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sures which the Junta has adopted, for drawing stiii

closer its relations wit} .1 the King of Sweden, who
maintains with so much gigry the dii6mity of the
Thvone, and the rights of his subjeas. I commu-
.nicate this Royal Order for the information of your
Excellency, and for the purpose of.your issuing cor-
responding orders for its fulfilment in your depart-

men t." •
" Aranjuez, Nov. 0."

Ovi azo, Nov. 21.—The following dispatch has
been received from his Excejlency D. 'Vicente Maria
Acevedo, dated the loth inst. from the head-guar-

ters at &pinosa

MOST SERENE SZIONORS,

" On the 7tkinst. I cornmurticated to your High•
nesses a detail of all the proceedings of the Asturian
troops, from the 31st of 06tober, the date of my
preceding dispatch 4. . ,
" On tote 7th, the General in. Chief sentiOrders
from the left, that ate 4th divisiop; posted on the
heights of Balmaseda, should proceed to Sopuerta,'
and that they should be replaced by four Asturian
regiments. For this service I seledted those of Cas-
tropol, Litarea, Candas, and Grado, as being the least.
fatigued. Four regiments not appearing to me to
be sufficient, I, at the same time,-added the, PrOvin
cials of Oviedo, and dire&ed their Conienandant,
D. Francisco Manglano, to take the ctiminand ad
interim of the whole of the position. The General
in Chief had proceeded two hours before, with se-
veral divisions, to'disledge the enemy from a position
about a league and a half distant from Balmaseda, an
objet, in which;notwithstanding the brisk fire which
he kept up, did not .succeed, owing to the ap-
proach of night.

" At ten o'clock, the follovving morning I went
up to the height occupied by the Asturian regiments,
accompanied by Lieutenant-General D. NiCholaS
De Llano Ponte, and Field-Marshal D. Cayetano
Valdes. Being at the post of Milicias; we recon-
noitred a body of the enemy, which we computed
at from 3000 to 4090 men, and on paSsing along to
the post of CastropOl, we discovered another of from
1500 to 2000. I immediately sent information of
this ,to the Commander in Chief, and as soon as I
observed the enemy- in motion to approach the
mountain where we were stationed, Field-Marshal
Don Cayetano Valdes went to Bahnaseda to- request
a reinforcement froth the General in Chief; who
personally ascended the martin* at the instant when
the enemy had commenced the attack on the right
and the left.

" The General in Chief reinforced the post with ,
the Hiberno-Asturians,. and the . volunteers and
sharp-shooters of Galicia, and ordered me to'follow
him, leaving any two Geneials I 'chose in the moun-
i
lain, with directions to make an orderly r treat, 'as
the position did not appear.to him teriable. As the,
two whom I was to appoint to this service' were to
.be Generals, and as they .had to command so con-
siderable a force as that abo've stated, between Ga-
licians and Asturians, I had no choice to make;
and I accordingly appointed Lieutenant-General
D. Nicolas De Llano Ponte and Field-Marshal D.
Ignatio Vazquez Sonaosa. The regiments of Villa-
viciosa, Cangas de Tineo, Siero, Salas, and Lena,
evacuated Balniaseda by order oft he General in Chief,
and also the whole of the rest of the army of the
left, with the exception of the fourth division, who
had been ordered to fall back upon the coast. •
" On my leaving Balmaseda, with Field-Marshals
Don Cayetano Valdes and D. Gfegori6 Bernaldo de
Quiros, accompanying the General Chief and hid
Staff, Pon.te bad already commenced his retreat in
the best order, as he had been instruEted.
" From the various accounts that have reached
me, it is ascertained our loss has been very incon-
siderable." • •

. The following dispatch,- dated the 12th- ha's been
received from the saEw Officer:—

" A few. moments after w9ting my last dispatch
from Espinosa, On the 10th instant, the ad' need
gtiard dent word that .the enemy were appe:tring in
considerable numbers. Without losing an instant,
linounted my horse., and the General-in-Chief being
with me, we discovered that the enemy were di=
retina their principal attack from a village called,
Quintana, 'upon the: right and left of Espinosi—
The General-in-Chief ordered' the troops, composing
the division of the North, to occupy a wood on the
right of the bead•quarters, and the Asturians, with
the first division of Galicia, a height situated to the
left.

The enemy immediately' attacked the division.
of the North, about two o'clock, and after a long
and conflict, the latter found themselves
compelled to quit the wood. Perceiving that the
right of the army was on "th-e point of being defeated,
I resolved to attacl: the enemy's right with my left.
In consequence of the timely movement thus made
by our left, with great gallantry, the situaiioti of the
troops of the North was improved, and they reco-
vered part of the ground they had' lost. The want of

* The dispatches alluded t.) by the Genethl have n9t

come to hand.