Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

Defeat of Gen. Blake, & fall of Saguntum.
The Commercial Advertiser, of last evening, contains Translations from Paris papers of the 14th ult. of the operations of the Imperial armies in Spain. The first is a letter from Count Souchet, dated at the camp of Murviedro, Oct. 26, 1811. In this letter he particularizes the twenty days difficulties he had encountered in his operations before Saguntum in rendering the breach practicable, during which time Gen. Blake had been joined by 6000 troops under Gen. Mahy, and others, to the amount of 20,000 foot and 3000 Cavalry. On the 24th of Oct. he says, this corps took post upon the heights, supporting its right by the sea, flanked by an English frigate, and its left on the side of Liria. On the 25th at 8 o'clock, says Souchet, my batteries were attacked and obliged to give ground—soon after 6000 men attacked my right. I determined to break through the enemy's centre: but I had no sooner quitted a battery, when 1000 cavalry and 6000 infantry came to take my place. The battle soon become general, both sides alternately giving way, the enemy defending themselves from the tops & windows of the houses of Puzol: Field Marshal Coro, Governor of Valencia, and Almeira, from Cadiz, are wounded and made prisoners.

Souchet appears to give a very minute detail of the operations, and from his account of the bravery of the Spanish troops, it is likely that his own suffered much more than he states, having, as he says, only 128 killed including 20 officers, and 59 wounded, including 40 officers, among the latter General Paris. The loss of the enemy, says he, in killed, wounded and prisoners, is 6500 men--and "the result is, the victory of Saguntum puts in the power of the Emperor 4639 prisoners, of whom 230 are officers, 40 colonels or lt. colonels, 2 field marshals, 16 pieces of cannon, 8 caissons, 35 cartouch boxes, 4200 English muskets, and 4 pairs of colors."

Souchet, on the 27th, sends in to the Governor of Saguntum, his terms for the capitulation of the place, agreeably to the honors of war, which were accepted.