Star.
London, England, 1808-12-20 00:00:00

GERONA, NOV. 14,

The following action affords an anitional proof of
the gallantry of the Somatenes (a kind of Militia) and
does infinite hon6ur to their valiant Commander :

On the 30th of October, Captain Nardso Coderch,
of the Miquelets, who served in the late war with
France, and is now seventy years of age, received or-
ders to collect all the troops who were in Espolla,
Vellamaniscle, St. Quizce, arid Rebos, and to occupy
with them the most advantageous points, and should
the enemy attack his position, give immediate notice
to Don Juan Claros, who commanded in the•envl.
rons of Rosas, and int'nded to reinforce him, in order
to prevent the enemy from entering the narrow pass
of the mountains.

On the 3d instant actually arrived in the town:of
Linasa, 184) Italian satellites, with their Commander,
and three Subaltern Officers. Coderth and Pairit,
who commanded the Somatenes, without being dis-
couraged by the intelligence they received, that the
above troops formed merely the advanced guard of
1000 men, who were marching to the said town, re-
solved to attack them with about one hundred men,
sixty of whom were armed, and ordered the rest to
taki a position in the neighbourhood, so that they
could be seen by the enemy. The attack commesoced
at two o'clock in the afternoon against different
points of the town ; the enemy left the town, and
took post on a height near the sea, where he made a
vigorous resistance ; but at length the invincibles sur-
rendered 'to the invincible valour of some armed pea-
sants, and were all taken prisoners, the whole of which
amounted to 139.

• OVIEDO, NOVEMBER 29.
Our-General of the army of reserve, which marched
from this town on the 20th inst. in the morning, oc-
cupies already the principal points by which the Enemy
threatened to advance to this town, and in a few days
he will have sufficient troops to defend all the places
which are not covered by our army of the left. He
is at present in RivadesellA, and it seems that the
enemy in consequence of his march has fallen back to
a considerable distance from all the points to which
1 e had advanced. We do no longer entertain any
fear of this province being invaded by the enemy :
and should he attempt an invasion, every inch of
ground will-be disputed to him with the utmost ener-
gy and valour. All the inhabitants breathe only for
war, liberty, and vengeance.

PRIVATE LETTERS.
EXTRACT OF A LITTER FROU AN OFFICER OF ARTLI,

EERY ALONG WITH GENERAL BAIRD'S ARMY.

,s We are losing our horses in alarming numbers.
Our men bear the fatigues better, because they feel
the importance of the great cause in which we are
engaged. I wish I could say that the Spaniards are
animated by the same spirit. But they are void of
exertion and even of hope. Nay, many of themlave
laughed at us for what they chusb to call our Quix-
otism. This country is so barren and dreary, that
we sometimes march fifteen miles without meeting
any thing like a human habitation."
Extract of a Letter from an officer in the Sd bat-
talion of the Ist Regiment, or Royals, to his father
in Paisley :

• " Villa Franca, Nov. 28.
" I am afforded an opportunity of forwarding you this, by the
General's dispatches from hence. We left Corunna on the 3d,
and arrived at Astorga on the 20th, a march of 4.3 Spanish league;
upwards of 220 miles, baking one day at Bttanees, one at Lugo
and another here. It was origin:My intended we should proceed
from Astorga to Burgos, to meet Sir John Moore's army en its
march thence from Portugal, but the French having got
sioa of Burgos, al-ered that plan, and we remained three at
Astorga, kill we could learn something both of Sir John oore
and of the enemy ; but suit is the total want if information
that neither of the one or the other could we had anyitnow!
ledge. Upon the 24th, it was reported that the energy were
pressing forward in great fgree to remit- bar-flibeifin with Sir-
John, and to cut off our Awmt. • In this dimetion of affairs, Sit
David Baird deemed it prtident to ' -Ilk a tew boon,'
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