510 ANNUAL REGISTER, i809. 



cartridges, carls of provisions, and 

 knapsacks loaded with plunder, fell 

 into our hands. 



No language can do sufficient 

 justice to the gallant and intrepid 

 conduct of the troops on this me- 

 morable day ; it would be impossi- 

 ble to make any distinction in the 

 zeal and ardour of the different 

 corps, for all equally panted for the 

 contest. The vanguard and first 

 division, however, had the good 

 fortune to occupy those points 

 against which the enemy directed 

 his principal efforts, and to add 

 fresh laurels to the wreaths they 

 had acquired ia Lugo, St. Jago, 

 and San Payo. 



The steady intrepidity displayed 

 by the second division, through 

 whose ranks the party of retreating 

 cavalry passed, and'the spirit and 

 promptness with which it pushed 

 forward against the enemy, who 

 had at that moment turned our left, 

 is deserving of the highest appro- 

 bation. 



The entire of the cavalry, with 

 the exception of the party attached 

 to the vanguard, about three hun- 

 dred, who, from being overpower- 

 ed, were obliged to retreat, evinced 

 the greatest steadiness and resolu- 

 tion in maintaining thepost allotted 

 them, and keeping the enemy's ca- 

 valry in check. 



It is, however, to be lamented 

 that our cavalry did not find them- 

 selves in a situation to enable them 

 to take advantage of the enemy's 

 disorderly flight across the plain 

 between these heights and the vil- 

 lage of Carrascalejo, a league in 

 extent; for had five or six hundred 

 horse charged the fugitives, the vic- 

 tory would havebeer most decisive. 

 The vanguard of gen, Ballaste- 

 ros's division is in sight; we only 



wait his arrival to pursue, and an- 

 niin'late the discomfited enemy. 



From prisoners we learn that 

 general Marchont proclaimed at 

 Salamanca his intention of annihi- 

 lating, by two o'clock on the 18th, 

 thirty thousand peasant insurgents; 

 his orders to his army were, on 

 pain of death, t) possess itself of 

 the heights by twelve o'clock, as he 

 proposed proceeding to destroy 

 Baiiasteros's division, after having 

 dispersed and annihilated this 

 army. 



The French general certainly ap- 

 pears to have held this army very 

 cheap ; judging from his plan of 

 attack, which was far from judi- 

 cious, but executed, to a certain 

 point, with the greatest bravery, 

 and with that intrepidity which the 

 confidence of success inspires. 



Our light troops pursued, and 

 hung on the enemy's rear; several 

 parties of which, amongst whom 

 were 200 of the regiment of Bal- 

 lastro, have not returned as yet, 

 having expressed a determination 

 of hanging on the enemy's flanks 

 as long as the cover of the woods 

 afforded a facility of so doing. — 

 The number of the enemy's dead 

 already found and buried amounts 

 to upwards of 1,100. Several, no 

 doubt, will be found in the woods. 



London Gazette Extraordinary.— 

 Wednesday, Nov. 29. 



Admiralty OJicc, A^ov. 29, 1809. 



The hon. lieut. William Walde- 

 grave, of the Ville de Paris, ar- 

 rived here this morning with dis- 

 patches from vice-admiral lord 

 Collingwood, commander in chief 

 of his majesty's ships and vessels 

 in the Mediterranean, addressed 

 to lh« hon. William Wellesley 



Pole, 



