vessel with dispatches destined for the Unit- arms, or munitions of war, or articles of aforesaid, from a citizen or citizens of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. OFFICIAL PAPERS. and Castella. port or place of the United States, unless French account of the Battles of Salamanca forced by a stress of weather, or for necessary repairs; and any ship or vessel belonging to a citizen or citizens, subject or subjects of any state or kingdom in amity with the United States aforesaid, except such ships and vessels as are above excepted, which shall, from and after the first day of November next, enter or attempt to enter, any port or place aforesaid, the same, with her cargo, shall be forfeited to the use of the United States.- -Sect. 5. And be it further enacted, That any British packet or BARCELONA, Aug. 1.-On the 27th of July, at three o'clock in the morning, an expedition, consisting of the brigades Lamarque, Devaux, and Clement, marched from this, and arrived in the evening at Martorell. Orders were then given to the troops to march all night, and to attack Monserrat at the break of day. Some musket shots discharged by the sentinels of the insurgent army apprized the enemy of our approach, and at day-light we found our enemy was disconcerted by so unexpected an attack, and consented to capitulate. By the capitulation, which was signed by the Adjutant Commandant Ordonneau, Chief of the Staff, and the English Colonel Green, the garrison were to be prisoners of war, and to be conducted to Barcelona. -The loss of the enemy has been very considerable, as well at the attack of Casa Masana as at that of the fort of Dimas, of Colbato, and Menistrol. These actions will have the most fortunate results; they have been extremely brilliant for all the troops, which clambered up, under the enemy's fire, those rocks which appeared to be inaccessible. The 29th and 30th were employed in destroying and blowing up the fort, the works of the enenly, and a part of the Convent. Thus the insurgents, who had prepared one of the finest religious edifices in christendom, by transforming it into a fortress, and in making it an arsenal and a depot for all articles necessary for war, are alone to blame for the destruction of this celebrated monument, the object of the ancient veneration of the people.We have brought to Barcelona the English Colonel Green, one Lieutenant-Colonel, 15 officers, and 260 non-commissioned officers and privates of the Anglo-Catalan force, which were formed, paid, and commanded by the English. This was the basis of that corps on which the authors of the Catalonian insurrection founded their great selves in front of the entrenched position of Casa Masana, where the corps of Manso was drawn up in order of battle. Dispositions were instantly made to carry the entrenchments. The enemy was overthrown and pursued to the gates of Manresa. Our troops then moved rapidly upon the convent, the approaches to which had been recently strengthened with works. The road is commanded by a fort which the English had caused to be constructed at the hermitage of St. Dimas, higher up than the convent, in a position almost inaccessible. Our troops passed under the fort, notwithstanding the multitude of balls, stones, and fragments of rocks which the Anglo-Catalan regiment stationed there showered down upon them. M. Lafaille, Chief of the battalion of Engineers, entered the convent with the foremost of the troops; but they were continually under the fire and the projectiles from the fort of St. Dimas. The column of the Chief of Battalion Sarrere, advancing by Colbato, drove away every enemy that opposed it, and arrived on one of the points of the mountain in front of the fort, from which it greatly annoyed the garrison by a well-supported fire of musketry.The Adjutant Commandant, Ordonneau, and M. Lafaille, Chief of the battalion of Engineers, with a detachment of the Voltigeurs of the 111th regiment of the line, clambered up to the gate of the fort, by steps cut nearly perpendicularly in the rock, and in which a few re-est hopes. solute men would have easily arrested the progress of the strongest columns. The enemy called in their outer posts, and destroyed the bridge which led to the fort across a precipice. Major Chevalier, of the 11th of the line, then advanced upon the summits of the rocks situated in front of the fort, and summoned the English Commander to surrender; but received an answer in the negative. General Clement then directed Lafaille, Commandant of Engineers, to reconnoitre the position in which our two pieces of mountain cannon would be placed with advantage. These guns had been brought by 150 men of the third light regiment, of the 11th and 115th, and arrived at the position at two in the morning on the 29th. The remainder of the night was employed in the construction of batte-naced by a small body of troops. His Exries, which began to play at day-break. They were placed within less than musketshot from the fort. Our voltigeurs, stationed in the highest points of the rocks, kept up a continual fire on the works, and favoured the action of the artillery. The VALENCIA, July 20.-For a considerable time past, a combined attack upon the army of Arragon, and a descent upon the coasts either of Catalonia or Valencia, has been contemplated at Majorca and Alicant. On the 10th, the Marshal Duke d'Albufera had an interview at Reus with the Commander in Chief Decaen. The junction of their. columns upon the coast drove Lacy off, and frustrated the expedition from Majorca. A part of the fleet was separated from the whole. On his return to Valencia, on the 12th, the Marshal found Villacampa at the gates of Lina, with 1,000 men; while Passecour, at the head of 1,500, was employed in the attack of Cossentes and Reguena; and Ouda and Segorba were me cellency ordered General La Fosse to march with the 121st, the 8th Neapolitan, and some cuirassiers; at the head of these he routed the enemy. In the mean time the army of Murcia, which had effected a junction, and had been reinforced, seemed dis posed to attack in front of Xucar. On the 21st, an English fleet of ten sail, of which four were ships of the line and four frigates, and the remainder sloops and transports, appeared before Valencia, and having the wind in their favour, passed rapidly on from Denia to Cullera, between the mouths of the Xucar and the Albufera, seeming as if they were just about to land, and keeping up a fire on the forts, which in return fired on them. The Marshal Duke of Albufera immediately adapted measures for their repulse. He recalled Gen. La Fosse from Reguena, and the 121st from Segorba. The 14th proceeded with all possible speed from Aleira to Cullera; and the 4th hussars, the artillery, and a part of the 1st light battalion, and the 114th, made a forced march in the night to the part of the coast which had been menaced.-Towards the evening, by good luck, quite unexpected, the wind changed suddenly, and blew with such violence from the east, that the fleet, after having passed the night in vain efforts, was obliged to luff and bear away on the 22d. In the course of the night the Commander in Chief visited the coast, and made himself the various dispo-ed the guns, are attacked at the same onset, sitions of the troops.- -At the same time General Harispe, at the head of the 2d division, had advanced before Alcoy, in presence of the army of Murcia; the 1st brigade to Castella, under the orders of General Delort, and the second to Ibi, commanded by Colonel Mesilop. General Harispe, foreseeing the attack, had chosen a central position, where the troops were to rendezvous and receive it. From the former evening the movements of the enemy were known, and the necessary arrangements made. On the 21st, by day-break, the Commander in Chief, Joseph O'Donnel, at the head of four columns, attacked Delort, who, pursuant to his instructions, retired en echellon, and called in upon the point fixed upon the camps of Biar and Oiull. No sooner was the first shot fired than Colonel Mesilop, whose troops were ready, and under arms, marched to join General Delort, when he was himself attacked by a corps of 6,000 men, commanded by the English General Roche, who had come by Xixona. With the assistance of the guns in the little fort of Ibi, with the voltigeurs of the 44th, and a handful of cuirassiers, he stops the progress of the enemy as they are passing a ravine, and repulses them; but faithful to his orders, he leaves some companies to observe the motions of the enemy with the garrison of the fort, and proceeds immediately to the field of battle, while General Harispe is calling in, from Alcoy, the reserve of the artillery and the cuirassiers, and the flank companies of the 116th.- -Gen, O'Donnel had made a brisk attack. General Delort, who had taken up an advantageous position, kept up a heavy and severe fire with his artillery. The 24th dragoons, when they arrived on the right, hung upon the left wing of the enemy, who were much harassed in consequence, and brought up two field-pieces against the cavalry as they marched. In the mean time, Colonel Mesilop having arrived on the left, General Delort did not think proper to delay any longer. The troops expected this time with confidence, and on the signal being given, as fiery as they had before been cool, they rushed upon the enemy on all sides, the cavalry and artillery in a trot, and the infantry making a running charge. Colonel Bubessi leads the dragoons straight forward against the battery which was playing on them with grape. It is carried in an instant, the artillerymen are put to the sword, a brigade of infantry, who support broken, and made prisoners. The infantry and the cuirassiers at the same time make their way into Castella, carrying every thing before them. They complete the rout of the enemy's entire line, which flies on all sides. The streets of Castella are strewed with dead bodies, and Reramberger, the commandant of a battalion, compels 400 men, who have taken refuge in the citadel, to lay down their arms.After this brilliant success, Colonel Mesilop hastily returns to Ibi with his column. The enemy was in the village, he attacks and overthrows him, and drives him beyond the ravine, leaving behind him a great number of killed and prisoners; then assembling his forces, he pursues him from position to position across the rocks, till the reserve of the 116th appearing upon the mountains in his rear, complete his defeat. The loss of the enemy in this affair is supposed to be as much as 3,600 in killed, wounded, and prisoners. The Brigadier General Laban, and several officers of rank, are among the killed; among the prisoners are four Colonels, five Lieutenant-Colonels, 125 officers of minor rank. We have not lost more than 233 killed and wounded. Colonel Mesilop, whose conduct during the whole action was highly praisewor thy, had his horse killed under him. Generals, officers, and soldiers, all performed to the right, and made for Ochmiana. General Baron Pajol arrived at that place with his light cavalry at the moment when Doctorow's advanced vanguard entered it. General Pajol charged. The enemy was sabred and overthrown in the town; he lost 60 men killed and 18 prisoners. Gen. Pajol had five men killed and some wounded. This charge was made by the 9th regiment of Polish lancers.- Gen. Doctorow, seeing his route intercepted, fell back upon Olchanoni. Marshal the Prince of Eckmuhl, with a division of infantry, the Cuirassiers of the division of Count de Valence, and the second regiment of light cavalry of the guard, moved upon Ochmiana, in order to support General Pajol.- -The corps of Doctorow, thus cut off and driven towards the South, continued to prosecute the movement on the right by forced marches, with the sacrifice of its baggage. Upon Smoroghoni, Danowchoff, and Robouilncki, whence he made for the Dwina. This movement had been foreseen. Gen. Nansouty, with a division of Cuirassiers, the division of Light Cavalry of Count Bruyere, and Gount Moraand's division of infantry advanced to Mikailitchki, with a view to cut off this corps. He arrived on the 3d at Swin, at the time when it passed that place, and pushed it briskly. He took a large number of waggons, and obliged the enemy to abandon some hundreds of baggage-carts. -The uncertainty, the anxiety, the marches, and countermarches which these troops had endured, the fatigues which they had undergone, must have made them suffer severely.Torrents of rain fell during thirty-six hours, without intermission. The weather has suddenly changed from extreme heat to very severe cold. Several thousand of horses have perished by the effects of this sudden transition. Convoys of artillery have been stopped by the mud.- -This terrible storm, which has fatigued both men and beasts, has unavoidably retarded our march; and the corps of Doctorow, which successively fell in with the columns of General Borde Soult, of General Pajol, and General Nansouty, has narrowly escaped destruction.Prince Bagration, with the 5th corps stationed more in the rear, marches towards the Dwina. He set out on the 30th of June from Wolkowitsk to Minsk.The King of Westphalia entered Grodno the same day. The division Dombrowski passed it first. The Hetman Platow was still at Grodno with his Cossacks. When charged by the light cavalry of Prince Poniatowski, the Gossacks were dispersed in every direction. Twenty were killed and 60 made prisoners.At Grodno were found materials for 100,000 rations of bread and some remains of inagazines.It had been foreseen, that Bagration would have fallen back upon the Dwina, by drawing as near as possible to Dunabourg; and the General of Division, Count Grouchy, had been sent to Bogdanow. He was on the 3d at Trabmi. Marshal the Prince of Echmuhl, reinforced by two divisions, was on the 4th at Wichnew. If the Prince Poniatowski had vigorously pressed the rear-guard of Bagration, that corps would have been endangered. the enemy's corps are in a state of the greatest uncertainty. The Hetman Platow was still ignorant on the 30th of June, that Wilna had been two days in the possession of the French. He took the direction towards that city, as far as Lida, at which place he changed his route, and moved towards the South.The sun during the whole of the 4th re-established the roads. Every thing is now organizing at Wilna. The suburbs have suffered by the vast crowds of people that rushed into them during the continuance of the tempest. There was a Russian apparatus there for 60,000 rations. Another has been esta blished for an equal number of rations. Magazines are forming. The head of the convoys arrives at Kowno by the Niemen. Twenty thousand quintals of flour, and a million rations of biscuit, have just arrived here from Dantzic. All Sixth Bulletin of the Grand French Army. The King of Naples continues to follow the enemy's rear-guard. On the 5th he met the enemy's cavalry in a position upon the Dwina. He caused it to be charged by the brigade of light cavalry, commanded by General Baron Subervie. The Prussian regiments, the Wirtembergers and Poles, which form a part of this brigade, charged giew: perceiving that he was anticipated, he sent orders to burn the magazines; but the Prince of Eckmuhl did not give time for effecting these orders.—The King of Westphalia was on the 9th at Nowogrodek; General Regnier at Konina: magazines, baggage waggons, quantities of medicines, and straggling parties, fall into our hands every instant. The Russian divisions are straying in these countries without any previously arranged route, pursued on every side, losing their baggage, burning their magazines, destroying their artillery, and leaving their places without defence.General Baron Colbert took, at Vileika, a magazine of 300 quintals of flour, a hundred thousand rations of bread, &c. He found also at Vileika a chest containing 200,000 francs, in copper money. with the greatest intrepidity. They over- | 8th. He found there considerable magaturned a line of Russian dragoons and hus-zines of flour, hay, clothing, &c. Bagrasars, and took 200 prisoners, with their tion had already arrived at Novoi-Sworhorses. When they arrived on the other side of the Dwina, they broke down the bridges, and showed a disposition to defend the passage of the river. General Count Montbrun then brought up his five batteries of light artillery, which, during several hours, carried destruction into the ranks of the enemy. The loss of the Russians has been considerable. General Count Sebastiani arrived on the same day at Vidzoni, whence the Emperor of Russia had departed on the preceding evening. -Our advanced guard is upon the Dwina.-General Count Nansouty was, on the 5th of July, at Postavoni. In order to pass the Dziana, he proceeded six miles farther on the right of the King of Naples. The General of brigade, Roussel, with the 9th regiment of Polish light cavalry, and the 2d regiment of Prussian hussars, passed the river, overthrew six Russian squadrons, sabred a great number, and took 45 prisoners, with several officers. General Nansouty praises the conduct of General Roussel, and mentions, with commendation, Lieutenant Borke, of the Prussian hussars, the Sub-Officer Kranse, and the hussar, Lutze. His Majesty has granted the insignia of the Legion of Honour to General Roussel, and to the Officers and Sub-officers above-named.—General Nansouty took 130 Russian mounted hussars and dragoons prisoners.On the 3d of July the communication was opened between Grodno and Wilna by Lida. The Hetman Platoff, with 6,000 Cossacks, when driven out of Grodno, moved towards Lida, and found there the French posts. He descended to Ivie on the 5th.- General Count Grouchy occupied Witchnew, Traboni, and Soubotnicky. General Baron Pagol was at Perchia; General Baron Bade Soult was at Blackchtoni; Marshal the Prince of Eckmuhl was in advance of Bobrowitzki, pushing heads of columns in every direction.- -Platoff retreated precipitately on the 6th, to Nikolaew.- -Prince Bagration having set out in the beginning of July from Wolkowisk on his route for Wilna, was intercepted in his march. He turned back with a view to reach Minsk; anticipated there by the Prince of Eckmuhl, he altered his direction, gave up his intention of proceeding towards the Dwina, and moved towards the Boristhene, by Bobruisk, across the marshes of Beresina.- -Marshal the Prince of Eckmuhl entered Minsk on the -All these advantages have scarcely cost the French army a man. Since the opening of the campaign there have been but about thirty killed in all the corps, about 100 wounded, and ten prisoners; whilst we have already taken from 2,000 to 2,500 Russian prisoners. The Prince of Schwartzenberg passed the Bug at Droghitschin, pursued the enemy in different directions, and made himself master of many baggage carts. The Prince of Schwartzenberg praises the reception he has met with from the inhabitants, and the spirit of patriotism which animates these countries.Thus, ten days after opening the campaign, our advanced posts are upon the Dwina. Almost the whole of Lithuania, containing four millions of inhabitants, has been conquered. The operations of the war commenced at the passage of the Vistula. The projects of the Emperor were from that time plainly unfolded, and he had no time to lose in carrying them into execution. Thus, the army has been making forced marches from the period of passing that river, in order to advance by means of manoeuvres upon the Dwina, for the distance between the Vistula and the Dwina is greater than that between the Dwina and Mosiere or Petersburg. The Russians appear to be concentrating themselves upon Dunaburg: they give out that it is their intention to wait for us and to give us battle before we enter their ancient provinces, after having abandoned Poland without a contest; as if they were constrained by justice, and had wished to restore a country badly acquired, is as much |