The Sun.
London, England, 1809-08-25 00:00:00

same, date, -writes, that -havinv,dispatched Colonel'
Dull Felipe La Corte, with 24d _horse, to attack
post held' by 200;horse and 300 intoitry,ilie -exe-
cuted his commission with so much gallanty, that
ht dislojged them from the heights bt
,c,ttei,ta de
Reyna, killing 90 men and masking 28' Prisoners."—
(Government Guz:ette; Aug. 3.)
c".. CORDOVA, AUG. 3.--The approach of our
armies towards Madrid has excited in that capital a
ge-tletal commotion ; many left it on the 25th of
July by Ole road of Alcorcor,n, with supplies of pro-
visions and whatever they could collea, in order to
receive their deliverers in Madrid ;Ale hotels, coffee-
houses, and all the houses- of that description, were
• otyln night and day. ,The populace with Bags pro-
cltime.d in/the streets Ferdinand the Seventh, and
tW• Ftei)ch, shut tip El Retiro, pOsted placards, in
which they stated, that the enemy was approaching;
whoever wi,l el to secure their persons and, take
arms,' should rendezvous tn',their defence at the
said Itetiro. The GoVeritior,,tel)iard, Went, out on
• hocsehaokiescorted by 60 cavalry.,towards,the Tole-
do gate, telling the peopletotratiquillie theroselyes,
that the enemy had not yet appeared:. -On the 27th
he gave Orders to place double guards at the entrance
of all the principal streets ,of the capital 'oh that'
and. the folloWing day the exultation-in• Madrid -at-'
tattled such a lieit;ht that thoyJnsnleed the French
the streets With shouts of "LongliVe Ferdinand the'
Seventh !" throwing their hats up into the ay-, and
the whole night there were d.itices ernoqg the com-
ma people. Cahnon have been placed. in the great
square, and in that of Del Angel;; on• the above-
.-
mentioned days tielther letters of safety were isstied,
nor were passports required latterly. It is said the
gate ir of M ,arid have been shut! The -diVision of
the M de Zarain arrived. on the 28 th:at Yaps:',
that of Gaon and Vigedet at Aranjuez, that of Calse-
jou, at U.:Julia; the skiimishing parties everici to
'V,hlei:orii...2-I.lla people
,go out in .bodies to the
roads, eicothitig the troops a t heir' deliverers ;it is
a toot. az-1-;•,-ting scent to behold 'fierfCiiis of 'every
ClaSs. orrei of water; brei:ll.l;'iM,Tici cheese,
to the §olciters."—{Batiajos-Diarg.)'"'' "

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QUIS DICIA' /dLaUle-AUDZAT?

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1809.

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We have continued our extmels fronuthb Spanish
and Portugn,,ie. Papers which arrit 5-resterday.---:
Nothing ca.; afford a strofi6r proof ort apprehen-
iion which the French entertain of an English, army,
• than the immense efforts they have lately made to
overwhelm, by a great .superiority, the_ troops un-
der the.comman& of -Sir 2-'‘alskttra WELLESLEY.—
N sobt:er had the British army arrived on the frOn-
tiers of Spain, than IheFrerielr sacrificed.every other
objea' to .sectire, if possible, its destru6tion. They
withdrew all their troops from the Eastern Provinces
—they left the whole of the NOrth unguarded, ex-
cept by a few troops in Garrisons. Their plans were
well laid; mid their immense superiority of numbers
would have ensured them success, if k had not been
for. the unequalled bravery, of our troops, and the
C ;,summate skill of their Commander. VICTOR,
w itlr an army of double o-(ir numbers, was to have
attacked us in front, while
,NEY and 50f,LT wzre to,
have cut otf ;t-treat. victory of Talavera,
and the subsequent retntgrade moteinent to Alma-
entitely disconcerted this deep-laid plan. In
Cie mean tinio, the most favliora!)le. opportunity. is
giv n in Ole Spaniards in the Northern and Eastern
Pi-oviac whit:A, as Are obser,--d before, are nearly
lett &initiate of French troops. march of Nry
and SOuLT South Ward, has,left .the Marquis

DE iIo&“,NA- dicaost %,vithout an opponent; and we
have no dount that, with his usual inivity, he will
avail himself of all the advantages NvWch his situa-

Ofi
~kltiords.

It is rather singular that ne official intelligenOe has
yet reached this Country respecting
,the rupure of
the which is said
.to have taken place : • it
is not mentioned in the Foreign Papers; on the
contrpry,. the last Paris Journals contain a report that
Peace had Actually been signed. This', however, is
obviously not true ;- if such an event had taken
place, the news of cours&would hat e been trans-
mitted to Paris with the utmost celerity,' and' the
firing on the French Coast would soon • have
.appr zed us of the fact. There cats be no
doubt that some serious obsfaeles lnive retarded
tie progress,- if they hae not entirely put an
eld to the Negotiation. The facility with which
t le rigyrous terms proposed oy ipUONAPARTE, when'
he granted the Armistice, were acceded to, no doubt
encouraged hitn to he equally high in
,negOtiating far
a Peace,and there.appeari to be some reason tobelieve
that at fist BLIONAPARTE thought that AUstria would
concede any thing, ror the French Papers.,told us, in.
a sort of derni-official article, that -the bases of the
Peace. were agreed upon. It is true that it was of
great inwOrtance• to BUONAPARTE to have it believed

on the C9ntineni, that'Austtia was so humbled in

the contest, that she must accept.-vvliatever terms
4ere offered her, and that -therefore Peace wa3
so
The, cettainty-;: of tßeare between
France and A,l6lliA woutd,:liekn6v;,hcaVe a great el-