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to be under arms in the peat line of the trench% and
formed in column the select companies of the guards
of the trenches, to mount the breach.

' Flags of truce made their appearance 2-new, but
I forload any one to be received, except f,r the purpose
of delivering to our grenadiers, as the first preliminary,
a gate of the town. They hesitated ; I advanced, fol.
lowed by some Generals and other Officers, and I or.
dered the draw-bridges to be let down. The soldiers
obeyed me ; I entered ; I made them lay down their
arms ; and reproached the Officers and the Governor
for their conduct the evening before. The forts uncle.
termined and surprised, adopted the part of submis-
sion. I ordered the grenadiers to enter, and at four in
the afternoon a garrison of 8,000 men defiled as pri.
soners of war, deposited nine colours, one of which was
presented by King George to the town of Tortola, and
immediately took the road to Saragossa, under a strong
escort.

After IS days of siege, /3 of trenches opened, and
five of cannonade, we are thus masters of the fortress
of Tortosa, which delivers into the power of the Em-
peror 177 pieces of artillery, 30,000 balls or bombs,
1,400,000 cartridges, 9000 muskets, &c. I have the
honour to transmit to your Highness the different in-
ventories, wish a view and plan of the town and of
the !attack, the journal of the siege, and the doom,
ments furnished by the Chiefs, which make the force
of the garrison, including the hospitals, amount to
9000 men, of whom 392 are officers ; in that number
is a battalion of artillery of the marine, which was
two years at Brest • and the officers of which have
declared to me, tat snatched by the fate of arms
from that anarchy which desolates their country, they
all form the wish of combating' the English, who=
they regard as its true authors.
Our loss during the siege amounted to 400 men,
and that of the enemy to 1200. Your Highness will
consider it trifling when you learn that the fortress
fired 25,000 rounds of cannon, and we 15,000.
1 cannot close this relation, Monseigneur, without
repeating to your Highness how much I have reams
to be satisfied with the distinguished conduct of the
Generals of engineers and artillery, Roguiat and
Valee. I 41n, with respect, &c.
(Signed) cOUNT amain.
Head-quarters at Tortaaa, Jan. 4, 1111.

TO HIS SERENE HIGHNESS Till PRINCE OF NEUMMATEL.
MAJOR-GENERAL OF THE AR/ClB y( SPAIN.
Camp before Tortosa, Jan. 3, 1611.
Monseigneur—l have the honour to transmit to
your Highness the Journal of the siege of Tortosa.
Your Highnes will see from it, that, in 13 days after
opening the trenches, we have reduced a very strong
fortress, defended by a garrison of 9000 men, and 177
pieces of cannon. The enemy defended himself to
the last extremity; the covered way was crowned
without the aid of artillery on the 7th night of the
trenches being opened ; the ditch was passed and the
' miners set to work on the 12th nights circumstances
never before exemplified in any siege.
The engineers have served with enthusiasm.
have had five killed, and a greater number wounded,
all excellent officers. I'be General in Chief, Count
Suchet, solicits rewards for the °filters and corps of
engineers, I have to beg your Highness to give then
your favourable attention, in order that his Majesty
may deign to grant those rewards, which they have
merited at the expense of their blood, and br their
zeal for the Emperor. I am, *c,
(Signed) a. WOCIAT,
General of ii.l.oant of the Engineer*
ac rim siege of Tortosa.
clime follows a journal of the siege, occupying
Aro/litter of the 19th.]
nine columns of the
PROM THE SIGNITlfelt.
The following letter has been addressed by the Cep.
tain of the Elizabeth Indianian. to his Excellency the
Minister of Marine and the Colonies :
" Dunkirk, Jan. R.
" Monseigneur-. The merchant vessel, the Elizabeth, of which
I had the command, was of 6.50 tons burthen, and sailed from
I.oodon the 25th a October, 1810. "[hough not belonging to the
East-India Company, she was bound's Madras and Bengal.
" I anchored at Cork, in Ireland, from whiebliisee we sailed
Fen the 19th of December. After having sustained mach damage
from a gale, we got on ground amidst the sand banks in the roil
etbunk irk, and our vessel went to pieces In view of that city on
the esttref tart December. There were on board SOO persons, of
whom 20 were passengers, 250 Imam (Indian sailors), and 100
seamen ; out of this number there were but 23 saved, including
myself. We were made prisoners of war. The following is a
list of our names:
" Although having suffered shipwreck, and having been saved
Ikon its perils by our own unaided efforts, (It not being paelble
Ike the praiseworthy efforts of the marine to afford us any assist-
Once front the shore), we are satisfied to consider ourselves as pa-
Inners of war, but our unhappy situation, and the oirenmstanees
which have led to it, kaduce a hope that your Excellency will
permit of our being exchanged for as equal number *1 French
prisoners at the disposal of the British Government.
" Deeply impressed with gratitude towards the brave inhabi-
tants of Dunkirk and the Members of its Naval Administration,
who most generously supplied us with every comfort after our
sufferings, we particularly request that in case of compnaace, we
may be exchanged for seamen of that place, if there be any suck
in England. 1 should consider myself eminently fortunate in
being the instrument of their liberation. It is the only way by
which I may be able to testify my warm gratitude to the people
of Dunkirk, without whose prompt and generous assistance we
should all have perished.
" Yerr Excellency will permit me to submit t your notice
such meats as appear to tne best calculated to forward the ex-
change. Standing rather high In the estimation of the Admiralty,
I have no doubt of success la a proceeding dictated by sentioacots
of grat'tude. I require, in the first place, permission to proceed
to London, in order to negoclate the exchange. 1 pledge my
word of honour for my return, and offer moreover a personal ar
pecuniary security.—Secondly, to bring to Dunkirk, or any other
place your Excellency may please to appoint, twenty-two French
prisoners of war, born at Dunkirk, and of equal rank with such
of my crew as have been saved. Thirdly, to conduct these latter
to England. A detail of the generous assistance afforded us by
the people of Dunkirk, will, I have no doubt, make a due im-
pression on the Admiralty, and on that 1 ground my sanguine
hopes of the success of my undertaking.
(Signed) " It. W. £ASTWICK."

HAMBLTRqH, JAN. 4. -
One of our townsmen, who has just arrived from
a journey in Sweden, relates, that notwithstanding
the declaration of war, the intercourse between Eng-
land and Sweden continues every dAy the same ; that
the packet-boats arrive regularly at Gottenburgh
and that on the 28th ultimo, the day of his departure,
letters and newspapers were received from London to
the 18th.
The relations between the two countries are not
confined to correspondence. Gottenburgh is the entre-
- ha.

pot of a very active commerce, which .s never cc.is.
ed to take place, under the direction of the old
snl of England, Mr. Smith, and through the medium
of a man of the name of Paterson, an EnglishmAn,
resident at Varjo, an island situated ►n the bay, tv.o
miles from Gottenburgh.
Every daj- Swedish boats repair to that isle► to