Star.
London, England, 1812-09-28 00:00:00

WAR DIVATIVIDIT.
DOWNING-STREET, SEPTEMBER M.
Dispiteber, of which the following are extracts and copies, have
been this day received at Eart Bathurst 's 01Bee, addressed,*
his Lordship by General. the Marquis of Wellington, deaf
Madrid, 25tb, and 20th August, and Valladolid, 7th and sib
September.
Madrid, August 25.
Joseph Bonaparte has continued his march towards
Valencia, and according to the last accounts which I
have received, his fear guarsl was on the 19th at
La Rada. : e _•
I have received a letter, of the 17th from Lieute-
nant General Maitland, who had marched from Ali-
cant, and was at Montforte. General Roche was at
Ale ay, from whence Suchet had retired to St. Felippe;
and k was supposed he was about to cross theXucar.
General O'Donnell was, on the same day, at Yetis,
in Murcia.

The enemy's troops from Valladolid drove in Ma-
jor General Anson's picquets at Tudela, on the 18th.
The Major General however still maintains them on
the left of the Douro. •
The enemy have moved a body of troops from the
neighbturhood of Valladolid, consisting of about aix
thousand infantry and twelve hundred cavalry, under
General Foy, which, on the 17th, carried off the gar.
.
mon of Toro.
They then were joined by a body of infaeuy of
the same strength, which had likewise marched-from
the Pisnerga on the Rio Seco, and the whole were,
•on the 20th, about two leagues distant from Bene-
vente, the Gallidian troops, with the exception of the
cavalry. which still remained at Benevente, having
marched towards Astorga, The enemy had left the
rgarrison of Zamora still blockaded by the Conde
d'Amarante ; but I have reason to believe that they
will relieve that garrison on their return from their
expedition towards Astorga.
By accounts from Cadiz of the 9th, I learn that
General Cruz had returned to that port with the de-
tachment which had been sent to the eastward for the
relief of General Ballasteros. Another expedition
had immediately been fitted out. These troops had
been landed at Huelva on the 14th and )sth inst.
but the enemy evacuated and destroyed the castle of
Niebla on the 12th.

Madrid, Aueuct SO.
Since I wrote to your Lordship on the.. 26th inst.
I have received reports that the garrison of Astorga
had surrendered by capitulation on the 19th, to the
number of 1,200. General Foy arrived at La Ba-
neza for their relief on the 21st, with the detachment
which I informed you was in march for that purpose;
and his parties found the place abandoned by the
Spanish troops, the French garrison having been car-
ried away as prisoners.
Valladolid, Sept. 7, 1812.
My Loan—Upon referring to my dispatch to your
Lordship of the 24th of July, as printed in the Lon-
don Gazette of the 16th August, I observe that, al-
though I reported my sense of the conduct of the
German brigade of heavy cavalry under Major-Qe-
neral Baron Bock, on the 23d July, I omitted to in-
clude the name of the Major-General in the enume-
ration which the dispatch contains of officers who bad
opportunities of distinguishing themselves.
I beg to take this opportunity of rectifying this
omission, and of assuring your Lordship that the
Major-General distinguished himself in the operations
which led to the charge, and in the charge made by
the gallant troops under his command, as he has
upon every occasion which has offered since he has
been under my command.
From my personal observation 'and the reports
which I have received since the action of the 22d of.
July, I am afraid that 1 have omitted the names of
many other officers who had opportunities of distin-
guishing themselves ; and in a case in. which all did
their duty in a manner so honourable to themselves
and their country, the limits of a dispatch do not per-
mit the mention of the names of all who have drawn
the notice of their superiors by their conduct: I must
however correct the omission of which I have been
guilty in the case of Lieutenant-Colonel Arentschildt
and the Ist Hussars of the King's German Legion,
who were distinguished by their conduct throughout
the whole of the day of the 22d July ; and likewise
in that of Lieutenant-Colonel Elley, the Assistant
Adjutant-General, who attended Lieutenant-General
Sir Stapleton Cotton throughout the action, was
wounded by a bayonet in the charge made by Major
General Le Marchant's brigade, and had two horses
killed under hint.— I have the honour to be, &c.

(Signed) WELLINGTON.
Valladolid, September 7, 1812.
I quitted Madrid on the Ist instant, in order to
direct the movements of the troops ordered to be col.
lected at Arevalo, as reported in my dispatch of the
Sorb August.
We moved from Arevalo on the 4th, and passed
the Douro on the fith, at the fords of Herrera and
El Abrojo.
After General Foy had found that the garrison of
Astorga had surrendered, by capitulation, he return..
ed to the Esla, and marched upon Carvajales, with.'
' a view to surprize and cut off the Portuguese militia
which had been employed under Lieutenant.Generat
the Conde d'Amaratue in the blockade of Zamora.
The Lieutenant-General, however, made good his re.
treat, without loss, to the frontiers of Portugal ; and
General Foy tarried tiff the garrison of Zamora on
the 29th of August, and marched for Tcrdesillas.
I cannot avoid drawing your Lordship's attention
to the conduct of the Conde D'Amarante, and of the
militia under his command, in these operations. The
seal of the militia of the province of Tras los.Montes
in voluntarily serving beyond the frontiers of the
kingdom, deserves the highest commendation.
The whole remains of the army of Portugal having
been thus . collected between this place and Torde.
silks, we found their advanced guard yesterday
strongly posted on the heights of La Cisterniga ; and
I know that them was 4 considerable body, of troops
in and about this town,
As it was late in the day before our troops had
crossed the Douro, we did not move forward till this
morning. The enemy retired nom La Cisterniga
daring the night ; and they abandoned the town on
our approach to it in the morning, and crossed the
l'isuerga, and blew up the bridge. They were closely
followed by tke Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel
Frederick ponsonby with a detachment of the 12th
tlght dragoons through the town ; but some time
having elapsed bttore the infantry could come up,
the enemy could-not be prevented from destroying
the tnidge. They then ;aged along the right of the
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die
Irtsoetra to Duna:, where their tear irlll proutly
bait this
Goo
night.
ral
Foy
moved towards Asters,
army of Gallicia retired ; and since,his march to die
Douro, they have again advanced to the Esla.
The Einpecinado has informed me that General
Villa Campa had taken prisoners the troop width
bad been the garrison, and bad evacuated C
amp
after the surrender of the Redro. These amps
amounted to 1000 men, with two guns, and belonged
to Sachet's army. -My last accounts from Lienteurd.
General Maitland are of the 24th.
Valladolid, &panther taint
Mr Loan—.9inCe I wrote my dispatch of the 7th,
have received a dispatch of the 29th from Link*
,isant-General Sir Rowland Hill, from Llerens,
Which. place the General had moved in pursuit of*.
troops under General Drouet.
He fends me the enclosed letter from Coked
Skerrett (already published), who commands de
British and Portuguese troops, 'which compote pat
of the detachment under General Cruz, from wink
I learn that the allies had entered Seville on diedyds,
I conclude that the blockade of Cadis is raki, as
have received several accounts of the destruction or
military stores at Seville by the enemy, before she,
withdrew their force from thence, but I baverectivoi
no authentic account of the raising of the blockade.
—I beg to congratulate your Lordship upon than
events. I have halted here this day to give rents
the troops, which have marched for several days. I
leave the honour dec. (Signed) Wituutozse.

ADMIEALTY•OFFICE, SgP rEMBER 24.

Eaglet of a Letter from Captain Harper, of hls Majesty's deek
Saracen, to Admiral Sir Richard Rich Awl, Bait dated Spit.
head, 234 inst. and tradenitted by the laet•mentioaed Ofeet
to I, W. Crokar, Esq.
Whilst proceeding, in pursuance of your orders of
the 21st instant, last evening. at sunset, thick hazy
weather, Beachy Head bearing N. by W. distant
seven or eight miles, I observed in the S. S. E. two
large lugger., in chace of, and very near three deep.
laden English vessels. I instantly made all sail fee
their protection, and, after a short but anxious chace,
succeeded in capturing le Courier, French logger
privateer, of 14 guns and 50 men, commanded by
Mr. Juan; and belonging to Calais, The French
Captain, and two of the crew, were desperately
wounded before they surrendered. The other kg.
ger, named Plionorine, of equal force, having got
at a great distance whilst securing the one I boar
and dark night coming on, I am sorry it was not is
my power to capture ; but I completely drove ha
off the coast, and I have every reason to believe thg
the three vessels they were in chace of, escaped.

RUSSIAN BULLZTIN.
OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS Of THS OPARATIONS OP TIS
41,ISsIAN ARMY VNP*It FOUNT WITTOPASTEDS TO
AUGUST 18.

" ST. PITERSBURO, SEPT.!.
" Lieutenant-General Count Wittgenstein hit
transmitted the following Report to his Imperial
Majesty, dated the 7th (i9th ) August, from the
lage of Beloje, near Polotsk
" I have °already had the beppiness, on the Sln
July (12th August), to report to your Imperial
Majesty, from the village of Osweja, that after the
second defeat which I gave Marshal Oudinot, on de
29th July (August 10th), he made a rapid retre4
during which he had daily skirmishes with my "AO
guard. But having received fresh reinforcement;
he made a stand before Polutsk ;—I was, there*
under the necessity, on the sth (17th August),
gave him battle, in order to drive him into ha ea.
trencbments. In.this battle, which lasted 14 how%
the enemy sustained a very severe loss, and shav
wards retreated into his entrenchments-
-66 The loss an our side amounts to about two**
sand men in killed and wounded. During the eh*
tune of the enemy's retreat, and in the battles
made upwards of two thousand prisoners. Whilst"
remained with the corps close to Polock, I Tale.
W Make a movement for the purpose of observing ds
corps under Marshal Macdonald. Meanwhile My
ahal Oudinot had, exclusive of the reinforcement
Davarian troops under the command of Gourd
' rede, received a further reinforcement of the renal
troops, under the command of General Dere,
then, at four o'clock in the afternoon of the 61b (184
inst. attacked me at all points, with five divisions
infantry ; commencing the attack with a most her.
cannonade from all lus artillery. This WAS t''
the bloodiest, most severe, and obstinate battles fog'
on both sides. Your Imperial Majesty's valiant t": 014
without regarding the enemy's number, which en
triple their own, encountered them every wbere,w4
their usual courage and animosity, drove beck del
batteries and strong columns at different times,
bliged them to retire into the town, and era follOg
in the very streets,
" The thick darknessOf the night compelkd
put an end to this exceeding hot and desperate &WI
after which they withdrew into their entrescbori
whilst I, *according to my former plan, after 1011.
my van-guard there§ marched with the body
army on the Sebesch road, to the village of
lln this battle the lon in killed and wounded •°
great on both sides. We have taken proem
Lieutenant-Colonels, 15 Officos, an 4 about 500
diers.; we have also taken two pieses of bear !I"
lery. The cuirassier regiment had taken 13 Fit
but we could not bring off all for want ochf. borses,7
the difficulty of getting them over the .
tha lost
tches
separated us. The enemy has to a certaintyt
times the number in killed and wounded ,
done ; for whilst they threw themsel via.
columns of intaotry on our batteries, thelriLjj.
left the greater part of their men deaden UM 167.-
66 On this day the cuirassier regustent can!
'two whole columns, and during the Owe me
nuance bitbe action, that regiment toff C;
proofs of the most distinguisred .valour'
Gr
our loss trifling : the Major Generals Bel
men, /lave each received a eontuslos ; gar,'
rl Kosstscakowsky ia-wounded by *ensOket''
Cthorolo:wnliFnro,olosvgreabty
cnoncfa.Lroidnget!ybaid
waif.
sth (17th) Marshal ()odium lunaselfaras _
the shoulder, end on the 6th (16th) the
Commander of the Bavarian troops, the rr: •
rieral Gouvion St. Cyr, took the cosh
to
take any elite, o
dbinas hopef
con, the
ce.
Fang 4Tmlw4al4"l-
Mire" c
the road toPseow on all sides, and .1,4' W"Ocv