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dFiable force on the Gave in the 

 beginning of the week, and on 

 the 3rd inst. drove in the cavalry 

 piquets between the Joyeuse and Bi- 

 donze rivers, and attacked the post 

 of Major General Buchan's Portu- 

 guese brigade on the Joyeuse, near 

 La Bastide, and those of the 3rd 

 division in Bouloe. They turned 

 the right of Major Gen. Buchan's 

 brigade on the height of La Costa, 

 and obliged him to retire towards 

 Briscons ; and they established two 

 divisions of infantry on the height, 

 and in La Bastide, with the re« 

 mainder of the army on the Bidouze 

 and the Gave. 



Our centre and right were im- 

 mediately concentrated and pre- 

 pared to move ; and having re- 

 connoitered the enemy on the 4th, 

 I intended to have attacked them 

 on the 5th inst. but was obliged to 

 defer the attack till the Gth, owing 

 to the badness of the weather, and 

 the swelling of the rivulets. The 

 attack was made on that day by the 

 3rd and 4th divisions, under the 

 command of Lieut. General Sir 

 Thomas Picton and Lieut. General 

 Sir Lowry Cole, supported by Ma- 

 jor General Buchan's Portuguese 

 brigade of Gen. Le Cor's division, 

 and the cavalry under the command 

 of Major General Fane ; and the 

 enemy were forthwith dislodged, 

 without loss on our side, and our 

 posts replaced where they had 

 been. 



WAR. DtPAKTMENT, 



Downing-slreet, Feb. 8, 1814. 

 A di>patch, of which the follow- 

 ing is a copy, has been received by 

 liarl IiatluMbl, addressed to his 



Lordship by General Sir Thonias 

 Graham, dated 



Head-quarters, Calmhout, 

 Jan. 14, 1814. 



My Lord, — Gen. Bulow, Com- 

 mander in Chief of the third corps 

 of the Prussian army, having sig- 

 nified to me, that in the morning 

 of the 11th inst. he was to carry 

 into execution his intention of 

 driving the enemy from their po- 

 sition of Hoogstraeten and Wortel, 

 on the Merk, in order to make a 

 reconnoissance on Antwerp, and 

 that he wished me to cover the right 

 flank of his corps ; 1 moved such 

 parts of the two divisions under my 

 command as were disposable from 

 Rosendall, and arrived here at day- 

 break on the morning of the 11th. 

 The enemy were driven back, with 

 loss, from West AVesel, Hoogstrae- 

 ten, &c. after an obstinate resist- 

 ance, by the Prussian troops, to 

 Braeschat, AVestmeille, &c. 



Dispositions were made to attack 

 them again the following day, but 

 they retired in the night of the 

 11th, and took up a position near 

 Antwerp, the left resting on 

 Mercxem. 



General Bulow occupied Braes- 

 chat in force that evening (the 

 12th.) 



1 moved to Capelle, on the great' 

 road from Bergen-op-Zoom to Ant- 

 werp, to be ready to co-operate in 

 the intended attack yesterday. 



Major General Cooke's division 

 remained in reserve at Capelle, 

 and Major General M'Kenzie's 

 moved by Ekereu and Done to- 

 wards Mercxem, s-o as to avoid 

 both great roads occupied by the 

 Prussians. While the Prussians 

 were ciiiiaiitd considerably more to 



