The National Register. — London, England, 1808-09-04 00:00:00

I I I W If I II I re; 686 % V...pt. Y 4. Thomas 'ltichards•ot and Thotna4 Worthington. ilistiohester. nierehants, at eleven, at the Star Inn, Deansgate, lii.ouotester. Oct. 7. How fen Edwards and Granville Duplex, Leeds, cloth Merchants, at three, 41 the Three Leg*. Leeds. \ov. 1. Stritil , hilt Norwood May, Great Saint Helen's, mer Chant, at ten, at Oct, 21. John Svitt, Rochdale, Lancashire, shop-keeper, at twelve, a. ths Ito stuck Litt. Rochdale. Sept. V. Will a n Holloway and Thomns (lyre/ling, rant. Glnmers'lre, rio• h. •r-. at el-ven, at the Old Bali Inn. Dursle), Sept. 2S. Rejamitt Willi ow., Liverpool, wollen draper, iv twelve, at tht• sta ri 'garter Tavern, Liverpool. CERTIFICATES, Scrr. Joseph Dunn awl Coaries Robertson, Wood-street, Cheap side, factors.—Thomas Cot' Grove, Hackney, iir•uvince brilicer.—Jalth !Wks add William Birks, Lane-Eud, Steifford siiire, ier,_ LONDON G ,AZEI' SAtuALDAY. SIM: 3. Dutening-sirett, Sept. 4, 1803. Disoatches, of %vitt. n4he following are Copies and Extracts, were last nig'it received from Lieutenant-Cieneral Sir Harry Bur- I Lieutenant-General Sir.Attlitir Wellesley, dated from It Al-Quarters at lainrinha, addressed to Viscount Castlereagh, One of 11,..'M v's Principal Secretaries of State, and brought by o.apt. Ca.nplivil, A id-d....C.talp to Sir Arthur Wellesley. I xtract of a tater from Liemlenill , +neral Sir A rthue Weltet te,l. dated flead-Qaarturs al Caldas ‘ the Illth nf.dag. NOS. I marched from Lyrics an the 150, and arrived at Ahobaca on ' ,axe the enemy itad abandoned in the priced. dog nigh: ; and I arrived uere yesterday. The enemy, about dtl:M iu nu:nher, were rioted about ten miles (rain hence, at Borica ; and they occupied Brans, about three miles from hence, with their advanced p.•sts. As the possession of this tart villagi was important to our future operations, I determined to Occupy It ; and as soon as the British infantry arrived upon the ground, I directed Cm, it might be occupied by a detachment, Consisting of foor companies of ntlemeo of the iltlth and 95th regiments. T'ie enemy, enosistlng of a small piquet of infantry, and a few t cavalry, made a trifling resistance and retired ; but they were followed by a detachment of our riflemen to the distance of three miles from Brno,. The riflemen were then attacked by a supe rior body of the enemy, who attempted to cut them of from the main body of the detachment to which they belonged, which hal now advanced to their support; larger bodies of the enemy appeared on both the flanks of the detachment, and it was with d .alt ,t 1.0.11 -General Spenc er. who had gone out to fEtii.tch when he had Heard that the 'Armen had advanced in pursuit of t:ie enemy, was enabled to effect their retreat to that e. Tile), have since remained in possession of it, and the enemy have retired entirely from the neighbourhood. ja tnis little affair of the advanced posts. which was occa sioaea solely by Inc eagerness of the troops in pursuit of the ene my, I am concerned to add, that Lieutenant Busibury, of tle ba.talion of the 93th, was killed,and the lion. Capt. Pakenham wounded, hat slightly ; and we have lost some men, of whose nuint.cr j have not received the returns. Raven of Killed, Wounded, and ,Itivein,r, in the Action at • Lourinha, AuguNi IS, 1608. sth bAtt. Oath foot—) rank and file, killed ; 5 rank and 61e, witimded ; 17 rank and tile, missing. 2 bait. 9.3 th foot-4 rank and file, missing. Qlliee.a Killed and ;Vault& e. 95th font—Lieutenant Ilunburv, killed; Captain the Won. 11. K. tbakeailani, wounded. G. M. focuses, Dep. Adj. Gen. • Read- Quaders, at Villa Verde. Mr Loren, August 17, 1804. The Fr.'neti General Laborde having continued in his position tit kolei • %incl. m *trrival at Calita , , on the 15th instant, Ide • tertoinei aliack hits in it ihislai i rning. llnici,t Fitnated on an e.iiinenri . , h.tviii::a plain iti its front, at the ?tut of a valley nieh commence% at Citilas, a•ntl i, Owed to the South was ,1 itYliiria join tire hills, tortoni?: the valley on the Iti; . l. looking. fro.ir Coittlas. In Inv centre of the volley, and "b oil eight from Ittlft-its, is the !loon alai 0;1 Moorish fort of a;bl o-, (ruin whence the ettensyt• pignets bad been driven 01. thith , we & f rom ou t fiort he bad poists in the hills on both k t i es of the vi,tacy, ail iota 4$ in tile - Odin in frunt of his army, Titt NATiolvAt . REGISTER. SEPTEMBER 4. which was posted on the heights in front of Roleia its right resting upon the hills, its left upon an eminence on which was a windmill, and the whole covering four or five passes into the mountains in his rear. I have reason to believe that his forte consisted of at least 6000 men, of which about 500 were cavalry, wish b pieces of antion ; and there was some reason to believe that Gen. Loison, who nas.at Rio Major yesterday, would join Gen. Laborde by 'tis right in the course of the night. The plan of attack was 'armed accordingly, and the army having broken up from Cal las this morning, was formed into three columns; the right, sonsisting of .1200 Portuguese infantry and 50 Portuguese ca .alry, destined to turn the enemy's left, and penetrate into the mountains in his rear; the left, consisting of Major Gem .oson's and Brigadier-Gen. Bowes's brigades of infantry, three aoupanies of riflemen, a brigade of light artillery, and twenty British and twenty Portuguese cavalry, were destined, under the -ommand of Major-Gen. Ferguson, to ascend the hills at CEbi 'os, to turn all the enemy's posts on the left of the valley, as well as the right of his post at Roleia ; this corps was also des tined to watch the motious of Gen. Loison, on the enemy's right, 4 ho I had heard had moved front Rio Major towards Alcoentre last night. The centre column, consisting of Major-Gen. Hill's, !trig.-Gen. Nightifigale's, Brig.-Gen. Craufurd's, and Brig.. (sea. Fare's brigades (with the exception of the riflemen detach with Major-Gen. Ferguson), and 400 Portuguese light infan trv, the British and Portuguese cavalis., a brigade of nine p sunders, and a brigade. of six-pounders, were destined to attack ;en. Laborde'; position in front. The colusnos brieg formed, the troops moved from CEbidos about seven o'clock in the morning. Brig.-Gen. ,Face's riletnen were immediately detached into the hills on the left of the val ley, to keep up the communication between the centre and left columns, and to protect the march of the former along the val ley; and the enemy's posts were buccossively driven in. Major , Cien. Hill's brigade, formed in three columns of battalions, moved on the right of the valley, supported by the cavalry, in orda. to attack the enemy's left ; and Brigadier-Generals Nightingale and Craufurd moved with the. artillery along the high road, until at length the former formed in the plain immediately in the enemy's supported by the light infantry companies, and the 45th regiment of Brig.-hen. Craufursi's brigade, while the two other regiments of this brigade (the 50th and 9lst), and half of the nine-pounder brigade were kept as a reserve in the rear. Major-hen. Hill and Brig.-Gen. Nightingale advanced upon the enemy's position, and, at the same moment, Brig.-General Ewe's riflemen were in the hills on his right ; the Portuguese infantry in a village upon his left ; and Major-Gen. Ferguson's column was descending from the heights into the plain. From this situation the enemy retired by the passes into the mountains with the utmost regularity and the greatest celerity ; and, tun w ithstandine the rapid advance of the British infantry, the want of a sufficient body of cavalry was the cause of his sufferiug but little loss in the plain. It was then necessary to make a disposition to attack the for midable position which he had taken up. Brigadier-General l'ane's ridemen were already in the monutains on his right, and no time was lost in attacking the different passe, as well to sup port the riflemen as to defeat the enemy completely. The Portuguese infantry were ordered to move up a pass on the right of the whole ; the light companies of Major-General Hill's brigade aed the sth regiment moved up a pass nest on the right ; and the 29th regiment, supported by the 9th reo - under Brigadier-General Nightingale, a third pass; and the 45th and tncl regiments, passes on the left. These passes wOre all difficult of. arcess,aod some of them were well defended by the enemy, particularly that which was attacked by the 29th I and 914 regiment. These regiments attacked with the greatest impetuosity, and reached the enemy before those whose attacks were to he made on their flanks: time defence of the talents was desperate, and it was in this attack principally that we sustained the loss which we have to lament, particularly of that gallant o:ficer, the Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel Lake, w ho dis tinguished himself upon ibis occasion. ' The ene:uy was, however, driven from all the p ositions he tad taken in the passes of the mountains , and our troo p s were advanced in the plains ou their tope. For a considerable length of lime the 4cltli and 9th regiments alone were stdvahrell to ifris ;mini, with Brigadier-General Fan's riflemen at a distance hp .1' left. amid they were after Wards supported by the sth rcg!- neat, and Ivy the light com Patties of MAjor - Oenev al Hill's b ;thie, which had cow es up on their right ; and by the oth er troops ordered to ascend the mountains. who came up , h' de ;. greet. The enemy here made farce taost gallant attacks 006 7 / 9 fr an' w der and tan of t hav ! ten; WOl Rrr t~ I c . ! Pin 91 1 et mak al killr and I wet., to.?, rank 4M *GM Mk 91s nth Me i n 32(1 36t1 4011 71bt 2(1 li jcallis 51h I •tall', 20th iron iv I Tuc•l 'IE EXTRAORDINARY. '