The National Register.
London, England, 1811-09-22 00:00:00

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A Lisbon Mail arrived nn Friday, bristginr:
tuguese Papers to the Ist inst. and dispatches from
Lord•WELLINoToN, dated the 2Sth tilt. The mail
Ind dispatches were brought by his Majesty's ship
Regulus, which arrived at Falmouth on Wednesday,
from Lisbon. The intelligence by this conveyance
buts an end to all the exultation which may have
een excited by the rumour of the capture of Ciudad
Rodrigo, if any persons were inconsiderate enough
to give implicit credit to the report. Lord WEL-
LINGTON'S dispatches are dated August the.2Bth,
the day on which the Sec! lower sailed from Lisbon.
The head quarters of the Allied Army continued,
Pt the date of the dispatches, at Fuente Guinaldo.
The Allied troops had blockaded Ciudad Rodrigo ;
but there did riot seem to be any intention of laying
regular siege to that fortress. It appears that no
movement of any importance had taken place
amongst the French troops in the Western Pro.
vinces of Spain ; one division, which had been in
garrison in the North, and had been relieved by the
conscripts lately arrived from France, had advanced
to Rio Seco and Valladolid ; and it was also under.
stood, that Marshal MARMONT had concentrated his
corps more closely than he had done in the first in-
stance.

From al,l-this it is obvious that no material move-
ment had taken, place on either side, since the date
of the last di latches ftom Lord WELLINGTON on
the 21st ; and, indeed, according to all the accounts
which have been received, the heat has been so ex-
cessive as to oblige both armies to remain quiet and
stationary in their cantonments. We are sorry to
state that the effect of the intemperate heat of the
weather had produced an increase of the sick in the
army ; but it is with satisfaction we have to add,
that the cases were in general mild and the morta-
lity trifling. The accounts from Lisbon mention
the successive arrival at that port of reinforcements
from England and their immediate progress to join
the army. From every part of Spain the intelli-
gence, though not very recent, is still extremely sa:
tisfactory. All the accounts of the operations in
that country which are derived from Lisbon ate
seldom to be literally depended upon : but when
they all so exactly concur in their import, we may
safely take it for granted that they do not materially
mis-state or misrepresent the fact. We find in the
Lisbon Papers, a Proclamation from General
DOYI.E to the people of Catalonia, dated so far back
as the Bth of July, which cannot fail to be read
with interest, because it shows that the triumpio of
SUCIiET at Tarragona could not be solid, when he
was reduced to the necessity of deception, in order
to repress the rising spirit, and to prevent the united
efforts of the Catalonians. The trick was stale and
failed—having been tried before ; and we arc happy
to find the spirit of the inhabitants of that brave
province not only unsubdued, but rising superior to
the partial disasters which had befallen them.
Such devotion must insure ultimate success, because
it is not to be put down or extinguished.

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