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gazine was also taken. The ene- 

 my appeared to be retiring upon 

 A gen, and had left open the direct 

 road to Bourdeaux. Whilst these 

 operations were carrying on upon 

 the right, Lieut.-Gen. Sir J, Hope, 

 in concert with Admiral Penrose, 

 crossed the Adonr below Bayonne 

 on the 23rd and 24th. Great gal- 

 lantry and skill were displayed in 

 bringing in the vessels destined to 

 form the bridge; and three of the 

 enemy's gun-boats were destroyed, 

 and a frigate, after considerable da- 

 mage, was forced higherup the river. 

 The bridge being completed on 

 the 27th, Sir J. Hope more closely 

 invested the citadel of Bayonne. 

 These brilliant successes were not 

 obtained without a considerable 

 loss to the British and Portuguese. 

 A further dispatch from Lord Wel- 

 lington, dated from St. Sever, 

 March 4, mentions that a heavy 

 rain had so much swelled the Adour 

 and its rivulet, that the army's 

 advance had been impeded. The 

 enemy had collected a corps at 

 Aire to protect a magazine, which 

 being attacked by Sir R. Hill, they 

 were driven from their post with 

 loss, and the town and magazine 

 were taken. After this affair, the 

 French retired by both banks of 

 the Adour towards Tarbes, for the 

 purpose of making a junction with 

 the detachments to be sent from 

 Marshal Suchet's army in Cata- 

 lonia. In the mean time Lord 

 Wellington dispatched Major-Gen. 

 Fane with a detachment to take 

 possession of Pau, and Marshal 

 Beresford with another to occupy 

 Bourdeaux. This latter expedi- 

 tion, probably the result of cor- 

 respondences in the city, proved 

 'eventually a matter of great con- 

 sequence. The Marshal arrived 



at Bourdeaux on the 12th of 

 March, and being met at a short 

 distance from the place by the 

 mayor and other principal inha- 

 bitants, was conducted into the 

 city with every demonstration of 

 joy. The magistrates and city 

 guards took off the eagles and other 

 imperial badges, and spontane- 

 ously assumed the white cockade, 

 the badge of the Bourbons ; and 

 thus one of the most important 

 cities in France openly declared 

 for counter-revolution. The Duke 

 D'AngouIeme, husband to the 

 daughter of Lewis XVI. and ne- 

 phew of Lewis XVllI., accompa- 

 nied the British troops, and was 

 received in Bourdeaux with gene- 

 ral acclamations. The mayor is- 

 sued a proclamation to animate 

 the inhabitants in the cause of their 

 lawful king. 



Lord Wellington, having been 

 joined by detached troops and his 

 reserves of cavalrj', proceeded on 

 the 18th against the French army. 

 Soult retreated before him, first to 

 Vic Baygorey, ami then to Tarbes. 

 At this place he assembled his 

 forces on the 20th, but his Lord- 

 ship making an attack in two co- 

 lumns, the enemy retreated in all 

 directions, after suffering consider- 

 able loss. 



We now return to the operations 

 of the allied armies in the vicinity 

 of the French capital. On March 

 23, the whole of the army of 

 Prince Schwartzenberg was di- 

 rected upon Vitry. A Russian 

 light division of cavalry having at- 

 tacked a considerable body of in- 

 fantry, killed and made prisoners 

 of a great number of them, and 

 took twenty pieces of cannon. 

 The French having withdrawn 

 from iiU their positions near Arcis, 



