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London, England, 1812-12-03 00:00:00

C4DIZ PAPERS,

CADIZ, NOVEMBER 12,

According to faithful intelligence communicated
to us by a person who left Madrid on the first inst.
the indignation of the heroic people of that city was
great at witnessing the precipitate setting out of ss.
nors Villariezo, Carlaharria, and other Functionarie,
who, without waking the march of the vanguard,
centre and rear of the allied troops from the Tagus,
or taking in the mean while the necessary precut.
tions for saving the effects, Ike. which circumstances
imperiously demanded, only attended to place them-
selves in safety.
Nov. 10.—On the 3d, General Hill had already

evacuated some points on the right of the Tagus, in
consequence of Lord Wellington's orders.
Massena, who now in person commands an army
of 33,000 men, has refused to accept battle, which
the Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo has repeatedly offered
him.

We are assured, that in consequence of late events,
Government has dispatched the requisite orders for
all the effects abandoned by the enemy in Toledo,
being placed in security.
Nov. 17.—The Regency of the Kingdom has seen,
with surprise, that one of the periodical papers,
printed in Cadiz, has published, without permission
of his Highness, the greater part of the official do-
leuments, relative to the conferring the 'command of
the Spanish armies of the Peninsula on the Duke of
Ciudad Rodrigo. The originals of almost all these
documents are in the office of the first Secretary of
State, and the slightest suspicion that the copies pub-
lished have issued from thence? without the orders of
Government, would be very detrimental, especiplly
as they relate to a ministerial correspondence which
is, in its own nature, secret, and on a subject still
depending on the approbation of the Prince Regent
of Great -Britain. Ihe Regency has in consequence
given orders to the first Secretary of State, to make
the requisite investigations, and the result has been,
to convince his Highness that the office of the first
Secretary of State still preserves that incorruptible
fidelity, reserve, and propriety, by which it has al-
ways been distinguished ; and that none of the
vidnals in the same has furnished these document.l
---As some of these have never been in the office of,
tie first Secretary of State, nor in any other, this is
a sufficient proof that none insthose offices has had
Zany share in a publication at the same time illegal
and unseasonable.
When solid instruction shall become more general
among us, if any public writer should be so wanting
in the respect he owes to Government, as to make
similar publications, without order or intimation, in-
stead of raising the credit of his paper, or obtaining
any end, he would find the punishment of his teme-
rity in the indignation of his readers : for in a nation
so intelligent and reflecting as this, even the least in-
formed persons will admit, that it appertains,only to
the Government to publish, at a proper time, the
result of negociations and expeditions ; and if before
this time arrives, individuals shall presume to make
known even any of the intermediate steps taken in
each negociations, it would be necessary to abolish
our •S'egetaryships, and even to suppress the names
'of them i and to order that our matters of business,
which are only discussed in cabinets in all civilized
countries, shall he proclaimed in the public places.
Nov. 18.—TbaConeire of the 17th contains a repre-
sentation from General Ballastaxos, dated Antequera,
10th November, requesting a second time that the
Regency would change his destination from Ceuta,
where the nation and posterity would confound him
with criminals of a very different class, to some
place in the Peninsula, at least till he has been heard
and judged.
DIE:FATDU FROM BARON L. RROLISt TO DON LOUIS LACY.
" Most Excellent Sir—l have avenged the death
of Bayle, and the Regidor of Alos, victims of the
Alm:1 r
r barbarity of Henriod, with the heads of more than
Onpec:
200 caribes the garrison of Lerida. We have car-
ri
octal ed vengeance and obedience to a 'height which has
2,
I revoked humanity; but neither I nor my hoops hire
{toted to
been able to refuse quarter to 175 more Frenchmen,
Before reti who had laid down their arms to implore our '
I e e mew. It is sufficient to form some idea of this
JO'
tb
carnage, to observe, that in this number of prisoners,
but not ooe, either officer
'MISER 25.—0 n the 20th instant, the head-1 there is only one officer ;
were at ru. I O. ru man,
o escaped, only 70 horse took another route,
the.Marqois of Wellingioo
ever,
of these too, 11, fellinto hands. Ifthis, b
i0n049. The enemy were ifs considerableffiour. it! ow.
not appear asu cient satisfaction for the
orea; distance.
blood of our defeneeless patriots, we still hays bay°.
VA).IINCIA, rpy2Ml3jat nets and hands to avenge them.
uncial Depotatioo bat just received from I N This victory has been obtained with OD y 1 the
lin-General of this Province, and Cowman- companies of grenadiers- and cbasseors of the four
.41 of the Filth Aimy 4_ll4er:oil-me a dos:- battalions of Tairegope, Ferdinand VII. Cardona;
hich be his been pleased to copy that the Loyal Matifesans, and about 60 hussars of rata-
Of the Sd ;natant, Don -.1. limbic*, lonia, and cuirassiers. I will send you, when I shall
him hens Talavera de la Rehm, end communicate to 'you all the circumstanstp of this
follows; action the names of those wEp most di stwo* isbed
!‘ Head perm, PorpJee, Nev. le, me. j fhemselves on this occasion. I shall only d? fnr
Exersszei Sp—As I comet sued sh you the yourT satisfaction, that our loss has been small,
ci.. Preach into Madri4 Oa tlie day of AU *kid, s h hit is increased by that of the %twin of Loyal
Is the eyeehisi tiew eosempeieste to Teo, tbat Mf
;aided it ypetcrday, a, eigbf flit startling, tale- Man cants, Don Jose Viego who fell gloriously a;
their sick. mafirs
direttieg their tisane towards the he of compuly!..—popilrzetsae: your Excel-
. Thee were la that ?soop silks lencY many mars. 411 D'Eat
Goailaluara;t o field of Battle, Arbire cle.11:", •

Annque W vis OTIMIAL IT CHM SY 11* MST
AnalklNTO LoUIS LAM TO rssz DISPATCH OT TAROT
Veneto,.
a I am highly Notified with the success of the ex-
! peditioa of your Excellency upon Arbua, in which
has been destroyed a portion of the garrison of Le-
rida, avenging in pan the atrocities committed by
it. I caused the dispatch of your Excellency of the
led instant to be immediately published, that the pub.
lic might not for a moplieut be without intelligence
so satisfactory, and which doses such honour to the
troops engaged in the enterprise.
As the sensibility of your Excellency, the first
feature in the Spanish character, has induced you
to spare the 175 Vandals whb laid down their
arms, I will not recall this act of your Excellency in
their &vont" but this must be the last instance of
!such forbearance. The troops of your Excellency
must, trader no pretext, in future depart from the
just reprisals enjoined by the order of the army, not
to give quarter to any individual of the garrison of
Lerida, so long as the barbarous Henriod comman-
ded in that place, where rerated acts of cruelty to.
wards the dOenceleu inhabitants have give* occa-
sion to this measure of retaliation.
a Goy preserve your Excellency many years.
(Signed) 44 Louis LACY."
a Healplauters, Vicb, October 6."

Chief bad left Madrid on the 80dt is the
ordinary &WOO fi
Goad:mune, in com Alta, the pany with Dos Caries
'turba;
rapa,44
and the d
and the Conde de Villapaternes That,
to information given by the Marquis de rustaaecTra
neral Hill had begun his retrograde movement On the
30th, the day on which the Casa de la Chins, hk dot
Retiro, was to be blown np, the fortifications de,
stroyed, and the artillery rendered useless : That 04
his quitting Madrid, papers were prepared to be ieft,
informing the people what was about to be done, :ha
the inhabitants in the immediate vicinity of the Retire
might be on their guard: That they had carried asay
the most valuable and interesting effects, and thee
persons in custody, whose stay behind might aggra,
Tate the oppreuiens of the people : That to preys
that anarchy which must have been the consequeere
of the sudden dissolution of the constitutional Govern.
ment, the Regidor Barunda, and the Judge, in the fsa
instance, Mn, had offered to remain in Madrid, awl
suitable orders had been in consequence given to them,
, Afterwards was read the dispatch of Lord Scow
set, transmitted by General Espana to the Political
Chief of Madrid. In it General Espana was chargei,
in the mune of the puke of Ciudad Rodrigo, to is.
form the civil and military gutharides, that for thr
present he found himself under the necessity of or.
daring Lieutenant-General Hill to abandon theTaies,
charging at the same time the said General lama
to assure the said Authorities, that though the Priddt
emir sees itself obliged to snake this sooenneat, it
confidently trusts that this necessity will laat bat ke
a short dam and that it will soon be in a situation is
re-establish the affairs of the Peninsula.

/ROM TUB ILIODICY GAZETTE 01 ISTA NOVZIMIL
The mischief which the hostilities of the Algerines
caused our commerce, attracted the attention of Qo-
vernment to remedy it ; and, after many efforts it
has succeeded in re-establishing the good Onderniinr-'
4liag which had been disturbed by the machinations
lof the French agents in Algiers.
The Dey bas promised that his ships, end the pri-
vateers belonging to his subjects, shall henceforward
respect the Spanish flag. and the restoration of the
brigantine Espoz and Mina, which was taken after
the agreement was made, but before it was known
to the capturers, is a proof that he intends to fulfil
his promise. In virtue of the same agreement,
has restored the ships taken from the commencement
of hostilities. They are those stated in the gillowing
list :—The brigantine Stocristo, of Cadiz, which was
confiscated in Algiers, the 30th of last June, was af-
terwards broken up and the cargo distributed, in
consequence of which the crew and passengers only
have been obtained. The individuals in the ships
taken amount to 226, including 25 Spanish soldiers,
and 52 French prisoners, who were in the polacre
Zaragossa, have all been given up.
The ships have been restored in the state in which
they arrived at Algiers ; but as it is customary for
these Corsairs to steal the furniture, clothes, and
other things easy to be hidden, those articles could
not be intruded in the restoration made of the car-
goes, so that those interested will lose from 19 to 15
thousand dollars. The many obstacles there were to
surmount in bringing this negoclation to a termina-
tion would not have been got over without the pow-
erful interest of his Britannic Majesty's Ambassador
in Cadiz, the happy disposition of the British Admi-
ral Peliew, and without the seal, prudence, and sa-
gacity of Sir C. Adams, Captain of the English ship
Invincible, who was the Gentleman who, in Algiers,
discharged so arduous a commission.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, DECEMBU S.

In our Second Edition yesterday we were ender
the painful neeecsity of gating, that the French P.
solar Array of the North, under general Soonest,
and that of the South, under Marshal SOUL; had
foamed a junction, and were bearing down with their
combined forces arm the allied Army under Marquis
Was4suovot. This intelligence was conveyed by I
Lisbon Mail, which art ived in the afternoon of yes.
terday, gad we have since received letters and papers
from that city to the date of the 25th ult,

We now present our Readers with all the details,
OiAcial and denly-ofacial, of which we are in pos,
sassims, respecting the recent nsovements ofourarrar
1 the reeilleillel ne retreat of the hfArquit
WePaectrat has ant isms egected without 4
skirmishes, but these have been favourable in 601,
result, and our Ines liae beet! consporotieely small t
"141Pnlit, (aft Joeck) 11:1114T num
colooel Camlotai, of the 71st lights% is di;
ellitftlent erfired• (110 PIY/4"th) 111 dint ritk
dispatches front the Allie 4 Armies, AU wool
it, that. the Marquis of Wouoires bar tottosoi,
Cicada liodligo-,the llama; are at Ihdeatleg-•
there has been no regular liettles bat foodstql skit!
*tithing. They suggest that the 414111e4 Arm, loud
Essaaksing where they es, for listerquarewei ..4
e high *Tits and good health. al vend this
brought these Qthcart intended Pe la" islo
mouth, bat could not.'t

41 CADIZ, NOVIMIEER 27,
[inuvarx
a'Advices have been received at this place, which
state. that Souk's army had paved the Guadaramut
mountains, and entered Old Castillo, and that on the
the army of Paemaal bad crossed the Douro by
the bridges of Tordesillas and Tom, and, the feed of
Poilos. On the same date the Marquis of Welling.
ton's head-quarters were at Torrecilla de la Orden,
and next day he was to retreat to Atiegua, about
eight leagues from Salamanca. General Hill, it was
expected, would be at Penaranda about the same
time. Subsequent intelligence is said to have been
received by the Spanish Government, that the Eng-
lish army having continued its retreat to theTorroes,
had offered battle to the enemy on the 9th, which
he declined, and retreated towards Penaranda. It
was confidently expected that the Marquis of Wel-
lington would again advance, and that a general
action would ensue. But considering the inequality
of force between the French and the Allies, and ad.
verting particularly to the great extent of territory
which the Marquis of Wellington has abandoned
rather than risk a battle, it is not probable that he
will hazard a general engagement without such an
advantage of position as must lead the French Gene-
rals to avoid an action. That this will be his policy
is the more certain, from his being fully aware that
the French cannot keep together for any time the
immense force which they have collected against
him, and that when, from want of provisions and
other causes, they are compelled to separate their
armies, he may advance again.
a The Cortes shew every disposition to support the
Marquis of Wellington in the authority which they
have lately conferred upoh him.—The Ex-Regent
O'Donnell is employed in organizing and discipline
ing the army at Grenada, lately under the command
of Ballasteros; and troops are assembling at Alcarax
and other points, which by the late movements of the
French army have been freed from the domination of
the enemy.
a The French having very few troops hi the kin*.
don) of V4encia, and having dismantled the capital,'
leaving only a small garrison m one of the forts which
they hate preserved—The Allies are under orders
to advance from Alicant, and confident hopes are en-
tertained that they mist either recover possession of
that important province, or compel Suchet to teturn
and defend his conqnest. They had not begun, how-
ever, to resume active operations on the Ist. which is
the date of our last intelligence from Alicant."
sirriNG OF THE COATES..--)ONTH DAY.

LONDON GAZETTE irritlimanN4RY!
tigintaD4y, "luau 3, lII,'
WAR DIPARTMINT.

A dispatch was read, which had been addressed to
the Secretary of the Government of the Peninsula,
from A vile, on the 81st of last month, by the Politisal
Chief of Madrid, informing him of the precautionary
measures which he had taken in conserenee of the
Field Marshal Don Carlos Espana cornmunicatiag
to hips, that he bed been advised by Lord Somerset,
Military Secretary to the Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo,
that he was charged to make known to the Civil *ad
Military Authorities of Madrid, that the pate of the
respective armies obliged him to order General Hill
to retire from the line of the 1 ague, and march to
join him la Are vale, by which merriment the capital
would remain uncovered.
the' a, sissii* it Pfrig! that !b! ?aid*

DOWNING-STREET; DECEMBER
agate Wee of which the followbg
ae aro mulcts. were received
Ivist sight ter BITIBATIMST, csood to his Loidubip W
the Mammon of WELLINVOn.

" Mem *member 7, I$lL

The enemy repaired the bridge at Toro at a much
earlier period than I expected. I therefore desired
Sir Rowland Hill to continue his march by Fontiye•
ros upon Alba de Tormes ; and as soon as I found
that be was sufSciently forward, I broke up yasteu
day morning from the position which I had held iA
front of Tordesillas since the SOth of last month,
and I am in march towards the heights pf St. Chris,
toval, in front of Saiamanca.i

“ The enemy has not pressed at all upon the rev
of the troops under Lieutenant-General Sr Rooks/
Hill, nor 'Ms those on the Douro followed the mmth
of the troops under my command : I could& that
the two amps will unite, which, in comma:a
the situation of the Douro? I could not prevent. '
*POW Rodrigo, tiowoobes 19.
Os The troops under tho command of Lieutenant.
Giuural Sir Rowland Hill crossed the Torres, 94
Alba, on the filth inst. and those under my crowd
theirposition on the heights of & Christovsl de
I.extliwara on the same day; Brigadier. General Pact's
brigade occupying Aldea League, and Brigadisr•
General Bradford's Cabrerisos on the right ; and dr
British cavalry covering our front. I had desired
Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill to occupy dm
town and castle of Alba, with Major-Gen. Howeret
brigade of the 24l division, leaving Lieutenant-GrO:
ral Hamilton's Portuguese division on the lift ofdir
Tormes to support those troops; while the Sd
sion was posted in the neighbourhood of the fOglittiti
Encino.; and Hiterta ; and the 8d and 4th divirioar
remained at Calvarassa de Ariba in reserve.
” On the 9th the enemy drove in the piquet' 4
Major-General Long's brigade of cavalry, in front
sf
Alba ; and Major-General Long was obliged to wise
draw his troops through Alba on the morning of the
loth. In the course of the day, the enemy's winds
:army approached our positions on the TOrMes,la
they attacltecl the troops in Alba with twenty port
of cannon and a considerable body of infantry. Thif.
Palk no Ofiressite on theme however? =4 r

k in the direction of
Doe Carlos Esp!ina,
da Itartaetat
s That, according
rquis de Tank Gr.
ids movement on the
de la China, in the
he fortifications de,
ed useless : That on
prepared to be left,
bout to be done. that
Hanky of the Retire
ley had carried away
ig effects, and those
behind might aggrn..
le : That to 'nevelt
tea the consequence
Institutional Govern.
the Judge, in the first
stain in Magid, and
luence given to then.
atch of Lord Somer.
uuta. to the Political
Espana was charged,
udad Rodrigo, to in.
iced's, ;hat for the
the necessity of or.
o abandon the Tagus,
said General Espana
At though the British
ke this movement, it
sity will last but for
n be in a situation to
tinsnla.
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