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tie% and iseeitptnied thew to the prison with shouts' of the troops commanded by that General was AA-
a thousand times repeated of 44 Lon; Hy i gssEpijairr .."4,eiento disperse the assemblingst a part of Longes"
OCTOBER 26:—The individuals attested on the cavalry alone was prprised at Placentia, where it
23d,'and those suspected of 'being their accomplices,' lost half its men and horses.
have to.d.ty been transferred to' the Abbaye. A mi- On the 3dinstant. three battalions marched upon
litary commission has been appointed to decide upon Drina to surprise one of our posts. General Rouget
their fate. '':‘ It has met to.day, and heard the c4arses marched thither and met the enemy, who did not
and interrogator*, read. make a long resistance. They had in this action,
PAIO,„tS OCTOBER 20.
more than 200 men killed, and a still greater num.'
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MINISTRY OF NY4k.—ARMY OF THA Noir be r wounded. immediately after the route of this
OF SPAtN. ..• - . band, a great numher of inhabitants returned to their
Since the events of Salamanca, there have passed house;.
in Biscay, and in the rear of the Army. of the North, In all these different pursuits, our troops had more
different military action, the Principal details of fatigues to suffer in.overtaktng the enemy than fight-
which we are going to give. tag them. General Rouget has not ceased praising
h lligenci the - - and resolution of the ' it of Marche.

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the 14t17 of October the fort continued to vigorously
defend itself.
The French army at this epoch having received'
the reinforcements it expected, was preparing to re. !
flume the offensive, and relieve the fort of Burgos ;
but previous to the arrival of these reinforcements, it
did not cease to an.uactbe enemy, and cause them
daily losses, more or Tess considerable. On the 29th
of Septeinber General Clausel had pushed forward
several reconnoissances the results of which merit
being known. One of these reconnassances was
di-
rected by General' Fcy, who, at the head of the first
division, marched upon Poza, where he found and
destroyed a Spanish battalion. The 6th light infan-
try, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Frossard,
surprised-that battalion at break of day in the Did-
die of the town : all who attempted to resist were
killed ; the remainder, in number 200, were made
prisoners.
General Maucune, who Was with the advanced
guard of the army at Briviesca, marched with
light cavalry upon Monasterio ; at Padrona he rnek
several squadron; of English lightlorse : he briskly,
charged and drove them to Monasterio. The Chief
of Squadron Hulman, of the Ist hussar regiment,
distinguished himself in this affair.
Two other reconnoissances were directed upon Es-
carrai and. Villafranca, by the 3d division and divi-
sion of dragoons ; but the Spanish troops who occu-
pied these points did not wait our troops, but retired
on their approach.
On the 2d of October there was an engagement
between 2000 Spaniards, of the advancetuard of the
English army, and General Gautier's brigade, in the
neighbourhood of Pedronos, the details of which are
given in the Moeiteur of the 9th. At that epoch the
Marquis of Wellington had his head-quarters atVilla
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ten millions.

COMPNBURCII MAIL.
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....OTTENBURGH, OCTOBER 20.
Between three and four hundred sail of the hook_
ward-bound convoy passed yesterday
.without
ping ; 16 other vessels belonging to the same coon/
are wrecked in the Belt, together with his Kijestri
euri.tgig caltilet ; it is believed there are no lige*
riot;—the crew of the Centinel are arrived ill the
Roads on board the Sheldrake. •
RUSSIAN BULLETINS.
Five one Si. PETERSBURCH GAZETTE en Oct t
We have berewith to lay before our readers a true
cop? of a leuer front the bailiff of a village. and of an estate, to his Lord, dated e -

Courage - ---- regiment.— .
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SPAIN (Oda), from Ate Government of Smolensko;
ARMY OF PORTUGAL AND 'THE NORTH OF SPAIN.
46 I have to inform you, that Smolensk°,
bysch, Wasma, and Gchatsk, are takenbrre"
Since the late military events which took place in
Abe North of Spain between the Army of Portugal, , French, •There is Ito longer any post going bete. B.
and the English army, no action of importance has
occurred. _ 'the inroad of the' French the other estates lying
round us are totally ruined; the Fredch catty off aA
The French army, after a mare ,*h skilfully combi- i tlke baked bread, and likewise as mach flour and oats
ned, which deceived all the
.ekerny's calculations, I as they cap find among the peasantry i they likewie
take away all the cattle, horses, cows and sheep that
acid in which a single Waggon was pot lostl has been
brought back in the greatestordet to Valladolid, and they can find, without leaving the least behind them,
from thence under the walls of Burgos. General and drive then; to their own army. In six neigh.
Clausel; who provisiOnally commandedthe army du- bouring villages all • the peasants and the stevntsas
ring this march, knew how to provide for every
want, collect and preserve all the resources of the
. The "ea
have left their hoUses, and fled to distant est:testi.
they have suffe.red • exceedingly from the *Ftens
enemy, and dispute the ground foot by foot with the li.
eh have totally burnt several villa, aaa
enemy, and so impose upon Own as to remain mas-
.ter of his movements. • • ..- bayonetted the peasants, and plundered all
" Lord Wellington fora moment appeared to aban-
thaie
. . ' corn, cattle, and other property.• I alone have nem
don all idea of offeqsive operations before the army left the estate, or gone elsewhere, nor discharged my
of the peasants ; but, on the contrary, I have amts.
of Portugal, but he soon renewed his efforts upon the bled them, and armed them all with pikes, and i
side of Burgos.
On the 7th of Se rem t* ERglilil aFm7 .
Enna- A
su-h mariner kept the. French off from us.
I "At the distance of four wersis from us, the Fee 4
eel upon that place ; tile Atpay of Portugal took a
~__, ye broke down a church ; but I, with my peasa
leaving position behind the town, the fort supplied rcpt 15 of the French down on the spot! They have
with every thing requisite for its defence with a ad!. also
Solent garrison, commanded by General•Dtibreton. : pulled down a church in another village; butt
prevailed on the boors of some other estates to it
On the 19th the enemy began their operations by
me, and we gave them battle. We, cut down anon
the attack of Mount St. Michael, a position defended
her of the French on the spot, and made a pan of
by a commencement of fortifications, or rather by
ern whom we sentnto the town.
prisoners, i
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some works not finished. Though i weak detach- ;
tb"
meta only wits I have almost every day with my own pito&s left in it, the enemy etperienced a '
vigorous resistance, and only rendered themselves try, and those of the other estates, skirmishes with tbe
masters
men in killed and wounded.
of it after long efforts, and a loss of more : French, who make attacks on the villages neva
than .
, us, it; small parties of thirty, twenty, fifteen, oder'
400
ourselves
The enemy afterwards made dispositions for at-
!men, and against whom we arm oursel
ind patrole by day, .
anda
now I on
re know hride about aow Much farther: ge.481
n will
tacking the fort of Burgos itself. During three help us.no lV ger
weeks they have given several assaults, which have
been constantly repulsed. At the attack on the 23d night we keep guard.
of September, it appears that they did net lose less 46 There are none of our inhabitants (i..e.) err.
than from 2000 to 2500; in that which took place chants, and all other classes in the town of Gthitsk,
on the 11th of October, the 42d Highland regiment ,
, there being none but the enemies in that place. iii
church of Casan, dedicated to the Mother of
was very roughly handled, and lost many men. On
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eon, French harses are put ; some houses ate
b_sunt down."
both this letter, and others which have appeared
in the Northern Post, giving confirmed intelligence
of the barborous proceedings of the 'French, clearly
prove that the villages in which these inhurnan ene-
mies meet with no resistance, and from which tllp
boors have fled without fighting, have all been ?iont
dered and burnt down, and that the young peasants
have been shoved in among the French soldiery
whereas, in those where the French meet with oppo;
sitien, and where the boors, armed m their manner
with axes, scythes, hay-forks, and pikes, engage and
attack. them, the French are conquered and beaten in
every engagement by our brave peasants, who fight
in defence of their religion and native cou ••
OkFICIAL ACCOUNTS FRAM THE ARMY.
I Lieutenant-General Count Wittgenstein .reports to
his Imperial Majesty, from the camp in the vicinity
of Sxkolischi,' under date of the ISth (23th) of Sep-
tember, as follows :
The troops of the corps under my command we
incessantly harassing the enemy. I detach cavalry
upo'if expeditions to divers places, and even into his
rear, .all which have turned out well; bid above all
others, the last expedition which I sent out to clear
the circles of Gorodezk and Polozk from the
ders, has succeeded in an eminent manner, and been
of the greatest use and consequence to us, in deitror-
ing the magazines and provisioni which the enem
had established. This was under the command of
cu the ssack Colonel Rodionow, and consisted oftwit
hundred Cossacks of his own regiment, and a deta4e
rnent of. the Lieutenant-Colonel of Artillery Nepeizyn,
of three squadrons of Dragoons from the regiments:
of Jamhurg, Rip, and Ingermanland.
" After fulfilling the same, Colonerßodionowstateo
tenant-Colonel N joined him with
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Toro; those of Castanos were at Quintanilla.• 7 ' that Lieutt lepeizyn
The army of Portugal, reinforced and perfectly ' his detachment at Belschwostow on the 7th (19th)
re-established, only waits to march forward on the • instant, after having cleared the road from Newel;
first intelligence of the diversions which the armies and that they had both resolved to act against the
of the Centre and South, joined, under the direction enemy in the villages of Kos an Shelzy, wino, and
of his Catholic Majesty, may effect. Disunion begins at all other places wherever the enemy had collected
(20;h) dittoi
to creep in among some of the Chiefs of the Spanish any stores of provisions. On the Sth
army. Porlier has abandoned Mendizabel. All do they passed.tbrough Shelzy, with intent to cut off all
not approve the operations of the English army ; the parties and patroles from the road which has *a
1 inhabitants of Castile see with pain the throwing lately made' there.
" On the road near to Shelzy they fell its with ai
upon Rodrigo and Portugal of many objects taken
at Madrid, and the carrying away of grain from all enemy's party of eighty men of the horse yarn
the provinces, to be sent towards Portugal ; a mea-i the 28d and 24th regiments,, who were pill
sure
,which announces that the English themselves!
do not reckon upon making a long stay in Spain.
The English pay for nothing in that country Swim, to receive the pro Visions collected there hy
, the Commissary at War. Thitintall party was, by
: theft command of Colonel Radioactiv, instantly attacked
1 by Qat cossacks, who cut down above 40 men, ma
give notes or receipts for whatever is furnished them. '
took 21 men, with Liens. Meuvieul, who fought des'
who mode greatly displeases the country people '
who expected better from those who call themselves Peri:tar" the Lientenatit being made prisoner by the
their liberators. valiant and fearless Esiaul Popow, in sight of the,
HAMBURGH, OCTOBER 19. whole detachment. .
" Colonel Rodionow hereupon immediately sent a
We have just received fresh details respecting the large foraging party to Swino, to take the enemyaad
catastrophe suffered by the English near the Island the provisions at that place, which was likes*" :
of Rugen.
punctually performed by the Solnik Studenikin istri.
On the 11th, at night, a convoy of 22 sail were on his arrival there took threeCommissaries•acW..at,
perceived at the point of Wittau, close to land ;* and some privates, Sind found about 2000 tneatalrel".
among which were observed a frigate and a brig car-
of flour, which he (not•having any waggons Co 1
rying lights. We had aheady put every thing in a •
WI"
it away) totally spread about, and threw into'llo
state of defence, when the firing of cannon, as a sag-
water so that not the least part of it was left for do• ft. ,
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nal of distress, made us understand the greatness of enemy. In expectation of this, Colonel Rodiowt4A,
the danger this•convoy ran, being entirely on shore. had remained at Shelzy, froth whence be aoirelle. ,
On day appearing, the frigate and five transports had
midnight, departed for • Kosjany, as he knew tbitii.,-,
succeeded an getting afloat • the brig and eight mer- there was a considerable number of light.cavalrkwt:‘..
chant vessels were on fire—the enemy kindling the
that place. The difficulties of the road were vol.
flames. The eight other ships, too near land, were
great, occasioned by its crossing streamlets, /normal -
protected by the artillery from the coast from sharing
and woods, in many parts of which the road was cat
the same fate. We' are occupied in landing their up ; but all these difficulties could not detainqhf
cargoes, and do not despair of also saving the hulls. Russian warriors. Near the village of Gorowaln4
These prizes were laden with Russian products.—
. a fire of musketry, from as The prisoners estimate the enemy's loss at more than the*Vie ' '.--
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, received with
enemi's detachment of 300,1Ai.e.a, ill .