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Dutening-sirett, Sept. 4, 1803.
Disoatches, of %vitt. n4he following are Copies and Extracts,
were last nig'it received from Lieutenant-Cieneral Sir Harry Bur-
I Lieutenant-General Sir.Attlitir Wellesley, dated from
It Al-Quarters at lainrinha, addressed to Viscount Castlereagh,
One of 11,..'M v's Principal Secretaries of State, and brought
by o.apt. Ca.nplivil, A id-d....C.talp to Sir Arthur Wellesley.
I xtract of a tater from Liemlenill,+neral Sir A rthue
Weltet-
te,l. dated flead-Qaarturs al Caldas‘ the Illth nf.dag. NOS.
I marched from Lyrics an the 150, and arrived at Ahobaca on
',axe the enemy itad abandoned in the priced.
dog nigh: ; and I arrived uere yesterday. The enemy, about
dtl:M iu nu:nher, were rioted about ten miles (rain hence, at
Borica ; and they occupied Brans, about three miles from hence,
with their advanced p.•sts. As the possession of this tart villagi
was important to our future operations, I determined to Occupy
It ; and as soon as the British infantry arrived upon the ground,
I directed Cm, it might be occupied by a detachment, Consisting
of foor companies of ntlemeo of the iltlth and 95th regiments.
T'ie enemy, enosistlng of a small piquet of infantry, and a few
t cavalry, made a trifling resistance and retired ; but they were
followed by a detachment of our riflemen to the distance of three
miles from Brno,. The riflemen were then attacked by a supe-
rior body of the enemy, who attempted to cut them of from the
main body of the detachment to which they belonged, which
hal now advanced to their support; larger bodies of the enemy
appeared on both the flanks of the detachment, and it was with
d .alt ,t 1.0.11 -General Spencer. who had gone out to
fEtii.tch when he had Heard that the 'Armen had advanced in
pursuit of t:ie enemy, was enabled to effect their retreat to that
e. Tile), have since remained in possession of it, and the
enemy have retired entirely from the neighbourhood.
ja tnis little affair of the advanced posts. which was occa-
sioaea solely by Inc eagerness of the troops in pursuit of the ene-
my, I am concerned to add, that Lieutenant Busibury, of tle
ba.talion of the 93th, was killed,and the lion. Capt. Pakenham
wounded, hat slightly ; and we have lost some men, of whose
nuint.cr j have not received the returns.
Raven of Killed, Wounded, and ,Itivein,r, in the Action at
• Lourinha, AuguNi IS, 1608.
sth bAtt. Oath foot—) rank and file, killed ; 5 rank and 61e,
witimded ; 17 rank and tile, missing.
2 bait. 9.3 th foot-4 rank and file, missing.
Qlliee.a Killed and ;Vault& e.
95th font—Lieutenant Ilunburv, killed; Captain the Won. 11.
K. tbakeailani, wounded. G. M. focuses, Dep. Adj. Gen.
• Read- Quaders, at Villa Verde.

Mr Loren, August 17, 1804.
The Fr.'neti General Laborde having continued in his position
tit kolei • %incl. m *trrival at Calita,, on the 15th instant, Ide •
tertoinei aliack hits in it ihislaiirning. llnici,t Fitnated on
an e.iiinenri., h.tviii::a plain iti its front, at the ?tut of a valley
nieh commence% at Citilas, a•ntl i, Owed to the South was ,1
itYliiria join tire hills, tortoni?: the valley on the Iti;.l.
looking. fro.ir Coittlas. In Inv centre of the volley, and "boil
eight from Ittlft-its, is the !loon alai 0;1 Moorish fort of
a;bl o-, (ruin whence the ettensyt• pignets bad been driven 01.
thith, we& from out fiort he bad poists in the hills on both
kties of the vi,tacy, ail iota 4$ in tile-Odin in frunt of his army,