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cers and soldiers made prisoners by all means in his
power, and particularly by employing the Portuguese
who accompanied hhtt for this infamous object; the
disgraceful proposition was honourably rejected by
Warr Manoel Cobreiro, and Captain Jose de Mello,
besides the English officers, Governor Cox, Major
Hewitt, and Captain Foley. The letter adds, that
the two first Lieutenants of the Engineers, Antonio
de Bulboes and Joaquin de Sousa, with the second
7,.ieutenant, Jose Farinha, who had also refused to
join the French service, had already escaped from
the enemy, and were at headquarters. The
Marshal begs, that these officers, on account of their
firmness and patriotism, be recommended to his Royal
Highness, and receive some signal mark of his appro.
talon for their honourable conduct.
• With regard to the execution of the capitulation,
the Marshal makes the following reflections :—" The
Portuguese nation has, already experienced French
moderation and Awing i and the conduct of the
enemy with regard to this capitulation will chew, that
their good faith is in no respect altered from what it
has shewn itself out of Portugal. By the capitulation
the militia were to be permitted to return to their
I homes; but the enemy, and particularly the Portu-
' guese traitors who were with them, of whom the
Mirquis de Alorna was the most active, not being
able with all their art and intrigue to seduce a single
militiaman, whether officer or private, to serve with
them, had recourse to the usual argument of power,
6 that he who would not do it voluntarily must do it
by force;' and contrary to the articles of capitulation,
they have actually detained by force six officers and
200 men of each regiment of militia, to form a corps
of pioneers."
iIETRACT OF A LETTER FROM BRIGADIER-GENERAL COX.
TO SiARSLIAL BERESEORD, DATED ALDEA DO EISPO,
-AUGUST 30, 1810.
" I have the painful duty of informing your Ex-
cellency, that on the 27th instant, at ten at night, I
was reduced to the necessity of surrendering the for-
' tress of Almeida, in consequence of the unfortunate
explosion of the large powder magazine in the Cita-
del, and two small magazints contiguous to it; by
which horrible accident I was deprived of the use of
1 my artillery, and also of the musquetry ammunition,
with the exception of a small number of cartridges,
which were in several depots for the immediate ser-
. vice of the batteries, and thirty nine barrels of gun-
i powder deposited in the laboratory- More.than half
' of the detachment of artillery, a great number of the
infantry, besides many of the inhabitants, were de-
stroyed by the effects of this terrible explosion ; many
of the pieces of artillery were dismounted on the bat-
teries, the works were remarkably demolished, and a
general coniternatien spread itself amongst the troops
*ad inhabitants.
" In this melancholy situation, I received a letter
from Marshal the Prince of Esiling, Commander in
Chief of the French Army* in Portugal, proposing
• at I should surrender the fortress to the Frirnch
Army under his command, upon honourable condi-
tions. I replied, that I wished to know the condi-
tions which he meant to propose; upon which were
ranimitted to me die articles of which I have
•the
1, . • to send your Excellency a copy, which, after
sing all the means in my power to obtain more fa-
, ourable ternis lat length accepted, with one excep-
t on in favour Of the regiments of Portuguese militia.
s' j hope that my conduct on this critical occasion
1 ill obtain the approbation of your Excellency, and
. at I shall he justified, by eintskustancei, in the eyes
. my country.'
[Hex
ee follow tho Artllles of Capitulation, vtltleb are the same
already published in the In nab Papers.]
GOUVEA, SEPTEMBER 4.
Yesterday, at ten in the morning, the head-quarter
ere transferred to this town, and nose of Marsha'
1— ford to Muimenta de Serra, half a league frod
,is,
)3ADAJOZ, SEPTEMBER 1.
It is ascertained, that part of the French army,
bich retired from Estremadura, directed itself to
ordov a ; and another part, to theVenta del Chaparro.
I he 4dvanced guard of the army of the Marquis de
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• ()Plana is At Santa (Hall*, Ballasteros occupies rra.
enal, and the bead-quarters are.at Zafra.
. 14 4-quarters at Aunty do Albeit% Aug. 27, 1510.
Marshal lieresford, Commander in Chief of the
. y, having received information of the brave con-
. tof one company of the 4th regimeet of•eavalry,
b h, together with another c.rmpany of the 13th
ngt dragoons, attacked and defeated an enemy's:
to s Ment abetween sixty end seventy horse' tak-
• almost the whole of them prisoners, feels great
is oesussuicating to the Portuguese army
SGT