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London, England, 1811-11-19 00:00:00

1811

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The movement of General Girard on Caceres,
imitated General Hill to break up. from Portalegre
on the 22d. He reached Alburquerque on the 24. th,
and on the 26th his Head-quarters were at Malpar-
tida. General tsirard having fallen back from Qat
ceres, on this day to Torrem ' acha was endeavouring
to gain Merida, when General Hill came up with,
and ,uiptised him at Arloya dos" Manias, on the
morning of .the 28th, One column. of the trench
hal procoeded on 'he road to Merh'a before the
er mencement of the action, and although pursued,
w obably tie enabled to cross the Guadiana be-
fore the arrival of our troops. - • -
G,!neral Girard was badly wounded, And escaped
to the mountains with about 300 men, followed by
the-Spanish Corps under General Murillo.- Two
hundred French were killed, and .1000 taken, in--
chiding Generals Bron and the Prince d'Arernberg,
two Colon is, and 40 °Meets, with all their artil-
lery and baggage. . ,

Downing-sireet, Aov. 18, 1811.
Dispatches, of which the following are evratis,
have been this day received at Lord Liverpool's
Office, addressed to his. Lordship by General Vis-
,c, Wellington, dated Freneda, 23d and anth of
06tober, 1811.

Frened4o6t:

The enterprize of Don Julian Sanchez to carry
off the cattle from Ciudad Rodrigo, adverted to in
my last dispatch, was very well condueited and very
successful. 'During the night of the 14th, he post-
ed his troops near the places at which he had been
informed that the cattle from .the
-garrison were
usually brought to graze in- the, morning, and he
expected that they would come to the ground on
the left
.bank of the Agueda, between the, hills on
the El Bodon road and the fort, aid he,placed.two
detachments of cavalry behind these hills. The
Governor, General Regnaald, bad come out'ot the
fort and.aeross the Agueda, attended by some Staff
Officers, and escorted by a part% of about twenty
cavalry ; and be was smrounded by Don Julian's
detachments as soon as he entered the hills, and was
taken with two of t,is escort nnder the fire of the
suns of the Place. The remainder of the. escort es-
caped,, 'of the Officers attending- the Gdi,ernor
baying ii
been w,,ndi d. T.
Sivirtly alter,vald4, Dun Julian's 'dersichnients
ton the right id the Agtieda, (hove otrthe glealest,
vunthur, of I l‘e cattle which had been sent' to graze
nnder the guns of the fart, on that side of the

Tiie nerny'.-: troops in front, of. this army, have
made no movemunt of importance since I addressed
your Lordship last. A detachment of the army of
the North which bad crossed the Tormes- with a
view to plunder the country between that river
std chest have returned to their cantonments
w:r!iout (lerivitig much advantage from this expe-
dition.
I have directed General -Hill to endeavour to
force. Girard's division of the sth corps
,to retire
from Cacpres, as, in that position, they
,distress for
provisions the troops under. the Conga de Penne
and General Murillo, belonging, to Ge-
neral Ciwanos. .Lieutenant-General Hill wasto
move torn WS, cantonments on this 'Apedition on
the G 2 t

1.',) the ricc6l.lll- which Hine received from Ca-
diz to the I sth inst. I learn rhatAhn,hal Sucher had
entered' the kingduru of Valencia, fican Tortosa,
With twenty. thousand men, and had advanced attlar
as Nbirvie4.-;• he wadi; three attempts to obtAn
possesKion of the fort of Sagunto; 'near thk town,
by .t,scalade, an .the: 29th- of fast month, in all of
which he was , repulsed with considerable loss, and
left behind him his ladders. He was still at Mur-
viedro on Gie 4th inst. •
In the mean time General Blake had thrown him-
self into Valencia. All the strong holds of Va-
lencia were occupied, and the greatest efforts were
niftking to bring a large force into that kingdom,
in order to annoy the enemy's communications with
his rear. Tire uttnoit confidence appears by the
accounts to be placed in General Blake,.and the pee-
pie of, Valencia appear .deterinined to toksperate in
resistance to she enemy.
There has be"en no movement in the North since
I last addressed your Lordship.

Frened2, oa. 30, ail.

The iletachtnent of the army of the North, which,
vas at Lottesma, moved from thence towards Sala-
It soca, on the 48th inst.
'Excepting that movemvnt, the troops of the ar-
mies of tpe North And of Portogal have made none
since Liddreslied you last.

The last report- I received from General Hal
wig dated at Malpaitida de Caceres on the 26th.--
General Girard retired from Caceres on dm; morn-

!ig 7

By the last accottnti ,Which I hove received (ram
Catlin.., of the 18th, It .appears that General 1341fas-
teros,1:ad retired' under the gum of Gibraltar ; and
that thd French were at lit..Roque, and had taken
pooes4ion of Afgesitas. '
I have received no further accounts (rent Va.
:I,cia, - •

It appears from all .the accounts which I litiVe
recvitod, that the Guerillas are increasing in-inurn-
ttr. IR2dness thioughout the Peninsula. One
party clutter Ter piano, lately retook 'at the very
gates of a'alavera, Lientenant-Colonel Grant, of the
Portuguese AerOite, who had been iakem in the be.
ginning of September in Upper-Eirrarnadura,, while
innploy..; ent iIL observation of the enemy's tuove.
pea, 4. the Ernviciliado and Mina were very
successful against some of the enemyslipusis and de-
tAeln-nw IN, when their armies were lately colletted
inr relict ot Ciudad Rodrigo; and .Longi.was
I.k..,vise very suceest,ul ia the tkighbourhood of
ri3, in the middle and towards the latter end of
bept eiaJ her.