The National Register.
London, England, 1812-06-07 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTIMI

JUNE 7

be for any length of time exposed to such losses as they
appear to have sustained within the short period of which
the Papers received give an account, without any regular
supply of reinkarcements, it is easy to foresee that they
gradually be rendeied less able to make head against
the guerillas, or any effectual resistance to the accumu-
lating numbers and vigour of the
Dispatches from Lord WELLINGTON, whose head,
quarteis are at Fuente Guinaldo, have also been IC.
ceived.
Dispaches were likewise received at Downing-street on
Friday, from Sir llowAnD Douoi.ns, confirming the
report of the French having re-entered the province of
Asturias. - The enemy, to the number of 8000 men, under
General BotiN ET, have occupied their former quarters in
Oviedo, Grado, Gijon, &c. General MENDIZABEL has
entered Burgos, as before stated, and the activity of the
guerilla parties continue to cause the most scriogis em-
barrassments to the operations of the enemy in the North
of Spain. Don GERONINIO) an active guerilla leader,
having taken prisoners a body of .500 men, immediately
retaliated on the French, by putting to death twenty for
each of the three Members of the Junta of Burgos, and ten
for each of the Meiino soldiers, who were lately put to
death by the enemy. • This act was accompanied by a de-
claration, that the same ratio should be observed in ail
future measures of retaliation.
- The following Bulletin was issued on Friday
DOWNIN(3-4 FR FRT, JUNE 4.
44 Dispatches have been this day received from Sir kiuwA R U DOUCLAS,
of which the following are extracts:—

" SAN TIMIO, MAY :1.3.
" On the lath inst. General CAS con
received
in
from Ole
Marquis of Po R TA GO, who ti,ev commands the division 01 the 6 h Army
in Viergo, that the enemy had collected about 15,000 men cm the Ely
and Orbigo, and that it appeared to be their intention to advanze upon
Villa Franca and Puebla de Sanabria. This r. -union to threaten Galicia
was only a feint to favour the ulterior design of advancing into Asturias;
which the enemy accomplished upon the 176 inst, with about flOOO men,
Under Gen. BONNET, and they now occupy their former quarters in
Oviedo, Grado, Gijon, &c.

cc SANTIAGO, MAT 24.
" .rt,i, town is row the seat of the provincial Government, and I am
happy to say it is in perfec.t harmony with General CA s I AbjoS. He in-
vited a deputation of the Junta to meet him here. I was then at Corunna,
and promoted the transfer of the whole body as the nio.,t likely me;:ns
of destroying difference.—Gcn. CASTAIJOS'I wisdom has done the reit.
1: I have the honour to transmit intelliLence from Burgoi ; the
entry of Gen. MENDIZARF.L into Burgos is corroborated by :his, 3;Itl
with the other enclosures shows how very seriously the enemy are ha-
rassed by the activity of the parties in the North.
Don GERONIM/i MERINO ccommonly called EL CORA Dm VILLov,t-
-no), a most able and enterprising guerilla, has succeeded in making 500
prisoners, including I Lieut.-Col. and 11 other officers, after a resistance
which cost the enemy 73 killed anu 97 wounded.
4‘ The prisoners immediately suffered in the proportion of ..?0 for each
of the three Members of the Junta of Burgos, who were lately put to
death by the enemy, and in the proportion of 10 for each of the 'MERINO'S
soldiers, who lately shared the same fate. his act was accompanied
by .a declaration that in this raV tio
la Franca retaliation
with t would alwayst:tin be
der observed
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of .
On the 28th, when retiring to ilhe ren bis
prisoners, MERINO took post with a part of his force at a cross r
where lie expected a rescue would be attempted. 13eing apprised of the
advance of the enemy -in Fut:suit of the convoy, accordingly he dressed
an ambuscade, into which the enemy tell, and there left dead thirty-sil
men, having also a considerable number of wounded."
The letters brought by the Lisbon Mail were,
on Friday ; but they furnish little or, no inforMation in
addition to that which is to be found iii the extracts from
,
the Lisbon Papers, except that General DaCiturrearne ull
delivered
after the affair of General HILL at Almaraz, and after
•
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reconnoitring the force, retired without attempung
any thin_g. Ambassador
The Duke DEL INFANTADO, late Spanish Amha
to our Court, arrived at Portsmouth on Monday, and ill
the course of the day bailed for Cadiz in the Ilaccbah,
frigate.
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