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__ g and that Biscay, there is no where gay co , The whole of the enemy were driven im
FRENCH PAPE,RS. body of insurgent;. 4. few bands conceal themselves it en that evening, and the place was completely in.
in the rocks, to seize upon solitary passengers. They vested. From that day nothing could enter or come
are frequently dispersed by our patroles, find their out of it. The artillery immediately established a
aumber daily diminishes. I flying bridge over the river, which is 8,69 yards wide
No. IV.--A.itmv Op CATALONIA. 1 in this place, for the purpose of opening a commu.
On the 11th December, General Earaguay d' Ha, nication between the two banks. The engineer offi-
liers detached from Gerona, under the orders of Ge- cers reconnoitered the approaches to the garrison ; I
neral Clement, a column of 1,200 men, to advance fixed the camps, and made the necessary preparations
unon Olot, by way of Feliu de Pallerols. Adjutant to push with vigour and rtnidity, the operations of a
Commandant Vigier moved forward with an equal siege which had been so long delayed.
number upon St. Laurent.de la Muga and Massanet. On the 18th, I ordered the Commander of the en-
The insurgents were.routed and expelled from Olot. gineers and the head of my Staff so to arrange the
On the 14th December, different columns were whole line of our advanced posts, as to drive in the
sent into the mountains to disperse the bands, and enemy's parties, and even their sentinels, which was
apprehend their chiefs, admirably executed. The 111th on the right, and
On the 18th, two ships of the line, a frigate, and Harispe's division on the lett, had already occupied
about four or five more English vessels, appeared off the reverse of the heights. before forts Tenezas and
1,- and landed' --- Euglii • ith fr field Orleans, and v-ithin 40 - 100 •of them.

PARIS, JANUARY 17.
A decree, signed by his Majesty the Emperor on
the 6th instant, prohibits the importation of any pit-
coal into Holland, except what is the produce of the
Jrrench empire.
The Grand Duke of Frankfort has issued a decree
for levying a conscription to complete his contingent
of 1800 men. In comprehends all from 19 to 25
years, without exception of rank or employme, t.
The following is an extract of a letter from an Of-
ficer belonging to the corps commanded by. Count Ba-
raguay d'Hillieres, dated Gerona, Dec, 18 :—We just
obtained Over the English an advantage,which, though
trifling in itself, is not a little humiliating to them.
in order to set fire to three paltry vessels anchored
-under the batteries of Palamos, six English men of
warentered that port, and landed about 1000 troops.
The garrison consisting of only 300 men, marched
against the troops disembarked, and, assisted by 300
more French who hastened to join it the first report
of the cannon, they drove the English into the sea in
less than an hour and a half. Upwards of 200 were
drowned in endeavouring to re,embark. A, Captain
of one of the ships, and 85 soldiers, have been taken,
and will be sent, to France : the remainder. including
three officers, fell on the field of battle."
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INTELLIGENCE FROM THE ARMIES IN SPAIN.
Paris, Januraf 1,.
. 1.----DISTRICT OF TOE ARMY OF FITZ SOUYA. ,•
SIEGE or CAPIS.—The Duke of Belluno, desirous
of having the whole of his flotilla united in the canal
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' of the Trocadero, where it would only be between five
and six hundred toises from the isthmus which joins
Cadiz to the continent, had already caused thioilotilla
' to be conveyed from St. Lucar as far as Rota and
Port St. Mary's, Several glorious actions had been
i fustained by this rflotillat but the most difficult re-
mained to be undertaken. It was necessary to pass
within 300 toises of the fort of Puntales, which is
pro the isthmus of Cadiz, and surrounded by a nu-
. pnerous:groupe of floating batteries and the enemy's
Fun boats. It was, therefore, to be feared that the
rench flotilla would suffer considerably in attempt-
psg to double Point Matagorda. The Duke of Bel,
luno, therefore, resolved to convey it by land from
the river San Pedro to the Trocadero. The flotilla
was dragged across this space of 500 toises upon rol-
lers, to the great satisfaction of the army.
By the 11th of December, all the boats belonging
to the flotilla were in the Trocadero. That instant
our fire opened. Red-hot balls and shells were dis-
, abarged against the town. We succeeded in throw-
' ing bomb-shells of twelve pounds to the distance of
"350 toises, and howitzer shells of eight pounds as far
as 2500 toises. Considerable uproar prevails in Ca-
diz ; they are in great agitation there ; the gates are
shut, and it is only with the greatest precautions that
any communication is kept up with the suburbs. The
scarcity in Cadiz is, extreme, and the yellow fever
I makes great ravages. - • ' .
' Fortunately the French armies of Andalusia, Gra-
nada, and Murcia are in the best state of health.-1
, ' The sick who were sent to the hospitals, owing to the
effects of the great, heats, are recovered, The grea-
test tranquillity prevails in the district of the army
, of the south. Travelling goes on there as in France,
without any kind of escort.
The army enjoys e.e greatest abundance of every
thing, 1
ARMY OP GRANADA.--General Sehastiani has
broken ground before Marbella. Since the success
which he obtained over Blake, all the bands of Mur.
eta are dispersed.
1 . No. 11.-.-Ctsris.E.

Pelamos, _ .anded 900 _ ashmen, wii sour . wit_ _ and toisas .
pieces, to the westward of the port. In the mean Under cover of these dispositions, on the 19th, in
time, a frigate, a corvette, and a brig, made for the the evening, the trenches were begun on the height of
other side, and landed 200 men, in order to take pos. Orleans ; but the soil was so very hard, that it could
sesion of the port. These 1,100 English thought not be raised without the assistance of explosion.
themselves sure of success ; but the Chief of Batta- I On the night of the 21st, under cover of a vio-
lion ,Emyon, of the third corps, who had posted his lent storm and exoessive darkness, 2000 workmen
battalion upon-the heights, seized the favourable mo- opened the first parallel in front of the bastions of St.
meet to fall upon the enemy, broke their line, drove I Peter and St. John. The left, at the distance of 80
them back upon the old Wills of the town, entered i toises, extended from the left bank of the river to the
the place pell mell with them, and pursued them to toot of the height of Orleans, to the „length of 250
their very boats. Of the 1,100 English that disem- oises. At the same time, a trench was opened =-
barked, 800 were killed or taken ; and it is not quite the right bank, within 90 toises of the tete-de-pont, for
certain that so many as 300 escaped. ,The next day the purpose of erecting batteries intended to flank the
the waves threw on shore a number of English dead pnncipal attack.
bodies. Five officers, including Captain James, be- On the 22d, Frere's division of the army of Ca.
longing to one of the frigates, several midshipmen, talonia joined the besieging army. I pasted it a
and 150 soldiers, have been marched prisoners for league below the town on the Ebro, to observe the
Perpignan. We had 8 men killed, and 15 wounded. Tarragona and sea roads, detaching a battalion to
The Chief of Battalion Emyon has extremely distill. watch the Col d'Alba. It was impossible to display
guished himself in this petty combat, in which he dis- greater talents, courage, and activity than was shewn
played equal prudence and valour, by the Engineers, both officers and men, during the
The English vessels no sooner learnt the disastrous prosecution of the works. Henry, chief of battalion,
issue of their expedition, than they set sail and dis- who commanded the attack in the centre, carried it
appeared. It were to be wished that the English on with remarkable activity. On the night of the
naval forces, who upon this occasion thought proper 17th, even before the batteries were established, the
to quit their vessels and fight on land, were frequent- covered way was crowned ;an unexampled instance,
ly seized with such fits of folly. I believe, in the history of sieges. Rye officers of
The Duke of Tarento, on his 'march from Barce. Engineers were killed and two wounded, either is
lona in the direction of Tarragona, intercepted a very the works or in the sorties which the enemy frequently
considerable convoy which the insurgents were con- made to interrupt them. They came on the night of
veying to the latter place. the 17th, 23d, 24th, and 26th, to attack our camps
On the 14th December he effected his junction and works. in columns of three or 4(KI men.
with the army of Arragon, at Mora on the Ebro. " grenadiers and the troops that guarded the trenches
No. V.—ARMY or ARRAGON. repulsed them with the bayonet with great loss.
General Suchet, commander of the army of Arra; ' On the 28th, in the evening, after a vigorous dis-
gon, found it impossible, from the month of Septem- charge from all the batteries of the garrison, about
ber to commence the siege of Tortosa. He was con- 2,000 men rushed upon all our points of attack, pe-
tinually prevented by the water in the Ebro being too netrated them for a moment on the left, and burned
low to admit of the conveyance of his battering urd- some gabions of the lodgment on the covered way,
nance. The Duke of Tarento having moved to Mora while they out-flanked in force the right on the height
to support the siege, General Suchet invested the of Orleans. But General Hubert, quitting his camp
place on the 13th December. with General Bronikowsky and the companies of the
On the 17th the garrison made a sally, which was , elite of the 116th and sth light, drove them within
repulsed by the 116th and 117th regiments. Our ; the walls ; and General Abbe, who commanded in
sharp shooters penetrated to the foot of the walls:-1 the trenches, with Colonel La Fosse, of the 44th, ad-
'The entrenched camp and all the redoubts were vanced against them over the trenches with crossed
,
I carried. bayonets, overwhelmed and killed a great number of
On the Ist January, after thirteen days of open them, and took several prisoners. The ardour of the
trenches, Tortosa and its forts surrendered at discre- infantry could only be exceeded by the perseverance
tion. The garrison, consisting of 9,500 men, includ- I with which they worked. The artillery, on their
ing 400 officers, 12 stand of colours, 192 pieces of part, had surmounted excessive and continually in-
artillery, 2 millions of cartridges, 10,000 muskets, creasing difficulties in conveying the besieging artih
200,000 weight of powder, 500,000 Weight of lead, lery to die left bank. The navigation of the river
and a great quantity of provisions, have fallen into i changed every day, .and was extremely
our hands. The important capture of Tortosa ren-1 The erection of the batteries was briskly opposed by
ders us completely masters of the Ebro, and entirely a tremendous fire from the garrison, which crushed
cuts off Valencia and Catalonia. The Duke of Ta- every thing, particularly on the right bank. The
rento immediately marched upon Tarragona, the only battery, No. 1, within 50 toises of Fort Orleans, was
strong place remaining to the insurgents in all that erected in open day, and completely exposed, under
part of Spain. cover of a vigorous and continual fire of musketry
- General Suchet writes, that the inhabitants of Ar- I aimed at the enemy's embrasures.
rap° evince the blest disposition ; and that this pro- General Valee, the officers and men, displayed an
vince, after being one of the most agitated, is now, indefatigable teal. The soldiers of the train acted as
one of the most tranquil in Spain ; that the revolu- cannoniers ; a Captain of the artillery, and a Lieu-
tionary furor has entirely ceased, and given place, asl tenant of the train, were wounded.
usual, to sentiments diametrically opposite. On the •29th, at day-break, forty-five guns, in ten
The inhabitants of the south, of the center, and the batteries upon both sides of the river, opened a fire,
north} of Spain, are equally tired out as those of Arra- which in two hours acquired a decided superiority,
.gon, and feel the same hatred towards those who have and soon silenced all that of the front attacked.
sacrificed their country, and the same desire for the 1 The bridge was cut on the same day, and on the
'restoration of tranquillity, English influence is de. j next morning was entirely broken ; in consequence of
strayed, and all the symptoms indicate that the lever which the enemy was under the necessity of evacua-
is at an end. The inhabitants loudly call for being ' ring in the night the tete-de-pont, of which we took
united to the Empire. possession, On the 30th the castle was the only part
PARIS, JANUARY eo. of the garrison from which a fire was kept up, and on
TO HI; SERENE HIGHNESS MAJOR-GENERAL THE ritHiCE ' the 31st our fire became slack as it was not answered.
ov NEUFCHATEL AND WAGRAM. r The parapets were levelled, the embrasures not io a
Monseigneur—.ln obedience to the orders of his state to receive gqns, and two breaches were cons.
Majesty, the 3d Corps of the army of Spain pro- f menced near Fort Orleans.
ceeded towards Tortosa, after the sieges of Lerida.l, In the mean time General Roguiat pursued his
and Mequinenza. The first division blockaded the ;;brilliant career, completed•the descent and passage of
tote-depont on the right bank ; the second advanced , the ditch, and began to mine the scarp of the body of
to the frontiers of Valencia, having detached a corps ;',the place.
towards Terruel to keep Villa Camp in check, and It was in this State of things, that on the morning
to cover Saragossa ; the 3d division was posted on of the Ist January a white flag was displayed from
the Lower Ebro, to secure our supplies, the convey- the castle, and immediately upon this signal, hostili-
ance of our artillery, and to observe the enemy's ties having every where ceased, the ramparts were
army in Catalonia. General Roguiat, of the Engi- covered with a crowd of soldiers and of inhabitants.
neers, opened a road passable by carriages from Two officers with a flag of truce made their appear-
Caspe and Mequinenza, through 90 leagues of mown- : ante, arid were conducted to me ; they communicated
tainous country, practicable before only to mules and a letter from the Governor, who had authorised them
foot passengers, General Valee, of the Artillery, to make proposals to me, The Adjutant Comman,
after waiting a long time for the rise of the Ebro, sue.; dant, St. Cyr Nugues, the Chief of my staff, carried
ceeded, with infinite labour, in collecting, by land tmy answer to the towp with the basis of a capitula-
and water, his besieging artillery at Xerta. In order tion. He found in the Governor a weak man, sur-
that no delay might occur when it was necessary to rounded by two or three Chiefs, who divided the au-
act, the troops employed in the blockade incessantly , thority between them, and who demanded that they
laboured at the works preliminary to the siege. Your , should be sent to Tarragona upon their immediate
Highness is acquainted from my former reports with I surrender, or offered to surrender conditionally in 15
what vigour they repulsed the sorties from the game days if not relieved before the expiration of that time :
son in July and August. following up my instructions, he rejected every thing
" On the 31st October, and 12th November, Ge- ; different from what wits contained in my answer, and
neral hlonicky defeated Villa Camp in Arragon, . desired them no longer to display the white flag if
taking six guns and a company of light artillery.-- it was not merely and simply to capitulate. Upon
On the 19th November, General Hebert took the po- his return the soldiers received the news with joy,
sition of .aset from O'Donnell's troops, and made and with loud cries demanded the assault ; I pro.
800 of them prisoners. On the 26th of the same mised it to them on the following day. The fire of
month General Musnier defeated the Valencians at bombs and howitaers recommenced in the 'slight on
Vinaros, and took 2500 prisoners. So soon as die' the town and castle; the miners continued, their la-
army of Catalonia, on its return from Barcelona, bad hours. On the morning of the 9,d It neva battery in
approached the Ebro to co-operate in the support of ; 13. reach, raised with eftraordluar7 rapidity in the en-
the 3d corps, I marched towards Xerta, where srly vAed-way against the counteracarp of the ditch, was
columns were formed on the 14th December in t. 119 ' battering at the distance of 15 wises ; the breach was
evening. I ordered 12 battalions to pass on the,* hourly enlarged, Thies white flags were displayed
to the left bank. While one party carried the P 44; at once • I ordered * fit pig eo be every where 're-
Lion of the Col-de-PAlba, the other extended itself in doubled. At two ofchxk every thing was ready for
a half-circle, touching the Ebro both above and below the assault I ordered a brigade of General Harispe

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. Order and tranquillity prevail more and more in
the .provinces of Madrid, Toledo, Avila, Segovia,
Its. The moveable columns render the greatest ser-
. vices, and incessantly pursue the Guerillas, and bands
of brigands, whose numbers are daily diminishing.
General Lahoussaye being charged to clear the
provinces of Cuenca, entered :hat city on the 14th.---
Ihe bands endeavoured to defend it, hut they were
defeated at the first charge, with the loss of 200 men
-.killed, an equal number of prisoners, and one piece
bf cannon. The remainder dispersed. and made the
est of their way for the province of Valencia.
General Lorge maintains order on the north side
of the Sierra Morena. One hundred and fifty men
iselonging to Ganido's band had taken shelter in
Villa Franca D'Avila, where they intended to pass
the night. A detachment of the 12th light infantry
-surprised them before day-break on the 9th, Twenty
IA these wretches were killed, and 12 of their horses
taken, The rest fled half naked, and abandoning
their arms and baggage.
No. lII—DISTRICT OP THE ARMY IN THE NORTH.
The Puke of Istria has arrived to take the porn-
/nand of the army of the north of Spain. This Mar-
ilia' is extremely beloved in all these provinces, where
he commanded in 1808. •
Asrualas.—General Bonnet occupies the Asturias
with his corps.
On the 59th November, in the morning, the inser-
ts marched forward to attack the advanced guard
General Bonnet, commanded by General Valletaux.
111 w reconnoitring parties fell in with the enemy on
'the roads of Miranda and Belmonte. General Valle-
taux immediately made his dispositions, placing the
Co:nmandant Andreossi in the centre, with eight com-
panies, and proceeding himself in person to Fresno with
a•battalion of the 11St.h. The enemy soon came in
sight to the number of 6000, covering all the sum-
mits of the mountain. A brisk fire commenced. The
insurgents being superior in numbers,• directed coast
derable rases towards the centre, which they hoped
to penetrate. They had even succeeded in gaining
a few toises of ground, whetr the Commandant Leo.
iland, with some reinforcements, reached the position
pf Valletaux, who availed himself of this event to de-
' tach two companies of the Iltith to turn the enemy's
left. This manouvre struck them with such terror
that they fell back ; the.centre soon restnoed its po-
sitions ; a chars scts beaten at all points ; and the
enemy's ranks being. every where broke in upon, they
were compelled to give way to the impetuosity of our
berm:, who pursued them as far as Behnunte and
Miranda, the roads leading to which places were e1.:1.'1
tiered with the slain.
-, This affair, in which 1500 Frenchmen defeated•
6000 Insurgents, does great honour to General Val.
le..eur.
In the goveinment,of Valladolid, that of Eturgok,

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