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inst:and pretiously; had kept up a very ilack fire
upou that place, and uone at ail ou the Nth.—
(Gazette.)
CIUDAD RODRIGO, SECT. C./5..

On the 17th the army or Marshal Ney advanced
towards our troops; who took a position on the 18th
to receive him ; but the enemy having been inform-
ed of their re-union, and that they s ere superior to
him in number, retired at day-break of the t9th to
Salamanca. The said army joined the troops of
Kellerman near the said city.—(l.lon.)

TARRAGONA. SErr. !O.

The pleasing news has this inonnent been received,
that Dun O'Donnell, rye, iveil intelligence
of the arrival, in Bascara, of a French convoy, es-
corted by :lOU scot and .to horse, destined to succour
the besiegers of Gerona, resolved to attack thew :
sod after having defeatril the French with Isis own
troops, reinforced by the corps of Francisco Livers,
lie carried Bascara by assault, took 50 carts loaded
with rich spirits, and forced the remainder of the
enctny's troops to retre.:t with the utmost precipita-
tion to Tiquenas. The defeat of the enemy would
have been coinpli :• , if he I.ml not shot hiinsilf iip
in the castle, hick Don O' Donaelfs fot ce was not
able to toke.—(Li4bus (.I:r:le, Oct. 7.)

S E PT. '25.

On the 13th i•tkt,nt, after the immortal ti,roins
had for ti,r days suffered a roost horrible and
de-
struetire tire, I,2!wq men of the garrison (hetet-Min-
ed to make a Janie, to take u battery of 8
pkets of cannon, a Inch the enemy had constructed
near the city, and which nunnyed them much.
T:te intreFidity owl valour of those nitconquer.
able heroes, attained sa high a degree, that, over-
eniniiii; all the difficulties which the obstinacy of
the most sanguinary en. iny presented, they appear.
ed before them with the utmust coolness, and, with
the bayonet, made themselves toasters of the hat-
tery, spiked R pieces of cannon, and returned to
the city, when a I . inerous reinforcement Caine to
the ussi,tasiee of the French.—(. (villc Gaztitt,
aloha 3.)

TRUIII.I.O. OCT. 4.

The French abandoned, lust night, the positions
they orcupitd on this side of the Tagus, and
tuarcised towards Talavera.

OCT. 5.

The advanced guarl of the Duke del Parque is
at Galistro ; but, it k Ncy will resume the
positions which Soelt ha* left. Oak the ad inst. 4
ft.ig of truce arrived at Pante de Arzobispn, and
proceeded to Valdclaca,a, 'here one of our pie-
gusts was ported ; be demanded of the command-
tag officer perakasiou to proceed to the head-quar-
ters, to which he would not consent : after
inquiring where the Ely,1:11 were, he delivered to
the said officer a &patch for Sir Arthur Wellealey.
It appear., that the of Soa:t is marching
towards Toledu.—(Bailajus Diary, Gil. (kJ

TALAVERA, OCT. 2.

Yesterday m))))) the French evacuated Pla-
semi*, proceeding towards Cunipo Aimitteln, and
giving out that thyg should be replaced by Ney's

TERUF.T., orT. 2.

Our warriors continue to fight gloriously, not
allowing the enemy it luoment's respite, but ha-
rassing him by every means. The booty taken in
the I tat action„ by the battalion under the orders of
Don Ramon (;J) an, is valuable ; the number of
killed is considerable ; but much more so the igno-
miny with which the haughty eagles of Napoleon
have been coveresl.—f /dem /

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