Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-11-05

amounts to 100000 fanegas Of wheat ana
100000 of barley.
September 8.
According to last accounts from Catalonia Il,
Genera, Lacey has entered the French ier-
r;tories to impose contributions and seize on
ali the Cattle he can lay his hands on, was at
tackled by some French troops from the
blockade of Figueras.
LISBON, September Is.
We learn by the Gazettes of to day from
Estren,adura that the harvests through SPAN
have been SO very poor as to render 1t neces-
sary to send two Secretaries OF state IRON
Madrid to seize upon the grain, wherever
found. AS the French have no money In the
treasury, their attacks like robbers will reduce
the country to the greatest distress, as they
did Portugal. 1t will be necessary therefore
for the poor inhabitants of the Peninsula to
make use of every means their ingenuity can
suggest to conceal their grain and remove
their herds to the most retired places.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
1t is with the greatest regret that his ES-
cellency makes known to the army the neces-
sity he is under to punish the Chiefs OF Re-
giments of militia at Viseu, Francisco Sardl-
va de Aguilar and Manuel Jose de Castillo
Mcllo; and lieutenant Francisco Sales Almei-
ola Pedroso, and ensign Joaquin Antonio Ca
bral with perpetual degradation OF rank, tho
condemned by the Court Martial to death tor
desertion.
Ertrat from an Official Despatch from Mar
shall General Lord UIelington, dated 4M
Sent. from Head Quarters at Faente Gri-
naldo, TO his e1ceNency Don Miguel Perei''a
Forias.
A division the guards of general Dumon-
lier arrived at Salamanca the lst September.
| have received information that division
of 5 corps are moving towards gen. Ballaste-
ros at Ayamonte /; but that general has retir-
ed to Ilba de Cannellas. not far from the Qua
diana, while the enemy continued at Ayamonte;
but as the transports had arrived to conduct
general Ballasteros and his troops, suppose
the enemy must have left Ayanonte.
According to advices received from Costa
de Sueste. forwarded me by Mr.. Wellesley,
it appears that the Spanish army of the king
dom of Murcia had retired about the begin
ming of August to its position at Lorca, and
that one of the divisions of the army had suf-
fered a repulse in their retreat from the enc
my.
/ have Just received letter dated the lst
instant from general Slvieri, by which learn
that genera! Abbadia had retired in the best
order from Labaneza and Ponte de D'Orligo
and was preparing again to occupy his former
positions in front of Astorga
From Eiuas, September 6.
SouIt in the beginning of August entered
Grenada with $4,000 infantry and 200 cavalry,
attacked the troops of Frei:e s. Blake. From
accounts from the interior of Andalusia we
learn that the Spaniards with very little loss
remained masters ofthe field.
MANCHA, 25th August. d,
On the 18th instant gen. Soult with 10000
men attacked the army of Freire and Blake
close to Lorca, and was repulsed with great
loss.
On the 18th, division of the count Mon
rio attacked four Polish regiments and en- tire
ly DESTROYED them.
6th-As the Spanish army was retiring from
Astorga it was twice attacked by the enemy
who, being repused took to flight most
shamefully, and was pursued by the Spani-
ards.
In :etter from major gen. Picton to major
Won Arentschildt, of the artillery, (Which we
cannot copy on account of its length we read
of the great praises bestowed on the Portu-
gueSe for their conduct in the battles of the
Sd and 9Th, begging them to receive and pre-
sent to the officers and soldiers his thanks for
their behavior on those occasions.
Lisbon Gazette.
BALTIMORE, November 2.
In our paper of yesterday, we inserted