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to he made into tlie circumstances of this affair. and shalt have -The no
nour of communicating them to your Lordship.
I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed )
Eart of Well;nL•ton, K. B. &c. &c. &c.
Llera, Tune tf, 181 e, ILM-past Four p. in.
Si n—l beg t i have the honour of stating to you, that the evenly,
whom I reputed this morning to have been in Valencia, advanced
upon this plaice about nine o'clock, midi the 17th and (29tii regiments
of drag nits, under General L'Allemand. I immediately advioxed
itith the Draucion•guards and Royal, attacked and pursued hint
nearly three league,, to mithin a short di,taace of Magniila, where 1
1"I an UPP"rtunnt V of Charging llnn age n, broke his first line, and
killed a great many, among the number a Captain of the ‘.29111 dra-
uoons, and we took an Aide-de-Camp of General L'Alletnand pri-
soner.

IL 111 LL.

am sorry to say our loss has been severe, as the enemy brought
up a support, and my troops being too eager in pursuit we were
obliged to relinquish a great milliner of prisoners we had taken, and
to fall back upon this place.
Nothing ef,uld exceed the gallantry displayed by the 01ricers and
men on the uccasion, hi which Col. Sir lirai,by Ca'craft and Lieut.-Col.
Clifton, commanding the two regimenrs, particularly distinguished
themselves, as w: 11 as all the 011iceis present.
1 beg pal ticidarly to report the conduct of Brigade-Major Tla4clitte,
to w lioni 1 fed particularly indebted fur his assistance ou this occasion.
I have not vet been able to collect the returns, but 1 ani concerned
to sat I.ic uls. 11'indsor of the Ibivals, and Homewood u! the :;d dragoon
guards, have fallen into the cliem3's hands, the former having his horse
shot, and the latter being wounded. 1 have the honour to be. &c.

(tiigned)
Licut.-Gen. Sir It. Hill, &c.

JOHN SL 1)E, Major-Gen.

Camp, near Lleta, 12i h June, 1.131 V.

.
Sir —ln forwarding the inclosed retail of the casualties which oc-
curred yesterday, I feel it my duty to state, in addition to what I had
the honour of communicating to you before, that onr mist, rtnnes aroFe
iiorn too great eagerness and zeal in the pursuit, after having broke the
enemy's first Hue, each regiment ving xvith each other who should
most distinguish itself, which gave him an opportunity of bringing up
fresh troops, and of charging us at a time w hen we were in confusion.
I beg b ave again to repeat, that the exertions of the Officers to re-
store older was conspicuous; bu, the two regiments having got mixed
in the charge ; it took some time before this object could be acc",in-
!dished, during which we lost most of the prisoners we had taken, and
suffered, lam grieved to say, severely. It is a satisfaction to me to
be able to add, that the enemy lost it: killed and wounded full as much
as out/elves, and considered himself completely routed.

I have the honour to be, &c.
(Sigurd) JOIIN SLADE, :Major-Gen.

To Sir R:11111, K. B. 6ces-Scc.
Return of Casualties which occurred in Major-General Slade's Bri-
gade of cavalry, in an affair with the Enemy, near Maguilla, on the •
lth June, 1812.
Total-2 serjeants, 20 rank and file, killed 2(i rank and file
wounded ; officers, 10 serjeants, 104 rank ai:d file, missing ; 1 °lli-
cers horse wounded ; 1 missing; ti troop horses killed; 14 wounded;
127 missing.
NAMES OF or ICERS-9d Dragoon G uards— Lieutenant Homewood,
missing. . .

Ist Dragoons—Lictitemmt Windsor, missing.
(Sipied) JOHN BLADE, Major-Geo.
TAKEN FROM 'tHL ENLNIY-d. officer, 2 men, R horses. Theolikcr
is a Captain, and Aid-de-Camp to General L'Allemand.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, DOWNING-STREET, JULY 12, 181 e.
The following is a Disp.t..* from Charles Stuart, Esq. dated Lisbon,
inn,! 29, 1812.
Letters from Gen. head-quarters, dated at Zafra the 17th,
state that Gen. Drouct, having been reinforced by tlirev.battalions,
has moved for.aid to I.lerew, with seven thousand men ; and that a
c.dunin of tnii tecn thot:Finci men, unecr the command of Marshal
Soult, which is a,lk am niz Irom tirn•iilc tow,:rds Estrentadura, was cx.-
pected to arrive; at St. Oi4tla or. Cie evehh, at the sahie ttay.
General Hill accordihAiy m..rclied back by the road of Satita Martha
to Albuera, in which bloc lIC was' joitied by the sth, i ith,
and '2ll regiii-ients of the lines_ a!;:l the i tth PortuAtietie Catia !vies
froal 13::dijoz, ...id by the Spanish cool,:_ under the Conde de Finnic
net:reliant Strobitz, Aid-de.Camp to Sir Williatn Erskine, took
twenty.five French dragoons and an officer, in a sLiruisili Hear Llcrena
on the Llth.

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