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RALEIGH, (n. c.) THURSDAY, APRIL 201 809
No:. 68 i;
'VASHrNG-TOU City. April 10.
,lC3j inst. his Britannic Majesty's
f U' Rosamond, captain Walker, 41
i,.nili 'irriu.-el at 'Mnrfnlk with
if ''1' , .r r. i.: txr- i -
L " tn the Oili nt" Ffhruarv.
which we nave mane copious exudes.
KUKMCIi BULLETINS.
,ut Uulietin contains nothing impor-
I slot's the departure of the Emperor J
mains ofthe army of .Majorca, of Iberia, of
Barcelona, and .of Naples, are made prison
ers. ... ? . , . . ""' : ; "
-.The Spanish peasantry Lave no mercy on
the English. Notwithstanding the .strictest
order to the contrary, we every day find - a
number of Encash assasinated.
The duke of Belluho is on the Tagus.
The whole of the Imperial Guard is con
centrated at Valladolid. '
the 2a 1 of December ajidH The cities of Valladolid, of Palmeira, Se
. .u.. ... n- frovia. Avilla. Astoria. I ..eon. Uc. occ. Have
N 111V 7 -T -
11 cl'
ill
Jajrifi on
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r ,M nfli'tirs toot n ace. ",ui"u v,....
i, ii.tFeMn n-jars date, oenevenio, h.-.um vj-v.....
from vvh ch the Bntl?h amiV nunurcu iicmis utauiiuta nave iah.cn uitvam
:j, amliinnounces no events .ol vmagm-
eJjti Ualic:iivis dated Benevento, Jan i.
'.l . nl IJnmarn. with 1ns4
03 pVisoirtrs, and the reduction ot Ko
'sarmy from 50,000 to 5,0ornnen, who '
brown themselves imu rvnun
-24th liulletin is dated Astorga, jan-
, where the Emperor arrived the pre-
i ' . r
:,&-jv I; states the miseraDie state oi
' . l . i r.. ' - t
nj arm ana me roaa iroin ochcvcm-strewt-d
with the dead horses, travelling
y,Ls and artillery of the British, and
. 1 1-1 1 A l..L.
at the. emptror naa cnargeu me LtiKe
.t i . . r ..
imuiaw.tn tne glorious mission oi pur-
the English to the place of their debar-
ll, ailU (H til I ViK iliciil iitiu Uic oa at uis.
of the sword.
WENI Y FTFT.cI DTLLETIn.
inertc, Jan. 5. Tne head of Merle's
n, forming part of the duke of Dalma-
:orps, cam-' up with the advanced guard
ie 3(1. '
4 P.M. it reached the rear guard of
,ndish, who vere tipon the heights of
ros, a league be for- V illafi aiica, consist--
5000 iiihntry and 6' 0 cavalry This
. .1 I'nr i-
on was a very nne posiuon, arui uinicuu
,j(.k. Gtrallerle made his riisposi..
The inl'uutry advanced, best ihe charge,
he English were entirely routed. The
ity of Ihc ground did not permit the
ry torharge, and only 2C0 prisoners were
...We had sonie hfty men killed or
led. .General Colbert advanced to see
cavalry could form; his hour was ar-
l j ball struck him on the forehead, and
eJ but a quarter of an hour.
ere are two roads from Astorga to Villa-
lhe LiiL'lish took the right, the
ards the left; they marched without
l-were. cot off and surrounded by. the
venan Chasseurs. penera' ol brigade
whole division laid down their arms.
ce the 27th ujt. we Imvc taken more
10,000 prhrTnipT3vr7among whom M-e
English. We have taken also - more
i09 baegage-'wsggons,!! 53Yaggoris of
ocks, their magazines and hospitals.
English retreat in. disorder, leaving ma
sick, and equipage. They will expe-
still greater lss and if they be able
lihark, it isirobable it will not be without
oss of half their army. But informed
hat army was reduced below 20,000 men,
aiperor resolved to remove his head
rs from Astorga to Benevtnte.
wuid in the barns several English who
en hanged by the Spaniards. His ina-
vv indignant, and ordered the barn to
The peasants, whatever may be
rtsentmtnt, have no right to attempt
ivts o'fjjie waggoners of either army.
pajesty has ordered the. English prison-
w.trea.ed with all the respect due to
rs who have manifested liberal ideas and
mitts of honour.
Hie-4th, at nisht, the duke of Dalma-
head quarters were tcn leagues from
vernor de St. Cvr's division entered Bar-
Jon the -17th." On the 15th he came,
ARenerds Reding and Vive's troops at
5i i and completely vou'ed them. He
s'x pieces of cannon, 30 waggons, and
men. :1 i"
PWENTY-SIXTH BULLETIN. L
"ffolidyJan. 7 After Governor De St.
ptered Barcelona hproceeded to the
rS, and forced the enemy's intrenched
'JMJtook-Ss nieces f-eanwon- II
Torrogero, a place of great impbr-
TENIYevent H . BULLETIN.
"aW, 7an"2 :T'ne duke of Dalmatia
ttie hrttlc.oj Rteiios, proceeded to expel
"8h Irom the post of Pitdra 1-eila.
ere t(gvk t soo" English prisoners, five
lf cannon, and several caissons. The
frwas obliged, to destroy a -quantity of .
5 ann .stores. .The precipices .were
,llh them Such was their DrccinUawT
of allegiance brfore the holy scramenty The
citizens have promised his imperial majesty,
that if he. will place his brothe r on the throne,
they will serve him with all tluik, efforts, and
defend him with all their means. NlJ
TWENTY-EIGHTH BULLETIN.X
VaUadpUd. Jan. x 3 That part of the trea
sure of the t iiemy which has fallen into" our
hands is 1,800,000 fr. -The inhabitants as
sert that the English have carried off from
eight to ten millions.
The English general deeming It impossible
that the French infantry and artillery should
have followed him, and gained upon him. a
certain number of marches, particularly in
mountains to diflictdt1 as those of Gallkia,
thought he could only be pursued by cavalry
ami sharpshooters.. He took, therefore, the
posiuon o,f Castro on his right supported by
the river Tombago, which passes by "Lugo,
i and is not fordable. -
The duke of Dalrriatia arrvied on the 6th in
the presence of the enemy. He employed
the 7th and 8th in rtconnoi'ering the enemy,
and collecting his infantry and artillery, which
v.ere still in the rear, lie formed hin.plan of
attack. The h it only of the enemy was at
tatkahltr he manoeuvred on their left. His
(tx?poiiuns.Tvijuivtd some movements on the
8th. the duke being determined to attack or.
the 9th, but the enemy letreated in the night,
and in the rnorniv-g cur advanced iruard en
ttredLugo. The enemy Ieft 3o0 sick in-the
hospitals, a park of 18 pieces of cannoiTi and
300 waggons of ammunition. We matte 700
prisoners. .
The town and environs of Lugo are choak
ed with the bodies of Ehgli: horses. Hence
upwards of 2,500 horses have been killed in
the retreat:
The English are marching to Corunna in
great haste, where they have 400 transports.
They "have already lost baggage, ammurifion,
a part of their most maty ial artillery, and up
wards of 3000 prisoners. ,
.',OjcLlhe--10lli..-ciiir.ail'aiKed.-ptiard was ar
Betarzost a short distance from Corunna.
The duke of- Elchingeb is with his corps
near Lugo.
fn reccning the sick, missed, those who
have been killed by the peasants and made
prisoners by our troops, we may calculate the
loss of t he English at one thiru (f their arniy.
They are i educed to 18 000 men, : r.c ait
not yet embarked. From Shaun th y retreat
ed 150 leagues in bad weathH-. worse roads,
through mountains, whole clays closely pursu
ed at the'point of the'stford. .
It is difiicult to .conceive 'the folly :f tRir
plan of campaign, li muvt be atti ibottdnot
tivJhe genera: who coiurminds, and 'ho is i
clever and s-kilful mall, hut to tl;a- spirit of
hatred end rage wl ich ai'imat'. s the English
ministiy. ' lo pusn tcrwaru m una uimnjvi
30,000 men, c-xposmgtln to.dfstrucii.oi..
or to flight as their only ivsnUrre,: is a con-
cTption which can only be' inspired by, the
spirit of passion or. the most extravagant pi e
sumption. Lugo was pillaged and sacked by the ene
my. We cannot impute. these disasters-to
the English general ; it is, the usual aud ine
vitable effect of forced marclies and precipi
tate, retreat.
y.imora. whose Jnhabtanfs, had been, ani
mated by the presence f the EngVishtshttt
their tates aeainst Gir.eral Mangettt: Gen.
Domeau . proceeded against it with fo4f:boai d' ivere taken.
Thirtieth Bulletin of the, Army of Sfiain. ,
. Vax-lAdolid, Jan. 21.
The duke of Dalmatia left Betanzos on
the 12th instant. Having reached the Mero,
he found the bridge of Burgo cut. The ene
my was dislodged from the village of Burgo.
In the mean while general Franceschi ascend
ed iht; river which he crossed at the bridge
of Sela. He made himself master of the high
road from Corunna to Santiago, and took six
oflicers and sixty soldiers prisonera. On the
same day a body of 30 marines who were
fetching water from the bay nvar Mero
were taken. From the village of Prillo, the
English fleet could be observed irwle harbor
of Corunna. '
On the 13th the ehemy caused twopowdef
magazines, situated near the heights of St.
Margeiet at half a league fiom Corunna, to
be blown. The exp!osionwas terrible, and
was felt at the distance of three leagues.
On the 14th. the bridge at Burgo was re
paired, and thi French . artilh ry was abk' to
vtiasS. I ne enemy nan uisen a jjusiiiuu tit. iu
ItJa-gues distance, halt a league tx tore corunna
He vva seen empl yed in hastily embarking
his sick and wounded, the numbers' of which,
according to Spies and deserters, amounts to
3 or 40OO meru" The LnglisM were in' the
meanwhile occupieWn (destroying the batte
lies on the coast, and laying wate the ccun
iry on the sta shore. . The.commandant of
the Fort St. Philip, suspectisig- the fate in
tendedtbr his fortification, refused to admit
them in. - '
On the evtttune ol the. 14th we saw u
convov of 160 sail arrive, among which were
four sb'.p . of the line.
On the morning of the 15th, the visions
oSvMerie an 1 Mcrmet, occupied the heights of
'?Uh! ion, where the enemy's ad vanced gu a rd
was"' s'a ioneci, vhich was attacked and de
stroyec. Our right wing was stationed on the
point where thq road iiom Corunna to Lugo,
and that from Corunna to Santiago, meet.
The left was placed behind the village of
'EI via. The enemy was stationed behind some
advantageous heights.
The rwt or the 15th was spent in fixing a
battery ofl i ;)icce ofcainion ; and it was not
till the 16th, at three o'clock in the afternoon,
that the duke of Dalmatia gave orders to at
tack. The assault was made upon the English
by tin: fii-st brigade of the division of iMertiet,
which overthrew them, and drove them from
the village of ElvinaiT The second regiment
of light infantry covered itself with glory.
GeneralJordan, at the head of the Volligiicrs,
wrought a terrible carnage. The . tnuny,
driven from his; positions, retreated to the
sjardens which su round Corunna.
The night giowiug very dail:, it was ncces
sary to ' suspend the attack. The enemy a
vailed himself of i his to emoaik with precipi
tation. Only 6000 of our men were engagtd,
k every arrangement was made for abandonii g
the positions of the night, and advancing
next day la a general att;itk. The los of I he
e'tu-inv has httn immtnse. - Two or our bat"
ttiies phyul'npon them .during tne wnoio oi
i he-engagement. 4V.e. counted on the field of
battle more than i!.t hundred of their dead
bodies, among. which was the body of Geneurl
Hamilton, "and' ilio:,e of two other general
xHeersr --vrtTbse n . mes-we a.re.unacquaii .ttd
ithr-NV-ki,v"9 taken '.j.Q'.ofiicers, 300 mttii
and four p:eces 6T cannon. The English
have left behirfdthem more thrav 1,500 horses,
which they had killed. Our loss amounts lo
100 killed and 150 wounded.' . . .
I'h tvofbnel of the 47th regiment distin
ffu'shed hiutlf-T-n Ensign o'f the 31 infan
tvy, killed w'uli his own hand an Epelish cf
ficer,, v. ho had endcayortd to wrest fromhim
his" Hagle." Tin general of artillery-, rBomgeat
and coLjiitl Foiutnay, have signalized them
selves. '- ' ' . . . "'
At day break on the. 17th, we saw the
English convoy under sail. On' -the T 8th the
'whol'e'ftsiddisappeatcdi ; . : "
The duke of Dalmatia had caused a can-
l ionade to be commenced upah the vessels
.from the fort of Santiago. SeveraUranspurls
ran" aground, and "all the mtnwho vere on
i and
confusiotif that, they left behind
,Q their-carriages a quantity of gold
inc
' ItlQi is PRtimntit at lun millinns of
remains of Romana's army ,rc found.'
iriag About in all Cirections. The re-
tallions, he scaled the city, took it, ai.d put
the most guilty to the sword.
--Hicia-isJJieLrimyjn
nifests the best disposition, it - receives .the
French as deliverers. . - . - -
Valladolid has taken the oath to King Jo
seph. 1
The Tuenty-7i;nth Bulein of the army of Sfiain
' Is dated from Valladolid, on the 1 6th ol
January. It treats ot the transactions m tii
centre of Spain7 and relates that on the
13th ult:. the Duke de Beltuno hadompelled
-Soil oHcers, 2 generals, T colonels, 20 It. co
nels, and ls.COOHmeiu. to lay down their
arms while relieving to Alcizar, vl he com
-mander, 'lc-omrfie I'enegas," was killed
The bulletin afterwards recites the coinpub
sory Addresses rthe Council of tate. and,
other public bud., at Madrid, lo the contiiier
or. J
We found in 'the establishment of the Pal-'
loza a large manufactory, &;c. in. the subuibs
left behind. The rnen who have found an
asylum on board yieir vessels are hariassed
and dejected. -In another Season of.the year
not one of them would Jiave escajed. Thev
facility of cutting the bridges, the rapidity of
the torrents, which in winter swell to deep
river3uthe shortness of the days and thtj
length of nights, are very favorable td an annjr
on their retreat.
Of, the 38,000 men whom theEjuglish had
disembarked, we may be assured that scarce
ly 24,000 will ltturn to England.
The army of RomanaTwhich at the end o
December, by the aid of ivinforcementsf
'which it had received from Galliua, consist
ed of 16,009 men, is reduced to 5000 men,
'"who are wandering between Vigo and Santia
go, and are closely ( pursued. The kingdom
pf Leon, the province of Zamora, and all Gal
licia, which the English had been desirous to
cover, are conquered and subdued.
The general of division Lapisse' lias sent
patroles into Portugal, who.have bfcen well re
ceived there. ! . .
G neral Maupstlt has entered Salamanca $
he met there with sbmcr sick of the, English
troop3. - " "'
ENGLISH ACCOUNT
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Bxtile of Corunna London Gazette ExtraortU
nunjt dated Downing vrctty Jan. 24 I S09.
The hoii. captain Hope arrived last night
with a dispatch from lieutenant, gtneral iir
David Baud to Lbvd Viscount Castlen-agh,
one of his majesty.'s principal Secretaries of
xstate, of which the following is a cnpy7
K jis majesty's ship Ville de Paris, ,aL sea,
Janvikfy 18 180My Lord By the much.
lamented4eat-h f Lieutenant General Sir
Jokn Moo;r,evvho fell in the action with ths
enemy on the ltb instant, it-has become . my
duty to acquaint yonr L-ofdsiitp, that .the
French attacked the BilHsh troops in the posi
tion they occupied in frontof Ccirunna, at a
bout2 o'clock in the aftcrnwrtspf th'at day .
A 'severerwmmdrsv hich compclleome to quit
the field a short time previous to tlfeall of
sir John Moore,' obliges me to refer - yetir
Lortship-for the particulars of the 'aciionVx
which was long, and obstinately contested, to sXs
the inclosed re port .of jieutenant gen. Hope,
who succeetled to the command of the army
and to whose ability and exeitions in direc
tion of the ardent "zeal and unconquerable!
valor of his majesty's troops, is to attributed,
under Providence, the success of the day
which ttrminattd in the complete and entire
repulse and defeat of the enemy at eervj
point of attack. 1 be honorable captain L.oiv
don, ray aid-de camp, wiil have the honor of
delivering this--dispatch, and will be able to
give your Lordship any further inforaiaUQA
which may be required. -
I have the honor to be, he
D.DAlllD, w
Lieutenant General. !
His majesty's ship Audacious, off Corunna
January 18, 109 Sir, in corrpliunce wuh
the de silt '.contained in your cemmunicationv ...
of yisterday, I avail myself of the first mo
ment 1 havejbecn able to command, to detail
to you occurranct.s of the action vhich took,
pLce in front of Corunna, oii'the 1 6th instant
It will be in' your recolletlion, that 'about v
one in the afternoon pf that day, the- enerriy
who had in the morning receitd reinforce
nants, and who hadplaced some" guns iH
Iron; pf the right and Eft of his line, was ob
served to be moving troobs towards hisfiankj
and forming various columns of attack at that
extremity, of the strong and commanding
poSTjpn which, on the. morning of the 1 5 tb .
he had 'taken in our immediate front. Thi
indication of -his intention was immediately
succeeded by the rapid and determined attack
which made upon your divisron, which oc
cupied the right of on: position. The event
which occurred during that period of the ac-
tion vou are" fully' acquainted with. The firstf--n
r effort of the enemy was met by the comtnan-
der of.the forces, apd by yoursell, at ti:e
head of the 42d regiment, atxl .the brigada-
imdcr major general rtV William Bentinc'.:
Tb'e village on ycur rih became an objecft
of obstinate contest. I lament to say, thac
soon alter ,th? severe wound which tltprivejcl
teCorjmihe.rifi
ously been encamped, 3000 Ehglish muskets;
Magazines' also' were seized, containing a
great quantity of ammunition and other ef
X.'CtSji AStlong'tig to the hostile army. great
number of wonnfcl were picked up in the
subuibs. The opinion of the inhabitants" on
ifrespot, an-.l deserters is, thdt the number
of wounded in the b.il'tle. exceeds 2.3O'0nten.
' Thus has terminated the English espedi
tion, whjrh was sent into Spain. After hav
ing fermgiued the war in this unhappy coum
iry, th'j Efiglish have- abandoned "Tt. They.
Bad disernlwrtedijooom 6030 hor
ses. : We have taken (VomthtMn, according-,
to calculation, 6. iOOmen, exclusive of the
sick. They have re-embarked very little basr"
gage, verv little ammunition, and very few
horses. 1 We have counted 5000, killed fciid
Moote, v ho had mst d.rectetl the most amo
dispositions, fell by a cahnon shot;. The
troops, thourh npt unacquainted with the. -irreparable
loss they had sustained, were nott
dismayed, but by the most determined brave
ry not only i epelltd every attempt of the ene-
f my to gain -Aground, but actualty forced r im
to "iiclixei I allhouglr-ric pad brongnt up tiesn
troops in support of4hM; originally engaged.
Tfie enemy, -finding himself Liled In eierjC
ajtempt to force the right of the poditi.-ri
endeavored by numbers to turn ii. A judici ous
& wett timtd movement, w'nich was made
by major gen, Paget wi'h the reserve, winch .
rorns had moved out-of iti 'cantonment, t
up'iorttnev right oLtlie army, by a vigorous'
attack defeated tlusintehiion. Th 5-ajrjr
(See iatfQ$e,J