The Sun.
London, England, 1809-06-29 00:00:00

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:!'japer inir4lll3 ahalr•preieKe it; riur annals the itt. • ordire4 to be deldrived,,ard,thc retains of
herilance of your rultit-nt time ; and the-Sciences, could prove of no of! to the. E.;,',;',‘,t).
the progeny of Genius, patronited by a treat Man, The latter not. Ale to, been • o, eiits, any 2r!..
and enriched by ail the ancient eianiples and Mo- traniage"iin the•seaond corpS during 'the rit-i70,31, •tha
deis; shall no tumor depend for the support of their only action which :took place ti,/,14 .with our i't.AT,C.
go,thke reputation on the labours of former times, guard at; Oporto, the ,EugliSh . haying 6und
Such, °mans, is the prospect which is open- to conic on ihe 'right bank of ,the ~,tr)ut
ed to you for the future, and,of which the Consulta 1000 infantry•sild ,50 horse They. have that has now been made public isi•,o lay the faun- • this trifling etigztgetheirt info a battle, t!ie. porn 011 ft
dation.
relation of which (in no p ,ins a milit,rry
" To Secure, four
,publit debt, to improve your one) (Isis had no other encl. t han trci deceive the pen.
agriculture and arts, lu every respect, to ameliorate ple of .London,. and perhaps the. Mr esters hern+ your condition,- and rtnally to suppress those tears selves, in. order to repay then) for the immense Stlitli
for the future which- the prevalence of abuses has so of money which, this expedition must have cost the
often caused to flow—tliete are the commands, this &nisi! Treasury. ;is the object of our illustrious Sovereign.. • 011 the 19th of May, the*Dake of Dalmatia was
" toMans I supported by out, efforts, pu can at Allaritz; the 20til he crossed the Minh° at
more speedily for yourselves, and it:Ore:conveniently grense and the 23diormed o. communication with
for us, obtain those, advantages which krYO possess, the Duke of Elchingen hinSeit; and the corps under
and of which we Ste &sirens that yoU sholald his cdmmand.
partake.
The arrival-of the Duke•of Dalmatiass army into
Gallicia has been useful under every point of 'view.
;It has dispersed :the bandriclf armed peasants, who
profiting by the movements of the Duke of Elchin.
gen against Oviedo, bad endeavoured to take posses-
': ion of,Santiago and Ilgo, assisted by the few Eng-
lish troops who still occupy Vie.
Such was the state of things in GalliCia, and opthe*. banks of the Minho, during the tirsl days of
June,,and the. English seem !into inclined to try
their Courage with the fed end 7th corps, atter their
jundion.

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(Signed)

SA
JANNET.
CUtlllt
Governor-General and President
gc 'ln the name of tire Oonsulta,

•° C. BALBB.'•

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AMSTEEDA74, JUNE- 15:7-4.His Majesty des sent
the Diamond 'Cross of Comiilander of the Older of
the Union to LioUtenant-General Gratien, and has
promoted every Officer who distinguished himself
in the affair at Stralsund. serjeant Darns and Cor-
. poral Van Potsbourg have buoo made Liemenaurt_
(Muntleur,
PuSEN,• JUNE 10.--A Courier Of the Council of
State announces, that on the 1,441) of May the Rus-
' 'Min troops put themselves in motion to enter Gat,.
licia or Austrian Poland. They march in threco-
humus ; the'one proceeds byVodzimierz towards
Pu-
la*y; another by Brozesc towards Biala and Mimi!,
zyrzycj the third by Drobyczen
(Manikin-, :lane
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BULI.P.TIN pF THE ARMY PollyuqAL.
PAttis, JUNE V2.—Alexander .Girardin, Colonel
of oth. Regiment, of D.ragpotis, and M. Brun,
Aide-de-,Camp to the. Duke of 13,:lutatia, have pass-
through this.city, on their way to the bead-guar-
ters of. his Imperial Majesty in „Austria, with dis 7
patcbefrorn their I,,xcellencies the Dukes of Dal-
matia and Elchiniten, copies of whinh have been ,
delivered to the War Minister. We now shall an-
Ocipate th details which will be .given out of the
dispatches forwarde4 to the, Empror,,by stating all
the partiCalars reseeding the second corps of the
'army of Spain Since ,the montkof :January. They
have been so misrepresentedas well in France as in
.Spain,' by relations taken from li,nglish Papers, and
by erroneous rumours, to which ;he interruption in
the 'communication between the various cusps of the)
army
,had given births that it becomes necessary to
relate them in the order which their date naturally
points nut. ,

CANTERBUItY) 'J7vni Q 7.

The preparations for the grand expedithin are on
a scaleof magnitude equal to any ytt recorded in Jfie
military history of °lir country. Many speculationi
are afloat as to its destination, but it would be absurd
to notice them, rismuch.will doubtless depend on the
event of the expected conflict on the paimbe;
this much, however, is certain, that the west, of the
enemy, from the shores of the 1331 tic to the extre-
mity of.the Bay of Biscay; are open to attack, anti
will probably be assailed at varions points.

independently of a, large army of cavalry and in-
fantry, that important atin of war, the artillery, Will
be'extremely great : six troops of horse, and cL ht
brigades 'of' foot, Etre wider" orders: and aii immense
battering train, with ammunition, sufficient for a sis
week's siege, is embarking in the ili'ver numbei
of Colonel CONOREVR's rockets are also to accotn!.
pany it. Of the artillery :three compinks aft drawn
from this distai, Captain Anyt's from Dover; and
Captains MONRO and' ptivrat',., flout Hythe, ilia
two 'latter of which will alriv& in Canterbury 014
day; they 'will be replaced at Hythe by Captain
BRAN'S/ and a part of Captain T,, u;icorr's cornlia
hies, who march this day from Canterbury for that
purpose.

Movements of the infantry for the poWts of em-
barkation commence this• day in Sus ex, in the
Eas,ern, and in the Kent districts. • In, the latter,
the fist!) regiment marches ft orn fir,ibourne I,,ees, on
its route for Porismouth,,and will be t'ollowed by the
71st and t36tl) regiments, which together form bri-
gade, from the same place on Friday. All tite other
regiments in the ISent,PistriCt (e ceps the brigade of
Guards, which is t(i'be embarked. at Cliathatn) io
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understood, wilt' be eMbarked Raintigate,,as soon
as the transports, nearly 20Q a which colleted
in the river, arrive for their reception.
The regiments ordered from the Sussex distri6l
are the sth foot, Ist battalion 3 .V3d ditto, cd batia•
lion; e6th ditto, Ist battalion; '3wd di t to, tatbatia
lion ; Uoth ditto, fld battalion ; 3tith ditto, t•t bat-
talion 8 tat ditto, ad battalion ; with two light bat.
tallow). of the German Legion.

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After the embarkation of the English
.at Corunna,
January' 17th, his Excellency the Marshal Duke of
Dalmatia marched towards Portugal through STar
tiago and Vigo; The difficulties which, he expe
iienced in endeavouring to cross the Minho so near
Its juntAiiiit %yak the sea, compelled hint to ascend
Its batiks as far as Oreit,,e, where he arrß ed the .nth
of MatCh, and from thence began lily optnationS.
The'6ill of March.7he crossed the bridge over 110
Minho, at Orense, 'and on his way 16.(,,hav es met
with Romana',l army, Which he tleteiit6d.4! Itizo,
Allaritz, and (sogne, near.Mirntery, destroying the
rear-guard, consisting of 3odo men, and taking
2000 prisoners arid ltitne standard.;. . The eitelny
then retreated it%-the greate4 diorder to the vale of
Oez.

The 13th of March, she Duke Of Dalinatia ap-
peared before Chaves, on the fiontier of Portugal,
and invested this place, which capitulated-three clay.
alter. Its garrison, composed of se%eral thousand
peasants and some militia.; were sent hack to their
habitatiat►s.

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The ltith March his' Excellency marched against
Braga, where the army of the Portuguese insergenta
bad taken a position. The badness of the' ruads de-
layed the arrival of the artillery until the leth, when
the enemy were attacked. Their force was esti:-
mated at 20,000 men, which were entirely Over-
thrown. They lust 6000, and all their artillery, and
Obtremed upon OpOrto.
The 24th; the second corps arrived before Oporto,
where all the Portuguese northern armies wen, col-
lured itt anintieticheci- camp, flanked with redoubts,
and defended by a numerous artillery.
Two days were spent in skirmiShes, and
.the
French troeps found in the redoubts, l'f which they
took possession, is shelter from the cannon of the
'enemy.
' Thu egth, the Duke of Dalmatia 'fought a battle
EU glorious as ivernorable, in which the French dis-
played their usual enthusiastic valour. Upwards of
10,00.0 Portuguese were killed or taken, and the
erten)), lost; not only the artillery planted an their
intrenchments, btu their field pieces. 'lion.; day put
the second corps of the army in pos*ession of more
than ton pieces of cannon.
From the 30th of Maroc to May to, the 3d corps
Was employed in establishutg in that part ut a coml.
try not wholly conquered, his Communication with s'
the oth corps that remained in Gallic ; 'large de-
tachatenta were sent to Guirmiraetis and Valeecia,
in order to bring the magazines which had been lett
at Toy, and to Scour the country. General ,Loison,
whose death the English hive falsely published, was
detached with the. same intent against Atnarante,
Villa steal, and the adjacent country, wilt 2.500
itifantry and 600 horse, 'The toth 'of May, the
vanguard of the Duke's army was bo the Vongte.:.'—
it was attacked fry several thousands ut foot, 1600
horse; and six., pieces of cannon, which formed a
part.of General Weliesley!s army, lately landed in-',
Portugal. The vanguard retreated behind Foyra,
and on the 1 t th.re•croused the Douro, with the di-
vision of General -Mermet. The increase of the
British force in Portugal, and that. of the Portuguese
insurgents, through the influence British
had,. a 3 early as the 10t1i, detertulned the Duke of
nalronti3 to effect his 'retreat th.-ongle Alearante,
:Villa Real, and ftogatiza, wending 'he, right hank
9f the Douro. • But a numerous corpq ut English
,card 'Portuguese having compelled General Loison to
evacuate Atuarante, tee Duke found it necessary to
pass-through the dailies of S.ihimonde, ,11W in order ~
to gain two msruhed on tiv_. to slCrificii a
few pieigwvi caunJu 444 t,14.1r wnict) he