Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-11-28
NETWORK, November 20.
AFFAIRS IN PORTUGAL.

;0.,he Ohio. from Cadiz, via Villa Real
He stat that at Ayamonte where the Sessst
touched. he saw Spanish cflcer who was
going 70 Cadiz with dispatches. ne iii,
Ger informed him that he LETT Tie mead
lord Wellington on the 1 IN OF
October. and at that time there had been
no fighting since the 2S.h OF Sept, re
said The combined forces were In hign spl-
sits and that lord Wellington WAS prepared
10 meet the enemy.
The eentleman with whom we conversed
hrs been in Spain and Portugal tor o or
wears PAST, speaks the Spanish language
fluentlv, and appears to be perfectly &C
uuain,sd with the affairs of those countries.
lie gives it as his opinion that inc fIensh
can n1ver conquer the Spanish and 70 ta-
purse, untn Tue people are entirely exIif'
pated. He says there is such in enm''y a
scainss the Fla .len that they can never DC
Sale in the peninsula as long as there IS
Portuguese or Spanlard IN the county,
The Spanish sotu,crs IN the pay OF France
take every opportunity to assassinaie the
French. AS DIN instance OF their deadly
eniulty, he states that a French general had
left a garrison IN small town OF about 500
men, nc arly halt of whom we're Frenchmcn,
,he rest Spanlards. AS soon as the main
army had marched of, the Spanlards rose
upon The French and puteves} one OF them
to death. CadiZ, he says, can never be
taken, and hough The French keep up the
bombasdmsng OF that city, they can DO very
little damage, and the people are under no
aPprehensloa. :,
Ihe French treat the Americans with the
greatest indignity and seventy possible
At Ayamoutc our informant saw the cap
tain and supercargo OK the American scnr
! MARY, which had been taken by the Ffeacn.
| The CaDlaitl and crew were marched across
/. The country almost barefoot to Seviile, where
! thsv were mpti4oncd in an ass stable, and
! were soou to be matched as prisoners OF
I warto Bordeaux. But by the ASSISTANCE
orthe SpaniardS the captain ana saqcfcatgo
had made their escape, and travelled IN
DISGUISE as mulitesrs 10 Ayamonge /; where
they were GENEROUSLY suppIedby the Span
! ;arJs with money md clothes. Oar h-
formant was al Cadiz the 1st OF October,
and saw several regiments emba' ked tor
Portugal, to reinforce lord We!ilngson' lie
s,ys he young English officers We're SO
yi2us 10 rast tbs. Sc',t
{. perceive that the 11Jh ofCctober is the la
test date from HE seat CT war. And as our
! intelligence comes direct, ii must CONVINCE
every one that tho tales which have been
circulated OF the defeat Of lord WELLINGTON
are uEfounded. If there has been battle
| it could not have been known in Dublia at
| the date OF our last accounts from thence.
There has undoubtedly, however, been an
action before this time, which has been de-
! cslVe. ne next arrivals from Spain or
Portugal will probably bring US the account
| OF a bat'le more bloody than any which has
been fought IN those countries during the
present war.
lhe gentlemen above mentioned has fur
nished US with the following ship news -
Lett at Villa Real; ship Sally, of Provi-
dence, hodman master, from Gibraltar,u n.
der Quarantine; brig Little Cherub, Smith
master, got under way to sail with the O.
tho, but anchored again, bound 10 Pniladel-
-phia /; brig Ceres, Fairchild, Of New Ha-
ven, from Cadiz, was out in heavy gale,
and lost cables and anchors, and was sup
Piled oy an English soop Of war; brig
Godfrey and harY, captain c. Hazard, of
New London, from Cadiz, had been out
all the gale and had suffered some; arrived
whlle the other was getting under weigh
Smoke in lat. do T. N lono 10 w brio r ~
gan, OF Boston, 6 days out on the 9Th,
spoke ship George ct Hull, bound to Liver
pool, days out--12th, spoke brig Mary,
captain V. Robbins, from Point Petre. qua
daloupe, in distress, CAPTAIN. mate and all