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BP PORTUGUESE PAPERS. 1.1580 N, JUNE 8. Marshal Massenr is to command the 2d, 6th, and Bth corps. The fir,t that which is under the or-. ders of Regnier, and has wasted much time in EStre rnadura, without attempting any useful operation,— The second is Ney's corps, from 8 to 10,000 of which are sick in the hospitals ; and the last is Junot's corps, which was composed of 18 or 19,000 men, 4000 of whom he sacrificed in the most ridiculous and uselesc attempt against Astorga. Such are the troops with whon► Massena is to defeat the gallant army, superior in numbers, and in every other point of view, to the emaciated and dispirited troops he hasto lead against it. It is evident that Ney's corps never dared formally to lay siege to Ciudad Rodrigo, on account of the •proximity of the Combined English and Portuguese true the Portuguese are now well trained, and, on ie parade, exhibit a most martial appearance. It is likewise true they are well officered, the greater part of the officers being British, who have seen ser vice ; but the Portuguese have not yet been 'tried, ar!d it is ttle'ri.nre judged prudent not to hazard a conflict, if it can be avoided, till Lord WnctaNcrosi shall have a tried force, on which he can place more confidence tl , . n on untried troops. _ _ General S. ,SCEIt joined the British Army on the 2d instant, and took the command of the first division. General PAYNE has resigned the command of the cavalry to General COTTON. This morning a Mail from Lisbon arrived at the Post-Office, brought to Falmouth by the Princess Elizabeth paclat, in 10 days, from the Tagus. No. battle had taken place when She sailed, but, as for some time past, one was shortly expected. General MASSENA, who now commands the French force oppi..sed to Lord WELLINGTON, on his taking the command, issued the following General Orders: ARMY OF PORTUGAL, SECOND CORPS. " Hcad-quarters, Valladolid, May I'2, 1310. " ORDER OF THE DAY. "The Ist, 6th, and St h corps of the army are informed that Mar shal MASsENA, Duke of Rvoli and Prince of F.-ling, has taken the chief command of then:, conformably to an Imperial Decree of the 17th April last ; the army to be exiled the army of Portugal. The Prince has also the command of the Northern Provinces of Spain, viz. of Old Castile, of Leon, the Asturias, the Pro vinces of St. Andcro and Loria, of the Provinces of Valladolid and Valencia, Toro, Zamora, Salamanca, and Avila. " The General of Division TRI6ION is appointed Chief of the Staff, and the General of Division Pint is to have the command of the Artillery, pursuant to an Imperial Decree of the 21st of the same month. " The Head-quarters of the Prince of ESLING are provision ally established at Valladolid. (Signed) • "TR tOION, Chief of the Staff, &c." -pi, 'A 1111 l L y US "I, ~••••••• ..... ...... --- 0 - '. army. i . JUNE 10. . I A convoy of transports is ready to sail for England with the 235 l Light Dragoons, and a considerable number of Germans that have deserted from the French service. 1 CORUNNA, JUNE 5. 1 The Spanish frigate Iphigenia is arrived here from i Portsmouth, with 20,000 stand of arms. CELORICO, JUNE 6. Lord Wellington is at Almeida. The 4th division of the army of Portugal has entered Spain. The whole of the French force may now be estimated at lltt,ooo men, but they have neither pay nor clothing, and subsist entirely on plunder. They continue to de- sert in great numbers, and the deserters report that the army is in great want of provisions. General Massena is at present at Valladolid. Before he left SA :manta, he published a proclamation, styling him- ; self King of Portugal, and promising on his royal word to drive all the English into the sea in less than three months, and declaring that he would hang every British officer found. in the Portuguese service. A large body of French troops appeared a few days ago before Ciudad Rodrigo, but they retired on the appearance of an English force. . BADAJOS, JUNE 5. Extract from an Extraordinary Supplement of the Diary of this city :—" General Jacome has officially reported, under date of the 12th ult. that several car- ,niers, who arrived with hemp from Gibraltar, unani- mously declare that they left Granada at the begin- sting of May, at which time they saw General Sebas- tian' enter the place with less than 2,000 men ; the whole number left of the division with which he marched from Granada to the East ; that Isctfeen - Lorca and Totana, past of the said division was routed with the loss of 18 pieces of cannon ; that il another part, headed by Sebastian' in person, and composed of 5,000 men, was also completely routed, and enteted Granada in the utmost disorder; that the head-ea:titers of Freiree army are in Totana ; thee General Celvache has cut off in Mowed the few troops who were there, and that it is thence inferred, that the whole division is, by this time, either de. stroyed or has surrendered. `. 1 ~ Valdivia has reported to Jacome that the French ~ left Malaga with the utmost precipitation, taking with them 18 waggons filled with gunpowder and money; that no more than 500 French troops remained in Malaga, and that he therefore solicited leave to march and take Malaga. Jacome was arranging with the Governor the measures most eepeelient for that pur- nose ; and it was agreed that a ship, having an Eng- lish regiment on board, some small Inside, and two t. transpot ts, should be sent thither, in order, if nothing else could be done, to remove the magazines of pro- visions and other effects which the French had in that place. 4, Private letters from divers places, some of which, from the most respectable quarters, confirm the report of the total defeat of Sebastiani's division, and the capitulation concluded by the remnants of his troops in Granada, as soon as our troops arrived ; the same is said of'Malaga." 'JUN F: 6.—A1l the efforts made by Massena to collect a formidable army in Castile appear to have proved fruitless. His corps does not exceed 30,000 men, and to bring this force together he has been obliged to or- der the garrison of Leon and other places to join him. About 4000 of his troops occupy Beneventt. Lor Wellington makes, in the mean time, the most vigo- rous preparations to give Massena a warm reception; and it is said he has detached a division of his army to dislodge the French from Benevente. The strength' cef the combined army, which exceeds 50,000 men, and the strong position of Ciudad Rodrigo and Al- meida, leave our enemy but little reason to hope a favourable result of his intended invasion of Portugal, although Massena has already issued several procla- inatioes e t,e vellich he promises to reward his soldiers with the property of the peaceful Portuguese. He may perhaps lese in the hot climate of the south the ism., 1! ,, Acquired iii the frozen regions of the north. 11 1 r, EV EN IN ( ; STAR . . - LONDON. MONVAY, JUNE 25. . . . PRICE OF S'l OCKii THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 iv- Ct. Cons.-shut---tur ni..g. 7' I. tri;t•i• Ct. R. tit, c. , 1 C 4-4 pt•r tint. soh'', 84. , .5 . V.T ct . 1Z A*/ V shot.--- 4 0ninIunt 4 1 i prim. iixe,ll.llo.s Ic. dis. to ..:s. prer.-13ondts Cos. to 21g. rr, Prt lei:. OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY. tank Streit ttlitit Lorg Ann. is ,-list, S N er C,:sq. R.!(1, Ann. 691 India Stock 191 3 per Con. Ct , ii. dint f India Bo:Ids 19c pr. 4 per Cent. t'.s A'.{ 1 F..s.ch. Bills (1(1. r-. pr. 5 percs::st. Navy shut I Cons. for ace. 71; ---- Every arrival from the Peninsela is seized upon to gig t: currency to reports of a battle between the Allied Army and the French. The f;WIF r schooner (ar- rieed at Felneatth) we c, on Saturday afternoon, re- ported to have brought intelligence of a victory ob, e iire , l by Eqd WeLta TON. rfb We understand there te is no truth in this statement. Government have dis- ' patclice from his Lordship of the 7th instant, at which date no battle bad been fought. Indeed we know ehat.Ministers have no wish that Lord We:eel:cm - or; sholild court a conffict, At least tiil After he shell have eeceived the reinforeements now tending to him. r il44 ga4i9ll WP ;44414 but hi&bly Approve, It is v .. • ADDRESS TO TIM ARMY. " Soldiers—His Majesty the EMPEROR, on confiding to me the command of his army of Portugal, has been pleased to asso ciate me in the glory which you are about to acquire in the new expedition, to which y u are destined. You are well aware, Soldiers, that discipline and subordination are the first pledge of victory. What obstacles shall he able to resist your valour when rigid observance of discipline shall have prepared your success! You shall always find in my conduct, and in that of my brother Officers, the example of perseverance amidst difficulties, fatigues, and print ions, and your dangers shall be common to us, as well as the glorious result which Lis Majesty expects from the devo tion of his heroes of the army of Portugal. " The Marshal Duke- of Rivou, Prince of ESLING, Com mander in Chief of the Army of Portugal. (Signed) A true Copy. " MASSENA. Commander of the Engineer. " isiturev." The letters received by this mail state, that Gene neral MASSENA has also issued a Proclamation, ad dressed to the Portuguese nation, in which he stiles himself " KING OF Poitrucat.," calling, on them t.' " drive out the perfidious English, and submit to his authority"—threatening in case of non-compliance, that he will desolate the country with fire and sword. Some of the letters state that he had also written a letter to Lord WELLINGTos, offering to give him per miition to retire unmolested from Portugal, fhe would de part immediately ; but adding, that otherwise, he would drive the British army into the sea, in less than three months :—and would hang every British officer whom he found in the Portuguese army. The Punch are paid to have 73,000 men between Salamanca and Truxillo-10,000 at A storga-10,000 at Ciudad Rod rigo—besides 18,000 in small detached partici ; and the 4th division of the Army of Portugal, is said to have entered Spain. We have also received letters from Gibraltar to the 2d instant. They confirm the accounts before re ceived of the disaster latel y experienced by the enemy at Marbella, and tl,e determined perseverance of the peasantry in that neighbourhood to defend their coun try. It also appears by these letters that General O'Dom.EL has gained another important victory over the enemy. The intelligence rests Only on the autho rity of the Captain of a Spanish vessel arrived at Gibraltar from the neighbourhood of Tarragona, but we are not without hopes that it will prove authentic. 41 GIBRALTAR, MAY 21. " On the 17th a strong detachment of the enemy attacked the town of Marbella, near this, but they were three times driven out of the town, leaving be tween forty and fifty dead in the streets, and were finally obliged to abandon their design of occupying that place.the peasantry in the neighbouring moun tains carry on a most destructive war against the French, who suffer exceedingly, without gaining any ground or reaping any advantages from the bloody skiimitlhes in which► they are daily engaged. !The HIBERNIA and Noimn:AtBERLAND are still lying wind.bound in the bay, having been twice driven back in attempting to pass Ow Straits. Commissioner Lens's family, Mrs. WRIVIHT, and Captain BENNET, of the Fame, arc passengers on board the Hibernia, for England." ..... _ _ " GIBRALTAR, JUNE 2. 44 The Master of a Spanish vessel, which arrived this morning from Cambril, near Tarragona, in four Jlys, stares, that before he sailed from Cambril intel ligence was received by express from Lerida that the rench army had been completely defeated near that city, after a most obstinate and bloody battle, by the Spanish army under General O'Donnel. The loss of the French was betsseea 6 ane 7,000 men, and that of the Spaniirds between 4. and 5,000. General lye rola commanded the vanguard of the Spanish army. Eleven thousand recruits had marched from Tatra gona to join General O'Donnel's army since the bat- Itle. The brother of the Master of the vessel being also ex.,mined, confirms the above statement, and adds, that brandy had risen ten cobbs a butt at Cam bril, in consequence of the news of the victory, and the security they felt in consequence." ANOTHER I.o' IT.R•-•-•SA ME DAI R. SPORTINO INTELLIGENCE. N4IVAL INTELLIGENCE. TORBAY, JUNE 29. ' S.iled to-day from Torbay his Majesty's ship CYAgE with the convoy for Senegal and the Cape of Good Hope. Remains in Torbay his Majesty's shin Antelope, Admiral DUCKWORI Hp and the Nonpareil schooner. Wind E. S. E. FALMOUTH, JUNE Arrived the Princess Elizabeth packet, Captain] KIDD, with a Mail from Lisbon, in tcn days. A fleet 1 of merchantmen sailed from the Tagus on the 29th ult. for England, under convoy of his Majesty's ships MYRTLE and PHIPPS.—Wind E. S. E. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 23. The Nisus frigate sailed for the East Indies ; the 1 3 1.ovEn sloop of war, for Corunna ; le RHIN frigate, with live bullocks, for the fleet off Rochefort ; the PHEASANT sloop, with a convoy to the Eastward ; the Dispatch and Deptford naval transports—the for mer for Portsmouth, the latter for Woolwich.—The wind having shifted to the Eastward, the PHEASANT s loop, that sailed yesterday with a convoy, put back again.—Arrived the Cif EMILY gun-brig, from Guern sey, and the ULYSSES, 44 , from Lisbon, last from Portsmouth. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE ^•4. Sailed the PROTECTOR gun brig with a convoy for Cork ; Cormorant store ship, and OSPREY sloop of war for the Downs ; ACUTE schooner for Guernsey ; and the LAVINIA frigate for Lisbon. The HIBERNIA and NORTHUMBERLAND men of war are released from quarantine. Yesterday sailed for Yarmouth Roads the GRASSHOPPER sloop of war with the Quebec fleet under convoy.—Wind Southerly. WEYMOUTH, JUNE 23. The trade bound to Portugal, Spain, &c. under convoy of the LIVELY frigate, sailed this morning, with a good breeze at East ; and the Francis Free ling packet for Guernsey, &c. _ HARWICH, JUNE '24. Sailed the Auckland packet for 'Heligoland ; and Lark packet for Gottenburgh, with the Mails of the 21411. Arrived Beaufoy packet with a mail from He ligoland ; and the King George packet with a mail from Gottenburgh. YARATCUTH, JUNE 24. Pasted yesterday a fleet of abt.ut 150 sail from the Baltic, under convoy, for the River Thames.— Sailed the Havoc, Lieutenant BAMBER ; and \' txrx, Lieutenant WRIGHT, on a cruize to the Northward Arrived the SIIELDRAKE and CHANTICLEER, from a cruizc. Sailed the PRINCF.SS of WALES cutter, with ships for Heligoland ; and the Eau), for the Texel to relieve the QUM:C.—Ships in the Roads the Roebude and Acute.—Wind S. E. cg A vessel tram Tortosa, whence she s.tiled the 28th tilt. has brought advite that the patriots under General O'Donnel attacked the enemy in their posi tion near Lerida, mad obtained a complete victory, The news cf this affair was transmitted by Colonel J. B. Decohta from Granena, but the particulars were at the time unknown to him," FROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. • . • ASCOT HEATH, JUNE WI: DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 21, MO. tw0 ,h 7 :6 " . 1 Dispatches hav e . been received at th e Of fi ce ofthe Earl of I.ier- IT Og y s. ss e t a . c s h i , b. 2og fill s ie . s fo B r st fe . it 2 , ll3 ' . „ ,- j pool, from Lieutenant-General Sir John Stuart , dated M • winner of a Sweepstakes to carry Sib. extra. ' - :* April ois, rsio, transmitting the Copy of a Das -. 1 1 . ""' 1511.0SZPSCtAoliltesStoofca3 1)-•r. sed F.:,- Mr. Ladbrokes ch. C. by Hambletoniau, out of Marianne • 1 d - ' ' i: elevere from Brigadier-General Oswald, of which the folLw- Capt. H. Vyse's h. c. by Cheshire Cheese, out of Beams 11 , '' lo g are Copts... - Lord E g remont's Sister to Brighton Lass - . - . Iliad-quarters, Camp, befor e S t T I ,, aut", H. R. H. the l ) uke of York's b. f. by Giles - - 4 I March 24, 1810. 6 and 7t04 on Lord Egremont's Brighton Lass. Sir--r have the honour to report to your t ecel- I ,orcl I.owther's Loiterer agst Mr. Ladbroe'sbhuttle,llst.7lb. ierlcy, that the troops, with the naval forces each, both 4-yr-olds. The New Mile, : dtts, b. ft , off by consent; ' - wider the A Handicap Plate of £5O for 411 ages. 1 orders of Captain Eyre,of his Majesty' h . Isp s s ip .. ign ifi. , Mr. Illake's Jeroboam, S yrs old . - 4t•l. . cent, as per margin*, sailed from Zan to on th- Mr. Jolitf. , *s Cambrian . - - - I S 2 :. morning of the 21st, and reached the island of St, Air. Bur„ -;I's Whistle Jacket . - 3 4 3 ' cl i M aura the same evening. Early the next ' Mr. Ladbrokes Emma . - - 6 9 4 , ay, t r . Mr. Fenwick's Stripling - - - llSdr ' army disemb arked to the southward of the Lay, n.-- 1 1 / 4 Ir. Thorn's Dormont - - - 56dr ' The enemy retiring from the batteries, on the ap. 3to 1 a:..,1 Cambrian ;4to 1 agst the winner; and 4to 1 agst proach of his-Majesty's ship Imogene and gen- • b oatc, Demean Even betting betwixt two and the field. I the troops immediately moved forward. I • t .icu chain- A Sveepstakes of 100 gs. each, h. ft. for colts and . Colonel Lowe, commanding the - advance, a portion fill es, 3-) r-olds. Colts Bst. 71b. Fillies Bst. Sib. ! f • . which ( Teel, in.antry), under Mike The last mile. Church, was kept upon the flank, and drive ' Lord Icrsey's c. by Sorcerer, walked over the Course. , - a ',any of Albanians from the adjacent heights. Ti These Races were never before so thinly :funded. Tile trnen was found to be evacuated ; General Camus lniv:eg with his whole forces (amounting to above one thou sand men) retired into the fortress and strong field works contingent thereto; at the same time acquaint ing the Civil Administration with his inability alp longer to protect them. The fortress of St. M tura is situated upon 7, nar row sandy Isthmus, of three miles in length, whi c h joins it - to the island, and it has, besides, a direct communication with the town by a singularly rarrow causeway, nearly a mile in length. The ne c k a land is defended by two strong redoubts, and an in trenehment regularly constructed, and capahle ( f such a resistance as led the enemy to declare they would arrest our progress for a month at least.— Lieutenant-Colonel Lowe being left to watch thie enemy's movements from the town, supported by Colonel Wilder and two battalions, -I Proceeded with a portion of light infantry to reconnoitre the Isthmus. Major Church, I found, had already, with tour companies of the Greek light infantry, gallantly car ried the first redoubt; the enemy retiring urnnihis next intrencliments, where he remained in force, assi duously employed in completing its defence. It was' . obvious that no time ought to be lost in carrying this work ; accordingly the battalion of detachrnents•nn der Major Clarke, 35th Regiment, was celled frbbi• the town to support the attack, which pres4ntis"site cess and the best apparent disposition induced ere to confide to the Greek light infantry. Captain Evie, who did me the honour to land with the troops, di rected his Majesty's ship Leonidas to be placed.so-as to favour the assault. Captain Brisbane, R.N. Ida was also on shore, conveyed this order and our in tentions to Captain Griffiths. The line to be attacked extended from sea tp, sea, mounted with four pieces of cannon well flaked ; had a wet ditch and abbatis in front ; mannel by about five hundred infantry ; and was so. defiled taut the sea as to render it almost secu:c from the fire of the shipping. Ilis hlajeLty's ship Leonidas came to anchor es eh se as the water would adnit of; rrearavhile the treeps formed in celemns appreacheci, and were to a certain distarce covered by the ground. Oil opening the front of the work they became cx. posed to a heavy and v. ell-directed fire of grape and musluctry. The Greeks res , ,rted to their :moisten). ed andin many sioections appropriate iw•de of figet. ing ; nor could tile most gallant riforls of 111.1* .i ..r antra, Captain Tttflin (Inspectrrs), :ind others of their Officers, make them advance with that ceier7 which, on similar occasions,, usually command. , both safety and success. .I . ern micqual to do jasiice to the exertions of my Staff, to the Officers of the Roy:il Artillery, and Royal Engineers who accompa nied me upon this trying oecasion. Captains Es ie and Siephers, of fie Royal Navy, were among the most animated in the combat, and were both wounded A letter from Cadiz gives the following particulars• in the display of professional characteristic valour.— respecting the prison ships formerly noticed in the Upon finding the bead of the column could ni tbe STAR :—" On the Lith ult. in the evening, the French brought to the assault, I immediately directed Major Officers confined on board the Spanish pontoon ship Clarke to bring np the battalion of detachments, con of the line (Castilia) disarmed the Spanish guard, cut sisting of two companies of the Royal Marines under tie cables, and, as the wind blew strong on the iiere, Captains Snow and Stu at, two companies of the drifted, and grounded on the east side of Fort Mate- Roll's -under Major de Bosset, and two companies gorda, mid before noon the next day, they had all Calabrian free corps under Major Oswald. The escaped to the shore, to the number of .500 men and Royal Marines, led by Major Clarke, and headed by several women. The success of this attempt induced their Officers, broke through the abbatis and charged the prisoners in the Argonauta to follow the example into the intrenchments ; they were nobly supported of their countrymen. Having disposed of the Spanish by the Roll's under Major Bosset; and no delicacy guard, early in the afternoon of the 26th, they were i can prevent me from noticing the gallant exertion of observed drifting towards the shore ; several gun. i Major Oswald, in bringing f4wara his corps. The boats, and the boats of the men of war, were dispatched contest was not of long duration ; the enemy fled a: to bring her up: she had onboard about 4 , 00 men, some all points, pursued with the bayonet from work to women and children, who had found means to secret work ; and such was his -precipitation that he not a number of ball cartridges, and for more than two only abandoned the camp and cannon of the attacked hours she kept up a smart fire on every boat that ap. line, but left his rem tilling strong position, followed proached them ; the consequence of which was, that by Major Clarke's command even to the gates of the the loss sustained has been great ,• more than fifty fortress. His flight was accelerated by a previously men having been killed and wounded, among the fat concerted and extremely well executed movement of ter are three Lieutenants, Mr. PHERSON, of the Cale: Lieutenant-Colunel Lowe, with the rifles of his corpse donia ; Mr. CON N ELL, Temeraire ; and Lieut. Cowen, supported by a company of the 35th and two coat of the Achille, since dead. The ACIIILLE lost fifteen parties of the Royal Corsican Rangers. The party, or sixteen of her people, who were employed in her , headed by the Lieutenant-Colonel, pushed along the gun-boat, in killed and wounded, but the former bears narrow and perfectly exposed causeway which con a very small proportion to the latter. In the night fleets the town with the fortress. This unexpected of the 26th, it blew very strong, and but a few of the advance led upon the enemy's rear, and contrihtned Frenchmen were enabled to reach the shore ; the next to his so quickly abandoning the strong redoubts, morning, it being moderate, several escaped, and un- which a front attack alone could with difficulty et til two o'clock in the afternoon, they were seenleaving feet. The Lieutenant-Colonel in his retort speaks the ship, although the batteries, bomb-veisels, and highly of the good conduct of the efficers and gun-boats, were throwing shot and shells at them ; a men, and states that Lieutenant Boecheciampe sea shell at length set her on fire, and many o f t h e on . gularly distinguished himself by remaining, after re. happy wretches had no choice but of being burnt to ceiving a severe wound, to cover the retreat of a part death. The unfortunate sick on board (and, it is said, of the riflemen, whom the enemy's fire compelled to they were many) had not even the alternative of em. retire ; some of whom, driven from 0 e d;ke into the bracing a watery-grave ; a Frenchman saved from water, were missing. Thus concluded successfully the burning wreck reports, that 200 were killed and operations of the highest import to our fuuiie pro wounded before he left. Within a very short space gress in the island ; and I trust that the cond.:et of of time the Spanish navy has been reduced five sail the troops in storming the works will be deemed Ivor of the line, and a few days ago t h e S t . El mo , 74, i n thy of your Excellency's approbation. These ad endeavouring to proceed to sea, with General CITE:STA vantages have not been cheaply- obtained ; for I have on board, and 17,000,00 Q of teals of Vellon, drifted been deprived of the a i d of sortie of the most distins tinder the fire of the battety of St. Catalana, - and but guished amongst us : Captain Wynyard, Assistant for the extraordinary exertions of British seamen, she Adjutant-General ; Major Church, Assistant (211AI - - would have been inevitably lost. lit this unfortunate ter-Master-General, Superintendant of the Greek affair the loss in 'killed and wounded on board theta light infantry ; Major Oswald, of the Calabrese di ships' boats was only ten men. When it is considered vision ; Captain Vincenzo, of the same corps; and that these (about 40 boats) were exposed to the tire Captain Parker, of the Royal Engineers ; all most of four pieces of heavy ordnance, for nearly three meritorious and valuable officers, are amongst the hours, it is wonderfully providential that no wore wounded. With heartfelt pleasure, I state f lair lives . (*.we- latt..l' • Magnificent, Belle Poole,. and In.ornue. '1