The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-09-28 00:00:00

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WAR. DEPARTMENT.

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• .D own I npsfred, September 24.. - •
-.Dispatches,' of which the following are extracts:
and cop;e4, hare been this day receives], at Earl
Diffiurst's office, addressed to his Lordship by GR.-
WHO Ihe.Marqui.s of Wellington,' dated Madrid,
t3tli and 3Creh August, and Valladolid, 7th aad Bth
September.

Madrht, 25th Repast.
'Joseph Bonaparte has continued hit march towards
Valencia, and according to the last accounts which
1 gave received, his rear-guard was on thelOth at
La Rada.
I have received a letter of the 17th from Lieute-
rtilt-General Maitland, who had marched front Ali-'
cant, and was at Montforte. General Roche was'
at Alcey, from whence Suchet had retired_ to St.
Felippe ; aryl it was supposed lie was about to cross
the Xuear. General o',Donnell was, on the same
day at Yrela, in Murcia.
The enemy's troops from Valladolid drove in
Major-General Anson's piequets 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
neighbourhood of Valladolid, consisting of: about
6000 infailtry and MO cavalry_, under General, boy,
. which, on the 17th, carried oir the garrison of Toro:
They tbin were joined by a' body 'Cif infantsy of
the same strength, "which had likewise marched from
th; Pisnergat on thb Rio SECO, and the whole were,
on the '2otb, about two leagues distant from Bene-
vento, the Galician troops, with the exception of the
• cavalry, which still remained at lienevente, having,
irch-ed towards Astorga. The enemy had left the•
garrison at Zamora still bk)ckadeti by the Conde
trAmarante ; Lut I have reason to believe that they
• will'relieve that garrison on their return from. their
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expedition towards Astorga.
liy accounts from 'Cadiz of the 9th, I learn thnt'l
General Cruz had yeturned to' that port with the de-
tachment which hid been sent to the eastward for the
relief of Gen. Ballasteros. r expedition had
Immediately been fitted out. Those.troops had been
/ended at Huelva nn the 14th and 13th inst. but the
edemy eiarated and destroyed the castle ef
on the 12th.

mark,. Aug. %.

Since I wrote to your teorilallip on the Uth mat.
have recehed reports that the garrison of Astorgi.
load surrendered by capitulation on the 19th to she
/somber of 1`l(.70 men. Gen. Foy arrived at La Bas.
nPzil for their I.4.:ief on the 21st, with the detach-
ment N high I infor►ned you %%as in march for that
purpose; and his parties found the place abandoned
by the Roanidi troops, the Fren4sarrisou 'having
been carried asp ay as priso►l.ers.

VAllatloli4, Sept. 7.

. .
Mr Lonnfo•Upon referring to„ my dispatch to;
Lour Lordshiikpf the 21th.0( July, as printed in the'
uden Gazette of the.l6th k'gust, I observe that,-I
al: lieugh replotted my Luise of the conduct, of the
German brigade pf heavy cavalry, under Major-Gen.
'Stop Bock, on the 23d JUly, I emitted to Wade..
the uaioe of the Major-General in the enumeration
which the dispatch matelot?: of oific.rs who bad op-
Pertonitieaot distinguishing themselves. .
I beg to take
_this oppertunity of rectifying this
omission, and of assuring your Lordship that the
blajor-Crueral distinguished himself hiwthe opera.
Lions which led to the charge, and ia the charge
made by the gallant troops ander his command, as ho
bas upon eyery occasion which has offered since he
has bOn under my command. •
From my personal observation and the reports
tvhich I have received since the action of the 22d of
July, I am afraid that I 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
slid their country, the limits . of a dispatch do not
permit the mention of the names of all who hare
drawn the notice of their superiors by their con--
duct must, however, correct .the omission of
which l have been guilty in the case of Lieutenant.
Colonel Areutwhildt, and the Ist hussars of the
Ring's German Legion, who were distingnisned by
their conduct throughout the whole of the day of the
22t1 July ; and likewise in that of Lieutenant-Colo-
nel Elley, the Assistant Adjutant-General, who at-
tended Lieutenant-Gotieral sir Stapleton Cotton
throughout the action, was woutaled by a bayonet in
the charge made by Nlainr-General Le hiarchant's
tat iode„ and had two horses killed under hint.
have the honour to be, &e. •

(Signed)

WELLINGTON.

Vathiolid, Sept. 7.
I (pitted Madrid on' the Ist bast. in order to di-,
rod the movements of the troops ordered tri'he col-.
lected at Meiilo, as reported is My dispatch of the
:10tIo Ao/ttse.
We moved from. Ararat() on die 4th, end passed
the pouro ou.tlonc.tb, attbe fords of Herrera and
El Afield°. P • 1
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After Geo. Foy had found that the garrison of As-
torga had surrendered, by CaPittilition, lie.returtied
to the isle, and marched upon Carvajefes, with a
view to gni-prise end cut off the Portuguese Militia,
laic) had been employed under Lient.-General the
Conde D'Amerante, in the blockade of Zamora.—
The Lieutenant-General, however, made good his
retreat, without loss,'to the frOntiers of Portugal ;
and Gen. Foy carried off the garrison of Zr.mora on
the 19th August', anti marched for Tortleil!las.
I cannot avoid to draw gout Lordship's attention
to the conduct of the Conde d'Amarante, and of the
militia under his cpmmand, in these .operations.
The zeal of the militia. ef,:the province of Tra-los-
Montes
•voluntarb nerving beyond the frontiers
cf the kingdom, doseries the highest commendation.
The whole remains of the army of Portugal having
been thtts collected between this place and Tordesil-
las, werfound their advanced guard yesterday strong.
ly posted on the heights of La Cisterniga ; and I
1; now that there was a considerable body of troops
in and about this town. • •

As it was. late in the day before our troops bad,
crowd the Douro, we did not move forward till tidal
firbo::suoiny rotired .froin Li-Cisternigo