The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-02-04 00:00:00

THIRTIETH JULIA

" VALLADOLID, JAN. '2l.

" The• Duke of Dalmatia left Bet;inans on the
12th inst. flaring rem:lied the Meru, he found the
bridge of Burgo cut. The enemy was dislodged
from the villag.: of Borg°. In the meantime Gen.
Fraticeselit ascended the river, which he crossed ut
the bridge of Seta. Ile made himself rustster of the
high road front Corutina to Saidiao, and took six
and tiu so:ditrs prisoners. On the same Jay-
a 6)4 of JO marines, who were fetching water from
tire hay near Nero, were takeu. From the village
of Persil°, the English fleet could be observed in
the hat hwor of Coruntoos.
" 0:1 the lJth, the eosstny coshed two portlier sus.
pastors; situated near the heights of Mt. Margaret,
at half a league from C 013111114, to he blown up.
The explosion was terrible, and felt at the distance
of three leagues..

" On the kith, the bridge nt forgo vas re-
paired., and the French artillery was able to pass.
The enemy hod taken a position at tae leagnesdis-
lance; half a league before Commie. fla was
seen employed in hastily embarking his sick and
wounded, the number of which, according to spies
and deserters, amounts to 3000 or 4000 men. The
English were, iu the mean wink, occupied in de-
stroying the batteries ou the coast, and laying waste
the country on the sea shore. The Commandant
of the Girt of St. Philip, suspecting the fate in-.
tended fur his fortification, refused to admit them
in it.
" On the evening of the 13th we saw a fresh con-
voy of Wu tail arrive, amoug which were four ships
of the line.

On the morning of the 15th, the divisions of
Merle and .14 ennet occupied the heights of Villa-
boa, where dd• enemy's advanced guard was sta-
tioned, which was attacked cud destroyed. 0 v
right wing was stationed on the point where the
mid from Centrum to Lugo', and that from Co-
rinna' to Sant:ago, meet. The left was placed be-
hind the village of Diana. The enemy was sta-
tioned behind souse lionitiful heights.
" The rest of the kith was spent in fixing a bat-
tery of twelve pieces of cannon; and it wax not
till the 16th, at three o'clock in the afternoon, that
the Duke of Dalmatia gave orders .o attack.
"The assault Mtlit6 made upon the English by
the first brigade of the division of Menai% which
overthrew them, and drove them from the village
of &vine. The second re!.inielit of light infantry
covered itself with glory.* General Jpiracus; at the
head of the Voltigenre, wrought a tUrrihte carnage.
The eneiny, from his rztreated to
the ;actives which sutround Coiunna.
" The night growing very dark, it was necessary
to suspend the attack. The et-my availed him-
self at' this to embark with precipitation. Only 6000
of our men were engaged, and every arrangement
was made for abandoning the positions of the eight,
and advancing next day to u general attack. The
loss of the enemy has been iinmense. Two of our
batteries played upon them during the whole of
the engagement. We counted on the field of bat-
tle more than eight hundred of their ileatl,.bodies,
among which was the body of General Hamilton,
and those of two other General Officers, whose
names we are unacquainted with. We have taken
411 Officers, :100 men, awl 4 pieces of cannon.
The English have left bellied them more than 1500
horses, which they had killed. Our less amounts
to 100 killed awl 150 wounded.

" The Colonel of the 47th Regiment distill-
guishcd himself. An of the dist infantry
Lilted with his own hand an EnOisli Officer, who
had endeavoured to Wrest front hint his eagle.
The Ueuend of Artillery llonweat uud Colonel
Fontenay have •i:sialised thene,ove,
" At day-break on the 17th. ur saw the English
convoy under sail. On the last, the whole had
disappeared.
" The Duke of Dalmatia had caused a cnrronadc
to be discharged upon the vessels from the fort of
Santiago. Several transports raw aground, and all
the men who were on board were taken. •
" We found in the establishment of the Panora
(a large nianufactory, ac. in the suburbs of Cu-
rminu, where the English had previously been en-
camped) 000 English muskets. Magazines also
were 'lrian, containiog a great quantity ofmnmuui-
tion
and other edicts, belonging to the hostile army.
A greaernutnber of wounded were picked up in the
suburbs. The oliinion of the inhabitants on the
spot, and deserters, is, that the number of wounded
in the battle exceeds 1,500 men.
" Thus has teri ll ill ;tied the English Expedition
which w sent into Spain. After having foment-
ed the Atria this unhappy country, the English
have abandoned it. They had disembarked dd,noo
men cud tiouu horses. 'cV4' have taken from them,
=cumin% to cahmlatiou, 43,500 num, exclusive of
the sick. They have re-embarked very. little bag-
gue. very little ammunition. and very few horses.
We have counted 5000 killed and left behind. The
men wlio have bmud an asylum on board their ves-
sels, are harassed cud dejected. lii another sea-
son of the year, not one of them would have es-

Of the 38,000 men whom the English had dis-
embarked, we may he Le:to:red that scaret4!" 24,un0
will return to 11:1,..11aud.
" The army of Romani, which, at the et:11 of
December, by the aid 14 reitifoi•cemeutr whieli it

lisid received from thillicuo, 'eofflii,ted of 16,00.1
lell. ill reduced to iros than SOuto inew, who are

wautlcring between Igo and ti.uttiago, and are
cles.ely pursued. The langrlon of Lunn-, the Jun.
vines al Zamora, and all Gallicia, which the Eng-
ledi had been desirous to cover, itre conquovd and
'll...General of I)ivimion lApisse has neat pa-
trn`..l into Portu4ll, oh., have Paten well receie.A.
kneral Almt:lttst eutered tielamanat,ke
set there *ith some sick of the English tr.,upa."
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