The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-20 00:00:00

SPAIN.

SAN SEBASTIAN, MARCH 12. —Throin,hout last night and the
wholc of to-day, torrents of rain have 'fallen Notwithstand-
ing this, the river Urumea was crossed in the early part of the
morning by the rifles of the British legion under the command
of Col. Forescue, and by Gen. Chichester's brigade. The
troops pasAed over partly hi boats, and partly by wading the
river at low water.

As soon as the enemy had been driven from Loyola, a bridge
of pontoons was commenced to be thrown across the river.
S...!Yeral shots were fired upon the enemy during the day from
the fortified hill of Puyu, which is still commanded by Col.
Fitch, of the Legion. General Chichester's brigade occupy
Loyola to-night, together with a height beyond it.
It was a bitter night for the troops bivouacked on the hills.
To-night it threatens to be worse, but many of the men will
be lodged in the houses with which the hills and plains now
in our possession are strewn.

This. morning Lieut.-Gen. Oraa, late chief of the staff of
the main army, arrived here on his way to take on himself the
duties of Capt.-General of Arragon, and commander of the
army of the centre.

den. Oraa confirms what I mentioned yesterday as to the
more of the Count de Luchana, who it is supposed would
reach Durango to-day instead of yesterday, when the Queen's
troops occupied Galdacano, Zornoza, &c. What direction
the Count de Luchana will take after entering Durango I can-
not, of course, pretend to say; hut I should not' be surprised
to find that he will remain there for some little time.

Senor Lujan, the Commissioner from Government with the
army, has also arrived. He will, I presume, pass some little
time at General Evans's head-quarters.
Copy of a dispatch from General Evans to General Espar.
tero:—

" Heights of Ametzagana, March 11, 1837.
" Most Excellent Sir—Yesterday morning I had the plea.
sure of informing your Excellency that I had advanced, cap-
tured the enemy's redoubts on the Ametzagana and Garbera,
and had taken up a position which I expected would induce
the enemy to concentrate their main force against me this
morning or to-morrow, and through which I hoped to facili-
tate the movements of the other corps of the army destined to
co-operate. It is now mid-day, however, and no particular
display of troops has been yet made by the enemy. Yester-
day I am led to suppose they had not more tkan twelve batta-
hoes, which, after having been driven from their fortified line,
were chiefly posted upon a rocky mountain of great elevation,
and in most parts almost inaccessible by the chasms in the
rocks. In this quarter the insurgents several times endea-
voured to repel our advance, but werOdriven back with loss in
every instance. A sharp fire of cannon and musketry was
maintained on both sides throughout the day, but without other
result than mutually a considerable number of casualties—our
loss being about 800; that of the enemy, from the superiority
of our artillery, probably above 1,000. Towards dark the
firing entirely ceased ; the enemy appeared to have retired ;
after which I concentrated my left, in order, if they should be
reinforced, to avoid being annoyed in that direction from the
craggy summit alluded to.
" It being my intention to occupy some of the redoubts taken
from the rebels, I think it necessary to strengthen their former
rear, their commanding position giving them much importance.
This may retard my operations for a day or two.
" The loss of the British part of the force has scarcely been
sixty to seventy men, while that of the Spanish troops was
comparatively severe. The British were on the right, and
attacked the redoubts where I expected most resistance, but it
proved otherwise. I can assure your Excellency that the
conduct of all the troops, Spanish and British, was in a high
degree worthy of your approbation, and was marked by bril-
liant gallantry, perfect order, and discipline.
" The sth division and vanguard division were much en-
gaged throughout the day, and maintained their brilliant re-
putation. The British Auxiliary Legion carried the positions
in their front with perfect order and intrepidity, without firing
a shot.
" To Major-General Jaureguy, commanding the fifth divi-
sion, I owe every thanks for his able conduct and counsel. To
Brigadier-General Rendon, commanding the vanguard, I am
similarly indebted ; as also to Brigadier Gerkerals Santa Cruz,
Llanos, Chichester, Le Nlarchant, Fitzgerald, and Godfrey ;
to Colonel Jochmus, Quarter-Master-General, and to Colonels
Billoso and Munoz, commanding brigades, and to Lieutenant-
Colonel Shaw, commanding the Artillery of the Legion.
There are various corps and officers that have likewise distin-
guished themselves, the particulars of which, when the returns
are made to me, I shall have the honour to submit for your Ex-
cellency's approbation.
" Admiral Canas was good enough to attach to the troops
a party of Spanish sailors, a corps of singular bravery : the
Admiral himself, with characteristic zeal and valour, em-
barked in one of the trincadores and attacked on the side
of Lizo, occupied by the enemy's troops, in order to divert
their attention.

" To Lord John Hay, who was present in the action, and
to Colonel Wylde, military Commissioner of his Britannic
Majesty, I was, as on many occasions, greatly obliged for
their most cordial assistance and advice. The British Royal
Artillery, under Colonel Colquhoun, participated in this ac-
tion under the directions of Lord John Hay, and rendered
most efficient aid to the Queen's troops ; as did also the Ho-
nourable Captains Pelham awl Plunkett, and Captain Dacres,
with a party of British sailors; and begging to recommend to
your Excellency's notice the zeal and ability of the officers,
Spanish and English, of my personal staff, I hare the honour
to be

" Your Excellency's most obedient and humble servant,
(Signed) "DE LACY EVANS, Lieut.-Gen.
" His Excellency Count de Luchana,
General-in-Chief, &c. &c. &c."
FUaTHER PARTICULARS OF THE ATTACK OF THE ANGLO-
CHRISTINO FORCE UPON THE CARLIST POSITIONS ON THE

10TH INSTANT.
The Spanish troops under General Jaureguy, in their ad-
vance and attack upon the heights of San Marco, after the
Ametzagana had been carried in such gallant style by the
9th and 10th Regiments of the Legion under General Fitz-
gerald, were most effectively covered and powerfully sup-
ported by the British Royal Artillery, with four mountain
and two 12-pounder howitzers. These guns, directed
with admirable precision by Captains Bassett and Savage,
must have told with most destructive effect, upon the Carlists,
the more particularly as they were in great numbers stationed
on the declivity of a rocky hill, from which the very rebound
of the balls must have carried death into their ranks. The
rockets also, of which there were four frames worked by the
Royal Artillery, proved a severe annoyance to them. At some
distance to the right, and in front of two small conical-shaped
hills, which had been the objects of fierce contention for many
hours, the artillery of the Legion, under Colonel Shaw, was
stationed, and did its work in the most effective manner.

Many of the guns pointed by Colonel Shaw and Captain
Howe threw repeatedly, and with unerring aim, shells and
spherical case shot into the midst of the Carlist ranks. What
the loss of the Carlists has been in this action, it is impossi-
ble accurately to know ; but it is supposed, from the
effective play of the artillery, and the unusually close mus-
ketry firing that for some hours of the fight took place,
their loss must be still greater than that of their adversaries,
which, in killed and wounded (a great proportion of the
latter of the most trifling nature), amounts to upwards of
900. If the Spanish returns can be relied on, they have lost
in killed 10 officers, and 42 wounded ; in non-commissioned
officers and men 70 killed, and above 700 wounded. The loss
of the Legion is not so much as from the first hurried reports
after the action I was led to state. The only deaths up to this
moment are those of two men who have died since they were
brought into the hospital. The number of hounded is six
officers (none dangerously) and 35 men.
The fight of the 10th instant was not followed up on the
following day by a renewed attack or other military movement.
Towards evening the weather, which on the preceding day
had been most serene, and even warm to excess, changed,
and before night the rain came down in torrents, and
continued during the whole of the night to deluge the
troops bivouacked on the hilt sides, without a house or
even a hut to shelter them from its violence. As the rain
still continued this morning, and the sky boded nothing
but its permanency, the consequences of the troops passing
another such night became so alarming, that at noon to-day
orders here issued to the Rifles and 4th Regiment to march
from the foot of the Ametzagana to the river tJrumca, over
which a pontoon bridge had just been constructed. Over this
they passed, and the Rifles taking the advance, led on by
Colonel Fortescue, and supported by Colonel Campbell and
the 4th Regiment, crossed the swampy valley under the fort-
ress of Puyo, and ascended without an instant's hesitation or
flinching, though all the time under afire from the Carlists,
the heights upon which is situated the scattered village of
Loyola, which, together with several of the Carlist houses in
advance, they were in a short time in possession of. This
little affair, which was meant solely to secure shelter and
quarter for a part of the troops, was executed in a dashing, off-
hand, and even cheerful manner, though the rain came down
heavily during the whole time. A part was taken in this
little warlike interlude by a detachment of the British Royal
Artillery, under the direction of Colonel Colquhoun, which
covered the advance of the troops by a sustained fire of artil-
lery from the Ametzagana. One of the shells thrown on this
occasion pitched directly into the middle of several com-
panies of Carlists who showed themselves on the borders of a
wood, knocking them over on every side, and throwing them
into the most complete confusion. There is very little doubt,
if the state of the weather will permit it. but that a forward
movement, most likely on Ernani, will take place to-morrow
morning.
Extract of a letter of the 14th inst., from Bayonne :—" It
appears certain that Espartero has taken possession of Duran-
go, where he met with some resistance.- It is said that he
has been wounded. During the action of the 10th General
Evans was not sparing of his person. Wherever the troops
were engaged he was constantly to be seen in the midst of
them throughout the day. Captain Zavala, Aide-de-Camp to
General Jaureguy, was wounded in the foot; and Soraa, an
officer in the Chapelgorris, received two sabre wounds, as well
as Rojas of the 2d Light Infantry. The Carlist General Itur-
riaga was wounded, and Major Barges, the chief of his staff,
was killed. The commanders of the Ist battalion of Gui-
puscoa, and the 3d of Biscay, are earned as being among the
killed. The second and third Carlist battalions suffered se-
verely. The Carlist chiefs complain of the Chapelgorris, for
having too easily abandoned the heights of Ametzagana.
General Saarsfield slept on the 11th at Iyarzun, three and a
half Spanish leagues from Pamplona, on the road to Tolosa.
He was at the head of 10,000 infantry, and 400 cavalry. His
artillery consisted of ten field and mountain pieces; the Fo-
reign Legion is included in the above estimate. That Legion,
with four picked Spanish battalions, formed a particular corps,
under the command of Brigadier Conrad, who is second in
command of the whole corps d'arn:co. General Saarsfield is
ill, and it was with great difficulty that he placed himself at
the head of the expedition. Some trifling skirmiAeg took
place yesterday between the out-posts of the Anglo- Christinos