The Statesman.
London, England, 1811-10-30 00:00:00

DISTRICT OF THE ARMY OF THE CENTRE

• The, Duke ..of Dalmatia seems mashed sylth the
spirit which prevails in the provitfees of 'Malaga anti
'Granada. lie has•rettirned to Seville. The Duke
of Belluno pushes his operations before Caliz. (km.
Dasmoviac .has artranced with his division upon
•Cuenca, to second the operations of Marshal Sitsirq
tigainst Valencia. 'Colonel ttelzet., of thi•olletifo.
gis snritiThial, with a detachment a his ;e f-.
meta, the.. band of Chaco. fie shot 120 of these
'banditti,
.and took 'their horses.' The insurgents et
Murcia attribute'all their defeats to being abandoned
by Lnrd Wellington.; they breathe the most bitter
ooniplaiitts against the English.

ARMY OF PORTUGAL.
• • Ciudad Rodrigo, Sept. SO, 1811. •
REPORT OF THE MARSHAL DUKE OP RAGUSA, COM..
lIANDER4N•CUTEF OF THE ARMY OF PeRTVGrAL,
TO 1111 HIGHNESS VIE PRINCE OF WAGRAM AND:
NCU rciiireL) MAJOR-GENERAL.

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11IONiXIGNALJa,—IlticLtilil honour of acquainting
your Highness,' that after havinmaised the siege or
Badajoz, and driven the V ugl ish army beyond the
Guadiana; it was settled between the Duke of 104..
matia and myself, that I should' advance towards the
Tagus,. leaving one division on the Guadiana; that
the army of the South should leave the sth corps in.
Estremadura ; that the Duke of Dalmatia, with the
rest of his troops, should march against the Spanish
divisions which had quitted the English army, and
against the insergent army of Murcia; and that,;
wile he should destroy dem; and clear the provinces -
of Cordova, Granada, Malaga, and Murcia, I
should keep in check the English army. We had
taken our measures in case the English General
should make a diversion; and again advance
upon fladajoz ; but the. English General, deaf to
the cries of the Spaniards; abandoned the army of
Murcia to its fate, and; passing ill, Tagus, advaneoi
to the Coa. It was then supposed /to be.his plan; to
march to the assistlance of the army of GalliCia. As
soon as. General Dorsenne was infoghed of this new
combination, he marched upon Aatorga, beat the
Galliciana„ dispersed them beyond Villa Franca, and
repaired the fortifications of Astorga. We hoped
that this movement would induce the English to ad.
vapce upon Salamanca; but they temained uncon.
corned at this event, as they had been at the disasters
of the Murcian army.
About the beginning of Sept. I learned that seven
divisions of the English army were all assembled on
the Coa ; that they blockaded Ciudad Rodrigo ; that
they' were collecting fascines and gabipns at Fueute
Gdihaldo; that the works of their intrenched camp
at Fuento Gait-lied° were already advatic:ad, and that
even the -besieging equipage had arrived them from
Oporto. I theu.proposed to General Dorsenne, to
join hira with apart of my army, in oilier to raise
the siege of Ciudad -Rodrigo,--to supply it with pro.
Visions for a long time ::--to take the iutrettched ckmp
of the'enemy, his magazines, and park of besieging
artillery,--and, in shat, to give him battle, and pur-
sue' him as •far as war compatible with the general
plan of operations whidh your Highness communicat.
ed to me in your last.letter in 'enslier ; a plan which
embraces all these regiati 'll)asis now the satisf.tc.
don of announcing to y kiess; that our arms4
fir
- have been completely s .i-I -- out with iii
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