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(Ai)Ll (FURTEHR PARTICULARS.) GIBRALTAR, Nov. 7.--We know that 5000 Si cilian troops have lately sailed from Sicily; we are ignorant of their destination. CADIZ, Nov. 12.—According to faithful ligence, communicated to us by a . person who left Madrid on the Ist instant, the indignation of the heroic people of that city vas great, at witnessing the precipitate deliarture 'of Senors Villariezo, Cortabarria, and other functionaries,. whe only attended to placing themselves .in safety. We are assured that in consequence of late events, Government has dispatched the requisite orders for all the effects abandoned by the enemy. in Toledo being placed in security: xii gloriously at" the head of his company. God preserve your Excellency many years. BARON VbROLESI Field of Battle, Arbeca, Oct. 2 ANSWER OF THE GENERAL IN CHIEF OF Tim FIRST ARMY, DON LUIS LACY, TO . THE DISPATCH OF / . 11A11,0Z , T - I ani highly satisfied with the success of the:ex 7 pedition cif ybur Excellency, upon Arbeca,' in which has 'been destrOyed a portion of the garri ron of Lerida, avenging in part the atrocities com mitted by it. I caused the dispatch of your D:- cellency, of the 2d inst. to be immeiliatoly pz6- fished; that the .public might not fora mo!cent be without intelligence so satisfactory, and which does much honour to the troops engaged in the enterprize. As the sensibility of your Excellency, the first feature in the Spanish character, has induced you to spare the 175 VandalS who laid dm\ n their arins, 1 Avill not reca ll this act of your Excellency in their favour; bUt this must be the last instance of such. forbearance ; and the troops of yOur Ex cellency must, under no pretext, depart from the just reprisats enioined by the order of the army, not to give - quarter to any individual of the gar rison ofLerida, so long as the barbarous Heuriut commands in that place, whose repeated:acts of cruelty towards the defenceless inhabitants have given occasion to this measure of retaliation. God preserve your Excelleucy-ruany years. LVLS LACY. Head-quarters, Vial, Oct. 6, Altßivrn-2 Lisbon, 1. I )nE-1 Cadiz, 4 Gotten:. burgh, 1 Guernsq, 1 Jersey, 1 Brazils; 4 Waterf6rd. PRICE, OF STOCKS • ruTs nve o'cLnerc. Consol , • SSI ittd...lnti. 57N I °amain" .4i T 1 1E SUN. QUIS DICF.RE FALSUM AUDEAT ? L 0 N D THURSDAY, DECEM.BET , 1812. [FROM THE REGENCY GAZETTE OF NOV. 19.] The mischiefs which. the hostilities of the Al gerines caused our, cominerce, attracted the at tention of Government, in order to remedy it ; ; and, after many efforts, it has succeeded in re establighing a good understanding, which has been disturbed by the machinations of the French agents in Algiers. The Dey has promised that his ships, and the privateers belonging to his subjects, shall henceforward respect the Spanish ; and the restoration of the brig -Espoz.y Alba, which was taken after the agreement was made, but be fore it was known to the captors, is ,a proof that he intends to fulfil his proinic. - ' In virtue of the same agreement, he has.restored the ships•talfen from the commencement of hostilities.,, .The in dividuals in the ships taken amount to 226, in cluding 25 Spanish soldiers, and 52 French pri soner, who were in the polacro Saragossa, 'and . have all ,been given up.. The main obstacles to be surmounted in bringing this negociation to a ter mination would not have been got over without the powerful interest of his Britannic Majesty's Ambassador in Cadiz,i the happy arrangements of the British Admiral Pellew, and the zeal, pru dence, and agacity of Captain Adam, of the English - ship Invincible, who was the Gentle man who, in Algiers, discharged so arduous a commission. The Regency of the Kingdom has seen with surprise, that one of the periodical papers printed in Cadiz, has published, without permissions of his the greater part of the officia: documents relative to the conferring' of the command of the Spanish armies in the. Peninsula on the Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo. The originals of almost all these docu ments are in the office, of the first Secretary of State ; and the slightest suspicion- that the copies published have issued from thence without the or (hers of Government, would be very detrimental, ,especially as -- they relate to a Ministerial Corre ‘spondence which is, in its, own nature, secret, and, on a subject still depending on the approbation of the Prince il.genfof Great Britain. The Regency Las, in consequence, given orders to the First Se cretary of State to make the requisite investiga tions ; and the result has been, to convince his :Highness, that the office of the First Secretary of State still preserves that incorruptible fidelity; re serve, and propriety, by which it has always been distinguished; and that none of the individuals in the' same have furnished these documents., As some of them have never been in the office of the First Secretary of State, n::r in any other, this' is a sufficient proof that none in those offices halle had any share in a publication, at once illegal and unseasonable. When solid instruction shall become more ge neral among us, it any public writer should be so wanting in the respect he owes to Government, ,21s to make similar publications, without order or ntinwtiou instead of raising the credit of his pa , per, or obtaining any end, he would find the pu nishment of his temerity in the indignation of his :readers. For in a nation so intelligent and re fecting as this, even the least infoimed .person will admit, that it appertains only to the Govern ment to, publish, at a proper time, the result of negnciations and expeditions ; and if, .before this arrives, individuals, shall presume to make I:nown even any of . the intermediate steps taken in rsach negociations, it would be necessary to abo lish our Secretaryships, and even to - suppress the names of them, and to order that matters of busi— ness, which are discussed only in Cabinets in all civilized countries, shall be proclaithed in the üblic places. [FRom Txt REDACTOR-PENERAL OF N'OV: la] . The Conciso, of the 170, conta:Us a represen tation from General Ballesteros, dated Antequera, the 10th of November, requesting a second time, that the Regency would change his destination from Ceuta, wliere the nation and posterity would confound him with criminals of a very different class, to some place in . the Peninsula,—at least till he has been beard and judgeil ; a request which the editors of that paper do not doubt will be at 7 -tended to. DISPATCH FROM BARON DEROLES .10 DON LUIS LACY. Most Rxcellent Sir,---I have avenged the death of &Lyle, and the Regidor of Clot, victims of the barbarity , of Henriot, with the heads of more than 200 Cat - tubs of the garrison of Lerida. We have carried vengeance and obedience to an height . Ivhich has revolts humanity; but neither 1, nor my troops ; have been able to refuse quarter, Jo 175 More Frenchmen, who had laid down their arms to implore our clemency. It is sufficient to font) some idea of this carnage, to observe, that in this number of prisoners there is only one officer; but not one, either officer or man, es caped._ Only 70 - horse took another route ; but of these, too, 14 fell into our hands. If. this, however, should not appear a sufficient satisfac tion for the blood of our defenceless patriots, we still have bayonets and hands to avenge them. This victory has been obtained with only the Companies of grenadiers and chasseurs of the four battalions of Tarragona, Ferdinand Vll. Cardona, the Loyal Manresans, and about 60 hussars of Catalonia and cuirassiers. I will send you, when communicate to you all the circumstances of the the' names of those.who most distinguish. e i teemselvesion this _oceasion. I shall only add, for Our satisfaction, that out loss has been very small, though it is increased by that of the Cap- At an early hour this ,morning a Gazette Ex traordinary was publiShed, containing Dispatches from the Marquis WELLINGTON. Our Plymouth Letter states, that a neutral vessel had arrived there front Bourdeank, which place she left on Wednesday last, the Captain of which reports, that the twenty-eighth Bulletin had been received, and that it contains an account of another sanguinary battle between theßiusians and French, in whiclL the latter were victorions.= We are not inclined to attach any credit to, this report. The vessel is stated to have left Bour deaux on Wednesday last, which was the 25th ult. Now we received Paris Papers on Monday last of the 25th 'and 26th, which, it is hardly ne cessary to say, did not contain any Bulletin. The Diomede sailed from Cork on Friday wish a fleet of transports with troops on board for Lis bon. Yesterday . being the day appointed by the PRINCE; REGENT to receive the Address of the House of Commons, at ten minutes before three o'clock the SrliAkEit arrived in his state coach at Carlton House, accompanied by his Secretary, Chaplain, Train Wearer, and Mr. SEYmou - a,:the Serjcant at Arms. The following Members at tended the SPEAKER in court-dresses : Lord Clive and Mr. Hart Davis, the mover and seconder of the Address; Vis Count Castlereagh, Earl of Yarmouth, Lord Lowther./ Mr, iransittart, Mr. G. Rose, Lord Charles Somer set, Mr. Bathurst, Mr. D. Giddy, General Thornton, Mr. M. Mutton, Mr. HolfOrd, and Mr. Davis. In a few minutes after the PRINCE being seated on his- throne, .they were introduced, and the gynikiv3ll read the Address ; to which' ifit Royal returned a most gracious answer. Yesterday a Court of Direetras was held at the East India House, when the following ships were. taken up, viz. —Minerva, 534 tons ;Union, 5.i() ; Lady Lushington, 594, William Pitt, 572, Lord Forbes, , 513. THE THEATRE.—A Drama, under the title of The Renegade, founded on DRYDEN'S Don Sebastian, was last night brought forward at Covent-Garden - Theatre. The Constructor of this piece is Mr. REYNOLDS. As our Readers in general cannot be ignorant of the original play, it is needless for. us to detail the plot,- or even to notice the alte rations : it is sufficient for us to say, that the chief characters are retained, and that tzle under plot is taken from the comic part of The Spun4h Friar. The _Renegade is formed according to the taste of the times, and has fine scenery, superb dresses,, processions, and music. A hold effort was made to represent a water-sp o ut, a nd when it is better managed than it was last night, it will be a striking feature in the play. DodScbastian was well supported by C. KEMBLE, Dorm' by YOUNG, and Muley' Moloch by BARRYMORE. These. are the chief of the serious characters. Those of the co mic kind are rendered as prominent. ks they admit by JoiwEs,..l.HsToN - , BLANCHARD, SIMMONS, and MiSS BOLTON. The music, particularly the cho- Jmes, is very creditable to the composer, Bl§Hor. SINCLAIR bad two songs, in one of which he was properly encored.. Miss BowroN also had encores. She sung one air to the lute, and another 'with castanets. She played with great spirit. 'The ,play was announced for repetition by Youi4G, but not without opposition. Captain J. FAIRFAX was sworn into the com mand of the. ship Hugh Inglis, destined to Madras and Bengal. The recent defeat of the American forcein Ca nada was ascribed to the militia of the United States having positively refused to march across the lines into' the British territories, which neces sarily weakened the invading army. The Ameri cans, in enumerating their less, mention General RANSELIAR as wounded, and a prisoner ; and Sia 7 jor RuYThR, as, having been killed, I. I LAIOUTft, DEC. 1 Vessel arrived here this morning from Bourdeaux, Which sailed from thence on Wednesday last ; and brings intel ligence that the:2Bth Bulletin from the army bad been received at Paris, which ; it was reported, contained the details of another sanguinary battle between the Russian and french armies, and that the latter. were victorious. The Fanny transport, , belonging to rondon, TAYLOR, master, that arrived here yesterday from Lisbon, after t passage of 15 days, with part of the 2d battalion of the sth Foot, consisting Of ,152 men,'brings intelligence that a fleet of trans ports from England, with -a reinforcement for the Marquis 'Of WELLINGTON'S army, arrived there a few hours previous to her dcpaiture, and that the ,troops, about 2,600 in number, had landed in good health and spirits. Ten thousand Portuguese troops, under the cnmmand of British Officers, had marched from thence, a few days previous, to join the Allied Army. Arrived his Majesty's ship Bustard, of 16 guns, from Alicant, Minorca, n . nd Gibraltar, with dis patches from Generals CLINro.:s and CAMPBELL, and Sir EDWARD PELLEW. ,General CAMPBELL was at Gibraltar. The Bustard is under .qc,iaran tine. Last night, off Falmouth, she spoke the Queen Charlotte post-oflicc packet, bound 'thither, out four days from Lisbon, with Mails, and from her received intelligence that the Marquis of WEL LINGTON was falling back on Ciudad Rodrigo, that the French army had been conceatrated, and a battle was d a ily expected between the hostile armies. • Arrived the Niemen frikate•, Captain PYM; from Lisbon, but' we have not been able to learn whe ther she. has brought any news. , Also arrived a few coasters.' • The Bastard sloop of war failed from Gibraltar eight (lays since, and, we mderstand, has not _brought any particular news from thence or the Mediterranean. The dispatches brought by her, together with the letters, 'will be forwarded this evening. Sailed the San Josef man of war, the flag ship of Admiral Lord KElTll,ComtnaDder of the Chan nel fleet, to blockade Brest ; also sailed the Stre nuous gun-brig fur the coast of France. The Warspite man of war, irk CawsKnd Bay, it is said, is to take out Lord MoraA to India, and not the Seahurse frigate ; as was al first reported, the Niter, we understand, proceeds immediately to the Mediterranean. FALMOUTH, Nov. 30.—Arrived this day his Ma jesty's ship Dauntless, with about 11 Sail of West Indiamen from Portsmouth, to join the outward bound here, under his Majesty's shins Seahorse and Coquette; also arrived the schooner Venus, Hop Kiss, from Lisbon; the brig Hope from Portsmouth for Chepstow ; and the brig Pheasant, Wt.T.E4Lwa, from Portsmouth for Cork. Arrived the Marlborough, BULL, and the Queen Charlotte (packets) MUDGE, from Lisbon, the former 10 days, and the latter only 99 hours ; brings accounts that Lord 'WELLINGTON'S army had retreated to Ciudad Rodrigo, and that his Lordship was at Traves with the advanced troops. The whole of the French troops in Spain have joined, and consist of 90,000 infantry, and 10,000 cacalry, and were marching towards Salamanca ; it was reported, that they, had entirely quitted Burgos, which was in possession of the Spa niards ; it is expected that a battle must shortly. take place. This evening came off here his Majesty's ship Bustard, with dispatches from Gibraltar, eight days, which were lauded, and forwarded to Go- vernmcnt. The Allied Army on the 20th ult. was 80,000 strong; head-quarters were at Cuidad Rodrigo. The Arabella and Psincss Elizabeth Packets had arrived at Lisbon. TORBAY, DEC. 1.--Arrived his Majesty's ship _Macon, from a cruise, bound to TeignmOuth to convoy his Majesty's ship Persius to - i'lymouth.— The Helicon spoke a Spanish frigate at sea, which reports that the French had left Madrid. • - PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 2.—Arrived his Majesty's ships flied and Stag with a convoy from Lisbon ; and the Regulus from Leith. Sailed his Majesty's ships Success and Freya with a convoy for Leith ; and the Dexterous on a cruize. Extract of a letter from an Of4cer on board his Majesty's ship TenedoS, 38 guns, dated Halifax, the 14th October :-. 7 " We shall sail from this in a few days, in company with the Nymph, 38 ; Shannon, 38 ; and Curlem brig, 18, in quest of Conunodore R'ODGERS'S squadron, consisting of the PPesident, UnitedState.s, and Congress frigates,With a sloop oi war." • 1: :t ~.; 1 1 1.. I i TIIVRSIiA.T, DEC. 3, 1812. s WAR. DEPARTMENT. Downing-street, Dec. 3, 1812. bispAtches, of which the following are extrads, were received last night by Earl Bathurst, ad dressed to ,his Lordship by the Marquis of Wel.; lington. Pitiegua, Nov. 7, 1612. The enemy repaired the bridge at Toro at much earlier. period quit' I expected. I therefore desired S;r Rowland el to continue his march by Fontiveros upon Alba de Tor Mes ; and as soon as I fouud.that he was sufficiently forward, I broke up yesterday morning from the position which I had held in front of Tordesillas since the 30th of last Month, and I am in march towards the heights • of St. Cheitoval, in front of Salamanca. The enemy has not pressed at all upon the teat of the troops under Lieutenant-General Sir Row !and Hill, nor have those on the Dburo followed the .march of the troops under my command ; conclude that the two corps will unite, which, la consequence of the situation . of the Douro, could not prevent. • Ciudad Rodrigo, Nor, 13, 18,15. 9 4 The troops under the command of Lietttenant Geneial Sir Rowland Hill crossed the Tormes, at Alba, on the Bth instant, and, those under my command took' their position on the heights of St. Christoval de la Cuesta on the same (bpi- ; gadier-General Pack's brigade occupying Anita Lengua, and Brigadier-General Bradford's brerizoi on the right ; and the British eavalTy covc;ing our front. - 1T had desired Lieutenant= General Sir Rowland fill to occupy the town and castle -of Alba, with Major-General Howard's tirigade of 'the 2d division, leaving Lieutenant- General Hamilton's Portuguese division on the left of the Tormes to support those troops; Nrhile the 2d division was posted in the neighbourhoo-d of the fords . of Encin as an d H uerta ; an d t h e 3 n l anti-4th divisions remained at Calvarassa-de Arils; in reserve, On the 9th the enemy drove in the picp;ets cif Major-General Long's brigade of cavalry, in front of Alba; and Major-General Long was obliged to withdraw his troops through Alba on the morn ing of the 10th. In the course of the day, the enemy's whole army approached our positions on the 'formes, and they attacked the trorips itt Wa with twenty pieces of cannon and a consi derable body of infantry. They Male tics pression on them, however, and withdrew the cannon and the greater part of the troops on that night, and this attack was, never renewed. I inclose Lieutenant-General Hamilton's report - to Sir Rowland Hill of the transactions' at ;Uha, which were. highly creditable to the troops cni ployed. From the 10th till the 14th the time was passed in various reconnoissances, as well of the fords of the Tonnes as of the position Ivhie.ll the troops under my •command occupied on the right of that river, in front of Salamanca ; and ort the 14th the enemy crossed that river in force, at three fords near Lucinas, about two leagues uhove Alba. • I immediately broke up from Saint and ordered the troops to move towar& AratOcs ; and as soon as I .had ascertained the directioa of the enemy's march from the fords, I moved ‘.l. the 2d division of infantry, and all the c:tvairy could collect, to attack them ; !caviar; Lieut , - nant-General Sir •Rowland Hill with the 4th, a 71 Lieutenant-General Hamilton's divisions, in fvon , : of Alba,' to protect this - movement, and the 3:I - di visiOn in reserve on the Arapiles; to secure the • possession of th a t p os i t i on. The eneiny, however, were already too nume- rocs, and too strongly posted at INlUzarbes to be attacked ; and I confined myself to a cannonade Of their cavalry, under cover of which I recdlinoired - their po.sition. , In the evening I withdrew all the troops from the neighbourhood of Alba to the Arapiles, /caving a Small Spanish garrison in the castle, and having destroytA . the' bridge. In the course of the , night and following Morning, I moved the greatest part of the troops ,through Salamanca, and placed Lieatenant-General Sir Edward Paget with the Ist division of infantry on the right, at Aluea lejada, in order to sec;:re that passage tor the troops over theZungUen, in case the movements of the enemy on our right flank should render it ne cessarT for me to make choice either of giving up in communication with Ciudad Rodrigo or Saiamanca. On the 15th in the morning I found the enemy fortifying their position at Mozarhts, which they had ',taken up the night before.; at the saute tinic, that, they were moving bodies of cavalry and in,. fantry towaHs their own left, and to our commu nications with Ciudad Rodrigo. It was obviot:s. that itwas the enemy's intention to act upon our communications ; and as they were too strong, and too.strongly posted for me to think of attack,- ing'them, I.determined to move upon Ciudad Ro— drigo. .•1 therefore putthe army in march in thrca columns; and crossed the Zunguen, and then pass ed the enemy's left flank, and encamped that night on the Vamusa. We continued our march , suc. cessively on the 16th, 17th, 18th, and this',day, when part of the army crossed the Agueda, and the whole will cross that river to-morrow. The enemy followed our movement on the 16th with, a ldrge body, probably the whole of the ta -vtdry, and a considerable body of - infantry but they did not attempt to press upon, our rear. They took advantage of the ground to cannonade our rear guard, consisting of the light division, under Major-General Charles Alien, on the 17th, on its passage of the kAuebra and San Munoz, and occa sioned some loss, The troops have suffered considerably from the severity of the weather, which, since the 15th, has been worse than 1 have eve known it at thii ,season of the ”ar.