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tliat corps, the S9th, and Canadian 

 Fencibles and a picket of light 

 cavalry from Coteau du Lac and 

 Cornwall, passed over the ice from 

 the latter post to the Salmon River, 

 and arrived in time to press upon 

 the enemy's rear-guard, which 

 made a precipitate retreat; and 

 about a hundred sleigh loads of 

 provisions and stores have fallen 

 into our possession, and the de- 

 struction of their block-houses, 

 barriicks, and boats been com- 

 pleted. 



Colonel Scott advanced with his 

 party without opposition into the 

 enemy's country to Malone, Ma- 

 drid, and within a few miles of 

 Plalsburg, and returned by the 

 route of Four Corners, to his post 

 at the Coteau du Lac. 



WAR DEPAiiTMENT. 



Doivning-slreet, March 22. 



Dispatches, of which the follow- 

 ing are extracts, have been this day 

 received,addressedto EarlBathurst, 

 by the Marquess of Wellington, 

 dated Aire, 13th and 14th March, 

 1814:— 



Aire, March \Zth, 1814. 



The excessive bad weather and 

 violent fall of rain, in the begin- 

 ning of the month, having swelled 

 to an extraordinarj' degree all the 

 rivers, and rendered it difHcult 

 and tedious to repair the numerous 

 bridges, which the enemy had 

 destroyed in their retreat, and the 

 different parts of the army being 

 without communication with each 

 other, I was obliged to halt. 



The enemy retired after the 

 affair with Lieutenant General Sir 

 Rowland Hill on the 2nd, by both 

 banks of the Adour towards Tar- 

 bes, probably with a view to be 

 joined by the detachments from 



Marshal Suchet's army, which 

 left Catalonia in the last week in 

 February. 



In the mean time I sent, on the 

 7th, a detachment, under Major- 

 General Fane, to take possession of 

 Pan ; and another on the 8th, 

 under Marshal Sir William ^e- 

 resford, to take possession of Bom;- 

 deaux. 



I have the pleasure to inform 

 your Lordship, that the Marshal 

 arrived there yesterday (the small 

 force which was there having in 

 the preceding evening retired 

 across the Garonne), and that this 

 important city is in our possession. 



Lieutenant General Don Manuel 

 Frere joined the army this day, 

 with that part of the 4th army 

 under his immediate command ; 

 and I expect that Major General 

 Pousonby's brigade of cavalry will 

 join to morrow. 



I learnt from Major General 

 Fane, who commands Lieutenant 

 General Sir Rowland Hill's out 

 posts, that the enemy have this 

 day collected a considerable force 

 in the neighbourhood of Couchez, 

 and I therefore conclude that they 

 have been joined by the detach- 

 ment of the army of Catalonia, 

 which, it is reported, amounts to 

 10,000 men. 



Nothing important has occurred 

 at the blockade of Payonne, or in 

 Catalonia, since I addressed your 

 Lordship last. 



Aire, March 14, 1814. 

 I inclose Marshal Sir William 

 Beresford's private letter to me, 

 written after his arrival at Bour- 

 deaux, from vyhich you will see 

 that the Mayor and people of the 

 town have adopted the White 

 Cockade, and declared for the 

 House of Bourbon. 



