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London, England, 1809-08-14 00:00:00

FROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S G4tZET,TE..

DOWNING-STREET, At dtiSt ii, ISOS.

nspatches, of which ti.e following are Extracts, !lave boe* TV-
reived at the Office of Lord Viscount CAITLLitiLBII, one of
kis 11#1.iji•sty's Principal Secretaries of State, from Lieuteriisd-
General Sir Arran' WxLiana'', K. B.

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Placeueia, July IS, 1809.
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My Lord—Afterhad written to your Lordship
en .the first inst.int; Joseph Bonatlarte crossed. the
Tagus again, and joined Sebastiani with"74lle.troOps
be had brought from Madrid, and 'with the'deraclv.
ment from Marshal Victor's carpi; nrakhig the corps
of Sebastiani about twenty-eight thdnsand mert,iwith
an intention of attacking Vanegas' corps. Vanegas,
however, retired into the mountains of the Sierra!
Morena, and Coldnel Larey with his advanced-guard
attacked a French advanced corps in the night, and
destroyed ninny of them.
The French troops then returned again to the Ta-
gus, which 'river Joseph had crossed with the rein,
forcement which he had t‘iken to Sebastiani's ceps ;
and this last corps, consisting of ten thousand men
only, was on the left. bank of the:l'4rue About
nelejos, in front of Vanegas, who %vas again
ing. 'The last accounts nom ;hit quarter wee Of
the dth. • • _ _ _

The French army under Victor, joined by the dee'l
tachments brought by Joseph from Sebastiatti'sCorP4.'
and amounting in the whole to alaout thirty-five thou:.
sand men, are concentrated in the neighbourhood of
Talavera, and on •the Alberch4;. General Cueita's
army has isren in the position-which 1 inforined your
Lordship that it bad taken up since I -addressed you
on the Ist instant. - . • • " :
The advanced guard of the British army arrived
hereon the .Bth, and the troops, which-were with me
on the Tagus arrived by the 10th I.the 23d Light
Dyagoons and the 45th arrived. yesterday; the 61st.
regiment will arrive to-morrow. rives to General
Cuesta's quarters at Ahnaraz on the 10thond stayed
there till the 12th, and I have arranged with that
General a plan of operations upon the French army,
which we are to begin to carry into execution on the
18th, if the French should remain so long in their
position. The Spanish army under General Cuesta
consists of about thirty-eight thousand men (exclu-
sive Vanegas's Corps) of which seven thousand
are cavalry. About fourteen thousand men are de
tach:d to the bridge of Ar4obispo, and the remainder
are in the camp under the Puerto de Mirabete.
I have the pleasure to inform your Lordship, that
the seven battalion, of infantry from Ireland and the.
i elands, and the troop of horse artillery from Great-
Britain,- arrived at Lisbon in the beginning of the
month.—General Craufurd's brigade is on its march
to join the army, bat will not arrive here till. the 24th
or. 25th. I have the honour to he, (Signe-ft)
ARTHUR. wELLEsLEY.
Taiavera de 11. Rem., July 24, WV. .
My Lord—According to the arrangement which
I luid settled with General Cuesta, the army broke
up from Placentia on the 17th and 18th instant, 'and
reached Oropesa on the 20th, where it formed a jinx-
-6.m with the Spanish army under his command. Sir
gobert Wilson had marched from the Yenta 'de Bs-
wagon, on-the Tietar, kith the Lusitanian Legion, a
battalion of Portuguese Chasseurs, and two Spanish
battalions on the 15th ; he arrived at, Arenas On the
19th, and on the Alberche, at. Es.calona, on the 23d.
Vanegas had also been directed to break
up from Madrileyos on the 18th and
.19th, and to
march by Trenbleque and Ocana to Puentoduenas
on the Tagus, where that river is crossed -by a ford,
and thence to Arganda, where he was to arrive on
the 2241 and 23d.
On the •a2cl, the combined armies moved froin
Qropeaa, and the advanced Guards attacked the
essemy's outposts at Talavera. Their right was turned
by the Ist Hus'ara ants the 2,3 d Light Dragoons
%oder General Anson, directed by Lieutenant-Gene-
ral Payne, and by the division of Infantry under the
command of Major-General Mackenzie, and they
were driven in by the Spanish advanced-guards under
the command of General Sarjas and the Duc d'Al-
- lost eleven 'horses by the fire of
cannon from the enemy's position on the islberchi,
and the Spaniards had some men wounded. The
,columns were formed for the attack of. this position
yesterday ; but the attack was postponed till *this
morning by the desire of General Cuesta, when the
different corps destined for the attack were put in
motion, hut the enemy had retired at about one in
the morning to Santa Olalla, and thence towards
Terrijos • I conclude to form a • junction with the
corps Us:der General Sebastiani. I have not been
able to follow the enemy as I could wish, on account
of the great deficiency of means of transport in Spain.
enclose the copy of a ietter, which I thought it pro- ,
perto address upon this subject to Major-General.
O'Donoghue, the Adjutant-General of the Spanish
army, as soon as I found that this country would
furnish no means of this description. General Cuesta
less urged the Central Junta to adopt vigorous
sores to relieve our wants 't till I am Supplied, I dO
not think it proper, and indeed I- cannot; c'ontinue
my operations. I have great hopes, however, that
before long, I shall be-supplied from Andalusia and '
La Mancha with the means which I require, and. I
shall then resume the active operations which I have
been compelled to relinquish. I have the honour to
be, itc. &c. (Signed) ARTHUR waLLEsur,

Dispatches, of which the following are copies, have been reedy-
nti at the Office of Lord Viscount CIitTLLIMAGS, One of his
Majesty's Prinepal Secretaries of State, from Lieutenant-Ge-
neral the Earl of Coarn.sss, K. G.

Head Quarters, hfiddleburgh, August ?.
Mr Loan—Nothing very material has
since m last dispatch of the 3d instant. We have
been unremittingly employed in bringing up the ar-
tillery of siege, ammunition and stores to the vicinity
of Flushing, and the troops have been occupied in the
construction of the batteries, and in carrying on the
several works before the place, but which have been
necmarily interrupted by tlte very heavy rains which
.have fallen here. The enemy is active and eine:-
.rrizing, and the garrison has certainly received con-
-siderabie reinforcements from the opposite coast ; nor
has it beep in the power of the flotilla hitherto to pre-,
vent it. Under these circumstances it has been found
necessary to land Lieutt nant General Orosveutor's di.
viinn, And *it two light battalions of the Kings Ger.
man Ilpg have been also for the present brought
n shore. InunediatelY ola tho.l'4ll Qf Raamkap, I