Uoj AT^IS'TJAL REGISTER, 1813. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Jt'ar in the Peninsula. — Longa's Success at Sedano. — Lord WelUngloHS 

 Visit to Cadiz and Lisbon. — French attack at Bcjar repulsed. — Posi- 

 tion (yf their Armies. — Sir J. Murray'' s Advance to Cast ella.— Attack 

 of Suchet repulsed. — Castro taken. — Lord Wellington begins his 

 vtarch.— Advance to Burgos, and thence to I'ittoria.— Battle of Vit- 

 loria.— Castro recovered — Pamplona invested, and Tolosa taken. — 

 Clausel pursued to Saragassa — Sir J. Murray's Lzvestmcnt (if Tarra- 

 gona, and precipitate Retreat. — French driven from the Vall'y of 

 Bastan. — Mijias pursuit of General Paris. — Valencia evacuated by 

 the French. — Soult's General attack on the Allied Posts on the Borders. 

 -—Failure of an attack on St. Sebastian. — Saragassa surrenders to Mina. 

 — Lord W. Bentinck obliged to retreat from Tarragona. — St. Sebas' 

 tian taken by Storm. — The enemy's attempt to relieve it, repulsed. — 

 Castle (f St. Sebastian taken. — Lord Bentinck'' s Advance driven from 

 the Pass of Ordal. — Lord Wellington enters France, — Pamplona sur- 

 renders. — French Positions before St. Jean de Luz forced . — Actions 

 on passing the Nive.— -Proceedings of the Cortes. — Remonstrances of 

 the Clergy concerning the Edict abolishing the Inquisition. — The Re- 

 gency dismissed, and a Provisional Regency Installed. — Dispute with 

 the Pope's Nuncio, tvho is expelled the Kingdom. — Lord WeiUngtons 

 Letter to the Spanish Secretary at War. — The Extraordinary Cortes 

 resigns. — Speech of its President.— Attempt to remove the Government 

 to Madrid defeated. — Ordinary Cortes assembled. 



THE narrative of the war in by Longa, and entirely routed, 

 the Peninsula, during the last with the loss of 700 killed, includ- 

 year, terminated with the return ing the general and several other 

 of the army under the marquis of officers, and nearly 500 prisoners, 

 Wellington, at the close of No- two pieces of cannon, all their 

 vember, to its quarters of Frey- baggage, provisions, and plunder, 

 nada on the frontier of Portugal, Sixty of the inhabitants of Sedano, 

 whilst the enemy were marching destined to be taken as hostages to 

 towards the Douro. On Nov. 30th, Burgos, were also liberated. In 

 the celebrated partisan Longa made December, the French main army 

 a report to his general, Mendiza- under Drouet was in cantonments 

 bal, of a successful action against a in the neighbourhood of Salaman- 

 body of men under the French ge- ca, and Valladolid, and they Ge- 

 neral Fremant, who were posted cupied various posts on the line of 

 in the valley and town of Sedano, the Tagus. King Joseph was at 

 ,near Bur_gos. They were surprised Madrid, and Soult had his head- 



