The National Register.
London, England, 1812-09-06 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

SEPT. 6

• situation; and I net; leave to reci.miliend Inin to your Lordship's
piotection.
S Since writing this dispatch, I have received a letter of the
18111 instant, from Gtiteral trotn Alicante, in which that
officer informs me that hi had on that clay landed at that place.
( fraosiation. )
C
apitulation proposed 'ov Gcneral the Earl of Wellinton, Cm-
'wilder-in-Chief of the A Army, a:id accepted by Colootiel
La Fond, Commandant of the Fort of La China, 11th August,.l
1812.
ARTICLE t.—The garrison shall march out of the fort with
the honours of war, awl shall lay down their anus on the ,cis.
ART. 11.—The garrit•oit. sad iter.ons of every descrivtiun in the
fort, shall b. prisoner. war.
ART. officers shall be allowed to retain their swords,
their baggate, and their hon.es, acc-rd.ng to the numher allowed I
them by the tegulat n of the French army ; and thr soldiers shall '
keep their knapsacks. •
Aar. I V .—The magazines of the fort, of every description,
shall be delivered to the flicers of the respective departments, and
the French Conv-.and.dits of Artillery and of Engineers, shall
furnish lists of Co:comet's of each depot. The plans of the
furl s'aall also he delivered to the Comminuting Officer of the British
Engineers.
ART. V.—This Capitulation shall take place at four o'clock in
the afternoon, and the gates. of the tort shall he occti,:ied by
the troops of the
.Allied Army as soon as this Capitulation is
ratified.
Signed, on ti.e "-art of G,tneril the Ear! of Wellington,
FITZ ROY SO NURSE I', Lieut.-Col. and Military Sc.c
It t:ficd WELLINGTON.
Signed, on the part of Colonel La Fonci,
R. DE LA P.RtNE.
This Capitulation is r it;fied by the Culooel Commanding the
Fort of I. China,
(Signed) LA FOND.
Return of Prisoners of War, taken at the Fort de la China, in the
Rettro, and in the General Hospital la Mocha, on the 11th August,
1812.
Total-2 col,•nPls, 4 lieutenant-colonels, 22 captains, 35 subalterns, •
7 staff, 3 civil officers, 1982 serjeatits, drummers, and rank and tile, it;
hr,rses and mules.
Total taken at the grneral hospital —I captain, 5 subalterns, 16
civil officers, 129 serjeants, drummers, anti rank and file.
General total taken-2,103.
N. B. Besi les the above number, 6 ratite and ti!e British, and 6
officers, and 114 rank anti tile, Spaniards, were retaken in the fort of
La China.
Return of Killed, Wounded, and Missing, in an alliir with the Enc.-
in) 's Cav dry, in front of the village of Majalalionda, the 11th of
August, 1812.
Total, British loss-1 cornet, 1 serjeant, IS rank and file. 12 horses,
kille.l 2 captains, 3 lieutenants, 5 serjeants. 33 rank and file,l9 horses,
wounded 1 lieutenant-colonel, I captain, 20 rank and file, 41 horses,
missing
Total, Portuguese loss-1 captain, 2 lieutenants, 30 rank and file, 11
horses, killed ; q lieutenant colonels, 1 captain, 49 rank and file, 5
horses, wounded ; lieutenant-colonel, 1 quarter-master of cavalry,
21 14lik and tile, 31 horses, missing.
General total-1 captain, 2 lieutenants, 1 cornet, I serjeant, 48 rank
and file, 93 horses, ; 2 lieutenant-colonels, 3 captains, 3 lieute-
nants, 5 scrjeants, 85 rank and file, 17 horses, wounded ; '2 lieuten Int-
colinels, 1 captain, 1 quarter-toaster of cavalry, 41 rank and file, 81
horses, missing.
Names of Officers Killed, Wounded, and Missing, on the 11th of
August, 1812.
British, killed-2d Dragoons, King's German Legion, Cornet
Kohlstedt.
Portuguese, killed-12th Dragoons, Captain Antonio de Souza;
Lieutenants Joaquim Perreira, Alvara de Moraes.
British, wounded-Ist Dragoons, King's German Legion, Captain
Uslar, slightly ; Captain Hattort, Lieutenant Witzendorf, severely.
2,1 Ditto—Lieut. Poten, slightly • I.ieut. Kuhls, severely.
Portuguese, wounded-11th dragoons, Lieut.-Colonel Domingo
Bernardins, Capt. lgnatio Xavier. 12th Dragoons,. Lieut.-Colonel
Viscount Barbacena, severely, and taken prisoner, but since joined the
regiment. •
British, missing—Royal Horse Artillery, Captain Dynely. 2d
Dragoons, King's German Legion, Lieur.-Colonel de jonquier.
Portuguese, missing-12th Dragoons. Lieut.-Colonel Franciso
Tuxeira Lobo, wounded severely, and taken prisoner.
Return of Ordnance, Ammunition, and Stores, found in the Redoubt
of La China, on the Capitulation on the 14th inst.
Brass guns, battering—Eight 24-pounders, two 12-pounders, three
8- pounders. five 6-pounders, six 4-pounders, twenty-six 12-pounders.
Brass guns, field—Twenty-nine t!-pounders, three 6-pounders, thir-
ty-five 4-pounders, one 3-pounder, four 2-pounders.
Brass guns, field mountain—Five 4-pounders, one 3-pounder.
/45sss guns, nurinc—Seven 2-pounders. •
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Iron guns, battering—One long 8-pounder, two 4•poundets. .101
Iron guns, marine—One 4-pounler, two 1- pouncterl oste and three-
eight h-!och diameter.
Brass howl, zt:rs, battering—Two 8 inch, one 1-inch.
Brdss lioNitzers, field—Twenty 6-inch, ten five-and-half-in lh. •
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B tiss mortar., ordinary-4 Wei Pi-inch, cyst) 8-melt, one 6 inch.
BrJss nwrtar—One chambered cortical. Total pieces of ord.
miner—lea.
`21,8:32 round shot of sorts ; 1,118 shells, empty, of sorts ;
4, 703
cases shot of sous ; 1,801 shells for howitzers, f orts ; 165 empty
graitades ; 26,138 balls, cast-iron sorts; 149 g•in and how tzer car-
Eines, ditto ; 6 beds for mortars, itto ; 22, ti I muskets of se .eral
senice:ahle and repairable ; 1 carbine, 123 musquetoon . 453
pisto!s. Total small-arms-21,25.1.
6,736 hiyonets of sorts ; 1,430 swords of ditto; 29. pontoons ; 2;0
pow", r-barrels ' • 5,191 cartricvs of sorts filled for guns
'2 65'3,299 bill cartridges ; 6,000 blank dit o, Car carrels- ; 2t'4,974
11.nts ; 209,160 lbs. leattof 6 pontoons of wood, with c riages
and apparatus ;76 casoons of chtli:rent descri?tions ; w.iggouso
carts, turps, and other carriages.
Army of Portugal. Brass guns, battering—Two 12-p untl:rs.
three 8- pouneers, one 4-pounder.
Brass howitzers, field—Two 6-inch. Total pieces of o dv.nee—ft.
1,08 round shot of sot ts ; 25.1 case shot of saris ; 233 giaqe shot f
sorts ; 11 gun and howitzer carriages, cast-iron sorts ; '2lO p w.t t
barrels; 2,614 cartridges of sorts, tilled for guns. Total average of
powder—near 700 bairds.
761,520 ball cartridt.es ; 40,060 flints : 336 lh. lead of sorts.
Return of French Engineer Stores, taken in the Works of the Refit*,

Madrid, 14th August, 1812.
1,922 spates and shovels ; 170 pi‘k-axes ; 998 billhooks; 400 hoes;
313 felling,aX'S 189 hand hatchets ; saws; 40 planes; SO augers;
LO cliisscls ; 70 baskets; 30 wheal-lPrrows; 1 fire.engine ; 30 hand.
barrow; ; 12 tackres ; 5 forges complete; 8,000 sand-bags.
A quAntity of lion, steel, lead, timber, coal, anti all smaller articles
necessary for the construction ot works.

S.4TURDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE.

ADMIRALTY OFFICE, SiPT. 5.

Transmitted Im fir J. Samaras. •
Aboukir, off Riga Bay, A" g. 11, 1811.
SIR,-1 have to acquaint you that cou iers arrived last night fr
Count Wittgenstein aoti General Barclay de Tulli, by whom we
learq
that no important alfa;r has yet occurred.
Count Wittgenstein's letter, is dated the Ifith instant, at a small
village called Dosch: ch, about forty miles this site of Polotzk, tO
which last place he had pursued Ouchnot, and leaving a stropg a
I-
vanced post in front of it, in order to deceive him, the Count immedi-
ately took a direction with his army towares Dru ato meet M` Donald,
of whose departure frctn this neiAltbourhood he had teceived early in.
telEgence.
Hearing howev:r, tint Oudinot 111:1 obtai el a reinfarc:nunt
of 11,000, he halted, and presently moved forward again in the direc-
tion of Polotzk, mut' falling in with a small French division, he at-
tacked them, and took* 600 men prisoners, besides baggage. It
was conjectured that Oudinot had re crossed the River, and it was
ascertained that his loss irt the late action had been much more severe
than was at first reported.
General Barclay tie Tolli's letter is dated. the lOth of August, at
Smolensk° ; it speaks only of an attack made by Pahlen's c vary on
the enemy's reat-guatd, %Wen he drove befo• ban, tieing mo or
three hundred prisoners, and General tiebastiani's earriaie with all his
papers.
Frequent skirmishes take place, and th..-y are represented as in a.
riably favourable to the Russians, and every thing in the at lily is vi g
on in a satisfactory way. Several small detachments from chi, v.
rison havebeeti scouring the country, and. have destroyed a magaz.J
and taken some prisoners.
have the honour to Bcc.
M . RT I N, nest-Admiral.
Vice-Admiral Sir James Sauniarez,
Bart. and K. B. Sec. • •

Extract of a Letter from Commodore Sir Horne Popham,: &red on
board his Majesty 's.ship-Venerable, Bilhoa Inlet, August 16, MY.
Yesterday morning, at Clay-dawn, General Renovaks attacked the
enemy, and his utspositi..lls were ut judicious, that he drove hilts nit
of the town, from whence he retreated Oil the high road soA.simoss,
and his whole force tell hc.k towar,ls Daratigo. Ihe Sparitarty lost
ten men killed and twemly-three wounded; the email) certain,y lost
more, and hadsix prisoners taken. •
Major Williams itiarche4l with. a strong picquet to examine the
country ; but as the enemy continued to retreat. he returned to the
town of Bil boa in the course of the u'eht.
I directed Captatin Malcolm t 4 take a proportion of gunnowdet,
with a party of meal to blow up the Moro, so we-had completely dte