12] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



army under Lord Wellington, 

 which had taken up its winter- 

 quarters upon French teriitor)'. 

 The first intelligence received from 

 his Lordship was dated from St, 

 Jean de Luz on January 9, at which 

 period no other incident worthy of 

 mention had taken place than the 

 occupation of a height by the 

 French to the right of a Portuguese 

 brigade, from which they were 

 afterwards driven without loss. 

 Ill a dispatch dated Feb. 20, Lord 

 Wellington mentions that on the 

 14th he moved the right of tlie 

 army under Sir R. Hill, which at- 

 tacked the enemy's position at 

 Hellete, whence Gen. Harispe was 

 obliged to retire with loss. Gen. 

 Hill pursued on the next day, and 

 found the French in a strong po- 

 sition in front of Garris, where Ha- 

 rispe had been joined by the di- 

 vision of Gen. Paris, which had 

 been recalled from the march it 

 had commenced towards the in- 

 terior of France, as well as by other 

 troops. A gallant attack was made 

 upon tliis post by a Spanish and 

 English division, under Gen. Mu- 

 nllo and Sir W. Stewart, who car- 

 ried it without considerable loss. 

 At the same time the centre of the 

 army made a corresponding move- 

 ment, and in successive actions 

 drove their opponents across the 

 Gave D'Oleron, upon which, on 

 the 18th, its posts were established. 

 The French at this time had con- 

 siderably weakened their force at 

 Bayonne, and had withdrawn from 

 the right of the Adour above that 

 town. 



The relics of the war in Ger- 

 many consisted in the operations 

 of the allied troops, which were 

 employed in the investment and 

 siege of those towns which were 



still occupied by French garrisons, 

 '{he unfortunate city of Hamburg 

 was btill suffering under the unre- 

 lenting severity of Marshal Da- 

 voust's precautionary measures, one 

 of which was the appointment of 

 a commission having the power of 

 condemning to death all persons 

 who even used " inflammatory 

 speeches to exusperate the soldiers 

 against their commanders, or the 

 inhabitants against the lawful pow- 

 ers, or against the troops." Dant- 

 zic was evacuated on Jan. 2, ac- 

 cording to a capitulation, by which 

 the French garrison remained pri- 

 soners of war. It was entered on 

 the same day by Duke Alexander 

 of Wurtemberg, at the head of 

 10,000 Russians and Prussians, 

 amidst the general rejoicing of the 

 inhabitants delivered from the suf- 

 ferings of their long siege. 'I'he 

 fortress of Wittenberg was carried 

 by storm on the night of January 

 12, under the direction of Gon. 

 Tauenzien. After the town was 

 taken, the governor retired to the 

 castle ; but being summoned un- 

 der the threat of putting the gar- 

 rison to the sword, he surrendered 

 at discretion. The loss to the as- 

 sailants was inconsiderable. The 

 French prisoners were to be sent 

 to Berlin. 



In Italy the contest between the 

 Austrians and the French was 

 maintained with considerable vi- 

 gour on both sides. Count Bel- 

 legarde, the Austrian general, on 

 passing the Adige, addressed a pro- 

 clamation to the people of Ital}', 

 in which he mentioned the reso- 

 lution of the King of Naples to 

 join the arms of the allies. It was 

 one of the most decisive symptoms 

 of the opinion entertained of Na- 

 poleon's approaching decline, that 



