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well, The garrison at Passages, 

 consisting cf 150 men, surrender- 

 ed on the 30th, to the troops under 

 colonel Longa. 



The enemy, on seeing some of 

 our ships off Deba, evacuated the 

 town and fort of Guetaria on the 

 1st instant, and the garrison went, 

 by sea, to St. Sebastian. This 

 place is blockaded by land, by a 

 detachment of Spanish troops. 



They have likewise evacuated 

 Castro, and the garrison have gone 

 by sea to Santona. 



In ray former reports, I have 

 made your lordship acquainted 

 with the progress of the army of 

 reserve of Andalusia, under general 

 the Conde de Abisbal, tojoin the 

 army, and he arrived at Burgos on 

 the 25th and 26th ultimo. 



When the enemy retired across 

 the Ebro, previous to the battle of 

 Vittoria, they left a garrison of 

 about 700 men in the castle of 

 Pancorbo, by which they com- 

 manded, and rendered it impossible 

 for us to use, the great communi- 

 cation from Vittoria to Burgos ; I 

 therefore, requested the conde del 

 Abisbal, on his march to Miranda, 

 to make himself master of the 

 town, and lower works, and to 

 blockade the place as closely as 

 he could. I have not received the 

 report of his first operations, but I 

 understand he carried the town 

 and lower fort by assault on the 

 28th ; and I have now the pleasure 

 to enclose his report of the final 

 success of his operation, and the 

 copy of the capitulation, by which 

 the garrison have surrendered. 



The decision and dispatch with 

 which this place has been subdued 

 are highly creditable to the conde 

 del Abisbal, and the officers and 

 troops under his command. 



I am concerned to inform your 

 lordship, that lieut.-general sir J. 

 Murray raised the siege of Tarra- 

 gona, I cannot say on what day, 

 and embarked his troops. A'great 

 proportion of the artillery and stores 

 were left in the batteries. It ap- 

 pears that marshal Suchet, with a 

 considerable body of troops, had 

 moved from Valencia by Tortosa, 

 and general Maurice Mathieu, 

 with another corps, from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Barcelona.for the pur- . 

 pose of impeding sir John Murray's 

 operations, which he did not think , 

 himself sufficiently strong to con- 

 tinue. I have not yet received \ 

 from sir J. Murray the detailed ac- , 

 count of these transactions; lieut.- 

 general lord William Bentinck, 

 however, who had joined and had 

 taken the command of the army 

 at the Col deBaIaguer,on the 17th, 

 had brought it back to Alicant, 

 where he arrived himself on the 

 23rd,. and was proceeding to carry 

 into execution my instructions. 



When marshal Suchet marched 

 into Catalonia.theDuke del Parque 

 had advanced, and established his 

 head-quarters at San Felipe de 

 Xativa, and his troops on the Xu- 

 car, where he still was on the 

 24th. 



Tolosa,June26, 1813. 

 My lord ; — It was so late on 

 the 23rd, when I received the order 

 to march by the Puerto St. Adrian 

 to Villa Franca, and the weather 

 and the road were so extremely bad 

 that but a small part of the column 

 could get over the mountain that 

 day; and it was not till late on the 

 Sith, that I could move from Se- 

 gura on Villa Franca, with major- 

 general Anson's brigade of light 

 dragoons, the light battalions of 



