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

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. JULY 25. 'kande:Al a battery manned by seamen, kept up a well-directed and heavy fire. The importance of this acqui,ttion, and toe I.,pini:y with which the fort has beet taken, make it quite untiecelisary fur me to say how much I approve the conduct of Lieutenant-Colonel Prevost, and of Cayain Adam. [Here lo!lows a dispatch froa , Lieut.-C(4. Prevost, detailing the par ticulars of his attack I:11 Fort Si. Philippe, to tile Cul de r, and i:!th is to the •ame cilcct as Ihe account given by Capt. Adam', of the ii.vincible l inserted in 1a t week's piper.) Alajeat3's Ship Malta, June 1.1, 1813. My Lord,--Admiral Hallowell has jti , t decided on sending a stiip to Aticant, and I have mutely time to state to your Lordship. and I du so w ith great regret, that I have been under. the necessity of raising the siege of Tarragona, and embarking the army under my command. In my private letter of the 7th instant I mentioned to _cone Lolalship, the reports of the as-semblage of tat: French foret s at Bat Mona, and tle:t Marshal Sachet was likewise iu march from 'Valeecia ; and stated it as my opinion, that should these reports be configured, the ohject your Lordship had in view raatid not be areomptslted. Uafortunately tla•ae rumeurs proved tree, and re luctantly I resolved upon raising the sit:4;e anti emaarking the army, us the only ItiCani of avoiding a general action. which MIISt have hd 4,11 10tIV,111 eve:) , disadvantage. I cannot as this tnonwat refer to dates, but it is sufficient for she present to atate, that the teach force at Baree!ona was TIVYPi rated to meat less than awl°, ,:ald that preyions to their march it would amount to 10,000, with 14 P..ces of artidery. 1 have however no account that it ever exceeded eight; and that is the ntenber on which my calculation tc . ita formed. thi!, trace, upon the evenina• of the 9th, or morning of the 10th, etarchtal out from Barcelona, and entered the Vil!a Franca, at tour o'clock in the evening of the 1 i th, from whence it was reparied to we to march at twelve o'clock at night from Vendrells, distant only lb nr 0 miles from Tarragona by the great road, and a tew neles farther by another road, by which eamant can easily pass. On the 9th of loth the arrival of Sachet at Valencia was made known to rite ; his exact force was never pet fectly ascertained, bet from the jutelligenee received fem Valencia, he maiched front thence with 0000 men, and certainly in the rear of that place had the pottier of thawing grout reinfereentents to his army. To these corps mint be added ' a body of 1009 men, which had pre vioualy .arrived *at Tortosa, and another corps, milt pendent of the garrisoe, of 2,a00 men, who had arrived at Lerida. 'these corps, which lam sure I do - not exaggerate, amount to 20.500 men, with • which in four or five days, Marshal Sachet could attack the allied army, if he thought proper ; or avoid an action, Wile wished still 1 1 W 0 !C to reinforce his army. Yonr Lordship, en rite other !,suet, will observe, that I could 'scarcely bring into tile field 142,000 men, and that the army of Cataleriia war stated to me at e,500, making twenty thousand five hundred of which two British and two.„tipaiiisi: divisions were at tl u Col de Balaguer, and could not be witildraw tt ; and I coeld not leave less than two thousand tivelonetred to cover the artillery and stores, and to contaia the garrison of Tarrioanai,. The two corps, at the least, would amount to upwards Of 4,31.) men, leaving me 15,000 men to meet the best Fretted troops Spain, amounting to upwards of 20,(4)0. lam sure there is nobrOly more willirg to give foil credit to Vie gallantry of the Spanish troops titan I am, but your Lordship well knows that they are unable to move, and I could not therefare - depend upon the excention of any order widen eetessardy oniiatal them to make a movement ; and troops of this &set ir Km 1 Small about 13,000 men*: unless, therefore, I could pl.:ee them in positio., which, as the French had the option of fightstal when atici vAtere tiro y pleased, it was impossible I could place a,ry rt•;ia ice 11:1011 them. My British and German troops anuainied to 450 d. Peril ;Ts 3 - our Lordship ma be of opinion, that under thew ClrellinqU!iec:•, (eight to have risked an action, bad no other unfavottralhe objectians existed ; but when .your Lordship is informed, that I had no possibility of retreat, it unsueressful,---:that theta wtit,td hAvel:ee‘t lee hopes of embarkation, iffoilhwed,;---ited that the tatey neva have been unavoidably lost, if beat,--I venture to Italy Witt N-I)ia Lardship will think however it is to be regretted, that I itavt adopted the only means of maintaininz entire,. or indeed of savhig, an army on which so much depends. Lfeel the greater contideace in this hope; on reverting to the I:3th paragraph ef your Lordship's general instructions for the conduct of the cantpaiioa I am fully aware there are many eiremustancea Winch may retire farther information, and upon all parts I shall uc lrappy to give'every explanatton in my rower. Your Lordship perhapa may nrut opinion that the place should have been taLen; but as it was far too sta.:nil:o titorm, I believe it not only to have been impossible, but that ave should not have taken it in eight or ten days : my only regret is, that I 47' continued the siege so long. Induced by the hopes of the reinforce ments-I expected, I continued it to the last moment, and fort*. natt ly the weather proving favoniable, the troops %vete unbal'i,ed .ith,.nt molestation. On this favourable .cireninstaiice I could not depenil for another, day, and therefore, having taken my part; I ini inediately•put in execution, and 1 regret to say, that I was, in con sequence,. obliged to leave the guns in the most advanced hatteries. Had I remained another day, they might have been brought off Out this risk I would not ruir, when the existence ot the - army was at stake, not only from unfavourable weather, but from the appearance or an enemy, in whose pre s ence l could not have embarked perhaps at ;11, (*viand)/ not without stitioing a great 10544 and without tho possibility of deriving. any alvantage. I have only further at this time to add, should blame be attached to the failure of the expedition, no share can fall on Admiral Hallowell, who conducted the naval branch of it. From that distingnHied officer I have met with every assistance and co-operation in his power; and I think it only justice to him to state, that It was t.is opinion tln. cannon in the batteries might have been saved by remaining till the night, and that they then could have been brought: on. however, was a risk t did not wish to rim for so trifling an object, and preferred losing them to the chance ofthe eiulturk atiou . ioiag opposed, and of an eventual much more serious loss. I have the honour to lie, tke . . (Signed) J. iNILTURAY Lieut.-Gen.• To the Marques ot Wellington, K. G. S c. • 2 . TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE. ,‘DIIIIIALTY-QFFICE, JULY `20,190. : ... Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Pellew has transmitted to John WHO* Croker, Esq, a letter- from Captain Flin,• of his Majesty's sloop Cephalus, addressed to Vite-Admiral Pick more, giving an account of his having, on the 10th of June,satf Cape Alola, captured the French privateer schooner, La. Jenne Thetis from Leghorn, armed with tea ions, and manned with 76 men. . Sir Edward Pellrw has also transmitted a letter from Vice.- 11(..:ira: Sit Sidney Smith, stating, that his Majesty's ship Alcmene': had captured on the tith of June last, the French lateen-rigged vessel the Aigiv,- of 7 gnus, 1. howitzer, anti 59 men,. And ids:, a letter from captain Ilainkltun, of his Majesty's ship Rainbow, stating, flirt the boats of that ship, under Lieutenant li.(iitie.:y, had captured, off • the shore of Coisica, a lateen-rigged yes..el laden with oak planks. _ • • B. Gooch, of Portland-road, St. bone, victualler to stirrettaer July !4, Aug 4, and 31 at ten, at (Jun:llnd'. Attorney, Mr. Eattoltal,y, Red-cross-sneet. J. iieutsheuti, of Berners-ctmet, St. fluty-le bone, carpenter, July al, Aug. 3, and ;it, at eleven, e.t Attorney Mr. Ctiiir t midall, Great ti.leen-sti eel, i.meol. , 's.lim.f.elds. J. Mollert, of sheltim, china-manufacturer, July 23; 29, and Alit!. 31, at twelve, at the S.v:m Inn, Hanley, Statfortishire: Attorttie., \lr. 11 ilsost, King's licnch-waiks, Teurple,, London ; anti), tiritho, J. lit-id - lel:1, Chandos-street, dealer, July 74, 31, and Aug. 31, a r 0, e t e • a t;itilLitiall. Attorney, Mr. Charter, TilVlSLok 7 rovi ) Gq; ent.gflr:tell. iteneil, of Jane-street, Commercial-read,checseraouger,July 27, Aug, 10. awl 31, at ten, alt Attorney, Mr. M'Aliehacl, Finch-lane, Corithill. SATURDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE. This Cr.zette contains an order 10 , .• the Archbishop of CAnterbnry to prepare u torus of Fayer and than:isOving . to Almighty (iod, to ha rani und thwoughout lingldnd, Ireland, 'S , :o:lend, for the repeated suceesses obtained uver the Fieneli army in hy rat! itriiecl 'forces, under the gni:inland 01 the Must hiconotir ahte Nlarquis of Wellington, and" ocp.cially fur the signal vie • turn i.tf .road ou tht 9,lst day of June lust, it the neighbourhood o: Vincula. This Gaz.tt' &so contains diiiratches from Cart tin Sir George Col lier and Captain Tower. The dtiptecti of the former vives an ucconnt of the evnentitiort Guitaria by the entnny. ;tor! of a diabolkal made by the Fret.ely to dot roy the poorer ini.abiratita of t!ic tax•!l. I 'V b.owiog up the iniivritie, which tles ---• trated by the preerrutimt; vilten th.., statc.t. the castl?, 'nfr4.l turf, sign however wag htiN4iy tito. 6par.i , h evrani:mi.:!it. It n!.e) Lave bt..a re. - xl*LedE . imit tae - •