The Sun.
London, England, 1810-04-13 00:00:00

SPANISH AND PORTUGUiS"Z 'PARERS.

BADAJOZ, MARCH 28.-.-The 'Spanish divisions of
BALLESTUROS and CONTtJRAS attacked, .rm the 20th
inst, in the morning, the van of MORTIER'S army,
which had taken post in Santa Olaya, whence the
French were dislodged, and pursued as far as Iton-
quill°, where they were reinforced and continued a
brisk musketry fire the whole of the day. On the
27th, at break of day, the Spanish army attacked
Ronquillo with the utmost gallantry; the enemy

for some time maintained his Position with much
courage ; but as soon as the Spanish army pe-
netrated into the place, the French evacuated it,
and fell back to Huera, where they still main-
tained themselves at the time when the . Spanish
Lieutenaqt-Colonel cane away, who was the bearer
of this account to the Marquis ROMANA.

REGNIER'S division has marched from Cacerc to
Torremocha, in which place, and in the environs,

it isnt.presenti •
General O'DONELL. is to move with his division
from Albuquerque in the direelion of Caxceres.
A Gentleman lately arrived in Muida from Vil-
lanueva de. la Serena, states, that the important
points of Almarez and Arcebispo have been taken by
the Spanish.
Authentic intelligence received from Almeida
of the 23d instant, states, that, the Province of
Biscay and all the Spanish -territory on the other side '
of the Ebro are to- be annexed to France, BUONA.-
PARTE'S decree, which orders the said annexation,
has already been issued, and French Governors are •
daily expe&ed to take possession of the territory so
annexed.
A Eadajoz Letter of the 24th inst:' contains the
following passage Our new guests have left us
- •
with, more speed than they entered these Provinces.
The advanced parties of General
.BALLESTEROS,.
army have already occupied the advantageous -position
of Olaya, situated in the, centre of the Sierra
Morena. The army of that gallant warrior is daily
increasing, and already amounts to t c 2,000 men,
exclusive of a great number ,of celebrated sharp-
shooters of
.the Sierra, who from their infancy are
used to the management ,of fire-arms,"
. The most recent intelligence from Cadiz is of
the 17th* inst. at which time no operation of the.
least importance had been undertaken, neither by
the' Combined forces nor the French:
CaINNA, MARCH I.s.—Tlte Superior Junta of
this kingdom has received the following offiCial
,comenenic:ltion, dated the loth inst. from his Ex-
cellency Don. N. MAny
GAeIA ,advises me, by u
letter Gen
instant,ottheigiiP Tt
that Captain I-haft arrived
in Badajos, early in the. morning, with a letter from
the Marquis Da LA 106,IANA, stating, that the French
. were defeated, both near Ciudad Rodrigo, and in
the Isle of Leon, with the loss of
.several thousand

men."
The French force'which was on its march to oc-
cupy Malaga is said to have been repulsed, and Capt.
HAaA affirms, that our army in Badajoz amounts
already to 35,000 men. ,
The inaaivity of General LOISSON in Banesa and
Leon- seems to confirm the truth of the above in-
telligence.
\\relearn, by letters from Badajoz, of the 28th
inst. that the army of Gen. BALLESTEROS has taken
possession of Vicella, from 5 to 6 leagues distant from
Seville; after having previously:defeated the French
in two actions; the battalion of Merida covered ii_
self with glory. Tbis intelligence is said to be of-
ficial.

VIGO, MARCH 7.—A ship, which on the 6th
instant arrived in this port ' from Tarragona,
has brought intelligence, that at the time she set out
there were already 30,000 Spanish
.troops of the
line, in Catalonia, and that the Spanish frigate Eme-
rald carried at once from 800 to 900 French pri-
soners from Tarragona to the hie of Cabiera, nd
-that the said frigate, and another called Itlsha, are
daily employed on that service'.
The garrison of Barcelona does not exceed 2000
men. Our troops made preparations to attack that
place, Getona is alsq besieged by our troops, and
all Catglonia is rising in a mass, . -
COIMBRA, MARCH 20.—His Excellency Marshal
BERWORO arrived here on the 20;h inst. at two

in the afternoon, and took up his residence in the
University Palace. A soldier in the 9th Portuguese
Regiment was shot in this place on the 17th inst. ;
his offence was desertion 'and the sale of his ac-

coutrements. •
LISBON, MA-RCH 28.—A1l the information re-
ceived by the packets and Spanish post; .is of the
most satisfactory nature. In . Ciudad Itodrigo an
lanion took place, the result of which proved very
favourable to the combined armies.
GUAIIDA, MARCH skirmish took ?NCO at
a.village called Barba de Forco, between 200 French
and' co of the 95th Regiment. The enemy were
. .
repulsed by this small party, and had six killed
.
upon the spot. They 'retired. to St. Feliccs, at
whiCh place they have an advanced corps of 3000
lien,' as an.army of ohseryakion,

GUARDA, MARCH 28.—0 n the i9th instant, at ,
nine at night, 600 French entered the vil.
lage • Barirt de Porco, where they were received
by. four cowpanies of the 95th Ptegiment, and com-
pletely defeated; two officers and 120 men killed
and taken prisoners. An officer and eight men of
the 95th were killed. Lord WELLINeTOiti'S head-
quarters are at Penkel. General 'CRAUFORD'S
divi-
sion has advanced to Gallegos (Spain), .and thc
whole army has received orders to be ready at a
moment's notice. The French have 10;000 men

at Salamanca, 7000 at St.-Felices, 2000 at Puebla,
1500 at Bambia, 500 at Seinadille, and about 3000
on the Piqueto, &c.

LISBON, MARCH 31.---,The Princess Charlotte
and Wilsingham Packets arrived on .the 25th, and
the Princess of Wales on the 26.11. The Princess
Charlotte sails to-morrow.. Four ships of the line
have also come in, and a number of transports, with
above 10,000 troops, including cavalry, artillery,
and infantry. The Norge has arrived to-day, with
General COTTON, to take the command of the For- '
tugnese regiments. The Norge'-has sustained some
damage by going on shore on entering the Tagus,
and has about three feet water in her hold.

Letters from Oporto say, that the French pri-
soners there are to be immediately sent.tound by
sea to Lisbon.

Some accounts from the North state the force of
the French immediately upon our frontiers at
24,000 men, a force too weak to attempt any great
scale of operations before? receiving reinforcements.
We are.,pow fortifying some of the heights more
immediately in this neighbourhood, but the wnfie
dence sems pretty general that our united force
will: make a most formidable opposition to any at-
tempt of the,enemy.

Yesterday, about one o'clock, her MAJESTY, ac'
companied by Princesses AUGUSTA, ELIZABETH,
and SOPHIA,' left the Queen's Palace, and proceed.'
0 to the Duke of Cumberland's apartments in St.
Ja.mes's palace, where they partook of a sumptuous
cold collation provided for them, and then dressed
in .their Court dresses, for the QUEEN to hold a .
Drawing-Room. The Duke of-KaNT joined them,
and proceeded to the gallery leading to the Ball-
room, in St. James's Palace, attended by Colonel
DESEROW, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Lord Cham-
berlain, the Lord Steward of the Househould, the
'Gold Stick, the Silver Stick, other Officers of State,
the Queen's and Princesses' female attendants,
They proceeded through the grand suite Of
rooms to the Grand Council Chamber, where,
her MAJESTY entered soon after two o'chick,.
and immediately commenced receiving the corn-
.pang, which was very numerous and splendid,
both as to rank, with .various branches of ancient •
nobility, as welt as an elegant display, of beautiful
WOtnen_ There were present, be,idcs the above,
• Their Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, and the Prirt• •
cess of Wales, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord
Chancellor, the Lord President Of the Council,
Privy Seal, the Secretaries of Stain: for the Home and Colo-
nial Departments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Pre
sident of the Board of Controul, the Commander in
Duke of Portland. the LOrd

Duchesses—Montrose and Dorset.
Macqinsses—Hertford, Stafford, Ely, and Bath.
Marchionesses -Salisbury, Hertford, Staffbrd, and Bath.
Earls—Roinney, Mountnorris, Pomfret, Chesterfield.
Nelson, 'Sandwich, Liverpool, Aberdeen, Aboyne, Orford.
Manbtield, Besborough; Ross, For-fescue, VVincbcisea, .
U..irmey,Carlisle, Westmorland, Conynghain, I)igbyr
Aylestord, Buckinghain4hire, Alokint Edy,ecumbe,Portarling' •
ton. Camden, Chatham, Glasgow, and Gower.
Viscounts—Morpeth, Barnard, Courtenay, Qxmantowrlr
Traiiuse, and Dungannon.
Couruesses—Mouritnorris, Aberdeen, Aboyne, Hardwilcer
Temple, liesborougii, darnley, Orkney, Liverpool, Bristol.
Morton, Carlisle, &Jowls, Aylesford, Conyngham, Portmore,
Clonine4 Limerick, Kinnoul, fauconburg, Mansfield, ar!
Pembroke.

V icoti9ttsses--st: Asaph, Morpeth, 'Barnard, Primrose,.
.10e1vi11&, and Hereford.

Luros2—H. Hood, Rouse, Bayning, Walpole, Cawdor, tV-
Burtwick, Port:nester, 'Nape!, E O'l3ryen, G. Cavendish,
Cochrane, Braybrook, Gramley, Ektun, Dal-...
I)9uglas, tirizroy,Mulgrave,K.eith,Elliot, G.Thynne•
.C. "Somerset, Rivers, kleatiitield, Rouse, Kenyon, E.Gower!.
Ladies—P:.Awl.,:sley, H. Hood, Rouse, Coote, C. Nelson;
Dall;eith, Shell) ~/43. ringion;two'Cecils, Cawdor, E. York,.
C. u:k, Purctiester, C. Dania, Duckworth, A. C. Smith.
Sackville, E. O'Bryen, E. Wellesley, Cardigan, M. Bake,.
ley, &c:
Bishops. Worcester, Chester, Oxford, and Exeter.
AmbasSadors—Persian, Spanish, Sardinian, Neapolitan,
American', and Portuguese.
Sirs—l. Mansfield, E. Coote, f% Baker, I. Shelly, C. g•
Boughton, W. Scott, C.. Bishop, A. Hammond, I. T.
Duckworth, M. Sykes, J. Pulteney, I. DouglaSt
D..Dundas, j. Harringron, G. Inky,. I. Thymic, and C•
Cockerel!.
Admiral' Harvey. . .
Generals—Stevens, Finch, Leslie, Cowel, Montgomerter
Winyard, Thoni:on, and Loftus.

Colonels V aiisiitart, Osborne, M'Cleod, Sneyd, and
Desbrow.
Majors—MiC lead and Aithorp.
Captains—Knox. Durham, Berkeley, and Walpole, R.N•
1 ne Dean ot Bristol.
The Reverend Mr. Ogle.
Messrs.-Hood, Penn, G. Penn, C. Bruce, Shiner.
Boughton, Lee, Foster, Foster, jun. Buller, Cromie,
Bootie, U. Dundas, West, Cliester, Herbert, Ponsonb)',
Stanhope, dm.
Mistresses.—Pepelo, Penn, C. Bruce, Porteusi Shiner,
Clive, Milnes, Wheeler, A tkyns, Dehaney, Lee, Law, S•
Thornton, Drat, W. Bootle, Pole, S. Stanhope,' Musgrave,
Panton, &c.
Misses— Glynn, Rouse, Bruce, Ashburnham, Shilther,
Gomm, Clive, Leigh, three 'Willies, two Wheelers, klatch-
lord, two Thorntons, AnSon, Courtenay, Dickenson, Claud.,
&c.
The following had the honour of being presented •
to her IVIAJusTy yesterday :
Sir Charles Cockerel', on his being created Bawler.
Sir k . Ansley, by his mother, the Countess ot Mountnorris.
The'Duke of Portland, upon coining to Ins title. :t
The Ouches." of Devonshire, upon her marriage, by the
Countess ot Liverpool. jf
The Earl ot Ross, on his appointment as Postmaster- oe.
neral of Ireland.

Vice Admiral Sir I. T. Duckworth, on his appointment
tollie Newfoundland command.

Lord Napier, upou his being Appointed High Commissioner
to the General assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Sir Patrick. Ai Luray, ou iiis appointment to be Secretary W
the Board of Controul.

Cul. N. Macleod, of the Royals, upon his appoint•
ment.
Captain Durham, upon his return from the Mediteranean.
• Miss hinny Douglas, by her mother, Lady Douglas.
LAY Cockcreil, her creation to the title.
alitJr General Montgomery, on his promotiOn.
Sir Gore Ouseley, on being avponited his Majesty's 4rrt-
bassador to the Court of Persia.

Mr. lamc4 Aibrijer, on 1114 being appointed Secretary of
the .krtitussy at the Court of rersia. '

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