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Thew are tit) official accounts received from Pot-
-toga!: Two vesstis have arrived, one its the Thames
-and the ()die, at Dartmouth, from Oporto, the Cap-
tains 'say, ,that accounts hadioecheti that place,
that -the FrO)ch army bad. been very Much reduced
in ,their retreat,' but 'they mentiob no particulars...

We'llave erttra6led from the Mohiieur pf the 9th
the Izrench-official -account of the retreat of MAS.
to'the -frontiers of Portugal. leis a very dif-
ferent rodection from those, which we have been
accustomed to peruse in the 414oitileur. The toad is
very ,bitch softened, and some faint traces of truth
sera discernible in the account. It is fairly con-
fessod, that the. french wete reduced to great dis-
tress tor want.cifpovision ; so much so, that though
an opportunity presented itself of " completely
ruining the -English Army," the•Franch could not
stop to aecomplish so desirable an object, though
:one would have-supposed that, if the ..English Army
were once destroyed, the French would have bean
able to have sei2ed their provision-S. In' the dif-
ferent actions which took place during the re-
treat, MARIAN A, of course, claims the viciory,
but fie does not say a word of forcing the Bri-
into their ship 4, nor of the "burnitsg impa-
tience of his troops to be brought in • cornea
with the British. There is no abuse .against the
,Zngliiiir for running aw.iy in the moment of danger,
and leaving their Allies in the lurch. No; MAs.
MINA is now satisfied with boasting that .he has been
able to remain six months in a country which'he
came to conquer, and that he l'tatibecii able to make
a tolerable good retreat, below .the army that he
clime todrivu intothesea, Thete hot confession which
Ms" s,Se A has, we thil.k, rather inadvertently made
in this ac antis, Ile says, that at Ciudad Roderige,
there were` shoes, el,nhing, ammunition, ;artillery,
inav„wzittes, and money for 'the artsty, and yet he
admits that the army t 441, ditress for every one of
View things, and his troops bad not been
,paid for
Six rt►r►ntlns,. Why.were not these stores and map-
brought from Ciudad Rodrigo to Santeretn ?
because the French were only masters of the grOund
stn whtdn tiieysinoci. and they could not transport
their oeitozin.
es without the escort of an anoy.--
2%4:411,3144: wilt reisollea what sneers were 'thrown
enai ag,irllst Lord WALLINGToN for having stated ibis

We have been favoured • with the perusal of a
Letter born a Gentiernri at' present with the Bit
tith I.loring,ll, which, like almost all the
letters tram thzit country, is nearly filled with ac-
counts et the atrocities of the French. This Gen.
tiernatt states, th.tt when he entered Santarem, he
Saw, writ to, in 1;:re, ehernaers upon n house, the
following cuilotts sernence " tin ion soldat doit
.oVOit 10 I Wur du lion, la face" du cloud, rap/Wit
duo wail, et• l'huodanW d'un tile."--" A good
hohher shoiild have the heart of a lion, the strength
.of a horse, the appetite of a Ittott•to, and the int.
of a bruit.'