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The general then moved his 

 head-quarters to the Mesa d'Ibor 

 on the evening of the 8th, having 

 his advanced-guard at Bohoral. He 

 resigned the command of the army 

 the 12th (on account of the bad 

 state of his health), which has de- 

 volved upon general Equia. The 

 head-quarters of the Spanish army 

 are now at Deleytosa. 



It appears that a detachment of 

 Vanegas's army had some success 

 against the enemy, in an attack 

 made upon it in the neighbourhood 

 of Aranjuez, on the 5th instant. 

 General Vanegas was then at Oca- 

 na, and he had determined to retire 

 towards the Sierra Morena; and 

 after the 5th, he had moved in that 

 direction. He returned, however, 

 towards Toledo, with an intention 

 of attacking the enemy on the 12tli, 

 but on the 11th the enemy attack- 

 ed him with Sebastiani's corps, and 

 two divisions of Victor's in the 

 neighbourhood of Almoracid. The 

 action appears to have lasted some 

 hours, but the French having at 

 last gained an advantage on gene- 

 ral Vanegas's left, he was obliged 

 to retire, and was about to resume 

 his position in the Sierra Morena. 



On the 9th, 10th, and 11th, 

 large detachments of the French 

 troops which had come from Pla- 

 cencia, returned to that quarter, 

 and on the 12th, they attacked and 

 defeated sir Robert Wilson in the 

 Puerto de Banos, on their return to 

 Salamanca. 



It appears now that the French 

 force in this part of Spain is distri- 

 buted as follows : — Marshal Vic- 

 tor's corps is divided between Taia- 

 vera and La Mancha; Sebastiani's 

 isinLaMancha; marshal Mortier's 

 at Oropesa, Arzo Bispo, and Na- 

 valmyral ; marshal Soult's at Pla- 



cencia; and marshal Ney's at 

 Salamanca. 



Distress for want of provisions, 

 and its effects, have at last obliged 

 me to move towards the frontiers of 

 Portugal, in order to refresh my 

 troops. In my former dispatches 

 I have informed your lordship of 

 our distress for the want of provi- 

 sions and the means of transport. 

 Those wants, which were the first 

 cause of the loss of many advan- 

 tages after the 22nd of July, which 

 were made known to the govern- 

 ment, and were actually known to 

 them on the 20th of last month, 

 still exist in an aggravated degree, 

 and under these circumstances I de- 

 termined to break up on the 20th 

 from Jaraicejo, where I had had 

 my head-quarters since the 11th, 

 with the advanced posts on the Ta- 

 gus near the bridge of Almaraz, 

 and to fall back upon the frontier 

 of Portugal, where I hope I shall 

 be supplied with every thing I 

 want. 



The London Gazette of Tuesday, 

 the 22nd of August, contains some 

 further dispatches from Flushing, 

 though of no ioiportant nature. — 

 They contain a return of the gar- 

 rison of Flushing, which amounted 

 to 200 officers, 4,985 rank and file, 

 and 618 sick. Total 5,803.— The 

 whole force opposed to ours on the 

 island was upwards of 9,000 men. 

 This greatly exceeds the estimate 

 in the former dispatches. 



Doivning -street, Sept. 2, 1809. 

 A dispatch, of which the follow- 

 ing is a copy, was yesterday morn- 

 ing received at the office of lord 

 viscount Castlereagh, one of his 



majesty's 



