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I,IOiVq I 4PERS. • tr UPPER•BSTRA, • titetlholedego, dated ahe sd Bail : nut in licelth, though &wiled. •as the French arty driven from Aga remedied. Nothing in this place escaped- the ravages . of the destroyers ; they serfire to fht-lionses ,in their march ; but we pessed ;mine eately from the other side of the Mondego, where we ware, otherwise the whole of the town would have been harm. The houses of Salgada were all brent, because the rapidity of the fire was excessive.. To day. We killed two French-who *ere on guard. not having received orders to retire. The Church was ileipolled of all its ornament 4 and converted into a place to keep cattle in. • • • Tbe , l7th March was that on which they entered this !glee-4e after, loins united in number SOO wr denelnas, drove them from the town Espinhal. Villw Baca, and Mainhas da Ribeira, where they were cocking their victuals. In three days we killed 28 of them. besides those which they earned off across horses by the high road, which we found strewed with naked bodies. The ordenanzis performed wonders, and attacked with the greatest fury. , In the whole we killed near 120 of them, besiles many wounded. . _ f 1 i G .. 1 • A ` , c ~ ~ ~r ~o~' ii ABUTZIAL, APRIL 4. Yesterday the enemy's army occupied the heights of 'Portugal, and fortified 'themselves in that town, in order.to defend the passage and bridge of the Coa. Our army. made movements upon theieftof the enemy,' and the greater part passed the - river at a ford, a dii-1 tanee from this town ; and when the enemy expected us at tile bridge, he was surprised at the said flank. 1 Our artillery, well as musquetry, openeda lively fire ; he immediately abandoned the field 'of battle, leaving it covered with dead. We took one piece of artillery, one übuz, much baggage, &c. The pi toners amounted to 500, most of them mortally wounded. Our army had only some wounded ; and, with the mast lively enthusiasm, pursued the enemy, who precipitately retired. LISBON, APRIL 12. ft is with the utmost satisfaction that we are able to announce to. the Portuguese, nation another teitii, many of ilie beneficent liberality of. his Britannic Ma-1 hsty. His Excellency. Sir C. Stu:wt, Minister from is Britannic Majev y. has addressed to his Excellency Senior 1). al Miguel Pereira Polar a note, in which he , intornis tom of there having arrived at Lisbon 5,1321 quintals of salt fish, destined for the relief of the inha bitants-of the places devastated by the common enemy, and entreats his Excellency . to make it known to the Governors of the linpiotn. His Excellency Don Miguel Pereira Fe ar said, in reply, that he would . lay before their Excellencies the Governors of the Kiilidoln the note of klis'Excellincy.C. Stuart, in re gar to the succour ordered by his Britannic Majesl to the inhabitants of the Portuguese provinces inva ded by the common enemy, and that he was autho. tined to informEicellencY, that they considered this act of beneficence of his*Britanrk Majesty as a !^Ctirnolly - if his generous liberality and singular AM...mints Are all the Portuguese ; that they acknow. led, with the most lively gratitude, tits goodness of hisßritannic.Najesty. and will hasten to make known to the subjects of his Serene Higleriesithis well-timed donation of their magnanimous and thful, ally. What a difference of conduct between the British and French Governments !-,-the first so recommen dable by thSlr assistance of every cliPcrintiop- , -by their large subsidies, for our , troops- and, lastly, the fine (tours ordered for the benefit of the inhabitants, whilst the system of univetsal robbery, organiled by the French, leads to the utmost indigence ; the second so well.knownto'the Portuguese nation/as others of tbe l Continent) 1 . 4 flames es of the, cities of Leyria, Con. deka, and mote than ten towns, at the same time on the banks of the Alva, as d many on the left of the • MOnciego, by the blond, and corpses of the peasants yet riaburiesi : 'by the women, *horn in their retreat they Met with (fortunately they were but few.) ;And, by. their robberies and plundering, as conti nued as rigorous, which caused the death of many vic tims front mere want. Not only the Portugu.,ese, but the entire people of the Continent are convinced, that *there. are no hopes of salvation but in uniting with the English in a mass, contending against the degenerate race of exterminators and incendiaries. • 'lho following advice has been, directed to the In tenalant General of Police :- 44 Mr. Stuart having stated th e e' arrival at this port of 5.5301, quintals of salt fish, which his Britannic Majesty Las sent to be placed at the disposition of the Governor of the Kingdoms. for the benefit of the pro vinces invaded by the enemy, the same Government have determined that your Excellency shall direct the Britannic Commissioner, J. Bell, to deliver the same, in order that it may be distributed in the man tier most proper to satisfy the views of Government and the intentions of his Britannic Majesty, of w hi c h inform your Excellency for your information and conduct. • ralaat pf Gssvernment, Lisbon, 7th April, 1811. D. 111 P. FOILTAR." AeluL 11—Lord Wellington continued to pursue the Hying enemy, who occasionally made stands, as he could avail himself of advantageous positions.— At length R.egnier, with 16,000 men, remained at G•tard.,,which pl.tce he proposed evacuating and ele strpying on the 3tith ult. but Lord Wellington arrived pn the `29 , it ; and as anon as the heads of the columns pf Generals Piston and Campbell, with. the lightdivi visirni, and I+th, 16th, and Royal Dragoons, under General Slade, were seen moving to surround him, he repeated across the plain, intending to get to Almei da, but the light dragoons forced him on to Sabugal *n4 Altectas, our troops still pursuing, and on the 4th we h•td three detachments up, wEen the enemy made! a stand near Sllnig•il, and a sharp action took pl.ice, in which he lost upwards of 1000 men. The enemy occupied Almeida till when two of our caval ry regiments came iii view, and they made off, our "sten following, and took their last stand on 1112 ruins al tort Conceptii n, hut were soot► driven off, and onr hi•ave Ipllows actually chased them out of Portugal. scene very sitnil.ir took place near Alfectns, wn_•rE Igassena, Regnitr, and the main body were drivel (mei . the frontier ip the same glorious style. 'fins mils -the iu4•asion of }Natural, and we think the earn- Ase• TN' Coq% fi:44 AIRIFid4 aPiegs to Le 11149= . •• Jr .•• . r&lt Calla Itieekiigt,' towards Salamanca , oam as litegniite:_*ere gout in the dieectipa oil Placealia. • . .In tha Alentejo, the eneity-still occupies Olivenca end Badajos, when the las: advices came away.— They have not more than 6000 men there; Mortier, with the remainder, having gone to Seville. We have not.been hitherto able to attack those places, as owing to the rapidity of the movements, the artil lery was not up. Our, guns are, however, now up. Olivene& has been surtnuoned, and no doubt is now in our. possession. Badajos must also scam be ours. The enemy had continued his ravages to the last. The Portuguese had concealed their women, children and effects of greatest value, in the village of Man. teigas, in the Estrilla ; the enemy discovered it, and a few days ago attacked the place. The peasantry, and those entrusted with the safety of the ladies, ftitight most desperately' in their del - Lace ; but the village was sthrmed ; the most beautiful women car. vied of by Regnier and his Officers ; the remainder, together with the place, were given up to the discre tion of the French soldiery. Thus ends this glorious work, in which Lnrd Wellington has covered himstlf and the British army with immortal glory ; and in which, by Marshal Beresford's exertions, the Portu guese have shewn themselves to be brave a.td good 1 troops, greatly surpassing all the rest of the Conti nent, inasmuch as they have defeated die conquerors or all the other European continental nations, com manded by their best Captain, the Child of Fortune, I who, during the last year, brought 150,000 men over ' , the frontiers, and has not taken back 70,000, inch;- ; ding sick and all descriptions. Exchange is at 70 ; Discount 22 ; English Bank notes 3-1- dollars for each pound. Never did the Bri -1 rtish stand so high in the estimation of any foreign nation as it does at present in Portugal. , I After the enemy retreated from Guarda, three of !their detachments made a stand near Selingal, and a • very sharp action took place, when .the enemy lost ' 1000 men. The enemy occupied Almeida till the 7th, when two of our regiments of cavalry, with six field pieces, came in view. They then made off, our men fol lowing ; they made their last stand on the ruins of Fort Conception, but were soon routed, and driven by our brave fellows out of l'ortugat A scene very similar took, place near Alfitas, where Massena, Regnier, and the main army were driven over the frontiers, in the same glorious style. According to intelligence from Elvas, dated the 10th instant, the Allied Armies, under the orders of Marshal Beresford, had passed the Guadine on the Coth and 7th instant, Oliverca was blockaded, and a division of the army enteresi,Valverde on the 10th.— It appears that the Frenth, leaving a small garrison in Badajos, have entrenched themselves without that fortress. Frorit the armf of the North we have seen letters of the 7th ,inst..which stare that the head-quarters were in Villar Mayor, and jut the action of Sabagal was of gre tier consequence than was at first sup posed, as the loss of die' enemy in killed, wounded, and prisoners, amounted to 1500 men, and that part of our troops bad already entered the Spanish tort tory. DISPATCH PROM SfARSIIAL BEIIESPORD TO MA ZZCEL• LENCY LORD WELLINGTON, DAT2D CAMPO MAJOR, .~ .. . ••• illga=fe=M M L. 4.5 • e 'AZERE, • . _Os te Left .4134' .Wet 'am alive , an of e ct verY u ' ag Cire7ll-cian)ll, PARLIAMEATARr PROCEEDINGS. 261 M MARCH. MY Loin—l had communicated to your Excel lency my arrival at Arronches, with all my forces, except the division of Brigadier-General Cole, to which, in consequence of the continued marches it had made, it was judged accessary to give a day's rest at Portalegre. On the 44th, I caused the troops to move from Ar ,roßches for Quinta de Regnengo, a little more than half way to this place, and the division of General Cole for At roncho; ; and, having joined yesterday, at tan in the morning. 1 put the whole in motion for this town. I could not know the intention of the enemy with respect to this place, but in case he should endea vour'to maintain it, I proposed to post myself between him and Badajos, and thus cut him off from the latter. We discovered the enemy's advanced cavalry on the heights of Lopo de Matto, about a league distant ; but perzeiving that we were inanceuvring on their flank, they retreated, and some skirmishing took place at the foot of the walls of the town with the advanced ca. valry. When i reached the heights. of the Place, I dis. covered the enemy's force on the outside of the town. I did not, however, know whether or not he was mas ter of the place. There were tour regiments of cavalry, the regiment of infantry, No. 100, of three battalions, with some horse artillery. I ordered Brigadier General Long, with the ca valry, to endeavour to turn the enemy's right, keep ing cut of the reach of the place. My object was to detain the force of the enemy till some infantry could arrive. The Brigadier made a wider circuit there than was intended, so that he more effectively flanked the enemy, and obliged him to retreat hastily, and indeed with extraordinary rapidity. The cavalry advanced upon his right flank, and Brigadier General Long, seeing a favourable opportunity, ordered Col. Head, with two squadrons of the 13 th Light Dra- I goons, to charge the Cavalry of the enemy, which obliged the infantry to fall back to support it. This charge was followed by Colonel Otway, with two scptadrons of the 7th Portuguese, supported by Gen. Long, with the remainder of that regiment, the Ist Portuguese, the br;g-ade of Colonel De Grey, and was made with the most determined courage; the French were entirely- routed, and pursued into the town of Ba. dajor, two leagues distant, in which flight the greater part of them were sabred, as were the conductors and artillerymen of sixteen pieces of cannon, which were taken on the road, but afterwards abandoned. •. This success, though occasioned by a great loss to the ener,iy, was in some manner unfortunate, be caose. not knowing what had been done by the ca valry that had made the charge, and continuing to pursue the infantry with the remaining cavalry and two pieces of artillery, for the space of a league, to support the detached body which had advanced, and not having received any notice from it, nor knowing what new force the enemy might send Pram Badajoz, pruden ) ce obliged Me to halt with my cavalry till the infantry could come up. The enemy's, infantry, amounting to-about 1200 men, though in much con. fusion, continued to march iq column without belting, notwithstanding we were not mine than 160 yards distant from them ; yet, not knowing any thing of the 13th regiment of Dragoons, and the 7th Portu• guest, I could not bawd the loss which would have necessarily taken place, even though successful, had j ordered a charge by the heavy brigade under the tammand of Colonel De Grey. The attention, firm samis, and order of this brigade, composed of the 3d. 'Dreg on Guards, and 4th Dragoons, merits my , warmest approbation. General Long manceevred with great ability, and I I made the greatest exertions to moderate the excessive ardour of the cavalry, and regulate their naovements., The valour of all was exemplary, particularly of Colo. eels Head and Otway, and their squadrons ; and the bitty thing to be remarked is, that which is customary . to our troops on their first encounter with the enemy, sob great an impetuosity. The loss of the enemy was very considerable, not less than 5 or 600 men in killed, wounded, and priso ners. We likewise took a great number of horses and mules ; in fact the enemy abandoned every thing, but we had only means to bring away what is mentioned I:n the inclosed list, and some carriages, &c. were de stroyed. We also suffered some loss, a return of which I have the honour to transmit to you. It was not my intention yesterday to have proceeded to this city ; and I was only induced to do so, from the prospect of cap turing or destroying the force which the enemy had incautiously left there, and which would infallibly have taken place, if our cavalry had lilt compelled the enemy to make a retreat so rapid, that the infan could not come up with it. After the long marches and fatigue necessarily con sequent on them, I sent the troops into cantonments otry here and at Elvas, for rest and refreshment, and to make the necessary preparations for the ulterior ope s t rations recommended by your Excellency. Of the corn and provisions in the place at the time of its sur render to the enemy, the latter had not time to carry any thing away, and they will prove a very opportune assistance to us. The enemy left behind 8,000 rations of biscuit, not expecting so sudden a visit. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) C. BERESTORD, Marshal. [Then follows the. return of the killed, wounded, Ste. the same as in the Gazette.], LISBON, APRIL is. • . A letter dated from Marmeleiro the 2d inst. states that the enemy cononued to be pursued with the ut most vigour, and that the number of prisoners was daily augmenting, without the loss of a single man en our part. Massena was in Alfactes, together with the 6th corps of the army, commanded by Loisom— Ney was still under arrest , and would, it was said, set out for Salamanca. Our army was to have attacked the enemy on the 3d, but from letters which are continually arriving from the advanced posts, the French retired the pre , ceding night. When the enemy retired from the neighbourhood ' of Coimbra, being near the town of Avo, Captain Mar Francis Madeira da Costa, with Ensign A. J. P. Figueireda, who were organizing a company of Fu zileers, by orders of General Bacellar, were there ; and being informed that the enemy burned and de stroyed whatever fell in their way, killing some per. sons, they resolved, with their troop, to defend the said town and the passage of the river Avo, and in effect the enemy arriving there on the seventeenth of last month, and attacking that town, the said Officers, with some 60 men, opened so brisk a fire, that they obliged him precipitately to retire, but fear. ing they should be attacked again, thdy shut them selves up in the castle of the town, where another attempt was made upon them by a squadron of horse and some infantry, hut so lively a fire was so skilfully • directed from the Castle, that they were shamefully compelled to fly, leaving behind them Iforses, arms, and other effects, and carrying off many killed and wounded, which were afterwards found. They tried a third attack, in which they likewise were repulsed; the same happened on the 18 th and 19 th , in other 1 We mentioned yesterday, in a second edition, that attacks, in which the enemy met with considerable ; by accounts received from Holland it appeared that loss on their part. , the unceasing and relentless tyranny of France had Letters from Elvas, dated the 6th instant, infcrm ' ' at length roused that patient people to resistance; us that, in the morning of that day, the allied army I marched from thence, and that on the preceding day , and that there bad been insurrectionary movements -the other corps belonging to the same army began to In different quartets. move from other points, taking the road toitirumenha, We are not yet enabled to appreciate the instil!. where they will {rats the Guadianna. His Excel lency Marshal Beresford will unite in Jururnenha Bence with more certainty than on its first arrival ; but the. particulars have been received by so many, owtth his Excellency General Caatinas. and are.so amply detailed, that they seem entitled to The united forces which will act under the corn. mand of his Excellency will amount from 35,000 to some attention. ,40,000 men. We know from another quarter , that Sunday night, the Sreoutaioe logger brough t ac 'the Army of the Centre of Spain, which was in counts to the Down's to the above effect, and partici ., Murcia, and marched upon Granada to act against l •Sebasthoni, is composed of 22,000 infantry and 3000 arly, that Rotterdam bad been the scene of much tumult. One of the letters from that ship states, horse. The corps of the intrepid Ballasteros consists • of, at present, from 15,000 to '20,000 combatants; so that the populace had risen upon the Garrison rf Res that the forces ready actually to act in combination terdano and had takes possession of the batteries and and threaten the enemy, in Estremadura and Anda- . porta. lt adds, that the French troops had been di.- lasia, are calculated at 85;0 0 0' good troops , who anne march anxious to revenge the outrages and devasta- 4 them and at other places, and that t he insu:- rection was spreadingvery fast. tions which the enemy committed in the lands they A Gentleman who lett Holland on Saturday last, occupied, and which presents to their eyes the most horrible picture of barbarity and tyranny, and which and arrived in town yesterday, states, that before he act as incentives to inflame their natural ardour. came away; he heard a report that the Amsterdam MADRID, MARCH 6. post had been stopped, in eonse.quence of a senora The day before yesterday this government received insurrection in that City and in Dort. official intelligence that the escort which was conduct. Other accounts, brought to Deal and Dover by ing the prisoners ftom Olivenza to France, was attack- some smugglers from the Dutch' oast, state, that not ed at Cora, and the whole of the prisoners set at liberty. only at Dort and Rotterdam, but at Amsterdam, the Bessieres has imposed a contribution of 2+ millions people bad risen upon the French and massacred a of rials on the province of Burgos, and enlisted all the great number of them. These accounts also state that men in that city capable of bearing arms, whether all communication between Holland and Walcheren bachelors or married. To rob the provinces which had been cut off for thtce days, and it is inferred by have submitted of their money, is the system of France. the people at the latter place that the Dutch people According to the last intelligence there are not more • than 3000 of the enemi'e troops in Burgos. • F ce have overpowered the military. It is a lso said that insurrectionary movements have appeared in ran , Letters arrived by the mail of to-day state, that up- and that for -Some time past there have been intar,,ars wards of 4000 prisoners taken at Tortosa, which had among the higher ranks, as well as the people 10 gc• already entered France, made their escape, after hay- neral. - ing murdered the whole of the soldiers who escorted A letter from Dover states that* French military them. ' According to reports this was occasioned by had been disarmed at Rotterdam and other places, a French soldier having run through the body with and that the insurrection was spreading rapidly. a bayonet, an unfontutate Spanish iiispner w4o could We have also seen a communication from the not walk. _ putolt coast s describing the insurrection as Navin; HOUSE OF COMMONS, APRILtS. At four o'clock the SPEAKER took the Chair, sixty. eight Members being present. Strangers were how. ever excluded, as the Ballot for a Committee to take into considc- cion the Petition complaining of an tan. Sue return for the county of Limerick, which required the presence of 100 Members, stood Gra on the orders of the day. During our absence, we understand. the following Members took the oaths and their seats:— Cecil Bisshopp, Esq. for Newport, Isle of Wight, the room of Lord Palmerston; who has been ret.trned lo_ serve for the University of Cambridge ; Lori pestilev, for the Borough of Luggersh4ll,inthe rorin of T. Everett, Esq. who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds; and Colonel O'Dell, for the county sf Limerick. A new writ was ordered to be issued for a Memlfer to serve for Taunton, in Somersetshire. in the room of Jahn Hammett , Esq. deceased. The SPEAKER thee proceeded, in conformity with an order made yesterday, to call over thellou; and at live o'clock the gallery was opened.—On our admission, we found the Sesasizt on his legs, id. dressing the House on the subject of the defaulters. It was, he observed. in the power of the House to make any older they might think it, in regard to those Honourable Members• who had not attended. The words of the Act of Parliamea on the subject fully empowered then'. He was convinced than great number of Members who were in town my, have been aware of the necessity for their attendance. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUtIt, after a few prefatory observations, moved, " that the names of the defaulters be called over to-morrow," The SPEAKER hoped the Members then present would apprise their friends of the proceedings of the House. It was notorious that a great number of Private Committees had been sitting that day—Clen tlemen should give their attendance In the evening as well as in the morning. Mr. W. WYNNE, as we understood, expressed an opinion that those Members who were in town, should be taken into custody. The motlonwas then put and carried, and the House then adjourned till to -morrow (this day.) THE EVENING STAR. L0141)0N. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 24. PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE OCLOCX, Cone. money 6431—f0r account, 6411—Reduced 631. 4 per cent. 30..-5 per Cent. Navyl6lll. Lacbeg. to 6s. prerilicride 255. pre u. PRICF. OF SI OCKS YESTERDAY. Bank Stock 114041 240 India Stack 1813 3 per Ceut. Red. 6:t i 4. India Banda 235. a 265. 3 per Cent. Cons. 64itt Esclieq. Bills, 7s. ss. pre. 4 per Cent. SO 60 Lottery Tickets £22.405. Sper Cent. Navy 94 94 Cons. for acc. 646 The Duke of Kent packet, which left Lisbon on the 14th instant, has arrived at Falmouth, and con firms the accounts before received of the French having entirely evacuated Portugal. By this Packet, Lord LwitaPoot. received a private communication from Lord Wstutiarom, dated %Tana Temora. (not Villa Mayor) on the Bth instant. This communication re. fers to a public dispatch without mentioning its con tents. It is known, however, that his Lordship lost no time in endeavouring to bring MASSENA to an action, in the position he had chosen on the Goa•—• For this purpose his Lordship crossed that river with 1 30,000 men ; but the enemy, net daring to risque lin action, fled precipitately on his approach. Ample extracts from the Lisbon Papers, and from private letters, brought by the Duke of Rent, will be found in our columns of this day: . ;. r