The Sun.
London, England, 1810-09-12 00:00:00

PROCLAMATION BY LORD WELLINGTON.

LORD VISCOUNT WELLINGTON, MARSLIAL-GENERAL,
&C. &C.

"The time which has elapsed during which the
enemy has remained on the frontiers of Portugal,
must have proved to- the Portuguese n4ion what
they have to expea from the French. The inhabi+
tants of some villages have remained in them, con-
fiding in the promises of the enemy, and hoping
that, by becoming the enemies of their country,
They might conciliate and mollify them, and inspire
them with humane sentiments; that their property
would be respelled, their females preserved from
brutal violation, and their lives secured.,

" Vain hope! the inhabitants of those submissive
places have suffered all the evils which a cruel
enemy could inflict ; their property has been plun-
dered, their. habitations burned, their women atro-
ciously violated, and those whose age and sex did
not provoke the brutal violence of the soldiers, hate
fallen vietims to the imprudent confidence which
theyylaced in promises made only to be broken.

" The Portuguese must now see that no other
means remain to avoid the evils with which they
are threatened, but a tletrmined and vigorous re-'.
sistance, and a firm resolution to obstruct as much as
possible the advance of the enemy into the interior
of the kingdom, by removing out of his reach all
such things as may contribute to his subsistence or
facilitate his progress. • This is the only and most
certain means to prevent the evils with which
the country is 'threatened.
•

"; The army under my command will protea as
large-a portion of the country,as is possible ; but it is
obvioils thatthe people alone can deliver themselves
by a vig9rol,is resistance, and preserve their goods
-by rernooinglhem, out of the reach of the enemy.

‘‘, The duties that bind me to his Royal Highness
the Prince Regent of Portugal; and to the• Porta-
guese nation, oblige me to make use of the power
and authority with which I am furnished, and com-
pel the careless and indolent to make the necessary ef-
forts to preserve themselves from the dangers which.
threaten. them, and to save their country.
" In conformity with this I make knoWn and
declare, that all magistrates and persons in authh,
rity, who shall
.remain in the villages or towns, after
having .received orders froM the military .officers to
remove from them,—and all persons, of whateVer:.
class they may be, who shall maintain the least
communication with, or aid and assist in any mart-
ner, the enemy, shall be.considered as traitors to the
State; and tried and, punished as such an enormous
crime requires.

" WELLINGTON."

4, Head-quarters, Aug. 4, z Sto:

LISBON, AUG. 25.—The accounts from Catalonia
are highly satisfadory. The enemy had suffered
great losses in different engagements which they
have had with the brave troops of General O'Dori.
NEL. In one adion only, according to positive ac-
counts communicated by ti4c Commander. in Chi.f.

-11:e evenly left 700 4P-pn on titer 44ttlef be-
,sitleS hulk' a considerable number wounded.- _
LtssoN,,AuG. letter from Cad,ii;ldat-__
ed. the 16th inst. we learn that General O'DONNELL
having again taken
.the corpmand of 'the a-rtny-in-
Catalonia, has made the most vigorous etertions
.with the best success. - ,
We have the satisfaetton to announce that,in all
,the different encounters which have taken place in
Catalonia the victory has always been in -.favour of
the Spaniards. . .

CORUNNA, Aua. 13.—Official intelligence has
been received, that on the 3d inst. General Pon Li Eli
landed with his troops between Slaner and levaile-
selfp. He marched to Puler in hopes of being joined
in the course of the day by General ESCANIME, who
is at the head of 1,300 men.

LISBON, AUG. 2.s.—His Excellency Marshal BE-
REWORD has' transmitted to the Supreme Council of
Regency an Eagle taken in Puebla de Senabria from
the Swiss battalion made prisoners of war in the said
place. On the 23d inst. arrived in this capital from
London, Colonel Baron EBEN, charged to present to
the Royal Academy of Sciences, a portrait of his
Royal Majesty the King of Great. Britain, transmit-
ted by his Royal HighneSs the Duke of Sussex. He
is also the hearer of a sword richly ornamented des-
tined I,:r his Excellency Marshal BEIiEsFORD, being
a present from his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales, in consideration •of the important services
which his Licellency the Marshal had rendered to.
• Portugal.

" Head•quarters, Lageosa, Aug. t 6, iSto.
GENERAL ORDERS.

" His Excellency Marshal BERESFORD, Conn-
mander in Chief of the Army, direils that the fol.!
Lowing Orders of his Excellency Marshal General
Lord WELLINGTON be inserted in their Orders :
" Adjutant-General's Office, Celerico, Aug. to, 18ro.