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bridges, which they scrambled 
over by the side; not being able 
to force the main gate, they es- 
caladed by the breach (the state of 
which your Grace had observed ) 
in the morning, and before which 
although the ditch was said to 
have twelve feet water, a footing 
on dry ground was found, by 
wading through a narrow port in 
the angle of the gate, within the 
rampart. I have every reason to 
be satisfied with the light infan- 
try of the division, who by their 
fire covered the attacks of the par- 
ties, of sixty men each, which 
preceded the column. 
The three brigades of artillery 
of Lieutenant Colonel Webber 
Smith, and Majors Knott and 
Browne, under the direction of 
Lieutenant Colonel Hawker, made 
particularly good practice, and 
immediately silenced the fire of 
the enemy’s artillery, except from 
two guns on each flank of the ci- 
tadel, which could not be got at, 
and two field pieces on the ram- 
parts of the town, above the Va- 
lenciennes gate, and which played 
upon the troopsas they debouched 
from the cover they had been 
posted in. Twenty prisoners were 
made at the horn-work of the 
Paris gate, and about one hundred 
and thirty altogether in the town. 
Their fire was very slack, and even 
that, I foresaw, they were forced 
to, by the garrison of the citadel. 
I left the 23rd and 91st regiments 
in town, with two guns, and a 
troop of Ensdorff hussars, and am 
much indebted to Sir William 
Douglas and Colonel Dalmer, for 
their assistancein preserving order. 
Some depredations were com- 
mitted, but of no consequence, 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1318. 
when the circumstances we en- 
tered by are considered. 
From the division, as wellas my 
personal staff, 1 received every 
assistance in the course of the 
three days operations. 
lam, &c. 
(Signed ) 
CHARLES COLVILLE. 
Total Loss at Cambray—1 lieut. 
7 rank and file, killed; 2 lieu- 
tenants, 1 ensign, 1 serjeant, 28 
rank and file, wounded. 
ee ere 
WAR DEPARTMENT. 
Downing Street, July \1. 
A dispatch, of which the fol- 
lowing is a copy, was this day 
received from Field-Marshal the 
Duke of Wellington, K. G. ad- 
dressed to Earl Bathurst, his Ma- 
jesty’s Principal Secretary of State 
for the War Department :— 
Paris, July 8, 1815. 
My Lord,—In consequence of 
the convention with the enemy, of 
which I transmitted your Lordship 
the copy in my dispatch of the 4th, 
the troops under my command, 
and that of Field-Marshal Prince 
Blucher, occupied the barriers of 
Paris on the 6th, and entered the 
city yesterday, which has ever 
since been perfectly quiet. 
The king of France entered 
Paris this day. 
I have the honour to be, &c. 
WELLINGTON. 
Earl Bathurst, &c. 
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