The Sun.
London, England, 1808-12-09 00:00:00

[BY AUTHORITY.]

CORUNNA, Nov. 29.—His Excellency Seignor
Don Joaquin Blake; in a letter . dated on the 24th
instant, at the monastery of Estonia, informs the
Most Serene Government, that, pursuant to his 111 -

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jesty's orders, he has resigned the command of the
army tp his 4xcellency the Marquis de la Romana.
He expresses his gratitude for the confidence that
was re;,osed in him, and at the same time, his r'e-
gret at not being able, after so many .encounters, to
atinOunce a viaory over an enemy' of superior force,
to which they owe the dear-bought advantages they
have obtained. He exhorts us to. proceed in the.
most etieCtual manner in the recruiting service, with-
out admitting any. exemptions; and'also to provide
attentively for the subsistence and cloathing of the
army, and to furnish it with a proper number of
waggons, and good cattle to draw them; but that all
the conduetors should go on foot. He then encou-
rages-all.the Gentlemen to take up arms in so just a
cause, propdsing for their imitation the example of

the 'Literary Battalion, whom ,he panegyrizes for
their gallantry and steadiness. He,conclucieswith
more particularly enforcing khcse interesting points,

and recommending, the most energetic exertions
in providing every thing necessary for the army;
offering, 4t the same time, to sacrifice birnself for

the cause -of the kingdom, to which • he professes

his gratitude.

CORUNNA, Nov. 27.-:--Official information has
been received, that we have already in Leon 20,000
of our troops, with their General, the Marquis de la
Romana, and almost all the •artillery. The Most

Serene.Government...communicated this intelligence--
yesterday at noon, in consequence of a dispatch re-
ceived by a courier extraordinary.
• SALAMANCA,- Nov. 19.—0 n the 14th instant the
English troops, under the Command of Generol Sit
John Moore, began to enter this City. • We car'"
not speak too .highly in praise of the good order and
Istria discipline which they, observe colletaively and
individually, and of, their- affability and mildness of
deportment. • • .
MURCIA, Npv. 8---40 n the 28th ult. arrived. at
Valencia the
.Cabitiet Messenger Roseti, with dis-
patches 'from the Supreme Junta. He brought all
order from them to fit out a vessel to convey him
to Trieste, whence he will proceed to Vienna,
and thence to St. Petersburgh. He sailed on the fol"
lowing day.
ARAN,TURZ, Nov. 20.—8 y dispatches 'of the 101-4
and 12th-instant, received by post, the Captsiti'
General of Catalonia, D. Juan Miguel de Vives,
forins us, that having resolved to attack the enerni'.
in order to make the blockade of Barcelona mote
complete, by, dislodging them from the positicrn9
they occupied in the environs, he foraied his troops,
on the Bth inst. into five Columns ; the first under
the command of Field-Marshal D. Gregorio La-
guna ; the second under D. Gaspar Gomez De La
Serna, Colonel of the Granada regiment.of InfantrY ;
the third under D. Carlos Montero, • Lieutenant"
Colonel of the regiment of Soria ; the fourth under
Bruno Barrera, Colonel of the 2d Savoy ; this and . •
the third column being under the superior orders °I.
Field-Marshal Count DeCaljegues ; and thefifthntl‘
der D. Carlos De Vitte, second in command 40 -11
Luis Wimpffen, Colonel of the Swiss regiment of,
the same name. .The Captain-General, with the Ml'
jor-General, Quarter-MaSter-Gencral, the Come
minder of the Artillery and his Aides-de-Camp,e:
ed himself at 'St. Boi, to observe the progress Of t"
attack, and give orders accordingly: The attack
lug commenced, the third and fourth columaS 615 d 7'
lodged the enemy frOm the cottages of Ro,,as
Pubilla de Gasas, pursued them beyond the viil4'd
of Sans, and advanced to within t5OO yards of 111 e
fortress of Barcelona, which fired upon our troops'
The second column proceeded, almost
w it hoet
meeting any resistance, as far as the Vice-Queen
country seat:the enemy retreating before them flo'
der the walls of the fortress. The first column di"
• lodged the enemyfrorn the villages of S. Adrio,rb
ea
Andres', and Hotta, taking a position betwe
two-latter; and the fifth drove them out of Cotl'
, '
and .Hospitalet. The attack was suspended 0-I„tse
quence of a heavy tall of rain,' and the first c 01111133
1., re.
retreated Vora Hospitalet, the third OldHospitalet, foal": lc
turned to their former positions, the 'second OP.
il'
post at S, U v ngat, and the first remained in too i•
lages of Horta and S. Andres. Our loss consisted
one Officer, one corporal, five soldiers, and
horses killed; one Officer, one serjeant, two
cot
porals, two dtummers, 36 soldiers, and four horse
wounded, and 12 soldiers and, three hOrses 03.661
aniS
or taken. Frordthe accounts of the prisoneo
, deserters, the enemy's loss was gmateN beyond

comparison. • in
" Field-Marshal Don Gregorid funa,---100°'
, tilts
consequence of this . enterprise, remained Not" 1
'column under his orders on the heights of:Sr"
dres, was attacked at two o'clock in the sit rri°l'
e.
300
of the toth, by the enemy, consisting of fr°sl
yusbea
to 4000 infantry, and 300 horse. Our trools
upon the uperriy with heroic ardour, and the PNvitr
cial:.grenadiers and the miquelets, under the cons'
• mand of DOn Francisco Milans, having: ea
the contest for an hour, to !noted the retreat of 610
division and the artillery, the whole fell back WWl'
rrho
out disorder in the direaion of St. Cugat. -.-
Cajon, though short; said,to have been very °I);
stinate, and the enemy are said to have to
111
whole of the 7th regiment of the •line. Our 10
consisted of six killed, 26 wounded, and 75 missing.,
The Captain-General praises the gallantry and CO.
.duct of,the troops on both occasions, and particulariif
that of the-column of the provincial gr'enadiers
New Castile. He also rec 0
oruMends the indivi
of all ranks who principally distinguished the°

selves.
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The King, our Master, Ferdinand VII. and ' 'f
0
his name, the Central Supreme Governing Jolt-. rt
the Kingdom, have granted to each of the soldleo•
recommended by the Captain-General a scutche
of merit, arid another of distiation ; and have
to
tiered a present
fortwo thhote
;probation adequate rewards to the Officers that
principally- distinguished them Selves.",
p 114 i°
ST. FEL:III, Nov. 9.—On the 3d arrived 4
;this port, from the Island of Malta, in '1 8 daYs' bere
;Master states, that all the vessels and tropPs t

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baj gone off some clays before, to join the Expedi-
tion against Naples; which was confidently stated to
e°rlsiß of about .49,000 men. tie 'further says,
that the Austrian Vessels sailed to and froni
under protedion of the English.

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EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER ltd SIR
DAVID BAIRD'S ARMY, DATED NOV. 26.
" Three days ago we left Astorga, from whence
we ate now aboin six miles distant. We are in a
state, of indolent suspense, anxiously desirous of that
active employ which we are told is soon to engage
us. Every man in the army is at his post, from
whence 'no officer is permitted on any account to
remove him. It has not yet been ascertained by us
'What number of troops have been preserved by
lake and the Marquis Roinana ; some accounts say
they are 30,000 strong, others only 12,000 ; until
the faas be accurately ascertained, we shall not at-
tempt a junction. It was evidently the objeCt of the
French, after the defeat of Blake, to have pushed on
between us and Corunna, and thereby to have cut
off our retreat, but in this they were mistaken : pre-
ilutii)ris he been previously taken to break down
and ,iestroy all the bridges Which could have afforded
ithrl this facility. The position which they have
Th-a'etl has, nevertheless, completely cut off all com-
p—unteation with Gereral Moore, with whom, at
resent,
we have no chance of forming a junEtion,
but Sent'
entertain no fears whatecar for his or our
,OWri safety ; on the contrary, we are in high spirits
and good health, lonzing for a favourable opportuni-
ty to measure swords with the enemy:'

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
4** We are much obliged to our Correspondent at Liverpool,
)'ho tells us that he has taken The So N nearly from its
coMmencement, for his kind and liberal Communicaion,
40d shall vigilantly endeavour to avail ourselves of his ad.
relative to such paragraphs as he notices, being anxious
to render all possible service to the Commercial World.
With resped to the abuse which he mentions, we regret,
bowever much we may sutler from it, that it is not in our
power to obviate it, as we cannot be responsible for the
use which may be made of our Paper after it has been is-
- , sued tram the Office.
the Continuation of Vie Historical Review of BUONA.•
tiiitTed Campaign in Italy shall appear To morrow__
We ate sorry that it is not in our power to gratify those who
ilaVe applied for the former parts of this excellent Article.
Whin it is completed it will be a valuable document foi*
the Historian, as it is founded on the information of an im,
rtial and judicious witness of most of the transaclions
willtit it relatito

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PRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 18"

to' deemed it yesterday an essential duty
`"; the Public to give he melancholy intelligence
ilt6th §'pain; inst as we received it, yet deep as our
ell:ret is, tine by no means despair of the success of
that'r Country ai'ainst its ferocious Invader. Our
'9rllozanders are doing all that prudence could sug-
gest in this. unfortunate State of affairs. The account
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the defeat of CASTANOS came in Dipatches from
Gee •
nrai BAIRN, dated Astoria, the 2.gth ult. The
Aieh
era' had
M been ordered by Sir JOHN MOORE to
(7.f 'ark and proceed to the Tagus, with the view
uniting the British Troops, and aging in the best
Inanner. whiCh the situation of affairs might require.
Ors the gd inst. the Transports had begun to take
00 board the heaVy baggage of the Army of Sir D.
and sUfficient means had been adopted tc
secure the retreat of all our Troops. CASTANOS had
unfortunately been duped by the superior cunning of
the E66lnY. whO had prepared a fatal blow against
that General, while his chief views seemed direeted
towards the western part of Spain'.
,The Freneh,
Zwever, before this disastrous anion, had proceed-
!n'
14 another dire from Burgos to Ler ma,
ande, and across the Douro, and had reached the
neighbourhood of Somoziera, about 40 miles north
°F- 'Madrid, in the mou,ntains. The Junta had ordered
a‘strong
force to secure the post of GOadarama, about
tWentY-f.e miles from Madrid, where it was said
that our. Troops, which according to report had been
at
the Escurial, on the 2 Ist, were expeaed to
c"-. operate with the Patriots. The Enemy, however,
i 8 supposed, took a differen t course towards Madrid,
advancing in a direaion duesouth from the Douro, by
k)tizozierra, Buitriago, and the road leading to the
The fatal vidory over CAST :Nos had de-
ranged all the plans Which had been conceived, and
the safety of our armies then became the chief con-
sideration. Sir BAIRD was informed of this
z4elancholy event at Astoria, by General" MOORE,
0 was then at Salamanca, ordering t-he former to
fall back on Corunna, and Proceeding himself to-
'wards Portugal; The Marquis of RomAtcA, as we
.slated Yesterday, had colleaed Qo,ooo
men, who
tl.ad taken a strong position on the Side of Leon and
04:t. p
Asturias, and we have reason to hope that the
asses.
f he Sierra Morena will be
resolutel
the heroic S y defended by
paniards. In the mean time, it is to be
hoped that the Spanish Patriots" will learn fromlt ,
tier experience and not venture into general
'`'lt,o°es, if they can be avoided, with the
veteran
°II Of France. The nature. of the count ri is so

. much in favour of the 4ahiards, that if they at with
a degree of caution t Murnensurate with their spirit
and patriotism, they may be able to maintain a firm
stand against the Enemy,with the co-operation of the
British Troops. By the wise policy of attempting to
harass the EtieMy, he may be reduced to great ex-
tremities during the winter, and his army is not
likely to bear privations patiently. The particblars
Cif this fatal aiitiOn are not fully known, but it
took place on the Ebro, where BUONAPARTE had
assembled a prodigious force. But we must again
observe, that one action cannot be deCiSive of the
fate of such a country as Spain, defended as it
is by a resolute people' who have been led into error
by their intrepidity, and who will learn caution by
praelice. It is said that the French entered Madrid
about the 28th. The Supreme Junta have removed
their sittings to Toledo, and they are likely to em-
ploy all possible means to combine the efforts of
their countrymen, and avail themselves to the ut-
most, of British co-operation. The chara6ter of
BUONAPARTE is well' understood by the Spaniards,
and they know that the most dreadful ven-
geance will follow his success, if it were possi-
ble that they should sink, from despair, into
submission.—They know that the hearts of all
people are in their favour, and that even the French
themselves, except the immediate Satellites of the
Tyrant, must &test the cause in which they are en-
gaged. They must know, too, that their fellow-
subjects in the Spanish Settlements heartily sympa-
thize in their cause, and will send all the supplies
in their power.—They .are sure also, that Great Bri-
tain, which has come forward in so noble a manner
to aid them, will never desert them white there is. any
chance for assisting them with etfed and filially,
they know that death is preferable to bondage under
the ferocious Tyrant of France and scourge of all
mankind.

Lisbon Papers to the 23d of November were re-
ceived this morning. They contain no intelligence
except accounts of the celebration of mass and to
deunzs, with processions, fireworks, and bull-fights,
for the expulsion of the French, and the happy re-'
storation of the Legitimate Government. These
Papers, like the Spanish, '4contain long lists of the
voluntary donations of individuals to supply the exi-
gencies of the State.

Sir C. COTTON is recalled, and it was under-
stood at Lisbon, that the Duke of CLARENCE might
be expected to take the command on that station.

About fourteen thousand of our troops, consisting
of the following Regiments, had been ordered im-
mediately for Spain, but the last accounts from that
country may lead to an arrangement of a different
nature : ISt, 3d, and 4th Dragoons—ist, 3d, and
4th Dragoon Guards—tst and 2d Light German
Legion-14th and 16th Light Dragoons-2 batta-
lions 83d Foot, 2 ditto 87th, and I ditto 88th.

We have this day continued our extraas from the
Spanish Papers that arrived yesterday, but the inte-
rest which would otherwise attach to the details
they contain is much diminished by the official
accounts received from Sir DAVID BAIRD.

The :result of the Meeting in the City this day for
the relief of the Spanish Patriots, will doubtless be
as honourable to this Country as, it will be animating
to the people in whose favour it takes place. Go-
vernment has most nobly distinguished itself on this
glorious occasion, and, we are assured, have really
provided clothes, arms, and accoutrements, for more
men than have been aetually embodied in the Spa-
nish Armies; but it is proper that the Spaniards
should be animated by the assistance of the British
people at large, as well as by the Government of the
Country, as. it will skew, that their cause is seated
in our hearts, and will present a munificent example
of National Generosity to mankind, and of sympathy
with the zeal of a people who are determined to
risk every thing in support of honoUr; and the asser-
tion of independence.

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On Wednesday her MAJESTY, the PRlNtEssis,
their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of YORK, CAM-
BRIDGE, KENT, and SussEx, partook of an elegant
entertainment with his Royal Highness the Duke
of CWO3E:ERA NIS, at his apartnienli it's St. James's.
Yesterday the Loan CHANCELLOR, the Duke of
MONTROSE, and Lord BATHURST, attended'in the
House of Peers, when
,ParliaMent was further pro-
rogued to the 10th of January.
Yesterday afternoon the French. and Russian
Couriers left town, on their return to France.' Two
Ladies, who were lately captured in a French. Pri-
vateer, hal'e received permission to take their pas=
sage to Boulogne in the Flag of Truce. • , ,
Yesterday a Court of Direetors was held at the
East India House, when the under-mentioned Cap-
tains were sworn into the Command of their respec-
tive Ships, viz.-.--Capt, YATES, of the City of Lon-.
don, and Capt. CORN ETT, of the Coyle Eden, for.
Madras and Bengal.—The Court adjourned at six'
d'xl,ock till, Wednesday next.'
I•
It was reported yesterday that a plot had been'
discovered in Sicily, which had lot its °hie& an'ae-
tack upon our troops. A letter from Messina is said'
to' state, that some persons who had been' instigated,
to this atrocious attempt by the e1a;,314,. have been
taken into*edstody.