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anted from him, but totally and radically, hi every
single matter of his statement. It was pitiable to see
the Right Hon. Gentleman twisting and struggling
through his long speech —detailing with pompous
minuteness such a set of paltry, sour vy matters, while
he evaded so studiously the real question before the
House, which was simply but emphatically this--
w•hether Ireland shall be won to a ttue and zealous
allegiance to the Crown of England; or, whether by a
continuance of injustice and oppression, she was tq be
goaded into the arms of France ( Hear,hear)? This was
the simplicity, this the grandeur of the question, and
not elaborate nothings about the Convention Bill, and
the tremendous work published by Mr. Fitzgerald,
or Fitzpattick, the Catholic bookseller. It might be
very true, indeed, that the said Fitzpatrick did pub
Wish that mighty work, but was it worth one
pin to the House ? What was all the Right-Ho-
nourable Gentleman's speech but trifling with the
time of the Hon se, and mi sleading them from the great
question which os:el:pied their delib,:ration, The Right
Hon. Gentleman had sent the work alluded to over to
him, and from what he knew of the book and'of its au-
thority, he would take upon himself to say, that there
was not any mistatement in it. But supposing it was
most libellous, and the tone and temper of it most
furious, was he to conclude, that for such a reason,
we were to pay no •attention to grievances which
were the foundation of this tone and temper ? Jf the
claims of the Catholics wore just, was any intempe-
risme in pamphlets or speeches of those who com-
plained to debar them from redress ? He was asto-
nished to hear the Right Hon. Gentleman (whom be
hoped he might now call the late Minister of Ireland)
urge, that if the Irish- sufferer overstepped discretion
in the utterance of his complaints, he was for ever to
be spurned by the Legislature. If he was as sincere
as he pretended in his wish to be a, mild, and kind,
and conciliatory," to Ireland ; were his own tone
and temper that night likely to bring the people
to moderation ? These few words were, at that
late hour, extorted from him ; and he would, there.
fore, conclude by giving his heartfelt and cordial vote
for the motion. Emancipation or no emancipation,
at least let the House inquire into the state of Ireland.
—I am an Irishman, and strongly interested in all
that relates to Ireland, but the lateness of the hour,
the turn the debate has taken, the number of able
men who have yet to deliver their sentiments, all
these considerations combine to make me wish to
postpone what I bad further to say. I shall therefore
propose that the debates be adjourned till this day ;
which was agreed to.
Adjourned at HALF PAST TWO in the morning.
•

LONDON.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
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Mr. Baßtowr, whose arrival at Cowes in the Her.
met sloop of war from Cherbourgh, we announced
yesterday, left Pari.. on Thursday last. Mr. BAR.
LowE bad previously received an answer from the
French Government to his communication OR the

subject of the sequestrated American property, and
sent it off to his Government by the frigate CON-
S STITUTION, Captain HULL, which sailed from Cher-
bourgh on the 9th.—The Hoax sr came over from
Cherbovrgh to Cowes in eight hours.

Paris papers to the 80th ult. have been received :
they contain-the official details of the fall of Valencia,
which we announced yesterday :

.4 REPORT OF COUNT, SUCIIET TO THE PRINCE OF NEUF-

CDATEL AND WAGRAM.

" Head-quarters, Valens a, Jan. 12.
" MONSEMNEUR —I beg your Serene Illgliness to
announce to his Majesty the Emperor-, that his orders
have been executed : Valencia has submitted to his
arms.

4, The rapid movements of the 26th of December
forced the enemy to retire into their fortified lines ;
the pursuit of the troops which escaped from Valen-
cia to San Philippe deprived Blake of all hope of
succour ; the investment was finished with persever-
ance. The army, thirsting for glory, sought dangers ;
and, with the greatest valour, repulsed three sorties.
The boldness of the engineers, who, in the nights
of the Ist and 2d of January, opened trenches within
from 70 to 80 toises of the enemy's works, and who
in four days and four nights carried their mines within
50 toises of the fosse ; the surprising efforts of the
artillery, who erected batteries at 60 toises, and which
they succeeded in arming, notwithstanding the rains
and dreadful roads ; the constancy of the infantry in
sharing in all these labours, caused the abandonment
of the enemy's lines, defended by 80-Pieces of cannon.

These lines are 6000 wises in extent. Valencia
expended 12,000,000 of reals, and employed some
thousands of met, for two years in erecting them.
• "On the .s;h I commenced the bombardment, and
on the 6th offered a capitulation, which being re-
fused, 1 redotibled our fire, and in three days and
three nights, 2,700 bombs were thrown into the city,
causing explosions, and several vast fires. The artil-
lery, by a praise-worthy emulation, succeeded in
erecting two batteries mmined with ten 24-pounders
each, ready to make a breach in the interior defence.
The engineers, with their usual a:tivity, had 'effected
-a lodgment in the bit houses of the suburbs, and
.placed mines under two of the principal gates of the
town; when General Blake, fearing the terrible and
-mar approach of an assault, accepted the following
capitulation, which places in the power of the Em-
peror the City of Valencia, 374 pieces of artillery,
fio,ooolb. of powder, 8,000,000 of cartridges, 16,131
prisoners of the line, according to the accompanying
statement, delivered by the General in Chief of the
Spanish &air, and 1950 sick in the hospitals of Valen-
.cia and Valdigna ; 1800 cavalry and artillery horses,
st.nds of colours, 893 Officers, '22 Generals or
-Brigadiers, among whom are Zayas and Lardizabel,
commanding •the expeditionary, divisions ; Miranda,
• Marco del • Ponte, Commander of the Valencian
Army ; Sea? Commandant of the Cavalry ; the Mar-
quis of Rocca, &c. four Lieutenan:-General,, six Field
Marshals, and a great litur ber of Colonels ; the Ge-
neral in Chief O'Donnel, and Captain-General Blake.

46 On this occasion the insurgents have experienced
• an irreparable toss ; they lost 50 good artillery offi-
cers, formed in the school of Segovia; 883 miners

and sappers, and 1400 old artillery men ; among
which are four fine companies of horse artillery. The
disarming of the militia is proceeded in, and will soon
be completed.

" Your Serene Highness will perceive, by reading
the 4th article of the capitulation, that I have seized
occasion to fulfil the beneficent wishes of the ginpe-
rm., in obtaining the speedy return to the army of 2000
French or allies prisoners, and the hope of a still more
considerable exchange.
" The Generals of artillery and engineers, Valve
and ltegneat, directed their corps whh their accus-
tomed talent.

16 General Count Reille, at the head of his corps,
evinced the greatest activity ; Generals Palombino
and Severole, the most-entire devotion.

" Generals Harispe, Habert, Musner, and St. Cyr
Nugues, Chief of the Staff, served with that zeal
which has ever animated them since their entry into
Spain.

I shall have the honour of speedily addressing to
your Excellency an account of the favours which I
have to solicit from the goodness of the Emperor for
his army. I dare beg of you, Monseigneur, to sub-
mit them to his Majesty. 66 SUCH ET."

IThe principal articles of the Capitulation are—The army shall
march out with the honours of war by Gate Seranos, and lay
down their arms beyond the bridge, upon the left bank of the
Gaachdaviar, The Officers shall preserve their swords, as well
as their horses and equipages, and the soldiers their knapsacks.
Arr. 4. The General-in-Chief, BLAKE, offering to give up the
French, or the allies of France, prisoners in Majorca, Alicant,
and Carthagene, an equal number of Spaniards shall remain in
places in the power of the French, till this exchange shall be
effected, man for man, and rank for rank].

" Head-quarters, Valencia, Jsut,l3.

" Monseigneur,—On the 10th in the morning the
insurgent army, bhut up in Valencia, defiled before
the French eagles : its march lasted till night.
44 Gen. Blake, chief of the insurrection, and sic of
his Aides-dc-camps, have set out, escorted by Capt.l
Pech ; T have ordered them to Pau. Gen. Count
Pannetier has set out with the first column of 7000
prisoners, by the route of Terrnel ; a similar column
takes the route of Tortosa. I have sent to St. Phi-
lippe a column of 2000 prisoners, in order to exchange
all the French prisoners at Majorca and Cadiz.
" The disarming of the militia proceeds with the
greatest activity, and tranquillity has already been
established in this fine province.
44 I have appointed Gen. Rolart, commandant of
the town.

" Gen. Harispe, with his division, occupies St.
Philippe, and, pushes his parties towards Alicant.
44 We daily discover new magazines of arms and
clothing, furnished by the English. Their soi-disant
Consul, Tupper, was the firebrand of the insurrection :
he spared neither gold, nor promises, nor libels, to
irritate men's minds. The Spaniards bitterly com-
plain of being incessantly impelled to desperate
measures, by the English, and afterwards finding
themselves abandoned by them.
" What is to me a particular object of the utmost
satisfaction is, that so considerable a result has oc-
casioned no losses- —I am, with respect,
(Signed) 4g COUNT SUCHET."
" By a Decree of the 24th Jan. the French Em-
peror has named Count Sachet to be Duke of Al-
bufera." ,

REPORT OF GENERAL COUNT SUCIIET TO HIS HIGHNESS
THE PRINCE OF WAGRANI AND NEUFCHATEL.

" Camp before Valencia, Dec. 29, 1811.

NIONSEIGNECH—AIter the battle of Sagunto, I
remained in my position, with my right at Lyria, my
left at Grao, and my centre in the suburbs of Valen-
cia. During this time the enemy collected all the
disposeable force they had in Murcia, and the other
points of Spain. I had judged it necessary, before
investing the place and opening the trenches, to have
every requisite for the siege in readiness. A part of
the carts were employed in bringing in provisions for
the army. It was only with the greatest efforts that
I was able to collect in the course of the month 100
24-pounders, and 30 mortars and howitzers, with their
necessary apraratus ; they are at this moment annex-
ed to the park of the siege.
On the 21th, I repaired to Segorbe, where I re-
viewed the division of General Count Reille, which
I found in the best condition. I am also extremely
well satisfied with the division of Severoli. I caused
these troops to arrive by a forced march of 50 hours
on the banks of the Guadalav►ar.

" On the 26th, in the morning, two wooden bridges
were speedily established by the corps of Engineers,
and the artillery at the same time threw over a bridge
of boats. General Reille began to pass the river,—
General Harispe advanced upon Torrente.- General
Broussard, at the head of 460 hussars, passed the
river, and charged a squadron of the enemy, which
he broke, but abandoning himself to the pursuit, he
arrived on the line of the insurgents wounded, and
fell into the hands of the enemy ; his brave Aid.cle-
Camp, Robert, pursued, making his body a rampart
for his defence. The rest of the detachment escaped
with only the loss of eight men. Immediately the
4th hussars, and 13th of cuirasiers, who were on
their march, put themselves on the lull trot, and soon
came up with the cavalry of the insurgents, which
they defeated. The insurgents, however, preserved
a good countenance in the entrenched camps of Ma-
nisses and Quarte.
. _

" General Musnier marched straight upon the
camp of Manisses. I had ordered the division of
Palombini to advance upon the right flank of the
enemy between Valencia and the entrenched camp.
This attack was secondary, but it became principal.
It was said the succe,ss of this day would be owing
principally to the soldiers of Italy. The intrepid
Italians crossed the river with the water up to their
middle, and charged the enemy with shouts of viva
l'Emperator Re (Long live the Emperor and King).
General Balathier, at the head of tree 2d light, and
f.'d of the line, Italians, forced several entrenchments,
crossed several canals, maintained himself against
triple the number of troops, and gave time to the 2d
brigade, consisting of the sth and Gth of the line, to
join. Never was Italian courage displayed with
greater intrepidity. Fifty dragoons of Napoleon,
listening only to their courage, braving the difficulties
of the ground, made an extremely brilliant charge..
In the mean time, the Captain of Engineers, Hewey,
caused a bridge to be established, and the works to
SUtOrt it.
6" The battle continued, when General Robert,
whom I have already had so much good reasop to
praise, arrived at the head of the 117th, and of the
Ist regiment of the Vistula. The entrenched camps

of /denims and Quirts were fated—eannon, bagl
gage, caissons, all were taken.
“ At this moment General Count Reille, with the
brigade of Bouede, and the division of Severoli, ar-
riving on Aldaya, entirely turned the enemy, The
9th of hussars charged, and made a great number of
prisoners, cut off from the road of Murcia. Blake
was thrown into Valencia.

" While these events were passing, General Ha-
rispe, who was appointed to blockade Valencia, and
pass the Guadalaviar at its mouth, inAtie himself
master of the Lazaret, took from the enemy several
pieces of cannon, and made a number of prisoners.
Two vessels, two frigates, and a great number of
English gun-boats, kept up a fire during two hours,
from 16 pieces of artillery, planted on the molt of the
Grao • they were obliged, however, to sheer off.
" General Harispe arrived at Cantarroja, aid took
at Afagar a quantity of baggage and ammunition,
and one howitaer. An hour before night Valencia
was invested on all sides.

.g AU the small entrenched camps were forced, the
enemy every where beaten, two stands of colours, 30
pieces of cannon, and two caissons and the baggage-
waggons taken. Pan of the enemy's army have been
pursued into the marshes of Albufera, where it has
most probably perished. The loss on our side has
been sustained principally by the division of Palom-
bini. I have particularly to regret the loss of Colonel
Barbieri, of the 2d regiment of Light Infantry, and
Captain Ordenare, of the Engineers. We have had
20 Officers, and 200 soldiers, killed or wounded ;
amongst the number of the former is Colonel Perpi.
The loss of the rest of the army has not exceeded 150
men. The carps of Freyre and of Bassecourt, which
were at Requena, are, cut of from Valencia.
" General Delost arrived at Alcira, on the Xucar,
on the evening of the 26th. He there fell in with the
corps of Mahi and of Obispo, which fled with precipi-
tation, after having cut the bridges. The inhabitants
hastened to repair them, and received our troops with
demonstrations of joy. I expect to open the trenches
on the 2d of January before the new town of Valencia,
which is about 6,000 toises in extent, the left stretch-
ed to Oliveto, and the right to the Citadel of that
town, both the extremities touching the Gualaviar.
—This space is filled with cannon, and for the last
three years the whole population of the town has
been working on this immense sp ice, which has
large ditch hlled with water. Once masters of these
works, we shall find ourselves under the old walls of
Valencia, which in reality are no:hing more than large
garden-walls. The whole army is actuated by one
soul—that of signalizing the commencement of the
new year, by sending the kEys of Valencia to the
Emperor in the,course of this month. I shall trans-
mit the Reports to your Highness in the detail, and
request that you will have die goodness to lay them
before the Emperor, and to ask rewards for such
brave men as shall have distinguished themselves. I
shall fulfil my duty in truly stating the services ren.
dered by the Italian soldiery, who proved themselves
worthy to date the epocha of their formation from
the immortal campaigns of the first army of Italy.
(Signed) 46 The Marshal Count &CHET."

[ln a dispatch, dated Camp before Valencia, January 2, Sachet
states, that Blake had made an unsuccessful effort to retire from
Valencia with 12,000 men, only 900 escaped to the mountains,
and 400 were drowned in the canals. After this, several sorties
were made by Me Ilardson, but they were repulsed. On the
29th December, the advance of the French army entered bt.
Philippe, IS leagues from Valenda, where they were well re-
ceived by the inhabitants. In the night between the Ist and 2d
oflanuary, the trenches were opened. On the 6th, Suchet sum-
moned Blake to capitulate, but the offer was rejected].