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APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 



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Dispatchfrom the General in Chief 

 of the Army qfCafalonia, to the 

 Minister at War, ^Ith November, 

 1808. 



"OST excellent Seignor — Ac- 

 cording to the intention, of 

 which I apprized your excellency in 

 my dispatch of the 29th ult. the 

 general attack took place yesterday 

 on all the posts occupied by the 

 enemy without the limits of Barce- 

 lona, from all of which he was im- 

 mediately dislodged, and compelled 

 to take refuge under the guns of 

 the fortress, with the exception of 

 the advantageous position of St. Pe- 

 dro Martin, which is the most com- 

 manding. The communication with 

 this post being completely cut off, 

 in consequence of our line being 

 advanced to Hospitalet, Esplugas, 

 Sarria, Gracia, and Horta, as your 

 excellency will perceive from the 

 plan which I have the honour to 

 send you, I, upon this ground, sum- 

 moned the commandant to surren- 

 der. He refused compliance, and I 

 immediately gave orders for an at- 

 tack ; but at half past 12 o'clock 

 this day he surrendered himself and 

 bis garrison prisooers of war, con- 

 listing of 104 privates and two offi- 

 cers. We found in the place four 

 ♦-pounders and one 2-pcninder, 

 with magazines of ammunition and 

 Vol. LI. 



stores. At the same time a firing 

 was commenced from the right and 

 center of our line, and the enemy 

 were repulsed as far as the walls of 

 Barcelona, from which it will not 

 now be an easy task for them to ad- 

 vance again. I now (four in the 

 afternoon) forward this to your ex- 

 cellency in the mean time by a spe- 

 cial messenger, for the satisfaction 

 of his majesty, until, by receiving 

 the statements of the generals and 

 commanders of columns, I shall be 

 enabled to transmit to your excel- 

 lence the details of the operations 

 of these two days. Our line occu- 

 pies the above-mentioned posts, and 

 I have fixed the head-quarters of 

 the army in this town, which is 

 about a league's distance from it, 

 &c. &c. 



Juan Miguel de Vives. 



Proclamation of Sir David Bairdf 



dated Astorga, 1st December, 



1808. 



The events that have occurred 

 in Biscay, and in the neighbour- 

 hood of the Ebro, have made 

 it indispensably necessary that the 

 British troops should be concen- 

 trated, in order more effectually to 

 assist and support the Spanish nation 

 in the heroic exertions she is apply- 



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