Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-06-22
LONDON. MGu 9.

LONDON, .Nay g.
The Gazette Of last night contained the
dispatches from Portugal OF "hic!. We
Yesterday announced the arrival. Thry
are, perhaps, hardly 50 unnr,-t;at as
we had conceived. They r~:,irr us &C
1uainteA with marsE:I-:;aresrol1l' ufl-
fortunate los, OF a fridge. constructed O.
yer the Guas'ia;.a, by snGt;ea rise Of the
waters in Eat river: in consequence c.
which accident the seige ofBas.. ;oz would
be considerably retarded; and they ike
wisc detail to It's so y.any OF the particulars
as it is advisable to lay before the ccantr5,
of lord Weliington's Journey into iE.tre-
mad,I-:, and his return from thence.
;;e were Wiling, though with somc
suspicious certainly Of a contrary bear
in.. to have accounted for Lord yelling
ton's return TO the army before AIncida,
from tie obvious motive Of lis having dis
charged the business upon which he had
set out, iii his conference with general
8eresiord; and the account which his
Lordship gives Of that affair in the Gazette
of last night, seems greatly TO confirm
that opinion /; still, however, it is conf
IDENTIFY asserted. ant-'iIoash we know net
Oh what authority, yet with SOME appeal
ance Of probability, that our coaln.a:.,ier
in chief was recalled iiomEi,2s, the IN
expected return Of Massena, intelligence
of which ha:l been transmitted to mia by
express from gener>, Spencer. Il IS Ike
wise added, bat "lh less appearance OF
probability. that the French general. who
was so lately fugitive, hal crossed the
Ague,ia, and was marching towards the
Goa, behind the latter Of which river sir
Brent Spencer had been obliged TO retire,
from the apprehension ola superior force.
1t appears certain from the accounts bro't
by col. ReyneH, that Ney's division, under
the command OF Loison, had shown dis
position to assemble near Ciudad Rodrigo,
which may have been with the view only
ofperplexirg tie operations Of tho British
forces in that quarter: as we know that
lord Wellington, by Tie mere presence
Of lis army, greatly retarded the faa Of
Almeida, and yet without seriously Intend
ing to raise the seige Of that place by
lie risk OK battle. All this, however,
is mere conjecture. But il seems more
certain, whatever disposition the eneny
may have sIiewa TO !inser on the cCn:iues
Of Portugal, that they have nvt crossed
the Agueda that therefore in all proba-
billy, general Spencer, LIS not fallen BE-
hind the Goa /; and that there is as We. TO
demonstration OF tie return OF an hostile
force in such numbers as need induce us to
relinguislI the seige Of Aimeida.
Lord wellington did certainly in that
portion of lis despatch Which We quoted
yesterday, state his opinion, that :" the
enemy's army would not for some time he
in situation TO attempt the relief Of that
place :" neither, as We have shcwn, has
any thing so far a. is known here, yet oc-
Cured to eyiBce the cIrone0usncss o. his
judgment !; bu: even were it otherwise,
it is 10 such singular yicissitude in war,
that an event should have taken plaee
Unexpectedly, which merely demands the
presence of q general in one place, when
he thought it Wouid he more advantage
Gus uiat he should be in another, for we
DO nst hear that Lord Wellington either
withdrew any bedy Of troops from the ar.
my under Sir Brent Spencer, or is low
carrying am such back with him.
The letter from major general Cole to
marshal Bere.ford, contained in tie Ga
Zcttc, relates some minute occurrences
previously TO the fall CT O.iyeuea: With
the principal events we were before &C.
qaaiDted.
4 Cadiz mail arrived yesterday. The
contents Of the papers are deprived Oi
! their interest by the priority Of cOr!nG-
| nieat:cn in the Lisbon Gazettes. Al a.
tiele from Seville gives but :: sorry c.
count Of tie military streHgth and IesoGr-
ces 0: tie enemy IL that city ana Tia I'd
.,accnt ccuut-y. Letters Lave becn rcceIT-