The National Register.
London, England, 1811-08-11 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

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The following ankle received yesterday fr*.oin
Oporto does not contain any intelligence from the
headquarters of the B. itish army of so late a date
as Lord WELLINGTON'S dispatches of the 18th ult. ;
it is, however, interesting, insomuch as any trans.:
actions of importance in the north of Portugal and
Spain, and in the direction of Almeida, Ciudad
Rodrigo, Salamanca, &c. must be known speedily
in Oporto:—

OPORTO, JULY 23.—The reports of the day are highly fa-
vourable. • What few French there are to the northward are
very much wore down by sickness. JOSEPH BONAPARTE did
not bring more than 3500 horse with him to Burgos. This may
be relied-on, as well as that no reinforcements of any conse-
quence have lately entered Spain. It is reported and generally
believed that MAR mewl- had passed the Puente de Almaraz ;
and that Lord We L LIGGTON had ordered three divisions of the
allied army to march on the 17th, to keep him in check. We
have no doubt here, but that in a few weeks the hostile forces
will be again to the northward ; but think that the French
will not attempt to enter Portugal this autumn; if they do, they
will be infinitely worse off than they were before, as very
few bullocks remain, and almost all the crops have failed.

MALTA AND GIBRALTAR MAILS. •

Mails from Malta and Gibraltar arrived yesterday
morning, with intelligence from Malta of the 2d
ult. and from Gibraltar of the 2 tth. General BAL-
LA STEROS remains at Villa Real with his infantry
for the protection of the county of Niebla; his
horse are gone back to Lord WELLINGTON. Gene-
ral BLAKE'S troops (with the exception of about
500 men arrived at Algeziras) are also gone to
Cadiz where they have landed. It is supposed,
that, after getting new clothing, they ►ill re-embark
and proceed to the eastward. Their Commander
has received fresh proofs of the confidence reposed
in him by Government, it being understood at
Cadiz, that he has been appoiried to the command
of the 2d and 3d armies (Valencia, Arragon, and
Murcia.)

There are some advices from other parts of Spain,
which we have annexed :
CARTHAGENA, JULY 9.—" The French sallied forth from
Grenada td surprise Villalubns, but the latter having been
warned in time, frustrated their projects. Ail the letters from
the eastward speak of the unf irtunate loss of Tarragona. The
pusillanimous are cast duwn by any reverse we happen to re-
ceive ; but the mind endued with fortitude is never dejected.
We must now wait the result of what will be attempted by Use
thousands of men who have landed in Catalonia, alti.Ough too
late to save Tarragona. Their number amounts to 14,000; and
notwithstanding the loss of Tarragona, these forces cannot but

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influence the fate of .the principality.—(Gibraltar Chronicle,
July
" 13iz.t, ERNE SO.—On the 25th inst. Gen. LAVAL assumed
the cam:nand in the room of SEBASrIANt, who has since set
out on his return to France; and on the 2Pth abandoned the
points of Guadix and Cuesta Duzmajalling back through Darro
towards Grenada. On the same day our cavalry entered Guadix,
and our light parties the said Cuesta. On the ‘,-:9th, our General
marched to Guadix, whtre he is at present. We are surprised
at that precipitate retreat. Do they, perchance, intend uniting
their forces for the purpose of attacking Count NlohtTIGO, who
is in the Suspiro del Mars, three leagues from Grenada. The
Count has been reinforced by the battalions cf Guadix and La
Carona. M. QUADAO, who is at Cabra del Santo Custo, has
been joined by the battalions of Badsjoz and Guadalaxara."—
(Sante Paper.)
The Malta Mail has brought the following article
from Sicily :
“ MESSINA, lULT 12.—The French on the opposite shore
having lately begun to fire on the merchant vessels which pass
the Faro, we have it in charge to make known to the public, that
if up .rnied vessels shall suffer the least damage from the fire i‘f
the enemy, the Commander in Chief has given peremptory or-
ders that a number of gini-boats bhan make reprisals on the
French in Calabria, by cannonading the shore.
" It is hoped, that without having recourse to this measure of
retaliation,an end will be put to a proceeding which can produce
no advantage either to one side or the other.—(Caa:ta Britan-
rico.)
" The brig named the Pilot, which some days since returned
to this port, ha& I?r,ought with it several prizes, made in the
giti6lily:tirhood •of Cort,,na, where it has destioyed several
other vess;;ls, and done great damage to the commerce of the
enemy."