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it;? 11" the abov Sun should not be add
Wtcd' 'dssayf sssssfrei twin be. taken for "New
:; si Alexandria County,'ss.
'. 5 MKBRAHAM FA\V, one of the Jusdc-es
-' 'of Peaccctfor said county, do certisy, that
;?Williamssﬂ. Washingtonss of the county a
Wdss- brought before me a Horsc, tres—si
Wainsig on his enc!osurc,ctof—_thc following
nct'decxriþtsiion, lo wit :'One Boy Horse, about-Q
_' "eari old;. nhoutssd- hands high, a small star
5; This forehead, shod all'-—round. no. other
Ffssshndd or Mark, valued at Thirty'Ddilsiars --
h'Gi—ven under my hand and sea! this 2 lst day
died! Novemberfsi 4810.
ct 4- - —- A. Faw.
sssssisi'The'owner Of said Estrsiay is
jfssgeqnestcd to come, prove pisioperty, pay
? charge:. end take him away from" the snbscri
45;wa about- four miles from Alexandria, near
{Wdcr'y Igland- . _
\ Wllhlu'si H."VVash1ngton.
si— '"sssiNovember 22. ' _ ' "St
ct J-usi Received,
-"-.—siFl'esh CURRANbe, _
si' Twelve boxes fresh Muscatcsil'RaiSSns,
A few bones Anchm'ies, Ul'rvcs and Ca
FZPþG-z __
Mustard, Table Salt in baskcts,
: Best Spanish Segars in half boxes,
*' Excellent Cheese.
F-Md actvariety- of Marbk: figures.
_ . '*--Lou1s Bede-r.
ssct Wf 24. .
si Anthony Rhodcs,
'FFasfar sole at his .stare m Prince-strect,
- si'Alffi'andrid,
4 þisipes of Country'Gin, ;
! hogsheads New Ram,
\ "12 chests Old Hyson 'sssea, latest impede
si- :! si'dossCompmy.
I do. Gunpowder,
Can'dles in boxes,
'*si Cotton in bales,
'ssPearl Ash in kegs,
.: 20 hartels Greening Apples,
3 .Cider by'th'e barrel,
_ A few barrels-good Shad,
" Cheele and Potatoes,
?sisissoo yards'Country Linen, si
Straw Bonncts,
__ "Anteriour: Ginghams and Chambrays,
" * Qotton Shixsiting and Bedtick,
-Wming Cotton of diﬀerent sicoss'ors add
;mmno ' _ .
'_ -__K_)\htifigsialic]' Setving Cotton, Fax Rccls,
"fssknffiricanfottonsiand Woolen Cloth, -
Groce'ries as usual. \
ssNove'mber 14. ' ss ]]
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llEss'snbscriber will continue this School
sithe emm ny; year. and instruct young
geotsilgmen in the foilow' mg branches of adu—
taken, to wu: --$/lelliug, Readirsizg, Writing,
dritbzhetic, Englzsh Grcmmar, upon the plan
Os Lindisiey Murrayss ;siComfzosition, Blair':
Lettmt, Moral. Plnluo/zhy, Practice! Sur
way, and Gc. 'ogra/lhy with the use of the
ct- M.; and Globec. Boarders can be well ac
'Joommodated convenient to the school upon
yew moderate terms. No student will be
sildmitted for a shorter time than one year. -
ctss 'Bhe price of tuifion and sire wood will be
"twenty one ddlsrs and thirty four- Tents.
( This seminary is advmtageomly situated,
Weening in a very eminent degree the ad
mtages of health, and of genteel and friend
\ s ss si'ct'si'deii Bxily Gatesittc,
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ctn ss ssss " Roycl—ctreet, Alexandria.
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rzsi Maken fist}; {ons, per register
My last.
ctctsisiAL-SO' m- Þozno- _ _
" 'Wctbgshz-ssfine leerpool Salt.
Wsictqh-Jfifþemade to c'apmin Gzoacpl
dy society.
Chailes Tadcett
Stﬂl'or'd Lonnty, Nov. 2— ÞG. " 71'
The snbsci'iber is distant about one mile
m Mr. Tackett's academy. He will acsi
Mnfew boarders upon moderate
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arms", Gaunt, 5 Dodars.
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-'si 'Nt'tt) Tarfi Lctvcning- 'P—ost.
siL'zsnon, Octabsier 5.
ss'T-hc enemy having taken warning by the
sisictree—eption- which the -combined army gave
them of thememorable -27th of September',
Ton hhich'daysi "they lest moresishan '2000 dead
'upon shepsield oi-battle, with an immcnse
jsnumber of wounded, whmn they barber
' ously abandoned, endeavored to go round
{our position by crossing' by'ssss'lhe'way of
sissMorta'goa ;owards Sardan, and then' turd
ing to the southward; 'The wise move
ment: of lord- siWcllington frustrated this
ctdaring'project ; and—eur anmy continues to
siconcentrate itself, gaining every moment
.' greater sxlperiorissy. not only by the great
-7 reinsurctmrnts which it is succesaively re
' ceivin-g, bm because'sim aasena i: continually
, invnlved in new difficulties, having his com
munication with Bc-ira cut Oﬀ, losing men
'every day by the satigues of the campaign;
J'Bnd Slfssering a thousand'i'nconveniences
sss from the want- os- supplies. The cried va
si lor of the allied troops and the bad condi
' tion of the enemy, whichvbecomes worse
, every day, makes no hope for the most hap
ss py resultssi French audacity will pay-dcar
; for having penetraled che territory 05 For
'ssAccorctirir,r to'the' iast news from our ar
! my, lord-VVellington's hessadzquarters comi
* nued at Lcira; and it did notasippear thlt
? the enemy had as yet advanced '(rom Coim
ct-br—a;
; By intelligence srom'Badujoz of tho' Zd
i inst. it appears- that Ballsiesteros lest Olivenca
- yesterday with his division sor-Xcrcs de los
Cabelieros, to which place it is said that
'-'2<)OC Frefich, who had- marched from Za
? fra, had proceeded.
The French at preeent occupy the pis'ms
; situate between the Mondego and the -Vuu
: ga; they have not lest any c0rps in 'Beira
. Aitn ; their communication with Spain- is
now cut oﬀ, as well by the peasantry-alrea
dy freed from the—miiitia commanded by
si generais Baceiiar and Silveira. "Their sup
'piies, not only of provisions, but also of
inmmunitinn, are intercepted, and thev must
sighs with what they have broughtsi with
them. It is not yet known with accuracy
swhat was their eﬀective force; some ac
Lcountsrmakc it 50, Others 55,000 men; but
'that which appears most authenticsietates,
that the force with which the French enter
ed Posstugfii'wns exactly 60,000 msien. It is
ascerthined that they lost in the battle of
Busaco more than 2000 killed, and-suþpos
ing the uhmber of their wounded to be- only
four times as great, which in truth is a very
low caiculation, for as well in the British as
the Portuguese army, the number "of the.
wounded was five times that of the killed,
they must have had SOOO woundu]; so that
their total lose certainly exceedsctloposh
-we know nothing of the number of their
silk ; that is usually in an army on asimarch
-si 1-7th or 1-8th of the whole number, and
the particular circumstances. in which the
i French aimy has been, must have augment-'
ed the proportion. Whatever was the ori
ginal numberssof those who entered, there
can be no doubt but that she French have
now in the short period of .15 days, '16— or
J' 18.000 combatants less.
fz tugal.
Let it not be supposed that the enemy
find much provisions in the country which
thev occupy , Aveiro, Figu-si-ira, and Cuim
.hra were evacuated in the most complete
manner. The cavalry indeed finds much
green corn,-butevery one—knows that it is
i bad food for beasts, as it occasions the gian
ders and other disorders. There is neither
wheat nor rye in those parts; and the- In
dian corn of Coim! )ra, which is in great a
bundance is all yet to be gzithcrcd, still in
'the gnrou ab half ripe. They are theresore
obliged to eat the corn toastcd orbuiled
she condition of the-French as respects
subsistence willsinotsi improve ; and their si
tuation is more critical at'present than it
wax in BeirwAlsita; a single battle may de
ss_ sstqsstzﬂhctr cure would not be
determine" isslssiy 2g'jr- .z. 'I he-French cavalry
as in-qnaþt)'-tfiu'f\'ct1iiserior to cure , their
msssmtrykannbvrdwst the sormidablc attacks
of our bafbss'ssfsssictsisi the battle es thcﬂ Tih is
=the. pledge ofoctur suture-t' tctories , the Por
=tugsiguesc troosspahgve Rroved to a demonstra
,sssi Zfifidepce mayssi ne placed
siþ'ct'sisisidssthifvsisifhssty ma) rank with the
are mvmcrbffifffificially when fighting for
the crmvssn of their sovereign, for the salva
tion of their country for the glory of the
! nation. People of Beirssa Alta, he not cas:
{down by the invasion of a few Vand'ala,
already defeated: Divide yourselveainto'
parties, and attack their detachments.-si_..ct.
You will find their} 39 easy conqucstct "
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si- 'liATE FOREIGN ssL—NE-WS.
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7" Octaber 6.
si-thcir armyformed ajunc-tion thekef At 61
! Bespatch from his excellency the marshal
] commansidersiin chief to his excelleuey
) Don Miguei Pcreira'Forja.
ﬂlcst illustrious and excellent sz'r, }
5 l have the greatest satisfactidnct'm am
? nouncing to your excellency, for the infor
F mation of his royal highnese, that the com- '
- bincd army unde: the order: of his excel
s lency the'marshai general lord viscount
ssV/cllingten has defeated the enemy'e. army,
' commanded by marshal Masnena, in the at
tempt which the latter made upon our po
sition on the height: of Busaco. As his
exceilency the "marshal general will give,-t0
"be laid before his royal highncss, ull thei
tietails relazive to the mbvemcnt and diqpo-si
sitiom, whichled to this brilliant "victory,:
fill shall-confine myself to what respects the ;
sparticuiar'conc-l-uct of the troops of his roy- ;
al'hig'nness, who covered themselves with*
glory, and shewed themselves worthy emu
Iators of their companions in aim—s the Eng- ;
iish army, andssworthy zhe—siirs of the glory of
their ance—stors.
The ench's advanced .post having on
the 2-5th arrived at the foot of the mountain
upon which—we were postcd, they took a
osit-ion the same day, and during the 261h
:ctthewhole force of the three .divisions of
si moxsmcnzussn, !
'lZHE army left Amedia on the -16th,
as L-have had the honor to inform your;
highuess ; the three divisions of the army 3
arrived on the I-ch at siVissi-u, after having ss
traversed horribte roads ; the enemy r'e-'
treated—id every direction on our hpproach, si
and have formed ajunction near Coimbrasi
lcau'sed the 2d and Gth corps to be posted
on- the bridge osziz.
-'l'he English who occupied that bridge-ss
were disludged ; the 8'sih curps is yet at Vi- (
seu.- The grand park ol artiHery, and heavy ;
baggage still-remain behind, and will arrive i
only to-ssmorrow. -Thc baggage- was at
tacked by two thousand "of the Portnguese,
whom 200 men sufficed to repel with lon
This was-the corps of militia commandedct
by colonel Tmm which took— 100 prisoners
and retired 95! sithe- enemy's receiving rein-'
iurcements]. lt is impossxble to find worse
reads, they are covered with tocks; our
artillery and-baggage have suﬀered consi
derably, and now ( am obliged to wait for
them. I must let them remain two days
at- Viseu after their united, to be repaired,
and shall continue - my march to Coimbra,
where ! am told that I shall find the- En
giish and Portuguese united. siMy ctLord :
- we are marehing over deserts -, not a single
rson do we meet; every place is aban
doned: the English have the barbarityct-td
ordcr-the unfortunate persons who remain
in their houses to' be shot ; women, chil_
dren; the agedss'hll-ssfiee ;"in short nossWhere
can a guide be found. [I: is not the ling I::h
who (bct'ige-tlie inhabitants to stre : it is the
[we w/zzclz they bear in their country. "and
the un/zeard_ of hormrs which the French
commit ; in Canﬂs 'a'c Scukarz'm zing/"killed
an unfortunate man whom thcysaund there, *
' and having sound some-famz'lics'insiScrra,
they violated the women publicly, Esssc. fie;
'1' !:c deeds that are perpetrute-d in .?pain are
known to all Europa] "Our suldies's sound
potatoesctand -some vegetabies ; they are
contented, and long to cncounter the ene
my. [And they gained much by the first
mcaunssn] The march had caused-us a
few sick. [Because it lasted only six days,]
—_-their habZ-tations; for the inhabitants aban
don theirctdweliihgs, because the crueltteq
ssl' amss-Stcss (Signcd) 'siMASSE NA.
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si-ing-that the inhabitants desett their- houses
simarshal general -recommeaded in his pro
" W'ectuio 'sioo tosshi's excelleney - Dan; Migue]
-better have submitted to the tyrant, if they
tions, but they must remember that those
intercepted; wep'u'hli-sh it, not became it
'ctie-necessa-ry-to Shew to the pvbiic the 'sc'an
--*._h_ey-say the marshal general would cause
_is,5_enelosessd_en oviginal despatch srom gen
ldaloue-calu-mny which it contains, pretend
in cctouscquence of the puni'ehmmþwhich
"Nlsssiassena, directed to Berthier, which was
cannot sopport those privatione which are
temporary only, which deliver them from
the violence and outrages of the enemy, and
are in the highest degree injurious to the in
vadcrs.
- Desþatclz of Manena :: Bertln'cr.
_ si'silnsiasiﬂesplteh. "stout' his cmuency ldrssd
and the inctmvenienccs which they experi
ence in-all-their operations, in consequence
of the measures which his excellency the
and currage committed by the French army
oblige them temake those sacrifice of their
own accord. -By ssthe said despatch of Mea
inconveniencies 'aresi inseparahle' from a state
of war, and that the Porwgmse 'hadssmuch
ma we see how much the enemy suﬀer,
oiamation of the 4th ofAugust. siNVe regret
the inconveniencies which the inhabitants of
the country suﬀer, by _quitting their- habita
to be'ihﬂictEd on'su'ch as might remainin
Pereiraz .orj'a, datecl at Lctiera on the sd inn
—1
"b'dssZLY Tn-themorfiingof tho' 27th, she? asi
tacked our position atsitwo diﬀerem pain;.
sisifwssi'th sn-(Sctrg columns,'xnd the firir-g (om-si
ct 'nucd about two home and an half; the posi
., tttguf" ((,pr who distinguished lhrmStln-s
vsivfre an those who' had the good summe m
bcssat the points attacked, hung the fellow.
'Tgshe'si Sih andss2lst brigades under the osi
am a. ,
dersisscs col. Champclmand, and ut'trr he "si,
wounded, of lciut. col. Sutwn. Thsi gsi-si
' regiment commanded bY 1}- Uf- COL Dung.
las. Thfss 15; and* 16th brtgadcs of the line,
andtsshc-cttth battalion os Chaesrura No. ] &
8, withthcsiEngli's-hlightdivision, and the
Gth batta'jon o! br'fszade osthc brigadicr ge
neral Campbell. Two brigadrs us artillclsiy
commanded immediately by ntz-jur Asssm.
child, and two or three: mote puatcd to th'
left. )
The only diﬀerence that there was in tl—g
conduct of all thggc nuops consiatcd 10 the
Opportun itics which -\_Vrrc c-ﬀsined to each
corpa to distingutsh risFls. This may he
calltd a- glorious day iur the Portugms:
name, its ttsiuolzs having arquiud by me;!
conduct the admiration. and the full cosisisi.
dcncc of the- English army. l'hc conduce
.ot'shc 8th rrgimrnt under the orders osh,
col. Douglas, and in which major Birmj,-,g_
ham distinguishc (] hintsds, did it mueh hu
nor. si'sha: rc-gimcnt with two English n..
gimcms dislcdgcd the tm-my with the b:'-._\0
sssinctss stom the brighte which they had gained,
{and made them pay dear for their momm.
{tary advantage. The 9th and .Ptst ng't
—MLTliS meriud the complete apprubatsitnn hf
major genera} Picton, and .much pruis: 't;
due to cul-mcl Champclmand, sicut. coioncl
Sutton who commanded the brigadc after
the sormvr- was -woundcd, and licut. colsi
josc Maria de Ararvjcr Baccllar, command—
cr of the 2-1 st regimcnt.
--Brigadier gen. Parssk deserves my thanks,
as well a: the corps that were under'his or
ders,, and their commanderslieut- colonela
Hili andsiI-uiz-dc'Rt-go, and "major 'Armv
scrcn'f. -Thc conduct of the battalioo of
chasst—urssiNosi-M desemssito be particularltsi
mentioned, as well for theitsi'bravery in the
attack, as for the constan'cy-tt'ith which that,:
sustained the fire osthe enemy the whose
day. Y'sishc hatttaiion of c'szasseurs No ii.;
commanded" by" "lient. colss. Jorgc d'Avih-z
beh—aved eztremely WeilfiLt that ccticer me
rits every eulogium. si-The battalion Nocz;
under command of lient. coi.-Eider, partie
cularly discingui'bhed- itsess, auJ in discisi
pline and valor cannot ' be excelled. The
7th-an(}7_19th brigades of hrigmiirr gencra?
Colman, and chasectcrs'Nb. S—gailo chcrt'e.
the highest praise for their conduct, as &!
so their commafidsints ccloneis Menczczct
Sottomsjor, and licut. col. P.-lixnn;and
particularly swe companies osssche thh reg;
who under the "immediate order: of lient
eoi. Ma'csibean,made n':- aztack with the bay
-onet on the enemy, which is paaticuiarlss,
mentioned by-all the officers of the two at
'mies, who witnessed it, as admirable set
the discipline and bravery that they eI-i'ui
bitf'd- _
{she battallion nt' chnsseurs No. 6, iﬄ
sigadier general Camþbell's brigadf. an-si
commanded by lieutenant calonel Sebz-ctu
an Pinto, Iikewice-behaved very wcilznt'
deserves my thanks. _
siTwo briga'cies of artillery of the THE
6th,-under the immediate orders of msitjor
Arentschfid, aho .gresi'aiiy distinguished
themselves by supporting with steadmess
during the whole of the battle, the fire of 14
pieces of artiHery occasioning great loss of:
men to the enemy, dismountmg three 97
their guhl fand bivwing up "70 0fsh'ct'.ss
waggo'ns of ammunition. Two Other bri
gadcs of'arlilletsiy also merit my approba'ss
tion-wAll the O'fficers and soldicrs ol
these cprps' are worthy of being represent
ed To his hlghncsiss for their good and excel'
lent conduct, thh would have done ho
Pos to yctcran-soldiers, for by the consm'
ton of all the English officers, they dis
Playc'd equal valor and dinciplinc. Wsilsi
respect to the troops who tvcre not immc—ss
dlately engaged, I observed in them the
m'ost ardent desire to measure themselves
With the siencmv. and from appearancfsi'
dsiy will shortly have no npportmt'ttv.
But from luch conduce as the Pnrﬄzﬂfss
troops-sidisplayed in the battle of BtMssie
'ms'istetl by the well known braverv of the.
English armt', we cannot but anticipald
savomble resuh to the present contest. 8"
that the enemy will pay dear for the (Mas
tation an'd cru-sihitsis which they have com'
mitted in Portugnl.
l cannot omit this opportunitv 0
knowledging the important services v." "
on everyoccn'ton l have received from the
talents and zeal of the quarter master am?
ral of the army, Col. D'Urhan. and ( M."
etery reason to he satisfied with the adjsi'
tan: general, Br'to Mozinho. and with 1"?
military secretary brigadier Lemom "L'
accompanied me duringthe battle,:n
with the whole of my mss.
( ac