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ALMEIDA, JUNE 29. Yesterday the French did not fire on Ciudad Ito drip°, because they had spent all their ammunition ; to daY ae see nothing. but French deserters, among , t iorn :Ile some soldiers who served under the Mar lis de Alvana ; they all agree instating, they never r itnessed a more destructive fire than that made b) the gorison of Ciudad Rodrigo. Our troops, as wril as th English, are ready for action ; they ctre all in 11:1111 spirits, and perfectly satisfied there is nothing to sear THE EVENING STAR. LONDbN. MONDAY,. JULY 16. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK s S per Cent. Coos. money, 69{ e:. 3 per Cent. Reduced 690—fli,er Cent. 85. 5 per Cent. 94—Esch. Bills Si. 'kilo pr. Bones 19f. to 20s. prem.--Oinnium +, is to per. PRICE OF S I'OCKS ON SATURDAY . S per C. Red. Ann.49i 70 64 Jodie Bonds its. NW 20s. pr. S per C. Con. 8944 Eac. Bills, /s. 3s. prem. 4 per Cent. 850 Otnidurn 4 prem. 5 per C. Navy 9Sif Lottery Tickets .329. I'sB. Long Ann. 151 9.l6dis Cense for acc. 71 701 BADAJOS, JULY 1. An Officer in the vanguard of the army of the left, under the command of Senor la Carrera, in a letter, dated the 27th ult. writes as follows t--- ,, We are here w ithin sight of the fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo, which t i l e enemy are besi e g in g , but the y have been answertd PORTUGAL. • by a b r i s k and well directed fire from theplace• and Since our last, dispatches have • been received from every thing appears to go on well." Lord WELLINGTON, brought by Major ARMSTRONG; OPORTO, JUNE 16. also a number of letters from the British army to the Ballasteros has advanced with 4000 men towards 27th ult.—also two mails from Lisboni with letters Seville. We hear of no further arrival in Spain of ' and - journals to the sth inst. • ('tench troops. The French have thrown two bridges I I No baitle has yet been fought, nor any attempt been *Toss the Agueda, which river has fallen consider- , made by the enemy to come to action, although MAS• sblv, but the idea of ay considerable force fording ids ridicolous, as it is uncommonly deep. At Bra- SENA has lately been considerably reinforced, and has raw . ormar it,Colonel Wilson beat a body of French now under his command no less than 85,000 men.— cavalry, with a regiment of Portuguese Militia. Ciudad Rodrigo, on the Spanish frontier, is at length your 19.- We have not yet• been able to get any regularly invested. The garrison had previously been thine like a correct account of the French armies.— supplied with additional stores and ammunition by I believe they have about 30,000 round Ciudad Ro drigo, and about the same number in another part General CRAWFURD. MASSENA'S force consists of the lower down. That active General Ballasteros is ad- divisions of Nay, JUNO?, and ReoNrea, besides a con sorting towards Seville, and MAT is close in with siderable reinforcement which ho,-krougA' t with him Astorga, which it is not thought will be long in pos- , trom &ante. The enemy having thrown !midges ses sion of the enemy, as an immense number of the gattisrn has deserted, and the Moveraor's dispatches, over the Agueda; our advanced guard, under Gene praying for reinforcements,wereintercepted by Mahy, ral CaAwrosto, had fallen back on the main body, whn inanediately advanced. ,` which was advancing to its support. Mavena is afraid of the Germans, for he has put' When these accounts left the army Lord WELLING them al', in the rear ; Lord Wellington boasts of hay - TON still continued to maintain his defensive position. i r g 82,000 British troops in this country. I really think a general action will not take place for some He has with him 20,000 British, and 10,000 Portu time. Both parties are acting a wise and prudent part. geese. General HILL has 5000 British and 5000 Here we have about 7000 troops, chiefly militia, Portuguese ; and General BERESFORD about 10,000 commanded by Cot•Trant, who in consequence of his . ortuguese on Lord WELLINGTON'S left. Thus the constant attention to the militia of this district, has ' whole of the actual force of the allies in the field is rode them equal to any of the regular Portuguese troops. The Tolligenia Spanish frigate arrived at Co- ! 50,000 men. In addition to these, there are 10,000 mina on the 12th, with 14,000 stand of arms, &c. IPortuguese, and some British, in garrisons, and about' 3 NE 20.—We have been in expectation for these ! . 20,000 militia s regularly armed."—making, in all, a 13st 48 hours of hearing that an action had taken - ; force of 804:100 men. .... place. E.: e this Ciudad Rodr:go has, I fear, fallen, as by a letter (dated Celerico, June 23,) received here, ! Lord WELLINGTON, we are informed, means to it appears the French have c ompletely surrounded it, ! watch the operations of the enemy, and, if possible, to an,i that .I.J ison commanded the division of the army ; interrupt the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo. If this should on this side. Junot arrived before Ciudad Rodrigo on i prove impracticable, it is believed that he will then the 19,h with 10,000 men. ____,.,...........m ••••••••••••=O.• I defend as long as he can the various strong positions with which Portugal abounds. Every requisite pre paration and arrangement, as we have more than once stated in former Papers, have been made, to re-embark the army, in case of necessity. All the transports and men of war are ready, and distributed into divisions corresponding with the divisions of the army ; and the different points of embarkation have been settled according to the line of operations. FOREIGN Ii%7ELLIGENCE. VIENNA, JUNE 21. Count Metternich, who was to have arrived yester day, has deferred his journey. The arrangement for 150,000 men by our Government has not yet been completed, and some further articles are to be inserted in the treaty. It is said, that a Fart of this army„ s to be employed in Spain, but the main body, under an ArchdUke, is destined to the East. This treaty has delayed the return of the Austrian Envoy. SPAIN. FPANCKFORT, JULY 1. The advices from France respecting the further military operations in Spain, up to the middle of the preceding mlnth, contain the folbwing particulars : 44 Upon his Majesty's return from Andalus a to Ma drid a considerable force began to be assembled in the capital. It has been joined by' a part of the troops .which formed a corps de reserve on the northern fron tier of Andalusia, and also by a part of the reinforce ments that have arrived from France. Other corps recently come from France have marched, by way of Toledo and Madridejos, for the Sierra Morena, and will eccupy the passes of the mountains in the envi rons of Jan and Cordova, so that all the troops be longing to the fourth corps may form a junction in the eastern parts of Granada and Murcia. " It is understood that General Sebastiani is col-1 letting all his force, in order to act on the side of Va lencia, as soon as General Suchet's army, which is on the northern frontier of that province, shall have be gun its operations. In this event they will he sup ported, according to circumstances, by the army of Reserve at Madnd. A' division of the corps of Ge iteral Suchet, under the command of General Musnier, has already moved in the direction of Tinton, topos fess itself of that important fortress f •whilst a division of the French army in Catalonia is marching against the no less important fortress of Tarragona. Sifice the reduction of Hostalrich, the army of the Duke of Tarento has been enabled to combine its operations with those of General Suchet. Their communication is secured by a division posted at Cervera. " In consequence of our being in possession of Bar -ceknit, Hnstakich, Gerona;-and Roses, the Duke of Tarento can with safety draw off his forces from the coast in order to drive the Spaniards into the moun tains. Since the fall of Lerida, the communication of the latttr with the insurgents in Valencia has been totally cut cif, and they have been compelled to con' centrate themselves in the environs of Solsona and Vicq, where they -are strengthening themselves as much its r;ssible, by a general rising in the interior olCataloda. Manresa is already occupied by a co lumn of Italian troop, and a detachment of the .1111 merous garrison of Gerona has Marched in the direr-1 lion of Vicq, in order to scour the country. For the rest, the French, Italian, Neapolitan, Westphalian, Nassau, Saxon, :tad Wurtzburgh troops, to whom we owe the conquest of Catalonia. are in sufficient force to accomplish their task without the co-opera tion of the third corps. In the northern parts of Arragon and Navarre, there still are some straggling bands, but their views are chiefiy confined to ma rauding-. " In the west if Spain most important events are in train. General ]goose maintains his footing in the Asturias. The Marshal, Prince of Essling, is con centratin& the different corps under his command, so as to form them into one great mass, preparatory to his expedition against Portugal. The French Com manders, posted along the Portuguese frontiers, have successfully maintained their defeasive system ; and the English Commander-in-Chief, Lord Wellington, whose interest certainly lay in attacking a part of the French farce, before the whole could be united, loi.s allowed the !minable moment to pass by." Letters and papers have also been received from Benecarlo and Malaga to the 21st ult. from Cadia to the 27th ult. aad from Gijon and Corunna to the sth instant, whiCh have 'brought some interesting details of various skirmishes, in which the Spaniards had the advantage. • At Oria, 277 of the enemy's cavalry were put to flight by a force under Don SimoN BasarEs, when a large quantity of arms and some horses were taken. In the district of Guadalaxara a series of actions took place, in which the contending parties, to the number of some thousands, were engaged, which terminated In favour of the Spaniards. During these operations, 63 loads of manufactured wool, and 14,000 arrobes of raw wool, were rescued from the power of the enemy. Subsequently three regiments of French cavalry arrived, as a reinforcement, at Alcala de Benares, when the Patriots withdrew without loss. In Andalusia, the affairs of the Spaniards are in a more prosperous state than at any time since the in cursion of the enemy into that province, in January last ; and the activity of the patriots under General LACY and other distinguished officers gives employ ment to the whole force of their opponents, so as to prevent their contributing in any degree to the secu rity of their friends in the neighbourhood of Merida and Badajos. General O'DONNELL, as we have already announ ced, has resigned the command in Catatonia, on ac count of his wounds ; but he has been-earnestly re. quested by the Junta to resume it. The Gijon and Corunna letters concur in stating, that the French were withdrawing from the coast of Asturias, taking the direction of the province of Leon. The letters from Benecarlo state, that the French have altered theirplao as to the conquest of the sou thern coast of Catalonia. Instead of proceeding to Tarragona and Tortosa, they are collecting in Teruel, - with a view to make an inroad into the province of `Valencia; and it is said that King JOSEPH is to corn ..mand in person the army appointed on this duty.— Contrary to what his been so positively stated in the Paris journals,. Mequininza still resisted successfully the efforts of the enemy. • At Cadiz every thing remains nearly the same as when our last accounts came away. The French have made no progress in the siege, except that they have repaired the batteries of Matagorda, and planted them with heavy cannon, by which they compleicly com manded by daylight the passage from the outer to the inner harbour. They have not yet got possession of the Caraccas, and our shipping in the outer harbour still draw their supplies of water from thence, but with great difficulty. The fort of Puntales, which ~~_-: stands on a point of the Island shooting out to the Notth-east towards Matagorda, is mounted with mor tars. The passage between these forts is not a mile across; and through this narrow gut our watering parties pass in thetarkest time of the night, under an arch of bombs, thrown upon these occasions from Puntales into Matagorda, to distract the French gun ners, who in the mean timeire point-blank across, in the hope of hitting our boats. This, however, sel dom happens, while they pull on swiftly in the dark. There i 3 a Spanish line-of-battle ship, manned with Englishmen, blocked up above this pass; and a plan had beta formed for bringing her down ; which can only be done by her running the gaatloup by Mato• gorda in like manner with the watering boats. The tanks in Cadiz have been . well supplied with water by the late rains ; and provisions are by no means so dear as might have been expected, every. possible means having been adopted to keep up a re gular supply. Flour, the most essential article, ar rived almost daily in considerable quantities from North America, and frequently 100 boats are seen coming in at once, with provisions from different parts of the coast. The Cortes are positively to assemble in August. The greater part of the Mem bers were already at Cadiz, and they continued to come in daily from different parts of the country. The French gain no ground in public opinion.— It must not be dissembled, however, that among the mixed-medley of characters always to be found in a great commercial city, Cadiz contains many who 'are friendly to the French, and who neglect no means of sending them intelligehce of what is going on in the island. Our readers will also hear with indigna tion, that many of our soldiers have been secretly as sassinated. The Spanish troops continue to improve in disci-1 pline, and have a fine military appearance. General BLAKE is exceedingly active, and an Etat Major has been formed under General LASCEY, who is an excel lent Officer. On the 18th ult. he landed at Algesiras, and marched from La Roque, to wards the Fanch, in the direction of La Ronda. General BOWF.S, with a small corps of British, was moving in the direction of Caceres, but no account had yet been received of the result of these movements. From the best accounts that we can collect, the fol lowing appears to be the distribution and force of the French armies in Spain :—With.MAssEwm as above stated, 65,000, consisting of NUM's division, 31,000; of Jurior's, 23,000; and of REGNIERIS, 16,000; together with 13,000 which MASSENA brought with him from Trance. With MACDONALD'S, in Catalonia, 17,000; with Vicroa, at Cadiz, 16,000 ; with SUCHET, in Arragon, 16,000; • with SEBASTIAN', in Grenada, 16,000 ; with MORTIER, in Seville, 8,000 ; at —Madrid, La Mancha, &c. 17,000 ; making a total of 175,000 men. It is also believed that a fresh re inforcement of upwards of 20,000 men has arrived from France, which will make the French force in Spain nearly 200,000 men. We have also given, among the extracts in the preceding columns, an article from a Dutch paper of the 7th, relating to military operations in Spain. It purposes to have been written at Frankfort, but we have little doubt that it has been manufactured at Paris, for the purpose of allaying the' ardent curiosity which the French people must feel, to know something of the state and prospects of the war in Spain. The plan pro posed (and possibly it may be that upon which the enemy mean to act) for the reduction of the provin ces of Valencia and Murcia, a p pears to be well-com bined ; but we trust to the valour of the defenders of Carthagena and Valencia to frustrate it. We have received French papers to the 10th, Dutch to the 13th, and German to the 7th inst. Our Read ers will find copious extracts from these Journals in another part of our paper. Their contents, so far as they relate to Spain, are of an interesting description. A French privateer is cruizing in the Channel be tween it ney, Guernsey, and the Dorsetshire coast. On Thursday hst she attacked the Chesterfield packet, from the latter island, but thought proper to sheer off on receiving a broadside from the packet. She appeared to be a large lugger full of men, and pierced for 14 guns. The li . ng George cartel sailed from Portsmouth on Saturday morning for Morlaix, with dispatchel for M. Rirtzaz, Minister of Marine, and Mr. MAC KENZIE (our Consul for the exchange of prisoners) at Moilaix. Several French officers on exchangi went over in her. A Gentleman who is arrived at Falmouth in a late cartel from France, states, that be saw and conversed with Mr. MACKENZIE, on Monday the 25th .ult. at Morlaix, and was told by him, that although there' had been many difficu: in in the way cf a general ex change of prisoners, they were now all done away with.—The Gentleman to whom we owe this intelli gence, was lately at Brest, where there were only ' three frigates and one line-of-battle ship afloat with j sails bent, and a7l gun ship just launched. Bread was so cheap there, that a loaf which in England would cost a shilling, sold for three halfpence. This was the consequence of a total stagnation of trade. Colonial produce was scarcely to be had at any price. A pound of common brown sugar cost 3s. 4d. English and coffee, ifte. proportionably dear. The peopli expressed themselves (as far as they durst) heartily tired of the war, and particularly that in Spait., of whose destructive effects they were not ig norant. Conn Excnattor, Maat-t.asit, Isar 16.—There are short supplies of Wheat coastwise ..o-day, but considerable :Alan weeks foreign arrivals, upward. •if 24,000 quarters ; fine keeps its price, infertcr rather cheaper—Again scarce aesy Barley or Orey Peas, price nominal—Beans of both sorts are lower—There are mid- pling supplies of Oats, and this trade is quoted hardly at last prices,--flour without alteration. Fiat Flour, 9.55. leCs.—Secoods, 90s. 995. le4 tiVDPLLtellict. ' TORBAY t JULY IS, Wednesday passed down Channel la Nvstrit gate. Arrived, his Majesty's brig POIRT Mailos, Ir..sr* toe French coast. Yesterday two of her boats, en deavouring to outsail each other in the bay, one of them was upset; fortunately no lives were lost, ts they were all safely picked up by the other boat.— Thursday arrived his Majesty's cutter Pccov ) Lieut. Puma: Commander, from off Boulogn-, wlat re, on Sunday last, at four P. M. she fell ta with 3 French tuggers and - one brig privateers, when, arzer exchang ' ing several broadsides, the whole of them ran away under the protection of their batteries, whe-e the cutter could not pursue them : not a person *as hurt on board the cutter. PLYMOUTH, JULY 24. The DREADNOUGHT, which sailed on Thuraty morning to . relieve SCIPION, in Basque Roads, put back the same night, owing to a violent gale at W.W. and still r,;•mains in Cawsand B ty. La Islistraf frigate passed by on Thursday night, frqn Yortsmvuth for Cork. The FicracoN brig of war sailed this day on a crilize ; and the Puqrse went out Of harbour to the Sound- The Acrsox of war, Lord Viscount NEVILLE, will sail as soon "as the wind suits, on a five years station in the Endian Seas. The LAVINIA frigate, which arrived upwards of a fortnight since, with Officers on board for Lisbon, still remains in the Sound. The Sastsaams frigate, Captain RICHAnnsoN, arrived r:sterday afternoon from Lisbon, in eleven days, having left the Tagus the 2d instant ; and this day la Nte.mer4 frigate, Cap tain Sir MICHAEL 'SEYMOUR, arrived from the same place. The BARFLEGR, NORGE, I'IMP.RTLIEUX, and two other ships of war, were lying in the Tagus when the SEMIRAMIS sailed, together with 700 sail of ttans. ports. FALMOUTH, JULY 13. Arrived the Walqingham packet, in nine days from Übon. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 15. Arrived his Ntijegty's ship SAaranott from a cruise.—Sailed the MERCURY for Lisbon, the Itts - Lcuois viith a convoy for Guernsey, the biloac for off Havre, the Zemosto and DRYERS ou a cruise,. DEAL, JULY IS. Ssiled the outward-bound under convoy for Po main hisll4.ljesty's ships as per last.—Wind S.W. YARMOUTH, JULY 15. Sailed with convoy fur Heligoland, the HAVOC, Lieutenant BAMBER ; and the Qum'. schooner, and PioNcea cutter, on a cruize. In the Roads, the Romer.. Pased by a large Beet of Laden Colliers.—Wind N.W. The SECRET ser.vice which Sir RICHARD STRACHAN is going upon, has been explicitly stated, in some of the papers, to be the Mauritius. Sir RICHARD, we believe, will take very few ships with him from this country. Frigates and sloops will be principally em• ployed, and they will proceed to the Cape of Good Hope as fast as they can be got ready. The AFRI• CAINE and Islist's have lately sailed; the HASIADRYAD, PRCEBE, RACEHORSE, and Amor; will proceed shortly. The 7th and Bth regiments, which are at Halifax, and three of the regiments at the Cape, are the troops to be employed. THE ARMY. General PAYNE, and his Aid-de-camp, the Honour able Captain QUIN ; also Colonels MASTERS and Bass sow, and Captain Snowa, of the 40th Regiment of foot, have arrived at Plymouth from Lisbon, is the SEMIRAMIS. Major ARMSTRONG (with dispatches) has also arrived. ' On Wednesday 200 of the 95th (Rifle) regiment, with Colonel BARNARD, embarked at Portsmouth, on board the MERCURY, armed en-flute,CAptain FANCOCE, for Cadiz. Contrary wind prevents her from sailing. The DIFENDER gun-brie, Lieutenant Noes, is under orders for the same station. A detachment of the Sd Dragoon Guards, about 22 men and 40 horses—a troop of the 14th Light Dragoons—and a small detachment of the Ist Ger man Legion, passed through Truro last week for Falmouth, to embark for Portugal. The Regiment of Infantry expected at Falmouth for the same desti nation, has been ordered to Plymouth,to embark there, The Ist Regiment of Royal Cornwall Militia marched into Exeter on Monday and Tuesday last, and proceeded thence.to Kiugsbridge barracks. The division of the Royal Stannary Local Militia now on duty at Plymouth Dock, under the command of Co'onel VIVIAN, will march from thence to-mor row, halt that night at Liskeard ; on Wednesday night at St. Austell; and arrive in Truro on Thursday. The Court Martial, appointed to investigate the conduct of Captain Paws, Adjutant of the 4th War wickshire Local Regiment of Militia, re•assembled last week at Coventry, to revise its proceedings, and make further progress in the examination of evidence. When the evidence on the part of the prosecution closed ; and Captain Pinto being called upon for his defence, which was handed to the JUDGE ADvocarz, and read with peculiar .energy ; the Court then closed the whole of its proceedings. The result of their determination respecting the conduct of Captain PRICE is yet uncertain. This trial has excited uncom mon attention in the County of Warwick. BRIGHTON, JULY 13. The General Court Martial, for the trial of Lieu tenant GREGG, who is also Assistant-Surgeon of the Surrey Militia, on charges brought against him by Major BumEy, of the same regiment, founded on has absenting himself from his duties Without leave, was commenced at the Castle yesterday, and the w h o l e o f the business for the prosecution gone through. This morning Lieut. Gnaw read his defence, which was couched in very feeling terms, the principal cause of the misdemeanor for which he was called to so severe an account, having a wife whom he tenderly loved, dangerously indisposed at a distance, to visit whom he had repeatedly applied for leave of absence in vain. The Court did not hear his defence n: .m .ved, nor could he read it without betraying great emoti ons himself—and the general hope is, that the military fault will be visited with leniency, if not entirely for• given, in consideration of the lacerated feelings of the husband and the man. The Court was adjourned sine die, before three o'clock. The result cannot be publicly known until it has received the sanction of the King.—Corporal Curtit, of the Oxford Militia, , iwnose trial we noticed in former letters, is at --- confined at the Horse Barracks, the station of of the troops of the 10th Light Dragoons. presellg several e I' 4.. ...