The Sun.
London, England, 1811-04-24 00:00:00

provinces which hlve solitnitteJ, of their tr °ivy, i 5
the system of,,Frattee•
According to the btest intelligence, there are not
wore than 3000 of the enerny'.."troops Burgos.
Letters arrived by the mail of to.day, ta, that
upwards of 4000 prisoners taken at Toriosa, which
had already entered France, ,anode their escape,.
after having killed 1114 Whole of the soldiers who
escorted them. Accoiding to reports, this was oc-
casioned by a French soldier having rte through the
body with a bayonet, an unfoi Innate SpaniAt
sutler who could not welt.

• 41 letter dated from Marnie:icro the la inst. states,
that the enemy continu:d to be por6tlttj with the
utmost vigour, and that the number 01 pr,soners
was daily augmenting.. without the loss of a single
man on war part. MASSENA was in Akfeites, toge-
ther with the 6th corps of the Army, :commanded
LOisoN. Nev' was still under arrest, and would,
it was said, set out fur Salatnanka. Our Army was
to have.attacked the enemy on the a,l ; but from
letters which are continually arriving fiom the ad-
vanced posts, the French retired the preceding
night. .
•
When. the enemy retired frOm the • neighbour-
hood of Coimbra, being' near the. town of Avo,
Captain Mott FaANCES MADHIRA DA COSTA, wish
En bign A.J. P. FtceuCtizeDA, were organizing a com-
pany of 14'uiileers, by order of General BALELLAR,
were there, and being informed that the enemy
burned and destroy. d whatever fell -in their way,
killing some persons, they resolved, with their troops,
to defend the said town and the passage of the river
'Ave; and in etre& the enemy arrived there on the.
17th of laic month, and attacking that town, the
said Officers, with some 60 men, opened'so brisk a
fire, that they obliged him precipitateiy to retire; but
fearing they should be ,attacked again, they shut
themselves up in the castle of the town, where ano-
ther attempt was made upon them by a squadron► of
horse and some infantry, but so lively's fire was so
skilfully directed from the castle, that they were
shamefully compelyed.to leaving behind them
horses, arms, and other effeBs, and carrying off
many killed and wounded, which were afterwards
found. They (tied a third attack, in which they
likewise were repulsed. The sai»p happened on the
I ath OW 19th in other attacks with the enemy,
'With considerable loss On their part.

Letters from Elvvi, dated the 6th inform
us, that in ilic inorningOf that day the allied army
marched from thence, and that on the preceding
ddy the corps belonging t0t110.54111C, army began to
move from other points, 'taking the roads to Juru.
menba, where.they pass'the Guadianna. His
Excellency Marshal fiErtasFono will unite in Juni-
menha with his ExccHency General CASTANO%

The united forces which will ad under the corn-
amid of his Excellency will amount. from 35 to
40,000 men. We,know from another quarter, that:
the army of the centre of Splin, which was in Miti-;
cia, and marched upon Granada against SRBAS.
TIANti is composed of V 2,000 infantry and 3,000
horse the corps of the intrepid patriot 13413.2sTastoa
consists of at present front 15 to 20;00 corOatantso
Si) that the tOlees ready to ad in combination, and
NllO3lOll the enemy in Estremadura and 'Andalusia,
are calculated at 85,000 good troops, who match
anxious to avenge the outrages and devastations
which the enemy committed in the land they occu-
pied, and which presents to their eyes the most hor-
rible pidure of barbmity and tyranny, and, which
act as incentives to inflame their natural ardour.