Star.
London, England, 1812-08-19 00:00:00

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THE ARMY.
Two squadrons of each regiment of Lift-Guards,
and ,two squadrons of the Royal Horse Guards
(Blues), are ordered for service forthwith ; as are
also the Ist Foot Guards.
The 54th Regiment is on its march for embarka-
tion for the Peninsula, and all men capable of ser-
vice that can be spared, are likewise to be sent from
the different regiments at home.
Monday, the 29th Regiment, lying in the barracks
at Windsor, had a grand festival in commemoration
of the battle of Roleia, in Portugal, in which they
sb.highly distinguished themselves, and which was
fought on the 17th of August, 1808. Early in the
morning the barracks were decorated with laurel, and
sal the Officers and men wore laurel in their hats and
caps. A sumptuous dinner was provided on the oc-
casion. The Duke of CLARENCE, the Bishop of SA.
LIEBURT, and several other distinguished personages,
visited the Officers.
Monday se'nnight, the Royal North Lincoln Mili-
tia, in the garrison of Chester, were reviewed on the
Rondee, by General MAITLAND, accompanied by
General ACKLAND, and four Aides-du-camp. The
regiment went through a number of manoeuvres in
their usual excellent style, and fired with the utmost
precision. The day was beautifully fine, and the
scene highly picturesque. The city, walls were
thronged with a number of elegant females. The
above regiment, after doing duty in Chester nearly
three years, have received a route for Wakefield.

people la Salamanca, as well as in all the 'Magni
followed our army, and left their homes in expects.
tion of the French.
,4 Joseph was about to leave Madrid, and had an
his valuable wines and plate packed up, but Casa.
nos was making for Madrid, and Mina Ira* eadue
vouring to get between Joseph and France.
66 Never could there be a more glorious sight dui
the manoeuvring of the army, and the commence.
merit of the engagement. So sure did the Freed,
make themselves of success, that they had 411 the,:
cavali y arranged to surround us, and had made pas
!disposal beforehand of the prisoners to be made.
ss Besides the French Generals whom we luso
taken, there are five badly wounded, among the%
Marmont Duke of Ragusa, and Bonnet. The ;who,
sets all (officers as well as men) confess they hoe
lost every thing and their honour, but they add, that .
Marmont was an unfortunate man.
44 Several officers of ours, whom they had taba
in ow movement from theDouro,haFtbetETEL3ll2.•
ELTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER INO*4I
PRESENT AT TUE LATE OLONEVS ACTION op LO
WELLINGTON.
" I shall endeavour to give you some account Cis
victory the most brilliant, and I crest the met deei.•
sive that has ever graced the Dtitiehartas—iivonv
in which it which it will be impossible coded& wish
them tia admire more the matchless skill of the Gas,
mar, or the dauntless bravery of his troops.
“ On the 17th of July the enemy emssedthe Doe*
at Tordesillas, having made a feint at Toro, =lac
vaned towards Salamanca by the road throalk
Nave Del Rey ; Lord Wawareorov put himself a
iposition across that road at Cadezal, where mop
I skirmishing and cannonade took place during 6g
18th ; at night he moved to his left and tried to tee'.
' our right, but at •day-light found the allies oppoift.
to him. He meat on taking ground to his left
the same intention for three days, but always food
the Lord in his place. On the 2lst he crossed the
Tormes at Alvase 'Formes, and we at Santa mamba.
• On the 29d we were in a very good position, offish
lon the Tonnes, and covering Salamanca, the enemy
in our front, having opposite our signs a large wood,
which facilitated his forming columns of attack.
64 MARIAIONT, in person, mcved columns backward
and forward to the tight and left all morning, to
distract our attention, and fancied these columns is
the wood were not seen, but had they been in tbo•
bowels of the earth Lord Wellington would have fond
them out. About mid-day he :hewed a wish to Ilk
s tack the right of our line, conceiving he had 016
flanked us, and commenced a heavy cannonade;
his entire dismay, however, Lord W. had detachd.
a division which outflanked him—when this division •
had reached its destination, Lord WaitiNorox, with
I the eye of an eagle and the rapidity of lightning, clue.
gad his defence into an attack, and each division of the
lb•ltish formed in two Hues, advanced to the beiglas
occupied by the enemy. Then came the tug. Lord
W. had shewn us generalship—it was now the tuna
of the troops—tl.ey did not fire, but with a slow bat
steady pace ascended the hills, broke through the
enemy's centre, and in less than three hours destroyed
their army. The cannonade at first, and afterwards
cannonade and musketry, was tremendous ; all did
their duty, but as the fight now became general. I
can only tell you what I myself saw. The 3d did.
sion, under General PAICENHAM, commenced by
turning the enemy', left : as soon as it appeared that
they were sufficiently advanced, General Lore's di.
vision, the 6th, began their attack, descended from
their position, part defiled through and round a vit•
lage, formed on she other side, and ascended the
enemy's. position, under the continued fire of abut
twenty pieces of cannon. The 4th division, General.
CoLa's, was onthe left of the sth, and General Paec's

The Officers and men of the Life Guards are to
wear brass helmets, similar to the old Roman helmet,
steel cuirasses, embossed, and a bread gold-laced
belt round the waist.

Two entire companies of the First West York
Militia have volunteered into the 33d regiment,
(Lord WELLlNcrrotes own regiment).
A strong detachment of the 36th regiment march-
ed into Brighton barracks, from Blatchington, on
Tuesday, in order to take the necessary duties of that
garrison, until relieved by some more effective regi-
ment.

The number of men who have volunteered from
the regiments of Militia of the United Kingdom, into
the Army, during the year 1812, to the Ist of
August inst. amout.tzd so 7,250, of which 5,800
were British only.
A new regiment of Fencibles has been ordered to
be raisod in Nova Scotia, which will be composed
principally of Catholics.
Wednesday last, after a race on Musselburgh
Links, being the last day of the fair, a disturbance
took place between a party of the military and some
of the inhabitants, in which several persons were
wounded.

At the battle of the 22d, the Lady of a Captain of
the Ro .al Fusiletrs. followed her Im.band to the
,rene of action. When she heard of his having been
killed, site hurried among the dead and dying, and
found a hall had pissed through his head.

The following incident serves to illustrate, in a
very high degree, the spirit which animates the Bri-
tish military. Last week a considerable number of
Artillery Drivers and horses were ordered to embark
at Plymouth Dock for the Peninsula : at five o'clock
in the morning the whole paraded before the Barrack
Gatcs, in high rftiria, having, in parting from sweet-
hearts and-wives, been induced to take many is more
last glasses." One of the Drivers, however, fell
from his horse and broke his thigh, when another,
not ordered for embarkation, vaulted like Mercury
Uto the fallen man's sad Jle, exclaiming, " 'Tis a
pity so fine a horse should want a rider—Here's Lord
Wellington for ever— Serjeant, take down my name!"
—a request with which the latter, with all due sang
froid, instantly complied, and the whole party dashed
through the streets to the Dockyard, where they
~tnbarked.

THE LATE BATTLE.

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ralVit f E LE rms.
SALAMANCA, brigade on its left. The Ist and 6th divisions law
" Since theorious da s of M
IeJULY 25.
MA and
serve of the left, till afterwards, when theft divides
gly .
prolonged the line to the lett, and stormed the rideEDWARD 111. nothing has happened so honourable to of the enemy's second position. General Larry had
the British arms and the British name, as the battle his division in two tines, the Royal Scots, 9th, sBi,
of Salamanca. The Portuguese and Spaniards boast4th, being the first; tbs.
Portuguese brigade, General brays, and 2d battik*
SOth, 44th, and Ist butt. .
of their new associates ; and as the French army was
4th, being the second. •
composed of French, Austrians, Prussians, Russians, 1 „
These lines advanced without firing a 'hotting
Dutch, Poles, Swiss—all Europe bears dreadful tes-
they drew the enemy from his first position. It was
timony of our prowess. It is really the case that the beautiful, like a review ; the General m front of the
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Portuguese behaved as well as the English, and the centre, with his hat off, as at a general salute:
few of the Spanish troops who were engaged behaved threw in their fire.
enemy kept their ground, and
which was only answered with a shout atabe rep of
remarkably well. Its the charge and in the pursuit,
there was no stopping them, their inveteracy was so the General brought the division to the charge, sad
the bill.. When within five yardi of their colossi,
great, that actually they were at last stopped only by successively walked over their different lots of cie,
being wearied in bayonetting the French. Our troops
lump, taking guns, eagles, and colours. At ibis
had the utmost difficulty in preserving the lives of the point of the day Ge neral Leith wail severely mew
prisoners and of the wounded, wherever the peasants deal, bat now supposed not dangerously, and is do
well.. His Aides-de-camp, Leath, Hay, and Chi
vesing
fell in with them, they knocked them on the head were wounded, but not dangerously. The actioe
with stones, or whatever they could lay bold on. : closed with the day, when the enemy was complete',
" We still continue fol.ciwing them up ; the Ist ,'
defeated at all points, I may almost say annibilattO.
and Light Division, with General Awsores brigade ' Next morning
we found them in flight towards MA,
-
of Cavalry, and the two heavy German dragoon re- drid, leaving guns, arms, drums, and all
.sotts at i
giments in their rear, the guerillas and peasants ho- warlike stores scattered about. Lord Welliagtoo s
following them, making quantities of prisoners
vering like vultures on their flanks. Never was such General Le Marcl.ant tell, gloriously kading his
a disorganised rear as the present, the worst Spanish
who endeavoured ,boldly en.,ugh to awn the tax "
}brigade of cavalry to a charge against their eels': Ye,
army never appeared so disorganized as the FrenCh i .
now. The roads are thickly strewed with their arms I 'were
the Car—it was vain : Wellington had ordered they
to be destroyed—me had only to obey.
and knapsacks, which are likewise covered with an I said they have lostfive Generals, but as yet it bill
It I
`immensity of plunder, thrown away by the fugitives! bast impossible to ascertain what their other loss
to facilitate their flight. I been ; ours, it isitoped, will not be considerable.-e
. si Generals GRADIER and Cumin have beenl
Owtatr.
ur wounded Generals and woo,' ate in genet
I ing well, notw ithatandul sit excessive heat
brought in wounded, but so execrated are they by the old°,
The Portu • # behaved ado"'
vitae • .+d es
people whom they have so unmercifully squeezed for I ably, in short, every man Aid luelluty. ludeid. 4
the last four years, that it was difficult for the soldiers
the conduct of the troops,, I emend, sa#, every
to keep them from their vengeance. rivalled his neighbour to carrying into executes**
.
. 44 The wounds of Generals Beamiroata. Corroar, only saal
orders of Lord W. ; the regular
preserved throughout ; the cat:include
lime, cot.z, and Baron ALTIN, are all bad : the ay of parade wal
them more steady; had the bilis been made 47
medical* officers have their hands full With oar own hot iron, they would have been carried. I .::atra.
" Nothing could be better tban the hind alien, and the French wounded.
without vanity, we may hope the 2241 of .11117 r_ .
a day to remember in the British Historea Wb" w
lion of the Spaniard( even when they thought
- • everY and army could do. The plains of Salamanca in!
thin vas against us, and expected the French into seen a sight pleasing to °llk ftiogii Atil
Proof was given to the world what a Brnish Genoa,.
the Wil j they loailed c.#OF mei; s* kiadaest; zany 441; ettemiuc.*Zl,

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