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The constant attachment the 
Neapolitan people are known to 
have ever borne their legitimate 
sovereign, makes it unnecessary 
to detail to your Lordship their 
joy at his return, His Majesty 
reassumes the government of his 
country, beloved and respected by 
all classes of his subjects. 
WAR DEPARTMENT. 
Downing Street, July 7. 
Captain Lord Arthur Hill ar- 
rived last night with dispatches, 
of which the following are an 
extract and a copy, addressed to 
Earl Bathurst by his Grace the 
Duke of Wellington, dated Gon- 
asse, 2nd and 4th instant. 
Gonasse, July 2, 1815. 
The enemy attacked the ad- 
vanced guard of Marshal Prince 
Blucher’s corpsat Villars Coterets, 
on the 28th, but, the main body 
coming up, they were driven off, 
with the loss of 6 pieces of can- 
non, and about. 1,000 prisoners. 
It appears that these troops 
were on the march from Soissons 
to Paris, and having been driven 
off that road by the Prussian troops 
at Villars Coterets, they got upon 
that of Meaux. They were at- 
tacked again upon this road by 
General Bulow, who took from 
them five hundred prisoners, and 
drove them across the Marne. 
They have, however, got into 
Paris. ; 
The advanced guard of the al- 
lied army under my command 
crossed the Oise on the 29th, and 
the whole on the 30th, and we 
yesterday took up a position with 
the right uponthe height of Roche- 
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bourg, and the left upon the Bois 
de Bondy. 
Field Marshal Prince Blucher 
having taken the village of Auber- 
villiers, or Vertus, on the morn- 
ing of the 30th June, moved to 
his right, and crossed the Seine at 
St. Germain as I advanced, and he 
will this day have his right at 
Plessis Pique, his left. at 5t. Cloud, 
and the reserve at Versailles. 
The enemy have fortified the 
heights of Montmartre and the 
town of St. Denis strongly ; and 
by means of the little rivers Rou- 
illon and la Vielle Mar, they have 
inundated the ground on the north 
side of that town, and water hav- 
ing been introduced into the canal 
de 1’Ourcq, and the bank formed 
into a parapet and batteries, the 
have a strong position on this side 
of Paris, 
The heights of Belleville are 
likewise strongly fortified, but I 
am not aware that any defensive 
works have been thrown upon the 
left of the Seine. 
Having collected in Paris all 
the troops remaining after the 
battle of the 18th, and all the de- 
pots of the whole army, it is supe 
posed the enemy have there about 
40 or 50,000 troops of the line © 
and guards, besides-the natioval 
guards, a new Jevy called Les 
Tirailleurs de la Garde, and the 
Federés. 
I have great pleasure in informs 
ing your Lordship that Quesnoy 
surrendered to His Royal High- 
ness Prince Frederick of the Ne- 
therlands on the 29th June. 
I enclose the copy of His Royal 
Highness’s report upon this sub- 
ject, in which your Lordship will 
observe with satisfaction the in- 
telligence and spirit with which 
