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Edmund Cooper, of Hendon, IVltddloes, carpenter, dealer and
chapman, May 19, 26, and June 95, at eleven, at Guildhall.
Attorney. Mr Patten, No. In, Cross-street, Hat ton-Cs arden.
William Atkinson, of Austin Friars, London, merchant, May 15,
26, and June V 3, at one, at GuildbalL Attorniea, Messrs.
Tomlinson an dT homeon, t 'opthall-court,Throgmortou street
Thomas Harrison, of Camomile-street, London, stationer, deal, •
and chapman, May 15, June 9, and 23, at twelve, at. C uildf)all
Attornies, Messrs. Evitt and Wars, Haydor-square, Minories.
John Cooper Wallis, of White Horse-yard, Coleman-street, 1 .on •
don, farrier, dealer and chapman, May 15, 92, and June 23,
at eleven, at Guildhall. Attornles, Messrs. Swains, Stevens,
and Maples, Old Jewry.

N. B. Respiteladate Bennet, attached to the 04th Iteghnent,
and who was the Surgeon attending the Garrison, I beg is re.
commend to your notice, as a most attentive and excellent pro-
fessional man ; he wishes much tote appointed Assistant-Sur-
geon of the 94th Reginsank• I have omitted to mention Lieute. '
,nant Wright, of the RoyeloArtillery, who succeeded to the ana-
-1 mand of the artillery la the batteries on the morning of the 22d,
after Lieutenant Breams was wounded. (Signed)
A. MACLAIN z, Captain 94th Reg.
List of Killed and Wounded at Fort Matagorda, otl the 21st
and 92d of April, 1810.
Royal Engineers-1 Major, killed.
Rom! Artillery-1 Lieutenant. 1 Serjeent, 8 Privates, wounded.
Royal Marines —2 Privates, killed; 50 wounded.
88th Regiment-2 Privates, killed.
94th Ditto—l Corporal, S Privates, killGcl; 95 wounded.
Seamen-7 Seamen, killed; ^ Midshipmen, 10 Seamen wounded.
Total-1 Major, IS Seamen, Marines, and Soldiers, killed;
1 Lieutenant,, Midshipmen, 1 Seejeant, 53 Seamen and
Privates, wounded. (Signed) A. Mact.stri a, Captain
94th Grenadiers, late Commander of Fort Matagorda.
Lieutenant-General Graham, coimnanding
British Forced:'Cadin:

DOWNING-STRET, MAY 12.
A Dispatch, of which the following is a copy,was received on
the 10th instant at Lord Liverpool's Office, addressed to his
Lordship by Lieutenant-General Graham, commanding bis
Majesty's Forces at Cadiz, dated Isola, April 22, 1810.
My Lord, Isola, April 22, 1810.
From the information your Lordship already had
of the miserable state of the Fort of Matagorda,

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(never to be considered free from the danger. of as.
sault) it will not be matter of surprize, that, after FOREIGN INTALLIGENCE.
holding it two months, it should now be abandoned.
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I have the honour to inclose Captain Maclaine's lieftgaileTHE FRP49Ii PAPERS.
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(of the 94th) report to me. It would be an injustice --
to the service not to recommend him in the warmest 1..
I' • - 'PARIS, MAY 6.
manner to your Lordship's notice, as well as the of- The General of Division, Thiebalt, has set off on
ficers who continued with him.to the last of this ar- his return to Spain. •
duous duty, Lieutenant Brereton, of the Royal Ar- ..,.
EXTRA,CT OF THE CORRESPONDENCE OF MARSHAL THE
finery, Ensigns Cannon and Scott, of the 94th, and .
DUKE OF DALMATIA..•
Mr. Dobson, Midshipman of his Majesty's ship In- "'ln the night of the 24th February, General La-
vincible. The defence of Matagorda has been wit-
tour-Maubourg pushed forward a party of 100 inlan-
nessed by every body with admiration, and I should try and 100 cavalry, upon St. Roche, opposite to
not have been justified in allowing it to be continued
Gibraltar. The inhabitants received them with ac-
so long, but from the expectation of the possibility of
clamations. The officer who commanded the party
some diversion being made in its favour, which, how-
conducted them to within half a league of the land-
ever, was found to -b e impracticable. f port of Gibraltar. The bells were rung, and the ge-
. •It is impossible that I should not endeavour to ex-
nerale beat in the fortress, from which, at the same
press to your Lordship the feelings of universal and
time, a few cannon shot were fired upon the party
deep regret excited by the untimely fall of that dis-
that were reconnoitering so closely.
tinguished officer Major Lefebure, of the Royal En- !
" On the 25th, at three o'clock in the afternoon,
gineers, whose zeal carried him from the Admiral's
the English landed 300 infantry, who, in concert
ship to be the bearer of my orders for the evacuation : with a strrng detachment er Spanish horse, made a
of the fort, that he might be satisfied that it was no
movement upon the town of St. Ruch. The 100
longer tenable. The chief direction of that impor-
: French infantry took a position, whilst the 100 ca-
tent department now devolves on Capt. Birch. Your ' wary advanced towards the point of debarkation.—
Lordship is well acquainted with my opinion of his
The English having promptly reimbarked upon seeing
merit and talents, so well calculated to inspire confi-
; them, they proceeded to attack the Spanish cuvalry,
deuce under this misfortune. I have, &c.
i whom they put to flight, with the loss of a few killed
(Signed) THOMAS GRAHAM.
l and some prisoners.
P. S. The original garrison of the fort of Mate- 1 " The inhabitants of the mountains called Alpu-
gorda consisted of Captain Maclaine and Ensigns
, jaras being in motion, General Belair was detached
Cannon and Scott, 94th Regiment ; twenty- ve
i against them by General Sebieiieei, and speedily dis-
Royal Artillery, under Lieutenant Brereton; twenty-
ipersed them. They had Nome kill .1, and sonic pri-
five Royal-Marines; twenty-five Seamen, under Mr. I
sonars were taken, including sever il chiefs. This
Dobson ; and sixty-seven Non-commissioned Officers petty, expedition has again secured :he entire submis-
and privates of the 94th Regiment. Reinforcements sion of the Alpujaras.
were sent in the evening of the 21st, and reliefs of
4‘ The enemy lied, at the same time, excited the
the whole were offered, but declined.
inhabitants of the mountains of Murcia !.,.in the pro-
Cadiz, April gs, 1810. vine of Jaen, to take up arms. General Dessolles,
Sir-1 have the honour to inform you, that at two •
on being informed of this fact, instantly sketched
o'clock on the morning of the 21st, the enemy opened
upon Übeda 1000 infantry and 100 dragnons, under
upon the seventy-four gun ship St. Paulo, and gun- the orders of the Chief of Battalion, Grandner, of the
boats stationed near Fort Matagorda, with hot shot,
55th regiment. This brave officer fell upon the ;,,..
and succeeded in forcing them to abandon their post- surgents, and dispersed them with the loss of 3..i0
tion.—lmmediately after thie, they opened upon Fort
killed
Matagorda a very heavy Cannonade of guns andl
41iedT.here were also some risings at Xerees de Ins
mortars, but as it would have been impossible to di.
!Caballeros. Colonel Musnier was detached to that
rect our fire with a certainty, I ordered Lieutenant . quarter. He found there about 1000 met in a ins,
Brereton, of the Royal Artillery, to delay our lire who, attempting to make some resistance, were in an
until day-break.
. instant completely dispersed, with considerable lose
The morning discovered three batteries opposed to
'=" Fresh bodies of insurgents had also estAblis. ed
us, in the Trocadero, of twenty-one guns, and from
themselves in the mountains of Ronda. General he-
the flight of their shells we judged they had eight ! teimont, with three battalions, and the spearmen of
mortars in other three batteries. From the time they !
the Vistula, received orders to march upon that city,
commenced firing at the fort they kept up a most tre- i whence a French detachment had been I ohl;ged to re-
mendous cannonade of shot and shells with great et=
, tire. On the 21st of March, he came op with the
fect until night, .when the enemy and the flirt both
,' enemy's rear-guard, and killed 200 of them.
discontinued.
1 4"l' o 'render the troops under the Genceil just rwsn-
That day's fire made a very large breach in the , tioned disposeable, it was requisite to withdraw those
escarp of the rampart, on which was 'the principal i that were at I
Malaga. Tin at city was, -consequently,
part of our guns, and completely laying open our two days without any garrison. Eight thousand in-
magaziße. surgents who had collected in the mountains, fell down
We were, from the manner the enemy placed his : tiecia the city, where they committed some excesses.
batteries, and which they had contrived to do under ~
battalion %.,f thteVistula, two companies of the 12th
mask of the houses in the village of Trocadero, (dis- , light and 50 dragoons, were detached to dislodge
taut from the fort about nine hundred yards) only I them, under the orders of Adjutant Corr mandent
able'to bring seven guns to bear on them ; yet with , Breton. This detachment arrived there on the 20th,
these we contrived to silence, and as I conceive, dis- ' and surprhei the insurgents, who rallied on the
mount the guns of one of their batteries, in which ! heights of the Old Cattle, where they were instantly
were six thirty-two pounders.
' attacked and routed, \eh!) the loss of more than 200
The whole of the night of the 21st, and morning !kilted, and a great number wounded. The Spanish
of the 22d, I employed in endeavouring to repair i
gunners who had remained at Malaga, turned the
the parapet of the south-east face, composed of sand- cannon of the Mole upon the banditti, and contri-
bags, and which, from the very heavy fire of '2l
; bitted to their dispersion.
pieces of cannon, (most of them thirty-two pour- " The inhahitans manifested the highest satisfaction !
ders) the enemy had totally demolished, so that the iat their ieliverance. This expedition, which does
men at the guns were perfectly exposed.
1 gre st hoe, eir to the Adjutant Commandant Brom
We continued to replace the sand bags and fill up
cost us six 9: Thad and ten wounded.
the breach, so as to put ourselvet in a tolerable state :
„Nearly at the same paiod, a column, consisting
of defence, and at daybreak in the morning the eneniy ,
of the 4th regiment of dragoons, and a battalion of
opened with a salvo from allhis batteries. Wet i turned
the 9.5 th regiment, were detached to reconnoitre to-
the
fire with the same spirit and success as yesterday, •
wards Tarifa, under the commael of the Colorel of
but the fort soon became a complete ruin, end no
the regiment of dragoons. They found a body of
where afforded any shelter for the reLefs. The eve-
-1000 insurgents drawn up in order of battle on the
cuation, however, only took place in consequence of
height of Torre de Penna. They charged them in
your order ; we left the fort at ten A. M. Captain
front with the bayonet, at the moment that 150 dra-
Stackpole, of the Royal Navy, having been sent by :
goons fell upon their rear. They were instantly broke,
the Admiral to complete its destruction. I cannot 1 and but very few of them escaped. lonic Cuenn;
sufficiently express to you the gallantry and coolness i their leader, was found among the 'slain. The column
with which every individual officer, seaman, marine
pushed en beyond Tarifa.
and soldier conducted himself during the two months ;
"The sth regiment of chasseurs, stationed at Areas,
we maintained this post, particularly during the two had at the same time. an affair with another body of
last days.—l beg, in a particular manner, to mention' 1500 insurgents, who had come from the mountains
the services of that most excellent officer Lieutenant of Ronda, and repulsed them to the other side of the
Brereton, of the Royal Artillery, for his unremitted I
defiles with considerable loss.
attention to his duty, and the masterly stile in which i " The Duke of Ahremberg, Colonel of the 27th
he kept up the fire on the enemy; as likewise Ensigns
Cannon and Scott, of the 94th grenadiers : and I re- regiment of chasseurs, being informed that a corps of
quest, Sir, you will state to the Admiral, how highly i the enemy had occupied the port of Hurbla, for the
purpose of shipping supplies for Cadiz, proceeded
sensible I am of the handsome manner in which
against them at the end of March with his regiment,
and three or four companies of infantry. He attecked
Lieutenants Chapnnan and M.Pherson, of the Royal
Navy, and one or two others, whose names I cannot
them, killed 150 of them, took 250 prisoners, and
heaviest of the
now recollect, volunteered their services during the
seized a convoy of nine vessels laden with grain. An
Mr. Geor Dobson Midshi man of the Invinci-
intercepted letter mentioned that the scarcity at Cadiz
fire.
ge ,
was extreme."
ble, had chirge of the seamen under my command
EXTRACT OF THE CORRESPONDENCE OF GENERAL I!EINIER
during the whele time, and I beg you, Sir, to rc-
COMMANDING THE 9D CORP&
commend him to the Admiralty, as a very excellent
and brave officer. ' „This General reports that Cleneral Foy, who we;
on a reconnoitring expedition towards the frontiers of
Herewith I send a list of killed and wounded; and
Pprtugal, having been informed on the 12th March,
among the 'former I aim sorry to return Major Lefe-
bure, of the Royal Engineer, ; he was killed close to at Caceres, that a Spanish corps of about 2090 men,
such an excellent who were at Arroyo del Puerto, were preparrn g to
me by a cannon ball; the los,i
officer is deeply to be lamented. I have the honour attack him, marched the „same day to meet tbelP,
though his detachment was much inferior to the force
tq be, &c. (Signed) A. A. MACLARIEs
A. he had to encounter.
Capt.94th Regiment, late Cpmmand rat Fort. "tier. • 44 rot had
To Lkutuasut-General Grabstu, SW. at. I;‘,.- ' e ~4 he enemy sot made their medivtied move-
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