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• • rallona one o ' c l ock otr fire bad ceased, and we weeteelao ll .''.- • .... '• 4 • I • led ' . Wit, : fqtr intention to ecenPlain of clic NOTICE is Hereby Given, That the Partnership of the redoubt, the inconsiderable guest* of "VA .. omit iit To Tip Der/wain= Illfelff2ll rfisaeowal itself, Of Of a total want of explanation o f ( subsisting between us, as Coacts makers, in Chandos-street, to was put the sword, and in which we found 2 pieces • • ( * E AT oporAne AND A>outiett. it, Or of the circumstance of that explanation not it 4. Covent-garden, was this day dissolved by mutual consent : All of cannon, one a 12-pounder, the other a 4.pounder. having been made through me o I observe that is: . Debts due to or from the Partnership, are to be paid and received geallarsinnilres ECTWIEN TILE pants" MINISTER AND TEE the records of this mission there is no trace of a cono 'by Mr. BARER, who is duly arthorised to e and pay tilt [The 'General then states the dispositions he hall ANlSErnax szcarrnatte, warm Accompanies , Tug , plaint, on the part of the United States, of his 'M s . sarne.—Dated this 30th day of December 1809. adopted for maintaining the post taken,: Idol cOnclnditS ralsrpcNT's LATE SIESSOGE TO CONGRESS. 1 CHARLES BARKER, with mentioning the names of the o ffi cers who parti- 1 .0..----• jesty having disavowed the act o 0 his Minister. Yeti o GEORGE LANGDON, have not, in the conferences we have hitherto held, cularly distinguished themselves.] (Signed) Pnw." THE lIIICIUITART OP STATE TO MI6 JACKSON, ENVOY EX- e SAMUEL HOBSON. distinctly announced any such complaint, and I have s con Of A LETTER FRAM MARSHAL THE DUBE OF TRAOEDWARY AND hIIIIIBTRIMPLENIPOTENTIARY CASTIGLIoNE. OF HIS BRITANNIC MAINSTY. seen with pleasure, in this forbearance on your part, t .FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. " Fortieth, Dec. 8,1809, Department of Suite, October ilth, 111010. an Instance of that candour, which. I doubt not, will. i " I have the honour to inform your Excellency, . o . prevail in all our communications, inasmuch as you I PARIS, DECEMBER 21. that in the night of the 6th, the Italian division got SIR — An arran g ment as Via satisfaction rev l catio,a 144- couldnotbut have thought it unreasonable tocomplaio required in the else of the attack on the Chesapeake stanceueortlicyon/fuellionkawedl7 of the disavowal of an actd,tudotnheeuenudnerselsuucehuecei consequences c i t i i t: a t t . I COPY OF A LETTER FROM GENERAL PIRO TO MARSHAL possession of the redoubt of the city, while the divi- British Orders in until , as we auto the THE DUKE Of CASTIGLIONE. sion of the Confederation carried the suburb of Gi- I ° Fornella, December a, ronella. In consequence of this advantage, the ene- frigate, has been made in due form by the Govern- ha g 44 I have the honour to inform you, that yesterday my's communications were completely interrupted. meat of the United States with Davidlfpntagir Ers- It was not known when I left England, whether s the 2d, at seven in the evening, agreeable to your On the 7th, at eleven in the forenoon, a general sortie ki t e , Esq: an accredited Minister Plenipotenuary of bit: Erskine had, according to the "liberty allowed s Excellency's orders, I caused the suburb, called the was made from the town and forts, and a vigorous his Britannic Majesty. And after it had been him, communicated to you is extesso his original in- I fully carried into esecution on th e part of this Govern- strucdons. It now appears that be did not. - But, in suburb of the Marine, situate within half-musket-shot attack was made on the posts they had lost. 1 of Gerona, to be attacked and carried by a detach- aOn hearing the brisk discharge of cannon and meat, and under circumstances rendering its effects reverting to his official correspondence, and partial. t meat of the troops of General Meanachelli's brigade, musketry I mounted my horse, and, accompanied on the relative situation of the United States irrevo . .. lard to a dispatch addresed on the 20th of April to c he there states, that lee had submitted to and by two companies of the voldgeurs of the 2 d 'by my stk, proceeded to Palau, where I found the eahl.e, and, in some respects , irreparable , his i ntana ' c • his Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 5 Majesty has deemed it proper to disavow s . it, a to s_ ooro I find that 1 light infantry of General Pentane's brigade. General of Division Pino, who had caused his re•-•' his Minister, and to send another to take ni Man% _ your consideration, the three conditions specified in o Adjutant-Commandant Balabio, commanding serve to march upon the redoubt, which formed the . s In such a state of t hi ng s, no expectation cotua be the cavalry of the division, commanded the ape& principal point of attack on the part of the insur- those instructions, as the ground-work of an arrange meat which, according to information received from i tion, and attacked the suburb on the right of the ' gents. The two companies of grenadiers of the sth more reasonable, no course of proceeding owore ob Vl"' country, it was t he in England might be 1 L'Ouya, and Brigadier-General Perceval, of - he Ist and 2d light Italians who defended it, made a re- early prescri b e d by the ordinary respect due to tbe this with a prospect of great mutual advantage.— I light, at the head of some of his battalion, attacked sistance of two hours, in a style which surpassed all disappointed party, than a prompt and explicit exp . _ la- 1 nadon,ty the new functionary, of the grounds of me mi , wo ol. it on tbe left, praise. then reports verbatim d wising: your ab- 66 Adjutant-Commandant Balabio, at the head of i " The General of Brigade, Amey, who was '. - • refusal on the part of his Govemment to abide by an an ; a ll 4 o :' upon each of the three conditions, and the reasons which induced you to think that others might I his troops, accompanied by Captain Duplessis, one below Monjoui made a movement in advance. arrangement so solemnly made meat by a ef my Aides.de-Camp, by Captain 011ini, and by enemy being t aken ' in flank, were obliged to abandon sub stititm o f other my made Lieutenant Curti of the Royal Chassenrs, who was their enterpnze, and leaving behind a great number Under . the in fl u ence . of this reasonable expectation, he coaci esheti nded tated in li eu of them. It may have been yaws for betwe . F` y ou t hat these letters were an equf. woeutetudeemd,ya,fsteradhvaavnineegdcaprrusietsd,atttheitpttentuopf theb p aLon t et I of “ killed l , to ei r E ed u re in e, di w so h r u de a r lau to tp e e te t d own iu . the rear 01 the President has learned, with no less surprise than the original conditions ; but the very act of regret, that . in your several conferences with me you per substitution evidently shows that original condi- have '', the suburb in the same way, under afire of grape the forts Connetable and the Capitchins, with an Ir a- iit. Taat tl you have ao insure from your Government , dons were , in fact, very explicitly communicated to th and musket-shot from the town. • lion column, joined that commanded by Generalyou, _and by you, of course, laid before the president which authorise you to make any osplanations 'whatever to this I " Brigadier-General Percival also carried the left Amey, and they spontaneously carried the redoubts Government, as to the reasons which lead iodoced his Britatinie for ins consideration. I need hardly add, that the of the suburb, without the least hesitation, and with -' of Calvary and the Chapter.--This affair totally an- Majesty to disavow the arrangement Inteit made by Your pre- difference between these conditions and those contain. out returning the fire of the two bastions which coin. nihilates the hopes of the inhabitants of Gerona.' deceseor and that therefore yon could not make any such ex- planatioli.ed ill the arrangement of the 18th and 19th April, is wand the channel of the river. 1 [The sequel consists of recommendations of part' - ed. Th at in the cue of the Chesapea k e , your b oomt o wn o nly sufficiently obvious to require no elucidation; nor need ~ I immediately posted a company of the volti- cular corps and o ffi cers.] authorise you (without assigning any resson ',latent why the I draw the conclusion, which I consider as admitted gems of the 6th of the line in the mill, w ith orders col The Marshal Duke of Castiglione entered Gerona reasonable MEW Of latlSlSetlon tendered t his eedohave not by all absence of complaint, on the part of the Arne% them to send a party to the house at the back of the on the 1 lth inst. He took eight stand of colours , b een note tr ied into !Iffsecctiontowcfatranunicate t Govern s : c l i ent a mean Government, viz that under such cireum. mountain, between the Forts and the town. 1200 pieces of cannon, and 5000 troops. The follow- should not be g signed and delivered by you, until you should have° stances, his Majesty had an undoubted and incon. t . g g The two companies of the 2d light were station- ,mg is a copy of the capitulation ; previously seen and approved the proposed answer of this Govern- trovertible right to disavow the act of his Minister. ed as a reserve before the new battery on Mount Li —.- ' CAPITULAI lON of the City and Forts of Gerona, concluded meat, and that the signing and the delivery of your note and of must here allude to a supposition, which you bovc vet, and there other companies of the first light were on the 10th of December, at seven in the evening. the answer of this G o v e rnment s h o uld b e a l mn ba n eone. more than once mentioned toilie, and by which, if it also placed in reserve at the entrenched post of the Art. I. The rads:* stall march out with the honours of war, Stl. That you have no instructions which authorise you to make h a d to this Government any propositions whatever in relation to the and proceed to France lis prisoners of war. any, the slightest foundation, this right might carbiniers. 11. All the inhabitants shall be respected. revocation of die British Orders in Council; but only to receive perhaps have been in some degree affected. Yoe .. 66 Two companies of the elite of the Ist light, and HI. The Catholic religion shall continue to be folios:red by the such as this Government may deem it proper to make to you. have informed me that you understood that Mr. Ere 2. company from the elite of the Sd and 6th were also inhabitanuond shall be respected. 4th. That, at all events, it is pot the disposition or the inten- sting had two sets of instructions, by which to moo don of the British Government to revoke their Orders in Conn- established in the suburbs. tv. At half-past eight o'clock, to-morrow morning, the gate cil, as they respect the United States, but upon a formal stipula- late his conduct ; and that upon one of them, which 66 The result of this attack completely answered of Secours that of Areneys and also that of the Forts, lion be delivered Cp to the French tr' don on the part of the United States, to accede to the following had not been communicated either to you or to the pulo Tour Excellency's wishes ; the garrison must have v. T o morning, the 11th of December, the pert= terms and conditions, viz• lic, was to be rested the justification of the terms finigly been intimidated, and it rendered the communication , shall March out of the fortress, at half-past ei g hto'clock;they shall I. That the act of Congress, commonly called the non-inter- agreed upon between you and him; It is my duty, IMe off by the gate of Arenuys, and the soldiers shall lay down course law, be continued against France, so long as she shall between the forts and the town more difficult. continue ber decrees. Sir, solemnly to declare to you, and, through you, to 66 We had, in the course of the night about a do.li. That the Navy of Great Britain be authorised to aid in en- the President, that the dispatch from Mr, Canning to th ITI. An up ons sfsee: he of the i sirtillery, one of the Engineers, and a zen people killed and wounded; all the Spaniards that Mr. Erskine, which you have made the basis of IPA Commissary at War, shall enter the moment possession is taken forcing the provisions of the said act of Congress. 111. That the United States shall explickiy renounce during official correspondence with the latter Minister, and were found in the suburbs with arms in their hands :of the gates of the city, to receive possession of the magazines, were put to death. i maps, plans &c. the present war, the right of carrying on any trade Whatever, whi c h .was read by the former to the American Mil ougiere, Captain of Engineers, preceded the Done at &rem, seven in tie evening, December 10, 1809. direct or indireet, with any colony of any enemy of Great Britain, . front which they were ezduded during peace:. and that this re- Rat sister in London, is the only dispatch by which the MADRID, NOVEMBER 24. troops the head of the sappers of the division. nunclation must extend,a2S only to the trade between the colony conditions were prescribed to Mr. Erskine for the Every true Spaniard must rejoice, that the name- and the mother country, - But to the trade between the colony and conclusion of an arrangement with this country op ti i 44 The happiness of the division is complete in thus • states. executing your Excellency's orders, an d at t h e eame irous advantages obtained over the insurgents, advan. the y f nlted matter to which it relates , in the afo.regoing!epresentation, it should appear, time celebrating the coronation of the greatest en d i tages which must have so happy an influence on the To mum to the immediate subject of your letter. most beloved of Sovereigns. (Signed) moo." I fate of the nation, have not been procured at the ex. that I have in any instance misapprehended your pence of much bloodshed. The French soldiers have meanlf, Sir, it be your intention to state, that no expleria log> it will affor d me real p leasure to he enabled tion whatever has been given to the American Go• FROM MARSHAL THE DUES OF CAIiTSGLSONR TO TEM lin- NISTER AT WAR. acted towards their prisoners with great generosity. to lay before th e President a statement, corrected o .4 Foram , December T. They seem to feel a pleasure in gratifying h t e brother agreeably to any suggestions, with w • . which you maybe -ernmen . tof the reasons which induced his Majesty 1 sed to favour me. to disavow the act of my predecessor, I must in that 44 I hasten to inform your Excellepcy that I yes- of their Emperor, by treating his misled subjects with pea . . case observe, tin the instructiOns conveying to him terday gave orders to the General of Division Pino, so much lenity. The King addressing himself to the T o . avo id the m i sconceptions incident .. to ?ral pro- his ~ When shall Ibe able to look ceedings, h av e the honour to intimate that It is Majesty's hat no, those reasons were very fully to attack the redoubt on the heights between Gerona i Pr i m ers her e, said , and forcibly stated ; and if he has not transmitted and the forts, situate within 200 yards of each other. i upon you as Spaniards, the friends of my friends, and thought expedient that our further discussions, on the them to you, i can only attribute it to the peculiar After taking the suburb of the Marine, the Italian : the enemies of the English, whose only object is to present occasion, be in the written form. - And with deli to and ernbarrasinent of his situation, for which 't I assure you, that whatever c ommuni- s . trOOps, with their usual dexterity, executed my or- secure to themselves the sovereignty of the seas?' All great oaten y be . . thus. , he y trusted to the President's goodness to ders, with a bravery beyond all praise ; and notwith. of them, with one voice, lamented their errors, and cations you may pleased to make, writ be re- standing a very sharp cross fire both from the cannon P referred themselves sincerely disposed to return to ceived with an anxious solicitude to find them such as ma e some 011owance • and he might the more moult ably be led to that reliance on it, as a full and ample may lead to a speedy removal of every existing tib- ia the town and the forts, supported by a vigorous those sentiments of loyalty which characterize the communication was also made upon the subject by is tacle to that mutual and lasting friendship and. cor- and constant discharge of musketry, these troops, ani- Spanish nation.—Upwards of 4000 of the prisoners Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 6 diality between the two nations, which it is obviously Mr. Pinkney, to whom the whole of Mr. Erskine's mated by an inextinguishable ardour, did not besi. have this day begun their march for France ; and the .. interest . of both to foster .—With the highest con- tate fora moment, but carried the redoubt by assault. other detachments will speedily follow. They are ~ I had also ordered Brigadier-General Amey, escorted by the German division, who formed part of d st er . ation, &c.. (Signed R. SMITH. original instruction was read, and who, it was natural to suppose, would convey to his Government so much Ihe Hos t Francis James Jackson, dtc. ice. who commanded the besieging troops, to take pose the fourth corps, under th e orders of Count Sebasti- information upon a very momentous occasion, as session of the suburb Gironella. The, troops of the ani, and who have constantly emulated the French MR. JACKSON TO MR. SMITH. would relieve Mr. Erskine from the ne c es in ? enter. Confederation displayed the greatest bravery and troops in courage. Washington, 11th October, 1809. ing into minutedetails ofthe misunderstandingthat had steadiness in carrying this suburb with the bayonet, The following is an extract from our Court Ga- Sir—l have had the honour of receiving your offi- occurred. At all events, no complaint can be sub. and maintaining themselves them, notwithstanding ;ate of this date : vial letter of the 9th inst. towards the close of which stantiated against his Majesty's Government on this the fire from the forts and town. This attack co. "on the 21 st, in the afternoon the prisoners taken in the 1 yon inform me, that it had been thought expedimt score, seeing that they not only instructed the Minim operated perfectly with that of General Pino. tattle of Ocana, b eg an t o ar rive in this capital, and they continued Ito put• an end to all verbal communication between who had made the disavowed arrangement as to tle ryourself and me in discussing the important objects motives which occasioned the disavowal, but also wid ~ The insurgents have no longer any communica- ofto roarsh lB,ooo la . until after it was dark. They amounted to upwards of my mission. Considering that a very few days frankness, promptitude, and a most scrupulous t:on with each other. (Signed) "On the 9241, 4000 more arrived, and two other columns are " AUGEREAU, Duke of Castiglione." yet expected. General Belliard, the Governor of this Capital, , have elapsed since I delivered to the President a cre- DI national honour, gave notice toobe American Milt. inspected them in the Prado, previous to their entrance. dential letter from the King my Master, and that star in London of the disavowal , the motives of i 5 FROM GENERAL FIN° TO MARSHAL THE DUKE OF • "It is thought that this number will be augmented by the re- ! nothing has been even alledged to have occurred, to and of the precautions spontaneously taken by 14 CASTIGLIONE.. mains of the enemy's army, who are expected to present them- de r ive me of the faci li ty of access, and of the credit Majesty to prevent any loss or injury accruing to tbi " Fornella, Dec. T. selves voluntarily in this city, with the view of getting rid of the 1 " I have the honour to inform your Excellency, that i miseries which the weak but cruel Junta of Seville makes them suf- ,to which, according to immemorial usage, I am by citizens of the United States from a reliance on PI agreeably to your orders, the city redoubt was carried I fer.—lt is impossible to describe the miserable condition of these . that letter entitled, I believe there does not exist in agreement, however unauthorised, ma de in his Ma; by which, according to by storm, between midnight and one in the morning. prisoners,g men, having sold the annals of diplomacy a precedent for such a deter- jesty's name. The mere allusion to this latter circus or to form an idea of theanare . their accounts, prevail at Seville. The urinati on between two Ministers, who have met for stance dispenses me front farther noticing the effect B igadier-General Sousse with two companies of car- themselves to England, where they have secured for themselves bilicTS, two companies of grenadiers of the o t h o f the a retr eat b y mea ns o f the treasures of Mexico and Peru, calmly the avowed Purpose of terminating amicably the ex. which you describe as being produced upon the Unita hoe, and a company of Vol ti d e belonging to Gee wait for the destruction of the multitude whom tbey sent into ;sting differences between their respective countries ; States by the circumstances of this agreement. Hos neral Palombini's brigade made the attack. These the field of slaughter." . but after mature reflection, lam induced to acquiesce far they are irrevocable it is not for me to determine five companies were formed - into four column's of at- The activity of military operation% which we have ii a i t by the r ecollection of the time that must neces- but the word irreparable seems to imply that alessha tack, and one of reserve, The four columns marched witnessed of late, has not prevented this capital from ' s arily m elapse upon W m) sore e l can t d receivehis Majesty's corn - f he d en . . sustained o d n . the occasion s by the public _or . bl in echelon, carrying arms, until they reached thel height on which the redoubt was situated. The first which was provided with scaled it, notwith- enjoyipg its usualasements hasin astate of perfect . occurrence, and .th in tot uals of its country. o far his M , tranquillity. The Italian Opera . the . greatest run ; detr iment .. th at . would ensue to the public service, if could be by possibility supposed answerable for sue and that is the theatre phich his Majesty most fee- my Ministerial functions were, in the interval, to be an eventual loss, he has, as I have before stated, tabs quendy honours with his presence. He has visited it a ltogether suspended. I shall therefore content my- the utmost precaution to avert it. standing a shower of grenades. ladders, The second column twice since the battle of Ocana, and was, on both oc- self with entering my protest against a proceeding As to the tation entertained here, that the d fo. turning it by the right, appeared before the gate casions, received with incessant peals of applause. which I can consider in no other light than as a viola- planation of his Majesty's share in this transactis which was shut, and defended by a 4-pounder, which -IThe audience seemed to testify their gratitude for his tion, in my person, of the most essential rights of a should be made through me, I might content myst kept up o constant discharge of grape-thot ; but the Cat tain of artillery, Beffa, marching at the head having, by that victory, brought, as prisoners into Public Minister, when adopted, as in the present case, with simply observing, that I was not provided sill . . this capital, the same troops that had but a few days without any alledged misconduct on his part. As a instructions to that effect, because it was known tia of this column, applied a petard to the gate, which blew half of it off ; a second petard destroyed the re. before dared to threaten it with an assault. matter of opinion, I cannot, I own, assent to the pre- the explanation in question bad already been •gita mainder. The two other celumns supported the for- NOVEMBER 28.—The greater part of the Spanish ference which you give to written over verbal inter- But it accords with _ the sentiments of his MO' ,o the a word, Sir, at the moment when clue Part prisoners taken at Ocana are already on their march course for the purpose of mutual explanation and towards this country to observe also, that he core for France. Along with the baggage of the rebel accommodation. I have thought it due to the public deed, that as some time must necessarily dot of the troops were centering by the gate, the resowere army, we took a number of coaches filled with ladies, character with which I have the honour to be in. between my appointment and my entrance on tt already on th e parapet, by means of the scaling lad- ders, which were rather limg, the wall being 01 4 18 who made themselves so sure of their army being sue- vested, and to the confidence which his Majesty has duties of my Ministry, it would be a more frieo, cessful, that they conceived they should meet no ob. most graciously been pleased to repose in me, feet high. The four columns appointed to the assault to state mode of proceeding to state, without delay, 0 struction on their way from Seville to Madrid. Our- to you unreservedly my sentiments on this poiat. I throp,gh the channels I have already mention , did not fire a single musket-shot during . the whole hussars satisfied t hemselves with disencumbering them shall now proceed to the other .. . operation. The reserve being drawn up ni front ofof your letter, and the motives that compelled his Majesty to die of 2 part pf their baggage, and sending them back to apply to them the best considerati on that can arise vow the agreement, than to leeve the Ameriss the bastion of Mired began 2 discharge of musketry's infoint the Junta of die fate of the day. when the cannonade from the hastions, and 0 fire of from a zeal proportioned to the increase of di ffi culty Government in uncertainty .in these repects, till t 1 small arms from the walls, were opened ppon oor Co- BAYONNE, DECEMBER 111. . thus thrown in the way of the restoration of a unavoidably.protracted period of my arrival in AV lumps. The fire of the reserve produced the best ef- The first division of the Spanish prisoners taken in thorough good understanding between our respective rica. I say this in regard to the original notified i countries. feet, for it diverted the whole of the enemy's atsen- the battle of Ocana is expected bete on the 18th. It '.• ' tion ; and at the same instant I caused false attacks to consists of SQ(Xt men. It will be immediately fol- You state, Sir, very truly, that an arrangement had it, which Wing already made, it could not be at of his Majesty's determination, and of the motives be made on all the forts and bastions of the Mercadel. lowed by made betweep you and Mr. Erskine, and that posed in London that a repetition of them would' two collet divisions, consisting of' between b een The garrison by this means was to much disconcert- 25 and woo, his Majesty had thonght proper to disavow the agree:. expected from me y and of course no such case_ ed, that its fire, badly directed, had no other effect From 7to 800 cuirastiers have this day arrived melte. been foreseen in my instrottions. But, if beyondr than that of wounding perhaps five or sit men. The here on their march to Spain. In the course of the I have, bete in the outset, to regret the loss of the any incidental e don or discussion should° advontage of verbal intercourse with you, as I should wished forty this • expedition was conducted with such rapidity that they keeent month we expect the Bth corps, commandedt, I came fully pre 1 pictaiiht i sand by -b 7 the Duke a Abrautee, have palled xoyself . of it to inquire whe;bet by your 19 tont"' into them, 1 act coa.sider thent ta ~., oil !rum their rendezvous at .. .. . • k