The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-02-04 00:00:00

MORT OF COUNT SUCIULT TO THE PRINCE OF WAGRAM

AND NAUFCDATEL.

" flead-qaarters, Valencia, Jan. le.

MoNsticrueva,—" On the tuth in the morning, the
Insurgent Army shut up in Valencia, defiled before the French
Eagles, its march lasted till night. Gcn. Blake, Chief of the
Insurrection, and six of his Aid-dc-Camps, have act out es-
corted by Col. Pech ; I have ordered them to Paris. Gen.
Count Panoitier has set out with the first column of 7000
prisoners, by the route of Turuel; a similar column takes the
ruute of Tortosa. I have sent to St. Philippe a column of
2000 prisoners, in order to exchange all the French prisoaers
io Majorca and Ca':iz.

" The disarming of the militia proceeds with the greateat
activity, and tranquillity has already been establi.hed in this
Lie Province. I have appointed Gen. Hobart, Commandant
of the town. Gen. Harispe, with his division, occupies St.
Philippe, and pirates his parties towards Alicant.

" We daily discover new magazines of arms and closthing,
furnished by the English. Their sobdisant Consul Tepper
was the firebrand of fnsurraction; he spared neither gold,
nor promises, nor libels to irritate men's minds. The Spa-
niards bitterly complain of being incessantly impell- d to de-
sperate measures by the English, and afterwards finding them-
selves abandoned by them.
" What is to me s particular object of the utmost satisfac-
tion, is, that su considerable a result has occasione'd no losses.
"I am, with respect,
" Count SUCH ET."
COTT OF A Lyrrrit FROM COUNT SUCIIET TO GEN. BLARE.

GENERAL,—Tbe laws of war assign a period to the suf-
fering of people; this period has arrived. The Imperial ar-
my is now within ten toises of the body of your fortress, in
some hours I breaches may be effected, and then a ge-
neral assault must precipitate the French columns into V.l-
-

" If yon wait this terrible moment, it will no longor be in
my power to control,' the fary of the soldiers, and you alone
will ha'c to answer to God and Man fur the evils which will
overwhelm Valencia. The desire to spare the total ruin of a
great city, determines me to offer you an honenrable capitula-
tion; I engage to pres••rve to the Officers their (gull/ages, to
respect the property of the inhabitants; it is unnecessary for
me to add, that the religion we profess shall be revered.
" I expect your reply in two boors,- and salute you with
very high considerations
(Signed)
REPLY OF GENERAL BLAKE.

" SUCHET."

"Gam ER 1,-1 this afternoon received your Excellency's
letter. Yesterday, perhar, before point, I would hare con-
sented to chinge the posttion of this army, in evacuating the
city, to save its ittimbitants from the inconvetticecies and hor-
rors of a hombartlinent; but the first 2$ hours your Excellen-
cy emplu)eti io :.ettisig it on fire, has taught me bow much I
may depend tipin the constahry of this people, and their re.
signation to cicry sai:rifice which may be necessary, in order
that the army may preserve the honour of the Spanish name.
" Your Excellency may consequently continue your opera-
tions; and as to the responsibility before God and man of all.
the misfortune: which the defence of the place occasiaaa, and i
all those which war brings with it, it cannot attach to me.

TEL •SII) WAGRAM.
"Head Quarters, Valencia, 12th Jan. tSI2.
sr Mossztonnifttre•l beg your Serene Highness to an-
sonnet terhisklujestg.tbe Emperor, that his orders have been
execolcd—Valosoin kas submitted to bit arms. 11:e rapid
movements of the stub Decenitiet: famed the enemy to retire
two their fortified lines—tithe pursuit Of the troups•which es-
* sped from Valencia to St Pinlippe, deprived Blake of all
hope of succour. The investment was fiaished with persere-
ranee. The Irony, thirsting for glory, sought dangers, and
with the greatest valour repulsed Ogee 5' tees.
•4' The boldness of the euginet rv, who, in the nights of the Calcutta Gazettes reached town on Saturday to the
sth of July. One of them contains an extract from
Ist mid 24 Jmustry, op: lied tr. Itches wahin from 7o to So
the Bombay Courier of May 4, stating that a dispatch
tome the e... my's works; and who, Au four days and four
nights, ra:r rd their Mists within So tuiscs of the (asset —the I had been received from Lieutenant-Colonel EAST, an-
eurpvis..nt effi.;ets of the artillery, who rerjed batteries j6O !flouncing the capture by storm, and the restoration to
s tense ..id which they vicceeded iu arming, notwithstanding ;its lawful Chieftain, of the fortress of Chya, a de-
the rains sad dreadful roads,-the constancy of the infantry, I Pendency of the Raja of POORBVNDER (who had
in rharinv in ali these !slams, caused the abandonment of the lately sought and obtained the protection of the Ho-
enemy's lines, defended by so pieces of cannon. I aourable Company), and which had been usurped by
"'these lines are 6000 tenses in extent. Valencia expendvd kis son PREVITE RAI YE.
I 2,00(),000 of re Is, and employed soul, thousands of men for
two years in erecting them. A Gentleman of this City, has received a letter
from Philadelphia, dated Nov. 2, 1811, from which he
"On the fifth I commenced the bombardment, and on the ' favoured us with the following extract : "M. GAUT..
Glh offered arapitolation, which being refused, I redoubled • px, a Russian Prince,
,became .a Roman Catholic
our Orr, and in three days and three nights 3700 bombs were IClergyman about ten years ago, and fixed his refil-
-1 thrown into the lily, cassias exployions and several vast fires.litence on the Allegany mountain, the highest in
,The artillery, by a praise-worthy emelation, succeeded in North Ainerica. Though his flock was then limit-
erectinr two baiter* mounted with ten twenty-four pound.. ed to six Roman Catholic Families, it is now the
era each, ready to soalse a breach in the juterior defences largest Congregation, next to that of Philadelphia,
The vagilieers, with their usual activity, haikeifeeted a lodg- ' in all. North Amerlca.—Linteriek F ecninff Post.
went in 14 last houses of the suburbs, and placed mines un- The name of the French frigate capturedb ir, the
tier two of ;he principal gates of the town. <when general Mediterranean by the Igeg. itS stated in our P '
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"BLAKE."
SEMLTS, Jan. I.—lt appears that the Divan is leas than
ever ilibposed to peace.

LONDON:
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 181%

The official accounts of the fall ofYalencia, which,
as we mentioned yesterday, took place on the 9th of
January, have at length reached us. Paris Papers
to the 31st instant were received at a late hour last
night, containing not only the details of this event,
but also of the defeat of the Spanish Army on the
26th of December, and the Reports of the proceed-
ings of the French Armies of the- North, of the
South, and of the Centre. We have given, in our
preceding columns, as full extracts from these im-
portant documents, as our limits would permit.,—
We shall endeavour to give the remainder to-mor-
row. With regard to the report which prevailed
yesterday, as to the fall of Ciudad Rodrigo, nothing
farther that can be depended upon has transpired.—'
Private letters are indeed said to have been received
of a later date than the accounts from Corunna,l
which we published yesterday, in which it is stated,
that Ciudad Rodrigo was taken by storm on the 19th,
and that the whole of the garrison was lined except
MO men, who were taken prisoner?. The writers,
however, of these letters, caution Reit. Readers
agsinst being too confident, lest they should meet
wkh a disappointment.

To-morrow being Fast Daffy, there will be no
Corn Market.

On Sunday, at two P. M. arrived at Cowes,
in the Isle of Wight, the United States sloop of
war llornet, from Cherburgh, with Mr. Wug.titts
PORTER and Mr. ALEXANDER HENDENSON, bear-
ing public dispatches from Mr. JOEL BARLOW, in
Paris, to Mr. RussELL, the American Minister, in
London.

We understand that Sir JOSEPH Yontra is shortly
to leave his seat at the Board of Admiralty, and is
to have the command 0 a strong squadron appointed
for the coast of America.

The Cracker gun-brig has arrived at Deal from off
the French coa.t, having received considerable'
dama<zein her and rigging in an action of three
hours with a French glin-brig, so close in shore that
she was assisted by the flying artillery; this took
place on the night of the 30th flit. when the, Cracker
succeeded in driving he French vessel on shore, and
but for the .ide ebbing would have totally destroyed
her.

The young Lady of distinction, who absconded
from 110 r fricinis a fow evenings since, left a note on
her toilet, assigning as a reason for the step she was
about to take, a resolution to prefer death rather
than a forced union with one she never could love as
a man, or esteem as a husband !

MEL t C .0 L Y Acci DENT.— We sincerely regret to
state that the Lady of Major Scott Waring was
found dead early yesterday morning at the bottom of
the staircase, in her house at Hammersmith. She
staid up some time after her husband went to bed,
and is supposed to have fallen backwards going up
stairs. She was a Lady of great accomplishments,
and has left a numerous offspring,. as well as her at.
flttted husband, to deplore her prematde and me-
lancholy fate.
An article from Cork, dated Jan. 27, states, that
the preceding day, the Hamadryad, Captain Sir T.
Staines, had made signal, off Cove, for the appear-
ance of two large French frigates olf that coast ; and
for the assistance of any ship of war that Admiral
Thornborough might have in the harbour. Unfortu-
nately there was only the Earl Spencer cutter. The
Hamadryad went oft' to watch the enemy's frigates.
The 7th Dragoon Guards marched in to Dover on
Monday, to replace the 23d, gone to Guildford.
As Lieut.-Col. NUOENT, of the Westmeath Mili-
tia, was riding on the Deal road on Monday after-
noon, towards Dover Castle, his horse threw him,
by which his leg was unfortunately broken.
The Gentlemen who composed the Catholic Con-
vention have determined to move to set aside thejudg-
ment of the Court of King's Bench, by a Writ .of
Error, in order to bring the question► before the
House of Lords.

• • A Deputation from the Society for protecting the
Rights of Protestant Dissenters, has waited on Mr.
PEttccvAto to represent to him the impediments
throwti in the way of persons obtaining licences to
qualify as dissenting teachers, under the Acts of To.
leration. Mr. PEIiC EVAL has promised that he will
confer with his colleagues on the subject of their
"grievances.
FALMOUTH, FEE. I.—Arrived the Francis Freeling
packet from Surinam and Martinique, with mails, she
sailed from the former place 2Gth December, And
from the latter 7th January. The following packets
are now in the Roads and will sail the first oppor-
tunity :—Prince Ernest, for Cadiz and Malta ; Duke
of Kent and Arabella, for Lisbon ; and the Dar-
lington, for the Windward Islands.
PORTSMOUTH, Fra. 3.—Arrived the Antelope, •of
50 guns, from attending the West India convoy to
Cape Ilnisterre; 'left them all safe; and' heard
nothing of the French frigates at sea.--The
Melpomene brOught to again at St. llelen's, will
will go in the morning if wind continues fair. Gene-
rals Tilsou and Hanson are going out to Lisbon in
her. The lllfperion, Capt. Cumby, gone into Bar-
bour to be docked. The Argo, Captain Warner,
dropt down to St. Heleu's. °

BREAM—This day the LORD MAYOR and Alder.
men, arta inspeCti% theaeOing, ordered it fall 3el,
per peck,

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