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of his personal services, although 

 the cavalry were embarked. The 

 greater part of the fleet having 

 gone to sea yesterday evening, the 

 whole being under weigh and the 

 corps in the embarkation necessa- 

 rily much mixed on board, it is 

 impossible, at present, to lay before 

 you a return of our casualties. I 

 hope the loss in numbers is not so 

 considerable as might have been 

 expected. If I was obliged to form 

 an estimate, I should say, that I 

 beheve it did not exceed in killed 

 and wounded from seven to eight 

 hundred ; that of the enemy must 

 remain unknown, but many circum- 

 stances induce me to rate it at near- 

 ly double the abovenumber.Wehave 

 some prisoners, but I have not been 

 able to obtain an account of the 

 number ; it is not, however, consi- 

 derable. Several officers of rank 

 have fallen, or been wounded, 

 among whom i am only at present 

 enabled to state the names of lieu- 

 tenant-colonel Napier, y2nd regi- 

 ment, majors Napier and Stanhope, 

 SOth regiment, killed; lieut.-col. 

 Winch, 4th regiment, lieut.-colonel 

 Maxwell, 26th regiment, lieut.-col. 

 Fane, 59th regiment, lieut.-colonel 

 Griffith, guards, majors Miller and 

 Williams, 81st regiment, wounded. 

 To you who are well acquainted 

 with the excellent qualities of lieu- 

 tenantf-general Sir John Moore, I 

 need not expatiate on the loss the 

 army and his country havesustained 

 by his death. His fall has deprived 

 me of a valuable friend, to whom 

 long experience of his worth had 

 sincerely attached me. But it is 

 chiefly on pubUc grounds that I 

 must lament the blow. It will be 

 the conversation of every one who 

 loved or respected his manly cha- 

 racter, that, after conducting the 



army through an arduous retreat 

 with consummate firmness, he has 

 terminated a career of distinguish- 

 ed honour by a death that has 

 given the enemy additional reason 

 to respect the name of a British 

 soldier. Like the immortal Wolfe, 

 he is snatched from his country at 

 an early period of a life spent in 

 her service; like Wolfe, his last 

 moments were gilded by the pros- 

 pect of success, and cheered by the 

 acclamation of victory ; like Wolfe, 

 also, his memory will for ever re- 

 main sacred in that country which 

 he sincerely loved, and which he 

 had so faithfully served. It remains 

 for me only to express my hope, 

 that you will speedily be restored 

 to the service of your country, and 

 to lament the unfortunate circum- 

 stance that removed you from your 

 station in tlie field, and threw the 

 momentary command into far less 

 able hands. I have the honour to 

 be, &c. 



John Hope, lieutenant-general. 

 To lieut.-gen. sir D. Baird, &c. &c. 



Convention belween his excellency 

 the Marshal Duke oj" Dnlmatia, 

 and Commander in Chief of the 

 Troops of his Majesty the Em- 

 peror and King in Gallicia, and 

 General Don Antonio Atzedo, 

 Military and Civil Governor at 

 Corunna. 



Art. 1. The place of Corunna, 

 the fortified works, the batteries and 

 ports which depend on it, artillery, 

 ammunition, magazines, charts, 

 plans, and memoirs, shall be given 

 up to the troops of his majesty the 

 emperor and king, Napoleon. For 

 this purpose his excellency the mar- 

 shal duke of Dalmatia shall be at 

 liberty to take possession of the 



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