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On the manner in which the latter were c.rrietl into
execution, the Marshal makes the following re-
mark :

" The Portuguese nation is already sequaini

with French clemency and moderation, cud the elie-
tny's conduct on this OCCAL.I4II) Will Frew, that
good faith has nut experienced any ct.atige since
he was driven out of Portugal. By the eapiin'n-
tion he gr:iited to the militia leave to return hour ;
and yet, alien he found that the Portuguese trait
tors who attend him, the most active of whom is
the Alimitsis 41' Al rnu, failed of succeis in seducing
the militia to eater"the Freueli sei..:e, I. • hail re -
conrse to his Accustomed argument—JJ• ;hey do rot
choose to do it spontoncously, let them do it by coin.
prilmon—tin,i, in direct °position to the tenor of
the earntwatiusi, the enemy has really detained
by main force, to firm a corp.' of pioneers,
seventy officers and two hundred mien of each regi-
meat of militia !" •

EXTRACT OP A TITTER FROM BRIG ADIRR-GENICRAL
CriX, Tu HIS EXIA.I.LENCY SIARsMALlsiott5FulIO.
D %TEO •LURA DE SISPU, THE 30ra •U-
Guar, 1310.

it I am to perform the painful trek of informing
your Excellency, that I was reduced to the n✓
cessity of surrendei lag the fortress of Almeid
which I had the honour to command, on tli
27th of this current month, at ten o'clock at
night, in consequence of the unfkirtoriate explosion
of the large powder magazine in the Castle, and of
two small magazines contiguous to it; by which
dreadful accident I was deprived of all my artillery
and ammunition, with the exception of a small slum-
ber of cartudgess which were lodged near toe bat-
teries, and thirty-nine barrels of powder deposited
in the Laboratory. More than hilt the detachment
of artillery. awl a considerable number of foot sol.
diers, besides several irthahitaiits, were destroyed by
that dreadful explosion. :Many pieces of ordnance
were dismounted in tb' batteries; the works were
greatly damaged, ands general consternation pre.
railed among the inhabitants and troops.

4. In this unfortunate sitostiou I received a letter
turn Marshal Pitnee of F,ssling, Comeauder-ins
Chief of the French army of Portugal, in which he
proposed to ine to surrender the islaqe to the French
army under hiw order., on Cie honourable terms
which he was reedy to grant me. I
returned lot
answer, that I wished tu know the terns+ he had to
propose. The articles were eten transmitted to
me, a copy of which I t.tvtt the Iteniuor to :oeltime;
and which, alter I bill INA 11:1 possible me stis tu
&gain better terms, hot oit bout ell'eer, I w oblig
to accept, with the s extent: ,n I °id:tine:l in
favour of the esgiments of the Portuguese militia.
11, I trust that :uy conduct no this crith:sl occasion
will Le honoured with your Excellency's
Lion. and that I shill be ju.ttfied iii ih..eyet of tay
country by the cireunastaneLs of the 1...1.1r."
[Hess follow the ',ticks of capitulation, s hits haves'.
realy bees pablithen

CADII, ♦OO. 30.

The Marquis Romani. General-m-Chief of the
Army of the 1.4 t, under date from the Wad-
Quarters at Salvalierra, of thy 15th of this month,
acquaints the Minister of War, that on the Stli he
inarchd froin J li,j,z in the direethri of 01: rue r,
and successively to Haearichi, and Salvo-
tierne, where lie found the divisions of Generals
lialla,termi nod La Carrera, under the orders of
General Ou the nth, knowing its
Salvatierra that on th:. preceding etly the enemy
evacuated Z lira, he immediately marched to Zaire.
ordering Gemini's La Carrera and Ballasteros with
the a hole of the cavalry, and some infantry, to re-
commitre I.le-rens. As our troops were executing
these movements on the II th, they met the enemy
on the heights of Vellagarcia, who also occupied
those of Cantilehollo, separated from the first by •
valley, in which their artillery teas placed. The
Guerrillas kept op their fire till the enemy had
formed his att.ielt 0.1 our left, when hneing execut.
ed the reconnuitriu4 ordered by the Cesierril, they
effected their retieet covered :1 the c:t%

Phr
Nliv.plis IC.,nrlux it tut 41.1 v to give the de-
tails of thss action. not last itg rrc teed Ilse part,,
lan front the Gem hut massy sets of isidieidusi
vsloar were pesfn.—ssed. The Prtilicry huh:seed in
that distisegus.lu.d it:assrn r which 'usually CIIAT4C.
tertses that corps; the 011(417 theuigelves
with glory ; ou.l w general. the troops, ()nicer*, and
Generals 1613.'1411 their duty.

The 10,, of the enemy in kii:ed end wounded tris
been beyond entnpsrisun greater than aim. We
took forty pi ioners, end nu our side lost aotne, in
cnnseipteis:i. of extreme weariness and the heat of
the day. Our dying artillery, c4niposed of C4ll.
/10111•101 a htiWitter. MIMI opposed by &nide that
nutulter, which ilismounted one of our guns, %%hid)
it was r-qtn.ite In abandon, after spiking it.--
The woe doy General Boron, with the cavalry
undrrhia conanaad, j-iineil the Nrittguese brigade
of the semedesctipt.on, tuoler Gm Madden, whom
Lord Wellington has sent, at the Marquis
mat.a's requett.

It
has been "mid, that ill r uusrquente of the order
its May last, to bit+"kJde El sluts., some soterrup-
tiott his hires given to the passage of the :741,55.,1 loi•
oar CriIIZIPIS on that gnat cr. It a understood, how.
ever, to Sr ttle• isstrists..ss of Gateructiosit strictly In
cuuaite that Ikmitssle tr. Eliiiteur. mod it
briourl at, or dirato the ore riot to uo .iffeetii
b.. '6., uuu.+• it 14111.!litli , their pap, r. t i they are
bound to