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London, England, 1811-02-11 00:00:00

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..PORTIIGTIESIt PAPERS.e. '
The dispatches received last week from Lord Wu,
LING•roN, dated the 19th ultimo, were published in
the Gazette of Saturday.
The dispatches mentioned in our last to have been
received from his Lordship, are dated foul- days later.
They do not mention any movement of importance,
and upon the whole, their contents are, we under.
*stand, not discouraging. With all the reinforce.
ments received by the enemy, the relative force of the
opposing armies, is fully as favourable for the allies
as before the battle of Busaco ; and it is hoped, that
by the time Lard WELLINGTON shall have received
the reinforcements new going out, his army will be

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equal in number to that of the enemy.
We have a variety of printed. journals and private
letters from the the Army to the 2d instant inclusive.
Their general contents are vague, and of little Im-
portance. Four soldiers, detected in plundering the
inhabitants, were hung in sight of the Army, and one
who had attempted to desert to the enemy, was shot
in front of his regiment.
Several desertions have lately taken place from
the Chasseurs Britanniques, who form part of the
British army at Cadiz ; the regiment has consequently
been removed to Lisbon.
The following ships of war were lying in the Tagus
when the last accounts came away : viz. DMA..
NOUGMT, BARFLEUR, MARS, ABERCRO2dB/E, NPR;
TUEUX, ZEALOUS, POICTIERS, and AGINCOURT, of the
line ; ST. FIORENZO frigate, NORTR STAR sloop, and
GROWLER gun•brig.
The Lisbon Gazette of 24th January, after copy
ing from the Spanish papers the detailed account of
the action of Uldicoua, has the following reflection :
64 The unfortunate result of the action at Uldicona,
on the 2Gth November, and that at Baza on the 3d
of the same month fought by the army of Murcia,
cannot but suggest the following reflection :
Ng The Spanish 'Juntas having been elected on the
sudden, and obliged to act at the same moment,
formed armies likewise on the sudden, and con,equent-
ly were obliged to creail a great number of absolutely
new Officers. Many of these were certainly good sol-
diers, but many others from ignorance, cowardice, or
other causes, totally unfit to command the men over
whom they were placed, and give them the firmness
and discißlinc so indispensibly requisite. It appears,
therefore, absolutely necessary that the Spanish Gene-
rals should dismiss from the service all officers who
are not qualified for their duty, for the spirit of the
people and soldiers in Spain is excellent.
LISBON, JANUARY 30.
Besides the notice mentioned in the extract from
Wellington's dispatch respecting General Junot, there
are others given, from which we can prove he was
wounded —A French soldier, taken prisoner on the
right bank of the Zezere, has made a deposition, in
which he declares, that on the 24th the Duke, who had
been wounded by a ball in the head, was interred at
Thomar, and at whose funeral allthe Officers assisted.
It appears by this to be Junot who had the title of
Duke.

We have also received letters from Corunna to a
late date. The following is an Extract :
" CORUNNA, JANUARY 25.
44 I avail myself of a schooner's going to England,
to send you all the news I can muster. We are much
disappointed here in not receiving a large reinforce-
ment, which we were some time ago given to under-
stand was coming to our assistance. The enemy are
receiving large reinforcements, and are accumulating
all round us in great numbers. In short, unless we
receive speedy aid, I fear this place will once more fall
into their hands. I have seen a letter of a recent date
from Bayonne, which states that nearly the whole of
the veteran infantry corps in the French service, are
marching for the Peninsula by different routes, and
that their places in the garrisons, 84c. from whence
they are taken, are supplied by conscripts. Our allies
seem almost tired of defending their own cause. The
enemy, on the contrary, are acting with greater vigour
and success than at any time since they invaded the
peninsula."

The Manifesto of the Cortex, given in another co-
lumn, is an interesting article, and deserving of an
attentive perusal.
Letters from Cadiz state, that on the night of the
nd December, the boats of Sir RICHARD Kam'

squadron attacked a three.gun battery, which they
spiked, killed three men, and took three prisoners;
with a loss, on our part, of two men wounded. On
the 26th, the gun and rocket-boats of the squadron
made a fierce attack upon the town and place where
the French gun-boats rendezvous. There were about
20 in the place, which, upon our apponch, they drew
up *. into the bt:shes," upon wheels. .The firing, how-
ever, was kept op for an hour and a half, which de.
of;Toyed four of the gun-boats, and must have killed
many of the French party. CONGAEVE'*rockets were
supposed to have been thrown with great effect, We
had one man hurt by the bursting of a gun.

Mr. Sirnoxo, an American Courier, 'has arrived at
Yarmouth, from St. Petersburgh, charged with dis-
patches from tbe American. Minister at that Court to
Mr, r aikszv.
A severe shock of an earthqualLe was felt at severla
plue iu Italy PA the 26th of D eccipbcr last,