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liberty to enter whenever he pleases. Three of the enemy's
ship of the line, and six brip. are at anchgr of the east end of
South Beveland, the others t conclude have moved higher up
the Scheidt.
Three of the four sloops I brought up with me struck in coming
up. I have hoisted my flag in the Sabrina, and am not without
hopes of getting the remaining parts of the division on shore, and
moat part of the army supplied to-morrow.
I hate the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) R. G. KECTS.
Half-past seven P. M,2-The substance of 'this letter was sent
by Telegraphic communication from the Sabrina, at,five o'clock.
The sir brigs are getting wider sail, and moving up the Scheldt
apparently, but the ships of the line are still fast.
Sabrina, off Wemeldipge, Aug. 3.
Soon after I landed' I was informed by letter from Sir John
Hope, that Bathz had been evacuated in the night; and as he
informed nee the communication was open between Walcheren
and this bland, and be had sent to Lord Chatham an account of
the iv:Aro:Woo, 1 concluded you would hear it from thence, and
vent an to (Lititz with a view to make observations, and from
which I am this moment returned. R. G. KEATS.
Rear Admiral Sir R. J. Strachan, Bart, &c. &c. &c.
+ See the disp'atches from Lieutenant. General the Earl of
Chatham. _
rUESDAY's LOXDON GAZETTE.

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B NK RU PTC lES ENLARGED.

WILLIAM OLLIVANT and THOMAS OLLIVANT, Manchester, cotton-
enknufacturer.
JOHN BAILEY, Chancery-lane, stationes. •
BANKRUPTS. .
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SOLOM AN BECK, Bury-street, Si. Mar)-Ale, jeweller. to surrender, Aug
12, 26, and Sept. 19, at twelve; at Guildhall. Attornies, Messrs. Collins add
Waller, Spittal-square.
SAMUEL UN WIN, Disle7, Chester, shopkeeper, Sept. 14, 15, and 19, at
the Do,: Ta.ern, Dans,Aate. hi an c.heFta. Attoruies, Mr. Ellis, Chancery-lane,
Lumina ; and M. . Iligson, Manchester.
JOHN ELSDEN, Newmarhet. carpenter, Ang . '24, at live, 25, and Sept. 19,
sit eleven, at the Red Lion, in the Petty Cur , Cambridge. Attorney, Mr. Cooper,
Cambridge.
JOHN SIIAW, Wapping-Wall, MiddleF,tx, provision-merchant, Aar,,'. 12,
19, and Sept. 19, at tea, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Wilde, jun. Castle-
htseet, Falcon-square.
.CHAILLES LEVICK, High-street,. Shadretl, Middlesex, straw.hai-manu-
lecturer, Aug. N, 19, and Sept. 19, at tea, at Guildhall. Attoraey, Mr.
Tucker, BArtletes-buildings, Holborn.
JOHN ALLSOFF, Winchester, silk-weaver, Aug. 12. 9.6, and -;ept. 19, at
twelve, at Guildhall, Louden. Attorney, Mr. Kecnot, Thavies-Inn, London.
cERTIVIcA TT:S.—AUGUST e 9.

Isaac Mencelin, Cheapside, perfumer—William Fowler, Great Distaff-lane,
wine.-merchant—William Wake, Spital-square, London, silk-manufacturer—
N. J. Winch, Neweastle-upoe.-T)ne, merchant- I)iC7IF, Stockport, l'hes-
aer, moue. -scrivener—Josim Smith, Evesham, Vloree-ster, iianholder—Timmaii
Turner, Birmingham, Warn Mt, button-maker—Peter Martin:lilt, St. Jame,',-
street, wa nob( (!c.t.m 3u— Abraham J. Sarqui, r)-at ree, tuerchant—Kobert
Cowper, CaLeatua-streeti warrhouseman.

MTUINVY'S LONDON GAZETTE.
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Dnwning•street, Aug. 11, 1609.

Mispatches, of which the following are extracts, have been
received ut the Office of Lord Viscount Castlereagh, one of hi=
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, from Lieutenant-Ge-
neral Sir Arthur Wellesley, K.B.
MY LORD, Placentia, 15th Jufu, 1809.
After t had written to your Lordship on the Ist instant,
Joseph Buena parte crossed the Tagus again, and joined Sebastiani
with the troops he had brought from Aladrid, and with a de-
tachment from Marshal Victor's corps, makinA the corps of Se-
basiiatai about twenty-eight thousand men, with an intention of
;Clarkin, Vanegas' corps. Vanegas, however, retired into the
mountains of the Sierra Aloretia, and Colonel Lamy with his
advanced gwird attacked a French advanced corps in the night,
and destrty,d army of them. The French tro,ips then returned
again to the 'fagus, which river Joseph had crossed with the
t.laforcAnctit which he had taken to Sebastiani's corps; and
this last corps, consisting of ten thousand men only, was on the
left hank of the Tagus, about Nladnelejos, in front of Vanegas,
who was ng.l in advancing. The last accounts from this quarter
were of tie Bth. The French Army under Victor, joined by
ere !eta !totems brought by Joseph from Sehastiani's corps, and
a 8601.. ting in the whole to about thirty-five thousand men, are
es Ice.,trated in the neighbourhood of Talavera, and on the
Ailterche; Generol Cuesta's Army has been in the position which
I informed your Lordship that it had taken up since 1 addremed

AUG. 13.

you on the Ist inst. The advanced guard of th.s British Army
arrived here on the Bth, hold the troops which %vete with me on
the Tagus arrived by the 10th ; thetid Light Dragoons and the
4-111 arrived yesterday ; the 61st Regiment will artiv.! to-
morrow.

I went to General Cuesta's Quarters at Almara on the 10th,
and stayed there till the 12th, and I have arranged with that
general a plan of operations upon the French army, which we
are to begin to carry iatt; execution on the 15th, if the French
should remain so long in their position. The Spanish army
under Genet al Cuesta consists of about thirty-eight thousand
men, (exclusive Of VallegßS% corps) of vs hick seven thousand
are cavalry. About fourteen thousand men are detached to the
bridge of Arzohispo, and the remainder are in the camp under
the I'uerte de Mirabete. 1 have the pleasure to inform your
Lordship, that the seven battalions of infantry from Ireland and
the Islands, andtl,e troop of horse artillery fioni Great Britain,
arrived at Lisbon in the beginning of the month. General C rati.!
ford's brigade i 3 on its march tojoiu the army, but will not ar-
rive here till the `?4th or 23th.
I have the Honour to be, AnTzula Wlt LI. ES E
Talavera de la Rena, Jag 24, 1809.
MY LORD,— Accordingto the arrangement which 1 had set tit..o
with General Cuesta, the Army broke up from Placentia on the
17th and pith instant, and reached Oropesa on the 20th, w here
it formed a junction with the Spanish army under his command.
Sir Robert Wilson had marched from the Yenta de Bartgoa;
on the Tietar, with the Lusitanian Legion, a battalion of Por-
tuguese Chasseurs, and two Spanish baitalious on the 15th ; he
arrived at Arenas on the 19th, and on the Alberche, at Esca-
lona, on the 23d.

General Vanegas had also been directed to break up from
Madrileyos on the 18th and 19th, and to ?march by Trenhleque
and Ocana to Puenteduenas on the Tagns, where that river is
crossed by a ford, and thence to Arganda, where he was to fir•
rive on the 2itl and 23d. On the 22d, the combined armies
moved from Oropesa, and the advanced guards attacked the
enemy's outposts at Talavera. Their right was turned by the
Ist hussars and the 23d Light Dragoons under General Anson,
directed by Lieutenant-General Payne, and by the division of
infantry under the command of Major-General Mackenzie, and
they were driven in by the Spanish advanced guards under the
command of General Sarjas and the Duc d'Albuquerque. We
lost eleven horses by the fire of cannon from the enemy's fiositio,t)
the Aiherche, and the Spaniards had tiqme men wounded. The
columns were formed for the attack of this position yesterday
but the attack was postponed till this morning by desire of Gen.
Cuesta, when the different corps destined for t he attack were put
in motion, hut the enemy had retired at about one in the morn-
ing to Santa (Yalta, and thence towards Torrijos; L conclude tu
.form a junction with the corps under General Sebastiani.
1 have not been able to follow the enemy as I could wish on
account of the great deficiency of means of transport in Spain.
I enclose the copy of a letter, which I thought it proper to
address upon tkis sullject to Major-General. O'Donoghue, the
Adjutant-General of the Spanish army, us soon as I found
that this country would furnish no means of this desc
General Cuesta has urged the Central Junta to adopt vigorous
measures to relieve our wants: WI lam supplied, I do not think
it proper, and indeed I cannot, continue my operations. 1 have
great hopes, however. that before long 1 shall be supplied front
Andalu,ia and La Mancha with the means which I require,
and I shall then resume the active operntions which I have been
compelled to relinquish. 1 have the honour to he, &c. &e.
(Signed) ARTHUR WELLESLEY. •

Dowiarng•street, August 11, ISO 9.

Dispatches, of which the following are copies, have been
received at the office of Lord Viscount Castlereagh, one of his
Majesty's Principallecretaries of State, from Lieutenant-Gene-
ral the Earl of Chatham, K. G.
Head-Quarters, Middelburg, August 7th, 1809.
MY Loan,—Nothing very material 'has occurred since my
last dispatch of the 3d inst. We have been unremittingly em-
ployed iti bringing up the artillery of siege, ammunition and
stores to the vicinity of Flushing, and the troaps have been oc-
cupied in the con-truction of the batteries, and in carrying on
the several works before the place, but which have been neces"
sarily interrupted by the eery heavy rains which have fallen
here. The enemy is active and enterprising, and the garrison
has certainly received considerable reinforcements from the op-
posite coast; nor has it been hi the power of the flotilla hi-
therto to prevent it. Under these circumstances it hue beep