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By Order of the Government of the United States. 8vo. 9s. HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. DEATHS IN AND NEAR LONDON. by all who had the honour and plea sure of his acquaintance. In the long This house in Piccadilly, George period of fifty eight years, during William, sixth Earl of Coven- which he held the high office of Lord try and Viscount Deerhurst. His Lieutenant of the county of Worces Lordship was 87 years of age, being ter, the integrity of his public conborn on the 26th of April, 1722, and duct, ever directed by a sound judg succeeded his father in the honours ment, active in promoting the public and estates of the family in 1751 he good, and adorned by affability and married, first, March 5, 1752, Maria, politeness, ensured universal esteem. eldest daughter of John Gunning, Nor was his conduct less worthy of Esq. (by his wife Bridget, daughter of imition as a Peer of Parliament; he John Viscount Mayo, and sister to well understood the principles of the the Duchess of Hamilton; by this Constitution, and acted at all times lady he had issue, George William, in comformity with them, supporting now Earl of Coventry, Maria, Alicia, the government of the country with and Aune Margaret-He married, zeal and integrity; but when, during secondly, Sept 27, 1764, Barbara, the American war, he could no longer daughter of John, tenth Loid St. John, approve of the conduct of the then by whom he had issue, two sons, Minister, Lord North, he resigned John and Thomas, and a daughter, the place of one of the Lords of the Barbara, who died an infant. The Bedchamber, though contrary to his memory of this venerable Nobleman Majesty's wishes, resolving that no will deservedly be held in high respect private considerations should shackle his public conduct. He was a highly Cindid Rodrigo.-I doubted of the polished gentleman, an elegant scho- capacity of the garrison of Cindad lar, and a man of superior taste; that Rodrigo to make the detachment to he possessed this latter accomplishment in an eminent degree will be manifest to every one who recollects what the Croome demesne once was, and what it now is; with few natural advantages, it has been laid out and adorned, under his Lordship's immediate direction, with so much judgment, as evidently to shew what art and industry can perform "when science marks the progress of their toil." He was Recorder of Worcester, and ever attentive to its interests for the space of 85 years, being elected and sworn into that office in 1774, in the room of Lord Viscount Dudley and Ward, and was highly respected by the corporation. the latter, but had so little doubt of the effectual occupation of the former, that in writing to Marshal Beresford on the 17th of July, I desired him to look to the Puerto de Perales, but that I considered Banos as secure. OPERATIONS of the BRITISH ARMY in SPAIN. [Continued from p. 163.] DOWNING STREET, Sept. 2. A Dispatch, of which the following is a copy, was received at the office of Lord Viscount Castlereagh, from Lieut.-Gen. Lord Viscount Wellington, K. B.. Deleytosa, Aug. 8, 1809. MY LORD-I apprised your Lordship on the 1st inst. of the advance of a French corps towards the Puerto de Banos, and of the probable embarrass ments to the operations of the army, which its arrival at Placentia would occasion; and these embarrasments having since existed to a degree so considerable as to oblige us to fall back, and to take up a defensive position on the Tagus, I'am induced to trouble you more at length with an account of what has passed upon this subject. On the 30th, intelligence was received at Talavera, that 12,000 rations had been ordered at Fuente Duenos for the 28th, and 24,000 at Los Santos for the same day, for a French corps, which it was believed was on its march towards the Puerto de Banos. -General Cuesta expressed some anxiety respecting this post, and sent me a message, to propose that Sir Robert Wilson should be sent there with his corps. Sir Robert was on that day at Talavera, but his corps was in the mountains towards Escalona; and as he had already made himself very useful in that quarter and had been near Madrid, with which city he had a communication, which I was desirous of keeping up, I proposed that a Spanish corps should be sent to Banos without loss of time. I could not prevail with General Cuesta, although he certainly admitted the necessity of a reinforcement when he proposed that Sir Robert should be sent to Banos; and he was equally sensible with myself, of the benefit to be derived to the cause, from sending Sir Robert back to Escalona. At this time we had no further intelligence of the enemy's advance than that the rations were ordered, and I had hopes that the enemy might be deterred from advancing, by the intelligence of our successes on the 28th, and that the troops in the Puerto might make When I entered Spain, I had a some defence: and that under these communication with General Cuesta, circumstances it was not desirable through Sir R. Wilson and Colonel to divert Sir Robert Wilson from Roche, respecting the occupation of Escalona. the Puerto de Banos, and the Puerto On the 30th, however, I renewed de Perales, the former of which, it my application to General Cuesta to was at last settled, should be held by send there a Spanish division of suffi a corps to be formed under the Mar- cient strength, in a letter to General quis de la Reyna, to consist of two O'Donoghue; and he did not detach battalions from General Cuesta's Gen. Bassecourt till the morning of army, and two from Bejar; and that the 2d, after we had heard that the the Puerto de Perales was to be taken enemy had entered Bejar, and it was care of by the Duque del Parque, by obvious that the troops in the Puerto detachments from the garrison of would make no defence. On the 24 moral, whereby they were between us and the bridge of Almaraz. About an hour afterwards, I received from General O'Donoghue the letter and its enclosures, announcing to me the intention of General Cuesta to march from Talavera in the evening, and to leave there my hospital, excepting such men as could be moved by the means he already had, on the ground of his apprehensions that I was not strong enough for the corps coming from Placentia, and that the enemy was moving upon his flank, and had returned to Santa Olalla in his front. I acknowledge that these reasons did not appear to me sufficient for giving up so important a post as Talavera, for exposing the combined armies to an attack in front and rear at the same time, and for abandoning my hospital; and I wrote a letter which unfortunately reached the General after he had marched, and he arrived at Oropesa shortly after day-light, on the morning of the 4th. we received accounts that the enemy the evening I heard that the French bad entered Placentia in two columns. had arrived from Placentia at Naval The Marquis de la Reyna, whose two battalions consisted of only 600 men, with only 20 rounds of ammunition each man, retired from the Puerto and from Placentia, without firing a shot, and went to the bridge of Almaraz, which he declared that he intended to remove; the battalions of Bejar dispersed without making any resistance. The General called upon me on that day, and proposed that half of the army should march to the rear to oppose the enemy, while the other half should maintain the post at Talavera. My answer was, that if by half the army, he meant half of each army, I could only answer that I was ready either to go or to stay with the whole British army, but that could not separate it. He then desired me to chuse whether I would go or stay, and I preferred to go, from thinking that the British troops were most likely to do the business effectually, and without contest; and from being of opinion it was more important to us than to the Spanish army, to open a communication through Placentia, although very important to them. With this decision, General Cuesta appeared perfectly satisfied. The movements of the enemy in our front since the 1st, had induced me to be of opinion, that despairing of forcing us at Talavera, they intended to force a passage by Escalona, and thus to open a communication with the French corps coming from Placentia. This suspicion was confirmed on the night of the 2d, by letters received from Sir Robt. Wilson; and before I quitted Talavera on the Sd, I waited upon General O'Donog. hue and conversed with him upon the whole of our situation, and pointed out to him the possibility, that in the case of the enemy coming through Escalona, General Cuesta might find himself obliged to quit Talavera before I should be able to return to him; and I urged him to collect all the carts that could be got, in order to remove our hospital. At his desire I put the purport of this conversation in writing, and sent him a letter to be laid before Gen. Cuesta. The British army marched on the 3d to Oropesa. About five o'clock in The question what was to be done, was theu to be considered. The enemy, stated to be 30,000 strong, but at all events consisting of the corps of Soult and Ney, either united, or not very distant from each other, and supposed by Marshal Jourdan and Joseph Pouaparte to be sufficiently strong to attack the British army, stated to be 25,000 strong, were, on one side in possession of the high road to the passage of the Tagus, at Almaraz, the bridge at which place we knew had been removed, although the boats still necessarily remained in the river. On the other side we had reason to expect the advance of Victor's corps to Talavera, as soon as General Cuesta's march should be known, and after leaving 12,000 men to watch Vanegas, and allowing him from 10 to 11,000 killed and wounded in the late action, this corps would have amounted to 25,000. We could extricate ourselves from this difficult situation only by great celerity of movement, to which the troops were unequal, as they had not had their allowance of provisions for several days, and by success in two battles. If unsuccessful in either, we should have been without a retreat; and I have the honour, &c, A. WELLESLEY. [To be continued.] OFFICIAL DETAILS of the OPERA- [Continued from p. 168.] DOWNING-STREET, SEPT. 2. Dispatch, of which the following is a Copy, was yesterday morning received at the office of Lord Viscount Castlereagh, from Lieut.-Gen. the Earl of Chatham. Soult and Ney, avoiding an action, from circumstances I had and could had retired before us, and had waited have no controul, should have placed the arrival of Victor, we should have the army in a situation to be obliged been exposed to a general action with to leave any of them behind. 50,000 men, equally without a retreat. We had reason to expect, that as the Marquis de la Reyna could not remove the boats from the river Almaraz, Soult would have destroyed them. Our only retreat was therefore, by the bridge of Arco Bispo; and if we had moved on, the enemy, by breaking that bridge while the army should be engaged with Soult and Ney, would have deprived us of that only resourse-We could not take a position at Oropesa, as we thereby left open the road to the A bridge of Arco Bispo from Talavera. by Calera; and, after considering the whole subject maturely, I was of opinion that it was adviseable to retire to the bridge of Arco Bispo, Head Quarters, Bathz, Aug. 29, 1809. and to take up a defensive position MY LORD,Major Bradford deupon the Tagus. I was induced to livered to me your lordship's dispatch adopt this last opinion, because the of the 21st inst. signifying to me his French have now at leat 50,000 men Majesty's commands that I should disposable to oppose to the Combined convey to Lieut.-Gen. Sir E. Coote, Armies, and a corps of 12,000 to the General and other officers and watch Vanegas; and I was likewise troops employed before Flushing, and of opinion, that the sooner the de- particularly to those of the artillery fensive line should be taken up, the and engiucer departments, his Mamore likely were the troops to be jesty's most gracious approbation of able to defend it.-Accordingly I their conduct: and which I have marched on the 4th, and crossed the obeyed with the most entire satisfacTagus by the bridge of Arco Bispo, tion. I had the honour in my last and have continued my route to this dispatch of acquainting your lordship place, in which I am well situated to with my intention of proceeding to defend the passage of Almaraz and this place, and I should have been the lower parts of the Tagus. Gen. most happy to have been enabled to Cuesta crossed the river on the night have announced to your lordship the of the 5th, and he is still at the bridge further progress of this army. Unof Arco Bispo. fortunately, however, it becomes my About 2000 of the wounded have duty to state to your lordship that, been brought away from Talavera, from the concurrent testimony from the remaining 1500 are there; and I so many quarters, as to leave no doubt doubt whether, under any circum- of the truth of the information, the stances, it would have been possible enemy appears to have collected so or consistent with humanity to at- formidable a force, as so convinced tempt to remove any more of them.- me that the period was arrived, at From the treatment which some of which my instructions would have dithe soldiers woudned on the 27th, rected me to withdraw the army under and who fell into the hands of the my command, even if engaged in acenemy, experienced from them, and tual operation. I had certainly early from the manner in which I have understood on my arrival at Walalways treated the wounded who have cheren, that the enemy were assemfallen into my hands, I expect that bling in considerable force on all these men will be well treated; and points; but I was unwilling to give I have ouly to lament that a new too much credit to these reports, and concurrence of events, over which I was determined to persevere until I |