The National Register.
London, England, 1814-02-20 00:00:00

SECOND SUPPLEMEAT TO SATURDAY'S GAZETI

WAR DEPARTMENT, DOWNING-STREFI, FEB. 1.;.
A di.patch, 01 Well the is a cui.y. wits last (Tait ed
at Earl liatburst's Office, addressed 1,) his Luid,hip by Ctn. Sii Tbi;ruaa
Graham, dated 11eicxeri., Ftti. 6, 1814.
11c d-quaricry, Mercxein, Feb. 6, 1814.
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My Gunn--T sLould have been happy to hove had to announce I.
your Lordship, that the inovement on Al:i.4crp, fixed by Ge)). Boum-
fur the 2d in.t.int, had produc. d a greater effect; but the want of time
and of greater means, will account ;‘, your Lordship tot the oisappaint•
meet of our lope, of a more Outttliciory result; for Gen. Below re.
teived (after we bad got.tire better of al! the great obstacles in the way
of taking a position near the town ) order, to proceed to the aouthwaid
so.:tct in concert with the griind army; and the state of the w,thther,
furs nue time back, not (lily prevetted my receiving the supplies of
ordnance and ordnance store. from England, bet made it impossible to
laud much of what was to• board the transports near NV illiamstadt, the
icc cutting off all commu ication with them. 11) Lye, ho%%ever, sincere
pleasure in assisting your Loitiship, that every past of the service was
conslocted by the Officers at the head of the different departments) with
zea; and intelligence possible.
To 'cake up fur the want of our own artillery, all the serviceable
Dutch mortars, with all the ammusiiiiim that could be collected, Were
prepared at Willitoustadt, and on the evening of the lat the troops of
of the first and second dssisions, thut could be spared irom other ser-
vices' were collected at Braeschat, and ot xt morning ibis vilkge (fer.
tilled with much labour ever since oar former attack) was carried in
the must galloit style, in a much shorter tune. and %Alt ruueli less toss
than I could have believed posstbl, .
Major Gen. Gibbs. commanding the 2d division (in the absence of
Major-Gen. Nl.Kenzie. coutitted by a dangerous fish from his home),
ably seconded by Major-Geo. Tay kr, and b% Lieu' -Col. Harries, com-
manding Maj:)r-Gen. Gibbs's ktigade, conducted this attach, in %hick
all the troops engaged behaved with the usual spi.it unit intrepidity of
British soldiers.

I lee! pertiv tdatly indebted to the Officers already named, and also
to Lieut.-Col. Cameron, commanding the detachments of the three bat-
talions of the 9511; ; to Lieut.-Col. lionipesch, with the regimeot ;
to Alajor Kellv , with the 64th ;to Lieut.-Col. Brown, with the ; I
for the di•tingoi,hed manner in which those corps attacked tha lett mid
centre of the village, foaming the etivit.y from every strung and
storming the mill battery on Ferdinand's 1)% ke ; a bile Major Gem
Tay hr, vi i.lt the 5.241. undrr Lieu' Col. Bible; the n.-.oh, under Major
,Macalister ; and the 78th, under Lieut. Cu_. I,iiidt,ev, matching to the
right, and ditraly on the mill cf Ferdinand's Ihke, threatened the
ehem%, entiminnication froni :Miami] towards Antwerp.
Two pieces of cannon and a considerable number of prisoners fe}l
into our liandA. •

NO time was lost in marking out the batteries, which by the great ex•
ertions of the tirtillerv, ni.der Lieut.-Col. Sir 6. W.mdi and the EN'
gineers, under Lieut .Col. Carmichael Smyth, ar:rr the good will of the
woriiiticr pArlie%, were Coll:l.leird by half past three, p. rir ot the Sd.
The working
opviied :It that hour. During the short trial of the
fire that mot nin', the deteetilp state of iliv Williainstadt mortars and
ammunition was too ri:ible. Our weans were thus diminished, and
much time Wii.S lust, as it was not till twelve at nuon the fullovriug,day
(the 4th), that the fire could be opened again.
That day's fire disabled five of the six 24spouutiers. Yesterday 114
fire was kept up :11l day. The practice was admirable, but thery was
not a sufficient number of aheils falling to prevent the t.eviiiy fiom ex.
El:lgo:tailing Ere- whenever it broke out among the iirills, atui ear lire