The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-03-12
FOREIGN.

ficnd mas politely handed US Bahama
Gazette Extra, containing LoHdon accounts
1rOUR DAYS LATER than before receiv-
ed. he Extra is dated the Sth February.
and was received at Amelia.
! ondon, Dec 80.
Oi~hatchcsf ON Lvd IE,R;ngton.
Total Defeat of the French.
! AT three O'Clock yesterday afternoon ma
lor. Hill, aid -de-camp 10 I.eut. General Sir
Rowland Hill passed through this civ.
WITH the official dispatches. we have oh.
tanned the following particulars, which may
On the 9Th inst. General Hone attacked
the enemy, but which was attended wi,b no
thing decisive. On the 9th and I1th. ScuIt
attempted toforce our Army to repass the
yeye,in which he was repuIsed with CON-
siderable loss. On the 18th, Soult brought
the whole q his troops from Bayonne. and
on the morning of the 18th attacked The
right wing !ofthe Allied Army, under Gene
raj sir H. Hill. which brought on general
lengagemept and ended ia the total defeat az
ttns reD'n Army, with loss CD their part
OF 10 GOO to l9,O0o men. Our loss is estj-
mateda. between and 1000 in killed and
wounded. Colonies Martin and Mackenzie.
OF the Guards. killed Generals Hope, Rob
IN son, and barnes wounded.
Sohit is shut up in Bay onne-,Lord Well
9th.
Another officer passed through, express,
at seven this morning, supposed with du-
pueates OF the above dispatches, and the LIS
Of killed and wounded,
me J0AopinP account has been received
fon, Phy71ou,h
lhe Cleaner, Lieut.. Knight, arrived
this morning with Major Hi, bringing dis
patches Containing the accoQ1. Of the Glori-
of
French Army, Commanded ~ Marshal
Souit. The battle lasted days, commen-
cling on the 10th and ending the 13th-tbe
iattcr DAY was the most serious aud bloody.
the French having left on the field of battle
upwards OF 500 men. Their loss on that
day alone exceeded 1000 men, and in the
whole must have amounted 10 nearly IS 900
hey retreated altar the battle of the 18th
into Bayonne, where So 1t, with about
40 600 men. is completely hemmed in and
surrounded by the Allied Army. Sir Row
land Hill with his division being in advance
OF Bayonne. The Allied Army, as might he
expected in such hard fought battles, sus>
famed great loss-the guards alone had
QUO killed-the 57th also suffered severely.
Sol Martin. of the Guards, and Col. Mack
enze, were killed-Generals Robinson and
Barnes slightly wounded but few prison
ers were taken. Three regiments of Ger
mans and Dutch, deserted from the French
ana were embarking at the time the Clean.
er said. They nave since arrived at this
por, IN transports. under convoy of the Mar
shal gun brig
BULLETIN.
War~Department, Dec 60,
a dispatch has been received from the
Lieutenant Governor of Helgoand, enelosi,,r
the copies OF letters from the Russian Gen.
etten6orn, dnted Toningen, the 18th and
18th December,
BY these it appears that the Allied Army
under the Prince kcyal of Sweden, had sub,
dued the whole Of the Dujchy of Hostein.
and part OF the Dutchy Of Sleswig
with the exception Of the fortresses Of
Gluckstsdt and Rensburg. In the latter Of
these PLACES the Danish Army had taken
refuge sfier being cut off from Mars1ai
)avousts corps, and having been defeated
IN two actions by general Wammoden and
by the Swedish troops. Eensburg was com
pieteIy surrounded, and the Danish Army
was cot on from relief.
Marshal Dayoust had retired into Ham
burgh. BY his -etrcat he left the right Of
the Danes exposed to the misfortunes they
have sufrred and, upon his march, the
French cavalry was oveTtakcn aud routed,
after sharp action. by the Russian division
under general Woronzow.
The Allied Troops. after this success
crossed the Byder, and had already overrun
great part OF Sleswig, when the Danish 90
Vernment solicited and obtained a suspension
ct arms. By the terms Of this Arnis,ice.
the whole of HoIstein and that part of Sea.
wig bordering on the f. der are to remain
IN the possession of the Allies, and the De-.
nisn army in RensburGh is to remain un-
molested, but is I" receive provisions ouis
through the country occupied by the allied
tro'ps. and is 10 make no addition 10 tl.e
existing works of the place.
"crsist'o IN { London PHhers.