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OUTLINES of ENGLISH 4RA NIMATI, calculated for toe u.c ot both tries M school; is which the practical trske of the loormite ars clearly mid distinctly laid (luau, and speculative difSealtim .at .wick as isousixte melded. By the sane. 30. bused. - • GENERAL CRAUFURD. ACTION OF JULY 24 . Marshal Massena. not content with the gross mis- I impretentations which were contained in his first offi.ial account of the affair of the 44th of Judy. near Almeida, has, in a subsequent dispatch. revert. ed to it m s tone of boasting wholly unjustified by the circumstances. assuring the War :11mirter that his whole entity is burning with impstieuee tip teach the Etugbah army what they taught the division of Crauford in the affair of Almeida. Brigedier- General Craufurd has therefore determined to give this public contradiction to the false arsenious coatsinell in Menthol Maswena's report of so tic. tiun, which war not only highly honourable to the light division, but which positively terminated in its favour. notwithstanding the extraordivary disparity of numbers. A cone: of 4000 men remained during a sif hide day in presence of an anny of 24.000 men ; it performed in the presence Oro large a force one of the most difficult opera time of war. namely, a eeriest from a very hroken aid extensive position, over one narrow defile ; it de fended, Jurist; the whole dry, the tire' defensible position that was to be found in the neighbourhood .of the place where the action commenced ; and in the course of this affair. a corps of 4000 men Inflicted upon this army of 84,000 men a lose equal to double of that which it sustained. Such were the circumstances of the setion which Brigadier- Geoeral Craufurd'a corm was opposed to the army commanded by Marshals Masses* and Ney. no the 24th of July; and it is, therefore, isidisputable that they had the best of it. From Marshal Masiena's official dispatch, con taiaing a statement of the force to which we were opposed, it appears that the cavalry consisted of the 3d homers. I.sth chimeric., 10th, 15th, and 2.Sth dee:owls ; awl that the whole of the in fantry of Ney's corps was present, except orm regivneet of tat division of Marchaud. The infan try of Ney's corps, according to the intercepted official returns, amountA at that time to upwerds of 2t,000 effective.; awl the cay.ilcy regiments were certainly between six and seven hundred each. It therefore appears that the force which Marshals Massena and Ney advanced to attack the light division. on the morning of the gale July. consisted of '20,000 infantry be tween 3 411 d 4,non cavalry ; to which were opposed three English battalions (odd. and ts,hi), Portuguese battalions (lit and 3.1 chasaeurs), end eight squadrons of cavalry, making in the whole a force of *boat 9,810 British, and 1,100 l'or;uguese troops. Almeida is a small fortress situated at the edge of the declivity, forming the right back of the valley of Ilse Cue. which river runs from the south to the north, and the bridge over which is nearly an Fugloth mile west of the town. From the 21.1 to the 21th July. the chain of our cavalry outociata formed • semicircle in front of Alt:wide, the might flank being appuy4 to the Co., 11 , 4 f As Neves, which is about three miles above the 'dec.., and the left flank also appuye to the river. near Chico Villas, which i. about threw miles below the fortress. The centre of this line was covered by a small stream; •ad un the principal roads by which it was expected that the enemy would advance, name ly, no the right and centre of this line, the cavalry ports were supported by pinittlw of infantry. The only road which our artillery awl the body of our caveiry could snake use of to retreat to the Co., was that which leads from Almeida to the bridge. The nature of the ground mule it slit- Ocult fur the enemy to approach this road on nor left, that is to say, no the north side of the town ; and the infantry of the division was the plse,3l in a position to cover it no the tight or south side. having its right Risk appurit to the Coa shore the bridge. its front 'covered by a deep arid rut ky and its left in some inrlo.urei near • wind mill, which is on the plain &mut 800 yards south of the tu,vii. The Governor intended to ntount you Myna 11,14 %MARIO!, end one was actually in it, but it 11'.14 useless, as it was not mounted : and another (also dismounted) was lyiug near th , • These are the two guns which Marshal Masciiii rays he took in the uction. On the moriiing of the 24th the ceistie of nit, line of iliggletS war attacked, insanely, th,,t which nem. pied the road leading from Almeida to Val de Is Mule, which village is about four English utiles eu.t of the fort re... These piquet' were supported by the 14th light dragoons and two guns ; but when the bead of a cousidtrable column. with ar tillery. presented itself. Red Megan to furor tot the other side of the rivulet. the *sets were with drawn. The enemy then veered the Amite?. • coo 'innerly took place. mid the enemy formed a line of fifteen 'quadrates of canal.. at the &rune« o!' of shoat • mile frees the aliovisonentioneil twll, with artillery is its front. awl • of about 7,000 infinity on its right : other troop. were seen. though not so ilistiectly, advancing u pita our right. It being now evident that we wer- opposed to civil a force as bi retailer it itnpos.ible for lb igarlntr- Geueral Cranford to prevent the investment of the Plitevs he determined to crews the Coo. He ordered the artillery and cavalry to move off br the road leadirg from the town to the bridge. maid the in fantry to follow, reti-ing ormee the vineyard. wards she bridge. Ile riot cted that the iiifai.try ►hould move Wise ec.;4clon froin the left, it bein4 ne cessary to held Cm right tilt th.i last, in auks' to pre. •eath' enemy approaehlag thetridgx 'oy i road • Coming from Junta, and which runs to the bottom of.the'valley close to tie river. Some compinks which formed the left of of , liar were in a viutlard; which had heel soOota. pletely inclosed by a high shone wall, that it We. quite impossible fur cavalry to get into it; but the preceding night ha►ing Keen exerseiVlly had, some of the troops wile . had been stutioued hs this vineyard, had unfortunately pulled down the wall iii Many . phicee, to make nee of the ~canes to form a shelter against the ram, which was' most violent. Mhis wall, a WWII Brigadier-Gruerel Craufurd had considered as a complete defence, was, therefore, no longer such.; and after our artillery sad cavalry had moved off, the enemy's cavalry broke into the inclasure. and took several rituners. Our total I° , B in prisoners and missing amounted to about fin, alter all those who were et first returued as such had joined their regiments. The 43d regiment, having been on the left of the line, was the first that arrived near the bridge. The Brigadier-General ordered some companies of it to occupy a height in front of the bridge, and the remainder to pats o%er, and form on the heights on the other side of the river. Part of the 95th regiment and the third battalion of chas seurs, Who arrived next, were formed on the right of those companies of the 43d regiment that were in front of the bridge. This position was main tained until every thing was over, and until one of the horse-artillery ammunition waggons, which had been overturned in .1 very bad situation, was got up and dragged to the other side by the men.— Duritig the remainder of the cloy the bridge was most gallantly defended by the 43 1 and part of the 94th regiments, and after at was dark we retreated from the Cos. To retire in tactical order over such ground, so broken, rocky, and intersected with walk. as that which separated the first position from the second. would have been impossible, even if not under the fire of the enemy ; and the ground on the other side of the ricer was equally unfsvourable fur re forming the regiments. Whoever knows any thing of war knows, that in such an operation, and upon such ground, come derangement of regular order is inevitable; but the retreat was made in a mili tary soldier-like manner, slid without the slightest precipitation. In the course of it, the enemy, when he pressed, was attacked is different places by the 43d, Std, and 94th regiments, and driven before them. With respect to the enemy's loss, it is of course difficult to say what it was; because we know, that from the commencement of the r e volut i onary war to the present day, no French official report has ever contained a true account of their loss. Upon this occasion, Marshal Masseurs says, .4 We have taken one stand of colours, 409 men. and two pieces of cannon; our loss amounted to nearly 300 killed awl wounded."—He took no colours ; the cannon were the two dismousited guns belonging to the fortress, which were lying in and near the windmill ; and instead of 400 prisoners, he took only about 60, supposing every one of those whom we returned us missing, to have fallen alive into the enemy's hands. Now. if in the same paragraph, in which he states his oisit loss at 300, he calls 60 prisoners 400, we nosy fairly limier, that its is not more accurate in the ..ere that' the other ; and this circumstance, as well as the usual practice of their service. and the pro. halnlity or the thing from what we could observe. falls justify us in soonsmiug it to have been from 6 to 700 ; ours amounted in killed, wounded, and • prisoners, to .I3U. Such is the true account of this affair, upon which the Marshal prides himself so much, but in which it is certain the advantage was on our side. We could nut pretend to prevent the investment of the place; but in our retreat we did not lose a gun, a trophy, or • single article of field equipment ; and we inflicted on the enemy a loss certainly the doable of that which we sustained. The account contained in the commencement of the Marshal's dispatch, of what mid pssr,ed the 21st of July, is equally contrary to the truth. Ile talks of him mg fatted the passage of the let that is between Almeida ale' Val de la Hula the it nt wrliereati our piquets remained there, and not a smile Fri-Ischia/8i passed it until the morning of the 24111. He says that many of cur sharp-shooters fell into their helots on the ; the truth is, they did not take a single man. l'he re treat of the 14th Dragoons from Val de la Motu was conducted in the most slew mud rep, , nlar 111411. tier ; and our inteotions with respect to Fort Conception were completely ftittillerl. (Signed) HOST. CLIAUFLItD, roREIGN INTELLIGENCis. MALTA AND GUMMI AR ►TAIL& (From The Gibraltar Chronicle, of October Is.) Ail:mints of an alarming nanire having been re caivtd from Carthogena. respecting the stote of public health in that city, his Excellekey the I.ieu tenant-Governor thought proper to issue the follow. lug I'roclumatiou on the7th inst.; but it having pima been wicertained that the neighbouriug part of the country wat at fret: from say symptom of contagious disorder as time garrison itself, and the merchants, having handeowitly tendered their services as health conservators, if his Excellency consented to re-open the cosinnouicati?st ■nder certain restrictions, his Excellency hat been pleased to permit the landing of goods from British vetikds coming from the vest ward, and the re-establithimmt of a market on the where the inbabitante,are allowed to bring and te II fresh provisions to the inhabitants ; the whole drawn ■p by the enerchents themselves, ap proved of by his Excellency, end enforced at Wine: Port and Laud Pcrt by the health conserva tors, bo.L't of whom are in constant attendonce at both p'..sces, fur the purpose of preventing any im proper corni.iunicatiou liead-aptartaa, Gibraltar, iikt 7 t me " PROCLAMATION. V. lirreas au alarming fewer bus broken ont at tarthagena. ■nd made its eppasranee in some of the ships now performing quarantine in this bay, nicellency the Lieutenant-Governor fuund ~• ;T . ., :-.;(.; • , It ue..c,.....,y is utt .1 all comaltriii..aliza A r worV * cc , rnmanil, hare ... - ; i ne q . . Spain, both by v.:;ault4l land ; ati,l his ii:xurllesi;:y lid lAA, : i lek ec. 4 sio n „. lest his retreat should he c further orders, that al persons olio have ler l is . ~. ' ~ k ., .. .. J. SITART, Count C . ‘.: ... a • the Viiszlaintitim uf 1 . 440010,illarimisassept. 90, I!.1c. .. . ".. • the mosemeot® o r th e 11 1 . 1.. the garrison, is dire...tet by the it,th of Felsruary last, ar.il oil others whatnot- I . trtnentilinad in our lust I'..pez, thz t ,•,„,., not provide themselves iu ti.e course of threeibli t. ..!p cOintnanded the Frehrh t , o ' i 'rl with prove:lolls fur three months, most furtintiqi 1 tryli; efr ;'to fl ei i v g e h d t iti quit the garrison.—By command, ". 1 01!9 lit Tli 9 RCU UV, Secretary." 1 I g O, , saved hin3self by ?r i asisiminiog toLards i un- e am*, by one " A:.Gt et% SEPT* B. of which h e was picked o p ;c " Ste—l am requested by his Highness the Drily liiii.4 Ambrosio hem; no swimmer, was tairo p of Algiers, to iliforin my Government, that he has declared the port.; of Tuu;s iu a state of blockade and that three mouths after the date hereof, soy vessels found by his cruisers 'violating the said blockade, will tie made priire of.--. 11 have the limner to be, with peat respect, Sir; your most obedient humble servant, 11. S. U1.11111CiLlilt." " 1414 Excellency Major• General tiispbell, kc.irse. lix." C:SECALTArto OCT. 11. Oa Saturday lest, upon a signal being made by a Mos from the westward, which kept for tame time tacking at the entrance of the Straits, the Sicilian frigate AMIVEES went out anti joined her, and they both proceeded to the eastward. TLe first is helieterd to be the Enteral(lts, its which the Duke of odeuus is retttruing from Cadre to Sicily. . . . Use of the gun-bests which the F►ench have been at so much trouble to fit out at Malaga, and about which so many letters passcd in May last between Obrigoa, Soult, blaziredn, &e. is saTely moored at Algeairas t she carries two gun., our of which is a 24-pounder, and has 5 t men us board.— We understand that havinig been sent out upon a eraire, the Spanish part of the crew, which was the more numerous, fell upon the Genoese, secured them, and conducted the beat to a port where they might freely proclaim their scutimion of fidelity to Ferdinand, which they have alvia)§ cherished in their hearts, but which the presence of the satel lites of the perficUeus enemy has hitherto compelled them to suppress. An Expedition sailed from this Bay early on the morning of Thursday last, the destination of which is not known. ocT. 20. By the Pkiksel brig of war, which arrived this morning from Sicily, we learn that a body of three thousand five hundred of the enemy had effected, undisco►ered, a landing near to Mining, during the night. On the following morning, they were attacked by a single British regiMent, supported by some Germans, and completely defeated with great slaughter. More than 1,5100 prisoners had been brought in when the Maisel sailed : 'a stuall part of the enemy's force had effected their escape in the boats which brought them over. His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor bas thought proper, in consequence of a report made to his Excellency by Dr. Pym, Deputy ilnepector of Hospitals, to order the commenication with Spain, by land; to be completely cut off ; and that no vessel from the coast of Spain he permitted to eater the Bay. except British ships ,or such as below; to the garrison. A precautionary quaran ! tine is also established upon vessels from Portugal, the coast of Barbary, and the Mediterranean. N MINA. SS rT. 23. EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTE. " Licutenant-General Sir John Stuart has Lag possessed the public esteem. on account of the laurels lie gathered at Maids : he has long de servedly obtained the attachment of the Sicilians for the liberal and generous sentiments by which its conduct is guided on all occasions ; and he has long conquered even the gratitude of the enemy. by his. humane treatment of prisoners ; bet he has ass acquired the admiration of all impartial men. by the noble manner in which be condescends to divide with the Sicilians the glory of defending this Island. The Muuifesto of the 30th September af ford* a striking proof of his sentiments; it ia in the following t►rms:— 11011t.r. The enthusiasm arid sacred patriotism of tl Sicilian were most bililiently displayed oa Meteorslite .accasion,, sot only io the esix:retu Santo Stefano, and dlih , but the iobe.);ii of Fekes Cecil Vecchio, Savoca, Fitt4Al 5 and several other places, no soci,r intelligence of the French having int:, tam they left their peaceful occatput:oot, hastened to meet the ferocious enemy by their cculitry was invaded. DECLAMATION TO TIRE PUBLIC, BY HIS ESCRLLINCT LISUTEN•RT-4:6I4ERAL •IR JONN STUART, COUNT 0W &Mir*. CeNt4ANDlgit. IN-coter or ill. SIUTAINOIC MAJLeTICh FORUM Ix TIM mralitilostor. 4 ' The prompt and rigorous manner io which the inhaLitanta sof the neighbouring villages of this city hastened to join the Britiolt troops oa the isth of this month, has excited io 'myself, as well as iu the whale army under my orders, sentiments of the most livelj• joy and highest satisfactiom. SEPT. IO26III X A, r, Last ti . :!..,lit the whole of the French to attempt a sec nut time the invavioa of Siedy ; the English and Sicilian flotillas, obsee6 4 enetay's movements, immediately weighot pushed on to meet him ; he did , hoe/ever, im their approach, but took to tight and rail o s The eoctny's corps, whieh made the vtwo invasion ou the lath 'lost consisted of the ( skeet Regiment, the 2d Regiment of Light I fabstry, and the 4th Reginseat of the Lire. The Corsican Regiment, wbicb sin taken, buried its colours in the sand, but they were di voted sad carried by s dragoon to the British quarters. 'll - bey tit-sr the iuscriptios-4 Joe Napoleon, King of the Two Sidliet, to tiro B Corsican Regiment." THE BRITISH PRE " The laudable enthusiasm which on that occa sion was manifested by all clAshes of Sicilians, la induced me to make a distinct report on that sub ject, is order to be laid before His Majesty. their Sovereign. Th~-~ LOND6N. AUKS DA V, Nov poga 22. 7ur The letters and papers brought by the Cr and Mail were delivered ycsterdsy. They acs s 24th last, aad cola plet.rly dissipate the sions excited by the rumour of the existerq coutugious disease in that city. As Mee, ditease, however, having made its appeu •n board some vessels under gouts:rine in the and it having been reported that it had broker. at Crrtbagenr. a Proclamation was leased s•i 7th, at tilibraltar, prohibiting all enennian.: with Spain both by land and sea. It was aide ,,, ascertained that the report reapteting Cern'. was false, and the ednamanioation with Sp:,:n accordingly re-opened under certain resteict The Dalt of Arm Eai has declared the port Tunis in a state of bloeloule.—The repilt; brought by the Atka from Cadiz, npnn The ar city of a letter from Gibe:it:at, data the V.Tdi; we apprehend that there is an error in this end that it was only 'a repetition of the rumour relent on the 7th. when the Prot.lamstion lens nuked) was holed. 4. It appears from Lord Wilda Gvoti's thspoto to the 4th instant, published in the Errroortin Casette of Tueoday. that his Lordship felt his perfectly secure, and did not apprehend that M SENA would attempt to provoke a battle suet had received reinforcements. Government, we de:stand. have in consequence resolved to t force our army with all possible expeilit,on. troops under orders for foreign service sill s.:l mediately for the Tagus. Cr The following information, says Tle Mernsry of the 19th inst. wus communicate,' yesterday, by ■ Gentlmam who had receir from a corresimadent at Itobiford. The mum , Com Mandel of the cutter was mentioned. hut' held from oar age, for the reason that thecae ideation was not mode directly from himself " All `the inhabitants of this island rnay rut sa tisfied, that the sacred tatek of defending this island against the threatened invasion of a cruel and rapa cious enemy, pleasing as it proved is itself to Bri tish soldiers, milord' them much additional gratifi cation, as they use, that, in trouenrtitr of &ulcer sod victory, their esvrtions are supported by the innate valour and fidelity of the inhabitants. " A cutter arrived here on Friday from s the Commander of which gives informingr the whole of the French Army in Poring.; surreatlere4 them.elvers prieoner. to our arros., that the French had hem previously so dies for want of hod. aii to bee fur u. a days 0* own lunges." The following Beßeline were elrewo St. Jetties'. : •• Window Castle, Nu.. ses,...Nine " The litwu'a fever has aot incressed coist.e or the dry. His 51s.rssrs his bs sleep this evening." " H. R. REY:4OII " H H4LFORD. " HEBERDER " K. HAILLIR. " R WILLIS." Wiedoet Glade, Now. 21,1 " His MAJWITY continues much la MA atat• Is be was yeiterdey." (eiree4 et a.m.) llis Swedish Yilajcs!y, Gorravus "Rived I , Pzt evening at Jscoutea's 'Hotel r Band-sttoct, accomptnied by Mr. Coca Cr! Sllllll, who had been or!nt r tf !n ruler him optirrs ref the Marqui3 N.% LL1,15! EY. :lir. the wit haeriger, went to Colcheoer on :11 n• orders io C7!'l7 " The inhaLiiants II Coati di Santo Ste- Gum. and Galati, abase situation ellotdeti them a peen;j.ir opportunity of distinguishing theinsetres its the Lavniate action which toot plate, will, io par ticular, b; pleastd twacerpt this testimoni .1 of the high atisraN.::on rith whichl myself, as well as t h e I ogt;, s fl4l hyl , T iAc e 121111 1016 tai•