The National Register. — London, England, 1812-11-08 00:00:00

TI ll'. NATIONAL REGISTER. NOV. 8. TO CORR ES PON DENTS. w e c an assure It. W. that the Aliounack-tnakers are not 4T:ill:le in the enor t which he alludes. if it he i.v. errer. Some 111,1ofians and Cleiiochigers have Wien into it. If he wisfes to lay before the public the evounds on which lie differs from them be will net De drnicd a place in our columns. NATIONAL REGISTER. ionbon, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8. MUCH OF THE BRITISH ARMY FROM BURGOS. EXPECIED BATTLE w .TH sOULT ANDSUCHEI. The Marquis of WELLINGTON has quitted Burgos with the British troops, and begun his match for Madrid, leaving Cle Sranialds to carry on the siege of the Castle of Burgos. Thi; movement, which his Lordship expected, has taken place in consequence of the union of SOULT and SuciLLT and their approach to the Tagus. This account has been transmitted to Government by Sir Holz PornAM, whose letters are dated the 27th. There no dispatches mentioning this movement, from Lord WELLINGTON himself to Government; but Sir float E states, that he had received a letter from his Lordship, stati"g, that in consequence of the French armies having united and marched towards the Tagus, he had retired from Burgos, and was proceeding to join Sir It. HILL who held the French in check.—He desired him therefore not to for %aid any further supplies of ammunition towards Burgos for the present, the advance of the French having fur the moment disengaged the Castle. Ills Lordship adds, that his army is in the most perfect state, and in the best possible health and spirits. From the approximation of the French and the reso lution of our Commander to engage them, it may be in ferred, that if a decisive action has not already been fought, It must be On the eve of taking place. Without feeling the least despondency respecting its result, but wishing to pre vent it in others, should it be found that his Lordship has selected his field of battle on this side Madrid, we shall merely observe, that to meet the enemy with advantage, it .1 may be found necessary to evacuate that city for a time, and to take a position in which we cannot be turned by the re mains of Marmont's army. had not the castle of Burgos Afortunatcly baffled our efforts, it would, in our hands, have Opposed the same obstacle to the advance of that army in that quarter as it did to ours. As •.ve recede, we must now expect to be follovivd,Rnd although it is possible that by the rapidity of our march, we may engage SouLT and SllefiET • before CLAUZEL has approached within fighting distance, et it would be more prudent to make a retrograde movement which would prevent him from acting on our rear. The follotving are extracts from the Lisbon Mail which arrived yesterday J'srinN, Ocr. 27.—Accounts from our army state, that our mine . ge_ ll counter-mined,ready, the Fr e n c h having cou nter - mined , at seven P. M. on the J . Stl % iOctober, both minei exploded at the same momen t, brin g in g Gown the convent, containing stores, &c. ; when our brave fellows stormed the castle with their usual gallantry; but were repuls ed with the loss of near l y 100 men kill e d or wo unded. On the 13th, Colonel r , ° . n sw+BY, at the head of a party of cavalry , kill* and wounding my of them ; our toss ectrtsiso in four killed and fourteen wounded. The guard*, &c. from Calmat, Were on their march, but bad not 3oined on the 16th. Gen. Hat. remained at Aranjuez ; the 3d division was between th ' t Place and Madrid; the light division in Madrid; and the 4th at the Escurial. St/VIA. ) SITOET, and jOititt ate tout to Valeiitia. 695 Lissom, Om '2l.—The head-tinoters vt inc tt and 3n armies, commanded f,y Gen. Er.ro, were, on the 4th, at Tarancon, Gen. HILL'S army is calculated at upwar.is of :, 3 :1,0al whicii has now been joined by Conde DE PENNY and hloait.i.o. In consequence of the arrival of An extrat.tainary Courier from All cant, a report has been circulated, that the eltpedition.rry troops at Alicant had driven the French from the town of :Woof(); te. This Ac count appears to be confirmed by others from Grenada, which add, that the F:ench sufEred a great less, and that the Freach had Lakin the castle of Chinchilla. It no longer appears to be doubtful to be the intention of Sotri.i . to retire to Valentia or Navarre. 1. 'SION, OCT. 22.—General BALLAST! tOS has addressed a Procla• mati:n to the Sevillians, requestiug them to contribute towards clothing his army. All the letters received from the south of Spain confirm the intern.. genre of Sriu LT'S having marched for Valentia by Navarre. It appears that SouLr had a conference with k I:cc:Y . )oszer', since which the latter Marched fr-in Murciano for the purpose of preparioe to ac company him. There have been disputes between St:c4atv and SOU LT'S troops, on account of provisions. The French. who had adti vaned as tar as Peulias de •St. Pedro, immediately returned. It is supposed that General BA,LIASTEROS is now in Caravaca. General YR ETRE is in Villarrobledo. On the 7'h of October the vanotard of the sth Surnish army was in Occajo, and was to rroceed to Santa Cruz de la Zarza, upon the left of this was General Eau, and the third army. General HILL. had his headquarters in A orojuez. G to. nerit SUCH ET still remained in A 1 inanza. On the 12th and 13th of October a division of 5.000 Porto .nest and English entered Troxillo, and on the 11th and 15th set out for Taia. vera la Reina. Upon all these accounts we, with much Ipleasiart", give the lie to the reports which, for some days, have been circulated, that Sot, LT was approximating to Madrid. MADRID, OCT. 10.—We are every instant in expectation of receiv ing orders to march. Souvr's advanced parties are now very near ours. It is said that Sou LT'S forces, joined to Secure's., do not exceLd 15,000 men. The corps commanded by General H tat. does not consist of less than 24,000 men ; and to these we must add the Sd and 4th light divi sions, which are at least 12,000, making in all 56,000 valiant soldiers, without speaking of Spanish troops, who have joined, or of Getters! B A LLAST EROS, Wilo is acting in the rear of the enemy w.th /DAV men. The 4th division has marched to join Gcn. 1111.c's • FAVOURABLE INTELLWENCE FROM RUSSIA. The intelligence from the scat of war in the North this week has borne a still more favourable complexion than the last. Difficulties and dangers thicken around NA/Pot:colt at Moscow, and his army have found their promised .‘ com fortable winter quarters" a post of encreased privation, toils, and perils. It is their discontent perhaps which hl:s induced BUoN APA HT E to offer peace to At. Ex AND En, as the following Bulletin issued by Government states:— BULLIETI - 1 4 Fr.OM GENERAL EsSEN, DATtID 4th ULT. It appears that the advanced guard of Count Stt-inli.nl i‘ d !y‘eiv atta...ked five times by Marshal Miledonitd, without - " lict yolich the liddirsital retreated, theleuy greet adveisteges Wittgenstein. A Bulletin of Prince Kutusow, of tht Ist October, states. tha. the last tendays he had made above MX) prisoners, a great nit , iiker 1.1 Officers of all ranks, and Lieutenant-General Ferrier, Chief of the Statlto Murat. General Tormazow had sent three standards of Preilley's light merit to the Emperor, taken by Count litlXtlePtittiM. Prince Kutusow adds, that iv) citiratisiers, takco rrisonerh in the environs of Mosc.w, Jute unaninously, that the enemy is in the great est want of provisions. It appears by other accounts, that the Austrian corps had been driven back upon Bretz,. Buonaparte has sent a mees ., ge bs Count Lauriston to Prince K atu sow, °faring Peace. PARISIAN lIIS RRANCES. The hasty opinion which sve eressed in mu' last, no re ceiving the fast account of the disturbances at Paris, has nut4e a wide circuit through almost every daily iliOnlifig and ~:__.:_ _ ..__-~-