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appeared before Chaves, on the frontier of 
Portugal, and invested this place, which ca- 
pitulated three days after. Its garrison, com- 
posed of several thousand peasants and some 
militia, were sent back to their habitations. 
The 16th March, his Excellency marched 
against Braga, where the army of the Portu- 
guese insurgents had taken a position, ‘The 
badness of the roads delayed the arrival of 
the artillery until the 19th, whenthe enemy 
were attacked.. Their.force was estimated at 
20,000 men, which were entirely over- 
thrown. They lost 6,000 and all their ar- 
lillery, and retreated upon Oporto. 
The 24th, the second corps arrived before 
Oporto, where all the Portuguese northern ar- 
mies were collected in an entrenched camp, 
flanked with redoubts, and defended by a nu= 
merous artillery. 
Two days were spentin skirmishes; andthe 
French troops found inthe redoubts, of which 
they took possession, a shelter from the can- 
non of the enemy. 
The 29th, the Duke of Dalmatia fought a 
battle as glorious as memorable, in which the 
Freuch displayed their usual enthusiastic va- 
Jour. Upwards of 10,000 Portuguese were 
killed or taken, and the enemy lost, not only 
the artillery planted on their entrenchments, 
but their field-pieces. This day put the se- 
cond corps of the army in possession of more 
than 200 pieces of cannon. 
Froin the 30 of March, to May 10, the 3d 
corps was employed in establishing in that 
part of a country not wholly conquered, its 
communication with the Gth corps that re- 
mained in Gallicia. Large detachments were 
sent to Guimaraens and Valencia, in order to 
bring off the magazines which had been lefts 
at Tuy, and to scour the country. General 
Loison, whose death the English have lately 
published, was detached with the same intent 
against Amarante, Villa Real, and the adja- 
cent country, with 2500 infantry, and’ 600 
horse. 
On the 10th of May, the vanguard of the 
Duke’s army was on the Vouga. It was at- 
tacked by several thousands of foot, 1500 
horse, and six pieces of cannon, which for- 
med a part of General: Wellesley’s army, 
lately landed in Portugal. The vanguard 
“retreated behind Feyra, and on the 1ich re- 
crossed the Douro, with the division of Gene- 
‘ral Mermet. ‘Theincrease of the British force 
in Po:tugal, and that of the Portuguese insur- 
gents, through the influence of British gold, 
had, as early asthe 10th, determined the 
Duke of Dalmatia to effect his retreat through 
_ Amarante, Villa Real, and Brayanza, ascend- 
ing the right bank of the Douro. But a nu- 
merous corps of English and Portuguese ha- 
ving compelled General Loison to evacuate 
Amarante, the Duke found it necessary ‘to 
pass through the defiles of Salamonde, and, in 
order to gail two marches of the enemy, fo 
sacrifice a few pieces of cannon and their cais- 
sens, which he ordered ty be destroyed, and Austrian troops, 
State of Public Affairs in July: 
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the remains of which could prove of no us¢ 
to the English. va 
The latter not having been able to gain any 
advantage on the second corps during the re- 
treat, the only action which took place was 
with our rear-guard at Oporto, the English 
having found means to convey on the right 
bank of the Minho about 1000 infantry and 
50 horse. They have swelled this trifling en. 
gagement into a battle, the pompous relation 
of which (in no point of yiew a military one} 
has no other end than to deceive the people 
of London, and perhaps the Ministers them- 
selves, in order to pay them for the immense 
sums of money which this expedition must 
have cost the British Treasury. 
On the 19th of May, the Duke of Dalma- 
tia was at Allaritz; the 20th he crossed the 
’ Minho at Orense ; and on the 23d formed a 
communication with the Duke of Elchingen 
himself, and the corps under his command. 
Bulletin of the Imperial Austrian Army. 
Wolkerfdorf, Fune 18. 
~ On the 15th mst. the corps under his Impes 
rial and Royal Highness the Archduke John, 
composed of about 29,0CO troops of the line, 
and 16,000 of the Hungarian Insurreetiony 
in the environs of Raab, vigorously attacked 
by the French army, estimated at 59,000 
men. ; 
The troops of the line fought the whole 
day with'the greatest success, andthe enemy 
suffered a loss of £000 men in killed and 
wounded. But as the right wing, consisting 
for the most part of the insurrection, that. 
could ‘not be expected to possess tne courage of 
veteran troops, was no match for the enemy, 
his Imperial and Royal Highness thought it 
most proper fur the atcainment of his object 
‘to fall back to a position near Comorn, and 
thereby to secure and facilitate his junction 
with the main army. 
But this has caused no material change in 
the positions of the Imperiai and Royal army; 
and the Archduke John praises highly the ex- 
cellent dispesition and patriotic alacrity of 
the troops of the Hungarian Insurrection. 
The Imperial and Royal troops suffered in 
this engagement a loss of 1500 men in kil- 
led, wounded, and some few prisoners. 
About 400 Frenchmen were made prisoners 
by the Austrians. The enemy, so far frum 
pursuing the Austrian treops, had again re- 
treated behind the Raab. Dalmatia is ayvain 
in the possession of the Imperial and Royal 
The enemy has been obliged to aban- 
don Zeng and Fiume, as well as the islands 
along the Dalmatian coast. Gen. Marmont 
retreated. in such haste, that the Austrians 
made a number of prisoners. Inthe hospi- 
tals, too, the enemy left a number of 
wounded, among whom are three French Ge- 
nerals, and one of them Launay. ‘Trieste 
must by this time be delivered rrom enemirse 
The English on the one hand, and the Turks 
on the other, make common cause with the 
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