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SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. FROST THE CORREO MILITAR T POLITICO DEL PRINCIFADO DE ASTURIAS. ASTURIAS, SEPTEMBER 25. The superior Junta of the Principality, at their sit ting of the 14th instant, has elected a Deputy to the Cortes of the Kingdom, with the formalities prescrib. ed for this appointment by the Supreme Junta : the choice fell upon Senor D. Alonzo Canedo y Vigil, Canon of the Holy Metropolitan Church of Toledo, who is a person very worthy of being entruted with so important a commission, On account of his integri ty, his talents, and his learning, qualities which have exalted him to that rank in the public estimation which he now enjoys. . CASTROPOL, SEPTEMBER 21. Brigadier D. Frederico Castanon has sent dis patches from Ladines, giving an account of his hav- 1 ing, on the 17th, attacked a body of the enemy upon ' the Infiesto with so much success, that 70 of them were killed and 120 wounded. His vanguard con tinued to follow the remainder in their retreat towards Cangas de Onis, where 1800 Frenchmen were assem bled under General Reynot. Senor Castanon imme diately went to the support of his vanguard with hopes of success. On the 18th Senor Escandon attacked in the same mountains of Cangas 800 of the enemy, under the command of General Valentin, and the latter was so severely beaten, that, according to letters worthy of credit, only 2-1 of them, who entered Villaviciosa, and 20 who took the road towards Infiesto, were the only persons who saved themselves. In this engage ment, wherein our superior gallantry and presence of mind were conspicuous, our troops, from the slow ness of the enemy's fire, rushed upon and put , them to the bayonet, which secured the victory.— PSuch is the reception the Vandals receive in the rincipality.) On the 19th an Aid-de-Camp from Bonet came to Villaviciosa, having been at Burgos soliciting rein forcements, to sustain the honour of the French arms in Asturia ; but, from the confession of the same Messenger, he did not expect that any would follow him. We already see the French destitute of that power which can alone accomplish their object, compelled at every step to discover their weakness, but notwith standing theynever omit an opportunity of magiiifying their force. They frequently present troops at points where they are least necessary, and withdraw them from the places where they arc really wanted. They shift with velocity from one place to another, merely to frighten the people and make them put their arms away ; but the only advantage they derive from these visits, is an incase of that implacable resentment which the people possess towards them. It is certain that this sort of policy will have some ascendancy over weak minds, who are afraid of every thing, and whose conduct obstructs the general system of defence ; but the first of these circumstances is of little consequence from the quality of the people and- the paucity of their numbers ; and the second will soon be remedied by the activity with which the French instruct "them to extermination. Soon will we be able to inflict a just retaliation upon them. SEPT. 25.—The Superior Junta of the Principality has received the following letter from General Fran cisco Xavier Losada. -It was written upon the oc casion of a gallant affair having been fought by a small party of the regiment of D. Pedro Celleruelo. It is as follows : " On the evening of the 29th ult. when the enemy were to enter this place by the gate of Sobia, I,seph de Valle, a serjeant belonging to this regiment, with ascerporal and seven soldiers, were sent to observe their approach, in order that one of the soldiers might be sent to you with the intelligence. On his leaving, the remainder stopt at a short distance in front of the enemy, and Annoyed them as they retired. This was accomplished in a very gallant and judicious manner, whereby the enemy lost a serjeant and two men. In addition to this, a solder belonging to the party, who carried his own rations, being unable to retreat with out losing them, resolved to conceal himself among the rocks to preserve them, and as he came out or. the following morning to join his corps, he took a French corporal prisoner, whom he met on the road, and who has delivered him over to his commander, 1). Philip Ramos. " These affairs, which are worthy of the approbation of your Excellency, shew sufficiently the laudable conduct of the Serjeant and his little troop, and I comrnunicate them to you that they may have the proper effect upon the minds of others." Head-quarters, Cangas de Tireo, 11th Sept. 1810. To the President and Superior Junta of the • Principality of Asturias. The Superior Junta, always desirous to promote the valour of the troops, by such means ch cum. stances may permit, have resolved to give to those sOldiers who shall distinguish them selvos the most, $OO reals of Velon, to be paid by the hands of Senor BArcena. French instruc we be able to i SEPT. 25.-- has received tl cisco Xavier I casion of a i small party of It is as follow: " On the ei were to enter 1 de Valle, a se a zerporal ani their approach. be sent to you the remainder enemy, and a accomplished whereby the c addition to thi tarried his ow out losing the the rocks to p following mor j corporal priso has delivered ' Ramos. " Tliee aff of your Excel conduct of ail communicate proper effect r Head-tpartt To the Pre6;(l( Prim The Supet the valour of stances may I soldiers who SOO reals of 1 Barcena. 4 ‘ The Fre by the flying communicatil 44 King Jo: shops, that of Cordova ; th given to a Fr of Toledo, ar rl Rico, have mask by Kin of the Pope. 6 , Tile No to dispence x According to 4. Our ar 1 Merida, arid ' " Ballast the town of 300 men, tl them, and tl many woun, AN . 4 1 Million but untilthe eommandin finished, C( of little not .. . cost the enemy 20,000 Men, according to their own tinctkrn . The Seraskier Couchand Huli Pacha Was confession ; and if they ontinue in their undertaking killed.edtAll the entrenchments and their environs against Portugal, they cannotsubjegate it completely were covered with slain Turks. The . eirmy's loss loss is trifling. Thus without triple the number of their present army. I in killed exceeds 5000 ; our . am of opinion, that all the forces which the - enemy was an army of 4.0,000 men dispersed and destroyed have actually in' Sp nn are not sufficient to conquer in sine hours time." and maintain Pertugel and the Provinces of Asturias SEMLIN, SEPT. 12. and Gallicia. I say, maintain ; f or as a ;:n impetu- They write from Bucharest, that about the middle ous irruption, if intent upon it, they can make it; but of last month fresh Russian reinforcements arrived in in the Province of Gallicia there are more than Wallachia. Field-Marshal Count kamenskoy has 160,000 men trained to arms exercised every Sunday, united apart of it to his army ; the remainder, con and so well disciplined, that it creates pleasure and I sisting of two divisions, of 10,000 men each, have admiration to see them—and what still charms us marched to sustain the corps of General Count de more is, the marked enthusiasm of all ; the old men Zukatoff. The Turkish corps, consisting of about fall into the ranks as well as the young. 15,000 men, under the orders of the Pacha of Traw -41 The army of Asturias, serving under Ballas..e- i nick, has succeeded' in deceiving the Servian Corn ro7, in Lower Estremadura, as well as those in that , menders. After having made a detour, he appeared province, are now equal to the most veteran French i in the environs of Gruschuatz and Novelasar, where troops ; and if they were as well officered, fed, and he committed every thing to the flames and the sword. clothed, they would astonish the enemy. Finally, my I About ten villages have been burnt, and their inha friend, be convinced that there is at this day in Spain ' bitants either killed or carried into slavery. ' more iarces, a great deal more enthusiasm, and more The entire population of Servia is now is the open hatred against Bonaparte than at the commencement; country, with the exception of some workmen, who and if we had but a good Regency and Government, remain, and those who are mutilated. we should, with the help of England, be able to re- CONSTANTINOPLE, AUGUST 10. silt the whole power of France." Another war has broken out in Egypt through the " OPORTO, (via CoRuNNA), SEPT. 22. instigation of the English. The noted English agent, ‘, We have this moment received news from the : Fabiani, who falsely styles himself a Swedish Con 'armies, -by which it appears that they have taken up I sul, has incited the Beys against the Porte, and positions in their lines of defence within two or three ! against the Paella of Cairo. The campaign has been leagues of Coimbra. On the 19th the English and . opened in the neighbourhood of Cisch. The Eng- Portuguese head-quarters were at Buzaco. On the lish have thus withdrawn the attention of the Pacha 10th Lord Wellington's head-quarters were at Lorvo,l. of Cairo from the flotillas they have formed in the and Marshal 13erestOrd at Beltao ; strong positions on Red Sea. the mountains leading to Coimbra. The French, who PANSCONVA, SEPT 13. it appears had concentrated their forces, including the ! Intelligence was this day received here that the corps under Regnier and Junot, were on the 19th at Grand Seignior has arrived in Adrianople with a Vizeu, and every thing see,ms to portend an approach- guard of 18,000 men. ing engagement, which we feel confident will termi- I MUNICH, SEPT. 24. nate. gloriously for the Allied Armies ; considering We are assured that the new division of the king the spirit with which they arc animated, and the skill don of Bavaria is definitively settled. It will be di by which they are directed." vided into nine departments, of which the principal The next letter is from Viand, and from the late places will be, Munich, Ratishen, Passau, Saltzburg, ness of the date, and the inconsiderable distance from k Inspruc , D ell inger, Nuremberg, Barnberg, and Bay which that port is from the Theatre of War, intelli reuth. It appears that the town of Augsburg is not Bence to a very late period might have been expected. to be the chief place of the department, because it is The fact of a general enga:Yement, or any important dd inte n c to convert it into a fortress. action, might have reached it, provided the comma- ; COLBERG, SEPT. 18. nication was not intercepted, within twenty-four hours after it occurred. I According to the reports of sailors who have met " VIANA, SEPTEMBER Cs. : with English ships in the Baltic, the English fleet is 44 Vie are anxiously expecting news from our ar- in want of fresh water and provisions. The enemy's The French, in great force, entered the pro- ships of war which cruize continually along the coast vince of -Beira, in three divisions, to the amount of of Pomerania, try every means to procure provisions, 60,000 men, and probably more, with a view to force but in consequence of orders from superior authority, their way to Lisbon. They had actually entered the countryrefuses to supply them, and they are unable Vizcu, and were in the vicinity of Coimbra ; how- , to procure any at any price, or under any pretext what ever, it appears they have been worsted in all the en- ever. The Guarda Cotta: have orders to sink every counters they have as yet had with the British and : English vessel which approaches the shore, and to Portuguese troops ; and by the last accounts received sabre or make prisoners if possible the crew. The by yesterday's post, it appears they were retreating English, who are unable to land on the coasts of Po in all directions. Several letters-received by the Por- merania, endeavour to carry off the vessels laden with tuguese mention that a battle was fought on the 23d j salt, which go from Colberg to the other ports of our instant, at Buzaco, where the French lost from Bto ! province. But these, when pursued by the enemy 9000 men. 4 run on shore, and sharp engagements are sometimes 46 The following is an Extract of the last advices the consequence. from the House at Porte, dated the 26th instant : DRESDEN, SEPTEMBER to. 4We hear there has been some severe skirmishing be- Baron Juit, Privy Counsellor, returned yesterday tween the French, and some Portuguese and British from Paris, whither he was sent by his Majesty on a regiments (amongst them the 16th), and a general particular mission. action is daily expected ; when we learn the result It is reported that in this country, as well as in all we will advise you.' other States of the Rhenish Confederacy, a duty of 40 per cent. is to be laid on all colonial produce. FRANKFORT, SEPTEMBER so. Our Sovereign, the Grand Duke, has ordered, by DEFEAT OF TIDE TURKS. an Edict of the 28th of this month, that the Impes OrFICIAL REPORT OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY. rial French decree dated Trianon, the sth of August, "The General in Chief Count Karnenskoy having ! shall possess the force of law in his dominions, and kft Lieutenant-General Count Langeron before Rud- : that consequently a duty of 40 per cent. shall be schuk, marched on the sth September, in person, , levied on all colonial commodities ; yet without the against the enemy ; he arrived on the 6th, in the least alteration with regard to the decrees of Berlin evening, with the army, forming five columns, in the and Milan, which are to remain in full force, as well vicinity of the Turks, and ordered a general attack as the Imperial decree, by which the importation of au to be made on the following day. It began at ten gar, coffee, and cotton, is unconditionally prohibited. o'clock in the morning, and at seven o'clock at night COPENHAGEN, SEPTEMBER 22. , the Turkish army was no more. A position which' On the 16th of the present month, a loud report seemed impregnable, entrenchments defended with : of cannon was heard in a westerly direction. the utmost obstinacy, nothing could withstand the , So great a number of Swedes have arrived at this gallantry and perseverance of the Russian troops.— place, that many of them have been unable to pro- That memorable day has covered them with fresh cure accommodation at the inns. laurels. I The King and Queen, accompanied by the Royal 44 As soon as the attack began, Major-General ' Princesses, have condescended to honour the Count Howaiski attacked and carried three redoubts, and Rosenkrone with a visit, at his seat on the road to , rendered himself master of the whole entrenchment ' Fredericksburgh. which covered the enemy's camp on his left flank, I BERNE, SEPTEMBER 18. near the Danube. In the mean time, Major Gene:, I The Empress Josephine and Queen of Holland ral Koutnoff arrived from the other side also on the last week visited the delightful valley of Chamouni, Danube, and engaged another Turkish camp which , and likewise the sea called the Sea de Glace, at the had been formed there. In this manner, the enemy : font of Mount-Blanc. These illustrious travellers are saw his entrenchments surrounded by our troops, but expected to join the Grand Duchess Constantine, in notwithstanding his hopeless situation, and a very ' a few days, at Neufchatel. brisk cannonade kept up on our part, he continued to $ PRIVATE LETTER.—STOCKHOLM, CCTOBER 0 . defend himself in the most obstinate manner. 46 At Orebro nothing is doing, and it le expected 46 An attempt made against his left flank having , that the Diet will be removed to Stockholm, on proved unsuccessful, the General in Chief, in order account of the King's illness ; as also for the pur to bring the matter to a close, adopted the measure ! pose of receiving more splendidly their new Crown of ordering Count Kamenskoy, General of Infantile!, : Prince, who is expected here on the 20th instant.— PRIVATE LETTERS. " CORUNNA, SEPTEMBER 30. to open a heavy cannonade, and detach immediately , There is a report that Alexander, finding th a t h e after twelve battalions to carry the entrenchment by must at all events lose Finland, has invited the •late 64 The French in Ciudad Rodrigo are surrounded assault, while he on his side detached Major-General Gustavus Adolphus to Petersburg!), to -put himself by the flying parties, and are sometimes without any SabanajefF with ten battalions, to take the enemy's at the head of the Fins, and regain the Throne of communication. i camp in the rear. I Sweden ; by this means Alexander will have nothing 64 This General 46 King Joseph has created a number of new bi- soon after entered the Turkish . to fear from that quarter, and be able to employ all shops, that of Zamora has been given to a Canon c f camp, and this unexpected attack, executed with the : his force against France, in the event of hostilities Cordova ; the Archhishoprick of Seville has been utmost rapidity, decided the victory. A great part bein g c ommenced. Strong remonstrances h ave , in given to a Friar of Santander; the auxiliary Bishop of the enemys horse took immediately to flight, and the mean time, been made by the Swedish Ambassa-1 of Toledo, and Seignor Cuerda, auxiliary of Porto was pursued by our cavalry, who killed a laige num- dor, Baron Oxenstierna, to the Court of Denmark, on l , Rico, have offered to consecrate the new bishops ber of them. account of the many captures made by the latter ; made by King Joseph, even without the confirmation 44 The General in Chief, without the least loss of! not only the restoration of ships and cargoes indiscri of the Pope. time, ordered Major-General Sabanajeff to lead on' minately, but also indemnification for loss of time 64 The Nuncio of Spain is author* eed by the Pope part of his troops against the last and strongest Tur- I and expences have been demanded. Threats are even to dispence with the affinity of bloo I in relationship, kish entrenchment ; but observing that the darkness ' said to have been used on the part of the Swedish according to the representations of the bishops. of the evening prevented the troops to act, lie post-1 Government. 46 Our army of the left has its head-quarters at poned the attack until the next morning, and ordered : ~ It has been proved, that three privateeri, be- Merida, and the French are reunieing at Seville. . the troops to retreat. During that time Colonel Ber- longing to a practitioner in the Danish Court of 44 Ballasteros attacked a convoy that was going to her attacked the enemy's flotilla, captured some yes-' Chancery, have made a great many captuies by the the town of Castello de Ins GuArdias, escorted by sels, stink a great num er, and dispersed the rest. following stratagem :—The Counsellor's priv a te ers 44 D SOO men, the whole of which he took, killed 50 of ; • UMW the nigh Turks finding themselves keep close together; one of them hails any Swedish them, and the same number of prisoners, and a great surrounded on all side sent an officer to capitulate, vessel they fail in with, over-hauls her papers, and, many wounded." i and soon after surrendered at discretion. The whole in doing so, the party boarding contrives to deposit ANOTHER LETTER—SAME DATE. . ! camp, all the arms, baggage, and artillery, 178 stand a letter or writing into some locker, or to drop it .si Millions are spent here in the works of defence • of colours, and upwards of 5000 prisoners have fallen into the hold—the vessel is permitted to proceed ; in but untiltheprojected citadeleare constructed upon th e . into our hands. . half an hour one of the other privateers hails and ing heights, there will be no security: these 1 46 Among the prisoners is Achme, a Pacha of boards in like manner, the fatal document is found, , Coriinms will be impregnable. The towns Three Tails, the Commander of the flotilla, a Pacha the vessel is seized, carried into a Danish port, and et *as note, such as Astorga and Ciudad Rodrigo, of Two Tails, and a great number of of of dia. / toufiscation is the sure, the unavoidable consequence." mics. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. LANDING IN S!CiLY. SCILLA, srpTr.lirm Yesterday Rear-Admiral Macklin havinr percei. some movements in our flotilla, made t!,t2 his to sail and attack us. Our brave m'a w.:te , prepared for the tight. During a eonsilerable our line of anchorage received all the tiro of the en my without answering ; at I:tst they op.mcd their f.„ upon him, and after a combat of two th e L a .. (Usti flotilla was obliged to g.;;.:1 the C it (t• s :c - :. taking back as usual many of their l!cats in tow. !this affair we lost two men killed, four wounded, a:A had a scorridor sunk. Some gun-hi:lts tra nl h.. :.. maged, were the same night repaired. Tl:e was compelled to receive many shots from our I teries, the same always happens t 4 approaches them. Some time previous to Cie acti.% two of our scorrid.ws chas:l two English scorri.: under the fire of a ship, they would uadoul)tecily Ii fallen into our hinds, hut ter the rrotection t:.:: _vessel. To-day, at five in the morning, it v:as anneal:.; to the King, that an enemy's corvette had hcistt.! flag of attack, when his Makity inn:leLot:ly nlandcd the flotilla to prepare for b..ttle. in to the army which had arrived to att,:r.,nt ation, it received orders to retrrc to a Ois:..oze the Coast, and take post on the li.tia7as, in '- • • be sheltered from die fire of die enemy. • A little after nine o'clock the English theilla s:. sail towards our line of anchorage, airivcd that of our batteries ; they croned a t:reailfel fir , which we answeited in th- most cooraoecus and Iv:: maintained manner. Twice the enemy was back under his batteries, at last a frigate and thrt.- brigs received orders to proceed cn us with the whol! flotilla. Now the terrible fight again crarmenced, and during two hours 250 catinoo kept up a continual fire within grape shot distance; the Pirate arid three brigs sailed twice, within musket shot, alone out whole line c f anchorage, firing their broadsides into our gun-boats and transports, which sustained this new assault with a courage truly above ail euloeitien. Both have suffered but little, because all the ' i grape shot and bullets passed over them -and buried them. selves in the ground. The frigate and three brigs have been much damaged by the grape shot and balls of 30 gun-boats and two batteries; s.at • ps were compelled to quit the scene of action, and re gain with all speed the port of Me•oina. The retreat of the EngliOi flailla was Trade with precipitation, and in the greatest disorder. Had it not been for the vicinity of the enemy's coast, we would infallibly have taken two of their gun-boats.— One of the brigs has, in particular, greatly suffered; its maintop-mast and all its rigging were shot away. Five or six gun-boats were struck with shot, and were taken away in tow. On our side, we have bad one marine only killed, five wounded, and six gun-boats and five transports slightly damaged. The Lieutenant de Vaisseau Mon temajor, commanding a division of gunboats, an officer of the greatest merit, was slightly wounded. The 10th regiment of infantry had an officer killed, and nine soldiers wounded, though this corps was at least 600 toises from the coast.—The enemy, on the contrary, must have suffered considerably, having been four hours under the grape-shot of our gunboats and batteries. These two affairs do the greatest honour to our marine, and prove the bravery and superiority with which it continues to contend against that of the enemy. The presence of I:is Majesty animates every officer—every marine of his flotilla ; and all endeavour to distinguish themselves undo his eyes. " Royal Camp, Plate, Sept. S. " The enemy was kept completely on the alert this laight. The scorridors and two boats of the Royal Guard, manned by tO; grewidiers, and the Officers of the guard charged to effect a reconnoitring, disem barked in the suburbs to to the south of Messina. All the troops took to arms. and the alarm signals an nounced an invasion to the enemy's army. Onr scor ridors flied some cannon shot upon the posts, atter which they as well as the two boats, which brought back the men that had been landed, tranquilly re turned to their anchorage, whilst the enemy's scorri dors, which came out from Port, were tiring at ran dom upon the place, where die disembarkation had taken place." " Royal Camp, Piale, September 1!. " His Majesty within a; to make a diversion, ordered some transports yesterday morning to be sent to I an timeli, loaded with troops, and a division of gu . e.- boats, commanded by the Captain of frigate, Ll• nauiolo. This effectually drew from that side the attention of the enemy, who advanced to attack them with two vessels of 74 guns, a corvette, some bombs, and 55 gun-boats ; he made three successive attacks, and tircd more than 6000 balls, but our feel batteries and gun-boats proved in this instance all La._ advantages of a defence previously planned , and maintained with courage and sear/roil " The enemy was obliged to sheer off; after hay . in; had many of his square-sails damaged. One ot his fleet was towed into the port of Messina to be repa id- We have had some of our boats damaged, and t weh . men killed or wounded. " Our young artillery-men conducted themselves extremely well in this action, which adds to the high reputation which the marine in general has acquirci this sc..ason." " Ro ) al Camp, Pi*, Sept. 18. 66 The bold reconnoitring lately ex ecuted by a de • tachment of the guard even to the suburbs t.) the south of Messina, had already proved that it was pcs• sible for our army to land •on the first win d which ooliged the enemy to break his line of anchorage 16 fact, a wind having yesterd.ly arisen, sufficientiy strong to induce all sailors to believe that the eco noxial gales had commenced, the English made haste to make all their ships return to port, aild his Majesty did not flit to profit of this occasion, to .a disembarkation in the night. " In consequence some detachments of the f';‘l 4thinfantry of the line, and the `2d.Neapolitan Chas. seurs, and a Corsican battalion, were embarked, and set sail towards ten o'clock at night, d.rectin7 !be:r course towards Scaletta. At three o'clock in ti:e morning they were at San-stefano, in Sicily, dislod!:'-i the enemy from it with cries of rive l'Entirtrar., le Roi, and pushed their columns to the tort La .chessa, successively driving back all the posts the? encountered. During this time the wind untOrtunatelf ceased, and the dead calm which succeeded it, ^l l. posed, as well as the currents; the other projects w!fiil the King intended to to Jr di effcct.