Star. — London, England, 1810-10-15 00:00:00

ME EVENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, OCTOBER. 15. PRICE OF STOCKS TKIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : Cons. for money. 66f—Ditto, account, 66k. Reduced 651 1 -4 per rent. S2f ex. div. Navy 5 per Cent. 991i—Omnium Ex. Bills Ss. to 6s. pron.—Bonds 235. 245. prem. ttp THE STATE LOTTERY WILL BEGIN AND FINISH DRAWING ON FRIDAY NEXT. VICTORY IN PORTUGAL. Yesterday Captain Bonet, Aid-de-Camp to Lord WicuaNgrow, arrived at Lord LIVERPOOL'S Office, in Downing -street, with dispatches from Lord WEL., merom. Captain Bracts was landed at Portreath, in Cornwall, from his Majesty's ship GLEANER, whence he proceeded to Truro in. a chariot, provided by Lord DUNSTANVILLE, and thence to London in a post- 'chaise and four. These dispatches announce an im portant victory gained by the Allied Army on the 27th ult.--a victory enhanced by the circumstance of the Portuguese troops having sustained the principal brunt of the action, and acquitted themselves in a manner that would have done credit to veteran troops. We shall not take up the time of our Readers with any remarks. The Official Bulletin sent to the Loan MAYOR last night, and the Gazette Extraordinary published this morning', both of which are subjoined, are full and explicit : BULLETIN. " Downing•itreet, October 14. gg MY LORD—I have the honour to acquaint your Lordship, that Captain Bumf, Aide-de-Camp to Lord WELLINGTON, arrived at my office this evening, with the intelligence of the French army, under Mar shal MASSENA, having crossed the Cris on the 25th, in the neighbourhood of San Combados ; the ad vanced guard of the British army retired in conse quence to the position fixed upon on the top of the Sierra de Buzaco, where the whole of the British army were then posted. The enemy were occupied during the 2Gth in collecting the whole of their army, and at six o'clock in the morning of the 27th, made two desperate attacks on the position of the Allied Army, the one on the right, the other on the left of the highest point of the Sierra de Buzaco. The attack upon the right was made by the two divisions •of the 2d corps of the French army on that part of the Sierra, occupied by the 3d division of infantry. One division of French infantry arrived at the top of the ridge, when it was attacked in the most gal lant manner by three regiments ; two of British and one of Portuguese, which drove the enemy's division from their advantageous ground they had obtained. Theother division of the 2d corps of the enemy attacked further on the right; but this division was likewise re pulsed before it reached the top of the ridge by a British regiment and a brigade of Portuguese infantry. On the left,the enemy attacked, with three divisionsof infantry of the 6th corps, that part of the Sierra occupied by the light division of British infantry, and by a bri gade of Portuguese infantry. One division of in fantry only made any progress towards the top of the hill, and they were immediately charged with the bayonet, and driven d6wn with immense loss.— The loss sustained by the enemy in his attack of the 27th has been enormous ; the General of division, MERLE, and Genetal M.tVEAN are stated to have been wounded, and General SnaoN was taken pri soner by the .52d Regiment, with three Colonels, 33 Officers, and 250 men. The enemy left 2000 killed on the field of battle, and the prisoners and deserters represent the loss in wounded as immense. ge The enemy did not afterwards renew the attack, but moved a large body of infantry and cavalry from the left of his centre to the rear, on the -road which leads from Montago over the mountains towards Oporto. Lord WELLINGTON having .reason to be lieve that the enemy would endeavour to turn the fl arks of the combined armies by that road, had cliL . ; rected Colonel THANT with his division of militia to march to Sardao, buthe was unfortunately sent round to Oporto by a General commanding in the north ; an.: no!withstane!ing the efforts he made to arrive in time, he did not malt Sardoa till the 28th at night, after the enemy was in possession of the ground. As it was pplyible No in the course of the night, of the 2ath the enemy world throw his Whole army upon that road, Lord WELLINGTON was induced to with draw froth the Sierra de Buz a co, and the whole army, ‘vith the exception of the advanced guard, was, on the 30th, n the left of the Mondego. gg Lord WELJANGTON speaks in the highest terms o he con3uct - of ev::ry part of the army, and repre vnis the Portuguese troops as worthy of contending in the same ranks v. 411 British trows, in the interest ing cause which they afford the best hopes of. saving. The loss of the British amounts to, 1 Major, I Cap tain, 2 Lieutenants, 1 Ensign, and 97 lank and file, killed ; 3 Lieuteaant•Co onels. 5 Majors, 10 Captains, and-430 rank And file, wounded ; and 1 Captain mis sing. The loss of the Portuguese amounts to 4 Cap tains, 2 Lieutenants, 2,Subalterns, and 82 rank and file, killed ; 5 Captains, 18 Subalterns, and 478 wounded.—l have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's Int.st obedient humble servant, (S;gned) "LIVERPOOL. Hort. the Lord Mayor." " To the Right =~fi LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, MONDAY, KTOSER 15. • • ro*d leading by St. Antonio de Cantitto, itsn in front of Major-Generat Pictbn's division. This division was reptitsed before - it could reach the top orthe ridge, by the 74th regiment under the command of the Hon. Lieut.-Colonel French, and the brigade of Portuguese Infantry under the command of Col. Champelmond, directed by Colonel Mackinnon. Major-General Leith also moved to his left, to the support of Major-Gene ral Picton, and aided in the defeat of the enemy on this post, by the 3d battalion Royals, the Ist battalion, and the 2d battalion, 38th regiment. • In these attacks Major-Generals Leith and Picton, Colonels Mickinnon andChampelthond of the Portu, DOWNING-STREET, OCTOBER 14, 1810. A Dispatch, of which the feilowing is a Copy, was received this day at the Earl of Liverpool's Office, addressed to his Lordship from Lieutenant-General Lord Viscount Wellingt on, K.B. dated 'Coimbra, the 30th September, 1810. MY Loan—While the enemy was advancing from Celerico and Francoso upon Vizeu, the different divi sions of Militia and Ordenanza were employed upon their flanks and rear ; and Colonel Trent, with his di vision, attacked the escort of the military chest and reserve of Artillery, near Tojal, on the 20th instant. He took two Officers and 100 prisoners, but the enemy collected a force from the front and rear which obliged him to retire again towards the Douro. I undei-stand that the enemy's communication with Almeida is completely cut off ; and he possesses only the ground on which his army stands. My dispatches of the 20th instantwill have infOrmed you of the measures which I had adopted, and which were in progress to collect the army in this neigh bourhood, and if possible to prevent the enemy from obtaining possession of this town. On the 21st the enemy's advanced guard pushed on to St. Cambadao, at the junction of the rivers Criz and Dao ; and Brigadier-General Pack retired across the former, and joined Brigadier-General Crawfurd, at Mortagon, having destroyed the bridges over those two rivers. The enemy's advanced guard crossed the Criz, having repaired the bridge on the 23d, and the whole of the 6th corps was collected on the other side of the - River ; and I therefore withdrew the Cavalry through the Sierra de Busace, with the exception of three squadrons, as the ground was unfavourable for the operations of that arm. On the 25th the whole of the 6th and of the 2d corps crossed the Criz, in the neighbourhood of St. Cambadao ; and Brigadier-General Crawfurd's divi sion and Brigadier-General Pack's brigade retired to the position which I had fixed upon for the army on the top of Sierra de Busaco. These troop were fol lowed in this movement by the whole of the corps of Ney and Regnier, (the 6th and 2d) but it was con ducted by Brigadier-General Crawford with great regularity, and the troops took their pOsition without sustaining any loss of importance. The 4th Portuguese Cagadores which had retired on the right of the other troops, and the picqucts of the 3d division of infantry, which were posted at St. Antonio de Cantaro, under Major Smith of the 45th, were engaged with the advance of Regnit:'s corps in the afternoon, and the former shewed that steadi ness and gallantry which others of the Portuguese troops have since manifested. The Sierra de Busaco is a high ridge which extends from the Montego _in a northerly direction about eight miles. At the highest point of the ridge, about two miles from its termination, is the Convent and Garden of Busaco. The Sierra of Busaco is connected by a *mountainous track of country with the Sierra de Caramula, which extends in a north-easterly direction beyond Vizeu, and separates the valley of the Mon . dego froth the valley of the Douro, on the left of the Mondego. Nearly in a line with the Sierra de Bu saco is another ridge of the same description, which is called the Sierra de Marcella, covered by the river Alva, and connected by other mountainous tracks with the Sierra d'Estrella. The loss sustained by the enemy in his attack on the 27th has been enormous. I understand that the General of Division Merle and General Maucum are wounded, and General Simon was taken prisoner by the i2d Regiment, and three Colonels, 33 01licers, arid '230 men. All the roads to Coimbra from the Eastward, lead over.one or other of these Sierras. They are -very difficult for the-passage of an army, the approach to the top of the ridge on both sides being mountainous. As the enemy's whole army was on the ridge of the Mondego, and as it was evident that he intended to force our position, Lieutenant-General Hill crossed that river, by a short movement to his left, on the morning of the 26th, leaving Colonel lc Cor with his brigade on the Sierra de Marcella to cover the right of the army ; and Major-General Fane with his divi sion of Portuguese cavalry, and the lath Light Dra goons in front of the Alva, to observe and check the movements of the enemy's cavalry on the Mondego. With this exception, the whole army was collected upon the Sierra du Busaco, with the British cavalry observing the plain in the rear of its left, and the road leading Irom Mortigna to Oposto, through the moun tainous track which connects the Sierra de Busaco with the Sicira de Caramtda. The enemy left 2000 killed-upon the field of battle, and I understand from the prisoners and deserters that the loss in wounded is immense. The enemy did not renew his attack, excepting by the tire of his light troops on the 28th, but he moved a large body of infantry and cavalry from the left of his centre to the rear, from whence I saw his ca valry in march on the road which leads from Morta goa over the mountains towards Oporto. Having thought k probable that he would endea vour to turn ourleft by that road, I had directed Co. lonel Trant, with his division of Militia, to march to Sardao, with the intention that he should occupy those mountains, but unfortunately he was sent round,by Oporto by the General Officer commanding in the North, in consequence of a small deachment of the enemy being in possession of St. Pedro de Sul ; and, notwithstanding the efforts which lie made to arrive in tiine, he did not reach Sardao till the 28th at night, after the enemy was in possession of the ground. As it was probable that in the course of the night of the 28th the enemy would throw his whole army upon the road by which he could avoid the Sierra de Busaco, and reach Coimbra by the high road to Oporto, and thus the army would have been exposed to be cut off from that town, or to a general action on less favourable ground ; and as I bad reinforce ments in my rear, I was induced to withdraw from the Sierra de Busaco. The enemy did break up in the mountains at eleven at night of the 28th, and he made the march expected. His advanced guard was at Avelans, in the road from Oporto to Coimbra, yesterday ; and the whole army w:is seen in march through the mountains ; that under my command, however, was already in the low country, between the Sierra de Busaco and the 'ea ; and the whole of it, with the exception of the advanced guard, is this day on the left of the Mondego. Although from the unfortunate circumstance of the delay of Colonel Trant's arrival at S4rdoa, I am l apprehensive that I shall not succeed in effecting the object which I bad iu view in passing the Mondego, The eighth corps joined the enemy in our front on the 26th, but he did not make any serious attack on that day. The light troops on both sides were engaged throughout the line. At six in the morning of the 27th, the enemy made two desperate attacks upon our position, the one on the right, the other on the left of the highest point of the Sierra. The attack upon the right was made by two divisions of the 2d%orps, on that part of the Si erra occupied by the 3d division of infantry. One division of French infantry arrived at the top of the ridge, when it was attacked in the most gallant man ner by the 88th regiment, under the command of the Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel Wallace ; and the 45th regiment under the command of the Honour able Lieutenant• Colonel Meade, and by the Bth Por tuguese regiment under the command of Lieutcnant- Colonel Douglas, directed by Major-General Picton. These three corps advanced with the bayonet, and drove the enemy's division from the advantageous ground which they had obtained. The other division of the 2d corps attacked further on the right, by the and in occupying the Sierra de Busaco, I do not gret my having done so. This movement his ded me a favourable opportunity of sliming ;1 ;* ' enemy, the description of troops of which this is composed ; it has brought the Portuguese levit: into action with the enemy for the first time LI an ad. vantageous situation ; and they have proved that tL.. trouble which has been taken with them, Las r.. 7 been thrown away, and that they are w ort h y of con. tending in the same ranks with Briti s h troops , i n intereEting cause, which they afford the best h opes of saving. Throughout the contest upon the Sierra, and guese service, whO was wounded, Lieutenant-Colonel I the previous marches, and in those which we h ave Wallace, the Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel Meade, Lieu- since made, the whole army has conducted themselvc. tenant-Colonel Sutton of the 9th Portuguese regiment, in the most regular manner. Accordingly all the Major Smith of the 45th regiment, who was unfortu-1 operations have been carried with ease, the sc.ldieri nately killed, Lieutenant-Colo tel Douglas, and M.,. jor have suffered no privations, have undergone no t i t Birmingham of the Bth Portuguese regiment, distin- , necessary fatigue, there has been no loss of sturc:., guished themselves. Major-Gera - ral Picton report,s the army is in the highest spirits. of the 9th and 21st Portuguese regiments, command- i I have received throughout the service cd by Lieutenant-Colonel Sutton, and by Lieutenant assistance from the General and Staff OfEcn. C<lGnel de Arouje Patellar, and of the Portuguese Lieutenant-General Sir Brent Spence: tw artillery, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Arentchild. Ime the assistance which his experience enables him I have also to mention in a particular manner the afford me, and I am particularly indebted to the Ad conduct of Captain Danscy, of the 88th Regiment. jutant and the Quarter-Master-General, and the off. • Major-General Leith reports the good conduct of cers of their departments, and to Lieutenant-Colonel the Royals, Ist battalion 9th, and 2d battalion 38th Ba!hurst, ar.d the Officers of my personal Staff, to regiment ; and I beg to assure your Lordship, that I Brigadier-General Howarth, and the Artillery, and never witnessed a more gallant attack than that made 'particularly to Lieutenant-Colonel Fletcher, Captail by the 38th, 45th, and Bth Portuguese regiment, on Chapman, and the Officers of the Royal Engineers. the enemy's divisiun which had reached the ridge of I must likewise mention Mr. Kennedy and the the Sierra. . Officers of the Commissariat, which department has Oa the left, the enemy attacked with three divisions been carried on most successfully. of infantry of the 6th corps, that part of the Sierra I should not do justice to the service, or to my own occupied by the left division, commanded by Briga- feelings, if I did not take this opportunity of drawing dier-General Crawford, and by the brigade of Portn. your Lordship's attention to the merits of Marshal geese Infantry, commanded by Brigadier-General Beresford. To him exclusively, under the Portuguese Pack. , . Government, is due the merit of having raised,formed, One division , of infantry only made any progress disciplined, and equipped the Portuguese army, which towards the tcp of the hill, and they were immedi- has now shown itself capable of engaging and defeat. ately charied with tl.e bayonet by Brigadier-General ing the enemy. Crawfurd with dr... .10-111, 52 , 1, and 95th regiments, I have besides received from him, upon all occa• and the 3d Portuguese C.,cidures, anti driven down sions, *all the assistance which his experience and abi with immense loss. Mies, and knowledge of this country, have qualified Brigadier-Ceneral brigade of Portuguese him to afford me. infantry, a which was in re:A-; ,\t As moved up to sup. ; The enemy has made no movement in Estrama port the r gitt of Bi igadicr-Getter' CrAwftird's divi- dura, or in the Northern Provinces, since I addressed sion ; and a battalion" of the 19th Portuguese regi- your Lordship last. My last accounts from Cadiz are ment, tinder the command o: Lieutenant-Colonel of the 9th instant. Macbean, made a gallant and sac, -ssrni charge upon I inclose a return of the killed and wounded of the a body Of another division of the ?nen. y, which was Allied Armies in the course of the 25th, 26th, 27th, endeavouring to penetrate in that qu wren and 28th instant. I send this dispatch by my Aid- In this attack Brigadier-General Crawfurd, Lieu- de-Camp, Captain Burgh, to whom I beg to refer tenant-Colonels Beckwith of the 95th, and Barclay of your Lordship for any further details, and to recont• the 52d , and the Commanding ()Ricers of the Itegi- . mend him to your Lordship's notice, , ments engaged, distinguished themselves. 1 I have the honour to be, Etc. Besides these attacks, the light troops of the two I (Signed) WELLIMOWs armies were engaged throughout the 27th, and the ! Return of the Nimber of Killed, Wounded, and h64sing of the 4th Portuguese Cagado . res, and the Ist and 16th Re- i Army under the Command of Lieutenant-General Lord Vb. giments, directed by Brigadier-General Pack, and count Wellington, K.B. in the Advance of tbe French ATM towards the Position of Bum°, on the 2.5 th and oath d Sir commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel de Rego Bonito, tember, 1810. Lieutenant-Colonel Hill, and Major Armstrong, General Staff-1 Captain, wroundcd. shelved great steadiness and gallantry. i 11th Light Dragoons-1 horse, killed; 1 serjrAnts 11 nak sot file, 4 horses woundesl; 3 rank and file, 7 bones, missing. 16th Light Drigoons-2 hams, killed; 1 Cornet, 4 horn* wounded ; 4 rank and file, S hones. m'fslng. I.t Hussars King's German Legion-2 hones, killed; 1 Serjaiii, 3 rank and file, 4 horses, wounded. Total-5 horses, killed ; 1 C.iinalti, 1 Cornet, 2 Serjettnlll S rank and file, 12 horses, wounded; 7 rank and ale, 10 horses, missing. NAUtS Of OITICtIItd WOUNDTD. 99th Foot—Captain Huey, Deputy Assistant-Adjutant•Genend , severely. 16th Light Dragoon—Cornet Keating, slightly. C. &rawwar, Major-Gen. and Adj.-Gen• List of Officers Killed, Wounded, and Missing, of the Army Under the Command of Lieutenint-Genrral Lord Viscount Wellington, K. B. in the Action with the French Army, caw madded by Marshal Mamma, in the Position of Baus ol / 2 01 the 27th of September, 1810. XILLRD. Ist Battalion, 45th Foot—Major Smith, Copt/hi Urquhart, EA Lieutenant Ousely. 74th - Foot—Ensign Williams. Ist Battalion, Kith Foot—Lient. Henry Johnson. WOUNDED. Ist Batt. 52d toot—Lieut.-Colonel Barclay, slightly. Toth Fnot—Lieut.-Colonel C. Campbell, Assistant Adjutant.Ge- neral, ditto. 4.:d Foot—Captain I.ord Fitzroy Somerset, Aid-de -Cusp to Lord Wellington, ditto. let Foot Guards—Captain Marquis of Tv:eedale, DeptltiMio* cant-Quarter-Master-Gencral, ditto. Ist Batt. 40th Foot—Captain Georr Preston, Aide-de-CAPP to Sir B. Spencer, dine. Ist Batt. 7th Foot—Lieut. Marr, ditto. lit Batt. 9th Poor—Lieut. Lindsay, severely. 2d Batt. 24th Di t tto—Capt. Meachan, slightly. 2d Batt. 38th Ditto—Lieut. Miller, ditto. lit Ban. 45th Ditto—Major Gwyn, Lieut . Harris, arAl Lieut. Tyler, severely ; Lieut. Anderson, slightly. Ist Batt. 50th Ditto—Major Napier, severely. Ist Batt. 52d Dittch—Captain George Napier and I.ieut. C. Woods slightly. sth Batt. 60th Ditto—Lieut.-Colonel Williams and Capt. A' drews, slightly ; Lieutenants Loire and Eberstein, !everelY; neut. Frankier, 74th Foot—Lieut. CargeU, severely. tat Batt. 79th Ditto—Capt. Douglas, ditto. 2d Batt. 83d Ditto—Lieut. Cohhunt, slightly. Ist Batt. 88th Ditto—Major Silver, severely (since deid);. M a r McGregor and Captain McDermott, severely; Cars. Dan'Y and Bury, slightly; Lieuts. Fitzpatrick and 14Ickir, sod Ea' sign Leonard, seyrrely. lat Battalion of the Line King's German Legion—Lieut. During, slightly. 24 Ditto Ditto—Major Wurinb, ditto. Detachment zd Light Ditto—Lieutenant Stolte, severely. , - MISSING. lit BIC. 7litth Foot—Captain A. Cunene. 'relay, slightly. rU, Assistant Adjutant-Ge - omerset, Aid-de-Cmip to Tweedale, Deputy Aclju• Preston, Aide-de -Camp to o. :verely. slightly. to. Lieut. Harris, ar.d Lieut. slightly. severely. darter and I.ieut. C. Woods Williams and Capt. An- and Eberstein, severely; ditto. slightly. "rarely (since dead)" MO t, severely; Cars. Dansty tick and Me*, and fir m Legion--Lieut. Doi* Itto. 'art Stolte, serrrely. Moo.