The National Register.
London, England, 1809-02-05 00:00:00

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'TOO p,• oner,. 11, The trmn and environs of Logo are 'cloaked
'With the bodies of English horses. Hence, 2300 horse have
been- killed in the retreat.
. the English are marching to Corunna in great haste where
th(ry have 400 transports. They have already lost baggage.
ititmunition, a part even of their most material artillery, and
Upwards (-03000 prisoners. On the 10th our advanced guard
'was at Betanzos, a short distance from Corunna. The Duke
of. ElCkogen is with his corps near Lugo.
In reckoning the sick, stragglers, those who have been killed
by the :peasants, and made prisoners by our troops, we may
calculate the loss of the English at one third of their army
They are • reduCed to 18,000 men, and are not yet embarked.
From .Sa:tagatt they retreated 150 leagues in bad weather,
triar.Pirottals, through mountains, and always closely pursued at
tie point Of the sword.
It is aidicult to conceive the folly of their mode of campaign.
It must, be. attributed not to the General who commands, and
hois a Clever and skilful man, but to that spirit of hatred and
rage. Which annimates the English Ministry. To push forward
in thiiinaoner 30 030 men, opposing them to destruction, or
to flight' as their only resource. It is a conception which can
only be inspirod by the spirit of passion, or the most extra-
4sigant presumption.
Lego was pillaged and sacked by the enemy.—We cannot im-
pute these disasters to the'English General : it is the usual and
ihevitable erect of forced marches and precipitate. retreat.
Zamora, whose inhabitants had been animated by the presence
of the English, shut their gates against General Mattpetet :
General Dorneau- proceeded against it with four battalitas,—he
scaled the city, took it, and put the most guilty to the sword:—
.Gralic4a is the province of Spain which manifests the best dispo-
sition, it receives the. French as deliverers.

the 29th 'Bulletin, dated Valladolid, ltith Jan. relates to
transactions in the centre of Spain, and states that the Duke de
• dune had compelled 300 Officers, two Generals, seven Colonels,
'tPO Lieutenant-Colonels, and 12,000 men to lay down their arm'
labile retreating to Alcaza,r. The Commander. "le nomnier"
illertegasp" was killed. The Bulletin afterwards recites the
Addresses of the. Council .of State and other public bodies at
Nadrid, to the Conqueror.

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'THIRTIETH BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OF
SPAIN.

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. VALLAnOiID„. 21.—The Duke of Dalmatia left Be
tanzos on the 12th inst. Having reached' Mere, he found the
bridge of Iturgo cut.. The-enemy was dislodged from the vil-
lage of.Borgo. In-the meanwhile Gen; Franeschi ascended the
'liver, which he crossed at the bridge of Sela. He made him-
' Self master of the high road from Corunna to Sahtiago, and
"took fix.officers and sixty soldiers prisoners. On the same day
a bodx of thirty inarines who were-fetching water from the
' bay near Mero, were taken. From the 'village of Perillo, the
English fleet could be obselved in the harbour of Comma.
On the 13th, the enemy caused two powder Fia sines, situ-
, W 4 uear the heights of St. Margaret,. at half a league from Co-
Arntirm, to be blown up: The-explosion was terrible, and was.
felt at the distance of three leagues.
PM -the 14th, the. briagebat Ilurgn *was' -.repaired, and the
'.French' at.ol4rio '.tvas'M 1e to pass. then!), -hal itiikYn a
Viition at i‘to leagues distanCe, :Mita-league from. Cintirna.
e wnsseen employed in hastily embarking hietick and wound-
.,Ad, the,ounsbeil of which, according to /spies and 'deserters,
amounts to 8060-0r.4000 men. » • ' • r '
' The• English• were in-the meanwhile occupied id.•destroying
' the batteries on the• coast, and • la`yino• waste tlw ebwritly- ma the
sea shore. The Continandant of the•fort of St: inktitio, sesiTect-
ina the fate intended for his fortification*, refused•to adutit them
•in it. .
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on the evening of the 14th-wesaw afresh conspylo6l6o sail
arrive, among which *ere four ships of theline; •,;44.
thef morning of the 15th., the divisions of Merle and-Mer-
rna occupied the heights of Villahoa, where the enemy's • ad-
_ lanced guard was stationed,- which -was attacked and destroyed.
Our right wing was stationed on the point, where-thecoad from
Corunna to lingo, and that froth Cataluna to Santini", meet.
The left was placed behind the village of Elvina. The enemy
stationed behind some beautiful heights.
The rest of the 15th was spent in fixinga battery of 12 pieces
of cannon ; and it was not till the 16th, at three o'clock in the
aftr-ruuou, that the Duke of Dalmatia gave orders to attack.

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The assault was made upon the English by the first ')rigaie
of the division of Mermet, Which overthreW them, and dr:ive
them from.the village of Elvina. The second regiment or light
infantry covered itself with glory. General Jordon,. at Cie head
of the Voltiguers, wrought a terrible carnage. The enemy,
driven from his positions, retreated to the gardens which sur-
round Common.

The night growing very dark, it WRS necessary to suspend the
attack. The enemy availed himself of this to embark w fi p re-
pitation. Only 6000 of our men were engaged, zinc' every ar-
rangement was made for abandoning the positions of the night,
and advancing next day to a general attack. The to-•s of the
enemy has been immense. Two of our batteries played upon
then► during the whole of the engagement. We counted on the
field of battle more than eight hundred of their dead bodies,.
amt►ng which was.the body of General Hamilton, and those of
two other General Officers, whose names we are unacquainted
with. We have taken 20 Officers, 300 men, and 4 pieces of
cannon. The English have left behind them more than 1500
horses, which they had killed. Our loss amounts to 100•killcd
and 150 wounded.

The Colonel of the 47th regiment distinguished himself. An
Ensign of the 31st infantry killed with his own hand an English
Officer, who had endeavoured to wrest from him his eagle. The
General of Artillery Bomjeat and Colonel Foutenay have sig-
nalized themselves.

At day break on the 17th, we saw the English convoy under
sail On the 18th, the t‘ hole had disappeared.

The Duke of Dalmatia had caused a carronade to he dis-
charged upon the vessels from the fort of Santiago. Several
transvorb ran aground, and all the men who were onboard were
taken.

Itie found in the e‘tahlishment of the Palloza (a large manu-
factory, &c. in the suburbs of Cortuma, where the English had
previously been encamped), 3000 English muskets. Magazines,
also were seized, containing a great quantity of ammunition and
other effects, belonzing to the hostile army. A great number of
wounded were picked up in the suburbs. The opinion of the
inhabitants on the spot, and deserters is, that the number of
wounded in the battle exceeds '2500 men.

Thus has terminated the English Expedition which was sent
into Spain. After having fomented war in this unhappy country,
the English have abandoned it. They had disembarked 38,060
men and 6000 horses. We have taken from them, according to
calculation, 6,500 men, exclusive of the six. They have re-
embarked very little baggage, very little ammunition, and very
few horses. We have counted 5000 killed and left behind. The
men who have found an asylum on board their vessels arc harrassed
and dejected. In ;mother season of the year not one of them
would have escaped. The facility of cutting the bridges, the
rapidity of the torrents, which in winter swell to deep rivers,
the shortness of the days and the length of the nights, arc very
• favourable to an army on their retreat.
Of the 38,000 men whom the English had disembarked, we
may be assured that scarcely 24,000 will return to England.
The army of Romana, which, at the end of December by the
aid of reinforcements which it-had received from -Callicia, con-
sisted of 16,000 men, is reduced to less than 5000 men, who are
wandering between Vigo and Santiago, and.are closely pursued,.
The kingdom of Leon, the province of Zimora, and all Galli-
cia, which the English had been desirous ~to cover, are con-
quered and subdued. •
. The General of. Division Lapisse has sent patroles into
Portugal, whil have.been well received there.
General \laupetit has entered Salamanca; he met there with
some sick of the English troops.
[At the end of the Bulletin is inserted an intercepted letters
dated Santiago, Jan. IS0), and signed L. E. Tharn..3