The National Register. — London, England, 1811-04-21 00:00:00

244 TILE NAT " The ellen), beivg.a. Ireuely-fortrest on ell•point s, matle a. equativoti o f C;erman cavalry c hef ged htse, - arid tt.. lint: •a • bah., the General thinking that his troops hese worked hoe* etigetel• " Four thousand roen, so or hanstedby the want. of teit.e* We merit and and a painlitl Anode, aid wlio, notwistneetinilitgle back a very superior Tice, possett4w ttit sitviaptat,44 e - s ioti ti m and circu s , reertnee tie eulogy. " During the time when 'the conthatante were hotly ea Rd. tw , b al talt,nos CA' alloon3 and Ciudad Recl haterporattil WKI: Mir division dideze,- tge• meth, arta vriaich..iervl4 a ril to wards another paint wheat. he ardiatesk. sa to vtte . tir that pixies , wooer, were 61:eil making all risible Minion...to. Irkaptioitito tour their friends ; tut they could not reach a aterhut.till ' .. the whole was cJneluded : I b elieve, however, tht Dagareir4 Cala and these battaliOns at,g sharer, in the glaties oi 0 1. 4. iltal. Prem. the zeal and anzitty which they a:played to. illin. tau . t-1)q. 66 The carps ia m which. animated thus battelietla deo pat suffer rue to doubt dial the same spirit pervaded in Ate wholos Spanish army: but these good dispositions, modal' the firstaspa and noble st ntiment e of the Spanish natuXi,, weilie. saktigillea. tar the want cif ee,ivity of General Lapcna, of hisr alviiega, and th • officers of 111- s-aff. " Had the smallest Movement been executed.; ha& Ike Spa nish General himself , or an y individual of hie steJf, been pre sent to give hint an' ticcount ot the erate of th e te '&6 act ; an d ion, Ire would, in censeptence , h ave been able to co-op te-a the result woull troubrless have been attended with as favourable consequences to the Spanish cause as any other event which hue occurred since the cotnmencement ot the oppression and ty ianny t;\ et cised upon Spain ; and I believe it is not too much ti say, that it would have accomplished the deliverance of An dalusia. 6 6 I declare on ovy word of honour, that all that I have re lated took place under my own eye; and I am perstyaded that ther.• Is not en officer in the British army, or in the Spanish battalions above-mentioned. who will tail to confirm every wurtt of it. " C. P. an Officer in the British army." " /di, elfurch 10, 1s11." Letter of D. Judn. de It: Cruz .21Ion11eon to D. Juan. .Tacinto 1,. T ., ; , ; , in conseflitellellithe Letter (d . the E/ViSit Offiet'l', in scrtvi in t 4,e Cenci 0, r. 41. TU.:letter, which 16 of very considerable length, begins with cciupl owing of the want of precision in the details of the English Calker, either with regard to dates or the positions of the sec tions, cures, or divisions of the army. To remedy this defect the writer sends to his friend a ground-plan of the whole, to ii. lustrate the contents of hi. letter. Hl. then proceeds to analyse the letter of the English (Nicer in the following manner :....' " Ile says in his hate . , 6 I knew Dot' what took place on the bt• grate, after our troops left them, Sec.' 'Fo this I reply, that nrt...atticr Beeines aild myself remained upon them. with the di vision ttlnt'er his command which consisted of the company of nutsheteers of Get ares, a battalion of the Queen, the regiments of . Signoizil, C":intabria Ciudad Real, a battalion of the Wal loone, alto:her English 'battalion, four pieces of artillery, and all the baggage with the ammunition of the first and second divi sion, with orders from the General in Chief to begin ourretreat towards the bridge, as soon es we Faw the troops repassing by it. We were in position at this place when the enemy werede , cried • rtilliceuvring to seize upon it, without, knowing whether the English or Spaniards weiti)d come to our assistanee i if not secure of victeiy, we. were at least in a eituation to perish in oar rtinhe, in order to secure the .retreat of our dear allies, which also was carried into effect ; it being scett also how much our position tilt - vet( ned ?he enemy, the latter marched the whole of his co lumns to attack the troops upon it, an not the English, wham they could by no tomes see: a .proof '9f t4is..telielt. being, that milieu tierkeral Graham. with hie erooPe issued 'rota the .pine wiled. he encountered those ott he energy, yell() had cheer:Li. :he direction of their colemne on account of our rettca wkidi .1.). Santiago Whittinghain conducted. .. • " . .ri ving now entered the. pin e-eVotel e I ofeeervt;d• that. the • English• light inizniry had begun the action WWI i hose.of the enemy who followed us, and. that the Brash army had returned Ity4titrans of a cottuterneiceli, anil.evas le . :glitnina to form in_lisae by. Wheeling-ouit9 left, at the foot of a. small height which, the enemy already occupied, with whom' a terrible fine had com menced; then the English battalion, whirh mare:heti in fetett of the column which I commanded (eonsi.stfitt a the Walloon, battalion, and the'regititertUnft:itelail [teal, and two pieces of aetflety), marched towards the line cif battle which the other. troops of their nation were forinik, whiciabattalion I foilevted e tett at that moment General WAitlgiteltarn ordered rue to march; tti# : riglit 4.n,.l?ich pave hint must had • r e , -.1 " oenetsatalto lifinfernursi EMISTgR• iieL.Boolevevefeeeve.7...------- - -- ir,g a shot, overawing the cnemy'S cavalry, who durst not at. teck, and never forming in line, because we wanted a point of seaport. ' 4 Q attrnallg to the above, it is necessary to observeythat if Senor C. P. when lie tame out of the pine-wood did not see any Spsnisla troops, it must - have been bteause of his being fully oc ctepied, •or because fit, a time they were on the lefeflank.of the L ee , where;. et mar Nvr..y defileult for liim to see,thetn, on account of the iiiood 'arid tlxv lasokOtti ereundOver Which my colueen had to impel'. " Doelitless C. P.. c,pni eau{cts.-17tuere4larrosa with Calia-Bhmca,. since the brtter le then nppft eVyftisl point in the ridge Of Puteco y . 214 etr-inii cliariftraifue se4„ et was not sttitnportant for Genet eeif , iu_t t a i. l f 6, ilaxrciie. is Casa - Blanca, which is the point, 444 to Pr • t irisngtd the gouu4. Hey s bits, 4€41.e (*ulna. ditfuot lain till all Wai over, Ste. TQ this 1 reply i s, °iCe " Ass the o i l ers which I Ita4 were. to gitard the right flank, it becatiat my duty, on no account tO join the English line of bat tj . tbanehaving ern t 4 the. elope the pass Which w to my tees• :Lad tiat beet &Inc, so.fa ftuni being v s riou n s, o ne e sh line, ould hare been ;voted ; for all the. guallidi troovs were i 4,24oicte were no , other's. to Mancreire but fixate which I corn rieeeidet., and. tilose which sußeprted me on my rieeht flank , and which were conineanded by Senor Ekeeiues. For this re a son f marched still in close column of formation against the force of the cavalry and iutenere which was posted in front of Casa- Blataca, aceompapit dby a squsidron of English husSars. I or- . deed theremeins of that-first of Valencia, and the companies of light infantry of sigaeuze, and,Cantabrie, to attack in divisioeit I.ll9Ett of the enemy who had fastened to the beach to get posses sion of our baggage. This was exeeuted, and together with the closeness of the column unaer my crenmend, so alarnietl. 64 enemy; that their cavalry ebaudentd their light troops, and rem tiled ni all haste towards the termination of the I.agoied. 44 Obeerving that the enemy were now neither on my rear nor on my eight, I marched. my column towards the right ffank of the English line of battle, whose left was still etigaerd. In this situation., and ah.vays advancing, the squadron of English hes. 1 sars adeanced and charged the euteny's cavalry, who Wei!ed f(,r them with fitmeess; but the valour and iutrepidier of the Bri tisit hussars routed them in less than a minute. In t h e p ursuit ' the hu.ssars fell in with a small square of enemy'S infantry, who opened their tyre upon th m, and the hussars prudently retired to . their line of formation. I took adventage of this interval, and • opened a fire from my two pieces of artillery, the. balls of which reached this square body, whicleformed in column and began tO relive. This being .s en by the right flank of the enemy s line, which still kept up the firing with much briskness, they also be -1 gan their retreat in the greatest disorder, at which monient I re ! . eeived orders trunk General Graham to suspend the march of my I column, and give the tro o p s setae relaxation, as the Ene lid). also did. - t 1 The whole of the above being an incontestable fact, Ser.or C. P. ought to confess, that the column under my cominer.4 consisting of the battalion of Walloons, the regim ent of Ciudad Real, and two pieces of artillery, not only reached the English line before the close of the action, but that they had an essential part in the victory • on which account they are sharers in thlo glories of that day, an d' not for the wiihes only whiell C. P. jestly ascribes to them ; for if he considers the latter As the only reasoe for their deserving praise, then he ought to advert, that as much might be said of those troops which were at Cadiz and Cie Isla.' TARRAGONA, MARCH. ii.—They write from Reus, that D.. Kovire and Senor Milans have entered several• towns of . France., and imposed c ontributions in retaliation for dotiathose of the Frenclrin Spain. Sals fi eld has gone to attack Nlacld, who hes shut himself up in Lerida. A division of MOO vandals, whp issued from Tortosa, has been attacked by the brave troops of Ca4alt.;:iia, and lost 800 men. CA ni z , MARcti• 39.—()n the evening of the 2.7 the it began to blow a e rote! gale front the east, whichincreased every moment. d in the couree of the night and next morning rose to a pitch of violence greater than any within our recullection. 'lhe cense qtitirce4 have been most destructive ;dui deployable-. The inha bitants, filled with a well.fistarided apprehensiou of 'the damage which such a terrible night was likely to cause in the bay, crow ed in the neeiteingto the sea-wall, where they witnessed the dread/ell , spettetcle*Co cons:der:dale number of ships wrecked, mid otheee it clatter of the suttee fate making eignels for assist , alice. INi/li% theewlmle day the gale continued equally violent sand c attied new disasters. Word& are unequi t •o convey • idea of the hUmanity, zeal , and i ntre pidity Wittte wh i c h many ' . floats anerfehiecas (particularly the Lnglish) put cert. and s aved a nuteber . dif inefortunateepeople e . evileO.must otherwi s e have pc rished, as did many who could not .. be relieved; Th.... inhabitants of Cadiz averted their eyes from these ob• jects, to turn them, full of indignation, on the cause of such my colleniu.to sirspert dig right tioncovaprn 111 ‘ _ 1 liek. , Yi I ,*" . ‘ ll " e alfit klazn 4 l NIA itittlidysmetrateatowartls-tbe, reats arurf beach. Ar.iliat moment I cainferltUrtheitlly the tat, in order . iltiltil*, 61. :lilinettarlibottltrt the lime tit battle which the English were form- risheo, as ..,, ~. .: ~. A i • rcli. * 1.12011 Casa.-Blanca, m3l:ing thii movement in I, Th.... inh. , - . v 10..- ~,,, : A .. , .orting the fire of artillery without return- i jecti, to to ,n '' i 1 . 0 - `‘'*( ,-. •' • - . ' l4 "4. : ' .•- \ I _. 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