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FROM LAST NIGFIi'S GAZETTE. Downing -street, ebypest 16. 1808. A dispatch, of which the fiAtiwing is a copy, has this day been received by' the Right flanonrable Lnrd Viscount Castlereagh, one of !iislity's Principal Secretaries of State, f7oin Lieutenant- General Sir Hew Dalrymple, K. 13. dated Gibral tar, July 2.1, 1808. Gibraltar. July 94, 1808. Mr Tout►—[ inclose a Report from Ca11471:11 Whiningham, containing the details of a complete victory obtained on the 19th iwitent, by General Castaims. over the French corps, commanded by Generals Dupont and IVedel ; and I take the li berty of congratulatiti4 your Lordship upon the &minus result of the day. I have the honour also to state, that I hare re ceived a leiter from General Ciestanos, by the same cattier, expressing the satisfaction he has received from the service. of Captain Whittiti;;lnttu. I have the honour to be, &r. H. W. DALRYMPLE. The l'iscamat Castlereagh, kc. &e. Sze. Ilrad-des, Andujar, July *l, inue. Si had the itouttekuinform you, iu in let- ter of the 17th July, tbat.iii a Conned of war held nn that day at head-eittarters, it was resolved that the division of the llarqui?.4 de cairspigny should join that of Major-pc:meal Ttedin;, and that the uttick upon Baylea shoals( h • undertaken with the united forre of the two dii..ioas, whilA the third division and the, reserve should occupy the atten tion of the army, by a fiiiold attack upon Andu jar. Mitior-Gesieral Reding onterrd finylen, on the morning of the 18th, nt nine o'clock ; he met with little opposition. The enemy retreated to wards La Curolies. The Major-General wrote to the Commander in Chief for orders, either to ad sauce against Andujar, or to pursue the column which was retirinz ti:ion La Carolina. General Castanns ordered him to advance upon Andujar without delay. On the 19th, at two o'clock in the morning, the General received information of the retret of the French from Anduj:tr. lieutenunt-General Pena, with the reserve, was ordered to advance initue diately towards Buylen. The French began their retreat at nine o'clock p. m. 16th July. A letter from Generul Reding informed the Commander- in-Chief that he iiitendut coihmencing his ward, from Raylen towiltds Andujsr at three &clod( a. tn. 19th July. At two o'clock p. ta. the ad-. vaneed guard of General Pena'a division catee op with the enemy. At this moment an expreos ar rived frog' \Nor-General Reding. to inform the Lieatesaant-General thlt IN had been engaged ‘vitli the divi.ion of General Dupont from three o'clock indite rooming till eleven; that he had repulsed the' French, and remained master of the field of hattli , . The guns of the advanced guard of Lieutenant- General Pena's division had *timely begun to fire, when a flag of truce arrived, to treat upon the terms of a capitulation. The discusaran did not last long. • General Dupont was told he ix nst surrender at discretion. Lieutenant-General Pena halted, and formed his divisiou upon the heights of limbla, distant three miles from Baylen ; between four a n d five o'clock, fleneral Casterick, Aid-de-Camp to Bonaparte, was sent by General Dupont with orders to treat with General Combines in person. At nine o'clock, p. ni. Major-Genernl Reding informed the Lieutenant-General, that during the truce he had been treacherously attacked by Gene ral Weilel, who was just come from La Carolina, with a reinforcement of six thonaand men : and that the battalion of Cordova had hetni surprised and taken prisoners, together with two held p;cr•es, The nego-iatimis lasted till the evening of the 20th, and the glaious result I have the honour to itteleae, as also an exact *rename of the IsiUed and wounded, o. both Ildbit. aw' I have beers WA, t o col leet in the hurry of the =meld. The French themselves acknowledge the bravery and steadiueas of the Spanish troops ; their firm- Dess,constaney.and priirrerAtlCP, uu ler the greatest p oss ible privations, are worthy of the sAliniration .f the world, particularly when it in remembered that half the army is cosapo..“.l of new raised levies. The Marquis Coup;griy it detached with his di vision to take immediate possession of the passes of Serra Morena. Celle/1111 C.sstanos deserves the highest prair f or his well-conceived plan, and for the cool determina tion with which he has carried it into execution, in eisitr of the popular clamour for :us immediate at taches% the position of Andujor. - Whilst the tiegociations were carried on, General Osmium received an intercepted dispatch from the Doke of Rovego to Dupont, orderius. him to re treat iturnediately upon Madrid, as the Ariuy of Gallitia was rapidly admiring. • This determined the General lo admit the capi tulation of Geueral Wedel. FRENCH 134isiita of Depliat, 6.1.4 Rant sad File. Uit.siumi of Weasel, ova, u.rs \ • fro:nu FORCE. ' Reding • i ruurgUy Pella JUICY . A, •• . • 5000 an,tounit Nearly 3000 of the Fettle) killed and wounded. From logo to too of the Spaui.ulls kilted &Lod wounded_ TEKIIS Or CAPITIMATION. The Di, ikon of General Dupont prisoneis of x ar. The Div ;skin of General Weslel to deliver up their Atrnss lilt their srrival at Cadiz, where they are to be mho:loll and sent to Rochtfort. There no longer exists a French forty in Antialusin. (Siguetl) S. WH!TTINI;N t W, lath Light Dragoons . N. B. The Division General Dupont is also to retuen to France by R uvh. fart. • Of this total, one-half peasantry. By letters received from Lieutenant-Colonel Doyle, at Comma, and from Major Roche, nt Oviedo, of the Etli and 9th instant, addressed to Viscount eastlere.g:i, one of Ills Alitiesty's Prin cipal Secretaries of State, it appears, that variotai letters, from respectable authorities, at Madrid, and also public Gazettes, had been recciced, Loth at Cortland and Oviedo, stating, that on the :nth ult. in the evening, the French began the evacu ation of Madrid. Upon the 30th the evacuation cnutinised; and, upon the 31st, Joseph Boorparte, with the remainder of his troops, quitted the ca pital for Segnvia. Tlii, ineatvire was attributed to the French having received the account of the sur render of Gene-nil Dupont's army in Andalusia. The French ern-lied with them all the artillery and ammunition they could find means to con vey, and spiked the cannon, and damaged the pow der they left behind ; they also plundered the Pa laces and the Treasury ; tiny were followed by the Spanish Ministers alto had acted under the French, and, in general, hy all the French who were settled in businebs at 'Madrid. • Upon the Ist of August it was believed there was not a French man remaining in the cephid. Admiralty-Oliice. August 16, 18( Copy of a knee from T'ie-Admiral Lord Corrutirwood, Cora. orauder-is-Chief of His Slajesty'a Ship( amid Kneels to the Meditei toucan, to the Hon. W. W. Pule, dated to board the (keen, elf Cadiz, July 25, SIX—I hale the pleasure to acquaint yon, for the information of the Lords Continissionera of the Admiralty, that the French troops. under General Dupont, consistiog of about eight thousand men, simetalered themselves prisoaers of war, on the tittli instant; having lost shout three thousand killed in some partial actions, which took place on that and the three preceding days. General Wedel, with about six thousand, who had arrived to reinforce Dopent, has capitulated, on conditioa of his corps beisig embarked sad scat to Rochefort. •• The copy of a letter from Captain Whitti ng ha r n it Lieutenant-I:icier:ll Sir Hew .Darryinple, the operations and final success of the Spanish forces. I beg leave to inclose •. PIED:4I6* - TAISE ' ANOTHEItACCOUNT. EXTRACT OP A LETTER rams AN OFFICER; PAININN. GSM IN TUE UON. COMPANY'S SHIP CHARLTON. " The Piedinontaire, the terror of the Indian seas, so renowned for her success and swift sailing, mounting 50 guns and 500 men, has been cuptnr ed at last. The St. liorenze, Captain Hardinge, has had the glory of conquering her. After three bloody engagements, on three successive days. she struck her colours. The brave Captain Ilardinge fell in the last engagement. That desperate French officer, Moreau. was the ►econd Captain in the Piechosontaise. This is the man who stabbed Cap tain Larkins, after the capture of the Warren fissility, and whom Sir Edward Pellew denounced in his public orders to the fleet (with doubtful pro priety perhaps) as a proper object of vengeance, if ever be should he taken. Moreau conducted himself in a furious during the engage lie would not wirer his ship to strike, and declared he shonld never be taken by the English alive. At last he th.charized his pistols into his own Ludy, and was thrown overboard, at his can ro quest, before he was dead. When the Chariton was coming not of Colum ba on the tith of March, we saw the S. liortazo lowing the Piedmostaise towards (7oltimbo. The Piedmomtaise via. totally disinasteJ, and the St. FitffeliZO appeared to be its a mangled condition, and more shattered in the hull than her prise. did not know at first what ships they were. Our second officer, accompanied by the Rev. Dr. Bu chanan and so:ric other of the !passengers, want on ho:ird both of the ships, and carried with them a supply of pine app!es and other fruits.'for the sick and wounded. `• One of the French Officers gave the 161:owing aceouiet :—' The Fiefs/soda/se ha►itsg heard that three Indiawen, via. the Charliwo, Metcay, and Prenaskire. were to proceed from Bombay to Co limbo, without convoy, formed the design of in tercepting them at Cape Coinorin, wh?re she was sure of falling in with them, and had determined to tight the three ships. Her plan was to hoard the first ludiatuan she came up with, without firing a gun, and to throw on hoard one hundred and fifty into, • by which means,' said Moreau, • we shall be sure of two of them at least. A... confiner, on Sunda• morning, the Gth day of March, floe Piccbmopitaise discovered the three In diaineti off Cape Comorin, and was ,just going to bear down upou them, when she saw the Se. Fia rears come in sight. She then made oil; mild Our St. Norm° chased her. We now recolici•ted, that, on that very morning, we lead sects two hire ships, one on the right, and one ou our lett ; but we did not know who they were, and spicily our coum-, perfectly iguoraut of our tinier, or our delivers-ker.' " The Pirdneontaise mounted VS 13 pnawdern ou the uuiu•Jtek•. • it) jti earreossis. j ✓la long pore at, the smack r sbik. • 4 10 e 3 , . ditto )1 tat ditto on the forecastle. to boomers Had w bets she went into action a complement of 316 French, tins I wscurs. Sat Of %shorn were killed 49 w uuspleii lIY The Finren:o hod only 200 taco, awl lost in killed, )3—wounded, She is rated at 33, but mounts 46 gnus. THE BRITISH PRESS. COL I.INOWOOO. • See the iltspaieh Com Lieutenant-General Sir Hew Dalrymple to Lord Viscosist Caorleivagh. I tun, &c. Copy of a Letter from Sir Charles Cotton, Bart Admiral of the Blue, &r. &e. to the Utiouarable W. W. I'ok, dated •n board the Hibernia, off the Tagus, lb• stal July, 111011. Sta—laiclused herewith I transmit, for the inform ation of the Lords CmonliAsioneis of the Admiralty, copy of a disnatch received by me this day from Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood, detailing the de feat and surrender of General Dupont's army, to getlus with the capitulation of the filree under General %Veda to Getisral C . :whims; by these fortunate events the whole of And..lissia is said to be cleated of French troop.. I have the honour to be, Ike. 'Signed) C. COI7ON. Oct.., off Cadiz, Judy 24, 184. By the Scoot I informed you. that the French forces, ender General Dupont. have surrendered to the Spanish army ; and haring to.dsy received from the Presidi iit of the Supreme Junta of Gri vernment at Seville the olictal amnnut of it, I .t o myself Ow honour of transiantiog a t-nvy of it tor your information. C 01.1.111 GailyoD. Admiral Mir Climlts Comm, Burt. C.umand:r in Chief: !cc. 3be. Jac. oil tte T•guA. Most EXCELLENT Loan—!t is with the greatest satisfaction that the Supreme Junta informs your Excellency of the happy success which Our arms have hail over the French army under Generals bu pcmt. Wedel, ssud (lobed, they having laid down their arms. as is set fortit in the inclosed papers, which accompany this fur your information, being persuasled of the noble interest your Excellency takes in our most just cause. Thy victory conk' not have been more complete, and there does uat remain one I/Fetichism, in An dalusia ; their not lie`ieg a single individual of 'be three divisions, which, by digit trw a start/tents, amounted to swore than 40,000 m.n, that bus not been either killed or tskea prisoner. The rejoicing is soroend oaken lively, that on idea of it cannot be given ; and we expect it w 61 be the same in your Lordship's egosdrosi, through the favour which the Spanish nation outs. to liiritish generosity.--Gocl sine your Excellency. (Signed) FILANCLICO DE tiAuraitt. 'VICE'', TS Hoar. ANTONIO Zramstatio. Aunass AIiNAS. .110/11 BIPTIsTA EWTLLI.ER. Setretary of State. Palace of the Road Mom Or *lrak, Jay IPM. To Us Esoilkosy Aiatr9 Coainrood. LON DON, WEDNESDAY, Aucusr 17. The Gesetie of last night contaius ofßcial dis patches front Sir f lew DALAI 31PLL um! .tdiniral Co ti.isiciwooo, announcing the surrender of Durose, with the force nuder his command, to General CASTANOS. This important question, which so touch occupied and agitated the public mind, is tlitiyiet completely at rest. With such a Into" of eoncorrent testimony its support, no reasonable doubt could, indted, have been euter trilled upon the subject; nor do we btlicic that there was any one so iiicr...dulous as to question the authenticity of the several reports of that event ; but stiil it was natural, in a case of such interest and importance, iiot to be satisfied with any thing short of the first and most authentic information ; and that, the public, we are happy to say, now have. There was no battle ou the stoth at Audujar, so previous accounts appeared to in initiate. It was the battle of Baylen, on the loth, that decided the busiiiess. In it the French, as we stated yesterday, lost 3000 men is killed assd wounded, and this loss indaced DOPOST to propose a capitulation, the arrangement of which lasted until the evening of the enth, when it was fluidly determined that DIMWIT'S force, re duced to 8000, should surrender prisoners of war, and that IVRIIIEL'S division , amounting to 6000, should surrender their arms until their arrival at llnclifort, from which they are to be lent to France along with throve's. We almost regret that Weors's division ohtsinetl such favourable terms; but they ere worthy of Sunnis!, heroism' and mag nanimity. lir hint duriiig the truce treacherously attacked the Sominrds under NV; -Jr-General surprised the battalion of Cordova, and taken them prisoners, with two Gekl-piees.... DUPONT's force, when surrendered, amounted to 14,030 men. The Spaniards, by whom they te ch defeated, did not exceed 35,000, and of there fli t s half were peasantry. llieir Las autounted to about 1200 killed and wounded. Pending the ne Ll a c , tion also, Genera! CAsTAN on received en intermit. ed dispatch to DUPONT, ordering him to rett,, t immediately to Madrid, as the army of Galli( ia a t e rapidly advancing to that city. This slictos the desperate situation of King JOsEni in his new capital, and how much more desperate it m ug have been rendered in consequence of the army of CASTtNOg being left at liberty to w ar d, against him. The Gazette does mot eoh t ,i, official intelligence of his 'flight from that e ,, pital, but it rucitei a variety of authurite,, which leave no doubt of the result hi any a. fleeting mind. The evacuation of Madrid by ti t French, commenced on the 29th, and was Eft. tinned on the :list July, on which day Joltini !eft the city, with all th • plunder that he could collect; and on the Ist instant, it is supposed, that there was Dot a Freac!anan remaining in the Spaaih capital. .JosCrit took the road to Segovia, oa way to France, accompanied by the Spanish u, . tore, who had entered into his s , frtier, and generaiii by all the French nho had been settled in Lunar* at filtdrid. At length, then, fortune, or rotifer that sea eras which is the natural and just result of su perior wisdom, energy, and judgment, seems t have forsaken the Corsican. Well may the Mo n/tear be silent, and the Continental Journals mute. V. isely does the Tyrant act, in redoubling his h as . icnoos preenutiona, to prevent his disgraces b, ing known ai Ilolland, in Germany. a n d i n F rance ! We CS:I u. longer bhime a ferocious Usur*r, writhing under defeats and losses. baffled in his schemes of ambition, and apprehensive that his slaves should learn the information of his disaster., for issuing rivaiirlates of the severest nature at:ahot any vessel ryproir:lting the coast, after leaf: aT England. In every loovapriper transmitted fri4a this conotry, he knows that Saragossa, and Coin. and Aoditior, cud Valentin, must inert the eye of those who read. Ile just!) dreads the contifOuni operation of ey.aniple oa the human mind ; and he apprehends drat the Austrian or the Pro•-ia:i. in vpite, or past misfortunes, may emulate the fame acquired by the Arragonese, or by the Atifialiefiaa. Nor man he be insensible to the effect of defeat unit capitulation on his own osotley troops, fanned cl many notions, dragged by conscription from th. homes, to be saciiiiced on the Ebro, on the sus, and in the mountains of Castile, in order ni set a vile adveliturer on the Throne of Spoil,. Ai ready, no doubt, he vainly regrets the presump tion or imprudence which seduced him, througi a sea of carnaga, and by the eonimission of iya crimes, to comriCrt to hewnl the inconceivstile ration a loch lie hail reached. Ile will wove,. tionably call oat all the powers of his subtle, p romo!, and active mind, to repair the error aLa he Ins committed. either by war or by ni,gsi. pad s. Wiling. in his gripe the legitimate Sova'regi, ,hots he can release at will, and ninon * may render tire itistruments of his policy, or tilt . inemis of cameiliatiou ; he will avail himself fif eery eircurna:aace to circumvent. to delude, aad to sustain himself io his present situation. On what day Jusent quitted the Capital of dies Castile, becomes now of comparatively smell portance. Enough is fully ascertained to the ill success and complete disappointment of IN .• ooteast's plans. Ile has failed before Surtr.:,, and before Valentia. 11. s fleet at Cadiz, and In army in the Sierra Morena, have surrei.dereil— Jursor remains insulated at Lisboa, reinate boa assistance, and ahatiolot.e.l to Ins own Prr)llfCtP. Every province of Spain, except three that are lull in awe by the troops which Culottes 11. nuaklr allowed his perfidious Corsican ally to introduce, have proclaimed FERDINAND VII. The Patriot insurgents, animated with indig•r:trion against the ruffian who, w ithout provocation or preteuee, ex cept from his lawless ambition, has rendervd Spain a isst theatre of carnage, here, with manly firmness, torn the Imperial mantle from los slim I dem. mid exposed him in all his moral deformity. Their immifestos, appeals, and invocations, .1. which he is designated, lint as an Emperor, or as Sovereign, but by the epithets of an Usurper, a :A ■n adventurer, will wound hint to the quick. :1 is not incurious to mistreat these effusions of Spot energy, with the base and prostiLlits aduhitint of German servility, when, in Jatinary scarcely tern months ago, the literati of Leipsic raised this flagitious tyrant to the skit.. and placed him among the constellations. For the first tune since Boa ararres assumption of the supreme authority, our own Government has ventured. in an official paper, addressed by a Stare tary of State, to the Envos of the Asturias. to denominate him, •" the Atrocious Usurper el Franc•." This olteration in the style anti !ranging-. or Great Britain is by no means n matter of iritilfhl 'nee to Nara' EoN. Nor will it tail to pi-wince a corresponding effect on the Continent of Eire''' . He cannot, like GEonoc the 1 . 1111111,Pr like Flt Al l. CIS the SECOND, bear to lie subjected to the opera. tion of reason, of ridicule, or of examiiviion.- - : While .6 (mussed by conquest's crimson •• • . 1