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THE DISPATCH TKANSPORT.

FAIITHER PARTICULARS OF TRH OFFFEREIts AND
v ON MIAMI" THS DIsFATCU LATELY WitEGts•
ED NEAR FALMOUTH.
Lisulenant-Co!onel Visi..so and Captain Trese,!: 1:.;4 ens-
harked on boaAl the Diniateu tram:milt at Coronua, !nut Lad
afterwarsis been Melted ua Wart! the Mot:or, by their feit ud
Captain Liusee of that ship, sou arm Coos pinsove.l
their country and friends. These simillenseu had hooofed at
Piyareuth sad reached Trate torether the night before the
ems, of the algrvreek was received there. Above fifty dsaJ
bodies of our ;:abo,it 'woes lay scattered on the shun,
',maw which secs recofolised that of Major Cavendish.
The GillJultic ace rim r. :um. of ti.o sacs ivori :—Joba
RicharJmoi, 1 koalas Flirt:es, James Clow, Edmund Hatlf
Ctarks Weeks, and Joist Risrel, the fa:fier. They were
toaveyed to !Isis:ea, and thence in a liKkt cart to Truro
(except one who was 100 tooth bruised to travel). They
' were kindly received snob eatertaineo at the house of the
tithe of.t.olonut mm., awd 101,:ed if! Truro baesaoks.
of 10 Untie. ttiAt love bees a asked aslsme mid received
a decent interisiviL in St. K. 'True Thorch-yard, are the .'Ol.
lowing:—Captain Hot Ity, of tl.t 11..issisurt, the Mate of the
'cord, sad four %veers, aL,, a nanit.s are warmer; Set.
jest Sutton, of She dragoons, oil Corporal 31synsill;
Corporal and his sife ; Jobb Weeks Ealwael PAwarsis.
--- Cole Crotge Asift•oe, Thomas TO3(111f, 3Laaual 11.naot
Joint Word, LoPer, itei.;,nosio Hanes, George
son, Jobs Bataan, 1 !tonics Leer, Charles WalkarVilintsee
Slarluw,Geastre flyer, Joshua tradford, Edmund 9tateT,
Julio King, John 11111, Charles Hsywzrd, Gerw.te Stereal,
Mojur Cavestsh.h's servant, awl eleven alio could ad t fie .a-
cognised. Illejor C.veushalis body was Its...gist to lleLiton,
pot ti.to a lead coffin, mid rensaios in the church uatii the
directiOss arid wobts of bisfriesvis ca.i be Immo.

Names of .Officers mud "rounded in the
scion nt Corurina:— _

Colonel Griffiths aid Captain Woorifard, wounded ; Cart
BariAtd, killed, Gilards—Limit.-Catonel ti'yuch, severely;
Captain Williamson, Lieutenant Hunt, wounded; Guaira
llZeerclen, kiileil, 4th Regiinent—Lieutenaut-Coloael Mac-
burin., killed, 514 Rel:nwnt—Lientenaitt-Calwiel Maxwell,
Lieutenant Num+, both teserely ; Lilmtenaiit Thompson,
Surros Measlier, wrommied ; I.:cotenant Cheven, killed,
giith Regiment--Captain Campbell, light infabtry, killed;
Captain Campbell, grenadiers, sad Lieutenant Xlioltiletim,
vrownded--1.2d Retiment, sad seen other 41flierra; Major
Napier, llou. - ,lajar Staatoupe, red Lieutenant Wihtla,
killed; Captain Climes, wounded, awl flee other 011icvm.
--Sulb Ite.thuent, lientratut•Coluuel law, and Major
314;tegor, IC.llad ; Captain Wilson, wounded. with
Ilexinicat.— Captain .•ii.thy, killed ; Major. Williams
and Milling, wouLdetl ; .tiiil ti other Officers, Slat Itegi-
meat.--Lieutenant.t eltitiel Napier, killed, riad Regiment
I.icutenant Noble. killed, 9r,tti ltegiumut.—Licntermat-Co.
howl Spas, of the:, th ; and Captain Carthew, of the Royal
Artillery, both died oa their passage borne from severe
fatigue.
Ainont; the (Iflirers we have seen returned at
Falmouth and 'frtoro, are—
Lieut.-Cal. V.rian , Captain Detthire, Treweette. and
Dodge ; and Sir. Ire in, Surgeisii—all of the 7th [Augurs:le ;
( ~pl. Lord Itii4.-.11 31aunres, of the totb Dragons; Major
Leiglitoa, Capt. Dalrymple, and Licata. knight sod White.
fi,rt, of the halls Dreams... ; Maier Walt err, Captains Ste-
phen!, Rubinson, and atiaaell, and Limits. Illoatgontery,
'Smith. and Woodhotme, add assistant-Sargeon Williams—
ail of the 40th lid:matey, i.e. see.
The immediate manse of General A IXSTRUTHF.It'iIt
death at Corunua was an isoilaiosanation of the
lungs, brought on by excessive fatigue; he ex-
erted himself to the last, and when unable to
mount his horse, he said to those ii!ootot him, i• 1
ion quite done up." lie was pot into a carriage
awl conreytsl to Corti:mot, where he died next ilto).
Captain Fay:orate& Deasy, of the 10th Dm-
coons, died of fatigue. wits buried at Corunne,
but dug up again and interred with military
honours on N'etlooestlay last at FAI 11111 l il h.
Sir JOHN MOORC and General A a sratrrot eft were
burn II beside each other iii a waste spot near Co-
mma. the Spaniards not eutlering the remains of
heretics to pollute their consecrated ground.
(In Saturday evening last, a novel snit of depre-
dation was praviiseil at ltit' lion, Mn..o WARD... fo-l-
cleigce at the Atbioirolt. A woman ioluirtal ter
the housekeeper, and state,) that she had Litt It left
the service of Lady 111 u cr:Reel:, with it:telitift,i tr.
tukr iit plain work. The louts' keeper ;:ronitse.l to
procure her some. She the to tool. her leiter, hat re-
used to let the housekeeper conduct her out. %ar-
il g she knew the we:, . instead of going thro-ith
the (pal:. o.e viall.ra up stairs to Aim WAttnote
dre•sing-zoom. and plundered the drapers of liticit
and lace of great value, with which she socapcd.

•
SIR JOHN NOOA.C4 AIPIPI, •
•
lir • ,
retltTlfrit eldlerlcuCArts or I3tENEAT OF
THII BRITISH ARMY UNDER Sig, MOORE,
THE BATTLE OF 101li IIE REA
TUIIN OF 'FIIEIIIOOII FINS Xr4IN
" The whole of the retreitiVan the rapidity
er it, firms the badness of the roads, from the
frequent waut of semeisions, ued from the incle-
mency of the weather, was extremely haraseing.
As tier, however, as ilia-Franca, the troops
kept very well together. From Villa-Franca to
Lugo, nearly seventeen leagues (a league is ra-
ther more thaw four English miles), the army
marched, it way be said, ntinost wahout bathing ; •
at leite they halted only for a few hours ; the
cavalry were only e 6 litters in eflitetitig it ; out
of whit L time, they were 42 horns on horse-
back. This accartioned great streggling in the
infantry, and the loss of an icurneme number cif
horse, to the carat vv. The enemy's amenity
constantly hung ou tire rear-guard, and :weer
prisoners great numbers of the streggiers. is
wine clew., they either shot or sabre., there.
Whenever the army halted to rest, a skirmiai,
geurretly ensued. V hick of course added greatly
to the littleness of the rear-guard, mad indeed tier
army in general; for a skittaiah was generally
noon fullossed by a movemeut of the whole. Oa
*seising at Lugo, Sir John Moore Inund his
army to etich a complete state of tieorganisi-
tioa, that &shalt was absolutely uecessary ; a beek
skirmish hming token place time (ley eiter list *t-
rivial there, Sir Jabal couchisled that it vas the
fore-ruiner of aim attack on the following day, awi,
nit the 7th of January, he took' up ir positron with
hts army, in whicia, 1,11 the BUi, tie expected the •
enemy to give him battle. But, it is siapermatl,
from their mint feeling themselves strong enieigh„
(although they had a considerable number of in-
fantry up, as was easily seen, the armies being
pasted on tippostte hills in sight of each reher) they
declined it. lie the night therefore of the same
day, the army again commenced their retreat ; and
from hence to Coruniel, the straggling het-erne ex-
cessive. The men were utmost worm, out wile', tN y
commenced the march ; in utility inetances they
had wanted provision; some regiments had 'even
received no bread for one, two,. or three days; the
roads 'were curie deep in mud, and neatly half of
the soldiers were without shoes. Many were fill
insielt from these causes, and from their having
been constantly expoeed to the had weather.
and there were no means of bringing these •.peer
fellows on. The comequeners or all this weer,
that eve,y honse end every village on the toad
!retinue full of these weer wreteites. Thews
and entreaties on the part of the cavalry, that
formed the rear-guard, were etitiaßy in
Whether they died by the road side, or by the
hands of the enemy. they said, was the same to
them. and some thousunds were coteaTeatly left
to their fate. Lieut.-General Frazer a diyieion ..-
snefered moat particularly, in conseq ueame! of Leiria;
flan big°, eight leagues OD the moil to
igo, is here it should urn" as if the army were at
first imittamded to toilet k, sad water. wets arraniee-
ment was made far that purpose; eiel a iitch deter-
mination war, it vnutssivetrageil, given op on :14 .-
ou n t of the badness orlihi'lliaits for artillery. The
lola in this way is .t il4,' d.oriug the retreat, t 3 have
ainouuted to tour salve thdowinal. No words can
describe the seethes of initery that 'presented them-
selves. Meta, women, mad children, worn out with
I!' hoer some actually dead, aad other. ifyiste by
the roast aide, and many sharing the tame fate in
houses, whilst at every ten yards Ituremeend maks
deaf and tl# ire; preewerted theneseires..'."Tineee eviis
might posietilv, le a great measure,• litre teen pre-
vented, had the retreat been Jess rapid ; bud flue
ruali in the snottOtaius bete broken erp, so as to
impede the search of.tlee curial; had theeeiteineers
succeeded in destroying the Inhigi.3, indai ig which
tliey failed in most instences; mind hid the 'Aron
Nisbet beep &spored. This; boomer, is only min-
ter of opinion, met the inrortnation received by Sir
John Moore' respecting the foree of the enemy,
must have decided him iu his movements. He
was himself indefet;eeble ; lie had great difficulties
to contend with; mind whateser. were the ruisffir-
tunes of the army, it uery he with tenth awierteti,
that his great anxiety "al to do that which he
thought would most contribute to secure its re-ews-
barkation, which was, of course, heroine hie sole
object from the commencement or his retreat. •
is With respect to the force of the enemy V.:Jaw-
ing the army, great differences of opinion were en-
tertained. Some thought it but niconsideretek,
whilst others, who kites, the French better thee to
suppose they would trust a small corps in a tuonn-
tainous-country, thought otherwise. The state-
ments of the priaouers were. that two corps
crarolk, under Soultand depot, advanced from ewe
rim] and Sultlanha, whilst Ney. with his cores, ac-
companied by Napoleon in pens u, advanced from
Madrid. Some asserted there was a fourth corps
following mono:. A corps d' aranee cousiete of remit
twenty to twenty-five thousand men. Some ere
even stronger. Ney's was thirty. of which 10,0,m
were of the Imperial Guard. Their curiary, it
supposed), amounted to nearly ten thou:quid. Ne)'s
corps, however. ass thought not to have udvsuceil
farther than Betieveute. and to have detached time
~tars at pit-arm marching into Portugal: So that
the a leer iii nether following tiro British, tees
probably front 30 to 35,003 men; the Br,rish arm.:
did not amouut to 20 or 2.2,0a3 effective and et
far duty, even et Astons&
es On the ret sett they were eonsiderably rednetd,
as before stated, and Mujnrstieneral Altrn, with
4,000 men, had been detached by Orense, to cover
the Batik of the cony its retreating, tied embark et
Vigo. So that on the anis al of the British at Coe
runes, the effective force trill) not have exceraL &
12 os 13,000 melt. No etopimst WhitteiVer eceht
pOwlillOy be expected from the 'A/Argil's Je Bntitem,
and his entry, or rather armed mob; he paused
the British veer guard at Astoree, with, it wassail.
new:anis of eo,oon mere anti marched upset Orense.
I low little the Driti4listru 'ea to the exert-Wm, of
this forceeis to be dresovered be it being 'thought
necessary to see: General A Beta bv-irestris'elle same
route. In effect. nothing could be hoped hie from
t!.e Spanish army, ancl H was 'Sr. tor!' •preceiired
how much elevurnmeet had berg decervid.hv the
representations respecting it and the state ot the
contry in general.
s• The day following that on which the army

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`reached Conlin*, a harp st ttvaisll boot place at
the hrike of Burr. where. the reservv,was posted
under Major-General the lion. E. Paget. On the
s toe eseoing, he retired and took up a position
shoat .:tutio miles in • front of Cornima, to which
Octieral Su' Dila Baird's and General Hope's di-
visions tidvaticed. General l'atizer, with his divi-
sion, was ouit,a to protect the right of the whole.
and rather is tiiit rear; and the reserve the next
day were quartered in cottages in the rear of Gen.
Sir David Baird and General Hops. The cavalry
and artillery hail commenced embarking, leaving
a few also only for piquet tluty, and two brigades
of guns. On the 15th a general attack oil the
outposts took place, probably for the sake
of drawing out the army, sad offset ving their posi-
tion awl fume; which might be eerily done, as the
heiglas ocuopiad by the enemy immediately com-
manded those ou winch the Log-fish were. In con-
sequence of this affair, a general attack was ex-
pected early on the following day ; but no move-
ments were visible in the enemy's fines, to the great
surprise of all; The attivilt was the 'more to be
expected, because an Englishwoman arrived in
the town, who had bee t a iirtsitner with the French
amity. She brought a mes-age, she said. from
General Junot 141 Sir ionn Moore, to say that be
was arrived with the arm, from Portugal. About
. one o'clock, u general bustle was perceived.
anti shortly alter the notpostv were forced, and
a heavy discharge of artillery comi.ainice,t. Every
one immediately saw fiat a mineral attack was
at hand, and the whole army was nixordingly
• drawn out! whilst the French artillery were
answered by the British, but not with such it-
feet is miight have lha.-n wished for: owing, iu
the first place, to the commanding pommel of
the French ; in the seen el to the principal part of
the. British guns basin keen embarked, and their
places having beotisapplied by Spaai,li, for which,
through some mistake, thirst was u want or prop...
ammunition. The British infantry, hoses. r, were
regardless of thi.. irtmeriority of the enemy, whole
attack was chiefly &meter! Sif David Baird's
division, where was the weak -part of the British
lime, and against which they udvituted n, three
bicans. two of .which were ripe stroa-,,,-. To the,o
tre opprised the 4tio, Vitlf;e742l, 50th, iinrl 914
ilatgiineuts and the t ;thirds. Noihing entlhi .x-
-.cueri in reiving and repelling that
aztack. The enemy were coon- (Liven from the
hill ocrinpied h; tne np ,thick they had
its part advancea, and is. c.• followed half ‘, ii• ap
that occupied by thamselevs, where flair ;.` I his
were posted ; at with It the .I(aft and 41t1
ately dashed,' and which were wised nick in Itei,:g
0. A village at the foot of a bill, full of French
infantry, was three times attacked by the 3ifth,
supponed by the Guards, and at length carried
with tiumenre slair,Jiter to the enemy, ai..l not
without a loss to the bOth of two 'Majors and three
Lieutenants, with nearly au bowled men killed,
a.id several officers and a considvraille number of

Intl! w„uudeJ,t Sri the right uf the
4441 and :ride corps had been engaged, +sad had
aetuully .followed the enemy up the lull. The
- British left being very stroagly posted. had nut
been attacked, otherwise them by it
the evening. however, the Lath loot posted the; e,
finding the French had- occupied a village iii to
front in considerable force. gallantly 11.1.11041 i.ito it
'with the boyni,et, and drove thrin trout it. IN
evilting on, put an recd to th:saffuir, to which the
enemy were decidedly defeated in their purpose of
turning the British rigl-t. and with.* lolls lotion''"
greater than that of their opponents. The: 14.1-
Vallee of the British remained nearly st mile in front
of the position they had occupied previous to t 1 e
attack : it.facce inch 12).1 Pt 41: eak tor itself. in spite
of any lyingassertion that may be made in future
The real fart is, the French were from 5 to 600.
and that they were oppovved by the Llritisli piquet',
consieing fink of about, at the utto.rst, 240, and
ttt tint, not ishnee IJU ;—nn the alarm. of coins,.
the regiment Writer' out. I-It not a single marl, es-
crpttlig those on piquet, mid twine few of the 3,1
Gerroatia,:, saver chew a 'word. The French thii-
cers then's, lye* know, aid atialitteil all this ; and
Bonaparte' ha:e known it; for he arrived
soon after the elienvy repealed the river. The• mo-
vies of t4e•ietal Lefebvre being taken, as 'toted in
the thillciins„ are false ; lie was tal,eti on the field
by a private of the 7th. and one of the loth
ljns-
m They. dif.covereil him by hia two orderly
trumpeters.
.ro return to the affair of the !fish. Of the
Octutif loss of Inc British in it, lit, ',omit
can proi!iiiht, ever be ri It is to
have itin,tiiired to wren or . %gist hinalfel, or eat n
more. 't oat of the etwany wilt rots to Y.ll. r.
Tile arm. I.l).l:.!to.'itaA rs•frr-dt
at eleicii Lie?". oft viii
of the as Were la a ntate to Ix
Till, others, a rah the Francis re wooed on
the ii. Act. Sir Moore received his vr. ttttt rl
dn-
ring the heat of tiir action, near the /veto Re..
!Omega. It War. IOW& a eibiiiiist shot in the left
breast, wLeb laid it ffylt Jaittered his shoul-
der. II i• fell fro so his horse, and yid
not idicr a ion-ale of tits votts.tr.ittlicr, hut, toothy
at t...! remark -.1, 'mat
was useless ; a, .1 .1 sta
!in bail oriivi•r,t! it, Io •••tal t,, er-hl 11 1;... S.r
INvid the 1,1,011114ga1, lash
w

tr.Nt •hr brave
fetiows ...; n I :';.11•1 tr 111...0rt?.. tolls iiTior
:Lod sio•••• ; i.ty ;:t the hos-
pital.; in thy coke
exhoti. 0111 Al,ll rattiw.tv 4110.+11:fri•triz.
Thy tv4:utnt Who 1,11,1 t peraotril to accorn-
Noy' their litt.leutt.l% into Somo, :tlt4owirds
tiv?ir tenrch, extrir,l priv3:jol• Hod h;,„.1,1ii,H, Hs
great, nr 4.-ontcr•evel. ti ;to t;oor Many
tiled or fall • .Ir, 'runny other., 1•:il te Lon-
, while otheri felt into t:ie ham Gl. or , enemy."

• The retsne loe d au late, was a/-
1en...T.1a tti.e,..-cred to Lave Leon OW WeVnril iv:at-
om( Cw a reinforretne,.l uli'llfwei rim 'I 'WA eight pierrs.
the ba•tir, not or the w:les
takeirtry th,.! 5.11 i •n•y are .oak 4,. LITV
a short pole, .111 J eurrt,,, al on, gtan,h,,ls. tx h. n is
,Pinzer cf being Idst, the! :1,11(0.,V Item, err:
IsitUra or O.3Je sal.. At th• bates isf Va.:tirs. this
rwgiateat tcr.,li • pas, sadist that of Curusias an circle .
Tbe slots claw tor.' tba aernia.r. itrarrting, it 'busk ba
stated to tlecir cralit, is utterly foist:. e