The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-02-20 00:00:00

PASSIGE TIMOUGYI Vas SIR KRA
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rxr'res, /ROY HIS EXCiLLENCT IiARCUAL
DUKE Or DALMATIA, TO MS SERENE utissiNess
' TUE PRINCE OF NEUFCHATEL, MAJOR •E:YL'RAr..
46 I have the honour to giye an account to your
Serene Highness' in order that you may have
kindness to make a report of it lo his Majesty
the Emperor and King, of the- passage of the
Sierra Moiena, and of the arrival of the Imperial
troops upon the Guadalquivir. For several days
past, different movements of the first corps of the
army towards Almeden, and of the troops under
the orders of General Sebastiani in front of Villa-
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neuva de los Infantes had attracted the attention of
the enemy to the two extremities .of the line ; he
thought his right more pirticUlarly menaced, and
h e ungarrisoned his centre in order to reinforce it ;
he entrenchments which he had thrown up at the
tentraoco of the defiles, cuts upon all the roads,
and the mines which ho had: dog at the brink of
the precipices, in order to blosi op parts of the
road, gave in him the confidence that he could
not be attacked ; but these obstacles, to all ap-
pearance insurmixonteble, were overcome without
any loss, with the rapidity of 'lightning, and.the
dispositions made have produced the most satisfac.-
tory results.
66 On the 19th, his What Majesty tarried
his head-quarters to Santa Crux of Models,. where
the bth corps of the army, the Royal Guards,
and a Spanish brigade were united in this evening
of the 18th ; the same day the Marshal Duke of
Treviso caused his troops to occupy El Viso and
El Visilto, whither the division of General Des-
solles also repaired. General Sebastiani took et
position with the division of dragoons of General
Milhaud, the 58th regiment of the line, and the
division of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, at Va.
lamenrique, whence he drove the enemy; and he
it the same time caused to be occupied the Torre
de Joan Abed, and Ate:edins. The first corps
of the army was since the 15th at Almaden' de
Mope; its reconnoitring parties crossed the
Guadalme•s, and pushed on as for is Santa Euphe-
taie and Belalearas ; its insurgent division, which
was 'at Almaden, precipitately retreated to Cur.
dove.

." His Majesty having determined to attack the
enemy on the 110th, General Dessolles received'
ordersto set off from El Viso with his division,
and the 21st regiment of horse rangers, which
was placed at his disposal, •ahtl to proc►•ed by the
ancient road which passes through Puerto del
iiey. to Carolina, openi►►g fpr this purpose at the
Yenta Nueva, between Carolina and Santa Elena,
whets that road joins the highway. The Marshal
Duke of Treviso had ostlers to cause to be attack,.
ed, by the sth corps', the position of Dispense
Perrot, when thaenemy had in several pllces cut
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the road and dog mimes; the sth corps was follow-
ed in its matementi by.the Royal Guards, and by
- a Spanish brigade.
" General Sebastiani had orders to attack tie
enemy in his position 'of Venta-Nueva and
Vesta Quested*, to drjve him from the valley of
Dannsillas, from McMillen, and from St. Estivas,
anti afteiwards to pursue him, either to the Ps.
flares, or to Berta eisd Übcda, according as he
should take one or other of these directions. The
Marshal Duke of &Ilene had made.a report from
imadin, that the road; which lead from that city
to Cordova obliged him to make a circuit in order
to be able to take with him his artillery, and that
be could not proceed directly to tho-Guadalquivir
with his infantry and cavalry : his Majesty not
having judged proper to carry the first corps,
for the moment, to any great distance, instruc-
• tions were written to the Marshal Duke of itel-
lenotei send back the artillery and the whole of
( • lib bagiage, in order to take tho high road from
Andalusia to Santa Cruz of Mudela, and nianceu-
ere with the infantry and cavalry in such a man-
. ner as to make a diversion, either by,carrying de.
tachments through the Sierra Mimeos. directly to
Carolina, or by proceeding towards the Guadal.
guivir, according as, from the information which
be should receive, he might think himself best
able to fulfil his object. On the 18th, the Mar-
shal Duke of Belitine gave an account that he was
sending back his artillery, and was marching off
on the 19th, in order to proceed by Terre Campo,
Villa Nueva de la Jerre, and Meister°, against An-
dojar, where be expected to arrive on the 22J, and
to put himself iwconsmunication with the rest of
the army which should have stretched out by the
high road of Carolina. •
" These dispositions were madeon the 20th. In
• the morning General Dessolles set off from Elviro,
and proceeded against the Puerto del Rey ; an in-
surgent division Wfiiiidefeided that passage was
_ attacked with the bayonet in its entrenchments,
and immediately thrown intoihe most complete
rout ; the enemy fled through the precipices and
serum the mountains, abandoning his arms, his.
camp, and provisions ; he had a great many
,men
killed, but only a eery small number could• be
taken, his resistance sot having been what it
might have been. General Dessolles continued his
inurement without any difficulty ; his loss consist-
ed of only 15 men disabled.
" The dtvisioa of Geneml Gazan, of the sth
corps, which bad set off at the same time from
Elvis°, detached the brigade of General Brayer,
in order to force the passage through the neck of
Meister., which is led to by a most difficult. path,
which awls at the high road at the lure called the
corder.., consequently behind all She entrench.
menus, rob sod mines of• the enemy; the other
brigade of the divisiou climbed ep .dm mountain,
between that passage and the Despenna hoot to
sspport the attack of the brigade seder the 'Went
of General Breyer, and to co-operate with it be
the same melt.
66 The *shim of General Girard, followed bj*,'
the lii,eyaleeuarda, the Spanish brigade, and the ca-
•valry, kept upon the highway, and only advanced'
lr _proportion as the division of General Gaza°
obliged dor enemy successively to evacuate ell his
pcisttlons, and abandon his camp, entrenchments,
artillery, ammuilition, provisions, Ire. These mines,
which the enemy bad prepared in order to blow up
parts of the roads in the places which are walled in

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