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be, a* Amassed the usury foiled pesitteas hie assay occupied. Wr bee , - just received feels La Mancha, under date of tor fifth ult. the !adonis' istolhinnce 41 The party of the ?bylaw, ed the Odi and 10th, aosipthesty defesaid the enemy in Cideilo, sod killed My-was& " Tke m ellideemidtat a ditties of oar amnia. a number SOWN 'which Wee* marebed forward to Tarastaa,la the of which limy rested as misiny's tainted it OM imem is eandrsed. in emstaquente: the retitereeil 'ats whit+ had arrived from Toledo at Ciencii do la 111,11 i hatted, and took snot►er matt since ; on the 111 Id they had not entered Toledo. la this tit, there Daly remains • gankno cont posed of sick. rad about So creaky ; they keep all the plea drat, with the exception of those of St. Mattis sad Vitiagra." wttatact• Da exam/Asa. wee. 17. They writs from La Mancha so the 6th Mat. that ea the eeth Prancisquite attacked is the ski. sity of Cements a detachment of the enemy's dragoons, which escorted 70 carriages laden with lewd, mutouchei, and ether effects. The result was, that he succeeded iu seizing the terrines; after killing assay of the escort. The parties of the Commanders Aleatandro and °rebut hare to-dry united in Gullies. fur the pur. pose of attacking the Preach, who yesterday en -4611441118 Aliment; we hope the most favourable seedaiblearee these Giterrllas consist of 300 good ileitellsll. Fame Portugal we kuepr, dust the Tn. IMO bee swelled' iu the asset (extraordinary 111111111111 Pay the late rotas, and that is consequence dr this, rM the witlinegsts a the Prima division lia paws it bees hitherto preyed aselem s The river time hea else swab., sad carried away ef the wooden bridge which the enemy had Oa the 14th, at foot in the alteration, llha Vvnc presented themselves lo the vieluity of ihnotor. last were receivml by so brisk a fire that ilisy retired et melt. lITTILI.L. OCT. ti. Marshal /Mediae hasiwir mitered this city with • division albums 5 so LOW we. had a- bug con 115111mee with the Duke of Dalmatia ; be afterwards Mt' but with the seme force s giving out toe most flattaviss hopes, that at his appearance iu the ani, metal Victor, end with the reinforce. Ersit "NA accompanied him, he would [helm heirmsa that Ise island of Leon was not. as was supplies& impregnable--thit he would speedi ly dis s olve thq ridiculous Congress. • Geserol Cortes," sad overthrow the childish !wipes, which the ignorance end personal nth:rest of assay tried to infuse Mtn the hearts of the siucere tias well-meaning Spatuards. These. and other glailar ideas, and which most likely are far from toeing either his wishes or intentions. have been area/ in this city. by his partizans soil vile accom plices in his intquitiew -but tyro the most simple see through them and despise them, villain the hatred almost their cruel oppressors increases daily. —So great is the want of coalidenee with which the uriltbout• batch to any mews from Government, that there ere+ scarcely any sue who Credited that the Duke not directing his steps ttmards that port; he was watched by many under different disguises asul preteneas, and they have enured us that haw ing reached Alcala de I.:malign. he took the road to Cerium", accompanied by the escort which had been previously prepared. tritanClA Pa ALCANTARA, NOV. 10. We have Juit learued from the immediate kmg dam ref Portage'. that. in spite of the very g eat affects made by some of Mimeos's forees to cross the Tagus. their attempts have been hitherto au osailinE. Four boudeed cavalry dui% ed at Ville Vellale, with intsation to eras the bridge. which, being soak by the ithabitsats. they retreated to &midis, is order to fore a juuetion witb the red lathe cavalry of that plum. the whole ferns a body of 3000 WO; which seam to bead their cour.e to Almeida. marmoset 13. The action of the valiant patriot called the Physician, which we anuommed iu The Gazette of the 6th, took place at Vuoder, and the number of the Fritsch which perished in the flame. of a hermitage is ill—at this time 30 of those who had Liken the oath came to our side. Letters from Streets, dated 39th October, my, that there has been lately at Madrid a meeting of Ministers and Generals, in order to deliberate on the remit of king Joe and his army from the Duero; some gave it as their opinion that this could uo► be effected without the cosi( urroace of the Em peror ; whilst others supported, that the Court was sufficient to decide it ; the fact is, that both the Leg and his Ministers and "packing up as fast as Retina. It L..ffirmed, that the Ruspecioado has kelled 200 French in Bribu•ga, seizing all their musical instruments ! lln the let of November, Dim Juan 'Franco, with 1110 party of Go horse, passed within two leagues of this Owe, directed to the Manila. of la Ramona; it conducts several French prisoner+, and three mails, winch had been inter cepted close to Bayleo. Semen* does not prosper in Portugal ; end al though we have oo partsrular news from that quar ter, yet we kunst that ins resources err exhaust*, that hi* deivrnons err numerous and cootniu that the Allies brcouir daily reinforced, ■nd that wry tiling otters a most Ilatterius p►ospect to us, LON DON, TUESDAY • Micas' eta 4. RETREAT OF 51.4SSENA. We gm yesterday the rubrtanceof the Lishnn Papers to the 434 last, announcing the retreat or Grp. M IMP*. They were brought to Falmouth by the Jasper brig. of 18 guns, Lieat..DA al al.. By the same conveyance Government received dis patches from Lord ‘S'shhtuntort and Admiral BIRILMY, the former of the 21.1 last, and the latter of the 9.1(1. In the curse of the forenoon the following Official Bulletins were issued by 31iniaters 21:LI ETIIIIIII. SVIISTANCE OF Tit F. DISPATCH PROM LORD VI ELLINGTON. •• cART•iog Well. 29. "The enemy retreated from his portion eu the night of the 14th, their right marching en Alt-sentry., their left on Vitt* Nora. They continued their re treat the folks ing day. The Allio s broke op in oar. suit on the meriting of the ISth, the nil valleereuehing Alenquer that day. Auenbuga and Aleoentre on the Itith, and Coirtaxo on the 17th. On those days we mad. 400 prisoner. Sir Ilitativ Sreacaft and General LEttn's divisions follow. Ou the 17th. Lord Wet.t.tatanv learned that the enemy hail roll• inflicted another bridge over the Zes?re. his Drat baring been clrri...l away, and a large corps march ed that day from Santarem to Gallegno. WIELLINGTON immeolietely sent General limes division stew. the Togas at Venetia, with a view of aiding Ahratites, if it should be attacked, or of an no) mg the enemy if he continued his retreatthrough Lower Cries. " On the lath the enemy's rear guard was found so strongly posted in front of Seeman', that it could not be attacked with hopes of success,. Though the French continue to send troops sod baggage towards the Zetere, they keep a sufficiently large corps at Santarem and in its front, to repulse any attack from this side; and the heavy rains have so completely destroyed the roads, that Lord WEL LINGTON has found it impossible to dislodge the enemy by moving through the hills against his Possibly the same cause keeps the enemy so long at Santarem. ig Lord WIELLINGTon is uncertain whether it be the intention of M MM., • to retire nut of Portugal lu the stroug position between the Zezere and S4ll. tarem he may try to maintain himself till hr can be joined by the reinforcements which Lord WEL t ittnl . oll knows to bre on the frontier,. On this sc. r .... t, and that r.f 'the inclement weather. Lord Vi Eed.tooron has I t iught forward but part of his army, leaving a por iso in cantonments in e. General 1111.1, is to halt at Camomile, until the in tention of the French is decided. " SILVEIRA writes on the 9th, sod letters or the 13th from Salamanca confirm, that corps, supposed about 20,000 men, are moving in evade, and pa ring to enter Portugal—Lord W. bestows a warm euloginin on the Corps of Engineers. and Lieut.- Colonel FLETCIIta. by whale exertion, his positions coveoing Lisbon have been rendered impreguable. Return, his thanks to Admiral ihnarturr and the Navy, Marquis It , Sir Bata? SeIIIMEK, asc. " His army is very healthy, mid has conducted itself much to his satisfaction." .ifbuirehy-Ofet. Det. 3. Dispatch** hare 'his morning been received at this Offii.e trout Admiral the Honourable Grottos B4ast.tEtt. Ccmn4l.4o. is Chipr sr His bisje.ty's slops la the Tagus, dated the Itith. Toth, sod " lu tie former of theta dispatches the Admiral states, th.t he had, It the request or Lord Wtto. Loam, fergaeste it memo ond assrioes, consisting ofteelef' i for the ocatipation of the works from ml14111:4k! bombs May be withdrawn, the commandleirliirlso bed sires to Captain LAWFORO. of the lopeteAsz. " In the dispatch at the 10th Admiral BBRILE• LIT states. that on the 13th the retrat of the ene my wee announced to him by telegraph from the ships up the river that with a view of supporllng the dank of General fill woo hid advanced, he had ordered Lieuteoant, initailatbse e with the flo hlla of gin-boats to piokeed tsp his river 1 end Bear-Admiral Sir Tatitlai IVll.l.tads, with all the boats and pontoons, to superintend the paean; of our army across, if necessary•, having provided flying bridges and eatery thing for that purpose. " la his dispetch of the tad (the last received), the Admiral states, that the enemy having halted at Santarem, and taken tip that strong poet, the British and Combined Forces are assembling, and tinsals within a league of it; and the flotilla and boats, ander Sir TIIIOMAS WILLIAMS, are abreast of the enemy at Wade, where they had passed over General Ili Lt.'s tivisitis to the south side of the Tagus, and General FANS'e division is stated to have alieady reached Abrantes." Tu these we have to subjoin a private letter; and we have gi►e., in a preceding - column, the &tells brought by the Lisbon Papers. The leiter we hive received from the army says. that Liman has got with his division to Villa Seth., where he found the brid4e broken down. If that be the fact. our Correspondent speculates upon the probahility that Massage intends to cross the Z-sere and the Ta gus, take the road to Estrernailurs. and, proceed ing into Andalusia, endeavour to maintain himself for the winter. LIM'S& WReY 41/1 0111C1Cli IN NUN MUM •lANNUNII, any. an. " Here we are at last. and the bad has &awn. with out venturing any thing against us. There hall been an simnel bustle in the French positions, during the 13th and 14th, and we had imagiced that MAINENII, lading that weweruld oat attack hin a seefleterstitited to attack no. We were all ea the alert, it, you may suppose, and prepared to receive him with sine re spect ; but at day-break. onthe morning of the 13th, we learnt that he hal broken up from all hie po sitionss mad began his retreat. Our excellent Con founder rave the necessary orders, and we were immediately on the march. 'The news wto con veyed by telegraph to Admiral BERIINLIT, and the both Caine lip unite. Lieutenant StillLLltt en great style, and with the utmost speed. Frees each of theta a brisk lire was opened on the shore.' and the enemy was evidently much galled by it. At Villa-Franca, a party of marines lauded and.tnek several prisoners. General litres division •bas been sent to the south side of the Vague, 1, receive the enemy should he attempt tip pass over to it.. This we apprehend is his isitentin, fur Losing, who had been fur entire days on the bank r•pf the Z.. 2 Tr, has, we are inforinfed, pushed on to Villa Vellia, to secure a passage there fa tit: atiory-rm thia int would be disappointed, fur the bridge there has been destroyed. If oar information with re spect to Lams be true, 5t is clear that NI Amin a does not mean to make • skid at Santarem, strung as it is : hit that he P. 4111 only strengthened it o secure his t, and impede ear pursuit; and that he intends tsi follow Lunn*, probably into Spain, meaning to winter it in Andalsisia or perhaps to try, in conjunction with the French there, to ef. feet against Cadiz what he could* not against Ls. ben. We meet in our route houses burnt, dead horses,heery guns spiked, and gun-carriages broken. We I ave not been able yet to bring the enemy to bottle, or to come op with any strong party of them; but several small parties have been taken, their ap pearance betokening the utmost wretchedness and misery. General Fans is at Ahrantes, to prevent the enemy from striking any blow there. We are all. as yon may suppose. in tit. highest spirits, wishing that the enemy would afford us an oppor tunity of paying our respects to him at closer quarters." T. the above letter we add the following articl♦ from Falmouth " FALMOUTH, soy. 30. •' Arvind this day His 314jesty'a brig Jasper. 18 owls, from Lisbon, levee days' passage—.t brought • mail, sod dispatches for Government.— The dispatches by this vessel were, that MASSIN• had broke up his intrewthmente. and ri:treate 1, leaving behind its heavy artillery, which the! had spiked. sad • great quantity of baggage. Thus happened on the lath. at night; sod ea t h e 15th Lord WattteriTon followed them. On the Mb the enemy halted on the plain of Golf's°, in front of the town of Touter. audit was supposed to be their intention to give battle. Their headquarters (et the time of the dispatches leasing Lord Wet.- (ariortie) at Santarem. No doubt a battle has taken place ere this." In addition to the above accounts communicated to the Ministerial Circles. an Eirrirodisary Casette, of which the following is a copy, was published last evening : THE LONDON GAZETTI: EXTR.IORDINARY. MONDAY, DEC. 3, MO. • Downin . c-sereet. Dec. 3, 1.110. A Dispatch. of which the following I. an extract, has beta this day received at Lat.! Livcrtary,l'a Ogee 64dratol t. hi.-Lordship Germs! Viscount Wobi ..tuber 41, 1810. The snowy retired had *ld for the last n 1111 l a 4, brads and their left testi night of the title Alenquer towards Ateoentr, Villa Nova with their retreat towards Santarem The Allied Army broke on the morning of the ' the Cinch of the cuem: was at Alenquer on the vary and the advanced Alcoeutre on the Ihth, 17th. In these movements the deed prisoners. These troops hive been , by Sir Brent Spencer's division, infantry• under Majur• Ou the 17th L Gleam! Fatte. from the the 'twiny had ceartructed Swede". teat which had river having beFa clutiied that they had me thae.d., troops fret:a Sietsrem tow, inediately passed Latimer scree, the Tastes at Vs snivel Berkeley had here the River to aid accl facilitate army. }laving advanced from was whittled to bring the oblige them to retire wi attack, it is tint just; Fletcher, sod the t llficr , to draw your Lords:iip's diligence with which thry by which these positions such a degree at to render line occupied by the Allied if not entirely hopeless. " advantages to Licaterw officers of the Royal must particularly mention has gives me great assistance Your Lordrhip will hare affective streagth of the Arisel numbers. bra increased sickness in the army above one :half of thou andisary returns are convalescentsi 4.411c* .011 00,1: wV strength :to bear, the. jet their Only is the fiek4,..... 4 ,loiu.l.3rchgaip *AI oberso. had been 'proviilikd finis Ipitedion of inf....LA4lg /our itietk4ii I have r:ireeiveit '4 1 4 1 ad . titettditte'siitiodo,ea !fritA(l4;l4 kl 9;r riornr me Vie EIVOUC t , , count' tat the passage of Lieutenaut ' the river. In my dispatch of the ed your Lairdship, that I had, joined the Allied front of Lisbon, with a i the Spanish Army ander , tinum with us. and I receive able advice atO Throughout the period pied those positions, ever; utmost regularity. and to standing that the force w. various descriptions, sad 1 attribute these advantages the came in which we are sting dispoaition of the C! of the Armies of the dif nu doubt that the same long as it may be expedieut cantinue united. Lieut.-General Sir Brent SI. William Carr arrest; General Staff of the Arm). me every assistance in their The following partieui a NI mouth Pep..r:--- " PLYMOUTH TZLEGI " (91t011411 " a r Spin RETREAT " His Majesty's brig , arrived with /Whits from Lisbon, 7 d.,ye MMISENA'S aimv, being driven to for want of provisions (not haying had for sia der), cowries-can Villa AM on the lath instant. eft ,r destroying all I heavy a•ttlie y, a.td leaving behind them their heavy bagm;;e. They halted on 17th, end as they were closely followed at Lord I%'eLLINGT3,I. with 71,000 troop., e,ger engage the e.temy, unless they sem retreated, bottle was coaludered inevitable in a day or ' The head-evaders of the French army were at tietna per let secoonts from the army. The sertihn from the French gutsy immens et His ll4j,:sty'it ship DolpAim with 1S ' rata the povition whicll nt idt . l e e O ILY° lii I f ' i t ga . tnrUd: : wW il niP e t t y i ti et 4 : 16 1; 71 1 1 1 : 1 14 1 its : : : ; 1: 11 :. - fit 0 1 114.4 51:1::: 1 11t 0 e following d,y hielitny::sio.aantir,td,bt the advanced reKrer r emote aid the Brit' s iroke up Gam their e lath instant. and NI alto( I at this place a W'f FI JI they made about four b ra sore ly ern followed on th e i r ro iert u division, and the sth div 1 " 14 sr-General Leith. ikvte ivel sec Aunts from NI "hoo the left of the Tagus, pou' ll icted soothe., brid g e 61 W ef I been fist thrown ovitr r d ° ied away by the fl .oil. ; rd tht Jay marched a larg e ho tat o 6 towards Guleyesio 2,1 50 rra itenant-Genertl how" Made. in hoatv which tiny ern so ,kind as t o si j es ted mildew the operativa }u ptt of ow sin the positions io all. Imo ie enemy to a • stand, a, t ors without venturing upon boil twit to Lien le11:11)t• CL ' rd :ere of the Royal Engin loan s attention to the ability beer ry bare executed thew moo as have been strength Im p auk: any attack upuo Mae Liked Army very JOY. We are indebted for gad ataCulunel Fletcher and het Enginee.s; among w tans ion Captain Chsproan, tia haute. upon various 1111 St a nave observed hew moth tut e arioy, is proportion art :wailed lett I). There i pis of any importance; tilt it see returned as sick in iff" ivaleecentsi who ire If eta have gained suffi. fatigues of turching an Brides the Allied A it% :ivy, that an additional a 11, I the flret; s'ud hake mir Lodship. that iu I the most (-villa% and fri to ' aiati3erktleF, and the hr viadion slolif his comas nasWilliaops has even sp the Tagus to seperin int-Ueuctal Hill's intim° in au iuth of Octobe - , l info the Marquis de le A ktoon Army in the;r I Illations re considerable detachnidot :r his command; he still c. hod eceive from him much cal tis l ICC. lad during which we ore, k, 'airy thing went on with t to my eatisliction, nuttsi.. was composed of troops ad of different nations; an as ages entirely to the seal re engaged. and the conci Chiefs and Getters! Officr 's,l! 'fluent nations; arid I AA e cordiality will prey ail idieut that the armies shell (rent Spencer, and Marsh ant the Officers oft y, 'my. have contiutted to gi their power. ulers are also collected fro I GRAPH OFFICE, Saturday, " Time 0406, IL ot: ' ow anivtax.) trial Fspress. r OF lIIASSENA. ► " Falmouth, Friday, Nov. fa if ai Jasper, of l d gun s, is j 1 3 Lirboa, 7 d..ye 1" 11 "• fh sing driven to extre lM (lint having had bra' h 11101c1D VIZIR Arcata d aft ,r destroying all thei leasing behind them al if Tory halted en t ; ere closely followed with 71,000 troop., eAger a ea they nem retreated, inevitable in a day or tw is French army were at Ss t s from the army. The .rest iistnens DolpAisi, with 3,h trainspor leis Ala neleaelegy eee fee the earned Child et ireeseret Ar • • rimillvot*, set". 00.. flak depot - 'here yesterday at 11. ro was so much rind se 'weedily everilloeu, 4re it resembled one hell Issithe KW% nod bailie ti bold scarcely be no ticed, thecentriMoliossmlettlit outer gate was up to his middle- is iMl>t leak limited up by a !AR tied reemil:,lo(dit.: I be French Which trete beyond the bridge must 404 been to a precCipspickle, as the whole garden -was oompletely towered with water, - which they r wilt hot itid - terf easy to dein off, as the soil is naturally very meshy : During .the raia we di rected to them several bombs, which no doubt *ill do them damage. Letters from the Carthugian Monastery at &cola Dei mention, that part of the ditisitin of the Baron of Le Barre Iced crossed the Ebro at Itiburrove, an hour after Fels had attacked 300 French which were in this town, killed 50. and taken the remain der prisdisers, as cell as their Commander; and that they had passed by the klouestery, where the Captain was left on accJunt of his wounds. • CANT, OCTOBER 13. A vessel •mouuting one and . two 8-pounders, end 3u min. and commanded by Don Gabriel Olives. came here tts.day. This worthy Officer was made . prisoner at Malaga by the French. but havin peeteutled that he wee on their stile, he ob. taiaed from theta the cuiniaasid of the said in which he hes brought to this port a Criminal of some inrittance. and several French prisoners. _ s_ TH'E BRITISH PRESS.