Star.
London, England, 1809-05-24 00:00:00

S'EM'ENCE.

The Court, having heard and deliberated upon z;e
evidence which had been adduced in support of the
chafges exhibited against Rear-Admiral Eliab Her.
vey, and having heard what he had 'alledged in his
defence, are of opinion that the charges of vehement
and insulting language to the Right Honourable
Lord Gambier, and of having otherwise shew nreat
disrespect to him as Commander in Chief, on board
his Majesty's ship Caledonia ; and of having spoken
of his Lordship to several Officers in a disrespectful
manner, have been proved, and the Court doth th,re-
fore adjudge the said Rear-Admiral Eliab klarucy
To le dismissed his slinjessis %Service ; and he is dismi.a-I
actordirey,-,:fhe Court was then dissolved.

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This morning we received Lisbon Papers to the
13th instant. They do not bring the Military events in
the neighbourhood of Oporto later down than the 2d.
Marshal SOULT had forced General da Sitvw to abaft
don the Bridge of Amarante. This affair is of little
importance. Marshal SOULT seems however to have
been evacuating Oporto.
OPORTO.

We announced yesterday the Capture of Oporto
by Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY• The follotting letter
contains some farther particulars :
" FALMOUTH, MAY 21.

4, His Majesty's schooner NONPAREIL, with dis.
patches from Cadiz and Oporto, ten days from the-
former and only ninety hours from the latter, brings
the pleasing intelligence of Oporto being evacuated
by the French troops, under Souvr, and which have
retreated towards Spain. Previous thereto, a partial
action had taken place between the troops under Sir
ARTHUR WELLESLEY and those of .Som.T ; in which
some prisoners were made, and a few killed on the
part of the French. The Portuguese flag was flying
on the forts of Oporto when !...2 left. The NONPA-
REIL fell in with his Majesty's ship Smattus, off
Oporto, and received from her dispatches relative to
this event. Lieutenant DICKENSON is of opinion that,
'ere this, the whole of Souvr's army are made pri-
soners. The NONPAREIL also fell in with a Spanish
brig, with dispatches for the Junta at Seville, giving
the pleasing intelligence of 4Ferrol and Corunna being
in the hands of the Spaniards ; the Marquis of Ro-
N.ts:a having entered the latter place, and made all
the French prisoners. The brig had on board forty
French Officers from Corunna."
From another quarter we learn, that Sir ARTHUR :
WELLESLEY, by one of those rapid movements which
are peculiar to the French, came upon the enemy at
Oporto, before they were aware of him. Terms of .
capitulation were immediately proposed, and imme-
diately rejected, An engagement, pell-mell, was the
consequence; we have lost an inconsiderable number of
men. The whole dour force Was not engaged—Sir
ARTHUR having left a considerable proportion of his
force behind him, from his eagerness to surprize the
miry, before they had calculated upon his approach.
Victory and possession of Oporto was the reward of
his intrepidity.—SouLT, with almost all his force, had
previously made off, intending, as was supposed, to
proceed to Gallicia to join NEv.

Another Bulletin of the French Arty iris incloSed
in the packet alluded to, announcing that a Hi the
Bth instant the Austrian Aritly in Idly; on the
" Piave, was defeated with great loss—and alsci that
41 the advanced-guard of the French Arm? in Gel,-
gg many entered Vienna on the 11th instant!"
The following is the method that has been adop-
ted to communicate this intelligence to the pub-
lic, through a Morning Paper of this day-intelli-
gence which ought not to have been withheld for a
single hour :

" Another French Bulletin is said to have been re-
ceived, announcing a partial defeat of the Austrians in
Italy on the Piave on the Bth instant. It is added,
that the Advanced Guard of the French army had
entered Vienna ; but this event can k of very little int-
14ortatue in respect to the result of the campaign, so long
as the Austrian army remains unbroken, and is in
such formidable force in the rear of the enemy 11"