The Sun.
London, England, 1811-03-09 00:00:00

LISBON MiLIL,

Lisnotr, Fen. li.—Nub a WOrd'al new's. 'We are 1
toId'BUoNAPAIITE has Colletied a large force...at
Bayonne, which may. enable the enemy to keep,,
their footing in Portugal, &la not get possession of
Lisbon. Some tCrl. ws; skirmishes are all We
hear of. A party of 11us.6rs have taken about
a —scote 9f Frew:lam:a and their officer ; they
have been sent, herr, and state, that occasionally'
the French e 4 horse liesh. 'A Mr. GAANt 'lately
placed himself with 80 Ordinauzas on the heights
'tient* Futi.)ao, through which tio F,reh.ch troops were
to pass, and irt pertet4..t safety killed 220 of them.
Olditranzas are neither troops of the line nor Militia,
but the inhabitants, assembled' With pikes, pokeFs,,—
guns, Btc. There are gaatekeepers among them.
Fan. i. 5.-011 the 12th instant artived.the packet
Al VI all it), from Rio bringing letters doWer
to the 2cl December. ,By„ them we have the great
satisfaaion of knoWiliii, that ltts Serene: liighnesi'
continues to enjoy epod health, as' ell us all 0,4
august Lundy.

The marching, of the national guards of 'Fiance,
on account of :41 otleusive. war, theeeonseriptiun of
40,000 men fnr the sea ice, met leoitroe fur the
land, itnikates some project of BUONAPARTE against
the North or the East ut Europe. The war on the-
Pettinsula Will, thereibre, again. he slaeltenecl on the
part ut the Ftench, as during the time -of tho war
Austria. • God grant that :in this epoth,
may draw better results from it, and know how; ttcl
improve 'itch happy opportunities, titan we did after
the ever memorable battle of Talavera! In as
relate, to the 'recut ting el 40,000 malinel,.and
those which BUONAPARTE is piocuriog from the
North, we hope they will meet with the Same rale
attended the combined squadrons el France. and
• Seam at the bottle of Trafalgar.
A.:(tt.r a long interval, the periodical Papers from
Astatn Galtieet hav'e reached us. In these
ht ipripalities the war continues to wear a favourable
aspect for the Spanish cause, . notwithstanding the
ounterous ditlicelties with which the Aetutians Wye
to struggle for Wint of provisions, tnoney,
'Some petty attacks take plactealmost every day, but
on the '2Bth November 'these was a battle of more
colasiderable importance As the setsol. Papers are
not complete, we ate without that one in which. the
first official tepott relative to the said action is con-
rainvil,' but we have a Second tiflici.ll despatch which
is sufficient to inake'us Japanned with that battle.
Pesicript..All accounts cbitfirm the great lass

wlifell the ellen-1y b:is sustained anti this instant I
tsi iiituriued by 1-A4rson of respattabilily, that flan)

Tretuto more than goo wounded have been carried
away dining I.lle thy) that by the rbad.of Joao,
they colledUcl upwards of eighty men.
The troops are .ulready united, not fail
to again press upon the etiemy.
Second Postcritt.--71ii the. moment I was di#-'
patching this account, Ireceived information from
a Subject worthy 01' credit, stating, that theErench.
,calculate their,loss. ut 600 men, in killed, v.'rt.Anded,
and primula,

CATALONIA,
NAlta A r nithe Occorrene hot vvk en our ArMy and that
01 the Enemy, in the int nity 01 un the t6th ;11g.
By Ad', ice' w bleb the (~etinial Chief ad in-
terim of -this army received the day bcfnie yoster.
day, that the eneintes who had marched from Ileoti,
in the direction of Valls, did not exceed 6000 in-
fat,try rind 300 cavalry, lie was determined to march

Lirtmliiikpiasewitli the divisiona' he had in it,
iti orders, at tile r,:ime, to Colonel SAng.cilii.i) 49
bt ruddy to auack tali Otte, c.Tvision under Lis; com-
mand, io combination with

In tle.night.of the day beforc yesterday, the van-
guard of the. enemy's army marched forward to
Pla, where they found and attacked SAR:FIELD,
who maintained that attion; the particulars
of which f are already!known.

the General in chief
• hoped for the trio,t happy restilts,lind again repealed
his orders, -that early yesterday ,the eventy
he attacked by the forces of all our divisioos.—Qum
troops,. who were the preceding night plowed in aid
settled point, coininencedtheir attack
,at the a.sigiie.d
iiiiFill=gkord and. parties of the ltd
'Ontiiit-General opening their tire.

The,,order. of our soldiers %t as so good that. they
Compelled .the-enemy to. throw themselves into V.t]ls
and "fire (rota the windows. of the 11,)uses. Oar 4'
troops were now going to open their lire through-
exit the whole-line atill commence a general attack,
,;.when the General in Chief received infortnationfrom
Gen.SmisFigt.D, saying, drat he was positively certain
,the rnomy were bet wean 14 and 15,00() strODZ,
commanded by .Marshal MACDONALD ; that hesicits,
a reinthreetnern of a column at infantry and 600
horse wete on their march from Lerida, %souk'
shortly arrive at Momblano, and that in front of his
d kion was posted a much more n umerous one, which
occupied a large extent of ground, formed in orler
of battle, and that at the:same time he observed the
enerny,had four strong columns of troops to repel
any ,attack, whicl), according to appeataitees, wen, ,
to ',his. l'hOugh the General was iikewts3
convinced of the trith of this information by
other advices he, received at. the, Lune instant,
he was not •entirely able 'to restrain the ardour
of the troops, be at the same time Wistud,to save
tbeiti from a' disgrace, as he observed tins enemy
pretended to sly and retire in disorder to.a, strong
position they bad on the ether. side of the valley,
inviting our troops to thii point, hoping by bete
means to deceive our troops and draw them forth r
`into ataion.

At. the same time the most . strfB• orders Sven,
given throujb the .o.hole line, that too person should
advance exce,.pt the. recenitoitring parties and the ad.
vaticed -guards, thee and' all others di,ttnetly per-
ceived the butiierous* force of the ettemy,, who
aee,tig his intention frustracd, at .d that the
plan of hit. attack . must be varied, resolved
to . attack immrdiately., and gtve orders that
strong. columns should march to the right and Witt
to surround .us, at :the :.atite time th It a very
roes one pene.trated. by the centres, The Com.
manderin Chief,- therefore, who, was anxious to

preserve..this brave army for the salvation of the
country, and was therefore unwilling to expose it
.ill tout well founded hope of success, resolved to
retreat in good order, and in eschell'ons, occupying
successively advantageous positions, from which he
kept up a brisk fire on the enemy, and convinced
,him' that our troops, though inferior in nunitirr,
era much superior in- valour; and', equal,

The retreat was ell'Oled in the bestorder without
the loss of a singe trran,.and'it tilay be asserted with
truth, that in this a4lion the enemy LEd not dieplo
much ability, for ati-we were so near and so much
inferior in numbers, they' ought to stave exerted
all. their -:military talents, and. prevented any' one
of us ,frotn, returning to this pine. Ge.peral
•FAGRIII, a' Neapolitan', was wounded in. the
action sustained.. by Don Poo SARSVPLD,
in which we know.'that-a gr6itt number of pi i,on-
.ers were talien'frnin the enemy. We can likewise
Oil, in, that, in the action of yatcrilay, they lust
more than 200 men in killed, wontided, flntl pri.

Mustc.-7-The third performance of the Vocal
Concert under, the dirretlion ot.lVessrs. kiAttatsora,
BA lITLEMAW, and GREATOR EX, drew a very :tamer.
ous and elegant andiencv to the, 11.1novei ;square
Rooms last night. The.:selettion was in scelksii,:okis.
Several beautiful Gleeswernyerfortned 'with actintr•
able etfeet: -11Anutte sores '."'See from the tileat
Grove" Was highly applauded for its chaste Skil*
I.licity..--,CATA LA NI Wll9 eticOred an 'E it
she led on " The Horse and his Rider " With veat
spirit and energy. Mrs. BIANC4II and BLLLAmy
disting-uialiell themselves; 'the Misses Sit A p pc,/ .
fOtillW very ably in a duet tbr two' hail's. 'Mid
',•stliole was worthy ,if the able Professors by whom
t Concert is conduaed.

'Atha ToWsey, .night-constlb!e of Christchnr4,
wa!, conyitted in the peniliy of 401. and tt.r
wiUttliy .so6ring.a tietertw. to escape who had t7t:en
placed in his custody by sfSerjeant of th,.: Gnarl I,
Roberts, the person who 'was lately td en u oo t
charge of forgery nud confined in Newgate, has bcen
'removed to it Siursq.jaii,.prepsratory. to,riie cart.
ing on .of hia in! tor litgivivarrobbery. This ib thy
33111 C man who contiived orakc; so trysteritos
'est:Opt:from Cold-Bat li-tioidi prison.

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