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Wounded— Grenadier Battalion — Major 

 Hatnmill, of tlie Royal Reginu-nt of Malta. 



Light Infantry Battalion — Major Pauktt, 

 of the 4-!th Foot, ievarely 



78th Foot, IM battalion — Lieutenant Co- 

 3pnel M'Leod ; Major D. Stuart ; Captaids D 

 M'Pherfon and D. M'Gregor ; Lieutenant 

 James M'Kay ; Enfigns Colin M'Kenzie and 

 Peter M'Gregor. 



81ft Foot, 1ft Battalion.— Captain Water- 

 lioufe ; Lieutenant and Adjutant Ginger. 



Staft' — Lieutenant Colonel Moore, of 23d 

 Light Dragoons, ailing Aid-de-Canip to Ma- 

 jor-General Sir John Sruait. 



(Signed) R. Tomlin, Aftift. Adj. Gen. 

 Mxtrafl of a dijfjtch from Hugh Elliot, cfq, 



to the Right HomiirnbU Charles james Fox, 



tiated Palermo, 1^1 h Auguji, 1806. 



Sir,— I inclofe herewith the copy of a let- 

 ter of the Cyi. of Auguft, which I have receiv- 

 ed this day from Sir John Stuart. By the 

 furrender of Cotrone, and the retreat ot both 

 CJeneral Verdier and General Regnier from 

 Upper and Lower Calabria, thofe provinces 

 are now reftorcd to their lawful fovereign. 

 The battle of Maida, upon the -Ith of Jul^', 

 will long be recorded in this part of Europe, 

 as a memorable proof of the fuperiority of 

 Britifij courage and oifcipline. 



Of the nine thoufand men which General 

 Regnier commanded in the Province of Cala- 

 bra Ulterior, not more than SOOO are left to 

 attempt their retreat towards Puglia ; the 

 remainder are all either killed, wounded, or 

 made prifoners. Every fort along the coafts; 

 all the depots of ftores, ammunition, and ar- 

 tillery, prepared for the attack of Sicily, are 

 become the prey of the victors ; and, what 

 perhaps may be confidered as even of ftill 

 more confequence tlian thofe advantages, an 

 indelible imprefllon is now eftablilhed of the 

 fuperior bravery and dilcipline of the Britifti 

 troops. 



There is not perhaps to be found in the 

 annals of military tranfaftions an enterprife 

 prepared with more deliberate reflection, or 

 executed with greater declficn, promptitude 

 and fuccefs, than the late invafion of Calabria 

 by Sir John Stuart. 



GEEAT BRITAIN. 



The domeltic event in which the at- 

 tention of the public has been wholly 

 engrolTed during the current montli has 

 been the death of Mr. Fox, the oftciifible 

 ininiiler of tills country, and tlie individual 

 Xipon whole perfonal charatlei- the entire 

 fyftem of BritiHi and Continental pohtics 

 feemed to depend. For an able eftimate 

 of the character of tins great patriot, we 

 refer our readers to the Biographical Ar- 

 ticle contained in the previous part qf 

 this Magazine, 



Mr, Fox has been fucceeded in his of- 

 fice of fecrctary of llate for foreign af- 

 t^ir^byLordiiovvick (late Mr. Grey), and 



Lord Howick has been fucccocled as firft 

 lord of the admiralty by' Mr, Tlionias 

 Grenville. Sonic changes of minor im- 

 portance have taken place, by which 

 Lord Holland (nephew of Mr. Fox) ac- 

 quires a feat in the cabinet, and main- 

 tains the afceudancy of that fyftem whscU 

 has, witli lb much fatisfartion to the coun- 

 try, iuflticnced the new adminillratlon. 



A-naval and mihtary aciiieveracut of 

 great prefent and future confequence re- 

 mains to be recorded. After the reduc- 

 tion of the Cape of Good Hope, that 

 brave and intcliigent naval confjmande)'. 

 Sir Home Popliam, embarked tlie 7111 

 regiment and fome other land forces, and 

 failing for the river La Plata, ha.s taUt i> 

 the city of Buenos Ayres, tlie capital ot 

 the immcr.ll' province of La Plata, and 

 tlio key of the mines and of all t!ie wealili 

 of South America, The particulars of 

 this important c^=ent are contained in the 

 following details of General Bercsford 

 and in tlie well written rcportof Sir Homo 

 Pojiliam. 



Fori of Buenoi Ayrcs, Jnly 'i,'[Z06. 

 Sir,— I had the honour to communicate to 

 you, by my letter dated the 30th of April, 

 ti'.e circumftances of my airival at St. He- 

 l.na, and the refult of the application to the 

 Hon the Governor of that place for Iroops. 



The fleet failed thence the ','d of May, and 

 after a moft unexpected long palVa^^e made 

 Cape St. Mary on the 8t!i of June ; his Ma- 

 jcfty's ihip Narcill'us had been difpatched 

 from the fleet on the i!/ th of May, and Sir 

 Home Popham thought it rigUt to proceed in 

 her for the purpofe of m:.king himfelf ac- 

 quainted with t!ie navigation of the river, 

 that no delay might occur in proceeding im- 

 mediately on the arrival of the troops to fuch 

 place aJ our information ftioulj induce us firft 

 to attack. I liad fent Capt. Keimet, of the 

 Royal Engineers (not likin^' myfelf to leave 

 the troops), in the NarcifTus, to make fuch 

 reconnoitring of the enemy's places on tho 

 river, as circumftances would admit: and to 

 col'eil every polliljlc information conccrninij 

 them, and the ftrength of the enemy at the 

 feveral places. 



From fogs and baffling winds we did not 

 meet the Narcilfus until jhe fixth day after 

 our arrival in the river, and I had there the 

 fatisfaftion to fee in company with her the 

 Ocean tranfport, wliich had parted from us 

 previous to our going to St. Helena. Sir 

 Home Popham and myfelf immediately con- 

 fulte i whether it would be better firft to at- 

 tack the town of St. Philip of Monte-ViJeo, 

 or Buenog Ayres, the capital of the Pro- 

 vinces ; and after much reafoning, we deter- 

 mined to proceed againft Buenos Ayre'^, which , 

 made it iiecefiary to remove from the line of 

 battle fliips, th'J troops and niwinea, and fuch 

 leamen 



