Star.
London, England, 1809-01-30 00:00:00

THE ARMY•

The James transport arrived at Portsmouth, on
Saturdayjost, with part of the German Legion on
board, which embarked at Vigo with the Brigades
under command of Generals CRAUFORD and Airs,
and sailed from thence under convoy of his Majesty's
ship ALFRED.
In order to afford room in the temporary Barracks
at Canterbury, for the 18th Light Dragoons, the 2d
Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) are ordered from
thence to take the Coast duty from Dover to Dunge-
ness.—Two squadrons of the 3d Dragoon Guards'
which were ordered from Sussex for this service, have
in consequence been countermanded.
It is said that no account will be made public of
the loss sustained in the late campaign in Spain, but
that the commanding officers of corps are directed to
communicate by letter, to the friends of the partlts
who may have been killed or wounded on the oc-
casion. _ _

Thursday evening arrived at Ramsgate Pier the
Joseph and Mary brig transport,. J. PARKER, having
on board, from Corunna, five Officers and 129 men,
of the following Regiments, viz.—
Guards, 44 men-38th Regiment, 6 men-52d Regiment, Capt,
Douglas, 1 Lieutenant, 1 Ensign, and 25 men-60th Regiment.
(9d battalion) Major Forneret, and 36 men-79th Regiment,
I (Highlanders) Lieut. M`Flae. and 18 men.
Three transports, with artillery, are ordered to de-
bark at Ramsgate, where they are hourly expected.
Sir JOHN MOORE was buried in his clothes, and
without a coffin, in a grave dug up by the hands of
the Officers of his Staff !
Advice has been received, that 600 sick troops are
on their passage from Lisbon ; 400 of them are of the
King's German Legion.
We learn with pleasure that Captain HonoE, of the
7th Hussars, for whose safety considerable fears were
entertained, has landed at Falmouth with part of his

troop.
The Honourable Colonel GORDON, Aid-de-Camp
to General Sir DAVID BAIRD, has gone to Portsmouth
in order to accompany the General to town.
The number of the troops from Spain, arrived at
Portsmouth, is estimated at 10,000. They began to
debark on Friday.
The 82d regiment, which came on shore at Ports-
mouth on Friday, embarked 460 men at Corunna ;
their loss in the campaign is 15 officers and 540 men..
Most of the regiments which have been landed seemed
to have sustained a proportionate loss. Their ap-
pearance excited the sympathy and commiseration
of all who saw them. The 7th Dragoons debarked
on Saturday afternoon ; the cavalry had saved very
few of their horses ; it is computed that upwards of
6000 died and were destroyed; The 7th brought
home 70 out of 700. Very little of the baggage of
the army was saved.
As an instance of the great fatigue our army under-
went in their retreat to Corunna, we are informed,
that when the Ist regiment, or Royals, arrived on
the evening of the 10th at Betanzos, near Corunna,
they only mustered, with the colours, nine Officers, i
three Serjeants, and three privates ; the rest had
dropt on the roads, and did not all join for three
days.
The hurry and confusion in embarking were such
at Corunna, that it was difficult for many of the
troops to find the transports that were allotted for
them. The soldiers were taken in by any boats as
they reached the shore. Part of different regiments
as they came in, and those that could not find the
vessels intended for them, were put on board any
other that could receive them.
The Military Chest, on the retreat of our Army
towards Astorga, contained dollars to the amount of
six hundred thousand pounds, and about fifteen hun-
dred.pounds in gold coin. To prevent this money
falling into the hands of the enemy, it was thrown into
rivers, caverns, &c. ; and to this circumstance, we
hear, a large portion of our loss of men on the march
is imputable, many persons having dropped behind,
under various pretences, in the hope of recovering
part of the specie so disposed of, who were afterwards
unable to regain their respective corps.
The privations to which our brave army were ex-
posed during its retreat, were most distressing. For
many days they had no other food than potatoes and
water, and frequently an insufficient supply of the
former. A French Colonel was taken in the neigh-
bourhood of Benevente, and sent under an escort to
Corunna. On arriving at a town near Lugo, the
party were unable to procure a breakfast either by en-
treaty or money : the Frenchman laughed at the em-
barrassment of our Officer, and observing that we had
much yet to learn in the science of campaigning,begged
to be allowed to cater for the party : he called the
man of the house, and on his appearing, knocked him
down with the hilt of his sword : he then commanded
him to provide breakfast, adding, that if he delayed,
he would help himself. The inhospitable lost pro-
fited by the hint, and in a few minutes served up a
profusion of every thing.
Sir bun Moone had not been an hour in the field,
on the I 6ilt, at Corunna, when he received the wound
which deprived his country of his valuable life. Lieu-
tenant KNIGHT, as we before gtated, was close by Sir
JOHN when he received his mortal wound; as was also
Colonel GRAHAM, the late Member for Perthshire.—
The cannon ball struck the ground about twenty
yards from the spot where Sir JOHN was placed, from
whence it rebounded and took him in the shoulder.
It knocked him off his horse, but he soon recovered
himself, rose from the ground, and sheaved a dispo-
sition to re-mount, before he perceived that his arm
was gone. He was then placed in a sort of car or
waggon ; but it had scarcely begun to move, when
he complained of the pain caused by the motion of the
vehicle. Some blankets were then procured, in which
he was placed, and conveyed into the town. He
said very little after he received his wound. The Sur-
geons expressed surprise that it did not produce im.
mediate death, as, besides the loss of his arm, his side