of military discipline, he trusts it is a practice which will be for ever banished the British service: and he directs commanding officers to act accordingly. "By command of the Right Honourable the Commander-in-Chief, "HARRY CALVERT, "Adjutant-General." * * * * * In the meantime the second battalion had embarked from Cork to join the British army in Portugal under Lieutenant-General Sir John Craddock; it landed at Almeda, opposite to Lisbon, in April, and mustered upwards of six hundred and fifty officers and men, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Myers, baronet: the ROYAL FUSILIERS and second battalion of the fifty-third regiment, with one company of the sixtieth, formed a brigade under Brigadier-General Alexander Campbell. Soon afterwards Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Wellesley arrived in Portugal to command the army. In May the combined British and Portuguese forces advanced against the French under the celebrated Marshal Soult, who had captured _Oporto_ by assault about five weeks previously, and occupied that city with a numerous body of veterans. The British general advanced upon Oporto, and the ROYAL FUSILIERS had the honour of taking part in the masterly movements by which the legions of Napoleon were driven from that city on the 12th of May, pursued through the wild and mountainous districts in the north of Portugal, and forced to abandon their artillery and ammunition, and to save themselves by a precipitate flight. After this success the army retired to Abrantes, where the ROYAL FUSILIERS were encamped nearly three weeks; they subsequently advanced into Spain to aid the patriotic Spaniards in their attempts to expel the French from their country, the British being joined by a Spanish force under General Cuesta. Having entered Spain, the army proceeded along the valley of the Tagus, and halted near _Talavera de la Reyna_. The Spaniards pushed forward, but were speedily driven back by the advance-guard of the French army under Joseph Buonaparte, who bore the title of King of Spain. A British brigade covered the retreat of the Spaniards, and the allied army went into position near Talavera, the Spaniards occupying the strong ground on the right, and the British extending to the left along the more exposed part of the field. In the centre, between the two armies, there was a commanding spot on which a redoubt had been commenced, with some open ground in its rear; at this important post the ROYAL FUSILIERS were stationed, with several other corps under Brigadier-General Campbell, and they proved themselves worthy of the trust reposed in them.