The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-11-21 00:00:00

gent gratification- to sea the alacrity with which
they offer themselves on every orea,i ••1.
Pero Negro. t.07t,. October.' 1810.
Mt Lassa,—The enemy dill occupy the ulna
positions io frtit of this army which . they held"
when I addressed ye on the tOth Instant. They,
have detached some troops towards Santarem, and
on tee 23d, General Luison marched towards that
place with t•!e ditislon under his command ; and it..
appears, from accounts. frees the; CoMmanding
Offieci at Abtantes, of the tith, that a body of,
• - the'eneniy*i infantry and cavalry entered Timmer
on thet day. • ' • .
The reports which I hate remised from tlio,prk..
adners and deserters which have beisi,brotseht,
concur in the accounts of the distress felt 6y,the
-„elierny • fur the want of protisioas of al dimerik
•
• . r• • :• i, • Lo.
:.; -They state, that they,are 011ectler, and.prepgr,
log materials to Cchistracti bridge over the Tie!' ;-
hot although is have • a toed 'tint or thit•riTer
~ from different parts of the grassed isectipied by
the !vinyl add hive Okra one, otheri Niniloyed.
on the left of the .Tagus, to Olodtte the. motions
of the enemy, I have not bnirtible. to dilcover
either where this wbrk is carrying on, •or here`the
bridge is to be placed on the firer; if It alioltid be
Chnstrected. * •
. The enemy appears to bereft atutioue 16 collect
boats ; MO en the 4.4 th, cadetkOnfed to &ilea'
pirty of the Ordenania train Chimuica, by titlfirere
Of artillery, in oitit4 to obtain poissession or some
*hich were under that place.
Colonel Wilson hid been at ',eyrie, with the ea.
/airy attached to General Barcellar's division,; and •
had proceeded to Ogren,. The advance of the WI
tants', was it Pom_bal.
•On the Side of llbidos and Ramalhal, the British
cavalry and a battalion of Spanish light infantry,
Aind the troops, of the garrison of Peuiclie,' confine
the 'enemy's detachments ; and they
.really,p.Ossess•
We part of the country, cerrupting that oci.which
their army stands. , ,
By the last +lemmas Non General Silveira of the
77th indent, it appears that all was quirt in the
rforth ,• and he bid 'nut riceivedany accounts of the
march of troops in Castille.
The parties of Githrillathed beets more Airing
than usual ; end they had united in the neighbour-
hood Of Valladolid, eitifyiti the month of October,
to the istnotitit of fifteen" hundred, in orderiti' try
off a conhoy of master: which had been railed-fn •
ebntributiens ficito the•conn try-, in which atflialpt
libwerer *they '
Accoiling to-thiiecsishts of the
item adutab' it alkpoilri that Pdirshil Mertieri.e.tarpi
*is still at Setillei and General Ballastlitati Wal.
observing it mins Araiena! . • • •-•
The second 'iditikiati of 1110, 114.2titiuts, de it
a'S corps, .under ..Gencrit tArrera, arrieed at
Lisbon on the 25th, itat wilt be.w ith. the &tiny Oh
day. My list..arconnts`from Cadlz are of
latent. ' I have, '&e.
(Signed) WELUNGTON. •
Piro Negro; Sel Nor. 1814.
Mt Lonoi—l hare not observed any alteration
in the enemy's position or nutobsiosishin.f. addressed
you on the 9.7 th silt; - • .
They hare a considerable beily,of tcoopsi ptrincii
pally cardirf, on •the 'rages, be tweirs Pinhole arid,
Santarem ; and I tense reason
eon's division of infantry had not nistched istAsat
direction, is I reported to your birdship -they had
in my last dispatch ; some of the COrps•compoising
that division have certainly.remaitisul- in. the camp,
in front of this army. • - •
. The eliemy have pushed home, troop's across the
Zezere, abate Ptiohete, principally,
,caralry, appa-
rently tareionneltre the roads in that directiod and
the fort at Abrantes ;• bet I conclude, that the rains
which have fallen within these 'few days will, hare
Swelled that river, and that these troops Will hive'
retired again.
They are still reported to-be at work, upon nil:
terials for a bridge both at. Santa rein and. naequiiiha ;
but I have detached Major.Geeecal rant; With ti
liddy of cavalry and infantry to the left of the Ts.,
sus, from whom.l hope to receiveaceniatesactiiiiits
of what is passing opposite to him od this side; and'
he will endeavour to destroy these matcrials if it
shouid be. practicable..
It is reported by all the deserters that the enemy's
troops continue to suffer great tin:tress fruit-the
want of provisions.
It is impossible to form an estimatoof the quan.
tity of provisions which they found .in .the Ones
On the ground which they occupy ; but it is'eertaitf
that they cdn draw none from any other part of the
country, the whole being in the posiiistets of .out
troops. •
, • • . •
The garrison 'of Wald* gn.d„Afto .gartison of
°hicks,. whieh place Captain F-enisiCk, of the Poi-
tugnesii service, has. lately oceopied, under' the,
direction ofßrioadler.General,Bisigt,.erid. the Brie
ciealry, matinee fil'-tarry ou It. destined's*:
warfare hi therear of theeneiny's -eigl;t, while the
high vont! from Coimbra by Leyria is in the. (iesses:
Mon of Colonel Wilson's Aelachtnertt. •
•• rencl use a later frOM Marshal. Beresford, on
. the effects of the
.operations of
.11tiga4ser4eni:ral
• Illtineasid, Captain Fenwick.
I haiirs; received no• letter from General Mfveice of
a later date than the loth October. Belied nut, it-
that dme heard of the march of tiliy.sif ttie edimy's
troops in Casiille.
He occupied with his detachment the read, franc,
Almeida to Trancose, Celorimi
bad heard that 'General Bonuet, led.4aeusted-the
'Asturias, and, it is supposed, lied ,moved into,
Biscay.-
.
• have letters from Estremadura. end Castroma.
vin, of as late a date as,the hof octoper, stating
that Mortier's corps was still at,Seville in a very in.-
efficientistate, and having many sick. .`
My list accounts from Catlik.sten:oreli6 *id alt.
la d). tirEIXINGTON:
gd ;dew. 1811). „
MY LORD,--.1 hive the honoar to sines ratan
' 'taken from the several reports received from Brlga-
`slier-General Blunt, of ,the `number of killed and
prisoners to the detiic'hneht which ' he sent 'from
renicise to °Who, under the command of Captain
VewwicklLieutehant in the Buffs), since his former
rerirfs of the proceedipgs of than officer, land
'which, wills preiibetily `replicieti
niiii?) take•the ItltUritut 'tho lintObles bus 46