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,LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1813.

• • -WAR M.PARTMENT, VOWNING STREET, OCT. 18, 1813.
Captain the Ear: of Marelf an ived this morning with a dispatch
tient Vivid Marshal the Mat quis of Welliegton, addressed to Earl
41ptburst, foie of Ids Majesty's principal Secsetaries of State, of
which the following fie a copy :
LM
CCS, October 9,-1613.
" MT .Loup,--lipviaz deem«l it espeAent to cross the Bi-
a assoa with the lett of the army, 1 have the pleasure to Wolin your
loodslep that that object was effected on the 7th instant.
Lientcrant-gtiwrai Sir Thomas Graham directed the 1t and sth
envisions, and the Ist Portuguese In igade, tender Brigadier-General
Wilson, to cross that liver in three columns Wow. and in one above
Cite site of the Bridge, under the command of Major-General Hay,
the Bon. (Mond Greville. Major-Get:era! the Hon. Edward Stop-
fos t?, and Major:General How.r.ti ; and Lieutenant General Don
Mantles I're, re directed that part of the 4th Spanish army tinder his
immediate etanntasl, to, cross in three columns at fords, above those
at which the sullied British and Portuguese troops passed. The
/4-11 Vii Were destined to carry the enemy's entrencluneuts about
and aliove Audaye. while the latter should carry those. on the Mon-
Vigne-Verte, and on the height of Mandale, by which they were to
lam the enemy's left.
le The eperations of both bodies of troops succeeded in every point.
The Bullish and Portuguese troops took seven pieces of cannon its
the reds nbts and batteries which they caned, and the Spanish trot. p.:
one pit Fool cannon in those by them.
I lead particular satisfaction in observing the steadiness and gal-
lant ty of all Ibe troops. The 9th British regiment weie vt s y
s! Fnagly opposed, charged with bayonets more than once, and ha‘e
tutlered ; but lam happy to at:d, that in other parts of th4:C et:rw.
earlaPs has not been severe.
The Spanish troops tinder Lieut.-Gen. Don Manuel Frey re be.
laved admirably, and turned and carried the enemy's entrenel.ments
IS* the hill, with gteat dexterity and gallantry; and 1 um much it.debt.
ed to the Licot.-Gen. and to Lieut.-Gels. Sir T. Graham, and to
dig general and Staff Officers of both Corps, -for the execution of
tlee arrangements for this operation.
• Lieut.-Gen. Sir T. Graham, having thns rztablishe (I, within the
Vrench territory, the Mops of the Allied British and Portuguese
Army, which had been so /frequently distinguished under Isis com-
"nand, resigned the command to Lieut.-Gen Sir John Hope, who had
arrived from Ireland the preceding day.
While this was going on upon the left, Maj.• Gen. C. Baron Alton
attacked, with the light division, the enemy's intrenehments in the
Puerto de Oera, stspnorted by the Spanish tilvision under Brieadier-
Geis. 14-4iga ; and the Mat fiscal del Canipo Don Pedro Giron at-
tacked the set emy's intrenchinents and posts on the mountain, called
La Inane, immediately on the right of the light divbioo, with the
rimy of reserve of Andalusia.
• Col. Coluorne, of the 5.:.1 regiment, who commanded 'Maj.-Gen.
nerrctt 's brigade, in the abseece of the Maj.-Gen. on account of
liia ill health, attacked the enemy's rii4ht in a camp wider, they lead
strongly intreuched ; and the s'2d regiment, under Maj. Pde.in,
charged in a most gallant style, and carried the intl.( nehment with
Ole bayonet. The Ist and 3tlcKadoies, and the ed battalion Stith
*invent, as well as the 5 td, distieguisl;ed themselve., in this attack.
Makr-General Ketept's ringside attacked by the Puerto, where
11te opposition was not Po severe; and Major-General Charles Al-
ien has reported his sense of the jedgment displayed both by the
tiajor General and by Colonel Colborne, in these attacks; and 1
am particularly indebted to Major General Chatles Alien for tl.e
manner in which he executed this service ; the light division took
i'., officers vs.d 400 men prisoners, and three pieces of cannon.
• These troops carried every thing hefore them in the most gallant
stile, till tiny arrived at the foot of the rn.k on which the hermit-
age stands, and they made repeated atten pts to tale even that post
by Mtn.; hut it was impossible to get IT ; and the enemy remain
ed during the night in posession of the hermitage ; and on a r' k
on the same rao4c of the mountain, with the right of the Spanish
troops. Sonic time elapsed yesterday morning, l,etiAe the fog clear-
ed away sufficiently to enable me to reconnoitre the mountain, which
I fouod to be inaccessible by its right, and that the attack of it
might lie connected with adyannete with the attack of the enemy's
works in front of the catsup of Sierra. I accordingly ordered the
army of reserve to concentrate to their rielut ; and, as sot) as the.
concentration commenced, Marisear del Campo Don Pedrollisoil
ordered_ the battalion de las Ortlunr: so attack the enemy's post on
Ike sight of the position occuiiie:. by his troops, which wasiilstant-
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'y carried iu the most gallant Mile. Those troops' folkrwed up
heir stweess, and carried .an intrenehment on a hill which protected
rite right of the Camp of Sarre, and the enemy immediately evacuated
all their world to tlz.fend the approaches to the camp, which were
taken possession of by the detachments sent from the 7th division
.en! by Lieut.-Gen. the Earl of Daitionsie, through the Panto de
Eschalar, for this purpose.
1.,)n I'. Giron then estnblished a battalion on the enemy's left, on
the rock of the Hermitage.- It was too late to proeced Nether last
eight, and the enemy withdrew from their post at the Hermitage,
, el from the comp of Sarre during the night.
• It gives me singular satisfaction to report the good conduct of the
Akers ant! troops ot the army ofecserve ot Andalesite as well it. the
Operialfteis of the 7th inst. as in those of yesterday. The attack,
made by the b.ef talien of Las Ordenes, under the command of ca.
Itorp, yesterday, was made in as_ good order, anti with as much
spirit, as any ether I have seen made by any troops; and I was mw':i
satimtied with the spirit and discipline of the whole of this corps.
1 cannot applaud too highly the execution of the 'arrangemente
for these attacks by l'elariscal de Campo Don Pedro (Won, and the
General and Staff Officers limier his directions.
I omitted to report to your Lordship in may dispatch of the -itlt
inst. that upon my way to Roticesvalles, on the Ist inst. I direele4
iirigadier.fien. Campbell to endeavour to entry of the enemyl;
eiquets in Iris rront, w hick he attacked on that eight, and complete.
ly succeeded, with the Portuguese troops under his command, to
carrying the whole of oth piquet, coesisting of 70, inen----a fortified
post on the mountait,) of Mona was likettise stormed, arid the whole
• ~arrisou put to the sword.
' Since 1 Adves.sed yenr Lordship last, I have received dispatches
from Lietit..Gen. Clinton, in Catalonia, to the 3d inst. The Gene-
' r.il was still at Tarragona, and the enemy in their old position on
the lathregat.
Lieut.-Gen. Lord William llentiuck }rad embarked for Sicily on
tie .2;:d of-September.
I ctritl this dispatch by 11.3 y Aid de-Camp, Cipt. the Earl of March,
whom I beg to recommend- to your Locdship's protection. - I has ogee.
(,Signed) W La.LINGrON.
I ineltee a return of the loss incurred in the late operations; and
a relent of the killed, wonedt (1, atel missing of theartny tinder Lit et.
Oen. Lord Wet. Beutinek, in the of at Ordid, on the 12th anti
!:;lit tat.

Uelurn of Ili: kilktl, Trounded,and -4ti.ising in the Panage of the Bidas.
sea, and Prcing the enemy's lines. on the 711. and 914 of October.
TOTAL Jittrpsn Loss-1 c.,;-ptain, 3 lieutenants, 3 serjeants,
1 drummer, CO rank and file, killed ; 1 major, 12 caytaillc, '2'2 lieu-
tenants, 1 ensigns 1 slid, 2.; scrjeants, 3 druninars, 419 rank anti
tile, wounded ; rank and ilie missing.
Tol•At. l'otrucuuiE Loss--1 lieutenant-colonel, 1 captain,
I lieillettaut, ensigns, 2 serjeatits. 41 rank asxl file, killed ; t major,
1 captain, 2lientenaut., 7 en:444ns, tf.): serjeants, 1 drummer, LA:
rank awl five, wounded 8 rank and tile missing.
GENEH As, TOTAL-- I liClllt'llalit•co!onti, captains, 4 lieutenants;
'2 ensigns, 7 serjvais ts, 1 detniimer, 12(1 rmik aria tile, killed ; majors,
13 captains, 21. lieutenants, 1. ensigns, 1 staff, 4
4di iminier4, 571 rank :aid tile, wounded ; 13 rank and fife alissinl.
Accurate ieturns have not been ree:..iseel of the Spanish loss, Out
it estimated at seven hundred and fifty wounded, and-
in.- -sing. . (S:gtied) E. M. PA EN 1-I.k M , Adj.-act).
Names of °liars killed and 'rounded cu the 7th and 9th of