The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-09-20

ceyoro KoSncnS. IL IS also added, that the
duke Of Berg has taken flight from Madrid
aud some say. that, having beentakcn ILL, he
was detained at Arauda del Duero.
VERIN, June %.
"By intelligence received from Portugal
Yesterday, we learn, that the Portuguese pur
sued corps of $500 French, under the com
mand Of Gen. Loison. obliging them to seek
| refuge in Duero, near to Villa Real, after
having killed two hundred of them, having
taken FIVE baggage Wagons, two pieces ofar-
tillcry, the military chest, a quantity of am
munition and made some. prisoners. The
Marquis of Nalladares, who commands the
troops in the province of Orensc. on account
OF the absence of the commander in Chief at
bierzo, remains at this place, with some bat
talions, to assist the Portuguese in case fine
cessity.
"TUY, June so.
&c The tiger Junot had the imput'ence, in
various proclamations, to ask the assstanc,
OF the Portuguese. whom he had so cruelty
oppressed as an Indication of their gratitude
for the essential services he had rendered
them. 1t is in the blind and inexplicablc con-
fidence of Junot that the safety OF Portuca,
has originated This Junot, as soon AS he
was apprized that Oporto was cvacmated by
the Spaniards, building on this satisfaction
and gratitude of the Portuguese, wrote to
Gen. Loiscn, directing him, with 5000 men,
to proceed from Almeyda to garrison Opor-
to.
Loison who was as blind as his command
er IN respect to this Lucitanian loyalty, com
menced his march with as much careless
ness as he might have done five months ago.
lie divided his men into columns and many
OF ms soldiers were without arms, expecting
to procure them ready to their hands i'm o.
porto. He dispatched his Avant-couriers,
who were taken by the people of the town of
1,rn'arantc, VINO sent toOporto from whence
troops were procured to encounter Loison.
Loison was in the mean time informed by a
spy, that the whole province of Duero and
Mino was in a state of insurrection, and he
therefore began to retreat which he could
not do IN good order, because part of his
torces was without arms. The troops from
oporto having approached, dispersed his ar
my, took the unarmed soldiery prisoners,
with quantity of baggage, ammunition,
and the military chests of several regiments
l he forces from Oporto have been in pur-
suit OF separated column consisting of 1000
men, which no doubt must have surrender
ed. 1t is presumed, that the column which
retreated towards Chaves and that was de-
feated near Lamego and Villa Real, belong
GU W tilS same DIVISION.
Government received dispatches yester-
day from General Spencer. They were bro't
by sir George Smith, lieutenant colonel of
! the $50 regiment, who left Cadiz so late as
the 5th or 9th instant. He reached town at
an early hour, but no bulletins were eircu-
iated In the Government Offices, or Commu-
nlcatlons made to the lord MAYOR. At the
time sir George Smith left Cadiz, we
understand no official account of the surren-
der of Dupont had been received there
L he rumorrs, however, to that effect were
numerous and confident. The same circum
stances, want Of provisions principally, which
competed him to fail back from Cordova to
hnduJar, made it absolutely necessary for
him to continue his retreat towards the Sierra
.siofeha. in the attempt to gain the passes,
the army, having first, as we are informed.
spiked all their Cannon which thev were IN
der the necessity OF abandoning, marched in
attachments, with the hope of procuring pro-
VISIONS with greater facility; but this svs-
tenn rendered them more assalable, and the
patriots seIzed every opportunity of attack
ing them, without risking general engage
ment.
an account had reached Cadz from Sc
vile, that French corps, consisting of Sc
verai thousand men, was attacked at Sara
Sossa' ana after three days fighting, they
had been all cut to pieces. The patriots, it
was reported, were equally successful in Ca
taionla. After several severe engagements
IN which the French had lost upwards of 5000
men, they were expelled from all their posts
IN the town and neighbourhood of Barcelona
and compelled to shut themselves up in Fort
Montyui, without the possibility of obtaining
supplies or reinforCements: it wasexpccted
they would be obliged to surrender in few
days We do not vouch for the authentici-
ty OF this latter statement.
The army under the command of general
Spencer had landed at St. Mary's, and was
received by the inhabitants of Cadiz with
the greatest enthusiasm
The news from Portugal, which we this
day lay before our readers, is EXTREMELY in
teresting, as it shows that that people are H.
nlted in the same glorious cause, and run
ming the same honorable career as their neigh
bours.
The Angelica, Portuguese schooner, cap
tain Francisco Gonzalver de Costa, is arri
we'd from Oporto She sailed on the nth in
slant, and brought dispatches to his excel
icncy the Portuguese ambassador, from the
Supreme Junta at that place.
Two deputies came over passengers. au-
thorised by the Provisional government to so
licit such succours as will be required for the