Star.
London, England, 1810-02-20 00:00:00

( FORAiGIi INTELLIGENCE. •
PARIS, FEBRUARY 6.
re-fn. FROM HIS E..'s‘DLLENCY MARSHAL THE DUKE GT
DALMATIA, TO HIS SERENE HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF

Et 'FCIIAT EL, MAJOR-GEN ER AL.
" I have the honour to inform your most serene
11:uhiless, that you may be pleased to report thereon
to •;,, '4ajectv, of the passage of the Sierra Morena,
and the arrival of the imperial troops on the Guadal-
quivir_

For several days, various movements of the first
corps of the army upon. Almaden, and of the troops
under the orders of General Sebastiani in front of
Villa-Nueva de Los Infantes, had drawn the atten-
tion of the enemy to the two extremities of the line.
He thought his right more particularly menaced, and
weakened his centre to reinforce it. The entrench-
ments he havl thrown up at the entrances of the de-
files, the aeci) cuts in all the roads, and the mines
formed under precipices, in ord:r to blow up parts..of.
the road, made him confident that he could not be
attacked ; but these obstacles, apparently insurmount-
able, were overcome with the rapidity cf lightning,
and the dispositions taken produced the most satis-
factory results.

" On the 19th, his Catholic Majesty moved his
head-quarters to St. Cruz de Mudela, where the sth
corps of the army, the Royal Guards, and a Spanish
brigade had been assembled since the evening of the
18th. The same day, Marshal the Duke of Treviso
caused El Viso and El Visillo to be occupied, whi-
ther the division of General Desolles also proceeded.
General Sebastiani took a position, with the division
of the dragoons of General Milhaud, the .58th regi-
ment of the line, and the division of the Grand
Duchy of Warsaw, at Villamanrique, whence he dis.
lodged the enemy, causing at the same time Mae de
Juan Abad and Alniedina to be occupied.
44 The First Corps of the Army had been, since the
15th, a- Almaden. Their reconnoitring parties pass-
ed the Gualdamez, and pushed on to Santa Ettphe-
ri,ia and Beldcar.ir. A division of the Insurgents
that was at Almaden retreated precipitately upon Cor-
d:Ara.

" His Majesty having resolved to attack the enemy
on t: e 20th, General Dessolles received orders to
march from El Viso with his division, and the 21st

Ligl,t Horse placed at his disposal, and to advance

by the old road, through Puerto del Rey upon Caro-
debouching for that purpose at La Venta Nueva,
between Carolina and Santa Helena, where this way
joint the main road.
46 Mirshal the Duke of Treviso had orilers to at-
tack, with the sth corps, the position of Despenna
Perros, where the enemy in various parts broke up
the rnids, and formed mines. The sth, corps was
followed in its line of operation by the Royal guards,
and a Spanish brigade.
4° General Sebastiani had orders to attack the ene-
my in his poskions of Venta-Nueva, and Venta-Que-
mad, to d:slodge him from the valley of Dennados,
of Montizon, and of Saint Estivas, and then to pur-
sue him tißon Linnares, or upon Baeza and Übeda,
steaming to what direction he took.
44 Marshal the Duke of Belluno sent a report from
Almaden, that the state of the roads leading from
that town to Cordova, compelled him to make a great
detour, for the conveyance of his artillery, and that
he could not advance direct upon the Guadalquivir,
except with his infantry and cavalry. His Majesty,
not thinking proper, for the moment, to remove the
first corps to a greater distance, the Marshal Duke of
Belluno was directed to send back the artillery and
the whole ofhis baggage, to be sent by the main road
of Andalusia, from Mudela to Santa Cruz, and to
manoeuvre with the infantry and cavalry, so as to ,
create a diversion, either by pushing detachments
across the Sierra Morena, directly upon Carolina, or ,
by marching upon the Guadalquivir, according a4l
from the information he might receive, either course
Should seem best calculated to attain his object. On
the 18th, Marshal the Duke of Belluno reported that I
his artlery was on its way back, and that on the 19th ;
he should march by way of Torre Campo, Villa Nu-
eva; JAM, and Montero, upon Andujar, where he
expected to :wive on the 22d, and to put himself in ;
communication with the rest of the army, which
woald have debouched by the main road of Carolina.
These dispositions being taken, on-the 20th in
the morning General Dessolles began his march from
El Viso, in the direction of Paerto del Rey. An in-
surgent division that defended that pass was attacked
at the point-of the bayonet in its entrenchments, and
was speedily put to complete route. The enemy fled
across rrecipices and mounta'ns, abandoning their
arms, their camp, and their provisions. A number
of them were killed, but few were made prisoners,
their resistance not having been such as it might have
been. _ General Dessolles continued his movement
without any difficulty. His loss consisted only of 13
men /ors de combat.

• The division of General Gazan, belonging to
the sth corps, that had set out from El Viso at the
same time, detached General Brayer's brigade to
fOrce the pass by the Col de Muladar, which follow-
ing
one of the must difficult paths, strikes into the
main road at the turn-off called des Corderas, and
coasennentlY in the rear of all the entrenchments, •
cuts, and mines of the enemy. The other brigade of
the division climbed the mountains between this pass
and Despenni Perros, to support the attack of that .
under the command of General Brayer, and to co- '
operate in the attainment of the same object.
The division of General Girard, followed by the I
Royal Guards, the Spanish brigade, and the cavalry,
were posted on the main tined, and advanced only as.
the division of General Gazan compelled the enemy
suecessi'4ly to evacuate all his' positions, and to'
ab.onicn his camps, entrenchments, artillery, ammu-
ri,tion, provisions, &c. Three mines, which the enemy
bad formed with the intention of blowing up parts of
the road, in paces viliere it is very narrow, and runs
betwon precipicesion each side fifty feet high, were
Om exploded ; but they had scarcely any effect, nor
.:id they produce the slightest casuality ; and the da-
mage to the road was so Insignificant that the march
of the cdumn was not delayed a ,quarter.of an hour.
The division which the enemy had posted on the
height called Colado de los Jardinos, seeing that the
s,olutnn had reached the outlet of the road leading to
Tanta Helena, pres.:i pitately abandoned their entrench-
e I camp,. and Ceti in disorder across the mountaios.
The huh regiment of the line, which the Marshal
Duke oCrreYtso sent in pursuit of them, came up