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titiNoirthasurn schooner has arrived at Plymouth,
with'ilespatches from Lord WELLttoiTorz, and Mails
frosti Lisbon. The despatches were conveyed to
town by:Major Cosmic, one of Sir Rawr.Amm flues
Aides-de-Camp, who is also the bearer of a French
Imperial Eagle, taken at the brilliant affair of Al.
nll2 r». It has the folloiving inscription 44 Taken
by flikt:4egiment on the 12th of May, 1812."
In additios to the gratifying intelligence contained
in the subjoined- Cassette Extraordinary, we are happy
to learn that in all parts of Spain the common cause
is seconded with an energy an the part of the brave

inhabitants, which-must delight every honestleart
MINA, in the North, and the Baron d'Eaouss, Jthe
South, are, carrying hafoc and devastation into the
rants of the enemy's ‘cattered columns. , Of SOULT
nothing decisive is known ; but the whole line of road
between Seville and the Pyrenees is cautiously occu.
pied by cordons of French troops, preparatory, so
doubt, to a total evacuation of the Peninsula.

LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.
WAR DEPARTMENT.
DOWNING-STItEE r, JUNE 17, 1812.

Major Currie, Aide-de-Camp to Lieut.-General

Sir Rowland Hill, arrived this evening at Lord
*Bathurst's Office with a dispatch, of which the fol:
lowing is an extract, addressecito the Earl of Lives'
peol by General the Earl of Wellington, dated Fuente
Guinaldo, 28th May, 1812.
When I found that the enemy had retired from
this frontier, on the 24th of April, I directed Lieut..
General Sir ROwland Hill to carry into execution the
operations against the enemy's posts and establish=
meats at 'the passage of the Tagus at Almaraz.
Owing to the necessary preparations for this expe-
-1 dition Lieut.-General Sir Rowland Hill could not
begin his march, with part of the 2d division of in-
fantry, till the 12th inst. and he attained the objects
of his expedition on the 19th, by taking by storm
Forts Napoleon and Ragusa, and the tetes-du-pant
and other works, by which the- enemy's bridge was
guarded, by destroying those forts and works, and
the enemy's bridge and establishments, and by taking.
their magazines and 259 prisoners, and 18 pieces of ,
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cannon.
I have the honour to enclose Lieut.-General Sir
ROwland Hill's report of this brilliant exploit; and
I beg to draw your Lordship's attention to the diffi-
citifies with which-he had to contend, as well from
the nature of the country, as from the works which
the enetny hadconstructed, and to the ability and
the characteristic qualities displayed by Lieutenant.
General Sir 'Rowland Hill in persevering in the line,
and confining himself to the objects chalked out by
his instructtons; notwithstanding the various ob-
sticks opposed to his progress.
I have nothing to add to Lieutenant-General Sir
R. Hill's report of the conduct of the officers and
• tioops under his command, excepting to express
niY concurrence in all' he says in their praise. Too
much cannot be said of the brave officers and troops
who took by storm, without the assistance of can-
non, stith *OAS as the enemy's forts on both banks
of the Tagus, fully garrisoned, in good order, and
defended by 18 pieces of artillery.
Your Lordship is aware that the road of Almaraz
afford/ the only good military communication across
the, 7.'ans, and from the Tagus to the GUadiana,
below Toledo. All the permanent bridges below the
. bridge of Arzobispo hare been destroyed during the
one of other of the belligerents, and the enemy
have •febud impossible to repair them. Their
bridge' which Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland' Hill
has destroyed, *as one' of boats ; and I doubt their
having the means of replacing it. The coMinunica.
lions from the bridges of Arzobispo and Talavera to
the Guadiana, 'are very difficult, and cannot be
deemed military communications for a large army.
The result then of Lieutenant-General Hill's expe-
dition, has been to cut off the shortest and best corn-
. munication between the armies of the Suuth and of
Portugal.
Nearly about the time that the enemy's troops, re-
ported in my last dispatch to have moved into the
Condado de Niebla, marched from Seville, it is re-
ported that another considerable detachment under
1 Marshal Sonic went towards the blockade of Cadiz,
and it was expected that another attack was to be
made Upon Tariffa.
It appears however, that the enemy received early
intelligence of Sir Rowland Hill's march. The troops
under the command of General Drouet made a move-
ment to their left, and arrived upon the Guadiana at
Medellin on the 17th.inst ; and on the 18th a detach-
ment of the cavalry under the command of the same
General drove in, 'as far as Ribera, the piquets of
Lieutenant-General Sir William Erskine's division of
cavalry, which had remained in Lower Estramadura,
with a part of the 24 division of infantry, and Lieu-.
tenant-General Hamilton's division of infantry.—
Marshal Soult likewise moved from the blockade of
Cadiz towards Cordova; and the troops which had
marched from Seville into the Condado de Niebla,
returned to Seville nearly about the same time; but
Lieutenant-General Sir RoWland Hill had attained
his object on the 19th, and, had returned to Truxillii,
and-Was beyond all risk Of being attacked by a super
error fox cc on the 21st. The enemy's troops have re.
tired into Cordova. '
Since ihp accounts have been received of Lieute-
.pant,General Sir Rowland [lilt's expedition, the ene..i
any's troops have likewise beeaput in‘motion in' OW
and New Castile; the. Ist division, under' General
Foy, and a diyillop pf the Army of the Centre,
under Gettetaril'Ailtiagfitic, crossed the 'Nu: by
the bridge of Araohispo on the 21 stiald have moved

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