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A NIW VOLVaIICF IMINGTON'S ANIMAL REGISTER. Yte the lath Wt. will be published, price is boards, lac IFIVIE ANNUM. RAU'S rEit ; a View of the Biota% Politic, and Literatars,fix the Year 17SS. .. Printed fur F. C. sad I Rioinvoo, No 6s, St. Nut% Cbarebl“ni. Sold &WI by irises. Payne. Egertoo, Hatch er/id, No, oartlk and FA. sad NI, uro. Areb N.B. In this Volume. besides other interesting mistier, Brill be found a .more ronii Bement t►an ►ai holiertu been given to the Boehm!. Unquace, of the Polish thorny, fro= the Period uf the Basilan' Invasion in .799, to the kos• Inertia of Poland, as air•indcpsu4est Mote. in the Year 1191. _ _ T•te 1 7 .)1, ..es for 1796 and 1604. are in the Pew, sad Neat ~; 4 .ir b. lure the elves of the year. Of t.. :hurt. mentioned ihmitseilere may ire bad the 14- '8647 Vo!tiatto, pithiabeil by Veers. ittelsiteu. IVIZEIGN PORTUGUESE PATERS. LlOllOlll. SEPT. 4. Copy of a dispatch from MiTraTial lieret7f;tl to th• Excellent Signor Doti Miguel Pereira orjut. " Your Excellency is already informed of thr loss of thr fortress of Almeida. which surrendered to the enemy at two in the afternoon of the tath instant. The Government has net yet received any official *canine, end •it is doubtful whether the enemy will permit it to pear; but the regiment of militia of Argenta (it least the Colonel, alto is at present with me) informs me that the capitulatiun of the place was entirely owing to the unexpected acci dent of a powder-magazine blowing up, and thus depriving the garrison of all means of defence, u it suffered the entire Inda of its powder : all the artillery-teen (except !O) who were unfortunately in the magazine, and almost all the artillery, blew up et the setae instant, and threw greet stones into 'the fosse. Nevertheless, with the cartridges, a small quantity of powder which still remained in Abe magazine, and • few pieces of artillery, the defence was continued till two in the aftemooa of 'following day. The magazine blew up between 'even and eight on the night of the 26th ; and the beginning of the parley was at ten in the evening of the same ditty, and continued till break of day of the Is' 4. whew circumstances no longer permitted soy attempt at defence. The Colonel likewise informs me, that the town was entirely destroyed, a single bowie not bring left habitable. • " I am likewise informed, that the capitulation was thatilie garrison ahould remain priseinem of war. that the militia • ould return home; but 'the Fenton here retained 200 men of each regiment of nsilitte to employ in their ',Wintry labours, and to farm with them a turps of pioneers. —I am also usared, that till this misfortune happened, the garrison behaved with the at roost valour, end wall without the levet fear wit% re.e , et to the place. the - lo.d of Ishii h wa• occasioned by the entire destruction of ell the ammunition, which rendered ell farther defence abehlutely iinpomible. " The regiment of Argentil arrived yesterday. end to-dayie expected the arlital of the regiments of Frescos, tod.Gnerde, excepting the men who era retained. " The whole of what I liove •hove written, is According to the information of th.• abose.tuto tioneri Colonel of the Minus of Arglntil. " God preserve your E•celleoey. (Sigoe4l) " G. C. Baaas►oan" 1 1 11 HeadQuariers, lagia•s, Aug. al, isto." SePT. 6. The Government has published a notice relative to the disaster at Almeida, which, though touch to be lamented, is not to be considered as of essential importance to the great cause of the safety of the country. The same Renee promises to the families of those oho (ell in the sitge of Almeida, the same pay which their husbands, fathers. dud brothers re ceived, when alive sad engaged in the service of - their country. In consequence of the part acted by the Marquez de Alorna. at the surrender of Almeida, iu endea vouring to seduce the Portuguese soldiers into the service Of Francs., and distributing amo ng than loyal Proclamations, the Government has declared the *aid Marquee a traitor, deprived of all his titles, honours, and dignities. He is to he considered as banished; any person may kill hint with impunity; anifis reward of a thousand gold moidem is offered to whoever may take him dead or alive. •VO. 31. They write from Zifra of the date the 29th inst. that the vongitsrl of our army has just set out for Listens: it appears that the hrs.l-queettrs, and the Portugue.- cas4try, are expected there. 'COPT Or AN °minim. COUNCRIICATION FAnli LORD WALLIN46TON TO NIS ILICELLIINI I T DON 1114UEL Prlttla• FORSAZ. MOST ESCSLIANT Ste,--The enemy opened 'his ire against Almeida tr., night between Satur day and Sunday the 26th of this month, sod it gives nee pain to be sli:ged to add, that the ,inEnir got pomession of the plum in tht uight of the 27th of this present nioi,th. " I.ought not to conceal Gem your Excellency, that tue .aid unfortunate event bus proved to me very paitifid, becisuse 1 hail no reason to expect it, coisaideriug how well the garrison was furnished with all the inesmt necessary for the defewee of the place, the reopttcrshle state of it. f •etiticitiom, and the high opinion I Itul r. -.moo to rotcrtuto of the spirit and cour.tge of th..Ctorer..,r, atni good dialtoaition ~1 the garrison. Ot t al: these grounds I entertained hypes Orli the [...avz wuul,l %old out to the last extremity, as li had no oppori timity to succour it ; or that at all events it would have detained the enemy udtil • very remote period of the season. " I am not in possession of any intelligence which could enable me to form a correct opinion of the cause of the surrender: some prisoners, who were yesterday token, state, that the powder maga zine in the castle (which was, however. Loath' •proof) blew up on Satiably night; that in the course of Monday the Governor desired to capitulate, on con:nth:in that the place be surrendered to the enemy, but that the gun imin aid inhabi tours of the place should be permitted to join the army ; which proposal having been rej , :cted, and the, fire recom menced. 10 ! Giv. , rnor held out as long as he had any Mune .11k0I1 and surrendered yesterday morning, • hen 11,:. ores were completely exhaust ed. Tiv'y sidd, that the enemy afterwards offered t o the soldiers of tl'e 2arrii.m, either to enter the Emperor's service, or he sent to France as pri•oners of war, *lnch last offer was accepted by the gar rison. •• This accotot dese►ves ns corning from an enemy, •nd is co , : -ri fle d by 7 ; a rns t ,,, we , that hostilities were ‘l , led from 10 o'clock in the moruing until 9 • night, when th 4 firing recommenced, but entirely ceivied near two o'clock in the morning. A strong explosion was also heard at our ad vanced posts, and I vbserved on 'Monday, that the belfrey of the Church of Aloncida was destroyed, and many houses were nurn-ferl " I hope that the *bore account will rove cur. rect in all its material parts ; and it will give one the greatest satisfaction to find that the loss of Almeida, and the acquisition of s 'te military store* and provi sions which the place contained by the enemy, has not been occasioned by any misconduct of the Co. renter or the garrison. " I had some telegraphic crimmunication with the Governor, but uufortunau•h• the state of the weather did not permit us to use that expedient on Sunday, ,Or during the greatest part of Monday ; and when the weather cleared np in the course of the latter day, the Governor was perceived to have opened a communication with the enemy. " Considering the povitiou to which I had ad. enticed the army so near the place, it tr touch to be regretted that 1 hod not any opportunity to nacre. lain the real state of the place after the pueder magazine blew up. 06 The enemy attacked twice day our pirliets, yet in a very feeble winner ; he was noth times re putted ; in the evening, however, they forced Ge neral Sir Stapleton Cotton to fall back to Fro.xedas. " The bcco .d curia, coinmauded by General Hill, has not made any consideruble movement since my la" • a. No operation of importance has occurred iu Estre , nadur4 t•ittee my last eottimal.katiott.. " lit the N , wih of Spa..., the enemy marched, on the doth instant, • small e0. 1 .a ofinfantry and horse to dlcanizas; hut General Silveira having put him seW in motion from Braganzt. in the direction of the above place, the enemy's corps immediately retired. .• Wstuncrron." " Abram August 20, 11110." LtsBoB. sEPT. 8. By an official communicatioo from Nlarshal Beresford, dated Head-Quarters, Moinsenta d.• Sierra, the 4th inst., it appears that the loss of the fortress of Almeida was occasioned by the unfortu nate accident which took place with regard to the powder mapzitie; and that, according to the unanimous declaration of the Colonels of Mi litia, and other Officers s ho belonged to the gar. risna, all the troops, until that accident happened. behaved in the best possible manner; and the !►li titia displayed no less valour than the troops of the line ; that all the Officers and *edifiers are nnani tnous in bestowing the utmost 1.9 rise on the conduct of General Cox—they all represent him as intlefati gable, having never left the parapets ; and that lie had in such a degree gained the lore and respect of the garrison, suhliers as well as officers, and in spired them with so much confidence, that, but fur the unfortunate occident which beret the pow der-magazine, the attar k of A Init Ida would have occasoined to the eiorny a considerable lons blth or time and melt; that althou;;lt the enc. my toed all means of seduction, and chiefly wade mit, for the execution of that infa mous project, of the Portuguese who attend lion, it is already known to nine (\bushel Beres. ford), thst, besides the Englinh Officers, Governor Cox, Major Ilewit, ao•l Captain Foley, Major filattoel Panto Cobreirn and Captain Ju.t. Pedro de Mello, in the most honnurublu and spirited man ner njected his infamous proposals ; mist it is with the utmost tutinfaction he communicates the intel ligence, that the two first Lieutenants of the corps of engineer., Antonio Elizeo Paula de Batboem mod Joaquin, Pedro Pinto de Stotzi, and the Se cond Lieutenaut, Jose Feliciano Farinhe, refused to enter the French service, effected their escape from the enemy, end are to his brad-quarters: that the firmness and patriotism e►inced by the sa id °Em s , deserve the stroneest recommends lion to his Royal Ifighne,s, that he may be pleased to lie , ton some mark of Alvin °hating' au their omit botionnelik conduct, by promohug them to the rank of Captain. . The ial rnainiii.sicatinii is accoos;at.iird by the , following leaps, aid articles of capitulation. On the manner in which the latter were c.rrietl into execution, the Marshal makes the following re mark : " The Portuguese nation is already sequaini with French clemency and moderation, cud the elie tny's conduct on this OCCAL.I4II) Will Frew, that good faith has nut experienced any ct.atige since he was driven out of Portugal. By the eapiin'n tion he gr:iited to the militia leave to return hour ; and yet, alien he found that the Portuguese trait tors who attend him, the most active of whom is the Alimitsis 41 ' Al rnu, failed of succeis in seducing the militia to eater"the Freueli sei..:e, I. • hail re - conrse to his Accustomed argument—JJ• ;hey do rot choose to do it spontoncously, let them do it by coin. prilmon—tin , i, in direct °position to the tenor of the earntwatiusi, the enemy has really detained by main force, to firm a corp.' of pioneers, seventy officers and two hundred mien of each regi meat of militia !" • EXTRACT OP A TITTER FROM BRIG ADIRR-GENICRAL CriX, Tu HIS EXIA.I.LENCY SIARsMALlsiott5FulIO. D %TEO •LURA DE SISPU, THE 30ra •U- Guar, 1310. it I am to perform the painful trek of informing your Excellency, that I was reduced to the n✓ cessity of surrendei lag the fortress of Almeid which I had the honour to command, on tli 27th of this current month, at ten o'clock at night, in consequence of the unfkirtoriate explosion of the large powder magazine in the Castle, and of two small magazines contiguous to it; by which dreadful accident I was deprived of all my artillery and ammunition, with the exception of a small slum ber of cartudges s which were lodged near toe bat teries, and thirty-nine barrels of powder deposited in the Laboratory. More than hilt the detachment of artillery. awl a considerable number of foot sol. diers, besides several irthahitaiits, were destroyed by that dreadful explosion. :Many pieces of ordnance were dismounted in t b ' batteries; the works were greatly damaged, ands general consternation pre. railed among the inhabitants and troops. 4. In this unfortunate sitostiou I received a letter turn Marshal Pitnee of F,ssling, Comeauder-ins Chief of the French army of Portugal, in which he proposed to ine to surrender the islaqe to the French army under hiw order., on Cie honourable terms which he was reedy to grant me. I returned lot answer, that I wished tu know the terns+ he had to propose. The articles were eten transmitted to me, a copy of which I t.tvtt the Iteniuor to :oeltime; and which, alter I bill INA 11:1 possible me stis tu &gain better terms, hot oit bout ell'eer, I w oblig to accept, with the s extent: ,n I °id:tine:l in favour of the esgiments of the Portuguese militia. 1 1, I trust that :uy conduct no this crith:sl occasion will Le honoured with your Excellency's Lion. and that I shill be ju.ttfied iii ih..eyet of tay country by the cireunastaneLs of the 1...1.1r." [Hess follow the ',ticks of capitulation, s hits haves'. realy bees pablithen CADII, ♦OO. 30. The Marquis Romani. General-m-Chief of the Army of the 1.4 t, under date from the Wad- Quarters at Salvalierra, of thy 15th of this month, acquaints the Minister of War, that on the Stli he inarchd froin J li,j,z in the direethri of 01: rue r, and successively to Haearichi, and Salvo tierne, where lie found the divisions of Generals lialla,termi nod La Carrera, under the orders of General Ou the nth, knowing its Salvatierra that on th:. preceding etly the enemy evacuated Z lira, he immediately marched to Zaire. ordering Gemini's La Carrera and Ballasteros with the a hole of the cavalry, and some infantry, to re commitre I.le-rens. As our troops were executing these movements on the II th, they met the enemy on the heights of Vellagarcia, who also occupied those of Cantilehollo, separated from the first by • valley, in which their artillery teas placed. The Guerrillas kept op their fire till the enemy had formed his att.ielt 0.1 our left, when hneing execut. ed the reconnuitriu4 ordered by the Cesierril, they effected their retieet covered :1 the c:t% Phr Nliv.plis IC. , nrlux it tut 41.1 v to give the de tails of thss action. not last itg rrc teed Ilse part,, lan front the Gem hut massy sets of isidieidusi vsloar were pesfn.—ssed. The Prtilicry huh:seed in that distisegus.lu.d it:assrn r which 'usually CIIAT4C. tertses that corps; the 011(417 theuigelves with glory ; ou.l w general. the troops, ()nicer*, and Generals 1613 . '1411 their duty. The 10,, of the enemy in kii:ed end wounded tris been beyond entnpsrisun greater than aim. We took forty pi ioners, end nu our side lost aotne, in cnnseipteis:i. of extreme weariness and the heat of the day. Our dying artillery, c4niposed of C4ll. /10111•101 a htiWitter. MIMI opposed by &nide that nutulter, which ilismounted one of our guns, %%hid) it was r-qtn.ite In abandon, after spiking it.-- The woe doy General Boron, with the cavalry undrrhia conanaad , j-iineil the Nrittguese brigade of the semedesctipt.on, tuoler Gm Madden, whom Lord Wellington has sent, at the Marquis mat.a's requett. It has been "mid, that ill r uusrquente of the order its May last, to bit+"kJde El sluts., some soterrup tiott his hires given to the passage of the :741,55.,1 loi• oar CriIIZIPIS on that gnat cr. It a understood, how. ever, to Sr t tle• isstrists..ss of Gateructiosit strictly In cuuaite that Ikmitssle tr. Eliiiteur. mod it briourl at, or dirato the ore riot to uo .iffeetii b.. '6., uuu.+• it 14111.!litli , their pap, r. t i they are bound to l irMir 1'74- R I F, ' ANY no°A2 L , B: ll .::{j, e • • 6.; • . 4 At fete hour lest night we ter. i • Peri SO..SIMI A • "loos 11, whicqe have mole from t':, "t m, se e purl of Cerieral Cox. 'o Marshal It. L. C 11 taiiiing the of the hill of unfortunate ethic!' pie 11, •1 1' 4.4 contiguous t o it, blew up. The eirpt..,7,4;:in:l'" war dreadful ulinerd her o : •• .1 • (I. Itt I a l g ri e d ta g "t es eini l a i r e gt ; : :t r l )e t 8i11:1 ti811)1111;111'1111;11 r 1 , , n, (-melee 3!1 paresi s tIl !0dg.551 hi the l u b orm or ,. A ` con.pie p of soldi, • and several til •he 6 ' The or). 'Wet" . grl :It 1: 6111dAed, 41111 :I've'. rusk's' evt• :•g- the Liiiaiiitant s and •roull.. ' 4 was, ril e a I li er%ls.)l,4:iter. o s e A lay pro a p o ol i e o d bj a, :: o l , t ,: l4l „,:: : : n• The o.ly n•l:,xatiun in war as one in favour the 'u topless. dip curs,ll % for bare for them to return t o th it •••••:1,11 howev er , French, is itli their • hire oei:stit tidy, nes : meant to fulfil. Eve;y wee-used reseadirce and cm pt theta t o • nt , r for service of the enemy ; but these havieg prureil i &recital, they were told if they did uo , •10e., 4 .1; tardy, the.' must by cumputOre n ; and s ecor k 70 Officers cud '2OO men war, selected or . 4 ; form force •s fr ror i pa o elch f Pioneers, These men, for•td; Ile the French service in violation of :4 •• went, are the Volunteers •1* whom Ilissr‘s in h is Report to the French Secretary sal Uy and %%horn he very prudently says he all ea der his own eye, and em i rloy only iu pests ul se. sportance ! Our latest advius from Portugal inform at, t on the le'h ult. the head -quarters of lAA 114 LINGTON'S army were at Burson., and te wwr were °ern pying a strong posit o , the Sam Alcobs, teed thut of Mansell,. Geoeisl !tr • had moved with 10,000 men on 1 1sale.la. rnionV.in the conanortication H- . to be supported by the advance of Gen.ual urigade on Sarehm. At this time the advst cod guard of the • was, we understand, south of ii . ';re., end M..• SENA's whole army was cutiomtratt I be eft river and Tondella. A Portuguese brigade behaved, we are t, the most distinguis-A manlier, in en .creas the Alsrqws ROMA PIA has had with the enemy Von rite si• I 11-.••• Our IctLCIS 1 . 10116 Spain attentive that the hid fatigable! General O'Dusinstd. is suit harass . t.l. the . ear awl fLiAis of the French (Matt MAC WALD. near Villa Franca. in Catalonia; and It : the skirmishes he has h a d with them, then hare lost between it cud 300 men. Mute INALD's :oar . munication with Riveclone, and the rest of the p. os ince, is cut off. It Toe desertions fronts the French army courinse likewise to a very great tfegree, and they sutler to ::,e all parts of the country from the activity ut guerrillas. • The retrograde movement of SULIVAN' towards 4 Grenada has raised the spirits of the inhan•laus of Murcia to such a degree, that they lease grimed .111 lOW liberal supplies of all kiwis to their armed countrymen under General BIAIKE• 4 The Marquis RONIAN• has advanced his poets as far as Ronqui3u. within Av. I. agues of Senile. a The unexpected faH of Almeida eras the cane ad Lord WSLLINIGTOII . II retreat to the posibus n 430 which he was left at the departure of Colonel Bur I . Q ! ' ems, who, as we stated yesterday, was davit slid) the dispatches thrown overboard in the ac • between the Merawrougli peek-A and the F , ei. , 4 privateer. Its Lordship's sentiments upon that se• ae jeer, and the consequences to which it led, 1; may presume, constituted the substance of thr I ~t dispatches. They are supposed to have been a iiit• k %bile the army was en it, route, and dated S. '-° ba-Dro, the 19th or iOth. I. .s mentioned Ova re thority of a private letter rec. iced by a ri-oretis' . house in the city, that the All.ed Army c: ;),.. hiandego at Taboo, .end proceeded where it ceme into the main rood to Coimbra so Lor,l IVEI.I.IXGroa'S sentiments. 1• 0 " t ", eiwctirg the fall of Al•neida. 'anti 114 rrobd itk (OE sequences, althou g h the d:spa , are lost, somemoy i.e formed hum h a lei of the 4411 i August to ttic Se, rotary of 7 : gency of Lisbon. In this cornoomicatiou Lordship dors net con , .:eal that the early fall ' the place was • iveiou• e lt4 r n i poititta.at to h:::. ,„1 and from the pointed ma doer iu winch he 14 serves, that the meg rine Iv •eti explo it l e l s bomb-proof, he betray, a stisu • '.311 tfatthe -1; al"n"*" toe effee , treachriy--o a suspicion te tit the late p.ot at Lisbon is calculated 50 s tren2th' . ' , It io.de.(l •Plfrre disappoin• ment io have. to filt h • battle e-• ar Li,u tit, eat ty Octobr . trots tigledos it tf tightii!,; cc nee. ssar)) Alatria3. ilk Na‘rmit r; to hate lo enenuotrr t e 7 et.. i near , tar l i ne w etit. eta "'ta sat ;11. t' ':• ••1