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PORTUGUESE PAPERS.

CORt ?I NA, MARCH 25.

The Diary Exersordiaary.of this city, sod the
piper of the same date, custom the communication
rn4de to the Superior Juuts by Don Nicolas idshi.
flif • the army of observation sod
t4' -erve ; with another of the dote of the 21st lust.,
from Uon Loh. Dias, Major-General ad-interim, and
I ioninisoder of the anxili.try troops iis the Asturias;
which he communicates the particulars of the
soi.ai which took place on the warping of the
19111 ; in which, notwithstanding the superiority in
toutniwirs of the enemy, end the advantage of lilt
he was uldiKed to esaceste Oviedo on the
sink, with the loss of mousy guru killed and
woutid•d ; while ours was touch less. as we had
only I.) or Et killed. 40 wounded. owl ft or 10 pri-
soners. The loss of the enemy, et least that which
they could not cotters% consisted in 4 officers, end
about 30 soldiers killed, and 30 carts of wounded.
which they touk to Oviedo. This success, and
homy others of the same kind. which ere ebetieu•
shy occurring, lawn the spirit which animates the
hample of Spain.

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MAMMA, YES. 13.
By a person of credit we learn, that our troops,
between. Mollet and San Petpetua, destroyed a
whole French division which was there, having cotne
out of B ,reelona. In the first action, which took
place at S..n Perpetua, at eleven in the morning,
out of 4011 of the enemy only two escaped, all
the rest bring killed or taken prisoners. la the
second, which took place at two in the afternoon.
at blollet. only 150 French escaped out of 1,300
who were there. Before evening, yesterday, 520
Ir isoners hail entered the town of Tarrame, with 16
olicers, a Colonel and Lieutenant-Colonel of cuiras-
siers. of tins corps we took the cannon, horses.
410,Tgagr, and ammunition.

EXTRAORDINARY CORUNNA DIARY, MAIM' 28.

Ilia Execile,tey Don N. Nlnhi hiv received the
following Oinzial Itepurt, and communicate:l it to
the Superior Junta :
" MOST EXCELLENT drooled, yesterday, so
Meer, with some troops, to aseeriaia the troth of an !ac-
count which ens rem seed here, that in, enemy ens to be
found from that place to Corot/moo. The Officer returned,
st seven o'clock at night, and it appears, by his report, that
the above account is perfectly correct. I■ Monte-Akre
the rummy has an advanced party, composed of goo fuel and
25 horse, tw. {augurs tad a half from

" E. P. ARTEQUIEVA."
" Villa Franca del Vltiza, March es, 1810"

naLoatco, ATMS, 4.
The French still maintain their position in Su-
lam:ince, but their numbers sic SSOMIIP: Noma Sc?
i..!,000, others 20,000 Mee. TIN advapt>sdtr•
tits of 'the kliitfish army, it is said, 4,11 tbh_.!
to arrive in San 1. cher, ; they are et ',fleet is PPM
de Porco. It would 'teem that the From+ Intend
to concentrate their main force in Selareanea. This
day arrived hers 12 deserters, 10 of whom were
Irishmen, and 2 Germans.

aroma, art 7.
The tidings lately received free ed_ports are of
the most favourable description. The French meat
in every pitsition with the most rawest resistance,
4,0 the perilous situation is sita Very rice placed
int duubt the cause of that insosesnonmast. whisk
st present occasion, the nemerens desertions el
their troops *employed be firths.
The reanimation of pidtbe spisit in Spain, and
the adupticio of the only system which ease rove the
Peninsula, and which consists in the closest eon-
t.exion with our allies, and a boundless confi-
dence iii their generous and tried frieedship,
..ill prove the more destructive to the envy. es
his efforts are generally directed to sow trustand sod
incyi,ion aiming the nations which be wishes to
uriorris.

CASTFLI 0 11011110100, Nene' 31.
The f.,ll.)iting letter !Jab been received bete, the

contonts of which I shall be happy to fintl con-
firmed—

6' The intelligenee, which a Messenger meal to &dummies
brought bock, in, that the French, who strived in Sialasusasca,
du not •tup there, but insswiiiately proceed to Madrid, in
enascquence or a to star defeat 111,111LIMetti by their nutty is An-
dalusia. Lolson's {Had quarters are au Lcdesssa, and Mar-
chand's ha Tananines."

" Masoralla, March 30, 18 10.••
►l.ll &h MARCH 31.
Intelligence has been received, that Ballasteros
has attacked and defeated the French. and took
actit prisoners. It is added. that the remains of the
French division. which was engaged in that action,
are surrounded by Billasterne and Contrrrsr.