the heavy artillery employed in the summer in the siege of that place. My last report from Cadiz is dated the 13th of March. I have not heard from Sir Wm. Beresford since the 1st inst. At that time he hoped to be able to blockade Badajoz on the 3d. I learn by letters of the 30th March, received this day from the South of Portugal, that after Gen. Zayas had landed his corps at Huelva and Morguer, the Duke d'Aremberg moved upon Morguer from Seville with 3,000 infantry and 800 cavalry, upon which the Spanish troops embarked again. It is stated that the cavalry had lost some of their equipments. WELLINGTON.

I am, &c. Names of Officers, Killed, Wounded, and Missing.

Killed: 95th Foot, Brig.-Maj. Stewart Lieutenant); 1st Batt. 43d. Lieut. J M' Dearmid; 1st Batt. 95th, Hon. D. Arbuthnot.

Wounded: 2d Batt. 5th Foot, Lieut. St. Clair, Ensign Williams, severely; 1st Batt. 43d, Maj. Patrickson, slightly; Capt. Dalzel and Lieut. Rylance, severely; Lieut. W. Frier, slightly; Lieut. J. Creighton, severely; 1st Batt. 52d, Capt. P. Campbell and Lieut. J. Gurwood, severely, not dangerously; 95th, Lieut.-col. Beckwith and Second Lieut. W. Haggup, slightly.

Missing: 1st Portuguese Foot, Lieut.Col. Waters (late 1st Foot.)

Total British Loss.1 General Staff, Lieutenants, 1 Serjeant, 15 rank and file, 8 horses, killed; 1 General Staff, 1 Major, 2 Captains, 5 Lieutenants,

Ensigns, 8 Serjeants, 2 Drummers, 117 rank and file, 11 horses, wounded; 4 rank and file and 1 horse missing.

Total Portuguese Loss. 1 rank and file killed; 9 rank and file wounded; 1 Lieut.-Colonel missing.

Foreign-Office, April 25. Extract of 2 Dispatch received by the Marquis Wellesley from C. Stuart, Esq. his Majesty's Minister at Lisbon, dated April 13, 1811.

Marshal Beresford having complet ed the bridges over the Guadiana,

crossed that river on the 5th inst. On the 7th the French attacked his advanced posts in the neighbourhood of Olivenga, but were repuised with loss. The French withdrew the garrisons, excepting 300 men, from Olivença, and three battalions from Badajoz, on the same day. The whole corps of Mortier, consisting of 6000 men, took up a position between Albaeira and Sta. Martha on the 8th. Telegraphic accounts, dated the 12th, mention that the French have since retired by the road to Seville;

and that Marshal Beresford's headquarters were on the 11th in Albaeira, and on the 12th in Sta. Martha. The division of Gen. Cole besieges Olivença, The accounts from the frontier of Algarve, dated on the 4th, state, that until the 1st of this month, Marshal Soult had not quitted Seville.

Downing-street, April 30. Extract of a Dispatch received by Lord Liverpool, addressed to his Lordship by Lieut.-gen. Viscount Wellington, dated Nissa, 18th April, 1811.

Having made arrangements for the blockade of Almeida, and having reason to believe that the Enemy's army will not be in a situation for some time to attempt to relieve that place, even if they should be so inclined, I have taken advantage of the momentary discontinuance of active operations in that quarter to go to Estremadura to the corps under Marshal Beresford, and I have got thus far on my way. Lieut.-gen. Sir B. Spen⚫cer remains in command of the corps on the frontiers of Castile. Nothing of importance has occurred in that quarter. since I addressed your Lordship on the 9th inst. The Enemy retired entirely from the Agueda; and, it is reported, that some of their troops had gone back as far as Zamora and Toro, upon the Douro. Marshal Sir W. Beresford was not able to effect his passage across the Guadiana as soon as he expected; and the Enemy have introduced some provisions into Badajoz and Olivença. Sir W. Beresford's advanced guard crossed the Guadiana on the 4th inst.; and I ain concerned to report that a squadron of the 13th Light Dragoons, which were on picquet under Maj. Morres, were surprised, on the night of the 6th, by a detachment of the Enemy's cavalry from Olivença. I have not received the return of the loss upon this occasion, but I am informed that the whole of the squadron, with the exception of 20 men, were taken prisoners. The Enemy have since retired, as I am informed, entirely from Estremadura, leaving small garrisons in Badajoz and Olivença. Marshal Sir W. Beresford has taken a position to invest both Badajoz and Olivença. A detachment of the 5th army, which is now commanded by Gen. Castanos, is, I understand, at Merida. last addressed your Lordship, General Zayas had again landed the troops under his command, and had again embarked them, and returned to Cadiz. General Ballasteros' division alone, therefore, continues in the Condado de Niebla ; but, from a letter from Mr. Wellesley of the 11th, I learn that Gen. Blake

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Foreign-office, Downing-street, April 30. Dispatches were this morning received by the Marquis Wellesley from Charles Stuart, Esq. his Majesty's Minister at Lisbon, under date the 20th inst. stating that the garrison of Olivença, consisting of 310 men, surrendered at discretion to the Allied Army on the 14th inst. and was marched to Elvas. Marshal Mortier, with 4000 men, was in the neighbourhood of Llerena, having detached a moveable column, under Gen. Mortiniere, by the way of Almarez, towards Toledo. Gen. Beresford, with that part of the Allied Army which does not form the siege of Badajoz, was in the neighbourhood of Santa Martha. The corps of Gen. Ballasteros had its head quarters in Seguro de Leone on the 12th. His cavalry was at Zafra on the 13th, on which day Lord Wellington left Villa Formosa on the Coa, to join the army in Estremadura. - The brilliant successes of the Allied Army have been celebrated by every demonstration of joy which can mark the gratitude of the Portuguese for the exertions of the British in their behalf, and for the satisfaction inspired by the salvation of their country. Te Deum has been sung in the Churches; the city has been illuminated; and shortly after the publication of the Proclamation enclosed in a former dispatch, the letters, of which I have the honour to enclose copies, were addressed to. Lord Wellington and Marshal Beresford, by the Government and the Minister.

Downing-street, May 7. Extract of a Dispatch addressed to Lord Liverpool by Lieut.-gen Viscount Wellington, dated Portalegre, April 25.

I have the honour to inform you, that since I addressed you, I have been in Estremadura, from whence I am now on my return to the troops stationed between the Agueda and the Coa. I have the honour to enclose the report of Marshal Sir William Beresford, on the surprise of a squadron, 13th Light Dragoons, on the night of the 6th instant, together with a return of the loss upon

that occasion. Sir Wm. Beresford employed the 4th division, under the command of the Hon. Maj.-gen. Cole, in the attack on Olivenza, which place surrendered at discretion on the 15th inst. I have the honour to enclose the report of the Hon. Maj-gen. Cole to Sir William Beresford, and returns of ordnance, arms, &c. and prisoners taken in the place. As Sir William Beresford deemed it desirable to oblige the Enemy to retire from the province of Estremadura entirely, before he should commence his operations against Badajoz, he moved forward with this view, while Maj.-gen. the Hon. G. L. Cole was engaged in the attack upon Olivença, as well as to give support and protection to Gen. Ballasteros's division of Spanish troops, which had been obliged to retire from Freyenal successively upon Xeres de los Caballeros and Salvatiera on the 13th and 14th instant, by a division of French troops under the command of Gen. Maransin. The Marshal marched on the 15th to Santa Martha, and on the 16th to Los Santos, where the British and Portuguese cavalry fell upon a body of the Enemy's cavalry, and took 160 prisoners, and killed and wounded a great many. The cavalry conducted themselves with the utmost steadiness and good order. The Enemy having retired to Guadalcanal, and the corps under Gen. Maransin having retired through the Sierra, the troops were put in motion to return to the Northward, and to take their stations for the operations of the siege of Badajoz; and the Marshal met me at Elvas on the 21st. We reconnoitred Badajoz on the 22d, escorted by the two light battalions of the King's German Legion, and two squadrons of Portuguese cavalry. They brought three battalions out of the town, which skirmished with our troops; but I have not yet received the returns of our loss upon this occasion. As the preparations for the siege are nearly completed, the place would by this time have been regularly invested, only that on the night of the 23d the floods in the Guadiana carried away the bridge which Sir W. Beresford had, with great difficulty, constructed under Jarainenha; and the river was no longer fordable any where. Under these circumstances I yesterday desired him to delay the operations of the siege, till he should have been able to re-establish his bridge, or until the Guadiana should again become fordable; still keeping Badajoz blockaded as closely as might be in his power.

Olivença, April 16. SIR, My letter of yesterday by my Aide-de-camp, Captain Roverca, will

have informed your Excellency of the surrender of this place, the particulars attending which I had deferred stating, to prevent any delay in your receiving this information. I have now the honour to report, that on the night of the 12th instant (the morning of which your Excellency left the camp), we took possession of an inclosed lunette which the Enemy had left unoccupied in front of the San Francisco gate, and distant from the curtain about 250 yards. As the only entrance into the work was through a gate in rear of it, much exposed to a fire of musketry from the place, we were under the necessity of making another passage for the artillery at the outward angle, which was executed, and a breach ing battery of four guns completed on the evening of the 13th ; and I had hopes, as I stated in my letter to your Excellency of that day, that we should have been able to have got the guns into it in the course of the night, but in which I was disappointed; for notwithstanding every exertion was made on the part of Maj. Dixon, of the Portuguese, Artillery, it was found impossible to effect it, from the badness of the road and the eircuit they were obliged to take to avoid the fire of the place. We were, therefore, under the necessity of deferring it until the following night, as the lunette was too much exposed to the fire of the place, to attempt it during the day. Having succeeded in getting the guns into the battery during the night, and got every thing ready before day-break on the 15th, and also established two flanking batteries of field-pieces, I sent a summons to the governor, a copy of which I have the honour to inclose, with his answer, which being a refusal to accept the terms I offered, our fire immediately commenced, and was returned with some spirit from the town. At 11 o'clock a white flag was hoisted by the Enemy, and an officer came out, with a letter from the Governor, a copy of which I have the honour to inclose, with my answer, and the Governor's reply, to which I sent none, and recommenced our fire. After a few rounds, a white flag was again hoisted, and they surrendered at discretion, and the Franciscan Gate was taken possession of by the grenadier company of the 11th Por

tuguese regiment.

The choice of the situation of the batteries, and the expedition with which they were complet ed, do great credit to Capt. Squire's (Chief Engineer) judgment and activity; and I am free to say, that it has been principally owing to his exertions, and those of Maj. Dixon, that 1 am indebted for the speedy surrender of the place; and I feel great satisfaction in saying, that the conduct of the Portuguese artillery employed in the breaching battery was highly creditable: To the fire kept up by the British light companies, and the Rifle companies of the 60th and Brunswick regiments, under Majors Pearson and Birmingham, and the flank companies of Col. Harvey's Portuguese brigade, I principally attribute the trifling loss we sustained. I have the honour to enclose the return of casualties, as also of the ordnance found in the place, and of the number of prisoners taken. G. LOWRY COLE. Return of Casualties in the Allied Army at the Siege of Olivença, under the Command of Maj.-gen. Cole.

Total 4 rank and file killed; 10 rank and file wounded.

R. EGERTON, Capt. Dep.-Assist.-Adj.-Gen. Return of wounded, made prisoners, and

missing in the Allied Army, under the command of Marshal Sir W. C Beresford, K. B. April 7, Camp on the left bank of the Guadiana. 13th Light Dragoons 3 rank and file wounded; 1 Major (Morris) 1 Lieut. (Moss) 1 troop serjeant-major, 2 trumpeters, 49 rank and file, 65 horses, 2 mules, prisoners - 1s Batt. 40th Foot, 97th Foot,

I wounded, I prisoner 3 wounded, 2 prisoners. T.REYNELL, Lieut.-col. Assist.-Adj.-Gen, Return of Spanish Prisoners released at the Capture of Olivença.

9 Officers, 80 Non-commissioned Officers and rank and file. Total 89. Return of Officers, &c, composing the.

French garrison of Olivença.

1 Colonel, Lieut.-colonel, I Captain, 6 Subalterns, 16 Medical Officers, 3 Commissariat Department, 357 Noncommissioned officers and rank and file effective: 96 sick and wounded in hospital - Total 481.

R.EGERTON, Capt. Dep.-Assist.-Adj. Gen.

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made when attacked by Mortier, with an army infinitely superior to the garrison, is, to have, bf al Regency, a motto,. 0011

of nat of day order of the elow the shield of

its armorial bearing, in these words, "Loyalty and Valour."

The circumstances attending the capture of Figueras were as follows-Some Catalonian soldiers, whom the French had forced into their service, sent intelligence to Colonel Roviras, who commanded a body of 1,500 Catalonians, that if they would approach the place at night, they would open one of the sallyports to his troops. Accordingly on the night of the 10th of April, Colonel Roviras with his party entered the citadel of Figueras, and, after putting to death the only sentry who discovered them, he so completely surprised the whole garrison in their beds, that not a shot was fired, or the smallest opposition made; and the whole garrison, consisting of one thousand men, and forty officers, were taken prisoners.

The Cortes have decreed, amongst other resources for carrying on the present war, the sale of the Royal domains; reserving, however, the palaces, with the forests and territory immediately adjacent to these edifices.

King Joseph quitted Madrid for France on the 27th; left Gen. Nagrita, Regent; and gave out that he should return in two months.

Letters, dated Gibraltar, 5th inst. mention, that a strong detachment of French from Malaga had attacked the town of Estepona (near that garrison), which was defended only by the peasantry of the place; and after three hours' hard fighting, the French were obliged to make a hasty retreat back to Malaga.

Lord Wellington has, it is reported, sought permission of the Cortes to raise two corps of Spaniards, of 20,000 men each, to be clothed, subsisted, officered, an paid at the expence of Great Britain.

The Lisbon Gazette lately contains a long article, intituled "Considerations on the Retreat of Massena" in which it is shewn that Massena had in view to Occupy the North of Portugal. After pointing out the manner in which the execution of this scheme was disappointed, the Writer states the loss sustained by the Enemy in the retreat; and of this part of the article we have made the following abstract:

Loss of the Enemy from Santarem to the Alva.

Died on the road, or taken prisoners on the way to Pombal

300

Killed or taken in Pombal

200

In the action in which the British Light Division defeated the 2d French Corps 1500 After this action Major-Gen. Erskine routed a division of the 9th French corps near Almeida; but the loss on this oe casion is not stated. Having finished the details from which we have extracted the above enumeration, the writer of the Gazette proceeds to make the following observations:

"Massena, consequently in his retreat, lost more than 12,000 men, and therefore left behind him a fourth part of his army; since it is generally reported that, when he last reviewed it, it did not exceed from 44 to 45,000 men, He lost the greater part of his artillery and baggage, withdrawing his garrisons from Almeida and Ciudad Rodrigo; and what is more, Lord Wellington was able to detach an army, under the orders of General Beresford, to the South of the Tagus, whose operations have been highly favourable. The reconquering of Campo Mayor, Olivenza, and the blockade of Badajoz, are owing to the ill-combined retreat of General Massena, and to the skilful manoeuvres of Lord Wellington, who always compelled him to abandon his positions. We shall finish these considerations with an important note:-Massena was obliged to retreat by a road very confined; and his plan of devastation did not extend more than a league in diameter; such was the vivacity and promptitude with which he was pursued! To set on fire and destroy the places through which he passed, is not a proof of tranquillity of spirit, nor the effect of his good retreat; it is nothing but the result of the desperation of his heart; the effect of that degree of cruelty and degradation to which the French hosts have arrived. A few companies in the rear were sufficient to set all the places on fire through which they passed. In many places our people extinguished the fire a few minutes after these barbarians lighted it. The recollection of these detestable people will remain much longer than the mischief they have done us."

DEFEAT

DEFEAT OF MASSENA NEAR ALMEIDA, We have the pleasure of announcing to our readers, the intelligence of another brilliant and decisive advantage obtained by Lord Wellington over Marshal Massena. The official letters of Lord Wellington, published on the 26th inst. in a Gazette Extraordinary, will be given in our next. Soon after their arrival the intelligence was communiIcated to the Lord Mayor, in the following letter from the Earl of Liverpool:

"Downing street, May 25.

"MY LORD,-Dispatches have been received from Lord Wellington, dated the 8th and 10th instant, by which it appears that the Enemy's whole army, consisting of the 2d, 6th, and 8th corps, and all the cavalry which could be collected in Castile and Leon, including 900 of the Imperial Guard, together with some battalions of the 9th corps, crossed the Agueda at Ciudad Rodrigo on the 2d instant, and on the 3d and 5th made two desperate attacks on the British army, for the purpose of relieving Almeida. The contest, though very severe, especially on the 5th, terminated in the complete repulse of the Enemy, and the allied army continuing to hold its position.

"On the 7th, at night, the French army retired from the position which they occupied on the preceding day on Duas Casas. On the 8th the enemy continued their retreat to the woods between Gallegos, Espejas, and Fuentes de Honor. On the 9th they crossed the Azava, and the 10th the Agueda, leaving Almeida to its fate. In the action of the 3d of May the British loss consisted in 22 killed and 431 wounded; that of the Portuguese 14 killed and 33 wounded. On the 5th the British loss consisted of 148 killed and 872 wounded. The Portuguese loss 50 killed and 158 wounded. The number of the Allies missing on the two days amounted to 316. The enemy's loss appears to have been very great in killed, wounded, and prisoners, but no return has been transmitted of the exact amount,

From the 1st January, 1811, to the 28th, there had only entered Spain by Bayonne, 600 infantry and 180 horse.

Down to the 26th February, 1811, there had been marched into France by way of Irun, 48,228 Spaniards, Portuguese, &c. prisoners.

From 1807 to 1811, not more than 53,000 of the French troops returned to France.

STATEMENT OF THE FRENCH FORCE WHICH

ENTERED PORTUGAL.

Before the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, the grand total was 105,000 men, deducting 2000 sick.

They lost in the siege of Rodrigo 6 or 7000 men.

Regnier lost in Estremadura 4000

men.

Massena entered Portugal with 70,000 men, to which is to be added the 9th corps, which raised his force to 88,000. FRANCE.

The Paris Theatres have all brought out new pieces on the occasion of the birth' of the King of Rome" Le Berceau”— "La Nouvelle Telegraphique”—“ La bonne Nouvelle"-L'Espoir realisée""La Buche celeste"- -are all analogous to the grand event;-and amid these fooleries, not a thought is wasted on their army in Portugal.

The commercial embarrassments at Paris increase daily; and the distress occasioned by the last three failures was most extensive. The house of Pierlot and Co. one of those that failed, was in the direction of the French Bank, one of the Receivers-General of the Empire, and private Banker to the Empress Josephine.

The Paris papers contain Victor's report of the battle of Barrosa; being the 3d version of the story given by the French Government. It represents the whole of the Allied Army, which it mag-" nifies to 22,000 men, of which 8000 were British, as engaged at the same time. The Enemy have been more frank in confessing the amount of their loss than we expected. They acknowledge to