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found themselves compelled to quit the wood. Per-
ceiving that the right of the army was on the point
of being" defeated, I revolved to attack the enemy's
right with my lett. In consequence of the timely
movement thus made by our left, with great gal-
lantry, the bituatloil of the troops of the North was
improved, and they recovered part of the ground
they had lost. The want of dot-light put an cud
to the engagement, whicli•reinained undecided. •
" Luang the night of the loth, we prepared fur
the attack that we expected the following morning,
in which service tile Field Ntlrshals Don Cayetano
Valde,,, Don Gregorio Berardi, de Quiros, lil4
Den Josef' Pecti,.greatly exerted themselves. At
day-break we discs red ;lie enemy, funned in. or-
der of battle, and ready to direct thick principal at-
tack against our left ; but remarking that the ene-
my contimicdotationary, t moved .towards tu. to
with the whole of toy line, consistiug of the reg.':
mein, of Sofas and Lena, part of that of Villatict-.
osa, anilithe whole of the first illi•ision of Gallicia.
The instant eve began to march against the enemy;
they put in mutton the whole of their front line to
attack us, and I therefore commanded my tvonps
to halt in order to receive thrum. A very brisk tire
was immediately commenced on both sides, at the
distal fasif little inure than pistol abut. Very room
alter, Duo Cayctano Valdes was
wouode.l lay my blo-le, and, though not daugerowsly.
I ordered him to retire.

" In a very short time, Field-Marshal Don Gre-
gori•, Quiros wa. kiiled, and Colonel Dun Josef
Peci received a violent coat•sion. I was occupied
.in emnuragilig the A-turian troops, mid regarding
eitia much satisfactiqu the firmness ro) which they
inaiatained their position, without yielding an inch
of ground to the enemy, a hed I observed that my
presen. ,k 45 more nectimary at another point ; but
before I coidd reach it. I found myself wounded
in time face, covered with 'Wood, and deprived of
sight. I titereforr ingtr,tly sent to the General-in.
Cilicf to request that In %ionid appoint another to
take the command, two t lenetnis bring wounded,
..ntl a taird killed, in less than a quarter of an
hour: hut hefoic the arrival of the person appoint-
ed by the Commander-in-Chief, and whiist I was
waiting for some one to stop the bleedni;, I was
informed that. the enemy had already gained the
summit of the mountain. and that all the troops
were falling back in some di.order, and the greater
part tOwurde Santaeder.
" I am still enable to send your IIL a par-
ticular return of the killed and wounded, the se-
veral corps not having yet "sent in their lists nor
eau they he easily collected fir some days to come.
All that 1 um po4tively iororme I of is, that in the
attack of the 10th, the Lietit.-C'oloael of Villa-
vicima, D. Pedro Rivera, was killed, the Lieute-
nvid of Milicius, D. N. Peon, wounded, :114 that
firigudier U. Francisco Manglimo received eon.:
t usion..

4. The regiment* of and Villaviciosa
particularly 'l'4i TM...heti themselves. That of
Lena was led o' to the attack with much firm-ores
mid spirit by their Colonel, Don Joao Dringol.r.-
Those of Congas and Siem were posted by ate,
another height on our left, with the intention tligt
they should art offensively or defensively. accord•
ing to circurn.tences, on the 'nothing of the 1 lth.
against tlie'right flank of the enemy, and endea-
vour to attack their rear; hut this plan they have
probably been unable to execute.
4. It appears that the General in Chief lies trans-
ferrer, his head-quarter.' to Aguilar de Campo,
whither I shall a.so proceed in the cantve of a few
'sours, with Field Marshal Don Cayetarto Valdes,
end all the rest of the w ~,,, 'dud in this place, among.
whmo is Count de S. Itoimutorho is very severely
wounded.

Should I in the mean time recover m}• sight, 1
shall endeavour to collect the troops at that point;
- but if '1 continue disabled, 1 shall resign the com-
mand to Lientenant-tieneral Don Nicholas de
Llano l'oute, if your Highnesses shall not, in the
wean tune, make ally, other arrangement."

ST. TEM, NOT. 9.
On the 3d a►rived a pink in this port from the
island of 'Malta, •in IS days, The Master states,
that all the vessels and troops there had gone off
some days before to join the expedition against
Naples, nhirh was confidently stated to consist of
about 80,i)tio wen. He further says. that the Aus-
trian vessels sailed to and front Trieste, under the
protection of the English.