tented myself with seeing him driven across the Albuera.-Marshal Beresford then speaks highly of Majors Hartman and Dickson, commanding the British and Portuguese artillery; also of Capt. Lefebre's horse artillery, and of one brigade of Spanish artillery, all of which were well served and fought. The Enemy took and carried off one howitzer attached to Lieut.-col. Colborne's brigade, with 300 prisoners, previous to the arrival of Gen. Hoghton's brigade. The Portuguese division of Major-gen. Hamilton evinced the utmost steadiness and courage, and manoeuvered equally well with the British; and Brig.-gen. Harvey's Portuguese brigade, when marching in line across the plain, gallantly repulsed a charge of the enemy's cavalry. After Soult's main attack was defeated, he relaxed in that on the village, on which he could never make any impression, or cross the rivulet, though the troops were reduced there in order to strengthen other points." It is impossible (continues Marshal Beresford) 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. Every individual most nobly did his duty, which is proved by the great loss we have suffered, though repulsing the Enemy; and it was observed that our dead, particularly the 57th regt. were lying as they had fought, in ranks, and every wound was in the front.-The battle commenced at nine, and continued without cessation till two in the afternoon, when the Enemy being driven over the Albuera, the remainder of the day was spent in cannonading and skirmishing.-Marshal Beresford then mentions, in terms of high commendation, the following Officers who materially conduced to the honour of the day: Major-gen. W. Stewart, who received two contusions, but would not quit the field; Major-gen. G. L. Cole, Lieut.-col. Abercrombie, Major L'Estrange (31st. regt); Col. Inglis; Major-gens. W. Lumley, Hamilton, and Alten; and Col. Collins, commanding a Portug. brigade, whose leg was carried away by a cannon shot. The deaths of Major Gen. Hoghton and of Sir W. Myers, and Lieut.-col. Duckworth, are deeply lamented. -The Portuguese brigades of Brig.-gens. Fonseca and A Campbell, are likewise honourably mentioned. Of the services which the Marshal derived from the Officers of his own staff, those of Brig.-gen. D'Urban, Q. M. G. to the Portug. Army, are particularly noticed. Lieut. col. Hardinge, D. Q. M. G. to the Portuguese; Brig.-gen. Mozinho, Adjut.gen. Lieut.-col. Rooke, Assist. Adj.-gen. to the United British and Portuguese

force; Brig.-gen. Lemos, and the Officers of his personal Staff, are thanked for the assistance they rendered.-The Marshal then states that the most perfect harmony subsisted between the allies, and that he experienced the most cordial assent and co-operation from Generals Blake and Castanos; the former took the command of the Spanish troops, and by his experience, knowledge, and zeal, greatly contributed to the fortunate result of the battle. Generals Ballasteros, Zayas, Don Carlos d'Espagne, and Count de Penne Villamur, are honourably mentioned. Marshal Beresford then, after acknowledging the services of Lieut.-col. Arbuthnot, and recommending him for promotion, concludes thus: "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 Gen. Blake, who are 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 2000 dead, and we have taken from 900 to 1000 prisoners. He has had five Generals killed and wounded; of the former, Generals of Division Merle and Pefin; 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 20 to 22,000 infantry, and he certainly had 4000 cavalry with a numerous and heavy artillery. His overbearing cavalry cramped and confined all our operations, and with his artillery saved his 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 Badajos 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. 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 object 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. W. C. BERESFORD, Marshal and Lt. Gen.

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P. S. Major.-gen. Hamilton's Division, and Brig.-gen. Madden's Brigade of Portuguese cavalry, march to-morrow morning to re-invest Badajos, on the South side of the Guadiana.

Officers killed and wounded between the 8th and 15th May inclusive.

Killed-Capt. Smith, 3d bat. 27th foot, Capt. Dickinson and Lieut. Melville, Royal Engineers.-Wounded on the 10th May:-Royal Engineers, Capts. Ross and Boteler, severely; and Lieut. Read, slightly.-3d bat. 27th foot, Lieut. Col. M'Lean, Lieuts. Gordon and Dobbins, slightly; Major Birmingham (since dead); Capt. Pring, severely; Lieut. Levinge, Ensigns M'Coard and Hanley.

1st bat. 40th foot, Lieut.-col. Harcourt, Major Thornton, and Lieut. Street, slightly; Lieuts. Thoreau and Strawbenzie, severely; Capts. Heyland and Wood, Lieuts. Kelly, Butler, and Brown. 5th bat. 60th foot, Capt. Prevost, severely. -97th foot, Lieut. Coppinger and Ensign Downing, severely; Lieut. Daunt, slightly; Lieut. Kettlewell and Ensign Dowman, lost an arm. 17th Portuguese Regt. Col. Turner, severely; Capts. Buquet and Maxwell.

Officers killed, wounded, and missing on the 16th of May.

Killed.-Major-gen. D. Hoghton.-3d Dragoon Guards, Lieut. Fox.. 1st bat. 3d foot, or Buffs, Capt. Burke, Lieut. Herbert, Ensigns Chadwick and Thomas, -2d bat. 7th foot, Capt. Erck, Lieut. Archer.—1st bat. 23d foot, Capt. Montague, Second Lieut. Hall.-29th foot, Capt. Humphrey, Lieut. Duguid, Ensigus King, Furnace, and Vance.-2d bat. 34th foot, Capt. Gibbons, Lieut. Castle, Ensign Sarsfield.2d bat. 39th foot, Lieut. Beard. 1st bat. 48th foot, Lieut.-col. Duckworth, Lieuts. Page and Ansaldo.-2d bat. 48th foot, Lieuts. Liddon, Loft, and Drew; Ensign Roth well.1st bat. 57th foot, Major Scott, Capt. Fawcett.-24 bat. 66th foot, Capt. Benning, Lieut. Shewbridge, Ensign Coulter.2d Light bat. King's G. L. Lieut. Whitney.

Portuguese.-Staff, Surgeon Bollman. -23d regt. P. B. Bandeira, J. Joze Montro.

Wounded.-Major-gen. Hon. G. L. Cole, Major-gen. W. Stewart, Capt. Egerton (2d bat. 34th foot, Dep. Assist. Adj.-gen.), Capt. Baring (1st light bat. K. G. L. Aid-de-Camp to Gen. Alten), and Capt. Hawker, Royal Art. all slightly; Capt. Waller (103d foot, Dep. Assist. QM. Gen.), Capt. Rouveria (Sicilian reg. Aid-de-Camp to Major-gen. Cole), Capt. Wade (42d foot, Aid-de-Camp to Major gen. Cole), and Lieut. Thiele (Royal German Ert.) all severely, 4th Dra

goons, Capt. Holmes, Lieut. Wildman, and Adj. Chantry, slightly. 3d foot er Buffs, Captains Marley and Gordon, Lieutenants Wood, Houghton, and O'Donnell, and Ensign Walsh, severely; Captains Stevens and Cameron, severely, the latter taken prisoner, Lieuts. Juxon, Shepherd, Hooper, Latham, Wright, and Titlow,slightly.-Ist.bat.7th foot, Lieut.col. Sir W. Myers, and Lieut. S. B. Johnstone, both since dead; Captains Cholwich, Singer, and Crowder, Lieutenants Moultry, Wemyss, Henry, R. Johnstone, Gibbons, and Moses, slightly; Lieutenants Prevost, Mullins, Jones, and Morgan, severely.-2d bat. 7th foot, Brevet Lieut.-col. Blackeney, Capt. Orr, Lieutenants Irwin, Healy, Wray, Orr, and Seaton, severely; Capt. Magenis, left arm amputated; Capt. Parleton, Lieute nants Penrice, Lorentz, Holden, Frazer, and Acting Adjutant Meagher, slightly. -1st bat. 23d foot, Lieut.-ool. Ellis, Captains Hurford, M'Donald, Stainforth, First Lieutenants Harrison, Treeve, and Thorpe, Second Lieutenants Castles, Harris, Ledwich, and Adjutant M’Lellan, slightly; First Lieut. Booker, severely. -2d bat. 28th foot, Capt. Gale, severely; Capt. Carrol, Lieutenants Crammer, Cottingham, Shelton, and Ensign Ingram, slightly.29th foot, Lieut.-col. White, Lieutenants Stannus, Popham, and Briggs, Ensigns Kearney and Hamilton, and Adj. Wild, severely; Major Way, Captains Hodges, Tod, and Nestor, Lt.Brooke, and Ensign Lovelock, slightly.-2d bat. 31st foot, Capt. Fleming, Lieutenants Butler, Gethin, and Cashell, and Ensigns Wilson and Nicholson, severely; Capt. Knox, slightly.— 2d bat. 34th foot, Captains Widdrington and Wyatt, Lieutenants Hay and Walsh. 2d bat. 39th foot, Capt. Brine, Lieutenants Hart and Pollard, and Ensign Cox, severely.-1st bat. 48th foot, Capt. Parsons, severely; Captains Wilson, French, Bell, and Morrissett, Lieutenants Crawley, Herring, Wright, O'Donaghue, Duke, M'Intosh, and Vincent, Ensign Collin, and Adj. Steele, slightly. -2d bat. 48th foot, Capt. Watkins, Lieutenants Johnstone and Vander Meulen, severely; Captains Waugh, Drought, and Wood, slightly; Lieutenants Shea and Sharp, EnsignsNorman and McDougall 1st battalion 57th foot, Lieutenant-colonel Inglis, Major Spring, Captains Shadforth, M'Gibbon, Jermyn, Stainforth, Hely, Kirby, Lieutenants Evatt, Baxter, M'Farlane, Dix, Hughes, Sheridan, Veitch, Myers, and M'Dougal, Ensigns Torrens and Jackson, slightly; Lieutenants McLachlan and Patterson, severely.-5th bat. 60th foot, Lieut. Ingersleben, slightly.—2d

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Missing.-R. German Art. Lieut. Blumenbach. - 4th Dragoons, Capts. Spedding and Phillips.-3d foot, or Buffs, Licuts. Annesley and Hill.—2d bat. 48th foot, Major Brooke, Capts. Campbeil and Allman, Lieuts. Ellwood, Marshal Sach, Brotheridge, and Wood, Ensign Gilbert.

General Loss on the 10th.-1 Captain 2 Serjeants, 29 rank and file, killed; Colonel, 1 Lieut.-Colonel, 2 Majors, 4 Captains, 10 Lieutenants, 4 Ensigns, 9 Serjeants, 4 Drummers, 381 rank and file, wounded; 12 rank and file missing.

General Loss on the 8th and 15th May. 1. Captain, 2 Lieutenants, 1 Ensign, 3 Serjeants, 61 rank and file, killed; 1 Lieut.-colonel, 4 Captains, 4 Lieutenants, Ensign, 12 Serjeants, 2 Drummers, 180 rank and file, wounded; 1 Lieutenant, 22 rank and file, missing. TotalBritish Loss on the 16th at Albuera. General Staff, 1 Lieut.-colonel, 1 Major, 7 Captains, 13 Lieutenants, 9 Ensigns, 31 Serjeants, 4 Drummers, 815 rank and file, 54 horses, killed;

General Staff, 4 Lieut.-colonels, 4 Majors, 43 Captains, 81 Lieutenants, 20 Ensigns, 6 Staff, 132 Serjeants, 9 Drummers, 2426 rank and file, 26 horses, wounded; I Major, 4 Captains, 8 Lieutenants, 1 Ensign, 28 Serjeants, 10 Drummers, 492 rank and file, 17 horses, missing.

Total Portuguese Loss. - 1 General Staff, I Staff, 2 Serjeants, 98 rank and file, 9 horses, killed; 1 General Staff, 1 Lieut.-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.

A third letter from Marshal Beresford to Lord Wellington, dated Albuera, May 21, refers to an accompayning intercepted dispatch from Gen. Gazan to Marshal Soult. Sir W. Beresford says, "After the severe battle we had, it is satisfactory to know that the Enemy's loss was not exaggerated, and you will see by Gen. Gazan's letter to Marshal Soult, that in killed and wounded it cannot be less than 8000 men-left dead on the field and taken, we have the knowledge of near 3000; Gen. Gazan states that he has more than 4000 wounded with him; 320 were at Almen

dralejo by the same letters; Gazan says many have died on the road, and which we know must have been the case, as it is in the few first days that the bad cases die in numbers, and a precipitate retreat and want of convenient carriage must increase the mortality: thus we can scarcely calculate the loss of the Enemy from these data at less than 9000 men. Our advance was close to Azuchal and. Almendralejo, and I propose putting a strong column of infantry in march towards those places to-morrow morning, and shall accompany it."

Admiralty-Office, June 4.

Vice Admiral Sir J. Saumarez, Bart. and K. B. has transmitted to J. W. Croker, esq. a letter he had received from Capt. Lowe, of his Majesty's sloop the Diligence, giving an account of his having, on the 9th of last month, captured a Danish row-boat privateer, carrying two swivels and sixteen men.

FRANCE.

The Moniteurs have lately published three official documents. The first was, a dispatch from Masseną, dated Salamanca, May 14, referring solely to the actions which took place between the 5th and 9th, in the neighbourhood of Almeida. The second, Gen. Brennier's report of the evacuation of Almeida; in which he asserts, that not more than 60 men of his garrison fell during their hazardous, but well-conducted retreat. -The third, a dispatch from Marshal Soult, containing the details of the ever-memorable battle of Álbuera. Soult describes his breaking up at Seville-his junction with Latour Maubour:

-his approach to Albuera, and his disposition for the engagement there, exactly as General Beresford had done. [See Gazette, page 659.] During the engagement, he says, he learned from a Spanish prisoner, that Blake had joined with 9,000 men. Deeming the contest no longer equal, the allies being 30,000, and the French 18,000, he abandoned his design, the relief of Badajos; but his own loss is estimated at 2,800 men, and ours at 9,000. The British, he adds, took no prisoners, except "two or three hundred wounded, who were left on the field!"—though previously, he said, he maintained the position he had gained at the commencement of the battle

until the 18th, two days after.-In relation to future events, the French Marshal does not give up the cause in despair: he is determined to call in fresh reinforcements; and, as he expresses it, to complete our defeat;" for throughout he claims the victory at Albuera.

FRENCH NATIONAL COUNCIL.

The first sitting of the National Council was this day (June 18) celebrated according to the antient forms prescribed by the usages and canons of the Church. The Catholic Religion possesses no ceremony more affecting, or more august. At seven in the morning the doors of the Metropolitan Church of Paris were thrown open to the publick-the body of the Church and the ailes were in a moment filled with those who assisted at the ceremony, among whom we noticed a number of French and foreign Ministers, and a great many other persons of distinction. At nine, the Fathers of the Council passed out from the Archbishop's Palace, and moved on in procession to Notre-Dame. The procession marched in the following order: First, the Swiss Guards, and the Officers of the Church; the Cross; the Masters of the Ceremonies; the Incense-bearers; the Choristers; the Ecclesiasticks of the second rank; the Officers of the Council; the Metropolitan Chapter, which was to receive the Council at the principal entrance of the church; the Fathers of the Council, all in their capes and mitres, with the scarf, the cross, the gremial, and the mitre of the Bishop who was to celebrate the High Mass, carried by Canons; four Deacons and four Sub-Deacons in their surplices (en chasuble); two assistant Bishops; the Celebrant, in his pontifical garb. His Eminence, Cardinal Fesch, Archbishop of Lyons, Primate of the Gallican Church, is the President of the Council.

The Fathers were ranged in the choir on the seats which had been provided for them, having hassocks before them, and some small benches for the assistant Priests. The Metropolitan Clergy and Rectors of Paris occupied one side of the Sanctuary. After the Gospel-Lesson, the officiating Sub-Deacon carried the book opened to the Celebrant, and to the Fathers, for them to kiss. This ceremony finished, M. de Boulogne, Bishop of Troyes, ascended the pulpit. His discourse produced the most lively impression. Many passages, above all, his peroration, appeared models of the most sublime eloquence. The Orator had chosen for his theme, the influence of the Catholic Religion on social order. He evinced that the Catholic Religion

is the strongest cement of states, by the force of its tenets, by the nature of its worship, and by the ministry of its Pastors. The Cardinal, who was the Celebrant, now proceeded to the high Mass. At the second elevation, all the Bishops gave each other mutually the kiss of peace. After this, they moved two by two to the Communion, and received the Sacrament from the hand of the Celebrant.

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After Mass, different prayers were recited, invoking the illumination of the Holy Ghost, and these were ended by the Hymn, Veni Creator. The Cardinal Celebrant prayed successively for the Pope, the Emperor, and the Council. (N. B. It is thus pointed in the original.) The Episcopal Secretaries of the Council then approaching the Celebrant, saluted. him, and likewise the Fathers who received from their hands the Decrees, which were to be made public in this sitting. One of them (M. the Bishop of Nantes) mounted the pulpit, and proclaimed in Latin the Decree for opening of the Council. (Here follows the translation :)

"Most illustrious and very reverend Siegneur-Most Reverend Father, may it please you, for the honour and glory of the Holy and undivided Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, for the increase of the exaltation of the faith of the Christian Religion, for the peace and union of the Church, to decree and declare that the National Council has commenced." Then the Cardinal the Celebrant and President said, "The Decree has pleased the Fathers: in consequence, we declare that' the National Council is formed."

The Te Deum was then chanted, after which a new Decree was made public, on the manner of conducting themselves in the Council-de modo vivendi in Concilio. The muster-roll of the Fathers' names was then called over, to which each in his turn answered, Adsum— (Here I am). The suffrages having been collected in the usual form, the President proclaimed a Decree on the Profession of Faith. All the Members made the Profession individually, and thus ended the first Sitting.

HOLLAND.

To shew the severity of police to which the Dutch are exposed under their merciless task-masters, we need only mention, that the Exchange at Amsterdam must be shut by three o'clock-the streets leading to it must be immediately evacuated; and all who shall be found in them afterwards are to be treated as disturbers of the public peace. Not

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more than three persons are permitted to stop and talk in the streets!

To drain the Dutch population of all its effective members, a corps is raising, under the title of the King of Rome's Body Guards!

The Jews domiciliated in Holland have found it necessary to appeal, from the Lieutenant Governor, the Duke of Placentia, to Buonaparte, on the subject of the Conscription, which had been enforeed with much rigour against them. The Deputation of that nation, after a three weeks' residence in Paris, obtained of Buonaparte that their brethren should be placed on the same footing as the Hollanders, and permitted to find substitutes.

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.

Marshal Beresford, in a late address to the Portuguese troops, after praising their discipline and patriotism, and thanking them for their good conduct, concludes by saying, that he considers it an honour to be in any way connected with a nation he so greatly admires; and which will find in discipline the only auxiliary necessary to their natural and hereditary valour, to deliver them from the tyranny with which the Enemy threatens them.

General Castanos' account, to the Regency of Cadiz, of the battle of Albuera, has been received: it agrees in all material particulars with General Beresford's. Castanos computes the Enemy's loss at 7,000 men. It is gratifying to learn, that the utmost harmony prevails between the Allied Chiefs.-Lord Wellington, previous to the battle, proposed that on the junction of corps, the command should always devolve upon the offieer of the highest military rank: this would have given the command of the Allies to General Castanos; who, however, in this delicate point, acted most judiciously; for he declared that the General who has the greatest force under his orders, ought to have the chief command, the others being considered as auxiliaries.

During the hottest of the action at Albuera, an officer, Ensign Thompson, was called upon to surrender the colours he held; but he declared he would give them up only with his life, and he fell a victim to his bravery.-Another officer, Ensign Walsh, had the colours he held broken by a cannon-ball, and was also severely wounded-having fallen on the field, he tore the colours from the staff, and thrust them into his boson, where they were found after his death.-Sir W. Beresford was also attacked by one of the Polish cavalry, whom he disGENT. MAG. Suppl. LXXXI, PART 1.

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mounted, with the intention of preserving his life; but the man, persisting in his first design, was at length killed by a dragoon. [The above instances of individual heroism were related by Mr. Perceval in the House of Commons.]

When the Polish lancers make a charge, a red flag is suspended at the end of every lance, and that flag is so carried by the rider as to prevent the horse from seeing any other object, These red flags, in the late action, terrified our horses, and rendered every effort impracticable to make them meet the charge.

The Polish lancers, who committed such great cruelties on our wounded (among whom Major Brooke, together with several others, were put to death by them), are said to have been overtaken during the retreat by the 3d and 14th Dragoons, who killed and wounded a considerable number of them.

GERMANY.

The art of rising and moving in the air by means of wings, continues to engage the attention of a number of persons in Germany. At Vienna, the watchmaker Degen, aided by a liberal subscription, is occupied in perfecting his discovery. He has recently_taken several public flights in the Prater. At Berlin, Claudius, a wealthy manufacturer of oil-cloth, is engaged in like pursuits: he rises in the air without difficulty, and can move in a direct line at the rate of four miles an hour; but his wings are unwieldy, and he cannot turn round in them. At Ulm, a tailor named Berblinger, announced on the 24th of April, that he had, after great sacrifice of money, labour, and time, invented a machine in which he would, on the 12th of May, rise in the air and fly twelve miles.

Buonaparte has ordered 68 captains of ships at Embden to be arrested, who were suspected of having had intercourse with England; and has sent them on board French ships of war at Antwerp,

Count Scharosch, related by marriage to the Imperial family, was lately murdered, on his estates in Hungary, by two of his principal domésticks, who, after firing the mansion, fled with a large booty to Bohemia. An ostentatious display of wealth, unsuitable to persons in their station of life, occasioned their apprehension; but as no evidence could be adduced against them, they were liberated. Subsequently, however, in clearing away the ruins of the mansion, the body of the Count, which had been accidentally preserved from the fire, was found, with such marks of violence, as

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