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1811,j State of Public Affairs in October, 
powered by Ine overwhelming force we so 
promptly applied. She is named La Ville de 
Lyons, was commanded by a Mons. Rarbaude, 
who was severely wounded, and has a Mons. 
La Coupe, who as Commodore of a Division 
■was entitled to a broad pendant. Like the 
other praams she has twelve long guns, 24- 
pounders, (French,) but she had only 132 
60 of whom were soldiers of the 72d 
J'egiment of the line. Between thirty and 
fcrty have been hilled and wounded. 
Meanwhile the three brigs completed the 
<^efeat of the enemy’s flotilla, but I lament 
^0 say that the immediate proximity of the 
formidable batteries whereunto we had now 
So nearly approached, prevented the capture 
or destruction of more of their ships or ves¬ 
sels. But no blame can attach to any one on 
this account; for all the commanders, offi¬ 
cers, and crews, did bravely and skilfully 
perform their duty. If 1 may be permitted 
to mention those who served immediately 
under my own eye, I must eagerly and fully 
testify to the merits of, and zealous support 
I received from, Mr. Greenlaw, the First 
Lieutenant of this ship, as well as from all 
the excellent officers of every description, 
brave seamen, and royal marines, whom I 
have the pride and pleasure of commanding. 
I have the honour herewith to inclose re¬ 
ports of our loss, which I rejoice to find so 
comparatively trivial, and that Lieut. Charles 
Cobb, of the Castilian, is the only officer who 
has fallen. I have the honour to be, &c. 
PHILIP CARTERET, Captain. 
Thomas Foley, esq. Rear-Admiral 
of the Red, &c. 
Total.—Killed three.—Wounded sixteen. 
Dovjnlng Streetf October 16, 1811. 
Dispatches from General Viscount Wel¬ 
lington, dated Quadrasayes, 29th Sep¬ 
tember, and Frexada, 2d October, 
1811. 
^adrasayesy Sept. 29,1811. 
My Lor d. 
The enemy commenced their movements 
tow'ards Ciudad Rodrigo with the convoys of 
provisions from the Sierra de Bejar and from 
Salamanca on the 21st instant; and on the 
following day I collected the British army, 
in positions from which I could either ad¬ 
vance or retire without difficulty, which 
would enable me to see all that was going 
on, and the strength of the enemy’s army. 
The od division, and chat part cf Ge¬ 
neral Alton’s brigade of cavalry which was 
not detached, occupied the Range of Heights 
whicli are on the left of the Agueda, having 
their advanced guard under Lieutenant co¬ 
lonel Williams cf the 60:'., on the Heights 
of Pastores, within three miles of Ciudad 
Rodrigo; the 4i.h division were at Fuente 
Guinaldo, where I had strengthened a posi¬ 
tion with some works ; the lig.ht division on 
the right of the Agueda, having their right 
resting upon the mountains which separate 
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Castile and Estremadura; Lieutenant gene¬ 
ral Graham commanded the troops on the 
left of the army, which were posted on the 
lower Azava, the 6th division and Major- 
general Anson’s brigade of cavalry being at 
Espeja, and occupying Carpio Marialva, &c. 
Mareschal del Campo Don Carlos D’Es- 
pagne observed the Lower Agueda with Don 
Julian Sanchez’s cavalry and infantry. Lieu¬ 
tenant general Sir Stapleton Cotton, with 
Major-general Slade’s and Major-genera! 
De Grey’s brigades of cavalry, was on the 
Upper Azava, in the centre, between the 
right and left of the army, with General 
Pack’s brigade at Campillo ; and the .0th di¬ 
vision were in observation of the pass of 
Perales in the rear of the right, the French 
General Foy having remained and collected 
a body of treops in Upper Estremadura, con¬ 
sisting of part of his own division of the army 
of Portugal, and a division of the army of the 
'centre ; and the 7th division was in reserve 
at Alamedilla. 
The enemy first appeared In the Plaint 
near Ciudad Rodrigo, on the 2Sd, and retired 
again in a shore time ; but on the 24th, in 
the morning, they advanced again in consi-® 
derable force, and e.ntered the Plain, by the 
roads of St. Spiricos and Tenebron ; and be¬ 
fore evening they had collected there all 
their cavalry, to the amount of about six 
thousand men, and four divisions of imf'antrj”, 
of which, one division were of the Imperial 
Guard ; and the remainder of the armies 
were encamped on the Guadapero, immediate¬ 
ly beyond the hills which surrounded the 
Plain of Ciudad P.odrigo. 
On Che morning of the 2oth, the enemy 
sent a reconnoisance of cavalry towards the 
Lower Azava, consisting of about fourteen 
squadrons of the cavalry of the Impsfrial 
Guard. 
They drove in our posts -en—the right of 
the Azava ; bur, having passed that river, the 
Lanciers de Berg were charged by tv/o squa¬ 
drons of the 16t.h and one of the 14th light 
dragoons and driven bac.k ; they attempted 
to rally and to return, but were fired upon 
by the light infantry of the 61st regiment^ 
which had been posted in the wood, on their 
flank, by Lieutenant general Graham; and 
Major-general Anson pursued them across 
the Azava, and afterwards resumed his posts 
on the right of that river. Lieutenant ge¬ 
neral Graham was highly plaased with the 
conduct of Major general Anson’s brigade ; . 
and Major-general Anson pariieulariy men¬ 
tions Lieutenanc-cclonel Hervey and Captain 
Brotherton of the 1-lth, and Captain Hay 
and Major Cocks of the 16th. 
But the enemy’s attention was principally 
directed during this day to the position of the 
Sd division on the hills between Fuente Gui¬ 
naldo and Pastores.—About eight in the 
morning they moved a column, consisting of 
between thirty and forty squadron of cavalry^ 
and 14 battaliuss cf infantry and 12 pi-ecesi 
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