-John Woolcombe, Gent. to be ditto. Dated June 30, 1812.-Charles Dallas, Gent. to be ditto. Dated as above. 1st or East Cornwali Regiment of Local Militia-Richard Sibly, Gent. to be Lieutenant. Dated April 6, 1812.-James Messenger, Gent. to be ditto. Dated April 24, 1812. 2d or Roseland Regiment-Edward Middlecoat, Gent. to be Lieutenant. Dated May 18, 1812.-Henry Hocking, Gent. to be ditto. Dated as above.-John Williams, Gent, to be ditto. Dated as above.-Anthony Cock, Gent. to be ditto. Dated as above.-Thomas Snell, Gent. to be ditto. Dated July 13, 1812.— John Harris, Gent. to be Ensign. Dated May 18, 1812.-Matthew O'Brien, Gent. to be ditto. Dated as above.-Samuel Downing, Gent. to be ditto. Dated as above.—John Bond, Gent. to be ditto. Dated as above.-John Hammill, Gent. to be ditto. Dated as above. 4th or Mountsbay Regiment-John Jones Pearce, Esq. to be Captain, by Brevet. Dated May 26, 1812.-William Berryman, Gent. to be Lieutenant. Dated as above. John Cock, Gent. to be ditto. Dated as above.-John Fleming, Gent. to be ditto. Dated as above.-George Cock, Gent. to be Ensign. Dated as above. Isaac Teague, Gent, to be ditto. Dated as above. 5th or Pendennis Artillery Regiment-William Baker, Esq. to be Captain. Dated November 5, 1812.-Robert Williams, Esq. to be ditto. Dated February 8, 1813. Mark Rogers, Esq. to be ditto, by Brevet. Dated May 10, 1812.— William Wilmot Corfield, Gent. to be First Lieutenant. Dated November 5, 1812. John Tresidder, Gent. to be ditto. Dated as above.—John Spry, Gent. to be ditto. Dated as above.-John Symonds, Gent. to be ditto. Dated as above. -James Cornish, Gent. to be ditto. Dated February 8, 1813.-Richard Thomas, jun. Gent. to be Second Lieutenant. Dated November 5, 1812.-John Richards, jun. Gent. to be ditto. Dated as above.--William Merryfield, Gent. to be ditto. Dated as above.-Robert Williams Avery, Gent. to be ditto. Dated as above.-William Mitchell, Gent. to be ditto. Dated as above.-John Kendall, Gent. to be ditto. Dated February 8, 1813. Mountsbay Volunteer Infantry-John Boase, Esq. to be Major. Dated July 30, 1811.-Henry Grose, Gent. to be Ensign. Dated as above. Loyal Meneage Volunteer Cavalry-James Plomer, Esq. to be Captain. Dated December 19, 1811.-George Borlase, Gent. to be Lieutenant. Dated May 21, 1812.-William R. Hill, Gent, to be Cornet. Dated January 10, 1812. Mountsbay Volunteer Artillery-Thomas Carvosoe, Esq. to be Major-Commandant. Dated December 16, 1812.-Francis Hitchens, Gent. to be Lieutenant. Dated May 11, 1812.-Thomas Deeble Smith, Gent. to be Lieutenant. Dated as above.-J. M. Wrotten, Gent. to be ditto. Dated December 16, 1812. Southern Regiment of Stafford Local Militia-Lieutenant James Eborall to be Captain, vice Bindley, resigned. Dated April 10, 1813.-Ensign Thomas Bindley, to be Lieutenant, vice Eborall, promoted. Dated as above.-Ensign William Proudman, to be ditto, vice Roby, resigned. Dated as above.-William Holland, Gent. to be ditto, vice Alexander, resigned. Dated as above.-Samuel Heath, Gent. to be ditto, vice Buckerfield, resigned. Dated as above. Central Regiment-Lieutenant John Moore, to be Captain. Dated April 10, 1813. -John Barlow, Esq. to be ditto. Dated as above.-Francis Harrison Burgin, Gent. to be Lieutenant. Dated as above.-Charles Henry Collier, Gent. to be ditto. Dated as above.-Charles Wright, Gent. to be ditto. Dated as above.— Thomas Jackson, Gent. to be ditto. Dated as above.-John Hill, Gent. to be ditto. Dated as above. Northern Regiment-Charles Meigh, Gent. to be Lieutenant. Dated April 14, 1813.-Thomas Bagnall, Gent. to be Ensign. Dated as above. William Jackson, Gent. to be Adjutant to the 2d Leeds Regiment of Local Militia. Dated February 10, 1813.-William Thatcher, Gent. to be ditto to the West Halifax ditto. Dated as above. 1st Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia--Ensign Henry Sackett, to be Lieutenant, vice Johnstone, resigned. Dated March 22, 1813.-Covert Randall, Gent. to be ditto, vice Crofts, superseded. Dated March 23, 1813.-John Beale, Gent. to be ditto, on a vacancy. Dated March 24, 1813. 1st Regiment of Surrey Local Militia-George Clark, Esq. to be Captain, vice Norwood, resigned. Dated April 8, 1813.-Ensign Augustus Manning, to be Lieutenant, vice Wordle, resigned. Dated as above. 3d Regiment-Robert Clarke, Esq. to be Captain. Dated March 12, 1313.Charles Harrison, Gent. to be Ensign. Dated March 30, 1813.-Samuel Barrett, Gent. to be Surgeon, vice Taylor, resigned. Dated April 7, 1813. 5th Regiment-William Henry Dawson, Esq. to be Captain. Dated April 5, 1813. -Thomas Smart, Gent. to be Surgeon. Dated March 18, 1813. ERRATA in the Gazettes of the 10th and 13th instant. 5th Regiment of Surrey Local Militia-For John Riken, Gent. to be Lieutenant, read John Aiken, Gent. to be Lieutenant.-For Thomas Riley, Gent. to be Ensign, read James Riley, Gent, to be Ensign.—For Edward Bethell Law, Gent. to be Adjutant, to the Royal Glamorgan Regiment of Militia, read Edward Bedwell Law, Gent. to be Adjutant, &c. THE LONDON GAZETTE.-Published by Authority. From SATURDAY, April 17, to TUESDAY, April 20, 1813. Downing-Street, April 19, 1813. A DISPATCH, of which the following is an extract, has been received at this Office, addressed to Earl Bathurst by Lieutenant-General Sir John Murray, Bart, dated Head-Quarters, Castalla, March 23, 1813. I have the honour to enclose extracts of two dispatches, addressed to his Excellency the Marquess of Wellington, by which your Lordship will be fully apprised of the present situation of this army, and of the different trifling affairs which we have had with the enemy. Extract of a Letter from Lieutenant-General Sir J. Murray to Lord Wellington, dated Alicante, March 10, 1813. I had the honour, in my letter of the 26th ultimo, to acquaint your Lordship, that I had taken the command of the division of the Mediterranean army serving on the eastern coast of Spain. Since my letter of the 26th February, nothing of importance has occurred. On the 3d instant, when reconnoitring the position of Alcoy, it became necessary to drive in the advanced posts. The enemy lost in the action, as I have been informed, one officer killed, and about twenty men killed and wounded. The possession of Alcoy appeared to me of importance; and having had a very accurate view of the position, I thought it possible, in carrying the place, to cut off the corps stationed there. With this intention, on the 6th instant, I directed the march of a part of the army on Alcoy, and attacked that post on the morning of the 7th; but by the unfortunate delay of the column which was destined to cut off his retreat, the enemy effected his escape; had this column arrived a quarter of an hour before, not a man could have got off. The advanced guard of the column destined to attack the enemy in front drove him about six or seven miles, when I found the soldiers so much fatigued, that even had I wished, I could have pressed them no further. The country over which the enemy retired was extremely favourable for him, and certainly might have been much better defended. He was on this account enabled to dispose of his killed and wounded, and I cannot state his loss. That on the part of the allied army is inconsiderable. I have much satisfaction in acquainting your Lordship, that trifling as these affairs have proved, they are sufficient to give me great confidence in the troops which were engaged; and it is with peculiar pleasure I bave noticed the state of Major-General Whittingham's division of the Spanish army. Extract of a Letter from Lieutenant-General Sir J. Murray to General the Marquiss of Wellington, dated Castalla, March 23, 1813. In my dispatch of the 10th instant, I had the honour to inform your Lordship, that I had found it expedient to drive the enemy from Alcoy, and to occupy that place with a strong division of the allied army. In consequence of this movement, Marshal Suchet quitted Valencia, and has assumed the command, in person, of the troops on the right bank of the Xucar. He appears to have drawn to this division of his army nearly all the disposcable force which he has in the neighbourhood of Valencia. Finding that the enemy was concentrating his force, I assembled the allied army at Castalla on the 20th. In consequence of this concentration of the allied army, Marshal Suchet has reinforced his right, and has now a strong force at Onteniente, Mogente, and Fuente del Higuera. Since I had last the honour of addressing your lordship, there have been several trifling affairs with the enemy. General Whittingham has forced him to retire beyond the Puerto de Albayda, with a very conside rable loss. In this affair, which General Whittingham conducted with great judgment, and in which the Spanish troops behaved with great gallantry and order, the General was slightly wounded, as were an officer and seven men. In a reconnoitring party on the same day, conducted by Major-General Donkin, Captain Jacks, and the foreign troop of light infantry, Captain Waldron, and the grenadiers of the 2d 27th, and Lieutenant M'Dougall, of the Adjutant-General's Department, had an opportunity of making a spirited attack on an enemy's post, which was carried in the presence of a battalion drawn up as spectators. We suffered no loss on this occasion, but killed some of the enemy, and took a few prisoners. Before I conclude this letter I beg to add, that, since I have been in co-operation with General Elio, I have found his Excellency most anxious to forward every object I have in view: it is impossible too highly to extol his zeal, or the readiness with which he meets my wishes. DEATHS. Suddenly, at his house in George-Square, in Edinburgh, Captain John Baugh, late of the 58th Regiment. On the 11th of April, at Cork, Captain Duggan, in consequence of a contusion received by a fall from his gig. In the year 1797, he left his country for the East Indies, where he intended to practice as a Barrister-but being naturally of an ardent and enterprising spirit, he entered into the Honourable East India Company's service, where he distinguished himself in his military career, particularly at the memorable siege and storm of Seringapatam, &c. &c. He filled an honourable situation at Amboyna, and was afterwards Judge Advocate at Seringapatam.After a long service, he returned to Europe in the year 1811. On the 10th of April, the lady of Lieutenant-Colonel Le Gros, of the 5th Essex Local Militia, and of Chigwell.-She was standing at the fire-side on the 7th, when by some accident her dress caught by the flame, and the family being absent at church, it is presumed, that from the alarm, Mrs. Le Gros was prevented calling that assistance which would otherwise have been more readily obtained: and such were the melancholy effects of the fire, that three days afterwards she expired. On the 9th of April, at an early hour in the morning, at the head of the Quay, Bristol, James Cragg, Esq. late Surgeon in the Westmoreland Militia, who, as he was returning to his lodgings in Queen-Square from Broad-Street, fell into the water and was drowned. On the 25th of April, the Hon. General Fitzpatrick, Colonel of the 47th Regiment, in the 66th year of his age. On the 10th of April, at Armagh, Ensign P. White, of the Westminster Militia. On the 20th of April, at Fermoy, Richard Henry Horton, Esq. Major of the 84th Regiment, in the 36th year of his age. He had been nearly twenty years in the same regiment, and upwards of fifteen years in India, where he was exposed to the most arduous services, and acquired the reputation of being a most excellent officer. As he was respected by all who knew him during the series of his military career, so is he regretted by his numerous Friends in Arms. He has left a young Widow and one Child to mourn his loss. On the 22d of March, at Edinburgh, Master W. D. Robertson, second son of General Robertson of Lude. On the 22d of March, at Edinburgh, Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Macleod, of St. Kilda, formerly of the East India Company's Service at Madras. On the 8th of May, at Lymington, in consequence of extreme fatigue in Spain, in his 19th year, Lieut. J. B. Colborne, of the 2d Light Battalion K. G. L. On the 17th of April, at Harwich, Jane, wife of Lieutenant William Webster, 1st Veteran Battalion. In June, 1812, in the island of Java, Captain Ralph, of the 59th Regiment. Major.-Scott, Westmoreland Militia, 13th March, 1813. Captains-Annesley, 38 F. 6th Feb. 1813.-Cameron, 6th W. I. R. 28th Jan. Beaton, Royal African Corps.-Hall, 5th Garrison Battalion, 12th March.Shackerley, 9th Royal Veteran Battalion.-Campbell, Fort-Major, Fort-George, 1st Dec. 1812.-Jones, Cornish Miners, 29th Jan. 1813.-Hands, Leicester Militia. Lieutenants.-Beavan, 1 F. 22d Feb. 1813.-Johnston, 15th F.-Rackiter, 36th F. 15th Nov. 1812.-White, 38th F. 20th Nov.-Veitch, 57th F.-De Bree, 60th F.-Smith, 88th F. 5th Nov. 1812.-Hugh Mackay, Royal African Corps, 5th April, 1813.-Abbott, 10th Royal Veteran Battalion, 8th Dec. 1812.-Lernon, Chass. Brit. 4th Feb. 1813.-Bourke, York Light Infantry Volunteers, 30th Feb. 1813.-Hardy, Armagh Militia, 12th Jan.-Findlay, Donegal Militia, 15th March. Michell, Wexford Militia, 17th March. Ensigns.-Kelly, 30th F. 2d Dec. 1812.-Field, 5th Royal Veteran Battalion, 4th Feb. 1813.-Coulson, Northumberland Militia, 2d March.-White, Westminster Middlesex Militia, 10th April. Adjutant.-Robertson, 95th F. Surgeons.-Reed, 36th F. 1st March 1813.-Reynolds, 45th F. MARRIAGES. At Fort-George, on the 9th of April, Mr. George Adams, Assistant-Surgeon 21st Regt. to Miss Unquhart Roy, daughter of J. Roy, Esq. Surgeon to the Forces. Lately, at Paris, Captain Louis Lefevre to Captain Marie Thoreau!!! It appears that Captain L. commanded a company in Spain, and several times would have been taken a prisoner by the British, &c. during battles, and at one time would have been drowned, but for the boldness and exertion of Mademoiselle T. who had entered the army in disguise to save her brother, who bad been drafted, whose constitution was too weak to bear camp fatigues, and whose appearance she greatly resembled. She had been in the service several years, and had been made a Lieutenant for her activity and bravery; had received many wounds, but her sex was not discovered until she received a ball in the breast, of which Captain L. apprized Soult, when she was raised to the rank of Captain. Captain L. full of gratitude and admiration, solicited her hand, and they were both permitted to retire upon half-pay. At Lexden, on the 21st of April, Captain Philip Bailey, late of the 19th Light Dragoons, to Miss Thorn, of Colchester. At Mary-le-bonne Church, on the 26th of April, F. T. Bennett, Esq. late of the 77th Regiment, to Miss M. Penuel. At Inverness, on the 13th of March, Lieutenant M'Intyre, Royal Marines, to Jessie, youngest daughter of the late Major William Falconer, of Fort-George. At Mary-le-bonne Church, on the 24th of April, Captain Molloy, of the 1st Foot Guards, to Miss L. A. Blaauw. At Rickholm, on the 15th of April, Captain J. Grellie, to Miss Janet Neilson. At Henley, on the 13th of March, Captain R. Hay, to Miss Nutting. At Government-House, Calcutta, Captain Browning, Secretary to the Military Board, to Elizabeth, daughter of T. H. Casamajon, Esq. At Barnes, Surry, on Saturday last, Lieutenant J. W. Dunn, of the 18th Hussars, to Eliza, daughter of the late Colonel Williams, of Martinique. At Spanish Town, Jamaica, on the 18th of March, James Muttlebury, Esq. M. D. Dep.-Gen.-Inspector of Hospitals, to Eliza, daughter of J. Rutherford, Esq. At Luffness, East Lothian, on the 10th of May, Captain Dudgeon, 58th Regiment, to Miss Yule, daughter of J. Yule, Esq. of Gibstees. At Tichfield, Hants, John Bell, Esq. Captain and Adjutant East Essex Militia, to Miss Coles, of Funtleg. BIRTHS. At Clifton, on the 7th of April, the lady of Captain Wilmot, of the Horse Artillery, of a son. At Erskine House, on the 13th of April, the lady of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Patrick Stuart, of a son. At Dalemain, Cumberland, on the 10th of April, the lady of Colonel Assel of a daughter. At Panburgh Field, Blackheath, on the 18th of April, the lady of Captain Sandham, of the Royal Artillery, of a son. At his house, in Portland Place, on the 22d of April, the lady of Major-General Reynolds of a son. At Woolwich, on the 23d of April, the lady of Major Baynes, of the Artillery, of a son. At Brighton, on the 25th of April, the lady of Major Purvis, of the 1st Dragoons, of a son. At Colchester, the lady of Major Haverfield of a daughter. At Moore-Place, Lambeth, on the 8th of May, the lady of Captain Thomson, of the Bedfordshire Militia, of a son. On the 11th of May, the lady of Major-General Graham Stirling, of Duchray and Auchley, of a daughter, being the 14th child. |