The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-04-23


my under Lord Wellington, who. n w..
rehorted, was at Co,mbra ION the Mont
gro a6out ninety miles from Lisbon on th,
I2,h.-rhat numbers of French prisonsrs
were daily arriving in Lisbon--one Thousand
five hundred having been made immedia,eIv
previous to the retreat OF Massena. anc
hat on the first days OF March very cons;.-
aersSis endorsements fs:G:ea at ZEN mon.
sand, had arrived in L,sbon, from G,ear
Britain and marched tojcin the army and
assist in driving The French invading war
dogs from Portugal and establishing the in.~
dependence o. that Kingdom.
Capt. FOSTER did not bring INV Lisbon
papers; and we have only S. en- one OF the 4
18th March, which came inclos.d in Ter.
ter. The official accounts of the retrea.
of the French must have been publ;shed in
preceding papers, as we find in thar ot,he
18th hume rous remarks on the events which
made the retreat of the invaders inc v;,a.
BILE. 1t appears, that the first obiec, rs
Prince Massena, after the battle of Busu-
co.v. was, by rapid march 20 plant ,h,
Imperial Eagles on the walls of Lisbon. and
drive the English into the Tagus or the sea-.
This he boasted he would do; and in the
attempt, he was guilty of SO much i,nprovi,.
dence, that his whole medical staff. with
his sick and wounded. fell into the hands oe
his enemy; and neglected measures for ,hr.
establishment of magazines to supply his
army. The Moniteur squints at this imn,o.
violence, but apologies for the first and a
blest OF Napoleon's L,eutenants, by impu-
ting 1t to the ardeucy of his desire to over.
take the English before they should drown
themselves In this attempt, he was com.
pletei, frus rated by the skill, prudence
and foresight of Lord Wellington. com
mandng an inferior force OF which ereas
part was Portuguese militia Massena,a
next attempt, was to pass to the lett bank
of the Tagus but in this he was also foil.
ed by the talents of his opponent, assisted
by the energy of rhe British tars and the
ar famed legions of France, led by host
OF Marshals. and which had passed the
Rhine the Danube and the Pc in triumph.
were unable To pass the Tagus, rvuiet.
compared with those mighty streams. His
pext scheme was, by rapid retreat q IN.
duce Lord Wellington 10 quit his entrr CHI.
ed camp, and attack him at Santa, IT,
But the rnsSe de gnerre was too sha low . or
tn be seen through. Duriug these al. eo,pt,.
the French army experienced erea, debri
vsuons, their line OF COMMUNICATION with
| Spain being frequently cutoff, the supoj;cs
Of the army precarious and those aimed
| of very bad quality. Inaclion desc i'm.
| sickness and death were thu consequence
particularly from diarrheas and putr,d fe
vers, occasioned by the bad qaali; o, the
| eats Consumed without salt and tie Lis
bon Gazette states, that of $4,000 cav.trv
which entered Portugal last summer. only
/ 5000 were fit for service in the month of Fe-
bruary --fhe retreaI of Tho French ,.ccel~
lerated by the reinforcements they h d re-
ceived became unay oidable they cook he
desolated road by which they ad,anced to-.
wards Lisbon and the paper adds tnar
their lossin men, horses and equipaee. had
been immense. This is highly prcbabe
! from the srate of the country through winch
the retreat was made, AID the PROFANITY of
the allied army to them ia that r. reat.
| Capt. FOSTER also informs, that ~ the
18th March, an ofieial account reach Il Lis
bon, that a Spanish and English force had
entered Seville This fact Capt. f vas
assured was authentic --We had be ore
learnt, that OF the French corps in ,nda
lusia, the one under Soult had marcned ror.
and penetrated into the centre of the por.
,uguese province Of Alentejo; and tina.
Mortier mad also. advanced into Spanish
Estremadura, with his corps. This must
have left the French army in Andalas,a. nor
Immediately employed in the siege of Cadiz
in reduced state; and il is possible. The
expedition from Cadiz which sailed The last
of February. and which made denaonsfra-
lion tothe southwark of that port mad ac-
tually sailed to the northward, and iscm
barking near the mouth of the GuadaIom ,.r
had peue trated to Seville, a distance NJ a
bout so miles from she coast.
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