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regiment taken, and the enemy ptit -completely to tout. From that time up to the 18th, the enemy had undertaken nothing serious against the troops of Va lencia. The expeditionary fleet continues at anchor off the Bel...goer, keeping some battalions near Hos. .) lit, and under the fort. My troops being acting '..-eierts, I decided upon bringing them toward. Ampulla upon the Tarragona road, to procure them water, of which we had been deprived for two days, where I have been informed that Gen. M. Matthieu, informed of the raising of the siege of Tarragona, hid advanced to that town and to Reus. I, however, persisted in prolonging my- stay in Catalonia, in or. der-to unravel the enemy's projects, when, yesterday, I learned that the English had resolved to blow up the fort of Btlaguer ; this resolution, which entirely entered into my projects, proves to me that the enemy will not renew his attacks upon - Tarragona, nor se riously act in Catalonia, which sufficiently informs me of what remains to be done. Thos, Monsieur le Due, the first operations of the English, upon a line of eighty leagues, has been confined to the taking of a fort, and a garrison of 83 soldiers Commanded by a Lieutenant, whilst they have 10. t in killed, wounded, prisoners, or deserters, upon the Xucar or Tarragona, above 1600 men, and a flag ; whilst they have raised the siege, and abandoned 27 pieces of cannon before ' a dismantled place without fosses, but defended by a j small but a very valiant earrison." [Here follow recommendations of different o ffi cers I and corps who distinguished themselves.] FHODI THE SAME TO THE SAME. " Wends, June 25. " MONSIEUR LE Duc—By my Report of the 21st, I informed your Excellency of the precipitate raising of the siege of Tarragona by the English, and their re-embarkation. The necessity of following the move- rnents of the fleet hai forced me to sacrifice the plea- ' sure I should•have had in congratulating the General Bertolette and his brave garrison, upon his fine and vigorous defence, by going to Tarragona. I should have lost six days, whilst, as soon as I received a Re port from General Maurice Matrhieu, from Reus, and two letters from General Bertotette, I only thniight of returning to Valencia, to prevent the English from • anticipating me. " The loss of the English at Tarragona has been immense ; 30 pieces of heavy calibre, mortars, tire. ships, bombs, magazines of rum, salt meat, &c. have been delivered to the flames ; but the enemy suffered still more ccrnsideratile losses nn the night between the iOth and 21st; signals—firing of cannon - an noonced that the immense convoy bed decided to quit the coast of Catalonia. At day-break, ten large essets were seen off the mouths of the Ebro; eighteen rigs or large ships had grounded upon the sands at r l the mouth of the river. Your Excellency will be able to judge of it by the Reports of the Chief des' Gerdes de la Sancti, which I have the honour to en.' do l e. As soon as I was informed of it. I ordered essistatice to be g;ven to those vessels ; but the great oirticulty in arriving prevented their reaching them. Several ships, detached from the grand convoy, have returnee:: they succeeded in saving the greatest part of , the troops and transport_. It appears the enemy lost bur five ships, witch in general were abandoned. " As s'ocii at I was informed the enemy had sailed for the coast of Valencia. I put Musner's division and Aigremont's brig.rde in march ; by an effort worthy of praise, they have marched 15 leagues a day, am-, pious of anticipating . the enemy's fleet at every oint. All the cieclarations of the Captains whose vessels grounded state, that the enemy was to have , disembarked at Castellan de la Plana, to have sepa• rated me from the force which I had left upon the ,Xucar.' The astonishing rapidity o f t h e marc h o f ajour troops, and the violence o f t he w i n d s h ave not llowed the enemy to execute his prijacts ; he re mained three hours in sight of Castellan on the 22d,' and on the same day I arrived there with 4000 men, ' fioo hope, and six pieces of light artillery. Thee fleet, beaten by contrary winds, appeared before the Grao (le Valence ; a frigate was detached to t 'ke posses son of the small private -q• the Determinee ; she was close in shore and grounded before Murviedro ; Ge rerat Roul.e proceejed ‘‘iti) two companies of gre eetd.ers and two pieces or cannon to tier assistance. A ively musket , y the t aik place, the enemy launched several bo its &irk! with troops, they attempted to repulse our peo l ile, but were so well received, that they retired with considerab,e hiss. tTlie rrtnainder of the tli.Taiclt states, th.tt the effirts of the English to again kindle the war in Ca taltini4 h ive tailed.] (SiAtted) (hisinitratr. ) " The Duke of rimsuisuit." PARIS, JULY 5. The Senate, aitt.•r having heard the Orators of the Council of State, ilt,d the Report of a Special Coin. niiision, aimointed in the sitting of the t:Sth of June last, on thr Ist July decreed as tollows: " 'the &maim Cersultins of the 3d April, 1813, ordering the 11 suspct goo of the Ct.no. ititiotial R.ginte fotellate months in the DepArturiet46 of the Sup er i or Elll4, Moulin of the Weser, and Mouths of . the kith., cuine.usuig tbi: Thirty•steocil Military Di vision, is prolonged fur thr ee Mon th s, reckoning from the 15th of this present Jialy." . SARAGOSSA , JULY 1. General Mosel, Coinsnander in Chief of the army of the North, arrived hers to•daty 'th his head quar tets, after having beaten and dispersed all the hands of insurgents which he met on his tome. He has under his orders Generals Taupen, Harlot, Vander ,niasse, and Abbe. The troops who compose this (Grp d'arTio are of the finest description. MILAN, JULY 3. His Serene Highness* the Prince Viceroy set out r!)is morning, from Monza fur Veionaj his absence will not besot long duration. ' BREMEN, JUN! to. A park of artillerj has just arrived, with a great Jisiber of caissons. AIMS / BURG, JUNI Ilk French troops have arrived attlympbenburg. The vingiegions • are -exercised .crety, day, and have ady made great iir . ogress to the use of arms and •itanceuvring.—,.Measures have been taken in Fran conia for provisioning a very considerable French a:my. JULY 10.—It is said that a meeting of tkeMinisters of theßelligerentPowtifs i&ea,take place at Gitschen. VIENNA, ma According to what is 'poW relgorted in the Public Papers, Gitschen, is to be the place for' the Congress t the Powers. • Count, de Metternich, Minister for Forcign Affairs to Austria, proceeded, in consequence cf an invitation bellad received s cl to Dres t.ni his Excellency returned the - 16113 to Gitschen. Acornlinjz to private letters, the bolo of lassEne and the Ministers of other Powers were also to irrive' at Gitschen on the 26th. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria continues tq inhabit thoCastleof Cosmhnos. PRAGUE, JUNE ss. They *rite from Silesia, that General rruseiti4rlr, formerly Prussian Minister at Paris, has been called to the head-quarters at Reichenbach, and it is sup posed will be employed in the negociations. PRAGUE, JUNE 25. Field-Marshal Prince Schwartzenburg returned here on the 17th from Dranders. JUNE 28.—The Emperor of Austria is still at Gitschen. The exchange of couriers between the two head-quarters continues to be very frequent. MAGDEBURG, JUNE 25. The General of Division, Haxo, who was Cover. nor of this place, has left us ; he has been replaced by the General of Division, Le Marrois, who arrived here to-day. DRESDEN, JUNE 21. The Emperor passes almost every morning in re viewing the French troops who are in garrison here, or who pass through this place. His continual acti vity is hereby surprising—he yesterday visited the hospitals and bakeries. We continue to fortify the new town ; a redoubt is constructing in advance of the; Black Gate in the form of a star, upon which more than 4000 workmen ale employed, and paid by the French Authorities:. A great number of troops have occupied a camp in front of the Black Gate, upon the Weissenberg ; others are expected who ate also to encamp in this neighbourhood. FRANKFORT, JUNE C.O. The Duke of Castiglione, Commander in Chief of the Bavarian Army of Observation, set out this mor ning for Wurtzburg ; General Minard, Chid* of the Staff, accompanied his Excellency. BERLIN, JUNE 13. ORDNANCE CONCERNING ACCEPTING RUSSIAN BANK PAPER Af CIRCULATING MONEY. " We Frederick William, &c. &c. make known the difficulty which exists ter paying the expences of the war occasioned by the considerable distance et the frontiers, and at this moment in creased by the most commercial places in Germany being in the power of the enemy, make it a duty, for the success of the corn mos cause, and tor thew parts of our estates in which the arnnes are at present, to tacilitare the means of payment for the wants of the Russian army. And as the accepting the paper-money of • great and immoveable empire, according to a rare fixed in money by the course of exchange, dries not offer the same incon venience as the forced circulation of paper-money according to its nominal value, and as experience has demonstrated that nei ther, difficulty nor injury resulted from the circulation of Russian Bank Stills in our Provinces beyond the Vistula, and in the Duchy of Warsaw, we have decreed as follows : [Here follows the Decree, which consists of five Articles, by which Russian Paper is to be received as ready money till two months after the Russians shall have left the Prussian States ; but is not to extend to bargains made previous' to the issuing of the Decree, and that the course of exchange is provisionally fixed at 25 per cent. and subject to alterations.] (Moni ker, July 6.) This Paper also contains three appeals from Gene ral Bulow, to the inhabitants of Berlin and its neigh bourhood, inviting them to give up their fire-arms, and offer patriotic gifts to furnish the brave defenders of the country with such articles as they stand in need of. THt4VENING STAR. *lf LONDON. THUESDAY, JULY 15, 1813. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Red. 56ii—Cons. 5631—f0r acc. 5711—Bonds 21. 3s. dis. 4 per Ct. 71 7:2-5 per Ct. 851—Oninium 4111 i pr. Bk. Stock 2iB—Lg. Ans. 14i 3-16:las—EL Bids t:E. pr. Is. dis. Paris Papers to the 11th have put us in possession of SUCH ET's account ofwhat he is pleasei to term the defeat of Sir JOHN MURRAY, on the coast of C:t t 2. lonia ; and it has so much cf the character of wile.: is vulgarly called a blinking" account of the busi ness, that but for the partizans which SUCIIET has some how or other acquired among our brother Jour nalists, we should have confined our remarks to a simple negation of his statements, firmly believing him, like all his countrymen, to be I , a vain glorious bo.ister, a magnifier of his own exploits, andan under valu.:r of the skill and bravery of his antagonists."— But we have a double duty to perform—to detect the fahelloods of S UCH ET himself, and to expose the perverse fallacies of the personal enemies of Sir JoHN Mutinay, who have taken the field as the champions of his antagonist. We are told with a sneer (for we know the %Au: of a happy introduction of Italics to a weak or malignant writer) that his detractors do not mean to insinuate with SUCHET, that Sir J. fslea nay was "frightened" by the advance of the French force. A soldier's honour, like the virtue of the wife of Casait, should not be called in question—but this soldier is absent on a distant station in the service of his country, and whatever cause of offence he may have given at home, by possessing the confidence of the Ministers, it becomes every Englishman to hold up his hand and his voice in his defence, until, by the arrival of his dispatches, he is in Court by himself or his attorney. With feelings such as these,• we shall defend him even with the materials which his adver sary has supplied, and we shall speak with the intre pidity of perfect disinterestedness, for we have no personal feelings on the subject. We have been accused of over-rating the French army under SUCHET in Catalonia and Arragon—we stated it to amount to 24,000 men—our authorities were drawn from an accurate comparison of Spanish, French, and English official and demi-official details. Whence, we would ask, did the Editor of the Times (for to this versatile writer, who has chiefly attacked us, we now return the ingredients of the poisoned chalice)—from what source, we say, did he draw the following information contained in his Paper of Mon day ?- 46 . SUCHET, with Au army of tisuentyfive thousand " men, has been for some time past at Valencia. The " Lisbon Mail, which arrived on Saturday, witkpapers " to the 20th ult. informs us ) that this Qeueral broke _• • • " tip from his positions on the 4th uR. teav;ng ahem " 5000 light troops in the lines, to cover his move '44 ment, and marched upOn Saragossa." This Very accurate writer next asks where toe it-i ceived our information that Sooner was joined by the Garrison of Tarragona ? This querist might be fairly put down, by asking him in the same flippant way, g 4 was it likely that the Garrison of Tarragona would remain idle spectators of the combat ?"—But Sucner's narrative luckily comes to our aid. g , It" was the raj:lance of the place (i. e. the Garrison of Tarragona) and the march of columns from Barce lona and Valencia"—thus placing him between two separate armies advancing from opposite directions, that compelled, or as SUCHET will have k, II fright- ened" the British General into a re-embarkation. But let us now endeavour to estimate from Stl- CHET'S dispatches the real numbers he was able to bring against the expedition. From the moment of the embarkation at Alicant, he was prepared :—he ordered General DECAEN to collect troops—these were the flying divisions to which we yesterday al luded.—SUCHET himself set out from Valencia. On the 2d of June BEIMMIAINN Brigade, MusNEit's divi sion, and the brigades of PANNETIER and AIGRa- MONT, had joined him. Three brigades and one division, if composed of entire regiments, would he a fcrce of nearly twenty thousand men. SUCIIET says hehad only 6000 infantryand 800 horse with him, but his regiments must have been like those which crossed the Berezyna last winter, if this statement be correct. At the same moment General MArmEo moved from Tharcelona— what force h e h a d we are left to ccrjecture—iniced, it is necessary for SUCHETIS individual glory, that this fact should be concealed. It was numerous enough, however, to contribute to “frio/./01" an I:n:7/A enemy ! What are we to think of the ..Engli.-h Dragoons being overthrown by the Westphalian Horse, and five battalions (all Ehglish, firm top to toe) being beaten by a Trench Light Infantry Regiment ? In common with some commentators on SeeitET's dispatches, we lament the less of the 27 picces of ' cannon, and we are not silly enough, like others, to say that they were useless, because if they were, they had no business there. We lament also our loss of WOO in killed, wounded, prisoners; and deserters,Ltit we do riot think that Sir Jottrt MUBRAY has been de feated, or has failed in his efforts to rekindle the po , pular war in Catalonia. We fear, however, that the mention of dessr ter (and 2.5 came in one day to SCCIIET with highly use. ful information) gave Sir Jourt MURRAY anothcr enemy to contend with ! So much for the indircrim:- nate employment of foreign troops, No mention is made of the glorious affair of Vit toria in the French Papers—at this we are not sur prized: but from Saragossa we learn, under date of the Ist of July, that CLAUSEL I with his army, had safely arrived there, after beating all the Brigands on his way—not a word of his visit to Vittoria! He also, in his turn, was " frightened" away by Lord WELLINGTON ! Yesterday Viscount SIDMOUTH had an au di ence o f the PRINCF. REGENT at Carlton House. The Duke of YoRK .transacted military business with the PRINCE RECENT yesterday morning. The Duke of CLARENCE is nearly recovered from his serious indisposition. The Duke or KENT removed from Kensington Pa.' lace, on Monday, to his seat at Castlebar Hill, for the season. Yesterday the Pntxcc REGesr dined with Earl CONYNGFIANI, at his house in Stanhope•street. Mr. GASCOIGNE gave a grand dinner on Tuesday, at his house in Stanhope-street, May-fair. Lady JONES had a grand party at her house in ! , Baker-street, on Monday night. i• Miss JENNINGS had a fashionable party onTuesday night, at her house in Grosvenor-square. It was Lieutenant-Colonel ROOKS, of the Adjutant- General's Department, who was mentioned in Lord WELLINGTON'S dispatches, instead of Colonel BROKIE. Honourable mention was also made of the former Officer, in Sir R. Hiu.'s dispatches relative to the affair of Arroyo Molinos, and in Marshal 13aattstortn's respecting the battle of Albuera. Last night the House of Commons adjourned to Tuceday next, and the Bills which are now before the Lords, it is expected, will by that time have under gone the necessary deliberations at the different stages throne-1i which they must pass, previous to their re ceiving the Roy? 1 Assent. It is expected that the Session will terminate on this day se'nnight, and Par• liament, it is understocd, will then be prorogued by the PRINCE REGENT in person. This is St. Swithin't Dug; and it havingirained most copiously throughout, the believers in ancient augury expect wet weather for six weeks to come ! Sir F. GOOLD, Bart. and Mr. &RICE, of Glinsk, yesterday w.tited on her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES, at Kensington Palace, with the congratu latory Address of the Roman Cazholics or Ireland. Her Royal Highness was graciously pleased to re ceive the Delegates in the most condescending man ner, and returned the following answer to the Address: " I receive, with the highest satisfaction, this testimony of af fection for me, and your loyalty to the Crown. The Irish people, of whom )ou form so large a part, have ever been distingulsbirl by their generous spirit; and your body, upon this as on forgoer occasion-, bas shewn that it yields to no class of his Majesty's subjects in attachment to the true principles of the Constitution, and regard fur the honour of the House of Brunswick." An Imperial Decree, dated Dresden, Bth May, 1813, orders confiscation, with expedition, against all and every s(3t of British mercha.ndizes and Colo niAl prcduce w:,ich are and may be found in the great Duchy of Ihig, in Hamburgh and Bremen, and all towns and places adjoining. The Douaniers to seize All property w!lich may further arrive. The Decree makes nu disCnction against licenked or other ships which may have came in any. Qther wanner. SPORIING INIELLICEPICL NEWMARKET JULY MEETING-64SM WEDNESDAY, JULY 14. • The Then hate of .€5O, for 3 yr. old Colts, est. 41b. lind }inters esr. Last ii Ile bud distan:e of B. C. Mr. Villiera's bl. e. Don Cossack • . Id. Grosvenor's b. c. Onyx - • • I.d. F. G. Osborie's b. f. Jnly • Gen. Gower's b. f. Lama Mr. Glover's b. e. by Hapkatard, dam by Enzsard. Six to i agst. Don Co'sack—Two to I agst. July-4 to 1 agst. Lama—Two to I agst. Mr. Glover's b. e.—Siz varied, the Judge couli place. but three. Handicap Sweepstakes of 2 Cgs. each, logs. forfeit if declared in a quarter of an hour after the weights art published, fur all Ages. A. F. Mr. Wilson names Dorus, syn. 7st. Slb.• lA. Jersey's Web, syrs. Sat. • Mr. Paynv's c. by Popinjay, Syrs. 6st. 71b. • 14. F. Bentinck names Sorcery, syn. 9st. 1). of Graf on names Aquarius, lyn. sst. 71b. Mr. Lake names Hydazipts,_syrs. sst. Sib. Seven to I agst. Dorus—Two to I agst. Sorcery -4 to 1 Aquarius—Tour to I agst. Hydaspes.—Five others started, the Judge could place bat three. Sweepstakes of 25gs. each. First Half of Ab. M. 14. Stawell's Mockbird, 95t. Mr. Northey's Curlew, 7st. Mr. Payne s c. by Popinjay, Ist. • $ . 11 V . _ 3 a g S •-- • - Even betting. I). of Rudand's ch c. by Selirn, dant by Don Q uote , heir r% of Grafton's hr. f. C once i t , Sit. :lb . eac h. T. Y. Lige.....-614 to 4 apt. I). of Rutland's ch. c. NA VA I, INTELLIGINCS. FALMOUTH, 11LY 12. Arrived the Eliza packet, with a Mach from th , Windward Islands, List from St. Thotzts's in 29 dart —Wind W. and fresh breezes. PLYMOUTH, JULY Is. Arrived this morning the brig B!6ssbni, bA•vieng to Kincardine, JAMES RICKLI:JOM; Master, from Gi - - braltar, with a cargo consi,ting of bilrndy, cork ft r tonnage, bound to this port far orders, and is in want cf. provisions: the Blossc.rn is whatr qtra. rant:re. She sailed from Gtbraltar bn the 4:!) June, • in ccmpary wilt. the fleet tinder Convoy of the LE. VIATHAN and 211311 YR, Vv;;ICII she parted with en the follov.ing night. The Blossom was boarded 'GI her passage by his Majesty's ship LACEDSNzoS:IA..:., of S 6 guns, which was proceedit,g from England with a convil unctrr her protection for Bermuda. Also ar rived the Hero, belonging to Liamlly,Titemss mots matter, from Warerford, with provisi - ns port ; the C:1-k Rnmp, littcrtAß.ss, from Pratle's and the New Friends., CUITTENV:N. from Por:str , arrh ; the Hop, PHYNN, from London ; Kitty. SArr,fa...m Barnstaple ; and the Fr:l:tune. li.ncocst, f;c,m Fai. tr.outh and Yearyn. Sailed the 'Man of war, and the MEst.LAus frigate to 'sVestwate—Wiutti S. S. W. hazy weather. • I'OItTSMOUTH, JULt Arrived his Majesty's slur SL.WORSE, of 3S r;iinv, Captain GottnnN, from off Cherb9urg ar,d the otz Alli.:nce, PARKMAN, from Waterfoid, with provi sions for this Port. Dropped do,vn to St. tirlun't : the ROYAL OAK, 71, Aam ral Lord A. I.3cALciatitit. Captain SUMMAND. DOVER, JOIN 14. Came in the transports 15.4be1!a., of Tlutl , No. 6 11., and S. H. fo , - the purpose 1 , 1 receiving ttooks, and 612, f um nave( Loa ru. na' having received the Royal Assent, this town h.is his day been decorated throughout the Pier, and various rejoicings have taken place. - DEAL, JULY 11. Arrived the URGENT slap of war, frOtn Y.orrnonth; Ann, Ric,/Antos, from Malaga, and sailed to 'IT N c to take convey to Govenburgh. Canoe down tro rn the River, the Rambler, Goner:Ey, nor ar ; Upton, COLLISON, for the Me.loteriaile.rn Sailed the BEAGLE sloop of war, for Pot tsmouth.—Wind N 1:1 HARWICH, JULY 14 No foreign arrivals for these tuo dap east. The King George, Captain KING, sails this at to: n , on t-r Heligrdand ; and the Lord Duncan, C.ipti.n HA- NturoN, for Gibttenhurgli to-motrow, beinkr larly detained. Tke transports which salei m Hollesly Bay the night before last, are likei to have a very gocd passage, the wind being since y fair. A vessA has arrived from lieligolAud this evening, hating sailed on the 9th—no news. YARMOUTH, JULY 14. Sailed the PitiNci.ss ear IVates hired cutter on a cruizc. One of the ships rep, fled to have pasted yest , rd:!y was the ETstALlott t they are gone in II .est of the President Amercan Irgate, s.sid 'reel by to have been in North Bergen, ai.d suppowd to I ave for his object the capture of ou'r Geeenia,,dm'en, who, it is feared, are without adcquate reotecti,,h. COVE OF CORK, JULY -1 Friday last his Majesty' s ship :ironic, Captain Cout. , om, sailed on a cruize, with a lima to iittoctlpt an American ship privateer, of 211 g titis.and 200 men, who had, between the Mull of. Kintyre aid Radaliu Island, taken and destroyed five of oto nierchani men % A signal having been made fora huge Fiend) pri. vateer off Cape Clear, the Admiral, with his usual promptitude, ordered out this morning the whoie of the men of wat in harbour, in pursuit of her. They are now under weigh, so we hope to have a good ase..,) count of her. Extract of a letter from an Officer with the Expo. ditiun recently sailed from Harw.cli : Hozeiy Bay, July it, Ist " We sailed last Wednesday will) a fair v.ht.' at the rate often knots an hour. On Triurs,l.iv morni ng we were becalmed ; but an unlav( ur.,ble bret ze springing up, we were be..tli:g about in the (It man ocean till Satirday Light, water. it blew a horricai.e. It was impossible to keep the convt y to,gerhe r ; Commodore made the w Leith Roads, but it was impracticable, -aitkottAtei only a ro . .e off. By 4 A.M. we were • in o; Y:irmotrii, out the storm was so tremendous that no pilot would ven.ure out to us. We tfuniefo.e kept to sea, ant rvached this bay on &tility terenoon. Two of the convoy, the Saragossa and Ditocaster transports, are miss•ng. 'they have on boat d about 12(0 troops, and are sup. posed to have reached Yarmouth. The transp rts wide the 33d Rtziment, have just joined us Loin Harwich." Tue:day night an elderly gentleman, named Hall, was knocked cicm n by three fellows, near the lin. ial fr,round, Gray's Inn-lane, and robbed of a Ecs,d watch, and notes to the amount of upwards of it7u.