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111.1LbETle OF THR AltelY OK PORTUGAL
}Letts, aisle 41.
Alex. Girardin, Colonel of the eth Kegitarat of
Dragoons, anti NI. Brine Aid-de-Camp to the
Duke of Dalmatia. tore passed through uses city
on their way to the head-gas:tee of His Leper'i
Majesty in Austria, with divests-hes from their Fratlf
cellencies the Duke: of Udinsua and Elchingen.
copies of which have bees delivered to the tV,,r
Minister. We now sitalTraetimpate the sieetaila.
haletrit ad* be elves outer slaiwatetwai foreword*
ed to the Emperor. by stating all tile politiculare
respecting, the reread coil^ of the army el Spain
salice the mouth ot January. They hare been so
misrepresented, we well in frame swan Spain, by
relatmos teeken eons kinglisa puma. and by erro-
neous rumours, to winch the interruption in the
coniumaication between the various eurpe of the
army hail given both, that it becomes necessary
to 'relate them in the order which their date Nato:
rally points Out.
After the embarkation of the English at Cee
menu, January 17th, lie Excellency the blarelied
Doke o( Dalmatia marched towards Portugal,
through Santiago and Vi4o. Thi difficulties
which he expcnenced in endeavouring to cress the
Minh*, se near its junction with the era, conspcikel
f: urn to ascend its baulks as far as Oreille, where hie
arrived the sth of March, and Prow thence begot
his mwraiions„
The Mil of March he mimed the bridge over the
Minho, at tlrenee, and out his way to Chaves met
with ttomanu's army, which :se defeated at luau,
Allaritz, and Dengue. near Monterey, destroyiog
the rear-guard, consisting of soop. and taking woo
prisoners and sous/ atandaids.• The euctny this
retreated to the 'greatest disorder to the vale of °Cu-
The 13th of March, the Duke of Dalmatia efe
peered o fore Charm, nu the frontier. a...Poets:tr.,"
and iiive,ted tins place, which capitulated ,threse
ilajs after. Its gerneon, composed of re, vend thode
amid pewouts and acme militia, were sent beak to
their liabitatirres. .11
The Idtn March hie Excellency marched whet
Bert. where the array of the newts sea
, gente bad takers a mediae. The Inkaltlll.
reads delayed the arnral of the artillery seas sea
14th,_wheio the enemy wen! ettaekeil. their Ade
He efeobo men, whiCh were eiiiirely
asvertheran. 'They lost 6,000 and all their tertiliety,
mad retreated upon Oporto.
The Y4nis, the second corps arrived before Opor-
to, where all the Portuguese northern armies were
'collected in an intrenched camp, flanked wall re.
clout:tic mod defended by a numerous artillevy.
Two days were spent in slitrivirshos. and the
;French troupe leund in the redouble, of ee hien time
took i,IIPISCII,IOII. SI shelter 11010 the cannon of this
en. my.
t Inc ieth, the Duke of Dalmatia fought a led.
tie, as glortous as int-aim-able, in which the Preach
displayed their usual rnt Wiese(' valour. Upwauda
of 10.000 Portuguese were killed or taken, and the
enemy lost not only the artillery planted on their
intrenehtnents, but their field-pieces. This day
put the second corps of the army in possemion of
more then 100 pieces of cannon.
From the 30th of March to May 10, the id corps
was employed in estalelisiiing, it. that part of a
country, not wholly conquered, his communication
with the dth corps that remained in Gallicia large
detachments were sent to Guinieraens and Valet:-
cia, in order to bring the magazines which had been
left at Toy, and to scour the counts. General
Coition, whose death the Eighth had falsely mile-
fished, was detached with the same intent against
A marmite, Villa Real, mut the adjacent country,
with 2,500 infantry and boo liersr. The 10th of
May, the vanguard of the Duke's army was on the
Vougu. It was attacked by several thousands of
f ot, 1,500 horse, and six pieces of Calllloll, which
formed a part of General NVellestey's army, lately
I un.led in Portugal. The vanguard retreated
behind Feyra, met on the nth rc-eroesed the
Douro, with the division of General Monate—
The 'netters, of the &dish force in Portugal. and
thetof the Portoguele iusurgclits, tiaough the ices
flnurnce cf British gold, had, as early as the 10;b,
determined the Duke of Dalmatia to effect his re-
treat thtnugh Amerate, Real, and Beagle*
ascending the right baiik of the Deem. But a
numerous corps otEngliab and Portuguese haring
compelled General Comma to evacuee. e Atnarante,
the Duke found it necessary to pass through the
deiites of Selemotide, and, in order to gain two
munifies on the enemy, tee'sacrifice a few preen of
cannon sod their canteunv, which he ordered to be
destroyed, nod the remaius of which could were of
nn use In the English.
The la; ter not having been able to gain any ad-.
rantsee on the second core e during the. retreat, the
only action which took place was with our rear.
gifted at Oporto, the English having limed means
coavey on the right bank of the Midito about
1004 habitat,- and 30 horse. they have swelled this
trifling etqagement into a battle, the pompous ye.
lan lent of hid) (in Ibpinkie of view • military esse)
hits had no other evil *le to sallevieetles fo,plsier
Loudon, aid perhaps the alliiiiseriohOmmarft, Is
order to repey them for the issemmelialesam
icy which the experlieep meat -bare coat dm /Mai
Tremnrv. •
On the Igth of May, the Duke of Dalmatia was
at A:tiriex ; Ibe eery, he iti seed the ilikahoetia
tentage j awl the aid furisesal a eamonaleiestilla

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