The National Register.
London, England, 1812-08-30 00:00:00

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TUESDArS LONDON GAZETTE.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
DOWNING-STREFT, AVGUST `3, 181(2.
A dispatch, of which the following i.; an extract, has been this day
received at the Earl Bathurst's office, from General the Marquis of
Wellington, K. B. dated Cuellar, Aug. 4.
The French army of the centre, after having passed through the
Guadarrama pass, and after its head had arrived at the Venta de San
Raphael, returned to Segovia, where Joseph Buonaparte arrived on
the 27th of July, at night. The object of this movement was alipa.
randy to divert the allied troops from the pursuit of the army of Por-
tugal, and to enable the latter to maintain themselves upon the
Douro ; in which, however, the enemy did not succeed. Their rear-
guard remained in some strength on the left of the Douro, during the
28th and 29th ; but the light and first divisions, and the cavalry,
having crossed the Eresma and Cega rivers on the latter day, the
enemy's rear-guard retired during the night across the Douro, and
thence followed the movements of the main body towards Villa V anez,
abandoning Valladolid, and leaving there seventeen pieces of cannon,
a large quantity of shot and shells, and other stores, and their hos-
pital, with about eight hundred sick and wounded.
The General in Chief Macquinez took 300 prisoners in the neigh-
bourhood of Valladolid on the 30th; our advanced guard crossed the
Douro,_ and our parties entered Valladolid on the eime day; and I
had the satisfaction of being received by the people in that city
With the same enthusiastic joy as I had been in all other pasts of the
country.
The army of Portugal having thus crossed and quitted the Douro,
it was necessary to attend to the movements of the army of the centre,
and to prevent a junction between the twoon the Upper Douro, which,
it was reported, was intended.
While, therefore, the advanced-guard and left continued the pursuit
of the army of Portugal, I moved the right along the Cega to Cuellar,
where I arrived on the Ist instant.
Joseph Buonaparte retired from Segovia on the morning of the Ist,
and marched through the Guadarrama ; and he left at Segovia an ad-
vanced guard, principally of cavalry, under General Espert ; having
destroyed the cannon and ammunition which were in the castle, having
carried off the church plate a.id other valuable property, and having
levied a considerable contribution on the inhabitants of the town.
I have nc.t yet heard whether a detachment which I sent to Segovia
)esterday, under Brigadier-General D'Urban, had entered the town.
The army of Portugal have continued their retreat towards Burgos.
The enemy have continued to increase their force in Extremadura.
I euclote Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill's report of a very
handsome affair with the enemy's cavalry, on the 21th of July. by
the division under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir William
Erskine.

I have received no farther accounts of the ol.crations under Sir
Home Popham.
P. S. 1 have just heard that the French troops under General
Espert have withdrawn from Segovia by San lldefonso.
%Ara, July 27, 1812.
My Loa D-I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship a copy
of a letter from Lieutenant-General Sir William Erski►:e, and one from
Major-General Long, repeirting an affair between some of our cavalry
a,,d three regiments of the enemy's cavalry, in the neighbourhood of
Ribera, on the ilth inst. 1 am, tte.
R. HILL.

(Signed)
To General the Earl of Wellington, K. B. &c. &c. &c.
Los Santos, July El, 1912.
Sta—l have the honour to report to you, that a bony of nce
enemy's cavalry, consisting of two regiments of dragoons and one of
chasseurs, under the command of General of Brigade A linand, at-
tacked yesterday morning the Portuguese piquet at Hinojosa, which
they drove in as far as Ribera, where four squadrons of Portuguese
cavalry were stationed, under the cominand of Colonel Campbell.
The force under Colonel Campbell being greatly interior to that of the
enemy, he was under the necessity of retiring upon Villa Franca,
which he did in the best order. Msjor-General Long advancing at
the same time from Villa Franca with the brigade. of Britiali cavalry
under his command, and Captain Lefebue's troop of horse artillery to
support him. The enemy, on perceiving the advance of Gen. Long's
brigade,' halted on the high ground betwixt Ribera roil Villa Franca,
General Long also halted until joined by a part of his brigade that had
been detached in the morning to observe the enemy on the side of
Usagre. During this interval, I directed Major-General Slade, with
two regiments of his brigade, to move f'om Los Santos, and direct
his march on the left flank and rear of the enemy. As soon as Ge-
neral Long had collected the whole of his brigade, he moved f)rward
against the enemy, who immediately withdrew beyond the defile at
Ribera. General Long passed through the defile to the right and left
of the town, and attacked the enemy with much spirit, whilst the
artillery fired with great effect from the high ground on the Villa
Franca side of the defile. The enemy retired rapidly upon Hinojosa,
closely. followed ; from Hinojosa the enemy retired to Leira, and
from thence to Valencia de Torres. They were followed as far as
Leira. At Hinojosa the two regiments under Major. General Slade
joined MajohGeneral Long's brigade, having made a very rapid march

AUG. 30.

at a trot from Los Santos, but from the great distance could not ar-
rive in sufficient time to cut off the enemy's retreat upon Leira.
Major-General Long speaks in the highest terms of all the troops
under his command, parttctilarly the horse artillery, who displayed
great activity in their movements, and precision in their fire, ►,i
hich the enemy suMred very considerably. Ihe loss of the enemy
on this occasion has been about thirty men and a great many horses
killed, eleven men and about thirty horses taken. The loss upon our
side has bcen only one man killed and seven wounded.
I have the honour, &c.

(Signed) WILLIAM ERSKINE, Licut..Gen.
[Here follows Major-General Long's account of the tranactiun,
which is similar to that of Sir William Erskine.]

WITITETIIALL, AUGUST 25, 181 g.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on behalf
of his Majesty, bath been graciously pleased, by an especial warrant,
to grant unto Arthur Marquis of Wellington, Knight Companion of
the Most Honourabie Military Order at the Bath, and Commander in
Chief of his Majesty's Forces in Spain and Portugal, his Majesty's
royal license and permission, that he and his descendants may bear, as
a royal augmentation, " in the dexi er quarter of thc arms of welicsiey,
AN ESCOCHEON CHARGED WITH THE CROSSES OF ST. GYORCE, Sr.
ANDREW, AND ST. PATRICK, being the Union Badge of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland," as a lasting memorial of the
glorious and transcendant achievements of the said Arthur Marquis of
Wellington on various important occasions, but more particularly in
the recent brilliant and decisive victory obtained over the French army,
by the troops under his command, near Salamanca, on the `'id day of
July last; such Royal augmentation being first duiy excinplifien ac-
cording to the laws of arms, and recorded in the Herald's office :
And also to command, that this special mark of his Majesty's i:oyal
favour be registered in his College of Arms.

ADMIRALTY OFFICE, AVG. 23.
His Majesty's ship Horatio, Trein pre. i.i. Seund,
coast of Norway, Aug. 3, ' • • .'
SI lt,—l have the honour to make known to ycu, whet, eece- ion
of your orders, running down the coast of Norway, all ,:!It I i i:,:,t. in
latitude 70 degrees 40 minutes N. a small sail was seen :run. tne mast-
head close in with the land, whith we discovered to be an :.rie.ei cutter
before she disappeared among the rocks. Being anxious t t•itrov the
enemy's cruizers, who have 63 considerably intercepted .:ir t'ade in
this quarter, I dispatched the barge and three cutter:, under the com-
mand of my First Lieutenant, A. M. Hawkins, who te-iii•ed intertna.
tion on shore that the cutter had gone to a village cn an arm of the
sea, 35 miles inland, where he immediately proceeded, and at a A. A:.
on the (11, she was discovered at anchor, together with a schooner and
a large ship, which, on the appearance of the boats, resented their
broadside;, with springs on their cables. As a strong tide set the boats
towards them, Lieutenant Hawkins determined to attack, notwith-
standing their advantageous position : at nine tie fire commenced on
the beats (one of which was dispatched under the directions of Mr.
lames Crisp, Master's Mate, to disperse score small-armed men col-
lected on the shore; this he effected, act returned to the attack before
the enemy struck,) and after a most sanguinary combat, they were
carried in that true and gallant style welch far surpasses any comment
of mine on its merits, or of the characters of the brave fellows ern.
plowed. They proved to be his Danish Majesty's schooner No. 114,
of six J-pounders, and thirty men ; and cutter No. 97, of four 6-poun-
ders, and twenty two men, commanded by Lieutenant Buderhof, a
First Lieutenant in the Danish navy, and Commodore of a division of
small vessels, employed on this coast, in person on board the schoo-
ner; and an American ship of about 400 tons, their prize. [Here
fuiows an encomium on the officers and men.]
I have the honour- to be, &c.
(Signed) G. STUA RT.
A List of Killed and Wounded, in the boats of his Majesty's ship
Horatio, employed on the al of August, 1811
Killed.—Oliver Shinamings, quarter-master ; George Markham,
ditto ; Thomas Arthur, quarter-master's-mate; Thomas Mllll min,
captain of atter-guard ;eremiah Patience, captain of mast; James
Morris, able seaman; John Hall, ditto; First Lieutenant George
Syder, royal marines ; Richard Carrick, corporal of ditto.
Wounded.—Abraham Mills Hawkins, first lieutenant, severely ;
Thomas P. Masters, second lieutenant, ditto; Mr. Hughes, boat-
swain, ditto; Mr. Fowler, midshipman, ditto; Mr. Larans, assistant
surgeon, (Alice dead) • James Nigh' tingale, quarter-master, danger-
ously, (since dead); William Hopkins, captain of forecastle, severely;
Joseph Day, quarter-gunner, ditto; Thomas Pearson, able seaman,
ditto ; John Liader, ditto, ditto ; John Dennis, ditto, ditto ; James
Cuminins, ditto, ditto ; James Easley, quarter-gunner, slightly ;
James Bridle, ordinary seaman, ditto; Sergeant Harvey, royal marines,
ditto ; James Stokes, private marine, severely.
Total number of the enemy killed 10
Total wounded, including officers - - 11
(Signed) G. STUART, Captain.

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