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SUPPLZALENTTOTNi LONDON Gdzsirm

WAR DEPARTMENT.

DGWNING-STREET, MAY 18, 181 3.
A Dispatch, of which the following is a copy, was this morning
received by Earl Bathurst, from Lieutenant-General Sir John
Murray, Bart.

Cartaila, April 14, 1819.

MY LORD—I have the honour to enclose to your
Lordship, a copy of a dispatch addressed this day to
General the Marquis of Wellington ; and I am happy
it is in my power to lay before your Lordship so con.
vincing a proof of the gallantry and spirit which per-
vades this army.
I have, indeed, but faintly described the exertions
of the officers and soldiers who have been engaged,
but I still venture to hope that they will appear suf-
ficiently meritorious to attract the notice and obtain
the approbation of his Royal Highness the Prince
Regent.
This dispatch, with its enclosures, will be delivered
to your Lordship by Captain D'Aguilar, of the 81st
regiment, my Military Secretary. I have, with great
inconvenience to myself, selected this officer, because
he is so well qualified, from the situation he holds,
to give your Lordship every information relative to
this action, and indeed relative to this army and the
province.
I think I may safely venture to assure your Lord-
ship, that Captain D'Aguilar eminently possesses
every quality which we prize in the character of a
soldier ; and I take the liberty of earnestly recom-
mending him to your Lordship's favourable notice
and protection. I have the honour to be, Etc._

(Signed) .1. MURRAY, Lieut.-Gen.
The Earl Bottum, &c. &c.&c.

Head-Quarters, Castalla, April 14, 1813.

MY LORD have the satisfaction tp inform your
Lordship, that the allied army under my command
defeated the enemy on the 13th instant, commanded
by Marshal *Suchet in person.
It appears that the French General had, for the
purpose of attacking this army, for some time been
employed in collecting his whole disposable force.
His arrangements were completed on the 10th, and
in the morning of the 1 I th, he attacked and dis-
lodged, with some loss, a Spanish corps, posted by
General Elio, at Yecla, which threatened his right,
whilst it supported our left flank.
In tke evening he advanced in considerable force
to Villena, and I am sorry to say, that he captured,
on the morning of the 12th., a Spanish garrison, which
had been thrown into the Castle by the Spanish Ge-
neral, for its defence.

On the 19th, about noon, Marshal Sucher began
his attack on the advance of this army-posted at Biar,
under the command of Colonel Adam.

Colonel Adam's orders were to fall back upon
Castalla, but to dispute tke passage with the enemy ;
which he did with the utmost gallantry and skill for
five hours, though attacked by a force infinitely su-
perior to that which he commanded.
The enemy's advance occupied the pass that even-
ing, and Colonel Adam took up the ground in our
position which had been allotted to him.
On the i3th, at noon, the enemy's columns of at-
tack were formed, composed of three divisions of in-
fantry, a corps of cavalry of about sixteen hundred
men, and a formidable train of artillery.
The position of the allied army was extensive. The
left was posted on a strong range of hills, occupied
by Major-General Whittingliam's division of Spanish
troops, and the advance of the Allied Army under
Colonel Adam.

This range r f Nils terminates at Castalla, which,
and the ground to the right, was occupied by Major-
General Mackenzie's division, and the 38th regiment,
front that of LieuteLant•General Clinton.

T:ie remainder of the risition was covered by a
stro.ig r;N:iie, behind which Liittitniant-General
Clinton was stationed, supported by three battalions
of General Roche's division, as a column of reserve.
A few batteries had been constructed in this part
of the line, and in front of the Castle of Castalla.
—The enemy necessarily advanced on the left
of the position. The first movement he made, was
to pass a strong body of cavalry along the line,
threatening our right, which was refused. Of this
movement no notice was taken ; the ground to which
he was pointing, is unfavourable to cavalry, and as
this movement was foreseen, the necessary precau-
tions had been taken : when this body of cavalry had
passed nearly the half of our line of infantry, Mar-
shal Suchet advanced his columns to the foot of the
hills, and certainly his troops, with a degree of gal-
lantry that entitles them to the highest praise, stormed
the whole line, which is not less than two miles and a
half in extent. But gallantly as the attack was made,
the defence of the heights was no less brilliant : at
every point the enemy was repulsed—at many with
the bayonet.
He suffered a very severe loss ; our gallant troops
pursued him for some distance, and drove him, after
a severe struggle, with precipitation on his battalions
of reserve upon the plain. The cavalry, which had
slowly advanced along our right, gradually fell back
to the infantry. At present his superiority in that
arm enabled him to venture this movement, which
otherwise he sluSuld have severely repented.
Having united his shattered battalions with those
which he kept in reserve, Marshal Suchet took up a
position in the valley ; but which it would not have
been creditable to allow him to retain. I, therefore,
decided on quitting mine ; still, however, retaining
the heights, and formed the allied army in his front,
covering my right flank with the cavalry, whilst the
left rested on the hills. _The army advanced in two
lines to attack him a considerable distance, but un.
fortunately Marshal Suchet did not choose to risk a
second action, with the defile in his rear.

The line of the Allies was scarcely formed when
he began his retreat, and we could effect nothing
more than driving the French into the pass with de-
feat, which they had exultingly passed in the morn-
ing. The action terminated at dusk, with a distant
but heavy cannonade.
I am sorry to say that I have no trophies to boast
of. The enemy took no guni to the heights, and
he retired too expeditiously to enable me to reach
him. Thos.i which he used in the latter part of the
day, were posted in the gorge of the defile, and it
would have cost us the lives of many brave men to'
take them. •

n the dusk, the allied army returned to its posi-
tion at Castalla, after the enemy had retired to lhar.
From thence he continued his retreat at midnight to
Villena) which be quitted again thi:‘ morning in great

'haste, directing his march upon Fuente de la Hi.
guera and Onteniente.'
But although I have taken no cannon from the
enemy, in point of numbers his army is very consi-
derably crippled, and the defeat of a French army,
which boasted it had never known a check, cannot
fail, I should hope, in producing a most favourable
effect in this part of the Peninsula.
As I before mentioned to your Lordship, Mar-
shal Suchet commanded in person. The Generals
Harispe, Habert, and Robert, commanded their re-
spective divisions. I hear from all quarters that Ge-
neral Harispe is killed ; and I believe, from every
account that I can collect, that the loss of the enemy
amounts fully to 3,000 men ; and he admits 2,500.
Upwards of 800 have already been buried in front of
only one part of our line ; and we know that he has
carried off with him an immense number of wounded.
We had no opportunity of making prisoners, except
such as were wounded ; the numbers of which have
not yet reached me.

I am sure your Lordship will hear with.much sa-
tisfaction, that this action has not cost us the lives
of many of our comrades. Deeply must be felt the
loss, however trifling, of such brave and gallant sol-
diers ; but we know it is inevitable, and I can with
truth affirm, that there was not an officer or soldier
I engaged who did not court the glorious termination
of an honourable life, in the discharge of his duty to
his King and to his country.
The gallant and judicious conduct 'of those that
were engaged deprived much more than one half the
army of sharing in the perils and glory of the day ;
but the steady countenance with which the divisions
of Generals Clinton and Mackenzie remained for some
hours under a cannonade, and the eagerness and ala-
crity with which the lines of attack were formed,
sufficiently proved to me what I had to depend on
from them, had Marshal Suchet awaited the attack.

I trust your Lordship will now permit me to per-
form the most pleasing part of my duty, that of
humbly submitting for his Royal Highness the Prince
Regent's approbation, the *names of those officers
and corps which have had the fortunate opportunity
of distinguishing themselves, in as far at least as has
yet come to my knowledge.
Colonel Adam, who commands the advance, claims
the first, place in this honourable list. I cannot su£
ticiently praise the judicious arrangements lie made,
and the ability with which he executed his orders on
the 12th instant. •

The advance consists only of the 9.d battalion of.
the 27th regiment, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel
Reeves ; the Ist Italian regiment, commanded by
Lieutenant-Colonel Burke ; theCalabrian Free Corps
commanded by Major Carey ; one rifle company of
the 3d and Bth battalions King's German Legion,
commanded by Captains Luedcr and Braums of those
corps ; and a troop of foreign hussars, under the or-
ders of Captain Jacks, of the 20th dragoons, with
four mountain guns, in charge of Captain Arabin,
royal artillery. The enemy attacked this corps with
from 5 to 6000 men, and for fire hours (and then
only in comequence of order) succeeded in possetsing
himself of the pass.
This fact alone says more in favour of Colonel
Adam, and in praise of those he commands, than
any words of mine can express. I shall therefore con;
fine myself to assuring your Lordship, that die con-
duct of all engaged in this brilliant affair merits, and
has met with, my highest approbation.
Colonel Adam was wounded very early in the at•
tack, but continued, and still continues in charge of
his division.

On the 13th, the attack of the enemy on Colonel
Adam's division was very severe ; but the enemy was
defeated at every point, and a must gallant charge of
the 2d 27th, led by Colonel Adam and Lieutenant-
Colonel Reeves, decided the fate of the day, at that
part of the field of battle.
Ti►e skill, judement, and gallantry displayed by
Major-General Whittingharn And his division of the
Spanish army, rivals, though it cannot surpass, the
conduct of Colonel Adam and the advance.

At every point the enemy was repulsed ; at many,
at the point of the bayonet. And one point in parti-
cular I must mention, where a French grenadier
battalion had gained the summit of the hill, but was
charged and driven from the heights by a corps un-
der the command of Colonel Casans.

Major-General Whittingham highly applauds, and
I know it is not without reason, the conduct •-if Colo
nel Casans, Colonel Romero, Colonel Campbell,
Colonel Casteras, and Lieutenant-Colonel Ochoa, who
commanded at various points of the hills. To the
Chief of his Staff, Colonel Serrano, he likewise ex-
pressed himself to be equally obliged on this, as well
as many other occasions • and he acknowledges with
gratitude the services of? Colonel Catinelli, of the
Staff of the Italian Levy, who was attached to him
during the day.
These, my Lord, are the officers and corps that I
am most anxious to recommend to his Royal High-
ness's notice and protection, and I earnestly entreat
your Lordship will most respectfully, on my part,
report their merits to the Prince Regent, and to the
Spanish Government. _ _

It now only remains for me to acknowledge the
cordial co-- eration and support I have met with
from the several General Officers and Brigadiers, as
I well as from the various officers in charge of depart-
ments attached to this army.
To Major-Gereral Donkin, Quarter-Master-
General, I am particularly indebted, tor the zeal and
ability with which he conducts the duties of his ex-
tensive department, and the gallantry he displays on
every occasion. Major nenah, who is at the head of
the Adjutant-General's department, affords me every
satisfaction. Lieutenant-Colonel Holcombe, and,
under his orders, Major Williamson, conduct the ar-
tillery branch of the service in a manner highly cre-
ditable. The different brigades of guns, under Cap-
pains Lacy, Thomson, and Gilmour (and Garcia, of
the Sicilian army), and Lieutenant Patton, of the
flying artillery, were extremely useful, and most gal-
' Lindy served ; and the Portuguese artillery support-
ed the reputation their countrymen have acquired.—
The army is now in march. I proceed to Alcoy in
the hope, but not the sanguine hope, that I may be
enabled to force the Albayda Pass, and reach the
entrenched position of the enemy of San Felippe, be-
fore he can arrive there.

I consider this movement as promising greater ad-
vantages than a direct pursuit, as the road which he
has chosen being very favourable for cavalry, in
which arm he is 30 much superior, I Should probably

be delayed too long to strike any blow of impsrutte.
—I beg leave to enclose a return of the kiikd ar.d
wounded of the Allied Army.—I have the hel
• at,
to be, &c. (Signed) J. MIIIMAY, Lieut. *
• L.
P. S. I have omitted to mention, tirtt in ' - tot:nns
from Thar, two of the mountain guns fell into
hands of the enemy ; they were disable,?, cpd Coienei
Adam very judiciously directed Captain Arabin,
then commanded the brigade, to fght them to die
last, and then to leave them to their fate. Caphtis
Arabin obeyed his crders, and fought them till s
was impossible quite to get them off, had such bees
Colonel Adam's desire. (Signed)
Retni n of Killed, %%rounded, and Missing, of the Allied Amy,
commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir JOIIN Muncie, bit
In the Action which took place near Castalla, on the eeetri
of the 12th and 13th April, 1813, with the french AtriZ
commanded by Marshal Seen tr.
General Staff---1 Lieutenant killed ; 1 Colonel, I Lieut. waert
20th Light Dragoons-1 rank and file wounded.
Foreign Troop (Illissars)-2 horses killed, 2 horses wourde.l.
Brunswick Onls Hussars--1 bore kilted,
Neapolitan Ca .dry--1 rank and file, I horse, missing.
Royal British Artillery-4 rank and file wuunded.
Royal Artillery Driver,--1 rank and file wounded, 3 horses
1 horse wounded.
Portuguese Artillery-3 rank and lila wounded.
Ist Batt. 27th Foot-2 rank and file killed, 1 drummer, 16 rack
and file, wounded.
2d Batt. 27th Foot-1 Srrjeant, 1 drummer, 16 rank and Cr
killed ; 2 Lieutenants, 3 Serjeants,N2 rank and file, wounded,
2 rank and file, miss lug.
Ist Batt. 58th Foot-1 rank and file killed. 5 rank and file wounJ.
4th Bart. King's German Legion-3 rants and tile killed, 9 rail
and file wounded.
6th Batt. Ditto-1 rank and file killed ; 5 rank ansj fie wounelei
Roll Dillon's-4 rank and file killed ; 1 serjeant, 14 rank aaa
file, wounded ; 9 rank and file missing.
Rifle Company, Roll's lieutenant, 1 serjeant, and
4 rank and file, wounded.
Rifle Company, 3d Batt. King's German Legioa-1 lieutenant,
4 rank and file killed; 2 lieutenants, serjer ts, 11
and file, wounded;' 1 rank arid file missing.
Rifle Company, Bth Batt. King's German Legion— nnk art
file kill d ; 9 rank and file wounded ; 1 rank and file mi.:it :I.
Ist Italian Regiment-23 rank and file n.:,jor, 1 lea-
tenant, 1 ensign, 4 serjearts, 45 rank mid tile, woundLii; Lnt
rank and file missing.
Calabrese Free Corps-3 rank and Me killed ; I captain, I l'-%•
tenant, 3 serjeants, 46 rank and file, wounded ; 1 horse Ay?.
Total British !ois-2 lieutenants, 2 serjeant,, 1 drumnic.,
65 rank and file, killed; 1 colonel, 1 major, 1 captain, S
lieutenants, 1 ensign, 15 aerjeants, 1 drummer, 258 ra•t
and file, wounded; 44 rank and file missing; Shur
killed; 3 horses wounded; I horse nth-ing.
Total Sicilian Loss-1 Rank and file killed; 8 rank ar.l!:.t
wounded.
Total Spanish Loss-2 Lieutenants, 73 rank and file, kill;
4 Lieutenants, 183 rank and ffie, wounded; 1 horse
7 horses wounded.
General Total-4 Lieutenants, 1 Serjearr, I Drummer, 1:9
rank and file, killed; 1 Colonel, I Major, 1 Captain, 3:
Lieutenants, 1 Ensign, 15 Serjeat.ts, t Drummer, 449
rank and file, wounded; 42 rank and file missing ; eisat
horses killed; 10 horses wounded; 1 horse missing,.
Names of Officers Killed and Wounded.
Kiktua.
10th Font—Lieut. Thompson, D. A. Qr. Gen.
Rifle Company, 3d King's German Legion—Lieut. Hazlehach,
sth Regiment Spanish Grenadiers—Lieut. Don Juan Snares.
2d Regiment Burgos—Lieut. Don Jose Pizano.

WOUNDFD.
Colonel Adam, 1). A. G. comma:,d.:lg the advance, slightly. •
75th Fixit—Lieut. M‘Dougall, D. A, A. G. severely, since deael.
2d Batt. 27th Foot—l.ieuts. Duhigg, severely; Ja•neson, slightly.
Rifle Company, 3d King's German Legion.—Lieutenants Freytsg
and Appuhn, severely.
Ist Italian Regiment—Major Faverge, Lieutenant Martutath,
Ensign Monti, slightly
Ron Mt Company—Lieutenant Seg 'per, slightly.
Calsbres. Free Corp. —Captain 'favrllo, Lieutenan:Me-;isechas,
slightly.
In Regiment of Coriove—Lieut. Don France co Morales.

Casadures of Guadalaiara—Lieut. Don Francesco Cas
Cacadores of Mallorca—Lice. Don Juan dal Puerta, Ecl.p
Don Manuel Tempo. (Signed)
THOMAS ICEMAN, A. Adj.-Gen.

The men returned missing, were those that fell badly wounded
on retiring through the Biar Pass on the 12th instant, And whota
it was impossible, from the nature of their wounds, to best ten•
mediately away. Many of them have since been brought i:. frets
Biar, whither they were carried by the enemy, and left on ns
elfaCl/3(1013. (mgned) GIOROIII VAGUILAZ, Mil. Sec.

FRE.vCH PAPERS.

PARIS, MAY IL

Her Majesty the Empress Queen and Regent, hr
received the following intelligence respecting the su•
tuation of the Armies, on the evening of the 6th :
The head-quarters of the Emperor and King were
at Wakiheim ; those of the Viceroy at Ertzdorf;
those of General Lauriston at Oschartz ; those of
the Prince of Moskwa between Leipzic and Torgau;
those of Count Bertrand at Mettweyda ; those of the
Duke of Reggio at Peneg.
The enemy had burned, at Waldheim, a very fine
bridge, of one arch, which delayed us for some hours.
His rear-guard wished to defend the passage of it,
but was driven back upon Ertzdort. The posiuon
of this last point is very fine : the enemy wished to
hold it, the bridge being burnt ; the Viceroy ordered
the village to be turned by the right and left. Tile
enemy was placed behind ravines. A brisk fire of
musketry and artillery took place. Quickly we
marched right to the enemy, and the position was
carried. The enemy left '2OO killed upon the fled
of battle.

General Vandamme had, on the Ist of May, his
head-quarters in Harburgh. Our troops have taken
a Russian cutter, armed with :1.0 cannon. The ene-
my repassed the Elbe with so much precipitation, that
he left upon the left bank a number of boats, proper
for passing the river in, and much baggage. The
move onents of the Grand Army had already caused
a great consternation at Hamburgh ;—the Ham-
burgh traitors see the day of vengeance is fast ap-
proaching, General Dumonceau was at Luneburg.
At the battle of the 2d, the ordnance officers Be-
ringer and Prefil were wounded, but only slightly.
The following is the relation which the enemy 11.13
given of the -battle ; we must expect that they al
sing Te Drum at St. Petersburgh, as they did for 112
battle of Moskwa :

ACCOUNT OF THE RATTLE FOUGHT ON THE 2D OF MTh
ON THE ROAD FROM WEISSIENFELS TO LEIFSIC,
AN OFFICER OF BLUCHER' Will's.
[Translation from the German.]
" The enemy turned his Imck to Leipsic, and We
had behind us Naumburg and Weissenfels. he
Elster and the Luppe were at a certain distance from
the wings of the two armies. Before our right wirg
we had a village, occupied by the enemy.
" The battle began by the attack of this vin.ige•
which was carried by the right wing of Blucher s
corpse Soon after, the left wing of that corps 1011,4
itself before another village, before which the eneinY
brought several batteries ; we opposed to him ne.'",Y.
as much artillery, which we covered by our reserve ot
cavalry; because the Wintry had not advanced 5*.)

,er corps earns up
,ty degrees, and the battle
teed the 'whole length of the' line, and men-
the last village on the left ; I tlo not exactly
what distance. We occupied for some hours
ige on our right ; but the enemy presented
there in considerable force, surrounded and
He did not keep it above half an hour. We
,ticked and took it ; we even penetrated be-
and took two other villages by which means
on the enemy's flank.
im this moment the battle becarne very obsti-
tis ; almost all the infantry of Blucher's
td part of that of the other corps, came up by
We were then very near each other. Vic-
!ared to inenne sometimes to the one side and
!s to the other. In the mean time we did
an inch of the ground we occupied on the
flank. It was bow between. six and seven in
ug, aed at this moment I was wounded in
and forced to quit the field of battle. lam
what passed' on the left wing, but I per-
hat we had likewise gained sonic ground on
, The battle was consequevly won. Ida
!t know what has been the result. _ _

The enemy has occupied Leipsick in his tear.—
Therds evening reniforcements had arrived from
the G:and Army, and Miloradovitch's corps was in
march.
At this moment I learn the battle is over, and
that we are 'masters not only of the first field of battle,
but likewise of the ground which we had taken from
the enemy. Nevertheless, the occupation of Leipsick
by the enemy, obliges us to make a lateral move-
rent."

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