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• 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 Whittingharn
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.

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