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

400 soldiers killed or wounded. Amongst the number of the

former is Culoa,l Perpi..- The 10,4 of the rest of the army has

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not exceeded 150 men. The corps of Freyre and of Basse-
court, which were at Reguena, are cut of from Valencia.
—General Debit arrived at Aloiras, on the Xuear, on
the evening of the 26tb. He there fell in with the corps of
Kthi and of Obispo, which fled with precipitation, after
basing cut the bridges. The inhabitants hastened to repair

them, turd received our troops with demonstrations of joy:—
I expeet to open the trenches on the 2d January before the new
town of Valencia, whiekis of about 6000 toises in extent ; tie
left stretched to Oliveto, and the right to the citadel of that
tau it, both the extremities touchiug. the I;aadalaviar. This
space is oiled with caution, and fox' the• last three years, tie
whole population of the town has been working on this Immeme
space, whieu nas a large ditch filled with water. Once masters
of these wark4, we sh.di and ourslves under the old walls df
Valencia, which hxreality are nothing more than large padre
walls. T e wbuls army is actuated hr one soul, that of sign*
Using the comormedmeut of the n.w ye ir, by sending d! keys
of Valencia to the Emperor ; in the clime of Las month, I shrU
transmit the reports to your tlighaeA in the detail, and request
that you will have the goodness to lay hem before the Em, ern,
anflto ask rewards for su it brave men as shall have distil-
galshed themselves. I shall fulfil spy duty iu truly staling tie
sexvices rendered by the Italian soldiery, who proved themselves
worthy to date the epocha of their formation from the immortal
campaigns of the first army of Italy. lam with respect,
(Signed) " The Marshal Count SCCIIET."

♦ REPORT PROM TM'S MARSHAL COUNT SU GHIA TO RIB HIGHNESS
THE rn:SCIL OW SEAGRAM ANO NEXECIIITEL, MAJUR-GENERAL
OP THE ARMY.

Camp'before Valencia, Jan. RalBl2.
" bitted In my report of 19th December, to render.your
Excellency an account of th attempt made by Blake to retire in
the ;lien time from Valencia, and regain the open country, for
wliaa purpose he *hewed himself with It,ooo men. They met a
lively reception front the brave Poles of the Ist regiment of the
Vistula. Nearly the, whole of th 6 column was driven back
through the town by the upper bridge; it was with great diffi-
culty that a or ale men were able toga is the moubtains by taking
advantage of the. obscurity of the night : snore than 4 0 were
either killed or drowned in the canals. From this moment de-
sertion has made rapid strifes among them; within four days
e-are than 1500 4nertem have presented themselves at our out-
posts. Betweenihe 30th and alst, the advanced guards of the j
4th division; advanced within a short distance of the place. 2000
Spaniards, with two pieces of cannon, made a sortie to repulse
them. 'leri. Severoli immediately brought forward a battalion
of theist Italian reeimeat of the line, wbo attacked them under
the fire of the walls, repulsed them, and forced them to re-enter.
The Chief st- Battalion Pouti Breeas-t, Aid-de-Camp to the
Mister of War of Italy, surd Bonny, Aid-de-Camp to General Se-
veroli, have diainguished thensselves. The last has been wound-
ed in the leg.
• " On the 29th December the advanced guard entered St. Phil-
lippe, fifteen leagues from Valencia. and half of -he distance to
Alicaut, where it took a ;Wiliam of eartriders, and a great quan-
tity of rice. The inhabitants of this 'own, which contains
lb 000 souls. came out to met t us, and conducted themselves well.
I shall size Akira, situated on a.point of the island of Xucar,
it being a very advantageous position for actual aperations.—
The troops escaped from the environs of Valencia are attempt-
ing to rally laoween Anoint and Alcoy. In the might between
the Ist and 24 of January, the trenches were opened by three
thousand men at eighty tours from the works of St. Vicente
and Oliveto. The- General Count Pannetier, wbo had on
the Nattlf• Jay arrived at the camp w ith his brigade, was, by the
rules of seniority, appointed to the command of the trenches,
id/kit were piatied with vigour, and would have been perfectly
surer- fail h and not Colonel Henri, of the engineers, received a
mortal mound. This superior officer is regretted by the whole
army ; in the timer of two years he has led on die attack at
seven eilferea: sieges. Notwittatandine the tire kept pby the
enemy our works costinued da, :LA night moil five o'
clock in
the morning. Tice artillery fur raising of five batteries, and for
armlog of Iwo within aO:oises of the works, are already arrived,
whilst ar• ei.gineers had proceeded within 15 tubes of the ditch.
The rapal patiaera of them works, and the astouishing deser-
tion s',etainedr by the enemy, &initialed them on almadon-
ling their lines, fortified as they were, at so much trouble and
espalier. %t break of day Colonel &tote, Comatainler in the
trenches before Oliveto, aimed the ditch to be passed, and soon
threw Sst) gri aadiera into that fort, where they found ti: may
pieces of cannon General Mentnuate adopted the same, inea-
sum easiest St. Vicente. by pos.sessing himself of the suburb,
and pushing the enemy's pees back into the city. I made no
delay in convincing myself of the whole importance of the vast
works which t .e enemy had abandoned to us, together with 81
piecta, and immediately directed General Palumbini to possess
himself of the Staloff) of Quarts', and to drive the enemy into I
the !dace, which was performed with the greatest promptitede
I waited to profit by the disorder which such an event would
/move in this great city, and ordered the bombardment to com-
moner, which was acenolingly done, and was prolonged through-
eat the whole of the day.
" On the morning of the 6th, 1, considering that an army
which bad just abandoned works of such strength, mounted with
SI pieces of cannon, and the terrible effects of the bombardment
on au aninease population, would have called upon Gen. Blake
to capitulate, charged my first Aid-de-samp, Colonel Meyer,
to be the below of my proposals, and to express my desire of
easing a great city from ruin, but he was neither permitted to
entor the city, nor to see Gen. Blake. At noon this day I rice's,-
ed his reply : this Gen. is no longer the toaster, he is oiJ:ged to
obey the decisions of a fanatical Junta, composed of 7 persons, 5
of which are lareaciscan Monks, and tfie other two butchers of
Valencia, the same Alia, three years ago ordered the masiacre
a 400 Franch families that were driven out of the country.—
" I therefore continued my operations with vigour against the
place. which at this present moment counts a
.population 071
Yoo.oao cools ; five of the principal Chiefs of the iusurgeats are
pow within its walls, with all their property, and whatever
Spaiu possesses of fanatics or madmen. The engineers will
tea their works undo the walls. The artillery raises formi-
d4ale batteries, and own ithstanding the rains, 'it will in a few
days !Hs able to make a breace in the last eosin:we. The arms I
It waiting with impatience for Silt. attack, and if we should have 1
to'make a star of houses as at Saragossa, it will be but of short
continuance, by the ability and rapidity of our miners. I trans-
mit to your Highest,. the Pan of the works taken, my letter to
General Blake, and his reply, together with the quantity of ar-
tillery fallen tato ow- hands in the intrenclimems.
$, I am, with respect,
lgarshal Count SUCIIE ".

Ily a dec►ee of the 44th January, the French Emperor has
named Count Suchet to be Duke of Albufera.

lI,EPOaT OE COURT SUEHET TO THE PRINCE OF winurciu-