Star.
London, England, 1808-12-17 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The whole of the proceedings of the Board of In-
quiry, relative to the Convention of Cintra, is ordered
to be printed, and distributed by Government.
The Court of Inquiry at Chelsea is expected to make
its report to his MAJESTY on Wednesday next.

Among the Regiments ordered for embarkation to
Spain, were the Ist Regiment of Dragoons ( Royals)
and the 83d Regiment of Foot. They are at pc ese.it
quartered in Dublin Garrison, and received orders to
proceed to Cork with all expedition : several other,
.regiments in Ireland received similar orders. It is
probable, however, that orders have been sent to stop
these movements, as well as those of the troops from
this country.
The 4th Regiment of Royal Irish Dragoon Guards
is under orders for foreign service.
The following Regiments are quartered as under :
The 2d Battalion of the 44th—ist Guernsey.
The 94th, or Scotch Brigade—at Dunbar.
The 2d Battalion of the 90th.—at Armagh.
The Ist Battalion of ditto—still at St. Vincent..
The 2d Battalion of the 69th—at Londonderry.
The let Eattalion of ditto—still at Madras.
The 2d Battalion of the 63d—at Weeley Barracks.
The lit Battalion of ditto--still at Barbadpes.
The 77th (Colonel Whitclocke)—at Winchester.
The Carmarthen Militia—at Bristol.

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PRIVATE LETTER.

" Corunna, December CO.

66 Intelligence was received at Madrid on the 27th
of November, that the united army of Arragon and
Andalusia, under the command of General Castanos,
had been attacked at Tudela, on the morning of the
24th instant, and after an action which lasted nine.
hours and a half, had been totally defeated and dis:
persed. This misfortune is attributed in part to the
badness of the position chosen by the Spanish Gene.
ral, and in part to a division, consisting entirely of new
levies, which gave way, when attacked by the French
regulars, and opened to them a passage through the
4.inish army. General Castanos is said to have
escaped to Calaluyud with 3000 infantry and a body
of horse. Two divisions were completely dispersed,
but many of the fugitives had escaped to Saragossa,
where Palafox, who was not present in the action,
commands, and where every preparation has been
made for an obstinate resistance, if that city should be
again attacked. The whole force in Saragossa, in-
cluding the armed inhabitants and a corps of the
army which was not engaged in the battle, was cal-
culated at fifteen thousand men. There were some
divisions of the army which had retired from the ac-
tion with inconsiderable loss, but it is not supposed
that they have formed a junction, and one of them,
that commanded by General Pena, must have fallen,
it is feared, into the hands of the enemy, who were
advancing against it in great force from Soria.
a A considerable Spanish force (the remains of the
Estremadura army with reinforcements-from Madrid)
was collected at the Somo Sierra and near Madrid,
which some estimate twenty thousand men, and great
preparations were making for the defence of that ca-
pital, under the direction of Mona, the inhabitants
being determined, in imitation of the people of Sara-
gossa, to bury themselves under the ruins of their city,
rather than give it up to an enemy whose savage
cruelty they have already experienced. In Leon, the
Marquis of Romana has collected the scattered re-
mains of Blake's army, and has, according to some,
seven thousand, according to others, aboutsixteen thou-
sand men under his command, but without shoes or
clothes, and destitute of every thing. The army under
Sir D. Baird was near Astorga on the 30th, the whole,
of the Cavalry not having yet come up, and the in-
fantry having already begun their retreat. The army
of Sir John Moore was at Salamanca on the 29th.—
The division under General Hope, which had been !
sent round by Madrid, would be at Arevallos on the
morning of the 29th, on its march to join Sir John I
Moore; and as it was strong in cavalry and artillery, '
it would tend, when joined, to make his position at
that place much stronger than it was before, and fa-
cilitate his advance, or what we fear is determined
upon, secnre his retreat into Portugal.
P. S. Before the battle of Tudela, the united
armies of Arragon and Andalusia were estimated at
fifty thousand men. The junction of the two had been
effected only the nigh before the battle.

NAUIICAIi INDELLICEATE.

PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER IS.
Came in the. Waterhouse, TAYLOR, from Gotten
burgh for Bristol ; and the Onion, GIRDON, from
L'Orient, in three days : The capture of the Thetis
frigate by the AMETHYST, had been heard of in
France before the Union sailed; but the capture was
very differently reported from the true state of the
case :—the French are given to understand that th 6
frigate she engaged was captured by her, but that
line of battle ship, and two other frigates, bearing
down upon her and her prize, after a most sanguinary
conflict,,they were obliged to surrender to this supe-
rior force !—Sailed the STAR, of Plymouth, Captain
M'WILLIAM, with a cargo of naval stores, for the
Brazils.