The Sun.
London, England, 1811-09-17 00:00:00

STAFFS OF TIIR SIXTH ARMY.

ATORGA, ~AVG. troops- maintain their
positions;' they otoupy Astorga; Puento, Orbigo,
and Bancza. Th.': enemy are in two corpg, the one
at Leon, the other at Villamanon ; the latter has
made a movement with a battalion 'upon yoral
los (lint-minis. At the bridge of Castro Gormila
they maintain another small corps.
:GRANADA, JULY 3 I the 2.5t1), several pan!.
ties of French marched for the purpose .of surprising,
ours in Sierra Nevada; They teturued • With thre'e,
prisoners, but lost seventeen then. • -
On the 26th, a division of
,from 8 t 0.900 men-
set out by the road of Guadix, with some artillery.

Ile day before yesterdiy troops marched from
'Allienclen for Sespiro. del Moro, and having ad.:
vaneed as far as Dureal, fell into our ambuscade; In
"consequence of-which they precipitately; fled,leav-
ing Film 30. to 40 killed, and, some prisoners.

To-day early, many wounded entered from ale
side of Gnadii'and Iznalloz; aud the hospital of St.
Jnan de Deos not
,being able to 'receive them ali,
part were taken to the Convent of St. Diego.
Lodgings are preparing for the Staff of SOULT'S•

army. • • • , .
There is no douht• of the Serranean patriots hav7
ing entered Malaga, althoUgh they only remained' in •
it a few hours. It is also .undoubted; that Baron .
SAN POL, Governor of Cordoba commanding.a co-
lumn of 2,000 French, has been defeated by Brigadier
Don PELLECILLO, in Villaneuva de Cardenes.
' From,Cordoba they .write under date of the'2stl),
that the whole of the• French furce in that city, in-
cluding the did not exceed loco men, but they
say 10,000 more are expeEted. From Seville they
write, that on the 24th the remains of the 9th' corps
of the Frencliartny,-under the command of DiOLTET,
which entirely occupied the different points o( Es-.
tremaduras entered that city.. •
AUG. .36.—Yesterday, at half past eleven in the':
morning, SQi.R.T entered this city, accompanied by
•MotqrsticO,•Moarra,. and many other French Offi-
Cent, .with ,goo. infantry and '6OO horie. In the
evening troops of every description, with artillery,
arrived front the Set ranta de Ronda, and with them
Came many families from
,Malaga, who did net
Bider themselves fe in their houses. It is said the.
.garrisOn of, Malaga is eipeaed, and in etre& this
sOme,:officers, with their eeuipages, have en-
tered here.. ; .
This morning Setimr inspected the fortifications,
and in consequence increased the garrison' of Al-
hambra. Sixty-two thousand -teals are daily .col-
lected for Sout.T's expencei, who intends levying a
contribution in the same style as •in Cordoba, where-
in a few hours he collected 3,000,000: -Similar
exactions' have taken place in all the towns through
which the enemy passed. • ,
Pizn Ana. are assured that the,
of the French ,troops in Granada, including those
which came with Souor, and from the Serrania de.
„Ronda; de riot exceed 960 men. At night Sout,i
held .a Council of Generals, wbich lasted lid Morn-
.
ins.,
issaid that LAVAL, .With half of the army, is
ready to march for Guadix; and that Go niNar, with
..another division, is' destined to attack, Ilbeda. •
C 45012, Ave. 26.--.1110 Minister HERBAS IPS set
out for Toledo and Mancha, d
an_A .._messTfor Sego4
via ,and Avila;* on pretext of executing the. inter
'tions.,ofthe intrusive;King on those proviuce. The
'rench, in,•number, say 500(vment have 'made, an
excursion towards. Ayarnonte. ,The division of Ger
neral BALLEsTinos-was in the island of Ganela... '
Niro tia've receiveil'hy various ways, information:of,
a fresh advantage of consequence having been ch 7
tamest by Colonel lIAPoz over the enemy, between.
Santacruz deCaMpezu and Estella, and are expeet-
-..,ing the particulars.
CAntz, AVG. 19.—0 n the 12.111 inst. cns pre
.sented to the Council of Regency, his Serene
Highness the Prince Of -Onm.ioa, grandson of-:the
late Stadtholder of Holland, and nephew of