Return of ordnance, carriages, and ammunition, captured from the enemy in the action of the 21st of June, 1813.

Vittoria, June 23, 1813. Brass ordnance on travelling car

riages.

23 twelve-pounder guns, 43 eight-pounder guns, 43 fourpounder guns, 3 eight-inch howitzers, 20 six-inch howitzers, 3 four and 2 five-inch howitzers, 2 sixinch mortars. -Total 151.

Caissons-56 twelve-pounder guns, 76 eight-pounder guns, 68 four-pounder guns, 7 eight-inch howitzers, 54 six-inch howitzers, 5 four and 2 five-inch howitzers, 149 small arm ammunition.— Total 415.

Rounds of ammunition-1936 twelve-pounder guns, 5424 eightpounder guns, 3434 four-pounder guns, 97 eight-inch howitzers, 3358 six-inch howitzers.-Total 14,249.

1,973,400 musket ball cartridges, 40, 665lb. of gunpowder 56 forage waggons, 44 forge waggons.

R. D. HENAGAN, Commissary Royal Artillery. A. DICKSON,

Lieut.-Col. commanding Artillery.

Irunzun, June 24.

My lord. The departure of Captain Fremantle having been delayed till this day, by the necessity of making up the returns, I have to report to your lordship, that we have continued to pursue the enemy, whose rear reached Pamplona this day. We have done them as much injury as has been in our power, considering the state of the weather and of the roads; and this day the advanced guard, consisting of Major-General Victor Baron

Alten's brigade, and the 1st and 3d battalions of the 95th regiment, and Major Ross's troop of horse artillery, took from them the remaining gun they had. They have entered Pamplona, therefore, with one howitzer only. General Clausel, who had under his command that part of the army of the north, and one division of the army of Portugal, which was not in the action of the 21st, approached Vittoria on the 23d, when he heard of the action of the preceding day, and finding there the 6th division, which had just arrived, under the command of Major-Gen. the Hon. E. Pakenham, he retired upon la Guardia, and bas since marched upo Tudela de Ebro. It is probable that the enemy will continue their retreat into France. I have detached General Giron with the Gallician army in pursuit of the convoy which moved from Vittoria on the morning of the 20th, which I hope he will overtake before it reaches Bayonne.

I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) WELLINGTON.

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June, and having ascertained the result of the action of the 21st, still remained in the neighbourhood of Logrono on the 24th, and till late on the 25th, and had not marched for Tudela, as I had been informed, when I wrote my dispatch of the 24th ult.; I conceived, therefore, that there was prospect of intercepting his retreat; and after sending the light troops towards Roncesvalles in pursuit of the army under Joseph Buonaparte, I moved the light, 4th, 3d, and 7th divisions, and Colonel Grant's and Major-General Ponsonby's brigades of cavalry, towards Tudela, and the 5th and 6th divisions, and the household and General D'Orban's cavalry, from Vittoria to Salvatierra, towards Logrono, in hopes that I should be able to intercept General Clausel. He, however, made some extraordinary forced marches, followed by Gen. Mina with his own cavalry, and the regiment of Spanish cavalry under the command of Don Julian Sanchez, and arrived at Tudela on the evening of the 27th. He there crossed the Ebro, but the Alcade having informed him that we were upon the road, he immediately recrossed, and marched towards Zaragossa, where, I understand from General Mina, he has since arrived.

General Mina is still following the enemy, and he has taken from him two pieces of cannon, and some stores in Tudela, and 200 prisoners. Lieut.-General Clinton has also taken possession of five guns, which the enemy left at Logrono. In the mean time the troops under the command of Lieut.-General Sir R. Hill have kept the blockade of Pampeluna,

and have moved through the mountains to the head of the Bidassoa, the enemy having entirely retired into France on that side.

I enclose the report which I have received from Lieut.-General Sir T. Graham, of his actions with the enemy on the 24th and 25th of June, which appear to have been more serious than I had imagined, when I addressed your lordship on the 26th ult.

General Foy had with him the garrison of Bilboa, and those of Mondragon and Tolosa, besides his division of the army of Portugal, and his force was considerable. It gives me great satisfaction to see that the Spanish and Portuguese troops mentioned by Sir T. Graham have conducted themselves well.

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The lieutenant-general has continued to push on the enemy by the high road, and has dislodged them from all the strong positions which they had taken; and yesterday a brigade of the army of Gallicia, under the command of General Castanos, attacked and drove the enemy across the Bidassoa, by the bridge of Irun. The enemy still maintained a post in a strong stone block-house, which served as a head to the bridge, and some troops in some loopholed houses on the right of the Bidassoa: but General Giron having sent for some Spanish artillery, and Capt. Dubourdieu's brigade of nine-pounders having been sent to their support, the fire of these guns obliged the enemy to evacuate, and they blew up the blockhouse, and burnt the bridge.

Sir Thomas Graham reports, that in all these affairs the Spanish troops have behaved remarkably

well.

well. The garrison at Passages, consisting of 150 men, surrendered on the 30th, to the troops under Colonel Longa.

The enemy, on seeing some of our ships off Deba, evacuated the town and fort of Guetaria on the 1st instant, and the garrison went, by sea, to St. Sebastian. This place is blockaded by land by a detachment of Spanish troops. They have likewise evacuated Castro, and the garrison have gone by sea to Santona.

In my former reports, I have made your lordship acquainted with the progress of the army of reserve of Andalusia, under General the Conde de Abisbal, to join the army, and he arrived at Burgos on the 25th and 26th ultimo.

When the enemy retired across the Ebro, previous to the battle of Vittoria, they left a garrison of about 700 men in the castle of Pancorbo, by which they commanded, and rendered it impossible for us to use, the great communication from Vittoria to Burgos; I, therefore, requested the Conde del Abisbal, on his march to Miranda, to make himself master of the town, and lower works, and to blockade the place as closely as he could. I have not received the report of his first operations, but I understand he carried the town and lower fort by assault on the 28th; and I have now the pleasure to enclose his report of the final success of his operation, and the copy of the capitulation, by which the garrison have surrendered.

The decision and dispatch with which this place has been subdued, are highly credible to the Conde del Abisbal, and the officers and troops under his command.

I am concerned to inform your lordship, that Lieut.-General Sir J. Murray raised the siege of Tarragona, I cannot say on what day, and embarked his troops. A great proportion of the artillery and stores were left in the batteries. It appears that Marshal Suchet, with a considerable body of troops, had moved from Valencia by Tortosa, and General Maurice Mathieu, with another corps, from the neighbourhood of Barcelona, for the purpose of impeding Sir John Murray's operations, which he did not think himself sufficiently strong to continue. I have not yet received from Sir J. Murray the detailed account of these transactions; Lieut.General Lord William Bentinck, however, who had joined and had taken the command of the army at the Col de Balaguer, on the 17th, had brought it back to Alicant, where he arrived himself on the 23d, and was proceeding to carry into execution my instructions.

When Marshal Suchet marched into Catalonia, the Duke del Parque had advanced, and established his head-quarters at San Felipe de Xativa, and his troops on the Xucar, where he still was on the 24th.

Tolosa, June 26, 1813.

My Lord, It was so late on the 23d, when I received the order to march by the Puerto St. Adrian to Villa Franca, and the weather and the road were so extremely bad, that but a small part of the column could get over the mountain that day; and it was not till late on the 24th, that I could move from Segura on Villa Franca, with MajorGeneral Anson's brigade of Light Dragoons, the light battalions of

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the King's German Legion, and the two Portuguese brigades, the rest of the troops not being yet come up.

The rear of the enemy's column was then just passing on the great road from Villa Real to Villa Franca, and he occupied in cousiderable force some very strong ground on the right of the great road, and of the river Oria, in frout of the village of Olaverria, and about a mile and an half from Villa Franca.

Major-General Bradford's brigade marched by Olaveria, and was employed to dislodge the enemy on the right, while the remainder of the troops advanced by the Chaussée, defended by the enemy's tirailleurs on the heights, and a strong body at the village of Veasayn.

As the enemy reinforced the troops on the left, it became necessary to push on by the Chaussée, which was done by the light battalion under Col. Halkett, assisted and flanked by some companies of Major-Gen. Pack's Portuguese brigade; and this service was performed, in the most gallant style, by these brave troops, who drove the enemy from the village of Veasayn. The enemy having troops ready, posted on the succession of strong heights on each side of the deep valley, at the bottom of which the road runs, a considerable time became necessary to turn his flanks, during which he evacuated Villa Franca without further dispute.

The Portuguese brigades on the right and left of the valley, pushed on their advance to Yehasurido, and the troops assembled at Villa Franca. Here likewise the head of Gen. Giron's corps, and all Col,

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Longa's, arrived in the course of the evening.

The next morning (the 25th) the enemy evacuated Celequia: and as he had taken up a very strong position between that and Toloso, covering the Panpeluna road, the Spanish corps of Col. Longa was marched by Alzo te=" wards Lizarga, to turn his left, while Lieut.-Gen. Mendizabel was requested to dispatch some battalions from Aspeytia to turn his right, appuyed on a high mountaip, with an inaccessible ravine in front.

The enemy was driven from the summit of an important hill, lying between the Pampeluna and Vittoria roads, by a very skilful attack of Lieut.-Col. Williams, with two companies of the grenadiers of the 1st regiment, and three of the 4th Caçadores, belonging to Gen. Pack's brigade. The conduct of Lieut. Queiros, and of Ensign Vasconcelles, of the 4th Caçadores, was distinguished on this occasion. The latter officer lost an eye by a musket-shot.

This hill was immediately occupied by Major-Gen. Bradford's brigade, supported by the three line battalions of the king's German legion. The rest of the day was chiefly spent in skirmishing with the enemy's tirailleurs, to give time for the Spanish corps arriving at their destination.

A general attack began between six and seven in the evening. Two guns of Capt. Ramsay's troop, and two nine pounders of Capt. Dubourdieu's, under an escort of Capt. Childer's troop of 16th light dragoons, and of the advance of Col. Halkett's light battalions, were brought rapidly forward on the Chaussé",

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and fired with effect against several formed bodies of the enemy in the plain near the town; while the column, consisting of German light battalions, the brigade of guards, and a Spanish division of General Giron's, continued to adadvance by the Chaussée.

Two Spanish battalions, and one Portuguese, forming a separate column on the left of the Chaussée, passed quickly on the left of the

town.

General Bradford and the line battalions of the Germans driving in the enemy on their front, by the Pampeluna road, and Colonel Longa from the side of the mountains still more on the right, turning and forcing from very strong positions, all the posted bodies of the enemy on the right of the town.

Still the enemy held possession of the town, which was much more capable of defence than had been represented.

The Vittoria gate was barricadoed, and also the Pampeluna gate on the bridge; and both were flanked by convents and other large buildings occupied by the enemy, and the town was nowhere open. A nine-pounder was therefore brought up under cover of the fire of the light battalion, close to the gate, which was thus barst

I have not got the return, but I believe about two hundred prisoners were taken by the two Spanish corps, and many wounded men were left here. The enemy's loss in killed, too, must have been considerable.

This place has, besides the defences at the gates, new towers to flank the exterior wall, and a strong wood block-house in the square, which shews the importance the enemy attached to its occupation.

It would be unjust to the troops employed in this assault, not to mention their exemplary conduct when in possession; there was no excess committed. The German legion and Colonel i onga's corps passed on, and formed immediately beyond the town..

I have the honour to enclose a return of the killed and wounded of the British and Portuguese in these two days, which, considering the nature of the service, could not