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enemy pt'.hcd his light troops; -
towards the town soon siiw eight o’- -»
clock in the morning of the lf’h, and i
ahortly alter occupied the heights ot i ;
Bt. Lucie, which command the harbor. i
But notwithstanding this circumstance,
and the manifold defects of the place, i
there being no apprehension that the
rear guard could he forced, and the dis
position of the Spaniards appearing to
he good, the embarkation of Major
General Hill’s brigade was commenced
snd completed by three in the after
noon.
Major Gcnend Harrs ford, with that
z<ral and ability which is so well known
to vourvdf and th- whole army, having
-fully explained to the satisfaction of the
Spanish Governor the nature of our j
movement, and having oi uiee -*. ty pre- i
vious arrangement, withdrew his corps '
from the land front of the tow.i so m ;
t.c-r da'k. and was, with all lh ; : wound- !
ed that had not been previously moved, j
embarked In lore -me this morning.
Circumstances holm! us to indulge
the hope that, the victory with which
u iris pleased Providence to crown the
c[forts of the army, can he ..Lleodcd !
with any very bfilli nit cunsequ nee* to j
hr ,t p.'iiain. It u clouded l>v the;
1-jf.a of one of her best soldiers, li has •
been achieved at the termination ol a
long and harassing service, file su- •
perior numb r«, air! advantageous po
sitions of the enemy, not. less than llie
actual situation of this army, did not !
admit of any advantage being reaped
from success, it must be, however, to i
you, to f.lce army, and to our country,
the sweetest relic rtimi, tii t the- lustre I
ol the- British arms has h.cn maintain
ed arouist many disttdvnntngeoir. cir
cumstances. ihe army which hud en
tered Spain, amidst the fairest pros
pects, had no sooner completed its junc
tion, than, i vv.ng to the multiplied nis- •
asieis th .t dispersed the native armies ;
around u.», it vv..s lclt to its own r, sour
c. s.—The advance of the British corps
from Duei'u. afforded line best hope taat
tlie south of Spain might he relieved ;
hut this goner..us cflbrt to save the un
fortunate people-, also afforded the ene
my tlie opportunity of directing every
effort of his numerous troops, and con
centrating all Ins principal resources
for the destruction of the- only regular
force m the north of Spain.
You are well aware with what dili
gence the system lias been pursued.
a ’tJi i? hi;ml>e r s,
exhausted the strength and impaired
tiie equipment of the* army. Notwith
standing all these disadvantages, and
those attached it- a dclinitive position,
which the imperious necessity 0 f cov .
cring the harbor of Corunna, for a time,
had rendered indispensable to assume,
the native and undaunted v dor of Bri
tish troops was never more conspicu
ous, and must have* exceeded what even
y >ur own experience of that invaluable
quality, so inherent in them, may have
taught you to expect. Winn every
one that had an opportunity*, seemed to
vie in improving it, it is difficult for me,
in making this report, to select parti
cular instances for your approbation.
Ihe corps chiefly engaged, were the
biigades under Major-Generals Lord
\V. Uentinck and Manningiiam and
Leigh ; and the brigade of Guards un
der Major-Gen. Waide.
To tiicse officers, and the troops un
der their immediate order, the great est
praise is due. Major Gen. Hill, and
col. C. Creufurd, with their brigades on
the idt ol the position, abiv supported
then- advanced posts. The brunt of
the action fell on the 4th, 421. 50ih,
ami 81st regiments, with parts of the
brigade Guards, and tue 26th
1 1(11,1 Gieut. Col. Murray, Quarter-
Mister General, and the officers of the
General Staff, 1 received the most
marked assistance, i had reason to
regret that the illness of Brigadier Gen.
t.siuton, Adjutant-General, deprived
mo of lus aid. 1 was indebted to Bri
gadier-General Blade during the ac
tum, for a zealous offer of ids personal
services, allhough the cavalry were
embarked.
Vile greater part of the licet having
gone to sea yesterday evening, the
whole being under weigh, and the
Co! '! ,s m Ihe embarkation necessarily
much mixvd on beard, it is impossible
at present to lay before you a return of
our casualties. I hope the loss in mum j
!>cr is not so considerable as niHi' 1
have been expected. If I w ..s obliged j
to form an estimate, 1 snail sav, that I ;
believe it d;J not exceed, in hiked and
wounded, from seven to eight hundred'- !
that of the enemy must’ remain u «- i
known, but many ciiYUhisUh.o-s m hue*
m “ rate * l nearly double Hie above
nuinner. We have some i.,isoneis,!
nut I have not Owen able to obtain an’
account of the number; h is not bow-1
ever, considerable. Several officers of |
rank have fallen, or been wounded —ji
amons; whom 1 am only at present en- j
allied to state the names of Lieut. Col. ,
Napier, 92J regiment, Majors Napier'
and Stanhope, 50,h regiment, killed;
Lieutenant Col. Winch, 4th regiment, j
Lieut. Col. Maxwell, ~ 6th regiment,
Lieut. Col. Lane, 59th regiment, Lieut.
Col. Grilfilu, CiUaids, M.joii MnLi
and Williams, 81st regiment, wounded. j
To you, who are well acquainted with
the excellent qualities of Lieut. Gen.
Sir John Moore, I need not expatiate
on the loss the army and his country
jiuve sustained by liis death. His fail
has deprived me of a valuable friend,
to whom long experience of his worth
had sincerely attached me. But it is
; chiefly on public grounds that i must j
; ! meat the blow. It will lie the convtr
! s- lion of every one who loved or rcs
• m eted his matt.y character, that, aLci
| conducting the army through an ardu
ous retreat with consummate firmness,
he has tennk»uU.d a carter of distin
guished honor, hv a death that has giv
| in the enemy additional reason to res-
I pact the name of a British sokli-.r—
--'• Like the immortal Wolfe, he is snatch
' • j
; id from his country at an early period
of u life spent in her service ; like
; Wolfe, his last moments wire gilded
by the prospect, of success, and cheer
ed by the acclamations of victory ; like
I W olfe, also, his memory shall forever
remain sacred in that country* which
lie sincerely loved, and which lit had -o
faithfully s i;ved.
! It. remains for rna only to express my
hope that you will sptsdily be restored
to the service of your country, and to
lam fit the unfortunate circumstance
til at removed you rum your silustion
in the field, and threw the momentary
I command into fur less abler hands.
! I have the honor to be, ?cc.
JOHN HOPE, Lieut. Gen.
1 o Lieut. Gtn. Hr David Baird, O’c.
1 ’
I
Cofnj as a l;: ter from Lie Iton. Michael
J'c C’Hirct'ii, Hear Admiral of the
■ j While, to the Hon. William Wellesley
Pole, dated on board his Majesty's shill
tiie Tennant, at Couuma , the \Hh and
il 18 th instk
January 17, 1209.
Sir— Having it in design to detach
the Cossack to England as soon as her
boats shall cease to bo essential to the
f -': ,vr,c acquaint you, for the infor
mation of tiic i .ords Commissioners of
the Admiralty, that the ships of war,
as per margin,* and transports, under
the 9:clerk of rear-admiral Sir Samuel
Hood, and Commissioner Bowen, ar.
" v '°d at this i -borage from Vigo on
th- l*th and 15th instant; the Alfred
and Hindustan, with some transports,
i w , crc iciL at Vigo to receive a brigade
oi three thousand live hundred men, i
tnat had taken that route under the I
Generals Allen and Crawford.
!n the vicinity of Corunna, the ene
my have pressed upon the British in
giect force. I lie embarkation of the
sick, the cavalry, and the stores went !
on. The night of the 16th, was ap- ‘
pointed lor the general embarkation of
the infantry ; and, mean time, the ene
my prepared for attack. At 3 p. m. !
an action commenced; the enemv, who
had been posted on a lofty hi!!, endea
voring to force the British on another :
lull ot inferior height, and nearer the |
town.
The enemy were driven back with !
; gieai slaughter; but, very sorry arn I
| to add, that the British, though tri-j
umpiiant, have suffered severe losses. !
! 1 am unable to communicate further
' particulars, than that Sir John Moore
received a mortal wound, of which he
. died last night; that Sir David Baird
Ios: an arm : that several officers, and
, ,na »y nien had been killed ami wound
cd ; and that the ships of war have re
l cc!vccl a!1 such of the latter as they
could accommodate, the remainder be
ing sent to the transports.
* lu weather is now tempestuous, Sc
tne difficulties of embarkation a-e great. !
All except the rear-guard are embark
ml; consisting perhaps, at the present
’ moment, of 2,600 men. The enemy j
hafing brought cannon to a hill over-!
hanging the beach, have forced the
majority of the transports to cut or I
:Jip. i- mbarkation being no longer i
practicable at the town, tile boats have i
been 01 dared to 3 sandy beach, neat ‘
j t!ie hght-liouse ; and it is hoped that the !
, g'cuter part, if not all, will still be em- j
; barked, the ships of war having drop- i
; p-boul to facilitate embarkation.
!
v '*• - y.cicry, Bar/lair,
'■ ' u irrjdacable, Elizabeth, Marge, !
Elavegenet, liesolutkn, Judacius. Ln-1
dymian, Mediator.
January IS. ;
The embarkation oi the troops hav- i
i:ig occupied the gvtater part of last
night, it has not been in my power to
detach the Cosstuk beloie this day ;
and, it is with satisfaction I am able to
add, that, in consequence of the good
order maintained by the troops, and the
unwearied exertions ot Commissioner
Bowen, the captains and other officers
of the navy, the agents, as well as the
j boats’ crews, many of whom were for
! two days without feed and without re
post, the army have embarked to the
iast man, and the ships are'now in the
offing, preparatory for steering or
England. The great body ot the
transpcits having lost their anchors,
ran to sea without the troops they were
ordered to receive, in. consequence of
! wide!’, there are some thousands on
| board the ships or war. Sevciv.l trans
ports, through mismanagement, ran on
shore. The seamen appeared to have
abandoned them, two being brought
out bv the boats’ crews ot the ir.cn of
War, two were burnt, gnd 5 were bilged.
1 cannot conclude this hasty attempt,
without expressing my great obligation
to ruar-admiral Sir Samuel Hood,
whose eye was cv* i y where, avid whose
exertions were unremitted.'
I have the honor to be. Sc -.
M. DE COURCEY.
I lazy yy ether rendering the Cos
sack -obscure. 1 detach the Gkaliu
with this dispatch.
LOa.DON, January 26.
j A vessel is arrived in Plymouth,
• which was in Corunna Bay on tin 18th.
She was going into Corunna to d ispose
j cf a cargo of fish, but wis deterred by
! observing the town in flames. It is
1 supposed that the French having met
with resistance, had set fire to the town;
or which is perhaps mort probable, that
thev had committed this act of cruelly,
in order to punish the inhabitants.
Another account in circulation yes
: lei day was that a vessel bad arrived
.from Corunna, which piece she lift on
the 21st inst. and that when she s died,
the Spaniards still held cut, notwith
standing the enemy continued a vigor
ous bombardment of the town,
i With the exceptions of the transport
I lost on tiic Manacle Rocks, all the rest,
we believe, are safely arrived. SirDu-
I vicl Baird is on board the Yiile de Paris
at Rpithead*, 57 officers are also on
‘ ; Hvars o'dt-ts were employed yesterday
,: in landing the sick and wounded,
j i. s Sldc! Junot’s army, from Pertu-
J gal joined Sou It on the night before the
i battle of Corunna. They had thus'a
I SCC ’ 01K ‘. opportunity of paying a tribute
j to British valor.
I All the letters from the outports, at
i Which transports have arrived from
| Corunna, agree in stating that our army
I snffVrcd the most dreadful distress dur
;mg Its precipitate retreat from Lugo.
In an action With the French on the 7th,
in which we repulsed them, we sustain
jed some loss. On the Bth, our troops
letieated in disorder, under the impres
* sion that the whole army from Madrid
; was advancing upon them. The cav
ciiiy Loises v,ere slaughtered in great
numbers, ihe french had placed be
i 1)111(1 fbeir dragoons riflemen, who did
great execution from behind hedges,
and from eminence. It is estimated
that we lost in the retreat upwards of
j 7000 men.
i ~A s we stated yesterday, Sir John
| M°ore expressed no desire to have Im s |
remains conveyed to England, and tSf |
were interred in the citadel at Corunna', j
on the Monday evening. The remains !
at General Anstruthcr were deposited j
at the same time.
i he eldest son of Sir Harry Burrard,
an r.id-de-cainp to Sir John Moore, w „s
severely wounded in the last engage
meiit, and was put on board the Auda
cious, in which ship he died on the 21st.
m all the luen of war that have come
1 ** on,e > 1,0 P s were embarked, on ac
• count of many of tne transports having
: been blown to sea.—On board of one
man oi war, t lit re are upwards of 40 j
! wounded officers. A number of pris
ontrs have also been brought to Du- •
; gland.
; Colonel Maxwell, M the 26th regi- !
menl, has lost an arm , but he, as well |
, as. Sir David Baird, we are happy to •
»hn:., is in a fair wav of recovery,
j Ihe transport which was lost on the ;
I Manacle Rc cks near Falmouth, had on !
i board 100 of tne 7-h dragoons— 93; we j
igiitve to s ty, perished—among them
| w ere the bon. Major Cavendish, Son of
o, L.or 1 («corge Cavendish, Captain
Dimcanfiek!, and In.ut. V, aldegrave.
i ..e 1 lirnrost* sloop, wiiicii vves lost
at the-same time on the same l ocks,
was outward bound—only one boy was
saved. Amongst the sufferers were, it
ts said,major Tucker and ids brother.
The both bouses us Parlia
ment were. vut-d hist t.;p‘u lo the cßi
ce rs and men by v/lioiji il.e victories of
Corunna anti Ytmieru hat! been gained.
An atiarcsstoliis v wjiSulao
praying that he would order a monu
ment to be erected in St. Paul’s) to the
memory of Sir John Moore.
The naval officers and seamen were
also thanked for their services at Corun
na, and we must say that our thanks
should be extended to the admiralty.
The sending so large a t.avai force to
Corunna, was a most judicious mea|iure.
ilud nut Sir Samuel Hood and Admi
ral, De I'ourcy been there to assist in
bringing oiTthc troops, hall, if not more,
would, ih ali probability, have been left
behind ; for tire transports, owing wa
suppose to the circumstance of their be
ing annoyed by the enemy’s fire, ran to
sea, before they had got troopson board.
So active, howc ter, was the conduct of
mu- seamen, that not a single man v *:
kit behind, nor even a single j’.-cr of
artillery, And thus tve at cor v l
our embarkation in the fi.ee o’ ;■ to -
or force, to which we had given sue!; \
! specimen cfour stctuHncr*. our fcoura •; ,
! and otii discipline, tin.t t: .dared not
: make a single hostile mot unmet, cYcn
against the last solitary ,v:.;.t that
moved from the town or, L.: cfi.
•——»»>-:
From 'he .Xtttimcl IntelVtrcncer*
I The following interevting and honorable let
: ter, we have extracted front the Anti-Mon
-1 r.rc.liist, a respectable. .nriucafc Massachusetts,
-f l*ne lateness of the hour, ai which it v. as «*-
, ceived, prevents any comment.
i
I PRESIDENT ADAMS’s LETTER.
I __ .
|
Cfj'icr. of the- Anti~Monarchist,
March 20, ISO?.
' The following letter of the late President of
1 the United Stater, the venerable patriot,
JOHN ADAMS, was addressed to Daniel
Wright and Eras'.us Lyman, Esquires, of
Northampton, Massachusetts in answer to
a letter, dated Match 3, 1009, which they
addressed to him, at the desire of the re
publicans of this town, requesting him to
express his opinion respecting the present
1 circumstances of the nation, with regard to
i foreign powers, and domestic parties—Mr.
Adams’s letter was dated Quincy, March
13, and has the post-mark of the Quincy
post-office, arid franked bv Air. Adams.—
The original is left at the post-office, for
1 the inspection ;.f those who may wish to
i see it.
Quincy, March 13, 1809.
; Gentlemen,
j ' I have received your very civil letter of
r i tKa fluted n vk\anth with mv-tio*:,- very si
t j "mar to those which I felt, mimy v.uisVo
j upon thu following occasion,
j Returning from Holland to Paris in 1784,
■ | I was invited to dine with my wife and daugh
! ! ter bv the Enron de Stael, Ambassador from
t j S , wed£n As 1 was the first of the corps di
. . plomatic, who arrived, the Ambassador was
I Viewing me a fine Portrait of the King of
j Sweden, his master, when the count Decdati,
; Ambassador from the Elector of Saxony came
;m. After compliments to de Stael, Duodati
j turned to me, whom he had known several
years before, and the following dialogue en
sued.
Dcodati. Very weII! Mr Adams! You are
a Republican I suppose.
Adams. You are in the light, Mr. Ambas
sador, I have the honor to be a Republican.
Deodati. And your countrymen are Repub
licans, and your Government is Republican.
Mams. Certainly. My countrymen are Re
i puoucans and our Government is Republican.
J Deodati. And you have made your country
| men and your Government Republican.
Mains. Not at all. Sir, my country and its
Government have been Republican from their
origin, and long before 1 was born.
Deodati Y ery vvelV: You at least have made
your country very celebrated. You have niadfei
it independent—-You have made an astonish
mg treaty with Holland--You have made a
marvellous Peace with Englam’-.-You have
mane her acknowledge ym,* independence,
See. &c, &c. ’
J Mams. I beg your part! H-, you are too
i pwite: You do me too much honor. I have
| no pretensions to have pu-Armed all those
| great achievements. 1 haw acted a pan in
j sonic of those altairs, but
! Dcodati. But!—Very well!—1 wi!l newt
j tell you the recomj.erice von w';!l receive for all
i that you have done.
| Jiaams 1 shall be very giad to hear vour
I prognostications concerning mv destiny.
! Dcodati Your fortune will be that of all the
mpubhcans. Os Aristides: es Fhccicn : of
Miltiades: ofScipio: & c kc. kc.
Adams. I believe it.
I Dcodati. \ou believe it!
i Adams Y’es.
| Dcodati. You will experience all the. nigra
| ntllde > all the injustice of the ancient renub-
I licans. 1
Adams 1 expect it: and aivvavs have ex
pected it.
Dcodati. You will be ill treated, bated, des
pised and persecuted.
Adams I have no doubt of all that It is
j in the ordinary nature and course of things.
; Dtouati. \ our virtue ifmst be very hcroical
]f r - vo « r philosophy vurv stoical to undertake all
thc , se adventures, with your eyes open, for
suen a reward.
" J much l, r Deodai and In's warning voice:
and so much for my well grounded anticipa
tions. *
Phis is no fabulous dialo gue rs the dead -
b6t strict historical tru'h
A curious coalition of French anu Emdidt
emissaries with federal and republican libellers
have so completely fulfilled the prophecy cf
JJeodati and my own foreboding*, so totally