Star.
London, England, 1812-01-25 00:00:00

THE EVEN INC STAR.

LONDON.
SAT JANUARY 25-
CO NV I 1111011 Of ST. at ebb ieetunreer, Bank,
• East-tala and Sotuk..ios Houses.

In addition p the intelligence which we communi.
cated from Listen yesterday,Portugume Papers to the

Bth inst. have ioeen received. Gener.tl HILL, after his

successful entexprize at Merida, was about to establish

hirns,:lf at Lierena, in advance towards Seville. His
corps amounted to 15,000 men, and he expected to

be joined by the Spanish troops under MOULLLA and

LAPLNA. TKls movement will occasion an alteta-

tion kn the operations of SouLr, MAttmos-r, and Su.
CHEr ; while Lord WELLINCiTON WAS expected to acl-
vanceagetin to the Agued.t, in order to recommence
the lolockade of Ciudad Rodrigo, from v.lticla Mmt.

OfONT has shew•n a disposition of retiring.
The detaching of General HILL'S bri,2,ade proves
!that Lord WELLINGTON feels perfectly confident as
to the testi' t of any operation he may undertake
with the remainder of his army ; and w•e have no
doubt that we shall soon hoar of some important

and successful military evolutions.
. 1
General I affair is mentioned .in terms of !
high praise in letters which we have seen from dif-i:
facia military men. His divisioa movcd POiltl'orc.t.:
legreon the 2.5t11 ult. as we stated yesteßlty, and ar.
'rise,' at Albuquerque on the (.:(ith. On the 1f7.1,, :Le
advance, consisting of the lth a.m.( 10th regiments of;
IPortuguese cavalry, and the 4th and 10th infantry,'
`Portuguese, fell in with a party el the eue:ny, and.
after a sharp conflict, killed 18, wounded 20, and
took 25 prisoners ; their Liss consisted in one man
killed, and two wounded. [The accounts differ a
little in these numbers.] The division then marched
on towards Merida, where about 1500 of a French
division were posted. Works were thrown up in front
lof the tots n, and all the streets were pallisadoed, but
,as soon as our army appeared, the enemy retired in
much confusion, leaving a great quantity of stores of
lall descriptions, and about I'AX) bullocks. The ful-
Ilowing are extracts frein other private accour.'s :

" ALMCIDA, JAN. S.

'4 This fortress has long been triltr;oing rtpatrs, and from
pile of loins, by the combined (fleas of two able Officers, the
one English the other Poi ttigutse, it Is now converted Into a
plActi of defence, and the woiks have met with the approbation
of Lord WcaLizso f ON.

11. It appears by the I.reparations as if it were seriously intend.
ed to lay siege to Ciudad It och and the most 'prominent Indio
cation is the artjval uf.tlie kutertips train, which has reached
bead-eitsarti:re.
" It will not readily be bebevcd, that in July last the number
Of sick which were forced to remain in the rear of our army,
es-
creded 22,0(0. Of these 15,000 have joined their regiments,
14,000 are in progress to their detachment., and the remainder
are 'principally lA'altltrett C•l4(M—Very few have died."

The letters all agree in representing the army to be,
in high spirits, and to be confident far It considerable
time of maintaining its ground on tire frontiers and
from the re-establishment of Almeid.r, such may be
prc.toned w be the purpose of the British Commanders.
'1 he D al lington packet, the arrival of which from-
Cad:z we noticed yesterday, beings accounts down to
tie Ist inst. only, so teat we are unable front any in-1
teiligcnce brought by her, to report or confirm the
reptirt of the defeat of the French by the Sip inish

General LATENA, which we communicated in the
jrcatest pint of our impression of yesterday. The
vessel which brought the intelligence must have left
Cadiz on or about the 1001 instant. We are still in

hopes, therefore, that the reported victory has been i
obtained. The foLowil g sv::s the lett,r upon the
authcrity of which we communicated the intelligence
" Dar:mouth, January !I, )312.
" His Majesty's hired brig Lvd Cochrane, lieu-
tenant TiNn.t.t.E Corninand,:r, spoke with the Ketch
letter of marque called the General, of )0 guns and
2J men, on Saturday, off the Start, the Master of
which informed Lieutenant 'l'. he was from Cadiz
six days ;. that he had dispatches on board for Go-
vernment, and that the Spanish General LAPENA had
had an engagement with the French, and that Gene-
ral LAPENA had defeated them and taken 1800 pri-
soners."
By the Darlington we learn that General FrtazEn
and his suite arrived there on the 30th, in the Rich,
imoad, from, Ceuta, to join the army. The Rich-
. mood was to sail immediately for Lisbon, and had on
board '300,000 dollars for the army in Portugal.-
1 he Ephera sloop was last on Christmas Day, on the
Porpoise Rock.—The last accounts of General BAL..
LASTgI(O6 state, that he was at Algeziras, with three
thousand men ; the rest of his army was at St. Roque.
tie came down there in consequence of a detachment
of the peach having visited the place with a view to
plunder. Six thousand of the enemy were entrench.
ed within 200 yards of the walls of Tarifa, and 4000
more within six miles; and 5000 more are expected.
The .ciixpatches from Lord WELLINGTON, which
should have arrived yesterday, reached Town this
morning. They are !lewd Frenada, on the Ist inst.
1 but contain no intelligence of public interest. Pri-
vate letters from liead-quarters, however, state, that
I it was the intention of his Lordship to attack Ciudad
Rodrigo in a fevi days, for which every disposifon
1 , was making in the artillery and engineer departmeets.

.Yesterday his Royal Highnesi the Panics RECUT
held a Court-it Carlton House. "
Mr RUS4ELL, the .Charge des Affaires from Aim.
rica, was iutroduced.te. his Royal Highness b,Y the
*Ma:quis*I.VELLESLEY al was the SICILIAN AbllLta•
S.l DON. . .