The National Register.
London, England, 1812-12-27 00:00:00

THE NATIONALRFGISTEII

DE(s. t. 27,

the Channel, having on board the ! urser of the Maceill.•!„,l
frigate of 38 guns, with dispatches_ respecting ile. cay.
(-; oast): in
nightre
reDactficsd-r utirt;,
after a long and sanguinary action, by the plaitedfrigate of 44 guns, commanded by
No official account had, however,
! diniralty ; but , a ietter ?ortirnouth says, that the
1" action took place c Ulf! Western islands; no iv,- rti •
arc known more than the bare fact, with, that t'„
Ann EN was not killed in to,. action, ilion.ll the ;.
has been severe : it i; said 10;) melt killed and *AT:
; The Zephyr spoke a brig, WI EGAI'd tae
Purser, had been put by the A4l,fiCailS."

We understand that orders have hem sent to the French
Marshals in Spain, to send to France instantly half the ef-
fective force under their command. MASSEN A is said to
have been seirt for to Paris.
A mail from Malta arrived yesterday, but brought no news
of importance-
Leiters brought by the mail from I isbon state, that the
Allies' on the one side, and the French on the' other, appear
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to be each occur., tog a line from the Douro to the Tagus Sir
' ROWL AND HILL is gone to Coria, so that our c:anninnica•
tions extend through the Sierra de Gata, as those of the
French do, through Puerto de Banos-.
Dispatches from Mr. Tao RS T ON, IltitiS7l, AlllbatiSadOr to
,the Court of Sweden; were received by the packet which
brought over two Gottenburgh mails, on Monday. The
-following Bulletin of the contents of Mr. THORNTON'S di
[ patches was officially circulated :

" F ,1-:-:n Office, Dec. 21,111
A Letter frem Mr. THOR wrort, d-•!c..1 Sto• ;•h• In, tee 101 t inst.
Tclnses a precis of the accounts horn tee 1. • :C.,1 of SMOLEN.I,i“), 13
the 24th N•tv. dated Pet ersbit:gla the 2e:11 Nov.
" Get-torsi Count I•,i3recar, who coi, ...i•iirts the advanced t!o:itil
under PerNeB lie-re s-Jls, haditai.en SWO prisobers. The killed ate
in propottion.
~ C9IIIIT WIT 113 EN ST ETV is at Corsse, in communication with .V.!
miral Ten (CNA GOM In Ivb report of the Vt•th, he st les, that he had
killed a groat number of the enemy, and heed tr:ked 800 prisoner!.
" Accounts from the Grand A 'lily of the 2Ld November, i;latc, that
the Prince of SmoteNstr.o was mai..:htm: on Orsha, and Mughih.iv,
parallel to Boar Al' A R TE'S re'Lreat. N ()thin *b could pteveut Ii;( pm:.
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tion of all the armies, if necessary.
Tuesday, a mail arrived ;roan Cadiz, with letters and pa-
pers to the 4th instant. They do not contain any very im-
portant facts, but the lccotrits on the whole are favourable.
MASSENAjS said to have left Bayonne,
:adsreturned precou
i-
pitate,y to Faris, in consequence of symto of commoti
in that caOtal.C.fir F AltELT.lwhom it Viillialso mentioned, had
returned to France, is still in pain, and has -marched with
corps consisting of 10,000 infantey, and 4000 horse towaru,
Vittoria. The Castle of Burgos, it is asserted, has been tin,-
mantled. The enlistment for teinforeing the Spanish army
proceeds with great activity throughout Spain, and me
Province has raised an army of reserve, consisting of
twenty-five thousand men. No military °pc' ations. of im•
portauce bad taken place in the south of Spain ; but it
was expected that a movement. would shor: ly be wade a:.:iii;t
the Fiench in Valencia. The 2d, 3d, and 4th Spanish ;J-
-ulies, united with •the Anglo Sicilian army, would form a
50,0,1.'0.
had
HET, who was supp(‘F.ed
force of not less ttran 5
to have no more than 15,0 0,
had strewn indications of al •
intention to retreat, and it was supposed would fall b:lik
upon Arragon. The head quarters of Etio and the DAP
DEL PARQUE, who command the • Spanish armies, were
The
Almanza, only 17 leagues from the, city of Valencia. T.le
two Generals were expected to put themselves under the
command of CASTANOS.
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