The National Register.
London, England, 1811-06-02 00:00:00

REGISTER.

Master-General, and the Officers of their several departments,
and those of my personal Stall:
From intelligence from Marshal Sir William Beresford, I
learn that he has invested Badajoz, on the left of the Guadiana;
anti is moving there stores for the attack of the place.
I have the honour to inform you that the intelligence has been
confirmed, that Joseph Buonaparte passed Valladolid, on his wmr
to Paris, on the 27th of April. It is not den'ed by the French offi-
cers that he itf gone to Paris. .
I have th,- honour to be, &c.
W ELL I NG/TOP.
My Lord, Villa Foratos, May 10, 1811.
The enemy retired on the Bth to the woods between Espeja,
Gallegos,and Fuentesde Hotior,in which position the whole army
were collected on that day and yesterday, with the exception of
that part of the second corps which continued opposite Alameda.
Last night the whole broke up and retired across the Azara,
covering their retreat by their limner-6W cavalry; and this day
the whole have retired across the Agueda, leaving Almeida to its
fate.
The second corps retired by the brigade of Barba del Puerco,
and the Ford of Val d'Espino on the Agueda.
Our advanced fats are upon the Azava, and on the Loiker
Agueda, and the army will be to-morrow in the cantonments on
the Duas Casas: I have, &c.

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(Signed) .

(Signed) WELLINGTON.
General Total-1 Captain, 7 Lieutenant% 1 Ensign, 13 stir-
_francs, 3 drummers, 173 rank and file, and 45 horses, killed;
2 General Stzlf, 2 Lieut.-Cols.. Majors, 15 Captains, 23 Lieu-
tenants, 11 Cornets, or Ensigns, 2 Staff, 61 serjeants, 4 drum-
nes s 906 rank and file, and 95 horses, wounded ; 1 Lieute-
nant:C
01. 2 Captains, 3 Lieutetuats, 1 Ensign, 9 serjeants,, 9
drummer% 269 rank and file, and 5 horses, missing.
(Signed) • CHARLES STEWART,
Major-General add Adjutant-General.
(1-ere follows the names of Officers killed and wounded which
we gave last Sunday.]
TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZLTTE.

DOWNING-STItgET, MAY 28, 1811.
A Dispatch, of which the following is an Extract, was this day
received at the Earl of Liverpool's Office, addressed to his
Lordship by Lieutenant-General Lord Viscount Wellington,
K. 13, dated Villa Formosa, 15th May, 1811.
No part of the enemy's army remained on the left of the
Agueda on the evening of the loth instant, except cue brigade
of cavalry close to the bridge of Ciudad Aodrio. The c2d corps
had crossed at Barba del Puerco noel the Ford of Val d'Espino,
and were cantoned in that neighbourhood, and our advanced
posts were upon the Azava and the Lower Agueda.
The tith Division reom..Al the duty of the blockade of Al-
meida on that evening, and major-General Sir Erskine
was ordered to send a battalion to Barba del Puerco, to guard
the b. idge there, which had been previously ordered, and had
been posted to observe the passages of the Duas Casas, between
Aldea del Bispo and the Barba del Puerco.
The enemy blew up sonic mines which they had constructed
in the works of Almeida, a little before one on the morning of
the 11 th, and inmiediately attacked the picquets by which the
place was observed, and forced their way through them. They
fired but little, and they appeared to have marched between the
bodies of troops posted to support the picquets ; and in Daniell.
lar could not have passed far from the right of the Queun's regi-
ment.
Upon the first alarm, Brigadier-General Pack, who was at
Malpartida, joined the picquets, and ccintinued to follow and to
fire upon the ent my, as a guide for the march ofthe other troops,
employed in the blockade; and Alajor-Gent. ral Campbell
marched from Malpartida with a part of the first battalion 36'th
regiment. But the enemy ce.ntinued their march in a solid coin.
pact body without firing, and were well guided between the
sitions occupied by our troops.
The 4th regiment, which was ordered to occupy Barba del
Puerco, unfortunately missed the road, and'did not arrive there
till the enemy had reached the place, and commenced to des-
cend the bridge : and at the same moment with the 3Gtb
regi-
ment, with Major-General-Campbell, and the light battalions of
the sth division, which Majors Gen. Sir William Erskine had
detached from kldea del llispo to Bai ba del Puerco, as soon as
he hvd heard that tfie enemy had come oat trout Almeida.
The enemy suffered very considerable loss both in prisoners
and killed and wounded, a 0 well as in the march front Altneida
as in the passage. of • the Aguetha. It appears that part of the 2d
corps, which wt re Da St. Felices, formed upon the river to Pro-
tect their passage as soon as they beard the firing ; and the lion.
Lieutenaut-Colonel Cochrane of the 36th who had crossed With . •