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port of the picquets, lie came un- 

 expectedly in the dark on a party 

 of the enemy ; his horse was shot 

 dead and fell upon him, and not 

 being able to disengage himself 

 from under it, he was unfortu- 

 nately made prisoner. I regret to 

 say that from a letter I have re- 

 ceived from him, I find he was 

 wounded in two places, but in 

 neither of them dangerously ; you 

 will easily conceive, Sir, that only 

 one feeling, that of the greatest re- 

 gret, pervades all the troops at the 

 Lieutenant-General's misfortune. 



The enemy having commenced 

 their attack between two and three 

 o'clock in the morning, a consi- 

 derable part of the operations took 

 place before daylight, which gave 

 them a great advaotange from their 

 numbers ; but whatever end they 

 might propose to themselves by 

 their attack, I am happy to say it 

 has been completely frustrated, as 

 they effected no one object by it, 

 except setting fire to one house in 

 the centre of our position, which, 

 from being within three hundred 

 yards of their guns, they had ren- 

 dered perfectly untenable before, 

 whenever they chose to cannonade 

 it. From the quantity of fire of 

 every description which the enemy 

 brought on us, you will easily con- 

 ceive our loss could not be incon- 

 siderable. In Major-General Hay, 

 who was well known to you, his 

 Majesty's service has lost a most 

 zealous and able officer, who has 

 served a considerable time in this 

 army with great distii»ction. The 

 loss of the enemy must, however, 

 have been severe, as he left many 

 dead behind him, and he was af- 

 terwards observed burying a good 

 number of men. In regard to pri- 

 soners we had no opportunity of 



making many, from the facility the 

 enemy possessed of immediately 

 retiring under the guns of their 

 works. 



To Major-Generals Hinuber and 

 Stopford, and Colonel Maitland, 

 commanding brigades, as well as 

 to Colonel Guise, who took the 

 command of the 2nd brigade of 

 guards after Major-General Stop- 

 ford was wounded, I beg to ex- 

 press my best thanks for their ex- 

 ertions and promptitude duringthe 

 affair, as well as to Lieutenant- 

 Colonel the Hon. A. Upton, As- 

 sistant - Quarter - Master - General, 

 and to Lieutenaut-Colonel Dash- 

 wood, Assistant- Adjutant-General 

 of the Division, from both of whom 

 I received every assistance, and 

 also from Captain Battersby, my 

 Aid-de-Camp, till he was wound- 

 ed. I must also express my thanks 

 to Lieutenant-Colonel M'Donald, 

 the Assistant-Adjutant-General of 

 the left column, for his assistance, 

 he having joined me after Lieut.- 

 Gen. Sir John Hope was wounded. 

 Indeed, all the troops throughout 

 the whole business b*ihg^ved with 

 the greatest gallantry. 



T am, &c. 

 (Signed) K. A. Howard, 

 Commanding 1st Division. 



P. S. I omitted to mention 

 that Major-General Bradford had 

 moved up one battalion of the 

 24th Portuguese regiment of his 

 brigade, in the support of the bri- 

 gade of the King's German legion, 

 when Major-Gen. Hinuber drove 

 the enemy from the village of St. 

 Etienne, in the early part of the 

 morning. Colonel Maitland also 

 reports to me, that he received 

 great assistance from Lieutenant- 

 Colonel Burgoyne, of the Royal 

 Engineers, wno had been charged 



