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5117 HER EAS HENRY liiI.NDCOCK, formerly
of DEVIZES, who, in or about the Month cf June 18112.
as a Sharron to Alescrs. Hoots,: and Ara, Jewellers, %int
saris-street, and at that time rl•sident at Mrs. Tatar's, No.
Gatnetreet, Linteln's-inn-ftelds, is a nacessary Witness in a
!sus* at the next Bristol Assiacs—TWO GUINEAS Reheard
rill be paid to any person who will give information of the pre-
isiNres.dencp 9f rud mtwinocx, eo that he way be served with
Subpcena to live Evidence in the said Trial, by applying to
, tsars. V.laard and Hutchinson, No. s, New-square, Unwise.-
LOndon ; or to Mr. Daniel Boynton, Solicitor, Bristol.

'ROWSATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE,

WAIL DEPARTMENT.
DOwNING.SYRIELT, JULY 1, 1812.
A dispatA of which the following is a copy, has
ren this day received at Lord PATHURSTDS Office,
iddressea to the Earl of Liveapooe by Major:Gene-
et) Ross, commanding at Carthagena, dated May
1612:
Carthavis, May ee.
MY Lono—l have the honour to transmit here-
with, for your Lordships information, the copy of
ny dispatch of this date, addressed togejor.General
L'ooke, giving an account of the capture of the city
Almeira by a small Spanish force, which I lately
reformed your Lordship had been embarked at this
on, in British transports, under the orders of Cap-
tip Adam, of his Majesty's ship Invincible.
(Signed) ANDREW Ross, Major-General.
_Act of a letter from Major•Geoeral Rosa to Major-General
Coo[ a, dated Cattleman May 22.
My letter No. 17, of the 16th inst. wou'd advise
you of the progress of a combined expedition to the
westward of this, according to the information which
bad received up to that date, The result has now
justified the sanguine hopes that every one entertain.:
Ord of the success of operations, wiled on under the
klirection of an officer of the zeal and ability possess.
ed byCaptain Adam, ef hisMait sty's ship Invincible.
Nothing could be better-timed than the movements
of General Freire, who, in consequence t f the infot-
',nation I sent to GenerelO'Donnell, made an attack
pen the enemy and drove him from Baza on the
13th, the same day on which the force under the
command of Captain Adam appeared off Almeira ;
• t officer having judicieusly taken time to send on
ere, at some distance from the place, to ascertain
strength, position, and movements of the enemy,
tented that they were in the place to the number of
four or five hundred, including cavalry, and had not
ie yet made any detechments to assist in opposing
general Freire, but early on the 14th inst. it appears
that the French General had sent three couriers to
Almeira (no doubt ignorant of this expedition) to'
order the garrison to join him immediately, which it
preeeeded to do accordingly, and As it marched out
aptain Adam landed the three bundled Spanish
troops he had with him, under the command of Co-
lonel Alveor, and took possession of the place.
'The consequence of this has been that Captain
Adam has been enabled to take or destroy a priva-
teer and her two prizes ; to blow up the castle of
San Elmo, which is situated upon an almost inacces;
Me rock, and all the sea defences and batteries
hips protected the anchorage of this place and form-
ci a secure resort for the numerous pi ivateers which
ve been long an annoyance to the British and Spa-
, ash trade on this coast.
Captain Adam has also embarked all the serviee.:,
able guns, carriages, and ordnance stores he founddn
the place, totally destroying the remainder, and was
busily employed on these services, and in forwarding
the embarkation of 'a quantity of sulphur and lead
from the King's mines, at six leagues from that place,
under the direction of a Spanish Intendente, who had
'Gilled him with, one hundred cavalry from Nijar,
when he wrote to me on the 18th instant, in answer
;o the express I sent to him by a gun-boat, to ac-
quaint him of General Vreire's retreat before a mpg-
nor force of the enemy at Baza.
General O'Donnell was with me here two days,,
when he received dispatches from General Freite and
Colonel Alveor, informing him that theinbabitants
of Alnteira had received the Spanish troops with the
most enthukiastic demonstration of patriotism on
their enteting that place on the 14th instant, and as
by the destruction of the fortifications that port can
no longer be useful to the enemy, either as a safe
rendezvous for privateers and their prizes, or as a
point d'appui to the right flank of their advanced
position from u•lunce they have hitherto annoyed
pelletal O'Donnell's army, it is to be hoped that
those loyal inhabitants will be relieved from any fu
Cure visits of their tyrannical oppressors, when the
bpanish troops are
DoWleilicee rREEF, luny I.
A defpatch, of which the following is a copy, has
been this day received at Lord Batherst's Office,
.4dressed to the Earl of Liverpool by Lieutenant-
Climeral Campbell, commanding at Gibraltar, dated
jtrne lea 1812.
Gibraltar, June 8, 1814.
My Loan—l have the honour to inform your
Lortlehip, that a severe action took place on the Ist
_lost. between General Ballesteres's force and a divi.
pion. of the enemy, under the command of General
coneeoue, in the vicinity of Bornos,
• The General has net sent me e detailed:aecnent,
''brit his letter is herewith enclosed. This affair has
been attended with considerahk loss on both sides,
ishat of the Spaniards net less than one thousand in
• illy d, wounded, and missing, including ahout eighty
pfficers. General Ballesteros retired to his original
around in the vicinity of the field of battle, in which
..bperation the enemy did not ventut; to interrupt
him ; his wounded have arrived at Algeziras ; the
punt), withdrew to his entrenchments.
(Signet) Coew Casirsseu., Lieut.-Pen,
r 'Head-Quarters, Camp before Hija Rain June 2,1812.
MOO' LYCYLI.EIST SIN—I hasten to communicate
ip your t:acellency the intelligence of the severe
action athich 1 fought yesterday, with the greater
part of the treors under my comniand, in the plains
cf Bornos. This action is perhaps the most serious
that has been fought since the beginning of our reeb-
rotion; and an unexpected occurrence has alone de
rived me of the glory of a complete victory. fam
surrounded by wounded, none of whom, however,
eaceiyed their walnuts from the bayonet or sword,
although ell arms were used. The less of the French
believe tuheye been not less considerable, (or they
(lid pot venture to throw a single party across tht
tiadalete to molest my retreat. 1 remain in my
~ctFitjonsl (*et-mini:o to fetish with my ;row rather

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