[Nov. 1y 
“STATE OF PUBLIC’ AFFAIRS IN OCTOBER. 
Containing official Papers and authentic Documents. 
“SWEREN. ¢ 
COUNT Gottorp, the Jate King. of Swe- 
‘ den, hasbeen at Petersburgh, Previous 
tohis depariure, he addressed a letter to the_ 
King and Diet of S.» eden, wherein he up- 
braids them with their recent choice of a 
Crown Prince, which he terms ignominious 
and disgraceful in the highest degree, and 
consigns the government to eternal cblivion 
and contempt, as unworthy the consideration 
of their lawful monarch. 
X: TURK BY. 
By letters from Turkey, it appears that 
the Grand Signicr has joined the Grand Vi- 
gier’s army with a very considerable body of 
troons, and that still greater reinforcements 
were expected. The whole is catculated at 
300,0co men. The Grand Signior is said 
to have sworn.by the Prophet, that he will 
bring the war with Russia to a speedy and 
fertunate conclusion. ~ 
ITALY. 
On the rath July, the Senator Lucien Bo- 
Naparie, with bis wife and children, and the 
greater part of his collection of works of art, 
embarked at ‘Civita Vecchia, on board an 
American frigate for America. 
NEW SOUTH WALES: 
The new governer of this colony, Lachlan 
M-‘Quarrie, esq. arrived there on board the 
Dromedary naval store-ship, on the zoth of 
December last, and on landing the next day, 
‘was received with the usual! horiours. Soon 
afterwards the troops formed asquare, inthe 
centre of which the governor took his station 
with his suite, and was received by a general 
salute. His Majesty’s commission was then 
read, and his Excellency delivered a speech, 
expressive of his firm intention to exercise 
the authority with which he was invested, 
with strict Justice and impartiality, and of 
his*hopes that the dissentions and jealousies 
which had’ unfortunately exisied in the Co- 
Tony for s-me time previous, would be now 
terminated for ever. A proclamation was 
subsequeiitly issued by the Goveraor on the 
24th ef February, noticing the prefligate 
habiis.and dissolute manners of some of the 
colonists, and declaring his determination 
to encourage lawful marriage by every pos- 
sible meaxs, and to punish those persons 
who kept open licentious and disorderly 
houses. ected 
GREAT BRITAIN. : 
Downing-street, Oct, 14, 1810. 
A dispatch, of which the foilowing is 
a copy, was received this day at the 
Earl of Liverpool’s office, addressed -to 
his lordship, from  Lieutenant-general 
Lord Viscount Wellington, HK. B. dated 
Coinibra, the 30th Septeniber, 1810. ~ 
My Lorp---While the enemy was <d- 
vavcing from Celerico and Franeoso upen 
Vizen, the different divisions of. militia and 
ordenatza were emploved upon their Hanks 
gad rear; and Cvlonel Trant, with his ¢i- 
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vision, attacked the escort of the military 
chest and reserve artillery, near Tojal, on 
the zoth instant. 
He took two officers and 100 prisoners; but 
the enemy collected a force from the front 
and rear, which obliged him to retire again 
towards the Douro. abe nk? 
IT undersiand that the enemy’s communi- 
cation with Almeida is completely cut off; 
and he possesses only the ground on which 
his army stancs. 
My dispatches of the 2oth instant will have 
_ informed you of the measures which I had 
adapted, and which were in progress to col-_ 
lect the army in this neighbourhood, and 
if possible to prevent the enemy from ob- 
taining possession «f this town. 
‘On the 21st the enemy’s advanced guard 
pushed on to St. Cambadao, at the Junction 
of the rivers Criz and Dao; and Brigadier- 
general Pack retired across the former, and 
joined Brigadier-general Crawfurd at Mor- 
tagoa, having destroyed the bridges ever'those 
two rivers. ihe enemy’s advanced guard 
crossed the Criz, having repaired the bridge, 
onthe 22d, and the whole of the 6th corps 
was collected on the other side of the river 5 
and I therefore withdrew the cavalry througa 
the Sierra'de Busaco, with the exception of 
three squadrons, as the ground was upfa- 
/Vourable for the operations of that arm. 
On the 25th the whole of the 6th and of the 
2d corps crossed the Criz, in the neighbour- 
hood of St. Cambadao; and Brigadier-gene~ 
ral Crawfurd’s division and Brigadier-gene- 
ral Pack’s, brigade, retired to the positica 
which I had. fixed upon for the army on the 
top of Sierrade Busaco, These troops were 
followed in this movenient by the whole of 
the corps of Ney and Regnier, (the 6th and 
2d) but it was conducted by Brigadier-gene- 
ral Crawfurd with great regularity, aad the 
troops took their position without sustaining 
any loss of importance. it 
The 4th Portuguese Cacadores, which had 
retired on the right of the other troops, and 
the p'cquets of jhe :d division of infantry, 
which were posied at St. Antonio de Cantaro, 
under. Major Smith of the 45th, were en- 
gaged with the advance of Regnier’s ‘corps 
in the afiernoon, and the former shewed that 
steauiness and gallantry which others of the 
Portuguese troops have since manifested. 
Tue Sierra de Busacois ahigh ridge, whieh . 
extends from the Mondegoin a northerly di- 
rection about eight miles. 
At the highest point of the ridge, about 
two miles from its termination, is the con- 
vent and garden of Busaco. _ The Sierra of 
Busaco is connected by a mountainous tract 
of cointry with the Sierra de Caramula 
which extends in a north-easterly direction 
beyorid Vizen, and separates the valley of 
the Mondego trem the valley of the Douro, 
0.1 the leit of the Mondego. 
line with the Sierra de Busacois another 
ridge of the samé description, which is called 
the Sierra de Murcella, covered by the river 
Alva, and connected by other mountainous 
tracts with the Sierra d’ Estrella. AN 
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