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A. OF SATURDAV; Oct. 3: DION'I3 %V, OCT. 5, 1812. • WAD, DEPARTMENT. Downinj , -street, Oct. 5, 1812. A Dispatch, of which the following is an ek ,;, tract, ha; been this morning received at Earl, Ba t• thurst's Office, addressed to his Loniship by Ge ' neral the Marquis of Wellington, K. B. • , de Toro, near Bur,zos, Sept. 21. continued to follow the enemy with the troops under my command till the 16th, when I was :joined .at Pampliega by•three divisiOns, of infan-, try, and a small body of cavalry, of the army of Gallicia : his Excellency. ithe Captain General Castanos having arrived at head-quarters on the 1-Ifh. 'The enemy bad-on the 16th taken a Strong on the heights behind Celada del Camino, and.arrangements were made to attack them, on the 'morning of the 17th, but the' enemy retired. iti she iiight, and they were driven on tha 17th to the heights close to Burgos. They retired through the town in the .night, leaving behind them some eloathing and. other stores, and a large quantity of wheat and hurley; and they, Lave since continued their retreat to . Briviesea, :where, it is reported, they have been joined by 7000 conscripts. It is likewise reported, that the Prince of ltsiing has been ordered by the local . government of Praire to come and take the com mand of the army. The castle of .Burgos commands the passages of the river Arlanzou in the neighbourhood, and the roads communicating 'with them, so com pletely, that We could not pass the river till the - 39th; when we effected that operation in two co -1 minus, stb division and Brigadier-General Bradford's brigade aboee, and the Ist division and Brigadier-General Pack's brigade, and Major ' Gentrcil-An . son's cavalry below the, town. tiirg,Os is situated in that division of Spin al lotted to the army of the Nbrth, and General Cal farelli, Who bad been here on the 17th, had placed in the castle a gprrison of the troops .of that ,army, consis'ting, as is reported, of two thoasand fire hundred men. The enemy had taken considerable pains to fortify the castle of Burgos, and , bad oe • cupied with a horawork the hill of St. Michael's, Which has a considerable command over some of the works of the castle, at the distance - of 300 yards. They had likewise occupied other parts of that Hill with fleches and other works for the protection of their pickets and out-posts. • As soon as the Ist division crossed the Arlatzon On the 19th, the enemy's outposts were driven in - by the light infantry battalicin of Colonel Sterling's brigade, undel.: the command of the Honourable iklajor cock-s, , supported •by Brigadier-General Pack's , ,brigade, and the enemy's outworks or: the bill of St. Michael's, with the exception of the liornwork.,, were occupied by our troops; which were. posted' close to the bOrnwork . As soon as it was dark, the same troopS, with the addition of the 424 regiment, attacked and carried by assault the hornsvork Which the enemy had occupied in strength. In this operation Bri gadier-General Pack, Lieuteriant-Colonel Hill of the Ist Portugues regiment, Colonel Campbell of the 16th, Major Williams of the 4th Cacadores, Major Dick of the 42d regiment, and the Honour able Major Cocks of the .79th regiment, command ing the light_ infantry battalion, distinguished themselves ; the latter; in particular, led the-at tack of time enemy's posts iii the morning, and en tered the born Work by its gorge at night. We took :three pieces of cannon and one captain, and sixty , two prisoners ; btakath sOir , to add that our own loss was severe, as appears by the inclosed return: It was impossible to ascertain the exact state : of the works, of the Castle. of Burgos, till we had obtained possession of the bill of St. Michael's. Since the 19th, we have been. cruplevod in esta tlishing ourselves on the hill of St. Michael'!, and in constructing those works which are best ealcu 4ted to forward our future operations. Ile whole of the army have crossed the Arlan ton, with the exception of the Gth division, and t he - divisiori , o'f Spanish Infantry. . . I accounts from Sir Rowland Bill of the 14 tb ; he was then at Truxillo, and bad received orders, and was to be at Oropesa on the 18th. I have not heard that Marshal Soult has yet left l'attada ; he was still there on the 4th. General villas'eros had followed the enemy's movements V'orn the Guadalete, and h a d b e e n dry sticcessful; 'e Was at Loxa .on the 6th. The enemy had a bandoned Andujar•and Jaen.•- • last accounts I have from Alicant are of th e 10th inst. 'Joseph Buonaparte's army, and that of Suchet, were still in Valencia. • I have no late accounts from Cadiz. . - 'efurn of Kilted, WoUndcd, and Missing of the Army under the Command of his Excellency the Marquis of WE I LLINGI'ON, K. B. in the As. sank and Capture oT the Fort St. Michael; on the 1 9th ult. 4 ? Killed. - -rl.—General Staff, I major. --2d Batt. 24th Foot, 1 rank file.--ist Batt. 41d Foot, 2 lieutenants, 1 serjeant, :32 and file.-2d Batt. 58th Foot, 1 rank and file,--lst 2•l7;tt. 7Sth Foot 5 rank and file.-Ist Bng att. Line, Ki's ' • ' A L, trman Legzon, I serjeant. ..-1 neaten...lt, 1 ensign, .1 staff, 2 serjeants, 10 and hie. k r • Wo - anded. (t'sk.—C 4! ld s tr eam Cnar:ll. serjeant. prank and file.— 7: 1 r:ont Gnit:3l, 9 tank ar.d Batt: , 24,th Foot-1 ;",leant, IC rank and file.--let Platt. 42d Fobt, 3 captains, l ieutenantl, I volunteer, 10 s•...rjeants, 1 drummer, 153 `'nk,and f.le —2d 13att. 58th Foot, 1 captain; 1 lieutenant, I ' 3 - el:leant, II rank and file.-sth Batt. sebtlrFoot, 1 lku, ll ant, 7 rank and file.-Ist Batt. 79th Foot, 2 lieutenants, n erjeants, 29 - .T.11.1-i and file. plguese.—i c:iptain, 1 lieutenant , 3 ensigns, 5 serjeants) rank and tile% , Missing: ~ ejt G"U~zcese. h Eatt. 60t.b Foot-, 1 rank and file., , ' nd ,an.t.t a _ . 2i; riaor, 3 lieutenants, 1 ensign, 1 tf, rank aul ( " I defl.-5 eap;ains, 7 lieutenants, 3 ensigns, 21 s er j eau t s , 1097 rank and file. rank and file. an les of the British Officers Killed and Wounded. nerrepoint, AsFistant Quartef-Master-Ge 'al .Perrnauent Staff.--42d Rest. Ist Batt. Lieut s . Gre ✓,Vorson arid Mihe. Rert. Ist Batt. Captains Irn Villiason and 14vidso.i, and Lient...Ts.'Stewart, slightly ; Capt. ;Nl 4 Kenzte, Fraser, -and Volunteer John Lane, , severely.—Wh t ,, e g• 2d Batt. ('apt. Dudgeon, slishtly; and Lieut. Carter, ,▪ 1Z 1. °:•:- . -50th Ber4t. •sth Batt:. nt. O'Heher, severely.- 1,;'" 11 .7 t. Ist Batt. Lieut. Graht", - E6rerely, and Lieut. several;, since dead. 12411.1 - 11.1 reiallit, 1 CITY OF LONDON. Yesterday being:the first day of the . EleCtiOn ; ninrierous motley assembly Collected" at : Guildhall. About half-past twelve the Lord Tadydr . and Al- . &mien . arried, and appeared On the hustings abOht one o'clock. The usual proclamatiOn being read; The tOr.D MAVon came fdrward, and offered him Self as orie of the CandidateS for the I~epre• Sentation of the City in Parliament. : His 1/0111Shili WaS aware, - he said, that he lay under great disadvantages in coining forward to Solicit votes for this purpose, while he held his Present high office, in the execution of the duties of which he was so much exposed to the oppro brium of 'the people. -it being his lot to exer cise the duties of his office as Lord ..liaYor•When there was a cry orstarvationj he was well assured this must operate to his prejudice, from an • impression On: the public mind that :he was to blame for this. But he could from his- conscience say, that no man laboured More strenuously than he did to reduce the price of bread, but this reEted on laws over which he had no controUl. He had, however,, the satisfaction of saying, that he derstood the price of bread was to be reduCed to-• morrow.— (Loud .cheering.) Should he enjoy the honour of being chosen for one of the Represen tatives of this great City in Parliament, it would always be his study to promote che,welfareof the , commercial and shipping interests, to support the Constitution of the country,,and to promote with assiduity the interests of his fellow-citizens. A Mr. THOMSON now "came forward, but Could, not be heard. • Sir W. Cuwrfs, in soliciting votes for his re election, referred to his conduct during the long period he had represented the City in Parliament, and said he would continue with unabated ardour to promote the interest of the Country, and of this City in particular. His principles were well known, and he would continue to maintain the same loyalty and independence which he had in variably manifested. 'Mr. Alderman corai3E said he would continue as he had hitherto done, to support the interests Of the City.', His principles were familiar to every one; and if he should have the hon Our again to-be 'elected as one of the Representatives of the City, he would continue to promote its intersts with the some warmth which be had already dis played. , I Sir JAMp SHAW appealed to his conduct during the period in which he had enjoyed the honour of representing the City in Parliament.. He had al ways manifested, by his conduct, how dear the in terests of, his country, and this.Citv in particular, were to his heart. Should he be re-el e ct e d, no eiforts on hi s p ar t s h ou ld be wanting to continue the same line of conduct which he had hitherto nursed. Mr. Mclennan Woos said, he cameforivard as a new candidate, and was sensible that as such tie lay, under material disadvantages. He had not canvassed for a single vote, because he wished.no vote which was not given from principle; he did not wish a vote from any man who did not ap prove of his principles. He had been a constant friend to freedom, and his voice should e%rbe for civil and religious liberty. • • Mr. Alderman ATKr s 110,W came . foniard, but the'uproar was so prodigious that we could not hear What be said. WAITHM AN then came forward, "and 'alter many ineffectual attempts to procuring a hearing, was obliged to retire. Mr. Alderman ATKINS again came forward. He said, that he always appeared with - satisfaction to himself on an beesioi) of this kind, from a con sciousness that he had always discharged his public duties with reed/fide. How far he might he qua lified for rspresenting the City in! Parliament,. it was better-for others to judge than him to say. Tqany years experience intrude, by enabling him to judge how .its interests could be best promoted, made,him aspire to this trust., He would .prot , cet the privileges and maintain the dignity of the City. Ile recollected, with -pride the thanks which had So frequently been returned to him for his serViccs in Supt orting the, interests- of -his fellow citizens : he had always heena friend to order and the Con stitution, bat would never support Governm en t against /he interests o f the City. Mr. WA iTxntAN.apologized for having gone for= ward before the worthy Alderman (Atkins) had obtained a hearing. His actions, and principles were well known, and by them he i must stand or fall. This was a day for examination of the ac tions and principles of those who offered themselves as Candidates.. It was a day, however, which did not occur so often as it should. He should take a review of the actions of his predecessors. He had read all their advertisements and declarations; from them it appeared they were determined to support the Constitution, and in this they all agreed. How then did it happen be had been for many years at direct hostility with them on this very subject Professions must go for nothing. We have seen our 'Constitution ruined, and seats in Parliament offered. for sale. The man who had proposed the disgraceful expedition to Walcheren Was now at the head of the Government. For .twenty years had he opposed those principles which had now brought the natioh to the brink of ruin. Had the. many netitions.againsk 'war which he had present ed been attended to, th e t orrents o f blood that, have been spilt, and the millions of money-that haie been expended, would have been saved. -It had beeh said that a shop-keeper " was not fit to have a seat' in Parliame n t p —h e appealed to the Electors Whether this ought to be the case. He had been engaged eighteen, years :in the public service without-any reward. Who could he more fit to represent the City of London than one of its shop-keepers ? Mr. THOMSON again came forward, but could not obtain-a hearing. Tito respective Candidates were then nominated, and 'the shew of hands was greatest for. Sir W. Curtis, Alderman Wood, Alderman Combe, and Mr. Waithman. On the nomination of Sir James Shaw and Alderman - Atkins, there was a consi derable display of hands; but Very inferior to the other four: .Pretions to the commencement of the poll, the LORD 211Atoa exproscd his determination to decline. - . c. ose b. e po the numbers were t• Alderrni!.A . Combe iqi i!af. wr;ithii;a1.l AldcfaLuilVood. 95 Sir 54 Alderman Atkins 39 Sir J. Shaw.... i 36 Mr. WA/THMANT then came forward and thank ed the Electors for the support he had that day received. The= war against corruption was now c6mmenced, and s he hoped their exertions would not cease until it was eompletely !nit down. lie •was,he Confessed, brit a very bumble member Of Society, no; did. he cone ,forward with any view to personal, aggra - ndizetnent, but merely to bring his support to suc h measures as he merely t be itylispenSahle to the salvation of the country. , Alderinan Woob then came forward.' ei pressed-bii for the Support he had.rc ceived, and lamented *the contitinance'of a wa.r in which. so many thousand lives were sacriaced: 'The other Candidates endeaVoUred to address the people, but the uproar Ivas so great, that they could not be heard. WESTMINSTEtn. , • . Yesterday a Burdettite Meeting of 'the Electors Of Westminster was held at tile ,Crown and An chor, Mr. STIiRCH: in the Chair. Mr. STU' 11CH opened .the bUsiness by reading the advertisement by. which they had been called together. He then addressed the Meeting at con siderable length.---Ile acknowledged this was, not intended to be a General Meeting, but to consist merely of the friends to purity of electiOn ; if, therefore, any persons Were there who were not friends so purity.of eleetion, and who wished cor ruption to mairitain its ground, who thought war, slavery, confidence in the present Government; and increased taxation Were preferable to scm - iriti and peace;it tai tt be proper to inform such per sons that they came Onyited.i It had pleased Government to afford theni.another osieortnni ty of choosing RepresentatiSes . in whu:a they could confide. Ministers Might have denied. them this opportunity one year foa;,;cr, and doubtless they would haVe done so, had not a dissolution 'at : this time answered 'their" l own purposes, which, , however, it was here Unnecessary for him to men tion. It was sUllicient for them that they were now permitted to exercise that'pouser, which they were not allowed to exercise so often ought,. to be exercised, as according to the ,ancient law of the land they bad a right to elect their Repre sentatives in Parliament once a year, or oftener if need be ; hut by a modern'Act of Parliament, the passing of which was little short of treason to the Constitution if the Country, they were only per mitted to ,:eleet persons to serve in Parliament once in Seven" Years, unless, as in the present in stance, by the graCe and special favour of Mini . - sters, they were indulged • - with the. exercise of their right more frequently than WAS allowed by the Act. The duty they were called upon to per form was, to choose two persens to rep; esentthem in Parliament; -who It, - ould be.'. the firm supporter's And defenders of th a t portion of liberty which still remained to them, and the strenuous adv oca t es for the restoration of that of Which they had Been deprived. All elections were necessarily attended with some expellee : but he was happy to say that that expense had been reduced,,and - that by a late Act of Parliament; it was defined proportion of the attendant expellee . ought, and what ought nOt,tojse horn: by the Candidates. From a cal- Culation. recently made, it . appeared that.the ex pence of electing two persons to serve in Parlia ment, supposing them to walk over the course (and consequently the least possible. expenee. in - e'urred) would felt litte short of 8001. That it so great, was to be regretted, and he hoped to this evil a remedy would be applied; but-as the case stood at present, an expellee to thataniount Must necessarily fall on the - electors or elected. The principle on which the people of WeStminster had , acted, was to send their Representatives to Parliament free of expence, that no Man might have it sin his power to say to them, that as he had bought his seat; to reimburse himself it was ne cessary to sell his vote.. If this principle were now to lie abandoned for one single moment,. in his opinion, they would once undo all their:work, and render ; useless that- glorious example ,which they livi Set to other }lectors fiye.years'ago, 'and which had and''Which was still doing so much good in various parts of the kingdom.: The sum necessary, to return aßepresentative free of expellee would be made up.by a very small sulb scription from each ; and . he hoped no man who wished to be faithfully and-honestly represented in Parliament, would hesitate to contribute his mite: Of those who subscribed for the .return, of - Sir Francis Burdett, five years ago, be trusted, there. was not one living who_ would not, if necessary, come forward.,on the present occasion to do the same ; and, to these, he trusted, .might- be added, thousands of others, who had seen hiS'Parliasneti tarn conduct, and seen in. it all that could endear Representativeto his ConStituents. That th e Hon.. Baronet had not come forward to solicit their suffrages,. was in , consequence of its beicg a principle with,bia l , th a t it was the' busine ss o f EleCtors to look out for fit persons to represent .them, and not the business of private Gentlemen to push themseryes forward, and endeavour to per suade the Electors to choose then]. Whether this was or was .not a correct. principle, he would not , decide ; but if the Hon Baronet conceived it to be right, as an honest man he could only act as be had:done, Tire conduCtof Lord Cochrane had been somewhat different, as he had addressed two letters to the Committee for, Maintaining the Pu rity of Election, which had been received by Mr. :Brooks, in which he had explained his sentiments on various sahjects.. These letters, he had' no doubt ; it would be their pleasure to hear read, and when they had been 'read, he (the Chairman) should be happy to hear any . Gentleman on the subject of their Meeting: Ihanis spoke in favour of electing their Representatives free of expence; 'as when a per son paid, to get a seat in Parliament, 6,000, 1 . 0,000, or 50,0001. (as had 'been paid in a . late election), such a person must be expected to re imburse himself I,y selling his vote. He then read certain resolutioris in favour of election with out corruption, and declaratory of the intentions of the city, of Westminster to return its Repre sentatives free of expellee. These were carried unanimously. The two letters mentioned by Mr. Sturch as having been received froth Lord Cochrane were then read, e first stated it to be his Lordship's intention to submit his conduct to that scrutiny which it must undergo in an election, conscious as he was that his conduct had in no instance beer. regulated by private or petSonal inotires, or by any relation, " between him and Ministers. If in ally instance he mightappear tO have erred, he was ready to explain the grodnds on whihh - he had given his vote on every occasion: It was impossible for au individualsuccessfully to carrs'any measure Jgailist corruption, in opposition to' those who were in power. Hs eiliressed;iihrnself hisstileto sinecure places, which' were trafe as Was supposed, a bur 'den of known -am4Sitit. He was convinced that their abolition . .woold relieve the CloWn fI ow a state of thraldom., remove the evils of a depre ciated currency, and leave the countay no reason to complain' of enormously disproportioned eleertion'S:'• It 'would go to sreake our navy more cifectivil'than it was at present, when two tilirds of the friths of its exertions, and sometimes more, were taken. away to -defray the expences „attending the condemnation of a legal capture.— The last mentioned fact he could have e2biblished, if he had been able to indOce the- Hbuse to look at the proofs lie was ready to offer. He was anxi ous that his abserice lately from Parliament shoeld be' known to haVe been caused by ill heaith, and • not by any -disposition t o t am p er w i t h Mioistees for employment, though in the execution of plans which would fuily empioy Trance in her own de fence, instead of - leaeing ho;' at leisere to over run the countries‘of our allies : and, floally,, tte pied ed 'iii stit ,to prove that:ten sniliions might annually be saved to the country, wh;le its rela tive st'reiso,th was increeed. • The second letter set forth that some Gentle men had . noticed„•as an omission, ids -not having ,stater iIl hisefor . wer !each- his sentiments wiin re spe.ct to a farliamentaryßethros., •11.: ei7ro neousty supposed that on this head they would judge of bios by the east for the future. ile n isv pledged himself. on all occasions to vote for a•Re- • form, from the persuasion that the ruin of the eotintry_could by that alone be averted. lle would support-every meosure for the . abolition Of sine cures, which served in Parlian l ent to form a bond of u alfhl against the country, ainthe was disposed to - think, that if theadvocates for Parliamentary. Re= - form were to direct their exertions to thiS point, reforin itself would. not be so distant as it now seemed. With respect to the Catholic Question, so long as the: inquisitorial powef and- despotic whfch the Catholic influence upheld on the Continent- were connected With it, he was hostile to it, but he was willing to concede eman, cipation to the cots of Ireland, if, for the freedom . 61 liiglishmen, they would give up the jurisdiction of the Pope; A naval officer, hecontended, was necessatY tO Parliament. Ha eras no adVocate for ft . Ogging; tilotigh he maintained that our fleets could not at 'present be managed without power to lAict it but the necessity foil it would cease 'when Parliamentary •infiuence should 110 longer place fOtili and boys in command. TWo Resolutions describing Sir E. Burdett . and Lord Cochrane as fit and proper persons to represent the City of Westmiaster, were then put. 'The .first was 'carried unanimously. Oa that whieil related to Lord Cochrane being read, Major CARTWRIGHT rose. He did not - know how to oppose the Resolution, hut he thought' some additional pledge ought to be required from Lord Cochrane. In one of the letters which had been read:frorn his Lordship, certain plans were mentioned, the execution of which, he conceived, might call for his personal services, and deprive the City of Westminster, in the present awful state of the 'Empire, of one of its Representatives. Ile thought they could not dispense With his ser vices in Parli amen t w hil e abroad, as it was im pressed on his mind that in the-coining Parlia ment the libertiesof England would rise again, or set for ever. He Wished to know if his Lordship were ordered on - foreign service, whether or not lie would. bo ? They ought to requiee of him a pledge that he would .not, as-the battle for Eag iish•lib=ty was to lie fought, not 'hi the Mediter rauean, but itr.St. Stephen's Chapel. ,- He himself (the Major) was au officer, and in the American war had refused to goon foreign •service, because he thought it, inconsistent with the duty lie had to discharge, at home. He wished Lord Cochrane to be interrogated on this'sebject: After a, short conversation,. the Major moved, " That Lord Coebrants should be requested to as sure the ElectorS, that if elected he would not quit the country on' foreign service." Mr. Witee;Ea seconded to motion. PacHAßosoN opposed' it, as' .calling for a pledge vvhich it w o uld tie disgraceful to nis Lord ship to give, and thought the motion could only have beet invade with a disposition to oppose his election. . So me confusion arose here. _Several persons addressed the Chair at once. Mr. 1 ,7 ,11,:er, and a young man, .who w as -not , known, distinguishe4 themselves L-y the zeal with which they supported the resolution; Mr. GiBSO:CS attempted to address the assema bly„.but tu4 with much opposition.'. lie asserted his right to be hear 4, and reminded them, that on a former, occasion he had reCeived their thanks in that room, and further stated, that•he ha 4 never abused •any trust which had been committed tU him. [lle was,-here again interrupted ; but the Chairman having exerted .himself to restore or der, he spoke xt some length against the Resolu tion.] He contended that there were abli...es anti instances of corrupt* which a Naval Officer could alone detect, and those enormnos abuses existed in the Navy which' were said t 4 exist, thotrzh they might lose their Representative for a time, while h was employed in bringing such abuses to light, they ti ' ould have little reason to lament his absence on such an occasion. The question was put, when the young roan we have mentioned wished to read the opinion of Sir F. Burdett on ti Naval Ol&er's having a seat in Pa►liament. This was over-ruled, and she Reso lution was put and negatived. The Chairman w a s about to put the original question, when the same active young Gentleman wished to propose a new Resolution. Here Mr. Richardson begged to ask if the person who had thus distinguished himse.f was an Elector i To this the modest young/Gen tleman gave no . answer, but observed that the - Centlenian nest him (Tr. Walker) wished to