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His royal majesty shall be implored 

 to employ his royal good offices 

 with his imperial brother, that par- 

 don may be obtained to the absent, 

 and to those inhabitants, who had 

 taken up arms. 



The present proces-verbal shall 

 be presented to his imperial and 

 royal majesty. 



[Here follows several thousand 

 Bignatures.] 



On the 11th a similar meeting 

 was held, for the deputies of the 

 inhabitants of the parishes, and who 

 acceded to a similar measure, 

 which was likewise accompanied 

 with a vast number of signatures. 



British Army in Spain. 



From the London Gazette, dated 

 Do'Mning-street, Jan. 10, 1809. 

 Dispatches, from which the fol- 

 lowing are extracts, were, on the 8th 

 instant, received at the office of lord 

 vise. Castlereagh, one of his ma- 

 jesty's principal secretaries of state, 

 from lieut.-gen. Sir John Moore, 

 k. b. commander-in-chief of his ma- 

 jesty's forces employed in Spain : 



Benevente,Dec.2S,\?>0S. Since 

 I had the honour to address you 

 upon the 16th, from Toro, the army 

 has been almost constantlymarching 

 through snow, and with cold that 

 has been very intense. The wea- 

 ther, within these few days, has 

 turned to rain, which is much more 

 uncomfortable than the cold, and 

 has rendered the roads almost im- 

 passable. On the 21st the army 

 reached Sahagun ; it was necessary 

 to halt tliere in order to refresh the 

 men, and on account of provisions. 

 The information I received was, 

 that marshal Soult was at Saldana 

 with about IG.OOO men, with posts 

 Along the river from Guarda to 



Carrion. The army was ordered 

 to march in two columns, at 

 8 o'clock on the night of the 23rd, 

 to force the bridge at Carrion, 

 and from thence proceed to Sal- 

 dana. At six that evening, I re- 

 ceived information that considera- 

 ble reinforcements had arrived at 

 Carrion from Valencia, and a letter 

 from the marquis de la Romana 

 informed me, that the French were 

 advancing from Madrid either to 

 Valladolid or Salamanca. It was 

 evident that it was too late to pro- 

 secute the attempt upon Soult, that 

 I must be satisfied with the diver- 

 sion I had occasioned, and that I 

 had no time to lose to secure my 

 retreat. — The next morning,lieut.- 

 gen. Hope, with his own division 

 and that of lieut.-gen. Fraser, 

 marched to Majorga. I sent Sir 

 David Baird, with his division, to 

 pass the river at Valmira, and fol- 

 lowed lieut.-gen. Hope, on the 25th, 

 with the reserve and light brigades, 

 by Majorga, Valderas, to Bene- 

 vente. The cavalry under lord 

 Paget followed the reserve on the 

 26th ; both the latter corps entered 

 this place yesterday. We continue 

 our march on Astorga. — Generals 

 Hope and Fraser are already gone 

 on ; Sir David Baird proceeds to- 

 morrow from Valencia ; and i shall 

 leave this with the reserve at the 

 same time; lord Paget will remain 

 with the cavalry, to give us notice 

 of the approach of the enemy ; hi- 

 therto their infantry have not come 

 up, but they are near, and the ca- 

 valry is round us in great numbers ; 

 they are checked by our cavalry, 

 which have obtained, by their spirit 

 and enterprise, an ascendancy over 

 that of the French, which nothing 

 but great superiority of numbers on 

 their part will get the better of.— 

 The diversion made by our marcli 



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