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accordingly, without a moment's loss, to the above town,orderiag the remainder of the first battahon tbevulunteersofArraon,tho first sect Hatt** the first regiment of the volunteers of Murcia, or battalion of the second rtgiuient of Vatentla, add AO horse of the King's driwrous. Our advanced posts defended, for three hoof., their position, with the utmost intrepidity und valour, but cnyiugsollits enemy's vast superiority iu number, ,they were At last obliged to fall buck to Mini., uutil 3 o'clock ite the afternoon, when, being 4oine.l bi the olio — ve troops, I resolved to attack she enemy. I accord ingly detuehed ll'edni Cacti; who eottiaitinds .e volunteers of Arragou, ataiLikin Pedro Ws,. Catupt Major of the corps .f *lowa, with 440 men, to Leehes, ancI . CoL DOd Philip' Pe/end - to Ohts, sitinvorreclbY LW' 'rest of the above corps.— The ,iction Wll4.C4ALlinencod.vritit.uncosninott (li tho:l:run and spirit ; our troops rendered thew *vim, roosters of the wood, which co,uwau.ls Olas, owl the cpcmy, froin fear of twang surrounded, with the utmost precipitation,• leaving t/rt held id battle cuierw,l oitli their. slain, and. were' pelted to abandon their • fol . :guidable position . of P:ardues, and retreat to Monreni. "Our - lobs eonsixieti iu 8 trifled and 14 wounded of the first battialiou'or Arrigori, mid the 4orps , or nuexca, which caunot be called considerallite--tlutt of the enemy amounts to {2OO mem • I cannot but bestow the highest praise on !pavers end good comtuct of the troops meter •tay eoomiiiifiel. and fuer it a duty ineliii.hent on me particularly to recommend to your Exceileucy the Officers and min of the first exaltation of the l'o . lorWeers of Arrago.i,aud of the Corps of Huesca, who bore the brunt of the action. " I have dirwted Brigadier-General Don Diego Fivancr to occupy Lumbier, in order to hem in the „tunny more closely on my right. " God preserve your ExceHeney sirs years. " JOHN O'N rt rt.e." fracratiediaary Iladrid Gazette, Oct. Cs.) /MUD, OCT. 21. figpgr li his arrived at Aranj ibex, and Signor itativelta is loarly expected there, se, he was to leave . Seville ou the .4th. Gleam:Wenn, has also ar rived at the slime plaice. The Adjutant Don l'iceasta Hori has been order ed to retire Almirgro, for the ,enjoyment of his Dative air. General thaccoride de Lumps: 0i hall left this for Legrooms, ;or ore* to take time cont . mend of mills division. • Gummi Reding also lets out for Catattruia. Within thelmist.three days,•l2B waggons Imre passed through here from Saville, wish clothes and other SlCCelaiitil:b for the arwy of Andalusia. It appears that tame Supreme Geoid 'Taiga will be transferred to Madrid, from 4tpujuez, on the 20th of November. • . OCT. Stil. • The troops -couspotturc led ta • aria,of the army of Estreamdera, passed throat this eapitul on their march to iSurgos. 'foe horse and toadies % ere . perucularlfescellent, and the troops are all in high ripints.—(Caraarra Diary, Neer. ii.) CADIZ. OTT. 18. • • El Gloriosa ship of the line, arrived, yesterday. from Algeur. El friatipe de iisturia amide& the same day, fusterrol; and, to-morrow, El Sax Fran-: then de 14,60 convoy to Je nsen,' mer yk agit , vessels hotrati to North America. .On Battmloy, the 15th, the eosivoy sailed fur Tormiona, ing of the frigate Atocfm; the Es4lish travel rim Steeptreoad three other mailer voutla, wit!. 22,U00' stand of aims, stifle mortars, cartoon, and anima- Intim, besides istnntto dolli;n, which is a very portant supply. The Deputy, Signor Dela, 'set . out cu the wine day for Aranjuez. Major-General' Don Joseph Virues has assumed the I . :merriment: of this city. Signor Don Thomas Morla is nn the' eve of departiag. The ladies of Cadiz were mak ing, with the greatest expedition, 50.000 shirts for, the um of the army. EZTIIACT OF • LeTTrit FROM ST. INEMZO, DATLD NOV. 7. " General Clake ha, certainly retreated with his army from I/tiring% as far as the distance of a league beyond Belinaseda, on the road to Castile.— In this position he has entrenched himself with from 28 to 30,000 troops. He suffered solo. I Q " in the attack, but lay no lllVelliil such as should es tate sentiments of dismay. Oar situatinn (I speak of Biscay) is -cruel, for uo one can exist in this country, formerly time favourite abode, the delight Of mankind. " I had written thatabove, intendiag tra amend iLto, you by the post ; bet I avail inyself of the oppor tunity of transmitting it by a vessel which sails this day, and of addinz, that we mire positively informed that Blake attacked the l)ukr of Driutaic, the day before yesterday, at Ilelinureda, beat him. took from him his artillery. and male dreadful slau• A lit‘ r among thu Freucli. Our troops were pursuing them, and, as we are informed by the master of a bout, that has just arrived fromn Plencia, ?Jar wag , gems yesterday entered Billion, from the environs of Sodresse, tilled with ',minded Frenchmen, among obom w)11 a General. tie- further states, Ilea a firing of mean arms was heard at Pleircia, end that it was supposed to be hetasen Santa Ague& and Sme!resse. The eircumnriroen of the firing being heard at Plm•micie, !waves !not our troops eoutinued to pursue the French, and that they must tees neaehed the vicinity of (Whoa." • !COTNER LET fill, *AM:. DATE. " General L'lake has given the Frem la a acv era I 1 'is month, bbaatistneenLat Ralnee;ecla on.they td or and Vitithe h again he leek eeme nr Ahem:. end Londe bsvend piheuera. This a t nsidernble consolation for the less that the p Oeliagas sustained in op - potting the eutfanre of the French into Bilboa on the 91st • nit. They hare bent hither all - the wounded, and,- Ido astiarevyoa, thatr4iiliearts are torn to pietes, , aelyee how dread- Adijrbiaiirted they are: the &ter - tint' Iffil4ieri are 'erijed..l4) slieliciwitidii;' slat* p4;eiris to. private :houi;es. tea/rat my (Kota tcoasilr . aeriaad ably. yestctilnytbid nay gtie4,fruintbetvrivey, , ,,ho t,d p rcriously . iseediiti m)onse, -kit its A t one thue 1 had eler,i4AFers:bl4,sottiters, and tilt' Captious of tranepnate.to attend Tito Marquis 'ha Rowena' is eVetted heN this - evening ; he slept ut Reynosa Let night: It is said he ii going Oa take the cottnuandiii-tief of Blake's arwy, he being thatkierserarssevaini.in rank." • • " VAI,MASEDA S NOY. at. " On the night of the 30th, the enemy advanced two Strong columns to attack the left of G&iertil bleke's isosition at Sornosa. Goleta Mandizabel. whn•cotuirianded oar troops on that side; made the eldest dispositions for un effectual defence. The enejny made their attack in the t perfect order, awl with the greatest vigour ; but such was the firmness with which they were received, that they were obliged to fall back withooVineking ally im pression. At this time they pushed• forward two strong columns to attack the right of the 4psnish army, when they were equa!ly well received. The attack on the left was then renewed. The enemy's force comdantly accumulating, they kept up a tremeadous fire of artillery, extending their line to surround the hill of Surmise. After nine hours continued fighting, in which the enemy's loss far exceeded that of the Spaniards, Gen. Blake found it iitetassari to order a reyeat. This measure was executed in the beat order. in the evening of the 3 let, the army arrived at Biltma, where it halted and refreshed, General Blake himself superintend ing a distribution of bread and brandy to the sol diers. Never woos Clenerais . aadored by en army. Every man would. hate ioffered himself to be cut to pieces, rather than full liat4t, except itaolsedience to his ordeni. - The retreat, therefore, has br ,no 'nexus shaken the confidence of the Spanish sol diers, who are ready to renter thecoufliet. On the Ist the army arrived at Valmaseda, btisind which place General Blake has taken up hnopositiou.— The less of . tlMSpiinisli army in the late actlon . was notTonsiderable;• not more than four or tivehun dred men... The French lost much more, as the favourable position of the Spiluiarchi,.On the bill of Sernmia, wade their tire tell to advantage..." . smuitus OW TilEllAY OP /1144;AX, 016 T. 0.. ,J " The ,arinyof ,Jleiier.i) Blithe Ontijities to tpuiA. .taia its detenuve position, and-the repidaiuceinsida t of dispatches his CeasuL I have a letter 'from rat bffieer in the Army of Castile, now lying before me, dieted Logrona, the t2oth instant. The writer • does not profess to give any news, and coutesits .itanself with observing incidentally. that the army .of his priainee, lately commanded by General -Coeds, was theaunderthe temporary command of Pinateli, who had that day arrived at the head quarters. lle is an Arragoisese. The French con tinued to ravage the country within the circuit which the prudence of the Spanish General hail left within their power. On the Ibtli, they had pillaged and committed great atrocities at a place waled nitro. These excesses did not, however, re main unpunished. .The Spanish scouting parties had freipseiit rencontres with the enemy, and 'did meth execution in this petty warfare. They were 4 the same time about to make au attack of a more serious nature. A corps of enon Frenchnteu was stationed At Guardea. A detachment was about to be eelit to take that town from them. A small laid); (lanceros) had joieed them from the areal of Castauos." DUTCH PAPERS. • (From the Rotyrigas Ceara*, Nor. ) !ARIL, NOV. I. Sii;ce the departure of His Majesty for Bayonne, we have had no mess, except the following article from the latter town, dated Oct. 2i: " Le lust accounts from Spain are not very lin- Portant:: General Lasalle, it is said, hus advanced to Ilaro, where he has cut in pieces.* body of be tween three and four thousand insurgents, most of theta students add trienlts,. who hint given thee.' eelvcs the came of the Battalion of the Literati.... .Alatty of them surrendered prisoners. " Wake dud Roulette are still at Bilboa, where a strong French division, assembled at Durango, wit! soon ne.rcla to attack them. A single battle, if they should dare to venture it, will be pia& it nt to destroy these proud Castilians, who have always fled before our troops. " Au English brig, with sixty Freud' soldiers used four Officers, who came from Portugal, has arrived in the River, but they were refused per tim land. Time ship was separated from convoy by Lid arather. •• The ttixipb of time tirand Army, yesterday Le gate to aril : t ladtgavrtl guard eunsists ofabout tf,Oun met.. a has itsvo, thistle'', marched for Spain." ( Fro— iiutientaft Couramt, Noe. 8.) rEBracni AN, OCT. Co!u. DuLebuie. %jib .5,000 men, uturchrd out LON DON, FRIDAY, Nov Fusee 18. We give, this day, an ail:omit of the proceed lugs, yesterday, in the Court of Inquiry atChelsea,. as far as, in our !tumble judgment, the order of the Court against ex parte publication, and the ends of justice, require and allow. Of course we do not touch upon the evidence, under which head we do not comprise any thing which we have noticed, whether it be the display of beauty that attended this chew of military men, or the extr.ineono speeches of cour tesy and form that fell from Sir Hew DAtav m rue and. Sir ARTHUR Wesi.r.si.uv. We can, upon refe rence to our publications, boast, the the Ministers, walnut the Generals, are the men to whoutwe look for a satisfactory accennt•of the Convention of Chang; and that, participating iu the public feeling, we do not wish to prejudice or prejudge the determination of a Court of Inquiry, considering it totally incom petent to the professed object, and that uotliing short of a Parliamentary Inquiry can, or ought to atisfy the country. We do believe, as we have ofteu stated. that the Ministers, who have instituted this process. are not quite free from suspicion. We do believe that : they had not the best information of the internal state of Portugal — that our army was very deficient in cavalry—that it could not lund on the south of Lisbon, from want of heavy artillery to attack the. forts, and that the Portuguese troops were not supplied from the Commissarial Depart:not, so as . . . to act pith full dims Ur co-operation with 4iit Bri tish troops. We have received Dutch papers to the Dal inst. The accounts of military operations in 4paiii, iwe.have extracted front thein, furnish a new proof of the delusion and darkness in which Bow APAnts stuales to involV'e the continent. Trivial affairs sire swelled into important actions, and defeats eon neifed into victories. We thiaday resume our extracts from the Spanish papers and betters tothe ads inst. received ou Wed nesday. Qur readers were a p prised, last week, that ll•saa having re.oecupied Bil boa, advanced to Zor n .*; ribeie he defeated the French on the YGth of October, who retreated bowarde Logrona, and that he had reconnoitred the position of the enemy on the si7tli, preparatory to a - new attack. We now And, from the official report of General BLAIR to the Junta ofCorunna, dated the lit instant, which we • have inserted, that the • enemy, having •vw cei'ved great reinforcements •frozu• Flax*, within the last few • days, attacked General BLAU; at Zornosa on the 31st last. The action lasted the whole day, and the Spaniards fought with great bravery, but were at length obliged to give way, and retreat to Dilbcui. for this advantage the enemy were indebted to the superiority of their numbers, and a thick mist, under favour of which they made their attuck.-1: appears, however, to 'hare been little mere than a drawn battle, as the french did not directly pursue the retreating army. Next day, however, the whole French army pre boded itself before Bilboci, and General &sag says it was his intention to evacuate the place, end to fall back to Valmaseda. So far we have the authority of General BLAIEL.—The tinotficial accounts bring down the military operations inueli farther. They state, that the French immediately entered Bilhoa. On the lit, General CLAIM took a position at Velinuseda, to which the enemy advanced, but were driven back with a trifling loss; and in case BLAKE should be unable to maintain his position at Valmaseda, h e ,4neeut toSall Lack to Reylicsi, where his stores and ammunition arc deposited, and which, as well from its natural strength as from the works which he has thrown up, he regards as an impregnable position. Of the action of the 31st, few particulars are known. It wm at first wild, that one of the regi ments brought by the Marquis Dc LA RomaNa i from Fatten, had been cut to pieces, after having performed prodigies of valour; but we are happy to find this statement contradicted by accounts from St. Andem. The account of the advance of the French army to Burgor, us we rightly con jectured yesterday, appears also to have bete Wll.ll XV email foraging party of 20'1 horse that approached that city,. froth welch it retreated, ■fte, ha►ing committed some depreda tions. The patriotic insurrection. and still more, ao doubt, the successful resotance hitherto main taiiml by the Spw,itrds against the fotwi Ct u d uud perlialon. appreunt a the Cuatirent have already rou.ed and most diannt e%tremitien in the languace, no lesai Hungarian Diet, winch, manilla of tied kingdom, iiarangue made to them 174!, evinces that the the nation art animated sad that they make corm am; N. Nat is It It ss answer of Votoscts to Ow divss of lhe'Stotem that the States of Lowor convoked. that they a, Estrettua in person, and of their deliberutions was some of their domains for all tlie4e isielimmii will Frasier lierveive the determinat, ther progress, and the sy.tematie by the Court of Vicuna its provinces, anti' its national sunk or eclipsed since the The precise rnotnent for attitude, and declaring, ope, utast depend ou Uie events youd the Pyrenees. To •- uow directed with hope, If Austria has vigour and energy, another been used to eou•idt•r as wholoe Etiropetas proviocei, latitudes of the earth, are destined to become the rite Ku& the.:epteititu symptoms of reseritation. ItlubTerne Ten seems deathbed to regenerate the Empire. to evailluipati its Government tyranny of the Janitszories, and to enable to make a lag litadd WA the shore or the ThOughitre are yet uncertain of the Lour of this Mtnister, as relutire to Fninee, yet cannot reasonably doubt of Lis enni , tytoßusiia,uoi his determination to oppose the :I;;;:raudisemeet A I.I;XANUER to the south 'of the Danube. The conft;reueeslield at Erfsa, and the disclosure wade by NoPutrox to'llis Senate, ou the With of 01. ber s ivheseiniic astern the inseparable union of coup ciMli flelarin Illauself and * the CZAR, whether fur WV* or for peace ; - these acts, when puoinulpited and understood at Coustauiiiiovle, whit, of no eessity, stimulate BAIRACTAR to new and speedy efl'orts. ile *Wises:, in the unprincipled. esioura.tius Id iteksiiiiniary Usurper Rail the !item* Entrains, the rixuat for the attack and *Oversaw' of the Crescent:of 37AtionEr. Nor eau he hal to behold iu England, Spinn, and Austria, the initur.4l any p It .0 abhor row pried W II OSI amp appr Al whic load Yelp lap air sispiiiottemAi4...alheit of the l'oarr. arritain elseeapitel of the 01 6oinaii empire, which is regarded as certain, may, therefore, tinder the present circumstances, 'open a new scene; end pß pare the materials for a somplete the politics of Tt:, key. Narot.zei, whose v;Ailxner 4 not to be deceived, 110 d. wl/0 has so ed, by corruption er by terror, a predominant inte rest in that country, will assuredly • make. every ex ertion to protract, arta avert, so serious tr misfor tune. • Every expression, every speech, and every act of BONAPARTE, in the present delicate, ardubus, and problematical position of his affairs, is undoubtedly weighed with profound reflection, and adapted to meet theemergeacy. Ile already feels , that his power, so well consolidated, so terrific, and so irre. sistible, only five or six months ago, is now shaken, and may be overturned. It is not with Armies com posed of Italians, Switxers, Germans, Dutch, and Poles, that he must subjugate Spain. The French in turn must ;deed, in order to satiate his ambition. They begin,as it would seem, to discover Was secret, to deprecate his endless wars, arid to yield reluctuat aid towards the flagitious enterprise now in hand. Even his conscriptions meet with resistance, or are eluded by concealment, desertion, and flight.— The conquest of Spain, it is well understood. re sembles in no respect, that of Austria, or of Prussia. A country. where the Priests inspire en thusiasm by their exhortations; where every peasant or smuggler becomes a soldier ; and where the wo men, as at Sanigossa, pour boiling oil on the heads of the invaders; is not to be conquered like Liu.- many or Lombardy. Nor can he, whatever threats he may pronounce at Paris, march to Mo• dad with the some celerity as ha did to Llerlis, sod to Vienna ; if he had, before the bth, it wOll4 have been known ut Paris by the 10th or ISth, as the telegraphic communications convey iutelligence across France in a very few hours. Yet, down to the igth, the Miniteurs only related, shiieihry dwell with pleasing amplification on, the even:: that have taken place in the Gulf of Bothnia, and in the Bay of Naples. Wasa and Capri, the ex ploits of Kaimoskoy. and of Lamargue, furnish object of exultation. Of Josseis, of Alsrsnal NLY, axed of the advantages gained over MAI:I4 or CAMINO% they only give reports. We would not willingly pass over in total silence the Address of the Deputies of time stew Deport meats of the Kingdom of Italy, pf .• the Masora, the Fronto. and the Metauro." to NoroLsor. It is difficult to conceive, or to believe, that a etimpo 'salon, at once so hose, so degrading, soil so Ingo ously adulatory, should have been pronounces; !,y the Cabtinent, o n! , sn an! P I electrified Enro :n . i, tyrant 4 We pecu'ist:y t i le r is a than in the sets, s ,i; seniiii in for the first tim e 1 ,, j e t ai on, since the c,!,4i t wit im by MARIA TUERL. I Speec NolArli and Dele;i st , and 1 ' by the. same seinitn ‘ abhor ninon cause with the Su' P"'"` toquently displayed is prOVO the I loyal and energetLe From aisles! at Prestrurg. tl r throw r Austria had been priest were to be open e d b y whose d that one itnportout 4,;: i Italy rats to be the alienuti na saran Dr the public service." ill the Corsican Ruler his C termination to resist hl, she iystematie exertions mid, *hie L to regain its iudepend ei he aF tronal character, co mp i est i o utra the battle of Austerlitz. will, r Austria assuming a lion, *EDP openly ogairost NAP(II.1 0 sppr , esitti that shall happ en *lfs ) that quarter eremey e expectation, and solicits' Al :ed these proofs of reties whit ither power, which ae hat 1118 d as ripe for dissolutio n , a *ion cei, situate in th e mu ) ire undoubtedly hog si btys, joint prey of the Muse taill Emperors, hos manifest sun Lion. las:rants BAIRA ) regenerate the O tto a nd l• its Government from th " 1 vies and to enable Tuik wor the shore of the Besphoru bee ertain of the preciviinten at- s rclutive to France, yet is to of his en ru;ty toltusnaaror o Ca ' sore the ::;;;;raudisement r del of flLlicidona, to Cram:Hes, where he Atfentoil ally of tirAny ino.urgenis, and ;clamed to Barce lona with- some pieces of which they hail left behind them in their fr.ght, and a rcuantity of provisions. General Cant-ion' de St. Cyr conininn;ls the aritiy in Catatonia, nod intact. lii!n Cien..rais Dultesme, Chainbleu sintLecchi, who Lire in liar- Mona. as also the Generale itiiille, 1- 1 1::o„ and Sunhat'', who scommands a corps pirdi cut ployetl in besieging the fortass of Ei4tteir:t. _ . " How numerous the ilisilrgtlits ,nay be. doe, 11+n gredtly signify, as they ehieili consis.. or pea who hastily arrive, sad as hastily disperse. and retort' home." THE BRITISH PRESS.