APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 
which they were assailed, began pre- 
cipitately to retire, leaving. the field 
covered with carnage. Above 700 
bodies of their dead have been 
buried upon the ground. — The 
wounded and prisoners already in 
our hands (among which are general 
Compere, and an aid-de-camp, the 
lieutenant-colonel of the Swiss regi- 
meat, and a long list of officers of 
different ranks) amount to above 
1000. There are also above 1000 
men left in Monteleone and the dif- 
ferent posts between this and Reggio, 
who haye mostly notified their readi- 
Bac to surrender whenever a British 
force shall be sent to receive their 
submission, and to protect them from 
the fury of the people.—The pea. 
santry are hourly bringing in fugi- 
tives, who dispersed in the woods 
and mountains after the battle. Ia 
short, never has the pride of our 
presumptuous enemy been more se- 
Nerely humbled, nor the superiority 
of the British troops more gloriously 
proved, than iu the events of this 
memorable day. His majesty may, 
perhaps, still deign to appreciate 
_more highly the achievements of this. 
little army, when it is known that 
the second division, which the enemy 
were said to be expecting, had all 
joined them the night before the ace- 
on.yno statement that I have heard 
of their numbers places them at a 
less calculation than 7000 men.— 
Our vittorious infantry continued 
the pursuit of the routed enemy as 
long as they were able; but, as the 
datter dispersed in every direction, 
and we were under the necessity of 
eserving our order, the trial of 
“speed became unequal.—The total 
_ loss occasioned to the enemy by this 
_coniliét cannot be less than 4000 
men. When I oppose to the above 
‘our own small comparative loss, as 
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underneath detailed, his majesty 
will, | hope, discern in the faét the 
happy eiieéts of that established disa 
cipline to which we owe the tri. 
umphs by which our army has beea 
latterly so highly distinguished:—I 
am now beginning my march south- 
ward, preparatory to my return to 
Sicily, for which station [ shall re- 
embark with the army, az soon as 
his Sicilian majesty shall have ar- 
ranged a disposition of his own 
forces to secure those advantages 
which have been gained by the pre- 
sent expedition.—There seldom has 
happened am action in which the 
zeal and personal exertions of indi. 
viduals were so imperionsly called 
for as in the present ; seldom an oc. 
casion where a general hada fairer 
opportunity of observing them. The 
general officers, and thosewho com. 
manded regiments, will feelastronger 
test of their merits in the circum. 
stances which have been detailed of 
their conduct, than in any eulogium[ 
could presume to pass upon them. 
The 58th and Watteville’s regiment, 
commanded by lieut.-cols. John- 
stone and Watteville, which formed 
the reserve, under col. Oswald, were 
ably directed in their application to 
that essential duty.—The judgment 
and effect with which our artillery 
‘was direGed hy major Lemoine was, 
in our dearth of cavalry, of most es- 
sential use; and [ have a pleasure in 
reporting the effective services of 
that valuable and distinguished 
corps.—To the several departments 
of the army, every acknowledge. 
mentis due; but to no officer am I 
bonad to express them so fully, on 
my part, as fo lioeut.-col. Bunbury, 
the deputy-quarter-master-general, 
to whose zeal, activity, and able 
arrangements in the important 
branch of service which he directs, 
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