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

THE NATIONAL REGIST his Royal Highness took off his hat and how, d ; and the Speaker and the Commons having made their obeisances, retired from the Bar.--The Prince Regent came out of the House ten minutes Ware three, which was announced by the smut orb - limpets, and the dis charge of artillery from the Lambeth shore. The procession re turned in the same order as it came, attended by a great multitude, who !armed as he passed, and till he arrived at St. James's. The Ladies in the House of Lords, chit fly wore their hair adorned with large pearl beads ; a, few had feathers, and sonic fillets of gold net. The dresses were in general white satin ; a few appeared in coloured silks.--There where but few Peers present. , consist ng of 150 men, surrenderea on Colon( I Longs. The enemy on seeing some of our shipi off Deba s evacuated the toun and fort of Guetaria on the irt instant, and the garrison weld, by see, to `4t. Sebastian. This place is blockaded by hunt by a de' achment of Spanish troops. 'I hey have likewise evacuated Castro, and the garrison have gone 1:y sea to Santona. In my former reports, I have made your Lordship acquainted with the progress of the army of reserve of Andalnsia, under Ge reral the Conde del Abisbal, to join the army, and he arrived at Burgos on the 25th and 2tith ultimo. When the enemy retired across the Ebro, previous to the battle of Vittoria, they left a garrison of about 700 men in the castle of • Pancorbo, by which they commanded and rendered it impossible for us to use the great communication from Vittoria to Burgos ; I, theretoie requested the Conde del Abisbal, on his march to i. rairla, to make himself master of the town and lower works, and to bloc'.ade the place as closely as he could. I have not received.. the rep rt of his first operations, but I understand he carried the town at d lower fort by assault on the 18th ; and I have now the plea tire to enclose his report of' the final success of his operation, and the copy of the capitulation, by which the garrisen have sue. ren:l4 ed. The derision and dispatch with which this place has been sub &led, are highly eieditahle to the Conde del Abisbal, and she others and troops under his commi.eid. I am concerned to inform your Lordship, that Lieut.-General Sir J. Murray raised the siege of Tarragona, I ,cannot say on whet day, and embarked his troops. A great proportion of the artillery and stores were left in the batteries: It appears that Marshal' Slicing, with a considerable body of troops, had m oved from Va lencia by tosa, and General Maurice Mathieu, with ano ther corps, ti•oni the neighbourhood of Barcelona, for the purpose c f impeding Sir John Murray's operations, which fie did not think himself sufficiently strong to continue. I have not yet received. from Sir J. Murray the detailed atec4int of flute transactions • Lieut.-Gen. Lord .Bentiock,,however, who had joined and had taken the command of the army at the Col de , Balaguer, on the 17th, kid brusight it back to Alicant, where he arrived himself on the 23d, awl was proceeding to carry into execution my lip, strnetions. • When Marshal Sachet ; marched .into dataloi l ia, the Duke del Parque hail advaneed, and established his head-onaiters at San Felipe de Xativaraurpis troops on the Nwar, where .be still was on the TolossOnne 26. 1813. My LORD,—It %Isis so bite on the when received the order • to march by the Puerto St. Adrian to Villa Franca, and the wee-, tlier and the read' were so extremely bad, that but a small part of tho colainn could get over the mountain that.day ; and it was not. - till late on the '24th, that I could move from Scgnra on Villa.Franea d • with Major-General Anson's brigade of Light Drdgoons, the ligh% battalions of the King's German Legion, and the two Portuguese brigades, the rest of the troops not being yet come up. The rear of the enemy's COllllllll was then just passing on the great road from Villa Real to Villa Franca, and he occupied iii con mcleiable force some very strong ground an the right of the great road, and of the river Oria, in front of the village of Olavertia, and about a mile and an half from Villa Franca. Major .. .General Bradford's brigade marched by Otaverria, and tent employed to dislodge the enemy on the right, while the remainder • of the troops advanced by the Chaussee, defended by the enemy', tiraillenrs on the heights, and a strong body at the village of Yea. sayn.. As the enemy reinforced the troops on left, it became neces sary to push on by the Chausske, miners was done by the light batta lion under Colonel lialkettoissisted and flanked by sonic companies of Major-General Pack's Portuguese brigade ; and this service was performed, in the most gallant style. by these,brave troops, *ha drove the enemy from the village or Yeasayu. The enemy having troops ready, posted on the succession of atrong heights on each side of the deep valley, at the bottom of which the road runs, a tonsi l . derahle time became necessary to tarn his flants, during which he evacuated The Port pushed on at Villa Fs and all Col The tier as he had covering ' . ;RA r • . Do the Stath l to the truopiritider d Villa Franca, without further dispute. 'ortiiguese brigades on the right and left of the valley, their advance to Yeliasurido, and the troops asacnibled Franca. Here likewise the head of Genera' Giron's corps :olonel Loupe's, arrived in the course of the evening. • !xt morning (the iStii) the ene►ny evacuated Celequia : and • 1 taken up a very strong position iletween that and Toloilo„ the Panipehma road, - the Spatti4ll eurps of Colonel Luna • HOUSE OF COMMONS. THURSDAY, JULY V!. The Usher of the Black Rod, summoned the House to the Lords. —On the return of the Members, the SPEAKER read a copy of the Speech, and the House immediately broke up. LONDON GAZET7'E EXTRAORDINARY, TUESDAY, JULY 2a. WAR DEPARTMENT. DoWNING-STRErT, JCLY 19. Dispatches, of which the following are extracts. hare been this day received at Earl tiatimr•t's Ottiee, addres,ed to his Lordship by Field-Marshal the Marquis of IVellington Ostiz, July 3. General Clause' having retired towards Dogrono, after finding our troops at Vittoria, on the 29t1 of June, and having ascertained the result of the action of the 21st, OM remained in the neighbourhood of Logrono on the 24th, and till late on the e3th,and had not marched for T u dela, as I had been informed, w h en I wrote my dispateleof the 94th ult. ; I conceived, therefore, that there was some prospect of intercepting his retreat : and after sending the light troops to wards Rotieesvalles in pursuit of the army under Joseph Mono pltte; I moved the light, 4th, 3d. and 7th divisions, and Colonel Grant's and Major-General Ponsonby's hrigades of cavalry, towards Tudela, and die sth and 6th divisions, and the household and Ge neral IYUrb:ns's cavalry, from Vittoria to Salvatierra, towards Longrono . , in hopes that I filanuld be able to intercept General Clansel He, however, made some extraordinary forced marches, fo':uwed by General Mina with his own cavalry and the regiment of Spanish cavalry under the command of Don Julian Sanchez, an.l arrived at Tudela on the evening of the e7th. He there cros sed the •Ehro, but the Alcalde h av i ng i n f orme d him that we were upon the road, he immediately re-crossed, and marched towards Zaragossa, where, I understand from General Mina, he has since arrived. General Mina is still following the enemy, and he has taken from him two pieces of cannon, and some stores in Tudeia, and 300 prisoders. Lient.-General linton has also taken possession of live (mi. which the enemy left at Logrono. In the mean time the troops under the command of Lieut.--General Sir R. Hill have kept the blockade of Pampeluna, and have moved through the mountains to the head of the Bidassoa, the enemy having entirely retired into France oa that side; • I enclose the report which I have received from Lieutenant-Ge neral Sir T. Graham, of his actions with the enemy on the 24th and 25th of June, which appear to have been more serious than I had imagined, when I addressed your Lordship on the 26th ult. General Fny had with him the garrison of Bilboa, and those of Mondragon and Tolosa, besides his division of the Army of Portu gal, and his Cure was considerable. It gives me great satisfaction to see that the Spanish and Portuguese troops mentioned by Sir T. Graham have conducted themselves so well. The Lientenaat-General has confirmed to push on the enemy by the high road, and has dislodged them from sail the strong positions which they bad taken ; and yesterday a brigade of thi army of Ga licia, under the command of Gen. Castanos, attacked and drove the enemy across the Ridassoa, by the bridge of Iran. The enemy still maintained a post in a strong stone block-house, which served as a head to the bridge .and some troops in some l oo ph o l e( ) houses on the right of the Bidassoa : but General tiirron having sent for • some Spanish artillery, and Capt. Dabourdiett's brigade of nine pounders having !mei) sent to their support, the fire of these guns obliged the enemy-to evacuate, and they blew up the blockhouse, and burnt the bridge. Sir Thomas GraltaM reports, tkat in all these affairs the Spanish troops have behaved remarkably well. The garrison at Passages, JULY 25.