Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger

We feel the greatest satisfaction in having it in our power to communicate some particulars of an important advantage obtained by the Spaniards over that division of the French army which was lately commanded by marshal Ney. They are contained in the following bulletins brought by a vessel that left Oporto on the 28th ult.

BULLETIN EXTRAORDINARY.

We hasten, with peculiar satisfaction, to communicate to the public the agreeable intelligence contained in the following:

Extract of a letter addressed to his excellency Colonel Trant, the Governor of the City of Oporto.

I have the satisfaction to inform you, that on the 18th inst. the Spanish army, under the command of the duke del Parque, had an engagement with a corps of French troops, that had advanced from Salamanca, under the command of gen. Marchand, which terminated in favour of the Spanish arms. I have not yet received the details. It is said the French lost in killed and wounded about 1000 men; the Spaniards only 150; the enemy also lost a 12-pounder, a stand of colours, and 800 muskets, and the Spaniards retook at the point of the bayonet, six pieces of artillery, which they had lost on the morning of that day. It is not known whether the whole of the duke del Parque's army was in the engagement. It is reported that the French consisted of 10,000 infantry, 1200 cavalry, with nine pieces of artillery. The day after the action, the duke was reinforced, by gen. Ballasteros, with 700 men.

I am in haste, &c.
WILLIAM COX.

Almeida, Oct. 24, 1809.