The National Register.
London, England, 1814-03-27 00:00:00

MATCH V.

It is asserted, that the desertionsin the French army during
the late actions in Ga-cony, smounted.to 46,000 men. They
did not join the standard of Lord Wellington, but dispersed,
and proceeded to their homes.
Lotd Wellington, besides having been stunned for a time,
by a cannon shot which passed. close by him, in the action
of the 27th, received a spent musket ball in the thigh.
The hurt, we understand, was more properly a contniion
than a wound. It did not force his Lordship to quit the
fitid. Tle continued to attend to the exigencies of the con-•
tlict, without even uotiging it, till the service of the day was
over; but it became necessary then to lift him from his
horse, and the pain, stiffness, and swelling, rendered him
unable to stand, or move without assistance. On the sub-
sequent day, he appeared in the field, on horseback, at his
usual early hour, and c heered his soldiers with his animating
presence. Lord Wellington would not allow this wound to
be noticed in the general return of casualties. _ _ _

The young Earl of March, son of the Duke of Rich-
mond, was wounded as he was walking about after the en-
gagement, by a French tirailleur. The ball has not yet been
extracted, but no danger is apprehended for his life.
The Hon. Lieut. Colonel W. flood, Assistant Adjutant-
General to the second division, who gloriously ft in the
enterprize of driving the enemy from Aire, on the 2d of
March, was eldest son, and heir apparent of Lord Hood of
Catherington.
Bordeaux is a city and seaport of France, and capital of
the de, aitment of the (;iroude, situated on the west.const of
the Garonne : before the revolution, the capital of the Bour-
&lois, the See of an Archbishop, and the seat of a Lieutenant-
General, a Parliament, &e. It has an university, founded in
the year 1441 ; an academy of sciences and belles lettres.
established in 1712 ; a public library, a large hospital, in
which are several inaoufactures, &c. The hat hour is large,
and the quays grand and extensive. Four or five hundred
merchants' ships. are often found there at one time, import-
ing woollen stuffs, tin, copper, coals, herrings, leather, salted
beef, tallow, drugs, deals, masts for ships, hemp, pitch and
tar. &c. and returning loaded with cargoes of wine, brandy,
(of which two articles they annually export near 100,000
tons) vinegar, fruit, rosin, paper, honey, cork, &c. Vessels
of France bring from the West Indies sugar, cotton, indigo,
and other articles. The whale and cod fishery form like-
wise a considerable branch of the commerce of this city.
There are several vestiges of Roman grandeur, as the Tower
Gate, said to have been erected in the time of Augustus ?
an amphitheatre and palace of Gallienus, a temple, a foun-
tain, let. It contains above 7,000 houses, and about
150,000 inhabitants ; seventy-four posts S. S. W. Paris.
Long. 17. 10. E. Ferro. Lat. 44. 50. N.
• Extract of a letter from an Officer in Lord Wellington's
army, dated Mont Marsan, March 7 :—" Nothing can be
more gratifying than our reception since we commenced the
march into the heart of France. To-Morrow we start for
Bordeaux ; Sir Lowry Cole's division and our's, under tht
command of the Marshal. The conntry we have come
through is very rich, and every thing cheap, Fowls, fat and
fine, a shilling each ; turkeys, two shillings; ham andebeese,
six pence per pound each ; excellent claret and burgundy,
one shilling and sixpence per bottles game of every kind, as
well as fish, very reasonable, olives and fruit in abundance;
moreover, in many places, the inhabitants will permit us to
pay nothing at all, but treat men and officers with their best
cheer."

A plan is in agitation for the removal of the Post Office
from Lombard street to the top of Cheapside. A great cart
of St. Martin's-le-Crawl is to be pulled down.