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Stale of Public Affidrs in 'S'^ovemher. 
[Dec. 
The pulse, will, in the consumptively 
disposed, be more partipulariy evident 
towards the evening, or after any slight 
exertion, which would have no effect 
upon a person in ordinary liealth. It 
will often happen, that no expectora¬ 
tion, but of a little frothy mucus, which 
is forced up by the urgency of coughing, 
shall take place until the lungs have 
become actually ulcerated. But some¬ 
times there shall be a copious expectora¬ 
tion of phlegm for some time before, 
which shall occur principally in the 
morning. An inordinate propensity to 
the generation of phlegm is, of itself, a 
very suspicious circurastaiice, at the age 
wlien a constitutional predisposition to 
any particular disease is most apt to be 
developed. 
When there are shooting pains or 
a sense of uneasiness in the chest of 
a subject marked in o*her respects 
by a pthysical tendency, and when 
these feelings are not dependant upon 
any other apparent disorder; when with 
them, are connected a cough, and a dif¬ 
ficulty in lying on one side, the nature 
of the malady almost ceases to be a sub¬ 
ject of doubt or rational enquiry. Co)i- 
sumption is now fairly formed, and those 
active means are instantly to be had re¬ 
course to, which may arrest its progress 
to that more advanced stage, w'hich, in 
addition to the precediirg circumstances, 
is characterised by purulent expectora¬ 
tion and all the horrors of an established 
hectic. After these latter symptoms have 
fully shewn themselves, although we may 
sometimes put a drug upon the wheels 
of life, so as to retard in some measure 
its precipitate descent, we must consider, 
for the most part, that .an irrevocable 
sentence is passed upon the patient’s 
earthly destiny. He may still however 
linger lon^ on the bed of sickness, before 
his sufterings are allowed to terminate 
in the peaceful asylum of tiie grave. 
J. Reid. 
Grentille-str.eet, Br7ws7v-iek-square, 
' Nov. 26, 1811. 
STATE OF PUBLIC AP'FAIRS IN NOVEMBER. 
Containing official Fapers and authentic Documents. 
PORTUGAL. 
A N extraordinary gazette of the 19th, 
containing dispatches from Portugal 
by the Tvlarquis Wellesley, from Charles 
Smart, esq. His Majesty’s minister at 
Lisbon, dated November 2, 1811. 
“ The movement of General Girard on Ca- 
ceres, induced General Hill to breakup from 
Portalegre on the 22d. He reached Albu¬ 
querque on the 24th, and on the 2fith his 
head-quarters were at Malpircida. General 
Girard having fallen back from Caceies on 
this day to Torremacha, was endeavouring to 
gain Merida, when General Hill came up 
with, and surprised him at Arroya dos Mo- 
iinos, on the morning of the 28th. One 
column of the French had proceeded on the 
road to Merida before the commencement of 
the action, and, although pursued, will pro¬ 
bably be enabled to cross the Guadiana before 
the arrival of our troops. 
General Girard was badly wounded, and 
escaped to the mountains with about 800 
men, followed by the Spanish corps under 
General Murillo. Two hundred French 
were killed, and 1000 taken, including Ge¬ 
nerals Bron and the Prince d’Arembej-g, two 
colonels, and forty officers, with all their ar¬ 
tillery and baggage.” 
The following extracts have alsf) been 
received at Lortl Liverpool’s office, ad¬ 
dressed to his lordship by General 
Viscount Wellington,dated Frenecla, 28d 
ami SOih of October, 1811. 
The enterprise of Don Julian Sanches 
to carry off t!ie cattle from Ciudad Rodrigo, 
adverted to in my last dispatch, was very 
well conducted, and very successful. During 
the night of the 14th, he ported his troops 
near the places at which he had been inform¬ 
ed that the cattle from the garrison were 
usually brought to graze in the morning, 
and lie expected that they would come to the 
ground on the left bank of the Agueaa, be¬ 
tween the hills on the El Bodon road and the 
fort, and he placed two detachments of ca» 
fcalry behind these hills. The governor. 
General Regnauld, had come out of the fort 
and across the .Agueda, attended by some 
staff-officers, and escorted by a party of about 
twenty cavalry ; and he was surrounded by- 
Don Julian’s detachments as soon as he en¬ 
tered the hills, and was taken with two of 
his escort under the fire of the guns of the 
place. The remainder of the escort escaped, 
one of the officers attending the governor 
having been wounded. 
“ Shoitly after, Don JuHan’s detachments 
on the right of the Agueda drove off the 
greatest number of the cattle which had been 
sent to graze under the guns of the fort, on 
that '4d'e of the river. 
The enemy’s troops in front of this army 
have made no movement of i.mpoitance since 
I addressed your lordship last, A detach¬ 
ment of the army of the North, which had 
crossed the Tonnes with a view to plunder 
tlie country between that river and the 
Yeltes, haye returned to their cantonments 
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