The National Register. — London, England, 1813-07-18 00:00:00

r from a minor French Paw, *fifth' found its way to this me tropolis with a vague statement of the defeat of the British • : array under Sir JOH N MURRAY; Wail the supposed loss of 3 or 4000 men killed and woUnded, til!Cd them with the most pleasurable anticipations. But what were their rap tures, when s the French official account of the unsuccessful ! attempt of this Commander on Tarragona, his re-embarka tion and the abandonment of his heavy ordnance, was re ceived ! How eagerly they endeavoured to turn the table' on their adver'ariec, and to avenge their own momentary mortification.by Wasting the joy of ethers! How .they ac tively exerted thrfuselves to rita'.e our disaster appear greater ! What a ve,l of gloom they. attempted to draw over the anticipated consequences of our victory, which they re presented as strangled in their birth by this " defeat !" As though it had not been achieved fifteen days cf/cr the failure of Sir JOHN MURRAY'S expedition, which, since it did not check the triumphant career of our arms when the main strength of the enemy temained unbroken, cannot have that effect now, that it is discomfited and dispersed. Whilst tl ey had been content to pass general praise on the battle of ViAoria, with what assiduous ingenuity have they not dived into every particular which could tender the disap ointment of our hopes on the coast of Catalonia more se vere ! They have penetrated (and how could they do It with out bribery on the one side and infidelity on the other ?) into the very secrets of the State, and procured information, which, as_it is trot within the reach of all, cannot he easily contradicted if incorrect, for the purpose of swelling the force ender our unsucecFsful general, to a vast superiority over that of his opponent, Which they have considerably di minished. They have proclaimed to the enemy that we hate lost under the enc!osures of Tana - gotta the only train of battering artillery we had in the Peninsula, and which, After reducing Badajoz under Lord WeLeiNGTON, had been shipped, they tell ns, • at-Lisbon. and sent round to Abeam. - Had they possessed that information earlier, they would no doubt have publi,lied it, And would have prevented the evacuation Of Tow, Burgos, Pancorvo, and Bribriesca by the French, who learning that our army had no batty, ing artil lery would have maintained. all these important forts in our rear, with small garrisons instead of destroying them. Nay, they will even BOW perhaps frustrate his Lordships attempt on Pampluena and St. Sebastiafrovhich fur the same reason will he successfully defended, instead of beiiigyoluntarily abandon ed as untenable before a tritaPhant fill - Cc sell provided with rriemts for reducing them. It is not that we credit all that the organs of the oppiisition'afe pleaied; to proclaim, or that we think our army in the north' of bliphin• is hot provided with a battering train; but the very belief that•it is not, will be suffi eient to raise greater:obstacles to the immediate success of our operations. As to .Sir John Istitasr's failure, it is certainly a ground or surpri s e and c iisappclutment but nut of despondency. it will no doubt he inquired inlo, but ls::t that be done prriperly.‘is itilititestigaticin of this nature to be carried on anonpitously ht pkiblie papers by persont . who'are pot respoubible for the . falseltoods they may utter, and on the evidence °flat), enftoY ticigt ~.whose accounts, hitherto .rejected as always partial and lying, are snddcnly purged 'jail their untrutbi in the eyes ofthis anonymous jury ! If.justiee is to6e . done, this is'evid:entlYnOt th e'Wity. To Condemn un- Leard is the part of tyrannical obvt:rn*elits . , and 'What . 14es should we'intertain of ii 4 anielidratect ennititution were the suen why displaY such principles in "itch- &induct, out of place, ever to succeed in their attempts to get in ? STEIN., FORE l'Ants, JULY 5.—H4 has ruccive . 4l the tiplh)w Oitint de 'Metternich, Majesty the Envei alreafiv had several con Russia has just o[tai paper should have a lip as the Prussian paps this ordnam c does no Prussia. . The City of Berlin . every day thus.' vexatin con parts its situation H. AlAirsty the E eight of ICI) hours kill We have lee: ived furtrpses are in the hes' to provisions ; warlike A I have just this mom vernor of Tortosa, a. nt. of which the foil. ' 6 11/06kishIGNEtm.-- . fore Tarragona ar live pears to stter in the diL In this state of things lentry, and 801) horse., troops of Deeaett the English. (Signed) To tile Minister of ¶. EXTRACT OE A UtTT MON: , ICUIt LE Dt/C.— kation of Anglo-Siciliar that plate ou the 31st of e under Tarragona. to invest Fort St. Phil! Attie, without a ftzitte, T.lrtagolia, the forts an , A tire.froin several bat? latmer held out, made au of the enemy, wore ti tic explosion of a powder PhiVippe. The t twiny, by a ri Tarragosia. At the dui del Parque had arrived in his camp at Casta close upon our post.'. stmti a, I %yds it'd rant I made di,p:►siti prompt inforni...tion, IrooN to tali upon the and on the first iufuri brigacte upon I:aree lotu the 4th of June 1 had visian, and the brigade: by tbreed marches tow: Valencia, that the fo! only cannon road, Ina ce,s, and, on the loth, eolurnimoverthrew the my troops arrived ; gotta road ; .and not. b! united to seek a iiye-r der to utnioniwe tily• which refused all sinnmi short, on the I.2th, 1 In advancing OH fin; 13th could see and be seen . ,Iu the,nican time, p, canna . , - and' pinilmd for ankl-the march of column , the enemy, and obliged re-embark the greater s : • 4' 4.59-- - • - 4 _ • - • _ . • ; --- 3 JULV ig s ;IG N INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH RAPERS. 111•••••••11 ter Majesty the Empress Queen and Regent vial; intelligence from the army : h, Minister of State and of Couferences to !ror of Atistria, has arrived at Dresden, and oft rences with the Duke of Hassan° ined from the King of Prussia, that Russian weed circusation in the teLossian slaw. ; and •r• is already at a disco iet of 70 per teat. of appear calculated to raise the credit qt is tormented in every possible manner, and !on, are snore felt in it. This capital already to that of several towns in France in 1793. ;:operor, On the '_Bth. made an excursion of in the environs of Dresden. accounts from Zanio , e and Modlin. Tltee 4 condition tier considered in respLct stores, or fortification.. IRMY OF ABRAGON. Valentin, June 4. neat (4p. in.) received a letter trots) the Go. tc,l Jule: 3, !lime-quarters past nine o'clock towing i, a copy :-- -The c nemys fleet was yesterday in sight be- ; is eto.•i,ts of about 1W sail ; it ap- ireetion of Villatiov a de Sitges." g. 1 have determined to march with 600 in- into Lower t..;;.talsinia, in order to rally the and, if it Is possible, endeavour to fight I am, &c. Marshal the Duke of ALBUFERA. War. ETTER most TIT= sAar P. TO THE SANP.• Torti.-a, Jutie Yl , 6a. M. • —I informed your Excel" airy of the embar- an army at Alicant, of its departure frbin of May, and of its sapid arrival, on the 2d yr . The army landed daring the night, hastened llippe, at the Col de Balaguer, and the Meta- which at present constitutes the defence of aid extensive fortifications having been razed. utiles began on the 3d ; during five days Ba- n liononrahle resistance, and killed or wounded an Soo men. Oai the morning of the 7th, the :r magazine caused the surrender of fort St. fire kept up from the sea and land, attacked !•parture of the Anglo-. Sicilian army, the Di d 4e from Carolina, to replace General Murray Ila ; Ellio, with the . 2d Spanish corps, was donned that the enemy had sailed from Ali- ion - s npon the coast of Valencia to receiVe whilst 1 charged General Decaen to collect English. He eagerly executed that disposition, rmatilm detached from Gerona, Beurinann's ail, where he arrived on the 10th of Jane. du dispatched from before Xucar, Musnier's di- ;.s of Pannetierand Argremotit : they proceed ward, Tortosa. I learned, at ]O leagues from art of Balagner had capitulated. I lost the it was of importance to stop the enemy's site- , I proceeded to Tortoga. The head of my l! English Dragoons near Perello ; on the 11th . pushed forward on the 12th upon the. Tares- M:ipg able to act on the high road, I deter- toad across impractikble mountains, in or• irrival to the brave garrtion of Tarragona, nonses, and defended itself in high valour. In ighted tires on the tops of the mountains, and beyond the village of Valledelltis, my troops front Tarragona. ;3eneral Mani ice Mathieu set out ,from liar. .ward to Arhos. The resistance of the place, IMP. from Barcelona and Valencia, frighteni4 !d him precipitately tar raise the siege, and part of his troops; abandoning uuder the