tion to the conduct of Major Cocks, and in one instance very recently, in the attack of the hornwork of the castle of Burgos; and I consider his loss as one of the greatest importance to this army, and to His Majesty's service.

Notwithstanding the efforts of the enemy, our troops are established within about one hundred yards of the enemy's interior line, which we have it in our power to assault; and we have effected a good breach in another part of the same line, and our troops are established close to the breach.

We are carrying on our works under ground, and I hope that I shall have another mine in readiness in a day or two.

The enemy have not made any movement to interrupt our operations; they are still upon the Ebro.

By the accounts which I have from Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill of the 7th instant, it appears that Marshal Soult joined Joseph Buonaparte on the frontier of Valencia and Murcia, on the 29th September. A detachment of Marshal Soult's army occupied Albacete on the 3d instant, and a small detachment of cavalry was as far forward as Minaya on the 6th instant.

I have not yet heard of General Ballasteros having passed the Sierra Morena, or at all of his movements since the 17th of September, when he entered Grenada; nor have I heard from Major-General Cooke, since he received my directions for the movement of the troops under his command.

I have reports, however, that the troops marched from Seville on the 28th Sept. P. S. I have the honour to inclose the return of our loss since the 5th instant.

Return of Killed, Wounded, and Missing of the Army under the command of His
Excellency General the Marquis of Wellington, K. B. in the Siege of the
Castle of Burgos, from the 6th to the 10th of October, 1812, inclusive.
Royal Artillery-2 rank and file killed; 1 capt. 1 lieut. 7 rank and file wounded.
Coldstream Guards, 1st Batt.-1 ensign, 11 rank and file, killed; 27 rank and
file, wounded; 1 rank and file missing.

3d Guards, 1st Batt.—4 rank and file, killed; 1 captain, 2 serjeants, 1 drummer, 10 rank and file, wounded; 1 rank and file missing.

1st Foot, or Royal Scots, 3d Batt.-1 captain wounded.

9th Foot, 1st Batt.-I lieutenant wounded.

11th Foot, 1st Batt.-1 rank and file wounded.

24th Foot, 2d Batt.-2 rank and file killed; 6 rank and file wounded.

32d Foot, 1st Batt-3 rank and file wounded.

36th Foot, 1st Batt-1 rank and file killed.

38th Foot-1 lieutenant, 2 ensigns, wounded.

42d Foot, 1st Batt.-1 serjeant, 6 rank and file, killed; 20 rank and file wounded. 58th Foot, 2d Batt.-1 staff, 1 rank and file, killed; serjeant, 1 drummer, 7 rank and file, wounded; 2 rank and file missing.

60th Foot, 5th Batt.-2 rank and file killed.

79th Foot, 1st Batt.-1 major, 6 rank and file, killed; 1 serjeant, 27 rank and file, wounded; 3 rank and file missing.

1st Line Batt. King's German Legion-1 captain, 19 rank and file, killed; 23 rank and file wounded.

2d do. do.- serjeant, 18 rank and file, killed; 1 captain, 1 lieutenant, 2 serjeants, I drummer, 45 rank and file, wounded.

5th do. do.—I lieutenant, 2 serjeants, 10 rank and file, killed; 1 captain, 1 lieutenant, 1 serjeant, 24 rank and file, wounded.

Total British loss-1 major, I captain, 1 lieutenant, 1 ensign, 1 staff, 4 serjeants, 82 rank and file, killed; 5 captains, 5 lieutenants, 2 ensigns, 7 serjeants, 3 drummers, 200 rank and file, wounded; 7 rank and file missing. Total Portuguese loss-1 captain, 1 lieutenant, 34 rank and file, killed; 1 major, 3 captains, 1 serjeant, C5 rank and file, wounded; 11 rank and file missing. Total British and Portuguese loss-1 major, 2 captains, 2 lieutenants, 1 ensign, 1 staff, 4 serjeants, 116 rank and file, killed; I major, 8 captains, 5 lieutenants, 2 ensigns, 8 serjeants, 3 drummers, 265 rank and file, wounded; 18 rank and file missing.

S. A. GOODMAN, D. A. A. Gen.

Names of British Officers killed and wounded.

KILLED.

Coldstream Guards, 1st Batt.-Ensign Buckeridge. 58th Foot, 2d Batt.-Adjutant Hobson.

79th Foot, 1st Batt.-Major the Honourable E. Cocks. 1st Line Batt. King's German Legion-Captain Saffe. 5th do. do.-Lieutenant Winckler.

WOUNDED.

1st Royal Scots-*Captain Stewart, Acting Engineer, slightly.

38th. Foot-*Captain M'Pherson, severely (since dead); *Ensigns Lawrence and *Twigg, slightly.

Royal Artillery-Captain Power and Lieutenant Elgie, slightly.

3d Quards, 1st Batt.-Captain Clitherow, severely.

9th Foot, 1st Batt.-Lieutenant Dumarcusq, Assistant Engineer, severely.

2d Line Batt. King's German Legion-Capt. Langrehr and Lieut. Wynecke, severely. 5th do. do. Captain Lodders and Lieutenant Goeben, severely.

Names of Portuguese Officers killed and wounded.

5th Cacadores-Captain Henry Perry.

Artillery-Lieutenant F. X. Parreira.

KILLED.

WOUNDED.

12th Regiment of the Line-Major Arnott, and Captains A. de Madeira and L. de Madeira.

15th do. Captain Gama, Acting Engineer.

The Officers marked thus (*) were wounded on the Evening of the 4th and Morning of the 6th, but the Return was received too late for insertion.

Riga, October 3, 1812.-SIR, In my last I had the honour to inform you, that an attack on the Prussians in this vicinity was intended to take place about the 26th ultimo. A considerable body of troops, under Count Steinheil, left Riga on that day, and the gun-boats under the command of the English officers accompanied a strong division of forty Russian boats, besides ten launches, under the command of Admiral Muller, up the River Aa.

The enemy had withdrawn his troops from Schlock, and his other posts, on the approach of the boats. We therefore did not meet with any opposition until the 29th, when, about five miles below Mittau, the enemy had there placed three dif ferent booms across the river, about half a mile distant from each other. Within pistol-shot of the third boom, which was very strong, and well constructed, were placed three batteries of four guns each. The booms were soon destroyed, and as we arrived up, the enemy abandoned their positions with such precipitation, that four twenty-four-pounders were left in the works.

The English boats were always in advance, and Admiral Muller has desired me to say, how much he is pleased with the exertions of Captain Brenton and the lieutenants employed in the boats.

The flotilla took possession of Mittau about noon; the enemy had not time to remove some very considerable magazines of clothing, grain, and some arms and ammunition. He also left about four hundred sick and wounded in the town. In the evening, a detachment of the army entered the town.

The Prussians retreated from Olai upon Bourski, where they had about one hundred and twenty pieces of cannon, intended for the siege of this place; they there received reinforcements on the 29th, which Macdonald had sent them from Jacobstadt.

On the 30th the Russians were compelled to retire from before a force of twentyfive thousand men, who had nearly eighty pieces of cannon. As the troops had retired to the vicinity of Riga, the flotilla left Mittau in the evening of the 30th; and after destroying a bridge, which had been erected to facilitate the crossing of the troops and artillery, arrived at Danamunde last night.

October 4.-The enemy's works, which were of considerable strength at Olai, were destroyed.

The loss on the part of the Russians is estimated at two thousand in killed, wounded, and missing. The enemy must also have suffered severely, and many prisoners are arrived. I have the honour to be, &c.

(Signed)

Rear-Admiral Martin, &c. &c. &c. Aboukir.

War-Office, October 27, 1812.

HEW STEWART.

In consequence of the distinguished gallantry displayed by the 2d battalion of the 87th regiment, in successfully defending the breach at Tarifa, in Spain, on the 31st December, 1811, against a superior force of the enemy, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, has been pleased to approve of the word "Tarifa" being borne upon the colours and appointments of the 87th regiment, in addition to any other badges or devices which may have heretofore been granted to that regiment.

War-Office, October 27, 1812.

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1st Regiment of Life Guards-Lieutenant Gireen, from the 10th Light Dragoons, to be Captain of a Troop, without purchase.-Thomas Eman, Gent. late Captain in the 40th Foot, to be Adjutant, with the rank of Cornet and SubLieutenant.

2d do.-Assistant-Surgeon.

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Broughton to be Surgeon, with temporary rank. 3d Regiment of Dragoons-Cornet George Watson to be Lieutenant, vice Selby killed in action.

9th Regiment of Light Dragoons-Assistant-Surgeon Edward Purdon, from the 88th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Swift, who resigns.

10th do.-Hospital-Mate Samuel Jenks to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Purdon, whose appointment has not taken place.

18th do.-Cornet James Morris to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Mansfield, who retires.

22d do. Ensign James Boalth, from the 80th Foot, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Eden, promoted.

8th Regiment of Foot-Ensign William Bradford to be Lieutenant, vice Cumming, deceased.-Robert Macnair, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Bradford.

9th do.-Lieutenant John Macnamara to be Captain of a Company, vice Kenney, dead of his wounds.

To be Lieutenants.

Ensign James Scargill, vice Mathews, deceased.—Ensign Charles Carver, vice Macnamara.

To be Ensigns.

David Holmes, Gent. vice Scargill.-George Bolton, Gent. vice Carver. 11th do.-Lieutenant Charles B. Turner to be Captain of a Company, by purchase, vice Barker, who retires.-Ensign R. Ferrall to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Stewart, who resigns.

14th Regiment of Foot-Captain Trevor Stannus to be Major, vice Miller, deceased. Lieutenant M. C. Wilkinson to be Captain of a Company, vice Stannus.-Ensign Jacob Meek to be Lieutenant, vice Wilkinson.-Gentleman Cadet Henry Thomas Oakes, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Meek. 24th do.-Lieutenant John Ward to be Captain of a Company, without purchase, vice Irby, appointed to the 2d Regiment of Life Guards.

27th do. Ensign Robert Bakewell to be Lieutenant, vice Thompson, deceased.— James O'Connor, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Bakewell.

31st do.-Ensign James Elwyn to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wynne, appointed to the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards.

36th do.-Captain C. Harvey Smith, from the 40th Foot, to be Captain of a Company, vice Morrow, who exchanges -Quarter-Master-Serjeant John Manby to be Quarter-Master, vice Medley, promoted in the 2d Royal Veteran Battalion.

ERRATA.—In page 23, line 28, for “ 150,000,” read “ 1,500,000.”

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WE have been prevented inserting several of our Correspondent's favors from the length of an important article on the Battle of Aspern, which demands the strict attention of all Military Men, and indeed of every person who can feel interest in an event of the most decisive consequence to the future prospects of a great nation. The favors of G. C.-Lieutenant Scott-N. W. A.-J. N.-Diomedes-and those from other Correspondents, will appear in our following Number, or in a Supplement published on the 1st of that Month, containing many very valuable articles, and which will conclude the first Volume of this important Work.-If Diomedes will favor us with the Biographies he alludes to, we shall have much pleasure in attending to his communications.

The Gazette of Saturday the 16th, announces the Marquis of Wellington's appointment to the Colonelcy of the Blues, vice the Duke of Northumberland, who retires. Before entering into the causes which led to His Grace's resignation, we cannot avoid paying the unfeigned tribute of our respect and admiration to the conduct of the Prince Regent on this occasion, which must endear His Royal Highness to the whole army. Indeed, there can be but one sentiment on the subject of the illustrious Marquis's appointment to the command of this distinguished regiment.

Several incorrect statements of the causes which led to this vacancy having appeared in the public prints, we hasten to lay the following particulars before our Military Friends.

On the determination to send a part of the Blues to Portugal, two additional troops were added to the establishment. The Senior Lieutenant, an old and deserving officer, succeeded to one, and the Hon. Captain Murray, from the half-pay of the 28th Dragoons, on which he had remained nearly ten years, was appointed to the junior troop. The regiment consisted previously of eight troops, and the promotion had gone regularly in it. But the Colonel had neither the power to augment or diminish the establishment; it remained in the breast of a higher authority; and the illustrious Commander-in-Chief, to whom this authority was delegated, had the entire control over the new promotion. His Royal Highness never interfered in the promotion while the regiment consisted of the original eight troops. Lieutenant and Adjutant Taylor succeeded to the first troop, upon the augmentation as before stated, and the other being given out of the regiment, the Duke of Northumberland was pleased to remonstrate, not adverting to the circumstance of his own inability, as Colonel, to make any change in the establishment of the regiment.

Upon the augmentation of the Foot Guards, a great proportion of whom have been upon constant service for the last twenty years, while the Blues have remained in snug quarters since their return from Flanders; and recently, upon the addition of two troops to the Life Guards, the Duke of York's control over the new commissions was never once questioned, although the Colonels of these distinguished regiments are all of high rank and influence, and some of them nearly allied to the throne.

While we regret that the Duke of Northumberland should have entertained the erroneous idea, that the Blues were to be exempt from the jurisdiction of the Commander-in-Chief, which has ever been willingly acknowledged and submitted to by the household troops, which report direct to the sovereign, whereas the Blues can only approach the ear of His Majesty through the medium of the Commander-inChief, we take this opportunity of congratulating the army upon the firmness manifested by His Royal Highness, and the executive Government, throughout the whole of the proceedings connected with this affair.

EDITOR.