The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-05 00:00:00

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Practicable breach for a front of 50 men. In this
time the enemy has thrown 10,000 bombs and
grenade,, and the consequence of all this fury has
been, the reducing of the houses to mitts, but not
su debilitate-in any degree the spirit of their inha.
Wants, who every day with ittere.,sed enthusiasm
aid lore for the justsause which we defend, run to
arms whenever they are required.
" The garrison, although very small, as it
scarcely amounted to 2,500 men, has performed

prodigies of valour, and in three sorties and two
attacks (one of them repeated three times at the
breach by the enemy, and repelled with consider-
able loss) has well manifested the discipline and
courage with which Spaniards fight. But all these
details have doubtless already reached your Ma-
jesty through the General of this army, whom I
have regularly informed of the whole.
" Your Majesty, who ever has your paternal
anxieties fixed on maintaining the national ho-
nour, knows well the great benefits which the
inhabitants of this city have rendered to the coun-
try. Never, Sire, have I seen their 'precious en-
thusiasin extinguished for a moment ; a thousand
times Would they have sallied out to seek a glori-
ous death in the field of honour, if their limited
number hid not rendered it necessary to rtstrain
them. In this critics, situation I have repeatedly
represented to the Marquis de Cunpigny, the se.
fond in command of this army, that he should
reinforce me with 2000 men at least, although even
thus, the garrison would barely amount to half
its complement ; hut hitherto he has not done it,
notwithstanding that, in proportion to the exi.
gency of circumstances, instances have been ur-
gent, the whole of which I think it my duty to
lay before your Maksty, assuring you that this
important bulwark of Catalonia will defend itself

to the last extremity, and will sacrifice itself for
our adored Sosereign Ferdinand VII. whom God
preserve many years, renewing the memory of
Numantia and Seguntum, rather than bend its neck
to the yoke of the tyrant.
" I have pledged myself to this efcct at the
I!ead of these brave Spaniards, and I again renew
it at the read your Majesty, assuring you that
the enemy shall enter this city only over my dead
body.

"At the feet of your Majcity,
MARIANO ALVAREZ.

" Ceram, July 17."

PARIS, Arc. 12.—The communication made to
the Senate in the sitting of the 14th of this month,
by his Serene Iligliness the Prince Arch Chancel.
I.or of the Empire, and the report of bis Excel-
!wiry the Minister of ‘Var, have acquainted the
nation with the fresh attempt made by the English,
the aim of their Expedilion, and its first resul!s.
It is known that this expedition is apparently only
direciA against our neighbours and allies ; but
their interest is so closely interwoven with ours,
and the enemy's attacks on Zeal.tiid arc so evi-
dently connected Ittith his projects against the
Scheldt and Antwerp, that the public opinion can.
nut but be strongly engaged by these events, aid
the public must be desirous to know nut only the
whole, but also, if possible, all the particulars of
that expedition.

A' ems *,sent when this opinion renders itself
conspicuous by numberless traits sif public spirit
sad attachment throughout all classes, of French
citizens, and by sacrifices of every description—.
by an uneanimous submission to the measures
adopted b) the public authorities for the common
defence, and by a general cry of war against the
English, at the moment when these emotions,
truly national, oppose considerable forces to the
enemy in places which he supposed he should be
able to surprise in a defenceless state, and permit
the Emperor's army, while it completes its grand
work, to depend on the fidelity and Jurage of
another army sprung up, as it were, from the ter-
ritory which it is to defend; it is of very material
importance to justify that opinion, to fortify and
oulighten it, and to inform our enemies that on
this memorable occasion they will see all their de-
losive hopes destroyed for ever, which they had
conceived with regard to the pnblic seutinients iu
France, and the extent of the means of govern-
ment. With this view, all papers ‘s hich relate to
the operations on the Scheldt shall be coinmuni.
sated to the public in tbcir natural order, either
at full len4th, or by extracts, according to the
degree of interest and importance attached to
them.

COPY OF A REPORT, MADE AUGUST I, 1809, ST
TUE MINISTER AT WAR TO TUE EMPEROR AND
ZINC.

" 6 I had the honour, by a report of the 31st of
last July, to render the Emperor an account of
the appearance and movement of an enemy's fleet
an the side of Flushing; and of the measures hi-
herto adopted for the defence of the Scheldt. I
have this morning bad a conference with the Mi-
nister of the Marine, who thinks it necessary that
all the troops which cau be drawn from the garri-
son of Paris should provisionally be ordered to
march to the Scheldt and Boulogne. In conse-
quence thereof, I have directed General Mullin to
order this day the half brigades of reserve to
march, one moiety to Luzanher, and the other to
&ides. These troops will find in both places
waggons to convey them to their places of desti-
nation. They who march to Boulogne will reach
it an the 4th August. The half brigades which
march from Senles to Ghent, will be there the sth
of A ague, and proceed from thence to the Scheldt.
I have ordered several battalions and squadrons of
the second military division to march to the coast
of Boulogne.

" All these orders had been sent off when I re.
wired a telegraphic dispatch from Gen. Suzanne,
informing me that he had ordered all the national
guards of the department of the North to pro.
ceed in waggons to the isle of Cadsand, indepen.
dnsttly of those under the orders of Gen. Rumpon,
who are marching in the same direction. Pursuant
to these dispositions, the troops employed on the
coast will in three days form a considerable force,
exclusive of the gens.d'arines, the companies of
reserve, and the officers of Customs, who have
also 6, en called out. In additiou to these troops,
I limp 4140 ordered the Fro•lsional battalions aid
squanmos of the 21tb, 16th, 2d, and 4th military