Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-04-18

who is between run auu llolia, VIZ
thirty thousand men, had retired by forced
| marches.
! L appears that 1900 Portuguese have
| ;oined Cuesta. with which he now has a
/ resp ectable force. !,
The Duke :del Infantado has just formed
a junction with the army Of the Sierra Mo-
Iegena.
February $.
M arrat;ve Of observations made by re-
spectable person who left Madrid Jan. 81.
In order to reconnoiter the position of The
enemy.on the banks of the Tagus by the Vi
cinity of Toledo on its right and left, dl-
rected nv course to the town of .Yepes, the
18th of this month andIntil the 14th V as
at Toledo, Vargas, Olias, Monjon, Villa
SEGA and other places Whereabouts. by the
most correct intelligence could obtain, and
hy what / saw and observed, the number OF
the enemy in Toledo, was on the 18th about
500 at most, all infantry without artillery
the same day 1900 horse, went before my
arrival, for Extramadura they advanced
two leagues and retired towards AranJuez !;
so that on that quarter there remained none
of the enemy, nor between AranJuez and
Toledo. Before the Tagus | found nc
troops stationed, and saw only small de-
>tachment of cavalry at little distance from
it.
passed on to Madrid by the royal road
of Toledo the 10th without meeting any e.
nemies, as far as Leganes, where | observed
small number, apparently for the protection
of the equipages and other effects in that
quarter. The entrance into Madrid is easy,
but hazardous to personseof distinction, as
there are many Spanish spies. The two
DAYS that j remained, ascertalned by faith
ful guides that all the enemey's troops did
not exceed 81 or $4,000 men without the
gates, 1000 in Madrid, and the rest in A
raniuez, and on the van guard of the duke
del infantado 1.-THE person who gave me this
intelligence assured me that he had seen it
in the house Of Belliard the governor Of
| Madrid.
The 1st and 9TH this month, the French
army had orders to evacuate Madrid, and
repass the gates
The 18th it was given out in the orders
that the English army had had the audacity
on the 18th to attack the French head guar
tiers, ateNalladolid, and had been chastlscd !;
but this is false.
The deputies Of Madrid, appointed to
compliment Napoleon, went out for Valado-
lid have seen two letters from them the
first written from Arevola. dated the 18th,
said, that they had ordsrs to seek for the
emperor at Segcvia, and, if they did not find
him, to go to Nieva, where he would be, the
other requested letters of credit on Bayonne:
from these it. is inferred that they are no
longer In Spain.
Joseph Napoleon remained at the Pardo
(in the suburb of Madrid) with guard and
about 200 men in quarters he entered Ma
drid Oh Sunday the ed, without any pa
radc.
The parade Of Madrid does not exceed
700 men, and the cavalry are SO few, that
people Of good information do not make
them above 800.
am assured, by one who said he had
seen it, that the last French papers arrived
BY the mail of the 21st mention the entrance
of the aSchduke Charles into Bavaria with
a large ARMY have seen letter from Wit
oria, dated the 18th, which says that 4 corps
Of French troops which was entering BY
that province, had received orders to SO
back again with precipitation am assur-
ed that many other letters said the same
thing, and from hence are inferred general
" the movements in the north.
Joseph Napoleon said at his court on the
18th, that although Germany should unite
with Prussia to make war against France,
and uneasy Spain should follow, nothing
would be gained by that, because Russia
and France were amply sufficient to subject