The Sun.
London, England, 1809-07-10 00:00:00

TWENTY-SECOND FRENCH BULLETIN.

VI ENNA, JUNE 24.-.2-!Raab has capitulated ; this
city forms an excellent position in the centre
Hungary; it is. defended by bastions, its ditches ail
full of water, and an inundation covers a part
it is situated-at the confluence of three rivers ;
senables. on a 'small scale the situationnf thegrancl
entrenched camp, where- the enemy hoped to
as-
setuble and exercise the Hungarian Insurreaion,'and'
where he had construe-fed
,immense works. The.
garrison, 180 Q strong, was insufficient. The enemyintended to have lett 5000 men, but by the battle of
Raab his army was 'Separated from that place. The,
city has suffered considerably from a bombardment
of eight days, which has destroyed its finest edifices.
All that could be said as tOthe inutility of a defence
was ineffealual ; it was misled by the hope dbeing
relieved. Count Metternich, after having remained
three days ,at the advanced posts, \is returned to
Vienna. The Secretary of Embassy Dudon, and
the persons attached to the Allied Legations, who
-had not withdrawn previous to the capture of
'Q'tenna,'were set free on the confines of Hungary,.
when intelligence 'of the loss of the battle of Raab
reached Buda. Two battalions of Landwehrs, two
squadrons.of Hulans, and one battalion of troops of
the line,' forming together 456.0 .men, have entered
Bayreuth. They have, as usual, distributed Procla-
mations, and endeavoured to excite itisurre;lionS.-
At .the same time General Any hnde entered Dres-
den with.. three battalions of the line, three batta-
lions of LandwehrS, and a cplleetion of men raised
by the Duke of Brunswick, and some squadrgas of,
cavalry, drawn from different corpS, forming-10_ the
whole from seven to eight thousand men. The.
King of Westphalia has pined. the loth corps, and
is pp his march; the Duke' of Vainly has .put in
motion the advanced guard of time 'Army of Reserve
whibh he commands.

(,f ere folloW6 the Capitulation, consisting of eleven arti-
cles, dated the; iz.d of tune, by which it is agreed that the
garrison shall rnarch.out with the honours of war, a:13.1 depo.
sit their arms on thelglacis, if not relieved by four o'clockiinu
the afternoon of the 14th ; they are afterwards to proceed'
to Contorn,,and are not to serve against Erance.or her A iliesc.
during the war, or till regularly- exchanged"; the Officers
to retain their horses and swords, and the soldiers fheir
knapsacks.]
(Signed) M*IZ Cs z, Adjutant-Commandant.
DOR RE, Major.
(Approved), LAtItI.STON,
(Data) •• • PE.CfIY, Colonel-Commandant of
Kaale.

, •
Government have very wiseiy.ta.ken into consi-
deration theZstressed situation in which the women
'and children of bur brave defenders wouldbe placed,,
by their not being permitted" to accompany their
husbands on the present Expedition, and have or-
dered, that a certain proportion should be left in the
barracks, occupied by the respedive regiments, and
allowed to draw the same allowance as alike number
of (nen, and those beyond the regular proportion'
are allowed s".a sum of money, for themselves 'arid
to,repair- tb-their homes.

A Spanish Ship, -called the 41exararn, arri%cd
yesterday, with wines, from Bourdeaux. '4 Spa-
hish Colonel and some other persons of rank awl
onsideration are pa'ssengers in this vessel. None of
crew had arrived at a late hour last night, for
'ant of the necessary passports; but we have learra
hrough a private channel some interesting partieu-
ars, The master of the _Ship had been detained a
prisoner in France during many months, and was
liberated in order to convey these wines-to Spain,
we belieVe for the royal cellars at Madrid. Hari:lg
received his orders and papers, he set sail ; but he
had -no- sooner cleared the mouth of the Garonne,
than he shifted his Coarse to the north, and in re-
venge for' the injustice done to himself and his un-
happy country by the French, he has brought big
cargo 'to England.
,'We bare learnt, by the same
opportunify,lsOrile fiCls respeeling several Spaniards
of -distinction, who for
.a long time have not been
'heard of. •• 'The Dukes ,of GRENADA and VILLA '
lititrslosA, and the brother of die latter, were pri-
soners at Itiurtjeaux. ..The former. wassent under a
guard to France for refusing to take the oath of alle-
giance to -JOSEPH. The two latter were volunteers
in the army of PALArox, and. were made prisoners
at Saragossa. The Duke of VILLA HERMO4A, is not
niore than 18 or .20 years of age. The Spaniards .
• who Were sent lion) Saragossa to, France, after the
surrender bf that city, were many of them wound- •
ed, and incapable of proceeding "so rapidly, as the
troops 'attending them required; but this was not
allowed to impede the progress of the escort ; arid
eight hundred of these unhappy vietims, incapable
of sustaining the fatigue of the march, 'were shot on,
the road, to Biayonne, ' At this latter place, 'we un-
derstand, every sort of indignity has been offered/to
the unfortunate captives who hair& passed through
it ; at Bourdeaux it is' otherwise, every humane at-
tention is paid to them, and the ruined inhabitants,
of this once splendid and/flourishing City, entertain
a rooted disapprobation of the war against Spain,
On the sullied of the transactions subsequent to,
the departure of the enemy, We have been favoured
with the, following private letter :--:". ' '
`,`-conuNNA, Jr, Nl3 28;—By theblessing ofGod,on,
'die ..tst inst. we were freed from the French trOops,
'4:fter enduring the yoke for five months. . To' detail;.liinnteiy what has happened would be to fill 4
volume ;it more than I wish, but noernote,th#
is true,
be
say, that Gallicia for a considerable time..
must be considerPd in a state of ruin. - The French -._
have here adopted their detestable policy and. systersA
of devastation, and have excited such a general re-
sentment
among the inhabitants, that all are ready
to fly to arms.; so that in a shOrt time, if weaponS
Were to be procured, a powerful force would, be-
'itilleCled. , ;., , . ~ .

. •. c'• The French, to the number of six or seven,
thousand men, at first entered Asturias, where , by'
the joint, efforts of intrigue and military force, Ney
' waswithin a few hours of taking prisoner the. Ma-
r,• -kink de la Romana; who, thus pressed, with some
Members of the Etat-Major, embarked .at Gijon,.
and presently afterwards te-landed at Ribadeo.—
From this port the Marquis proceeded to MOndonedo
and Lugo, and from thence to °reuse, where he,
arrived on the I 2th instant. From that city he ad-
vanced with his forces to Valdeorras in search of the,
remains of the army of Soult-, which came to Liago
after its flight from Portugal. The arrriy from St.'
Payo, marched to Santiago, which it entered on the
93d of May, vanquishing the French division of
3000 men stationed there, and exciting such, fear in,
the runaways, that they came to this place with half
their senses, hardly knowing where they had been;
Our troops were covered with glory, and succeeded
in destroying one third of 'the enemy's force. -
" Ney came back from Asturias full of indigni-..
; tion, and declared, that he would go and burn-
Vigo, and for this purpose he colle6ted his whole
trAlilly, consisting of about eight thousand men.—
.•CAtir forces, on his 'approach, withdrew from San-
tis , , and a great portion of the populace with them,
an . stationed themselves on the bridge of St. Payo,
r
• aii thither they were soon followed by tire yain—
i,gldrious French. Three times the enemy attempted
to cross the bridge, and as often they tell victims
to'
the steadiness of these Patriots. Ney. was obliged
to desist from his enterprize, gilding over the stain
.of. his disgrace, as is usual with the French,' by ,at- '
' tributing his disappointrnetit to the accident of Soult
not having joined him. After these ineffeaual at.,
tempts, the French supposing that their united forces:.
would not -find sufficient subsistence in Gallicia, took'
. the road of Castile, to the.number, I think, of about
e g ilt
tto ten, thousand men. Ney, as I said before,
l&fCus on the 2ist, accompanied by all the Spanish
partisans who had accepted civil employments, under
him, and also by the greater pa-rt of. the French es-
tablished here. With him also went Mazarredo.--T
They set out loaded with the fruits of their theft
and plunder, which it is doubtful if they can keep,
as we have reason to believe'that the army 01 Ro-
mana, consisting of 24 or 25,000 men when it was
last in Orense, has taken the dire6tion, of Sa'nabria
and Nogales. The French have taken with them a
great many wounded in the country carts, who, from
.the excessive heat, I conclude, will perish on the
road. The enemy boasted, when lie loft us; that he -
should return in six weeks with a powerful army,
under the command of the Emperor in person,
c:‘ The English now begin their visits to us.—
Coruntia, although oppressed by being the residence
of the enemy, by, contributions, and by imprison-
- ,ments, has escaped, better than almost any other
place, since it has not been stibjealed to the horrors
of sack and pillage. .'
. .
.'" INl:iny of your friends who were here have
left us, in order to join the army of the Marqui,. '.fie
`, .14Rotnatta.—We learn that Asturias as,well as G4l-
- .licials kibandoned by the enemy."

-A4onnts receii•ed from the Company's Resident
at adad, 'state, that the French troops winch were
ordered to proceed to reinforce the garrison. on the
island of Carac, in the Persian Gulph, had been
remanded, and ordered to take up an inland .sta-
tion between. Suster and Behir; until the final deter-
mination of the Persian Government shall be made
known.

The privateers on the, Dutch coast have been'
greatly on the -alert of late. They have captured
uine_vessels, t,,ko of. which ae Americans.
fl)stNnsaftli ART E has ordered a.considerable number
'Or the krihabitants of Passau to be empl4ed
stren'gita'ng the fortifications of that town. Th 6
heavy; ori name hn.s been taken from the ramp‘rti ot,
Anosbur 11P and sent to defend these new works.'-
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NAVAL NEW.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, 714 y 3, tlioe

Admiralty-Office, July B,' 1809.

Tho following particulars relative to the evacua-
tion of Corunna and Ferrol by the French, are con-
t lined in a series of Letters from Captain Hotham,
of his Majesty's ship the Defiance, to Admiral Lord
Gambier, dated from the- 22d to the 30th of last

In consequence of the defeat sustained by the
Enemy's Army under Marshal Ney in the aaion
apinst the Spanish forces at the bridge of the Payo,
that 'General fell back on Corunna on the 13th June,
and immediately began to take measures for relin-
quishing the possession of that place and Ferrol, re-
moving his, forces by divisions to an encampment
three leagues in advance from BetanzOs towards
Logo. The last divisions of the French left Ferrol
on the 2 1 st, and Corunna on the 22c1, after having
'in both places spiked the guns, and destroyed the
defences on the land side, together with the.maga-
zines and stores of everyikincr, and completely dis-
armed the places and their inhabitants.

• The proximity 'of the Enemy's position conti-
nuing to hold the authorities establiihed by the
French at Corunna in subjection, through the fear
of his return, "no communication being suffered with
the British ships but by flag of truce, and the state
•ot defence in which. the 'batteries and lines on the
sea side were left, renderieg it dangerous for the
English to land or approach the coast in the'event of
the re appearance of any of the enemy, Captain Ho-
than) on the 24th ordered a detachment of seamen
and marines to land and disable the guns on the dif-
fert:nt Ll:merles bearing on the anchorage, offering
at the same time to the Governor the services of the
detachment in rendeting any assi,tance that might
be in its power tio the cause of .the Spanish Patriots.
The cannons and mot ears on the sea lines at Co-
runtia, and in !he forts commanding the bay, were,
accordingly all dismounted on the sante day', leaving
untouched those on the lines towards the land,
which had been soiketl.by the enemy.,
On the 26th Captain Hotham sent 'Captain Par-
ker, of his Majesty's ship Amazon, to Ferrol,
where he was received by the people with the loudest
aqclaniations Qt joy, and received from the higher
orders of the inhabitants the strongest possible
Marks of attachment to the English, and liappi-.
oess at seeing once, more among them an Officer of
that nation. The Castle of San Felipe, however,
was still under the command of a person aprointed
by Marshal Ney, and attached to the French inte
rest, with a garrison composed of a detachment af
a legion raised by the Enemy during their posses.
sion of Ferrol and Corunna ; and on •ne 27th Cap-.
tai:, Hotliarn received inforination 'that the above
Commandant had given orders to tire on any Eng- ,
lisp ships, or boats that might attempt to pass the
castle. In consequence, Captain Hotham repaired
to Ferrol in the Defiance, and landed the marines
of, that ship and the Amazon, with a party of armed
seamen, under the direCtion of Capt. Parker; who
entered the castle without opposition, preceded by a
44g bearing the namt of King Ferdinand the Seventh
and the Spanish colours. The detachMent then
proceeded; to the ,town of Ferrol, where it was re-..
ceived in the most affeetionate manner by the in-
habitants, and having arrested the Commandant of
the Castle in the name of King Ferdinand, sent
him on board .the Defiance. The Governor of Fer-
rol not having any means of garrisoning the Castle,
the guns in it were spiked, and the powder, removed
to the arsenal, and. the place left under the com 7
mand of the former governor, who had been Super-
seded 'by the enemy. •
On the 28th, Captain. Hotham entered the Port
of Cortitlna, where he was informed by the Gover-
nor that he had received instructions from the Mar- ,
iquis de la Romana, dated pt Orense on the 27th, to
Proclaim his Catholic Majesty Ferdinand the Ninth.
with advice that ,ite had dispatched a regiment
• from his army to amend the ceternony, and garrison
the ,place : the Governor at •the same time gave
Captain, Hotham as,uratic:es that the Port was from
that b'our to be considered under the controul and
authority of the lawful King of Spain ; and the Cap-
tain placed himself, and every as•istanee that the
ships under his orderi might be able to afford, at
the Governor's disposal.
On the 29th, Major-General the Conde, de No-
lona, Captain-General of. Gallicia arrived at Corunna
from St. Jago, and was followed on- the next day by
Gent ral Carrera u ith about eleven thousand men,
torching the Conde's division of the Marquis of Ro-
mana's army,
The French army under Marshal Ney moved
from its camp near-Betanzos on the 22d, taking the
road to Lugo and Astorga. It was repOrted t.hat,
Previously to its breaking up the camp, it destroyed
its baggage and heavy artillery.
On t: e 27th the Marquis de la Romana was
stated to be. at Orense with General Malii and thirty,
thousand men. Marshal Soult's position on the
loth was said to have been at Monforie and Qui-
, ragk