Star.
London, England, 1813-11-09 00:00:00

LETTER TO THE LORD MAYOR.

" WAR DEPARTMENT; N0Y.'6,11513;
I, Lord Baznuast presents compliments to the
LORD Mayon, and has• the satisfaction to acquaint
his Lordship, that Lord. A. HILL is arrived with
dispatches, dated Vera, Ist November, announcing
the Surrender on the preceding day, by Capitulation,
of the Fortress of PAMPLONA,

(A true Copy) . Gro. Scum" Mayor.
4 Mans:on-Hottse, 9tis November, ISIS.
past Eight."
LONDON GAZETTE. EXTRAORDINARY.
WAR DEPARTMENT. t
4! IXONNING-STREST, NOVEMIiR
41 Lord Arthur.flill has this morning arrived sviti 1,
dispatches from Field-Marshal the Marquis of #el,;
lington to Earl )3atimist, dated Vera, November 1,
ISO, of which the following are extracts;
" VERA, NOVEMBER 1, Ws.
" Nothing of importance his occurred in the line
since I addressed your Lordship last.
t, The enemy's garrison of Pamplona, made pro-
posals th Don Carlos D'Espana to surrender the
place on the 26th October, on condition, first, thai'
they should be allowed to march to France with six
pieces of cannon ; secondly, that they, should, be al,
lowed to march to France under an engigement not
to serve against the.allies for a year and a day. Both
these conditions were rejected by Don Carlos D'Es-
pana, and they were told that ho had orders not to.
give them a capitulatiOn on any terms excepting that
they should be prisoners of war ; to which they, de-
dared they would never submit.

" VERA, NOVEMBER 1.

" Since I wrote to your Lordship this morning, I
have received a letter, of which I enclose a copy
from Mariscal del Campo Don Carlos d'Espana, in
which he announces the Surrender by capitulation of
the Fortress of Pamplona, the garrison being priso-
ners of war; upon which event I beg leave to con-
gratulate your Lordship.
" I cannot sufficiently applaud the cdnduct of Don
Carlos D'Espana, a 44 that of the troops under his
command during the period that he has commanded
the blockade, that, is since the beginning Of August..,
every sortie. whikh the enemy have made, they
have been repulsed with loss, and the General and
the officers and troops have, on every occasion, con-
ducted themselves well. Don Carlos D'Espana was
severely wounded on. the 10th of September, as re-
ported in my dispatch of the 19th of that month; but
having reported that he was able to continue to per.
form his duty, I considered it but justice to allow
him to continue in a command of which he had to
that moment performed the duties in so satisfactory a
manner ; and I airy that it has fallen to his lot
to he the instrument of restoring to the Spanish Mo-
narchy so important a fortress as Pamplona.
" Not having yet received the detail of the terms
of the capitulation, I must delay to forward them till
the next occasion.

(TRANSLATIONS}
" MOST EXCRLLERT SlR—Glory be to GOD and
honour to the triumphs of your Excellency in this
ever memorable campaign.
" I have the honour ased the great satisfaction of
congratulating your Excellency on the surrender of
the important fortress of Pamplona, the capitulation
of which having been signed by the superior Officers
entrusted with my powers, and by those delegated by
the General commanding the place, I have, by virtue
of the authority whith you conferred upon me, just
ratified. The garrison remain prisoners of warp as
your Excellency lad determined from the beginning
that they should, and will march out to.murrow at
two in the afternoon, in order to be conducted to the
port of Passages.
" Our troops occupy one of the gates of the cita.
del, and those of France the place.

46 May Goo guard the precious life of your
Excellency.

" Dated from the Camp in f;ont of Pamplona*
31st October, 181/
(Signed) " CARLOS MARA.
" His Excellency Field-Mapbal the Duke of
Chiliad Rodrigo."

The example afforded by the besiegers of Pam-
plona, in giving the French notice that if a single
citizen should die of famine, a bloody retribution
would be inflicted on the garrison. ought to be feL
lowed wherever the French occupy fortresses or cities.
the property of others ; and eippiially such as. they
have obtained by fraud. or retained at tpocipense of
public faith. '

In such casez it should- be 134(114'20 evettsg fpr the
Governor, that he is merely executing the coutnt,atuilx

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of a superior t he Inman a participator in the fraud
and ;Out* of his employer, and should Se made
personally answerable for his conduct. Is it to be.
'Wm*, fir example. that the other strong places in
the Peidnsula.and the garrison towns in Prussia, all of
-ankh were occupied by the French in despite and
derision of the, public law of nations, should be
viewed, in the light ef rightfsil possessions, and the
garrisons* raspeeted like thine who defend a place
for their own Monarch, their OM eisuntry, .and their
own families ?..-This is a plant of* French philosok
phy which ought to be rooted up : it is subeersive of
every correct. idea of legitimate resistance and de,
fence, and should be extirpated from civilised Europe.
The dbeitrine we inculcate is so perfectly consonant
to the correct ideas which used firmerlY to guide the
emsduct of nations •in ,a state of warfare, that the
Allies, wecannot-doubt, must, here turned their mind
to it; and it is awe than probable that we shall soon
hem .of,4et#lfe sod eremplary measures being re-
solved on respecting Plaits circunistaneed as we hart
described. The respec—ifie-Fietich governors shoul4
Be summoned .to surrender at Astrifion within
hours, with a solemn notices that if the summons
should be disregarded, every, individual belonging to
the garrison shall be put to death-when the place falls.
Nor should the threat* ten fdle2ne.., Desperate evils
require desperate remedies.

HELIOOLAND
Two Heligoland mails reached town last night,
and a third this morning. The intelligence brought
by them states that Bremen, Zell, Hanover, and Lu.
heberg, are now garrisoned by strong bodies of allied
troops. In Bremen there are 7000 Russians.
roust still clings to Haahurgh, and had laid in pro.
visions for the winter. . His retreat by Holland and
his communications .with Magdeburgh, were, how.
over, completely cut off, and his only hope of tempo.
racy safety rested on the continuance of a good un-
derstanding with Denise*: hut this, we apprehend,
is more than he CAU expect ; for discontents have
broken out in Copenhagen, and the presence of the
Danish troops has been required to keep down the
rising insurrection. The Danish auxiliaries to Da.
vousT, in and around Hamburgh, are also repro-
,
sented as highly disaffected.

On the side of 1-141;land, the French Douartiers-an
the shores of the Ems and Weser have been recently
dreadfully annoyed by small parties of seamen an 4
marines, landed from British crnizers, who now revs.
larly cooperate with the Cossacks on shore. A larte
party of these nondescript partizans of BONATAIRTI4
yclept Douanien, was lately entrapped and carried
,on board as prisoners by a handful of British seamen
disguised as smugglers.

GIBRALTAR AND CORUNNA MAILS..:

• Mails from Gibraltar and Corunna arrived this
morning. The plague still continues at Malta,
but a regulation adopted by the Governor to oblige
.all the inhabitants to remain in. their houses, ez-
cepting such as ate necessarily employed in distri-
buting provisions and attending the sick, has arrested
its progress ; and there is now reason to believe' that
it will soon be subdued. At Gibraltar similar gatta-
sures will, it is probable, have been already adoptzd. '
In a late Cadiz. Paper- a foul calumny was pub.
lished, charging the British with every enormity op
the capture of St. Sebastian's. A very proper notice;
of this libel was taken last night by Lord BntHVBIT.
in the House of Peers. On the same subject a spit
rited contradiction has been published in a Spanish!
Paper, by C. A. Ssnvz, Commandant General of the
Royal Engineers, which he concludes by calling on
the Spanish nation not to suffer such charges to be'
brought, without obliging their authors to prove them.
These Mails also bring the following intelligence r
" CORUNNA, OCTOBER 21.

44 Bayonne has been declared in a state of siege.
“ Our troops occupy the same positions which they
did on the night of the 7th ; they are animated with
the best spirit, and anxious for orders to advance.
46 Soult is still at Bayonne, where he has received
some reinforcements of coscripts.

Oa the 23d, the French continued to occupy
their entrenched camp in front of St. Jean de Lua.",

VICH, OCTOBER S.
,4 The corps of thc Second Army under the orders
of General. Sarsfieljl occupies the entrenched point of
Ordal, aqd Bentinck's culinary the camp at Tam-
gona."

m SANTIAGO, OCTOBER 22,
II Austria has decorated with the Grand Cross of
Maria Thercsaa the immortal 4)4e of Ciudad Rod-
rigo."

A notice was sent off yesterday, for all yessels ar-
riving from Cadir w be placed under quarantine un-
til farther orders,

At Malta the Governor 4tas issued a Proclamation,
declaring, that as the cotton there must necessarily
be infected
$

" 1. That all the cotton of this island, of the pre.
ant year, shall be considered as an infected mei-
chandisee-2. That, in consequence, whoever shall
gather, or cause to be gathered, any quantity, how-
ever small, of this production, whether his own pro-
perty, or that of another, shall be subjetesl to capi-
tal punishment," &c. &c.
rte //mon Gazette of 20th Septsmber states reports
to 6 u ctrcul4uonthat Pritos has made an itccom&
modatiMt with th ea Emperor Kamm% who is to
(mai& the mulatto chief with 24000 is uskets,to
stet bim.itt`MakinVyS'. psi the Etter, and con~uen'
cbrincOet
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