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2 - 0 lilt, not recognise the Fcgoeit 1.70.). rot, fthe Iv"' 6 " . /ions Wmalitiii ov,t+t. 'there months. They all knew the eessfoil or Norway to !Sweden had been guaranteed by this country Sind lift Allies. Whether the Norvfegians would submit to this ar tangeinent, was another question. All he wished to ascertain at present was, whether Ministers had decided on the line of condnet to be adopted. If British ernisees had been instructed to suffer' no !applies to proceed to Norway, that was an act of hostility, and the question trotild be answered. For this reason, he proposed to move that a copy of the instriterions giver to cruisers off Norway should be produced; lnit set he did not wi , ll to load the table wadi beeless papers, - if he could get'" yes" or " no" to the question, he wished to have answered; be should not pies:: the motion. The CrtAaCELLott of the ExcitteivErt was glad the Hon. Gen tleman bad taken the.courSe he had adopted, as it was desirable to ovoid a premature diactendon on the subject. He had certainly Ml* no difficulty in statiirg that this country, in conjunction with the Allies, had issued orders for blockading Norway. conversation ended here, and the How immediately pro ceeded to the other 0 dens of the Day. SIMPLE CONTRACT DEBT BILL. On the Order of the Day being read for the House resolving it self into a Committee on the Simple Contract Debt Bill, Mr. Serjeant BEsT opposed the Speaker's leaving the Chair, and Mated his objections to . the Bill at considerable length. After a discussion, in which Mr. Preston, Sir A. Picot, Mr. Ste phen, Mr. Lockhart, the Solicitor-General, Mr. D. Giddy, and Sir S. participated, • Toe House divided—For the Bill, 6.1 ;.For the Amendment, 57 Majoritc 4 24. . the Bill was then committed, and ordered to be reported on !timidity next,—Adjouined. to Mo n nday. LONDON GAZ fiTTE EXTRAORDINARY. TUESDAY, APRIL '26. . WAR DEPIRTMENT, DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 26. Ainjor Lord William Rucsell arrived last night at this Office bring inr, a Di'pateh from the Marquis of Wellington to Earl Bathurst, of which the following is a copy : _ _ - - • Tonlouge, ‘prii 12. Mit Lnitn—l have the pleasure to inform your Lordship, that I entered this town this morning, which the enemy evacuated during the night, by the road of Careassone. The continued fall of rain, and the state of the roads, prevented The from laying the bridge till the .morning of the Bth, when the Spanish corps, and the Portugueic artillery, under the immediate orders of Lieut.-Gen. 1)on Maaual Freyre, and the head-quarters, crossed the Garonne. We immediately moved forward to the neighbourhood of the town : and the 18th Hussars, under the immediate command of Col. Vivian, had an opportunity of making a must gallant attack upon a superior body of the enemy's cavalry, which they drove through the village of Croix d'Orade, and took about 100 prisoners, and gave us possession of an important bridge over the river Ers, by which it was necessary to pass, iu order to attack the enemy's position. Col. Vivian was unfortunately wounded on this occasion, and lam afraid I shall lose the benefit of his assistance for some time. The town of Toulouse is surrounded on three sides by the canal of Lamtnedoc and the Garonne. On the left of that river the suburb, which the enemy had fortified with strong field-works in *out of the ancient wall, formed a good :de do pout. They - had likewise formed a tete-de-port at each bridge of the canal which was besides defended by the fire in some places of musketry, and in all of artillery from the ancient walls of the town. Beyond the canal to the eastward, and bvtween that and-the river Ers, is a height which .extends ns far as Montrutiran, and over which pass all the roads to the canal and town from the easiward, which it defends ; and the enemy in ndtlition to the Me-de-pont on the bridge: of the canal, hid fortih: d the heirdit Kith. fiveredoubts, connected by lines. of intrenehments, and had with extraordi. mry 4W:retire made eery preparation for defence. , They had likewise broken :IA .the bridges over the ors within our reach, which the light of their piention coola be apploaehed. The toads, however, Arie2e in I:tedoese being in.pyacticable thr cavalry or artillery, and nearly so: for im;intry. aS reported to your Lord ship in my dispatch of the Ist in-t. I had no alternative, .excepting to atlark the enetb•y in Isro;itlaide m position._ It wai necessary, to ove,the pontoon bridge higher np the aa- , roLee, iL.order W shorten the eQ;anuirlication with iiictita-Gen, Sir . 7 MAY - . Kowland gill's corps; as soon as the Spanish corps had paced : and' this operaikon was not effected till so late an hour on the 9th, as to induce me to defier the attack till tic,fidlowing morning. The plan according to which I deternriried to attack the enemy, was for Marshal Sir W. Be-resford, who Was tur the right of the Ers with the 4th and 6th divisions, to cross that river at the bridge of Croix d'Orade, to gait) possession of Montblanc, and to march up the left of the Ers to turn the enemy's right, while Lieut.-Gen. Don Manual Fr3yre, with the Spanish corps under his command, supported by the British cavalry, should attack the Front. Lient% Gen. Sir S. Cotton was to follow the Marshal's movement, Major- Gen. Lord E. ,So nerset's brigade of hussars ; and Col. Viviirr's bri gade, tinder the command of Col. Arentsehild, was to observe the movement of the enemy's cavalry on both banks of the Ers beyond oar left. The 3d and light divisions, under the command of Lieut.-Gen. Sir T. Piston and Majot-Gen. Charles Baron Ahem and the bri gade of German cavalry were to observe the enemy on the lower part of the canal, and to draw their attention to that gnat ter, by threatening the fete-de-pant, while Lieut.-Gen. Sir R. Hill was to du the same oil the suburb on the left of the Garonne. Marshal Sir W. Berestord crossed the Frs and formed his corps in three columns of lines in the villages of Croix d'Orade, the 4th divi. sion leading, with which he immediately carried Montblanc.—He then moved up the Ers in the same order, over most difficult ground, in a direction parallel to the enemy's fortified position : and as soon as he reached the point at which" he turned it, he formed his lines and moved in the attack. During these operations Lieut.- Gen. Don Manual Freyre moved along the left of the enelly's posi tion. on which height the Portuzuest artillery was placed ; and Major-Gam. Ponsimby:s brigade of cavalry in reserve in ibe rear. As soon as formed, and that it was seen Marshal Sir W. Here:- ford was readv, Lieut.-Gen. Don Manual Freyre moved forward to the attack. the troops marched forward in good order under a heavy fire of musketry and- aoillvry, and skewed great spirit, the General and Staff being at their head ; and the two lines were soon lodged under some banks immediately under the enemy's en trenchments ; the reserve and Portuguese artillery, and British caval ry, continuing on the heights an which the troops had first formed. The enemy, however, rcpith;ed the movement of the right of Gen. Freyise's line round their left flank, and having followed up their suc cess and turned our right by both sides of the high road leading from Tolonse to Croix WOrade, they soon compelled the whole corps to retire. It gave me great satisfaction to see, that although they suffered considerably in retiring, the troops rallied again aq soon as the light division, which was immediately on their tight, moved ; and I cannot sufliCiently applaud the exertions of Lieut.-Gen. Don Manuel Frevre, the Officers of the Staff of the 4th Spanish army, and of the Officers of the - General Staff', to rally and form them again. Mendizabal, who was in the field as a vol u nteer, Gen. F.spellata, and several Officers of the .Staff, and chiefs of corps, were wounded upon this occasion ; but Mendizabal continued 'in the field. The regiment De Tirare i De Cantabria,mider the command of Col. Sicilio, kept its position under the entrenchments, until I ordered them to retire. . In the mean time Marshal Sir W.Berestord, with the 4th division, under the command of Lient.-Gen. Sir L. Cole, and the 6th division, under the command of Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. Clinton, attacked and carried the heights on the enemy's right; and the redoubt which covered and protected that flank ; and he lodged those troops on the same heights with .the enemy, who were however, still in possession of four redoubts and the entrenchments and fortified houses. • The badness of the roads had induced the Marshal to leave his artillery in the village of Monthlane ; and some time .elapsed helot e it could be brought to him, and .before Lient,-Gen. I)on Manuel Frcyre's corps could be reformed and hror4bOatiC to the, attack as soon as this was effected the Marsha! (oatinued his movement along the ridge. and carried, with Gene red Pack's brigade or the eth division, the two principal redoubts and. fortified houses in the enemy's centre.. Thr.enemy made a desperate effort from the canal to regain these redoubts, but they were repul.ed wish considerable loss ; and time nth division continuilw its movement along the. ridge of the heiqht, and the Spanish troops continuing a correspo4diug movement upon the _front, the' nemy were driven iron the two rt. doubts_ and entrenchments on the left, and the whole range of heights were in our possession. We did not gain this advantage, however, rt ithont severe loss, particularly in the brave 6th divi , ion., Coghlan, of the Otst, art officer of great merit and promise, was onfortnnately killed in the ilstack . of the .heights;" . Major. Gen. Pack . was woonded ) , but was enabled to remain in the tick' and Co. TIIE 111TIONAL REGISTER.