The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-05-14 00:00:00

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Putts,. Maw 6.-44ftor Aka passage of gieris.
Morena, the taking of Jae% Cordova, Grenada,
swills, and Malaga, ,anil,tire blockade of Cadiz,
all the enemy's troops were dispersed. Ni) longer
doing to show therpselvcs.in a pitched battle, they
fomented insurrections at various points, andlorm-
cd partiss who scoured the country. Weak and
useless efforts ! We subjoin some extracts of the
r)rrespondence, cunt /gating the details of those
skirmishes. Such petty affairs are, indeed., of
very little importance in themselves, but the pub.,
lishing of them is so far useful, as it makes known
:itch Officers as have distinguished themselves, and
refutes •)r prevetris those false reports which Al-
ways finti a ready circulation when any length of
tune passes without information of what is going
on in those Parts which form the theatre of war.

lunAcx OF TUE CORRIGSTONIVENOE O,F 114A4S.AAL

VIE DUKE OF DA LAIATIA•
411 tn the night of the 21th of February,. Oen.
Latour Mattboorg ienolted, forward a party of 100

infantry and 100 cavalry upon it. Roch, opposite
(iihraltar, The inhabitants received them with ac,
clainations. The officer whO conunauded the party
cJitducted them to within half a league of the Ind.
putt of Gibraltar, The bells were rang, and the
oeneratc heat in the fortress, from which, at the
14111 e time., a few cannon abot were tired upqrs the

iiirty that win recanuoitring so closelT,
4' On the 25th, at the.co o'clock in the etter.
Ili)on, the English landed :MO infantry, who, in
;94icert with a strung detachinuat of Spanish hsticse;
.biatie a movement upon the • town of St Itrch,

The WO French infantry took a position, whAlst
itiG cavalry, adraneell towavds the point of de..
Ilarkation. The English having promptly re,etn.
barked upon seeing them, they proceeded to attack
the Spanish cavalry, whom they put to flight, with
the los. of a few killed, and statue prisoners.
'' 'rue Inhabitants of the mountains called Ai.
poiaraq, being in motion, General Belair was de-
tached against them by General Sebastiani, and
apeedily dispersed them. They had some
and sJine prisoners were taken, including several
chiefi. This petty expedition has again secured
*he entire submission of the Alptsjaras.,
46 The enemy had, at the saute time, excited the
inhabitants of the mountains. that separate

eia Item the province of beta, to tithe up arm.
General pest:idles, Let being informed of this fact,
jostantly detached epee Qbetla 1000 infantry. ant
los dragoon., under Ike ortleee of the COW of,
NAHAline fir:seduce, of the Lath eegiment. This
br4y officer MI upon tee insarguets, end dispersed
them with the loss of :00 killed,
" There were also some risings at Xeres 4o los
Caballeros. Culottel alusuier was detached to
%hat quarter. ale foiled there about IQOO men in
;tress, who, attempting to make some resistance,
were in 4I; iestant completely dispersed with coo-
kiderable loss. Next day the inhahltents of Xeres
tendered their submission to the King, aq,4 pro.
14150,1 to resist in future any cawing! iqstigatious
that maybe aildreesed to them.
td Fresh bodies of insurgents had also ettablish.
tnl thennelvea the in mountains of Bonds, Gene-
ral Pereimnitt, with three battalions, together
with the spearmen of the Vistula, received or-
Ours to much upon that city, wham a French
&tat:lona had been obligor to retire. On the
Utst of March, be came up with the enemy's rear:
goon!, mod killed VP of then. lie reckoned on
hating to fight between 5 and 6000 under the walls
of the town i but he anteerd it the same day, with.
out meeting the. least reeistaisee. The insurgenta
dispersed on his approach. Ile only came stp:,
with about e scum of them, who -were put to
death. On the subsequent day General Pereimont
prosecuted hie operations, the cNeet of which, is
the cqmplete clearance of thou mountains.
" Ti, render the troops loader the Getteral just
reeetiptted disposable, it was requisite to with-
draw tkose that were at Malaga. That city was,
cousequently, two days without any garrison.
Vied thousand insurgents, who bad collected in
the vectentaias, 'fell dowq upon the city, where
they eqmonttted some otcesses. A battalion of the
Vistula, two compeulei of the 1/th I
,jKhti mod 50
dragoons, were detached to dislodge them, uudcr the
orders of Adjutant Commandant Breton.. This
detachment llrcired there on the Roth, and set.,
prized the insurgents, who rallied on the heights
of the'Qld Castle, 'where they were instantly at..
,tayked tied muted, with the loss of more than '2OO
'killed, and a great number wounded. The Spa-
nish gunners who hail remained at Nlalaga, turned
the cannon of the Mole upon the banditti, and
contributed to their dispersion. The inhabitatits
r.tanifested the highest snisfaction at their deli.
.eraser, This eepeditioa cost us six killed and
tat+ wenntit4.
44 Nearly at the same period, a column, consist,
Ing of the 4th regiment of dragoons, and a bills.,
lion of the 05th regiment, were detached to re.
eonnoitre towards Tarifa, under the 'command of
;the Colonel of the regiment of dragoons. They
found a Way of 1000 insurgents drawn up in 'or.
el sr of battle on the height of Torre de Panne.
They charged them in front with the bayonet, at
she moment that 150 dragoons fell upon their rear.
They wore instantly broke, and but very few of
them escaped. Lorne Cuena, their leader, was
found among the slain. 'The column pushed on
beyond Tarifa.
The sth regiment of chasseurs, stationed at
Arles:, had at the same time en affair with anew.
her body of 1500 insurgents, who bad come from
he mountain+ of Ronda, and repulsed them to the
ether side of the &tiles with considerable loss.
" The Dake of Ahromberg, Culotte, of the
27th regiment of ehasseuts, being informed that a
corps of the enemy bad occupied the port of
for the purpose orshipping supplies fur
Cuba, proceeded against them at the end of March
with his regiment and three or foul companies of:
infantry. Ito attacked them, killed 150 of them,
took 250 prisoners„ and seized a convoy of nine
vessels laden with grain. An Intercepted letter
aentiosed that the scarcity at Cadiz was is-

trenie,"
ExTRACT 01 TN/ COREESPOMIDANCZ 0) 0/
RCINIEIi, COMMANDING TM/ SECOND COD/S.
" This General reports that General Fuy, who

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