Gazette Of The United States

On Tuesday arrived here the schooner Cleopatra, J. Williams, master, from Spain, and last from Corunna, in 9 days. By this vessel, we learn, that on May 1st, there had been an engagement between St. John de Luz and Bayonne, in which the Spanish forces had met with a severe repulse, and were driven back to St. John de Luz, which is on the frontiers; and in their retreat they were obstructed by a river, and not having a sufficient number of boats, they were forced to swim, and great numbers were drowned. The head quarters of the French army being at Bayonne, after the engagement the French troops retired to that place—their number in that garrison consists of a formidable army.