general, pushed through the town, and forced their way across a bridge of planks into the enemy's encampment, of which, and the batteries, immediate possession was gained. In the mean time some artillerymen stormed and took the enemy's remaining field piece.

Enclosed I have the honour to transmit a return of ordnance taken. Lieutenant-Col. Williams will have the honour of delivering to you a stand of colours of the 68th regiment, James City light infantry, and one of the 1st battalion 85th regiment. The exact numbers of the enemy it is difficult to ascertain. From the woody country, and the strength of their position, our troops have sustained some loss; that of the enemy was very considerable every exertion was made to collect the wounded Americans, who were attended by a surgeon of their own, and by the British surgeons, who performed amputations on such as required it, and afforded every assistance in their power; the dead bodies of such as could be collected were also carefully buried.

I beg leave on this occasion to express the obligations I owe to Lieutenant-Colonel Napier and Lieutenant-Colonel Williams, for their kind and able assistance, to Major Malcolm,and Captain Smith, and all the officers and men, whose zeal and spirited conduct entitle them to my best acknowledgments. I have the honour to be, &c.

SYDNEY BECKWITH. Quarter-Master-General. Right Hon. J. B. WARREN, K. B. &c.

Return of Ordnance Stores taken in Hampton, on the 25th of June. Four twelve-pounder guus on tra

velling carriages,3 six-pounder guns on travelling carriages, with limbers, and a proportion of ammunition for each of the above calibres; 3 covered waggons and their horses.

A Return of the Killed, Wounded, and Missing at Hampton, 26th June, 1813.

Total-5 killed; 33 wounded; 10 missing.

London Gazette Extraordinary, Aug. 16, 1813.

WAR DEPARMENT.

Downang-street, Aug. 16.

His Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Orange has arrived at this office with dispatches addressed to Earl Bathurst, by Field Marshal the Marquis of Wellington, of which the following are copies :

San Estevan, August, 1 1813. My Lord, Two practical breaches having been effected at San Sebastian on the 24th of July, orders were given that they should be attacked on the morning of the 25th. I am concerned to have to report that this attempt to obtain possession of the place failed, and that our loss was very considerable.

Marshal Soult had been appointed Lieutenant de l'Empereur and Commander in Chief of the French Armies in Spain and the Southern Provinces of France, by a Decret Imperial on the 1st of July, and he joined and took the command of the army on the 13th of July, which having been joined nearly about the same time by the corps which had been in Spain under the command of General Clauzel, and by other reinforce

ments,

ments, was called the Army of Spain, and re-formed into nine divisions of infantry, forming the right, centre, and left, under the command of General Reille, Comte d'Erlon, and General Clanzel, as Lieutenant-Generals, and a reserve under General Villatte; and two divisions of dragoons and one of light cavalry, the two former under the command of Generals Treillard and Tilly, and the latter under the command of General Pierre Soult. There was besides allotted to the army a large proportion of artillery, and a considerable number of guns had already joined.

The allied army was posted, as I have already informed your Lordship, in the passes of the mountains. Major-General Byng's brigade of British infantry, and General Murillo's division of Spanish infantry, were on the right, in the pass of Roncesvalles. Lieutenant-General Sir Lowry Cole was posted at Viscarret, to support those troops; and Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Picton, with the third division, at Olaque, in reserve.

Lieutenant General Sir Rowland Hill occupied the valley of Bastan with the remainder of the second division, and the Portuguese division, under the Conde de Amarante, detaching General Campbell's Portuguese brigade to Los Alduides, within the French territory. The light and seventh divisions occupied the heights of Santa Barbara, and the town of Vera, and the Puerto de Echalar, and kept the communication with the valley of Pastan; and the sixth division was in reserve at San Estevan. General Longa's division kept the communication between the

troops at Vera and those under Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Graham, and Marischal del Campo Giron, on the great road.

The Conde del Abisbal blockaded Pampeluna.

On the 24th, Marshal Scult collected the right and left wings of his army, with one division of his centre, and two divisions of cavalry, at St. Jean de Pied de Port, and on the 25th attacked, with between thirty and forty thousand men, General Byng's post at Roncesvalles. Lieutenant-General Sir Lowry Cole moved up to his support with the fourth division, aud these officers were enabled to maintain their post throughout the day. But the enemy turned it in the afternoon; and LieutenantGeneral Sir Lowry Cole considered it to be necessary to withdraw in the night; and he marched to the neighbourhood of Zubiri.

In the actions which took place on this day, the 20th regiment distinguished themselves.

Two divisions of the centre of the enemy's army attacked Sir Rowland Hill's position in the Puerto de Maya, at the head of the valley of Bastan, in the afternoon of the same day. The brunt of the action fell upon MajorGeneral Pringle's and Major-General Walker's brigades in the second division, under the command of Lieutenant General the Hon. W. Stewart. These troops were at first obliged to give way; but having been supported by Major-General Barnes's brigade of the 7th division, they regained that part of their post, which was the key of the whole, and would have enabled them to reassume it, if circumstances had permitted it:

but

but Sir Rowland Hill having been apprised of the necessity that Sir Lowry Cole should retire, deemed it expedient to withdraw his troops likewise to Irurita; and the enemy did not advance on the following day beyond the Puerto de Maya.

Notwithstanding the enemy's superiority of numbers, they acquired but little advantage over these brave troops during the seven hours they were engaged. All the regiments charged with the bay. onet. The conduct of the 82d regiment, which moved up with Major-General Barnes's brigade, is particularly reported. Lieutenant-General the Hon. W. Stewart was slightly wounded.

I was not apprised of these events till late in the night of the 25th and 26th; and I adopted immediate measures to concentrate the army to the right, still providing for the siege of San Sebastian, and for the blockade of Pamplona.

This would have been effected early on the 27th, only that Lieutenant-General Sir Lowry Cole and Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton concurred in thinking their post at Zubiri not tenable for the time during which it would have been necessary to wait in it. They therefore retired early on the 27th, and took up a position to cover the blockade of Pamplona, having the right, consisting of the 3d division, in front of Huarte, and extending to the hills beyond Olaz, and the left, consisting of the 4th division, Major-General Byng's, and Brigadier-General Campbell's Portuguese brigade, on the heights in front of Villalba, having their left at a chapel behind Sorausen, on the high road from

Ostiz to Pamplona, and their right resting upon a height which defended the high road from Zubiri and Roncesvalles. General Murillo's division of Spanish infantry, and that part of the Conde del Abisbal's corps not engaged in the blockade, were in reserve. From the latter, the regiment of Travia, and that of El Principe, were detached to occupy part of the hill on the right of the fourth division, by which the road from Zubiri was defended.

The British cavalry under Lieutenant-General Sir Stapleton Cotton were placed near Huarte on the right, being the only ground on which it was possible to use the cavalry.

The river Lanz runs in the valley which was on the left of the allied, and on the right of the French army, along the road to Ostiz. Beyond this river there is another range of mountains connected with Ligasso and Marcalain, by which places it was now necessary to communicate with the rest of the army.

I joined the third and fourth division just as they were taking up their ground on the 27th: and shortly afterwards the enemy formed their army on a mountain, the front of which extends from the high road to Ostiz to the high road to Zubiri, and they placed one division on their left of that road on a height, and in some villages in front of the third division. They had here also a large body of cavalry.

In a short time after they had taken up their ground, the enemy attacked the hill on the right of the fourth division, which was then occupied by one battalion of the

4th Portuguese regiment, and by the Spanish regiment of Pravia. The troops defended their ground, and drove the enemy from it with the bayonet. Seeing the importance of this hill to our position, I reinforced it with the 40th regiment; and this regiment with the Spanish regiments of El Principe and Pravia held it from this time, notwithstanding the repeated efforts of the enemy, during the 27th and 28th, to obtain possession of it.

Nearly at the same time that the enemy attacked this height on the 27th, they took possession of the village of Sorausen on the read to Ostiz, by which they acquired the communication by that read, and they kept up a fire of muskety, along the line till it was dark..

We were joined on the morning of the 28th by the sixth division of infantry, and I directed that the heights should be occupied on the Jeft of the valley of the Lanz; and that the sixth division should form across the valley in rear of the left of the fourth division, resting their right on Oricain, and their left upon the heights above-mentioned.

The sixth division had scarcely taken up their position when they were attacked by a very large force of the enemy, which had been assembled in the village of Sorausen.

Their front was, however, so well defended by the fire of their own light troops from the heights on their left, and by the fire from the heights occupied by the fourth division and Brigadier-General Campbell's Portuguese brigade, that the enemy were soon driven back with immense loss, from a

fire on their front, both flanks, and

rear.

In order to extricate their troops from the difficulty in which they found themselves in their situation in the valley of the Lanz, the enemy now attacked the height on which the left of the fourth division stood, which was occupied by the seventh Caçadores, of which they obtained a momentary possession. They were attacked, however,again by the seventh Caçadores, supported by Major-General Ross, at the head of his brigade of the fourth division, and were driven down with great loss.' 1.

The battle now became gene-" ral along the whole front of the i heights, occupied by the fourth division, and in every part in our favour, excepting where one bat talion of the tenth Portuguese TER" giment of Major-General Campú bell's brigade was posted.. This but... talion having been overpowered," and having been obliged to give way immediately on the sight of Major-General Ross's brigade, the enemy established themselves on our line, and Major-General Ross was obliged to withdraw from his post.

Both

I, however, ordered the 27th and 48th regiments to charge, first that body of the enemy which had first established themselves on the height, and next those on the left. atacks succeeded, and the enemy were driven down with immense loss; and the 6th division having moved forward at the same time to a situation in the valley nearer to the left of the 4th, the attack upon this front ceased entirely, and was continued but faintly on other points of our line.

In the course of this contest, the gallant

gallant fourth division, which has so frequently been distinguished in this army, surpassed their former good conduct. Every regiment charged with the bayonet; and the 40th, the 7th, 20th, and 23d, four different times. Their officers set them the example, and Major-General Ross had horses shot under him. The Portuguese troops likewise behaved admirably; and I had every reason to be satisfied with the conduct of the Spanish regiments del Principe and Pravia.

I had ordered Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill to march by Lanz upon Lizaso, as soon as I found that Lieutenant-Generals Sir Thomas Picton and Sir Lowry Cole had moved from Zubiri; and Lieutenant-General the Earl of Dalhousie, from St. Estevan, to the same place, where both arrived on the 28th, and the seventh division came to Marcalain.

The enemy's force which had been in front of Sir Rowland Hill followed his march, and arrived at Ostiz on the 29th. The enemy thus reinforced, and occupying a position in the mountains which appeared little liable to attack, and finding that they could make no impression on our front, determined to endeavour to turn our left by an attack on Sir Rowland Hill's corps.

They reinforced with one division the troops which had been already opposed to him, still occupying the same points in the mountain, on which was formed their principal force, but they drew into their left the troops which occupied the heights opposite the third division, and they had, during the night of the 20th and 30th, VOL. LV.

occupied in strength the crest of the mountain on our left of the Lanz, opposite to the sixth and seventh divisions; thus connecting their right in their position with the divisions detached to attack Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland

Hill.

1, however, determined to attack their position, and ordered Lieu tenant-General the Earl of Dalhousie to possess himself of the top of the mountain in his front, by which the enemy's right would be turned, and Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton to cross the heights on which the enemy's left had stood, and to turn their left by the road to Roncesvalles. All the arrangements were made to attack the front of the enemy's position, as soon as the effect of these movements on their flanks should begin to appear. Major-General, the Hon. Edward Pakenham, whom I had sent to take the command of the sixth division, Major-General Pack having been wounded, turned the village of Sorausen, as soon as the Earl of Dalhousie had driven the enemy from the mountain, by which that flank was defended: and the sixth divison, and MajorGeneral Byng's brigade, which had relieved the fourth division on the left of our position on the road to Ostiz, instantly attacked and carried that village.

Lieutenant-General Sir Lowry Cole likewise attacked the front of the enemy's main position with the 7th Caçadores, supported by the 11th Portuguese regiment, the 40th, and the battalion under Cclonel Bingham, consisting of the Queen's and 52d regiment. All these operations obliged the enemy to abandon a position which is one 0

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