The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-04-05 00:00:00

Far The enterprise and ealonv of the bee
• did oat allow their mammies to curry or dime
operations unmolested: its a short Bute. however,
ilea Pesach bad invested nearly nos-huff of the tows.
'amid ate the Seth of June they took possession of
*trent. The iseighbountig battery alms. which
1 'attested to au artillery office-4 and five
aleen, 'fell into their hands ; the (Aker was
"El
illielesui to be a teeter to his country for not har-
lot ielleuded this important post as he ought to
hays done, anal on his return into Saragossa was
imusedietelyelianged.
Alter the surrender of the Torrero, the city could
einninunieute only with the country Oa the side of
the Lieu.
During there operations of the enemy, the Arra-
ratite were busily employed iu placing their WWII
in the best possible state of defence that their slen-
der resources would admit of. They tore /low!' the
ass • gs from their windows, and formed them into
backs. which they filled with sand, and piled up
before every gate, in the form lAA battery, digging
rotted each of theta a deep trench. They broke
holes in the land walls and intermediate buildings for
inusquetry, awl sometimes. where the 1101ill011 was
cousanding, curium' werestatioued ; the houses in the
envirousof the city were putted clow si or burned ;gar-
den and olive ge dr, that in better times hail beets
the reereatien and support of their owners, were
cheerfully rooted top 1w the proprietors themselves,
wherever they impeded the defence of the city, or
covered the approach of the ensuiy. The exer-
tions of the men were animated by women of every
description, who formed theitiselvev into parties
for the relief of the wounded, and for carrying wa-
ter and provisions to the batteries at the gates,
while their children were emploped in conveying
cartridges which bud been made by the monks.
The Emrich continued to iuvest the city more
eleaely. and scarcely a day passed without a 111111-
solitary eoutest in the surroundiug olive woods, be-
tweeu detachments of time Arragouese and their elle-
ney. In the •last few days of the mouth of Julie.
ene soldiers of the regiment of Estrernadurie
susall parties from other corps, and u, few :atiller3•
men, contrived to reinforce Saragossa. Te their-
tilleryniess were aided MO of tile militia of Le-
greet/. who' animated by the preteure of an ene-
my, sews learned the ordinary duties of the corps
to which they were stitched. About the same
time. 2 pieces of venison, fee-pouudersh and some
shells, that were much waisted, were procured
, limn Lerida.
The many, at the same time, drew their re- •
sources from time stores in the eitudel of Pa widens,
whilst the Arragonese, now completely surrounded
by the French, had not one single fortress to
which they could have recourse, either fur innate-
notion or for cennous
About the last day of June. a powder maga-
zine, a very strong building, in the heart of the
city of Saragebui, blew up, and, in a moment,
nearly a whole street was reduced to a heap of
ruius • the inhabitaide of Surligoese had scarcely
recovered from their consternation at this fatal and
irrepandsle loss, and from the labour of extriest-
big their fellow-citizens from the ruins of their
hostiles, when the French, who had received user-
t,n. howitzers, and can: (1.2-pousiclene, of suf-
ficient calibre for the mud-wells of Saragossa)
opened a destructive tire upon the city. It has
been estimated. that about 1200 shills and gre-
nades fell in Saragossa, 1111.0:l1 had not one building
within it that wa., bousleproof„ tier bed the inhabit-
suits then teken the precaution of islecisig beams
of timber together endways agaiest time houses, he-
himd which isevsengers might him ssielter wheneier
a shell should chance to fall 17V;11. 1:1:111.
The attack of the enemy seemed to be directed.
prineipelly agaiest the gate called Pertain, nod the
castle near it without the walls, and MISICII Is a..
thilie insure than a large square buildnie, etude use
of as ii prison, and surrounded be a deep (Ince.
The •cand-luag battery before the gate of the Per-
tiliq was leniently defended by time Arragouree. It
wati-erverul mimes destroyed, aiul as °fie., rem*.
strutted under the fire of the enemy. The ear►
nage in this battery throughout the day was truly
terrible. It was here, that an act of hero'', ttt am
perfiwined by a liuids., to which history scarcely
affords a parallel. Augustine ?Armada, aleuut
twenty-two years of age, a haellenine worsens. '
6of th'e lower chasm of people, whilst ;terror • g
her duty of carrying refreshments to the gates,
arrived at the battery of the FortilM at the very i
sueroent when the French fire had absolutely
destroyed every person that bar embossed in it. '
The '11124111 Ned soldier for the tenement hesitated
es rteuran the guns; Auguatitta rushed forward
over the wounded air dram switched a match
,froui the limed ef a dead ertilleryesan. mail fired off
it gii-pounder. then jumping open the gem made 1
a edema vow never to quit et alive daring the siep ;
and having stimulated her thdlescr•tatizesis by is
dame intrepidity to fresh exertions, they isestinady
Adler; into the battery, and again opened a tree
mendous lire upon the eneisy. 'Whets the writer of
three pages sow /has herbal. at Siregeass, she had ii
small shield of hemmer embruidereil upon the
sleeve of her gown, with " Sarusgessa" inscribed
upon it, and was receiving a prosiest from the Gis-
vernment, and the, daily pay qf, au artillerymen.
On the 2d of July. as Mao as the meriting
broke, •enitimu of the enemy marched oat of their
battery. almost "tithe) musket-shot of the Portilley,
and the 'miriade, rif their firm": has 'len drawn up.
as though with an intent to scribed the attack of
the edvanciug column, Or to prolit by its success,
should it pnietrate into Saragossa. With filed
bayonets, and without discharging a shot, the cm
lame of the enemy marched towards the hattelv
of the Portal° ; het as soon as they retched tge ,
castle, a deetructive tire of grape owl tutitiqitotti
was opened upon their flank, the coilorgioruce tic
which was, that the French colitinu immediately/
dispersed, notwithstendiug the most gallant ewers
tire's of their offieers,
Another column of infantry was immunity die
revert by the French Central to advance agitimit I,
the, gate of the Canners, on the left of the Portal°. '
This gate wee defended by a steed-hag battery and
by musquetry, which, lulling the walls on each side, :
commanded two mut of three approaches to the
gate ; this column wits also tepulsed with coeds
derable loss. 1
Defeated in them two sweetie, the enemy pep.
ceedcd to 'invest the piece, still more thmeelivi
[Toe coaelauled to. morrow.)