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London, England, 1808-03-16 00:00:00

:Att Ist illatteflptit':g to tremor alitosage better for the
meet% of the troops thee t sat whieli use poioted mat as the
usual road; ts got into many situations frosa which I,
with diffictitty, extricated the horse on which I 1.0,i,
I cannot stote la what condition the road ti ks on :ar
00, t net cnttititt wits en tender when I pars. 41 it, that the
rear of asy ;Iwo smell to:esuu ha I much more difieulty the i
the fro -.t, i i going or the hei Title. to twd, it not three si-
totationa, there were plums:l.-deep, that say own home feli
three dol. rent tines, not being rabic to sxtricate Iliflattit
As to 1,1Cnr:111;:aa of the difilenitira of the motels from Et.-
ma ito, matt:nest pore...is to the laieliaa,-i-1 rentendxr to
hare I>e,ll prestut when Lomtenstot-tieorral Itletteloeke
moinaised u mail previous to the embarkation at Monte
Video, 'sorties, to that roan, uud that 1w stated a as bad, Sea
at all tiale.l atteadrd with tiiiitolty. lie part_eitintly
questioned bin as to the practicability of lismine, with •
wheel oirreses throat% the worms t the aesuir ho gave
wits, ' Runioada was the comiumi place of embarkation fur
the people from 1111e41011 A) rell. she here gois,x out of the
Raoar Piste, and that it was itecer at any time impreettea-
lilt to moss fir:lsar in a coach.' ElMi was his particular
estaresis.ois ; I recollect it very well. Ido not know ylsy the
holing sea oat at Point Qailtnes ittelesd of Ensenada
Lieuteuant-Colonel Bourke, the Quarter-Ilseter-ften.ral, '
wall the Officer employed on the service of reopens trine
the :titer. Ilaving born dispatched crew before all the
troops were !smiled, I do not Moor I. hat pioportiou of
ronintimariat storm for victuallint the army were la, de., at
the time of disembarkation, With rests et to the practica-
bility of commiplicstiug with the sea (rout Reduction, the
public dispatel state, that there was a cominuniention
brtswe the army and the usey at Qualities 'Hit aapouto„
of my forte when 1 began my march on the et' July I can-
not...citify tell. I should think Cameral Craufnert's iliv:sion
.4. something node"• onto mew t of the anth and Oath Re-
ciments, so many weegincapable of advaceing from the h.
genre or dor preceding march, that the nnoebee of effective
men left in those two regimeute, by the time I crowd the
Chieu'o, wits very much reduced. On the preeeding even-
iirg, so many men were lamed dad tired by the time I got to
Reduction, that I tens obliged to leave rot there. thi the
asweeeding wording, wheal pee the order to march,, Bri-
e:Wier-Gen:TA Lumley teportell to me that there were a
Vlllll many arsMe lately linable to proceed. I ordered all
seek men to he sent up to the mascara divssion of the many,
of P.educties, brit I cannot correctly state the omostut of
their numbers. There remained so little day-light, to ear-
cute the or ler which I bad received, that I did not like to
antimit to the 'delay which the collectiou of regular returns
would have caused The artillery, were two six and two
three-pounders. The bathoss of the horses., and the sliffi-
(silty of the marches, was such, that, with the greatest trot
and exertion net the part of Captain Eraser, it was immova-
ble to get them up to the Correll till long after the 'whim' had
ceased that tenting. I should think the amount of these '
tiewhattalious nuder my command were not mire than too°
men lit to march. The Wen fell oat .4-constantly, it is im-
possible to am- precisely. The sith Reglement did not come
up until the main division of the army (Moe up on the ad.
II tweet joiord toe separately. I do not remember that
there was any specific order as to reports to be made by me '
to Geuerul Whitelothe, during the separation of the ad-
mowed corps under Al) cimansaad from the vain holy. On '
the 2(1, 1111 ea I marched; Lieutenant-Colonel RoLeke hi-
fonnial ii.'- that it was Lieuteuasit4istimali.Tat,lili.,iitii.....,..l.l..u-ekt e..'svh.r.ictilmzi
trntion to support me with the whole sans, sad I marched
u
inannliat. ly. On the suceeedine day, the ail, I waited un-
til ten o'clock, when, lienriog nothiitc of the main IliriSio4l, '
I Vitt as °Corr with the 6:th light company to endeavour
to find them out. The ()Ricer succeeded in &dug so, moil
returned wit! the mails division. ?sof kneeing where the
maiu diennon was posted on the night of the id, I de met
kuow to what distance General ktititelocke'si march on that,
day removed the :atlas body of the army (non the Wee(
operations of the advanced 'moo,. I distant receive any di-
malt-ono foam General tillitelsielte to keep op a communi-
cation wit!, the main body of the armyloviug their impasse
luau through the medium of petioles, or in soy other man- I
urn. I twooidered the order to make my loslgurot good ea
the solaurbp of &tepee Am., perempormy, sod 11.11bwill4 4.
have attempted it metier any ebvassasatimees vtlidlemer:wah-'
out at a'l looking to the mail divisiou of the entry, , liming
erosoisil the Meeks, and come in presence of • Airtaidoble
body of cavalry sod srtillery on the . eenine of.tho ad, I
could not have derived any stoppert from the main body
ender General Winkle**, Met eirenamataneas of scams
i brolight soy tarp.' top innaiitent danger at chit Pertod.
There was mmn aisistaute which I timid derive from a eel?.
on the right hook of the Claimilo, that coal., ham availed me
1 at all on that right. As to the appear:owe of hostility on
the part of the mita!, stark I ohiwored het atm, the landing
I sad taking poet at Correll, between die :oath aid the tworuide
of the ad, I s..w nothing but the peasant% Cl the enautry, at
I least people apparently-the peasants of the country, who
I were all tennoted, and oho (oust:lcily kept sip • il.•siltory
I Ilee upon the column, except when I approached the Tillage
I of Redacting, where I saw so raisseideralik a Humber of these
1 meta iu • hedy, that I formed Cele-rat Cranfer.:'s division iu
• line. A rapid advance drove them out, a:N.II too: sip toy
position fur the 'eight, n itliont aay other ditEculty than o hat
arose front their afteniptine to cut off snarl,. told •Irc,:elMg
men. While ascending up the right hack et 'he 4liteu'o on
the maiming of the eil, I fell in with a sonoiderable mistake
of cavalry, perhaps am bombed, many of uhron were eititlwd
isuitoriiit.., mid had the anp.srante of to:solar soldiers
the r. .4 were of the RUM' dteeriptteis ce !hos. I lied seen on
the pre!".hluc ae!'. I °Seemed the left hank ..f the l'hteolo
appareutl heed with carps of infantry; they mortised by
tha.r relit apposite to use for tans.' time, apparently with
the draion of defending the high gallant hero the Chico
pass, inn the Chiettlit. I out-usarebrd them so comic:era-
abrtlyr,rt 'iliartstwehedy.wleores,..fit.Nilecill ionhttlmseirmaaktteemtip.tta
I have below iks.alliest. The (Idea pays was that:7 whittli
I crewed the thiesdo, the breadth about thirty rank ; the
depth so coulaterable, that we were obliged to unload the
artillery and carry the nannisuitoso corer on mess's heaths,
and to oblige the infantry to earry their cartridge boxie on
their shoulakra, to prevent their tiptoe wetted. I aid got
receive any intelligence of the plaits er nownoents attic
enemy, hetweeo the potted at lantliag and the taksompro,t
at the Correll, with the exception of one. I:rery iseu,e was
deserted, sad every imam was soberly ensployial so aims
against us. It was about nue welork on the .ill, the ad-
vanced guard strider my comincol arrives! et I !two pass.
ceoceive, from the position at Rednetioo, the shimmies, to
that font is eery little greater, if taken in • direct liar, than
4.119.1.•• the on trotityisiokkadr/Pred4.l.' .
me about Nut hours to arrive at OW.. mown arrive.
there, I saw L'eotollant-Gellert it 1,itir,,a„,..,, ,0,,a1,,,, „, a
very ermVilernh'e distance on the he ists ts. apearently in isie-
tion I eusasit attempt to moss what that rl stance sus,
bat it was se great, that a e could not possibly &ere oats,.
with the best spying giersee, %limber it del more, or u wets
may. If I bad riven Ge.wra! It hitt-lecke ioformation of •oy
having dioeherred the Lod, nod he bail finani,d the main
body, thew need ant liner her:, any separation of the co-
lorana heyond what meet rieressari/:, have liken "lace dur-
ing the period I oas murehiao to aseertaiss the rond : lan I
bad no mew., oe 'ammo sicati•ic, ,'rep: lr stn lsog a roe-
"Hersh', c 5.,.... of imie.try to is -.vet the Officer oh i es: rigid
that usform a .i.. 1, met therofore It i. mild h... nem, pioil
utmost as risiea thus. 0., ilw hansamissiou of that report, tr.
for Use march of the ca: ."