_ -- woe. 4 • -77 354 TUESDArS LONDON GAZETTE. WAR DEPARTMENT. DOWNING-STREFT, AVGUST `3, 181(2. A dispatch, of which the following i.; an extract, has been this day received at the Earl Bathurst's office, from General the Marquis of Wellington, K. B. dated Cuellar, Aug. 4. The French army of the centre, after having passed through the Guadarrama pass, and after its head had arrived at the Venta de San Raphael, returned to Segovia, where Joseph Buonaparte arrived on the 27th of July, at night. The object of this movement was alipa. randy to divert the allied troops from the pursuit of the army of Por tugal, and to enable the latter to maintain themselves upon the Douro ; in which, however, the enemy did not succeed. Their rear guard remained in some strength on the left of the Douro, during the 28th and 29th ; but the light and first divisions, and the cavalry, having crossed the Eresma and Cega rivers on the latter day, the enemy's rear-guard retired during the night across the Douro, and thence followed the movements of the main body towards Villa V anez, abandoning Valladolid, and leaving there seventeen pieces of cannon, a large quantity of shot and shells, and other stores, and their hos pital, with about eight hundred sick and wounded. The General in Chief Macquinez took 300 prisoners in the neigh bourhood of Valladolid on the 30th; our advanced guard crossed the Douro,_ and our parties entered Valladolid on the eime day; and I had the satisfaction of being received by the people in that city With the same enthusiastic joy as I had been in all other pasts of the country. The army of Portugal having thus crossed and quitted the Douro, it was necessary to attend to the movements of the army of the centre, and to prevent a junction between the twoon the Upper Douro, which, it was reported, was intended. While, therefore, the advanced-guard and left continued the pursuit of the army of Portugal, I moved the right along the Cega to Cuellar, where I arrived on the Ist instant. Joseph Buonaparte retired from Segovia on the morning of the Ist, and marched through the Guadarrama ; and he left at Segovia an ad vanced guard, principally of cavalry, under General Espert ; having destroyed the cannon and ammunition which were in the castle, having carried off the church plate a.id other valuable property, and having levied a considerable contribution on the inhabitants of the town. I have nc.t yet heard whether a detachment which I sent to Segovia )esterday, under Brigadier-General D'Urban, had entered the town. The army of Portugal have continued their retreat towards Burgos. The enemy have continued to increase their force in Extremadura. I euclote Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill's report of a very handsome affair with the enemy's cavalry, on the 21th of July. by the division under the command of Lieu tenant-General Sir William Erskine. I have received no farther accounts of the ol.crations under Sir Home Popham. P. S. 1 have just heard that the French troops under General Espert have withdrawn from Segovia by San lldefonso. %Ara, July 27, 1812. My Loa D-I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship a copy of a letter from Lieutenant-General Sir William Erski►:e, and one from Major-General Long, repeirting an affair between some of our cavalry a,,d three regiments of the enemy's cavalry, in the neighbourhood of Ribera, on the ilth inst. 1 am, tte. R. HILL. (Signed) To General the Earl of Wellington, K. B. &c. &c. &c. Los Santos, July El, 1912. Sta—l have the honour to report to you, that a bony of nce enemy's cavalry, consisting of two regiments of dragoons and one of chasseurs, under the command of General of Brigade A linand, at tacked yesterday morning the Portuguese piquet at Hinojosa, which they drove in as far as Ribera, where four squadrons of Portuguese cavalry were stationed, under the cominand of Colonel Campbell. The force under Colonel Campbell being greatly interior to that of the enemy, he was under the necessity of retiring upon Villa Franca, which he did in the best order. Msjor-General Long advancing at the same time from Villa Franca with the brigade. of Britiali cavalry under his command, and Captain Lefebue's troop of horse artillery to support him. The enemy, on perceiving the advance of Gen. L ong ' s brigade,' halted on the high ground betwixt Ribera roil Villa Franca, General Long also halted until joined by a part of his brigade that had been detached in the morning to observe the enemy on the side of Usagre. During this interval, I directed Major-General Slade, with two regiments of his brigade, to move f'om Los Santos, and direct his march on the left flank and rear of the enemy. As soon as Ge neral Long had collected the whole of his brigade, he moved f)rward against the enemy, who immediately withdrew beyond the defile at Ribera. General Long passed through the defile to the right and left of the town, and attacked the enemy with much spirit, whilst the artillery fired with great effect from the high ground on the Villa Franca side of the defile. The enemy retired rapidly upon Hinojosa, closely . followed ; from Hinojosa the enemy retired to Leira, and from thence to Valencia de Torres. They were followed as far as Leira. At Hinojosa the two regiments under Major. General Slade joined MajohGeneral Long's brigade, having made a very rapid march AUG. 30. at a trot from Los Santos, but from the great distance could not ar rive in sufficient time to cut off the enemy's retreat upon Leira. Major-General Long speaks in the highest terms of all the troops under his command, parttctilarly the horse artillery, who displayed great activity in their movements, and precision in their fire, ►,i hich the enemy suMred very considerably. Ihe loss of the enemy on this occasion has been about thirty men and a great many horses killed, eleven men and about thirty horses taken. The loss upon our side has bcen only one man killed and seven wounded. I have the honour, &c. (Signed) WILLIAM ERSKINE, Licut..Gen. [Here follows Major-General Long's account of the tranactiun, which is similar to that of Sir William Erskine.] WITITETIIALL, AUGUST 25, 181 g. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on behalf of his Majesty, bath been graciously pleased, by an especial warrant, to grant unto Arthur Marquis of Wellington, Knight Companion of the Most Honourabie Military Order at the Bath, and Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Forces in Spain and Portugal, his Majesty's royal license and permission, that he and his descendants may bear, as a royal augmentation, " in the dexi er quarter of thc arms of w e li cs i ey , AN ESCOCHEON CHARGED WITH THE CROSSES OF ST. GYORCE, Sr. ANDREW, AND ST. PATRICK, being the Union Badge of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland," as a lasting memorial of the glorious and transcendant achievements of the said Arthur Marquis of Wellington on various important occasions, but more particularly in the recent brilliant and decisive victory obtained over the French army, by the troops under his command, near Salamanca, on the `'id day of July last; such Royal augmentation being first duiy excinplifien ac cording to the laws of arms, and recorded in the Herald's office : And also to command, that this special mark of his Majesty's i:oyal favour be registered in his College of Arms. ADMIRALTY OFFICE, AVG. 23. His Majesty's ship Horatio, Trein pre. i . i. Seund, coast of Norway, Aug. 3, ' • • .' SI lt,—l have the honour to make known to ycu, whet, eece - ion of your orders, running down the coast of Norway, all , :!It I i i:,:,t. in latitude 70 degrees 40 minutes N. a small sail was seen :run. tne mast head close in with the land, whith we discovered to be an :.rie.ei cutter before she disappeared among the rocks. Being anxious t t•itrov the enemy's cruizers, who have 63 considerably intercepted .:ir t'ade in this quarter, I dispatched the barge and three cutter:, under the com mand of my First Lieutenant, A. M. Hawkins, who te-iii•ed intertna. tion on shore that the cutter had gone to a village cn an arm of the sea, 35 miles inland, where he immediately proceeded, and at a A. A:. on the (11, she was discovered at anchor, together with a schooner and a large ship, which, on the appearance of the boats, resented their broadside;, with springs on their cables. As a strong tide set the boats towards them, Lieutenant Hawkins determined to attack, notwith standing their advantageous position : at nine tie fire commenced on the beats (one of which was dispatched under the directions of Mr. lames Crisp, Master's Mate, to disperse score small-armed men col lected on the shore; this he effected, act returned to the attack before the enemy struck,) and after a most sanguinary combat, they were carried in that true and gallant style welch far surpasses any comment of mine on its merits, or of the characters of the brave fellows ern. plowed. They proved to be his Danish Majesty's schooner No. 114, of six J-pounders, and thirty men ; and cutter No. 97, of four 6-poun ders, and twenty two men, commanded by Lieutenant Buderhof, a First Lieutenant in the Danish navy, and Commodore of a division of small vessels, employed on this coast, in person on board the schoo ner; and an American ship of about 400 tons, their prize. [Here fuiows an encomium on the officers and men.] I have the honour - to be, &c. (Signed) G. STUA RT. A List of Killed and Wounded, in the boats of his Majesty's ship Horatio, employed on the al of August, 1811 Killed.—Oliver Shinamings, quarter-master ; George Markham, ditto ; Thomas Arthur, quarter-master's-mate; Thomas M l lll min, captain of atter-guard ;eremiah Patience, captain of mast; James Morris, able seaman; John Hall, ditto; First Lieutenant George Syder, royal marines ; Richard Carrick, corporal of ditto. Wounded.—Abraham Mills Hawkins, first lieutenant, severely ; Thomas P. Masters, second lieutenant, ditto; Mr. Hughes, boat swain, ditto; Mr. Fowler, midshipman, ditto; Mr. Larans, assistant surgeon, (Alice dead) • James Nigh ' tingale, quarter-master, danger ously, (since dead); William Hopkins, captain of forecastle, severely; Joseph Day, quarter - gunner, ditto; Thomas Pearson, able seaman, ditto ; John Liader, ditto, ditto ; John Dennis, ditto, ditto ; James Cuminins, ditto, ditto ; James Easley, quarter-gunner, slightly ; James Bridle, ordinary seaman, ditto; Sergeant Harvey, royal marines, ditto ; James Stokes, private marine, severely. Total number of the enemy killed 10 Total wounded, including officers - - 11 (Signed) G. STUART, Captain. BANKRUPTS. T. Tedstill, Tylderley with Shackerley, Lancashire, calico.printer, Sept. 16, at five, 17, and Oct. 6, at eleven, at the Bridge Inn, Bolton. THE NATIONAL REGISTER.