The National Register. — London, England, 1814-01-02 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REMSTIifiL 4. 80. s , •I t IS aS:e111 1 31. an tinily nst:ll to thrke toarel:t Ts • s cxpo'itiou ought to be Alificient to emivince Deninaik, u. th• wrovl which she 113% dont to the and to the good.cause. (lay is au ,i4e lost to the intere:q lie that ;overaiturtit. JAN. 2:- The enemy assembled iu colisitierable force on a rai:ge olltwiehts running poraiel with the Admit . , and still ht citing Ville Fratichg by their Hold. Bth Porno:nese regiment, under Cul. Douelas, and the 9111 Cacadorts, ti-der Colonel Brown, and the British light iefautry battalions of tile 6th division, carried this village and the heights iu the neighbourhood. The rain which had fallen the oreeeding W i lda bad on the morning of the Btle had so decti eyed the roibd, that the day had nearly elapsed befo r e the whole of Sir Rowland Hill's corps had come up, and I was•thereforo satisfied with the pot4sessiGn of the ground which he occupied. On the same day, Lieutenantlieneral Sir John Hope, with the left of the army under his Command, moved forward on the great road Isom St. Jean de Lnz towards Bayonne, and reconto itted the ri!!lit of the inttenehed camp tinder Bayonne, and the course of the Allow below she town, after driVing in the enemy's posts front the neighbour:Nod of Diorite and Anglet. The tight division, under Major-General Alten, I;kewise moved froward from Bassusarry, and reconnoitred that part of the enemy* entreuelmsents. Sir John Hope and Major-General Alteu retired iu the evenihg to the pound they bad hethre occupied. Oil the mottling of the 10th, Lientenant-General Sir Rowllnd Hill found that the enemy had retired from the position which they had occupied the day before on the heights, into the iuttenchad camp on that side of the Nive; and he therefore occupied the position intended for him, with his right towards the Adour, and his left at Ville Franche, and communicating with the eet:tre of the army under Marshal Sir William Beresford„ by a bridge laid over the Nive ; and the troops under the Marshal were again drawn to the left of the Nive. Gen. florillo's division of Spanish infantry, which had remained with Sir Rowland Hill when the other Spanish troops went into eantonments, was placed at Urcuray with 'Col. Vivian's brigade of light dragoons at Hasparren, in order to observe the movements of the enemy's division under Gen. Paris, which upon the passage of the hive bad retired towards St. On the 10th, in the morning, the enemy moved out Of the en trenched camp their whole army, with the exception only of what occupied the works opposite to Sir Rowland Hill's position, Will drove in the piequet , of the light division, and of Sir John ope's coups, and .nade a most desperate attack upon the post of the thr one,- at the chateau amid church of Arcongnes, and upon the advanced posts of the latter, on the high 'road Emit) Bayonne to St. Jean de 1.117, near the May's house of Biuritz. Both attacks were repulsed in the most gallant style by the troops, and Sir John Hope's corps took about five hundred prisoners. The brunt of the action with Sir John Hope's advanced post fell upon the Ist Portuguese brigade, under BrigeGen. A. Campbell, which were on duty, and upon Major-Gen. Robinson's brigade of the division, which moved up to their support. LienteGen. Sir John Hope reports most favourably of the conduct of those, and of all the other troops engaged, and I bad great sabietaction in finding that this attempt made by the enemy upon our left, in or4er to oblio us to . draw in our right, was completely defeated by a comparatively small part of our three. I cannot sufficiently appladd the ability, coolness, and judg,ment of Lieut.-Gen. Sir joint Hope, who with the General anti MA' Officers tinder his command, shored the troops an example of gallantry, which must base feuded to produce the favourable re. stilt of the day. Sir John Hope received a severe eontn•ion, which, however, i am happy to sat•, has not deprived me fur a moment of the •benttit of his assistance. After the action was over, the regiments of Nassau and Frankfort, wider the command of Colonel Kruse, came over to the posts of Major General Ross's brigade, of the 4th division, •which were formed for the siipport of die center. When the night closed, the enemy were still in large force in front of our posts, on the ground from which they had driven the piequets. They retired, however, during' the night, from Lieut... Gem Sir John front, leaving small post.;, which were imme diately driven in. They still occupied, in fume. the ridge on whicli the picquets of the light division had stood; and it was obvious that the whole army.was still in front of our left ; and about three o'clock in the afternoon. they throve in Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Hope'* piegnets., and attacked his posts. They w ere again repulsed with considerable loss. attack was recommenced on the morning of the 12th, with the same want of success ; the . first division, under Major-Gen. Howard, - having alloyed the fifth division ; and the enciny dircon• tinned it in the afternoon. and retired entirely within the flat, curbed eaml► on that night. They never renewed the attack . ou the posts Of the light disisiou after the -Oth. TULSILII'S LONDON G.lZEl'7'e.. 1V to-Otriet:. Dtc. 28. Irivtines the ['mice It , . gent has been pleoserl iii the rinioP L id It of 1.1 , , Mojriity to direct that. from the I:.ith insu.nt too 11,•giments 4:t Draanons of the King's Grin iii egt , in F/1411; I•C riiird 'hi , Ist t Itovoiteilts ut Light Dragoow.; and Oat the three Re i m:lents of Light Dragoons -hall be Wilt ett the vd, and Sd 11,:ginients of ih(. King's thanian Legion. 11.11101' PIS. \I. A;tploton, ol Knareshorhugh, linen-manwidettircr, to .f Ail. 1. -1. and Feb. 8, at eleven, at the 11161e-flan-Tavern, h Au-ruses. Mr. Sand with, Hull ; and Messrs. B •srr :Intl Son, 114rtlett'• budding., Ilolhorn, London. thapm ii ut Ninth (Ii tun, Niotinghantshire, shopkeeper, Jan 13. 14, snit Feb. 8, nt lour, at the Angel Inn, Noenich. Me•sr•.li and 13tekerittill, Norwich; Messrs. 131easdale and Co. N *-11m, London ; and Mr Fm d, N , work, Nuttiliginion.hire• '1a..., late ni !buries Knnisford. innkeeper, Jan. 10, , ;old I' h. 8. at two. at the Angel Init. Totten Knutsford. Atter i..t -, Mt. Lionville, Knutsfoid ; w.d Mr. lairlsank, Seething-lane, 1, ot.ion _ _ _ T. it;;llans, Fr::rnc, Soatersetshire, linen-draper, Jan 5, 12, at one. and Fe;), 8, eleven, at the Elephant and Castle Inn, Bath. Awn- Nle. , r*. Nolte - mile and Portal, Essex -street, !ttraud, London; and rt . :11,11:414 _ _ _ .r. S I;,, of Tun.tall, Stafford:hire, nurecryinan, Jim 7,8, at ten, at the Itoehuek r-I ytte, and Ft b. 8, at (me, at the Le : , .0 thou Inn, Barbican, Stafford4sire. Astornies Mears. Berridge, Ilattwst-gdrnen, ; atid Waotl, EXT It .4 ORDINARY GAZETTP, THURSDAY, DEC. 3(, 18:3. WAR DEPARTMLNT, DOWNING STREET, DIN. e 9. Maior Hill, Aide-de-Camp to Lientenant•General Sir ROWland 11. has a• riven wiih a ei-patch, of whieh the following is ropy. aildiessed to Earl Bathurst by Field Wirthal thy Marquis Will.ngtott, K. G dated St. Jean de Luz, Dec. 34, 1813. MI, - Loon—Since the enemy'A retreat from the Nivelle, they hiel occupied a position in front of Bayonne, which had been en tienei.ed with g.reat kbout since the battle fought at Vittoria in inNt. It appe.os to he tooter the tire of the works of the place, the tieit ;eats upon the ,Idonr, and the front in this part is coveted by a Illitra"P, oren.ioned Ity a rivulet ultiela falls into the Ado , ir The rieht of the centre rests upon this same mora , s. and it-. left upon the River N tve. The left is between the Nive and tic Agit:Ll% lijl %•161 . 11 river the left rests. They hail their advanced pos:• trwii their right in font of Antlerand towards Maltz. With • thclr kit they defended the River Nive, and communicated with 6en la! 1 1 ,t• s'• divicionef the army of Catalonia, which was at St : red de Poi t, and t h ey had a considerable corps eantotted in Ville Eraticoe Mouguerre. It %l a, inii•ossible to attack the enemy in this position, as long' as they remained in tutee. I had determined to pass the Nive immediately after the passage tap.e . lint watt prevented . by the bad state - of the road., ; g ni The 5 , .% ding of all the rivulets, occasioned by the fall of rain in t lir begin itig of, that month ibut the. state of the weather and rotas, baying at length en:tided me to collect the material., and. 'flake the preparations fiir ti - n ming bridges for the passage of that river, I moved the troops out &f their cantonments on the 8111 and ordered that the right► f the army under Lieutenant-Gruen:l Sir ROW - land Hill should pass on the 9111, at anti in the neighbourhood of while N.irshal Sir .IVillinm Berestord should favour and . . stippoi his operation, by passing the title -thy isiou mider Uciwril Sit Ilt,ity Clinton, at .Ustaritz ; both uperatimss sneceeded compleelv. The enemy were immediately diiven from the right . bank.ot ti,e river and retired towards liayotine, 1,3! the rreat road d P- Those - d 4ite C;mt b u %vete me regiment was . oss the Country. (.t AI Pied tle PO& t. I:eari) itiv.reepif *y the division, anti 01 &It Atetintiqgdpanti obliged to march across i # Y z to).'s 4: 4 ,, • -I„,,mte rob,