Star.
London, England, 1810-07-06 00:00:00

ANOTHER LETTER.-SAME DATE.

There has nothing material taken place between
the British and French armies since you last heard
from us, Some trifling skirraishing of the cavalry
need not be mentioned, as the enemy have only lost a
few men. A Gentleman, who left head-quarters on
the 13th, brings us information, that the enemy's force
does not exceed 60,000 men, including a considerable
body, which, under the command of Ney, has gone to
the Southward towards Badajos. The English t)f-

ficers gist the worst aecotint of affairs, but not so bad
as to give us much alarm.—The French.arrny are in
want of provisions, but our troops are well supplied.
There is so want of bread, as 4 Americans save lately
arrived here with cargoes of flour which have been
purchasei and applied to the use of the army.

LISBON, JUNE 17.
The news we have to send is far from being desir-
able. We just hear that General Vernier has entered
Gallicia with a force of 25,000 men, with the view of
surrounding the British in that direction. Junot has
gone to the Southward, and is bearing down upon
Hill and Romana, whose forces ape very inadequate
to meethim. Retreat seems inevitable, and that must
be as rapid as possible.—The siege of Ciudad Rodrigo
seems for a short time to have been abandoned. The
enemy bombarded the place without much effect for
four days, and since that they have not persisted in
their attack.

JUNE 18.—Two months must decide the fate of
Portugal. The French force is extremely strong, and
report states it at 130,000 men, but we do not believe
that it consists of more than 80,000. On this subject
we hear nothing from the British head quarters. An
attack will not be made yet. According to all ac-
counts the French will wait until a sufficient force is
collected near Badajos, where General Hill is sta-
tioned, and the Marquis Romana co-operating with
him. The first object will be to drive these two com-
manders from their posts.

THE EVEN) NG STAR

LONDON.

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We this day insert farther extracts from private
letters received yesterday from Cadiz and Lisbon ;
from the former to the 14th, and from the latter to
the 19th ult.

We need hardly remark that it is difficult to recon-
cile their details with each other, or any of them
with strict truth. All the letters and Portuguese
papers exaggerate the amount of Lord WELLINGTON'S
fotce, and under-rate that of the enemy. If ex-
.iggeration were to be indulged in at all, we think
the very reverse ould have been the most na-
tural temptation. We have stated before, and we
now confidently repeat it, that Lord WELLINGTON'S
army does not, and never did exceed 25,000 fighting;
men. Yet the writers of these letters swell it to no-
less than 35,000, -while they diminish the numbers of
the enemy to nearly one half of what all the French
IPapers concur in making the force of MASSE/4A
amount to, viz. upwards of 80,000 men. They are
incorrect again in stating the amount of the Portu-
guese force at only 15,000 or 17,000. The Por-
tugnese troops now trained to arms, and considered
as fit to take the field, amount to about 35,000,
making the whole of the force that can be opposed to
the enemy amount to about 60,000 men. It is obvi-
ous that, by exaggerating the amount of the allied
army and under-rating that of the enemy, expecta-
tions are raised which may never be realised ; and
that whatever may be the issue of the struggle, the
merits of the British army must be sunk exactly in
proportion to the error of these false estimates.

Fears are entertained respecting the force under
OIDONNEL in Catalonia. He is reported to have been
defeated by Suomi..
Some of the private letters from Cadiz state, that
4000 Spanish troops of the Guards had arrived from
Carthagena, and were embodied with the Spanish
army ; and that two sets of dispatches from King
Joseph to the Commanders of the army at Fort St.
Mary's had been intercepted on their way from Ma-
drid, and delivered to the Spanish Government at
Cadiz : their contents had not transpired, but only
that they were of great importance to the Spanish
cause.

We have inserted some further extracts from the
French papers received yesterday, and which com-
plete our series to the 29th ult. An article from Vi-
enna, in one of these papers, mentions that a report
was current of a general engagement having taken
place between the Russians and Turks, but that it
needs confirmation. The Russians are stated in an-
other article to have passed the Danube, and esta-
blished their head-quarters at Nicopoli.
These papers also present some laboured details of
the prowess exhibited by Mu RAT'S Neapolitan navy
and the British, in a skirmish mentioned in a former
STAR.—These it is unnecessary to give, as we can state
the particulars correctly, on the authority of a British
Officer who was in the action.—The force on our
side was the SPARTAN, of 38 guns, and 258 men ; on
that of the enemy, 97 guns and 1138 men, viz.
a frigate of 42 guns, a corvette of 28, two brigs of
8 and 12 guns, and 7 gun-boats with 7 guns each.
The frigate escaped dreadfully mauled, the corvette
was dismasted, and one of the brigs was taken. We
had 10 killed and 22 wounded ; the enemy, 154 kill-
ed and 316 wounded. Captain BRENTON was severely
wounded, but is out of danger. Op the whole it was
perhaps as glorious on action of the kind as has ever
been fought.

Same more
their contents

American papers arrived yesterday, but
are altogether unimportant,