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London, England, 1811-12-04 00:00:00

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Downing-street, Dec.. a, 1811.

i.orn the LONDON GAZETTE,' Dec.S, 1811.

A tetter, of whch thb inclosed is an extra&
has been received froM Colonel Green; employed on
a partici)! r service in Catalonia, dated Heasl-quar-.
tern. Calat, 0,1..9, 1811.
I am lisipy in having the honour to inform your
1:461n1.,, that there now appears to be a very in-
crea,,e4i degree of nativity and much success in the
re- eutratpem ,q 1 this plincipality..
The Army is increaiog very fast ; nearly six.
hundred deserters have presented themselves in five

days. t-
The battalions of reserve, which are composed Of
married men, and Others which are exempted frOM
service 'in the army, are become disciplined and nu.
merotis ; and the small Patriotic parties are daily in
tereeptio'g the little detachments- ott the enemy,
evincing remarkable instances of valour, and .pi ov-
log a severe check to the communications of the,
energy, - which they themselves complain of in des%
podding terms.,
'On the 4th instant, General Lacy put himself at
the head of two thousand infantry and five hundrad
cavalry,- and in the night surprised the town of
Iquelada, he leading the cavalry,:and upon being
challenged by the centinel " Qui .vive," answered
" France," and rushed upon the advanced post,
which he destroyed, and galloped into the town,
where he killed upwards ot- one hundred and fifty,
made a few prisoners, and took some stores'and the
equipage of the G.,tieral and the Officers, the former
bring obliged to escape in his shirt to the Capuchin
Cottvent, which had been pleviously fortified, and
where the prinCipal part of the troops were quar-
tered,. hut Which requiring cannon to reduce,. Gene-
ral Lacy kit till he could receive guns from Cards
na, and retired to this town, meditating an eXpediti-
on upon Cervera. , , '
On the 7th instant, 'a small force, was detached
under the Ordets of Baron .de Broles, 'to intercept a
convoy nen-lorba, which .vva, done with COMplt4.le
tiocces., the B Jon tak tog the whole, consisting of
tour hundred/mules loaded with corn, lire hundred
goio6, and other very neee.sary.jahielei clothe Come
missariat, ccito pie, ely Touting tire Offen hundred men
composing the escort, and dispirsint,‘., three hundred
more, and filly 'llofrie, Which had utt,ved. rap d.iy
,
lqualacla to support the tnt-ther.o.-,,,-,1,-, , : •
linive the satistaninn also to state to your Lord-
' ship; that since Gen. Sachet ha i left the Lower Ca-
talonia, the Partidas Patrinticai and Sornatenes have
killed and wounded, "even by the French account,
npwards of tifreep hundred men.
The proportion the enemy has lost in Upper Ca-
talonia, since the fall of Figuera*,. has not been so
considerable ; but what contributes very much in
favour of the Principality at, this momeet, is, the
aicknem which prevails.in the army of Macdonald,
, who has upwards of three thousami men siclefrom
Tertian fevers.

Calif, 06t.

• P. S. I have the satisfaaton to inform yout.Lord•
ship, that 1 have just .received intelligence of 'the
ettetny'i lt‘ving; evacuated Iqual:tda ; and I have also
leceived a lotter frern tarot's Lioles, suiting -that he
is t w block ading a dotachthent of the French which
are forGricd the College 0. _et vo-a, the capture
of which will give into the harols of the'Catalans
large depot of corn, will destroy all communication
between Barcelona and Lerida, and open the most
iinvrtarst roads to the 4aniarcis, tending again to
restria the enemy entirely to the limits of his gar-
tiSons, which, if not reinforced, will be in a preca
'rious state, as Suchet has nearly drained those .0f
LOwer Catalonia, to incrcase his force. operatiusip
the kingdom of Valencia...

Dountinipstreet, Dec.. 3, t6I 1.

A Dispatch, at which,the following is an mara6l,
bin; been this day reCitived at, Lord Liverpool's
Office, addressed to his Lordship ,by General Via-
count Wellington, dated Viettada, t3th November,
18'11,
„Br the accounts which. I have. received from Ca-
diz, of the 29111 October, it appears that the enemy
bad retired, fiom Algeciras and
_St. Roque on the

night of Ott 21 st of Odober. General iiallestcros
.113 d pi rsiira their redrguard. against which he hod
sane success.
Colonel Skerrett condueted with great judgment

the detachment of I.3iitish troops, of which he bad
the command at Tarillyand his movements towards
the enemy's communic,stions must have,bhewn them
the inThratt.cablity of remaining in the position
which they had taken. . _ .

It appears that the country on both banks of the
l'Agusi as tar up as Artiojtiet, has been, made over
by the Emperor to Marshal Marmont tor the 'sup-
port Of the Army of Portugal. 'this arrangement,
'has reclt.:/t.l Joseph Buonaparie to the greatest
'distress, as the produce of that country was' all
that he had to (*petit' upon, and he, was adually
subsisting upon the money produced' by the re-
lad sale ot, the wain forcibly -levied fain the
'people.
• •Ttlitf 8614 having been. thus levied and sold by Jo'.
vtpli, his 'been sexed again by Marrnont's' orders,.
'atd taken frotn tho people who, had pu'rc,hased it
"From Joseph's titagazines, who have, been infurmed
dui( the King had -no right to sell it.

Arliniralty ggio, Decemler 2; 1811. 6
Elttrati of * Letter from the lion. kw-Admiral Legge to
I oh% Wilson etoker, I'6q, clued oft borrd his Nlslicsty'
ship Revenge, In Cadiz hay, Nov. t 5., 1811.

The British torces under Colonel Sketrett still
contintre at, or near Tarifa. General liallestetos, on
`:nth inst.hurprisecl a eorps of the erigMy under Gene-
,3; struene, between Burnes and Xeres, taking up-
wards of one bandied prisoners, with all their, bag-
gage and mules, and leaving many dead on the field
ut