Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

NORFOLK, Feb. 23.

[The following extra, was published yesterday at the Herald office, and whatever may be our wishes on the subject, we are sorry to say, that we cannot give the intelligence it contains full credit. We would observe, however, that by comparing dates, this intelligence is not to be wholly discredited.]

Herald Office, February 22, 1809.

By the Spanish brig General Palafox, just arrived here from the Havanna, in 21 days, we have received papers of that place up to the 10th instant. The following account, being very important, we hasten to lay before our patrons, just as we received it.

TRANSLATED FOR THE HERALD,

From an extra Gazette, published at the office of the Havanna Aurora, of the 8th of February.

Havanna, February 8.

The day before yesterday, at half past 4 o'clock, the brig Hope entered this port, consigned to Don Santiago Drake, merchant, which sailed from Jamaica the 28th ult. Besides the news which a passenger gives, the said Drake has received a letter from his correspondent, as a corroboration, in which it is said, that on the 26th of Jan. the packet from England had arrived at Jamaica, which sailed from Falmouth the 21st of December, bringing the most agreeable news, that just before she sailed a vessel had arrived from Corunna, by which it was reported, that the generals Castanos and Romana, and a part of the English army, had given battle to Marshal Ney, who had an army of 65,000 men; that it had been a most bloody action, in which the victory was decided for the Spaniards, the French having lost 40,000 men, between killed wounded and prisoners, and of course were compleatly defeated.

We publish this news with the more satisfaction, because it is a confirmation of what we have before published, grounded upon vague reports, whereas this appears to rest upon better authority, to satisfy the curiosity of our readers.