The National Register. — London, England, 1811-09-29 00:00:00

'TIE NAtIONAI, fiF.Gi for some reason of great urgency. In such cases the Session !nay be prolonged, but not beyond one month. THE CORTES. , The Election of the CortLs shall take place conformable to the mode prescribed by the Constitution, and one Deputy shall be chosen for each 70,000 soils. , The Sittingi of the Cortvs shad he penedby the King, or in his name, by the l zesident of the Deputation of the Cortes, which ought to remain peimanent, in order co watch over the fulflirrie.ic of the Constitution. The above are the chief Articles of the Report which has been presented to the Cortes. It. is ordered to be printed, and when the copies are ri.Ltived from the press, will be fully dis cuseed. _. CORUNNA EXTRAORDINARY CIAZr.TTE ) SEPT. 2, 1811. DISPATCH FROM DON JUAN PORLIER, TO DON bABRIEL DX MENDIZABAL, GENERAL IN CHIEF OF TOE 7TII ARMY. . . Head-quarters, at Renedo, Aug 21, 1811. MOST EXCELLENT SENOR—I thought it would have been in my power to announce to your Excellency on this occasion, that the whole of the province of Santander was now delivered from the enemy, and that the troops of this army were in posscesien itf the forts of Reynosa and Torreavc•ga, and of the city of •arr tander. I cannot, indeed, give your Excellency informal ien of a nature so sati , f.ictory ; but I have to acquaint you, that on the 14th, after a very painful march of five days by Aguilar, Val . ikrredible, aid the valley of Torranzo, I attacked by surprise the city of Santander, and the forti of Solia, Cainargo, Puente de Arco and Torrelavega. ,I.'he force of the encany it these points on the commencement of the attack u - as 2,000 men, and mine '2,500. .l.careelywas our firing commenced at Santander, near the point of the windmills:, when Gen. Rouget put himself at the head of his gArrison, cue sisting of 560 or 600 men, and at the eritrance of .streets and houses he attempted to make a desperate resistance---b tt leen • Le was overthrown in a few mi nutes , an d our so ldi ers su bd re d lois men with the bayenet in all quarters where they atteinoted to res?t. That General then abandoned the city with only 90 men, and saved himself by an accident. At the same time that the Ist regiment of Cantabria and the Sharpslieoters and Hussars of Cantabria, obtained these ad vantages Colons 1 Don Juan Ugartemendia attacked Fort S o lia, convened the enemy to abandon it, and levelled it witli the ground. . . . . The 3d battalion of marines formed the centre of the troops employed in this ace vice; and after. having Made prisoners or dispersed the .eneney who defend:a the bridge of Avec, _they knarched to attack the enemy at Camargo. The latter, however, had j tired General Peolget and the garrison of Solis; the batta lion of Marines den-unshed the forts of Arce and Cantargo. Colonel Don Joaquin Abreu, with some troops of this army land the regitnent of Tuy, blockaded the enemy's garrison in Torrelaveg:t, and maintained a steady .resistance against the efforts of 7no men, who endeavoured to overpower him, in order to keep up the communications with niintanaer. The firing in this quarter lasted. 13 he Ors without ceasing; and ;he enemy kept it up with two „pieces of artillery, with which they headed several sallies that they made.; but the compaties of grenadiers and chasseurs of 'Puy routed them, and at last they Tel inq u ished theireffortinthough they hadreceivejarei sreetn• nt Of tIOU men. They shut themselves up in'their fort, from whence they contieued their resistance; ;ma our troops took possession of the provisions which they had in the contijocrus viltese, and made serfie of theni prisoners. • The vanguard, commanded by the Colonel of the Ist of Can tebria, seho attacked Santander, did not remain in the city ac cording to the orders which had been given ; but, notwith standing, he took 55 prisoners, and about 10 horses, among which • stvere those Of General Rouget„ many equipages, and much booty; besides the traitor Joaquin Aldamar, iniernlant of the provi .ce, arid several others, who had taken lip arms to defendthe city. . The troops.vvere equally successful at aY the points which t hey attacked ; so that the enemy, from the ac counts of crrdtble and impartial pensens, lost on this day between. 5 and 600 men, of whom were 100 prisonens. In Santander they count among the killed about 14 Officers, and the Commandants of the.place, of the artillery, and of the gendarmerie Vankellermen, baron de i3alcienk, and Quenebille. In Torrelavega. two Command tilts and several Otlizers were killed. This is confirmed by various accounts which have been received; and the enemy has collt.:ted all the force which he had on the Deva and Nansa, and ordered them to Torrelavega. Such is the loss ,Which he suffered, and the embarrassment in which he was placed, that hitherto Gene ral Rouget has not returned tb Santandein and his i s oldlero at Torrelavega are begging setnplies of. provisions from the neigh- houring jurisdictions. The torts of St. Liatia, St: VhaaChti and • Cditlinbreg, detitollthel I cannot yet send your t xcellency a statement of the loss which the corps of this division, an d t h ose o f t h e sect i on o f t h e 6 t h army, have suffered ; but, speaking gent rally, I compute it at two Officers and 68 privates killed, and four Offic4:rs isod 130 privates wounded, Many distinguished themselves on this day, and all did their duty; but among those who were particularly prominent, were the See giant-majors D. Buenventura omaca, and D. Jose Abur 7 ruza ; Pablo de Laszgo, Commandant of the Sharpshootrro * Of Cantabria; D. Bernardo Gomez d'e Caso, Captain of the ciiiqeurs of the regiment of Laredo; 1). Manuel I3azarra, Cap tain of the Sharpsnooters of Cantabria; and D. Pablo Lozano, Lieutenant of the,,:insipavy of Chasseurs of the Ist of Contabria. Colonel D. Juan Ugeartemerdia was wound..d, and two very promising Officers were kdled; namely, tht:. ht-aVe Sanjarjq, Lieurevant of the 3d, of Marines, and D Francisco Perez N'tc.- guratza, Lieutermnt of the battalion of Gnyitscoa, These troops command ainiost the whole ..1 the province, and are posted or the banks of the Sala, Which the enemy has aban doned. They will co'.tinae their operations on every opw tunity. May God preserve, &c. MAN' DiAZ POIWER, • GIatALTAR. PAPER::.!. PROCLAMATION. • .• • _ Head-quarters, Gibraltar, Sept. 4, 1811. Wheieas an atirming fever has broke mit Carthagena and other places on the coast of Spain within the \ h U. E. the Lieuterant-Governor has found it necessary to cut 1.11 all communication with . S pain, by se&and land; hereby calls ; itiLT on the inhabitants to come forward, as conservators of the public health, as they did last year; and such as choose to vo lunteer this duty, as well as to keep improper p-rsons out of the rarrison will take the trouble to send in their names to the Town Major. Fourteen days quarantine from all ports of Spirt within the Mediterranean, and ten days from those to the west., ward, as far as Ayamonte, are to be performed by all vessels, to be reckoned from the day.of their anchoring in this bay. Ferry boats, plying-boats, and bum-boats are to he L id up. except such as may be found necessary by t:.e PrAtique Muster and those are to have a health guard. Night-foiling is to he discon tinued until fut ther onlers, and the fishermen and boats to he mustered by the Pratlque master night and morning, and to be accompanied with health-guards. The above regulations, which are adopted to pfeserve the health of this arc to be most; S: rktly obeyed. • By Command, JOHN,RUTIIERFOIM, SeC. (Signed) PRIVATE LETTER. . . . . CIIIR ALTA fi, SEPT. B.—Our accounts fr om Caeiz cogine down to the 4th. The Papers brings a series of offici;,l dis. patches trom Gen. Freyre to Gen. Blake, res.,:ectlng the delta: of the 4th Spanish army at Baia; they Are five in inimbet-, the last of them dated the 13th of August. In substance they all agree that the army wag defeated : that the French at the time they. attacked the main body of the irrny at Biiza; sent a strolls division of 7000 men to turn right wing, in whieli they suc ceeded; aud that the Chief of the Staff, •Gentaal 01.Thnell, moving with SCOO men along the 7..njar to support it, was defeated with great loss, and compelled tv retreat; in consequence of which the while army was forced to move towards Murcia; that the cavalry under the con - .tila!:d (if Cc; neral Loy, took up a position at i as Vertientes, to enable ;he different divisions of the army to form a junction, but hang attacked by superior numbers, w ere forctl to give ivayl aiol the French were thus enabled to penetrate to tile and 'prevent the divisions Iron) taking the passes ih the _ E untaioi of Maria. Nolliwithstanding this, however, the'ditferent diVi sions continued their route to Murcia without the slightest dis persion, but (!iniished in number, owing to fatigue and want of provisens. On the 12th, at sriven o i tiock in the morning. the enemy made their appearanee before the city of Ltirca,. with woo infantry and 300 ci:valry but the fi re of the. , castle co: , polled them soon to retire. Die army Cm: . . ca y of Nflercia,and was,aboi t to advance ag::in with s ome Meats received from Valencia. We rtniain with the gatei shut s as when I last wrote, nor Is there any hitelihood of :'ii alteration, as a Medical Gentleman is lust reihrecill-oin inspect ing the sick in th. , different hoipitals at Carthagena, Who re- Ports, that the exikting malady at that plaCe is the same as that of 1804-5 and 1810, without the smillebt symptom of Variation:" , . SICILIAN PAPERS: • - - • GAZITTA BRITANNICA, MIASMA, JUL 31:—We learn froth PaletknO; that 6Ci the hi ht Of the 19th bast. pAi folloviiug ... ~• ■ 1 ;41