The National Register. — London, England, 1813-08-01 00:00:00

AUGUST 1. IAL operation, %void*, low:iver was 'oiceevirill, and oitr troops Wert' t'‘ at the convent, and at he village iminediatelN schieh v.( eiirmy had ;mined. I have m•ceived a report from Gaithir MiBll — , of fbelreir, - -41i - which he infcirm , nt.., th it General I)iiran hail joined biro in the Sarago-sa, aid that lie attacked, on the Bth, Ge• nei al ho for -mile time cOnintanded a division in Arra goo. Geoer::l Pail. , had retired in the night of the 9th, leaving 'a e a r,i.ntt iif a elonot in Hit• oeighbourliond of Saragos.a. which Ge ner4i Mi•;a hati kit General Duran to alt ick, while he followed the e T will y %%4, hi. 'owl), and tin' cavalry snider Brigadier Don Juliat, Cicv!ehez. He hid taken a considerable smother of prip.miers, and a ot inset:age from Gcneral Paris ; and a convoy on the 11th. impusst.de ta a plated too highly the activity, intelligence, Snit !Alta.:try, %l id) which these operations have been carried on. have stool. Genera! Paris had arrived at JaCitt on tit(' 1111, 'OO tll,l lie had brought %ids him :he garrisons of a wl %%a% about to retire Into France. studio evariutted Valencia on the Atli instant, and Ge vnte•reil Nat city, at the of the seconilairmy, on the 714 I .;;I• c a letier from Lord William Bentinck. of the 7th. 5..., idyll lie itirornis rue that he expected to ar s, vt` ai Valeuria on the tf •th. 1 hate nut heard of Marshal Sucher , ; toryului C suelloo ; hut the garrison of Secorhe has been „.I nin 111t 1 amid that, on the inst. General .eve. v.:!•• up the fort of A:eamz, nd marched upon Merpiinenza by rertt 14, Itsll ♦c i i . 5,,,". writin the above, I have received a dispatch from Si.. Ti!oht., Canham. of which the irciosetl is a copy, containing Ins tbs.' rk of the convent near Sao Sthastian. Er:.raci « Disputch from Licutenunt • a Herat Sir Thomas Graham Io lii..Varshal the .11qrrtis ll'ellie s 4ton I dated Ernuni, July 18, 1813. Tin , convent of San nartolome, and time adjoining work on the evremity of the steep leis iowards the river, were taken yester day by dssault. Tay natural and artifi-ial strength these tbrtified posts. occu pied by a large body of troops, and the impossibility of access to eitler but by the fronts. made it very desirable to bare de. at oyes] the .left.nces as m•tch as possible, and a new battery 00 the left was begot' the prt evening, but not being ready iu the mornioe, the attack Was deteimined on. A colomn, consisting of the piesptets of the 4th Cdcatlores, cononanded by Lit movnant Antonio de (4,lairos. of one hundred and meo of the 13th Portuguese regiment, looter Captstin Almeytta, supported by three companies of the oth regiment, under the command of Lieutenant•Colooel Cranford, with a reserve of three compaities of the Royal Scots, tooter Captain Auguinibean, was formed on the right to attack•the redoubt, under the direction of Major-Geheral Hay. Major-General Bradlord committal:Nl the lett colimin, composed of t..% o hoods-et' men of the tr>th Portuguese re giment, nutter the command of Mdjot Saodgras, of that regiment ; au equal number, ender Lieotenant-Colonel Maentaigh. of the 5:11 Cacadores, and supported by the 9th regiment, under Lieute - aut• Colonel Cameros,. The whole of the troops employed in this ser vice °chit.; under the comindod of Major-General Oswald. About ten A. M. the left eolunio began the attack on the convect, while the right passed the ravine' near the river. 1.1,qh attacks were made with, such vigour amid detelmination, that all obstacles were overcome, without the loss that might have been expected. Time enemy were driven iu confusion down the hill, carrying a strong rehiforeement, just sent from St. Sebastian, along with them in their flight through time bmnt village ef San Atartin. The impetuosity of the troops in pursuit could not be restraked by the exertion of the superior officers, who had received MAjor- General. Oswald's directions not to pass San Martin, and some mm avoidable toss was mist:nue(' by those who foliomed the enemy to the foot of the glaeis, on their return to San Martin. I need hardly assure your Lord-hip, that on this, a: on other oc casions, Major-General Oswald eooducted the service in the best manner; and I ant equally obliged to Major-Generals Hay and Bradford, for their conduct of the attacks entrusted to them. But I beg, in justice to the officers, whose distinguished gallantry in leading on their men to overcome the variety of obstacles that were opposed to them, to mention Major Snodgrass, Captain Altneytht, Lieutenant de Quairos (severely wounded), of the Portughese ser vice) and LieutenAnt-Colonel Campbell, of tile 9th foot. I cannot conclude this report, without expressing my perfect sa tisfaction with all the officers anti men of the royal artillery, both in the fonr-gun battery, employed for three days agai ts.. time convent, and on the opposite bank of the river s where several frehl-pieees wen Stried with great effect. TT! E NATIO great ,obliga, Ilritatk-111,jer.. • • • FRENCH PAPERS. Friday Paris Journals were received to the QGth instant. A dispatch from BUON-APARTE states, that the Armistice in • the North has been prolonged to the middle of August, and ' CAULINCOURT, Duke of - Vicenza, and Count de NAR BONNE, have been appointed Plenipotentiaries from France to the Congress at Prague, which has probably ere this com menced its deliberations. The other Ministers appointid are—Count IYANST ELL, from the Emperor of Russia, and Baron HUMBOLDT from Prussia, as Count IVIETT ERNICH and Prime KAUNITZ are both at Prague, it is probable they will assist on the part of Austria. An Engli::11 Am bassador, appointed to the Congress, is stated to have passed through Neuss on the 7th. .oti his way to the seat of Nego ciwn ion, accompanied by a umerOus.suite and a French C 3. curt of honour ; but who this person is we are uninformed. • BCONAPARTE wa3 at Leipsic 011 the 14th. By the 25th, he was expected to be at Mayence, there to meet his Eat press, who set out from Paris on the 22d for that purpose, and was not expected to retut n till the beginuing of Au gust. BEAUII A RNOIS was at Castel Franco on the 13th. el'he hatt!e of Vittoria is still passed over in perfect silutcc.. nor is there a syllable flora the Peninsula. LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. The London Ga:ette Extraordtnary of Sunday last adds to the many proofs already recorded, that Britons are the sanie in every part of the world where their native bravery is called into action. We see in North America a handful of our countrymen scattered over an immense line of frontlet, successfully repelling all the efforts of an enemy five times more numerous, under all the disadvantages of a defensive warfare in which the points of Mock are necessarily uncer tain. We see Colonels acting as Generals, Ensigns as Field- Officers, all giving, although on a smaller scale, proofs cf that military genius which characterises the W ELLIN CTON . school. In that remote corner of the world every Briton seems to feel, that he can trust only to the transc.::ndant glory of his own achievements to emerge from the obscurity in which the scene of his exploits is involved. We observe, however, with regret, that those unparalleled efforts are not always crowned with the success they so emi pently deserve. It appears by the Quebecyapers, that pie vious to the gloriott: ..itack on the American camp on the 6th of June,. the enemy had obtained possession of the forts on the Niagara frontier, and advanced forty miles into the in terior of the country. We are happy to find, that these advan tages were obtained previous to the arrival of those poweifel reinforcements, which Sir G. PREVOST mentions in his pro Cir mat ion as being on their march from every gwarter fur the Niagara frontier ; anti also that Sir J. YEn, subsequent to that action, was in undistro bed p4';session of tht .1.4 e. But we might ask, what adcqume motive there can be to eon , tinue so long a defensive system, by whiA, notwithstandiug the gallantry of our troops and the skill of our onicets, the provinces of Canada have three times suffered from the in vasion of the enemy ? Surely it will not be contendslt, that the American soil ought to be considered by us " ns F act- ed ," a ITLINint maintained, in respect to the territory of France, by the old woman who writes the long letters, signed in The' Times ; and considering the ' our troops posses• . over the Americaw to expect, that Government might spa, ments, which would soon Make those feet the just retaliation their wanton a;;-, REGISTER.. 459 P. 8. I omitted to mention, that Major-General H;ty mentions . ' his =eat obligations to Captain Taylor, of the 48th regiment, his ifflinense sti••erierity it is not too niuelv „ ire a few more regi-, 4 doughty Repulalkans,.. * zressi on dee_rves, 6