Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-10-16
FOREIGN NEWS.
From Gibraltar taherg, received al the e5Fee
If ale Philadelphia Gazette.
cADfZ. Iu1v 81.

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! addressed to the Board o. Valencia from TIE
head quarters at Murviedro, under date the
9Th instant, states as follows
( g By accounts received from Confidential
aeents, il appears, that Stehet, being ap-
prised that the combined att~cS upon ne pc
sieging army was to take pi4ce upon d: re-
ter's DAY, AID doubtless apprehensive OF BE-
ing filled in this coatest, dete mined at al
lIaz4rds to accelerate the capture OF ! arrAso-
ma; for whicn purpose batteries, erected
WITHIN musket shot of S.. Peters bastlon,
opened at DIV break on the 28th and kept up
firing without in.crmission the whole day
At 5 O'Clock in the afternoon, they had ;alrea-
DIV made a wide and practicable breach and
before 6, the columns Of attach. made their ap-
Dear.nce under General Montnarie, but were
completely Tcpulsed by the gallant troops who
defended the breach, and who being determln-
ed to,conquer or 10 die, were fully prepared
+! to receive the enemy. Shortly after, the lat
ter having been reinforced, made second at
tempt to storm the pace, but win no greater
success than the first time; Us, notwlthstand-
i.g the loss Of the gallant governor, Camp
! Marshal c ntrcras, VINO tell on the breach,
! tie men cid not lose courage and continued to
| beat back their opponents who, upon these
| two occasions, suffered IS might naturally be
expected L4stly, they returned third tune
10 the CHI large, aid with the Jury OF desperate
men, succeeded in Carrying The breach and
yeneuating into the city. The garrison, al
aough weared BY SUCH repeated attacks, nei-
TIER gave WY nor asked to capituiate. About
5000 men, in two columns, marched out at
ST. Anthony's gate, and the remainder with
rev from the breach keeping up trench
.Uus FIRE upon the enemy, as was also done
ion the houses and other buildings; but the
I'D nor numbers of the French, and the re-
torcements which every moment joined
.hem through the breach, compelled our peo-
lie 20 take shelter in the cathedral where they
performed prodisie5 Of valor, and sost OF
hem were killed on the spot. The number
IF the slain was immense on both sides; all
ne s,r.ets were strewcd with dead bodies,
I'D the enemy, scattering themselves ali over
the city, gave no quarters and spared neither
| age ror sex. The number OF prisoners who.
remain in their hands, is calculated at $500
men, and the remainder of the garrison which
on that day consisted Of between 5000 and
5000, were most Of them killed in the streets,
on the breach, or at the time that the two a.
povc mentioned columns marched out.-Fa-
lentia Gazette.
Retresenta!iucs ofthe Peohle
Wonder not, IN these calami.ous times that
we should address you in the noble language
Of Truth; For jmDute to want OF respect,
what is a mere etfusion of the purest patriot
ism.
Il is matter of astonishment, that after
three years contest, we should yet continue
either so confident or so drowsy as to view
witt Indifference the imminent danger with
which we are threatened, leaving to chance
the happiness or misery of many genera
ton.
IF this should be thought an exaggeration,
let rs cast glance over the series of our re-
verses during the last three years of sangli-
nary war, and consider what fruit we have
rcaped from our victories. Let US not deceive
ourselves; if it be true ON the one hand, that
the worthy Spanish nation has displayed an
energy, va!or and enthusiasm which we'll APP
piled, would not only have enabled her to
Shake off the usurper's yoke, but also to car
" her triumphant banners into his territory
it is 10 SIS certain, on the other, that by an
unlucky chance, this nation, who has made,
aud is making such great exertons for secur-
ing her independence, experiences the morti-
ficalion of finding fer sacrifices OF no avail,
and of having every day fresh reyerses to la
mcnt.
Would to God, melancholy experience
might not confirm this bitter truth, SO lately
eyinced anew by the fatal intelligence of the
loss of Tarragona! That fortress of the first
order has Just fallen into the hand of the ene-
my,who, upon entering 1t, murdered, ravisb-
ed, and indulged in every kind OF excess, in
manner worthy of their fcrocity. So fatal an
event induces us to make some unpleasant, but
perhaps useful, reflections.
Ever stree the beginning of May, it had
been known, that the enemy had views upon
Tarragona. The intelligence gained more
and more credit every day; and the want in
which she stood Of assistance, to avoid being
crushed by the forces which already began to
act against her, was more and more strongly
felt every hour. In such distressing crisis,
it seems, that eager anxious soIicitude to pro-