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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