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%old out to the last extremity, as li had no oppori
timity to succour it ; or that at all events it would
have detained the enemy udtil • very remote period
of the season.

" I am not in possession of any intelligence
which could enable me to form a correct opinion of
the cause of the surrender: some prisoners, who
were yesterday token, state, that the powder maga-
zine in the castle (which was, however. Loath'
•proof) blew up on Satiably night; that in the course
of Monday the Governor desired to capitulate, on
con:nth:in that the place be surrendered to the
enemy, but that the gun imin aid inhabi tours of the
place should be permitted to join the army ; which
proposal having been rej,:cted, and the, fire recom-
menced. 10! Giv.,rnor held out as long as he had
any Mune .11k0I1 and surrendered yesterday
morning, • hen 11,:. ores were completely exhaust-
ed. Tiv'y sidd, that the enemy afterwards offered
to the soldiers of tl'e 2arrii.m, either to enter the
Emperor's service, or he sent to France as pri•oners
of war, *lnch last offer was accepted by the gar-
rison.

•• This accotot dese►ves ns corning from
an enemy, •nd is co,: -rifled by 7 ; arnst,,,we,
that hostilities were ‘l,led from 10 o'clock in
the moruing until 9 • night, when th 4 firing
recommenced, but entirely ceivied near two o'clock

in the morning.
A strong explosion was also heard at our ad-
vanced posts, and I vbserved on 'Monday, that the
belfrey of the Church of Aloncida was destroyed,
and many houses were nurn-ferl

" I hope that the *bore account will rove cur.
rect in all its material parts ; and it will give one the
greatest satisfaction to find that the loss of Almeida,
and the acquisition of s'te military store* and provi-
sions which the place contained by the enemy, has
not been occasioned by any misconduct of the Co.
renter or the garrison.

" I had some telegraphic crimmunication with
the Governor, but uufortunau•h• the state of the
weather did not permit us to use that expedient on
Sunday, ,Or during the greatest part of Monday ;
and when the weather cleared np in the course of
the latter day, the Governor was perceived to have
opened a communication with the enemy.
" Considering the povitiou to which I had ad.
enticed the army so near the place, it tr touch to be
regretted that 1 hod not any opportunity to nacre.
lain the real state of the place after the pueder
magazine blew up.

06 The enemy attacked twice day our pirliets,
yet in a very feeble winner ; he was noth times re-
putted ; in the evening, however, they forced Ge-
neral Sir Stapleton Cotton to fall back to Fro.xedas.
" The bcco .d curia, coinmauded by General
Hill, has not made any consideruble movement
since my la" •
a. No operation of importance has occurred iu
Estre,nadur4 t•ittee my last eottimal.katiott..
" lit the N,wih of Spa..., the enemy marched, on
the doth instant, • small e0.1.a ofinfantry and horse
to dlcanizas; hut General Silveira having put him-
seW in motion from Braganzt. in the direction of
the above place, the enemy's corps immediately
retired. .• Wstuncrron."
" Abram August 20, 11110."

LtsBoB. sEPT. 8.

By an official communicatioo from Nlarshal
Beresford, dated Head-Quarters, Moinsenta d.•
Sierra, the 4th inst., it appears that the loss of the
fortress of Almeida was occasioned by the unfortu-
nate accident which took place with regard to
the powder mapzitie; and that, according to the
unanimous declaration of the Colonels of Mi-
litia, and other Officers s ho belonged to the gar.
risna, all the troops, until that accident happened.
behaved in the best possible manner; and the !►li-
titia displayed no less valour than the troops of the
line ; that all the Officers and *edifiers are nnani-
tnous in bestowing the utmost 1.9 rise on the conduct
of General Cox—they all represent him as intlefati-
gable, having never left the parapets ; and that lie
had in such a degree gained the lore and respect
of the garrison, suhliers as well as officers, and in-
spired them with so much confidence, that, but
fur the unfortunate occident which beret the pow-
der-magazine, the attar k of A Init Ida would have
occasoined to the eiorny a considerable lons
blth or time and melt; that althou;;lt the enc.
my toed all means of seduction, and chiefly
wade mit, for the execution of that infa-
mous project, of the Portuguese who attend
lion, it is already known to nine (\bushel Beres.
ford), thst, besides the Englinh Officers, Governor
Cox, Major Ilewit, ao•l Captain Foley, Major
filattoel Panto Cobreirn and Captain Ju.t. Pedro de
Mello, in the most honnurublu and spirited man-
ner njected his infamous proposals ; mist it is with
the utmost tutinfaction he communicates the intel-
ligence, that the two first Lieutenants of the corps
of engineer., Antonio Elizeo Paula de Batboem
mod Joaquin, Pedro Pinto de Stotzi, and the Se-
cond Lieutenaut, Jose Feliciano Farinhe, refused
to enter the French service, effected their escape
from the enemy, end are to his brad-quarters:
that the firmness and patriotism e►inced by the
said °Ems, deserve the stroneest recommends-
lion to his Royal Ifighne,s, that he may be pleased
to lie,ton some mark of Alvin °hating' au their omit
botionnelik conduct, by promohug them to the
rank of Captain. .

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by the, following leaps, aid articles of capitulation.