Star.
London, England, 1809-07-18 00:00:00

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.

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Yesterday afternoon, a telegraphic notice from
Portsmouth announced the arrival of the KANGAROO
with dispatches from Sir AnTnun WELLESLEY ; and
in the evening Mr. Ross arrived with them at the
Secretary of State's Office : and this morning a Lis-
boa Mail arrived with Portuguese P4pirs to the 30th

Our Readers will rejoice to hear that all the die-
culties which for a time prevented the advance of our
I.F.IPZIC, JUNE 2S.
troop have been removed, and that Sir ARTII/R'S
The Austrians hare evacuated Dresden, and re-
army has formed a junction with that of General
tired in three columns into Bohemia. liis Majesty
the King of Westphalia entered
„Dresden the Ist inst. C..ESTA. The latter is in a higher degree of equip;
Colonel Tliulmau was at Welsdrich. ment and of discipline than any of the Spanish armies
MUNICH, .117::F. 27. ! have hitherto been. It amounts to 24,000 infantry
On the 22d, at five o'clock in the morning, Lien-) and 8000 cavalry, fully armed, and there ate about
tenant-General Baron Wrede proce,..dcd from his hi- i 10,000 more with pikes. The French are reduced
vouac before Lintz, with the Ist battalion ot the regi-:;
meat of Duke Charlec., the 2d battalion of the 13th, ! to the expedient of concentrating themselves behind
I, Ebro, -.they I the tith regiment of infant) yof Duke William, the t...e wnere lope to be able to make a
2d regiment of light horse of the King, and C. -' stand.
aspet s .
battery, to recnitnnitVe the position ot the•enemv. , Mad
The combined armies were advancing to
He fell in w;th it at Granwedel, where it was rid, and VlcTon had succeeded in making his
pro-and entrenchment '
: escape.
tested by abattis, tuor.rses,
-.The 13th battalion penetrattd One of the abatt is, a
tbe enemy; it was ch.aacne'd
, s*--, The subjoined Extracts from Printed Journals and
mined the left flank ofworthy of notice
Private Letters, contain every thing
from the village ot llerschlag, and driven as .• brought by this conveyance. They are of a nature
Re/mansod, four leagues front u,,tz, tar as.
"orsued by the seralleurs of the column.
wher'e he was which renders any remarks unnecessary :
Lieutenant-General Wred“ occupied Ilelmansod
R MY'S
and the enemy retreascd to Reichenan. Aftrr setting NG IN
LECTER FROM AN OFFICER ON BOARD HIS MAJ
SHIP lIERA!..", CAPTAIN HONEY, CU I 4 • '
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Are to the abattis of the enemy, the Lieutenant- ;'
the evening to Lintz, where he ' THE MFOITERRANEAN
General returned in
" Off Earcelona,May CZ
brought a Major, a Captain, a Lieutenant, and 51 ' "We are removed from our 014 cruizing ground
men prisoners. Lieutenant Stuffort was killed, autl in the Mediterranean, to eruize on the coast of
ca tans (;aspens and Horse sbghtly wounded,
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pleasant office, as we have frequently to encounter
with stone walls. The Spaniards in this quarter do
not deserve the character which hai been given them—
that of being spirited in the cause of their country ;
for had they been, they would never have suffered
three thousand Frenchmen to retain possession of
Barcelona, while they have upwards of :wo well-
' armed troops within 20 miles of the place; indepen-
dent of the inhabitants of 13arcelona and its neigh-
bourhood, who might be supposed to be hostile to
the enemy.
a The Spanish Generals or Commanders on this
coast have frequently proposed to our Commodore
(Captain TAYLOR, of the Apollo), that if he would
attack the batteries, they would immediately com-
mence an attack by land. Accordingly every ar-
rangement was made to attack them at two o'clock
in the morning'of the 17th ; at which time We got
under weigh, accconpanied by the. MINSTREL, Captain
HOLLINGWORTII,- the APOLLO, and a Spanish frigate.
a 'Within half an hour we were within range of the
shot from their batteries, and began firing on their
forts, which the enemy returned in a very active
manner.

6' Our commencement was to be the signal fur the
Spaniards to advance ; but after hammering away for
near two hours, in which time we silenced their forts,
our allies did not offer to advance ; and it then ap-
proaching fast towards daybreak, ith light airs, we
deemed it prudent to howl off, fearing we might
otherwise drift under Mount Joy, where there is a fort
that would sink us in five minutes, and so high as to
preclude us from bringing a single gun to bear upon
it ; however we got off clear, and with a loss on
board all the ships not exceeding ten in killed and
wounded. On board our ship there were only two
slightly wounded.
6, We were much mortified to find that not a single
gun had been fired by the Spaniards, although they
had proposed the attack : their reasons for so acting,
we are at a loss to ascertain.
44 We killed great numbers of the French ; and I
fear some of the poor inhabitants also suffered, as a
number of houses near the forts were perceived in the
morning to be destroyed.
'6 In the course of a day or two we are to proceed
to attack a town near Rosas Bay, at present occupied
by about 500 french troops, as an advanced guard
from Rosas.

" The province of Catalonia is the finest. country I ,
ever beheld; and the land at present in a high state of
cultivation. About two miles from Barcelona we fre-

quently go ashore, and find all kinds of vegetables and

fresh stock in abundance ; but on these occasions we
are caiged to keep a sharp look-out a-head, as die

French frequently send parties of about 100 men in!n.
The country to plunder the farmers, &c. and they
I commit most horrid depredations, killing, indiscrimi-
nately, men, women, and children, as they come to
hand ; and they frequently meet the same•fate them-
selves, for the Spaniards will not give any quarter to
a Frenchman, who meets with imrnediate death when
taken.
" While we were ihooting afew days ago, about
three-quarters of a‘ mile from the beach, we were

obliged to cut short. onr sport and retreat as quick as
possible to our boats, a party of Frenchthen being
perceived about two miles from us sadvancingin quick
time ; and we had scarcely got a shot's length from
the shore, when they appeared on the Mach. They
have taken several straggling sailors, Who strayed
from their boats when sent on shore to fetch water."

EXTRACT or A LETTER FROM AN OFFIC:ER OW TUE 43D

EEGINIENT.

Offyape MondeIn, June 26.

" The fleet of transports, having on board Gene-
ral CRAUFORIA brigade, have arrived off Cape Mon-
dego ; and it is expected that before to-morrow they
will be in the Tagus. Since leaving the Needles on
the 13th, we have had constant favourable breezes,
and the most charming weather. Report says, that
General BERIZFORD is still at Coimbra, and Sir AR-
THUR in the nvighbourhood of Alcantara. The
K4NGAIIOO 510011 of war, which carries this, will pro-
ceed to England immediately."