The National Register.
London, England, 1808-08-07 00:00:00

AITGUST

upinnt,l :is are your Excellila.% that I eiderlain for you that
high consideration which is due to your eminent personal quali-
ties. JoAqut N ISLAM!,
General in Chief of the Army of Galicia.
To his Excellency Mars4al Beggieres.

St! PPLEIIENT TO THE " MARIO Dt LA CORUNNA,"
OF THE 29TH JtEmir.

on the 27th inst. the following resolution was communicated
t:,o General in Chief of the Army, I). Joaquin Blake :
ni • Couticil of Government 'akin; into consideration the
merit and services of your Excellency, and in just
of the heroism with which your Excellency has
moat lustre upon them, by your answer to the letter
: io 'nu from the French General Bessieres, wherein
••• 1 his otf r with contempt, and declared yourself the
..ist..iit defender of sour country, and the rights of
-ovcreign Don Ferdivand VII. ; have appointed
e lanev .;overnor anti Chptain-General of the kingdom
. President of the ltoyal Audience. Your no-
n .r torn.' will be transmitted to you in course,
.em) ed that your E vccili ney shall coot inue in the coin-
tiriay uui, cootided t.• your care, until the coticlu-
tie w ; and the premises are communicated to you for
• i• ae.ioo.
• 4,3, 1608."
„; v g %Ira, JULY Ib.--This morning our brave warriors
.1 pi.ece covered %vim glory. It is at presem impos-
.l give a cictailed and circumstantial account of ali that
,:lace in the obstinate and sancuinary battle of yesterday,
iiir mean titue we can assure the public, that the enemy
usewre chastisement, and that our army acquired eters
.i•iw n. What was not performed by the Prince's grena.
• s .#l,l the volturetr, of Navarre, Toledo, and Balbastro !
• a soiet, valour, and presence of mind did they not display !
c• tie grape shot at defiance, and rushed with pleasure
, midst of the greatest dangers. The first corps carried,
a :A., point of the bay met, a battery of four pieces of artillery;
.if the French fell b. the hands of the second and third;
ao.l tie 1.4 t, ;Joshing into the midst of the cavalry, spared mi-
t ;ter them nor their riders. Wpwards of IWO of the enemy were
tar victims of tiieir valour.

The colu'un of the provincials of Gallicia, immoveable as a
rock, struck terror and dismay into the hostile army, and in a
abort time hal no enemies to combat. Would that it had di-
reeled ihelf iu another point I What did it not du ? what did it
leave to be done ?

The van-guard under the command of Count de Mezeda, con-
skting of 8000 grenadiers and light troops. with their worthy
Commander in Chief, did every thing that could be wished.
Each and every of the corps demonstrated that the kingdom has
not in vaiu reposed confidence in them. By ten o'clock in the
morning the victory seemed to he ours, and the total destruction of
the enemy's army as certain. They were folly aware of their dan-
ger, and appeared to have exhausted all their resources. They
made, as a last effort, a tremendous discharge of grape shot (of
grenades according to others) upon the left wing. and at the
wine time attacked it with their numerous and well-appointed
cavalry. Had the mew levies kept their line, imitated the good
example of their leaders, and been obedient to orders, the
enemy would have found its ruin in the movement to which he
owed his safety. But having for a moment been dismayed, the
enemy had an opportunity of, in some measure, recovering
themselves, and might perhaps have destroyed our army, had
not the wise and magnanimous Wake, with our (tying artil-
lery, under the command of Captain Don Antonio l'aredis,
slopped their progress. At the conclusion of the action, our
army retreated in the best order, to refresh The troops, with
the intention of after wards returning to the field of battle.

PORTUGAL.
FROM THE °LEA/. PORTIIGVEL

Ornitmo, Jury 20.—0 n the 12th instantsixty-four French
soldiers arrived here, made prisoners by the valiant Students
of Coimbra, many having been killed and wounded. They took
one pair of colours from them, which they dragged about tied
to
.a horse's tail, in demonstration of the utter contempt enter-
tamed by them for the rallying signal of a nation, the most per-
verse that ever disgraced Europe. An immense multitude fol-
lowed these wretches, gloriously huzzaing our Prince, and
uttering imprecations against his persecutors and ours ; they
Pesertheless found, in the humanity of the nation, and in the
observance of the injunctions of our august Sovereign, a mild-

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Ness to w'aich they were not entitled, in sight of the horrors,
cruelties, and devastations by them committed in the open and
unarmed parts of the country, in w hich the honour of this self-
styled great nation is as much despised as the military' disci-
pline of which they so much boast. But let the insolent re..
member, that vengeance has also its rights, and that their
ferocity will be retaliated upon.them by exemplary justice.
The regiment of Valenca arrived in this city on the 9th and
10th. It is composed of excellent Officers and brave Soldiers.
the military exercises and all the other dispositions of the army
are rapidly accelerating.
SWEDEN. •
ST0(10101.11E, Jo LT 21.—His Royal Majesty has received th•
following Reports from Field Marshall Count Klingspor, dated
Ilead-quarters, near Carleby, the 30th of Juqe, lit and 4th of
Jul 3-- _ _

"My last Report, whereby I respectfully acquainted your
Majesty with the re-capture of New Carleby, was of the 26tb
of June, and was dispatched from Jacobstadt by Karon Otters,
who tias probably already delivered to your Majesty.
" Since that time a Russian army, composed of their best
troops, advanced against Sawolax, in Jevoir's Suonejacki, from
whence your Majesty's troops were compelled by the enemy's
vast superiority in number to retreat to Henrigsnes and Kuopio,
when, from the nature of the ground, they hoped they
should be able to check the further progress of the enemy;
hut the latter having begun to turn the position of the Henrigs-
nes, your Majesty's troops commanded by Colonel Sandels wett/
obliged to make a further retroglide movement to Torwola,
where, I hope, he will be able to maintain himself, having
forined a junction with tile corps commanded by Col. Fahlandes,
who arrived from Kiwisalini, where he was posted to cover the
right flank of the brigade.
" I received this mament from Major Ulfhjelm, a report of the
unsuccessful expedition from Wass, under the orders of Adju-
tant-General Baron Bergenstrale. The amount of our loss can•
not as yet be ascertained, but it is not iiiconsiderable.
" The present position of your .Majesty's army is as follows)
—The first brigade occupies the environs of New Carleby, :ma
battalion being posted in Orrawair, which, with two gun-boats,
form the advanced post of the army; the second brigade is la
Upper Jeppo, with two battalions in Upper llama, on the road
to Lappoiler, where the enemy's main force is assembled, esti-
mated at 6,000: the fourth brigade is in Carleby; she first is oa
its march to this place, and the fifth in Torwola, near K ut-pios
The troops arrived from %Vasa, under the orders of Major Ulth.
jetmorrupy, occupy the environs of that place. At Perini is a
detachment of 850 men, with two three pounders, 'miler th•
command of Major Ficanilt.
" Aidenlet KLlNGsreil,
46 Field-marshal and Heueral in Cliief of the Finnish Army.
" Head-quartcrs, New Carleby, June 30, 1808."

RE PORT.
" Colonel Sandela ha• reported to me, under date of the 17111
of Jutte, th t having• received intelligeoce that a nutu,•rous con.
voy of upwards of '2OO new waggons, with provisions, 500 horses,
and a considerable military cheat, was on its way to Lappenrea-
the and Kuopio, he ordered it to be attacked t in consequence
w hereof nearl v all the provisions were either taken or destroyed,
a loss which will he the more severely felt by the enemy, they
being in the utmost waut, and which cannot fail to prevent theta
for a considerable time from attempting any operation of magni-
tude against your Alojesty's 'Finnish army, which still remains
in the ►ame situation which 1 respectfully described in my Re-
port of the 30th June, with the sole alteration that the brigad*
has advanced to Lanes llama, in order to relieve the third bri-
gade, which has hitherto supplied troops for the cha;n of ail.
vanced posts, and ►hat a detachment under the orders of Major
Baron Otter, protected by the gun-boats, which are stow ready
has pushed forward to Little Veyrn and Wasa.
4 6 Iferuscs K.Lixesrose.
" Head-quarters, New Carkku,4lh Jul 1808."
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