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baggage, a great treasure in money, and many of the royal carriages, 
etc.; so far facts, reports say 11,000 prisoners, this is yet to be con+ 
firmed. 
24th June.—I was very sorry this morning to lose Mr. Bradley who 
is obliged to follow the army: he has left me in the hands of Mr. 
Rudge,' the surgeon of Parker’s* brigade, which is remaining here to 
form a depdt of artillery stores. Jam, thank God, in no great pain nor 
in any great apprehension as to my wound and have not yet suffered 
myself to despond. 
25th June—I employed great part of this day in writing, which I 
hope to find a source of employment sufficient to pass away the dreary 
hours, no change of any consequence has as yet taken place in my 
wound, except that suppuration is now beginning. 
26th June.—The army partly invested Pamplona to-day. It appears 
that provisions were only thrown into it on the 21st, and that had we 
arrived sooner it would not have stood a siege, as it is, Major Frazer, 
having volunteered to bring up the battering train from Santander, 
passed through this evening. 
Jourdan? has retreated and got on the road to Bayonne where 
most probably he is by this time; how soon we shall see him 
again I do not know. In the meantime Clausel’s division, which is 
cut off, has taken its route towards Saragossa in hopes of uniting 
with the force from Alicante which is marching northward. ‘The 
enemy had on the 28rd only two pieces of artillery left, one of which 
Ross destroyed by a shot from one of his guns. 
The loss of the French in killed and wounded is very great. 
This day began to poultice my wound. 
The French lost both these guns under the following circum- 
stances :—(F.A.W.) 
About 6 o’clock on the morning of June 28rd, the advance-guard 
overtook the retreating enemy with the two guns they had 
saved at Vitoria. A cry was at once raised for artillery, upon 
which a gun of Ross’s troop under Lieutenant A. Macdonald 
galloped up the road, unlimbered and plied shot and shell 
with such effect that it dismounted one of them. Seven of 
the enemy were disabled by one shell. 
Two hours later our troops came in sight of the French using every 
effort to carry away their last field piece. Lieutenant Bel- 
son’s division at once came into action, and the enemy seeing 
their case was hopeless, threw the gun over a precipice and 
continued their flight. At this moment Lord Wellington 
1 Assistant Surgeon Edward Rudge (Kane’s List, No. 199). 
29nd Captain J. B. Parker (Kane’s List, No. 1117), he commanded No. 5 Company 9th 
Battalion (now 16th Western) in the absence of Ist Captain Henry Stone employed in Persia. 
Parker lost a leg at Waterloo and was afterwards known as “Peg Parker.’ In_his lately pub- 
lished interesting ‘‘ recollections” Sir John Adye tells a good story how when riding across the 
Common at Woolwich with the Cadet Company, Lieut.-Colonel Parker unwittingly dropped his 
leg, which was picked up and politely returned to him. Major-General Parker, c.B., was Licut.- 
Governor of the R.M. Academy from 1st April, 1846, till his death on March 26th, 1851. 
3 Marshal Jourdan, Chief of the Staff to King Joseph Bonaparte. 
