The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-07-04 00:00:00

FROM THE PORTUGUESE PIPERS.

ScvILIA, Jose 2.-..1n Mouzon we have de-
stroyed 1300 of the enemy; all goca. ou excel-
lently.
About 10,000 French have left Aragon, who,
according to some Spanish Gazettes, have proceed-
ed to France, but, according to more elect in-
formation, they aro marching for Old Castile, in
order to support the French corps which have
reca)ttly been defeated ; consequamily the opera-
tiooi of Gen. Blake in Aragon are diteasbarrasseti,
and on this aide, all being free, *an 10 the fron-
tiers of Catalonia, the whole form eir this Princi-
pality may act against the force of st. Cyr. The
military operations of the Peninsula are so com-
bined, that the defeat of the French in Portugal
and Gallicia will be immediately felt in Catalonia
and Aragon.
MAY 22.---The Duke of Albuquerque slept, on
the 17th, at Itanquillo, and follows Cucsta.

GILENADA, MAY 15....0n the 9th, at sit in the
evening, the enemy retired from Ciudad Real,
marching by the gate of C.tlatrava, on the road to
Carrion, Tomlba, and Damiel ; these corps be.
long to the army of Sebastiani, which, as may be
seen, is retreating.

GERONA, MAY 1.--The vanguard of the enc.
my, commanded by Lecchi, proceeding by the
mountains, elected its junctiow with those of
Figuciras, after sustaining several skirmishes, with
the loss, as well of men, as of tile plunder which
they carried.
MEDINA DE LAS Towers, APRIL 30.--. The
Field Marshal D. Pedro Agostinho de Echavari,
having on the 18th taken from the enemy 14,000
head of black cattle and sheep, and 300 mules, de-
stroying at the same time 600 of their troops a
body of the enemy's cavalry, consisting of 2500
made their appearance on the 31st, with the intett.
tlon of revenging their loss, and recovering the
cattle if possible. Their force exceeded ours by
a fourth part, but we, nevertheless, repulsed them
with coaaiderable loss.

On the With, 1500 French cavalry made their
appearance between Rivera and Los Santos. We
attacked and drove, them back with only 400, and
took front thee upwards of 2000 head of oxen,
sheep, and horses, belonging to the traitor Ne.
grette.

Swum—A young Lady, the daughter of a
respectable upholsterer, in Mary-le-bone, pat a
period to her existence un Sunday evening, in the
Paddington Canal, in consequence of some alter-
cation at home. She contrived to make her es.
cape from home unobserved, after the family had
gone to bed, and at four o'clock yesterday morn-
ing she was found drowned in the Canal.

A Coroner's Inquest sat on the body of Miss
Meadows, who was a singer at Covent-garden
Theatre, on Friday, at the Maidenhead, at Bat-
tle-bridge, she having died suddenly on the pre.
ceding day. The deceased was riding along the
Pancras-road with her father, when she suddenly
complained of indisposition, and begged to lie
down. A hay-cart passing at the time, the young
Lady was put into it, where she died in a very
s►ort time. lier pain was a kind of spasm in the
chest.—Died by the Visitation of God

BIRTHS.
On Friday morning, the Marchioness of Tel-Work of a
son, at he•r home in tirosreaer-minare.
On Siourtia, tuning, at the Earl of Egremonee, in tiro,-
venor place, the Lad; of Sir Charles Merrick Burrell, ut
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