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The vanguard of the enemy commanded by Lec ehi, proceeding by the mountains, effected its junc . don with those of Figueiras, after sustaining several skirmishes, with the loss, as well of 111CII, as of the plunder, which they carried. GRENADA, MAY 1.5. On the oth, at six in the morning, the enemy re tired from Ciud.id Real, marching by the gate of Calatrava for Currion, Torrelha, and Darniel ; these corps belong to the army of SebaLtiani, which, as 'nay be seen, is retreating. SEVII.I.E, JUNE In Monzon we have destroyed 1300 of the enemy; all goes on exceilentle. About 10,000 F: ench have left Arragon, who, according to some Spanish Gazettes, have proceeded to France, but accordine; to more exact information they are marching for Old Castile, in order to support the French corps which have recently been defeated; consequently the operations of General Blake in Ar ragon are disembarrassed, and on this side, all being free, even to the frontiers of Catalonia, the - whole forces of this principality may act against the corps of - St. Cyr. The military operations of the peninsula are so combined, that the defeat of tl.e French in • Portugal and Gallicia will be immediately felt in Catalonia and Arragon. The Government Gazette of this day contains se . veral official dispatches, viz. One from General Lavalle, Governor of the fortress of Lerida, dated the 22d ult. announcing the favoura. ble.result of a series of engagements which had taken place on the shores of the Cinca, in Arrio„on The enemy, in possessiotiof the city of Barbastro, and other places in the neighbourhood, made grievous requisi tions on the towns not occupied by their troops. The town of Albelda having refused to furnish these re 'quisitions, the enemy sent a body of 1400 men to punish it for its disobedience. They were met; how ever, and defeated at Tamarite, by 700 united Arra gonese and Catalonians, and the French were driven back to Barbastro. The town of Manion, on this, rose upon about 200 Frenchmen, who had been left there, though themselves without arms, having in all only seven muskets : they killed twelve men, and the rest fled to Barbastro. To avenge this insult, the French then advanced up the left side of the Cinca, where a number of petty engagements took place, and 2000 Frenchmen left Barbastro to join the other forces, and marched up the right bank of the Cinca : . but the Ciaca was not fordable, and the enterprize re mained without effect. On the lfith, 17th, and 21st inst. other cegzgeneents took place ; in the course of which, we took 6 , )0 privates, and a number of officers, prisoners ; really more were killed in the field, or wounded and drowned in the Cinca. In fine, 1300 of the best French troops were annihilated. The 2000 men who were on the right bask of the Cinca, retreated to Barbastro ; which place they abandoned on the morning of the 21st, directing their steps, fell of shame and tear, to Pina. SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE P,IPERS. IVITDINA DE LAS TORRES, APRIL 30. - - - The Field-Marshal D. Pedro .A.gostinho de Echa vari, having on the 13th taken from the enemy 14,000 head of black cattle and sheep, and 300 mules, de atroying at the same time 800 of their troops, a body of the e nemy's cavalry, consisting of 2500, made their appearance on the 21st, with the intention of revenging their loss, and recovering the cattle if pos sible. Their forte exceeded ours by a fourth part, but we, nevertheless, repulsed them with considera ble lots. On the 26th, 1:,00 French cavalry made their ap pearance betwccn Riveio and Los Santos. We at tacked and drove them back with only 400, and took from them upwards of 2000 head of oxen, sheep, and horses, belonging to the Negrette. GERONA, MAY 1. two dispatches from Ceneral Blake, Captain General of Arragon, dated the 29th and 21st The first of these narrates the details et petty en gagements in Arragon and Catalonia ; the result of which has be' n, that the French, who were in posses sion of Alcanitz, a position by which they threatened to cut off the carnrounicatico between 'Fortosa and Mequinenza, and commanded the high road to Va lencia, were driven from ti.at place. General Blake, speaking of his entry into that place, says—" It was an afiectmg sight, thus to beheld the pathetic spec tacle of a populous town delivered from oppreision, std receiving their deliverers with the warmest ex pressions of gratitude. Could the Tyrant of the world have- witnessed these effusions of their hearts, , and the joyfnl shouts of Long live Fernando VII.— Lou live .5/lain ! Long !iv,: our Holy Religion, per- haps he would have begun to undeceive himself as to the possibility of forming a party, not of persons at tached to him, but even of those who patiently sub mit to him." General Laval has arrived at Hijar, v. here he has cantoned his troops, GOO of which have evacuated Caspe, and i - j 0 Calanda. The second dispatch relates merely a 'successful eperation in burning the flying bridge erected by the 'trench over the Ebro, at Alborque. The guard, cc.r.sisting of 30 men and 10 pontoniers, were all killed or taken. , Alio a dispatch from the General of the army of Casoleita, (Venegas) announcing advantages gained 11 the neighbourb ,, od of Alcubilias. 3.—An Extraordinary Gazette has this day been publiihed by the Government, containing the following oiTicial dispatch from the Captain-General of Arragon, dated Alcaniz, May 21:— " l's.lo3t Excellent Sir—The en:my, reinforced by almost the whole garrisonof Saragossa, and by troops whi.:.:l he had collected from different points beyond ;he Ebro, advan,:ed to attack me yes- tertlay it: r\y putt:ion before te.... ,1;:y. (3:lleral Suchet, who has succee,led 3 sign:, expecting, ro doubt, to signaiiae the commence /ne :e. of his convwnd, by some gre.Lt exploit, proposed to hirAself no less than the entire dt:structiosrof the gro l'lrg army which his : 1% lajesty has been phased to put under nly care, :ntl to cast. t hi s be came trorn Sarag m N :,sSa to cu - natal this exdition in person, . having ar,soci:::::d tohimielf W4.ttier and ot4 tr G enerals. Gene ral sucht:, i t appears, had ate idea tithe firm and valiant character O f the Spaniih troops, and ha., to his cost, le arnt to know them. Neither the brIA ftre 6: his artillery, nor C.c. f.:ipt•riori t y of his Ca %airy, which was between twice and three tim es t h e number of Ours, nor the repetition of four attacks, exectit,,l with the utmost dour, by the select troops of hi s iithintry, cant..l the brave Spa- The French constantly met with an wereobsti driven Lack i h se.t._ extreme Ice t, and pursued ; :, c , y . ield afoot. r;ite resistenca . a ,g a co nvinced of the difficulties of their. prolecr, they till, at .e .. 0 '• a S retycl c kness of the night to escape . I cannot Wait tol) .y the a t . _ k _ Alat i ci or assign the merit of eallintLviduo, u n it 1 cr-Vatt 1 .." r` May not delay sendissg istelligenee lie agreeable; but 1 brie es preme pleasure' in assuring your Excellency, that I never saw the French attack with so grrat vigour -as on this 'omissions or beheld them so valiantly opposed." [The report then especially attfibutes the victory fo Field Mar. 0221 D. Juan Carlos Areizsga, and Brigadier-General Loigorri who, by an annexed Decree of the Central loons, are both pro moted.] • .- PRIVATE LETTER.-LISBON, JUNE 6. The Princess Elizabeth packet arrived here yester day with two mails. A King's cutter is to sail this eve ning. The British army is moving from Coimbra to Abrantes, where the head-quarters are to be esta blished. It is said that General Wellesley means to go to Madrid. The 30th Regiment sailed for Gi braltar on Saturday last; they are succeeded heat by the 40th. FROM THE DUTCH PAPERS. : FROM THE PRAGUE, JUNE 15. According to official intelligence, just received from the head-quarters of the Generalissimo Arch duke Charles, which still continue in Grafin Neusidd, no action had taken place between the two grand ar mies ; but his Imperial Highness expected that a bat tle would be fought the following morning, the 14th, and had taken the necnsary measures for that pur pose. The following account has been published : BULLETIN OF THE IMPERIAL ARMY, OF JUNE 11. " Captain Menniger, of the Cuirassiers of the Archduke fi ands, crossed the Danube on the 31st of May, and dispersed in Langcnstein a detachment of Saxon Dragoons of the regiment of the Di.o:e Albert. He advanced the same day to Amstatten, where he fell in with a corps of Saxons, and other enemy's troops, which iie engaged, and killed 200, among whom were seven offi cers, and made eleven prisoners. On the 9th instant, the enemy attempted to render himself master of the post of Theban, situa ted opposite to Heimburgh, probably with a view of taking Pres btirgh and the bridge-kad constructed on the right bank of the Danube. Five hundred min approached our banks in five yes-_ scls, but an Austrian battalion of Militia (Landwehr), which were posted there, gave the enemy such a warm reception, that he found himself compelled to retreat with the utmost speed.— The battalion of Bohemian Militia, Ns hich is commanded by Count Huntmann, has captured, in the vicinity of the village of Obersniel, two large vessels ladca with rice and brandy, affil de stined for the enemy's army." FROM THE AUSTRIAN IMPERIAL HEAD-QUAR TERS, WALWERSDORFF, JUNE 13. His Majesty , the Emperor of Austria has received the following report of a Courier, who was dispatch ed from Inspruck the '3lst of May : • " After Field Marshal Lieutenant Cbasteler,wlao commanded in Tyrol, had marched to 'isms in Pusterdale, in order to take the Italian army which was advancing against Styria and Carin thia with part of his corps, the Austrian Major-General Bust re mained with part of the 7th army in a strong position at the font of the Brenner Mountain on the Lueg, in order to cover South Tyrol from the attacks of the Bavarian troops who bad entered Inspruck. " While the inalcabizants of the towns of Inspruck and Hall were laying down their arms in order to relieve their districts cf the calamities they .suffered, fresh assemblages of Irmo(' peasants were formed in the c ale of the Upper Inn, as well as the Leck and in Vinclgatt, with the assistance of Major Turner, as in the dale of the Lower Inn and the Wipp, chiefly lay the well known iarsdworth and Andrew Hafer, who commands the fusileers, and as early as the 27th May, the former arrived with 9000 men in the environs of z'Schenbe;g, and Major Turner, with a larger nuns her in Tel:; Schenb2rg is C:ttatcd three, and Tell' Cite hours march from lnspruck. On the 9.3 th, sn action took place s.-.ith Bavarian troops from C' to 8000 strong, and an armistice was concluded for twelve hours. The Bavaraans had evacuated In spruck, but were • overta! , .en near limp, where another severe conflict was foazht. Acco: dint to the sante r...!ccunt, the rial Austrian troops are making inroads front tha Southern part of Tyro!, as f.:.r us Verona." DIII 7 .3DEN, JUNE 16. Ye7,te.Tday arrived here ano:her corps of A:astrian troops, from 7 to 5000 strcng, under tne orders of General Kle.man, and immediately purstwd their march, after having taken some refreshments. Since the lith inst. from 18 to 20,000 men have, in the whole, passed thron2,h this town. The Austrian army which has entered Bayreuth is said to be ‘)f the same strength. We understand that both armies are to form a junction and march to Westphalia. PASEN, JUNE 17. According to general orders, issued in this place by General Fischer, the Austrian army, under the orders of the Archduke Ferdinand, attempted to carry Sandomia by assault, but was repulsed. FROM SAXONY, JUNE 17. A corps of ..'OOO Saxon troops, which had taker. pest on the frontiers, has fallen back to Allcnburgh. All the royal chests in Dresden have been delivered up to the Austrian Commissary Gcner.d Von Beilkeim. MAGDEEURGH, JUNE 17. The Saxon. troops have evacuated Willenburgh.— The Commandant ot that city is now .here 7; 50 pon toons, 12 pieces of ordnance, in short, all the military stores, have been removed hither. It is said that the Austrians have entered Halle, and slier an intention to direct their march to Brunswick. I.EIPZIC, JUNE 19. • • An Austrian officer, accompanied by a trumpeter, arrived here at half past eleven o'clock this morning, immediately proceeded to the Senate House, and or der.l quarters for a strong column of Austrian troops, which is advancing front Duben, and expected here in the course of this afternoon. NiNE O'CLOCK AT NIGIIT--The above Austrian troops have not yet arrived. ERLANGEN, JUNE 16. They write from Bayreuth of the date of the llth, as follows :—We yesterday learned that some Aus trian Uhlans from Thiersheim had advanced to Wes sentadt. On this intelligence the public effects and accounts were sent off under an escort of 30 French infantry. The equipage, of our Intendant M. de Tournon, followed soon after, and he set out himself on horseback at five in the morning. An hour after wards an officer arrived with 4.0 cavalry, and an offi cer cf infantry w;th 20 men in two wagons. This troop occupied the castle. An under-officer, with 15 horsemen, immediately went in pursuit of M. de.Tour non, and overtook him a league's distance from Bay of the I nten d ant fell into the hand s re uth, on th e roa d to Sheitgerg. All the oftli e e q u tii hia p_ag n e s s 1 anti sere taken with them to Ezra. Oa the 14th there arrived "at Bamberg about 200 Austrians, Ph!ails and infantry. On the 15th, at five in the morning, this small corps left that town ; it was commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel &word Min gen. We shall soon be delivered from these parti aans• by the march of the combined Westphalian army, and the aripy.ef reserve. • . . • f:RANCKFORT, JUNE 4:.)0; The King of Westphalia has -taken the field -; -his headquarters were yesterday at Sdndershclusen. The foreign Ministeis at his Court received' A circular let ter, directing.them to follow him. 'MUNICH,,JUNE 14. The Tyroiesb Insurgenti hive fallen back to their 'frontiers. By order, of his'Majesty the Emperor of the French, a separate corps of from 30 to 35,000 men is to act against the northern parts of the Tyrol. The Bavarian division of Wrede which was to form part of that corps; has received counter-orders, and is for the present to remain in Linz. In its stead a division of the army of reserve under the orders of the Duke of Valmy is to act, which is to be conveyed in waggons from Mayence to Augsburg. It is also re ported, that another corps of French troops is to make an attempt of advancing over the Bilnuer, through [the south of the Tyrol, which takes but a small share in the insurrection. ZARA, JUNE 9. The accounts we receive from Turkey state that the Russian army has entirely defeated the Turks in several actions, and that Prince ProsoroWsky is marching by long marches on Adrianople. Great agitation prevails in Constantinople. On the 20th of May a finnan, by the Grand Seignor, appeared, by which all the Christians throughout the Ottoman em pire are subjected to the most rigorous inspection. It appears certain that the Grand Duke Constan tine will take the Command in Chief of the Russian army, which is advancing into Turkey. PARIS, JUNE 43. • According to letters from Corunna of the Bth intant, the Dukes of- Dalmatia, Elchingen, and Treviso, (Soult, Ney, and Mcrtier ; ) have united in Gallicia, and are marching together against the English army. which has dared to approach the Northernfrootier of Portugal, under the command of Sir Arthur Welles -IF.y. . We expect every day to hear important tidings. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, JULY 3. - - • PRICE.OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Gans. for July 694j—Redue.ed GBR—Oninhint Frew. Exche. Bills. Gs. is. pr PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY. Bank Steclt 460 I India Bends 17s. 18 s . p r . 3 per Cent. Red. 68-it Exeheq. Bills, Gs. 12s. pre. per Cent. Cons. slant State Lottery Tickets £2l Ili. 4 per Cent. 33i} .1 Colts. for acc. PORTUGAL. On Saturday we mentioned the arrival of theJosErve from Lisbon. The following Letter, from a British Officer at that place, was received by this conveyance ; " LISBON, JUNE 4. " Sow- made his escape from Sir AhTHUR Wrr LESLEY by scrambling over the mountains and difficult passe,s of the country, where our cavalry could not follow,him—,he previously ham-swung all 14s horse.., to prcveat their falling into our hands in a serviceable state. It is supposed he has collected about 6or 8,000 of the scattered remains of his army, but . with. out cannon, ammunition, or provisions, and many of them without arms of any kind. It was last evening confidently asserted here, that SOULT had given him self up to a detachment or ROSIANA'S army in Galicia. 46 An Extraordinary Gazette was published here on Thursday last, the Ist instant, containing two dis patches from ROMANA so Marshal BERESFORD I giving an - account of his having had a battle on the 21st ult. With a part of NEY'g . army,defeating them with great loss, and compelling them to retreat into Lugo, which place, for want of heavy cannon, he could not batter. The Marquis ROMANA also states, that 9000 Ger. mans, who were in the French army, had COMe over to him. " In his ;eat letter, dated the 23d, he states him, self happy, in teing able to inform Marshal BEREiFORD, that he ha 4 succeeded in taking Lugo without cannon, at the point of the bayonet ; that the loss of the . French, in both actions, was about 4000 . men left (lead on the field of battle, and as many taken prisoners, with all their cannon, baggage, &c.--that he had heard of the defeat and dispersion of Sotn.T's army, near Oporto, and hoped he should catch him' in attempt, ing to retreat through Galicia I for which purpose he had detached 9000 men along the coast roads, in the direction of Vigo, and was proceeding himself with 18,000 in another direction, leaving a bOdy of troop to proceed against Corunna, where the French b 44 but few troops, and those sickly." AMSTERDAM, JUNE Ix. By the privateer, —, Captain Walfsen, anEng•- lish gunboat, carrying two 18 pounders, and 2fkmen with two officers, was taken near'Lessne. Last week. were brought-into Artlberg, it'iptnburger, And an. American schooner With fruit. Of thetwci Prussian ships detained near Dr.igoe, one was destined in this direction, and the other to Norway._ •'' • wAR'SAW; ItfNL 10. "Thi.General of division. Z,alonczeelc attacked .yes terday the Austrian army . mar- Goiswoszaa and Wailta with considerable success.. The head-qiiarters of tive said General were that day in Glowaczaoo, and those of General Dombrowski in Shiernewic. VIENNA, JUNE 12. . _ The 4th instant, the corps of the Marshal Prince of Ponte Corvo entered this city. A strong division of Saxon troops forms part of that corps. On the sth a heavy cannonade was heard on the part of Klasten Newburg. it is now known that the French had collected a large quantity of pontoons and other necessaries for the construction of bridges which the Austrians destrayed by the above cannonade. The French are employed in constructiag large iv:miters of rafts, which arc all carried up the Danube Ebersdorf. Deputie3 have been sent to Hungary in order to obtain a supply of provisions fr.zm that country for the city of Vienna, where the utmost want begins to pre vail. Count Din:chstein, Vice President' of the Aulie Chancery of Bohemia, is at the head of the Deputation. Count Metternich, late Austrian Ambassador in Paris, at rived here ye. terday with his suite. The same day a division of French troops marched from hence, in the dire6tion of Parting, Hillersdorf and Bucker:an-I. A contribution of 18 millions of francs is said to have been imposed on this city. Since the nc.:icn near Kissee, in the vicinity of Presburg, several other severe conflicts have taken plaCe in Hungary.— The whole of the Ita army under the orders of the Prince Viceroy, occupies the districts of Oedenburgh and Wieselburgh. A great number of wounded sol diers continues to arrive in this capital and the neigh bouring villages. COI: FU, MAY le. General Donzelot, Governor General of the an Islands, having heard of the declaration of war, published by Austria against France, ordered all the goods, vessels,: and other property of Austrian sub jects in these islands Should be put under sequestra tion. The Austrian Consul, Count Catagliano, has been placed under inspection. All the ships of war have received orders to take the Austrian vessels.— The lonian Mon;trur has published a firman of the Porte, addressed to the Pacha of Rornelia, on the sub. ject of the interruption of the negociation of peace with Russia. This firman is of the following tenor : " When this Imperial command sisall reach you, you will learn by its tenor, that according to an agreement made between my August Court and the Russians, two Plenipotentiaries were named by the Sublime Porte to re-establish peace between the two powers. They were already arrived at the place of the Congress, and scarcely had the conferences commenced when they were informedbyparticular a4vice,that the Russians thought to pass with an armed force the Turkish frontiers. Afrer the knowledge of this hostile intention, war must again break out betwtTn my August Court and that of . Russia. I immediately caused all the fortresses and forts which had need of being put in a state of defence to be properly supplied, so that the Russian army cannot effect their pass:.ge. lam employed in reinfcrcing all the posts which ought to be guarded. I have given orders both in Asia and Europe for the March of trc‘ops ; they will. march at once upon the points menaced. You, surnamed Vizier, valiant preserver, at the moment you receive my venerable com mand, will give, with that firmness and knowledge which cha racterise you, the most severe orders that both by night and day the frontiers are guarded, *and that the country under your Go vernment does not remain a moment in Inaction. Whoever is zealous for religion and for the Holy Prophet ought from this moment to renounce rest and sleep in order to fight the enemy. " I have given you my supreme instructions ; you will bow down your head before my orders and rigorously execute them. " Done at Constantineplei st the Moon Sepbir. (18th • Marsh, 1809)." LATER ACCOUNTS. On Friday evening, another vessel, the FAVQURfT cutter, arrived at Plymouth from Gijon, brought intelligence of the French having been cdm pelle•l to evacuate that place, which is again in 1 )& 4 .. session of the Spaniards. The FAVOURITE was 14 days on .her passage, hay, ing been becalmed for several days at sea. She left the INDEFATIGABLE and AMELIA frigates cruizing off Gijon and learnt from Captain IRBY, of the latter ship, the melancholy intelligence, that the French hat • d retaken St. Andero,. on the evening of the 10th nit. being. the same day on which the Spaniards under General B.ALLEST.I:RPSS had obtained possession of it hi the morning. It seems a reinforcement of the enemy, to the num. her of 3000, took the patriots by surprize ; and it is much feared, that nearly the whole of than were either killed or taken prisoners. The enemy, it is feared, would wreak their vengeance on them in re, turn for the severities exercised on the Frenchmen who fell into their hands, many of when, they say, were maimed by the Spaniards in a shocking marmot.. General BALLESTEROS and a Spanish Colonel effected their escape, by jumping off their horses and getting into a small boat, which having no oars on board, they paddled themselves out of the harbour with the but-ends of two musquets, and were afterwards got on board a chasse.maree, intending to land at or near Lugo, and to join the army under ROMAN.. DUTCH AND FRENCH PAPERS. Last night we received the latter to the 25th, and the former to the 29th ult. Their contents are im portant as they serve to shew that the circumstances of the invading army have not been improving, while the insurrection in the North becomes every day more formidable. A body of Austrian cavalry is stated to have penetrated from the Tyrol through Bavaria to Franconia, after defeating some squadrons of the enemy's horse, near Naremburg. They levied heavy contributions wherever they went, and their objt.ct was said to be to join the Duke of BauNswicK's corps. It appears that by the joint operations of the Austrians and the insurgents, BONAPARTE'S communications with the countries in his rear are rendered extremely precarious. Five waggons, which had set out from Munich to. Vienna, laden with specie for paying the army, had been obliged to return to Munich, and Count COLLOWRATH has intercepted a quantity of French baggage, which had been sent from Mayence, and was descending the Danube upon rafts. So anxious is BONAPARTR CO reinforce his army by every possible means, that all the officers and soldiers who were wounded in the battles of Ratisbon and Ech muhl, have been obliged to appear before a Medical Commission, and those who were judged.competent to perform any sort , of military duty were expedited to the army in waggons. We have also seen private letters from Holland. I