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nu MI, in- O►' TUESDAY, JANUARY 24. Admiralty-Office, Jammary 24,1809. I. Car its WAS 0.1 Bret ed. 'ate of 47111 de of Olio r of lisis /air- all fat- nify seemed to de is improving it, it is difficult for inc. in making this report, to sett et particular in stances for your approbation. The corps ehiefly engaged were the brigades under Major-Generals Lord William Bantinck, and Mainninglium, and Liith ; and the brigade of Gnards under Major- Graeral Wardc. To these officer 4, and the troops under their im mediate orders, the greatest praise is dire. Major- General Hill and Colonel Catlin Crawford, with their brigades oti the left of the position, ably sup ported their advanced posts. The brunt of the ac tion fell upon the 4th, 42d, Stith, and Mist regi ments, with parts of the brigade of Guards, and the 2btle regiment. From Lieutenant-Colonel Murray, quarter-Master-General, and the Officers of the tlPiieral Staff, I received the most marked assist 41,ev. I had reason to regret, that the illness of li-igndier-Generul Clinton, Adjutunt-General, de prived me of his aid. I was indebted to Cr giulier- General Slade during the action, for a zealous offer of ins personal services, although the cavalry- were embarked. The greater pert of the fleet having gone to sca, yesteiday evening, the whole bring under weigh, and the corps in the embarkation necessarily much mixed on board, it is impossible, at present, to lay before you a return of our casualties. I hope the loss in numbers is not so considerable as might have been expected. if I was obliged to form an estimate, I should say, that I believe it did not ex ceed in killed and wounded from seven to eight hundred; that of the enemy must remain un known, but many circumstances induce me to rate it at nearly doublethe ohm e number. We have some prisoners, but I have not been able to obtain an ac count of the number; it is not, howe•rr, consider able. Several Officers of rank have fallen, or been 'monde& among whom I am only at present en abled to state the names of Lieuteriant-Co lone! Napier, 924 regiment, Majors Napier and Stanhope, bOtli regiment, killed; Lieutenant-Co knel iiVitich, 4th regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel iiiarx ell, Itith regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Fane, . • 'ith regiment, Lieut.-Colonel Griffith, Guard►, Majors Nliller sod Wilhains, 81st regiinent, wound ed. To you, who are acquainted with the excel lent qualities of Lieutenant-Gen. Sir John Moore, I need not expatiate on the loss the army and his country have sustained by his death. His fall ha• deprived use of a valuable friend, to whom long experience of his worth had sincerely attached me. But it is chiefly on publingrounds that I nauttlautent the blow. It will be the conversation of every one who loved or respected his manly character, that, after conducting the army through as arduous ',treat with consummate firmness, he has termi nated a career of distinguished honour by a death that has given the enemy additional reason to respect the name of a Di itish soldier. Like the immortal Wolfe, he is snatched from his country at an early period of a life spent in her service ; ►ike \Voile, his last moments were gilded by the pros pect of success, and cheered by the acclamation of •ictory ; like Wolfe, also, his memory will for ever remain sacred in that country which he sincerely hived. and which he had so faithfully served. It remains for me only to express my hope, that you will speedily be restored to the service of your contutry, and to lament the uafortnnate circum stance that removed you from your station in the held, and threw the momentary continild into far less utile hands. I have the honour to be, arc. JOHN DOPE, To Utubratint-Grocral Sir D. Baird, &e. SUPPLEMENT TO TIM LONDON G,4ZETTE EITR4ORDINARY Capp of a Letter from tLe llooarimark Michael be Courey, llisar-Atlmiest of the White, to the Ilan. llllliitas Welles ley Pole, dried on board His Majesty's ship the Tuatmat, at Cu, 111102, the 17th and lath instant. JANUARY 1;, 1809. Sin—liming it in design to detach the Cosurk to lism!dini us soon as her boats shall cease to be essenti il to the embarkation of troops, I seize a moment to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Comini.sioners of the Admiralty,' that the ships of war, as per margin,• mid transports, ender the orders of Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, and Commissioner Bowen, arrived at this an chorage Irons Vigo on the 14th and LAI instant; the Alfred and Ilindostan, with some transports, were left at Vigo to receive a brigade of three thousand live hundred men, that hail taken thut route under the Generals A !ten and Crawford. In the vicinity of Cornnna, the enemy have pre•wd upon the British in great force. The em istrli.itian of the sick, the cavalry, and the stores, aria mi. The 'sight of the 16th Was appoiated for the vesperal embarkation of the billintry ; and, Meta talat, the enemy prepared for attack. At three p.par. en action comnsenevd ; the miens), %Melt had 1y1:11 10),tOti on a lofty hill, entle.svoisr to force the British on another hill of inferior and lie:lft7 the toots. The wibesirs, *err drivels 1134 nal' great staulh ttr: belt tery ►orry am 1 to zulll. that the British, though ttiutnphaut, hare suffered severe loses. 1 au uilatde W COJZlZAtialtAge Ifurt!ter particulars, than that Sir John ,bore receive() a mortal wound. of wh i ch he died at ui.ht ; that Sir David Baird lost an arm ; that several Offitars and many men have Leen killed and wounded : and that the ships of war have received all such of the latter as tiwy could irecoininodate, the remainder bring sent to transports. The weather it now ttuipestuous, and the dif- Acuities of emburkatiou are great. All except the rear-guard are embarked ; consisting, perhaps, at the present moment, of two thousand six hun dred men. The enemy having brotight caution to a hill overhanging the beach, hare forced a ma jority of the transports to cut or slip. Embark ation being no longer pntetieuble at the town, the boats have been ordered to a sandy heach near the Light-house; and it is hoped that the greater part. if not all, will still be embarked, the ships of war having dropped out to facilitate einlearkatiou. JAN. IS. The embarkation of the troops having the greater part of lust night, it has not been in my power to &tat li the Cossark b, Pure this day ; awl it is with satisfaction I sun able to add, that, in consequence of the good order maintained by the troops, and the unwearied exertions of Commis sioner Bowen, the Ceptains and other Officers of the Navy, the Agents, as well as the boats' crews, many of whom were for two days without food and without repose, the army have been embarked to the last man, and the shirt are now in the °fling. preparatory to steering for England. The great body of the transports having lost their anchors, ran to sea without the troops they were ordetcd to receive, in consequence of which there are some ' thousands on board the ships of war. Several transports, through mismanagement, ran on shore. The seamen appeared to have abandoned them, two being brought out by the boats' crews of the men of war, two were burnt, and five were bilged. I cannot conclude dig hasty statement without expressing my great obligation to Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, whose eye was every where, and whose exertions were unreinitted. I have the honour to be, &c. Nl. DE COURCY. Hazy weather rendering the Cossack obscure, I detach the Gleaner with this dispatch. ERRATUM. In some few copies of The Extraordinary Gurgle of this day, page 91, col.:, line id, for Major Wilkins, • ist Rai ment, read Mao* Williams, hit Regiment. • Ville de Paris, Victory, Ballieur, Zealous, Implacable, Elizabeth, Norge, Plantagenet, Resolutiou, Audacious, En dynsioa, sltdiator. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JAmmav 25. An Extraordinary Gazette was published in the forenoon of yesterday. It contains the dispatches of Sir D. BAIRD ; the report of whose death, we are happy to find, was not correct, his wound not being considered mortal. At night a Supplement to The Extraordinary Gazette was published, con taining Admiral Ds Covary's account of the re embarkation of our army. Our loss in the action of the 17th, at Corunna, is estimated at Ton wounded, and prisoners. A complete list has not been received. Tie Gazette mentions only a few of tha Officers who suffered. Lord Paery makes no scruple of declaring, that if the British army had advanced one day's mitrelt beyond the point where Sir Jottm .Moose ordered the retreat to commence, every man must inevi tably have been surrounded and made prisoners, or cut in pieces. It is said that Government sent out orders from this country to transport our army from its place of embarkation direct to Cadiz. But the General Officers have brought the troops back to England ou their own responsihdity, conceiving that men who had suffered so much, and who had lost in their retreat almost every thing requisite to enable them to take the held, ought to be first fitted out anew from hence. Letters receie• d from the Hon. J. V ILI.' es% from Lisbon, dated the mh inst. cer tainly say that 16 no Marin of the French entering Portugal in force was entertained there." But those who estimate the danger probably much bet ter than oar Minister seems to have done, consider Lisbon as km, and that the French are probably there already, or will be there by the eud of this month. Yesterday th:: following communication a.ts wade to the Loan Moron : (COPY.) " Damming-street, Jam. 21, 014 t a. m. " Loan—The lion. Crllit. GORDON, Aid de-Camp to Lient..-General Sir DAVID BAIRD, if just arrived with Dispatches Irons the Lieu tenant-General. communicating the intelligence that after a hard-fsught aad brandy--contested action of three hours. which ended in the com plete repulse of the enemy, the British ariuy embarked uumolestcd, and withatit loss, except that which took plane bi th , . action; the whole were left at sea by proceeding for Portsmouth with a (Air wind. The Comman der-hi-Chief received a cannon shot, which shat tered his shoulder, early in the action, but he lived long euouglkto know that his meritunous exertions had secured the defeat and disappointed the hopes of the euem:•. Lieutenant-General Sir liavio Baran being severely wounded in the arm, h obliged to sutler amputation, but there 13 evu7y reason to hope that he will recover. " have the honour to he, &c. &e. (SiKtoctli CA9TLEZZAGII." " 4 To the Right ligmuuraldc the Lord Mayor." It la almost superfluous to add, that his Lord ship lost not a moisent to give this intelligence all reipv-ite publicity. Hr immediately communi cated it to LLOY u's, the Exchange. BAriOs'4, &e. In the House of Commons, last night. some in quiry was made relative to •missions in the last dis patches from Sir JOHN Mouse ; the answer to which will be found in our Parliamentary Report. It will be seen, on reference ti, our report of Par liamentary Debate, that notices have been given of several important 'notions. By the Carteret packet, the arrival of whi'h we announced yesterday, we have letter.. mod papers from Jamaica to the sth December. We are con- cerned to find that the island was left in a very un pleasant state, and that a dispute had arisen. be tween the Assembly and the Governor. Some of the I articulars will be found in the last page. Several transports from Corunna arrived, on Monday, at Portsmouth. The following is so ex tract of a letter from that port, received yesterday : "The Endymion, of 39 guns, Hon. Capt. CAPEL Nimrod transport ; and liostoek hospital transport, are just arrived from Corunint ; the latter with sick of the army and officers. Among the latter are— " Pamahy, Calcr,tt, Copland, and Adair, of the Guards ; Ferguson, of the 4,d ; Hsu, inspecter of Hcspitft!s ; Clarke, of the Vith ; &Arun, Stall Servos ; Capt. Bishop, of tha 14th ; Capt. liaises, and Lieut. Kilkelly, of the std alit Ovular 23. other Officers, and gso private soldiers." We can state upon good authority, that Mesroti has made his appearance in India, at the head of an army of 30,000 men. The only circumstance that throws a doubt upon this report is the recol lection or a similar report some time ago, which wa afterwards understood to have origin:tted in a numerous French Embassy arrived in Persia. Captain COCKBURN E arrived. yesterday, at Lord CASTLEREAGH'S Oftsee, with dispatches from Gen. Hoyt, who succeeded to the command iu conse queoee of Sir Davtu BAIRD being di.abled by his wound from any active exertions. General Hoes has arrived.at Spithead, in the Audaciuus. Immediately after Csptaiu COLICHURNE had transacted his business in Downing-street, lie set off fur Richmond with a letter from the lamented Sir Jou* Mount to his brother, the Rev. Mr. Moine:, who resides at that place. The end Regiment diiernbarked on Monday annight at the Cove of Cork. The late gallant and much-lAnt , tited Sir Juitr,l Mowee was tne brother of Copt. URAIIAM loottc, of the Marlborough, of 74 gums, and son of the ce lebrated Doctor Mooae, author of the Flews is Italy, and the popular novels of Zeleaco, Edward, Ike. He was about 47 years of age, and had great ly distinguishcd himself in his profession, particu larly in Egypt. Seldom has it happened to a Commander in Chief to have suffered so much anxiety of mind, disappointment, and privations, as fell to the lot of this brave Commander within the last eighteen months. There is no truth in the report mentioned in some of the papers, that Cornet FITZALARENCE, of the loth Dragoons, was killed in the action at Corunna. During the whole retreat from Saliagun, to the moment of embarkation, he was with Ge neral SLADE at the post of danger, but has es caped without the slighte s t hurt. We read in the Treasury prints that General SlawMIT meant to have made a dash at Boa AMITE and taken him prisoner, had he not been prevented by his order. My Lord CAITLEREAGM has two strings to Ins &ow. The long bum appears to be in the possession of the gallant General, his Lord ship's brother. Lord CHARLES SOMERSET, and Sir CHAIII.Cs MlualcE POLE, have left Brighton to attend their Parliamentary ditty. The coinmand of the Sussex dist.. 4 t devolves on Major General HIMONIN. The following noblemen and gentlemen have been admitted Privy Counsellors in Ireland : _ . The flight lion. the . tdarnuis of Thonsond, the Earls of Clanearty and O'Neill, (Post-Masters-General) and the Earl of Shannon ; Lord Neary \b ore and Colonel Ilaeltell. (Mosier-NI asters-Generai) the How. Colonel Foster, Colonel Marry, Sad Colonel Vereker. The Doke of RICHMOND is on a visit to the North of Ireland. On Tue..4day se'noight he .4eied a t Castle Blayney, the seat of Lord B .-r LAY ti LT, in the county of We stated some time ago, in an extract from • London Journal, that Major flay, of the 'Pith dm imons, had ciahatiged into. we believe, a veteran battalion. For this report there was nut the slightest foundation ; it is, therefore. with pleasure that we embrace the first upportunny of correcting the mistatement, and mentioning, that Mitior the is at present with his regiment in Spain.— (Waterford .$/irrer, Jam. 14.) A Orinsid. rable quantity of ,flax-seed, it is very generally rumoured, arrived in Liverpool, n few days ago, and 10,000 barrels were said to he shipped front Liverpool for Derry. The LORD MAROS held a Court of Aldermen, veaterday, at C.:oddball, at which the pi of livead was ordered to be raised an as state, or two pence in the peck loaf, to take place to-inorrow ; when the qiiartern loaf wheaten will be sold for one-shilling and two-pence three-farthings, and liont.eliold one-shilling and one-penny-farthing. The Court heard and ileterntihed the several ap peals of persona elected to the offices of Coustalil.!s and Inquest:nen, for the different wards, open Saint Monne* Day lest. LJW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BLACir,'Jaw. 24. RISCKLY P. THE REP. MR. CROFT. Mr. WIGI.F.Y moved fora rule Mahe* cause ohti writ of Certiorari should not issue to remove a trial in the cause from the sessions at Beverly, for the East Riding of Yorkshire, to the Assizes at York. The circumstances, us stated by Mr. Vl'soctie. were these: The afEchreits alleged, that the pa,. ties resided in the same neighbourhood ; the . Plaintiff was a gentleman possessing .7.u01. a. year, and the Defendant was a clergyman. On the third of Novernbe.r the Plaintiff weiit out for the purpose of haring a day's rhont ing. In the course of his atuu , emeut, hr. ii•os accosted by the Defendant, who told In.:: be had no right to shoot on that land, as be w•: Lord of the Manor ; and if he dill not depart . . • medionly, he would shoot him, The Putt quietly went off the ground, and was goi n g to. wards his carriage, when the Defenditilt foiriiived him, levelled his piece at him, threatening to i:hoot him, and coiled him tt a rascal and a ixounilrei." On the -sth of the same inonth•he went to the Ma gistrates of Beverley to lodge his complaint. On his entrance into the room, he roand the Defend. silt there ; and the Magistrates for some time ob jected to take the Plaintiff's inform ition. At length they took toom.iuformations. it was also . alleged, tiiat the Magistrates tailed the Plaiutitf 's proceeding tt a Newmarket trick." The Learned Counsel contended he was entitled to the rule, as the Magistrates were prejudiced. and thertflire. the cause ought not to be tried before them. Rule granted. Mr. ['suttees , moved, that the nettle of Mr. Charles Carpenter might be struck off the roll of Attorneys ot° that Court, as he had been appointed a Justice of Pence for the county of Granted. ..: > .. . 4 I , .~ ~, COURT OF COMMON FLEAS, Ja.x. 84. NAT.DOPT C. SCOTT wARING. This was an action brought by the Plaintiff, to recover a compensation f..r his services, and money laid out and expended by him. in his attendance upon a young gentleman of the time of Anuesley, the non of Mrs. Scott Waring, formerly Miss Hughes.—Mrs. Scott Waring, the wife of the Plaintiff, was partial to the military discipline of the German School, and anxious that her sun should enter into the Austrian service.—For tliia purpose lie war sent to Vienna, under the care of the Plaintiff as his travelling tutor, who had been re commended to Mrs. Scott Waring by Mr. Taggart, Apothecary, Pall-Mail; Plaintiff , on his return to England, after having fulfilled his mission, made a demand of 5021. 7s. Bd. which was resisted liy Major Scott Waring, the linamlttl of the Lady, on the ground that he was not privy to the agree. meat with the Plaintiff. It having appeared. how ever, that he had been present at several con. versistions on the subject, and that the agree ment was made in hiv presence. this point was over. ruled. It was then contended," that the charges were exothitant; but this point also not hay. ing beyn made out in evidence, the Jury brought in a verdict for the Plaintiff of 2881. 14s. 6d. the balance due on the 500. 7a. Bd. after deducting for swiss actually received on account. THE Qt.,' E E N".." Kfti-DAY. 'Wednesday being observed as the Anniversary of Her Majesty's Birth. the great guns were tired from the Castle at noon, sad from His Majesty's ships of war in Leith Roads ; the banks sot public offices were shut, and tu the evening there was is most numerously and brilliantly attended As. weinbly. The Duchess of Gordon, with that loyalty by which her Grace hus ever been distinguished, gave, on Tuesday night, a most splendid ball in honour of Her Majesty's birth-day. It was given on the 17th, because her Grace would not interfere with the public one, which always takes place on the evening of the lath. At twelve a band of mna announced the happy day, by playing " God Sant Me king;" when many appropriate catches were sung, and the healths of Their Majesties drunk with' three times three, and unbounded applause. After an elegant supper, the conipaiiy returned to the ball-room, where dancing continued till pest the. Among the elegant and numerous assemblage, we noticed— The Duchess of Manchester Fail and Countesa of Bu • in than, Lord .d Lad) lest:oil:, .ME nud Mrs. Dretarnotid Barrel, the :1f arquises 4* Douglas and T w eedd a l e , Lord hill* lice Clerk, and Lady tit-intone Hope, Lord and Lady Drip. can, Lord Frederick C.isapiell, Lord Hermand, sod Mrs. Ferguson, Esrl of Lever, Lord Citief Barna, Mrs. and Min Ittuidas, Mr. Solieddr-General, Sir Brook Buuttsby. Cook.. eels Cadman, and Wauchope, Hun. Colonel )Inrrny,Sir David Hunter Blair, Mr. Mite , lonsild, Chirenald, Hun. Mrs. 11. Erhine, &c _ _ %Vali sill the beauty and fashion of Edinburgh. the literati, and many other distinguished persons of this add other countries.-1 EdinSdrgh Courant.) On the Inth it..tant was taarried, at Dunkeld House, by the Rev. Mr. HALL, JAMI.S DIJNItOrt: , Esq. younger, of Stratheilan, to the Hight Her, LAIly MILLI a Stmot• MURRAY, second claret. It Grace the-Doke of ATHoLL. Th., KING has b: en giaeionsly pleased, by w - e - - ralt under his Royal Signet and Sign Meow.' t • giie gram unto WILLIAM HENRY WC.PL , Esq. Captain in the Royal IN;:ivy, his Roy.ii i . CL• St' and Permoseirm that he may, in complisto. a with the desire of His Majesty Grirreeus AtroL- Irbil% the Fourth, King of Sweden, accept and wear the Ensigns of Knight of the Grand Cross of the Royal Swedish Military Order of the Sword, conferred upon him by thasaid Kiogg,in testimony of the sense which Her Switrits• MAJESTY enter. tains of th.g•illant conduct of the said Capt. %Vie.. LUIS HENRY Wiiitcv, with His Majesty's ship the Centime. mider his coaonen 4 , in the engage. men: with thn Rusi.i.io fleet in the Cull of Fisilsnd. on th:•-26th day of Augast last : Aiol also to order that this His Al JorsiliCs cones ssiou aid declare. titan, together - with the relittire decuments, be ert. gistered iu his Co'ilere of Arms. Au alarninig if•e broke out in the premires of S. lIALLKT, Ewi. on Sartintiy night,a hick emieunied the interior of that magnificent mansion. together with stabling and other buildings. It was fiei:aw.,:teri by an elderly maid errant rettini; flee to her Led furnitaire, and she was so much burnt that s. • di.d ou Suir.la morniog. 4 1