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SPAIN.

LETTER PROM GENERAL BLAKE TO THE SUPREME
JUNTA, DATED

" Samoa, October 20.
a Most Excellent Seignor !—On the 24th I deter-
=pined to make a general reconnoitring of the position
of the enemy on this point, with the view of dislodg-
ing them from it after haying acquaiated myself with
their position and force.
" For this purpose, I ordered to march to Galde-
cano the 3d division, except one battalion, which I
left at Miravalles, and the reserve at Rebuzua, with
which troops, united to the vanguard, I hastened to
the heights which are opposite to Sornosa. T!-- van-
guard, supported immediately by the 3d division,
advanced to the vicinity of that village, driving back
the advanced posts, in spite of the exertions which
the enemy made to support them.
" In this action we had from thirty to thirty-five
woundea but we know that the loss of the French
was much greater, who again concentrated them-
selves on two mountains by the side of the village,
with a number of troops. On this and on an adjoining
height their vanguard remained till the approach of
night, without doing any thing further.
" Our troops remained at Bivac, in their respec-
tive positions, and passed the night very badly, in
consequence of the rain, and because the bad roads
had retarded the arrival of all supplies of provisions.
On the 25th the weather became better, and bread
and wine, with other provisions, arrived, with which
the troops were refreshed.
" The 4th division, which had been posted two
days before at Rigostia and its neighbourhood, to
straiten the enemy and cut off his supplies, yesterday
placed themselves in a position to attack the right of
the enemy, while the vanguard and 3d division oppo-
sed their left, and the Ist division and the reserve the
centre.

" The army being in this position, the enemy re-
tired hastily in the obscurity of the night to Duran-
go ; and as won as this movement was observed, di-
visions of the light troops were marched in pursuit of
them, to harass them, and all the divisions hastened
to the evacuated posts, the vanguard being consider-
ably advanced.
gg If it had been in my power to communicate the
direction of the enemy's march to General Acevedo,
who was posted with his troops to cut off the commu-
nication of Durango with Victoria, I flatter myself,
that they would not only have been obliged to retire
very speedily from Durango, but that we should have
been able to gain additional advantages.
" I trust that the operations hitherto effected will
meet with the approbation of the Supreme Junta.—
The valour and good disposition of the troops and
their respective officers, as well as the activity and
skill of the different Commanders of Divisions, de-
serve every praise, as well as their fortitude, in not
only enduring with patience, but even with pleasure,
the privations and hardships attending a campaign of
this kind. (Signed) JOAQUIM SLAM"
ALGESIRAS, NOVEMBER 3.

By this post we have no Gibraltar Gazette, owing
to some delay in its delivery; but we have received
the agreeable intelligence that various English trans-
Forts have arrived in that harbour, with 3.500 Spanish
soldiers belonging to those whom the French had dis-
armed at Lisbon, who are now on their wig. to Cata-
lonia, completely armed by the English. They
also take with them 20,000 muskets. The trans-
ports put into Gibraltar, in order to take is provisions
fur the navigation to Tarragona, as they could not
be furnished with them in Portugal. These troops
are under the command of Field-Marshal Don Gre-
goria Laguna.