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Total effective rank and file 34,403 

 Whentheartillery, engineers, &c. 

 are added to this force, the amount 

 will, as we have already stated, be 

 not less than 40,000 men complete. 



Prom the London Gazette. — Down- 

 ing-street, Sept. 4. 

 Dispatches, of which the follow- 



ing are copies, were yesterday morn- 

 ing received at the office of lord 

 viscount Castlereagh, one of his ma- 

 jesty's principal secretaries of state, 

 from lieut.-gen. sir J. Stuart, dated 

 Ischia, 5th and 9th July last. 



Ischia, July 5, 1809. 



My Lord ; — In my dispatch to 

 your lordship of the 9th ult. from 

 Milazzo, I did myself the honour to 

 acquaint youwith a project which I 

 had formed, in concert with rear- 

 admiral Martin to make such a 

 movement, as although it should 

 produce no issue of achievement to 

 ourselves, might still operate a di- 

 version in favour of our Austrian 

 allies, under the heavy pressure of 

 reverse with which we had learned 

 at the period they were bravely but 

 unequally struggling. 



The first measure that suggested 

 itself to our contemplation was a 

 menace upon the kingdom and ca- 

 pital of Naples ; and the army, as 

 within detailed, being embarked, we 

 sailed under convoy of his majesty's 

 ships Canopus, Spartiate, Warrior, 

 and some frigates and smaller ves- 

 sels, on the 11th of last month, 

 leaving orders to the division of his 

 Sicilian majesty's troops, which had 

 been placed under my conduct, and 

 were waiting my instructions at Pa- 

 lermo, under the command of lieu- 

 tenant-general de Boureard,to pro- 

 ceed to a given rendezvous. His 

 royal highness prince Leopold, I 

 found at our subsequent junction, 

 had embarked with this division. 



Our appearance on the coast of 

 Calabria, which we reached on the 

 morning of the 13th, had the effect 

 of inducing the body of the enemy 

 stationed in that province, to aban- 

 don, for the purposes of immediate 

 couccntraiion, the greater part of 



their 



