Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-11-23
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LISBON, October S.
The enemy having taken warning by the
lYec-ption wtich the combined army gave
them of the memorable 9th of September,
ION which day they left more, shan 1000 dead
upon the field ot-bat,le, with an immense
number of wounded, whom they barber
ously abandoned, underworld to 60 round
our position by crossing blythe way OF
M ortagoa towards Sardan, and then turn.
ing 70 the southwark. The wise move
ments of lord Wellington frustrated this
daring project and our army continues to
concentrate itself, gaining every moment
greater superiority, not only by the great
reinforce ments which it is successfully re-
ceiving, brit because Massena is continually
Involved in new difficulties, having his COM
munica,ion with Beira cut off, losing men
every day by the fasigues of the campaign,
and suffering a thousand Inconvenience
from the want Of supplies. The tried va
Tor of the allied troops and the bad condi-
ton of the enemy, which becomes worse
every day, makes US hope for the most hap
py results. French audacity will pay dear
for having penetrated the territory of Por'
tugal.
October 6.
According to the last news from our ar
my, lord Welling,on's headquarters CONT.
nued at Leira; and it did not appear that
the enemy had as yet advanced from Conn
bra:
BY intelligence from Badajoz of the Sd
inst. it appears that Ba!les,sros left Ollvenca
Yesterday with his division iorsAeres Gle los
CabelIeros, to which place it is said that
1000 French, who had marched from Ia
fra, had proceeded.
The French at present occupy the plafns
situate between the Mondego and the You
ga; they have no, left any corps in Beira
Alta their communication with Spain is
now GU, of, as we'll by the peasantry alrea.
dy freed from the militia commanded by
generals Baceilar and Silveira. Their sup
plies, no, only OF provisions, but also OF
ammunition, are intercepted, and they must
fight with ~vhat they have brought with
them. 1t is not yet known with accuracy
what was their effective force some ac-
counts make ii 50, others IS, 900 men but
that which appears most authentic states,
that the force with which the French enter
ed Portugal was exactly 10000 men. Tits
sscertained that they lost in the battle of
Busaco more than 1000 killed, and suppos-
ing the number oftheir wounded to be only
four times as great, which in truth is O very
low calculation, for as we'll in the British as
the Portuguese army, the number OF the
wounded was FIVE times that Of the killed,
they musr have had 5000 wounded, 50 that
their total loss certainly exceeds'1O,o
we know nothing of the number OF their
sick tina, is usually in al army on a. march
18th or 18th of the whole number, and
the particular circumstances III which the
French army has been, must have augment
ed the proportion. Whatever was the ori-
pioal number OF those who entered, there
can be no doubt but that the French have
now in the short period OF Is days, If or
$4,000 combatants less.
Let it not be supposed that the enemy
find much provisions in the country which
they occupy; Aveiro, Figusira, and Coim-
bra were evacuated in the most complete
manner. The cavalry indeed finds much
green corn, bu. every one knows that it is
bad food for beasts, as 1t occasions the CLAN.
ders and other disorders. There is neither
wheat nor rye in those parts; and the IN
dian corn of Coimbra, which is in great a
bundance, is all yet to be gathered, still in
the ground half ripe. They are therefore
OBLIGED 10 cat the corn roasted or boiled.
The condition Of the French as respects
subsistence wiltnot improve; and their 81.
tuation is more critical at present than it
was in Beira Alta; single battle may de-
eide their fate their cure would not be
determined by 2 or s. Ihe.French cavalry