The National Register. — London, England, 1811-07-14 00:00:00

The length of these dispatches prevents our insert ing them this week ; but the following is their sub stance : The Duke of RAGUSA, Commander in Chided' the army Of Portugal, put himself in Motion in the 1 eginnlng of June, with the intention of driving below this Co; that corps of the English a. my which WELLINGTON (on depw • tins for the siege of Ba dajoz) had lift in position before Ciudad Ro'drigo. 0:1 the sth of June, the Duke of RACusw arrived at cludad Rodrigo with bit': advanced guard, and a corps of 54000 horse : the enemy did not think proper to wait the arrival of the army, and retreated during the right. At day-break, the Duke of RscusA sent his cavalry in pursuit : only some paitir.s of 'Gen. C tAUTUR WS division were met with, who were driven into the Coa under the ruins of Almeida. Some prisoners were taken. The English divisions forced their retreat into the mountains of Sahugal and A.lfayates, in order to.gain the Tagus. The Duke of RAGusA having, without a blow, succeeded in pis plan of expelling the enemy front this part of the frontier, immediatelrdirected the march of his army towards the Tagus. General REGNIER took the command of the advanced guard, and arrived on the 9th at Placentia. On. tlief2th two divisions rased the Tagus at •Almaras, the bridge of which was sedUreirestablished, and covered by strong batteries. Quantities of provisiOns and stores had for some tune arrived at this important point. The Duke of Rdinusw 'also received there a grind bridge-equipage, which he sent for ward with the rest of the army, in the direction of Merida. Meanwhile'the Army of the South, under the Duke of DAL ATIA.'S orders, had receivednumerous reinforcements. Twelve thousand men, under the Count D'EaLox, had arrived on the eth at Cordonne, and followed the Duke of DALMATIA'S move- Inents, who again advanced to Santa. Martha, and occupied Almendralejo with right, thus being in readiness to commu nicate with the Duke of ou SA. WELLINGTON, whose arm/ was greatly fatigued through want of provisons and sickness; suceessiiely collected his troops round Badajoz ; but feeling himself thus pressed, resolved to make a great effort to carry the place before the junction of the two armies. After a dreadful firing of artillery, a first assault was given, but the breach was defended by Frenchmen. Sir hundred English remained on . the spot. A second assault had the same result; so' that the English lost more than 1200 men in these fruitless attaeki. WELLINGI ON was about to make a • desperate effort, when on the 16th the Duke of 11.ncusn arrived at Merida, and effected his junction with the Duke of DAL VATIA. The two armies marched on Badajoz, of which place WELLINGTON peeCipitateir • raised the siege, re-entering Por tugal with all his troops. Part of his battering artillery and many of his 141 have been taken. On the 41st, the-Duke of lasousa, had his head-quarters at Badajoz. The details of the siege are every instant expected to be brought by General PIIILIPON, wti, as well as the garrison, has covered himself with glory ; fin l / 2 he breach was every where practicable. 'buczrET, in a letter of June gives an account of the sur render Of Tarragona. He says, that the fury of filisoldiers had been increased by the resistance of the garrison. A fifth assault, given on the preceding day, bad led to .a terrible massacre, the example of which would long be remembered in Spain. Four thousand men were killed In the town, and a thousand killed or drowned in endeavouring to escape.' Teri thOusansl prisoners would be 'sent to France.. Solar. in a letter of June $l, states that be had, on the been* lammed of the English havigg raised the Mega Of liadajozinshat . ..hey had abandoned their position at Albuera.•• evacuated Olivenzo—and withdrawn their troops to the right banlitsf.Sita - Quadlexa r on the side el Elves, St the Siwtnoaa REGIBTrR. ~ :~ - - t I _ THE NATIONAL of the same day he received a letter from the Governor of 111- dajoz„,etturot4, confirming the enemy's retreat He pro fessed to regret that a general engagement has been avoided, and hopes that one may soon lake place.—The dispatches age very long ! , - SPAIN AND AUSTRIA.• French Papers to the 9th inst. were received yes. terday. They, state, that JOSEPH lIVONAPARTE.Iift Bayonne on the 27th ult, on his return to Spain; but carefully abstain from mentioning whether he was attended by a military escort, in order to lead the French people to a belief that his kingdom is no longer distu: bed by the Guerillas ; who, howev . :r, were he not strongly protected, would to doubt ucce;cl in carrying him off. It is under,tood,that his journey to Paris was to complain of die coninet of MASSENA and the other Commanders of the army . . of Portugal, who, by their inactivity whilst in th.Lt kingdom, and their retreat out of it, had once mire transferred the seat of war into Spain l and rendered even the personal safety of i:;s ruler at Madrid pre carious. It is added, that aware of .lohtrint's inten tion, MASSENA, JUNOT, and Ncy, had.-Allowed him to Paris, in order to counteract his representa tions, and not, as it hat been stated, in consequence of any order from NAPOLEON, requiring their pre sence, to give them employment in the North, in case of a war with Russia. These differences are said to be settled ; but it is not yet known exactly whether MASSENA is to resiine his late comman . d. JOSEPH solicited powerful reinforcements, which have been promised ; and a new plan of operations was formed, by which the French troops in the Northern Provinces of Spain were to evacuate the parts they occupied, in order to join MmtmoND and SouLT, and, by concentrated numbers, endeavour at once to overpower our army, or compel it to re. embark. Meanwhile the promised reinforcements were to re-occupy the Provinces that bad been eva cuated, It is probably in consequence of ibis ar.. rangement that, as we are informed by the Gannet sloop of war, the French have already abandoned Austria and Gallicia. These Papers also contain an Imperial Edict of the Court of Vienna, calling in all the Bank Bills. or Notes, and issuing Bills of Exchange in their room. The following is its substance :'""' " These Bills of Exchange, the sum total of which is not is any case to exceed 2) :',159.760 florins, as was stipulatt.i io tie Imperial Edict of the 20th of February . Lest, are to be of 11.00, 100, 20, 10, 3, or 2 florins each, Fao-nmiles of these eiff, rent bills are annexed to the Edict. The period when they dre to be issued, and the mode of exchanging them, will be fixed in a separate circular note with that object. • • " From the Ist of February, 1012, the Bank-notes shall be entirely out of circulation, and shall no longer be :ezeivect either hi the public 1 rzasury, or In private payments. 4 ' The esebange of lid-noteo for those new bills of Ex _ ahange,•at the fifth of the nominal value of the form( r, as well es the exchange of torn Bilia of Exchange for pew ones, and of *we of s large am br others of small Milli, Shall take place 7#1.v.7