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cents, Gent. to be ditto, vice Walter, dated June 16; Guttavus _Nagel, Gent. t o be ditt o , v i ce M arwell, dated June 17, ISIS. IMeuroo's Regiment—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Menroet Ba yard to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase; Captain C. E. de May Duzisdorff to be Major, vice Bayard; Lieute nant F. L. Bourgeois to be Captain of a Company, vice De May Duzisdprff. Dated June 17, 1818. lit IVILT. eoleuel Augustus Fitzgerald, on tialf Pay of the 107th Foot, to bt Major-General in the Army. Dated June 4, 1813. Lleutenaet-Colonel George Crump, on the Half Pay of Ogk's late Levy, to be Colonel In the Army. Dated as above. Brevet-Major George Grogan to be Lieutenant-Colonel In the Army. Dated as above. Captain John Hare, of the 37th Font, to be Major in the Army. Dated July 17,1819. Irevet-Major James Malcolm, of the Royal Marines, to be Lieu tenant-Colonel in the Army. Dated June 4, 1813. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JUNE 19. Medical Establishment for the Military Dapartment of the Ordnance. Temporary Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Haswell Quigley to be Second' Assistant-Surgeon, vice Kemball, resigned. Dated • June 11, 1813. Temporal) , Assistant-Surgeon James Parrett to be Second Asslx tant-Surgeon, vice M`Glashan, appoint e d S urgeon to t h e F orces tinder Marsh al Sir W. Beresford. Dated as above. FOREIGN OFFICE, JUNE 22, 1813. Dispatches, of which the following are copies and Inctracts, have been received by Viscount Castlereagh, from General Lord Viscount Cathcart, K. T. and Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Stewart, K,B. dated the 26th and 31st May, and Ist June, 1813 : Head-Quarters, J'auer, May 26, 1813. MY LORD—An opportunity offering for England, I avail myself of it to acquaint your Lordship, that the'enemy has neither followed the rear-guard of the Allies with 'vigour nor success. The corps of Gene. gals Barclay de Tolly, Blucher, York, and Kleist, Lave moved on Leignitz ; those of Count Wittgen stein and General Milaradovitch in the direction of this place ; but the latter has his advanced posts on the Bober river ; the enemy occupying Lowenburgh. The Allied Army appear moving in the direction of Schweidnitz, thus having communication by Czens tochab with the Vistula, and being enabled, fiom its Immediate position, to take every favourable advan tage of whatever may occur. Considerable reinforcements are daily arriving.— I have the honour to_be, &c. . (Signed) CHARLES STEWART, Lieut. •General. Viscount Castlereagh, &c, &c. Head-Quarters, Schweidn;tz, May SI, 18)3. My Lotto—The Allied Army has continued to re. treat on Breslau and Schweidnitz; the Imperial Head quarters removed from Jauer to Striegaw on the 27th, and on the 28th to this place. Count Wittgenstein having resigned the command of the Allied Armies, which he held after Marshal Kutusoff's death until definitive arrangements were made, General Barclay de 'roily has been appointed to the same by his Imperial Majesty ; Count Witt genstein will now command the Russians, and a new dislocation will take place : General Blucher is to command all the Prussians. General MTlaradovitch has, for tilt... present (being indisposed), given up his Command to Count Pahlin. Tt is with much satisfaction I acquaint your Lord that the corps under the orders of General Blu cher has had a most brilliant affair with their cavalry, against the division of General Maison, debouching from Haynatt. From the details I have received of this action, it appears it should be justly celebrated as one of the most distinguished cavalry attacks, against solid squares of infantry, that has been known in this war. The Prussian cavalry were dexterously con pealed behind favourable ground to accomplish their object. The impetuosity to attack was so great, that the signal was given before the enemy were suffici ently advanced, and the result was not so decisive as it otherwise would have been ; but twelve pieces of Fannon, and 1300 prisonets, fell into the hands of the Allies. I refer your Lordship, for more details, to the official account, which I have the honour to inclose. On the 27th, eight squadrons of Russian cavalry, half Cossacks, attacked, near Goldberg, twelve squa drons of the cilemv's cuirassiers Napoleon; made 400 men and several Officers prisoners. A partizan corps also captured a large ammunition par?:, and several prisoners. General Blucher's corps d'armee retired on the 28th to Preschau, on the Striegau river, while the main army took up a position near this place. The enemy, since the affair of Haynau, have not pressed General Blucher, nor have they attempted any thing in front of this part of the army t it is therefore conjectured they are moving in force on our right, to put themselves in communication with Glo ,gau : their advance, it is said, has leached Neumark. I omitted mentioning to your Lordship, that report states the Grand Marshal Duroc to have been killed in the affair of Reichenbach. The Heacl.quarters of Bonaparte are at Leignitz. The Bead-quarters of his Imperial Majesty move .this day to Ober•Groditz, and ittichenbach. The enemy continue their march on Breslau. I regret to acquaint your Lordship, that a rein ! forcement of several liccudred men, with a battery of artillery, on march from the Oder to join the main army, has, it is feared, fallen into the hands of the enemy.-1 have, &c. ( Signed ) CtiA II LES S aly4 lir, Lieut.-General. Viscount Cstlereagh, &c. &c. Translation of the vfcial Account of the -Affair between the Corps under the Command of General Blucher and the Advanced Guar, 1 of the Enemy, near Ilaynay, on the 26th of May. The Prussian army, united with the corps of the Russian Geural Barclay de 'Folly, had their bivouac near Haynau, on the 25th May. On the 26th, they tharched in two columns towards Liegnitz. • l'he first column was compose 4 of the corps of Barclay de and D'Yorelc ; the second, of the corps of Ge k zal Blucher. The rear-guard halted on the other side of ilaynau; is order tc. oppose the enemy, who usually pushed on from eleven o'clock in the morning night, As the enemy advanced, General Blupher mdered bis colUmn to retire through the plains of Haynau to Steudentz and Golsdorff, leaving twenty-one squa drons of cavalry, with twenty-two pieces of flying ar i. tillery, under the cpplgpapcl pf General you Ziethen, lit the enemy's rear, Genital Yon iethen observed the strength of the •Lrmy-frorn 114 windmill of BAndinansdortf, which Sal G&W W *Of a! a signal !cc Of Pri*vl hvalry f 8 Mick, and for the reli-giard fp h#lt and oppose the enemy. At eleven o'clock the enemy appeared from Hay. nau, and. began a cannonade against the Prussian -rear-guard, under the command of Colonel Mulins, which took a position on the heights of Haynan. It wa,s only a reconnoissance of Marshal Ney. About five o'clock in the evening the enemy defiled from Haynau, and attacked our rear guard, which retired, according to the preconcerted dispositions. General Von Ziethen, seeing a French division fol lowing our rear guard, resolved to strike a great blow and, trusting to the gallantry of the troops, gave or. ders to suffer the enemy to pass on, and to attack him in rear ; but our cavalry had already quitted their ambuscade and advanced against the right flank of the enemy. The windmill was fired, and the whole of the rear guard made front against the French, who formed themselves in squares. Dispositions had been made for the horse artillery to throw the enemy into disorder, at which time the cavalry were to have attacked them, but the impa tience of the latter allowed no time for the artillery to produce the desired effect. fter one discharge of cannon the cavalry rushed in upon the enemy's squares, which were successively destroyed. His firing ceased, and a battery of twelve guns, with thirteen hundred prisoners, fell into our hands, When the dust which had concealed him, cleared away, we saw the remainder of General Mai son's division retreating on Haynau. The battle lasted only half an hour, and not a sin gle man of our infantry was engaged, it having marched towards Liegnitz. The brigade of General Von Ziethen alone remained on the heights behind Goldsdorff. Exeraa of a Dispatch front General Flamini Cathcart N Piscousa Castlereagh, dated Head-quarter:, 014r•Gro ditz, near Schweidnitz June 1, 1813. _ _ _ - - My dispatches • by the Messenger Vick,_ who left me at Goldberg on the 25th ultimo, informed your Lordship of the engagements with the enemy which took place on the preceding days, and of the general state of military operations. I have the honour to enclose herewith the several relations which have been published at the Russian head-quarters of these affairs, together with that of a recent and brilliant success, which has been ob tained by the exertions and talent of General Count M. Woronzow. The Emperor moved on the 25th to JAuer, on the 27th to Striegau, and on the 28th to Schweidnitz, and 4heir Majesties have fixed their quarters (yester day in the evening) in the village of Obcr•Groditz, between Schweidnitz and Reichenbach. Bonaparte continues to follow with his whole force, but has met with very severe checks in every enterprise he has undertaken, and has had no success. —Your Lordship will observe, that there have been three halting days. • The army is now concentrated in an excellent po sition, where nature has been assisted uy art. General Bulow's, and some inferior ccrps, are in rear of the enemy, and on the line of his communi cation, where they daily do him considerable injury. By the arrival of a corps and of several battalions, the Russian army is stronger than it was on the 21st ultimo. Viscount Castlereagh, &c. &c. &c. • Lord Cathcart's report of the battle of Bautze:i was not re caved till some days after that of Sq. Charles Stewart, which appeared iu the Supplement to the Gazette of the Bth lost. General Woronzoff Mks had a very brilliant affair : with a single regiment of Uhlans, and some Cos sacks, he surprised, at Keunerea, on the left bank of the Elbe, the General of Division Poinsot, who com manded a corps of cavalry of seven hundred men.— He made prisoners twenty-one officers and three hundred men ; the rest were killed. Subjoined to the above is, first, a narrative of the events of the 19th of May, in which is detailed the actions which Generals Barclay de Tolly and de Yorck had with two corps of the enemy, at Konigs• wertha and Weissig respectively, the principal parti culars of which have already appeared. The corps of the enemy engaged on this occasion were Lauris• ton's and Victor's, or, as some supposed, Sehastiani's. The amount of the former was calculated at 14,000 men, and that of the latter at 20,000 men. The ene my is said to have been " infinitely superior in num number, particularly on the side of General d'Yorck. Ms loss, however, is estimated at 3000 men killed and wounded, 7 pieces of cannon, and 2000 prisoners taken, among whom are the General of Division Pe guei le, end the Generals of Brigade Ma: Celli, Me tier, ai:d St. Andreas." Generals Barclay and de Yorck then retired to the main position. _ _ Next follows a narrative of the events of the 20th of May. " The engagement on that day, it is oh. served, must have cost the enemy 6000 men, as he was obliged to force the defile of the Spree'vnder the fire of our cannon and small arms." We have next a journal of the battle of the 2la of May, the principal details of which have already been communicated. The following are assigned as the i easons for retreat at the conclusion of the action: " To expose all to the hazards of a single jay would have been to play the game of Napoleon : to preserve our forces to reap advantages from a war, the more difficult to the enemy as it is prolonged, is that of the Allies. We commenced a retreat. We made it in full day-light, under the eyes of the enemy, at seven in the evening, as on a parade, without his being able to gain possession of a single trophy ; whilst the com bined army had taken from him in these three me morable days, by the valour and constancy of the troops, 12 pieces of cannon, made SOO() pri.:oners— amongst whom are four Generals and many officers of distinction. The least exaggerated accounts state the loss of the French az 14,000 men, and that of the Allies does not exceed tiGOO. There is then a narrative of the cavalry affair at R,eiclienbach, on the 22d of May. The main army having fallen back to Weissenberg, " The enemy's army," it is said, "commanded by Napoleon in per son, pushed forward in the hope of cutting off Count Miloradovitch, who had orders to parch on Reichert. bath' by the road of Loban. This enterprise was de. feged by the activity and prudence of the Chiefs.— Two battalions of chasseurs left in the town of 11.ei chenhach, made such an obstinate defence, that the enemy was pbliged tp advance in considerable strength; at length he thought his cavalry could act with considerabfe .effect, He ordered a corps to charge apd pass through Reichenbach ; the attack 19! received by a body of cpairy, doubted to cover . _ . _ _ the chassettn ; and of the carpi of the enemy, which i ,bad entered Reichenbacb scarcely a man escaped the Russian charge, and the lire of the infantry. .0 This reverse irritated Napoleon. Eight hundred men of the Guard, with a regiment of lancers, sup ported by two or 3000 horse, attempted to turn and; take in the rear a battery which had been placed on l an eminence on the left. General Colbert conducted this attack. Our cavalry. was obliged to give way, but an instant after, a regiment of hussars and a party of Cossackewere" on the flank of Napoleon's guards; other detachments threw themselves forward, and the enemy was put in complete rout, after having lost some hundreds of men, killed, wounded, and pri soners. The following morning the rear-guard con tinued its march on Gorlitz, without the enemy daring to annoy it, and in this manner the combined armies have executed their movements from Bautzen, with out having lost even the wheel of a gun-carriage." In a former account of the affair of the advanced guard, which took place on the 26th of May, at Hay nau, it is mentioned, that Marshal Ney, who was at the head of the troops, saved himself with di ffi culty. It is added, 4: upon the flank, and in the rear of the enemy, the war of partisans has resumed its activity, as the ground is more open. General Kaisaroff, who had moved from Mark Lissa upon the flank of the French with his flying corps, sent a detachment on the road from Reichenbach to Gorlitz, and surprised l a convoy of artillery. We took from the enemy two guns, spiked six, and blew up his caissons. The Colonel of artillery, Lissot, who commanded the French convoy, was killed, as also a General who followed in a carriage. More than 300 men re mained on the spot. The Russian detachment has brought away 80 prisoners, who are already arrived with the two guns." PdfRLMMEIVT'ARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE V. The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Loan, the Irish Excise Dudes' Regulations, the Election Writs' Bills, and 28 private Bills. The Irish Cotton Trade, and the Scotch Bridges' Bills, were read a second time. The Irish Tobacco Trade, and the Ship Owners' Relief Bills, went through Committees. Lord HOLLAND moved the third reading of the North Wilts Canal Bill, which was opposed by Lord tDtSDALZ, who moved that it shouli he read a third time that day three months ; when the House divi4d—For the third reading, 54—Against it, 4s. A Message from the Commons brought up the Irish Militia Pay and Cloathing, the Irish Malt Duty, the Courts Martial, the Irish Distillation, the )ecclesiastical Courts, the Insolvent Debtors (with amendments), and Palnicr's Claims Bills. The Earl of BUCK INGIIAMSHIRE moved, "That the Re port of the Committee on the Resolutions respecting the Affairs of the East India Cornp..ny" be brought up. The Duke of NORFOLK wished to know if there was any thing in the new Charter which would prevent any Captain of a Liverpool vessel from taking in a lading of tea at Lima and hriug ing it to any neutral port of Europe; and it there would any pe nalty attach to him for this indirect trade. The Earl of LIVERPOOL replied, that the monopoly of in tercourse with China, and also of tho trade in tea, should be re served to the India Company. It was intended that an alteration in the navigation laws should be made, so as to allow to the Com pany, or their private merchants, an indirect trade between, China, South America, :aid Europe. 'File Report was then agreed to, and a message ordered to be sent to the Commons to acquaint them with that circumstauce. The Report of the Test Act Regulation Bill was agreed to. • On the motion for going into a Committee on the Highway Bill, the House divided—For the motion 3, Against it 12. Mr. Palmer's Claims Bill was read a first time, when the Earl of LAUDERDALE suggested the propriety of appointing a Com mittee to enquire into the nature and grounds of. these Clair:), which was acquiesced in by the Lotto CHANCELIOR ana Lbrd HA tutowia.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS Leave was given to bring in the Irish Arms Bill, instead of the ore thrown out in the House of Lords. Sir T. SUTTON moved to put off the further consideration of the Poor Laws BM for three months; on which a division took place—For the motion 12, Against it 25. The Irish Malt Duty and Distillery, the Militia Adjutants and Subalterns, the Naval Pensions, and Mr. Paliner's per Ceurage Ilills, were read a third time and passed. dr. W. FITZGERALD brought up a Bill for regulating the Distillation of Spirits in Ireland, which WAS read a Ist and 2d trme. EAR It At KS. . Mr. FREEMANTLE called the attention of the House to the subject of the enormous sums of money expended in the erection of Barracks in Ireland.— The abuses had .been carried to the greatest extent, and it was time to correct diem. A total ignorance prevailed as to the extent of the expenses in Ireland, concerning which no document had ever been laid before the House, except one moved for by him; and it was on that paper he should now found his motion. 1 he whole amount of our force, inluding regulars (and militia, amounted to. 389,090 men ; and the whole number to be provided for in Barracks was 131,000 ; but it would appear that Barracks were now building in Ireland calculated to contain 85,575 men. There were other B irracks in Ireland, so that the whole were to contain above 90,000 men. And the proportion, therefore, to be provided for in Eng land would be no more than 80,000. The expense of maintaining Barracks in Ireland was £lO,OOO a year—the expense in England was about £30,000. The rent of Barracks in Ireland was R 50,000 a-year. ' In England, the expense of the Barrack Office was £30,000.* In Ireland there was no Barrack Office; but the contingencies of the expenses of Barracks there was £241,000 a-year. The builder's expenses in Ireland amounted to R 720,000 in one year. In England they amounted to £150,000. The whole I expense of buildings in England and Ireland, for 13.' years, was about 'six millions. There was a thing which the House was bound to inquire into : when Lord Tyrawley resigned his office of Barrack-Master- General, he was a debtor to the Government in el,835,000 ; and from the year 1803 to the present time, no exertion was made to bring that - Lord to account for the defalcations in his 'office during five years. Lord T. denied that he was a defaulter, but that, on the contrary, he was a creditor to Govern ment in RlO,OOO. Parliament, however, was igno rant of this tact. General Freeman had 'since held the office, and he did not understand there had been any check upon him since his appointment. In Ire ;and no regular accounts were kept, as was the case in England; and it was for this reason he should call the attention of the House to the question. This he did without any party motive, or hoStility towards Ministers, against whom he threw out no blame whatever, It was with this view he should bring for ward certain resolutions, on which he meant that the House : s hould act, and that these should be followed up by an Address to the Prince Regent, praying bim to direct the same system of controul in Ireland as prevailed in England. The best mode would be, to conuect the Barrack tstabiislupents of the tWe COlip tales Into one: He then concluded with moving eer. tain resolutions, pursuant to his statements l Mr. PEELE said, t h at many of the Barracks in Ireland, adverted to by the Hon. Gentleman, were not in a fit state for occupancy. There were not at this moment Barracks enough in Ireland for the troops, the far greater number of which were in quer ters. With respect to making up the accounts of Bar. rack expences in Ireland, he had to state, that he had given directions to have all the estimates of the pre sent year made up, and they should in every future year be regularly laid before Parliament. He had no objection to the Resolutions of the Hon. Gentle. man, although he did not see any particular necessity for them. He assured the Hon. Gentleman, that no political influence had any effect in causing barracks to be constructed in Ireland. Representations Wei made by the Commander in Chief that Barracks were necessary in particular places ; and upon such repro. mutations it was determined whether the Barracks ought to be erected or not. He could also state, that in latter yea's the expences in this derartment had been very-consider.bly diminished. Sir H. PARNELL contended, there was nza a proper controul over the Barrack Expenditure in Ireland. After a few words in explanatiin from Mr. the Resolutions were put and agreed to. The Address to the Prince Regent was also put, and agreed to. LI:IRRATION OF MR. CROG.V. Lord A. HAMILTON rose to make the motion, of which he gave notice last night, for the liberation of Mr. Thomas Crogan. If in what he Was abut to say, he should utter any thing which might not be agreeable to any one present, tie hoped it would be imputed to his indiscretion, and not suffered to ope rate against Mr. Grogan. He begged th e Hothe t 3 recollect, that they bad already decide 4 in two caws, both of which appeared to him to be stronger than Crogan's, in a directly opposite way to their judgment in his case. In tlic case of the Duke of Ciunoerland, he (Lord A. Hamilton) had stated, that if the House thought proper, he could prove the Duke of Camber landlaad interfered in the Weymouth Election. The other case was that which had been determined last night; and he wished not to . say mote than that the House would, in his opinion, be guilty of partiality, if they persisted in the further imprisonment of Cro gan, who had now been confined nine weeks. The House would recollect, also, Cott Crogan never had any trial ; had never been called to the bar of the House, and asked whether he was guilty or not guilt ? but the house had decided at once on the Re port of the Committee, and ordered him to be corn mined to Newgate. He must observe, that when the House proceeded to pass such a severe sentence, they ought to have first heard what he had to say, and to have satiJied themselves, whether he had c >mmit ted any crime at all. If he could sloov that Crogan had been unjustly detained, or that he ought not to have been committed, he thought he would then hare laid a sufficient ground for a motion for his liberation, after having been nine - weeks confined ; sometimes among common felons, and once in the next bed to a man sentenced for execution. .Last night the House had decided, that as no act was done, no punishment should follow. In Crogan's case it was only proved, he had endeavoured to return two persons : in that of last night, the act had' been in fact performed : and if such proceedings were adhered to, the public must form such an opinion of the impartiality and justice of that House as he should be very sorry they should ever have cause to form. There was another point more material still, which was that the man cannot petition the House ; and it was a rule of the House which he had more than once opposed, that when a person was confined by the judgment of that House, he could not be liberated except by petition. The reason, however, why this man had not petitioned the House, did him great honour. If he did to, he would not be able to go into a Court of Justice, to claim re dress for the injuries he had sustained, because he could not petition the House without acknowledging himself guilty of perjury ; whereas . he meant to prove his accusers guilty of that offence. On these grounds the House, he hoped, would be induced to grant his motion, which was--" That Thomas Crogan be called to the bar of the House, to-morrow, in order to be discharged." Mr. HOLMES seconded the motion; and. in so doing, read the evidence taken before the Tregonf Committee, on which Crogan was committed, and which stated a conversation said to have taken place between him and the witness, after the close of the poll, on the day of election. The House would, per haps, be surprised when he stated, that there wen, more than one Hon. Member who then heard lion 'speak, amongst whom were the Members for Penryn wand Grampound, who could prove that on that day, and at that time, Crogan was more than 30 miles distance from Tregony. Knowing his innocence, Crogan could not bring himself to petition the House, and- acknowledge his guilt.—(How.)—One ' other circumstance he could not avoid mentioning, and that was, that at the time this unfoitunate man was committed he was carrying on a trade, the pro fits of which were not less than £4OO a year; that business was lost to him, and he (Mr. H.) was well ' convinced, that if ordered to be liberated, he bad not now property sufficient to pay his fees. Mr. BAN KES thought, at least, there should be a petition from the prisoner to the House ;—lie save po reason why the House should, in this case, depart: from its usual practice. There was no necessity that the petitioner should acknowledge his guilt, but surely he might present a petition, stating the circum stances in his favour, which would probably go veri far to induce the House to order his discharge. lie understood also that this unfortunate person had en joyed very ill health while in confinement, and that he had been treated with a rigour before, he hoped. unknown, namely, that he had been put to sleep with a convicted felon.—(Hear,hear.)—lt certainly never was the intention of the House that persons falling under their displeasure should be thus treated.--, (Hear, hear.)—And if it should turn out that this statement was correct, he thought it ought to form a . ground of special enquiry with the House.—(A gentw rd cry of hear.)—lf all these circumstances were in troduced into a petition, it would operate much to the service of the petitioner. He wished fbr no de l ay a hl clo sh O i t s s c o a m se e ste an p d s f h o e r t f ru or s w te ar d to she House, r• 'AWN saw a great di4cttlty the way . 0 4 di t n h g e N o n o c b h l e a nLord application