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SPAIN.

MURCIA, DECEMBER 31.

A letter written on the 27th inst. by Don Alexan-
dre de Tapia, who had been sent to ascertain the
situation of the hostile army, says :

" 41.. my object is to communicate such news as may be agreea-
able to the wishes of your Excellency, for the success of the com-
mon cause, without neglecting to inform you of any fatal event
which may occwr, I beg leave to give your Excellency the follow-
ing information, which I have collected by means of secret in-
formation, and which corresponds with what I have myself learnt,
viz. that our advanced guard met between Villanueva del Cardete
and Corral with that of the enemy, and completely routed it,
killing fifteen, and taking prisoners sixty men, with horses and
arms. At Villamansique sixty Frenchmen, with a General, have
been killed, wounded, or taken prisoners. The General was
killed by the peasants. Our troops were in pursuit of the 600
o,Frenchmen who had entered 'Faracon, and probably by this time
they have met with the same fate.

" The divisions of Cuenca, with the Duke of Infantado, are
snatching in pursuit of the enemy with the greatest ardour and
courage ; and another division of 6000 of our troops has arrived at
Manzaneres. In one word, Sir, things wear a favourable aspect,
and I trust to GOD and the VIRGIN that the wretches will be
exterminated.

" Heaven grant that we may get to Madrid! All that is re-
ported of that Capital is, that the day before yesterday (Dec. 25)
the French were pillaging the place, with the view to abandon it
on account of the approach of our army.

" I beg your Excellency will excuse the faults and repetitions
of this letter, &c.

This intelligence is communicated to the public
for their information and satisfaction.
(Signed) " Marquis de VILLA FRANCA.
" Duke de MRDINA SIDONIA.
By Order, '6 AUGUSTIN FERNANDEZ COSTA."
SEVILLE, JANUARY 11.

The King our Lord Ferdinand VII. and in his Royal
name the Supreme Junta of the Kingdom, have
thought it their duty to send to the Court of London
an Extraordinary Ambassador, to compliment the
King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, and to thank his Britannic Majesty for the
generosity with which his Britannic Majesty has as-
sisted the glorious enterprize of the Spanish nation,
to defend the sovereignty and the rights of their
beloved Sovereign and their own independence,
against the usurpation of the Emperor of the
French, and have named for this distinguished office
his Excellency Don Pedro Cevallos, Knight, Grand
Cross of the Royal and distinguished Order of
Charles 111. Ptivy Counsellor and First Secretary of
State for the Foreign Department.
His Excellency Don Juan Pignatelli, Captain-Ge-
neral of Old Castile, has sent per express, the follow-
ing Official Report to the Supreme Central Junta of
Government of this Kingdom :
" Most E;cellent Sir—At ten o'clock at night I
open the dispatches, which I intended to transmit to
your Excellency, for the purpose of communicating
to you without the least loss of time, the intelligence
which I`received this moment from the Junta of Sa-
Id and which is word for word as follows t

' Most Excellent Sir This moment, at seven
o'clock at night, intelligence has been received by
post from the Junta of Zamora, the literal tenor of
which is as follows :

I have just now (half past 6 o'clock in the even-
ing) received positive information, that the French,
after a very heavy fire, have taken to flight, and that
those who had passed the bridge at Castro Gonzalo
are coming hack, having put about their provision
cart, and all are flying with the utmost precipitation ;
in consequence whereof, and a report that we have
defeated them, I leave this place for St. Estevar,
where the French are already dispersed ; all which I
communicate to the Junta for their information.

(Signed)
Zamora, January 4.

• TIlik:RIO FRANC:AS.'

,g It is with the utmost satisfaction I communicate
the pleasing intelligence to your Excellency, and re-
quest you will have the goodness to lay it before the
Supreme Central Junta.
(Signed)..
" Bart° de Ayala, larriary 5 "

" JUAN FIGNAT/

" To his Excellency Don Nlariin de Garay, Secretary and
Member of the Supreme Central Junta."

The French Cabinet, ever insolent and artful, has
lately seen its insidious plots completely disconcerted
by his Britannic Majesty's refusal to listen to the ini-
quitous and insulting proposition of peace, which
Napoleon caused to be presented to him.

The English Cabinet, which has solemnly engaged
not to separate its interests from those of Spain, has
on that critical occasion given fresh proofs of that
generous firmness and friendship, with which it joins
in the defence of the Spanish Monarchy and Nation,
and of the lawful supreme authority of the Central
Junta, which represents and governs in the name of
our King and Lord Ferdinand. Should any Spaniard
ever have entertained a doubt with regard to the
noble and glorious zeal with which the British Go-
vernment has joined us to assert our liberty and inde-
pendence against the enemy of GOD and Man, they
will read with inexpressible pleasure and gratitude the
correspondence carried on between:the British and
French Cabinets on the conditions of peace proposed
1.7 the univeval yrant.

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