Star.
London, England, 1811-06-03 00:00:00

LRILLIANT VICTORY IN PORTUGAL..

In a part of our impression of Saturday we stated
the arrival of a telegraphic confirmation of the vic-
tory obtained by Marshal Bsassroan, on the 18th,
and we have now the satisfaction to announce tha ar;
rival of the official dispatches. They were Nought
by Colonel ARBUTHNOT. Aide•de-Carnp to Marshal
32assrORD. and brother of Mr. AIIitUTHNOT, of the
Treasury, who arrived at the War-Office yesterday
afternoon about five o'clock.
The Park and Tower guns fired about 8 o'clock,
in honour of the occasion, and the following Letter
W 25 transmitted to the LORD MAYOR :

" Downing-street, June 2.
dg MT Loan—Dispatches have been received from
Lieutenant General Lord WELLINGIVN, dated Elvas,
May 22, inclosing two reports of the operationtoof the
allied army under Marshal BERIATORD.
" In the Utter Sir W. BERWORD gives an abcoust
of the attack of the allied armies, at Albuera, on the
16th of May, by the French, under Marshal Som./. ;
in which, niter a most sanguinary contest, the enemy
were defeated, having five Generals killed, or since
dead of their wounds ; 2000 rank and file dead on the
field of battle ; and from 900 to 1000 prisoners,
"It appears, by a letter intercepted after the battle,
that the French estimated their loss upon the whole
as nearer 9000 than 8000.

" It is with the greatest concern that T am under
the necessity of adding, that the loss of the allied
armies upon this occasion has been most severe—that
of the British consisting of nearly 900 killed, 2732
wrianded, and 554 missing. 'I lie Portuguese loss
amounts to about 600 in killed, wounded, and mis-
sing ; the Spanish loss is not ascertained, but is sup.
posed to be about 160(1.
a Marshal BER ESPORD speaks in the highest terms
of the incomparable conduct of every part of the Bri-
tish army, adding, that he did not knew an individual
who did not upon this occasion do his duty.
He represents the Portuguese as having marten-
used in the face of the enemy with a steadiness and
ability not inferior to the British. He commends in
the strongest manner the bravery and gallant conduct
of the Spanish troops, and expresses his obligations to
Generals BLAILE and CAWCANOS for the assistance which
he received from_ diem throughout the whole of this
arduous contest.

a The enemy retired after the batik to the ground
which he had previously occupied. On the night of the
17th, he commenced his retreat on the road towards
Seville, and abandoned Badajoz to its fate. I have the,
honour to remain, itc. (Signed) " LIVERPOOL."
" To the Right Hen. the Lord Mayor."
Colonel ARBUTHNOT, who brought the above in
telligence, landed at Portsmouth at eight o'clock yes-
terday morning, and arrived at Lord LIVERPOOL%
Office at fire in the evening.-He was actompanied by
an Officer of the Buffs, who was wounded, and who
one of the few of that brave corps who have sur-
vived the conflict, in whiCh they bore a distinguishedl
share. Soon after the guns fired these Officers crossed,
from thp Horse Guards to Whitehall, followed by
great multitude, who cheered them with loud huzzas.
The following are among the killed attd wounded;
• KILLED.

.

Bth Foot—.Major-General Houghton.
5d Dragoon Quards--I.leutenant Fox, • ' . , .
3d Foot—Captain Bourke, lieutenant Herbert, Ensign Chad-
vitel, Ind Ensign Tbnm+s.
lth Post—C*Rie Fick sad Lientrnrit Archer.

10d Rall'—artnin.Peionettise,,S3cond Lieutenant Rives Hall.
Root—eaptsii Pictinphrpi Lieutenant Duguid„ Ensigns
Lug, inertia, and Vance. • •. : •
itoot--:Captain Gibboni, Lieutenant Castle, (bad just ea-
t:11004 *e the ad Ceylon Regiment), and Ensign Ssisfieid.
• getk Foitt-4 teretenant George Beard.
atithlken—Lieutenant-Cninnel Duckworth, Lleusenat is W.
Page, Ansaldo Lyddou, I.uft, Drew, and Ensign Rotbwell.
57thPogt-ttteajnr J. Isil.Kenzie Scutt, and Captain Fawcett.
test h Foot—Captain Benning, l ieutesant bhewbridge, and En.
sign Coulten.

Kings Selman Legion—Lleat. Whitney, id L. I. Battalion.
WOUNDZIL
Central Cole, Majtor-General the Hon. W. Stewart, Capseht
Fgettroa, shrink?, mid Captain Wallace, sevesily;
Csptain Wird, (119d•Regintent) and Captain Doves, (Sicilian
Ferment) Aida•da-Caelip to General Co*
ians—linit.-Colonel Sir Wm. len, Meet dee&
Stith Foot—Lieot.-Colonel White an hlajor Way, Amman
Caprains Hodges, Tod, and Hester, *lightly.
STAsr—Colonel Blakenry, 3d Fenn ; Major Egerton Major
Wallace, Lienienant-Cosonele Ellis, 31'Lean (21th), Wine and
larcoort (40th).
• ntli Font, tot Batt.—CaptainsW ilson, French, Bell, Mariann,
Crawley, *lightly; Captain Parsons, immertly ; I.seutenams Her-
neg, Wright, Olkanaglive, Duke M'intut.h, Vincent, Collins,
and Adjutant Steele, slightly wmaidled.
34th Foot, td i*t.-:Captain Wyatt. I.ituts. Hay and Walsh.
39th Fax, 9d Batt—Captain Arid, Lieutenant. lien.
Put-
-1 and t'oit severely wooodeei.
Gordon, sioierely ; Ensign
iiiesn, 211th Foot, td ban.;
blip Julian, taken; Lieutenant! Lit to and Wood. snightli
actinium Forms sever*, Wine dm! t Captains Todd, Nestor,
Dimension Starnsms,Browitt, Popham, Fortin :k, Kearney, Ha-
"glom, Briggs, Linteliak, Hamilton, Wyld, Demuth; Captain
XismolievertlY Captains Baring,ijawker; lieutenants Beller,
Castor, Sawbridge Hunger. Servers*, Camernn, Nixon, WriAn.
Wood; Ensigns Naleisainia,ltothwell; CaptainlAriddrwition,3eth
/Iwo 9d Natalia,. •

The following itddkiasiiiii bps been re-
ceived Irma Poetsamike---

. i' PORTSMOUTH, JUNE St.
, . Half sot 6 A. M. I
" Colonel ARAUTIINCer is this mnatent landed with
ttspstches 'from Marshal I'4:mason. Colonel A. I; '
Miliuty Seergtary to the Marshal, and brethey to Mr.
Awatirwittrr cd the Treasury.' He caste in the Powr
14""t4" c milaill: HAlwj. Lest Lisboß last .6un-
-11, the 96th WI. Tb. Peat MiliSLAiiifigjadfi.

• •
, Spiu'ead tot Tueskty the 14th ult. with aencrals
HILL and CAMPIIICLI. on board.
gl The action of Albuttra is cotErmed. It took
place on. the 16th ult. anllasted eight hour:. There
was 'a heavy raid during the whole time of the action
which was very unfavourable to thiallies. The allied
army consisted of 8000 Spaniards on the rights;-
8000 British in the centre ; and 7000 Portuguese on
the left. - The French consisted ofwbout 30,000 men.

. -
" The French attacked the centre with two divi-
sions of inf,intry, supported by a division of cavalry,
and an immense park of artillery after a great deal
of hard fighting, they were repulied. •

" They then Directed their principal Worts against
the right, consisting of the Spaniiids, sithiCtr* tvd by
two British Regiments, Bnffs and '576, and were
Ihere repulsed.
" The Spatsiards fought most nobly, they neither
gave or received quarter. The Buffs, 7th and 57th,
were almost all killed and wounded, including the
Officers.

4. A Portuguese brigade, under Colonel HARVEY,
behaved most nobly, and were particularly noticed
for their steadiness, when deploying into line to re.
iceive a column of the enemy, which was advancing
to the attack.

- -
" Our total loss consisted of 4500 men, British,
among whom are 235 officers.
" The enemy, as near as could be collected, lost
lat kat: 10,000 men.
" After the battle, they retreated to Seville, aban-
doning all their wounded, and the greatest part of
their artillery, which was immense, equal to WEL-
LINGTON'S Or BERESFoRD'S.

ig General COLE, and every officer of his Staff
.are
wounded; Captain ROVEREA, one of his Aides-du-
Camp, is since dead. Istirstial BERESFORD had two
horses killed under him ; and only one of his Staff
escaped being personally wounded or losing his horse.

" The French lost three Generals killed ; four
wounded, two of whom are since dead.

111.trshal BERESFORD'S head-quarters, on the ‘22J,
were at Almecialcjo, where he was joined on the 2l.st
by Lord WELLINGTON, with two divisions of his army,
and were proceeding to follow the remains of the
French army.

64 Badajos was expected to fail in a few days, as
Marshal ISEnesFonn had 4invested it, it having been
abandoned during ,the action. The Garrison took
advantage of the bait'. to make a sortie, in whith we
lost a number of mei.

" The day after the battle. the 40th, and another
Regiment, joined from Elvas. .
" Brigadier-General MADDEN, commanding a bri-
gade of Portugueseca valry, joined Marshal BER WORD
after a fatiguing march, oft day aftai

SECOND EDITION. •
Marshal Boturoap's dispatch concludes in the
manner:
ranger the return of our loss in this hard con-
tested day: it is very severe, and in addition to it is
the loss of the trrops under his Excellency General
BLAKE, who are killed, missing, and wounded, but
of which I have not the return. The loss of the
enemy, though 1 cannot know what it is, must be

ttill more severe. He has left on the field of bat-
tle two thousand dead, and we have taken
from 900 to 10(X) prisoners. He has had five Gene-
,inds killed and, wounded I of thn. retorter Generals of
tlivisiions WERLE and 11;:tsr; and GAZAM and two
others amongst the latter. His force was much more
considerable than we }—td been informed of, as I da

not think he displayed less than from '2O to '22,000
infantry, and he certainly bad 4000 cavalry with a
numerous and heavy artillery. His overbearing ca.
valry.cramped and confined all our operations, and
with his artillery saved4sis infantry, after its route.—
He retire) after the battle to the ground he had been
previously on, but occupying it in position; and on
this morning, or rather during ihenight, commenced'
his retreat on the road he came, toWirds Seville, and
has abandoned Badajoa to its 'fate. I have sent our
cavalry to follow the enemy, but in that awn he is too
povrerftsl for us to attempt any thing againit him in
plains he is travarsing,v.
'1 he true state of the French, after the battle. weld
be best ascertaisted by the following intercepted letter
to Sooty from General GAzAN, one of their wounded
Generals, as published its the Gazette Extr,tordinary:
Ribera, 19th May,. 1111.

than 4000; especiAly as we have dniy die &it-geniis
to dress them Some have died upon themed
amonga them M. LA PIERRE, Chef de flatailkn of
the 1a34 Regiment."

Yesterday the folk" iog Ilullet4l was shessm at St.
James's 11.41 Ace :

WI%OSOR CASTLE, JUNE 1, 1811.
" MAJESTY has had :owe fresh accession of
ihis disorder, but it does not appear to be increasing.
66 H. HALFORD, W. !Mk:MIEN,
" M. aAILLIE, R. altars."
His MAJEsIY continued much the same throughout
yesterday. His Royal Highness the Putsca RLC,SNT
went down to Windsor early yesterday morning, on
a v kit to the QUEEN and.PIUNCeaSSS, and did not return
to Carlton.hcuse till late in the evening.
The preparations for the Grand Gala Ball and
Supper at Carlton House, en the 12th instant, are not
dk‘continued. in the hope that the state of INS MA.
Jorrir:s health may not render it necessary to relit'.
finish altogether the patriotic intention of his ROYAL
Hronaesa. The Cabinet Dinners of the several Mi
nisters, in honour of the KiNia's Birth-day, have, how-
ever, been also postponed to the 13th instant, from
the same unavoidable reasons.
Mr. R. DUNDAS, now Viscount MELyttrt, left town
for Edinburgh at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon.
Of the regiments who suffered severely in Marshal
%REWORD'S action, the 2d battalion of the 7th Foot,
the Royal Fuziliers, suffered the most; not one offi-
cer in the battalion who was not either killed or
wounded : the first battalion of this fine regiment
likewise suffered most severely. Our lass would have
been much less in this action than it was, and our
success might have been followed up to the annihila-
tion of the enemy, if we had had cavalry there: We
understand that the cavalry regiments who were Or-
dered far the Prince's review, all of whom are in the
highest order, will be immediately sent to Portugal,
as well as several (Vier regiments of this description
of force : among them—the Ist Dragoon Guards, the
Scots Greys, the 4th or Irish Dragoons, the Inniskil-
ling Dragoons, the Carabiniers, the 9th Light Dra-
goons, the remainder of the 12t1i ditto, and the Bays,
commanded by that able officer Lord G. BERESFORB.
—Every measure will be taken to hasten the march
of the Militia going to Ireland ; and then the 6th,
20th, 76th, and every regiment of the line in Ireland,
with all those of the Getman Legion, will be imme-
diately sent to Portugal. HAL! th:s been done earlier,
a blow might have been struck which would before
this time have terminated the contest there.
Upwards of 400 of the Ist Foot Guards (3d bat-
talion) embarked on Thursday, at Portsmouth, un
'board the Leopard, Captain Dru.ort, which sailed on
Friday for Cadiz.
Thursday, 500 of the Ist battalion 60th regiment
embarked on board the Lord Castlere4h, Upton
Castle, and Portsea East India country ships, for the
Cape of Good Hope. The remainder of the regiment
will embark as, soon as the two other ships are ready
Ito receive them. .
Among the regiments immediately to proceed to
Portugal, from England, Jersey or Guernsey, are—
lir brigade of Foot Guards, the 2J battalion 18th or
Royal. Irish, 2d battalion 45th, Ist ditto 32d, 68th
Light Infantry, and of the 77th Regiment 400.
LEOPARD, 50 guns, having the Guards on
board for General GRAHAM'S army, has sailed for
Cadiz. This body is commanded by Colonels CAPEL
.and LAMBERT.
Last week that fine regiment, the.6Bth Light In-
fantry, commanded by Colonel JOHNSTONE, was re.
viewed by General EIu,KINE, who expressed his highest
approbation at their perfect good order, equipment,
and appearance. This day they marched for Ports-
mouth, to embark for Lord WELLINGTON'S army.

Thursday last the 75th Regiment, commanded by
Colonel Swtsrow, sailed for Jersey.
Very strong drafts for the 43d Light Infantry, and
71st Light Infantry (Highland Regiment) will in a
few days be embarked for Portugal.
Among others to be immediately embarked for
Portugal at Portsmouth, are 23 ordnance waggons,
with a force of artillery.

The West Kent Militia have, with an alacrity truly
characteristic of Men of Kent, furnished their qudta
of men to the line, and also agreed to extend their
services
-. second time) to Ireland.
The Rokal Westmoreland has Volunteered its
quota of men for the line ; and the officers and men
have unanimously tendered their services for Irel.ind,
.or to any iart of the United Kingdom his Royal
aiglmess the Commander in Chief may think proper.
Advices have been received from Cayenne to the
19th of March. A letter of the preceding day says :
lb. The Portuguese troops of the garrison have for
some time exhibited symptoms of extreme insubordi-
II They at length concerted a plan to set fire
t.t, the town, and massacre the inhabitants, including
Nse• Officers of the fort, which luckily was discovered
is time io prevent its being carried into execution.—
Twelve of-the ringleaders havit been tried and shot—
ethers have escaped, and test to the woods. All trade
has beer suspended."
A letter front the Dutch coast, dated on Wednes•
day last, states, that in pursuance cif orders, supposed

u monsieur le Marechal—l have the -honour tore-Ito 'be tr7anifisitted from Paris, a body of 5000 troops
port to your Excellency, that rani just arrived with twice mtilftrecl ad the esplanade at Amsterdam, and
the whole of the column, which is infinitely more till- !received. 4 reute to quit the Dutch territory ; but be-
. • fore.tfryltad cOMpleted their first day's march, they
merous than I could have believed. I am fri. de R. we. rye recalleif,byeapress, is consequence of an in-
v ouring to organize it, in order to avoid disasters, and.s tended insuttettipn'in the city being discovered. The
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particularly plundering, which would make us idle of I adviotagitiobta.nieci by the British arms in the Penin
nt
hunger, and which I found at the higheat pitch this( sul4filidtbertilrek Massa.Nia, were known in Holy
morning upon.my arrival 4 Almendralejo. . 144, aid had caused universal satisfaction.
:The rumour of a marriage tx4ween FERDINAND the
44 I found upon my arrival here a letter from.M. *um, and . the second daughter of- the Emperor
Le NORMAND to Major D'AUBERSAC. I annex K.
,Fiaxels, is noticed in letters received yesterday from
herewith, after having acquainted tr.y .elf. with its France. Theresta ation of FettnINAND 10 the Throne
contents. As I imagine, tint it can be only the,9th
i OlSPain, it was supposed, would precede this union.
d 491 Improbableas this pioject may appear, it is not more
'corps which is at Almaraz, I write from hence to the •
tCount d'EaLoN, in order to induce him. to hasten.hii was i consdered w ihen.t was fa ist mentoned..
march and to join you. However; as it is also possia • -
1 narrtioys marriage with MARIA LOUIE*
IS9heinia is over-etni' with companies of brigands,
ble that they may be troops belonging to the army of who I.sy the villages. trader contribution, and retire
the centre, commanded by General ryAm6gipm4 il-With their-booty to the fastneasek tit the mountains,
where they car. defy pursuit. The principal band
write to hint likewise, ill order that may
he move tOR
'Comps ises SQO Select individuals, and its c' mm ender,
wards you. ' • ' CIAAIERtIVSENt was lately an.oficer in the. Austrian
•
• .. The gnat heat will do.a grat deal of harm to service; be is a man of tried G4tll2lge sad great on