that in your opinion, by that move- seven standards, thirty pieces of cannon, twelve Co tt t, no part of the French army would reach en lonels, three hundred officers, four thousand killed, Lisbon .; Sir A, Wellesley expresse d his iitention of calling : and three thousand prisoners I we al other witnesses. Adjourned till to-morrow. .The sum of the intelligence in these Bulletins is briefly this :—Within thirty days after the opening of the campaign, two armies of the Patriots have been destroyed ; and, if we may credit the statement, that und.r CASTANOS, consisting of 45,000 men, was de feated by only 6000 of the enemy.—The French, as was to be expected, pretend to have gained all their victories with very little loss on their own part. Respecting the British troops these Papers furnish but little intelligence. The infantry, they state, is on its -retreat to Portugal ; as to British cavalry the French had seen none of them. • We have to observe, that though the Moniteur: which have been received come down to the 11th in : scant, the latest accounts from the armies, viz. the 12th Bulletin, appear in the Moniteur of the 6th inst. —The subsequent papers from that date to the 11th contain not a single word from the seat of war.— Whether this circumstance augurs any thing favour. able to the cause of the Patriots we cannot decide ; but it does appear singular. TENTH DAY.-DECEMBER 14. . The Court did not commence its proceedings this nere ieß until half past Eleven o'clock. sir H. JIVRRARD put in several private letters from '‘.• • Leal Castlereagh to hint. They expressed great s piety for Sir Harry to set off instantly for Portugal, lied desired, him if the horses and artillery were not embarked, to go without them. Some letters were also read from Sir Harry Bur raid to Sir John Moore, dated in Portugal, _urging Sir John to come up from Peniche and join the army with all expedition. Sir Arthur Wellesley was then examined by Sir Harry . Lurrard. Q. Did the French cavalry patrole near our posts en the 19th of August ? A. I do not recollect that they did on the 19th ; . but they certainly patroled very near the British camp early on the morning of the 20th. A division of the British army was detached, at an early hour thit morning, under General Spencer, towards Lourinhe, facilitate the junction of General Anstruther's Bri gade, which had landed in a bay to the south of Pe niche; this division was posted on a height between Lourinho and,Vimiera, and the French cavalry pa tided very close to it. Q, Is it possible for an army of 16 or 17,000 men,. march nine miles with the enemy's cavalry pa troling aroand them, and without the line of march being known to the French army ? A. I think under certain circumstances and con ditions t-f the country, it was possible to march note miles without an enemy, at the distance of nixie Wiles, knowing any thing of it, in less than two if not in three hours. Q. Is 'tot Torres Vedras, where the French were posted, nine miles from Vimiera ? A. Between eight and nine miles. Q. Were there no cross roads by which the French ?tad bare opposed the march of the British army, before coming to Torres Vedras, to attack them ? A. Yes, there are several. Q. Was nor the country between Torres Vedras ,rid Vimiera, so mountainous as to impede consider ably the march of an army ? A. The country between Torres Vedrat and Vi aniera is certainly mountainous. The Court were proceeding with the examination Sir Arthur when our express left Chelsea, at me o'clock. 1 1 !,i EVEN !NG STAII.. LONDON. FIFTH BULLETIN. " Burgos, November 16. " The fate of the Arniy of Estremadura has been decided on the plains of Burgos. The Gallician Army, beaten in the battles of Durango, duenes, and Valmaseda, has been dispersed in the battle of Espinosa. This Army was composed of the ancient Spanish troops which were in Portugal and Galicia, and which quitted Porto 'towards the end of June ; the militia of Gallicia, Asturias, and old Castile ; of 5000 Spanish prisoners, which the English had cloathed and armed at their expence, and dis embarked at St. Ander ; of the volunteers of Gal licia, of regiments of artillery, and of the troops which the traitor Romana had carried away from the North. This army had the presumption to at tempt cutting off our 'communication with Biscay. For ten days it was driven from post to post : at last, on the 10th November, it arrived at Espinosa, where in order to save its artillery, magazines, &e. it formed in order of battle, as it believed itself in a situation not to be forced. " At three o'clock in the afternoon, Marshal Bellune arrived in front of the enemy. General Pacthod was ordered to carry a small battery occupi ed by the troops of the traitor Romana. This posi tion was excellent, and defended by their best troops, but General Pacthod, with his corps, fell upon these troops who had abused our confidence, and violated their oaths.—ln an instant they were broken and pre cipated down the precipices. Tke Prince's regiment was destroyed. The enemy made several attacks, in all of which they were defeated. During the night both aimies remained in their positions. , Whilst this was taking place, the Duke of Dalmatia marched towards Reynosa, the only retreat of the enemy. •At break of day the enemy were attacked both on the right and left by the Dukes of Dantzic and Bellune, while General Meuron advanced against his centre. The enemy fled, throwing away their arms and colours, and abandoning his artillery. The Duke of Dantzig took, at Reynosa, their artillery, magazines and bag gage, and made some prisoners. Thus the enemy have beenturned, not only at Reynosa,but at Palencia. Sixty pieces of cannon have been taken, 20,000 • men killed or prisoners, two Spanish Generals killed; all the succours in arms, &c. sent by the English, have fallen into our hands. Blake saved himself by taking to the Asturian mountains. Romana, with a few thonsand men, is marching towards Santander. Our loss is trifling in these contests, not exceeding eighty. killed and three hundred wounded. We have not lost any oEcer of distinction." SIXTH BULLETIN. " Burgos, November 111. si Of the 40,000 men who composed the Army of Gallicia, part has been killed and taken, and the rest is dispersed. The remaining arrive daily at our posts. The General of diviion, Debelle, has taken 500-pri soners in the environs of Vasconcelles. • eg 'Colonel Taschell, who commands the Ist regi ment of chasscurs, attacked the escort of the Spanish General Acevedo ; the troops who composed the es cort, having made some resistance, they were all put to the sword. " General Bennet with his division fell in with the head of a column of fugitives, consisting of 2000 men ;they were partly taken and partly destroyed. WEDNESDAY, DECOIBER 14. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AtANE O'CLOCS I Consols, shuta+for Jan. 60—Reduced 6sii—Omnifail db. Exchequer' Bills, 6s. to 81. prem. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Bank Stock 25tii ask India Bonds, Bs. Ts. prem. per Cent. Red. Ann. 641 Ex. Bills, 7s. 9s. 6s. pre. per C. Cons. Omnium, 1 dls. per Cent. State Lottery Tickets, 211. 15s. per Cent. Hairy shut Cons. for acc. 66U The vessel which carried over the Fr each and Russian couriers returned to Dover yesterday. The arrival of this vessel enables us, at length, to remove the veil which hung over the transactions passing in the North of Spain, having by this conveyance re ceived > a as tt A. .butt earl/ to ft fade inch Lou z trols • Q .1 ton le troll A. :. beir .• did '' llt4 g" TRtl 110 1 pot sh • bei abl df ne • • enl a . • s - as Co re • o 133 10 ' 31 31 ad 4; Si R 21 it tl f 1 a • e 1 I to to 14 1 r • t PARIS PAPERS To the date cf the 11th instant, and which contain no fewer than eight Bulletins of the French Asmy—viz. from the sth to the 12th Bulletin inclltsive. We la ment to say that the contents of these Bulletins, though they are details furnished by the enemy, leave so grounds for doubting the disastrous fate that has befallen the Patriot armies. The lateness of the hour at which these Journals reached us, and the great length ,of the Bulletins, prevent the possibility of our laying the whole be. fore our Readers this day.—But in the eitracts we I shall endeavour to be select, that our Readers may receive a pretty correct idea of the events that have taken place. Several of the Bulletins art comparatively unin. aeresting—the principal details being confined to the subjoined Bulletins, from which it appears, that the Gallician array, after some previous disasters, made a stand on the 10th ult. at Espinosa. During that night both anniesremainedin their positions ; but in the mean time the Duke of DAIMATIw marched towards Rey lOU, the only way of retreat left to the Spaniards, who at break of day wire attacked both on the right and left by the Dukes of DANTTIC and BELLuta, and in the centre by General Measole. At Reynosa the Spa- Ilin4s ate .reported (by tbc Fifth * Bulletin) tn have . , ;fi ts el i fht Martha% riuke of litria, tbs ea of - tha army, enteiedmiai rloo Oui advanced Partici Of horse io_onftllkTeft; as far as Soria and Madrid, and-me th rishit - ito Leon and 2amora. . - " The enemy fiaitteted . iitleoit precipitatiote leaving there four pieces of eannine, a considerable magazine of dsisCeit, .4000 quilttals of grain, and a large quantity of (loathing wastotind in the town. " In Reinosa numerous English effects were found, and a considerable clitantitY of *visions ot every de scription. 44 The inhabitants of Montana, and of the • whole plain of Castile, which extends to Portegal, and of the province of Satin, detest and curse the authors of this war, and earnestly demand peace and repose. Twenty thousand bales of wool; worth from 15 to 20 millions, which were seized at Burgos, have been sent to Bayonne." SEVENTH BULLETIN OF TIIE SPANISH ARMY. " Burgos, Nov. gO. • " On the 16th the an of the Marshal Duke of Dalmatia entered St. Andero, and found there a large quantity of flour, ammunition, and English goods. "The Bishop of St. Andero, animated rather with the spirit of the devil, than that of the gospel, always marching , with a cutlass by his side, has taken shelter on board the English frigates. 44 The cavalry of General Lasalle has pushed its advanced posts as far as Torno Sierra. 44 The regiments of Zamora and of the Princess which formed part of Romana's division, are entirely annihilated." EIGHTH BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OF SPAIN. " Burgos, November 22. " The Duke of Dalmatia is following his successes with the utmost activity. 44 A convoy of artillery, ammunition, and English muskets were taken in.the port of Cunikar, the very moment t!:e ships were on the point of getting under • weigh. General Surat, at the head of his brigade, con tinues vigorously to pursue the enemy. He has passed Montana and entered Asturia. The light companies of the 36th regiment have seized in the port of San titlana, an English convoy laden with sugar, coffee. cotton, and othet colonial commodities. The num ber of English vessels, richly laden, which have been taken on this coast, amounts already to 25. " The 7th corps of the army of e pain, commanded by General Govion St. Cyr, has also began prepa ration, On the 6th November, the plaCe cf Rosas was invested by Generals Reille and Peno, and the heights of St. Pedto were carried by the Italians—a large number of Miquelets and English occupied the, part of Silva ; they were attacked by General Fon tana, at the head of three battalions of light in fantry, and driven into the sea, with the loss of, tett 24-pounders, for of which were English, which they had pot time to embark. " On the 9th, the girrison of Rosas e made a sortie in three columns, protected by the pins of the English. ships. General Mazuchelli lulled 600 of them, and repulsed the rest. 44 It is supposed that the head-quarters will be re moved from Burgos in the course of the night." NINTH BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OF SPAIN. Aranda, November 25. #6 The military system of the Spaniards seems to have been as follows: " On the left was the Army of Galicia, one moiety of which was composed of troops of the line, and of all the resources of Galicia, Astoria, and Leon. In the centre was the Army of Estreinadur.t, which the English troops had promised to support, and which was composed of all the resources of Es teemadura and the neighbouring provinces. 44 The army of Andalusia, Valentia, New Castile, and Arragon, stated to amount to 80,000 men,loccu pied the 20th of November Calaleerra, Tudela, and the borders of Arragon. This army supported the right of the enemy, and was composed of the troops who formed the camp of St. Rcch, and of the whole force of Andalusia, Valencia, Carthagena, an lc Madrid. It is against this army the French troops are now maneuvering ; the rest having been dis persed and destroyed in the battles of Espinosa and I Burgos. The head-quarters were removed on the 221 from Burgo's to Lertna, and on the 23d from Lerrea to Aranda. 4# The Duke of Elchingeti marched on the 22d to Soria. The town was disarmed, and a committee of well disposed persons , eppointed for the administra tion of the province. The Duke is now in Medina- Celi, and his light troops scour the road from Sara gossa to Madrid. 44 On the 22d, the :Dukes of Montebello and Corregliano formed a junction near the bridge of Lodosa. On the 24th, the Duke of Bellane removed his head-quarters to Yenta Gornez. 44 Almost all the roads of communication betiveen Madrid and the Northern provinces are intercepted by our troops, whose light parties have picked up a great number of couriers and mails. " The utmost confusion seems to prevail in Ma drid, and the whole nation anxiously desires the re storation of that tranquillity wind peace, of which Spain has been deprived by the puerile arrogance and criminal cunning of a few intriguers. " It appears difficult for the army which forms the right of the enemy, and is now on the banks of the Ebro, to fall buck op Madrid ] and the south of Spain. " The events which are now preparing, will pro bably decide the fate of this other moiety of the Spa nish army. For these three days we have had damp hazy weather, which is morehurtfut to the natives of the country than to men accustomed to the climate of of the North: 46 General St. Cyr continues rigorously to push on the siege of Rosas." TENTH BULLETIN. This Bulletin is dated Aranda, the 96th Novern bet', and 'safe' . that the Spanish effective force is • r 180,000 effective men ; that 80,000 of these, 60,000 of which are armed, and who eosspeesd the armies , of GalliCia and Ettremadura, commanded by Blake,.. [Lantana, and Galuzza, have been dispersed, and that , Orie • areiy of Andalusia, of Valence, of Neuville, .C,astile, and Amazon ; commanded by Castanos, Penas, and Vattfox ; and which likewise consists of S0;000 men, via. 60,000 ermed, will soon meet with the same fate,. as the Duke of Montebello has re ' Ceived orders to attack in front with 30.000 men, while the Dukes of Echlingen and Bellune are placed behind it...a" There are besides," it is added, "60,000 -effective men, 40,000 of whom are armed; -of these, 30,000 are in Catalonia, and 10,000 at Ma drid, Valence, and other depots. Prior to marching beyond the Dtiero, the Emperor his come to the re solution to annihilate the armies of the centre and left, 1 and then to serve in the same manner that of the right commanded by General Castanos. When the plan shall have been executed, 'the march to - Madrid will be only a walk (promenade). This gland design ought now to have been accomplished." ELEVENTH BULLE'T'IN OF THE ARMY OF SPAIN. Aranda de Duero, No7ember 27. " .Majesty on the 19th sent off the Marshal I Duke of Montebello, with instructions for the move lieeats of the left, of which he gave him the command. 1 . The Duke of Montebello and the Duke of Cor- Jegliano concerted measures together at Lodosa, on the 20th, for the execution of the orders of his Ma. j esty. " On the 21st the division of General Lagrange, with the brigade of light cavalry of General Colbert, and the brigade of dragoons of General Dijon, set out from Logrono by the right of the Ebro. " At the same time the four divisions, composing the corps of the Duke of Corregliano. passed the river at Lodosa, abandoning the whole country between the Ebro and Pampeluna. On the 22d, at the break of day, the French army began its march. It took its direction to Ca lahora, where, on the evening before, were the head quarters of Castanos; it tound that town evacuated ; and afterwards marched upon Allan) ; the enemy had in like manner retreated. " On the 22d, at break of day, the General of 'division, Lefebvre, at the head -of the cavalry, and supported by the division of General Moriet, forming' tEe advance-guard, met with the enemr;--he immediately gave information to the Duke of Mon tebello, who found the army of the enemy in seven 'divisions, consisting of 45,000 men, under antis, with its right befoze Tudela, and its left occupying a line of a league and a half ; a disposition absolutely bad. The Arragonese were on the right, the troops of Va lencia and New Castile in the centre, and the three ' divisions of Andalusia, which General Castanos com manded more especially, formed the left-40 pieces of cannon cohered the enemy's line. .. At nine in the morning, the columns of the French army began to deploye with that order, that regularity and coolness, which characterise veteran troops. Situations were chosen for establishing bat teries with sixty pieces of cannon, but the impetuosity of the troops and the inquietude of the enemy, did not allow time for this. The Spanish army was already vanquished by the order and movements of the French arma.—The Duke of NI , ntebe-lo caused the centre to be pierced by the division of General Maurice Mathiea. The General of Division Lefebvre, with his cavalry, immediately passed on the trot through this opening, and took a circuit by a quarter which enveh - ped on the left the whole right of the enemy. " The moment when half of the enemy's line.found itself thus turned and defeated, was that in which Gen. Lagrange attacked the village of Cascante, where the line of Castanos was placed, which did not exhibit a better countenance than the right ; but abandoned the field of battle,_ leaving behind it its artillery and a great number of prisOners. The cavalry pursued the remains of the enemy's army to Mallen, in the direction of Saragossa ; and to Tarracona, in the di rection of Agreda. Seven standards, •SO pieces of cannon) with all their furniture, 12 Colonels, 300 Officers, and 3000 men, have been taken • 4000 Spa. niards have been left dead on the field Of battle, or driven into the Ebro. Our loss has been trifling swe have had 60 men killed, and 4.00 wounded ; among the latter is the General of Division Lagrange, who has received a bullet in the arm.—Our troops found at Tudela a number of magazines. • " The Marshal Duke of Correglianli has begun his march upon Saragossa ; while a part of the fugitives retired to this place, the left, which had been cut off, lied in disorder to Tarracona and Agreda. " The Duke of Elchingen, who was on the 22d at Soria, ought to have been on the 23d at Agreda, r of a man would have escaped. But this corps being too much fatigued, remained at Soria the 23d and .24th. He arrived at A greda on the 25th, still sufficiently in time to seize a great number of magazines. One named Palafox, formerly a garde du carp, a man without talents, and without courage ; a kind of in. significant monk, the true head of a party which atcpained him the name- of General, was the first to take flight. This is not the first time he has acted in that manner.--he has done the same on all occasions. "This army of 45,000 has been thus beaten and defeated, without our having had more than 6000 men engaged. The battle of Burgos had struck the center of the enemy, and the battle of Espinosa the right. The . battle of Tudela has struck the lefr.— Victory has thus struck our foe as with a thunderbolt, and dispersed the whole league of the enemy. [This Bulletin concludes with the journal of the operations of tha siege. of Roses, whic!, is long and uninteresting • TWELFTH BULLETIN. This Bulletin states that " General Maurice Ma thieu arrived on the .25th ult. at Baya, pursuing the enemy,, and taking every moment-fresh prisoners, the number bf which is already 5000. They all belong to the troops of the line. The soldiers pave no quarter to armed peasants. 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