Star.
London, England, 1813-08-23 00:00:00

PETERSBURGH, JULY 3.

Our official Gazette contains the following article
upon the plague which has desolated the southern
provinces ot Russia :

,4 It was in the month of July, 1812, that slight
symptoms of the plague were observed in the Crimea.
In the middle of the month of August they burst
forth publicly at Odessa : some measures were taken
to arrest this terrible calamity, but although the city
was put under quarantine, the distemper did not
spread with less rapidity, in particular quarters and
environs, from the Baltic to the Bug. It coTmitted
frightful ravages in the villages. In the city of
Odessa it carried off 2,600 individuals, and upwards
of 3,000 in the remainder of the province. At length
it ceased on the frost setting in last year. There were
only two sick in the month of December, and in Fe-
bruary last the quaritnine was raised."

GENERAL ORDERS BY THE CROWN PRINCE.
" Stralsund, Head-quarters.
44 In the interval afforded by the prolongation of
the armistice, it h the earnest recommendation of his
Royal Highness, that the Commanding Officers of
regiments and corps shall devote their attention to
improve the discipline cf theft men, exercise them in
military manoeuvres, and by proper regard to the
equipments, render the soldiers efficient and able
take the field at the shortest notice."

PROCLAMATION OF MARSHAL SOULT,
" TO BC RIAD BY A COMMANDING OFFICILI AT TUX MEAD

or coMPANIZS IN EACH aRGIBUNT.
44 Soldiers !—The recent events of the war have
induced his Majesty the Emperor to invest me, by an
Imperial Decree of the Ist inst. with the command of
the armies of Spain, and to honour me with the flats
tering title of his 4 Lieutenant.' This high distinctioe.
cannot but convey to my mind sensations of gratitude
and joy ; but they are not unalloyed with regret at
the train of events which have, in the opinion of his
Majesty, rendered such an appointment necessary its
Spain.
4, It is known to yearjr,Soldiers that the enmity of
Russia, roused into active hostility by the eternal
enemy of the Continent, made it incumbent that nu-
merous armies should be assembled in Germany early
in the spring. For this purpose were many of your
comrades withdrawn. The Emperor himself assumed
the .lomMand ; and the arms of Prance, guided by
his powerful and commanding genius, achieved' 4
succession of as brilliant victories as any that adorn
the annals of our country. The presumptuous hopeh
of aggrandisement entertained by the enemy were
confounded. Pacific overtures were made; and the
Emperor, always inclined to consult the welfare of
his subjects, by following moderate council; listened
to the proposals that were made. ,
64 While Germany was thus the theatre .of great
events, that enemy, who, under pretence of siiccouring
the inhabitints of the Peninsula, has in reality uevoted
them to ruin, was not inactive. He assembled the
whole of his disposable force—English, Spaniards,and
Portuguese—under his most experienced officers; anti
relying upon the superiority of Ins numbers, advanced
in three divisions against the French force assembled
upon the Douro. With well-provided fortresses in •
his front and rear, a skilful General, enjoying the
confidence of his troops, might, by selecting good pas
sitions, have braved and discomfited this motley levy.
But, unhappily, at this critical period, timorous and
pusillanimous councils were followed. The fortresses
were abandoned and blown up ; hasty and disorderly
marches gave confidence to the enemy; and a vete-
ran army, small, indeed, in number, but great in all
that constitutes the military character, which had
fought, bled, and triumphed in every province of
Spain, beheld with indignation its laurels tarnished,
and itself compelled to abandon all its acquisitions—.
the trophies of many a well-fought and bloody day.
When at length the indignant voice of the troops
attested this disgraceful flight, and its Commander,
touched with shame, yielded to the general desire.
and determined upon giving battle near Vittoria, who
can doubt, from this generous enthusiasm, this fine
sense of honour, what would have been the result,
had the General been worthy of his troops—had he,
in short, made those dispositions and movements.
which would have secured to one part of his army
the co-operation and support of the other ?
64 Let us not, however, defraud the enemy of the
praise which is due to him. The dispositions and
arrangements of their General have been prompt,
skilful, and consecutive. The valour and steadiness
of his troops have been praiseworthy. Yet do not
forget that it is to the benefit of your example they owe
their present military character • and that whenever
the relative duties of a French General and his troops
have been ably fulfilled, their enemies havecommonly
had no other resource than flight.
44 Soldiers !—I partake of your chagrin, Tour grief,
',Our indignation. I know that the blame of the
present situation of the army is imputable to ethers;
be the merit of repairing it your's. I have borne testi-
mony to the Emperor of your bravo", and zeal. His
instructions are to drive the enemy from those
lofty heights which enable him proudly to survey our
fertile Tallies, and chace them across the Ebro.

•6 It is on the Spanish soil that your tents must
ppm be pitc4e4d,. and from thence your resour-

'isHE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1813.

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DISPATCHES FROM THE MARQUIS OF
WELLINGTON.
SURRENDER OF SARAGOSSA.
ADVANCE OF LORD WILLIAM BENTINCK
TO TARRAGONA.

The SPECULATOR lugger arrived at Plymouth on
Saturday from off Sr. Sebastian's, with dispatches
from the Marquis of WELLINGTON ; and yesterday
evening Mr. Mutants, the Messenger, arrived with
them in Downing-street. The Messenger left head-
quarters on the 11th instant, when the two hostile
armies were.encamped within sight of each other,
but no action of consequence bad taken place since
that of the 24 instant. It would appear from the
circumstance of the French armies being in sight,
that Solna has made a forward movement with a
view.to another attack on his Lordship's positions.—
The fall of Saragossa, and the approach of Lord
Mutant BENTINCK to Tarragona, are events which
.must have a most happy effect upon Lord WELLING-
TON'S future operations, as rendering him perfectly
secure in his rear.
The following is a copy of a Bulletin issued by order
of Lord Bananas; after he received the dispatches:
BULLETIN.
“ WAR D2PARTSIENT, 22d AUGUST, 1813.
" Dispatches have beeii received this evening from
the Marquis of WritaNc.i-roN, dated Lezaca, 11th of
August.
g, Nothing of consequence bad occurred in that
neighbourhood since the date of the last dispatches.
" The Poll at Zaragoza surrendered on the 30th
of July, to General MINA. Above Five Hundred
Prisoners, Forty-seven pieces of Cannon, and a vast
quantity of Ammunition, Arms, and Clothing, were
taken in this place. ,
" Lord Mutant DENTINEK was near Tarragona
upon the Ist of August."
1-VIRACT CP A LLTTCR ranAt PLYMOUTH, DATED
at:orsT filsr, 1813.
" Lieutenant Bosioca arrived in the SPECULATOR
legg(r, ith a King's Messenger, who has set off
.Vain Dispatches for London. He left head-quarters
on the 11:11 instant, and it is reported that he brings
an account of the surrender of Saragossa, with a gar-
rison of 500 men, principally Italians, by capitulation,
to General MINA.
" Lord WILLIAM BENTINCK is said to have crossed
the Ebro about the 25th, near Tortosa, with 50,000
men, British and Spaniards.
" It is also reported, that SUCIIET has fallen back
on Barcelona, that. Tarragona has been blown up,
and that the enemy threaten to destsoy Lerida, as
well as Marquinenza, both which places are still in
their possession. Tortosa, containing a garrison of

4000 infantry and ISO dragbons, wit invested, we
understand, on the 25th, by the Duke del PARQVE
and Lord W. BENTINCX.

'Several Officers have come over in the SPECU-
LATOR, one of whom is the bearer of JOSEPH'S sword.
It is, according to report, of the most elegant descrip-
tion, and is intended to be presented to the PRINCE
REGENT. It was found in Joe's carriage, when he'
ran away at the battle of Vittoria.

4, Pamplona and St. Sebastian had not fallen when
the SPECULATOR left the coast."

In addition to the above, we have received letters
from head-quarters, dated on the 12th, from which
we select the following. At that date all was well
with the army :
Bivouac, in the Pyrennees, August 12, 1812.
46 I lately gave you a pretty full account of our
most glorious proceedings on the frontiers of France.
We have since got a little breathing time : but we
will very'soon be at k again the deserters who
come in, agree in saying, that Soma. is collecting
every thing, conscripts, invalids; militia, and armed
peasantry ; and that as soon as he obtains some guns,
and mounts some cavalry, he will once more attack
our line in all its points.

ig We know, likewise, that he is determined to con-
tinue attack after attack till he wear us out ; for Bo-
NAPARTE has sent him most positive orders not to
allow the mcred territory of France to be defiled by
the Nation of Traders, aided by their allies the Bri-
gands. But he will have some difficulty in making
them come on a second time. The French troops in
this quarter Are completely rowed. Their loss in
SOULTPS Lite expedition has proved to be much greater
than we believcJ it. To t' is time, r umbers of woun-
ded and half-famished men and officers come into
our posts from the hills, and the number of them
killed by the Spanish troops and by the peasantry is
very great. It is to be feared they spare no Frenchmen
who fall into their handi. The peasantry in particu-
lar are most merciless to them.

ge The prisoners say that, including killed, wounded,
prisoners and missing, Soma has lost nearer Thirty
than Twenty Thousand men, out of 48,000, with
which he started on his late expedition—.A very
pretty week's work !

4, The French Officers say, that JOSEPH is under ar- I
rest; and they' think that BONAPARTE Will bring Soma'
to a Court-martial—if he do not, in the mean time,
retrieve his fortunes by some desperate and successful
effort : but of this he has little or no chance.
" We have heard, and we all rejoice that there is
to be an investigation, by a Military Tribunal, into
the causes of .the late disaster of the army on the East
coast of Spain.

" We have, since I last wrote you, been joined by
some reinforcements, but they are by no means suffi.
dent. Many, many more must be sent to make up
for ckur losses, and to enable us to resist the force that
will come against us.
We have received accounts of some favourable
operations to the Eastward. Lord WILLIAM BEN.
TINCK continues to advance, and on the Ist of this
month had approached near to Tarragona. We
have also good news from that active leader MINA.
At the end of last month he made himself master of
Saragossa. The garrison surrendered, in number
above 500. A vast quantity of cannon military stores,
and clothing, have fallen into our. hands."

Nothing has transpired to throw any light on the
probability, or the contrary, of the Armistice being
renewed. The repor;s are extremely contradictory.
Our opinion, as we stated on Friday, is that the sum-
mer will wear away without farther hostilities in the
North, but it is only an opinion founded on the cir-
cumstances which we stated. In the mean time, we
think it a duty to warn the public against giving
hasty credence to the reports that may be circulated
respecting this point, by interested individuals. In
fact, great industry is employed to propagate and
support rumours that have no real foundation, but
which are calculated to affect the Stocks.

One set of rumours asserts the prolongation of the
Armistice to the llth of September, and sends NA-
POLEON to Paris, on his way to the Peninsula. On
the ether hand, two Merchants are said to have arrived
from Prague, whether in a baloon or by what other
conveyance we have not been informed, with tidings
that hostilities recommenced on the 16th instant.
Another report states, that a Gentleman, who left
Hamburgh on the 6th instant, brings accounts that
a rumour had reached that place of the Armistice
having been renewed to the 26th of this month; but
other accounts from Hamburgh of the 11th inst. say
nothing of the circumstance.
As to inferences that may be drawn from the
movements and activity of the different armies, they
would be highly fallacious. Wise men never take
what common men call chance into any of their
calculations. While Peace remains unconcluded they
always reckon on the possibility of an appeal to arms
to settle the points in dispute ; and the Statesman or
General whe would relax in his exertions, merely be-
cause the enemy has talked of Peace, would be fitter
for Bedlam than for the guidance of the State-helm,
or the command of an army.

On Saturday the Duke of CLARENCE completed
his 48th year, which was celebrated by the Panics
RWENT at the Pavillion, at Brighton. In the even-
ing the houses of his Royal Highness's tradesmen
were illuminated.