enemy, numbers of whom were seen to fall in every direction.

I have the honour to be, &c.
W. J. HUGHES, Lieut. and Com.

A List of Men wounded on board His Majefty's Fire-Brig Phosphorus. Lieut. W. J. Hughes, Commander, middle finger off, and feverely wounded in the left hand; Mr. T. Hefter, Second Mafter (per acting order,) badly wounded in the right thigh; S. Babbs, S. More, and J. Kowlands, able Seamen, severely wounded; and J. Hill and A. Confolva, Landfmen, the former feverely, the latter mortally wounded, and fince dead.

LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY,

SEPT. 5.

DOWNING STREET, SEPT. 4.

Copy of a Dispatch received yesterday by
Secretary Windham.

Camp on the Plain of Maida,
July 6, 1806.

SIR, It is with the most heartfelt fatisfaction that I have the honour of reporting to you, for the information of his Majesty, the particulars of an action, in which the French army quartered in this province have fuftained a fignal defeat by the troops under my command.-General Regnier, having been apprifed of our difembarkation at St. Euphemia, appears to have made a rapid march from Reggio, uniting, as he advanced his detached corps, for the purpose of attacking, and with his charac, teriftic confidence, of defeating us.- On the afternoon of the 3d inft. I received intelligence that he had that day encamp. ed near Maida, about ten miles diftant from our pofition; that his force confifted at the moment of about 4000 infantry and 300 cavalry, together with four pieces of artillery, and that he was in expectation of being joined within a day or two by 3000 more troops who were marching after him in a fecond divifion.-I determined therefore to advance towards his pofition, and, having left four companies of Watteville's Regiment under Major Fisher to protect the ftores and occupy a work which had been thrown up at our landing place, the body of the army marched the next morning according to the following detail:

Advanced Corps, Lieut. Col. Kempt, with two 4-pounders. Light Infantry Battalion. Detachment Royal Corfican Rangers. Detachment Royal Sicilian Volunteers.-1 Brigade, Brigadier-Gen. Cole, with three 4-pounders, Grenadier Battal

lion. 27th Regiment.-2d Brigade, Brigadier-Gen. Ackland, with three 4pounders. 78th Regiment. 81ft Regiment.—3d Brigade, Col. Ofwald with two 4-pounders. 58th Regiment. Watte ville's Regiment, Five Companies. 20th Regiment, Lieutenant Col. Rofs, landed during the action.-Referve of Artillery, Major Lemoine, four 6-pounders and two howitzers.-Total. Rank and File, including the Royal Artillery, 4795.

Gen. Regnier was encamped on the fide of a woody hill, below the village of Maida, floping into the plain of St. Eufemia; his flanks were ftrengthened by a thick impervious underwood. The Amato, a river perfectly fordable, but of which the fides are extremely narthy, ran along his front; my approach to him from the fea fide (along the left) was across a spacious plain, which gave him every opportunity of minutely obferving my movements.➡ After fome loofe firing of the flankers to coyer the deployments of the two armies, by nine o'clock in the morning the oppof ing fronts were warmly engaged, when the prowess of the Rival Nations feemed now fairly to be at trial before the World, and the fuperiority was greatly and gloriously decided to be our own.-The corps which formed the right of the advanced line, was the Battalion of Light Infantry commanded by Lieut.-Col. Kempt, confifting of the 20th, 27th, 35th, 58th, 61, 81st, and Watteville's, together with 150 chofen battalion men of the 35th Regiment, under Major Robinson. Directly opposed to them was the favourite French Regiment the ft Legere. The two corps at the distance of about 100 yards fired reciprocally a few rounds, when, as if by mutual agreement, the firing was fufpended, and in clofe compact order and awful filence, they advanced towards each other, until their bayonets began to cross. At this momentous crisis the enemy became ap palled. They broke, and endeavoured to fly, but it was too late; they were overtaken with the most dreadful flaughter,— Brigadier-Gen. Ackland, whofe brigade was immediately on the left of the Light Infantry, with great fpirit availed himself of this favourable moment to press instantly forward upon the corps in his front. The brave 78th Regiment,commanded by Lieut. Col. Macleod, and the 81ft Regiment, under Major Plenderleath, both distinguished themselves on this occafion. The enemy fled with difmay and diforder before them, leaving the plain covered with their dead and wounded.-The enemy being thus completely difcomfited on their left, began to

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make a new effort with their right, in the hopes of recovering the day. They were refifted moft gallantly by the Brigade under Brig. Gen. Cole. Nothing could fhake the undaunted firmness of the Grenadiers under Lieut. Col. O'Callaghan, and of the 27th Regiment under Lieut. Col. Smith. The cavalry, fucceffively repelled from before their front, made an effort to turn their left, when Lieut.-Col. Rofs, who had that morning landed from Meffina, with the 20th Regiment, and was coming up to the army during the action, having obferv. ed the movement, threw his regiment opportunely into a fmall cover upon their flank, and by a heavy and well-directed fire, entirely difconcerted this attempt. This was the laft fecble ftruggle of the enemy, who now, aftonished and difmayed by the intrepidity with which they were affailed, began precipitately to retire, leaving the field covered with carnage. Above 700 bodies of their dead have been buried upon the ground.-The wounded and prifoners already in our hands (among which are Gen. Compere, and an Aid-deCamp, the Lieut.-Colonel of the Swifs Regiment, and a long lift of Officers of different ranks) amount to above 1000. There alfo about 1000 men left in Monteleone and the different pofts between this and Reggio, who have moftly notified their readiness to furrender whenever a British force fhall be fent to receive their fubmiffion, and to protect them from the fury of the people. The peafan:ry are hourly bringing in fugitives, who difperfed in the woods and mountains after the bat tle. In short, never has the pride of our prefumptuous enemy been more feverely humbled, nor the fuperiority of the British troops more gloriously proved, than in the events of this memorable day.

His Majefty may perhaps ftill deign to appreciate more highly the achievements of this little army, when it is known that the Second Divifion which the enemy were faid to be expecting, had all joined them the night before the action; no statement that I have heard of their numbers places them at a lefs calculation than 7000 men.

Our victorious infantry continued the pursuit of the routed enemy fo long as they were able; but as the latter difperfed in every direction, and we were under the neceffity of preferving our order, the trial of fpeed became unequal.-The total lofs occafioned to the enemy by this conflict cannot be lefs than 4000 men. When I oppofe to the above our own small comparative lofs, as underneath detailed,

his Majefty will, I hope, difcern in the fact, the happy effects of that established difcipline to which we owe the triumphs by which our army has been latterly fo highly distinguished.

I am now beginning my march southward, preparatory to my return to Sicily, for which itation I fhall re-embark with the army, as foon as his Sicilian Majefty fhall have arranged a difpofition of his own forces to fecure thofe advantages which have been gained by the prefert expedition.-There feldom has happened an action in which the zeal and perfonal exertions of individuals were fo imperioufly called for as in the prefent; feldom an occafion where a General had a fairer opportunity of obferving them.-The General Officers, and thofe who commanded regiments, will feel a ftronger teft of their merits in the circumstances that have been detailed of their conduct, than in any eulogium I could prefume to pass upon them.-The 58th, and Watteville's Regiment, commanded by Lieut. Colonels Johnftone and Watteville, which formed the referve, under Colonel Ofwald, were ably directed in their application to that effential duty.-The judgment and effect with which our artillery was directed by Major Lemoine, was, in our dearth of cavalry, of most essential use : and I have the pleasure in reporting the effective services of that valuable and diftinguished corps.

To the feveral departments of the army every acknowledgment is due; but to no Officer am I bound to express them fo fully, on my part, as to Lieut. Col. Bunbury, the Deputy Quarter-Mafter-General, to whofe zeal and activity, and able arrangements in the important branch of fervice which he directs, the army, as well as myself, are under every marked obligation. From Captain Tomlin, the acting head of the Adjutant-General's Department, and from the Officers of my own family, I have received much active affift

ance.

Among the latter I am to mention Lieut.-Col. Moore of the 23d Light Dragoons, who being in Sicily for his health at the time of our departure, folicited permiffion to accompany me on this expedition; he was wounded in the execution of my orders. From the Medical Depart ment under the direction of Mr. Grieves, the Deputy Inspector, I am to acknowledge much profeffional attention; the more fo, as their labours have been greatly accumu lated by the number of wounded prisoners who have become, equally with our own, the fubject of their care.

The scene of action was too far from

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the fea, to enable us to derive any direct "co-operation from the navy: but Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, who had arrived in the Bay the evening before the action, had directed fuch a difpofition of fhips and gunboats as would have greatly favoured us, had events obliged us to retire. The folicitude however of every part of the navy to be of use to us, the promptitude with which the feamen haftened on fhore with our fupplies, their anxiety to affift our wounded, and the tenderne fs with which they treated them, would have been an affecting circumftance to obfervers even the most indifferent. To me it was particularly fo. Capt. Fellowes, of the Apollo, has been specially attached to this expedition by the Rear-Admiral; and, in every circumstance of profeffional fervice, I beg leave to mention our grateful obliga. tions to this Officer, as well as to Capts. Cocket and Watson, Agents of Tranfports, who acted under his orders.-Capt. Bulkeley, my Aide-de-Camp, who will have the honour of prefenting this leater to you, has attended me throughout the whole of the fervices in the Mediterranean, and will herefore be able to give you every additional information on the fubject of my present communication.

I have the honour to be, &c.

J. STUART, Major-General.

Return of Killed and Wounded of the British Troops under the Command of Maj.-Gen. Sir J. Stuart, in the Battic on the Plains of Euphemia near Maida, July 4, 18c6.

Royal Artillery, 2 horfes killed; 3 gunners wounded.--Grenadier Battalion, 4 rank and file killed; 1 officer, 1 ferjeant, 25 rank and file wounded.-Light Infantry Battalion, 1 officer, 7 rank and file killed; I officer, I drummer, 41 rank and file wounded.-20th Foot, 1 rank and file killed; 1 drummer, 5 rank and file wound. ed.-27th Foot, 1ft bat. 6 rank and file killed; 1 ferjeant, 46 rank and file wounded.-58th Foot, 1ft. bat. 2 rank and file wounded -78th Foot, 2d bat. 4 rank and file killed; 7 officers, 4 ferjeants, drummer, 69 rank and file wounded.8ift Foot, 1ft bat. 3 ferjeants, 16 rank and file killed; 2 officers, 1 ferjeant, 62 rank and file wounded.-Regiment of Waneville, 3 rank and file wounded.-Royal Corfican Rangers, 3 rank and file killed; 5 rank and file wounded.- Total, 1 officer, 3 ferjeants, 41 rank and file killed; 11 officers, 8 ferjeants, 2 drummers, 261 rank and file wounded.

Names of Officers Killed and Wounded. Killed, Light Inf. bat. Capt. M'Leane, 20th Foot.

Wounded, Grenadier bat. Major Hammill, of the Royal Regiment of Malta.Light Infantry bat. Major Paulett, 44th Foot, feverely.-78th Foot, 2d bat. Lieut. Col. M'Leod ; Major D. Stewart; Capts. D. McPherson and D. M.Gregor; Lieut. J. M'Kay; Enfigns C. M'Kenzie and P. M'Gregor.-81ft Foot, 1t bat. Capt. Waterhoufe; Lieut. Ginger. Staff, Lieut. Col. Moore, 23d Light Dragoons, acting Aid-de-Camp to Sir J. Stuart.

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R. TOMLIN, Assist. Adj. Gen.

SIR,

I enclofe herewith the Copy of a Letter of the 3d of Auguft, which I have received this day from Sir John Stuart.

By the furrender of Cotrone, and the retreat of both General Verdier and General Regnier from Upper and Lower Calabria, thofe provinces are now reftored to their legal Sovereign.

The Battle of Maida, upon the 4th of July, will long be recorded in this part of Europe, as a memorable proof of the fuperiority of British courage and difcipline. Of the 9000 men which General Regnier commanded in the province of Calabiia Ulterior, not more than 3000 are left to attempt their retreat towards Puglia; the remainder are all either killed, wounded, or made prifoners. Every fort along the coafts; all the dépôts of flores, ammunition, and artillery, prepared for the attack of Sicily, are become the prey of the victors; and what, perhaps, may be confidered as even of ftill more confequence than thofe advantages, an indeli ble impression is established of the superior bravery and difcipline of the British troops. There is not, perhaps, to be found in the

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annals of military transactions, an enterprife prepared with more deliberate reflection, or executed with greater decifion, promptitude, and success, than the late invalion of Calabria by Sir John Stuart. Extract of a Dispatch from Major-General Sir John Stuart, to Hugh Elliot, Eq. dated Meljina, Augufi 3.

Having occafion to fend an exprefs to my Aid-du camp, Captain Bulkeley, at Palermo, I avail my felt of the opportunity to acquaint you with another fortunate refult of our aufpicious day at Maida. Cotrone, with all its ftores, magazines, &c. and 600 troops, (now prisoners,) capitulated on Wednesday evening last, to the land and naval forces of his Britannic Majefty under Lieutenant Col. M‘Leod, of the 78th regiment, and Capt. Hofte, of his Majesty's frigate Amphion, who were affitted in their operations against that place, and upon the adjacent coalts, by the gun-boats of his Sicilian Majetty. Three hundred prisoners, who prove to be furvivors of the wounded after the action of the 4th ult., are already arrived in this fort. General Regnier, who had endeavour. ed to hold his pofition, under much embarraffment for fome time pait, between Cotrone and Catanzaro, has retreated precipitately towards Tarento; and it was reported, when the tranfports left Cotrone, that he had been attacked by the Maffe, and had lost 6 or 700 of his flying pecple. I am now to congratulate you on the total evacuation of Calabria Ultra, in which fingle province, previous to the action of the 4th, we have every certainty that the enemy had a distributed force of at least 9000 men: of thele, when General Regnier quitted his polition near Cotrone, certainly not 3000 remained. The loffes of the French in Upper Calabria have alfo borne a proportion. A great deal of heavy ordnance, lately tranfported by the French to Cotrone, beside what was found mounted on the cattle, amounting in the whole to about 40 pieces, have fallen into our hands.

I have the honour to be, &c.

H. E. Fox.

Rt. Hon. W. Windham, &c. &c.

Extract of a Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel MLeod to Major-General Sir John Stuart, dated Amphion Frigate, off Cotrone, July 27, 1806.

By the letter I had the honour of ad. dreffing to you on the 24th instant, accompanying the duplicates of my letters of the preceding evening, you will be aware that it was my intention to move, in conjunction with Captain Hotte's fquadron, to this place on the following day, under an impreflion that a feint on the enemy's rear, and this his fole remaining dépôt, would induce him to divide his torce, and of courfe make it fo much the more eafy for the Chiefs of the Maffe to fucceed in their projected attacks on his position at Catan

zaro.

The fleet got under weigh accordingly at eight o'clock P. M., and the following morning (although a confiderable distance from the thore) I had the fatisfaction to obferve the French army in full retreat towards Cotrone: as their route or road ap peared to run nearly parallelto, and within gun-fhot of the beach, and to be bounded on the oppofire fide by a chain of mountains, no better opportunity could be offered, apparently, for an ectual co operation with the Maffe. With this view, Captain Hofte made a prompt difpofition of his fri gate and fmall craft, while the transports were directed to make fail towards a point contiderably in front of the enemy's coun, and to make a demonitration of landing there. This a; pearance occafioned in the fut intance a halt in the enemy's column, and in the next, a change of its direction towards the mountains. Captain Holte was enabled, however, to open a bruk cannonade on his centre and rear, wines appeared to be immediately affected by it, and in an hour's time occafioned

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thofe parts of his column to break and difperfe in the mountains.

The enemy's lofs in this affair amounted to about fifty or fixty wounded, who were brought in waggons to Cotrone this morning. After the difperfion of the enemy in the mountains, the fleet made fail to wards this place, his fuppofed deftination, where the frigate and tranfports came to an anchor, after exchanging a few shot with the citadel, at eight o'clock in the evening. In the morning we difcovered that the enemy's army had not yet arrived, but, under an anxious expectation for their appearance, a difpofition was made with the tranfports and men of war to give him every pollible annoyance; and, accordingly, having permitted him quietly to take up his pofition within gun fhot, the frigate's broadfide was brought to bear upon him, and in the fpace of half an hour completely diflodged and obliged him to take up a new polition without the range of her guns, in the mountains.

SIR,

Amphion Frigate, off Cotrone, 6 P. M. July 29.

Several appearances in the French encampment concurring with other information I had received on the evening of the 27th, that the enemy meditated a move, I thought it proper to detain a communication I had prepared for you on that day, until I could convey more decided intelligence on this important fubject. I have now the utmost fatisfaction in acquainting you that the greatest part of the French army retreated, in a northerly direction, from Cotrone, just before day light on the morning of the 28th ult. Immediately on obtaining this information, I dispatched exprefles to the different Chiefs of the Maffe, requiring them to concert arrangements for a clofe purfuit, and pointed out the many advantages they must confequently have over a flying and difpirited enemy in their mountains, I have, however, not yet been able, through any fource, to discover, fatisfactorily, by which of the routes to the northward he has retired.

which he conceived hoftile to his caufe, have been ranfacked and burnt to the ground.

Our information of yesterday stated, that 1000 men had been left to garrifon the town and city of Cotrone. But feveral deferters, who joined us this morning, having mentioned that the greatest part of this force had marched to join their army in the course of the night, Captain Hofte agreed with myself in the propriety of fummoning the town and citadel to furrender to the force under our orders, conceiving that the immediate poffeffion of what we understood to be the enemy's fole dépôt, and his dernier refort in Lower Calabria, in point of position, together with the removal of his ftores, &c. might contribute to prevent his attempt to re-enter the province.

I have now the pleasure to enclose copies of the fummons and of the terms of capitulation finally agreed upon between us. I truft our judgment in this proceeding will be confirmed by your approbation.

I shall find it, however, neceffary to dif embark a confiderable part of my battalion this day, to cover the evacuation of the Town and Citadel, and to fuperintend the completion of the other Articles of the Capitulation: after which I thall immediately re-embark, and propole to make the beft of my way to Meflina on the 2d or 3d of Auguft, unless previously I may receive fuch information as may alter my opinion, that the French have completely evacuated Calabria for the present.

I am forry to say that a good deal of fick nefs has prevailed in the 78th, fince it failed, in confequence of their previous fa tigues, and that it has loft eight men. The difeafe is, however, not spreading; and having appointed an hofpital fhip, I truft its progrefs will be completely checked. This unpleasant circumftance will haften my return to Meffina, unless I receive contrary instructions.

The number of prifoners and deferters now with this fleet amount to about 500, of which number one half and upwards are fick and wounded.

The enemy's rout from this city has been marked by circumstances of the most cruel devastation. The village of Strongoli, with feveral others within our view,

by the army under your immediate command, which cannot fail to be recorded in the British annals, as an achievement of the first order.

P. M'LEOD.

I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) Major-General Sir John Stuart, &c.