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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1813. 



officers of those departments re- 

 spectively ; and from lieutenant- 

 colonel lord Fitzroy Somerset, 

 lieutenant-colonel Campbell, and 

 the officers of my personal staff. 



Although our wounded are nu- 

 merous, I am happy to say, that the 

 cases in general are slight ; and I 

 have great pleasure in reporting to 

 your lordship, that the utmost at- 

 tention has been paid to them by 

 the inspector of hospitals. Dr. 

 M'Gregor, and by the officers of 

 the department under his direc- 

 tions. 



Adverting to the extent and na- 

 ture of our operations, and the dif- 

 ficulties of our communications at 

 times, I have reason to be ex- 

 tremely well satisfied with the zeal 

 and exertions of sir Robert Ken- 

 nedy, the commissary-general, and 

 the officers of his department, 

 throughout the campaign, which 

 upon the whole have been more 

 successful in supplying the troops 

 than could have been expected. 



I transmit this dispatch to your 

 lordship by his serene highness the 

 hereditary prince of Orange who is 

 perfectly well acquainted with all 

 that has passed, and with the situa- 

 tion of the army ; and will be able 

 to inform your lordship of many 

 details relating to this series of 

 operations, for which a dispatch 

 does not afford scope. His high- 

 ness had a horse shot under him 

 in the battle near Sorauren on the 

 28th of July. 



i have the honour to be, &c. 

 (Signed) Wellington. 



I have omitted to inform your 

 lordship in the body of the dis- 

 patch, that the troops in the Puerto 

 de Maya lost their four Portuguese 

 guns on the 25th of July. Major- 



general Pringle who commanded 

 when the attack commenced, had 

 ordered them to retire towards 

 Maya ; and when lieutenant-ge- 

 neral Stewart came up, he ordered 

 that they might return, and retire 

 by the mountain road to Elizondo. 

 In the mean time the enemy were 

 in possession of the pass, and the 

 communication with that road was 

 lost and they could not reach it. 



I enclose returns of the loss be- 

 fore San Sebastian, from the 7th 

 to the 27th of July ; and returns 

 of the killed, wounded, and miss- 

 ing in the operations from the 25th 

 ultimo to the 1st instant. 



Lezaca, August, 4:th, 1813^ 

 My lord ; — The prince of 

 Orange having been detained till 

 this day for the returns, I have to 

 inform your lordship, that the 

 enemy still continued posted in the 

 morning of the 2nd with a force of 

 two divisions on the Puerto de 

 Echalar, and nearly the whole 

 army behind the Puerto, when the 

 4th, 7th, and light divisions ad- 

 vanced by the valley of the Bidas- 

 soa to the frontier, and I had de- 

 termined to dislodge them by a 

 combined attack and movement of 

 the three divisions. 



The seventh division, however, 

 having crossed the mountains from 

 Sumbilla, and having necessarily 

 preceded the arrival of the ith, 

 major-general Barnes's brigade was 

 formed for the attack, and ad- 

 vanced, before the fourth and light 

 divisions could co-operate, with a 

 regularity and gallantry which I 

 have seldom seen equalled, and 

 actually drove the two divisions of 

 the enemy, notwithstanding the re- 

 sistance opposed to them,from those 



