APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. 



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London Gazette Extraordinary, 

 Sunday, March 20. 



WAR DEPARTMENT. 



Downing-street, March 

 20, 1814. 

 Major Freemantle has arrived 

 at this office, bringing dispatches 

 from the Marquess of Welling- 

 ton, addressed to Earl Bathurst, 

 of which the following are co- 

 pies : — 



St. Sever, March 1, 1814. 



My Lord, — I returned to Garris 

 on the 21st, and ordered the 6th 

 and light divisions to break up 

 from the blockade of Bayonne, 

 and General Don Manuel Freyre 

 to close up the cantonments of his 

 corps towards Irun, and to be pre- 

 pared to move when the left of the 

 arm J' should cross the Adour, 



I found the pontoons collected 

 at Garris, and they were moved for- 

 ward on the following days to and 

 across the Gave de Mouleon, and 

 the troops of the centre of the army 

 arrived. 



On the 24th, Lieutenant General 

 Sir Rowland Hill passed the Gave 

 d'Oleron at Villenave, with the 

 light, 2ndj and Portuguese divi- 

 sions, under the command of Major- 

 Gen. Charles Baron Alten, Lieut. 

 Gen. Sir William Stewart, and 

 Marischal de Campo Don Frede- 

 rick Lecor ; while Lieutenant- 

 General Sir Henry Clinton passed 

 with the 6th division between 

 Montfort and Laas, and Lieut.- 

 Geueral Sir Thomas Picton made 

 demonstrations, with the 3rd divi- 

 sion, of an intention to attack the 

 enemy's position at the bridge of 

 Sauveterre, which induced the ene- 

 my to blow up the bridge. 



Marischal de Campo Don Pablo 



Murillo drove in tlie enemy's posts 

 near Naverrens, and blockaded 

 that })Iace. 



Field-Marshal Sir William He- 

 resford likewise, who, since the 

 movement of Sir Rowland Hill on 

 the 14th and 15th, had remained 

 with the 4th and 7th divisions, and 

 Colonel Vivian's Brigade, in ob- 

 servation on the Lower Bidouze, 

 attacked the enemy on the 23rd in 

 their fortified posts at Hastingues 

 and Oyergave, on the left of the 

 Gave de Pau, and obliged them to 

 retire within the tete-de-pont at 

 Peyrehorade. 



Immediately after the passage of 

 the Gave d'Oleron was effected. 

 Sir Rowland Hill and Sir Henry 

 Clinton moved towards Orthes, 

 and the great road leading from 

 Sauveterre to that town ; and the 

 enemy retired in the night from 

 Sauveterre across the Gave de 

 Pau, and assembled their army 

 near Orthes, on the 25th, having 

 destroyed all the bridges on the 

 river. 



The right, and right of the cen- 

 tre of the army assembled oppo- 

 site Orthes ; Lieutenant-General 

 Sir Stapleton Cotton, with Lord 

 Edward Somerset's brigade of ca- 

 valry, and the 3rd division, under 

 Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas 

 Picton, was near the destroyed 

 bridge of Bereus; and Field- 

 Marshal Sir William Beresford, 

 with the 4th and 7th divisions, 

 under Lieut.-General Sir Lowry 

 Cole, and Major-General Walker, 

 and Colonel Vivian's brigade, to- 

 wards the junction of the Gave de 

 Pan with the Gave d'Oleron. 



The troops opposed to the Mar- 

 shal having marched on the 25th, 

 he crossed the Gave de Pau below 

 the junction of the Gave d'Oleron, 



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