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•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 revolutionary 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,
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" 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