port of the picquets, he came unexpectedly in the dark on a party of the enemy; his horse was shot dead and fell upon him, and not being able to disengage himself from under it, he was unfortunately made prisoner. I regret to say that from a letter I have received from him, I find he was wounded in two places, but in neither of them dangerously; you will easily conceive, Sir, that only one feeling, that of the greatest regret, pervades all the troops at the Lieutenant-General's misfortune. The enemy having commenced their attack between two and three o'clock in the morning, a considerable part of the operations took place before daylight, which gave them a great advantage from their numbers; but whatever end they might propose to themselves by their attack, I am happy to say it has been completely frustrated, as they effected no one object by it, except setting fire to one house in the centre of our position, which, from being within three hundred yards of their guns, they had rendered perfectly untenable before, whenever they chose to cannonade it. From the quantity of fire of every description which the enemy brought on us, you will easily conceive our loss could not be inconsiderable. In Major-General Hay, who was well known to you, his Majesty's service has lost a most zealous and able officer, who has ⚫ served a considerable time in this army with great distinction. The loss of the enemy must, however, have been severe, as he left many dead behind him, and he was afterwards observed burying a good number of men. In regard to prisoners, we had no opportunity of making many, from the facility the enemy possessed of immediately retiring under the guns of their works. To Major-Generals Hinuber and Stopford, and Colonel Maitland, commanding brigades, as well as to Colonel Guise, who took the command of the 2d brigade of guards after Major-General Stopford was wounded, I beg to express my best thanks for their exertions and promptitude during the affair, as well as to LieutenantColonel the Hon. A. Upton, Assistant-Quarter - Master-General, and to Lieutenant-Colonel Dashwood, Assistant-Adjutant-General of the Division, from both of whom I received every assistance, and also from Captain Battersby, my Aid-de-Camp, till he was wounded. I must also express my thanks to Lieutenant-Colonel M'Donald, the Assistant-Adjutant-General of the left column, for his assistance, he having joined me after Lieut.Gen Sir John Hope was wounded. Indeed, all the troops throughout the whole business behaved with the greatest gallantry. I am, &c. (Signed) K. A. HOWARD, Commanding 1st Division. P. S. I omitted to mention that Major-General Bradford had moved up one battalion of the 24th Portuguese regiment of his brigade, in the support of the brigade of the King's German Legion, when Major-Gen. Hinuber drove the enemy from the village of St. Etienne, in the early part of the morning. Colonel Maitland also reports to me, that he received great assistance from LieutenantColonel Burgoyne, of the Royal Engineers, who had been charged - 'with with the construction of the different points of defence on the right of the position. To Maj.-Gen. the Hon. Charles Colville. Return of Killed, Wounded, and Missing, of the Army under the command of his Excellency FieldMarshal the Marquess of Wellington, K. G. in a sortie made by the Garrison of Bayonne, on the morning of the 14th April, 1814. Total British Loss-1 general staff, 1 major, 3 captains, 3 lieutenants, 3 serjeants, 2 drummers, 129 rank and file, killed; I general staff, 2 lieutenant-colonels, 2 majors, 10 captains, 16 lieutenants, 2 ensigns, I staff, 27 serjeants, 5 drummers, 370 rank and file, 1 horse, wounded; I general staff, 3 captains, 1 lieutenant, I ensign, 7 serjeants, 2 drummers, 218 rank and file, missing. Total Portuguese Loss-8 rank and file killed; 2 captains, 1 serjeant, 18 rank and file, wounded; 3 rank and file missing. WAR DEPARTMENT. Downing-street, May 8, 1814. Captain Milnes, Aide-de-Camp to Lieutenant-General Lord William Bentinck, K. B. has arrived at this office, bringing a dispatch, addresssed by his lordship to Earl Bathurst, of which the following is a copy: Genoa, April 20, 1814, My Lord,-My dispatch of the 6th instant will have made your lordship acquainted with the occupation of Spezia, and with the movement of the troops down to that period. Upon my arrival at Leghorn, I On the 12th, Major-General Montresor's division drove the enemy from Mount Fascia and ed himself in the advanced posiNervi; and on the 13th establishtion of Sturla. The country was extremely mountainous and difficult, and the troops met with considerable opposition. On the 16th, dispositions were made for attacking the enemy, who had taken a very strong position in front of Genoa; his left upon the forts Richelieu and Tecla, his centre occupying the village of St. Martino, and from thence extending to the sea, through a country the most impassable I ever saw, thickly covered with country houses, only communicating with each other by narrow lanes between high walls. On the 17th at day-break the attack began. The 3d Italians, under Lieut.- Colonel Ceravignac, attacked with great spirit a height in front of Fort Tecla, drove away the enemy, and took three mountain guns. A part of the 3d Italians moved up the hill towards Fort Richelieu: while Lieutenant-Colonel Travers, descending from Mount Fascia, with the Calabrese and Greeks, got possession of the highest part of the hill above the fort, and some of his men pushed forward actually under the wall, when the garrison, afraid of being taken by escalade, surrendered. Fort Tecla was hastily evacuated, and the greater part of the enemy's force made prisoners. The fortunate possession of these strong forts, together with the heights, completely exposed the enemy's left, which in consequence retired. The attacks upon the enemy's right were made in three columns by Major-General Montresor's division, supported by that of LieutGeneral Macfarlane. The troops advanced with great vigour, and although the intersected state of the country enabled the enemy to maintain himself for a considerable period, his left being turned, he was obliged at last to retire precipitately into the town. The impossibility of making use of artillery, and the cover every where afforded both to the attackers and defenders, prevented any serious loss on either side. At noon, the army, under cover of the houses, took a position within 600 yards of the narrowest and most assailable front of the town, from whence the very bottom of the wall was discovered, and the defences could be easily destroyed. Preparations were immediately and with great activity made by Lieut.-Col. Lemoine, commanding the artillery, and Captain Tylden, the principal engineer officer, for the construction of the necessary batteries; and it was hoped that an assault might have been given on the following day. On the same day Sir Edward Pellew's squadron came in sight, and anchored in front of Nervi. In the evening a deputation of the inhabitants, accompanied by a French officer, came to beg that I would not bombard the town; they urged me to agree to a suspension of arms for a few days; during which, from the accounts from France, it would appear, that peace must be made. I answered, that these were arguments to use to the French commandant, but not to me. It was for the French general to abandon a town he could not defend, and for me to push an advantage which fortune had put within my reach. The next morning several communications passed between my. self and the French general, whose object was to gain time, in the hope that some arrangement elsewhere might avert the necessity of his surrender; but as I would not listen to his propositions, it was at last agreed that commissioners should be appointed on either side: by whom the enclosed convention was made, and the French garrison will march out to-morrow morning. It is now three years since Lieut.-Gen. Macfarlane has acted as my second in command; and upon this, as upon all occasions, I am most thankful for his cordial and honourable co-operation and assistance. To To Major-General Montresor I am also much indebted: all the operations intrusted to his charge were conducted with great judgment and vigour. All the officers and troops of his Majesty have acted to my entire satisfaction. The Sicilian troops, under Brigadier-General Roth, were engaged equally with our own, and displayed the greatest bravery. The utmost respect and confidence mutually prevails. The Italian levy completely fulfilled the expectations I had always formed of them. In the whole course of the service, the navy have borne a distinguished part. To Captain Sir Josias Rowley, who conducted the naval part of the expedition, I have to express my particular acknowledgments; I am equally indebted for his advice, as for his hearty and most effectual co-operation. From the energy and bravery of the Hon. Capt. Dundas, who was principally charged with the directions ashore, and who took an active part with his marines and guns in the military operations, the army derived the utmost assistance. I regret to say, that in this service, Lieutenant Mapleton, First of the Edinburgh, was wounded. I beg to recommend him, through your lordship, to the favourable consideration of the Lords of the Admiralty. Captain Hamilton, of the Rainbow, rendered essential service to the advanced corps of the army. I have the honour to enclose returns of the killed and wounded. There have been found in Ge noa a very considerable amount of naval and military stores, of which exact returns will be transmitted as soon as they can be prepared. I have the honour to be, &c. W. C. BENTINCK, Lieut.-General. CONVENTION concluded between Lieut.-Gen. Macfarlane, stipulating in the name of his Excellency Lord Wm. Bentinck, Commander-in-Chief of the combined Army acting on the coast of Genoa, and Sir Charles Rowley, Bart. Commander of the Squadron under the orders of Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Pellew, Bart. Commander-inChief of the English fleet in the Mediterranean, on one part; and the Chevalier Dubignon, Colonel, commanding the 28th Legion of Gendarmerie, and the Chevalier Chopia, Inspector of Revenues in the 28th Military Division, stipulating, in the name of Baron Fresia, General of Division, Chief Commandant of the Fortress of Genoa, on the other part. Art. I. The fortress of Genoa shall be given up to the combined English and Sicilian troops. All hostilities, therefore, cease from this moment between the troops and the garrison of Genoa. Art. II. The said combined troops shall take possession of the city of Genoa to-morrow morning, at five o'clock; that is to say, they shall occupy at that hour the gates Pille and del Arco, as well as the quarter of La Pace, situated between those gates. They shall likewise occupy, at the same hour, Fort Quetze, and all the other ex terior forts and gates, successively, during the same day. Art. III. Three ships of war shall enter at the same hour into the port of Genoa. Art. IV. The French troops shall remain in possession of the remaining part of the town, until Thursday the 21st instant. at eight in the morning. On that day they -shall set out for France by the shortest way. In case they should take the road of Nice, the English government engages to furnish three vessels to provide for the conveyance of their baggage. Art. V. They shall pursue the military route fixed by the regulations, and they are on no account to be molested on their march, either by the troops of his Britannic Majesty, or those of his allies. Art. VI. The French troops shall march out with drums beating, matches lighted, with their arms and baggage, and with all the honours of war. They shall take with them six pieces of cannon, and the powder containing the necessary quantity of ammunition for the said cannon, and likewise one hundred and twenty cartridges per man. Art. VII. All persons forming part of the said French troops shall take with them all the effects and baggage that belong to them, it being well understood that under this meaning are comprehended the private magazines of the forces, but not those of government. Art. VIII. Two commissaries shall be appointed to-morrow morning, in order to draw up an inventory of the magazines and property of the French government; and the seals of the British VOL. LVI. government shall be affixed thereon, leaving, however, at the disposition of the French troops, as much as will be sufficient for their subsistence until the 21st instant, and besides biscuit, rations for four days, for the number of troops present under arms, and in garrison at Genoa. Art. IX. Every thing belonging to the French marine will be delivered over to-morrow to the British navy. Art. X. The sick and wounded of the French army shall remain in the hospitals of the place until they be cured. They shall be treated and subsisted as heretofore, at the expence of the French government. There shall remain at Genoa a commissary and a medical officer, in order to regulate the stipulations of the tenth article, and send the military back to France after their recovery. Art.XI. In case any thing should require to be regulated, commissaries will be appointed on both sides to that effect. Done at St. Francois d'Albero, this 18th day of April, 1814. Return of killed, wounded, and missing, of the allied British and Sicilian armies before Genoa, between the 13th and 17th April, 1814: Total loss-One ensign, thirtysix rank and file, killed; one major, three captains, one lieutenant, two staff, seven serjeants, one drummer, 159 rank and file, wounded. ADMIRALTY OFFICE, MAY 8, 1814. A dispatch was this day received from Vice Admiral Sir E. Pel lew, |
