The Sun.
London, England, 1810-11-24 00:00:00

PATRIOTIC PARTIES OF GUERRILLAS.

;The acts of intrepiditY-,and Valour-With which the.
'patriotic parties scattered" over the Whole Peninsula
incessantly annoy and slowly annihilate their' in-
vaders are so multiplied, that it is difficult to giVe an
account of them. Of many we are ignorant, or only
imperfectly know.them, because they take place in
the centre of the provinces occupied by the enemy;
and because the Chiefs• of he he Guerrillas, are not

very anxious to give an account of their opera-

Lions. '
'But it` is neither justice'to the public, and espel
cially to our translantic brethern, to deprive thetn of
information so' interesting—nor to the authors of
these exploits to defraud them, by cone,:alment, of
the reputation which They merit.. We have, theie-
fore, colleted the following summary-details, which

are arranged in the order of time; for the pur7
pose of giving a specimen of that mode of war-
fare which is carried on in the heart of the Penni-

sula:

On the 16th June, pon Francisco,Espoz y Mina
intercepted, between Tatrala and Pamplona, a
coerier, escorted.by 140 men: They were ail made
prisoners,, with the exception 'of a soldier and posti-
liOn,'Who were killed on the spot. same L 4-.•
poz, on the 19th, with 500 men, aitai_ked a name-
robs- French det achinent„Whieh escorted a very cots-
-siderable convoy, and Part of the gaiiisrm of Mequi-
nyritzi; Made Prisoners iThe Combin:iastcd tw6hOurs.
fie- could not liberate 'the -Spanish. solcii67.; bUt he
toOk sbrne priSdnets and hOtskis, a bag of letters, a
Er"eai quarkity olaminunitiOn, 70u swords, and 300
inHntry sabres.- ' '
From the aOth June to the 3d of •Julytkie party
of-Espitz y Mina_ ii as in doritant attion;. 360 French,
who had taken post in the Sierra of Alaiz, were only
able to open to t:.enisq-lves a passage atter a contest
oi' ti've hours, in consequence of the aimnuirition of
tire patriots being spent ; Out the latter t00k,47 pri-
soners, among whom was the Commander, and the
loss of the enemy, including killed and wounded,-
amOunted to 135 men. 00 tile 3d July; 500 French
.having marched from Pamplona,
.Espoz with 700,0 f
`his men forced them to retreat towards Noaio ; but.
'the enemy having received considerable reinforce-
ments, he retired to Guerendiain, with the loss of
one •killed and nine wounded ; time French lost 23
killed, and a,quantity.oi ammunition as taken from

them.
In Catalonia, Don Narciso Gay, conunanding

eorps of militia,. with 200 of his own men, and as
map), of: the compainies of liabregas and Olivares,
on the 30th June, succeeded in killing 40 French,
wounding as many, and making prisoners, in
sight, of 150 of the eemy, who werediawn up in S.
Martirian de Bannlas. The same Gay having ap•
proached Bezala in the night of theath July, and fired
'on the enemy's sentinels, struck such terror into them,
that they evacuated the. town, and took refuge in the
fortress of Santa Maria, abandoning 'their baggage,
muskets, and knapsacks. The weJter part at the
officers, including the Commandant, eteaped in their
shirts. r.klle enemy woulool not come out' till the 116
when they did so to the number of 800. foot and 20
horse. • An attion took place at_ casteltullit, which
lasted'five hours s'. at. the close. of which the enemy

fled, leaving on the field a nmuber of ' muskets,
knapsacks,. &c., They lila nineteen killed -and fitly
Wounded.' The'inliabitanes, who assisted from the
fieighbobring towos, Contribiated 'clinch to this sue-.
cess. ,
the 'cninrriander Don Miguel Diaz, after hai,ing
combated the Frenchin La Mancha on the 4th July,
'leard ed that in Infatitet: they bad-300 foot and•su
horse, who two days before had fought, with the
party of D. Franeiso Abad. In consequence, he
appeared beiwz: that tuwu on the 7th ; and though
:the eneiny ',vete superior in numbers, tly2y tie!' with-
-Out' haihtig recourse to arms." The Spantards entered
liirathb*S amidst the acclamations of the inhabitants ;
011eeted the ands, atumunitiOn; and "other
eticds abandoned by the enemy, and des-
lioyqd the forti6cations which they had construct-
ed.

In several -intercepted- letters from General Bel-.
hard.to Berthier, of date bth 6th and .7th July; he
speaks of various patrionc.parties, of .which even the
Spanisli Government have no knowledge from any'
other source. fle speaks. of their having appeared
at 'Litres,. Bastun, S., Martin .de la Vega, Sesena,
the budge of :the. Guadarama, bet ween.Nabalcar-i
nerd anti.Mostoles, and: :at other places in. the!

prnv,hice "of Mcidtid. He adds, that ,t he vicinity
of s9ln.osiqrra was intllsted by the Patriots., and that'
111414:617f 01 the:a - pariies had united at Riaza and
"Scpubieda:
.On tie 9th of the same month they attacked at'

.
Almozap,. 1,500. French of the garrison of Soria.—
,I4eya:-ty of the.curate Mena, supported, by the 2d
battalion at 'the Numaotines, colisisting of 500 're-
cruits, :maintained a combat of seven hours; hut

the superiotity .o.t- the enemy obliged them to re-
tire, after havilig caused t hem a loss of two hun-
.dred,in kill l and wounded ; the loss of the patriots

. . .
was-,59. ,
. _
On tho 3 ist July, the curate of V iena, in the vicinity
of Visctilo,. attacked 50 French who escorted-50 cart-

loids ofleati ; be killed It 3 of -them
.ar.d torn the
lead. The gorrisons of _l\ilanzanares, Valdepenas,
Santa Elena, and Carolina, sallied forth in quest of
Ilreoa, and found' him on the 2ul of August, united
with D. F. Abad, their joint force betng Iwo hull&
ri.d-and fifty horse, hlld 150.f00t. The at.-tion lasted
6 hours; and the enemy retired under fat our of
the daikuess of the night, leaving seventy killed
on the field, among .whom was a Colonel. The
loss of the Patriots itt these two anions was of small
amount.

The Gazettes of Seville for the month of July,
make mention .of the parties of 'Francisco Diaz,
called el Cojo, who secured the province of Cordoba;
of that of SJlvadorde Sierra. in the dis'riet 'of Ecija.;
ofanother, in Pahna del Rio and of others which had
skirmished-with the troops oft& babstTani in Berja.
On the 7th August, the Commandant Don An-
tonio Bueno arrived at Bada,joz,• having, with his
party of 200 men, ‘beaten an equal force in the vici-
nity of Montoro.Be killed 85 of the enemy, took 12
prisoners, besides 61,000 reals; 400 sheep, 24 ar-
robas of balls, and 18 of gunpowder. Bueno lost
one man, and three horses.
About the 251 h of the same month several carts
loaded with silver set' orit florn Valladolid, for
France, escorted hy"2oo men ; but the Patriots at-
tacked them at a short distance from tire town, and
obliged theM to retreat. In Consegnence.a reinforce-
ment of 400 men marched out, but arrived too late.
About the'saine time the' Patriots took 30 French
soldiers, and two officers, on the lot:ark Walk at Val-
ladolid ; and not far
.far from Ciudad ROdrig, in a
country occupied by the army of Massena, 100 dra-
goons, escorting three carriages;. richly laden, also
tell into the hands of the Patriots. 'Massena' was in
consequence obliged to detach four reg;meirts of
dragoons to guard the road'from Cuidad Rodrigo to
_ Salamanca.
fiCt he same-month, D. Manuel PaStrana bet ween
Aliguelterra and Almagro, engaged 124 French in-
fantry and 80 horse, of whom he killed five,Wound-
ed a greater number, and took several 'stragglers.—
D. Baldomero Tores, with his party of 30 men,
killed or wounded S 6 Frenchmen in the envisions of
Navalmoral, in the province of Toledo; and 70
cattle, and other valuable effeas.

About the end of August the party of M Ca-
milk) Gomez entered AlmOnacid, killed the C6rn-
niander of the French garrison, and took '3O load
61 lead.