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left scarcely advanced, but fired at a distance; finding, probably, our preparations made with more strength than they imagined, they faced about and retired, leaving several killed and wounded. The enemy's force appeared to consist of between seven and eight hundred men; and I have only to regret that they did not advance nearer, for, had they done so, I am convinced a most complete and entire destruction of their whole force would have taken place. Brig.-gen. Porlier detached his sharp-shooters to harass their rear; they succeeded in killing and wounding several, and making some prisoners; on the whole, I conceive the loss of the French in the three several days, in killed, wounded, and prisoners, amounts to about one hundred and fifty men.The whole of the guns, &c. in Santona and Laredo are destroyed, consisting of twenty-two 24-pounders and four 13inch brass mortars.-On the 8th in the morning, according to your directions, I. withdrew the guns and ammunition, &c. and re-embarked with the people, without any loss; the Spaniards only having seven men wounded.—I have now to acknowledge the obligation I am under to Capt. Bowles, of the Medusa, for his indefatigable activity in getting every thing arranged, and having the men in such perfect order when the enemy advanced, as well as to express the great satisfaction I felt at the steadiness and firmness with which the men awaited the attack. Lieut. Rees, of the Dryad, who did the duty of Adjutant to the battalion, has also my sincere thanks for the assistance he gave me in the different directions, and for his unremitted attention to the order of the whole. The only Officers who had the least opportunity to distinguish themselves, were, Lieuts. Desbrisay and Fennel, of the Marines, who commanded the advanced guards during the two little affairs. I am, &c. F. W. AYLMER. To Capt. Mends, Arethusa. Downing-street, July 31. Extract of a Dispatch from Lieut.-gen. Lord Visc. Wellington to the Earl of Liverpool; dated Alverca, 11th of July, 1810. The enemy passed the Agara in force on the morning of the 4th instant, and obliged Brig.-gen. Craufurd to fall back with his advanced guard to the neighbourhood of the Port of La Conception, which had been occupied by a part of the third division of infantry.-In making this movement, Capt. Kranckenburg and Cornet Cordeman, at the head of a small body of the 1st Hussars, had GENT. MAG. August, 1810.

an opportunity of distinguishing themselves by making a gallant charge upon a superior body of the enemy.-Upon mentioning the 1st Hussars, it is but justice to inform your Lordship, that they have been with the advanced guard throughout the winter, and have performed their duty in the most satisfac tory manner. The 3d battalion of Portuguese Chasseurs, under Lieut.-col. Elder, had also an opportunity of shewing their steadiness during this movement of the advanced guard, and the skirmishing of the enemy which attended it. The 1st Hussars had five men and three horses wounded, and the 16th Light Dragoons three horses killed. Alverca, July 11.

Since I wrote to your Lordship this day, I have received a report that Ciudad Rodrigo surrendered to the enemy yesterday evening. There was a large practicable breach in the place, and the enemy had made preparations for a storm; when, Marshal Ney having offered terms of capitulation, the garrison surrendered.-The enemy took up their ground before this place on the 26th April; they invested it completely on the 11th June, and opened their fire upon it on the 24th June; and, adverting to the nature and position of the place, to the deficiency and defects of its works, to the advantages which the enemy had in their attack upon it, and to the numbers and formidable equipment by which it was attacked, I consider the defence of Ciudad Rodrigo to have been most honourable to the Governor, Don Andres Hervasti, and its garrison; and to have been equally creditable to the arms of Spain with the celebrated defence of other places by which this nation has been illustrated during the existing contest for its independence. There was an affair between our piquets and those of the enemy this morning, in which the enemy lost two officers and 31 men, and 29 horses prisoners. We have had the misfortune to lose Licut.-col. Talbot, and eight men of the 14th Light Dragoons killed, and 23 men wounded.

Downing street, Aug. 2. Copy of a Dispatch from Lieut.-gen. Sir J. Stuart to Lord Liverpool. Messina, June 11. MY LORD, It is with much pleasure that I have the honour of transmitting to your Lordship the within report from Capt. Reade, of the 27th regiment, employed in the command of the flotilla of gun-boats attached to the servi ces of this army; and I hope the vi gilant zeal and activity of this Officer upon the present occasion, in which an

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J. STUART. Messina, June 11. SIR, In consequence of a report, received from the Faro Telegraph on the evening of the 9th instant, that a convoy of the enemy's vessels were in sight off Cape Vaticano, steering for Bagnara; I have the honour to inform your Excellency, that I got the flotilla under weigh, assisted by Capt. Robinson, Lieuts. Bass and Thaine, and stood direct for Bagnara, accompanied by a division of his Sicilian Majesty's flotilla, under the direction of Capt. Vatoli. At day-light the following morning we fortunately fell-in with the enemy close to the Marisca, betwixt Bagnara and Palmi; we tacked them instantly, and I have great satisfaction in saying that we succeeded in capturing 14 large boats: three of which are regular gun-boats, each carrying a long 18-pounder; the remainder are store-boats, laden with field-pieces, ammunition, and provisions; eight gunboats that were placed in front of Bagnara, at a distance of 100 yards from each other, for the protection of the boats that were drawn up on-shore, were sunk by the heavy and well-directed fire of our flotilla.-I beg to report the good conduct of the officers and men, British and Sicilian; they behaved with a degree of coolness that does them credit. Our loss is trifling, considering we were obliged to make the attack within grape-shot distance of three batteries; it consists in one man wounded, and one scampavia sunk, the crew saved. During the engagement one of the Sicilian gun-boats (which had got onshore at the Faro Point early in the morning,) in endeavouring to join us was attacked, off Scylla, by 3 French Scampavias, and, I am sorry to say, was captured without the smallest resistance. The convoy, which consisted of four gun-boats and forty store-boats, were 25 days from Naples.

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Captain commanding Flotilla.

Admiralty-office, Aug. 4. Copy of a Letter from Adm. Sir Charles Cotton, Bart. to J. W. Croker, esq. dated onboard his Majesty's ship San Josef, off Toulon, June 16.

giving an account of an attack made. on the batteries at the entrance of Agaye, and the capture of four French: vessels, by the boats of the Alceste, on the 22d ultimo, C. COTTON. H.M.S. Alceste, off Frejus Bay, May 26. SIR, I beg leave to inform you, that, having chased several of the enemy's vessels into the Bay of Agaye, which is protected by two batteries, one on each side the entrance, I determined, after a good reconnoitre, to attempt carrying them by storm, as their height gave them too great an advantage over the ship.-On the night of the 22d, two strong parties were landed; and the one on the right of the bay having to march through a very thick wood to get in the rear of the fort, were attacked in the midst of it by one of the enemy's picquets, when the Marines, under the command of Lieuts. Loyd and Hawkey, opened a fire that very soon dislodged them; but, unfortunately, the guide, taking advantage of the firing, went off and left the party, which compelled Mr. Wilson, the senior lieutenant, to relinquish the enterprize, and to re-embark the people, which, I am happy to say, he effected without the smallest loss. The party on the left, under the command of Mr. Henry Bell, the master, were so fortunate as to get close in the rear of the battery undiscovered, which they attacked and carried in the most spirited manner, spiked the guns, two twenty-fours, broke their carriages, destroyed the magazines, and threw the shot into the sea: but as the other side had failed, were obliged to come off without any of the vessels, which we continued to watch, and finding they would not move whilst we kept so close in, I last night sent the barge and yawl under Mr. Bell, accompanied by Mr. Day, master's - mate, and Mr. Adair, midshipman, to lie in a little cave we had discovered near the harbour's mouth, whilst the ship stood some distance in the offing. The Frenchmen, though so noted for cunning, swallowed the bait, and came out this morning quite boldly. You may conceive, Sir, their astonish.. ment, when our two boats, armed with a 12-pound carronade and 4-pound fieldpiece, made their unexpected appearance among them; they captured four feluccas, two of which were armed, one with six and the other with four guns, besides small arms; drove two upon the rocks, and the rest back into the har bour, though completely exposed to the fire of the batteries, a great number of soldiers on the beach, and two armed vessels, besides those taken, that were in the convoy. Mr. Bell speaks in the

SIR, I inclose, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the copy of a Letter addressed to Sir Samuel Hood, from Capt. Maxwell,

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highest commendation of every one with him, and states, that after he and Mr. Day had boarded and carried the vessels, Mr. Adair, with only two or three men in the barge, made such excellent use of the carronade, that their retreat was covered, and the prizes brought out without a man being hurt on our side, which made their success doubly gratifying. (Signed) MURRAY MAXWELL.

An Account of French Merchant Vessels captured in the Bay of Agaye by his Majesty's Ship Alceste, Murray Maxwell, Esq. Captain, May 26, 1810: Santa Maria, of six guns, 20 men, and 90 tons, from Marseilles, bound to Naples, laden with wax, wire, leather, &c.; Santa Maria, of 4 guns, 20 men, and 100 tons, from Marseilles, bound to Naples, laden with wax, wire, leather, &c.; Porto Salno, of 4 guns, 20 men, and 100 tons, from Marseilles, bound to Naples, laden with wax, wire, leather, &c.; Notre Dame, of 12 men and 80 tons, from Marseilles, bound to Leghorn, laden with wine; San Josef, of 12 men, and 50 tons, from Marseilles, bound to Genoa, laden with hats, casks, and leather. M. MAXWELL, Captain. Copy of a Letter from Capt. Ayscough, of his Majesty's ship the Success, addressed to Capt. Wrenson, of the Spartan, and transmitted by Adm. Sir C. Cotton, Bt. to J. W. Croker, Esq. SIR, I beg leave to acquaint you that, on the 4th instant, while running along the coast of Calabria, at one P.M. and abreast of Castiglione, I observed three vessels on the beach, and men loading them. I thought it an object worth while to attempt their destruction, as they appeared to me capable of carrying 150 men each; I immediately dispatched the boats of this ship (with volunteers), under the command of Mr. George Rose Sartorius, the third lieutenant, accompanied by the boats of the Espoir, under the command of Lieut. Robert Oliver, the Success and Espoir covering their landing. I am sorry to say that, when about musket-shot from the shore, three boats swamped, having struck on a sunken reef; by which misfortune two seamen belonging to the Espoir were drowned: all their ammunition being

wet, the officers and men swam to the beach with cutlasses in their mouths, when the enemy fired upon them from two long six-pounders and four wallpieces; they being secreted behind the rocks, were not perceived until the boats grounded. The enemy's fire served only to increase the zeal of the party; and their perseverance so intimidated the enemy that they deserted their guns, and retreated to the houses which were near, keeping up a heavy fire of musketry from the windows; but being also dislodged from them, they fled to the mountains. The guns were spiked, car-› riages destroyed, two vessels set on fire," their eargoes (which consisted of oil) stove, when they with difficulty launched the boats that were swamped, and returned on-board. Lieut. Sartorius speaks in the highest terms of all the petty officers, seamen, and royal marines, under his orders, particularly of the conduct of Lieut. Oliver, Mr. George Lewis Coates, master's mate of the Espoir, and Mr. Richard Peace, master's▸ mate of this ship. With concern I enclose a list of the killed and drowned.

JOHN AYSCOUGH.

To J. Brenton, Esq. Captain of H.M.S. Spartan, and Senior Officer of a Squadron on the Coast of Calabria. A Return of Vessels destroyed by the Boats of his Majesty's ships Success and Espoir, between the 4th and 20th April," 1810:-Two settees, names unknown, 100 tons each; destroyed by fire off Castiglione Beach; cargo, oil;-Santo Rosa sloop, 60 tons; scuttled off Ischia ; cargo, grass rope; a sloop unknown, 60 tons; scuttled off Ischia, cargo, herrings. (Signed) J. AYSCOUGH, Capt.

A Return of Killed and Drowned in the Boats of his Majesty's Ships Suc cess and Espoir, in action with the Enemy, and setting Fire to 2 of their Vessels near Castiglione, on the coast of Calabria, on the 4th April, 1810 Success, William Newby, private marine, killed.-Espoir, Philip Metz, private marine, killed; Jaines Darley, landman, drowned; James Minkeworth, gunner's-mate, ditto.

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Her daughter, the ci-devant Queen of Holland, has arrived, after travelling under a feigned name, at Toplitz.

The reception by Napoleon of the son of Louis at Paris is announced in the Moniteur of the 23d of last month, to have been so tender, as almost to have drawn "iron tears down Pluto's cheek."-"Come," said he, "my son, I will be your father; you will lose nothing by that. The conduct of your father wounds me to the heart; his infirmity alone can account for it. When you come to be a man, you will pay his debt and your own, In whatsoever situation my policy and the interests of my Empire may place you, never forget that your first duties are towards me; your second towards France. All your other duties (those even which regard the people I may confide to you) come only in the next degree."

A French Journalist has asserted, that "the great powers of the Continent are daily drawing tighter the knot by which they are united." The truth is, that one great power (France) is daily drawing tighter the noose by which the prosperity, public and private, the national independence and domestic happiness, of all the other powers on the Continent are strangled.

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Vast preparations are making in every naval depot throughout the French Empire to increase the Navy; the Emperor having declared his determination to have a navy able to cope with England. He has instituted a sort of Committee, composed of some of the oldest Naval Officers in his service, who are to inquire and report to him on the causes of the repeated defeats suffered by the navy of France, and the apparent superiority claimed by the British,

It is a circumstance not undeserving of notice, that in a recent decree for new regulating the Appeal Courts throughout the French Empire, the post of honour, in the order of enactment, is assigned to that of Ajaccio, the birth-place of Napoleon.

The archives of the different states brought from Ratisbon, Rome, and Vienna to Paris, are to be deposited in a new building erected on purpose for them, to be called the Palace of the Archives of the Empire. The arrangements will include three divisions, French, German, and Italian. All the Papal Archives, including the different documents relative to the donations of Constantine and other Emperors, are pow on their way from Rome to Rheims.

Paris, August 17. Last Wednesday, his Imperial Majesty being seated on the Throne, surrounded by the Princes and

Great Officers of State, the Deputies of Holland were presented to His Majesty, and their President, his Excellency Admiral Verhueil, delivered the following Speech:

"Sire,-Your very faithful subjects of Holland, the Members of the Council of State, the Deputies of the Legislative Body, of the Land and Sea Forces, and the Deputies of the City of Amsterdam, have the honour of presenting themselves at the feet of your Majesty's Throne, respectfully to declare the sentiments of admiration, confidence, and obedience with which they are animated.

"The Dutch People, Sire, known in the annals of history by the exploits of their heroes, by the spotless character of their statesmen, and the exertions made by them to obtain and maintain their independence, are still possessed of a strong recollection of the virtues of their forefathers.

"The great events which Europe has witnessed in the course of the present century have completely changed the political supports and relations of States, and the independence, for the attainment of which our ancestors sacrificed their property, their blood, and all that is most dear to men, from the pressure of circumstances could not but undergo certain restrictions. At length united with the first nation in the world, called by the greatest Prince in the universe to share in the favour which his exalted genius and paternal solicitude liberally bestows on his happy subjects, and of which Holland has already obtained so many proofs, the Dutch continue to flatter themselves that by their loyalty, their obedience, and their inviolable at tachment to their Prince and Father, they shall deserve the protection of a mighty, generous, upright, and benevo lent Government.”

His Imperial Majesty returned the following answer:

"Gentlemen, Deputies of the Legislative Body, of the Land and Sea Forces of Holland, and Gentlemen Deputies of of my good City of Amsterdam,-For these thirty years you have experienced many vicissitudes. You lost your liberty when one of the great Officers of the Republic, forced by England, ployed Prussian bayonets to interrupt the deliberations of your councils. It was then that the wise constitution handed down to you by your forefathers was destroyed for ever,

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"You formed a part of the coalition, in consequence of which French armies conquered your country-an event which was the unavoidable consequence of the alliance with England. After the con

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quest, a distinct government was formed, yet your Republic formed part of the Empire. Your strong fortresses and the principal positions in your country, were occupied by French troops, and your Government was changed according to the opinions which succeeded each other in France.

"When Providence placed me on this first throne of the world, it fell to my lot to decide for ever the fate of France, and of all the nations which compose this vast Empire, to bestow on all the signal advantages which arise from firmness, consistency, and order, and to destroy the baneful consequences of irregularity and weakness. I put a period to the wavering destinies of Italy, by placing the Iron Crown on my head. I annihilated the Government which ruled Piedmont. By my act of mediation I justly appreciated the Constitution of Switzerland, and brought the local circumstances of the country in unison with the safety and rights of this Imperial Crown. I gave you a Prince of my blood for your ruler; this was intended as a bond to unite the concerns of your Republic with the rights of the Empire. My hopes have been deceived; and on this occasion I have shewn more forbearance than my character generally admits, and my rights require! I have at length put a period to the painful uncertainty of your future fate, and warded off the fatal blow which threatened to annihilate all your property, all your re'sources. I have opened the Continent to your national industry: the day shall éome when you are to conduct my Eagles to the seas celebrated by the exploits of your ancestors; then shall you shew yourselves worthy of yourselves and of me, From this moment till that period all the changes that take place in Europe shall have for their first motive the destruction of that tyrannical and irrational system which the English Government, unmindful of the pernicious consequences which arise therefrom to its own country, has adopted, to outlaw commerce and trade, and subject it to the arbitrary authority of English licences.

"Gentlemen, Deputies of the Legis lative Body, and of the Land and Sea

*The Despot here seems to claim eredit for sparing the life of his brother Louis, the Ex-King of Holland; at the same time that he boasts the facilities which he has recently given to its commerce-although it is well known, that the unfortunate Louis incurred his displeasure by his anxiety to support and assist the commercial interest!

Forces of Holland, and Gentlemen Deputies of my good city of Amsterdam, tell my subjects of Holland, I feel perfectly satisfied they possess the sentiments they profess for me;-tell them, that I doubt not their loyal attachment, and depend on their heartily joining their exertions to those of the rest of my subjects, to reconquer the rights of the sea, the loss of which five coalitions incited by England have inflicted on the Continent; tell them, that in all circumstances they may reckon on my peculiar protection." HOLLAND.

The inhabitants of Holland have begun to taste the sweets of French incorporation; the Duke of Reggio having ordered the conscription laws to be enforced, and all young men, from the age of 15 to 18 inclusive, to be immediately levied.

The French provisional Government. has already given a proof of that " parental protection" which, according to Champagny's letter, the inhabitants of Holland are to derive from the annexation of their country to France. The fisheries, from which thousands derive their subsistence, are subjected to a code of regulations dictated by the grossest ignorance, or most unfeeling tyranny. According to one of these, a French soldier is to be put on board of every boat going out to fish; and if he should be taken by the English, a general embargo on all fishing vessels is to take place throughout Holland!

Letters from Holland of the 7th inst. mention the promulgation of a decree by the Duke of Reggio, forbidding, under the severest penalties, all attempts on the part of the inhabitants to emigrate.

It appears, that the recent measures adopted by the French had not been so passively endured as has been represented. At Zwolt, Devenuter, Zutphen, Doesberg, and several other places, where an overwhelming military force was not present, the orders issued on occasion of the incorporation were resisted by force, and that several lives were in consequence lost on both sides. At Zutphen, 12 persons were apprehended and imprisoned, for aiding in these proceedings; but the prison was forced by the populace during the night, and the men released.

An Address to the Dutch, conceived in terms likely to rouse their indigna tion against Buonaparte, on his visit to that country, it is said, has been lately privately circulated at Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and other large towns. It com mences in the following manner : "HOLLANDERS,-Remember your an cestors

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