-800.] 
Admiral Massaredo has arrivedat Ferrol, and 
has begun torevive the labours Of that impor- 
tant arsenal. , 
Peace ig restored in all the provinces under 
che command of the Dake of Istria, which lie 
between the Pyrenees, the sea, Portugal, and 
the chain of mountains which cover Madrid. 
Security follows days of disorder and desola- 
tion. 
The Duke of Be elluno has marched to Ba- 
dajoz 3 he has restored to peace and dissrmed 
the whole of Lower Estraadura, 
Saragossa has surrendered; the calamities 
which have befallen this unhappy town, are a 
tertible example to the people. ‘The peace 
which has been restored in Saragossa extends 
to the whole of Arragon . and the two armies 
which were around the town haye been set at 
Hberty. Saragossa was the centre of the insur- 
rection of Spain; it was in this town that the 
party was formed which wished to call ina 
Prince of the House of Austria to reign onthe 
Leech The individuals of this party had 
partly inherited these actions which are jrre- 
vocably destroyed, from theirancestors, during 
the War of the Succession, 
The circumvention of Saragossa was eonsi- 
dered as inexpedient; and afree communication 
was left open, in order, that the insurgents 
might be informed o/ the defeat of the English 
and their infamous fight-out of Spain. It was 
on the 16th of January that the English were 
driven into the sea at Corunna, and it was on 
the 26th that the operations before Saragossa 
were seriously begun. The Duke of Monte- 
belio arrived there on the 20th, in order to as- 
sume the command of the seige. As soon as 
he was assured that the intelligence which was 
brought into the town had no effect, and that 
a few Monks governed the minds of the peo- 
ple, he resolved to put an end to these indul- 
gences 3 fifty thousand peasants were collected 
on the Jeft bank of the Ebro: at Purdiguera 
the Duke of Treviso attacked them with three 
regiments 3 and notwithstanding the fine posi- 
tion they possessed, the 64th regiment routed 
them, and threwthem intodisorder, The 10th 
regiment of hussars was on the plain to receive 
‘them, and a great number remained upon the ~ 
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field of battle. Nine pieces of cannon, and 
several standards, were the trophies of this 
victory. 
At the sametime, the Duke of Montebelio 
had sent the Adjutant Commander Gusquet to 
Zuera, in order to disperse an assemblage of 
jusurgents; this Officer attacked four thousand 
of them with three battalions, overthrew them, 
and took four pieces of cannon, with their car- 
riages and horses. General Vattier was at the 
“same time sent with 300 infantry, and 200 ca- 
valry, towards Valencia. He met 5000 insur- 
gents at Alcanitz compelled them, even in the 
town, to throw down theirarms in their flight: 
he killed 600 of them,.and seized magazines, 
Sgt cree. andarms : among the last were 100 
nglish muskets. These operations took place 
between the 20th and 26th of January. © 
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On the 26th the town was seriously attaclr. 
ed, and the bstteries were unmasked, and at 
noon on the 27rh the breach was practicable’ im 
several places 5 the troops’ were lodged in the 
monastry of Sansin-Gracia.. The division of 
Grandjean entered some thirty houses. Calw- 
nel Caloiscki, and the soldiers of the Weixel, 
distinguished themseives. At the same me- 
ment, the General of Division Moxiat, in an 
attack upon the left wing, mrade himself ays 
terof the whole fore-ground ef the enemy’s de- 
fence. Captain Guéttemar, at the head of the 
pioneers, and 36 gtensdiers of the 44:h reeie 
ment, hid, with 4 rare intrepidity, ascended 
the breach. M. Babiest, an officér of the 
Voitiy euts of the Weixei,a ye ung nah, $e~ 
veliteen years of age, atid covered with seven 
wounds, was the first who appeared upon the 
breach. The Chief of Battalion. Lejuhe; 
Aide-de-Camp to the Printe of Neufchatel, 
distinguished himself, and received two slight 
wounds. The Chief of Dactalioh, Haxo, ig 
also slightly wounded, and likewise distin~ 
guished himself. 
~ Onthe 30th, the monasteries of mae Monic 
que and the Greek Ausustincs were occupied, 
Sixty houses were sossessed by undermining. 
The minersof the i4th regiment distinguished 
themselves. 
On the ist of February, General Lacoste ree 
ceived a ball, and died in the field of honour. 
He was a neve and distinguished oficer, He 
has been lamented by the whole army, but 
more especially by the Emperor. Col. Regniat 
succeeded him in the commarid’of the engie 
“neers, and in the management’ of the siege. 
The enemy defended every house. Three at- 
tacks were made by mines, and every day seve- 
ral houses were blown up, and afforded the 
troops , an opportunity of - ‘stationing see iba 
in other houses. 
Thus we) proceeded to the Cosson (a great 
street im Saragossa), where wemade ourselves 
masters.of the Public Sthool and University. 
The enemy endeavoured to Oppose miners to 
Miners; but, less used to thissertof operation, 
their miners weretvery day discovered andsuf- 
focated. This mode of besieging renders its 
progress slow, but sure, and less destructive to 
the army. While three companies of miners, 
and eight companies of sappers carried of thts 
subterraneous war, the consequéncesof which 
were dreadful, the fire of the tewn was kept up 
by mortars. Ten days alter the attack had be- 
gun, the surrenderor the town was anticipated. 
‘The army had possessed itself of one-third of 
the houses, and fortified itself in therm. .The 
church which contained the image of Our Lady 
of Pilar, which by’so mony sniracies had pro- 
Tised te defend the town, was battered: down 
‘by bombs, and no longer inhabitable. 
The Duke of Montebello deemed it neces- 
sary to take’ possession of the left bank of the 
fiver, in order that his fire might reach the 
‘middle of the town. The general of division 
Gazan, made himself master of the bridge by 
@ sudden and impetuous attack, on the mora- 
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