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Admiralty Office, Sept. 1, 1812.

Copy of a Letter from Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumarez,
Bart. K.B. 'to John Wilson Ctoker, Esq. dated on board
the Victory, in "Hawke goktd, Aug. 52C, 1812.

SIR,

I inclose, for the information of the Lords
Com Missioners of the Adthiralty, the copy of a
letter I have this morning received' from Rear-

Admiral Martin, dated the 11 di instant, inelosing
one (a copy of whieh is also transmitted here-
with) flout General Essen, Governor of Riga,

comnninicating intelligence if the continued sue-
Oess of the Russian arms, and the junction of
Prince Bag.ration- with the main army at Stno,
lensko, which you will pleme to lay before their
tordshilis.

I am, &c.
JAS. SAUMAREZ.

(Signed)

SIR,

Riga, July 30, 2822.

I lose not a moment in communicating to your
Excellency a most agreeable piece of intelligence,
which I have just received.
The Commander in Chief of the third army
(General Tormasson), has obtained a victory over
-
the enemy near Cobrin. tour stand of colours,
eight pieces of artillery, with one General, in the
service of Saxony, seventy officers, and three
thousand troops, have fallen into the hands of the
conquerom

I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) ESSEN, Goverrior of Riga.
Vice-Admiral Sir James Sartmarez, Bart.

and K. 13. &c. &c. &c

P. S. In addition to the foregoing intelligence,
I- have -Jo acquaint. your Excellency, that the
united forces of General Barclay and Prince-Ba.
gratiou are in the neighbourhood of Smolensko.
General Plata' commands the combined advanced
guard,

R;ga, August 11., 1812.

I have the honour to inclose, for your informa-
tion, a letter which I have this instant received
from General Essen, cOrurriunicating the agree-
able intclligclrce Of the continued success of the
Russian arms, and the junction of Prince
grfition's corps with the main army at Smolensk°.
This infopthatian is' frbm the Commander in,
Chief, General Barclay de Tolli, Whci dates his
letter the 4th inst. at Sinolensko,‘,
In addition to what is mentioned the Gene-
.gal's letter, I learn that General Tormassoff sud-
deuly left the position whiCh,he bad occupied for
some time at Gitomirz or Zitomi:.z, in order to

attack a corps of Saxons, stationed near-Kubryn,
twenty-four miles from Bryex laowski, and
about one hundred and thirty miles east of 'War-
saw,: where. he'dgfeated the emenr!,,',:, who retired
towardS Minsk.
Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumnarczs

Bart. K.B.

Admiralty Office, Sflpt. 1,1812.

Vice-Admiral Sir James S nunarez, Blrt.
has transmitted to john Wilson Croker, Esq. a
letter from Lieutenant J. C. Crawford, command-,
ing his Majesty's gun-brig Wrangler, of which
the inclosed is' a copy.

Ills Majesty Grtn-briVirangler, off Seyet
• Island, Augut 1812.

SIR;

In ptirsnance,of our orderS of.the 14th instant,
Ipoveedeft off Randers with your. boats, 'and the
cater of the. Locust,- bnenot finding the French
bigger :•there, I proceeded further to the west-
ward, .:Off:Mariager Fiord,- to reconnoitre that
port; w'sinall Danish ernizer wasperceived cam-
Mgi,ottf., gave-chase to her, w'lleti She bore up, and
ran into Alborg : at night Liem.enant Petley, my-
self, and Mr. Curtis (Second Master of the Lo-
cnst);thoughtthat she might be carried by the
boats, which WA agreed npon. Lieutenant Pet-
ley then In.oceeded in shore, with the.barge 03,a
cutter-, in •'.oinpfitiy` with the Locust's boats, un-
der charge of Mr: Curtis, her Second Master.

About- two o'clOa. in the morning they act
alongside of her, and carried her from 'under a
very be4vy fire from the battery and must etrY
from Hall's Fort, in the entrance of %that river,

.. . .
,withoht the los§ of. a single man. She is one' of
those: Cruizers that have been of great annoyance
to ouy.eonvqys off the Scaw ; she, mounts two
brass six-pounders, one ,long twc .pounder,-and
small' arms-, and commanded by -eutenant Te-
ten's, of the Danish Navy, and 'Commodore of a
d;vision,of gun-b Oats 'off.Dadstrand, with a corn 7
plemcntl of- ,twenty,two men,, *bo made. their
escape into the battery of Halle. They found her
moored clOSe under the muzzle of. the guns of the
battery; and could not prevent the Lieutenant ana
men from making their escape, except one man,
whom we have a prisoner: I stood_ in shore, as
far as I could with safety, to cover the boats.

thave" the I;oriour, to he, &c.

(Signed) 3. C. AiyFOßD;Lieut. Coin.

pt. 1, 1812,

' His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased; in
the name and on the behalf of his Itlajesty, to constitute and
appoint the Right Honourable Robert' Earl of Buckingham-
sLire ; the Right 'Minim-able Robert Stuart (commonly
called Visconnt Castlereagh); the 'Blight Honourable Henry
Earl Bathurst,- and the'Right Hogourable Henry Viscount
Sidinemtb,,his Majesty's three principal Secretaries of State
fife Right Honourable Robert Banks Earl of. Liverpool; the,
Right Honourable Nicholas \'ansittart, Chancellor of his
Ma?esty's Exchequer; the Right Honourable John Bikon
Telegnmoutli; the Right Honourable Thomas WalOce3' Wil-
liam Lowther, Esq. (commonly called Viscount,Lowther) ;
the Right *Honourable John Sullivan, and Henry Bathurst;
(conunonly. called Lord' Apsley), to be his 'Majesty's
Coialssioners for the Management of the Affairs of India.

Irar-01,7ce, Sept. 1, 1812.

• 4th Regt. Dragm.n,Guards, Lieut. John King to be Captain
of a Troop, by purchase, vice Lally, who retires.
sth Ditto Lieut. Jc.lln Brunskill to he Captain of a Troop,
v;ce. Osborne, killed in action. Cornet John Clarke to be
Lie-Itenant, Vice Brunskill. John- Watson, Gent. to be
C...:..rnet, vice Clarke.' - . , •
Si; Itegt. of Foot, William M'Minn, Gent. to be Ensign,
without purchase.-
ritto, T. Moses to be Captain of a Company, vice
Pre,cott, k lled in &Aim.
lOth Ditto, 'Brevet Mc,ior John Carr, from the sth Garrison
.LatLilion, to he Captain of a Company, vice Calthrop, who
exchanges. Enigii George Birch to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, .vice promoted.
12th. Ditto, :John Grover, Gent. to be Ensign, -by purchase,
vice Eliisy who retires. _ •