" WM. COBBETT. State Prison, Newgate, Tuesday, 30th October, 1810. Talavera's dispatch, nothing, that I recol- particular troops of his Royal Highness, lect, is said about sick or magazines, and who covered themselves with glory and shewed as to what happened at Coimbra, after the themselves worthy emulators of their compavictory of Busaço, we, as yet, have no ac- nions in arms of the English army, and worcount, and I much question whether we thy inheritors of the glory of their anever shall! We know indeed, that Colonel | cestors.-The' enemy having, on the 25th, Trant, who was operating upon Mas- pushed forward his advanced posts to the "sena's communications," took 5,000 lower part of our position on the mountain, French at Coimbra, which were marched he established himself there, and during to Oporto, and 3,000 of whom were actu- the 26th concentrated the whole force ally put on board of ship to be sent to Eng of the three corps of his army. At six land; but we have never heard any thing o'clock in the morning of the 27th, he atabout magazines and sick.--Fear to the tacked our position with strong columns winds, however, for we know that, (if the at two different points, and a fire was mainCOURIER and MORNING POST have spoken tained with great vigour for about two hours truth) we have 100,000 British and Ger- and a half. The Portuguese troops who disman and Brunswicker troops, and Portu- tinguished themselves were all those who guese troops" equal to any in the world," had the good fortune to be at the points of posted behind strong lines, upon which attack, and consisted of the following are planted nearly 1,000 pieces of artil- corps :-The brigade of the 9th and 21st, lery; and that the Frenchman has not under the orders of Col. Champalimaud; much more than half the number of skin- and after that officer was wounded, under and-bone wretches, afflicted with the dy- Lieut.-Col. Sutton. The 8th regiment, sentery, without houses to cover them, and commanded by Lieut. Col. Douglas. The without any means of prolonging, for brigade of the 1st and 16th of the line, and many weeks, their miserable existence. 4th battalion of Caçadores, under the command of Brig-Gen. Pack. The brigade of the 7th and 19th, and the Caçadores, No. 2, under Brig.-Gen. Colman. The battalions of Caçadores, Nos. 1 and 3, with the English light division, and the 6th battalion of that brigade, commanded by Brigadier-General Campbell. Two brigades of artillery, under the immediate command of Major Arentschild, and two of the 3d division, which were posted more to the left. The only difference in the conduct of those troops consisted in the opportunities which afforded the different corps occasions for distinguishing themdu-selves. This may be called a glorious day for the Portuguese name, our troops having, by their behaviour, obtained the admiration and full confidence of the English Most Illustrious and most Excellent Se- army. The conduct of the 8th regiment, nor, I have the great satisfaction of an- under the command of Lieut.-Col. Dounouncing to your Excellency, for the in- glas, and in which Major Birmingham formation of his Royal Highness, that the distinguished himself, secured to it the allied army under the command of his glory, along with two English regiments, Excellency Marshal General Lord Vis- of dislodging the enemy from the heights, count Wellington, has defeated the ene- which he had gained, making him my's army under the command of Marshal pay dearly for his momentary adMassena, in an attempt which it made vantage. The 9th and 21st regiments against our position on the heights of Bu-have merited the complete approbation saco. As his Excellency the Marshal General will transmit to you, in order to be submitted to his Royal Highness, all the details of the movements and dispositions which led to this brilliant victory, I shall confine myself to what relates to the P. S. There is a humourous thing going on, in the Morning Post, about the Portuguese Conspiracy. I beg the reader to keep his eye upon it.- Let him also watch what is saying about Lucien Buonaparte. OFFICIAL PAPERS. PORTUGAL.-Marshal Beresford's Account of the Battle of Busaço, in a Letter, ted 30th Sept. at Combra, addressed to Don Miguel Pereira Forjaz. of Major-General Picton and Colonel Champalimaud, Lieut. Colonel Sutton, and Lieut.-Colonel Jose Maria de Araujo Bacellar, who commanded the 21st regiment, deserve the highest praise.-My thanks are due to Brigadier Genera made his movement towards our left. He left on the field of battle more than two thousand killed, and several of his Generals have been wounded. Brigadier General Simon was måde, prisoner, and the officers whom we have taken, say, that Generals Merle, Lacune, and Grandorge, are among the wounded. Pack, as well as to the corps which were try as the Portuguese troops displayed in under his orders, and also to the Com the battle of Buzaco, aided by the known manders of those corps, Lieutenants Co-valour of the English army, it is impossilonel Hill, and Luyz do Rego, and Major ble not to anticipate a favourable result Armstrong. The conduct of the battalion to our present contest, and not to be conof Caçadores, No. 4, deserves to be parti- vinced that the enemy will soon dearly cularly mentioned, both for its courage in pay for the devastation and cruelties which he the attack, and for the firmness with which has committed in Portugal. I cannot reit supported, during the whole day, the fire of frain from seizing this opportunity to acthe enemy. The battalion of Caçadores, knowledge the important services which I No. 1, commanded by Lieut. Col. Jorge have received on every occasion, from de Avilez, conducted itself extremely the talents and zeal of the Quarter Master well, and merits my highest commenda- General of the Army, Colonel D'Urban ; tions. The battalion No. 3, under the I have every reason to be satisfied with command of Lieut. Col. Elder, particularly the Adjutant General B ito Mozinho, and distinguished itself, and having to the re- with my Military Secretary, Brigadier *putation of discipline added that of valour, Lemos, both of whom accompanied me it is impossible that there can be any better during the battle; and also with all my troops than those which compose this battalion. Staff-1 subjoin a return of the loss of the The Brigade of Brigadier General Colman, army of his Royal Highness, in the battle consisting of the 17th and 19th, and the of the 27th. The loss of the eneiny must Caçadores, No. 2, merited also every eulo- have been immense, as appears from the gium, and equal praise is due to the Com-statements of the prisoners, and the manders of these corps, Colonels Palmei-wounded, whom he abundmed, when he rim and Jose Cardoso de Menece, Sottomaior, and Lieut. Col. Nixon. Five companies of the 19th regiment, under the immediate command of Lieut. Col. Macbean, made a charge with the bayonet on the enemy, which is particularly mentioned by all the Officers of both armies who saw it, as an act of most perfect gallantry, both on account of the discipline, and courage which the troops displayed. The battalion of Caçadores, No. 6, belonging to General Campbell's brigade, and commanded by Lieut. Col. Sebastian Pinto, behaved also very well, and deserve my thanks. The two brigades of artillery of the 9th and 6th, under the personal orders JULY.-Before quitting the banks of the of Major Arentschild, greatly distinguish- Guadiana, General Reynier, commanding ed themselves; they supported, with much the second corps of the army, caused an firmness during the whole battle, the fire of attack to be made on an enemy's corps 14 pieces of artillery, killed a great number which was in the mountains of Xeres de of the enemy, dismounted three of their guns, los Caballeros. Gen. Merle was charged and made two of his ammunition waggons with this expedition. He set out on the blow up. The other two brigades merit 5th of July from Feria, with his division equal approbation. All the Officers and and the brigade of dragoons of General soldiers of these corps have acted so as to Marizy. Having arrived near Salvatierra, render it my duty to convey to his Royal he met the advanced guard of the enemy, Highness an account of their good and ex- who at the sight of our troops took a posicellent conduct, which would have done ho- tion on a woody mountain; they were nour to the most veteran troops, for, by the immediately attacked, overthrown, and arowal of all the English Officers, they dis- pursued to another position, where some played equal discipline and valour. With other troops made resistance, and from respect to the troops not engaged, I ob- which they were also chased. The enemy served in them the most anxious desire to likewise held and defended two other very attack the enemy, and according to ap- strong positions, which our troops could pearances they will soon have the oppor-only attack by defiling one by one, and tunity they wish for. With such gallan- by leaping over the walls. But nothing FRENCH ACCOUNT Of the Military Operations in Spain and could stop the voltigeurs of the 2d and Spaniards, astonished at this movement, 3d regiments of light infantry. All the suspended their march, and thought only Spanish troops, to the number of 8,000, of defending themselves. Their Generat then concentrated themselves on the drew up his line in positions surrounded by heights near Xeres de los Caballeros, natural entrenchments, and awaited the which afforded positions still more strong, attack. General Girard made demonstraand the approach to which was extremely tions upon the centre, while Gen. Chauvil difficult. Gen. Merle ordered a halt, and marched to turn their left, and General directed several dispositions with the view Brayer observed their right. Two squad. of turning the attention of the enemy from rons of the enemy had the boldness to the point which he wished to attack; but charge the brigade Chauvil, which gave the ardour of the voltigeurs obliged him them a volley within pistol-shot, and deto hasten his attack. The 2d and 4th re-stroyed them in an instant. The position giments of Light Infantry carried all the of the left was immediately carried at the positions with the bayonet; and in spite point of the bayonet. At the same moof a very brisk fire on the part of the ment the brigade Brayer advanced, and Spaniards, they were precipitated from the with the bayonet carried the level part of mountains in the greatest disorder. The the ridge, which was defended by 5,000 regiment of the Princess, desirous of co- men. The two brigades now crowned vering their flight, formed itself into a the heights and the victory was decided. square near the bridge of the Ardilla. The enemy's cavalry made vain efforts General Marizy, who pursued it with 100 to cover the flight of their infantry; the dragoons, charged it, made 200 prisoners, voltigeurs united, charged them at full and killed the rest. The enemy then dis- speed, and the route became completepersed themselves entirely, and tled in The enemy lost in this affair 2,500 men small troops in all directions, vigorously killed or wounded, and 700 prisoners; pursued for several leagues.-The regi- we took from him four pieces of cannon, ments of the Princess, of the Union, and a and immense stores of provisions. Our battalion of Catalonians, which composed loss was 28 killed, and about 50 wounded; the best troops of this corps, were totally the most slightly.-Generals Chauvil and destroyed. The enemy had more than Brayer; Colonels Reymond, of the 34th 2,000 killed, among whom were some of-regiment; Chasseraux, of the 40th; Vificers of rank, and we have made 1,000 prisoners. Our loss only amounts to a few men killed, and twenty-seven wounded.-Generals Marizy, Sarrat, and Grain-chief of battalion Marquet, commanding dorge, as well as the Chief of Battalion Paris, of the 4th Light Infantry, and the Aide-de Camp Chevilly, particularly distinguished themselves in this affair.While the enemy was thus completely beaten at Xeres, General Gazan, of the 5th Corps, pursued upon the Lower Guadiana the division of Ballasteros, and drove it back upon Portugal.AUGUST.-The second corps of the army, however, having crossed to the right bank of the Tagus to join the army of Portugal, the enemy had been able to re-unite all his forces in Estremadura, and was able by replacing with Portuguese the garrisons of Badajoz, Campo Mayor, &c. to form a new corps of 10 or 12,000 infantry, and 900 cavalry, with which he had conceived the project of marching upon Seville.-The General of Division Girard was at this time in Estremadura. Informed of the march of the enemy upon Bienvenida, on the 11th of August he marched rapidly from Llerena pon that point by Villagarcia. The gent, of the 64th; the chief of the batta lion Monnot, commanding the 88th; Major Gaidon, of the 21st Chasseurs; the the Voltigeurs; Captain Gritte, of the 34th; Captain Levêque, of the 10th hussars; the Captain of Grenadiers Martin, of the 64th; Adjutant Lefebre, of the 88th; Andouard, officer of engineers, and the Aide-de-Camp Duroc-mesclop, have deserved praises for their good conduct, SEPTEMBER.-The English sent a division of Portuguese troops to reinforce Romana, and required that he should march forward. This assistance, and what he could collect of the remains of his troops, formed about 12,000 men. He put himself in march in the beginning of September, and advanced to the defiles which command Andalusia. He occupied Arecena, Santa Olalla, Monasterio, and Guadalcanal.-During his continu ance in that quarter, one of his divisions attacked, during four successive days, the post of Castillo de los Guardios, and was constantly repulsed, losing there 150 men. On the 6th of September, 2,000 men marched upon Fuente Ovejuna, where there were 96 men of the 51st regiment. | This detachment fought for 13 hours; at first at the entrance of the village, then in their quarters, in the church, and at last in the steeple; all the soldiers chose rather to die than surrender; surrounded on all sides they defended themselves with the greatest courage. The enemy had already lost 200 of his troops; despairing to vanquish with honour this handful of men, he set fire to the steeple, and the whole detachment was about to fall a prey to the flames, when the approach of some troops made the enemy take flight, and saved it. It had lost one-half of its number in this courageous defence.-In the mean time the Marshal Duke of Dalmatia assembled at El Requillo the 5th corps of the army, under the orders of the Marshal Duke of Treviso, for the purpose of driving back the enemy into the lower parts of Estremadura. Accordingly, this corps of the army, after having chased the troops which were in its front at Santa Olalla and Monasterio, arrived on the morning of the 15th Sept. near Fuente de Cantos, where the enemy's cavalry, to the number of 2,700, comprising 1,000 Portuguese, thought to make a stand, and oppose our passage. General Briche, commanding the cavalry, received orders to attack the enemy with his division. Every thing was overthrown, and put to the route; 500 cavalry, among whom was the Colonel of the regiment of the Infanta, and a great number of Officers, were made prisoners. Six pieces of light artillery were also taken with their draught horses and caissons: the enemy left a great number killed upon the spot, and that of their wounded was very considerable. We had eight killed, and 30 wounded.—The enemy precipitated his retreat; his consternation was complete, and he lost a great many men, by desertion. On the 16th, the Duke of Treviso was already at Zafra, and was continuing his operations. His reconnoitering parties had pushed on as far as Fuente del Maestro. Copons with 1,500 men marched from the frontiers of Portugal, and marched' rapidly upon the Rio Tinto, to cut off the retreat of the Duke of Aremberg. At-' tacked by a superior force, the Duke of Aremberg notwithstanding supported the combat with success during the whole. day, and in the evening took up a position at Villarasa, without suffering his troops to be broken. On the 25th he continued his retreat upon San Lucar Mayor, without the enemy daring to oppose it. Some detachments from the 5th corps joined the small column of the Duke of Aremberg. Lascy then stopped his march. General Pepin, who had taken the command of the troops at St. Lucar, marched against him without delay. On the morning of the 28th he attacked him at Manzanilla,. from whence he pursued him as far as Villalba. A corps of 300 Spanish cavalry having attempted resistance, the Duke of Aremberg, at the head of the 2d regiment of hussars, charged them immediately;" all who were not killed were taken, and on the 29th our troops re-entered Moguer. The enemy re-embarked in disorder during the night, leaving a great deal of property on the beach, and great part of their casks both empty and full. Thus this expedition, which had for its object. to re-victual Cadiz, and to make a diversion, kept in check by General Girard, produced nothing but disgrace to the enemy, who lost besides a great number of soldiers by desertion.SEPTEMBER.The want of water induced the besieged to attempt a new debarkation. It took place on the 15th of September at Moguer, whither Copons marched from the banks of the Guadiana to support it; but the Adjutant-Commandant Remoud, and the Duke of Aremberg, manoeuvred with so much promptitude, that Copons was soon come up with, beaten, and chased anew beyond Saint Bartholomew and Castaya, and the troops of Cadiz were again obliged to re-embark with precipitation. GRANADA AND MURCIA. with them any where. Two detachments only were overtaken within two leagues of Carthagena, and destroyed.-While the General was employed in this expedition, two bands of robbers from the Mountains of Granada united, forced some hundreds to join them, and proceeded to the environs of the town of Granada. Rollet, chief of squadron of the 16th regiment of dragoons, fell in with them on the 4th of September above Padal, completely routed and killed upwards of 400 of them, among whom was their leader. He also took some prisoners, their standard, and several horses. Those who escaped ficd to the mountains. In another quarter the English and the insurgents endeavoured to take advantage of the absence of General Sebastiani's corps to raise the country. There were seditions in some villages. Troops were landed near Alpujarras, and the castles of Mottril and Almunejar, where there were only some coast guards, were taken. After the affair of Padal, General Werle directed his march upon these two towns, which he found occupied in force; but the resistance he met with only contributed to encrease the enemy's loss. --The English were overwhelmed, and after leaving several dead on the place fled to their ships. The castles of Mottril and Almunejar, in which they had planted an additional number of guns, and supplied with provisions, fell into our power again. The civic guard of Grenada, the Spanish troop in that town, the company of town chasseurs, the guard of honour, the clergy, the several authorities of the Province, and all the persons of distinction, have on this occasion conducted themselves in a most praise-worthy manner. LA MANCHA. SEPTEMBER. The number of robbers decreases daily. They are so closely pursued that they have not time to establish themselves any where. A party of them had the impudence to make an attack on Thomellosée on the 2d of September. Colonel Baron Kruse was dispatched against them. He came up with them at Saquellamos; they consisted of 300 infantry and 200 cavalry.Colonel Kruse made such excellent movements, that upwards of 100 of them were killed, a greater number were wounded, and their baggage was taken by Colonel Kruse, who ordered the miserable remains of the gang to be pursued. The others are defeated in the 1 AUGUST.-General Suchet having received information that several thousand Valencians were marching towards Uldecona, for the purpose of attacking his advanced guard, dispatched on the 14th of August 100 hussars, under the command of Captain Galbois, of the staff, to reconnoitre. This officer fell in with 200 horse, which he' charged and pursued to Benecarlos, where having received a reinforcement, they appeared disposed to maintain themselves. There was a sharp and close action, in which Captain Galbois killed 25 men, took 42 prisoners, one of whom was an officer, and had only three hussars wounded. He learned in fact that a considerable corps from Valencia was proceeding by this route. General Suchet proceeded to meet it with several battalions and 800 cavalry, but the enemy did not wait for him; hey retired preci pitately by five or six different roads, leaving behind them 150,000 rations of biscuit, a great deal of baggage, and one standard. The advance guard only was able to come up with about 100 of them, The army of Catalonia has effected a junction with the 3d corps of the army; and the works for the siege of Tortosa are begun and carried on with great, activity, ARRAGON. AUGUST. On the 20th of August, Renouvier, Chief of battalion, commanding at Jaca, surprised at Anso, a notorious leader of robbers, with 30 of his followers, the residue of the gang. This leader, as well as 14 of his band, were killed on the spot, and 15 others taken and shot. This was the last of the leaders of robbers on the left bank of the Ebro, where they did much mischief to the inhabitants.-The Arragonese are animated with the best spirit; they occupy themselves only in their ordinary business, and can travel throughout the whole province without a guard. (To be continued.) Publ she by 2. BAGSHAW, Prydges-Street, Covent Garden :-Sold also by J. BUDD, Pall-Mal. LONDON:-Printed by T. C. Hansard, Peterborough-Court, Fleet-Siteet, |