The National Register.
London, England, 1813-07-18 00:00:00

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from a minor French Paw, *fifth' found its way to this me-
tropolis with a vague statement of the defeat of the British
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array under Sir JOHN MURRAY; Wail the supposed loss of
3 or 4000 men killed and woUnded, til!Cd them with the
most pleasurable anticipations. But what were their rap-
tures, whensthe French official account of the unsuccessful
!attempt of this Commander on Tarragona, his re-embarka-
tion and the abandonment of his heavy ordnance, was re-
ceived ! How eagerly they endeavoured to turn the table'
on their adver'ariec, and to avenge their own momentary
mortification.by Wasting the joy of ethers! How .they ac-
tively exerted thrfuselves to rita'.e our disaster appear
greater ! What a ve,l of gloom they. attempted to draw over
the anticipated consequences of our victory, which they re-
presented as strangled in their birth by this " defeat !" As
though it had not been achieved fifteen days cf/cr the failure
of Sir JOHN MURRAY'S expedition, which, since it did not
check the triumphant career of our arms when the main
strength of the enemy temained unbroken, cannot have that
effect now, that it is discomfited and dispersed. Whilst
tl ey had been content to pass general praise on the battle
of ViAoria, with what assiduous ingenuity have they not
dived into every particular which could tender the disap-
ointment of our hopes on the coast of Catalonia more se-
vere ! They have penetrated (and how could they do It with-
out bribery on the one side and infidelity on the other ?)
into the very secrets of the State, and procured information,
which, as_it is trot within the reach of all, cannot he easily
contradicted if incorrect, for the purpose of swelling the
force ender our unsucecFsful general, to a vast superiority
over that of his opponent, Which they have considerably di-
minished. They have proclaimed to the enemy that we
hate lost under the enc!osures of Tana-gotta the only train
of battering artillery we had in the Peninsula, and which,
After reducing Badajoz under Lord WeLeiNGTON, had been
shipped, they tell ns, • at-Lisbon. and sent round to Abeam.
-Had they possessed that information earlier, they would no
doubt have publi,lied it, And would have prevented the
evacuation Of Tow, Burgos, Pancorvo, and Bribriesca by the
French, who learning that our army had no batty, ing artil-
lery would have maintained. all these important forts in our
rear, with small garrisons instead of destroying them. Nay,
they will even BOW perhaps frustrate his Lordships attempt
on Pampluena and St. Sebastiafrovhich fur the same reason will
he successfully defended, instead of beiiigyoluntarily abandon-
ed as untenable before a tritaPhant fill-Cc sell provided with
rriemts for reducing them. It is not that we credit all that the
organs of the oppiisition'afe pleaied; to proclaim, or that we
think our army in the north' of bliphin• is hot provided with a
battering train; but the very belief that•it is not, will be suffi-
eient to raise greater:obstacles to the immediate success of
our operations. As to
.Sir John Istitasr's failure, it is
certainly a ground or surprise and ciisappclutment but nut
of despondency. it will no doubt he inquired inlo, but ls::t
that be done prriperly.‘is itilititestigaticin of this nature to be
carried on anonpitously ht pkiblie papers by persont.who'are
pot respoubible for the .falseltoods they may utter, and on the
evidence °flat), enftoY ticigt ~.whose accounts, hitherto .rejected
as always partial and lying, are snddcnly purged 'jail their
untrutbi in the eyes ofthis anonymous jury ! If.justiee is
to6e.done, this is'evid:entlYnOt the'Wity. To Condemn un-
Leard is the part of tyrannical obvt:rn*elits., and 'What. 14es
should we'intertain of ii 4 anielidratect ennititution were the
suen why displaY such principles in "itch- &induct, out of
place, ever to succeed in their attempts to get in ?

STEIN.,

FORE

l'Ants, JULY 5.—H4
has ruccive.4l the tiplh)w

Oitint de 'Metternich,
Majesty the Envei
alreafiv had several con

Russia has just o[tai
paper should have a lip
as the Prussian paps
this ordnam c does no
Prussia. .
The City of Berlin .
every day thus.' vexatin
con parts its situation

H. AlAirsty the E
eight of ICI) hours kill

We have lee: ived
furtrpses are in the hes'
to provisions; warlike

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I have just this mom
vernor of Tortosa,
a. nt. of which the foil.
'6 11/06kishIGNEtm.--.
fore Tarragona ar live
pears to stter in the diL
In this state of things
lentry, and 801) horse.,
troops of Deeaett
the English.

(Signed)
To tile Minister of ¶.

EXTRACT OE A UtTT

MON:,ICUIt LE Dt/C.—
kation of Anglo-Siciliar
that plate ou the 31st of
e under Tarragona.
to invest Fort St. Phil!
Attie, without a ftzitte,
T.lrtagolia, the forts an,
A tire.froin several bat?
latmer held out, made au
of the enemy, wore ti tic
explosion of a powder
PhiVippe.
The t twiny, by a ri
Tarragosia. At the dui
del Parque had arrived
in his camp at Casta
close upon our post.'.

stmti a, I %yds it'd
rant I made di,p:►siti
prompt inforni...tion,

IrooN to tali upon the
and on the first iufuri
brigacte upon I:areelotu
the 4th of June 1 had
visian, and the brigade:
by tbreed marches tow:
Valencia, that the fo!
only cannon road, Ina
ce,s, and, on the loth,
eolurnimoverthrew the
my troops arrived ;
gotta road ;
.and not. b!
united to seek a iiye-r
der to utnioniwe tily•
which refused all sinnmi
short, on the I.2th, 1 In
advancing OH fin; 13th
could see and be seen .
,Iu the,nican time, p,
canna., -and' pinilmd for
ankl-the march of column,
the enemy, and obliged
re-embark the greater

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