with the 48th, 52d, and 95th regiments, and the 3d Portuguese casadores, and driven down with immense loss.-Brig.Gen. Cleman's brigade of Portuguese infantry, which was in reserve, was moved up to support the right of BrigGen. Crawford's division, and a battalion of the 19th Portuguese regiment, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Macbean, made a gallant and successful charge upon a body of another division of the enemy, which was endeavouring to penetrate in that quarter.-In this attack Brigadier-Gen. Crawfurd, Lieut.Cols. Beckwith of the 95th, and Barclay of the 52d, and the commanding officers of the regiments engaged distinguished themselves. Besides these attacks, the light troops of the two armies were engaged through out the 27th, and the 4th Portuguese casadores, and the 1st and 16th regiments, directed by Brigadier.-General Pack, and commanded by Lieut.-Col. de Rego Bonito, Lieut.-Col. Hill, and Major Armstrong, shewed great steadiness and gallantry. The loss sustained by the enemy in his attack on the 27th has been enormous. I understand that the general of division Merle and General Maucum are wounded, and General Simon was taken prisoner by the 52d regiment, and S colonels, 33 officers, and 250 men. The enemy icft 2000 killed upon the field of battle, and I understand from the prisoners and desorters that the loss in wounded is immense. The enemy did not renew his attack, excepting by the fire of his light troops on the 28th, but he moved a large body of infantry and cavalry on the left of his centre to the rear, from whence I sa his cavalry in march on the road which leads from Mortagoa over the mountains towards Oporto. saw Having thought it probable that he would endeavour to turn our left by the road, I had directed Col. Trant, with his division of militia, to march to Sardao, with the intention that he should occupy those mountains, but unfortuuately he was sent round by Oporto by the general officer commanding in the North, in consequence of a small detachment of the enemy being in possession of St. Fedro de Sul; and, notwithstanding the efforts which he made to arrive in time, he did not reach Sardao till the 28th at night, after the enemy was in possession of the ground. As it was probable that in the course of the night of the 20th the enemy would throw his whole army upon that road by which he could avoid the Sierra de Busaco, and reach Coimbra by the high road to Oporto, and thus the army would have been exposed to be cut off from that town, or to a general action en less favourable ground; and as I had reinforcements in my rear, I was induced to withdraw from the Sierra de Busaco. The enemy did break up in the mountains at eleven at night of the 28th, and he made the march expected. His advanced guard was at Avelans, in the road from Oporto to Combra, yesterday, and the whole army was seen in march through the mountains. That under my command, however, was already in the low country, between the Sierra de Busaco and the sea; and the whole of it, with the exception of the advanced guard, is this day on the left of the Mondego. Although from the unfortunate circumstance of the delay of Col. Trant's arrival at Sardao, I am apprehensive that I shall not succeed in effecting the object which I had in view in passing the Mondego, and in occupying the Sierra de Busaco, I do not regret my having done so. This movement bas afforded me a favourable opportunity of shewing the enemy the description of troops of which this army is composed: it has brought the Portuguese levies into action with the enemy for the first time in an advantageous situation; and they have proved that the trouble which has been taken with them has not been thrown away; and that they are worthy of contending in the same ranks with British troops, in this interesting cause, which they adord the best hopes of saving. Throughout the contest upon the Sierra, and in all the previous marches, and in those which we have since made, the whole army has conducted themselves in the most regular manner. Accordingly all the operations have been carried with ease, the soldiers have suffered no privations, have undergone no unnecessary fatigue, there has been no loss of stores, and the army is in the highest spirits. I have received throughout the service the greatest assistance from the general and staff officers.-Lient.-General Sir Brent Spencer, has given me the assistance which his experience enables him to afford me, and I am particularly indebted to the adjutant and the quarter-master-general, and the officers of their departments, and to Lieut.-Col. Bathurst, and the officers of my personal staff, to Brigadier-General Howarth, and the artillery, and particularly to Lieut.-Colonel Fletcher, Captain Chapman, and the officers of the royal engiI must likewise mention Mr. Kennedy, and the officers of the commissariat, which department has been carried on most successfully. I should not do justice to the service, or to my own feelings, if I did not take this opportunity of drawing your lordship's attention to the merits of Marshal Beres neers. ford. To him exclusively, under the Portuguese government, is due the merit of having raised, formed, disciplined, and equipped the Portuguese army, which has now shown itself capable of engaging and defeating the enemy. I have besides received from him, upon all occasions, all the assistance which his experience and abilities, and knowledge of this country, have qualified him to afford me. The enemy has made no movement in Estramadura, or in the Northern provinces, since I addressed your lordship last.-My last accounts from Cadiz are of the 9th inst. I inclose a return of the killed and wounded of the allied armies in the course of the 25th, 26th, 27th, and 28th inst. I send this dispatch by my aid-de-camp Captain Burgh, to whom I beg to refer your lordship for any fur ther details, and to recommend him to your lordship's notice., I have the honour to be, &c. Return of killed and wounded. General Total-Forty-one officers, 30 serjeants, 4 drummers, 1183 rank and file, British and Portuguese, killed and wounded. FROM THE FOREIGN PRINTS. The Appollo frigate arrived on the 19th. at Portsmouth from Lisbon, after the uncommonly short passage of one hundred hours. She brought dispatches from Lord Wellington, the substance of which were criculated among the government offices, in the following bulletin:"Dispatches were this morning received from Lord Wellington and Mr. Stuart, of the 14th inst. They state that his lordship, aware of the distressed situation of the enemy, and in pursuance of the plan which he had formed, had fallen back to Torres Vedras,intending there, should the enemy persist in advancing, to give battle with all the advantages, of ground, &c. in his favour. "The right of the allied force was at Alhandra, and the left at Torres Vedras. During the movement from Arcobaco they had not been molested, but some well contested affairs had taken place between the cavalry of the two armies, in which the British and Portuguese cavalry had greatly distinguished themselves. The rains had set in on the 8th, and the roads were so broken up that Massena, it was supposed, would not be able to bring up his heavy artillery. The country was likewise so wasted and deserted, that Massena had only a choice of army, on the difficulties left. Our contrary, was well provisioned, sheltered from the rains in the villages under huts, while the enemy was severely exposed to them. Our force was in the highest spirits, anxious for the conflict, and confident as to the result. "Colonel Trant, with the Portuguese militia, was harassing the eneIt was reported at head-quar my. ters, on the authority of letters from Corunna, of the 14th. that he enter ed Coimbra on the 7th, from whence he drove the French and took 5,000 prisoners. Most of them are supposed to have been wounded in the battle of Busaco. The prisoners were expected at Oporto on the 11th. "Colonel Wilson, with another Portuguese corps, was at Busaco, and Romana was hastening by forced marches from Badajos to join the British army." Dispatches were also received from Admiral Berkeley, who had given notice to the inhabitants of Lisbon that, should it become necessary to embark the military, the transports would not be more than sufficient for the conveyance of the troops, and an embargo had been suggested on the shipping in the port, to give every facility in the event of disaster. The situation of the capital was very distressing. The country people in a condition of rags and misery, driven before the armies, were flocking in from all quarters, and these houseless mendicants and fugitives crowded the streets and avenues of the place. The first intelligence of Lord Wellington's retreat to the neighbourhood of Lisbon, created the utmost consternation in the mercantile people. Indeed, it would appear, that their fears where not wholly unfounded. At a meeting of the British factory on the 6th, the merchants who were present, were informed officially by the consul, in behalf of Admiral Berkeley, "that though he (the Admiral) had every hope of success from the talents of Lord Wellington and the bravery of the army, yet a reverse might happen, and in that case, as the transport tonnage was barely sufficient for the service of his Majesty, he could render the merchants no assistance whatever, and recommended their taking such measures as they thought best for the safety of their effects and persons." An application was in consequence made to Mr. Stuart, to ask from the Regency an order for the embarkation of property free of duties. Lisbon, Oct. 6.-Our head-quarters are at Leirea, the enemy are in Figuera, Coimbra, &c. and had pushed on 3.000 men four miles this side of Coimbra; their ravages are horrible; the Porto road is covered with dead horses, mules, and bullocks. The whole country is a scene of most complete devastation such rapine, violations, and murders, were never before heard of-many villages, towns, and country villas have been burned to the ground-every place is deserted--large tracts of Indian corn have been trodden down every thing is destroyed.-Notwithstanding all this, the people -universally bless the English and detest the French. Such ruffians will not dare to openly meet the British and Portuguese troops, confident that they would not then fail to meet the chastisement they merit. The 30th and 44th British, and a fine Portuguese regiment, landed here yesterday and to day; they are fine troops, and very complete in numbers. Cadiz, Sept. 23.-The Cortes met this day and entered on business.A plan for raising a patriot army of 120,000 men was referred to the war committee. It was determined that the sittings should always be commenced with closed doors, and that they should be opened after such matters as required secrecy were dis posed of. Sept. 29-Cupruany, after observing that they must renounce all ideas of personal advantage, if they wished to deserve the title of fathers of the country, proposed the following decree :— "That it shall not be lawful for any deputies or members of the Cortes, whether they compose the present congress, or may be appoint ed hereafter, during the time they perform the functions of deputies, and within two years after, to solicit or accept, either for himself or any person, any employ, pension, distinction, or favour from the executive government provisionally ap pointed, or to be hereafter constituted, of whatever name or description." After some debate, it was passed by a considerable majority, with the addition of this clause: "Excepting such employs as are obtained by superiority, or granted for notorious extraordinary services rendered in the country, and which in the estimation of the Cortes shall deserve an extraordinary reward.” Oct. 6. The Cortes have been occupied for some days in transacting the necessary routine business of administering oaths, declaring Ferdinand the legitimate King of Spain, &c. &c.-On the 2d and 3d, the Cortes were occupied in discussing the affairs of America. Nothing decisive was determined upon. The Cadiz Gazettes inform us a little of the expedients the regency employs to acquire" the confidence of Spaniards in both worlds." The inhabitants of the immense territory of the Carraccas have declared their independence-not of the country— not of the sovereign-but of this regency of this council of five; of these, hooks to hang a robe upon; of these ghosts of departed power. And their conduct is such as might be expected of them. Did they feel for the rights of their monarch, and the welfare of the state, they would resign the crown they cannot wear, transfer the sceptre they cannot wield, and employ their latest influence to establish a government, enjoying "the confidence of Spaniards of both worlds." Instead of this they fulminate their menaces from the obscure corner in which they are imprisoned, and affect to proscribe a whole continent at the distance of 4000 miles. Nothing can be more contemptible than such apish rage, contrasted with such in VOL. VIII noxious imbecility; but it is a volume of truth and knowledge on the pride and folly of man, and on the necessity of drawing the teeth, and gagging the tongue of power, lest he tear and blaspheme his fellows. It is to be hoped the Cortez will shew their superior wisdom. The gazette extraordinary of Ca talonia contains a long letter, dated Tarragona, September 19, from Gen. O'Donnel to the junta, detailing his successful operations against San Felio de Guixols, Palamos, and Bis- ́ bal. In attacking Bisbal, General O'Donnel was wounded in the leg with a musket ball, which has since been extracted, and he is recovering. "The result," says this brave officer in his dispatch, of the total loss of the enemy in these different affairs, is one general of brigade (Schwartz) two colonels, 56 officers, and 1883 soldiers made prisoners; 16 pieces of artillery of various calibres, among which are one mortar and a howitzer; a great number of muskets, sabres, cartouch-boxes, and ammunition? a great quantity of wheat and cattle, with other effects, without reckoning 200 killed and wounded.” A letter from Gen. Doyle, dated on board the Cambrian frigate, off Bagar, the 11th of Sept. published in this gazette, gives an account of his landing and destroying a battery near Bagar; on which occasion 42 of the enemy were made prisoners, without the smallest loss on our side. A most extensive and deep-laid conspiracy to destroy the Portuguese regency, and to excite an insurrection in favour of the French, has been fortunately detected. A letter from Lisbon of the 15th ult. gives the following account of this nefarious project: "A plot of a most sanguinary nature has just been found out. Above one hundred most respectable inhabitants have been apprehended-among them the Marquis Abrantes. On the 29th of this month a general massacre of the British was to have taken place. The conspiracy extends throughout the country; at Tomar, Coimbra, and other towns in the interior of the country, depots of arms have been found. In consequence of the number of prisoners confined, I have just learnt from good authority, that the regency expect a rescue, and which was to have taken place, or may take place, this night. It was arranged in this manner:-This day the cathedral, it being the anniversary of the expulsion of the French from Lishon, turned out a grand procession of priests, &c. This evening they were to go round again. About 600 of the rebels were to be clothed in British uniforms, and which have this day been found; the priests were to be aired on, in order to make the populace imagine that it was by the British soldiers; others were to cut off as many of us they could find, and others to release the prisoners confined at a small insulated fort near Belem. In order to be on our guard, officers are ordered up to the castle, where our men are quartered from their billets in town.The business of the rescue must either take place to night or to morrow, as those prisoners are to be embarked for Brazil on Monday. It is a most vile conspiracy; a Portuguese lady, married to a French general made the happy discovery." The Salcette frigate brings intelligence that Lucien Bonaparte hes arrived at Cagliari, with his wife and family, and a number of his relations, from Rome, for the express purpose of claiming the protection of Mr. Hill, the British minister. This singular event occasioned much speculation at Cagliari, as to the causes of so singular an occurrence. The following is stated to be the facts--Not long ago his imperial brother, who is extremely anxious that all his relatives should be matrimonially allied to such of the old royal stocks as can be induced to second his views, sent pe remptory orders to Lucien, immediately to divorce his present wife, as he had selected for him another of a rank suited to the dignity of the im perial family. In the same message, he ordered him to take upon himself the government of the ancient capi tal of the world; and, to crown the whole, accompanied his orders with a threat that Lucien should be conveyed a prisoner to France, in the event of the Emperor's orders not being instantly obeyed. Lucien, unwilling to repudiate his wife and bastardize his children, and at the same time well aware of the impetuous, overbearing character of Napoleon, instantly adopted the only means that were left him to escape the vengeance and dishonour with which he found himself threatened; embarked with his family, and what valuables he had at hand, on board an American vessel, and effected his escape to Sardinia, for the purpose of claiming British protection against the lawless and unprincipled tyranny of his own brother! Of course, this protection has not been denied to him. For the greater security of these voluntary exiles, Mr. Hill gave directions that they should inimediately proceed to Malta.” Lucien Bonaparte is to be allowed to continue his voyage to America, and it is said that orders have been sent from the admiralty to af afford him the necessary convoy thither. By an article in the Moniteur of the 7th, it appears that Murat has at last made an attempt to invade Sicily, but was obliged very speedily to recal his troops. The danding was made on the 17th ult. at San Stephano, at three o'clock in the morning, and the enemy are repre sented as at first carrying every thing before them; but then the wind fell, no more troops could be conveyed over, and King Murat gave orders |