The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-10-10 00:00:00

No. I.

Cat inhabitants of Villa Viciosa, misled hp evil
persons, and idle promises of some Spirmerds,'re.
volted on tne ...tOth of June last, and *ID ..:,,diately
forced the garrison of that 'dace, which fin:y tines
shard of one company of the Stith, to ro.i.e into ilWi
fort. (:eliertil Arril, no receiving iiitelligeoci of
this insurrection, left Estreinos, where he then
was, and marched tills N'itioso with a dt
battalion, some itraw.ms, and two metes ut cau-
tion. The rebels, who new in iiinitirsesife, ed
upon him, 'nit they were POOTI driven by toe him
'let from all thee; positions.
(;eneral Anil and Colonel Lacroix entered &It
town, the rebels fled nu ail sides, leavilig 2iii, lead
in the streets. They were punned into the comitisr„
where a great windier of others suffered the pl.s
ni'hmeut due to their crime. - Twelve of the
'eiders of the rebellion were token inul shot.--
Tranquillity is at present restored ; in Villa Nicks*
.the inhabitants have acknowledged lo•, 111141
implored the cleineocy of the General. `I hr mi..'
derati which our brow soldiers have displayed on
this occasion is without example. Notwithitaiiiis.
ing the law of war, no house was pillaged, amd their
conduct has excited as much gratitude towards our
troops, as their v:ilour has inspired admiration.

licadmoot tors, Limos, 25ft Joint, IS le;
dy culsomul of
duos. Duke IYAl3ll.Al4afis, ( otoointolet-io-Ch
Till ERAL; LT, Cloef of the Stott.

The third battalion of the ilith regimt ot of the
line, and the Legion of the South. connottuded
C./4.)nel ,Slat minim, attacked, nn the {7th of Jwte
Led. the city of bija. where 6000 tahsbitaitts had
burricadoed themselves. dotted our troops, awl tee
fitied them pottage; notatititatantfing thus mit Nu-
ttsir,etoi the poOtion. and the of uttnila-rs
eccry thing yielded to the impetutraty °four troops,
oho entered Biyt 111 the midst of a grt.al tvwa, yep
The rebels left 1100 dead cgi the field of hattk-41.
those taken ottlt arum; ware pat to the soott:.
1 t 1 the homes fruits winch we Itad hreo tired
acre bureid. .I.).i.crigna, who counuaralet the

tehels, rowardly abandoned them at the beginning
of the uttuck.

We ;lave to regret the ;toss of souse brave risen, who
tell is the lield oI honour, a.noug whom is the. Osier
of battalion, an exctillent Officers Uou Capt. Du ism*,
arid the Sub-Lieut. Lansiere were slight)) nonfat.
ed, after homer distinguished theutseke4. The
inhabitants of the town mad territory of Baja. re-
stored to themselves 4 the disittesitrit of the rebels,
sent a respectable religions permits to his Excellency
the Duke D'Abranten, to implore his clemency,
represent their repent%nco swear fidelity, confess
that they had been taislej by the perfidious se-.
duction of the English, and acknowledged that
they had been justly chasti.ed. His Excellence
received the Envoy with kindness.:—Order is re-
established iu Beja, and peace reigns in that
country.
Head-varier', Lathan, July 2, 1565; '
by entry of Mona the Due. D'AMLINTr.S,
. . _ _ .

trf the Stull;
1111EIMULT.

HI.
The spirit of insanity which bed led astray the
inhabitants of Beja, and reudacit necessary the
terrible chastisement which tliut town bus received,
has likewise appeared in the North of Portugal.—
In their delirium, several towns Lad raised the
stindard of revolt, and, led astray by culpable
priests aud perfidious foreigners, had taken the field.
Their coutiagent formed ti corps of 7,000 men,
which corps, suarehing upon Lisbon, aimounced
that it came to deAtroy the Freud. army. •
The Due 1Y Al.rantes judging these wretches
more deserving of pity than anger, suspended the
effects of his just displeasure, mid endeavoured to
procure, by persuasion, what it was very easy flu
him to obtain by force of antis.
With this view, and to spare the effusion of
blood. he seat wane intelligent persoas to stew to
the rebels the fully of their pro'rets, the odiousness
of their conduct, and the Monti', of their efforts ;
but this method not sueeeeiling, he seat, on the 241
of July, in the morning, (;ell. NIAIVITOII, with the 3d
batt. of the 12th of light infantry. that of the 82t1 nt
the line, the grenadiers sod voltigeurs of the 47th
and seth. six pieces of squadron of horse
chasscum, sad is squadron of dragoons. This un-
expected to..venieut stopped t lietnemy and deranged
all his combinations; he aliatichm., ,iie idea of in-
ehuing upon l'anetiehe, whence General Thesnivres.
aaarehisig apses hint, owl being joined Leyria by
Gen. Margaritas. on the fith of July, attacked and
defeated Ina.

11/Alf of the troops and the whole of the artillery
were not etigagei ia this artarin, the enemy left too
dead on thy field ; nn our side we had only one main
killed and a levy wounded. while the loss of the
enemy would haw• been much wore considerable,
bail not Geeeral Margiutias restraiued the issdigua-
lion of his troops.
Tlias wilt all this(' he aleeat.:%! -.'o dare to imi-
tate tneir e•craiiph.
head.qaariers, hisses, ;lily 7, Ise.
IV.
The defection and departure of the Spanis:a
troops, charged with the defence of the pit:assure
between Douro and the carrying off the
General of division (,)aesuel, the Corregidor Mot,
and of the civil and auditory authorities, lesving left
tact province, enter, the 7th June, without force and
witliont ■o administration, Monsieur the Due de
Abrantm Ile► cl.argel Alonvlenk- the General of D.-
visern emed of the Empire, Unlearn, to take the
command of it, arid to Aot,,trePorisa„. After these
orders. Le General Loisson act out from Almeida
the 17th Jane, with a part sir the troops of his di-
vision. Oa the 41st he passed the Douro at Herm,
when he arrived will, his at Merritt rift,
and his advanced guard haat snare:led tawarris Aina-;
route, he was iufcamed that his reareguniad, left on
the Douro to protect the sostycli of In. baggage,
hail he tes attacked : he immediately returned to •
punish this attempt. During this moment he site
a number o. inenrgents posted is.lvantageously in
vineyards, who fl hiked liesinarchl he ' ediately
caused them to Ire :attacked by companies of
erlairrurs, who defeated and killed great number
of theta.
This eiumpement, however, dial not retard the
march of the coloina, which proceeded and took
a position at Regal.
On the a considerable body, together with
300 Spaniards, coining front Villa Reid and
other places, appeared at break of they before the
advanced posts of General Loisson. They were im-
mediately charged ar,d dispersed, and left the road
strewed with carcases. This operat ion terminated,
General Loissou resumed, and continued liiiimarch
to Oporto, when he received orders from the Duke
of Marmites to return to Alineida. Ile in conse-
qu•mce passed the Douro. On the 23d, he march-
ed to l'a-tai s. A body of insurgents dared to op-
preach his rear guard. Ilefe I back sad attacked
them : they were defected, {dispersed, and lost 400
men, among whom were two hearers of colour'.
From this time to the General L 014.1111 wow
no more insurgents, hut being arrived at Celorito,
he learned that the village of Serpentine was in re-
volt, that the greater part of the iiilialaitatits were
armed, and kept the 'dace lighted by patinles.—
lie resolved to chastise this village, and sent thither
two companies, a itla orders to burn it if resistance
were made. The insurgents did not dare to wait
for our troops, but fled at their approach.
Those who remained were protected and treated
with kindness. The house, however, of the Lieut.-
Colonel of Militia, a lio had been a promoter of this
ebellion, was burned. %/'hen General Loisson
arrived at Guards, lie expected to he received there
it.. a friend. several Portuguese Officers buying beers
deputed to assure hi:n of it. What •.was his sortie-
nation;whe r lie learned that two Officers, who pro--
eeded him, to regulate the subsistelice and lodg-
ment of the troops, had been fired upon.
He immediate'y hustened his march, and on ap-
promo Ling tlw town, found the rebels draw is up in
two hues, flanked by strong posts, and their centre
supported by tic, pieces of cannon.
Ile ordered the attack—it was executed with
coolness and intrepidity. The riflemen of the in-
sorgents endeavoured foes moment to resist ours—
but they were repulsed with enormous lows. The
lines code/moored to make a stand, hut their efforts

only added to their disaster;-.forced in several
rpiner.i, their different part• weer at once broken mid
.. .. ,•,eel, and their aitillery was taken ; the assee.aere
a , . t. ~ribli•—t lie disorder geni rat. All who could
,-.. li: N. wear dispersed—inure then a thousand clt‘tl

I odies remained on the field of battle—and General
016100, punning the remainder of there wretch.",
eetereilwrila with fixed bayonets.
Ou the &th, he marched to Ataleya ; that
vil-
lagee was almost &wiled. The Jolt OrdsnGrio
there, but he had no means of supplying the wants
of the•treops, ea.! the JatiJ de lora, instead of
procuriug the provisiutia,.,os he had been °marred,
had left the place, and jutted a body of insurgents
at Alpedrinha.
The two battalions of the provisory regiments of
light infantry set not In iiwisequence to disperse
this body, to procure provisions, and bring back
the Ms de Fora, if possible.
On approaching Alpedrinha they found the re-
bels :rusted in a kind of redoubts, half way up the
heights on which the town is situated. General
Chariot, wha directed this muvuneot, perceived
that this position 'night he turned. One of his bat-
taiii,ns took the right of the itosurgents, atsl the
etieiny was at onee attacked in flank and rear ;
the defence which the entrenchments seemed to
afford only oceesimed the death of a greater num-
ber. The loss of the rebels MaS considerable,
among the slain was Captain Nor, who cuiumanded
the whole body. The town of Alpedrinlia was
taken, is' conse peace of the defeats of the insur-
gents, cud delivered to the flames.
From Atalaya Genend Loisson Marched on the
6th to SKr:edits, on the 7th to Cuticmula, on the nth
to Sardoal, on the tnli to Abrantes, and on the 11th
to Santarem. the engagements fought in theiw
different march ,s we lost 30 men killed, and 40 or
40 wounded. The iasurgeuts have left, at least.
IJ.OOO dead in the field, the 'twill ..elioly con-
swore of a fri iiiy w-hich nothile. enti justify,
and nothing can excuse, and which farces us to
multiply victims, who n we !unseat and reLtret, but
whom a terrible neeeviity obliges us to sacrifice.
It is thus that the Portuguese people, the blind
instrument of the cold calculations of the British
Cabinet, mud the tilifortnnate sport of the fanati-
cism of a part of their priests, destroy, with their
own Laid., the happiness which it was endeavoured
to give them—it is thus, that, from the bosom of
tranquillity and repose, they call down upon
themselves the destructive scourges of war, and
cause ravage to carried into those fields where
God had placed abundance; it is thus that deluded
men, unglateful children, u well as culpable citi-
' semi, exchange all their claims to the benevolence
ant protection of Goverinnent ; for those to mis.
tortime and wreteetalisewi consign their faonilies,carrs-
:to their hiabitatibris desolation, eon flag.ration, and
,e,th, a hedge floorishing cities into heaps of ushes,
into vas tombs, and bring on the whole country
calamities which they provoke, which they deserve,
and from which (feeble victims) they unnot escape;
iu fine it is thus, that, covering themselves with op-
probrium and ridicule, at the same time that they
complete their alertroction, they have no oilier
resource bite the pity of those they have wished
to assassinate, a pity which they never have
implored in vain, when acknowledging their
crime, they have solicited pardon from Frenchmen,
mcapable of departing from their noble am-
meter, are ever generous as they are brave.
Beol.quarters Labe% Jult 13, Isms ;
lly Order et Mewairmer le Dec rr ABB ANT ES,
Chumawler b agef,
Cameral CbleiFalllim 1110114 THIEBAVI.T.