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If the charge be founded in truth, let the author of the Tears of Camphor vindicate his claim to the borrowed plumes of the author of Nubilia "J. G. R." confers a distinguishing honour upon our Magazine by sending us his poetry. Ex. Gr. «Lines on Anger, "Tho' wrath and angur in me bosom burns, I will rend the out distractive in thy powrs Distractive as the storm." We looked at the post mark; but it is not from Moorfields. HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. OPERATIONS of the BRITISH ARMY troops he had brought from Madrid, in SPAIN. LONDON GAZETTE, AUG. 12. Dispatches, of which the following are extracts, have been received at the office of Lord Viscount Castlereagh, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, from Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Wellesley, K.B. Placentia, 15th July, 1809. MY LORD,-After I had written to your lordship ou the 1st instant, Joseph Bonaparte crossed the Tagus again, and joined Sebastiani with the and with a detachment from Marshal Victor's corps, making the corps of Sebastiani about twenty-eight thousand men, with an intention of attacking Venegas's corps. Venegas, however, retired into the mountains of the Sierra Morena, and Colonel Larey with his advanced guard attacked a French advanced corps in the night, and destroyed inany of them. The French troops then returned again to the Tagus, which river Joseph had crossed with the reinforcement which the Spanish army under his command. Sir Robert Wilson had marched from the Venta de Bazagon, on the Tictar, with the Lusitanian Legion, a battalion of Portuguese Chasseurs, and two Spanish battalions on the 15th; he had taken to Sebastiani's corps; and this last corps, consisting of ten thousand- men only, was on the left bank of the Tagus, about Madnelejos, in front of Venegas, who was again advancing. The last accounts from this quarter were of the 8th. The he arrived at Arenas on the 19th, and French army under Victor, joined by the detachments brought by Joseph from Sebastiani's corps, and amounting in the whole to about thirty-five thousand men, are concentrated in the neighbourhood of Talavera, and on the Alberche; General Cuesta's army has been in the position which I informed your lordship that it had taken up since I addressed you on the 1st instant. The advanced guard of the British army arrived here on the 8th, and the troops which were with me on the Tagus arrived by the 10th; the 23d Light Dragoons and the 48th arrived yesterday; the 61st regiment will arrive to-morrow. I went to Gen. Cuesta's quarters at Almarez on the 10th, and stayed there till the 12th, and I have arranged with that General a plan of operations upon the French army, which we are to begin to carry into execution on the 18th, if the French should remain so long in their position. The Spanish army under General Cuesta consists of about thirty-eight thousand men, (exclusive of Venegas's corps) of which seven thousand are cavalry. About fourteen thousand men are detached to the bridge of Arzobispo, and the remainder are in the camp under the Puerte de Miraheate. I have the pleasure to inform your lordship, that the seven battalions of infantry from Ireland and the islands, and the troop of horse artillery from Great Britain, arrived at Lisbon in the beginning of the month. Gen, Craufurd's brigade, is on its march to join the army, but will not arrive here till the 24th of 25th. I have the honour to be, &c. A. WELLESLEY. Talavera de la Reyna, July 24, 1809. MY LORD-According to the ar-, rangement which I had settled with General Cuesta, the army broke up from Placentia on the 17th and 18th instant, and reached Oropesa on the 20th, where it formed a junction with on the Alberche, at Escalona, on the 1 I have the honour to be, &c. the means which I require, and I'shall to take up this position on the mornthen resume the active operations ing of the 27th, I ordered General which I have been compelled to re- Sherbrooke to retire with his corps to linquish. its station in the line, leaving General Mackenzie with a division of infantry and a brigade of cavalry as an advanced post in the wood on the right of Alberche, which covered our left flank. The position taken up by the troops at Talavera extended rather more than two miles; the ground was open upon the left, where the British army was stationed, and it was commanded by a height on which was, in echellon and in second line, a division, of infantry under the orders of Major-General Hill. GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. Copy of a dispatch received by Lord Vis- Talavera de la Reyna, July 29. MY LORD,-General Cuesta followed the enemy's march with his army from the Alberche on the morning of the 24th as far as Santa Olalla, There was a valley between this and pushed forward his advanced height, and a range of mountains still guard as far as Torrijos. For the further upon the left, which valley reasons stated to your lordship in my was not at first occupied, as it was dispatch of the 24th, I moved only commanded by the height above-mentwo divisions of infantry and a brigade tioned; and the range of mountains of cavalry across the Alberche to appeared too distant to have any inCasalegos, under the command of Lieut. Gen. Sherbrooke, with a view to keep up the communication hetween General Cuesta and me, and with Sir R. Wilson's corps at Escalona. It appears that General Venegas had not carried into execution that part of the plan of operations which related to his corps, and that he was still at Daniel, in La Mancha; and the enemy in the course of the 24th, 25th, and 26th, collected all his forces in this part of Spain between Torrijos and Toledo, leaving but a small corps of 2000 men in that place. His united army thus consisted of the corps of Marshal Victor, of that of General Sebastiani, and of 7 or 8000 men the guards of Joseph Bonaparte, and the garrison of Madrid; and it was commanded by Joseph Bonaparte, aided by Marshals Jourdan and Victor, and General Sebastiani. On the 26th, General Cuesta's advanced guard was attacked near Torrijos, and obliged to fall back, and the General retired with his army on that day to the left bank of the Alberche, General Sherbrooke continuing at Casalegos, and the enemy at Santa Olalla. It was then obvious that the enemy intended to try the result of a general action, for which the best position appeared to be in the neighbourhood of Talavera; and General Cuesta having consented fluence upon the expected action. The right,consisting of Spanish troops, extended immediately in front of the town of Talavera down to the Tagus. This part of the ground was covered by olive trees, and much intersected by banks and ditches, The high road leading from the bridge over the Alberche, was defended by a heavy battery in front of a church, which was occupied by Spanish infantry. All the avenues to the town were defended in a similar manner; the town was occupied, and the remainder of the Spanish infantry was formed in two lines behind the banks, on the roads which led, from the town and the right, to the left of our position. In the centre, between the two armies, there was a commanding spot of ground, on which we had commenced to construct a redoubt, with some open ground in its rear. Bigadier-General Alex. Campbell was posted at this spot with a division of infantry, supported in his rear by General Cotton's brigade of dragoons, and some Spanish cavalry. At about two o'clock on the 27th, the enemy appeared in strength on the left bank of the Alberche, and manifested an intention to attack Gen, Mackenzie's division. The attack was made before they could be withdrawn; but the troops, consisting of General Mackenzie's and Colonel Donkin's |