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FROM 'THE LONDON GAZETTE, WAII. DT,PAIITMENT. nou.ning-strect, 3farch 19, 1814. A Dispatch liar been received at this Office, addresied to Earl .C.:%Tiru kir, by Colonel LowE, of which the' fcilloiviag a copy : I':::,:-rluarterc of the Comb' rt 44'Army itnitet .Fiel4-MArshal BuicifEn, Lack, March . l . l, 1814. . , Rlx Lono,—l addressed a letter to your Lord thip this Mor&np7, enclosing the duplicate of a re tort to Lietif. : -General Sir Charles Stewart, re lating- the stv7Cesses which bad been obtained over the main body of the enemy's army, under fluor riaparte in person, during.an attack made by him for two slier-ssive iiays, the 9th and I.oth inst. on the position occupied by Field-Marshal Blu cher's army, in this town and in the plain below it. Forty-f2igl.t pieces of cannon, and between 500 and 6000 prisoners have been taken. The enemy is in retreat from all points, ,and the ca valry of the albed army in pursuit of him. He is retiring in the direction of Soissons, where it is possible be may make a stand. The principal ad- Nanteges were gained by the corps of 'General D'Yorck, supported by Gen. Baton Sacken: •The 'whole of the artillery was taken by it, and the greater number of the prisoners. Mitrshal Mar mont and Gen. Arrighi were the commanders op, posed. They had advanced from Rheims against the left of the Marshal's • position. ,Buouapa:te in the mean time, with the old and young guard, with two divisions that had arrived from Sivtin, and with a large body-of cavalry, was carrying on his attack against the right and centre. Yester day evening the contest terminated, and during the night his retreat commenced. The - details contained in my repdtt of this ,morning, will, I trust, reach ...your Lordship before this communi tation arrives. I have the honour to be, &c. (Si,gued) , 1-1. LOWE, Colonel. The Earl Bathurst. WAR, i)EPARTMENT. Downing-street, March 19, 18;4. Dispatches bave been received at this Office, addressed to Earl BAinuasr, by Lieut.-Colonel Comet; wholsattached to the anny,of Gent WINZINGERODE, dated Laon, the Bth and 11th instant. They contain accounts .of the actions in which Marshal Blucher's army had been engaged, si milar to those received from Col. Lowe, and' al ready published in the London._Gazette. Lieut.- Colonel's Cookc's second Dispatch appears to have been Written during the night of the 11th, and on the morning of the 12th inst. : it con cludes as follows t 7--- At nine o'clock at . niea Napoleon appears to have withdrawn his head-quarters to Chavignon, at which time the whole of the French army were in full retreat. They are followed by the Cos sacks and cavalry of the army, and ten more guns have been already taken. won. ta.-CoL, P.S. March 12.—Eight hundred prisoners have.been sent in by the Cossacks of Gen. Cher vichetr. The enemy are pressed so hard, that flnch baggage is taken from•tl7.ent, among which is that of their General of cavalry, Desnonettes. —The road -is covered with their killed and wounded." Crown Office, March 19, Iql4. , Member returned to serve in this: present Parliament. Borough of Eye.—Sir Garron•, Kut. BANKRUPTCY, ENLARGED. B. M. Jackson, Li verpOol, merchant, from March 1.9 to May 7, at Guildhall. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. C. Sturbidge, llosemary-lane, cbeesemouger. BANKRUPTS. J. Annsdell, Lirsrpool, timber-merchant; to surrender April 7, 0. and :30, at the Globe Tavern, .Liverpool. Attorney, Mr. Windle, John-street, Bedford-row, Lou T. Clewlee, 7;e;gniletaSt, Staff“rd, dealer in horses,, March 26, 28, and 'April 30, al.the - 'Hart -and Ntw Star, Ut t•oxeer. AtturnieS, ,Messrs. Anstice and Co. Temple,. Landon. W. Harrison, Liverpool, house-builder, April 11, 12, and 30, at the York Hotel, - Liverpool.- • Attorney,. Mr; ' Liverpool. M. Oliver, Durham, carpet-manufacturer, April 16, 18, and 30, at the King's Arms, Kendal, Westmoreland. Attest isey Mr. Jackson, Temple, Loudon. . • 6,.8r0wn, Holywell-street, Shoreditch, linen-draper, March 46, April 5, and 30, at Guildhall. Attornies, Messrs. Stratton and Co. Shoreditch. Wil3on, L)re-lane, Shadwell, , victualler,..March :26, April 4, and 30, at , Gui idhall. Attorney, Mr. Noy,Minciug•-lane. F. Pagett, Tottenham-court-road, victualler, March 2i?, 29, and Ap,li f-v), at. Guildhall. Attornies . , Messts. Aldridge and Co. Linc - dn's4.nti New- , square..- ,• J. Taylor, ..41witee3te'r .Terrace, Wilitechapel,.soap-maunfac tuier, March 23, Apvi:,2, 'and 30, at Guildhall. Attorney,. Mr. 11)13 , ,t.4. - , flrapcory 2 falie. 8. VI. 'l , l".tleet,- Great El ockham, - Norfolk, miller, April. 8,6, - and 39, atthe Wooloach Inn, Norwich. .A.tornies, Messrs. Winf,lus and Cu. Chancery-lane. J. Levy, Mil!-vard, Goodtuan's-fields dealer in hardware, March 2-'!, 2, and 30; at Guildhall. Attorney,. Mr. Isaac,,,..Mary Axe. :;.;.caster,' grocer, April 15, 16, and 30,-at i Lei: no, Prescot.. Attoruies, Messrs. Shep Lard London. IT. e z: ,• Nott:ng-ham, •inukeeper, 'April 4,5, and 30, :it Moor Inn, Nottingham. Attor- Lies, MessrS, Co. Furnivart-Itin-,London. 1 • ,[9,-.:id , ,nads, &c. To-rnorrow.] - LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. SUNDAY, mAndn 20. D !TM ENT. Downiil3-street, March 20, I 8 I 4 Major FREEMAN:TLE as arrived at this Office, bringirig,dis 'ptchA hum the Metryness of WELLINGTON, addressed to - Earl BATnpv.sr, of which the folicy.Ving are copies. St. Sever, March 1, 1314 MT LORD---I returned to Garris on the 2ist, arid ordered the 6th and light divisions to break 'up front , the blockade of . Bayonne, and General • DTI Manuel Freyre to. close up the cantonments' of hit corps towards Irun, and to be prepared to Move when the loft of the army should cross the Adouv. I found the pantoOns collected at Garrfs, and they were moved forward on the following day to and across the Gave de Moulcon, and the troopt the centre of the army arrived: Ctii the 24th, Lieut.-General Sir RaWland Mill Passed the Gave d'Orcron at : Villenave, with the light, t2d,'atril Potiqugbese'dlvisions, tinder the command of Major-General Charles Baron Alten, Lieut.- General jr William Stewart, and MariSchal de Campo Don Frederick Lecor ; while Lieutenant- General Sir H. ClintOd Passed with the 6th diri 'sion betWeEn Monfort and Laas, and Lieutenant- . Getieral Sir Thomas Picton made demonstrations, with the 3d division, of an intention to attack the enemy's position at , the bridge of Sauveterre, which induced the enemy to blow up the bridge. `Marischal de Campo Don Pablo Murillo drove in the enemy's posts near Naverrens: and blockaded that place. Field-Marshal Sir Wm. Beresford like ' wise, who, singe the 'movement of Sir Rowland liil otpthe 14th and 15th, had remained with the 4th and ith divisions, and Col. Vivian's brigade; in observation on the Lower Bidouze; attacked the enemy on the 23'd in their fortified posts at Hastingnes and Oyergave, on the left of the Gave de Pau, and obEged them to retire within the tete-de-pont at Peyrehorade.: Immediately after the passage of the 'Gave d'Oleron Was effected; Sir Rowland Hill and Sir Henry 'Clinton moved. towards Orthies, and the great road leading from Sauveterre to that town ; 'and the enemy retired in the night from Sative - terre across the Gave de Pau; and assembled their army near Orthies on the 25th, having destroyed all the bridges oat the river. The right and right of the centre of the army assembled opposite Orthies ; Lieutenant-General Sir Stapleton Cot ton, with Lord Edward Sanicrset's brigade of cavalry, and theld di vision r imder Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Picton, was near the destroyed bridge of Beret's, and Field-marshal Sir W. Beresford, with the 4th and 7th divisions, under Lieutenant General Sir Lowry Cole, and Major-General Walker, and Colonel Vivian's brigade, towards the junction of the Gave de Pau with the Gave ,d'Oleron. The troops opposed to the Marshal having marched on the 25th, he crossed the Gave de Pau below the junction of the ,Cave d'Oleron, on the morning of the 26th, and moved along the high road frain Pep-charade. towards Orthies, on the enemy's right. As he approached, Lieute nant-General Sir Stapleton Cotton erosse4l with the cavalry, and Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton with the third ,division, below the bridge of Berens ; and I moved the sixth and light divisions to the same point. a nd Lieutenant-Genera) Sir heights opposite Orthies, and . the high road leading to Sauveterre. The 6th and light divisions crossed on the morning of the 27th at -day-light, and we found. the enemy in a strong position near Orthies, with his right on the heights. on the road to Dax, and occupying the village of St. Bobs, and his left the heights above Orthies and that town, and opposing the passage of the river by Sir R. Hill. Ihe course of the heights on which the enemy had placed his army, necessarily retired his centre, while the strength, of the position gave extraordinary advantageS to thnflanks. I ordered Marshal Sir W. Beres ford .to turn, and attack the enemy's right with the 4th division under Lieutenant Gen. Sir Lowry Cole, and the 7th division under Major General Walker and Colonel Vivian's brigade of cavalry; while Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Picton shpuld move along the great road leading from Peyrehorade to Orthies, and attack the heights on which the enemy's centre and left stOod, with the 3d-and 6th divisions, supported by ,Sir Stapleton Cotton with Lord Edward Somerset's brigade of cavalry. Major Gen. Clias. Baran Alten, with the light division, kept up the communication, and was in reserve between these two attacks. I like . wise desired Lieut. Gen. Sir R. Hill to cross the Gave, and to turn,-and to attack .the enemy's Marshal Sir Win. Beresford carried the' village of St. Boes witlithe 4th division, under the command of Lieut. General Sir Lowry Cole, after an obsti 7 nate resistance by the enemy; but the ground was so narrow that the troops could not deploy to attack the heights, notwithstanding the re peated' attempts of Major-General Ross and Bri gadier-General Vasconcello's Portuguese brigade; and it was impossible to turn the enemy by their right, without an excessive extension of our line., I therefore so far altered the plan of the action, as to order the immediate advance Of the 3d and divisions, and I moved forward Colonel Barnard's brigade of the light division, to attack the left-of 'the height on which the enemy's light stood. . _ This' attack, led by the 52d regiment, under Lieutenant-Colonel Colborne, and supported on their right by Major-General Brisban's and Col. Kean's brigades of the gd diviion, and by simul taneous attacks on the left by Major-General An son's brigade of the 4th division, and on the i right by Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton, with the remainder of the 3d division and the 6th divi sion under Lieut. General Sir Henry Clinton - , dis lodged the enemy from the heights, and gai e tt th . e vietorv. In the mean. time Lieutenant Gen. Sir Rowland Hill had forced the passage of the Gave. above Orthies, and seeing the state of the action . , he mOved immediately with the second di vision of infantry under Lieut. Gen. Sir Wm, Stewart, and Major General Fane's brigade of ca valry, direct friim the great road from. Orthies to St. Serer, thus keeping upon the enemy's left.— The enemy—rethed at first in admirable order, taking every advantage of the numerous good pci sitious which the .country afforded The losses, however, which they sustained , in the continued attacks of our troops, and the danger with which they were threatened by Lieutenant General Sir Rowland Hill's movements, soon accelerated their movemems, and the retreat at length be came a flight; and their troops -were in the utmost confusion. Lieutenant-General Sir Stapleton Cotton took advantage of the 'only opportunity which offered to cliarge WithMajor-Geiceral Lord Edward So merseCs'lirigade in the neighlionthood of Sault de. ; NavalHes, where the enemy lihd been driven from the high road by Lieut. Gen'. Sir Rowland Hilt— ' The 7th hiiss-ars distinguished themselves upon this occasion, and made pi,'any prisoners. We con= tinued: the pursuit till it was dusk, and I halted the army in -the neighbourhood of SaUlt de . Navallles. I cannot estimate the extent of the enemy's loss we have: taken six piece's of cannon, and -a great . many prisoners, theinumhers I cannot at present report. The whole 'country is covered by _their dead. Their army' was in the utmost eonfusion- H when I last saw it passim; the heights near - Sault de : Navailles, and many soldiers had thrown away their arms. The desertion has since been im 'mense. We followed the enemy the day after to this place; and we this day passed the Adour 3 Marshal Sir W. Beresford, with the light division, - and Colonel Vivian's brigade upon Mont de ,Marsart, where he has taken a very large maga zine of provisions. Lieutenant General Sir Row lend Hill has moved upon Airne, aria the ad '.Vanced - posts of the centre are at C'asares.- 7 The enemy are apparently retiring upon Agen, and have left open the direct road towards Bour _ deaux• • Whilst the operations, of Which I have above given the report, 'were carrying 'on on the right of the army, Lieutenant-GenerabSir John Hope, in concert with; Rear Admiral Penrose, availed himself of an opportunity which offered on the 2311 of February, to cross the Admit. below Bayonne, and to take possession of both banks of the river at its mouth. The vessels datined to form the bridge could 'not' get in till the.24th, when the difficult, and at this season of the year, dangerous operation of bringing them in was ef= fected with a degree of gallantry and skill selatim equalled.' Lieutenant-General Sir John Hope particularly mentions Captain O'Reilly and Lien.= tenant Cheshire, Lieutenant Douglas, and Lieu tenant Collins, of the royal navy, and also Lien tenant.Debnham, agent of transports ; and I am ,Infinitely indebthl to Rearliniral Penrose for the cordial assistance I ?eceired from him in pre . paring for this plan, _and' for that which he gave Lieut.-general Sir John Hope in carrying it into execution. • The enemy, conceiving that the means of crossing the river, .which Lieut.-Gene ral Sir John . Hope had at his command, viz. rafts made of pontoons had not 'enabled him to cross a large force in the course of the 23J, attacked the corps which he had sent over on-that evening. This corps consisted of 600 men of the second -brigade of Guards, under the command of Major- General the Hon. Edward Stopford, 'who repulsed the enemy immediately. The rocket brigade was, of great use upon this occasion. Three of the enemy's gun-boats were destroyed this day, 'and 4' frigate lying in the Adour received considerable damage from the fire of a battery of 18-pounderS,. 'and was obliged to-go higher up the.river to the neighbourhood of the bridge. Lieut.-General Sir John Hope invested the ci tadel-of Bayonne on the 25th, and Lieut.-Gencral Don Manuel Freyre moved forward- with the fourth Spanish army ; in consequence of directions . which I had left for him. On the 27th, the .bridge having been completed, Lieut.-General Sir John Hope deemed it expedient to invest the ci tadel of Bayonne more closely than he bad done before ; and he attacked the village of Saint Etiemie,' which he' carried, having taken a gun and some prisoners from the enemy ; and his posts Are now within 900 yards of the outworks of the place.„ The result of the operations which I have de 'tailed to your Lordship is, that Bayonne, Saint Jean Pied (I,f Port, and Navarrens are invested, and the army having. passed the Adour, are in possession of all the great communication's across the river, after. loving beateli the enemy and taken their magazines. Your Lordship will . have 9bsen'ed with satis facticin the * able assistance iviliah I have iteelvsd. in these operations from Mdidial Sir W. Beres- ford, Lieutenant-deneral Sir Rowland Hill; Sir John Hope, and 'Sir Stapleton Cotton, and from all the General Officers, officers and troops acting under their orders respectively. .• It is impossible for me sufficiently. to express my sense of their merits, or of the degree iu which the country is indebted' to, their zeal and ability, for the Situation in which the artny'urt finds itself. All the troops, Portuguese as well as British;, distinguished themselves : the 4th division under' Lieutenant-General Sir 'Lowry Cole, in the at.'" tack of St. Boes, and the subsequent endeavour to carry the right of the heights the 3d, 6th, light divisions, under the command of Lieutenant . General Sir Thomas Picton, Sir H. Clinton, Ma ; jor-General Charles . Baron Alten, in the attack cif the enemy'S position' on the heights ; and these and the 7th division under Major-General Wal ker, in the various operations and attacks during the enemy's retreat: The charge made by the 7th hussars under Lord,Edward SOmerset sva's highly meritorious. The conduct of. the artillery throughout the dly'deserved my epti& approbation. lam like- wise much indebted to the Qtiarter-Kastcr 7 Gene - ,, ral Sir George Murray . , .and the Adintact-Gener 3l. Sir Edward Pidienhatn, for the assistance I have received from them,. and to Lord Fitzroy Somer set and the officers' of my personal Staff, and t O . Marischal de Campo Don Miguel A!ava. The last accounts which I have received frPill Catalonia are of the 20th. The French Con" antlers of the garrisOnsof Lleritla, Mequinenia , • and Mazon, had been induced to evacuate these places, by orders sent them by the Baron D'Eroles/ in Marshal Sachet's cypher, of which he flail possession. The -troops catnpoing these gal' l.l " sons haring joined, were afterwards surrounde a , in the pass of Martoreli, on their march toward s the French frontier, b'y a detachment' from the Anglo-Sicilian corps, and one from the first Sp nish army. Lieutenant-General Copons allosyxd • them to capitulate; b• 4 1 have not yet received frolg him any report on this subject, nor do I v e t lows /. what is the result. it was expected in Catalool'i that Ma; s.hal Sachet would immediately evaetot e that province ; and I bear here that be is to joi' s Margit:l Soult. I have not' et received. the detail ed reports c.Nhe capitniation of Jaca. I inclose X e ': turns of the killed and wounded duri4 th e 1 .1 t6 operations. I s en A .t hi s di spatc h b y WY Md.'''. Camp, Major Free.niantle,: whaiu.l.htg kaYP tv recommend to your Lordship's protection. 7 Lave the honour to be, Scr. (Sigurd) WELLT4NGTON.• TOTAL LOSS FEOn THE 14TH TO THE 1:11C BRUARY, 1&14, INCLi/SIVE. British-1 Lieutenant, 2 secjeants, 2 rank and file., killed (-feneral Staff, 1 INltt;:er, 7 Captains, 8 Lieutenants, I ' la ' l 4 8 serjeant?, ti; drunnriers, 126 rank and file; wou;ded; rank aad tile missing. Portuguese. ---1 drummer, 5 'rank and file, killed; 1 Eiol lll' uant-Colonel, 1 Lieuteziant;2 si:2;tts, 4 serieants, 1 drol 2 ' zuer, 25 rank and file; wounded; 5 * rank :sun nIC missing, Ceueral Total-1 Limftenant, 2 scrj,Ntuts, I druninler, rank and .111 e, killed ; 1 Gen•eral,Staff, I Liehterfaut. Colonel, 1. Major, 7 Captain, 8 Lieutenants, r 1 V,wig:,! I Staff, 12.serjeants, 4 drnmmers, 151 r an k and to ' wouaded ; 12 rank .and (Signed) E. M. PAI,:II,NHANI, IS - AMtS OF TEM 'OFFICERS KILL - O,D AND WOUNDq' FROM•TIIE .14TH TO TPA!: 17T11 OP FEBEIi; 1814, INCLUSIVE. BRITISU - IILLED--"i'Eß. 15. Rdyal Artillery—Lieutenant Geork WOUNDED-7—FEB. 14. 'ad Fobr, Ist Butt.--Captain Cliartes Cauleron (Major), verely, • 50th Finit, Ist Batt.—Captain-WilliamA. Gordon 'ale° ft' , n:lnt-Calonel), Lieutenant tMlr grown, 60t11 Foot, sth Batt.—Captain Frerierick Peter Iliitssiere , verely. • 9'2d Foot, I st•Batt.—Lientenant Richard ,'Donnell, sligo/1.1 FEBRUARY 15, - General Stati—Majof-G e n. Wm. Henry Pringle, - severelp, 1 .,. - 3d Guards--e:apt. ,Wm. Clithertiw, Aid-de-cutup to M4.3q• • Gen. Byng, severely (since dead). - . . ; utet 28th Foot, 15t Batt.--Capt. I;rtiltir Gale, severely; L , e , tuna Steplirii (kik - don, slightly. i -- 91st Foot, Qd Batt.,-Capt. Edw•. Knox, severely. 39th Foot, Ist Batt.-- . Major :Marks ruce, severely. . 1,0 50th Foot. -Ist Eatt.—Licut. Rich. Junes, ? A djutant ° ..-• Myles ? severely. .- . '. i rill r . 60th Foot, sth Batt. —Lieut. Got Lerche, severely (lo - - amputated). sre 66th Foot, 2d Batt.—Lieutenant ttepney Saint Gearger '. revel y. 92d Foot, Ist-Batt.—Captain James Seton,.severely. PORTUGUESE WOUNDED. Bth Cacadores—Breret Li e nt enan t-C o l one l . P e d ro 31st Regiment, severely (sin ce d ea d ; Lieutenant I.'firost, • " t p. Corea, slightly ; Ensign Jose Perrin ) , , evaro ly, (since BRITISH WO6NDED,tEBRIJARY 16. , 66th Foot, 2d Batt—Lieutenant John Laurin edit, PORTUGUESE WOUNDED, FERRWAP,Y 16% Gth Cacadoi cs—Ensign Antonio de Padare, seve4ely. BRITISH 'WOUNDED, FESS / VARY 17. 50th Foot, Ist Batt.—Lieutctiant Ovaries Brown, serereq' (Signed) E. M. PARE:it-IAM, 0 0 ' TOTAL ERITISH,AND PORTUGUESE LOSS FROM 23D TO TUB 20TH FEBRUARY, 1814, INCLUS II ,,, 2 Captains, I En s i g n, 2 ser j ean t t , 1 6 ran k an dl kiW 1; I Major, I Captain, ( Lieutenants,. 4 Ensi;4lls:, Staff, 9 serjeunts, 3 drunnuets, 110 rankfuul file, 4 ' ,I° t ile, wounded; I Lieutenant, I s e rj eau t, rank a 3" missing. r „,-, NAMES OF THU OFFICERS KILLED ,, WOUNDED? AS9 MISSING, FitoN/ THE 23D TO THE 26T H ' 1814, INCLIPsIyE. BRITISH OFFICERS - KILLED-FEii. 23: Royal Engineers —Captain Thomas Pitts. Gsth Foot—Captain James W. M. Leith. 24TH FEBRUARY. 94th Foot—Ensign Richard Topp. -e. ,