The Sun.
London, England, 1809-01-03 00:00:00

tine tylic of Sotnri,lerra, they lost got/amen
t A
La l'u?.sta de Santa Barbzira twelve thousand ;
and at La- PoNta de Aleala tiev6n Iltutisan4.—
. (The former is fifteen leaitnes flom M,tdrie.) The,
.ren,tinder had tit!ien shcitt!r; 'some at El lictiro,
others -at El Nada, others- at the Escurini. At ti.c for.

mer place.ll,ley were•negQcii,ting acapitulation with

the Illaritis.tle
,CASTELA A It. ThisLettersnys, they
were 0f...-thigntlecl by 1,111,08V11 R (Duke of D.intzic) ,
fiand h:itlidwin the baitle,4 some persons of rank.
rive tine:mind troop; of Sir JOHN J. Moorti's
army left-s.ll=nilanc.l the. Bth for VallaOnlid, by
7 the route cat Alaeidci, and on the following daY 0-000
more, by the way ofTord. ,

I Such the substance of the reports we have here,
but the trutlfol them is certainly very doubtful. • It
;- - t
; is-now nine 'dart since the result of the business,
and still we hive no direct accounts froth Madrid,
though couriers have repe:Ltedly come from thence
in little mare than half the time ;:the news is said
to have cutpe direst to Sir JOHN Moottr, at Sala-
manca with the latter place the communication
from Corwma free and unmolested, and therefore
a courier might have come (lire& hither &so.

CortoNNA, p.t.---:-Three Couriers .i.ave
rived, this mfr:ling, one of them an Engli,b Cabinet
Messenger., frOM.the Head-quarters of
at Benevento,. which place he left oh the 17th, 21.1 d
on the (aint day met with General Mooeci at
Allijos ; the tivo-armies were within i? 4 hours march
of each other, and in the highest SPii i!s. The loth
Regiment of Soglish Cavalry, befunging to the army
from Portug4i 'had had'severAi reneotitres with the
enemy, in ,which they were ni,ys successfulr—on
one occasion they brought n REitirisoners, and on
the following day 3G, besides horses.
Nothing certain was known at Read-quarters re 7.
lathe to'the situation of Madrid, but it was gener-
ally supposed that the French had' obtained posses-
sion 01 it, after sustaining .considerable loss. Thi
Gun Brig At rived, this 'Morning: from
England, with a Messenger and Dispatches for the
British. Ambassador.

Vwo, DEC. 18.—The Encounter GUn Brig ar-
rived here list night, from Plymouth, after a pas-
sago of five days, with Dipatches for Sir DAVID
LAI UM •

The ftillowins ships compose the sqnadron now
lying here, hale dt., Paris, liaffieur, tiaoq,
, fin-
plactitte, and of the Line, .4:nrlymipn,
hems", Cogack, and PallioVrisates, and Jknne Cita-

yenne Sloop.
UPOlti'o, 14.—Sir ROBRRT WILSONT) With
•
his Legion, is now marching oat to join the
.4rrny in paitt, tind will be followed by the Portu.
gnese troops,

COItUNNA; Dltc, 23.—A report is in circulation
of an anion kwing been 194)1 near Valladoltd,

between a division 01 the British army, and a corps
of the enemy, in which the latter were defeated
probably however it is only a repetition of the news
received tht day before yesterday re,speeting the
liith'Dragoons. The Central Junta is said to have
removed frum Truxillo to Puerta Santa Maria, near

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Cadi
•
It is somewhat Itlic-roos to find the Chief Organ
of Opposition patifetically addressing -Ministers,
and .coftjurieg them, to. awaken frotn that tor—
por'which' hai too long• benumbed their faculties,
both of decision and of aCtion," in relation to
the atlsirs„.of Spain.. Such an appeal might very
properly have been addressed to All the Talents,
when they were in office, 'as eitheir torpor ()r• incer:
intik tuarked all their tneasuro, except, indded, as
to the mischievous. aaivity ,which they displayed in
bringing forward a subject which they could have
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little hope of carrying into_egeeution, "arid Which
they urged with a zealous pertinacity, that in the
end produced their downlall. It is absurd to charge
Ministers: With torpor, as to the (aloof
,Spain Atld
Portugal, since every possible exertion has noto-'
riontly been made for the deliverance of both coun-
tri&t. Peirtuital is happily ree from her tyrannical
Invaders,' and if a lamentable lealonsy had.'not pre-
vented Spain fiom availing herself of the military
co-operation of this Country, she .also would most
probably, loud ere now, have driven the Enemy out
of her touitories, But .Spain has wanted nothing
which she demanded, that we conk! procure, and in-
stead of torpor, no department of Government, we
believe, atany
,fornier period, ever manifested greater
zeal, -promptitude, and aCtivity. The Writer al-
lutltd tb, proceeds to ask -Ministers--" what mOre
would they liave,?—if it S our confidence, that, too,
shill not be ,vithltolden, if 'they will only deserve
it."—This:would, doubtless, be a very flattering pro-
inke to Niinisters ;, who tvould, of course, be highly
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gratified,. and piond of the lio nottr of having the
co:,ti;lenee. of the_, Opposition Writers; but, fin.
tine inekka ao if in their promise,
t"n we. fe.a, that'in older to evade that
pioloise, they will never he brooz::ht to-achiiit that
iit tart have desetved so s'a=t' honour as the
coutidenee of Writept who have hitherto condemned
every ittoentent of the presetit Administration,
hoWtter 806,14K:tory their ,Tri.•:iittre l:!ave been to ti e
Nation at lar•e. •
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