Star.
London, England, 1810-05-11 00:00:00

OFFICIAL.

" The voice of reason has been heard by the loyal
Alpujarrenos and Costenos. The country called upon
them for help : they flew to her assistance, and are
now In the field, embodied under the orders of the
gallant and loyal Spaniard, D. Ossorio Calbache.
" The Inhabitants of Almeria who, yielding to the
treacherous suggestions of the satellites of the tyrant,
languished itf a disgraceful apathy, no sooner sari
their countrymen shake off the yoke, and awake from
the lethargy in which they Mere plunged, than they
proclaimed their beloved FERDINAND VII. hastened
to the temple of the LORD, channted the 7e Deum for
thanksgiving, and, ashamed of their indolence, caused
all the papers, orders, and decrees, of the Usurper,
to be burned by the common crier in their public
squares. The leaders of the French party were ap-
prehended, and will shortly receive the recompence
due to their egotism and treachery.

4. While the brave Alpujarrenos were thus entitling .
themselves to the public esteem, General O'Donnel, I
who has the Supreme Command in Catalonia, de-
taching, by an equ..lly boll and masterly manesavre,l
a division against Vill.ifranca, under General D. Joan
Caro, one of the brothers of the gallant Marquis tie
la Romana, succeeded in cutting off and taking 900
men of the enemy's, who had been left in that quarter
to keep up the communication between Barcelona
ani the enemy's division in the environs of Tarrago-
na, Valls and Reus ; and it is hoped, thatl at this mo-
ment, one thousand more have been intercepted who
were in Ingualada, and two thousand who were sta-
tioned at Manresa.

" The French in Arragon evacuated Teruel on the
morning of the Ist instant ; and the immortal Arra-
gonese confidently expect again to restore their coun-
try to independence. But do not we find, in this very
district, the most convincing proofs of the rodoman-
tades of our enemies ?
•6 After an infamous Proclamation of the French
Commandant in Ronda, and which was answered by
the Spanish Commandant of Orvera,the enemy,on the
11th, detached 1000 foot and 200 horse against our
loyal Mountaineers ; and, although they succeeded in
possessing themselves of the towns of Montejaque and
Benaocaz, where they burned a few houses, plundered
the churches, and killed a poor old man (the only ex-
ploits which those Barbarians can perform, while
they are giving out, that that they wish for nothing
but to make us happy), those gallant defenders of the
country, to the number of 200, having occupied the
avenues to both towns, put them to the most shame-
ful flight, after six hours fighting, and a most brisk
and well directed fire, and killed about 30 of them,
exclusive of upwards of 100 wounded, most of whom,
we learn from good authority, have since died, six
officers and the Commandant, Count Laussaia,
eluded.

" Those in Medina Sidonia and Chiclana, seeing
themselves without means of subsistence, also at-
tempted, but in vain, to return to Tarifa, for the
purpose of relieving their wants. That city has
shut up her gates to the enemy ; and, supported by a
Istrong detachment of British troops and several ships
of war of that nation, she keeps her provisions for the
supply of the defenders of the Isle of Leon and Cadiz.
A small number of armed Patriots who guard the de-
files and passes of those mountains, with a gallantry
peculiar to those who defend their Country, King
and Religion, drove back two hundred foot anal a
still greater body of horse, who, in the confidence
of their pride, were coming to levy fresh contributions
upon a city which they had offered to protect.
" Lastly, on the 18th, marched out of Ronda
for Moron 500 of the enemy's troops, foot and
horse, who, on their passage through Montellano, Za-
ra, Algodonalles, and Puerto Espartero, were so com-
pletely.defeated by the gallant patriots under the corn-
mand of D. Andres Ortis de Zarate, that scarcely 50
men could reach the place of their destination, after
sending their many wounded to Ronda under an in-
considerable escort, and leaving on the field 150
muskets and other articles, together with a number of
horses, which have been picked up by our Patriots.
44 Spaalsb Lbws before Gibraltar, April 19, 1810."

We stated yesterday the substance of the dispatches
received from Cadiz. The following particulars have
since transpired respecting the operations of the French
against Cadiz :
On the morning of the fist they opened a most heavy and de-
structive fire upon the Matagorda Fort. from masked batteries,
mounting 51 114-ponnden and nine mortars. The fire was re-
turned with the inmost vigour and effect.

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