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GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY•

TUESDAY, APRIL 26.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 26, 1814.
Major Lord WILLIAM RUSSELL arrived list night at
this office, bringing a dispatch from the Marquess of
WELLINGTON to E4IIBATLIUItST, of which the follow-
ing is a copy :

Toulouse, April 12,1814.
My LORD,I have the pleasure to inform your
Lordship that I entered this town this morning, which
the enemy evacuated during the night, retiring by the
road of Carcassone.
Thecontinued fall of rain, rind the state of the roads'
prevented me from laying the bridge till the morning
• of the Bth, when the Spanish corps, and the Portu-
guese artillery under the immediate orders of Lieu-
tenant General Don Manuel Freyre, and the head-
quarters, crossed the Garonne. •
We immediately movedforward to the neighbour-
hood of the town, and the 18th hussar's, under the
immediate command of Colonel Vivian, bad an op-
portunity of making a most gallant attack upon a
superior body of the enemy's cavalry, which they
drove through the village of Croix d'OrAde, and took
about 100 prisoners, and gave us possession of an im-
portant bridge over the river Ers, by which it was
necessary to pass, in order to attack the enemy's posi-
tion. Colonel Vivian was unfortunately wounded
upon this occasion, and I am afraid that I shall lose
the benefit 61 his assistance for some time.
The town of Toulouse is surrounded on three sides
by the canal of Languedoc and the Garonne. On the
left of that river, the suburb, which the enemy had for,
tified with strong fields works in front of the ancient
wall, formed a good trte du-pont.
They had likewise formed a tete-de-pont at each
bridge of the canal, whit.h was besides defended by
the fire in some places of musketry, and in all of ar-
tillery from the ancient wail of the town. Beyond
the canal to the eastward, and between that and the
river Ers, is-a height which extends as far as Mon-
taudrau,and over which pass all the roads to the ca-
nal and town from tt.e eastward, which it defends,
and the enemy in addition to the tete-dc-pont on the
bridges of the cAn.il, had fortified the height with five
redoubts, connected by lines of intrenchments, and
bad with extraordinary diligence made Very prepa-
lion for &fence. They had likewise broken all the
bridges over the Ers within our reach, by which the
right of their position ceuld be approached. The
roads, however, from the Ariege toToulousebeing im-
practicable for cavalry or artillery; and nearly so for
ilfanuy, tss repotted to your Lerd.hip in my dispatch
of the Ist instant, I had no alternative, excepting to
attack the enemy in this formidable postion.
It- was necessary to move the Pontoon Bridge
higher up the Garonne, in order to shorten the corn.
ntunication with Lieutenant General Sir Rowland
Hill's corps, as soon as the Spanish corps bad passed ;
and this operation was not effected till so late an hour
on the 9.11, as to induce me to defer the attack till the

following morning.
The plan, according to which I determined to at-
tack the tut my, wasxkr Marshal Sir Wm. Beresford,
_wash° was on the right of the Ers with the 4th and
;divisions, to cross that river at the Bridge of Croix
sPOrade, to gain possession of Montblanc, and to
march up the left of the l i s to turn the enemy's right,
while I..4.utettant-Gencral Don Manuel Freyre, with
the Spanish corps under his command, supported by
the British cavalty, should attack the front. Lieute-
nant-General Sir Stapleton-Cotton was .to follow the
Marshal's mt)vernent, with Maj,w‘General Lord Ed 4
ward Somerset's brigade of hussars; and Colonel
viisn's brigade, under the command ot Colonel Arents-
child, was to observe the movement of the enemy's
cavalry on bolt bAnks ot the Ers beyond our left.
The Sd and I.ght divisions, under the command of
Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton and Major-
General Chivies Baron Alien, and the brigade of
lan cavalry were to observe the enemy on tbd
part of the canal, and to draw their attention to
quarter by threatening the tete-de pont, wilds
Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill was to do the
- on the suburb on the kit of the Garonne.
Maretal Sir William Beresford crossed the Ers,aad
•:d his corps in three columns of lines in the vil-
of Croix d'Orade, the 4t t division leading, with'
which he immediately carried Montblanc. He then i
moved op the Ers in the same order, over most diffi-
ground, in a direction parallel to the enemy's'
fortified position; and as soon as he reached the point
which he turned it, he formed his lines and moved
theattack. During these operations, Lieutenant-
General Don tilanual Freyre moved eking the left of
Ers to the !feint of Croix d'Orade, where he formed
corps in two lines, with a reserve on a height in
iront of the left of the enemy's position, on which
height the Portugnse artillery was placed ; and -Ma-
r-General Ponsonby's brigade of cavalry of reserve
the rears
As soon as formed, and that it was seen that Mar.
Sir William Beresford was ready, Lieutenant.
General Don Manuel Freyre moved forward to the
xttack. Vie troops marched in good order under a
firavy fire of musquetry and artillery, and spew-
. great spirit, the General and all his staff being at
their head ; and the two lines were soon lodged under
mie banks immediately under the enemy's entrench-
ments ; the reserve and Portuguese artihery, and Bri-

tish cavalry continuing on the heights on which tilt
troops had first formed. The enemy, however, re-
pulsed the movement of the right of General Preyre's
line round their left flank, and having followed up
their success, and turned our right by both sides of
the high road leading from Toulouse to Croix d'O-
rack, they soon compelled the whole corps to retire.
It gave me great satisfaction to see that although they
suffered considerably in retiring, the- troops rallied
again as soon as the light division, which was imme-
diately on their right, moved up; and I cannot suf-
ficiently applaud the exertions of Lieutenant General
Don Manuel Freyre, the officers of the staff of tisc
Spanish army, and the officers of the General Staff,
to rally and form them again.
Lieutenant General Mendizabel, who was in the
field as a volunteer, General Espeletta, and several
officers of the staff, and chiefs of corps, were wound-
ed upon this occasion ;'but General Mendizabel con-
tinued in the rick!. The regiment de Tirad. de Can-
tabria, under the command of Colonel Sicilio, kept its
position, under the enemy's entrenchments, until I
ordered them to retire.
In the mean time Marshal Sir William Beresford,
with the 4th division, ender the command of Lieute-
nant General Sir Lowry Cole, and the 6th (I:vision,
under the command of Lieutenant General Sir Henry
Clinton, attacked and carried the heights on the
enemy's right, and the redoubt which covered and
protected that flank ; and he lodged those troops on
the same heights with the enemy, who were, however,
still in possession of four redoubts, and of the entrench_
ments and fortified houses.
The badness of the roads had induced the Marshal
to leave his artillery in the village of Montblanc ;
and some time elapsed before it could be brought to
him, and before Lieutenant General Don Manuel
Freyre's corps could be re-formed and brought back
to the attack : as soon as this was effected the Mar-
shal continued his movement along the ridge, and
carried, with General Pack's brigade of the 6th di-
vision, the two principal' redoubts and fortified houses
in the enemy's centre. The enemy made a desperate
effort from the canal to regain these redoubts, but
they were repulsed with considerable loss ; and the
6th division continuing its movement along the ridge
of the height, and the Spanish troops continuing a
corresponding movement upon the front, the enemy
were driven from the two redoubts and entrenchments
on the left, and the whole range of heights were in our
possession. i•
We did not rain this advantage, however, without
severe loss, particularly in the btave 6th division.
Lieutenant-Colonel Coghlan of the 61st, an Officer
of great merit and promise, was unfortunately killed
in the attack of the heights. Major-General Pack
was wounded, but was enabled to remain in the field ;
and Colonel Dougl , of the Sfh Portuguese regi-
men, 'fist his leg : and I am afraid I shall he de-
prived e. .1 considerable time of his assistance.
The Stith, 42d, 79th, and 61st regiments lost con-
siderable numbers, and were highly distinguished
throughout the day.
I cannot sufficiently applaud the ability and con-
duct of Marshal Sir Wm. Beresford throughout the
operations of the day ; nor that of Lieutenant-Gene-
rals Sir Lowry Cole, Sir Henry Clinton; Major-Ge-
nerals Pack and Lambert, and the troops under their
command. Marshal Sir Wm. Beresford particularly
repot is the good conduct of Brigadier-General D'Ur-
hand, the Quarter-Master-General ; and General
Brim Mozinho, the AdjutantAleneral of the Portu-
guese army.
The 4th division, although exposed on their march
along the enemy's front in a galling fire, were not
to much engaged as the Pith division, and did not
stiffer so Much ; but they conducted themselves with
their ustial gallantry.
I had also every reasort ro be satisfied with the
conduct of Lieutenant-General Don Manuel Freyre,
Lieutenant,General Don Gabriel Mendizabel, Maris-
cal de Campo Don Pedro de 14 Barcena, Brigadier-
General Don J. de Espellata, Mariscal tie Campo
Don A. Garces de Marcilla, and the Chief of the
Staff Don E.S. Salvador, and the Officers of the Staff
of the foutth army.
The officers and troops conducted themselves well
in all the attacks which they made subsequent to
their being re-formed.
The ground not having admitted of the operations
of the cavalry, they had no opportunity of charging.
While the operations above detailed were going
forward on the left of the army, Lieutenant-General
Sir Rowland Hill drove the enemy from their exte-
rior works in the suburb, on the left of the Garonne,
within the ancient wall. Lieutenant-General Sir
Thomas Picton likewise with ,the Sd division drove
the enemy within the tete-de-pont on the bridge of
the canal nearest to the Garonne, but the troops
having made an effort to carry it, they were repulsed,
and some loss was sustained. Major General Bris-
bane was wounded, but I hope not so as to deprive
me for any length of time of his assistance ; —and
Lieutenant-Colonel Forbes, of the 45th, an office, 01
great merit, was killed.
The army being thus established on the three sides
of Toulouse, I immediately detached our light ca-
valry to cut off the communication by the only road
practicable for cart iages which remained to the ene-
my, till I should be enabled to make arrangements
to establish the troops between the canal and the
Garonne.
The cncmy, however, retired last night, leaving

our hands General d'Harispe, General Burnt, Ge-
neral, St. Hilaire, and sixteen hundred prisoners.—
One piece of cannon was taken on the field of battle;
and others, and large quantities of 'stores of all de-
scriptions, in the town.
Since I sent my last report, I have received an
account from Reav:Adntiral Penrose, of the sue.
cesses jn the Gironde of the boats of the squadron
under his command.
Lieutenant-General the Earl of Dalhousie crossed
the Garonne nearly about the time that Admiral
Penrose entered the river, and pushed • enemy's
parties under General L'Huillier beyond the Dor-
dogne. He then crossed the Dordogne on the 4th,
near St. Andre de Culizac, with a detachment of the
troops under his command pith a view to the attack
of the Fort of Blaye. His Lordship found General
L'Huillier and General Des Barreaux posted near
Etauliers, and made his dispositions to attack them,
when they retired, leaving about three hundred priso-
ners in his hands I inclose the Earl of Dalhousie's
report et this affair.
In the operation which I have now reported,
have had every reason to be satisfied with the as-
sistance I received from the Quarter-Master alal
Adjutant-General, and the Officers of their Depart-
ments respectively ; from Maresca' de Campo Don
I Louis Wimpfen, and the Officers of the Spanish
Staff, and from Major-General Maya, from Colonel
Dickson, commanding the allied artillery, from Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Lord Fitzroy Somerset, and the Offi-
cers of my personal Staff.
I send this dispatch by my Aide-de-Camp, Major
Lord William Russell, whom I beg leave to recom-
mend to your Lordship's protection.
I have the honour to be, &c.

(Signed) ♦ w BLLI ("MON.
I inclose a return of the killed 2nd wounded in the
late operations.

On the Heights near Llayes April 6, 1814.

MY Loan.—On the 4th I crossed the Dordagne at
:it. Andre de Cubzac, and advanced next morning
with the troops I stated in my last letter to your
Lordship, my second brigade, my Cacadores, and
the 7th Portuguese Regiment, four guns, and one
.squadron ofthe 12th Light Dragoons.
I learned that General L'Huillier and Dos Bar-
reaux, with three hundred cavalry and one thousand
two hundred infantry had retired by Etauliers. I
therefore moved on that point, intending to turn back
again on Blaye, if I found these officers had conti-
nued their retreat on Saintes. General L'Huilliet
commanding, thought proper to remain at Etaulier,
and drew out his corps on a large open common near
that, occupying some woods in front of it.
The flank companies of the sixth and Brunsw•ickers
soon cleared those woods and Major Jenkinsoreignns
had a fair field for his practice. The infantry and
cavalry gave way, and retired through Etaulieri,
leaving scattered parties to shift for themselves. One
. of these, about eighty men, was gallantly charged by
the weak squadron of the I 2thDragoons, under Ma-

jor Bridger, and taken-prisoners.
In all we took about thirty officers and two hun-
dred and fifty or three hundred men. Great numbers
dispersed in the woods, and, in a short time, it is
thought the whole of their infantry conscripts will
leave them. I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) DALHOUSIE.

My less yesterday was very trifling.
ABSTRACT RLTURN Of Kit LED, WOCNDID, Ind Missino of
the Maur under the Command of hit rzeelleney Field Mar-
shal the Marquess of Wettper;rom, in Action with the
Enemy from the 22d of March to Bth April, 1814,
Total British Loss-.-3 rank and file, 9 hones, killed ; I Colonel,
I Captain, 1 Lieutenant, 4 scrjeants, 24 ran► and file, 30
horses, wounded; 1 'edema, 9 rank and file, 9 horses,

YAWLS or OFFICIO./ WOUNDZD.
26th Mardi,
-lieutenant Edward Barrett, seventy.
Bth Aprib

7th Hurars—Colonel Hussey Vivian, severely.
liusiars—Captain Richard Croker, severely.
(Signed) E. PazetruAm, Adc-Gen.
AINITRACT RETURN of KILLED, WOUNDED, and-Mtsstwo, of
the AEIET under the Command of his Excellency Field-Mar.
shal the Mammas of WELLINGTON, K. G. in the Attack of,
the Enemy's fortified position covering Toulouse, on the 10th
day of April. 11114.
Teal British Loss..-2 Lieutenant-Colonels, 6 Captains, 5 Lieu-
tenants, S Ensigns, 17 Serjeants, 1 druMider, 272 rank and
le, 5S horses, ; 9 General Staff, 9 Lieutenant-Colonels,
4 Majors, SI Captahts, 69 Lieutenants, 22 Ensigns, S
Si setjeauts, 11 dnunmers, 1564 raOk and file, 54 horses
wounded; 1 Captain, 2 Ensigns, 14 rank and file, 1 horse'

missing.
Portuguese Loss-1 Lieutenant-Colonel, I lieutenant, 1 En-
sign, 4 serpents, 1 drummer, 70 rank and file, 5 horses kW-
ed; 1 Colonel, 2 Majors, 6 Captains, 5 Lieutenants, 9 En-
signs, ST terjeants, 4 drummers, 465 rank an.J
wounded. -
• -

Spanish Loss--1 Colonel, 1 Lieutenant-C. dowel, iptain, 5
Lieutenants, 9 Ensigns, 1 Staff, 193 rank and file. htira I,
kiled; 2 General Staff, 2 Colonels, 8 Lieutenact•Colonelt,
4 Majors, 18 Captains, !4 Lieutenants, st/Enugn4, .5 Staff,
1631 rank and file, 4 hones, wounded; 1 rank and Me, I
bone, missing.
(Signed) E. PAIUNIASII, 'Adj.-Oen.
Hellas tithe Of 1' MLR/ Kitten, Wovnnan, and Missteo,on
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