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Loudon Gazette Extraordinary. 



Do'wnin^-streetf April 2ilh. 

 Captain Canning, aid-cle-campto 

 General the Earl of Wellington, ar- 

 rived last night at this office, bring- 

 ing dispatches, addressed by his 

 lordship to the Earl of Liverpool, of 

 which the following are extracts or 

 copies •. 



Extract of a Dispatch from the 

 Earl of Wellington, dated Camp 

 before Badajoz, April 3rd. 

 We opened our fire on the 31st 

 of March from 26 pieces of can- 

 non, in the second parallel, to 

 breach the face of the bastion at 

 the south east angle of the fort 

 called La Trinidad ; and the flank 

 of the bastion by which the face is 

 defended called Santa Maria. The 

 fire upon these has continued since 

 with great effect. 



The enemy made a sortie on 

 the night of the 29th, upon the 

 troops of General Hamilton's divi- 

 sion, which invest the place on the 

 right of the Guadiana, but were 

 immediately driven in with loss. 

 We lost no men on this occasion. 



The movements of Lieut.-Gen. 

 Sir T. Graham and of Lieut.-Gen. 

 Sir Rowland Hill, have obliged 

 the enemy to retire by the different 

 roads towards Cordova, with the 

 exception of a small body of in- 

 fantry and cavalry, which remain- 

 ed at Zalamea de la Serena, in 

 front of Belalcazer. 



Marshal Soult broke up in front 

 of Cadiz on the 23rd and 2'ith, 

 and has marched upon Seville with 

 all the troops which were there, 

 with the exception of four thou- 

 sand men. 



I understand that he was to 

 march from Seville again on the 

 30th or 31st. 



I have not heard from Castile since 

 the 30th ultimo. One division of 

 the array of Portugal, which had 

 been in the province of Avila, had 

 on that day arrived at Guadapero, 

 within two leagues of Ciudad Rodri- 

 go ; and it was supposed that 

 Marshal Marmont was on his march 

 with other troops from the side of 

 Salamanca. 



The river Agueda was not ford- 

 able for troops on the 30th. 



Copy of a Dispatch from the Earl 



of Wellington, dated Camp he- 

 fore Badajoz, April 7th. 



My Lord ; — My dispatch of the 

 3rd instant will have apprised your 

 lordship of the state of the opera- 

 tions against Badajoz to that date, 

 which were brought to a close on 

 the night of the 6th, by the capture 

 of the place by storm. 



The fire continued during the 4th 

 and 5th against the face of the 

 bastion of La Trinidad, and the 

 flank of the bastion of Santa Ma- 

 ria ; and on the 4th, in the morn- 

 ing we opened another battery of 

 six guns, in the second parallel, 

 against the shoulder of the ravelin 

 of St. Roque, and tiie wall in 

 its gorge. 



Practicable breaches were effect- 

 ed in the bastions above-mention- 

 ed, in the evening of the 5th ; but 

 as I had observed that the enemy 

 had entrenched the bastion of La 

 Trinidad, and the most formidable 

 preparations were making for the 

 defence as well of the breach in 

 that bastion, as of that in the 

 bastion of Santa Maria, I determin- 

 ed to delay the attack for ano- 

 ther day, and to turn all the guns 

 in the batteries in the second paral- 

 lel on the curtain of La Trinidad, 

 in hopes that by effecting a third 

 breach, the troops would be ena- 



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