cers, have reported their sense of cer who had frequently distinguishthe conduct of the Generals and ed himself, and was of great protroops under their command, re- mise, spectively; and I particularly request your Lordship's attention to the conduct of Major-General Byng, and of Major-General Lambert, who conducted the attack of the 6th division. I likewise particularly observed the gallant conduct of the 51st and 68th regiments, under the command of Major Rice and Lieutenant-Colonel Hawkins, in Major-General Inglis's brigade, in the attack of the heights above St. Pé, in the afternoon of 10th. The 8th Portuguese brigade, in the 3d division, under Major-General Power, likewise distinguished themselves in the attack of the left of the enemy's centre, and Major-General Anson's brigade, of the 4th division, in the village of Sarré, and the centre of the heights. I received the greatest assistance in forming the plan for this attack, and throughout the operations, from the Quarter-MasterGeneral Sir George Murray, and the Adjutant-General the Hon. Sir Edward Pakenham, and from Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Lieut. Colonel Campbell, and all the officers of my personal Staff, and his Serene Highness the Prince of Orange. Although the most brilliant part of this service did not fall to the lot of Lieutenant General the Hon. Sir J. Hope, and Lieutenant-General Don M. Frere, I have every reason to be satisfied with the mode in which these general officers conducted the service of which they had the direction. Our loss, although severe, has not been so great as might have been expected, considering the strength of the position attacked, and the length of time (from daylight till dark) during which the troops were engaged but I am concerned to add, that Colonel Barnard, of the 95th, has been severely, though I hope not dan gerously, wounded; and that we have lost in Lieutenant-Colonel Lloyd, of the 94th, an offi The artillery which was in the field was of great use to us; and I cannot sufficiently acknowledge the intelligence and activity with which it was brought to the point of attack, under the direction of Colonel Dickson, over the bad roads through the mountains, at this season of the year. I send this dispatch by my Aidede-Camp, Lieutenant Marquis of Worcester, whom I beg leave to recommend to your Lordship. I have, &c. (Signed) WELLINGTON. PS. I enclose a return of killed and wounded. Since the returns of the enemy's loss was received, we have taken one hundred more prisoners, and four hundred wounded. General Total-(British and Por tuguese killed and wounded.) Two general staff, 6 lieutenant-colonels, 4 majors, 44 captains, SO lieutenants, 42 ensigns, 6 staff, 161 serjeants, 29 drummers, 2320 rank and file, 41 horses. From From the London Gazette, Tuesday, had ordered a corps of observation, Jan. 4. COLONIAL DEPARTMENT. A dispatch of which the following is a copy, has been this morning received by Earl Bathurst, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, from Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. Head-Quarters, La Chine, Nov. 15, 1813. My Lord,-Major-General Wilkinson left Grenadier's Island, on Lake Ontario, on the 30th ultimo, with ten thousand men in small craft and batteaux, and proceeded down the St. Lawrence, in order to co-operate with Major-General Hampton in the invasion of Lower Canada, and for the avowed purpose of taking up his winter-quarters at Montreal: having on the 31st halted a few miles below Gravelly Point, on the south side of the river, his position was on the following day reconnoitred, and afterwards cannonaded by a division of gun-boats, under the command of Captain Mulcaster, of the royal navy. By keeping close to his own shore, the enemy arrived, on the 6th instant, within six miles of the port of Prescot, which he endeavoured to pass unobserved during the night of the 7th; but the vigilance of Lieutenant-Colonel Pearson, who commands there, frustrated his attempt, and the American armada was obliged to sustain a heavy and destructive cannonade during the whole of that operation. Having anticipated the possibility of the American Government sending its whole concentrated force from Lake Ontario towards this part of his Majesty's territorty, I consisting of the remains of the 49th regiment, 2d battalion of the 89th regiment, and three companies of voltigeurs, with a division of gunboats, the whole to be placed under the command of LieutenantColonel Morrison, of the 89th regiment, to follow the movements of Major-General Wilkinson's army, as soon as they should be ascertained to point towards this quarter. I have now the satisfaction of transmitting to your Lordship, a copy of a report made by Lieutenant-Colonel Morrison, 'to MajorGeneral De Rottenburgh, containing the details of an attack upon the corps of observation placed under his command, by a part of the American force under BrigadierGeneral Boyd, amounting to near 4,000 men, which terminated in the complete repulse and defeat of the enemy, with very considerable loss; upwards of 100 prisoners, together with a field-piece, remained in our possession; and, as I understand that more than 100 were found dead on the field, their total loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners, could not be less than 800 men. The consequence of this gallant affair, which reflects such high credit on all the officers and men engaged in it, and particularly on Lieutenant-Colonel Morrison, for the skill and judgment manifested by him in his choice of position, and for the coolness and intrepidity with which he maintained it, has been, that the enemy, disheartened by their losses and ill success, re-embarked the whole of their forces on the 13th, and crossed to St. Regis and Salmon River on their own shore; not leaving a man in our territory, excepting such as were prisoners. It is yet uncertain whether Gen. Wilkinson means to prosecute his original intention, of proceeding in his small craft and boats from Salmon river to Montreal, or to unite his troops with those under MajorGeneral Hampton, and attempt to advance into the province by the Chateauguay, or Odel Town roads. Major-General Hampton has received positive orders to resume the position which he had abandoned on the Chateauguay river when he retreated to Plattsburg, immediately after the disgraceful defeat he lately experienced; but the state of the weather is becoming so highly unfavourable to combined operations, that unless Gen. Wilkinson, in a very few days, succeeds in forcing the position I have caused to be occupied at the Rapids of the Coteau de Lac, and on the Beauharnois Channel, which I have no reason to expect he wil do, or that he can make his way into the province by either of the other routes I have mentioned, which I think very improbable, the American army must soon be compelled, by the severity of the season, to go into winter quarters, and to abandon all thoughts of the conquest of Canada for this campaign. I have also the honour of transmitting to your lordship the copy of a letter, with its enclosures therein referred to, addressed to Major-General De Rottenburg by Lieut.-Col. Morrison, in which you will see a further proof of the vigilance and activity of that officer, in executing the duty with which he has been entrusted; and I have the farther pleasure to report to your lordship, that a 13-inch iron, and a 10-inch brass mortar, with their stores, and a large supply of provisions, deposited by the American army at Ogdensburg, have been brought away from thence by Captain Mulcaster, of the navy, and landed at Prescott. I have again witnessed, with peculiar satisfaction, the loyalty and active zeal with which all classes have been animated in their endeavours to oppose the threatened invasion of the enemy, and which I have great pleasure in reporting to your lordship. I have the honour to be, &c. Christler's, Williamsberg, 12, 1813. Sir, I have the heartfelt gratification to report the brilliant and gallant conduct of the detachment from the centre division of the army, as yesterday displayed in repulsing and defeating a division of the enemy's force, consisting of two brigades of infantry, and a regiment of cavalry, amounting to between 3,000 and 4,000 men, who moved forward about two o'clock in the afternoon, from Christler's point, and attacked our advance, which gradually fell back to the position selected for the detachment to occupy; the right resting on the river, and the left on a pine wood, exhibiting a front of about 700 yards. The ground being open, the troops were thus disposed; the flank companies of the 49th regi ment, the detachment of the Canadian Fencibles, with one fieldpiece, under Lieut.-Colonel Pearson on the right, a little advanced ON on the road; three companies of the 89th regiment, under Captain Barnes, with a gun, formed in echellon, with the advance on its left supporting it. The 49th and Syth, thrown more to the rear with a gun, formed the man body and reserve ext nding to the woods on the 1 ft which were occupied by the voltigeurs under Major Herriot, and the India's under Lieut. Anderson. At about half-past wo the action b came general, when the enemy endeavoured, by moving forward a brigade from his right, to turn our left, but was repulsed by the 89th, forming in potence with the 49th, and both corps moving forward, occasionally firing by platoons. His efforts were next directed against our right; and to repulse this movement, the 49th took ground in that direction in echellon, followed by the 89th; when within halt musket shot the line was formed, under a heavy but irregular fire from the enemy. The 48th was then directed to charge the gun posted opposite to our's; but it became necessary, when within a short distance of it, to check the forward movement, in consequence of a charge from their cavalry on the right, lest they should wheel about, and fall upon their rear; but they were received in so gallant a manner by the companies of the 89th, under Captain Barnes, and the wel -directed fire of the artillery, that they quickly retreated, and by an immediate charge from those companies one gun was gained. The enemy immediately concentrated their force to check our adyance, but such was the steady countenance, and well-directed fire of the troops and artillery, that about half past four they gave way at all points from an exceeding strong position, endeavouring by then light infantry to cover their retreat, who were soon driven away by a judicions movement made by Lieut-Colonel Pearson. The detachricht for the night occupied the ground from which the enemy had been driven, and are now moving forward in pursuit. I regret to find our loss, in killed and wounded, has been so considerable, but trust a most essential service has been rendered to the country, as the whole of the enemy's infantry, after the action, precipitately retired to their own shores. It is now my grateful duty to point out to your honour, the benefit the service has received from the ability, judgment, and active exertions of Lieut.-Colonel Harvey, the deputy-adjutant-general, for sparing whom to accompany the detachment, I must again publicly express my acknowledgments. To the cordial co operation and exertions of Lient.-Colonel Pearson, commanding the detachment from Prescott, Lieut.-Colonel Plenderleath, of the 49th, Major Clifford, of the 89th, Major Herriot, of the Voltigeurs, and Captain Jackson, of the rogi artillery, combined with the gallantry of the troops, our great success may be attributed. Every man did his duty, and I believe I cannot more strongly speak their ments than in mentioning, that our smal force did not exceed 800 rank and file. To Captams Davis and Skinner, of the quartermaster-general's department, I am under the greatest obligations for the assistance I have received from them; their zeal and activity has been been unremitting. Lieut. Hagerman of the militia, has also, for bis services, deserved my public acknowledgments; as has also Lieutenant Anderson of the Indian department. As the prisoners are hourly bringing in, I am unable to furnish your honour with a correct return of them, but upwards of 100 are in our possession; neither of the ordnance stores taken, as the whole have not yet been collected. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) J. W. MORRISON, Lieut. Col. 89th, commanding corps of observation. Return of killed, wounded, and missing. Total-1 captain, 2 drummers, 19 rank and file, killed; 1 captain, 9 subalterns, 6 serjeants, 131 rank and file wounded; 12 rank and file missing. London Gazette Extraordinary. Foreign-office, Nov. 21, 1813. The Baron Perponcher, and Mr. James Fagel, have arrived this day from Holland, deputed by the provisional government which has been established in that country, to inform his Royal Highness' the Prince Regent, and his Serene Highness the Prince of Orange, that a counter revolution broke out in part of the United Provinces on Monday last, the 15th instant; when the people of Amsterdam rose in a body, proclaiming the house of Orange, with the od cry of Orange Boven, and universally putting up the Orange colours. This example was immediately followed by the other towns of the provinces of Holland and Utrecht, as Haarlem, Leyden, Utrecht, the Hague, Rotterdam, &c. The French authorities were dis missed, and a temporary government established, and proclaimed, in the name of the Prince of Orange, and until his Serene Highness's arrival, composed of the most respectab e members of the old government, and chiefly of those not employed under the French, Amsterdam, Nov. 16, 1813. The events of last night have shown the necessity of appointing, without delay, an administration in this great city, which, in its form and composition, may ensure the confidence of the good citizens: in consequence, the officers of the schuttery (armed burghers) have agreed to undertake the establishment of such an administration; and a number of the most respectable inhabitants have been called out, and invited by them to take upon themselves, at so critical a moment, the honourable and interesting task of effecting every thing that can contribute to prevent or stop the incalculable evils of anarchy. The following gentlemen have been this day appointed, desired, and authorised to regulate and divide among themselves the functions, in the manner they will judge most expedient: (Here follows a list of 24 names.) The colonel and chief of the municipal guards, who has the great satisfaction of acquainting the public with the above circumstances, cannot let pass this oppor tunity, without admonishing his fellow-citizens in the most earnest manner to behave with temper and moderation; |