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London, England, 1808-09-17 00:00:00

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE,

Sept. 5, 1808.
rrHE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS (ye HIS MA-
-A- JEST Y's 'ORDNANCE do hereby give Notice, that
will be received at their Ogee, in Pa/I Mall, on or be-
fore Wednesday the sth Oaober next, front such Pei ions as may be
willing to undertake the performance of the PLAISTERERS'
WORK for service pf this Department, for ajeriod 6f
,Tbtee
--Years, at the
_Allowing Stations, vix.

The :Power,
"ll
Greenwich,
Woolwich,

P urfieet,
raye.iend,
and
Tilbury.

Further Particulars, toe-ether with the Terms a':d•Conditions of
the Contrag, may be known upon Application at the Secretary's
Office, in 4)all Hall aforesaid, any Dar between the hours of Ten
and Four o'clock, where Proposals are to be delivered, sealed up,
"ael-1 indorsed," 1-"ropkiss rot Praisterers' .Vork ;" but no Pro:.
peva/ can be adm'tted afier t e said sib Oriober next, at Twelve
at noon of the sails,- day neither wi/I any" Tender be no.
ticed unless the Party ma4ing it, or an Agent in his behaY, shall
attend.

By Order of the board,
R. H. CREW, Secretary.

SIXPENCII•

THE
LONDON GdZETTE EXTRAGRDIN,Iinr.

FR:DAY, SEtTEM43ER 16, 1808.

Downing-street, Sept. 16, 1808.

A Dispatch, of which the following is a Copy, *al
received yesterday evening from Lieutenant-General
Sir Hew Dalrymple, commanding his Majesty's
TKOops in Portugal, addressed to Lord Viscount
Castlereagh, one of his Majesty's Principal Secre,.
taries of State, and brought by Captain Dalrymple,
Military Secrt-tart' to Sir-Hew Dalrymple.
M Y LOaD, Head-Quartors, Cintra, Sept. 3, sE3S.

I have the honour to inform your Lordship that I
landed in, Portugal, and took the eommand of the
Army, on Monday ,the 22d of August, the nett day
after the Battle' of Vitniera, and where the Enemy
sustained a signal defeat, where the vglour and d:s-
cinline.of British Troop,s,. and the talents of
Officers, were eminent ly.displayed.
A few hours a, ter my arrival, General Keller..
maim came in with a Flag of Truce from the French
General in 'Chief,- in order ,to propose- an' agree&
meat for a Cessati!n of Hostilities, for. the purpose
of concluding a Cr,ovention for the- evacuation of
Portugal by the French troops. The inclosed 'con-
tains the several Articles at first agreed upon and
sighed by Sir Arthur Wellesley and Geheral
mann but 'as this WW; 'done. with a reference to the
'British Admiral, who, when the :agreement wars
communicated to him, objee,ted to the 7th Article,
which had for its objt!,ei the dispostl of the Ilus,ian.
-Flfet in the Taigas, it was tinally.concluded that
Li±ut. Cola Murray,' Quarter-Master-Gencraho. the
Britisli Army, ancrGenertil Kellerrnann, should pro.
ceed to the disscussion of the'rcmaining Articles, awl,
finally to 'conclude a Convention for the evacuation
of Portugal, subjel to' the ratification of the French
General in Chief, and the British Commanders by
sea and land.

After considerable disscussion and repeated re-
ference to me, which rendered it necessary for me
to avail myself of the limited period latterly pre-
scribed for the Suspension of Hostilities, in order
to !awe the army forwards, .and to pine the se-
veral columns upon ~the routes by which the,;
were to advance, the Convention was signed, and
the Ratification tin-hanged the 20th of last month„
That no 'time might be lost in obtaining.anchor-
age for the Transports and other Shipping, which
bad for some days bc-en c.xposcd to great peril on this
dangerous -coast, and to insure' the ei3mmunicaticu
between- the 'Army and the Vietualijrs, which wa4
cut off- by the' badness of the weather and the surf
upon the shore, I sent orders to the Buffs and 4!:2d
regiments; which were on board of Iransports
Sir Charles Cotton's Fleet, to laud and take posse,-
sion of. the forts on the Tagus, whenever the Ad-
miral thought it proper to do so. This was accord-
ingly.carried into execution yesterday Morning,when
the Forts of Cascais, St. Julien's, And Bugio, were
evacuated by the French Troops, and taken pwses-
sion of by ours. •
As Ilanded in Portugal entirely unacquainted with
the aCtual state of the French Army, and many cir-
cumstances, of a local and incidental nature, which
doubtless had great weight in,deciding the question,
my own opinion in favour of the expediency of ex-
pelling the French Army from Portugal by meaus
of the convention the late defeat had induced the
French General in Chief ‘-"to solicit, instead of doing
so by a continuation of hostilities, was principally
founded on the great importance of tune, which
the season of the year rendered peculiarly valuat)le,
and which the Enemy could easily have consumed
in the protracted defence of the strong places they.
occupied, had Terms of Convention been refused
them. •

When the Suspension of Arms was agreed upon,
the P..ny under the command of Sir John Moore
bad not arrived, and doubts were even entertained
whether so large a body of men could be landed on
an open and a dangerous beach ; and that being ef-
fe6ted, whether the supply of so large an At my
with provisions from the Ships could be. provided
for, under all the disadvantages to which the shin-
ping..., were exposq.„. During the Negotiation, thk:
former difficulty w.o.y overcome by the adivit,y, zeal,
and intelligence of Captain Malcolm, of the Done-
gal, and the Officers and Men under his orders,
but the possibility of the latter seem-, to hove been
at an end nearly at the moment when it was rig
longer necessary.
Captain Dalrymple, of the 18th DragoOns, my
Military Secretary, will have•the honour, of delivvr-
ing.to your Lordship this Dispatch. He in-
fortnec[of whatever has been done under my orders,
relative, to. the service on which I hive been em-
ployed,. and can give any explanation thcrtupon that
may be ...-equi!ed.
I have the Honour to be, &c.
(Signed) HEW DALRYMPLE,
Lientenant-General.
The Right Sion, Lord Viscount Ca'stleryazh.,

'TRANSLATION of the ARTICLES for a SUSPEN.
SIO,N of ARMS in PORTUGAL.
Suspension of Arms agreed upon between Lieut.-General Sir.
Arthur Wellesley, Knight of the Uniccol-the Bath, inn
one part, and M. Kellermann, General of Diyistort, 6 rand
Officer of the Legion of Honour, Commander of the 0 r"cr
of the Iron Crown, Grand Cross of the- Bavarian Order
of the Lion, on the other part ; both invested with toll
powers by the respe6tive Generals a the I reneh and
tish Armies, dated Head-quarters of the !knish 4rniy,
Aug. 22, 140.
Art. I. There shall be from present dafe. a
suspension of arms between the forced of his Bri-
tannic Majesty and those of his Imperial and llov'al
Majesty Napoleon I. in order to treziting, fbr. a Con
vention for the evacuation.of Portugal by the Firnch
army. •

11 t. 11. The Generals in Chief of the two Arm cs,
and the Admiral Commander in Chiet of his
tannic Majesty's Fteet off the mouth of the T. u,,
shall fit upori, a day whereon to meet cu :11k:'n vos44