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d de la Surra and its environs, advanced on -*int by B‘rtuillor, Zafra. and Xeres de ..eros ; the accounts of his strength vary. of the Marquis de la knmana occupies. 4 , 1 sAbotterra and the neighbourhood; this ns;sis of 14,090 foot, and 15,000 horse. sr S.—lntelligence has just be•n received ,rveoz.t that the French who occupied Xeres Cabutter Is have fallen back to Buguillon.-4- trt it current that some French troops nave ad. fr m Alm.trez to l4rnzilln. Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been to command, that all the Portuguese men of , a ti( , ned in Portugal, shall be under the orders Brit6h Admiral who commands on that 1 1 de h tr b S etas ; th v- of the , t ,, s.dowe ns ;sis of sr s,lnt • ,iveliza tha • Cahutteris • ; .p e t ig current fr n; Alma Royal Hig 3 .. ed to comma; stati(,ned in . of t he 13ritibh station. LI! ,-MmeidA is still i c i,lbt it will at le three mere will ex' attempt to advani phihell And raanc places, their caval attempting the par be a most diffiLult to be effected. T Balthazar has 20, Teas os Moores at an d s hould it ham pate into this col must btreouously pass. General L flank of our army. The enemy has near Braganza ; tl b e i. The Juiz dr leere has again left barracks are preps I.1;1 d WELLINGTOD o f the Regency, in vise de Mina. VI convoy to-day, and a r e very few nen( they chiefly consist LIS By the last ascot; LISBON, AUGUST 11. AlmeidA is still invested, and I have not the smallest do,ibt :t will at least F old out three weeks, and that three more will expire before the enemy will dare to attempt to advance further into the country than Pinhell and Paancosa, for the moment they pass these ! A w es, their cavali y will be useless, and as for their attem pting the passage of the Ponte Muratta, it will be a most difficult task, and in my opinion impossible to be effected. They cannot poosibly flank us, for Balthazar has 20,0(k) Maki* un d er hi s command in Ttas os Monies and Minh°. They are fine troops, an d st, onld it happen that the enemy were to pene. pate into this country by Braganca, they will be mc tit btrenuously opposed at every river and at every pass. General Leith will always cover the right flank of our army. The enemy has about 1700 foot and 200 cavalry near Braganca ; they did not burn the Palace of Pin. hel. The Juiz de Fora went off with them. Po lore has again left Corunna for Biscay. Temporary barracks are preparing for 10,000 men at Peniche..- I.old WELLINGTON and Mr. STUART are appointed . of the Regency, in place of the Patriarch and the Mar. vise de Mina. We send home 80 deserters with the convoy to-day, and 110 arrived this morning. There ore very few French ar Hanoverians among them.. they chiefly consist of Italians and Germans. LISBON, AUGUST 11. By the last accounts from our army it appears that the enemy had relaxed in his attempts againstAlmeida. PROCLAMATION FROM HIS EXCELLENCY MARSHAL OZNILRAL LORD WELLINGTON. " It having come to my knowledge, that certain persons have been sent by the enemy into the interior or the kingdom with letters and messages for differ ent individuals, cities, and towns : all such persons shall be arrested as criminals, and sent with the let. ters with which they may be charged to my head. g annets. Those who shall receive letters from the one.enT's army, and net apprehend the beaters of them, shall be considered as accomplices, and subjected to the most rigorous punishment. " WELLINGTON." " Head•quartas, August i.' On the 3d instant, eighty cavalry entered Atalia, near Alpedrenha, where they were engaged by two squadrons of the regiment of Alcantara, who made 16 prisoners and killed 12. In the Order of the Day of the 2d of August, dated from the head-quarters at Legiosa, and published in the Gazette of yesterday, tie Marshal, Commander-in-Chief, testifies his satis faction with the good conduct of the Portuguese troops who were in the battle of the 24th of July, at the bridge of Almeida, and who were the two battalions of the Chasseurs, Nos. 1 and 8, the Marshal declares, that the reports circulated, and which in some mea sure compromised the battalion No. 1, were abso lutely false, since it deserved equally with the other the praises of his Excellency, who has rewarded the brilliant conduct of the Ensign of the battalion of Chasseurs, No. S, A. C. Lectaon, by appointing him Lieutenant, agreeable to the authority granted him by the Prince Regent, to promote Officers who distinguish themselves in any action. His Excellency also declares thai be will request his Royal Highness to insert in large characters in the patents of officers who shall thus acquire promotion, the words Promoted for good conduct in thefield of hank. The General Marquis de Romana was on the sth inst. at Olivenza, whence it is said he will set out With 22,000 men to meet General Monier, whose force is from 10 to 12,000 men. It is said that the enemy has fallen back to the other side of the Coa, and that they give no indications of intending the siege of Almeida. General Loison appears to be still in Pinhel. Our armies preserve their positions, ob. serving the movements of the French. Since our last we have also received Dutch papers, containing Paris news to the 20th instant, from which 'o7e have given, in another column, every thing de. serving of notice. The Address of the Dutch De puties to NAPOLEON on his birth-day, and the answer of the latter, furnish lairlentable proofs of the degra tiing extent to which tyranny and its consequences may be carried. In the Emperor's answer we have farther proof, were proofs warning, of the implacable and unappeasable rancour which he fosters against this country. What hopes can be entertained of being able to obtain a solicland lasting peace from an enemy whose every step, whether hostile or nominally paci tc, has but one object—the annihilation of our naval ascendancy, and the abolition of those principles of, maritime and commercial jurisprudence on which it is founded I NAVAL INTELLICIIME. TORBAY, AUGUST 25. Wednesday arrived the ships Ross, Cartain BERIC• LEY ; and Laskins, Captain CURTIB, both from the • Downs, bound to Jamaica ; and nett day they sailed with a light breeze to the Westward.—Friday evening arrived his Majesty's sloop of war the &Ho, with nine sail of transports, having troops on board from the Downs, bound to Leland ; their names are as follow : New Diligence, Dines:4, Flora, William, Hel len, Albion, Caldicot Castle, William, and Voyagcr4 PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 2S. Rear-Admiral Sir HARRY BURRA RD NEALE arrived here last night, at Sole's Tavern, and this morning hoisted his flag on board the CALEDONIA, in Cawsand Bay ; on which occasion he saluted the flag of our Port-Admiral, Sir ROBERT CALDER, who returned the same. Sir HARRY, as stated in a former letter, is to have a command in the Channel fleet. Arrived the LATONA frigate, — fro — rn Portsmouth, bound to the Mediterranean, with letters and di:- patched for our fleet, and for Gibraltar, Cadiz, and Malta—she is expected to sail again this evening—she is armed ex./Iw, and has troops and stores on board. Also, arrived the MARINER gun-brig, from Ports mouth ; WEAZI,E schooner from Falmouth ; ABER* CROMBIE, 74, from Portsmouth, to be docked ; the American ship Thomas, from London for America ; Nancy brig, PERCHARD, from Waterford ; American schooner, Roma, from Boston, with flour, &c. ; and the FANCY cutter from Southampton, with Sir H. B. NEALE'S baggage on board. The POMPRE, of 80 guns, has come up Hamoaze, from Cawsand Bay, to be docked. The FOXHOUD brig of war, is fitting for the Channel service. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST N. Arrived the MILAN frigate, Sir ROBERT LAWRIZ, Bart. from Lisbon, with dispatches. Also arrived the Weymouth store-ship, from the West-Indies. The convoy for Portugal and the Mediterranean, is still wind-bound. The NERILIS, for the Brazils, is waiting the arrival of the GAMBINA, with stores for the Cape. Wind W. DEAL, AUGUST se. Sailed his Majesty's ships MONARCH and SKYLARK, for Sheerness. Arrived the ROYALIST and THRRAN t from a cruize ; also a few ships from the Rivet, and remain.—Wind N. W. YARMOUTH, AUGUST U. The Baltic outward-bound beet, under convoy of the GLUCKSTADT and CKNTINEL gun-brig, which has been lying-to for the Laval= and Balms gun-brig, sailed on Friday, P. M. and on Saturday afternoon the FISGUARD frigate, Captain MASON, sailed for the Baltic, with live bullocks. The HZARTY gun-brig has sent in two vessels, laden with Deals, bound to an enemy's port.—ln the Roads, RONDUCK, HAVOC, and Acura.—Admiral Lord GARDINCR is expected here to-day, to hoist his flag on board the Rosaucx his Lordship's baggage arrived yesterday, in a tender. GLASGOW, AUGUST 23. Sunday arrived at the Brownielaw, the New Orleans, Captain ilstitairr, from New Orleans and Pensacola. On the 19th of July, in let. 31 30. and long. 79. Captain SIIIIMIII7 saw the homeward-Eland Jamaica fleet, apparently upwards of 200 mil. The following is the copy of a circular transmitted by the Director• General of the French Customs to the Directors of that Department at the respective ports : • " Paris July t, 1510. " Sir—ln my circular of the 20th of O c t o b er last, I apprised you that, according to a regulation of the Minister of the Inte rior, dated the 18th, vinegat, being a description of wine, might, under that denomination, be comprised among the productions of the soil permitted to be exported under the licences. " The proportional quantity of wine and brandy that may be put on board the licensed vessels, having been since determined by the decree of the 15th February, his Excellency decided, on the 30th of June, that the intent of the said decree would not be ful filled, if the vinegars were merely admitted in the room of wines, send that they can only form part of the surplus of the cargoes, as productions of the soil. " You wiU, consequeatly, be pleased to give Driers that one half at least of the cargoes of vessels provided with licences, shall be composed of real wines and brandies, without tolerating any substitution of liquors of the same species, but differing is quality. " I beg you will enforce this repletion, and assure me of your attention in this respect, by acknowledging the receipt of the pre , sent circular." The conditions on which our Government is dis posed to allow a commercial intercourse with France, are contained in the subjoined order, which was issued on Thursday : 48 At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the of 1810. Present, the Lords of his Majesty's Moot Honourable Privy Council. " Whereas there was this day read at the Board, the humble Petition of It is ordered, that a licence be granted for permitting the of • tons burtlten, under any lag except the French, to export from the port of to any port in France between and both inclusive, any articles (to whomsoever the same may belong), which may by law be exported, except cotton wool, and to import into any port of Great Britain from the said port of delivery, or from some other port fa France witless the dis trict above named, with liberty foe the voted se prowled in hol iest from the said port of delivery to aspen el lading ' s cargo to whomsoever the same may 'belong, consistiog of grain* meal, fiber, bur stones, seeds, and olive oil and •sine • upon condition that the vessel importing the wine shall have ex ported to France, under the same licence, British or East Indian manufactured goods, sugar and coffee, to the amount in balk of one third of the tonnage of the vessel; and that the cargo to be so imported as aforesaid shall consist of two-thirds in bulk of grain, meal, and lower, if importable according to the provisions Of the Corn Laws, and seeds, and in no cas.: of more than one third in bulk of wine. The said proportions both of export and import to be be ascertained to the satisfaction of the racers 40 the customs at the port of importation.—And upon the futther condition, that sock vessel so proceeding under the permission of the said licence' with wine to any port out of Falmouth, shall stop at Falmouth ,or Plymouth fee convoy, and dull not proceed to the eastward of .Piposoutli witboot convoy, and shall proceed with such convoy and not desert the same till her arrival at the port of destination, as lowan inch tummy shall be instructed to protect her, the mu ter to be to receive his freight and depart with his vessel and crew to any port not blockaded ; and also upon the further condition that We licence shall not be understood to pro tect any vessel navigated by French seanalm:or any French-built , vessel, escape such as shall have been taken as prize, or shall have I been traniferred trent French possession prior to the Order of Council of the lOch November, 1807, respecting the sail of ene my's ships, and shall not in either case have rtturned spin into French possession. And that the name and tonnage of the vessel, and the name of the master and time of clearance from the port of lading, shall be indorsed at the time of clearance on the said licence. Such licence to remain in force for ond at the 'spiritism of that period, o*sooser, if the said importation is completed, to be deposited with the Commissioners of his Ma jesty's Centime at the port of London, or with the Collector of he Customs at the out•pons. And the Right Hon. Richard Ryder, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is hereby specially authorised to grant such licence, in case he shall tee no objection thereto, annexing to such licence the duplicate of this order herewith sent for that purpose." THE ARMYI The trtiop of Royal Horse Artillery, now at Brighton, is about to move to Lew'esi A detachment tit the SOth Foot has embarked at Portsmouth to join the regiment at Cadiz.—A dd. tachment of the 79th has disembarked, and marched to Chichester. The North Hants Militia, Station 4 at Bristol, are ordered into camp, upwards of 100 of the men being sick. The 4th battalion of the Royals arrives at Edin burgh on Monday from Leith, whither they had been brought in five smacks from Gravesend. They ex perienced a severe storm in their passage down. The regiment marched on Tuesday morning for Dunbar. A smack, containing two of the companies, separated from the ethers in the storm, and did not arrive till Wednesday night. They marched next morning. Wm. Holditch, a Serjeant in the Bth Veteran Bat talion, has been tried for desertion, and forging the Commanding Officer's name to a pass. He was sen tenced to be reduced to a private in the Royal Afri can Corps for life. COURT MARTIAL. The proceedings against Adjutant Mason, of the 2d Tower Hamlets Militia, were resumed on Satur day morning, when the prisoner put in a written de fence, nearly to the following purport, viz. He entertained no doubt of being able to justify himself; for he would shew that nothing but the most diabolical conspiracy could have devised such a collection of foul accusations against him : that, previous to the period of those charges, he passed 25 years of his life in the army, an d had filled every rank subordinate to his present situation (Captain and Adjutant), during which time he had the honour of receiving the approbation of his superiors, and no complaint of any description was ever preferred against him : that the infamy and baseness of his prosecutor's character were such, that no person but a man of his description would ever have brought such charges : that he had been accused of felony-- had been tried at the Old Bailey-4ad been guilty of perjury and of disloyalty, and whom he (Captain Mason) had screened from punishment ; that there fore, his conduct, in bringing these charges, was vile and ungrateful : that others were connected with him in this senuisirmy, of superior rank in every re spect, but that, out of all the charges which had been roused up before the Court of Enquiry, only these five were sent for the consideration of a Court Mar tial. He then proceeded to enter more at large re specting the charges separately. With respect to the• first, he argued that as there was a current account between the Paymaster and himself, and that account making him a debtor to Government, it ought not to be brought against him. On the second, he admitted some part of the accusation ; as he did on the third, respecting employing a soldier, of the name of Bent, doing some little work for him, but contended that it was altogether a malevolent attack; and that, with respect to the fourth and fifth charges, he never com mitted an act of cruelty himself, or injured a private in the regiment: He concluded with imputing the prosecution altogether to private revenge. In support of the statements Captain Mason made in the course of his speech, witnesses were adduced : ' Colonel Hardy deposed, that in 1809 he had lent to Captain Mason £7OO, and for which he received interest. Captain Mason stated to witness that he was raising a great number of recruits for Govern ment ; and added, that he was very anxious to get his (the Tower Hamlets) regiment filled; but no money could be drawn for such recruits for some time, therefore he wanted the money. Witness had no doubt but be applied the money for the purpose men tioned. Cilonel Jackson lent Captain Mason in 1809, 41250 for forwarding recruiting service, and he saw most of that sum applied for such purpose. General Turner had known Captain Mason well since 1803, and it was his opinion that Captain Mason had 'supported his military character in a most exem plary manner, and he (General Turner) always con sidered him as a most excellent and good man and Adjutant both in the field and in the interior of his ' regiment. So far as witness had been able to observe, Captain Mason had at all times behaved himself in a most zealous and indefatigable manner, and in a man ner that was advantageous to the service. Witness had never heard any complaints from the men that they had not received their full bounties, or that Cap tain Mason had withholden from them any part of the bounty that was legally due to them ; and wit ness at all times made it his practice to inquire whether the men had any thing to complain oft He (Ge neral Turner) never discovered that Captain Mason bad behaved with cruelty and barbarity towards any of the men ; but on the contrary that he behaved himself in a manner that every lover of the army and of the country's welfare would at all times desire to see. The-Colonel of the 2J Regiment of Tower Ham lets deposed, that Captain Mason's exertions were at all times zealous and most exemplary. Witness had known him when a Serjeant-Major in the Guards (Captain M. was formerly a private in the guards) in 1796, and from what witness had seen from that time to the present moment, he had every reason to respect and esteem Captain Mason, who was uncom monly correct in his pecuniary transactions. Wit ness deemed it justice to add, that Captain Mason had prevailed on him to remit punishment where he theitight punishment was due. The Serjeant-Major of the regiment said, that he obtained recruits for Captain Mason, with which re cruits he had agreed for £lO. 10s. bounty, and that be had received from Captain Mason more than two' guineas for bringing them ; he had received three guineas per man. Witness had also paid the expen ces of those volunteer recruits who were not received, and which expences be charged to Captain Mason. .1 Captain Thomas and Lieutenant Liach were pre sent when Serjeant Wood signed the paper that had been produced, and he seemed to sign it from his own free will. Mr. Caruthers, Surgeon to the regiment, received John Clinton at the hospital, who complained of no disease, but that he had been confined by Captain Mason; and that he was fearful he should be ill from 'such confinement. Witness told him that it would be time euongh to complain when such confinement caused the illness he feared. Witness ordered no me dicines fbr him, but immediately sent him back to the regiment. 01114 cross-m*o*e he admitted that he had Iheart! men complain hi consequence nt inving b'en confined in- the Store Guard Ronk though he en il.i not name the instances. Witneu was esi a Afre.ier ...f the Royal College of Surgeons. Here Captaiit Mason observed, that he had gone through the evidence that he had to adduce to rebut the charges, and that he was ready to bring forwArd proofs ni the conspiracy with which he had charged the prnstcutor, It 'chard Tiirop. The Judge Advocate remarked, that such evidence could not be received. The 4:-.tirt had not been as sembled for the purr)* of trying the 1... tractor ..... , but for the pip .se of ex 'Jilting into and investip. .ug the charges preferred against Captain Mast n by Richard Thrnp. Captain Mason the i proddeed a piper which he desired might be laid in the üble, but, he Judge Ad. vocate observed that nothing c..uld be received but what was adduced as evidenie. The Princess Cueits.orre of Watts on Friday hp.: (toured Portsmouth with a visit. She was received by the Admiral and General commanding there, and by the Comtnicsioner, with every mark of respect hut, as her visit was not a public one, no salute was fired. Atter viewing the Dock-yard, she returned to bee house at Bognor. Friday night, died at his apartments, in Somerset. place, CHAR!.ISI EDWARD ERReBIoRD, Esq. Secretary to the Honourable the Commissioners of his Majet ty's Stamp Duties. Letters have been received froin Cape Francois. Hayti, to the 9th June. One of them mentions that General RIGAUD, who arrived there recently, and who is considered as an agent of the French Government, had attached himself to Perm, and attempted to accommodate the differences between the two Chiefs; but the negotiation entirely failed. Cmit worm" had subsequently put himseif at the head of his army, and was about to attack the Mole. He had dismissed Captain GOODALL from his service. The Act passed last Sessions, for the better preset.: vation of Heath Fowl, or Black Game, in Somerset and Devon, prohibits the killing of heath-fowl belie Ist September, or after 10th December r the old Act permitted the killing of this game from 20th August, to Ist May. JUDGI Fosrik.—A short time before this great Lawyer's death, he went the Oxford Circuit, in one of the hottest summers that had been remembered, his ; charge to the Grand Jury was as follows:—" G men, tilt weather is extremely hot, I am very old, and lyou ad very well acquainted with your duty —prat: rice it." In order to caution persons against premature gleaning in the fields of .a parish in Oxfordshire, a notice, of which the following is a literal copy, signed by the principal farmers, has been stuck up in varioui parts of the village —u We woes names are sined aad affixed do hearby give Notice to those that it may consarn trespassing no the way of Gleaning till the field is dared will B shued aCording to Law by Wee.'' A curious race was won on Thursday evening from Battersea Bridge along the King's-road to the Turn pike-gate, Grosvenor-place. A young Gentleman unable to chuse between two highly accomplished ladies (sisters) proposed a horse-race, each of the ' ladies, in her turn, Was to ride foremost with the core. mon lover mounted behind her, and it was agreed ' that whichever of the Ladies rode the above distance and back again (being about five miles) in the short. est time, was to receive his hand. The eldest sister started from Battersea-bridge in a fine style, with her squire mounted behind her, precisely at hal f p ast seven o'clock on the above evening, and retu rned to the same place, after reaching Grosvenor-place Turn. pike-gate in fifty minutes. The second, similarly ac. coutred, and determined to gain the prize, mounted the fleet steed with great agility, and performed the same journey in little more than forty minutes. She of course was declared the winner. A young Lady, named Lyrn.rrom, on a visit to Mrs. HUMPHRIES, in Hampstead, while walking on the Heath on Friday . morning, was induced by curio. sity to walk on one of those causeways which commu nicate from the shore with the sluices that stand a considerable distance in the Hampstead ponds.— Having arrived at the end of the plank, and examined the object that attracted her attention, she turned round to go back to the bank, on which stood two female friends, who had not sufficient courage to fol low her example but, either from sudden dizziness in her head, or from an inattention to her footing, she I fell into the pond, where the water is full twenty feet in depth. Fortunately she was extricated by a young Gentleman who was passing, brought safe to shore, and recovered. The Average Prices of Navigable Canal Property, Dock Stock, Fire-Office Sham, acc. in August, 1810, the 25th) : Tree. sad /alarm sr Grand Trunk Canal s dividing 440 pot thon:str*Aileue. 41075. Coventry, ins pit Kars. itlao to 4707. 10s. Growl 7 sill7o to MOIL_ Maeosoiessidei, XS per lbw, Half Yearly. flu to 4134. Stoorbridp, Leeds sod Liverpool, *Cie& 10.. Kennet sod Avon, £43. 10e. £44. Wilts ad vlts, £5ll. £59. Huld!osidl e £39. 10.. anal v w. elk. ss. Premium. Both ood iiieol Extension, £6. Its. to Pemba: Ellesmere m& West-India Dock Stock, £166. East-India Dock, ,6136. London Dock, situ. Globe Anomie*, it IS. Thames sad Medway, 153 Pteinianie Ashby-De-LapZourt, AIL 10s. Imperial ileurnee, C 76. Atlas Assume', Par. Eav, Lor.iion Water-Works, MIS. West Middlesex, £145. Vauxhall Bridge, £5 per Cent. Discount. Coax MellarT, Mealr-LAN; AUOIIST !Tr:Mb day t 114,0 aft tolerable supplies of Wheat Coastwise, with most of ism week's arrivals of foreign, about 37,000 quarters—Sales are heavy tad cheaper—ln Barley sad Malt little varieties... Beam of bosh sera likewise—White Peas again lower—Thent are considerable supplies of Oats, and sales thereof are diaper—Flour hardly at ousaat late rims. allaiNCT es aware. Wheat, 78s. Ws. 105 s. Beans, Hs. 58s. Pine ditto, 114 s. 118 s. Tick ditto, 44c Sic • Rye, std. 445. Oats, 110 s. 2.55. Barley, ns. 441. Poland ditto, Malt, 78c 80s. Potato. ditto, 375. Wide' Pen (boilers) 531. Ms. Rape Seed, dna. XS& Fine Pour, 85e. to 1006.--Secoods, 90s. to OM. Derain'', Aigust lip—There were 404 bolls r market, which said at last day's prices. Best W dor from Ms. to 48s. Barley 80e. to Ms. Oats ' rent no. fait ad Boa WC lOUs. pus bpi. Y ~~ 1 emus la air Wheat Cu. 245. to 1101.