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London, England, 1811-06-04 00:00:00

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elle'sett moment I shalt hate
.beet► able to emittitia
ficate with him. Spanish parties. are at Los SAntos
abd at Fuenre del Maestro; and have appeared this
,morning at, Almendraleio and Villa Franca. They
made enqiiirlilat.the latter place is to the march *of
our. column ; and they give our that 400 horse and a
strong column of.infantry are to arrive tn.day'at Los
Santos ; nne sive any credit to this movement.
nit at all events we shall see them, and I shall try to
escape them. '
I beg.your Excellency to receive the assurance bf
thirsiucere and respectfuLdevoeien with which
I have the honour to be,
(Signed) . The General of Division 43asetsr:

I.IIE. EV ENINki S'VAkt...

LONDON. •

TUESDAY.. JUNE 4.
MAO'S /her ta-Dn r —Holiday at all the Public Viet%

This day heingthe Anniversary of the Ptrth of our most gra•
ciotts Sovereign, the morning w:s inhere.' in with the ringi,!g of
bells, and at one o'clock the Park and Tower tons were fired.--
By the accounts received froth Windsor we have not been able
to learn that any alteration has taken place in the Mitt of LW
MAJ &STY 'S health.

The GAZETTE details of the Bank of the 16th
amply confirm all the hopes which we had raison to
entertain from the cbeeringeonots rhich preceded. -
it. The loss of the Allies has indeed been great, bat
that of the enemy far outnumbers it. The stiperiCtiti
of the enemy in cavalry, gave him idvantiges in his .
retreat, which secured the wreck .ot his discomfited
army i but even in this description of force,* it was
numb. rs, and not valour, which saved him g fOr• the
handful of cavalry which the Allies broiaght into they
field ably seconded the efforts of their brethFen in arms,
In addition to the very coplous details publishect
in the Go: .:, the following particulars, fin* the belt '
authority, were yesterday circulated :
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" After the dispatches were written, it was ascertained that -
the force of the enemy did not amount to less than 30,000 inert,
and thq left on the Held of battle nearer 2500 dead than what is
trated. Upwards of 700 wounded were leftlry the enemy, and
he is so pressed by our cavalry, that he was obliged to abandon
many more to their fate. Marshal Soutr boasted, in General
Orders to Ms army on leaving Seville, that he was going to melt
and defeat the British, ad likewise repeated the same verbally ts
hls troops. A copy of this Order was found on General Will LE,
.W:10 Wall killed, and the latter was' affirmed by deserters and

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" The British in the battle scarcely amounted to eight thou-
sand—the Portuguese to seven thousand—the Spaniards from tea
to alerts thousand—making in the whole about twenty-six thou-
sand men. The French had a great superiority in comity and ,
artillery. %When the French drove the Spaniards at the com-
mencement of the',aetton,from the height on the right there was
a shout of triumph, Which was heard from one end oethe lige to
the other. The Spatnardr, although driven from the he:ght,
rnl-
atthelsottonl of the hill, turned upon am enemy, and most
gallantly checked their career. No action in which the kan'orls
have been engaged proves more than the battle of Albue:a .how.
greatly hisla be•laniented that they are not taught to manceuvre
by (Mere of More experience in war than their own. To a man
they 'evince/1 thelhbst-signal toutaj ? butt. owing, to their want
of tinprovernent in.disciprine, it ibtlifticult and hazardous, lest
they should be thrown into confUjog, to move them frotn the
posidnoiwhich they have at first occupied.
" The intmense loos sustained by the French chiefly took place ,
when the Allier regitinea the height front which the Spaniartis
had pr,iviously been driven.—ln forcing the enemy Into the low '
grounds towards the rivulet, the carnage cane:.; Ly oar musketry
and Shrapnel 'hail'. yras ranks of the-enemy
were mowed down; and bad we possesses} any thing like an
equality in cayaky, the greater part of the .trench Army must
have been taken or destroyed. It is duv to the eoe4ty to state
that to the attack, dining the whole hat de, and in the remits -
they inaoifested grestskill and signal courage.
" When they were at last aware that the battle was Irretrie-
vably lost. they protected their infantry by their cavalry.and
ar-
tillery,and having recovered from the coofusio,n into which they
were thrown when lying from the height, they fetreatedin good •
order, and formed on the opposite side of he rivulet. .
" From 2 to SOO of the British, reported •to be missing, bad re-
joined our army before the dispatches were sent oil. It waiex-
pected that many more of the missing would ,escape from the
enemy.
" The reinforcements which Soorr was expecting from MAO.
Sit4A, consisted of seven battalions, which cannot be estimated
at more than 3000 or 3500 men at the utmost. Those battalions
form part of the 9th Corps (which bad been broken up), and they
originally belonged tc the army of the South. It was certain that
MASSRNA had been recalled to Paris.
" The reinforcement broughtby LordWILLINOTON amounted
to from 8 to 9000 men."
The following particulars are communicated in a
letter. which was put on board the packet just before
her departure from the Tagus :

“ LISBON, MAY Std.

" In the battle of the 16th Sootr was very nearly taken. A
body of British eavairrehargal a column commanded by Sout-T,
and putting it to the
.reut, he very narrowly escaped. .4tutnedi.
rely afterwards, War troops wire cased upon in the rear, and
faCing about, cut their way back again, leaving half their Men
dad Os the Add; •
-.:o4lnrciVitamic/row has left his army busily employed in the
rev dr or the fortifications of Almeida. It is said that MAUI N •
'MKS for reinforcements from Madrid.
" Letters from Cadiz, dated the 18th May, state, that every
day it was expected that the besieging army. •would break up for
•In the attack upon Lieutenant-Colonel COLIORN diYIAOII.
the Polish Lancers not only gave no cuarter, but mangled the
dying. They were afterwards severely punished fur their bar-
barity,,by the 48th Regiment.—More than half of the missies of
the Alhes joined their comrades the day after the battle.

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eitestrs and other Paris Papers to the 26th have boo
received. They contain no further news from the Peninsula....
NAFOLKON and the 800 etteSS arrived St Caen on the 22d, sad re-
mained there on the 23d. An article, dated front the Frontiers
of Hungary, the 7th ult. states that the negoaietions for peace
between the Turks and Russians were mot broken off, but were,
on the contrary, proceeding erith great activity.
By the Anti°lt Mail wehave letter: from Petersburgh as late
as the 11th May. They do r ot at all countenance the idea of an
immediate war between Russia and Fratce. The Turks and
Russians are stated to have concluded another armistice of forty
days, f..r the purpose of entering into preliminaries of peace.
It is said In one letter, that a new motive of hostility bas arisen
betwien Ruses and France. A courier of the latter was taken
bythe Russians Ott his way to the Turkish camp north of Adria-
nople: His papers were examined, and by them it appeared Lisa;
thert.subsisted a connexion between BownPAaTL and the OTTO.
MAN PORI h05u1....t to the interests of Ai eIANDEA.
Letters from Memel to the 16th of May contradict the asses.-
, tion that the King of paves's. had acceded to the Itiocuish con-
fedeotion by foretop%a quota of 27,000 men. • .
I.etters from' Ametirs war, that Lord Viscount COVSTSIIT
r bas taken a house at Ls% lifsrul, %Vert he Is now tiring.