The Sun.
London, England, 1813-08-12 00:00:00

WIINISTEIt AT WAlt.-AIttIY IN SPAIN.

His MA.!ESTY has appointed Marshal the Duke
cif DALMATIA his Lient,General, Commander of
the Armies -in Spain, This Marshal took the
command on the 12th. of July, and immediately
made his dispositions to march against the En-
glish, who were he- sicging Pampelnua and St%
B.4bastian's.

LETTER EllOl GENERAL REY, COMMANDING AT ST.
SEI3ASTIAI,'S,, TO HIS F:..kCELLENCY THE, DUKE
•OF FELTRE•., IMI.NISTER AT WAR', DATED JULY,
25 1813. "

MONgEIGNEUR—Tbe General sent me a flag of
truce—l refused to receive it—the breach was
practicable. On the 23d and 24th the enemy
continued to fire with from 30 to
.35 pietes of
cannon. He destroyed all the fronts of the
bott,es From' the 'Aureola to St."Ehne, and opened
ttN:O new breaches. I was assured that the second
was practicable, and the third much less so. From
the 2.2(1 he set tire to the town at several points;
and kept it up by the continual throwing of bombs;
the town had already suffered much.
This morning, the 25th, at four o'clock, the
enemy took adVantage of the pipe for the convey-
ance of the water (rota the fountain of the town,
to establish a mine, with which' be blew up the
place of arms, which entered the envered
-Upon this signal, some columns of attack were
put in motion., The direction of the fire from its
batteries, amil the 24th, made me presume,. I should
be attacked during that night, or in the morning;
and `I iaade my dispositions accordingly. Every,
where the enemy was received with the greatest
vigour all who reached the breathes were killed
or' wounded ; the columnS which had distributed
themselves in the covered way were quickly driven
from, and prevented from establishing themselves
This deed .of arms. does the greatest ho--
nottr to4the garrison of St, Sebastian and I shall
have the-honour of acquainting your-Excellency,
in my frrit report, of the names of the brave men
who. particularly distinguished themselves.
I estimate that the English have lost front 14
t-0-1400 men in the breaches, or in the covered
way, fvom the fire of artillery howitzers, and shells
which were thrown on them near the Fausse Braye
of St,-Jean's Bastion, or on approaching the
br.eaches.• •
The,J,English General asked me to bury his
dead ; granted an hour. 1 have brought in 581
wounded, of whom 13 are officers, and those
found upon the breach, or at she toot of it, be-
sides 237 prisoners. The enemy carried off his
mgrs distant wounded. The wounded assure us,
the enemy had fifty officers killed, 'of whom the
Major-General commanding the first column was
one.

on it.

1 write in great haste to your Excellency.—
'Marshal the Duke of Dalmatia has done me the
bonour of informing me, that be would put him-
self in motion in order to deblockade us as well
as Pamplona.
Colonel Songeon, to iyhom 1 confided the com-
mand of the left of my operations, whilst I di-
rected those of the centre and the right, seconded
nie admirably ; the chief of battalion, Blanchard,
of the (2d of the line, who commanded the ex-
terior posts ‘; Gellet, of the battalion of engi-
Ded.r..4 ; Captain Data, my aid-de-ramp ; the
of battalion, Brian, commanding the artillery,
have rendered the greatest service.
1 shall have the honour of setiding the Duke of
Dalmatia a particular report, and the names of
the officers, sub-officers, and soldiers, who par-
ticularly distinguished themselves on this day, in
order that he might solicit for theta the. Empe-
ror's thanks.' recommend those brave mere to
your favfmr. h e ehief of Ti Distally, of
the 22d line, upon the breach ; Cap-
tain Bidori, coinmitnding thc Sappers, was killed
at ule. pit Of honour. Our lo.is does not exceed
forty men put hors de combat.
(Signed)

REY.

COPY 01' A LETTER FROM THE DUKE OF DALMATIA

TO THE AII,NIST6II AT WAft.

Bevou:,vking upon the heights of Attabisca, 25th July,
Eleven u clock.

?.41.i;EVII LT! Dl1(;---.1 to-day attacked the enc-
.
rny's ri:;.lit, tornied of two,Fmghsh divisions, and
Morino', vanish division i we drove them from
ii vvi`Y,B""t!..., Po34i,n) Which is bcfOre the defile
01. Atthbkel. ; an extr:tordinary thick fog bur-
p,';',,,il os at halt-pa-4 three o'clock, -at the mo-
, rnent we,wet-c parsuijig the enemy, and;prevented
tk from iitutektug 0.4 top (-1)1.,11t4te.,) nf-Altabisea..._
To-innrrow; at the break of day, this shalt take
place. We have only been able to make 200 pri-
s'ooers,Shat the English have suffered much.' Ge-
tieral Wilk wins .not able to arrive at Lindus,
where he was to take a position ;. he had observed
a movement of the enemy's line upon his-right.---
I hove not received Burin g the
, day, any re-
i ort from Coun
t I)'ErJon ; he was' to attack the
(o 1 de Maya. I have lik&wise
heard nothing
from Gen. tillatte. The troops shewed great ar-
dcinr, and the Generals much dev)tion : the 6th
, , .
mh,,l 2rith light,fand particularly the sutit of the
lirte, vou.lneted theinsclves excellently.
vr-'ll the oper;Ations- shall afford me a little
moo. tilite,'l stud! hti'Ve the honour of '''
riving your
1:4:.,'(:1?14'",.,ey' a more cirenTstantial 6report .—I
Oigned)

Tht Duke of DALMATIA.

PROM 'PIIR SAAIE T 0 TIM :IME,
July —lawyer', o'clock of !tight,
The enemy dtaing'thestight evarmated posi.
Cd iii Itonceveanx he• also retired froth

that of Lindtes.,-before Width Count Reille was,
• with the division of the,right army. At break of
day I ordered the hoops to match ; the ,divisions
of the left, - commanded
,by Lientenanl=Oetieral
Clausel, fpllowed:the road Which leatl4 to. Pam-
-phina ; the advanced guard came in_coritact with
the first enemy's posts before Viscaretc, and drove
them to the heights before .Zuherg, where they
rallied upon their line ; the difficulty of.the road, '1
`and a thick fog which began in the morning, re-
tarded our March, therefore it was already late
when the head of the column Was able to seize
the heights that are before Linscoin and D'Erro,
where there was a trifling engagement ; but I-did
not judge it p`roper to attack the enemy's position
ti;is evening, where they have nearly 15;000 men,
of whom 9 or 10,000 are two English divisions,
and the, reuntinder Spanish. They also shored
some pieces of artillery. •
. .
Lieutenant-General Count Reille was, after
having. forced the position of Lindres, to Ma-
noeuvre on his right, keeping the, crest of the
mountains; to successively seize upon the de-
houches which open from the.yalley of Bastan,
and thuS oblige.the enemy to retire, which would
have favoured Count D'Erlon's debottching. This
morning at 10 o'clock, the guides were not will-
ing to conduct him in .that direction ; the fog did
not adniit of their distingidshing objects at ten.
paces distance ; they leafed to lead the :cold-ulll5
on some precipices, which determined Count
Heine to join that of the left at Espin..,i, 1 have es-
tablished him in the rear of Leozoin ; to -11101 TOW
he will form the attack on the left, should the
enemy maintain his position.
Count d'Erton yesterday wrote me, that at
three in the afternoon, agreeably to toy direc,
tions, the divisions of the centre had attacked and
carried the strong position 'of Col de not-
withstanding the vigorous resistanou made by the '
enemy. The second divisioo, commanded by.
Gen. Darmagnac, evinced, on • this occasion, an
extraordinary ardour.. After•this attack, the ene-
my tfiyided his troops in two ; one de-
seended the \Talky of Ilastar, the other took the •
road of Eckbasar. Count d'Erlon 'ordered 'them
tube pursued ; but he afterwasds. thought lit to.
countermand that movement, and..
sinus of the centre at Col de Maya. • -The enemy
still maintainekl himself upon the Atehiola mOun-
tains. I regret this unforeseen accident the more,
as I had ordered (ouut d'Erlon to manoeuvre to
approach me; 1 have just 'reiterated the same
order to him.

In .this battle, the English have lost many Then.
We .have also tab-en from them eight pieces of
cannon. They also lost many in the attack made
by Count Reille the 10th regiment hh.s been al-
most destroyed ; a battalion of the Gth light infan-
try of Foy's division, charged that regiment %with
the bayonet, and overthrew it. lit short, they
have also lost many in the attack on the mountain
of Allavisce, by Gen. Baron Clausel, in which.,
several officers of rank were killed ; we have made
many prisoners.
I am ignorant of what passed yesterday and to-
day on the Lower Bidassao. I have received no
accounts from General Villate, wan has besides '
his instructions. I 11.eVil* knew troops better dis-
posed, nor sheW more ardour; the National Guards
of Landis, and the Lower . Pyrenees, and the
Mountain Chasseurs, which I employed to the
frontier, rivaled them in ardour. I shall mention
theta in the General Report, which I shall have
the lion Our of addressing. to your Excellency.
I have the honour, &c.
(Signed) The Marshal Duke of DAL.siATza,

MAYENCE, AUG. 2.—Yesterday at six in. the
evening, his Majesty the Emperor; our August
Sovereign; left this town to return to Dresden ;
and to-day, at ten in the morning, savors of ar-
tillery and the tinging of bells announced to the
. .

inhabitants of Mayence the cseparture of her. Ma-
jesty, the Empress, Queen, and Regent. He'r
Majesty (what ked on board pat, in which she
will descend the Rhine to Cologne, and return by
Brussels to her capital.
Before her departure, the Emperor shelved him-
self, with his,august spouse, upon the balcony of
the palace, wktere they familiarly discoursed for
half an hour.

The Empress appeared moved, arid' shed tears
when the Emperor's carriage passed under the
balcony. During his stay at Mayence, the Etn.
peror Tippeared like a father in the midst of bis
children ; the abode of their Majesties has left in
the hearts of all those who had the happiness of
•
.seeing th i ey), neffaceable remembrances. ,

FRANK PORT, AUG. 3.—A column of French and
Polish troop:;, commanded by General Mimi-
towslty, to-day marched for the army. A suffi-
cient number of Polish Officers are proceeding to
the Corps d'Artnt:le, which is at liamburgh.
DRESDEN, JUNE 30.—k is believed that the
Emperor will be absent a fortn:ght ; the Mite de
litiriATlO and theMiuister Secretary of state., Count
Darn, are still in our town.

VAR's, Aoo. 5.--The intelligence from Frank-
fort, which announced the arrival of an English
Minster
,Plenipotentiary, was preinatine. It is
now certain that Lord Aberdeen has been appoint-
ed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Congress at
Prague, by the.Cahinet of St. James's. Ile has
left England to proceed to his destination.
PRAGUF, JULY 24.--We learn that the Con_
gress at Prague held its first sitting on the I dth ,
instant.

n
i-RAGUE, JULY 24.—Several persons attached
to his Excellency the Duke of Vicenee have al-
ready arriveii here, and every thing is prepared
for his reception at the Grand Priory. This am;
bassador is expected every moment.
Count Narbonne is lodged at Ledebur Palace,
which Government had ordered to he pi epared.
appenrs that conferences have been already held
at Count Metternich's, but nothing respecting
there has p'ublicly transpired.
His Majesty the Emperor is to pass two days
here next week.
The Emperor of Russia is still at Peterswald,An.
be 'King of Prussia is immediately to return from