The National Register.
London, England, 1812-02-09 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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ensermosommiesommit&v.. .
street, silk-weavers Feb. 8, 15, at twelve,' and Mar
Spital-Fcitiach 17, at one, at
Guildhall. Attornies, Messrs. Collins and Waller
.
Richard Sargeant, of Slough, Bucks, carpenter, Feb. 8, a't two-, 111,
and March 17, at one, at guildhall, London. Attornies, Mr. Srct.cr,
Windsor; and Messrs. Few and Ashmore, Henrietta-street, Covent•
garden.
William I.owndes, of North Rode, Chester, cotton-spinner, Feb. 24,
2,1, and March 17, at two, at the Mo.ley Anus Inn, Manchester. Atter-
nies, Messrs. Hewitt and Kirk, Manchester; and Mr. R. Ellis, Chancery-
lane, London.

CER rinc.vrEs—FEts. 25.
William Pollock Cowcher, of Clement's-lane, Lombard-street, mer-
chant. —John Gascoin, of Woodstock-street, I-hoover-square, tailor.
—John Whaley, of Coventry-street, Haymarket, boot and shoe maker.
—John Rangeley and Ge9rge Tetley, of Gomersal„ Birstal, York, cot-
ton-spinners.—(leorge Saxelby, of Ludgate-street, boot and shoe-
maker.—Henry Walker, late of West-end, Hampstead, merchant.
—David Sidebotham, of Stockport, Chester, iron-merchant.—Thumas
Haywood, late of Edgeware-road, coach-maker.—James Dobson, of
Liverpool, merchant.—Steplito Brassingtou, of Burskm, Stafford, gla-
zier.—John Davi4, of Bristol, haherdasher.-1 homas Goom, of Bermond-
sey New-road, Surrey, fellmonger.—Peter William Henry Hie
s,
ks ire
of Brixham, Devon, scrivener.—Le\sii Morgan, of Aykshatn,Nor-
folk, linen-draper.—William Bowler, sen. of Castle-street, Southwark,
hat-manufacture*.—John Hobson, late of Levenshuhne, Lancaster, dyer.
I --Jeremiah Morrison, of Bath, china-man.

LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORD/NMIY.

WEDNESDAY, 11.BRUARY, 5, 1812.

DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 4, 1812.
Major the Honourable A. Gordon, has arrived this. evening at Lord
Liverpool's Office with a dispatch, -addressed to his Lordship by Ge-
neral Viscount Wellington, dated Gallegos, 20th January, 1812.
Mr LORD—I informed your Lordship in mysclispatch of the 9th,
that I had attacked Ciiidad Rodrigo, and in that of .the 15th, ~f the
progress of the operations to that period; and I haVe now the pleasure
to acquaint your Lordship that we took the place hoi storm yesterday
evening after daeh. . . .
We continued from. the 15th to the 19tItto* complets the* second ra-
ratio', and theicommunieations with 'that work; and ••O; ç had made seine
progress by sap towards the emit of the glacl/4. Gn the pi.,_lit of the 15th
we likewise advanced from *the left of the 'first•parallcl. down the slope
of the hill, towards the errnvenr'nf St. Francisco', iu a situation ft om
whick the walls of the !FatitiSe 4ruye and of ilipaqiven were st.. en, tin
which a hattery of seven gnus wai'conkiiiSted, and they commenced,
their fire on the morning of the 18th;
In the mean time, the batteries iti.' the - firsts. parallel continued their
fire; and yesterday evening their fire had not only condor. ably iojur, d
the defences of the place, bdt had made breaches in the Fausse
Lraye
wall, and in the body of the place which were considered practicable;
while the battery on the slope of the hill, which. bad been commenced
on the night ot the 15th, and hid opened on the 18th, ,had been equally
efficient still further to the left, and opposite to the suburb of St. Preo-
cisco.. .
I therefore determined to storni the place notwithstanding that the
approaches hid not been brought to the crest of the glaCis, and the
counter-scarp of the ditch was still entire. The attack was aroardirgly
mite yesterday evening in fide - aertate columns, consisting of the troops
of the 3d and light divisions, and of' Brigadier-General Pack's hrieadei
The two right columns, condutied by Lieutenant-Colonel, O'Toole,
ot the 2d Cacadores, and Major 'Ridge, of the sth regiment were des-
tined to protect the advance of Major-General M4l(mtion's brigade,
forming the third, to the stop of the breach in the Fau'tte Braye wall,
and all these, being composed of troops of the 3d division, were 4111. it r
the direction of hieut.-General Picton.
The fourth column, consisting of the 43d and 52d regiments, and part
of the 25th regiment, being of the light division under the direction of
Major-Gen. Cranford, attacked the breaches on the lett, in frutt of the
suburb of St. Francisco, and covered the luft of the attack of the prhici-
pal.breach by the troops of the 3d division; and Brigadier-Generai Pack
was destined with Ida brigade, forming the sth column, to make a false
attack upon the southern face of the fort. Besides these five columns,
the 94th regiment, belonging to the 3d division, descended into the ditch
in two columns on the right of Major-General &I'Kinnon's brigade,
with a view to protect the descent of that body into t
he di
tcht,
w andhich it its
attack of the breach in the Fousse Braye, against thet
was supposed the enemy would construct to oppose their vrogresa.
All these atatcks succeeded; convert gadier-Grueral Pack even sur-
passed my expectations, having ed. his false attack into a real
one, and his advanced guard under the command of Major Lyiich hav-
ing followed the enemy's troops from the advanced works into the
Fausse Braye, where they made prisoners of all opposed to the nt.
Major Ridge, of the 2d battalion ot the sth regiment, Living escaltde.
the FJusse Braye wall, stormed the principal breach in the Ito ;). 0'
the place, together with the 94th regiment, commanded by Lieut.-
1
Colonel Campbell, which had moved along the ditch at the same' ti.:.e
' and had stormed the breach in the Fame limp, biatlilih;"fiial of
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