The National Register.
London, England, 1814-01-02 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REMSTIifiL

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th• wrovl which she 113% dont to the and to the good.cause.
(lay is au ,i4e lost to the intere:q lie that ;overaiturtit.

JAN. 2:-

The enemy assembled iu colisitierable force on a rai:ge olltwiehts
running poraiel with the Admit., and still ht citing Ville Fratichg
by their Hold. Bth Porno:nese regiment, under Cul. Douelas,
and the 9111 Cacadorts, ti-der Colonel Brown, and the British
light iefautry battalions of tile 6th division, carried this village
and the heights iu the neighbourhood. The rain which had
fallen the oreeeding Wilda bad on the morning of the Btle had so-
decti eyed the roibd, that the day had nearly elapsed before the
whole of Sir Rowland Hill's corps had come up, and I was•thereforo
satisfied with the pot4sessiGn of the ground which he occupied.
On the same day, Lieutenantlieneral Sir John Hope, with the
left of the army under his Command, moved forward on the great
road Isom St. Jean de Lnz towards Bayonne, and reconto itted
the
ri!!lit of the inttenehed camp tinder Bayonne, and the course of the
Allow below she town, after driVing in the enemy's posts front the
neighbour:Nod of Diorite and Anglet. The tight division, under
Major-General Alten, I;kewise moved froward from Bassusarry,
and reconnoitred that part of the enemy* entreuelmsents.
Sir John Hope and Major-General Alteu retired iu the evenihg
to the pound they bad hethre occupied.
Oil the mottling of the 10th, Lientenant-General Sir Rowllnd
Hill found that the enemy had retired from the position which they
had occupied the day before on the heights, into the iuttenchad
camp on that side of the Nive; and he therefore occupied the
position intended for him, with his right towards the Adour, and
his left at Ville Franche, and communicating with the eet:tre of the
army under Marshal Sir William Beresford„ by a bridge laid over
the Nive ; and the troops under the Marshal were again drawn to
the left of the Nive.
Gen. florillo's division of Spanish infantry, which had remained
with Sir Rowland Hill when the other Spanish troops went into
eantonments, was placed at Urcuray with 'Col. Vivian's brigade of
light dragoons at Hasparren, in order to observe the movements of
the enemy's division under Gen. Paris, which upon the passage of
the hive bad retired towards St.
On the 10th, in the morning, the enemy moved out Of the en-
trenched camp their whole army, with the exception only of what
occupied the works opposite to Sir Rowland Hill's position, Will
drove in the piequet, of the light division, and of Sir John ope's
coups, and .nade a most desperate attack upon the post of the thr-
one,- at the chateau amid church of Arcongnes, and upon the advanced
posts of the latter, on the high 'road Emit) Bayonne to St. Jean de
1.117, near the May's house of Biuritz. Both attacks were repulsed
in the most gallant style by the troops, and Sir John Hope's corps
took about five hundred prisoners.
The brunt of the action with Sir John Hope's advanced post fell
upon the Ist Portuguese brigade, under BrigeGen. A. Campbell,
which were on duty, and upon Major-Gen. Robinson's brigade of
the division, which moved up to their support. LienteGen.
Sir John Hope reports most favourably of the conduct of those,
and of all the other troops engaged, and I bad great sabietaction in
finding that this attempt made by the enemy upon our left, in or4er
to oblio us to . draw in our right, was completely defeated by a
comparatively small part of our three.
I cannot sufficiently appladd the ability, coolness, and judg,ment
of Lieut.-Gen. Sir joint Hope, who with the General anti MA'
Officers tinder his command, shored the troops an example of
gallantry, which must base feuded to produce the favourable re.
stilt of the day.

Sir John Hope received a severe eontn•ion, which, however, i am
happy to sat•, has not deprived me fur a moment of the •benttit of
his assistance.

After the action was over, the regiments of Nassau and Frankfort,
wider the command of Colonel Kruse, came over to the posts of
Major General Ross's brigade, of the 4th division, •which were
formed for the siipport of die center.
When the night closed, the enemy were still in large force in
front of our posts, on the ground from which they had driven the
piequets. They retired, however, during' the night, from Lieut...
Gem Sir John front, leaving small post.;, which were imme-
diately driven in. They still occupied, in fume. the ridge on whicli
the picquets of the light division had stood; and it was obvious that
the whole army.was still in front of our left ; and about three o'clock
in the afternoon. they throve in Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Hope'*
piegnets., and attacked his posts. They w ere again repulsed with
considerable loss.

attack was recommenced on the morning of the 12th, with
the same want of success ; the . first division, under Major-Gen.
Howard, -having alloyed the fifth division ; and the enciny dircon•
tinned it in the afternoon. and retired entirely within the flat, curbed
eaml► on that night. They never renewed the attack.ou the posts
Of the light disisiou after the -Oth.