The National Register. — London, England, 1813-07-25 00:00:00

474 • LONDON GAZETTE EXTR %ORDINARY. The contents of the Gazette Extraordinary, cf Tuesday t, will he read with mixed emotions of exultation and sh ame —of hope and disappointment. On the one hand, we' behold the dispersed banals cf a vain-boasting enemy, ahan sinning, we trust for ever, a country snr long the scene of their atrocities ; the British standard unfurled on French }:round, and France herself on the eve of reaping the just f. uits el her treacherous aggression upon Spain by the deso lation of her own fields. Such are in the western part of! . ,Spain the results of the 'vast plans cf the Marquis o f W I L- ' LING lON, ably carried into execution bribe skill and bra very of the officers and men under his immediate command. The day of the camelete deliverance of Spain seemed at ! Tana?; masses of pan iotic Spaniards, of Portuguese, of Si cilians, and- of English, were hastening towards the eastern frontier, .where a corresponding, movement had been intended by the directing Genius. But that ',art of the operations has inc .t miserably mi-carried ; English soldiers have been pre eipi,tately rein barked withont seeing the enemy, and leaving behind them their stores and their ai tiliery. Sir Jon N Mu RIZAV cunitnanded that ill fated expedition. Ile bad shared the early exploits of Lord W ELLINGTON, and had fought with dktinguished honour on the banks of the Dpura, but whatever glory he may have acquired in a itabordinate situation, he has completely lost as Conimander in .Chief, for which station his mind seems by no means qnsditir d. It would be unjust to condemn Sir Jona tite heard, and it would las presumptuous to pronounce, when Lot_d W EfbLINGTON himself eIL clines giving an opinion; 'but it is not too much 16 say, after reading Sir Jon N't; : . 411(1 a'oseritar's account of this expedition, Heat an inquiry is ab aulutely necessary, indeed no one ought to be more an \ions ler it tlern the unfortunate Geiti. T i al himself. Sir .1011 N, in his whining diseatch to 1 .ord WELLINGTON, (the very different tone of a former- ones' ill surely be tecol lecied) gives a ftightful enumeration of the dearent cores •saltich SUCII ET couta? brine against him, and which tic znates at a. 0,500 men, Les.ides those of General MATHIEU, on another side, &c. &v. We cannot hoa ever help thinkieg, notwithstanding those surmises of good Sir .1 onN, that many of these troops were " men in but ratn." S acne's . .hinise 11. in his dispatch, says that he had with him six thous:led in fantty and eight hundred horses only; and it clues not appear *that Sir JOHN sent any detachment to reconnoitre and ascertain his force. We know, besides that, by the taking of fort San Felippe, we wer e masters of the only read through which SUCHET could convey any artillery, and St:CHET confirms this in the most unequivocal manner; •surely Sir Jolts must have been aware of this circumstance, and it might have allayed in some degree, his extreme ap- Frehensions, especially when he had himself one hundred and eighty pieces of cannon. But then those fires on the heights .had such a terrible appearance, especially in the • night, and Sir JOHN has so much of the lion in him , tha t, like that noble beast, the blaze forced him to.abandon his prey. 'l'o resume : we hope, and trust that an inquiry will take place. We have heard military men, well acquainted with the • localities, maintain, that with the possession of fart San Fel ippe and the English men of war on the coast, Sir J. Mu RRA would have been perfectly safe, had he with him only 6,000 men ; and that SUCH ET knew the art of war too well to de ieend from the Mountains into the Campo di Tarrogona to attack him without any artillery, as he would have been cx pOsed to certain destruction. This, independent of any other circumstance, is a sufficient ground for inquiry. We shall conclude these observations by noticing a pas of Sir JOHN MuRRAY's dispatClll in which be states .TU T,Y23. that he had 13,000 Spaniards with him, but that he could Jtot depend•upon them. Allowing this to he. correct, which we d o ubt extientely, no assertion could be more ill, timed or mere impolitic. It should seem however by this, that tiir 3c)IIN - MURRAY, it) the Choke of soldiers, is more diffi cult to be plelccd than Lord WELLINGTON, Sir ROWLAND HILT, and Tuom AS GrtAnAM; for the former sent Spanish ticqps to take Popcorn), and they surpassed his ex peetatiow: ; at the bilttlf.! of Vittoria Sir IiowLAND HILL first sent the Spattidt division. of - Multi t.t.o to storm the hills on the tight, and Sir THom_As GRAHAM emploied Spanish and Pm tugoese divisions to turn the enemy - on the left, which services the Spaniih troops performed to the ad - nitration of the whole army. Paris Papeis reached town on Friday, to, the 20th instant, a month after the battle of Vittoria, and yet no mention of that event. Their contents are, upon all other subjects, unusually barren of interest ; and so Paris papers always are, when the interest that might be excited, is not favourable to the French. BuON APAR TE has come from Dresden to Mag deburg. Theobject of hi= journey, farther than a general review of the foi tress( s and troops in his rear, is not spe cified ; but those who delail his motions would wi.,11 us to believe that he is wholly impassible of fatigue. Active enough he is, no doubt, but yet he must take some rest. There is, no questicn, much of fal , ehood, with a studious afleciat ion of parade, mixed up in them accounts of his pro- CCCti ings. A report floe: Src.NET to the War Minister details certain ()et-orient:es in Valencia, after the return of the former from the neighbourhood of Tan agoua. The recent operations in the I.alit of Spain arc huntiliatiog concerns, to which ANC wish th f o ve were not obli::;e6 tot clew. These, however, upon the X near, aye of no great moineht. The Ft ouch Papers stilt speak, no doubt in terms of am plification, of the levy and twitch cf flesh troops to the North. They boast, also, of the number and condition of fortified places in the rear of 11"..:0ti AP ART I. The rrivate accounts Horn St. PetersburOi -continue to Teak of the march of large re-inf , irceLnents' to join tire P..wisian army, and no idea was eutertained in that capitttl that the armistice would lead to a pelve. The Crown Prince of Sweden had left Stralsund, it wa supposed on a tour of inspection through Pon:crania. lle wa , to he followed by Mr. THURSTON and the other Foreign Itlinisten. Orders had been issu-ed for a vigorous prosecution of the maritime war bet wee-u Sweden and Denmatk, and some idea appeals to be entertained, that the Norwegians will be compellcel, flout want of provisions, to listen to the terms obeyed to them by Sweden. Thit ty thousand Norwegians, it is said, presented themselves lately on the frontiers of Sweden, and requotell a supply of provisions fro the Swedish General E,su.N. This request, however, he did not think proper to com , lly with. A letter from Stralsund, dated July 5, says, " The army under the command of the CROWS Pni N Cr. is estimated at from 60 to 80,000 men. Count ENODT, Governor of Norway, shot himself, overpowered by his afflictions, lie being unable to supply the dcmands of tire inhabitants for sub- sistenee." The news t,t . the I.ictory cf Vittm•kt reached Gottenburgh last Sunday Ivi‘ck, and produced great satisfaction. Mr. Fisn El?, the Messenger, proceeded directly with the th.litls t!) the bead-quarters of the Al:ics. The Emperor of Russ' A is to be pre3ented with tilt a . ttir of the Gaiter. A Chapter, for the election and by proxy, of his Imperial Majesty, will be held next wii't $ 4 ge ILI TILE NATIONAL REGISTER.