Star.
London, England, 1809-08-10 00:00:00

TARR AGONTA, JULY 12.

[From the Comet!: Evtraordirary of the principality of Cztalonii4,

64 His Excellency the Marquis de Cot:pigny has
just received the following dispatches
Most Excellent Sir—While the chiefs of the se-
veral corps are preparing a detailed account of ali the
individuals who have on this memorable morning en.
vered themselves with immortal glory, in the defein.e
of the Castle of Moniuich, I cannot help antic:rating
this pleasing intelligence, for your greater satisfa.:-
tion, and that you may impart it to his Majesty.
4 No pen can adequately paint this glorious day ;
and I will therefore only inform your Excellency for
the present, that at day-break this morning the enemy
•surrounded the said Castle with 6000 select troops,
as one of their wounded declares, menacing an a:-
tack upon three breaches, more particularly upon the
largest of them. .All the troops which garrisone.i
the castle instantly occupied their posts with the
greatest order, maintaining the name which had been
pointed out to them by the Governor some days be-
fore, and. received the enemy with admirable firm•
ness. Five assaults were made by him during the
two hours while the affair lasted, but in all the five
he was put to a shameful flight, leaving the ditch,
and the covered way which leads to the tower of St.
Lewis, covered 1% ith his dead.

The artillery of the place and its forts kept up the
action with the valour which became them, causing
great slaughter to the enemy, who never ceased to
fire grenades, bombs, &c. upon the city and fortifi.-
cati,ns ; but this did no damage to the inhabitants
or troops, who maintained their serenity and attention
to their duty.
4 AU are heroes: I ascended the castle with the
reserve, several piquets of infantry, the Staff, and
some individuals who voluntarily accompanied me.
I could not avoid acknowledging to these brave de-
fen&rs how highly they had merited the gratitude of
t'ieir country ; and I distributed rewards among
them, in the name of the King our Sovereign, in
proportion to the merits of each. Our loss has been
slit ht, in compar;son with the vigour and obstinacy
of he aNsaults; but that of the enemy has been great,
from the well-directed musquetry of our troops, and
the infinite number of ty,mbs, grenades, &c. which
were sent among them by the besieged, while they
co‘erezt with glory the arms of our beloved King
Ferdinand VII.

On •I,i< happy day, and wi.ile no other sounds
than thore of iov were het,rd, an accident took place:
which somewhat embittered our enjoyment. The
tower St. Juan, one of the weirk• between Monjuich
and the fortfess, ; but it did not occastctn the mix_
chief which might have been expected, as part of tl'e
sntall number wh:ch garrisoned it were engaged in
tile conflict without the tower.
['l he" foll,,wa aft unimportant paragraph, respecting the rc-
vv.ro.. v.anted.]
eni'my retreated with great loss to the same
posts and h.t—eries they had occupied before, conti-
nithsg their b-uttbardmeut prom thence on r‘lonjuich
and the Fortrels with 'he •arne fury, and avenging
themselves by he 11,:iig tip ruin,:.
• I am fi-mly pe-sttAkkil, that in the long series of
malt try nectirrenr t!s votict, h tAken phicc, the
enemy has never encrumtercd a more heroic opposi•
tion than th which it stistaired this memcirable day,
in the attach upon a breach wide enough tc. admit ;6
men abl ea it.
We terminated this happy morning marchitg
in a body to the Catl,cdr.i, with the Bi -hop :Ind Ch;sl;_
ter, where 'y returned thanks to Go• , •ts was due,
by a solemn T. Mum, and .t tteneral seh.trge of ar-
(Signed) ALVARE.A.'
4 Germs, hull 8,1809.

VALENCIA, JUNE M.

After the battle of Belchite, 22 Poles deserted to
our cdours, notwithstanding the misfortune of that
day. The public may infer from hence, what are
the forbodings of the enemy in regard to his fate, if,
when he obtains advantages, part of his best troops
abandon his ranks, and seek an asylum in Spanish
generosity. At Gerona we witness the same kind of
Immigration.
.This place has maintained its commu-
nication, notwithstanding the enemy .has increased
his forces to effect the strictest blockade. The garri-
son and people have made some brilliant sallies, and
covered therns:lves with glory. All the batteries of
heavy artillery and mortars have been taken or de-
stroyed, and the continual and well-directed fire of
the place has made great slaughter among .the obsti-
nate besiegers. We know that the army is approach-
ing to relieve the place, and there is little doubt that
the enemy will, a third time, be obliged to retire
from before Gerona, defeated and confounded, it
indeed, he should be able to effect his retreat.

PARIS PAPERS.

TWENTY-NINTH BULLETIN.
• " Vienna, July 22.

" Generals Durosntl and Foulers have returned to the head-
quarters. All our surmises with respect to the fate of the former
have proved erroneous. He was not wounded, and had no horse
killed under him ; but as he was coming back from carrying to
the Duke of Montebello the order for concentrating his move-
ments on account of the destruction of the bridges, on the esad of
May, he crossed a hollow where he found twenty-five hussars,
whom he fancied formed one of our out-posts. He did not per-
ceive they were Austrians until they had made him their priso-
ner. As we had been so long without hearing from him, as
well as from other probable reasons, we thought he had been
killed.

" The General of Division Regnier has taken the command of
the Saxons, and occupies Presburgh.

" Marshal Macdonald is gone to take possession of the citadel
of Gratz, which it is expected he will enter to-day.
" The Marshal Duke of Ragusa encamps with his corps on the
heights of Krems.
" His imperial Majesty passes his guards in review every mor-
ning. The velites and foot grenadiers of the Italian guard are re-
markable for their excellent order.

" Prince John de Lichtenstein, on his return from Buda, was
presented on the 18th instant to his Imperial Majesty. He was
rarer of a letter from the Emperor of Austria.
" Count Bubna, Major-General and Aide-de-Camp to the
Emr ror of Austria, has dined several times with Count Cham-
-14411.

" The commercial boats, which the events of the war had scat-
tered in various directions, have been collected and repaired chi
the banks of the Danube. They come every day laden with
woo-I, vegetables, corn, and flour.
" 'I he whole army is encamped."

By a Decree dated from the Imperial Camp at
Schoenbrunn, July ISO], his Majesty has named Co-
lonels Duperroux, of the 113th Regiment, Kozinow-
ski, of the Vd Regiment of the Vistula, Daigremont,
of the ; iteOment of Cuirassiers, St. Cyr Nugues,
Chief of the Staff cf the 3d Corps of the Army of
Spain, flax°, Commandant of the Engineers belong-
ing to the s.trne corps, Devallens, of the 4th Regi-
ment of Hussars, and Meyer, Aid-de-Camp to Ge-
neral Suchet, Officers of the Legion of Honour; and
Lieutenants Feucheres, Deslombes, and Ricoux, Pri-
vates of the Legion of Honour.
By the same Decree, the Emperor has ordered the
distribution of ninety-seven decorations of the Legion
of Honour among the regiments belonging to the
3d Corps of the Army of Spain, which distinguished
themselves most in the battles of Saragossa and Bel-