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rut stating any opinion himself upon- any of the.,
pr, ts. ‘A-, to the indtscreiion with which he had
n charged, in atindrng to the µtinted decument,
it afforded an opp-rtunity to the Members of tho
Conurn• CO 10 di,cl4im the transaction for them•
selves, and he was sure they would be obliged to
him for it. He had nothing more to add, but to
ext ress his conviction that the document was ne-
cessary, and with that declarotion,'he should,leave
to the , House to determine whether they would
grant it or not.
The House then divided, whenlhere appeared—
A yes . z 3
Noes
Majority against the Motion —33
Adjourned 'at One o'cloek,..to Monday next.

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LONDO
SA.TULIDAY, Arrm, 6, 1911.

We have at length the satisfaction of communi-
cating to our Waders intelligence, and of the most
satisfactory natnre, from Portugal.

This Morning Major CoIt'LMLL, arrived at Lord
LtvitsPootes Olice with Dispatches from Lord
WeLf.:NuToN, conftraling the account of the re-
treat of the French army front its strong position
at Sunareto. The Dispatches ktre dated the 16th
I. state, that ;‘1.,..6611. hating made severpl
S: ovements, to the hope of concealing his intentions,

Pt length broke up, as we have already trtated, front

Santarem, baying cl,stroyeci his' heavy artillery,
and blown up the gamier part of his ammunition.
liis retreat w3Ei conti&ed with very great skill.

ills army min,cileti in diyisions, as close a' possible,

and upon iheir 4rrivol at Pomba!, they inclined to the

'AIM c
and took the road by which Lord Nt
TON had fortnerly tbarelied when he broke up from
VihCtl. The English'ariny was put in molion imme•
diately upon the intelligence of the retreat 'Of the ene-
my being received, and the pursuit wastommenced
with the utmost vi jour. The van 'division, under
Gen. PACK, harassed the enemy very much. The
ruads were covered with the 'bodies of thellcad and

dying soldiers of MattizNA's At My, -ettul with Wn.
goes and cartia!s of all sorts, The devastations
committed by the French were dreadful ; they kit

the country, as far 36 illtty were able, a desert.
At longtit INIASSBNA seemed determined to make
a stand, mici at Miranda do Cory), half way between
Pumbal on the Alva, he drew up his army for that
purpose. .Our advanced guard, under Gen, PACE,
soon came up with them, and by a .akilful ma-
von:tyre, to nee hit flank. A smart sitittnith ensued,
but MASS NA thought it prudent not to wait far the

main body of the fumy under Lord WatAatiorpo,

but Keeled Iris retreat across the Ceira, ,and con-

tirlut.'d his retreat.

main body of the Br*ltilb Army under, Lord

W OLLIbIGTkiti W;l4 under the necessity of hulting

otAe day, for the purpoaa oi receiving auppli,s,

because MAS3r•N& had, as we have already stated

so completely titliolated the country, that no forage

or provision of any kind could be proc►tred.

Our Iteittiers cannot have lorgotten the violet)

abuse poared forth in the Monitcur against Lord

41.i.INGTOtt when he was retreatiog befor9 MA s

SLNA) fear letnoving the provision 3 atuttlestroying the

mdifi. Thia was represented as a mode of warfare

unknown mbong civilized nations, and yo 1‘14,151014
r:

bus now adopted it to soch an c:•.tent as to leave the

country literally a desert.

It was supposed that NI A 5510441. would endeavour

to make another stand nt Marcella, not with * view

of fighting a general action, but merely for the pun

poke of facilitating ttii retreat"

Stichi we understand, is the substance of the Dia.

patches received this morning, and they fully met

our roost sanguine cxpectatious. A retreat, under

such cilcumstances, and before such a General,

and such' an Army, is equivalent to a complete de

1c I. l'he lost which IVlAsiviA moo stiffer in are

Ltreat to the frontiers of men, F-annon,

irtnnition, and. baggage, mug be greater than he

would sustain iu any defeat short of a toial rout.

But the loss of cliaraBer-ta the FieuCh we conicl,:r

as most highly advantageous.

MAssttiA wat sent to Confiner Portugal he

boasted that be would do it : the Afoniteur atr

nonoced, in. the most ppsitive terms, that the ex-

pulsion of the, English from Poriugal would soon

take place. At that tirn4 MARsurask's army, by his

own account, amounted to 1 10,00 D men, :mil he h:

since received large reinforcements, Whefv MASS NA

entered Portugal last bummer, the English army d'd

nut exceed 25,000 eilVlive wen: the I:ortuguese

troops were newly raised, and scarcely disciplined;
they had seen no service ; and the military repata-

(ton of the country was at so 10,w an ebb, that the

very idea of forming a Portur,mese,army, under 13ri.
tihh Officers, was treated by some of tk.,. real

Statesmen in this country, as a'wild and chiinerical

plan. Under these circunhtaneeg, with tilt.; assist-

ance of re-inforcements from this country, which

the Opposition have, in contempt, called

has Lord \\' I.I.INGTON fur many months; but-

flea every effort of one of the most skilful of

r the French Generals, of the rr Spoiled Child

of Victory," :mil is now tidying him, a fugitive,

ou►: of the country he came to conquer. Tile effect
wl►ich this
,proud triumph of our ar►ni will have

upon Poitugal, upon-Spain,, 9pon. Om Continent in

general, must be grelt, and In-the present state 0

the North at Eur4e, way tend to t. onfitquences

wh;cl), ten .coonthi ago, it wont(' have been 0°1414

little short of inadnet., .to contemplate.

As we t.liink it right to lay before our Readers all

the information which reaches upon ibis melt im•

portaitt event, we sublitit to tlicm the following ac-

count which ha* just reaciald us :

Captain CAUPSHT.a., one.of Lord WALLINGTON)

Aides-de-Camp, arrived this inoriung at It o'clock,

at Lora Llvr,uporm's Office, in Doviiing•strtet,

with duipatchqs from PorNgal, of a most gratify
►ng description. They ,:are. da►ed on .the 261 h.

MASSEN A [lad pursued his retreat in, the direetipt

of Almeida, in a molt rapid manner, leaving ail hi

sick and wounded on the road in a most deplorable

condition. The sick of the French army vi crc un,

commonly numerotis.

A skirtnish had taken place with their rear-guard,

a wbieli we took an e3gla and several prisoners

some tepons say a whole rogimi!nt.

13aclajos bad surrendered to the French, but thiy

evacuated it on the following day, probably on
hearing that Marshal BEMPARMAD had advanced u

Elm, or perhaps oft hearing 01 the affair at Barrosa

The Portuguese behaved Mlllalkably well.

SECOND EDI! lON.

SUN OFFICE,

TiUM O'CLOCK, P.M. •
We, stop (he Press to lay laqiore our Readers the

following official Bulletins of the intelligence twin

Portugal :-•--

Downing-slreet, April 6, 18 11.

Captain CAiitAC has arrived with dispatches from

Lord WRIAINGTON, dated Villa Sica,-,l4th, and

LUZIM, 3 Bth ult. by which it appears that the ene

my retired from their position at Santarem, and

its neighbourhood on the night of the btli, and di-

redead their march towards the Mondego, leav-

ing ono corps on the road, of Eapinel. Gen. Lot-
.

snSts division on the road, of Ancias, end the re,
rnainder towards Pomba'. On the gth the entrny, col.

lobed in front of Pontlnlp where they were attack-
ed with great gallantry by several detachments of
Gavatry and the light brigade of infantty under Gen.

PACKy and retired in the night. On the 12th they

took, up a string position at the end of a defile be.

tween Redirtba and Pornbal. They were attacked

in their position on the igth, by the light in-

tautry brigade arld the cavalry; the other troups

being ia reserve. The troops formed gieat

cenrrtcy and
/celerity. Itijor-Generat Sir BlttN'
SPIINCtiIi led the flue against the dnelpy's

on the
.heights, from which they were immediately

driven,. witli the loss of many .killed, wounded,

and prisoners.

The enemy then retired to the position of, Con•

lexa, and the division under Mdier-General Ptc-

TON immediately passed throup,lt the mountains on

he enemy's left, and cauhed them to remove froni

he strong positions of Condom. Lord WELLING-

TOW, was irnmedia.ely enabled to communicate with

'Coimbra, and made prisoners a detachment of the
enemy's cavalry on the road. The enemy took np
a position at Call Nova on the 14th, and the 4th
division. under Major-General COLE having turn-

ed ,their position .on the left, and the light
division under Brigadier-General: PA CI and Sir
WILLIAM EIISKINE having turned it on the right,
the enemy were obliged to abandon all the positions
which they successively took up in the mountains,

and their rear.g,nard was driven back on Miranda de

Corvn, on the riser Eca, with loss of killed, wound—
ed, and prisoners.
On the evening of the 1411), the wrong position
of Miranda de Corvo was turned by a British Corps

%lacier Maj. rGeneral COLE. The enemy, upon
abandoning it, destroyed a great number of car-
riages, burned and destroyed much •ammnnition,
and !he road throughout the march from Mira►►da,
was strewed with carcases of men and animals;

The enemy, on the 1504 tc.ok up a strong posi-
tion, which they were, yesterday forted to abandon
with considerable loss. The Colonel of, the :39th
regiment was here made prisoner. In the night the
enemy destroyed the bridge over ,the Ceira, and re-
treated to another position between that and the
Alva.

Lerd WELLINGTON 'rata in the highest terms
of the gollantry and good conduct, without cxtep-

Zinn, of al! the troops, British and Portuguese. Tho

whole loss in these different nfilions amounts to
.three

officers and about 50 men killed-1 IVNor,: 8 .Cap.

tains, 18 subalterns, and about 380 men wounded.

It appears that Lord WELLINGTpN had ieceit-

ed accounts that Badajos had surrendered to the

French on the t tth, the garrison prisoners of war.

SECOND BULLETIN.

Dispitehes have been received at the Office of

MaryON WELLESLEY from Mr. SWART, his Ma

jesty's Minister at Lisbon, dated the 23d of March;

they state the army of Gen. MASSENA continued to.

retreat towards the frontier, and that every march

was facilitated by the abandonment of wounded, the

destr oeliop of bag ,ago, and whatever could encumber

their movement. The enemy attempted during the

lath and 1911) to make a stand in the Sierra de

Moita, but they were driven from that poiiition with

the loss of 600 prisoners on the .1 gth. On the 2 Ist

they reached Galiza. The British head-quarters

were at Nirn;)eivo on the 18th, and at Argaid on the

20th. The cavalry, and light corps contlnued'in

bight of 'the Fteucb rear-guard, and the movement

ut the 41liett Army along the skirts of the Estrella,

which fiault the positioni in the valley of the Mon 7

deco, promisei new hupedirpents to their retreat.

Badajoz and Campo iNlaj,ir had fallen into the

handi of the euemy. nushat SOULT had subsu-

qui:tidy moved in the direction of Seville with part
of his forces.

Gen. Bunrsronn reached Portalegre on the 20th.

Yesterdsy. anothor Meeting of the Subscribers to
Lloyd's' Cotiee-house took place, at which Mr.'
Austax proposed to rescind the'Resolution against
Gambling Policis. The motion was, however,
negatived, and the Resolution, as reported by' the
Committee, confirmed, After some conversation,
a Cmmittea of thirteen was appointed, to in-
vestigate all the accounts relative to the Laltic
seizures,

Itar
41A Houss.—Yester4lay a Court of Directors
was held, when Captain Gaotton RAINCOCK was
sworn into the command of the new ship Charles.
being the last destined for Bombay this
season. ROSERT HENRY PEART, Esq. Second Clerk
in the Secretary's Office, resigned the Company's
service. The Court adjourned at six o'clock till
Tuesday next.