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EXTRACT OF-A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER IN SPAIN, TO HIS FRIEND IN GLASGOW. Camp, Pass lies, Aug. 15. "1 write you this from the top of a moun- tain in the Pyrenees, -,It tile front of the Pass of Roncesvalles, near St. Jean Pied de Port, in France. We expect an attack trom the enemy every day, but are better preprellor them iu the Passes than we were the last time. As the enemy advanced we fell back, and took up a position near Pamplona, as deserihed in Lord Wellington's dispatches. When the enemy arrived they attacked some Portuguese troops posted on a hill, who stood against them the whole day, and drove them three times down the hill at the point of the bay onet. <l On the 28ih, we were ordered farther to the lef t, to support some Portuguese regimcllls who had baen sharply allarkecl; and in going over a high hill we were exposed to a sharp fire of shot and qliells, froii, the only battery 1 believe the French had When we came to the lop of the nill, what a sight presented itself t,,) tis! The Portuguese were retreating aud the enemy advancing furiously. At that moment, Lord Wellington, who was a lit!le in our rear, and had sent orders for us to pre- pare to charge, said, laughing, to Marshal Beresford,' See Beresford, your Portuguese are running awayThe fusileer brigade, who were formed before us, immediately charged the enemy, and drove tile", (towti the hill and aud through a wood, much faster than they came up. Behind, them was their principal force on the face of an immense high hill, directly in front of us; from thence they con- tinued to sviid (I'll I,) vkiriiiish with (is it, the wood; aud our battalion companies were forced to "o and skirmish, to whicli they had not been accustomed, by winch we lost a great number of men. My company was the last rellcved at Hight. », <p])C 29th was spçnllY the armies in bury. I I in"- the dead, in doing which both English and French mixed with each other and shook hands and eat and drank together. At. Dud. night, however, they attempted to surprize us, and, with a horrid yell, they attacked the place they had been driven from by the fusi- leers. Our men were on the alert, and in- stantly returned the fire, and in a few minutes all was quiet. During the cessation on the 29th, his Lordship ordered a brigade of Ger- man artillery on the hill, where we were, on our right, and another in a valley which was on the left. As soon as day broke on the 30th, our artillery opened on their columns on the face of the hill, which astonished them, and as every shot went right among them, and we could see the shells breaking over them, and leaving large btauks in their columns, and hear the cries of the wounded. Their right flank was soon turned, and the whole retired soon afterwards, but we kept possession of the roads-so the poor French were obliged to march over the hills. We followed them close till the evening, accompanied by Lord Wellington, who saw" the van of the fifly- i seventh attack the enemy, and drive them from the top of a hill, on which they had taken possession of some fortified houses; His Lordship highly approved of their conduct, and said that he could not have believed that so few men coulddislodge such a number from that plnce. We lay that night iu a wheat field, almost among the French; and on the 31st, in the evening, his Lordship again had an opportunity of noticing the bravery of our men, for we were ordered to attack and charge part of the French baggage, with the baggage-guard, which had halted to refresh 1111 el themselves at the town of Elisando. Our re- giment alone, with the light companies, charged them, although three times onr nuin her, and drove them out of the town like sheep, although the town was walled, aud had loop-holes. His Lordship, who wasobserving us from a hill, when he saw the French run, got up, clapped his hands, and huzzaed.— There was a great deal of plunder taken, and a considerable number of prisoners, among whom, as I went along, I observed two French officers, as I thought, a young one who was wounded, and a middle-aged man, unhurt, with his arm round the young one's neck, and comforting him the best way he could.- The soldicrs observed that they must bo bro- thers; but it turned out that they were hus- band and wife—the wotrian dressed in meu's clothes. There is a talk uow in camp that the French have sent word to General Hill that the preliminaries of peace are signed."

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