The National Register.
London, England, 1811-11-17 00:00:00

CADIZ MAIL.

A mail from Cadiz was received on Thursday,
which brought intelligence of a recent date, and of
ccinsiderahle importance ; also, dispatches from
Corn rnOd Ore PEN HOSE, which were published in last
night's Gazette.
'Neese dispatches, as our Readers will perceive,
contain no intelligence of which we had not been
before apprised ; but they are the more interesting
and sntisfactory, as they confirm what was prey.
ously known of the result of this expedition in the
security of Tariffa from the enemy's designs, and
the release of General B ALLA ST EROS from his strait-
ened and embarrassing situation under the guns of
Gibraltar. The relief afforded to this enterprising
General was not thrown away upon him. As soon
as he was disincumbered of the immediate pressure
of the corps of GODINOT, by which he had been
compelled to seek shelter in the vicinity of Gibral-
tar, he was again in motion, and so close upon
the heels of the French division, that on the
twenty - second of October, the day after Go-
DINOT withdrew from Saint Roque, he entered
Ximenes, and succeeded in taking some prisoners,
ammunition, and baggage.- It is somewhat singu-
lar that the enemy should have withdrawn from St.
Roque and before Tariffa at the same time ; but it
is clear, that the expedition under Lieut.-Col. SK ER-
!ITT was the cause of both movements. The French
General would, naturally, finding himself unable
to effect any thing against the Spanish corps,
whilst protected by. the garrison of Gibraltar, re-
solve to try his fortune against Tariffa. But for
such an operation it would not have been neces-
sary to draw off altogether the division which he
had in the first instance pushed on towards Tariffa,
and which had menaced that position on the 18th
with an attack. _ _

The fact, however, of the retreat of that division
is ascertained ; and it appears that the French are
concentrating their forces in the Ronda. In a
divided state they have been unsuccessful—in a col-
lected mass they may be more fortunate, 11S they
would be more formidable—but the point to which
their united efforts are to be directed is yet doubtful.
The French accounts stated, that on the 28th nit.
preparations were made for the siege of Tariffa, but
an article of the same date from Tariffa in the
Cadiz Papers, presumes that the concentration is
intended for another attempt against General BAL-
LASTEROSt the first having been frustrated. Which-
ever way the movements of the enemy may be di-
rected, we are confident that equal disappoinnient of
their hopes, and the same disasters to their columns,
await their efforts.

FRENCH PAPERS.
Some Paris Papers were received on Friday which
supply little intelligence of importance. The fol-
lowing are the only articles worth extracting
" PARIS, Nov. 5.
" His Excellency the Minister of Marine is just arrived.
" The Ches.:elide, packet is arrived at Cherburgh, after an
action in which four Englishmen were badly wounded.. This
vessel was on her passage from Weymouth to Guernsey, with
dispatches. She had 14 passengers, a Colonel, and two officers
of artillery.
" The John, from Quebec to London, has been taken and
brought into Calais.