The National Register. — London, England, 1811-07-07 00:00:00

beach, of the. s furthe, mediate' of guns,'_ • of musketry The fort now opened a very heairy fire of grape and musketry, notwithstanding which we crossiltd the klitch and.placed the ladder on the ii ink of the bastions, on the right of !he bridge, under a brisl-, fire from the oppOsite bastion. • The walls were scaled, and the fort carried instantly, ai:d an Officer and tis prisoners secured. .Lieut. Cursham fired a few rounds from a sit-poeintler, pro ceeded on and got possession Of 'Kota Barro, the enemy only 1 firing one round, and turned the guns towardi the Strand h4t tertes and the town, keeping up a fire until the flag of truce was htoisted. I halie the honour to enclose you a return of the killed and wounded. I attribute the small loss on Orb occasion to the. darknest of the night, and the quickness of the advance of the party. I have the hOnnur to be, (Signed) DAvlb FOR BE S Captain commanding detac h ment.l Return of killed and wounded, Killed—Royal Marines, 1 private. 114?dras European regiment-1 serjrant. Wounded—Royal Marines-1 private severely. I Seamen seamen severely. Ltt.tc:iinient of Ariallery-1 matross severely, since dead. Madras European regiment—Lieut. C. Forbes - received a severe contusion from a fall in stollning ; 3 privates, severely; G pri vates slightly. Amaoynese corps-1 serjeant, 1 private slightly; 1 guide se verely. • . Total-1 serjeant. 2 privatt4 killed; 1 Lieutenant, 1 serjeant, 4 seaman, 12 p:ivates, 1 guide wounded. (Signed) DAYS!) Form s, Captain commaading Detac;iment. The men adva0,...... Ad hand-granaries from the out , from the town, With the utmost order, to the bottom of the breach ;• 1 )), Ensign Dyas o the 51st regi , perform this duty; tut they found that the enemy had cleared the rubbii;h from the bottdm of the escarp; and notwithtanding the. they were provided with ladders it was impossible to mount it. They retired with some loss. The fire upon St. Christoval, as well. as upon the place, con tinued on the 7th, Bth, and on which day the breach in the wall of St. Christoval appeared practicable, and I directed that a sec and .atten rpt should be made on that ni6ht to obtain possession of that outwork. • : Major-General Houstoun ordered another detachment for. this service, tied r the command of Major M‘Guachey, of the 1711 i Portuguese regiment, who, with the Offictes destined to command the different parties composing the detachment, had been employed throue,hout the all and 9th in rtconnoitring the breach, and the differennapproaches to it. .1 hey advaeced at abeut nine at night in the best order, though opposed by the same means and with the same deter mination, as bad been opposed to the detachment which had made the attempt On the 6th. Enc.ign Dyes again led the advance, andahe storming party arrived at the foot of the breach ; but they found it impossible to motiet it, the enemy 'aaving, again cleared the rubbish from the bottom of the escarp. '1 he detachment suffered consider ably, and Major M'Geaciy, the Commanding Officer, was un fortunately killed, and others of the Officers fell ; but he troops continued to maintain their station till Major-General Houstoun ordered them to retire. When the reinforcements had arrived from the frontiers of Castille after the battle of Albuera, I undertook the siege of Ba•• jadoz, entertaining a belief that the means of which I had the command would reduce the place before the end of the second week in June; at which time I expected that the re inforcements far the enemy's southern army detached from Castille would join Mareha; Soult. • I was unfortunately mistaken in my estimate of the quality of those means. We had failed in two attempts to obtain possession of Fort St. Christoval ; and it was obvious to me that we could not ob tain possession of that outwork, without performing a work which would have required the labour of several days to COM pleat. • On the morning of the 10th inst. I received the • incicised in tercepted di-patch from the Duke of Dalmatia to the Duke of Raeusa, which pointed out clearly the enemy's design to collect in Es ramadura their whole force; and I had reason to believe that Drouet's corp, which had marched from Toledo on the 28th and 29th of May, and was expected at Cordova on the sth and 6th instant, would have joined the southern army by the Ibth ; and it Aas gt nerally expected in the country that the southern army would have moved by that time. The movement of this army :done would have created a ne cessity for raising the siege; but on the same morning I received veconets from the frontiers of Castilie, which left no doubt of the destination of the army of Portugal to the southward ;-and Wave ground for belief that they would arrive at Merida on the 15th instant. I therefore ordered that the siege might be raised. I have every reason to be satisfied with the conduct of all the officers and troops employed at the siege of Badajoz, whose labours and exertions deserved a very different result. Major-General Picton directed the operations on the...left of the Guadiana, and Ma:or-General Houstoun on the right; and lam much indebted to those officers, as well as to Major- General Hamilton, and the other General and Staff-Officers, and thaofficers and troops under their coma-ands respectively. Lieutenant-Colonel Fletcher of the Royal Engineers was the directing engineer, and immediately superintended the opera tieies on the left of ale Guadiana ; and Captain Squires those on the right of that river; and these officers and the corps of engi neers have by their conduct on this occasion augmented their cleims to my approbation. Lieutenant-Colonel Framingham • commanded the artillery, having under Lis orders Major Dickson attached to the Portu guese service, who, during the absence of Lieutenant-Colotal Frareieghani with the troops which wrre employed to cover the operations, conducted all the details of this important deport ment. I had every reason to be sat isfied ss ith these officers, and moat particularly with Major Dickson, from whose activity, zeal, and intelligence the public service has derived great advan tage in the different operations against Badajoz. Captain Cleves of the Hanoverian artillery conducted that deiertment on the right of the Guadiana with great success. fire service of the batteries was performed by detachments from the Ist ; and sd. Regiments of Portuguese artillery, 4 22 boor reached the nearly 800 yards vanced fifty yari:. his muck.-:. Imo With a brigade of keeping up a fire drove them off.. THE NATIONAL REGISTER.. lllMlNGll4ll.l2ll9faiiiMill4lllll.lrams7+g - • - !I, and about ten o'clok k arrived within regiment to make the attempt. ie Fort undiscovered. We had not ad- very heavy fire of musquetry ani her bt fore the enemy's out sentry fired woik, and of shot and shells irt tely atter a detachment of the enemy,' intrepidi , y, and in the best order fired a. volley. We now pushed for Ward, the advaNced guard being lid by isketcy on the detachment outside, v, Lich meta, who volunteered to pert() BANKRUPTCY ENLAR GED. John Eunson, h4te c.f Chard, Somerset, j front July 2 to August 20, it the Three Caps Inn, Lyme Regis, 1.)w -4t. BANKRUPTCIES SU PI: RSEDED. • John White, of Gloucester, hargu-ow John Jones, of Edmonton, wheeltight. William Hea - , - d, of Bristol, ironmonger. B ANK !yrs. Richard Smith, of Old City Chambers, merchant. Wiiliam Hulls, of Holborn, ruder. I , aac Marlow, of Great Scotland-yard, Strand, coal-merchant, 4Grae Render and Samuel Render, of Leeds, linen-drapers. Thomas Holmes LA it', of Birmingham, hatter. Israel Mr ses, of Rood-lane, insurance-broker. Thomas Lownds, of Gutter-lane, Cheapside, warehouse man. William Miller, of West Tei2nniquth, Devon, victualler. Joseph Owen, of Hu Maiirltest‘r, boat-builder. Jacob Wake, of TewkeiLirv, Gloucester, linen-draper. John Carter, lute of Str::tfortl ) -green, Essex, victualler. CLIRTIFICATES, JULY (23. Michael Sloper, of Bathwick, :iomerset, tailor.—Robert Hughes, of Nobie-street, London, wareltouseman.—William Stackhouse, of Blackburn, I,ancastt r linen and woollen-draper. --Isaac Po:ter, of Manchester, grocer.—Ceorg Phillips, of Dit itend, umbrelh-nlAer.—Thomas Martin, of High Holborn, blacking-manutlictiirers.—Wiltjam Burrows ' of Manchester, bortz-dealer.—John Griffiths, of Knighton, Rad- Dor, drap,:r.—Thoraes Wood, of Ross, Hereford, maltster.— John Dray, of !lithe, Kent, mi:ler.—John Scott, -of Finning ley, Nottiogham, butcher.--Edmund Smith, of Grk.enwich, grocer. SATURDAY'S I.ONDON GAZETTE. DOWNING- STEL E, JULY 6,'1811. A Dispz,tch, of which the following is an extract, has been received at the Cifice of the - lAvtrpool, addressed to his 4,orcialip by 1,01%i 7L3countWcllitigt, Quinta de Gr,...nicba, June 13, 1811. In consenuence of a report fr,io the Chi..ti Engineer Li,u tenant-Coltivel Fet:htr, that the tire from Si. Clirattovaf might occasion the loss of Many lives tae op,ra dont. `O4 the left of the Guadiana, and the bre:-.Lh to that outwt,rk having been 'appa rently much improved . by the lire throu6hout the tith, I direc4rd that an attempt might tw to carry St. Christoval by A:l;in that night. Maj::r-Geherai Hot:smolt, who conducted the ol+ , rations of the siege on the right of the Guadiana, accordingly orders d a detachir.ent under i'vf.;i.)r Mad:ix:foal of tile