instance evinced the utmost steadiness and courage, and manœuvred equally Iwell with the British.

Brigadier-General Harvey's Portugueze brigade, belonging to General Cole's division, had an opportunity of distinguishing itself when marching in line across the plain, by repulsing with the utmost steadiness a charge of the enemy's cavalry.

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It is impossible to enumerate every instance of discipline and valour shewn on this severely contested day but never were troops that more valiantly or more gloriously maintained the honour of their respective countries. I have not been able to particularize the Spanish divisions, brigades, or regiments, that were particularly engaged, because I am not acquainted with their denominations or names; but I have great pleasure in saying that their behaviour was most gallant and honourable; and though, from the superior number and weight of the enemy's force, that part of them that were in the position attacked were obliged to cede the ground, it was after a gallant resistance, and they continued in good order to support their allies; and I doubt not, his Excellency General Blake will do ample justice on this head, by making honourable mention of the deserving.

The battle commenced at nine o'clock, and continued without interruption, till two in the afternoon, when the enemy having been driven over the Albuera, for the remainder of the day there was but cannonading and skirmishing.

It is impossible by any description to do justice to the distinguished gallantry of the troops, but every individual most nobly did his duty, and which will be well proved by the great loss we have suffered, though repulsing the enemy; and it was observed that our dead, particularly the 57th regiment, were lying, as they had fought,

in ranks, and every wound was in the front.

The Honourable Major-General W. Stewart most part cularly distinguished himself and conduced much to the honour of the day; he received two contusions, but would not quit the field. Major-General the Hon. G. L. Cole is also entitled to every praise; and I have to regret being deprived for some time of his services, by the wound he has received. The Hon. Lieut.-Col. Abercrombie, commanding the 2d brigade, 2d division, and Major L'Estrange, 31st regiment, deserve to be particularly mentioned; and nothing could exceed the conduct and gallantry of Colonel Inglis, at the head of his regiment. To the Hon. Major General William Lumley, for the very able manner in which he opposed the numerous cavalry of the enemy, and foiled him in his object, I am particularly indebted. To MajorGeneral Hamilton, who commanded on the left, during the severe attack upon our right, I am also much indebted; and the Portugueze brigade of Briga dier-Generals Fonseca and Archibald Campbell deserve to be mentioned. To Major General Alten, and to the excellent brigade under his orders, I have much praise to give; and it is with great pleasure I assure your lord. ship, that the good and gallant conduct of every corps, and of every per son, was in proportion to the opportu nity that offered for distinguishing themselves. I know not an individual who did not do his duty.

I have, I fear, to regret the loss to the service of Colonel Collins, commanding a Portugueze brigade, his leg having been carried off by a cannon shot. He is an officer of great merit; and I deeply lament the death of Major-General Hoghton, and of those two promising officers Lieutenant-Col. Sir William Myres and LieutenantCol. Duckworth.

It is most pleasing to me to inform your lordship, not only of the steady and gallant conduct of our allies, the Spanish troops, under his Excellency General Blake, but also to assure you that the most perfect harmony has subsisted between us; and that General Blake not only conformed in all things to the general line proposed by your lordship, but in the details, and in whatever I suggested to his Excellency, I received the most immediate and cordial assent and co-operation; and nothing was omitted on his part, to ensure the success of our united efforts; and during the battle, he most essentially, by his experience, knowledge, and zeal, contributed to its fortunate result.

His Excellency the Captain-General Castanos, who had united the few troops he had in a state to be brought into the field, to those of General Blake, and placed them under his orders, assisted in person in the field; and not only on this, but on all occasions, I am much indebted to General Castanos, who is ever beforehand in giving whatever can be beneficial to the success of the common cause.

Though I unfortunately cannot, point out the corps, or many of the individuals of the Spanish troops, that distinguished themselves, yet I will not omit to mention the names of General Vallesteros, whose gallantry was most conspicuous, as of the corps he had under his command; and the same of General Zayas and of Don Carlos D'Espagne. The Spanish cavalry have behaved extremely well; and the Count de Penne Villamour is particularly deserving to be mentioned.

I annex the return of our loss in this hard-contested day: it is very severe, and in addition to it is the loss of the troops under his Excellency General Blake, who are all killed, missing, and wounded, but of which

I have not the return. The loss of the enemy, though I cannot know what it is, must be still more severe. He has left on the field of battle about two thousand dead, and we have ta ken from nine hundred to one thousand prisoners. He has had five generals killed and wounded; of the former, Generals of division Werle and Pesim; and Gazan and two others amongst the latter. His force was much more considerable than we had been informed of, as I do not think he displayed less than from twenty to twenty-two thousand infantry, and he certainly had four thousand cavalry, with a numerous and heavy artillery. His overbearing cavalry cramped and confined all our operations, and with his artillery saved its infantry, after its rout.

He retired after the battle to the ground he had been previously on, but occupying it in position; and on this morning, or rather during the night, commenced his retreat on the road he came, towards Seville, and has abandoned Badajoz to its fate. He left a number of his wounded on the ground he had retired to, and to which we are administering what assistance. we can. I have sent our cavalry to follow the enemy, but in that arm he is too powerful for us to attempt any thing against him in the plains he is traversing.

Thus we have reaped the advantage we proposed. from our opposition to the attempts of the enemy; and whilst

he has been forced to abandon the ob

ject for which he has almost stripped Andalusia of troops, instead of having accomplished the haughty boasts with which Marshal Soult harangued his troops on leaving Seville, he returns there with a curtailed army, and, what perhaps may be still more hurtful to him, with a diminished reputation.

In enumerating the services received from the officers of my own staff,I

must particularly call your lordship's attention to those of Brigadier-General d'Urban, quarter-master-general to the Portugueze army; and which I cannot sufficiently praise, though I can appreciate. On all occasions I have felt the benefits of his talents and services, and more particularly on this, where they very essentially contributed to the success of the day: and I cannot here omit the name of Lieut.-Col. Hardinge, deputy quarter-master-general to the Portugueze troops, whose talents and exertions deserve my thanks. To Brigadier-General Mozinho, adju tant-general of the Portugueze army, and to Lieut. Col. Rooke, assistant adjutant-general to the united British and Portugueze force, and to Briga dier-General Lemos, and to the officers of my own personal staff, I am indebted for their assistance.

To the services of Lieutenant-Colonel Arbuthnot (major in his majesty's service,) I am also much indebted, and he is the bearer of this to your lordship, and is fully enabled to give you any further information you may desire, and is most deserving of any favour your lordship may be pleased to recommend him for to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent.

I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) W. C. BERESFORD,
Marshal and Lieut.-Gen.
P. S. Major-General Hamilton's di-

manded by Marshal Soult, at Albuera, on the 16th May, 1811. Total British loss-1 general staff, 1 lieutenant-colonel, 1 major, 7 captains, 13 lieutenants, 9 ensigns, 31 serjeants, 4 drummers, 815 rank and file, 54 horses, killed; 7 general staff, 4 lieutenant-colonels, 4 majors, 43 cap. tains, 81 lieutenants, 20 ensigns, 6 staff, 132 serjeants, 9 drummers, 2426 rank and file, 26 horses, wounded; 1 major, 4 captains, 8 lieutenants, 1 ensign, 28 serjeants, 10 drummers, 492 rank and file, 17 horses, missing.

Total Portugueze loss-1 general staff, 1 staff, 2 serjeants, 98 rank and file, 9 horses, killed; I general staff, 1 lieutenant-colonel, 1 major, 5 captains, 5 lieutenants, 2 ensigns, 1 staff, 14 serjeants, 1 drummer, 230 rank and file, 9 horses, wounded; 1 drummer, 25 rank and file, missing.

General total.-2 general staff, 1 lieutenant-colonel, 1 major, 7 captains, 13 lieutenants, 9 ensigns, 1 staff, 38 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, 2656 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.

June, 15.

W. C. B.

Return of killed, wounded, and missing of the corps of the army under the command of Lieutenant-General Viscount Wellington, K. B. under the immediate orders of Marshal Sir William Carr Beresford, K. B. in the battle with the French army com

Downing-street, June 15,

A dispatch, of which the following is an extract, has been this day recei ved at Lord Liverpool's office, addressed to his lordship by Lord Welling. ton, dated Quinta de Gramicha, May

30:

"We invested Badajoz on the 25th inst. on the right of the Guadiana; and the ordnance and stores for the

siege having been brought forward, we broke ground last night. The enemy have retired their main body upon Llerena, and hold the advanced posts of their cavalry at Usagre. I enclose the copy of the report of Major-General the Hon. William Lumley, of a very gallant affair of the ca. valry near that place on the 25th. The Major-General has reported, that he received very great assistance, upon this occasion, from Major Holmes, of the 3d dragoon guards, who was act, ing in the department of the adjutantgeneral, and from Lieutenant Heathcote, of the royal dragoons, who was acting in the department of the quar. ter-master-general, as well as from the officers mentioned in his report. ""

Camp, near Usagre, two a. m. May 26th.

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SIR, AS will have been stated to you yesterday verbally by the officer I sent for that purpose, I have the honour to acquaint you, that having, as I before reported, driven the enemy' rear-guard from Usagre, I occupied that post on the night of the 24th, by placing the Spanish troops in front of the town, with their tiradores well in advance towards the enemy, and the Portugueze and British cavalry, with the four six-pounders, in rear of the place; a small brook, hollow and deep ravine, and narrow defile, being on this side of the town. About six o'clock yesterday morning it was reported to me, that the enemy's cavalry were advancing in force, and that there was reason to believe they were accompanied by 'artillery and infantry. Conceiving reports might exaggerate the fact, and not wishing to yield the post to inferior numbers, the 13th light dragoons and Colonel Otway's Portugueze brigade of cavalry were ordered across the ravine to the left of the town, through the narrow fords and passes which had been previously re,

connoitred; and Brigadier-General Madden's brigade of Portugueze cavalry in like manner to the right, with orders to retire by the same passes, if necessary; the heavy brigade of British with the guns being still in reserve behind the town. Upon the nearer approach of the enemy, it was evident they were advancing with the whole of their cavalry and five or six heavy. guns (eight-pounders.) This being ascertained, and upon opening their first gun, the line was ordered to retire, which they did slowly, in excel. lent order, and without loss; the Spanish troops filing on the main road, through the town, which had been left open for them. A smart cannonade now commenced from the opposite heights, the superiority of numbers and weight of metal decidedly in favour of the enemy; but the superior skill and well-directed aim of Captain Lefevre and his corps, with only four sixpounders, was most pre-eminently con spicuous. The enemy now committed a most daring attempt, or rather an error, for which they were severely punished. In spite of two of our guns, which bore directly for a few paces on the road, three of their chosen regi ments, 4th, 20th, and 26th, dashed through the town, and formed rapidly on the flank of the 3d dragoon guards, which corps, concealed by a small hill, I verily believe they did not see, and in front of the 4th dragoons, them, selves presenting two fronts. A charge of the 3d dragoon guards was at this moment ordered on the right; and a simultaneous movement of the 4th dra goons, directed most judiciously by Brigadier-General Long, at the same. moment on the left, where I had requested him to remain, decided the point. The enemy wavered before our cavalry reached them; but almost in the same instant they were overturned, and apparently annihilated. The affair took place so near the brook and

bridge which immediately leads into the town, and which I had forbid the cavalry to enter, that it was impossible for them to pursue; it is difficult, therefore, to decide upon the enemy's loss; many, severely wounded, escaped through the town, others threw themselves off their horses, and escaped over the brook and through the gardens; but besides 78 prisoners, 29 lay dead on the spot, many were also observed lying dead on the bridge and in the first street; and a peasant reports, that from 30 to 50 were sent off wounded to their rear, on horses and cars. I must not omit to state, that a portion of the Count de Penne Villamour's Spanish cavalry gallantly supported the charge on the left of the 3d dragoon guards, as I am informed Brigadier-General Madden's brigade did on the right; but the dust caused by the charge was so great, I was myself unable to observe on that flank. I am positively assured, from the report of the prisoners, that the enemy had 13 regiments of cavalry in the field, which, though not exceeding from 200 to 300 men each, gave them so great a superiority over the force under my orders, composed of three nations, many of them as yet but little known to each other in cavalry movements, that I feel fully justified in not placing a deep ravine and defile in my rear, and attempting to defend the town, which is only defensible by infantry, from an attack

on the other side.

I have the peculiar satisfaction to add, that the advantage gained has been almost bloodless on our part, although occasionally, for a few seconds, of necessity exposed to the range of artillery, and a charge made against a corps d'elite of the enemy, who, on the other hand, visibly suffered from our artillery, in addition to those lost in the charge. I feel myself under the highest obligation to Brigadier-General Long, for his zealous, well-timed,

and active exertions during the day, as well as for his assistance at all times. To Brigadier-General Loy, commanding the Spanish cavalry (the Count de Penne Villamour being sick at Villa Franca,) and to Brigadier-General Madden, commanding the Portugueze division, I am highly indebted for their readiness in obeying, and promptitude in executing my orders; to the Hon. Colonel de Grey, commanding the British brigade of heavy cavalry, and to Colonel Otway, commanding the Portugueze brigade, both under the orders of Brigadier-General Long; to Colonel Lord Edward Somerset, commanding the 4th dragoons; to Colonel Head, commanding the 13th light dragoons; to Major Weston, commanding the 3d dragoon guards, (Sir G. Calcraft being sick at Villa Franca ;) and to Captain Lefevre, of the royal horse artillery, my very best thanks are due, as well as to every officer and soldier, for the promptitude and steadiness with which every, even retrograde, movement was performed in the face of a superior enemy.

The advantage gained will not only in some degree lessen the enemy's superior cavalry, but will, I trust, still farther tend to render him fearful and timid in all his movements.

I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) W. LUMLEY, Major-Gen. Marshal Sir W. Beresford, &c.

From the London Gazette. Admiralty.
Office, Sept. 24.

[Transmitted by Rear-Admiral
Foley.]

Naiad, off Boulogne, Sept. 21. SIR,-Yesterday morning, while this ship was at anchor off this place, much bustle was observed among the enemy's flotilla, moored along shore, close under the batteries of their bay, which seemed to indicate that some affair of moment was in agitation. At