The National Register. — London, England, 1811-06-02 00:00:00

THE NAT tificial phraseology. You have said, 1 4 the Catholic will destroy the Church"—That is the burthen of your speech. Echo upon echo—repetition on repetition—" I think, and I think"-1 know you do thinA, but you thin/c grossly wrong ! and you have given no proof of your thinking either in theory or in practice.— Hear ! )—You, in the persuasion of your rectitude, conjure up the horrid image of bigotry and immorality, and thus in the name of God violate his precepts. I have thought proper to say thus much because I see the Right Hon. Gentleman has assumed an higher tone in bigotry than he has even done in politics; and I must farther tell this intolerant Minister, that it is nqt.in the declamatory tone of any bigoted earthly power to defraud my . country of her civil rights, or prevent her from obtaining her religious liberty. pie may have spoken eloquently, but though he has stated no reason to Parliament agaiiist my motion, he has stated many good ones why he should not be the Minister of a population four fifths of which are Catholics." strangers were. then ordered to withdraw. A division took place, and the numbers were—For the motion g3..—Against it 146.—Majority 63.—Adjourned at five o'clock. LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. SUNDAY, MAY 26, 1811. DOWNING-STREKT, MAY 95,1811. pispateheA, of which the following are Copies, Were this day received at the Earl of Liverpool's office, addressed to his Lordship by Lieutenant-General Lord Viscount Wellington, K. B. dated Villa Formosa, Bth and IQth May. MY LORD—The enemy's whole army, consisting of the 2d, 6th, and Bth corps, and all the cavalry which could be collected in Castile and Leon, including about nine hundred of the Impe rial Guard, crossed the A;tieda at Ciudad Rodrigo on the 2d instant. • • The battalions of the 9th corps had been joined to the regi ments to which they belonged in the other three corps, except ing a division consisting of battalions belonging to regiments in corpsaioing duty in Andalusia, which division likewise formed part of the army. As my object in maintaining a position between the Coa and the Agueda, after the enemy had retired from the former, was to blockade Almeida, which place I had learnt, from intercepted letters and other information., was ill supplied with provisions for its garrison, and as the enemy were infinitely superior to us in cavalry, I did not give any opposition to their march, and they passed the Azava on that evening in the neighbourhood of Esixja, Carpio, and Gallegos. !ley continued their march on the 3d in the morning towards the Duas Casas, in three columns, two of them, consisting of the 2d and Bth Corps, to the neighbourhood of Alameda and Fort Conception, and the third; consisting of the whole of the cavalry and the 6th, and that part of the 9th corps which had not already been dratted into the other three. The allied army had been cantoned along the river Duas Casas, and on the sources of the Azava, the light division at Gallegos and Espeja This last fell back upon Fuentes de Honor, • on the Duas Casas, with the British cavalry, in piropottion as the enemy advanced, and the Ist, 3d, and 7th dpisions were collected at that I lace; and the 6th division, tinder Major. General Campbell, observed the bridge at Almeida; and Ma jor-General Sir William Erskine, with the sth division, the passage of the Duas Casas, in Fort conception, and Aldea t)'Obispo. Brigadier-General Pack's brigade, widi the Queen's regiment front the 6th division, kept the blockade of Almeida ; and I had prevailed upon Don Julian Sanchez to occupy Nave D'Aver with his corps of Spanish cavalry and infantry. The light division were moved in the evening to join. Ge neral Campbell, upon finding that the enemy were is strength in that quarter; and they were brought back again to Fuentes de Honor on tile morning of the sth, when it was found that the Sth corps had joined the 6th on the enemy's left. Shortly after the enemy had formed on the ground on the right of the Duas Casas, on the afternoon of the 3d they at tacked with a large • torce the village of Fuentes de Honor,• whiLh wzls defended in a most gallant manner by Lieutenant- Colonel ‘Vilhattis, or . the sth battalion 6th regiment, in coin iariel of the light infantry battadons belongithr to,Major-Ge rcral Pictun's divisions, supported by the light infantry aat taliun Major-General Nigluingall's brigade, commanded by Major Dick of the 42d regiment, and the light infrantry battalion in Major-General Howard's brigade, commanded by Major M‘Donnell of the 92d regiment, and the light infantry bat talion of the King's German Legion, .commanded by Major tally of the 3d battalion of the line, and by the 241 battalion of the Sad regiment under Major Carr. These troops main tained their position; but having observed the repeated drams which the enemy were making to obtain possession of the vil lage, and beteg aware of the advantage which they would de- R ITF It 43 rive from the possession in their subsequent operations, I rein forced the village successively with the 71st regiment, under the Lieutenant-Col. Cadegan, and the 79th, under Lieut.- Col. Cameron, and the ittli Regiment, under Major Chamber lain. The former, at the Head of the 71st regiment, charged the enemy, and drove them from the part of the village of which they had obtained a montentary possession. Nearly at this time Lieut.-Colonel Williams was unfortunately wounded, but I hope nut dangerously, and the command tievolv ed upon Lieut.-Col: Cemeron, of the 79th Regiment. The cop test continued till night, when our troop's remained in possession of the whole. I then withdrew the light infantry battalions and the 83d ee &intent, leaving the 71st and 79th regiments oeti in the village, and the 2d battalion teith regiment to support them. On the 4th the enemy reconnoirrod the positions which we had occupied on the I)uas Casas River, and during that night . they moved General Junot's corps Irma Alameda to the left of the position occupied by the 6th corps, opposite to Fuentes de Honor. From the course of the r econnoissance of the 4th, I had ima gined that tne enemy would endeavour to obtain possession of Fuentes de Honor, and of the ground occupied by the troovs behind that village, by crossing the Duas Casas Poya Velho, and in the evening I moved the 7th division, under Major Ge neral Houstonn, to the right, in Order if possible to prot.ct tie.a Pssale• On the morning of the sth, the Eth corps appeared in two columns, with all the cavalry, on the opposite side of the valley of the Dues Casas to Poya Velho ; and as the (Ali and f!th corps made a movement to their left, the light tiivisem, obi-h had been brought back from the neighbourhood of Anne eda, was sent with the cavalry under Sir Stapleton Cotton to support , Major-General Houstoun, while the Ist and 3a 'divisions made a movement to their right along the ridge between the l'urr. and Dues Casas Rivers corresponding to that of the 6th and yin corps on the right of the Dues Casas. The Sth corps attacked by fgaior-General Houston's ad vanced guard, consisting of the 85th regt. water Major N. , 1: tosJi„ and the 2d Portugueae. Cacadures under I.it'lltt Nixon, and obliged them to retire; and they retired, in L .ae;cl order, although with some loss. The Bth turps being anus established in Poya Velho and Nave D'Aver, from winch hest: place-Don Julian Sanchez had been obliged to retire ; mid the cavalry charged. The charge of the advanced guard of the enemy's cavalry was met by two or three squadrons of the different regiments of British dragoons, and the enemy were driven back, and. Colonel La Motte, of the I:ttli Ch - asseurs, and some pit onqrs taken. The main body were checked and obliged to retire by the fire of Major-General Houstoun's division; and ..1 partieti lady observed the Chasseurs Britanniques under Lieutenant- Colonel Eustace as behaving in the must steady manner, and Major-General libusumn mentions in high terms the conduct of a detachment of the Duke of Brunswick's light infantry. Notwithstanding that this charge was. repulsed, I determined to concentrate our force towards the: left, and to move the 7th and light divisions, and the cavalry front Poya Velho to wards Fuentes de Honor, and the other two divisions. I had occupied Poya Veilto, and that neighbourhood, in hopes that I should be able to niaintain the communication across thee Coa by Sabugal, as well as provide for the blockade, which objects, it was now obvious, were incompatible with each other, and I therefore abandoned thaw/Lich was the least important, and placed the light division in reserve, in the rear of the lets of the Ist division, and the 7th division on some commanding ground beyond the Turon, -which protected the right flank anti rear of the Ist division, and covered our communaation with the Coa, and prevented that of the enemy with Almema, by the roads between the Turon and that river. The movement of the troops upon this occasion was wed con- • ducted, although under veey critical circumstances, by General Houstoun, Brigadier-General Crauturd, and • Lieut.- Cen. Sir Stapleton Cotton. The 7th division was zove.ed in its passage of the Turon by the light division water Brigati.er- General Craufurd, and this hit, in its march to join tile Ist division, by the British cavalry. • Our position thus extended on the high ground from the Turon to the Duas Casas. The 7rh division, on the left of the Turon, covered the rear of the right; the Ist divisioti, in two lb,es, were on the right ; Colonel Ashworth's ore— . in the centre; and the 3d division, The light division and British cavalry of Fuentes de Honor in front of the left. joined the 7th division in Prtneda; cavalry to endeavour to intirruet the with Ciudad. Rodrigo. The enemy's our position, after it was occupied as were confined to a cannonade, and to cavalry upon the advanced posts. 's brigade, in two 'int.., in 'two lines, on the lett. in reserve ; - and the vii:a•Ae Left. Don JUMllin's infantry and I sent halt with Le t•nemy's COMlTluslicati: tt effoi ;.s on the right 1,4 rt of as I have above dcbsfit)t,, o some charype • ,c -•, • • ; • • • ■ U a , 4