Star.
London, England, 1810-08-11 00:00:00

THE PEN:

Accounts were yesterday afternoon received from
Cadiz, from which it appears that a part of the
French force employed in the siege of that city, has
been withdrawn, for the supposed purpose of acing
against the Patriots along the coast of Grenada.
This morning arrived a Mail from Lisbon, brought
to Plymouth by the Princess Augusta (one letter
says by the Princess Ch.arlotte.) By this conveyance
we have received letters and printed journals to the
29th ult.

At the date of the latest accounts from the Army,
no event of a decisive nature had taken place, but
every thing seemed to indicate that a dreadful con-
flict was at no great distance, unless it be prevented
by skilful and labor:ous manoeuvres.
By these accounts it appears that the French have
actually invested Almeida, but only on the Spanish
side. .It appears also that General CRAWFORD'S divi-
siol has had some smart skirmishing with the enemy,
wh;ch has been attended with some loss—about 270
mea killed or wounded, 5 officers killed and 10
wouti.lcd c their names we have not heard.

The Valencia Gazette of the 19th inst. contains
the following passage The last movements of
th.! ca,vision, which marched from this capital, afford
reasins to expect that a dreadful conflict will soon
take place, in order to disconcert the designs which
the enemy may have conceived against Tortosa."
Accounts received by another vessel, which left
the mouth of the Douro on the 31st ult. state, that
Lord WELLINGTON broke up from his head-quarters
near Almeida, on the 25th ultimo, for the purpose of
taking up a strong position near Lisbon, where he in-
tends to wait for reinforcements expected from Eng-
land. This intelligence we consider as extremely
probable—indeed we have no doubt that his Lord-
ship has actually retreated.
For other particulars we must refer our Readers to
the following extracts from letters and printed jour-
nals:

PRIVATE LETTER.
" LISBON, JULY 2(3.
tic We have no news from the army later than to

the 234 of this month, when none of the positions had
• been altered ; but we heard this morning a report,
though no precise foundation was pointed out, that a
retreat was in contemplation from Alverche, 'the pre-
sent head-quarters. I do not believe the rumour
myself, but there are many that do, and begin to
think the country altogether lost. The French seem
to be manceuvering to get round the English, but
they cannot cross the Sierra of mountains that leads
towards this city without sustaining a defeat, should
Lord WeuaNiamr, as indubitably he will, think St
to oppose them in this attempt.
" As usual, the skirmishing is invariably successful,
but it le.t.ls to nothing of conseqirt nce. We have taken
in this way more than 1500 men. Our light horse
•be'rave admir ably, as well as every part of the army
'th3:has been engage 1. We are afraid something
dre Will is to be expected at no great distance. The
store is only gathering, it may break in a short time,
but the longer it remains in repose, the more terrible
will he the explosion.
6, Many people think that the French will be in pos-
' session of Lisbon before a month has expired, but such
persons are notoriously of a desponding temper, though
g,eierally well informed. We are perfectly well satis4
4.. d with the Portugueze troops, and or. English con-
riee we place implicit relianco. It is mentioned that
General HlLL,with the Ma:Anis ROMANA, has been or=
tiered forthwith to join the main body of the allied
army, as the French are in too great force near Ba-
&jos. Other news we have none to communicate.
Provisions are every where plentiful, and the harvest
is promising.
" I am informed that a Gentleman has just arrived
from our army, who states that advices had been ob-
tained that MasseNa's army is very sickly, and that
a force of near ten thousand men is lying useless in
the hospitals of Salamanca and other places. We do
not attach much credit to this story, so early in the
season. Two thou-sand French have come over from

the enemy."