The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-02-06 00:00:00

■ if Q :~► ~J •__-• .1111111.11191111.111111115 . .1 • FILENcIi. PAPERS. - ' - se' OPTICIAL INTZ&LIGHSCH PHOM THE ARMIES IN SPAIN. 'ARMY -OW THE NORTH. • TlteGenervil of Division, Bonnet, is master of the As to .4a 4. Nary English and Spanish vqssels,ladenwith met..., chi pill ze a nd ammn nit ion,have been taken in the port of Gijon, and the oilier ports of the coast. The flag of theiniurgents was left flying, In order to allure them. A tine Spanish brig of war was taken there. 1 The General siia Chief, Count Dorsenne, after haring visilled s Halriti4 and Biscay, carried hick his head -41 cp2arters to Valladolid. TO whole bwa es:mimeos' edl3ll,lFa iiiiiiWel . 'aim . ibal had united on the com munication between Saragossa and Jaen, to disturb this , rrly which was besieging VaLllcia ; but the Ge- i n en ]. Count Cafarelli sct out with his division from Saragossa, ma 4.. lied "against them, dispersed then!, and re-established tae sommunictitions. - ARMY OF THE SOUTH. • I " The tracts of the Army of the South, after hay.. lug driven thelittids of Ballasteros under the cannon of (:iloaltar, had.resuml.d their cantonments in the eed of October: General cemele was at Bornos, with the 16th regiment of light infantry ; Hallos terns thought'. he. could revenge himself, and sur prise thlr. regiment. lie set out from St. Roitue, and on the . stti Of 'Noiember, at day-break l arrived with Ave or six thousand men at Bongos, all the av •OeS of .Wikich he occppied; but the 16th,•ac. cording to its, castom, - had already taken arms lathe I moment * when the roll .wati beaten, end Ballasteros ire; fiisCovared., General Sancti immediately caused , ' the regiment to comennti and take a favourable po sition without the tewh. A column of 2000 of the inem) already occupied the debouche. The pas de charge was beaten—the 16th made their way with the • bayonet through the enctuy, of . whorls fay Made a great .carnage, and took a position.l Rat las t r s , terrified at so much bravery, fell'ime.k . ffnmedilitely upon Übrique.' This movement of Bal.. kiateros appeared to be concerted with that of 20001 Flgllo, who had come-out Of Tarifa in order to some upon Vejar di la Frontal. This indueadthel Dt e of Dalmatia immediattly to order the junction of sopie troops to defeat all the manceuvres of the esebny, and drive him from that part of Andalusia. On the 15th„the - 4ivition of Semele marched; Ballas teros dirl not wait The baffle, but retired to the moun tains of-Ronda, where he believed himself. in safety: But •General - Laval, with- a division of the 4th corps, bad. rickivefl orders to • march, and aik enrred on the • Itst at Aatlguerra.—Ballas teros, on the point of being cat of, hastened his retreat upon the camp of .St. Roque, where he killed about 110 men, and took as many prisoners; dia . - I persed at Estepona an assemblage of wretched pea- I sante, whom he disarmed, and arrived on the 27th i t at St. Roque, whence the enemy was driven a second time under the cannon of Gibraltar, notwithstand-; ing toe lire of several English frigates and gun-boats. On 'the 2tith, Ballasteros marched along the shore a column of 1500-chosen men to retake the towet of Carbonera... General Rey received orders to motels with the 43d. .The enemy was every whet* defeated end put to the rout ; a second column hav log come up to the assistance of the first, was also routed, anti increased the confusion. The field of brttle was etteired with the killed and wounded.= The43d behaved in a distinguished manlier; we had too Voltieeers killed-and six wounded. • " Op the 20th, the-division of General Barr.es arrived on the line of St. Roque,,taok a position at Los Barros, and connected itself with the eolumal or-r4o.Ail Welleux, ctargediiith the attack of Tarifa, I , s here they found two English regiments end :WOO~spahiards, commanded •by Capons. • During the night Capans embarked his troops to go to the as i sistarice of Ballanterok. On the 30th, they joined and made dispositions for the attack. The presence of General '.Barrials - . preyented. the movement. Ca- pons re-embarked on the Ist 'December,. and re-en- I Toriffa. ri " strong btuad, which came from the mountains, I the' light, to reach Ballasteros„by stealing between I two French battalions, was discovered and entirely dotrey,ed. The beileging artillery arrived on the 6th bertire - Tasifa. The trenches were imniediately opened. The }:egiish refused to suffer Ballasteros'si troops to enter Gibraltar. Placed at the foot of the fortifications, they are in a dalsperate situation ; all their-herses are dying for want Af forage, and their solitiers 'desert. Every precaution is taken iu the French lines•that nothing shall escape. Gen. Sonit, ' Conimander of the 4th Corps, in observation upon 1 , the 'frontiers of Murcia, made, the latter end of No vember, an offensive movement beyond Vacs and Ru bio, to driv'e away some bands of Murciano, who had endeavoured to penetrate to Huescar, while a party Was forming in the Alputario. The enemy did not Irak for Milton this point, bat precipitately re tired. Every where be took prisoners from them, and collected a number of desertirs; The - band from the Alpinaris_tras at the same time chased by , a C'uluom sent by General Soult, and that dispatched from Granada by General Dufour, nes overtaken at Petres; ,it left in . the place 150 killed, the re- t. meindeowere pursued in every direction. 44 The reports from the Officers of Health in'the latter end November, announce that the malignity of the yellow fever decreases daily in the places bor dering on the cordon. The mortality has sensibly diminished, and the public spirit has recovered from its tlejectiOn.- The fourth corps remains untouched, iu cesisequenee of the exeelient precautionary rues.. sures which were adopted. "The fortreps of Badajos daily acquires freak strength by the new works constructed there. It '•iw, in a formidable state of defence;: the convoy's ar rive in it withoet ebstrUction • the garrison enjoys. abundance. Count D'Erion h fortifying Merida,' and has a depot upon the Guadiana, The Enlist remain tranquil iu their cantonments in Portugal." Al t" PF " General Darmagnie • snandaut of the Divi. sine of Cuenca, made ad expedition into that pro. vinte to finish itv pacification. nut himself motion on the 12th, and marched Beli where..tke band-of 'Franceaq . tilt*. The advanced4uard, commanded Squadron, Beasse, at daybreak all the outlets from the town. surprised--thirty men, with bred; and the remainder with } ~.. 0 . The Geireral continued his march , St. Claire, the miners placed two fur where he took or dispersed a sr the convent. The explosion produced a cians, who were observing the Ri , preach, by which our troops entered.— terwards proceeded to Imesta, - lenclans had cut two of the fine bridges over tional Junta held its sittings; , e ''levier; the other three were covered by pew& • . 6 - `li e ~.. . punt. To confine the enemy within his ''''... s olt :as lieriefro .. Mialeilicla liy , tites-de-pout, and to rernilte its sallies, a contra l' general General Blake, ' • n the first intelligence of the ' saltation Was formed of three very strong redoubts, March of General' Dannagnac; and occupied with having seven feet water in their ditches, two fortified two batallions and nrneiguadrods the Inidge Of tgonwelltas and the house, in them:barbs. The enemy Contains. The 22d regiment of dragoons immedt- i j very myth tormented our pioneers, by a continual stets - passed the river et a neigliboNing ford. . Hesse- i cross fire of all kinds of shot. We there lost several court did not wait the charge, but fell back upon , miners ands Lieutenant of Engineers. The enemy - iHagordo, where he wow-pp ined and defeated ; ! fortified himself on the left, ia erder to dispute the wire prisoners were taken -. from him. On the 2'4th .' passage of the river. lie had an intrenchment with -.V the troops were collected . 'ft Utell, and eiarchecf , two batteries, which extended from the works of the ' upon Uquena. Bassecourt ailed himself in Cabe'. place to the sea. They had fortified the villages of las de Vatenu ; his rear guar) -was taken, as well as Mislata,. Quarte, and Manisses, on the banks of the his magazines, and 300 mulerladen with provisions ' river, and which they connected together by lines for Valencia. • General Darmagnac, after having w ith artillery. The whole of this space of ground I i cleared the proviuce, returned to Cuenca with the from the sea to Manisses is a low p la in , covered column. . . , with water, and intersected by ,numerous canals.- 1 " The result of this expedition has been . , the Above Manlsies, the grognd is more elevated, and taking of 8000 bushels of corn in the enemy's maga- the marshes are uo farther found, till Torrente and zines; which were distributed to the poor and the Cartaroja, on the road of Murcia. country people, 200 muskets, &c. two pieces of ar- i General Blake had placed his iufantsy from the tillery taken from Bassecourt, 600 mules and horses, sea to Mauisses, and his cavalry above Manisses, to a magazine of shirts and shoes, which *ere distri- cover his left. Having received the expected rein. buted to the troops, and 300 prisociers." Iforcements, our army was put in' motion. In the ARMY. .01! ARRAGON. night between the 25th and 26th of December, the ' " General Carste , n, on the 13th December, ar- Captain, of Engineers, Ditpon, rapidly constructed, lived at Silragosia , with his division. Some bands iat a league's distance from Maidues, two bridges, i*hich were on the road of Tudels-di2peissed upon his * above all the souftes of -the different waters, that ' approach. - , our troops might notbe engaged in a maze of canals. I " General Reille took post on the 14th wit c hltis, At clay-break, three divisions of infantry, and all division ; Savarela division had been there for 1 the cavalry, passed on those bridges, and drove back -some days: Informed that an enemy's division, de- the enemy's cavalry. This movement turned and tached by Blake to disturb Arragon, was in Alba, j 'surrounded the enemy's position, while Valombino's j mason, he sent a strong detachment to drive it i'diviition occupied the , Spaniards iu front, by passing away. , the river between Quarte and Mislata. The Captain " Marshal Suchet has made great disposition for ' of Engineers, Ordenaire, was killed whilst construct collecting great forces under Valencia. We hope to . i lag a bridge on this point. The left of the enemy pe carry Blake's intrenched camp before the end of the I iterating the design of our movement upon Torrente, month, and immediately open the trenches before thelprecipitately abandoned the position of Manisses, to eity. The Captain of Engineers, Molina, Corn- avoid beieg surroupded, and retired upon Cartaroja, mandant of the Spanish fort of Peniscola, attempted where our column arrived too late to oppose . some excursions fo impede the communication with it. Several thousand Spaniards had time to escape by Valencia ; in one of these expeditions he established the road of Murcia, by abandoning their artillery. The himself, with 80 men, in Torrenova, to be nearer to rest of the enemy's army was shut up in the place.— l intercept convoys. Marshal Soult caused this post Hubert's division having passed the river, near its to he attacked on the 7th of December by 200 dmsen mouth, and carried the intrenchments on the right I men and two pieces of cannon. On the 8... th the bank from the city to the sea, the immense invest battery was established, and played upoJl the lower' ment of Valencia was the same day completed. The with ;effect. Six gun-boats sailed from Yenisei)- following days the positions of the camp were brought la to support it : on seeing this, a detach- newer . We were able to leave very few troops upon meat of • voltigeurs of the 114th flew tomards the left batik ; the fortifications of our lines has sup the gate of the tower, covered by an' in- plied the place of numbers. The Valencians much trenchment, and defended by a shower of bulletsand' depended upon their visuals to cover the approaches' grenades. Captain Molina surrendered at discres by inuudation, and fill the fosses of their intrenched tion ; the gun-boats arrived too late ; some flails camps, but they had not time to prepare these ' forc,..d them to stand off. The powder found in the 1 means. When our troops passed to the left bank the tower served to blow it up. At noon it was raked. Chief of 'liattalion,Pinot,seized upon the sources, and 64 In the night, between the gth and 10th, a vlo- , tneised thewaters of the canals into the river. The En. lent tempest drove two large English transports into gine& Officers constructed redoubts within 400 toises Tarragona, laden with meal and ba' eriiiiias, and of the place, upon the roads of Quarte and Murcia ; manned with 25 men. The garrison of Tarragona and the convent Jesus, upon the Madrid road, was took possession of th2m."—(3"fenifeur, Jan. 24). barricaded, and occupied by a battalion. Every where IMPERIAL DECREE. else the canals and fosses secured us against sortie*. " In the Palace of the Thuilleries, Jan. 21. The city is surrounded 6y a good wall, almost circa. 44 We, Napaeon, Emperor of the French, King . of the. •lar , of thirty feet high by -ten wide. Tae Valencians of Italy, Protector of the Contederidon hadadded a small ditch 41Ied-with water , at the foot . . , Rhine, Mediator of the Helvetic Convention, &c. of the wall, with a covered way, and for.ned fattens being incurred to reward the services rendered by ; of i Cr a m the side of Ro7 afa and some small works to the Generals, O ffi cers, and soldiers , of on r Army i , defend the gates. Their define/3 reited.principalty in Arragon, have decreed, and do herewith decree, their vast intremthed camp, which ewe ained within it as follows : " Art. I. The effects situated In the province of Valencia, , the city and the three suburbs upon the right hank. as far as to the amount of a principal of 200,000,000 livres, shall This was fortified with bastigns, alit. in :I ,-,reat MPa• be remitted to our domain extraordinaire. I sure bomb-proof. This line extended from the sea to " 11. The Intendant-General of our domain extraordinaire, 1 ' shall A ccordiegly take possmisifn of the same, and re-unite them , Olivette: where it terminated in a point which was to the other effects of our domain extraordinaire in Spain. I weak, as it could be attacked in the rear by the left e 141. Our cousin, the Prince of Neufchatel, Major-General , bank. This became the point of attack ; but as the of our forces, shall transmit to the Intendant-Deneral of our do- ' *mine extraordinairc, a statement of the (ienemls, Officers, and !enemy could, during thosiege, form interior entreace. ' 'Dialers. of our armies of Spain, and in particular, that of our i melds between the river and Roznfa, 'and had even Arms , of Arragon, who have distinguished themselves, to the in- tent ibst it e may give them proofs of our satisfaction, and agar i commenced some works for the purpose of isolating Imperial munificence. 4. IV. Our Nlinisters: and the Intendant-General of oar Mur maindo- extraordinaire, each, in particular, as it may concerti I this from the remainder of the line, a second . attack I was determined upon point St. Vincente, on the them lath the execution of this present decree. clan road. The intrenched camp. was defended by (Signed) 4‘ NAPOLEON. 20,000 troops of the line, 6,000 militia, and lOU : « By the Emperor's cou.mand, . ' (Signed) " The Count DA RU, • pieces of cannon.. " Minister and Secretary of State." First Night, from the Ist to the q-d of January.— "At the Imperial Palace of the Thuilleries. Jan. 24. Scarcely had Colonel Henry commenced marking out 44 We, Napoleon, -Emperor of the French, Pros 'the first pamllel t at 60 toises from St. Vincente, with') tector of the Confederation of the Rhine, Mediator I he was killed ; his loss is sensibly fit by the whole of the Helvetic Convention, &c. &c. &c. have de- army. He was a most skilful officer in the art of creed, and do herewith decree as follows : sieges. The Chiefs of Battalions Thiebiult and Pi ' Art. I. The Lakes. Fisheries, and whatever else appertains to not replaced Colonel Henry ; the parallel was open ', the domains of Albufera, are given in full right of property to Marshal Sachet, as coustittnift a part of the Duchy of Albu. i fera, which WO have conferred on him by our Decree of this I taliop Pia col erec t ed a led et 60 toises from the works. - The Chief of Ha i date.parallel within 90 tojses, I before Olivette. B y morning these., works were " 11. The said estates shall be possessed by him as fiefs of our i ~,.,„,„t a+m ' Crown, and c , - - -queutly no part of these estates may he elk - I --- t --- `ell ,er . It ' without_ our - ' aut' for such Second Night.—The parallel 'and communication Jrowa, , rim e /r] ut noted o embus _ special .atitority purpose obtai and according to the forms iscscrtbed by our statutes, and bi Title IV, of our letters patent. o f *lo st ”t March,' IMF, as welt for the alienation, as also for them' ner in which the valise of the alienated property is to be emßloyed. " 111. The possession of these estates shall be from teilst of Januar r; ISt:. " IV. The said estates, in case of deficiency of =Online and i legiti nate heirs, shall revert again to our Clown. " This present Decree shall h a addressed conformably with the ?,.sth October, of Title 11. Section I. of our letters pa of the 1;t . 41, 1808, to our cousin, the Prince Arch- tent _,t March, thaneeffor of the Empire; for accomplishment of all the elisdi tionsprescribed by the Constitutive Statute of the Fiefs of our empire.. (Skoed) " NAPOLEON. • "By the Lmperor s command, (Signed) " The Count DARU, " Minister and Secretary of State." At the IMperial Palace of the Thailleries, Jan. 24, 1112. We,' Napoleon, Emperor of the French, King of Italy,' Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, Mediator of the Helvetic Confederacy, Be, eon.. OP"-, pidity and proximity of our works, and fearing to be carried by assault, abandcined their entrenched camp, tu: t sought shelter, leaving their artiHery a n d ammu , iition in our power. Wo establishAl ourselves on all the points in the interior gf the entteached• camp, and made commu.,ications% FroM that ° l° . meet the town w , ; the enemy could not think of defend; , — ',iemselyes within it, not being prepared for a wat of houses, in consequences of not haitig demolished the houses in the suburbs of Sin Vicente ' and Quarte, which advanced to withilt DJ dr 15 toisev of the wall. sth Night.--Th• artillery commenced a bomirtni men t with eight mortars, established in the Capticidiy Convent, upon the left bank. Pinot, Chief of lim a _ lion, made communicatioys to the houses iu the ,„. bnrhs of San Vicente, and quickly arrived %%:!' ten toises of the town. We established ourselwi i some houses of (belle. " Sixth, seventh * and eighds Nights.--We en6e. Toured to debouch from a house, n the suburbs lit tiit Vicente, but the enemy perceived us, and directed his cannon upon this debouch. We l os t th ree m i ners, and this attempt failed. We were then obliged to de. bouch from a house 86 feet distant from the town, and form. a subterraneous galle r y, w hi c h was car. rind, in sixty hours, trader the foundations of the eull. The enemy defended the left part of the suburbs of Quarte, and particularly the Convent of Ursulinec.. Michaud, C . nief of Battalion, and Vacani, Captain of Engineers, pierced successively through all the houses in the suburbs, dislodged the enemy, mei established themselves in it. General Blake now negociated for the surrender of the town and army. The capitulation was signed on the 9th. On the same day our troops took possession of the gates of the town and the castle. On the following day, 1800 Spaniards marched oat of the town, and deposited their arms to march as prisoners to France. The labours of this siege, the issue. Qf which offers snch grand results, have• been conducted with a rapidity which honours the Officers and privates of the Engi neers. They opened the first parallel at GO toises, and in four nights arrived within 9 toises of the countersearp, after clearing t5OO toises of trenches. The four following nights they took, by sapping, two suburbs, and carried thb mine under the Needs. tions of the interior wall of the tpwtr. , • - (Signed) IitOPNIAT, • General of the V.Mpoer Valencia; January 11, 1812. (Sajtrr Youi iaiw he Ab uto She raw of the At* a +wry.) Me Proprietor of the' SrArzsli4v:ttikes this op. yartanity of attdrcseing,hitnsei rett ee uslyertismg part of the Community, initny.4 Wanes are hale acqaaintid with the nature ass& talent of theyrr. culation of Newspapers, anal if v fraas f tong habit or otherwise, often . prefer those of sMall circula tion, to others that are verfe.ttensiii;. - It wooll be a manful task to point out the , WC fat , inintber , each .fuujnal printed in London,.bui.iit might ie advantageous to those whalsave property to dtsnesc of, either by Puscie sitik or Ptur4arL: CON. rst.tri, to make tliceiseroes noquainted with it. Of late there has been (A complete change in the velem of Newspapers. Daring the last ten years the Evening, Paper* hay: obtained grad circulation, and, hi fauns instances have sup. planted the Morning Papers ; they are, in fad, now generally read, both in 2'own and Gomm. try, especially in Reading-Rooms, Hutch, ap ,fee-llouses, and • Pablic-liouvs, where the Srernseuti is almoit tosieersalls taken in, and, upon a moderate computation, has not less than Twenty Thousand Readers in London, exclusive of the Country. _ • I THE STATESMAN. N -- ch upon Tirasoni, the content of 'mall carps of Mar- paces under th River Joel': ; he if- considerable b; where the Insurrec- ' The Valenclan it was quickly dis- , tie Guadalavia t , the tetes-tie-pc A rr. Math', • Dublin • •p• ••,•• It•••• ...... 1 O O . tttttttt gig Malta . 1 ... . 0 ... . . ..... , Duerusey ...: • ' • 1 O .., , .4... Jersey •t..•..••••0::".4•••••:. 1 , ,• Anholt #. • 0 . fli4zils .1,..• 1 PRICE OF STOCES .TEIS DA' AT ONE O'OLOCE: Rook . India &Inds 17‘ 16. pr. 3 per Ceps, camp. 610 • Rathequerfilills34, 3 pet Cent. Red. ti .`! . Ditto 30. 5 7 pr. • 4 per Genti, Jae - tilt. 3 per Cent. Navy 1,31 Cturiuls for Aoct. 641 Lung. Inn. 161 • • Lottery 'rickets . STAiIF,i4MAN. LONDON: THIMSDAY, atanuartir 6, 1812. - A Liibon •Mall arrived this morning, bringing Portuguese Papers to the 25tir ult. Tho intelligence of the fall of Ciudad Rodrigo reached Lisbon on the 21th, but the particulars had not been received.— _.. . • of St. Vincente were tinished,set4 second cammu.. The Briton, Oaptat WARD, fiat), Oporto, in eight nicatiod near }lie Marcian road was begun. The days, has arrived at Liverpool, and also brings si left of Olivette parallel was much annoyed by the miler accounts. Private letters brought by the lit i enemy from a house, 100 toises in advance. Cap ton, and also by the Henri schooner, which con. thin Boucher attacked them with a party of sharp shooters, wounded and took prisoners the Spanish - veyed Lord WELLINGTON'S dispatches, state, that ''Officer and several soldiers. The parallel was then a horrid scene of blood and massacre was exhibited extended to this house, which served as a point ,of ,on the taking of Ciudad Rodrigo. The brq,2e Pm-- support. Plagneol, Chief of Battalion, opened part of a parallel upon the left batik, to give facilities for %ere - enspairing in their vengeance qflet the amender 6f the place. One letter, dated. Orr• the artillery to play upon the intrenclied camp nest • i Oliveto. - ' "! Thirtl Night—By 'the attack on St. Vincente, we' finished the communication on tint right, The vieatbeewitsvery bad; the earth was so soaked with rain dit'it bad lost all its solidity. - 4th Nl* 'l.—The rwellel of St. Vincente was ix burnt stv,4, that " the Goverror and a part of the garrison, to the amount of I'2oo men, owe their lives to . the humanity of Lord WELLINGTON — the rest of the garrison perished at the point of our destruc6o'bayouets—the carnage {aged more tnpi an hour—Me Portuguese troops sheaved • . . 4 Night, tended 100 toises , didn ' the right, to a.. .... ... Untie, which served as - iipoint of support . On the .48 the.Y " 14 :'‘Ns . have beefs 1 their hearts were "' l, • salient angles of the. place attacked, we formed two softened by the dreatiful cries which issued from the eprtu4s. Thu workmen. Were placed under a heavy 1 nidinsr of their victorious arms - , !!" When Tarragona lite of giape, but maintained. themselves through It the I was taken by storm, and the Sp aniards who defonded itemnpss - of (.. , •,- • ~, ptains Berthois' and Guillemalti. We it given up to the sword of the enemy , the Sp anish and usWS been, but succeeded in approaching wit hin .04 fet the donnterscarp. The two ways toira rds the Portuguese press teemed with just execratious ' 4 44. 1 001*.i . t*ir' against such barbarity; they comparedjt;to.the con. -4 4140,4.1 i. ' ' .'•• within 1 : ferociqus. tiger ; they deanminated the evils and. monsters in human Shape. Who blireekpeoted, after this, that the Portuguese have so soon laid ittemielves open to the saute , epithets, as those with which tbej 10-k:est terors of Tarragona? But, as our Corre. justly remarks, " the. Portuguese traepi , . -' _:__~ • 1 1 - f . . ) -, . -- IV. &C &C " We -- i and do herewith nominate, the Mar ital Connt be Duke of Albufera. He shall enjoy the ides, prerogative"., apd domains attached, and appurtenatiels 11) theadd duchy,lonfonnably with th e letters pptent $ our council of theiseal. and sealed liy our condo the Arch-Ohancellor s lt a t ed be Empire. ) " ' NAPO/410V t , -By Ste opetor's command, ' (Signed) " The Count DARIY, " • ,‘ Minister and Secretary or /We." • e VAN, ----- [EGE Sagunto, ... 'NiINIMMEIM t ... . (tering on the cordon. The mortality nas sensnny : 7 -iv the Emperor's command, "The Minister ste r CoandunSet D cri its dejection.: The fourth corps remains untouched, I I diminished, and the public spirit has recovered from ~.. i .... (S tg aed) " , A ..-. • - 1 , ' , hi consequence of the excellent precautionary mea-. •At the Imperial Palac e o f th e Th u il leeies, iI ' '' cures which were adopted. We,' Napoleon, Emperor of the Fre " The fortress of Badajos daily acquires fresh 1 Ital),' Protector o f th e C on f e d eration o . strength by the new works constructed there. It is Mediator of the Helvetic Confederacy, ! ! -' in a formidable state of defence ;• the convoys ar. .... ye have naransted, and do herewith nom rive in it withont abstraction; the . garrison enjoy& shat t; , e p e r e e t rogai seche iv t,ite a b n e d D d uke of u Ajbufera, kil abundance. Count D'grion is fortifying Merl odes, lo thesaki dachy l ioofoonably witl i t a t c hee and . . sert and has a depot upon the Guadiana, The English . o ur . council . 1 tli;lseal , and sealed 1.%) , our cox remain tranquil in their cantonments in Portugal." Arc"hance 4l 7 . / 411 Empire• 1 I , 1 . ARV! OF TILE CENTRE. _ ." ay a_e- mperoes commend, "' f, 1 r l " General Darmagnac, Commandant of the Dini. . ( 5 k0.) " Th e Count r • " Minister an d S een 'ion of Cuenca, mate an expedition into that Iwo, , . 4 ~ . I 1 , . , vine* , to finish goose days aftir . taking Sag un t o , the its. pacification. He put himself in JOHIINAL OF THE iillkDE OF VA' motion on the . 12th, and marched upon Belmonte, . ' • 1 I where the band-of Francesquitta was established.— the Onadalaviary Led took po sse s s i on of arS istßovs a suburb 00, The ativenced.guard, commanded ,by the Chief de :Valencia, and. O i 1 ' Squadron, I3eisse, at day-break of the 13th, seised On the Left side; the.• ether part of wl all the outlets from the town. The nibrob, beatitwas pelted by the.,enellsy:lo' et - err fots -a ! . •. . surprised—thirty men, with their eltletl,iiefitsa 'Wised tolpeosikatelittallie fast hinnes bred, and the remainder with their borsch Oki& el by siblins tUto,dpaideede o li s li mso • ' ~, - - • • • • . 'ti .. • • -, - ' • - .. .1.1.11011 .... 1.... •1r...." . - -- 7 --r- iii - 'i.ii - - - r ' ... '.----- He put himself Iti • JOURNAL OF THE SlikiE OF VALENCIA. 40 toisea4CtbecounteiScarp. The enemy confined duct of the t , 'OlivetteJe r e rc t he preceding night to within .ched upon Betataatai Souse days after taking Sagunto, the army passed to 1111 , wiirks by the first partilel at 90 toises could French ° davits agatnst sure C . tte was established.— the Ouadalaviar ) ited took possession of thetlrt&Of 'Mak* elstiorties, because he had no place d'armes idfd of the Chief; de V.a.tencia y and. part br'Spqapo,. ..,cou a auberb or Yidenelit i isot-covered Way where they ' Id assemble and de- m: 1 , would have s 4 Lk . the 13th, seized On the left side; the. ether „parcel which was dhei Jteucli. a lit waitherefore thinight usel e ss te. _______A esta _l *- nnrobriouse The whet* band was Pelted b 7 the - 'enfely*! OrtilY . 'sfooi . , and we iikeal intend" renal 'est suck works. • Wetioryucu t '• • ' could NOT ex' their Cief,' were .NL'' titlifett tirPelikitate into44leit h'ouses w oes 1—. 7 nap i n narti l la - Ma ro :ft no d' arrived within - ne loites 11 thOr lunge% Asian , Vby Wallop Llalie!lipeak!*giettiesiiheoado t ti. 0 the • unte • ' the final terrified at the I* , sptileat jusi CO Mirth , . : • , the .ceequero