The Sun.
London, England, 1809-08-05 00:00:00

ICTUALLING.OFFICE,

July 31, 11309.,
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"--I—"HE COMMISSIONERSJor LLI NG
A His .111A7ESTY's NAG')' do hereby give Nitice,That,on
Tuesday, the Bth of Auguttsnext,thry will be ready torecetve Ten_
. der,r;in writing(Jealed up fand treat for One Thousand B L'T Sof
FLAGS, for the use ol thr'Cooperage, to be answerable to Samples
to be produced with the Tenders, to be delivered, in the space of
Six 'Peeks, into his 111a,ierty's ViCtualling, Stores at Deptford,
• and is be paid for by Bills payable, with inkrest, ninety Days
after date. ,
The Conditions the, Cont,rga.may 6e :reen at the Seeretat.-Y's

Offe. _
: No regard will he bad th,any Tender in which the Price shall
no'he inserted inwords at :length, cs that shall no? 6c,delin'ered to
the:l332rd before One -ecleck on' the said Tuesday, the Bth
giist next, nor unless the. Person. who makes the Tender, ni some
PerscN on his , attends, to answer when called for.

[TRICE SIXPENCE,:HALFpEN V-,

SPANISH. 41D PQRTUGIiSELP.eI PERS.

JULY: t 1 rptreatiniihy. the Nei
road to Astorga ; his ,tort_:e,,'w h;eli passed near Pue-
bla, cannot be more 'banjo or 12,000 men.
A letter from Jusse Carlos. Borges Rohello, to the
most illustrious Bernardo de Silveira Pinto, states,
The enemy continues his reheat for Be.nevente.
Some gastiltans have assured met that Ney is march-
ing- dired. for,Astorga." This letter is dated Veil-
haes, sth of July.
Fy official. accounts from ,Cuidad* Rodrigo,• we
learn that the-French General oLcavalry, Flancis-
aod two of his Adjutants, were taken' prisoners,
On tire .road from ..,.ainora to Vladolid. cap-
lure, is ,of importance, both from: the colitstderation
and, rank at the. General, and for the accounts, thus
Obtained, of the wretched condition of the army of
Soult, whjelt is without cloatnitig, is shoes,
without-, money—has it-1g lost its military chest,
equipage, baggage, papers, and. every thing it:had,
Two regiments in -Gallieja refused to enter into
a6tion;,anifa general' discontent preails among the
French troops, -who are, tired of the war, as.they
love.,,not obtained the • advantages they were pro..
.mired.- The van-guard of the arinyolSoulti which ,
the said Francischi commanded, and which is arrived
Rr Caniorsonsists of six.regiibents'Of infantry and
.six of cavalry, .making in4te-whole only 4 or 5000
men, asthe regirnentgare verymeak, on-account of
their losseS- and their numerout,siCki.,,. On the 2d,
,Marshal Soult himself arrived at Canton, and will
be-followed by the rest of the army. The Spanish
.Colonel I}3u Manuel Garcia del Barrio, Commissary
of the Marquis'de Roinana, assures that: the french
have evacuated all Gallicia, and that the army
of Marshal .Ney. has followed that of Soult, on its
march'tit Castile.
A letter from the Coinmissary at War, .pursit, to
the Intendant-General of the Army of Soult to Ma+
drid,_ dated .Camora, 27th June, says-.--"neva&
ministration of the second corps of the army -is in a
most deplorable4statc, and I entreat that you will
immediately scud us assistance: Nine months pay
is owing to the soldiers; and the regiments have lost
their chests and baggage at Vigo. The soldiers are
without shoes, both intantry and cavaliy. The lost
of the ehesta and baggage deprives us of any resource
for clothing, and the Officers are reduced to a la,
mentable. situation. The Sub-Inspedor" "Averse it
dead, and M. Errard sick at Logo. The Paymaster.
General was made prisoner at his house at Vigo.• At
Pemfil, as no carriages coold be obtained, the money
which was in the chests wasgiven, up to pillage, be-
cause it was better that the French soldiers should
have it than the enemy, who followed us very close-
ly, . •
and there was nq place where regular distribit.
tions could be made. On the stli,d'ay of our retreat,
the English attacked us at efeven at nsht, and threw
our troops into disorder. ,
" On -the second day of our retreat: we had the
misfortune to lose Mr. Orenzit. • ' (This Commissary
• was made prisOner by a 'patrule of the army of Mar.
sisal Beresford, in pursuit of General •Loison.)
entreat you, 'General, to give they neceSsltry orders,
that all the transports intended foritheregutteatS
-the army, and which ware to havbeett sentlt:Au
Bayonne from Valladolid, may proq.ed immediate!y-
for Zairrora:"
In'i letter from Marshal Soult to Gane'ral Fran•
chcio, dated] Puebla de Senabria, ',26th -Rine,' the
former writes, " that he'had set oui with his
disi-
sion for Camora, by the way' of Mon Buei; ,that he
bad represented to his `Catholic Majesty, jo-
seph I. the want his
,troops yete, in of kinds of
necessaries, and requesting That the requisite bag-
gage, and -military stores Should be sent to him at
Camera." ,

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