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to the service, and Mr. Stewart's 

 counsels were of the greatest 

 assistance to me. Lieutenant J. 

 Weeks, commanding the Growler 

 gun brig, made every effort that 

 vessel was capable of to render me 

 service, and showed a perfect rea- 

 diness to execute the few directions 

 I had occasion to give him. 



The captain then reports the in- 

 jury sustained by his ship, which 

 was that of being damaged a little 

 in the hull, but more in the masts, 

 yards, and rigging ; and concludes, 

 — A line of battle ship, with sails 

 bent, and top gallant yards, across, 

 lay in the harbour of I'Orient, spec- 

 tator of the operations of the day, 

 at the entrance of it; but the wind 

 did not serve till night for her 

 coming to the support of her 

 friends : every assistance, however, 

 was afforded them of boats, men, 

 &c. from the port, directed, as I 

 apprehend, by the Admiral in per- 

 son. I have the honour to be &c. 



(Signed) H. Hotham, Capt. 

 llear-Admiral Sir Harry Neale, 

 Bart. &c. 



A list ofMlled and mounded on board 

 his Majestt/'s ship, Northumber- 

 land, on the 22d day of May. 

 Killed — 1 seaman and 1 private 

 Marine. 



Wounded — 1 officer, 3 petty 

 officers, 19 seamen, and 5 private 

 marines ; of whom 4 are dangerous- 

 ly, 10 severely, and l-t slightly. 



London Gazette Extraordinary, 

 Thursday, June IS, 1812. 



Dotoning-street, June 17. 



Major Currie, Aide-de-camp to 



Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland 



Hill, arrived this evening at Lord 



Bathurst's office with a dispatch, 

 of which the following is an ex- 

 tract, addressed to the Earl of 

 Liverpool by General the Earl of 

 Wellington, dated Fuente Guinal- 

 do. May 28, 1812:— 



When I found that the enemy 

 had retired from this frontier, on 

 the 24th of April, I directed Lieu- 

 tenant-General Sir Rowland Hill 

 to carry into execution the opera- 

 tions against the enemy's posts and 

 establishments at the passage of 

 the Tagus at Almaraz. 



Owing to the necessary prepara- 

 tions for this expedition, Lieut.- 

 General Sir Rowland Hill could 

 not begin his march, with part of 

 the 2d division of infantry, till the 

 12thinst. and he attained the ob- 

 jects of his expedition on the 19th, 

 by taking by storm Forts Napoleon 

 and Ragusa, and the tetes-du-pont, 

 and other works, by which the 

 enemy's bridge was guarded, by 

 destroying those forts and works, 

 and the enemy's bridge and estab- 

 lishments, and by taking their ma- 

 gazines, and 259 prisoners, and 18 

 pieces of cannon. 



I have the honour to inclose 

 Lieut.-General Sir Rowland Hill's 

 report of this brilliant exploit ; and 

 I beg to draw your lordship's at- 

 tention to the difficulties with 

 which he had to contend, as well 

 from the nature of the countrj', as 

 from the works which the enemy 

 had constructed, and to the ability 

 and the characteristic qualities dis- 

 played by Lieutenant-General Sir 

 Rowland Hill in persevering in the 

 line, and confining himself to the 

 objects, chalked out by his instruc- 

 tions, notwithstanding the various 

 obstacles opposed to his progress. 



I have nothing to add to Lieut.- 

 General Sir Rowland Hill's report, 



of 



