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for a few instants; but enthusiasm soon giving 
place to fear, the fighting ceased, and the inha- 
bitants submitted. This affair, which does 
the greatest honour tothe even » cost us the 
lees of thirty men. 
‘There were found in the place 148 pieces 
@f cannon of various caltbres, andagreat quan- 
tity of ammunition and stores of every kind. 
There was 2 train of 23 field pleces, which 
was on the point of being sent cf to Sian 
gona. There .were only, twenty-five vessels 
gn the harbour: three English ships of war 
which had been there, had the precaution to 
eause such as they wished to carry with them, 
to put to sea before they could be seized. 
The English merchandize at Malaga was put 
under sequestration. An inventory will be 
taken, and a report of the contents transmit- 
ted. “ 
The occupation of Malaga is, at this mo- 
ment, of great importance. It completes the 
submission of the province of Grenada, and 
completely cuts off that part of the country 
which is contiguous to Gibraltar and Cadiz. It 
is, therefore, probable, that it will influence 
the determination of the inhabitants of the 
fatter place. The eifect produced by this 
event is so much the greater, asthe next day 
the inhabitants of Velez de Malaga arressted 
the chiefs of this new insurrection, and deli- 
wered them over to the imperial army, with a 
request that they should be punished. 
Marshal the duke of Treviso has, reported 
from Los Santos on the road of Estramadura, 
that the troops of the 5th corps had, on the 
Gh, established themselves there and at 
Zafia, from which they pushed reconnoitring 
parties in the direction of Badajoz and Merida. 
He continued to collect artillery, ammuni- 
. tion, and provisions, left behind by the insur 
gents; he also found several posts abandoned, 
which the insurgents hadstrongly entrenched, 
Fo-morrow the 5th corps will be on the Gua- 
diana, where it will obtain information of the 
movement of the 2d corps, and of what is 
passing ‘in the valleyof the Tagus. 
I have the honour to request that your se- 
xene highness will be pleased to lay my report 
before his majesty the emperor and king, and 
to accept the homage of my respect. 
The Marsha! the Duke of DatMaTia. 
Sewille, Feb. 10, 1810. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
In consequence of an Enquiry insti- 
tuted in the House of Commons tv en- 
quire into the origin and failure of tie 
late expedition to Walcheren, the fol- 
lowing curious document is diccoversn 
to Eve been laid before the king by 
the earl of Chatham: 
In submitting to your Majesty a statement 
of my proceedings ia the execution of the 
service your Majesty was graciously pleased 
to coafide to, me, aud of the events which 
State of Pubhe Affairs in March. 
[April 1 
occurred in the course of it, it is not my 
intention to trouble your Majesty with auy, 
further details of the earlier parts of our ope- 
rations, which, having terminated in the 
spee dy redaction of Walcheren by your Ma- 
jesty’s troops, and the occupation OF the ad- 
yacent islands; and of the important> post of 
Batz, received, at the time, your Majesty’s 
gracious approbation;. but to confine 
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myself principally in the narrative, whichlam 
anxious to be permitted to bring under your 
Majesty’s Ss view, to the cons sion ofthe two 
following points, as most immediately applying 
to the conduct and fina! result of the expedi- 
tion to the Scheldt. First, The ground upon 
which, after the army was at lengih assem- 
led near Batz, a Janding in prosecution of 
the ulterior objects of the expedition was not 
deemed advisable. Secondly, Why that ar- 
my was not sooner there assembled in readi- 
ness to commence further operations, 
With Prayers to thé former proposition, lam 
inclined to think that it is so clear and evident, 
that no further operations could at that time, 
and in the then sickly state of the army, bave — 
been undertaken’ with any prospect of suce 
cess, that it would be unnecessarily trespacs~ 
ing on ee Majesty to enter into much more 
detail on this point than has been already 
brought before your Majesty in my dispat ch 
of the 29th of August 5 3 and the chief object 
of this paper will be directed to show to your. 
Majesty, that the second point, namely, 
Why the army was not brought up sooner to 
the destination from whence its ulterior Ope- 
rations were to commence, is purely a naval 
consideration, and that the delay did in no 
shape rest with me, or depend upon any ar= 
rangements in which the army was concerm- 
ed; every facility, on the contrary, having 
been afforded by their movements to the 
Speedy progress of the armament. 
In doing this, it will, L conceive, he ne- 
cessary, for the sike oF perspicuity, that I 
should take up the consideration of this busi- 
ness from its commencement. 
Your Majesty will permit me here to re- 
cal-to your recollection the change which 
took place in the original project formed for 
the attack of Antwerp, and of the French ~ 
fleet in the West Scheldt, in consequence of 
the opinions of the general and stati officers 
to whom this question was referred; and a 
combined operation of the army ail navy, 
tae whole, with the exception of the furce 
to be left for the reduction of Walcheren, 
to proceed up the West Scheldt, was accor 
dingly détermined On. 
Upon the practicability of such an \ pecans 
being at once carried into execution, which 
was, however, the ground-work of the exe 
pedition, and which ‘Slome, in the opinion of 
all persons’ consulted, seemed to afford any 
prospect of success, even in the most san- 
guine view of the subject in all other re- 
pects, 1 must confess, Lf entertained great 
coubis 
