The National Register.
London, England, 1813-08-22 00:00:00

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The g'orions intelligence so confidently anticipated in
our lets', leached t is exu'ting metropolis at one o'clock on
Monday mornieg. Its hearer was.. the Prince of ORANGE,
and its attival was proclainied by a Royal Salute from the
Park and it(!wer guns. The dispatches were published the
same eveninl. in ,tt Extraoidin ery llazette, which was hn-
thediarely tra lived in•o French and German, and several
msand coi.!es scot to the Continent tir distribUtion The
,hi• new vast re is now spread over the %mild,
.and
such ttaitinued successes on our part, must have at last to-
Wry dispel d the min in which ti•e aim. of Fiance were
holden h: ensla,ed na'ions, whi. deemed their conouerors
inviocibie heroism has, broken the spell, and
k:t cited corre,notalinv spn it amongst Continental States.
Not onk•Sov eieigns ate awakened, but their subjects are
moved, and tl.(;. :treat 'fomilv of Europe bezlins to think se-
iioo.dv of shaking off, the yoke of their c•mmon pp; essor.
r.Time deuiils of the obtain. to efingemen.s, which after five
days amios; ineess.int 6.1 tin,* terminated in the retreat of
enernv beyond the Spanist, frontlet, will be read with
iote,-est in he disra,ches themselves. We
• -'llooeVer, give a brief outline of these important and glo-
operations.
'With elr• events up to the 20th of July, the reports of.
the eilemy had, last week, made us acquainted. All the ad-
a',lttaAes whit h iris superiotitv of force bad enabled him to
obtain, wet .-ontincd to the occupation of the Puerto de
lkayie. On the .27th, mid \\ ELLINGTOv joined. his army
f out S, Sebastian at and Iluarte, thus throwing
himself hew en Pampeluna and ti,e enemy, who vainly en-
deavoured to reach that town, though he bad penetrated
within a few in les of it. Het e the fiist serious engagement
occurred Ala the repulse of the French begin.. They
attacked a IA on the .ight, the possession of which would
enable them to cominunit.,te with Pampcluna. This post
was chiefly defended by the Portuguese, who maintained it
bravely until they were relieved bv the Briish 40 h
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and two Spithish regiments. Notwithstanding his repealed
effints, the ceemv was unable to. carry the hill, and
on the 28th +he sixth division of infantry having.joined
our army. was also exposed to the most ,impettioos
attacks which ,very repulsed with the utmost gallantry. The
assonants would have found it difficult to make good their
retreat, had not other corps of their army advanced and ex-
tended the hAtle on the who'e line. Every whyre they
were repulsed with considerable loss, excel t where the
10th Portuguese Regiment was posted. Pressed by su-
perior numbers, it gave way, and rendered it necessary for
the adjoinieg British regiment to quit its post, whilst the
enemv for a moment established himself on our line But
the advance and the bayonet s of the 28th and 48th soon
drove him down the hi; immense loss. Foiled in
his
.attempts to pierce our centre, the enemy bad recourse
to a feint. Ile left on 0,,50u %es l steep heights in our front,
what appeweil to he the whole of his army, whilst he
sect etly moved the greatest portion of his force bt:hind
othe, hills to his right, to fall with superior numbers upon
our left under Ser ROWLAND HI LL, stationed at some ,lis-
tance from our centre. This sinful manoeuvre did not de-
ceive our Comniander. Notwithstanding the difficulties of
the opt red. he attacked the troops the enemy bad left behind
him, (hove them from their position, and followed them till he
reached the le-it of his main army, then pressing hard upon
Gen. HILL,' who, compelled to retire before such a force,
had taken a second pOsltion, which he defended with the
most undaunted, though almost hopeless intrepidity. The
enemy no sooner perceived Lord NV Et I,ING TON threaten

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