The National Register. — London, England, 1813-01-10 00:00:00

i'IIE N ‘TIONAT, REC: - IST ER. s hit ) Pa t ai through Radajoi on the :nth ult. and was es: • pected at4'..7diz at the end of Deeeisber. Geuer al .CasTa. Nos had already rear hed Se illy..on Li , way to the same city. where the plan of the nest catiwai;.;n was to be concerted between these commanders and tile Regency. Were any further evidence necessay, than the ultimate resnit of the laq campaign, to prove the triter want of Spa nish co operation at the time of need, his Lot dship's journey to Cadiz at this time of the year would demonstrate it, as it is to secure that gi eat paint, without which Spain can never be flee, that he has. quitted his army and the kingdom. he has so successfully preserved, to inspirit inertness, or 4e feat intrigue at Cadiz. According to the Spanish papers, SUcUET continues to give indications of a disposition to abandon Valencia, front whence he has removed most of his magazines, and every species of treasure to Saguntum. But this May be only matter of prudence. As it is stated that General CLINTON; at the head of the Alicant army, has advanced into La Mancha, it is possibly Sect' ET's intention to fallow him into that province in order to maintain his communications with Madrid uninterrupted. In that case he must take all his force with him, whilst, had he nt)t tiestroed the fortifications of Valencia, he would haves been compvlled to leave a gar. rison behind hith, and have impaired his efficacy in the fied, without secut inn; that city fi um capture by a landing from our fleet. Valencia will now remain an 9 pen town, which. should he succeed in , repelling General Cl.ll-.TON'S ad vance. he may re-enter without difficulty, and the loss of which, should he meet with a repulse, would now be of little consequence. An article from Santiago alludes to an action with a divi sion of CA FF UELLI'S army. in which the-Spaniards• seem to have been worsted. hut of which we have yet received no other account either French or Spaniili. 0 LORD \VELA.' NOT()N', T.F.TTF.R. ...... _ Tn another part of our paper will be found a letter, ad dressed by Marquis WELLINGTON to the Commanders of Battalions, to be communicated by theta to all the Officers of the army, reproving them in the most energetic terms, for having lost all their authority over their soldiers, as soon as the retreat from Burgos and Madrid commenced, and thus occasioning irregularities and outrages to be committed, and losses sustained, which ought never to have occutred." His Lordship then declares, that no cause for-any irregularity whatever arose from the circumstances of the ietreat, and has " no hesitation in 'attributing these evils to the habitual inattention of the Officers of the regiMent to their duty, as prescribed by the standing regulations of the set vice, and by the orders of this army." Tie then points cut the remedy, and enters into details of duty and expedients which prove the keenness of his researches into every branch of military servit e, and the justness of his mind, which does not disdJio to pi otit by the example of the enem-y. That there should have been occasion for such a reproof in a British army, is lamentable; but that it should have posse,sed a Commander capable of checking the evil with so much manly firmness, a subject b:Ah of rejoicing and of hope. Our Oliicers and soldiers have immortalized them selves by their valour; let them not forget that' discipline is - the polish that gives atldition4 t to courage itself. with a nearly equal force, had re-entered Madrid, :Marquis ---,Adovr-- , • ‘VELLINGTON temporarily entrustA the command of his , REPORTED DEFEAT OF•ANOI'IIErt AMERICAN ARMY- army to General II ft. L, and ha , tened in Peron to the American Papers arrived on Friday, which conta;n ac- • . • South, to examine into its state of defence, and write the . counts from 'New York, to the 29th of November, and from, blUggis4 inactivity Of the Spaniard . ; to aeti , .n. fl it Lord- , 'Halifax to the llth ult. The latter mention a very iwpw .. 0 . t . . .: . . , • . . . /1 . / A t. 11 17 ,;.: /' .T.l N. )0. prise,_ as Austria already had an accredited • Minister at the Pat i•ian Court. " Nl,jesty.the Emperor of AUSTRIA, upon healing that his Majesty the Emperor NAPOLEON had, on the 14th instant, arrived at Drcqlen, and after having remained there some time, proceeded for Paris, determined upon sending to the latter capital Field-Marshal Count DE BUDIN A, to re side there in a diplomatic character." If it is cmipled, however, with tl e declaration contained in the Paris Journals received at nit earlier part of the week, that Austria is indissolubly joined to France, and that Lord NV AL POLES M ission to V lenna liiidproved unsuccessful, it would seem that Count BUBINA was charged by the Austrian EMPEROR to assure NAPOLEON, that his sentiments had not been changed by the unexpected issue of the campaign. It is, however, believed, that Count Bulllti A's Mission re lates to an offer made by Austria to mediate a general peace. It is even supposed that BUONAr ART es assertion that. Spain should never be torn flow hi, brother, reveals one of the conditions on which he is willing to treat. A daily Morning Paper has hinted, that it had been proposed by us " to ac- Inowledge NAPOLEON'S right to, and acquiesce in his posses sion of, the whole sea coast of Europe (Spain and Portugal excepted) from I lamburgh to Ragusa ;• nay, to yield him part of Spain itself, or to purchase that country from him by the cession of islands which we have conquered in fair and open was fare." We can assure the Paper ia question, that, although Marquis W ELI. ESL EY is not our Prime Minister, and VE- T US'S predictions have proved utterly false, such an offer has neither been made nor thought of. STATE OF THE ARMIES IN ME PENINSTI.A. Public attention has ktely been totally engrossed by the unexpected bla7e et triumph that has illumined the close of the Russian campaign. Thealisastrous flight of a conqueror, hitherto deemed invincible, the ruin of his army, the uncer tainty of his personal escape, and the suddenness of his ap pearance in JIIS capital, in all the pomp and pride of empire, when he was thought to be still struggling with the northern snows, and shrinking at the vengeful hourra of surrounding Cossacks, were events too gigantic, and too important, not to captivate in their rapid progress every attentive faculty of the mind. The concerns of the Peninsula, but a few months since the chief object it; our thoughts, lost for awhile their r.-onted interest ; and, whilst bulletins from Gottenhurgh were greedily expected, the small number of arrivals from Li.l-.bon and Cadiz was not even noticed. As the encreasing severity of the winter has rendered the communication with Russia more difficult, and perhaps put a period to active hos tilities in the North, the West begins to resume its import ance. The Lisbon Mail, which arrived last Thursday, ena!mles us to ascertain the position and movements of the armies. Our brave Commander, after having effected his retreat safely before two poweifol hosts, each grplal to his own, and both, whc3n united, forming a miss of miiitiny Gnu: too superior to be encountered on time field, ha! left a strong' corps on the frontiers of Pot tugal, and dispersed the rest of his troops between the Douro and the Tagus, as far a:: Oporto and Coiinbca, in order to procure them comfoitable winter quarters. Learning that, whilst Soul! ANJ with 45,000 men had taken up its cantonments at Salamanca, and its vicinity, Sot; t.T had marched with 2.1,000 men to Talavera, and oc cupied Toledo and .Arcebispo on the Tagus, and Jos MI, Madrid, 1117