The National Register.
London, England, 1811-09-29 00:00:00

PROCLAMATION.

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_ Head-quarters, Gibraltar, Sept. 4, 1811.
Wheieas an atirming fever has broke mit Carthagena and
other places on the coast of Spain within the \h
U. E. the Lieuterant-Governor has found it necessary to cut
1.11 all communication with .Spain, by se&and land; hereby calls;
itiLT on the inhabitants to come forward, as conservators of the
public health, as they did last year; and such as choose to vo-
lunteer this duty, as well as to keep improper p-rsons out of the
rarrison will take the trouble to send in their names to the
Town Major. Fourteen days quarantine from all ports of Spirt
within the Mediterranean, and ten days from those to the west.,
ward, as far as Ayamonte, are to be performed by all vessels, to
be reckoned from the day.of their anchoring in this bay. Ferry-
boats, plying-boats, and bum-boats are to he L id up. except
such as may be found necessary by t:.e PrAtique Muster and
those are to have a health guard. Night-foiling is to he discon-
tinued until fut ther onlers, and the fishermen and boats to he
mustered by the Pratlque master night and morning, and to be
accompanied with health-guards.
The above regulations, which are adopted to pfeserve the
health of this arc to be most; S: rktly obeyed.
• By Command,
JOHN,RUTIIERFOIM, SeC.

(Signed)

PRIVATE LETTER.
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CIIIR ALTA fi, SEPT. B.—Our accounts from Caeiz cogine
down to the 4th. The Papers brings a series of offici;,l dis.
patches trom Gen. Freyre to Gen. Blake, res.,:ectlng the delta: of
the 4th Spanish army at Baia; they Are five in inimbet-, the last
of them dated the 13th of August. In substance they all agree
that the army wag defeated : that the French at the time they.
attacked the main body of the irrny at Biiza; sent a strolls
division of 7000 men to turn right wing, in whieli they suc-
ceeded; aud that the Chief of the Staff, •Gentaal
01.Thnell, moving with SCOO men along the 7..njar to support
it, was defeated with great loss, and compelled tv retreat; in
consequence of which the while army was forced to move
towards Murcia; that the cavalry under the con-.tila!:d (if Cc;
neral Loy, took up a position at i as Vertientes, to enable ;he
different divisions of the army to form a junction, but hang
attacked by superior numbers, w ere forctl to give ivayl aiol
the French were thus enabled to penetrate to tile and
'prevent the divisions Iron) taking the passes ih the
_E untaioi
of Maria. Nolliwithstanding this, however, the'ditferent diVi-
sions continued their route to Murcia without the slightest dis-
persion, but (!iniished in number, owing to fatigue and want of
provisens. On the 12th, at sriven oitiock in the morning. the
enemy made their appearanee before the city of Ltirca,.with
woo infantry and 300 ci:valry but the fire of the., castle co:,
polled them soon to retire. Die army Cm:
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ca y
of Nflercia,and was,aboi t to advance ag::in with some
Meats received from Valencia. We rtniain with the gatei
shuts as when I last wrote, nor Is there any hitelihood of :'ii
alteration, as a Medical Gentleman is lust reihrecill-oin inspect-
ing the sick in th., different hoipitals at Carthagena, Who re-
Ports, that the exikting malady at that plaCe is the same as
that of 1804-5 and 1810, without the smillebt symptom of
Variation:"
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SICILIAN PAPERS:
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GAZITTA BRITANNICA, MIASMA, JUL 31:—We learn
froth PaletknO; that 6Ci the hi ht Of the 19th bast. pAi folloviiug