Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-08-16

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rieuce to give him claim to SUCH a dls.,"-
ruished and highly important commanu.
AIthoush we have little doubt, that as
the French army advanced. Lord wei
lington has retreated !; there does not
However appear to be as much haste In
his movements, as some OF our paper.
reprcsent. Our readers will discover iha'
the last official letter from ordWeliinS-
! ton. was published in the Ledger OF TIC
ad inst, and was dated the 18th OF june
we find him on the goth not ten miles
from the same place. and that not In a
direction towards Lisbon. From the 17'h
to the goth Of June, tue allied army re-
NAMED in the same positions. !.
We have no advices from the north OF
Portugal, the verbal accounts say there IS
nothing doing in that quarter, every nerve
being strained in the south.
Markets were very bad for provisions
vessels daily arriving, and no sale for their
caryoes, nor places to store them. Corn
was at one and half dollars per bushel,
and very dull at that, Flour was - DOL
lars and no sale.
Translated FOR THE PUBLIC LEDGER,
LISBON, June %.
Extract of an official despatch from Lord
wellington to his Ercellency Miguel
Pereira ForjaS, datad head quarters
Quiuto dc st. Joao, June 20, 1911.
The advance of the enemy, composed
of o 900 men, moved forward to Los San
tos, on the morning Of the 18th. In con-
sequence of which movement, lieutenant
Streeniyitz Of the 2tst egiment OF dra-
soons was ordered by Sir William Frs
kline, to reconnoitro the enemy with
small detachment Of the sd hussars, and
Sd dragoon guards; this detachment dis
tinguished itself in charge which it
made upon superior force efthe enemy,
from which it took some prisoners.
had given orders, that, in case the
enemy should advance, to raise the seige
or blockade of Badajos /; and that the ca
valry of the I'd and Eth divisions of the
anglo Lusitanian army, and the Spanish
troops under Geu. Blake should unite, &
l set out that night for Albuera, to super
intend the movement of the troops. l
also ordered to be put in motion, on the
night of the 18th. Gen. Hamilton's diyi-
sion, by withdrawing it from the blockade
of Badaios, as I had determined to give
battle to the enemy, if only the army of
the south was advancing. On the night
of the firth; Lieut.. Ayling who had been
ordered to watch the enemy's motions,
arrived-at Albuera, with the information
that the advanced guard of the army:of
Portugal date Masscna's) had in its march
from CASTLE, entered the city ofTruxillo,
on. the evening of the 18th instant, this
information coroborated what I had learn
ed ON the, 18th, relative to the march of
this army. AS the enemy could form a
junction with tire army of the south, by
the 18th, at Merida, determined to raise
the blockade of Badajos, and accordingly
ordered the combined army to recross
the Gaadiana on the 17lh, which was ef-
fccted, without any difficulty, or loss of
any article whatever, at the same time
General Blake, with the Spanish army
crossed it at Jerumenlla.
Since that period the allied army has
been encamped in the woods, upon the
river Caya, near Tore de MOribo, with
its right upon that river the Sd and 9TH
divisions with the cavalry under brigadier
general Madden at Campo Major. The
troops under the command of lieut.. gen.
sir Brent Spence, on the frontiers of Cas-
tile, crossed the Tagus at Villa Vslha,
while the enemy crossed at Almarez, the
whole body is at present posted along the
Caya, between this place and Arronches.
The enemy's advanced guard appeared
this. day in the vicinity of Badajos; and l
am persuaded the whole army will con-
centrate tomorrow at or near Merida.
The enemy has now collected all the
forces that were in CASTLE, in Madrid, &
what is called the Army of the Centre
also the whole force that was in Amlalu-
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