movement of troops in this direction; and I have reports, that troops were to be collected at Salamanca on this day. We have, till had very fine weather, and the troops have suffered but little from 1 enclose the return of exposure to it. casualties.

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Return of the loss between the 10th and 14th Jan. at Ciudad Rodrigo.-On the 10th, 1 Captain, 7 rank and file, killed; and 1 serjeant and 31 rank and file, wounded. On the 11th, 3 privates, killed; 5 serjeants, and 31 rank and file, wounded. -On the 12th, 1 serjeant, 3 privates, killed; 1 Major, 2 Lieutenants, and 33 rank and file, wounded.--On the 13th, 3 rank and file, killed; 2 serjeants, and 19 privates, wounded.-On the 14th, 1 serjeant, and 6 rank and file, killed; 1 Lieutenant, 1 Ensign, and 67 rank and file, wounded.-Total British loss, 1 Captain, 2 serjeants, and 21 rank and file, killed; 1 Major, 3 Lieutenants, 1 Ensign, 6 serjeants, and 179 rank and file, wounded.Total Portuguese loss, 5 rank and file, killed; and 1 Lieutenant, and 35 rank and file, wounded.

Names of Officers Killed and Wounded.Capt. Ross, R. Engineers, killed on the 10th.-Wounded on the 12th, Maj. Grey, 2d batt. 5th foot; Lieut. Matthews, 2d batt. 83d foot, severely; Lieut. Bogue, 94th foot, slightly; Lieut. Benicoe, 19th Wounded on the Portuguese, slightly. 14th, Lieut. Hunecken, 1st batt. line, K. G. legion, lost both legs; Ensign White, slightly.-N. B. Lieut. Hawkesley, 95th, wounded on the 8th, since dead.

fire; and yesterday evening their fire had not only considerably injured the defences of the place, but had made breaches in the Fausse Braye wall, and in the body of the place, which were considered practicable; while the battery on the slope of the hill, which had been commenced on the night of the 15th, and had opened on the 18th, had been equally efficient stil! farther to the left, and opposite to the suburb of St. Francisco.

I therefore determined to storm the place, notwithstanding the approaches had not been brought to the crest of the glacis, and the counterscarp of the ditch was still entire. The attack was accordingly made yesterday evening in five separate columns, consisting of the troops of the 3d and light divisions, and of Brig.gen. Pack's brigade. The two light columns, conducted by Lieut. col. Ŏ'Toole of the 2d Caçadores, and Major Ridge of the 5th regiment, were destined to protect the advance of Maj.-gen. M'Kinnon's brigade, forming the third, to the top of the breach in the Fausse Braye wall; and all these, being composed of troops of the 3d division, were under the direction of Lieut.-gen. Picton. The 4th column, consisting of the 42d and 52d regiments, and part of the 95th, being of the light division under Maj.-gen. Craufurd, attacked the breaches on the left, in front of the suburb of St. Francisco, and covered the left of the attack upon the principal breach by the troops of the 3d division; and Brig.-gen. Pack was destined with his brigade, forming the 5th column, to make a false attack upon the Southern face of the fort. Besides these 5 columns, the 94th regiment, belonging to the 3d division, descended into the ditch, in two columns, on the right of Maj.-gen. M'Kinnon's brigade, with a view to protect the descent of that body into the ditch, and its attack of the breach in the Fausse Braye, against the obstacles which it was supposed the Enemy would construct to All these áttacks oppose its progress. succeeded; and Brig.-gen. Pack even surpassed my expectations, having converted his false attack into a real one, and his advanced guard, under the command of Major Lynch, having followed the Enemy's troops from the advanced works int the Fausse Braye, where they made prisoners of all opposed to them. Ridge, of the 2d battalion 5th regiment, having escaladed the Fausse Braye wall, stormed the principal breach in the body of the place, together with the 94th regiment, commauded by Lieut. col. Campbell, which had moved along the ditch at the same time, and had stormed the breach in the Fausse Braye, both in front of Maj.-gen. M'Kinnon's brigade. Thus these regiments not only effectually co

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vered the advance from the trenches of Maj.-gen. M'Kinnon's brigade by their first movements and operations, but they preceded them in the attack.

Maj.-gen. Craufurd and Maj.-gen. Vandeleur, and the troops of the light division on the left, were likewise very forward on that side; and in less than half an hour from the time the attack commenced, our troops were in possession of, and formed on the ramparts of the place, each body contiguous to the other. The Enemy then submitted, having sustained a considerable loss in the contest. Our loss was also, I am concerned to add, severe, particularly in officers of high rank and estimation in this army. Maj.-gen. M'Kinnon was unfortunately blown up by the accidental explosion of one of the Enemy's expence magazines, close to the breach, after he had gallantly and successfully led the troops under his command to the attack. Maj.-gen. Craufurd likewise received a severe wound while he was leading on the light division to the storm; and I am apprehensive that I shall be deprived for some time of his assistance. Maj.-gen. Vandeleur was likewise wounded in the same manner, but not so severely, and he was able to continue in the field. I have to add to this list, Lieut.-col. Colbourne, of the 52d regiment, and Major G. Napier, who led the storming party of the light division, and was wounded on the top of the breach. I have great pleasure in reporting to your Lordship the uniform good conduct, spirit of enterprise, and patience and perseverance, in the performance of great labour, by which the General Officers, Officers, and Troops, of the 1st, 3d, 4th, and light divisions, and Brig.-gen. Pack's brigade, by whom the siege was carried on, have been distinguished during the late operations. Lieut.-gen. Graham assisted me in superintending the conduct of the details of the siege, besides performing the duties of the General Officer commanding the first division; and I am much indebted to the suggestions and assistance I received from him for the success of this enterprize. The conduct of all parts of the 3d division, in the operations which they performed with so much gallantry and exactness on the evening of the 19th, in the dark, afford the strongest proof of the abilities of Lieut.general Picton and Maj.-gen. M'Kinnon, by whom they were directed and led; but I beg particularly to draw your Lordship's attention to the conduct of Lieut.-col. O'Toole of the 2d Caçadores, of Major Ridge of 2d battalion 5th foot, of Lieut.colonel Campbell of the 94th regiment, of Major Manners of the 74th, and of Major Grey of the 2d battalion 5th foot, who has been twice wounded during this

siege. It is but justice also to the 3d division to report, that the men who performed the sap belonged to the 45th, 74th, and 88th regiments, under the command of Capt. M'Leod of the royal engineers, and Capt. Thompson of the 74th, Lieut. Beresford of the 88th, and Lieut. Metcalf of the 45th; and they distinguished themselves not less in the storm of the place, than they had in the performance of their laborious duty during the siege,

[His Lordship says he finds it difficult to express his sense of the behaviour of Lieut.-col. Colbourne, and of the troops of the light division, in the storm of the redoubt of St. Francisco, on the 8th inst. Throughout the siege and in the storm their conduct was conspicuous; and nothing could exceed the gallantry with which they accomplished the difficult operation allotted to them, notwithstanding all their leaders had fallen. He particularly requests Lord Liverpool's attention to Major-generals Craufurd and Vandeleur; Lieut.-col. Barnard of the 95th; Lieut.colonel Colbourne, Majors Gibbs and Napier of the 52d; and Lieut.-col. M'Leod of the 43d. The conduct of Capt. Duffey of the 43d, and of Lieut. Gurwood of the 52d, had also been reported to him; and Lieut.-col. Elder, and the 3d Caçadores had also distinguished themselves. The 1st Portuguese regiment, under Lieut.colonel Hill, and the 16th, under Colonel Campbell, being Brig.-gen. Pack's brigade, distinguished themselves in the storm under the command of the Brig.general, who particularly mentions Major Lynch. His Lordship then states, that in the attack on the Convents of Santa Cruz and St. Francisco, on the 14th and 15th, under the direction of Lieut.-gen. Graham and Maj.-gen. Colville, the firstmentioned enterprize was performed by Capt. Laroche de Stackenfels, of the 1st line battalion King's German Legion, with the troops of the 1st division; the last by Lieut.-col. Harcourt, with the 40th regiment. The troops of the 1st and 4th divisions distinguished themselves throughout in the labours of the siege. The brigade of Guards, under Major-gen. H. Campbell, was particularly distinguished in this respect. His Lordship then recommends most particularly to Lord Liverpool, Lieut.-col. Fletcher, the chief engineer, and Brig.-major Jones, and the officers and men of the Royal Engineers, The ability, he observed, with which the operations were carried on exceeds all praise.-His Lordship then commends the conduct of Major Dickson, who, both here and at the siege of Badajos, had the command of the Portuguese Artillery, and of the officers and men under him; and particularly mentions Brig.-major May, and Capts. Holcombe, Power, Dynely,

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and Dundas, of the Royal Artillery; Capts. Da Cunha and Da Corta; and Lieut. Silva of the 1st Portuguese Artillery. He likewise reports that Major Sturgeon of the Royal Staff Corps, constructed and placed the bridge over the Agueda, without which the enterprize could not have been attempted; and afterwards materially assisted Lord Wellington and Gen. Graham in a reconnois sance of the place, and finally conducted the 2d battalion 5th foot, as well as the 2d Caçadores, to their points of attack. The Adjutant-general, the Deputy Quarter Master-general, with the officers of their several departments, together with those of his Lordship's personal staff, afforded every assistance; and notwithstanding the increased difficulties from the season of the year, the army was well supplied by the indefatigable exertions of Mr. Com. gen. Bisset and his officers.His Lordship then concludes:]

The Marshal del Campo, Don Carlos d'Espana, and Don Julian Sanchez, observed the Enemy's movements beyond the Tormes, during the operations of the siege; and I am much obliged to them, and to the people of Castille in general, for the assistance I received from them. The latter have invariably shewn their de testation of the French tyranny, and their desire to contribute by every means in their power to remove it. I will hereafter transmit to your Lordship a detailed account of what we have found in the place; but I believe there are 153 pieces of ordnance, including the heavy train belonging to the French army, and great quantities of ammunition and stores. We have the Governor, Gen. Banier, about 78 officers, and 1700 men prisoners.-I transmit this dispatch by my Aide-de-camp, the Hon. Major Gordon, who will give your Lordship any farther details you may require; and I beg leave to recommend him to your protection. WELLINGTON.

I inclose a return of the prisoners, and of the ordnance which has been taken on this occasion. I have not yet been able to collect the returns of the killed and wounded, I therefore transmit a list containing the names of those who have fallen, according to the best information I could obtain; and I will forward the returns to your Lordship as soon as possible. These returns have been superseded by a later dispatch; see next column.]

Feb. 4. [This Gazette contains a letter from Capt. Rowley of the Eagle ship of the line, announcing the capture, on the 27th Nóv. off Brindisi (Mediterranean), after a chace of 10 hours and a half, of La Corceyre French frigate, commanded by Mons. Longlade, pierced for 40 guns, þut mounting only 28, with a complement

of 170 men and 130 soldiers, laden with 300 tons of wheat, and a quantity of military and other stores, bound to Corfu, from Trieste, which port she left on the 13th Nov. in company with La Uranie frigate of 40 guns, and Scemplone brig of 14, both likewise laden with wheat and stores. The Scemplone separated early in the chace, and the Uranie effected her escape by the superiority of her sailing, added to the darkness of the night. The Corceyre was much disabled, owing to her returning the Eagle's fire, and had three killed and seven wounded, including the Captain among the latter. The Eagle had none hurt.]

Downing-street, Feb. 22. The following Dispatches have been received by the Earl of Liverpool, addressed to his Lordship by Gen. the Earl of Wellington, K. B. My Lord, Gallegos, Jan. 22.

I have the honour to inclose the returns of the killed and wounded of the troops engaged in the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, which it was not in my power to transmit to your Lordship in my dispatch of the 20th instant. WELLINGTON.

Killed, Wounded, and Missing of the Army under the command of Lord Wellington, at Ciudad Rodrigo, between Jan.

15 and 19:

Total British Loss between 15th and 19th January-1 general staff, 5 captains, 2 lieutenants, 8 serjeants, 1 drummer, 113 rank and file, killed; 3 general staff, 1 lieutenant-colonel, 2 majors, 19 captains, 28 lieutenants, 5 ensigns, 2 staff, 28 serjeants, 5 drummers, 403 rank and file, wounded; 5 rank and file, missing.

Total Portuguese Loss-1 serjeant, 18 rank and file, killed; 1 captain, 3 lieutenants, 1 serjeant, 91 rank and file, wounded; 2 rank and file, missing.

General Total-1 general staff, 5 captains, 2 lieutenants, 9 serjeants, 1 drummer, 131 rank and file, killed; 3 general staff, 1 lieutenant-colonel, 2 majors, 20 captains, 31 lieutenants, 5 ensigns, 2 staff, 29 serjeants, 5 drummers, 494 rank and file, wounded; 7 rank and file, missing.

C. STEWART, Maj.-gen. and Adj.-gen.

Wounded on the 15th Jan.-Royal Engineers, Capt. Mulcaster, slightly; Lieut. Skelton, severely, since dead; Portuguese Artillery, Second Lieut. Alberto, slightly.-16th Jan. Royal Engineers, Capt. M'Culloch, severely; Lieut. Marshall, slightly; 2d battalion, 5th Foot, Ensign Ashford, severely; 74th Foot, Lieut. Ramage, slightly; 1st batt. 88th, Lieut. Armstrong, slightly; Lieut. Flack, dangerously.-18th Jan. Portuguese Artillery, Lieut. A. De Carta Silva, slightly.19th Jan. Royal Artillery, Capts. Dynely and Power, slightly,

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Killed in the Assault and Storming the Fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo, on the night of the 19th January.

General Staff, Maj.-gen. M'Kinnon; 5th Foot, Capt. M'Dougall; 45th Foot, Capt. Hardyman; Lieuts. Persse and Bell; 52d Foot, 1st batt. Capt. Dobbs; 94th Foot, Captains Anderton and Williamson.

Wounded-Maj.-gens. Craufurd, dangerously; Vandeleur, slightly; 28th Foot, Brig. major Potter, slightly; Royal Engineers, Lieuts. Thomson, severely; Reid, slightly; Royal Staff Corps, Lieut. Stavely, slightly; 5th Foot, Maj. Grey, severely, Capt. Dubourdieu, slightly; Lieuts. Mackenzie, dangerously, Wilde, severely, Fairclough and Fitzgerald, slightly; Ensign Canch and Adj. Johnston, slightly; 43d Foot, Capt. Ferguson, severely; Lieuts. Patterson and Bramwell, severely; 45th Foot, Capts. Milne, slightly, Martin, severely; Lieuts. Humphrey and Phillips, severely; 52d Foot, 1st batt. Lieut.-col. Colbourne, severely; Major Napier, severely, right arm amputated; 52d Foot, 2d battalion, Lieut. Gurwood, slightly; 60th Foot, 5th batt. Capt. Li'vingston, severely; 74th Foot, Captains -Langland and Colling, slightly; Lieut. Fen, severely; Ensign Atkins, slightly; 77th Foot, Capts. M'Lean and Baird, severely, M'Laughlin, slightly; Lieutenant Smith, dangerously; Ensign Fitzgerald and Adjutant Jones, slightly; 88th Foot, Lieuts. Johnston, Fairris, Beresford, and W. Kingsmill, severely; 94th Foot, Capts. Laing, severely, Cairncross and Kyle, slightly; Lieuts. Taylor, dangerously, Cannon, severely; Ensign Scott, slightly; 95th Foot, 1st battalion, Capt. Uniake, severely; Lieuts. Cox and Hamilton, severely; 95th Foot, 2d batt. Capt. Mitchell, severely; Lieut. Beddell,

*Since dead. See p. 192.

severely; 1st regiment of the line, Portuguese, Capt. W. Queade, slightly; 3d Portuguese Caçadores, Lieut. Ant. Corriao Leitay, slightly.

N. B. Capt. the Hon. J. Stanhope, 1st Foot Guards, Aide-de-camp to Lieut.-gen. Graham, wounded slightly on the 14th of January, onitted in last return, \

C. STEWART, Maj.-gen. and Adj.-gen.

[Here follows a short letter from Lord Wellington, containing an eulogium on the late Gen. Craufurd, which has been already inserted in the account of that gallant General, p. 192.]

Extract of an Official Dispatch from Lord Wellington.

Head Quarters, Gallegos, Jan. 29. Marshal Marmont arrived at Salamanca on the 22d inst. and on the 23d and 24th, six divisions of infantry, of the army of Portugal, assembled in the neighbourhood of Alla and Salamanca. The division of Gen. Souham, with near 400 horse, and some artillery, was on the 23d ordered to Matilla, and patroled as far as S. Munos and Tamames. The object of the movement of this division was to ascertain the fact of the fall of Ciudad Rodrigo; it afterwards retired towards the Tormes, I do not know that Bonnet's division has crossed the Douro. We are occupied in repairing the damage occasioned at Ciudad Rodrigo by our fire, which was, shortly after being taken, placed in secority against a coup de main; and I hope in a few days its works will be in a good state of defence.

[This Gazette contains a letter, transmitted by Adm. Thornborough, for Capt. Griffiths, of the Leonidas, announcing the capture, on the 16th inst. of the French brig privateer La Gazelle, of 14 guns and 91 men; out 32 days from St. Maloes, and had taken the Arcadia, from Halifax. laden with timber.]

FRANCE.

Louis Buonaparte, under the assumed title of Count Leu, remains at Gratz; his health is said to be much improved. He lately received an intimation that his presence in Paris would not be unacceptable; but he replied, that his physicians advised retirement, to which his own wishes inclined.-All payments of interest upon the property of Louis Buonaparte lodged in the Dutch funds have been suspended, by an order from Paris.

Letters from the French coast state, that there is a great scarcity of wheat and other kinds of grain in the Southern departments of France; which is ascribed to the constant drain for the use of the French army in the Peninsula, and the failure of the last harvest. Orders have reached

Holland for purchases of corn and other provisions to such an extent, as to have occasioned a rise in these articles, it is said, of nearly 50 per cent. It is probable, that the supply is not only wanting for the suffering provinces, but also to furnish magazines for the French army collecting on the frontiers of Poland.

The Moniteur of the 16th contains an account of the opening of the Conservative Senate on the 10th instant; when the Duke of Bassano, Minister for Foreign Relations, and the Duke of Feltre, Minister at War, made reports to his Majesty, of which the following are brief extracts:

Report of the Duke of Bassano. "Sire, The maritime rights of Europe, as settled by the Treaty of Utrecht, be came the common law of nations, This

law,

law, renewed in all subsequent treaties, proves, that the flag covers the merchandize, that therefore Enemy's goods under a neutral flag are neutral, in the same manner as neutral property under an Enemy's flag is hostile property. The only merchandize not protected by the flag are arms and warlike stores. Such are the obligations of Belligerent powers. England has often attempted to substitute arbitrary and tyrannical regulations; but her unjust pretensions have ever been resisted by all nations not deaf to the calls of honour and the interests of their subjects. By a series of events, the English Marine has become more numerous than all the other Maritime powers; taking advantage of which, she wishes to subject all seas to the same laws as are enforced in the river Thames. [He here states the different Orders in Council, &c. for carrying these measures into effect, and proceeds:] These unheard-of measures have raised the indignation of all powers who preserve a sentiment of their independence and rights; but, in London, they raise the national pride to the highest pitch. Your Majesty, at a single glance, saw the evils with which the Continent was menaced, and instantly applied a remedy."Here the Berlin and Milan Decrees, &c. &c. are given.]-" Never did any act of reprisal attain its object in a more prompt, efficacious, and victorious manner. Your Majesty armed it with alt your power; nothing could divert your Majesty from its execution.

Holland,

the Hanseatic towns, the countries which unite the Zuider Zee with the Baltic, were united to, and subjected to the same regulations as France." He then says, that England, which arrogantly hastened to the dominion of the seas, finds her ships refused entrance into all the ports of the Continent; and adds, "It must not be dissimulated that, in order to maintain this system, your Majesty must employ all the powerful means of your empire. All the disposable forces of France must be sent wherever the British flag can enter; an army, especially charged with guarding our immense coasts, our maritime arsenals and triple range of fortresses, which cover the frontiers, will answer to your Majesty for the safety of the territory 'confided to its valour and fidelity. For a length of time the English Government has proclaimed everlasting war, a frightful project, of which the maddest ambition could not have thought, and presumptuous boasting alone allowed to escape; a frightful project which is likely to be realized, if France is only to expect engagements without guarantee. Peace, Sire, which your Majesty, in the midst of all your power, has so often offered to your Enemies, will crown your glorious

labours, if England, perseveringly banished the Continent, and separated from all the States whose independence she has violated, will consent to return to the principles that constitute European society, and acknowledge the Laws of Nations, and respect those rights consecrated by the treaty of Utrecht. In waiting thus, the French people must remain armed."

Report of the Minister of War.

"Sire, The greatest part of your Majes ty's troops have been called without the French empire, to defend those great interests which assure the independence of the empire, and maintain the Milan and Berlin Decrees, so fatal to England." He afterwards proceeds to state, how greatly England has already suffered by those Decrees, and points out measures for the organization and disposition of the National Guards, in the different strong fortresses on the Rhine, at Brest, Toulon, &c. &c. so that in four days 30,000, and within ten, from 60 to 80,000 men may be col lected at any given point which might be attacked. In the Sitting of the 13th, Count Lacepede, in the name of the Special Commission, after referring to the two preceding Reports, spoke as follows:

"European commerce must be freed from the shameful yoke wished to be imposed on it. Nature demands this. The most solemn treaties prescribe it. The imperious interests of the Empire command it. Already does the enemy of continental independence suffer in his island a part of those evils with which he wished to inundate the world. He has sworn everlasting war. But a formidable power will render vain this attempt against humanity. One hundred thousand brave men, selected from among the conscripts, will join the flags of glory."-Moniteur, March 16.

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.

The Paris Papers lately brought official details of the surrender of the Fort of Peusicola to the French; and we regret to observe, that the Enemy obtained possession of the place through the treachery of the Governor.

An article from Madrid (in the French Papers) states the total defeat of El Empecinado's corps, by the Marquis Rio Melano, upon the heights of Seguenza. The Marquis says, that the whole of the Enemy's corps of 3500 men, were taken prisoners, or killed and wounded; while his own loss was only three killed! This is quite incredible; and equally so is the assertion that El Empecinado had the baseness to abandon his soldiers.

The French, on entering Valencia, displayed their usual perfidy. Although it was stipulated, by the terms of the capitulation, that no inquiry should be made