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the enemy was prepared
Mar.bal Ney listing V
they were accepted
ingly surrendered.
The enemy took
said place on the r
vested it on the 1,
on the 15th of
silenced to batter
month ; and when
position of the
tifications, the
enjoyed in its at'sck,
which he brought
of Ciudad Rodrigo
Governor, Don And.
Fawn, reflects the
and deserves to be
fences of other places,
has illustrated itself "
independence.
This morning an
our piquet. and those
officers and 3lt men
sent., Jaely IG.)
The Spaniards ,
honour; t tat tnisera►.le
besieged by all the
and night. 09 one
of the heavielt battering
wally repair the sr.
Desertions are numerous.

/lead•gswrfers,
sick in all Portugal.

According to some
been a slight action
guards of our army .
have suffered considerable
Baciajoz, it aprars
has approached that
serrabla in all the
which everywhere
the in,urrection
almost infinite number
reports of the &scallion
the English, in the
assist the patriotic
(Lisboa Peary, .I,

'We are in the
to the operatons
anxious to learn what
We have no positive
conjectures. We .
able Chief, who linpm,
forces win •h compose
army which defends '
greatest circuisispectton
taken by the enemy.
Ciudad Rodrigo
fence of 16 days.
storm it; but the '
rearstaeoe vain, su,
not reached us.
offal opinion is, that
the place whenever ~
appeared embarrassed,
my to its relief,
general eligsgrrneal
the troops of the enem
tage. As to Ciudad ,
of it is of no consequence
the 10th; on the •
bouched on the
lautly att.cked and
of the 14th and
lope! Talbot : there
French in a great
bot charged them
subalterns of the 16tb, and eight or ten privates.
both the fore-lep of Coigne! Telbot'a hoists were
broken, the animal plunged forward and fell; the
Colonel fell over Ins head on the enemy's bayonets,
alto inst.ritly dispatched him : his body bas not
yet been recovered. The enemy lost 300 awe in
killed alone. Our loss was under twenty. Colonel
Talbot is universally regretted ; he was a native of
Slalahyde. near Dublin. Lord lVellington can.
nurses nearly in tie Paine h. bees is
for some time. The ',witty hover over all his out-
posts, but do not venture to make ao attack neon
any. Fort Conception has been destroyed. fr. Aid
the defence of it should oblige our army to C o.llft to
au action in the plata. All the baggage of General
divis,on, melodist( that of the Portuguese
attached to him, arrived at Alicante, on the titih.

The troops arrived at Campo Major, near Elvac.
ow die frontier., 041 the 14th. Miami has lately
gime his tracipv • little pay ; he is said to have'
1%000 111eil at Cobb. ep,i.:eeti leagues Nut
Comma. It ni Olt erosion wilier general here,
that this sill be a earniiai.;ti nr pool, an 1
; no deci•ire act.n:i is eapPCted to take
place. IVc can bring tiu,ooU by) oath; into the

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SIZOIVCS-PIALIPTISIT•
irepaved for a general assault; but
sing uttered terms of capitulation,
ed by the garrison, *hie!. accord-
1.
auk up a positi.in in front of the
6th of last month, completely in-
-1 Ith of June, opened his trenches
f the same month, and corn-
er it on the 241) of the said.
ten we consider the nature and
place, the defect of its furs
advantages winch the enemy •
attack, and the formidable force
before the place, the def., ce •
rigo does infinite honour to its
Aside H-narti, and its brave gar.
utmost glory on the Spanish anus,
be classed with the celebrated de.
laces, by which the Spanish simian
self in this severe struggle fur its
an engagement took place between
those of the enemy, who lost tee
len taken prisoners.—( Lisbon Us.
LISSOM, JULY 18.
s are doing themselves immortal
serable place, Ciudad Rodrigo, is
he French army, and battered day
one hattery are mounted Is pieces
altering guns ; the Spaniards Sc.
walls in broad day under ti is fire.
iumerous.
, Woicida—no sick.-. Not 2,000
orne accounts,there appears to hate
ion between some of the advanced
rmy and the enemy, in which they
untenable loss. By accounts from
irs that the Marquis de la Romanis
that place. The mnseusents oh-
e prosinces of Spain .hew the si.irit
e animates the people. Everyisisere
n in full force, supported by the
amber of flying parties. There are
genital katioo of some divisions of •
the maritime ports best suited to •
tic riertious of the Spaniards.-.
.•
July lb.)
JULY 20.
greatest retort-tenon with respect
of the army of Masseuse, sad air +;
what will be hia future •
dive accounts to assist us in Our
'e may, however, assert, that the
looppay commands the numerous
•mpose the respectable and brute
nds Portugal, observes with the
ipection and judgment every step
nny.—(Lisbula Diafy, July 20.)
JULY 21.
igo has fallen, after a gallant
s. The enemy were prepared to
Commandant, seeing ail further
surrendered on terms which have
Such is the account; but the ge.
that the enemy could have taken
ter they pleased, but delayed. and
used. on purpose to draw oar ar- •
which would have brought on a
neat in those great plains, where •
enemy would have had the &dram.
lad Rodrigo, the possession or loss
ieqttence to either party. It fell tio
: same day the enemy's cavalry de-
plains of Almeida, and were gal-
and repulsed by eight squadrons
16th Light Dragoons, under Co. I ,
here were 300 infantry with the
t piece of standing corr. Col. Tel.
gallantly; they fired and iplkd 2
e 16tb, and eight or ten privates.

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