Star.
London, England, 1813-07-30 00:00:00

LISBON MAIL.

IRUETA, JULY Ir.
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The day before yesterday the head-quarters of the
great Lord arrived here. We presume, that on the
morning of the 10th they will be transferred to Uri-
hoa, four leagues from lience, and the first town in
France. He will finally ronquer the terrible Pyren-
nees, and this part of Spain is in the power of a tri-
umphant army, which, a little more than a.tflonth
ahio, was cantoned on the rugged banks of 'he Coa,
i Aguida, and Douro. It is not permitted us to pene•
. trate the ',mat plans of the great genius ; bet, from
what see have seen, :ye should suppose he intends
erecting upon those mountains works, which will
(Ilse them tor ever again::: the entrance of the
French.
On the stfi of July, the French were in a strong
position fear Berreuta, from which General Hill had
. not been able to dislodge them.
Lord Wellington ordered a Portuguese division to'
advance, dismounted, placed himself at the head of
a column of Sceitchmerr, and clainbered up a rugged
Iheight to turn the emmy's position, whilst Marshal
BeresEird, at the head of another column, gained a
simlar height on the other side. The French, in
number about 8000, were dislodged by those move-
ments al 7 :lit and put themselves in full retreat. The
Lord mack two brigades of artillery, with six and
nine pounders, to proceed by this road, a thing hi.
therto considered as impossible, and which the oldest
inhabitant does not remember being practised in any
former war, and which the French only believed
when they began firing on them.
O.:EIL, JUNE 28.
Our General, the Duke del Parque, knowing that
the English Expedition, which sailed for Tarragona,
had abandoned the siege of that fortress, and arrived
at Alicant on the 22d, and besides, that Marshal
Suchet had entered Valencia on the 23d, and was
with all his force, consisting of 12,000 men, infantry
and cavalry, proceeding upon the line of the Xucar
by forced marches, he determined upon concentrating
his forces upon Fuente la Higuera, Ontenunte, and
Punto de Albaida, which was performed with so
much order and secrecy on the morning of the 25th,
that th:: enemy had not the least intelligence of our
movements, and the troops arrived at the appointed
points without being followed by the enemy, or los-
ing the most trifling article.
On the 26th, the head-quarters and the second &-
vision were in Ontentinte, when the enemy dire=
a column of .5000 of both armies, with about
infantry and 100 horse, by Porto de 011eva, -where
four companies of Cacadores of the said division were
posted, began to take the heights which commanded
the said port, tut were ncbly repulsed by the Caca.
dotes, who being timely reinforced by the valiant
Valencian regiment, maintained their ground, dis-
lodging the enemy from several points he ozcupied,
arid charging several times successfully with the
bayonet. The enemy was obliged to remain on the
heights on the other side of the port, not being ab*
to accomplish his plan of taking those on his left,
which our brave treops occup'ed, who, notwithstand.
ing their inferiority of numbers, successfully cupporto
ed a fire of ten hours.

We know through different channels that the ems
my conveyed to his hospitals 300 wounded, sand left
the places of combat covered with his dead. Our
loss does not 41.111 amount to SO men.

The French had similar success in Porto de Canal
on the 13th, where 4000 of their infantry and 600
horse were completely routed by our gallant third
division, which did not exceed 2500 man, the enemy
loth% more 'ban 600 masa is that bloody achy'.