Star.
London, England, 1808-08-09 00:00:00

TOTAL DEFEAT OF DUPONT.

In the greater part of our impression yesterday, we
laid before our Readers the following satisfactory ac-
counts from the Spanish Patriots, which we again
Insert, for the information of such of our friends as
were supplied with the earlier part of our impression.
Yesterday afternoon, Lieutenant Ate, of the
BLACK JOKE lugger, arrived at the Admiralty, with
dispatches from Corunna, which place he left on the
2d instant. The substance of the dispatches were
ioon after published in the following

BULLETIN•

" Downing-street, August et i 868.

A dispatch has been received from Lieutenant-Colonel
Doy&e, dated eorunna, the let of August, stating, that the Junta
of the Galßeim had received advices by letters from General
CosvAvos and General Count Ds TILLS, dated Andujar, the
!Ist of July, to General BLAKL ; that on the 20th (the day be-
fore) Central DUZONT had been entirely defeated; that he and
his whole division had surrendered prisoners of war, with all
their arms, baggage, and be.4y ; and that another corps, posted in
the mountains, between the top of the Sierra and raylen, had
eapitularod, on the condition of being sent to France by sea; so
that not a single FrenehMan remains in Andalusia."

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By the BLACK JoKz, Lieutenant ALT, were received
the Seville Gazette,, containing the following
OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS
OF GENERAL CASTANOS AND COUNT TILL!;
ADDEN6SED TO TIIE SueREALE JUNTA

" MO°T StIIIPIN6 LORD,
U I have the satisfaction to Inform your Highness
of the complete victory which has
,been gained since
the Battle of Baylen. Genetal DUPONT is a prisoner
of war, with all his division, arms, artillery, baggage,
&c The remainder, who were not engaged in the
action, although they did not share this fate, are
included in the capitulation, and obliged to return to
Prance by sea, that not a Frenchman may remain in
Andalusia. My Nephew, Colonel Don PEDRO Au-
nts-17r: Glitow, will communicate the details of the
affair ; in the mean time I assure your Highness that
the gallantry of the Officers and Soldiers, and their
constancy ender toils and privations are worthy of
the just estimation in which the army deserves to be
held by your Highness, and of the confidence I en-
tertained of their patriotism and zeal for the public
cause.

" I venture to request of your Excellency the ful-
flment, in my name, of the vow made by me to de-
dicate this action to the glorious San Fernando.

•t May GOD preserve you many years.
" XAVIER DE CASTANOS."
" Bead-quarters, at Andujar, July 21.
't'othe moat Supreme Junta of Government."
The following is another letter from his Excellency
Count Ds Tula t

" Yesterday, the 20th July, Spain, or more pro-
perly, your Highness's army, gained the most com-
plete victory the Nation has for many centuries be-
held in these parts. The result has been similar to
that of Baylen ; in one moment the Andalusians have
been freed from the French arrns.

"The division of Dcrowr with all its baggage, its
booty, and all its Generals, are prisoners of war ; and
the other divisions which occupy his Majesty's do-
minions, from the summit of the Sierra to Baylen,
are to evacuate the Peninsula by sea.—This is the
principal point of the Treaty, which General CASTA-
NOS and myself had the satisfaction to sign last night,
and as we withdrew from the field at midnight in
want of sleep and rest, I cannot immediately send
your Highness the particulars of the Capitulation, or
of the events which have taken place, but ill do it
as early as possible.
" This most agreeable intelligence will be carried
by the Lieutenant-Colonel of the column of Provin-
cial Grenadiers, Don PEDRO JEROME, an Officer of
the greatest merit, and who, by talents and courage
on many occasions, and particularly in this army, has
rendered himself worthy of any favour your Highness
may bestow upon him.
" I have directed that the oath of Allegiance to our
sovereign King FERDINAND VII. which has not yet
been taken in this city, should be administered to-day,
that Te ))cum should be sung, and an illumination
made for three nights.
Gon preserve your Highness many Mrs*
44 Most Sereneit.ord,
" Count Da TILLY.

" The Most Serene Lord the President,
and Member of the Supreme Junta
of Spain and the It:dies."

Woperations which preceded the surrender of
the army of DUPONT, the following f‘w particulars
are cent:tilled in a private account :
" The Spanish Geeeral having received intelligence tbet a
Ants of 8000 men, wascn its march to join Gcncral DUPONT,
resolved to attack him before the junction should take place, and
the action commenced, as we have already stated, on the toth
oh. It was most obstinately concerted for some time, but at

to attack him the next morning, when General Dv eottr,in order
to save his whole army from destruction, proposed to surrender
A negotiation immediately took place, and the whole of the
French army, including 8000 men that were on their march to
join him, surrendered prisoners of war, with all their artillery,
magazines, &c, &c. So that, to use the words of General CAS•
-restos, in his official account of this glorious victory, " there is
not now a single Frenchman in arms in the whole of Andalusia:.
We are enabled to add, from authentic informa-
tion, some farther particulars not mentioned in the
above brief dispatches. DUPONT, some time before
the battle, had retreated from Andujar to Baylen,
and the former town biocarne the head-quarters of the
Patti, army. Measures had been taked previously
to the 19th to. secure all the passes in the enemy's
rear, so that his retreat was rendered impracticable.
This service was entrusted to two very able Officers,
with a few regular troops and a great body of volun-
tecers
and armed peasantry, who daily lrtrassed the
French, narrowed the space from which their derived
sustenance, and reduced them to the greatAt dis-
tress. General ESCALANVE commanded at La Caro-
lina, four Spanish leagues north east from Baylen, on
the road to Madrid, and thus cut off the return of
the enemy to that city. General REDING occupied
another very important post on the right of the
French, and a chain of communication being kept be-
tween these Generals and the Commander in Chief,
Dort CAETANOS, the enemy was completely surround-
ed on every side. The force under the immediate
command of DUPONT, was 12,000 men, but reinforce-
ments to the amount of 8000 were advancing to endea-
vour to join him, when General CASTANOS gave him
battle. The Spanish Army was put in motion on the
19th, and the battle commenced on the 20th. The
conflict was long and obstinate. We have not yet re-
ceived any authentic account of the killed and wound-
ed, but the loss must hmve been considerable on both
sides. DCPONT exhausted, in vain, all the resources
which tactical skill and long experience in warfare
enabled him in his perilous situation to call forth.—
At last, to save the wreck of his army from total an-,
nihilation, he proposed to capitulate, and, as is stated
.
above, surrendered to General CASTANOS.

There is one circumstance stated in the official ac-
counts which deserves particular notice. The whole
of the French army has not obtained the same terms:
The forces under DCPONT which were defeated are
prier:ours of war"—those which were not engaged in
the actioh ate to " evacuate Me penituula by sea."

Since writing the foregoing, we have received the
following further intelligence from Spain, brought to
Portsmouth by the PLUTO :
By letters dated St. Andero, the Ist August, it
appears, that a Nobleman had arrived there who had
escaped from Madrid on the 25th July. He says,
that there were not above 12,000 French with Jo-
SEMI BONAPARTE, at Madrid ; that they were fortify-
ing the Reteiro, and that the City Was the most afflic-
ting spcctable possible. Several of the new Ministers
had made their escape from Madrid, and as the Duke
D'INFATADO was not there, it was hoped that he also
had escaped.
Official advices have been this morning received
from General CASTANO'S Camp, up to the 17th ult.
These state, that General CASTANOS having made all
his preparations, and determined on his plan of
attack, marched to Andujar on the 15th. General
REnnvo was to pass the River above Manjibar, and
attack Baylen. The Marquis DE COMPIONY was
to pass at Villa Nuova, and support General
REDINO. Geaeral CASTANOS, with the Sd division
and Reserve, was to attack the Bridges in front.—
Lieutenant-Coloncl CRUZ was to pass the River at
Mantreolege, and to occupy the Sierra. Colonel
VALDE PINOS was to occupy the Puerto del Rey.
On the 15th General CasmNos took his position
and cannonaded the French with effect. General
COMPIONY beat the French at Villa Nuova, and killed
about 200 of them. Lieutenant-Calonel CRUZ was
obliged to retire, by the superior numbers of the
enemy.

supplied from this country wit
and £300,000 in specie.

DUTCH PAPERS.

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Dutch journals to the sth inst. containing Paris
news to the 30th ult.—Boma:m.lra arrived at Pan on
the 21st ult. and left that town the next morning, and
was to be at Toulouse on Sunday, the 24th ; he was
thence to proceed to Agen, which he was to leave on
the 29th, for the purpose of visiting Bourdeaux, where
he was expected on the 30th. Such is the route men-
tioned in these papers. Where he was to go from ,
Bourdeaux is not stated, but according to some ac-
counts, he is expected at Rambouillet on the 14th inst.
his birth-day, for the celebration of which splendid
preparations had been made. It is stated in an ar-
ticle from Hamburgh, of the 29th ult. in the Rotter-
dam Courant of the 4th in. that intelligence had been
received at Copenhagen of the capture of the Swe-
dish army in Finland, consisting of 12,000 men.—
This is evidently an unfounded rumour. The Got-
-1 tenburgh Mail furnishes the means of detection. By
it we learnt that his Swedish Majesty established his
head-quarters at Great Carleby on the 24th ult.—one
I day later than the report.
The Spanish troops in the vicinity of Hamburgh
have taken the oath of fidelity to their new Sove-
reign, JO9EP/I Narom.:ov. This need excite no sur.
prize. They could be only imperfectly informed of
recent events in their own country ; and besides, they
had the bayonets of the French at their breasts. These
papers maintain their usual silence with respect to
Spain.

Private letters from Holland state, that strong
srnptoms of revolt against France have lately mani-
festei thenzielves in several distlicts of Get-many, and
also in Poland. At Dantzic the people are said to have
suddenly risen upon the French soldiery, and put
numbers of them to death. The final result of this
insurrection is not mentioned. Dantzic is known to
be very strongly garrisoned, and therefore the con-
spiracy must be formidable, or the irritation extreme,
that Could prompt the inhabitants to insurrection.