The Sun.
London, England, 1810-12-26 00:00:00

MILITAkY DEPARTMENT.

TO MAJOR GEN. GOWIiIE, COMMANDING THE ARMY

IN CHIEF.

Skar,
Path* .t. lam dire&ed by the Right Honourable
the Goveintir-‘Generdl in Council, to 'acknowledge
the receipt of •yotar ',letter 'Of, the 211 instant, and to
convey to you the th:ink's of his Lordship in Coun-
cil, for the communicatiOn'cif the proceedings on the
seftral trials therein referred to, and for the informa-
tiOh tuat it is your intentiuu to dissolve the General
Cdf.irt• martial at Bangalore.
2. In con% eying 'to you the entire concurrence of
the Governor=,General in Council, in the propriety
and wisdom of every ineisufe you have adopted, and
in the justice of every opittioo.yuu have eipressed,
ielaiive to these proceedings, Ins Lordship in Coun-
cila cannot but deeply lament, that the most essential
interests of the public should have required, that
both the Officer cominancling the army, and the
Governor-general in Council, should withhold their
approbation from several parts of these 'proceedings.
3. His Lordship in. Council is, however, assured,
that he only anticipates your sentimeuts when he
adds, that in performing this painful and ungracious
duty, he has done the tuFest justice to the_ upright
and honourable motives of the- respectable Officers
who composed the Court, and:who, he welt knows,
have dischamgtd their delicate and distressing trust,
with a pure and conscientious regard to. the didates
of their own mind :, and his Lordship in Council has
only the tnore to regret, that the points on whiCh
the judgment of the Court have been thought to be
erroneous, were too. important and fundamental to
admit of their,receiving even the tacit sanction of
public authority.
• • • I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient huail)le Servant,
•(Signed) A. LCON
Chid- f*c. to Govt.
Fort St. 'George, 2d April, 18 to.
The General Court-martial assembled at Walla-
jabbad, on the 2d inst. and of which Col. Wilkinson
is PreSident, is dissolved; and the Preiident, Mem-
bers, and Evidences., will ream' to their respective
. stations and corps forthwith.

ACCOUNTS FROM ABRA,NTES, BELATIV4 TO THE MI-
LITARY OPERATIONS SINCE THE ENEMY AP-

PROACIIED THAT TOWN.

" On the sth of November, an account arrived
here, stating, chat the enemy had crossed the Zezere,
and retired, and on the same night the Spanish
Cavalry which was there proceeded to the North of
the Tagus. On the tliornihg df the 7th, Don Car- •
los Hespanha advanced with his infantry. A great
part of the garrison also made a sortie, and attacked
the enemy u4ween Montarvo and Amoreira, but
in detached parties. On the evening of the 7th,
three French prisoners were brought in, and joined
our troops. The attack did nut produce more effea,
because the enemy made no advance. On our side
we had not ont; wounded. The three prisoners
were taken by three- peasants of Souto, a village
about two leagues from' this town. There were six
altogether, but they killed one hi consequence of
• two having escaped.

" We are assured that the peasants of Souto have
put to flight 400 French, who were advancing from
Satzedas, killed an otticer and several soldiers, and
took from them two herds of cattle. On the t
it was reported that the French troops which had
passed amounted to 3 or 4000 men, including 1500
cavalry. It is also said that the bridge has been
carried away by the rising of the river, but that the
enemy have saved some of the boats which composed
The Tagus has iisen more than six feet. The
enemy remain at Alontalvo.
" On the lett, at four in the evening, the French
reconnoitred Abrantes, but were received, as usual,
by salutes of artillery, which were continued until
night, .when the enemy tetired. They could not,

however, be much injurttl, as they kept at a yespect.
lot distance;
.and, were Mach spread.
_Four of them
entered Rio de Manilas, to plUndet., and killed a
man, who, imagining they were absent,. had gone
thither to endeavour ,to save some of his property:
It also appeals certain that twO
.peasanis of the
auove,village 10114
.an indttidual
.who had b:en.
ays. in front of , the enemy, on, a white horse, and
t .Frenchmen. !besides..
Oulhe same day tweive-f>easants of, the neigh-
bourhood of Abrantes, hrought in a French serjeant,
a- deserter, from Lhe regnneni, No. 47. This Man
stated that the French farce, which has crosstd the
Zezere, consked ul,3,oooiafantry, and. 600 cavalry',
lititit four pieces of ar: illery, small tlie
13th, the Spanish troops hating pased to the North
of 'the Tagus, occupitd the neighbourhood of 11.,t) de
Mulattos, tt, being Supposed. thus the ehemy met i-
tated an attack on ti;is place.( The garrison were
all day under arms. The gpaniirds, howeter, re-
crossed the river, without having had afirrencounter.
The enemy removed the greater part of their forces
towards Porthete.
" On the tabltt of the,l4th two pieces of artillery
were crtaveyed to he south of the Tagus, and placed
in -front of Punhete, to oppose.the
,passage of
Zeiere, where :the enemy are endea%ooting to repair
the reel hridge,, and make it broader. On the 15th,
scott after eight in the morning, .a signal fur the ad-
vance of the. enemy was made, but they did not ap-
proach., , in the Morning of the 16th a great part of
the Spanish troops marched away.
On the 17th, the French played
,off some ar-
tillery, which was Mounted, in the Fart of Con-
ceizarn, on the other side of the .Zezere, upon the
StnevardS, kvholeturned some shots from the S.mth
side of,the Tagus. The French occupied tie hills
in the neighbourhood Panhete on bath sides of
tpe:Zezere with ther guards, and the `main body
Was y‘ithin the tewn. They fete repairing the
bats, they had in that river, and constraCting new
ones.
_They
,were erecting a kind of fort near
the gate of the Church (..;)f our Lady of the Martyrs,
General Loig-,on.had the same time his had 'quar
ters at Mumalve.

On the 18th, in the evening, the 4th and loth
reginlentsof notnguelecavalry arrived at Abrintes,
two troops of Entisli cavalry, and the b:ittalion of
Ckfzedores, No. 5, were also expected there. Toe
enemy at that date 'still occupied the sarneposi-
lions." '

Lissom, Dm. O'd?nanzas have united
in parties, .which purStie the enemy.' In the quar-
ter beyOnd the. Zeiere they have killed, since the
25th of November (their snetess. up to that date
Was ,given
,in a former Gazette) about so French,
many of ' %Oven were cavalry. -In a village• trz that'
part of the.country (the mune of which it would
not be proper tO ',r)ention,) a barber resides, who
has killed 18 French, 1 I of vai9in were cavatiy.
At Serra, which is about. (two leagues, distant twin
Thomar, the same Ordenanzas haVe destroyed several
parties ot the enemy, and only gave up that post when.
they Were attacked by a very superior force but, in
changing their position, they did not change their de-
termination. In
,Setra deP.itcilo,,towards Leh la, our
peasants (constitiati-og what is in this country called
Ordenanzas) who are real niliiiersA, attack and dt.s.-
troy all the enemy's parties ; and such is their bold-
ness that they have attacked several corps of superior
force. If the hatred 'which the inhabitants of the Pe-
ninsula have to the French yoke has been subdued
in less valorous places, so that the enemy, by lung
and repeated sacrifices, may have succeeied in esta-
blishing his ink, with towns like those mentioned
above, all sacrifices for such an objet are vain, for
in truth-all his power is insufficient to accomOish•
it. What can resist the colossal'-mass of fifteen
millions' of people, all armed, and' -all cum-
bating a barbarous and distant invader ? Death ho-
vers round his columns, and sooner or later he must
fall. The more the peasants lose, the lucre irri-
tated they are. Many of thew have been 'lewd tai
exclaim--" Since I am ruined, I have nothing to
&lint to avenge myself, and 16 pillage the enemy
also." It may be said that the grand attack on the
French, both in Spain and Portugal, is now only
about to commence.--(Lisbon Gazette, Dec. 10.)
The Tribunal 'of the Council of Admiralty has
cawed to b..: affixed in the itoyal Marine Arsenal
the following •