the French troops occupy Sicily-the resignation of the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily, for a supposed compensation else. where. Some do not mention that peace has been signed: others pretend that it has been on the 17th January.-The King, strong in his probity, and in his good faith known to his faithful friend the King of Great Britain, and to the generous English nation, would conceive it beneath his dignity to trouble himself an instant with reports as absurd as the authors of them are contemptible, if his Majesty did not behold in these vile manœuvres the instigation of the common enemy, of whom the promulgators of these falsehoods are certainly the instruments always occupied in disturbing the public tranquillity, and in sowing the seeds of distrust among loyal and faithful allies, the intimate union of whom is the greatest obstacle to the accomplishment of his perverse and disastrous designs. This reflection has made his Majesty judge it his duty not to preserve silence in this circumstance, and he has consequently ordered the undersigned Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to declare that the abovementioned reports are false, and entirely destitute of all foundation; that his Majesty, constant in his principles, and faithful to the system and to the engagements which have for so many years bound him to his Majesty the King of Great Britain, and to the generous English nation, to which his Majesty bas united his lot, and whose known fidelity assures him of the continuation of a generous aid, regards these ties, founded on good faith and reciprocal loyalty, as indissoluble.-The undersigned, therefore, in obedience to the orders of his Royal Master, has the honour to address this Declaration to his Excellency Lord Amherst, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of his Majesty the King of Great Britain, not that the King his Master thought it necessary to make known his unalterable sentiments, but as a means of giving an authentic contradiction to calumnies which, often repeated, might at length spread some cloud on the mind of his brave defenders and faithful allies. It is, therefore, to prevent this effect, that his Majesty desires, that his Excellency Lord Amherst would communicate this to the Commander in Chief of the British army, General Stuart.-The undersigned seizes this occasion of renewing to his Excellency Lord Amherst, the assurance of his high consideration. MARQUIS CIreillo. PORTUGAL. THE WAR. No. IV. Return of killed, wounded, and missing of the Corps of the army under Command of Lieut. General Viscount Wellington, K.B. under the immediate Orders of Marshal Sir William Carr Beresford, K. B. in the Battle with the French Army commanded by Marshal Soult, at Albuera, on the 10th May, 1811.-(Concluded from p. 1472.) General Total-2 General Staff, 1 Lieutenant-Colonel, 1 Major, 7 Captains, 13 Lieutenants, 9 Ensigns, 1 Staff, 33 Serjeants, 4 drummers, 913 rank and file, 63 horses, killed; 8 General Staff, 5 Lieutenant-Colonels, 5 Majors, 48 Captains, 86 Lieutenants, 22 Ensigns, 7 Staff, 146 Serjeants, 10 Drummers, 2,656 rank and file, 35 horses, wounded; 1 Major, 4 Captains, 8 Lieutenants, 1 Ensign, 28 Serjeants, 11 Drummers, 517 rank and file, 17 horses, missing. (Signed) CHARLES STEWART. Major-Gen. and Adj.-Gen. Names of the Officers killed, wounded, and missing in the Action on the 16th May, 1811. " and Vance. Lieutenant Castle, Ensign Sarsfield. 2d Batt. 34th Foot-Captain Gibbons, 2d Batt. 39th Foot-Lieutenant Beard. 1st Batt. 48th Foot-Lieutenant-Colonel Duckworth, Lieut.. Page, Lieut. Ansaldo. 2d Batt. 48th Foot-Lieutenants Liddon, Loft, and Drew; Ensign Rothwell. 1st Batt. 57th Foot-Major Scott, Captain Fawcett. Lieutenant Shewbridge, Ensign Coulter. 2d Batt. 66th Foot-Captain Benning, 2d Light Batt. King's German Legion -Lieutenant Whitney. Portuguese. Staff-Surgeon Bollman. 23d Regiment-P. B. Baadeira, J. Joze Montro. Wounded. Major-General Honourable G. L. Cole, slightly. Major-General Honourable William Stewart, slightly. Captain Egerton (2d Batt. 34th Foot), Deputy Assistant Adj.-Gen. slightly. Captain Waller (103d Foot), Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master General, severely. Captan Roveria (Sicilian Regiment), Aid-de-Camp to Major-General Cole, severely. Captain Wade, (42d Foot) Aid-de-Camp to Major-General Cole, severely. Captain Baring, (1st Light Batt. King's German Legion) Aid-de-Camp to General Alten, slightly. Royal Artillery-Captain Hawker, slightly. Royal German Artillery-Lieutenant Thiele, severely. 4th Dragoons Captain Holmes, slightly; Lieutenant Wildman, Adjutant Chantry, slightly. 3d Foot, or Buffs-Captain Marley, Captain Gordon, severely; Captain Ste. vens, Captain Cameron, severely and taken prisoner; Lieutenant Juxon, Lieutenant Shepherd, slightly; Lieutenants Hooper and Latham; Lieutenant Wright, slightly; Lieutenant Woods; Lieutenant Houghton, severely; Lieutenant Titlow, slightly; Lieutenant O'Donnel, severely; Ensign Walsh, severely. 1st Batt. 7th Foot-Lieut.-Col. Sir William Myers, Bt. since dead; Captains Cholwich, Singer and Crowder, slightly; Lieutenant Prevost, severely; Lieutenants Moultry and Wemyss, slightly; Lieutenant S. B. Johnstone, since dead; Lieutenant Mullins, severely; Lieutenant Henry, slightly; Lieutenants Jones and Morgan, severely; Lieutenant R. Johnstone, slightly;, Lieutenant Gibbons; Lieutenant Moses, slightly, 2d Batt. 7th Foot-Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Blakeney, severely; Captain Magenis, left arm amputated; Captain Orr, severely; Captain Parleton, slightly; Lieutenant Irwin, severely; Lieutenant Healy; Lieutenant Wray, severely; Lieutenant Orr; Lieutenant Seaton, severely; Lieutenant Penrice; Lieutenants Lorentz, Holden, Frazer, and Acting Adjutant Meagher, slightly. 1st Batt. 23d Foot-Lieutenant-Colonel Ellis, slightly; Captains Hurford and M'Donald; Captain Stainforth, first Lieutenant Harrison, slightly; First Lieute nant Booker, severely; First Lieutenants Treeve and Thorp, slightly; Second Lieutenant Castles, ditto; Second Lieutenant Harris; Second Lieutenant Ledwith, slightly; Adjutant M'Lellan. 2d Batt. 28th Foot-Captain Gale, severely; Captain Carrol, Lieutenants Crammer and Cottingham, slightly; Lieutenant Shelton, Ensign Ingram, slightly. 29th Foot-Lieutenant-Colonel White, severely; Major Way, Captain Hodge, slightly; Captain Tod, Captain Nestor, slightly; Lieutenant Stannus, severely; Lieutenant Brooke, slightly; Lieutenant Popham, Lieutenant Briggs, severely; Ensign Lovelock, slightly; Ensign Kearney, severely; Ensign Hamilton, Adjutant Wild, severely. 2d Batt. 31st Foot-Captain Fleming, severely; Captain Knox, slightly; Lieutenants Butler, Gethin, Cashell, severely; Ensign Willson, ditto; Ensign Nicholson. 2d Batt. 34th Foot-Captains Widdrington and Wyatt, Lieutenants Hay and Walsh. 2d Batt. 39th Foot-Captain Brine, Lieutenants Hart and Pollard, Ensign Cox, severely. 1st Batt. 48th Foot-Captains Wilson and French, slightly; Capt. Bell, Capt. Morrissett, slightly; Capt. Parsons, severely; Lieutenant Crawley, slightly; Lieutenant Herring, Lieutenant Wright, O'Donaghue, Duke, M'Intosh, and Vincent, slightly; Ensign Collin, slightly; Adjutant Steele, slightly. 2d Batt. 48th Foot-Capt. Watkins, severely; Capt. Waugh, slightly; Capt. Drought, Capt. Wood, slightly; Lieutenants Johnstone and Vander Meulen, severely; Lieutenants Shea and Sharp; Ensigns Norman and McDougall. 1st Batt. 57th Foot-Lieutenant-Col. Inglis; Major Spring, slightly; Captains Shadforth, M'Gibbon, Jermyn, Stainforth, Hely, Kirby; Lieutenant Evatt, and Lieutenant Baxter, slightly; Lieutenant Mr. Lachlan, severely; Lieutenant M'Farlane, Lieutenant Dix, slightly; Lieutenant Patterson, severely; Lieutenant Hughes, slightly; Lieutenant Sheridan, Lieutenants Veith and Myers, slightly; Lieutenant M Dougal, Ensign Torrens; Ensign Jack, son, slightly. 5th Batt. 60th Foot-Lieutenant Ingersleben, slightly. 2d Batt. 66th Foot-Captain Ferns, Lieutenant Hicken, slightly; Lieutenants Harvey and L'Estrange, Lieutenants Chambers and M'Carthy, slightly; Lieu Elvas, May 22nd, 1811. My Lord;-1 enclose a letter of the 21st instant, which I have received from Marshal Sir William Beresford, containing a letter from General Gazan to Marshal Soult, which had been intercepted by some of our parties.-General Gazan, wounded himself, was marching with the wounded; and from his account of those with him, from the account of those at Almendrelejo, and those left on the ground at Albuera, from the numbers found dead on the field, and the prisoners, the Marshal computes the enemy's loss not to fall short of 9,000 men. I have the honour to be, &c. WELLINGTON. Camp near Albuera, 21st May, 1811. My Lord;-I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship the accompanying intercepted letters of some importance; after the severe battle we had, it is satisfactory to know that our calculations of the enemy's loss were not exaggerated, and you will see by Gen. Gazan's letter to Marshal Soult, that in killed and wounded it cannot be less than 8,000 men: left dead on the field and taken, we have the knowledge of near three thousand; Gen. Gazan states that he has more than four thousand wounded with him; three hundred and twenty were at Almendralejo by the same letters; Gazan says many have died on the road, and which we know must have been the case, as it die in numbers, and a precipitate-retreat is in the few first days that the bad cases and want of convenient carriage must increase the mortality; thus we can scarcely calculate the loss of the enemy from these data at less than nine thousand men. Almendralejo, and I propose putting a Our advance was close to Azuchal and strong column of Infantry in march towards those places to-morrow morning, and shall accompany it. I have, &c. W. C. BERESFORD. (Translation.) Ribera, 19th May, 1811.' Monsieur le Marechal; I have the honour to report to your Excellency that column which is infinitely more numerous I am just arrived with the whole of the than I could have believed. I am en deavouring to organize it, in order to avoid disasters, and particularly plunder and which I found at the highest pitch ing, which would make us die of hunger, this morning upon my arrival at Almendralejo. I found upon my arrival here a letter from M. Le Normand to Major D'Aubersac. I annex it herewith, after having acquainted myself with its contents. As I imagine that it can be only the 9th corps which is at Almaraz, I write from hence to the Count d'Erlon, in order to induce him to hasten his march and to join you. However as it is also possible that they may be troops belonging to the army of the centre, commanded by Gen. D'Armagnac, I write to him likewise, in order that he may move towards you.I send an answer to Captain Le Normand to intimate to him that he should correspond with your Excellency, Major accounts, and considered in every view, I found it my duty to decline, proposing that in the above-mentioned case, that General should take the command who brought the greatest number of forces, the others being to be considered as auxiliaries; proposition which, I flatter myself, was as proper in itself as it was well received, as your Excellency will perceive from the copies of my letter to Lord Wellington, and his satisfactory answer, which are both subjoined.-I immediately addressed a copy of the memorial of Lord Wellington to General Blake, who declared his assent to the plan, and to the proposal which I had made, the propriety of which has been still more confirmed by the happy results of the glorious battle of Albuera, in which, in consequence of the above arrangement, the distinguished Marshal Beresford commanded. On the first accounts that arrived of the approach of Marshal Soult towards Estremadura, Senor Blake made arrangements for uniting his troops with those of the allied army, with so much D'Aubersac having rejoined the army; I have ordered him to collect a large convoy of provisions, and to accompany it to you, that it may the more securely reach you. The great heat will do a great deal of harm to our wounded, the number of whom amounts to more than four thousand; especially as we have only five surgeons to dress them. Some have died upon the road; amongst them M. la Pierre, Chief de Battalion of the 103d regiment. I am still without any news of the Chief d'Escadron La Barthe; I shall bave the honour of informing you the very moment I shall have been able to communicate with him. Spanish parties are at Los Santos and at Fuente del Maestro; and have appeared this morning at Almendralejo and Villa Franca. They made inquiries at the latter place as to the march of our column; and they give out that four hundred horse and a strong column of infantry are to arrive to-day at Los Santos; I do not give any credit to this movement, but at all events we shall see them, and I shall try to escape them. I beg your Excellence to receive the as-precision, according to the plan agreed surance of the sincere and respectful devotion with which I have the honour to be, (Signed) The Gen. of Divison, GAZAN. SPAIN.-Cadiz, May 24, 1811.-Extract of On the 26th of Apri last, I informed your Excellency, that the extraordinary rise of the river Guadiana, carrying off the flying bridge erected opposite to Jurumena, had cut off the communication of this part of Estremadura with Portugal, and prevented my interview with Lord Wellington at Yelves. On this account he transmitted to me a written memorial, in which he explained his ideas as to the operations which appeared proper to him in Estramadura, and which were very conformable to mine, except in one article, which, as it directly affected myself, I did not think it right to admit. The point was this: that it laid down the principle, that wherever different corps of the allied armies should be united to give battle to the enemy, that General possessed of the highest military rank and of the longest standing should take the command of the whole. This would have necessarily imposed upon me the chief command—a circumstance which, on many upon, that he might be said to have calculated to a moment the time for carrying the measure into effect in all its parts, since his forces joined at eleven on Soult, whose object was to attack the allied the night before the battle, unknown to army, which he supposed not to have formed a junction with the Spanish troops, and to be alone on the heights of Albuera; that point having this particular circumstance attached to it, that it was the position which Lord Wellington had fixed on for giving battle.-There on the 16th of this month the troops of the three alliednations assembled, and there the most cordial harmony reigned among the generals, and the most fraternal union among the soldiers; the strongest disposition to give mutual aid at every risk, and the most ardent desire to assist each other by mutual efforts. The glory of the triumph has been so profusely and at the same time so. equally shared, that all have gained trophies, and none are obliged to borrow from the laurels of another.-Marshal Soult, with an army somewhat inferior to ours in infantry, but superior in cavalry and artillery, did not delay for a moment his meditated attack. He advanced against our position, which was close to the village of Albuhera, and the centre of the line: but this was soon discovered to be a false attack, and that his intention mon on such occasions, were the object of general admiration. The only wish was to fight and conquer, be the danger what it might. The Generals of Brigade, with out waiting for the bulk of their divisions to come into action, were already engaged by the side of the advanced troops. There was not a man who was not at his post, and every one was determined to maintain it with that valour which is the triumph of individual and military honour.-Soult, without being able to come in sight of Badajos, commenced his retreat early in the morning of yesterday by Vilalba and Almendralejo, leaving in the woods where he was encamped several dead, and more than 200 wounded, whom he could not remove or send with the others to the neighbouring towns. He is pursued and observed by the Conde de Penne Villemur with the cavalry, the vanguard of General Lardizabal, and some English light troops. was to gain the right flank, which con- a coolness, and at the same time an ardour sisted of Spanish troops, whom he attacked which excited universal enthusiasm. The vigorously with the greatest part of his order, precision, and velocity of the moveforce, and whom by successively deploy-ments, amidst a profound silence, uncoming he must have turned, and got into their rear. Our second line and corps of reserve, however, which were skilfully posted, advanced rapidly to our relief, supporting our first line, and maintaining a most obstinate and bloody combat. The enraged enemy repeated his attacks, bringing up continual reinforcements; but he always met with other reinforcements on our side, which remained impenetrable for seven hours, though he employed, to no purpose, all the intrepidity of the Polish cavalry, and the formidable fire of a numerous artillery which thundered without intermission. At half past two in the afternoon he gave way, and began to retreat without ceasing to combat. He was then charged and pursued in his retreat towards the woods and heights which he meant to occupy, leaving the field of battle covered with his dead, and with a considerable number of wounded, whom he could not carry off; who having been inundated by the heavy showers that fell during the action, formed a most horrid spectacle, the rivulets that poured down from the heights overflowing with blood. The loss of the enemy upon the most moderate calculation, confirmed by the reports of several deserters, amounts to 7,000 men. Among the killed is Gen. Werle, who remained on the field of battle, and General Pepin, who died during the night in consequence of his wounds. Generals Gazan and Brix retired wounded. Our loss has been very great, though inferior to that of the enemy. General Blake, who was always at the head of the troops wherever danger called, had his left arm grazed by a musketball, which fortunately only tore his coat and shirt without doing him farther injury. In this way he offered the most effectual example of coolness and bravery to his officers, being constantly in the foremost ranks during the whole of the battle. Having been a close observer of this obstinate battle, I will not attempt to particularize individuals; for all the Generals, officers, and troops surpassed themselves in valour and steadiness. They displayed These are the particulars which I have felt it my duty to lay before your Excellency of the battle of Albuera, the able manoeuvres in which, directed by Marshal Beresford, in concurrence with General Blake, obtained a great victory, which promises the most important consequences. God guard your Excellency, &c. PORTUGAL. THE WAR.-Proclamations of Lord Viscount Wellington, K. B. Marshal General of the Armies of H. R. E. the Prince Regent of Portugal, &c. &c. &c. The Portuguese Nation is informed, that the cruel enemy, who had invaded Portugal, and laid waste the country, has been compelled to evacuate and retire be hind the Agueda, after having suffered great losses. The inhabitants of the invaded districts may now return with security to their homes, and begin anew their occupations, and domestic arrangements. The Marshal General, however, reminds them of the contents of the Proclamation he addressed to them in the month of Ar gust last, a copy of which is by the side of [following] the present. (To be continued.) Published by R. BAGSHAW, Brydges-Street, Covent Garden :-Sold also by J. BUDD, Pall-Mall, LONDON:-Printed by T: C. Hansard, Peterborough-Court, Fleet-Street, |