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wounded, and 3,500 troops, by 

 colonel Trant; with other skir- 

 mishes. Colonel Trantwritesfroin 

 Coimbra, October?, thatintending 

 to join general Millar and colonel 

 Wilson, he advanced to within 

 three short leagues of Coimbra — 

 was happy enough to surprise the 

 French advanced guard of horse, 

 and not meeting with any other 

 troops of the enemy, 1 ordered the 

 cavalry to advance at a gallop by 

 the principal roads, and that cross- 

 ing the bridge of the Mondego 

 they should take post on the road 

 to Lisbon, for the purpose of cut- 

 ting off all communication with 

 the army ; which was executed 

 with great spirit and bravery by 

 lieutenant Doutel with the loss 

 of only one dragoon killed. I or- 

 dered that the divisions of infantry 

 should march towards the princi- 

 pal places in the city; in doing 

 which they met with a resistance 

 that lasted one hour. Our only 

 loss was two killed and twenty-five 

 wounded. There are about eighty 

 officers among the prisoners, as 

 well as I can judge. Nothing can 

 exceed the state of misery that 

 prevails in this city. The enemy, 

 not content with having plundered 

 every part of it, and robbing every 

 one they met, set fire to some 

 houses, and have heaped up in the 

 streets, in the greatest disorder, 

 all the provisions that the army 

 could not carry along with it; so 

 that it could scarcely be expected 

 that about 800 soldiers, natives of 

 this city and its vicinity, surround- 

 ed by their wretched relatives and 

 acquaintances, could be patient 

 witnesses of a scene of devastation 

 in which their property was de- 

 stroyed in so iniquitous and scan- 

 dalous a manner. However, I beg 

 your excellency will believe that I 

 did alt in my power to protect the 



French that fell into our hands; 

 and after the two first movements 

 of violence, I succeeded in se- 

 curing them against insult. 



Si. Captain Hoste, of the Am- 

 phion, relates an action by the 

 boats of that ship, the Cerberus, 

 and the Active, in the Gulph of 

 Trieste, June 1. It was necessary 

 to row from several miles out at 

 sea, because of the shallows which 

 obstruct the port of Grao ; and to 

 pass that town, in order to get at 

 twenty-five sail of vessels, which 

 lay above it, and were protected 

 by a party of French troops. 

 The boats quitted the ships at 

 about midnight, and landed be- 

 fore day-break. The French fired 

 heavily at them, and mistaking a 

 movement to the left, for a retreat, 

 charged with the bayonet : they 

 were soon defeated, charged in 

 turn, and surrendered ; a second 

 party of Frenchmen did the same. 

 They were troops which had dis- 

 tinguished themselves at the bat- 

 tle of Wagram. Prisoners taken 

 sixty ; killed ten ; vessels burnt 

 eleven ; brought out five ; laden 

 boats fifteen. The party was 

 commanded by the second lieute- 

 nant, Slaughter. Loss: four killed, 

 eight wounded. 



27. Admiral Drury gives an ac- 

 count of the destruction of several 

 Malay prows, and pirate vessels, in 

 the Straits of Siinda, in the month 

 of April : also of the capture of 

 several Dutch vessels laden with 

 artillery, &c. Also of the dis- 

 mantling the fort of Pulo, by cap- 

 tain Tucker, of the Dover. 



The French privateer ketch 

 Glaneuse, of fourteen guns, taken 

 by captain Hotham, of the North* 

 uraberland. 



DECEMBER. 



1. Danish cutter privateer th» 



