receive your Lordship's definitive determination regarding the ports for the embarkation of the horses, in order that I may settle with the Minister at War the remainder of the

'MY LORD,

'Toulouse, 15th May, 1814. 'I have the honor to enclose the copy of the instructions and the enclosures which I have given to the Commissary General in consequence of your Lordship's orders, No. 34, of the 4th instant, in regard to the magazines and other property captured from the enemy in France by the troops under my command.

'Earl Bathurst.'

I have the honor to be, &c.
WELLINGTON.

To Lieut. General the Earl of Dalhousie, K.B.

MY DEAR LORD,

'Toulouse, 16th May, 1814. I am going to Madrid to-morrow, and as Lord Hill is gone to England, the command of the army will devolve upon you in my absence.

I enclose you No. 1, a Memorandum to be carried into execution for the formation, &c., of the troops for the expedition ; No. 2, a Memorandum of the measures to be adopted for breaking up the army and evacuating the French territory as soon as the fortresses in Spain shall be evacuated. The Quarter Master General will remain here to receive from Paris the consent of the Minister at War to the proposed march of the cavalry, and from Figueras the report of the occupation of that fort by the Spaniards; and he will then put in motion the troops for the execution of these movements, and will join you at Bordeaux, where I expect to be in about three weeks from this time.

I enclose, No. 3, a letter to Lord Keith, which I request you to peruse, and of which I request you to keep a copy; and No. 4, a letter for Deputy Commissary General Ogilvie on the prize concerns at Bordeaux, which I request you likewise to read and deliver to him.

I request you to give the copy of No. 1 to the senior officer with the troops for the expedition, and attach Lieut. Colonel Abercromby to them, and desire him to attend to their organization, and the arrangements for their embarkation, &c.

'Lieut. General

the Earl of Dalhousie, K.B.'

SIR,

To Lieut. Colonel Ellis, 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

I return the proceedings of the General Court Martial held on Deputy Assistant Commissary General —, of which you were the President, and request the Court will reconsider the letter of recommendation which accompanied that case. If conduct such as that of which Mr. has been upon clear evidence found guilty be passed over, it will be impossible to maintain the necessary discipline of the army, which mainly depends upon Courts Martial performing their duty, and not being misled by false principles of lenity. I beg, therefore, to submit to the Court the propriety of withdrawing that recommendation.

To the Right Hon. the Lord Chancellor.

'MY LORD, Toulouse, 16th May, 1814. I have had the honor of receiving your Lordship's letter of the 31st of March, in which your Lordship has transmitted the unanimous resolution of the House of Lords of the 24th of March, in which their Lordships have declared their approbation of my conduct, and of that of the General Officers, officers, and troops under my command, in the battle fought near Orthez on the 27th of February. I beg that your Lordship will do me the favor to assure their Lordships that the General Officers, officers, and soldiers of the army, are, equally with myself, highly sensible of the value of their Lordships' approbation; and that you will request their Lordships to accept my most grateful

acknowledgment for this fresh instance of the favor with which they view my services to His Majesty.

I beg your Lordship likewise to accept my thanks for the handsome terms with which you have conveyed to me the sense of the House of Lords.

[A Letter in similar terms to the Right Hon, the Speaker of the

'MY LORD,

House of Commons.]

To Earl Bathurst.

Toulouse, 16th May, 1814.

I have the honor to transmit, for your Lordship's information, a letter which I have received from His Majesty's Secretary of Legation at Lisbon, suggesting the expediency of making over to the Commissariat at Gibraltar a part of the stores remaining in the public magazines at Lisbon.

'Earl Bathurst.'

'I have the honor to be, &c.

• WELLINGTON.

MY DEAR LORD,

To Viscount Castlereagh.

Toulouse, 17th May, 1814.

Lord Apsley arrived last night, and goes on with me this morning. Suchet has sent here the Chief of his Staff, in consequence of my letter to him, of which I forwarded to you the copy; and he will continue the evacuation of the Spanish garrisons.

I beg that you will send here any directions you may have for me, till Colonel Burgh shall let you know that head quarters are leaving this place; and then to Bordeaux.

By the accounts from Spain yesterday, it appears that the liberales are quitting Madrid, whether from real, or pretended apprehension of the King's intentions, or with the intention to raise the provinces, I cannot say. They appear to rely a good deal, however, upon the 3rd and 4th armies, upon whom I hope to make some impression on my passage,

• Viscount Castlereagh."

Believe me, &c.

6 WELLINGTON.

To Marshal the Duc d'Albufera.

MONSIEUR LE MARECHAL,

'à Rabastens, ce 17 Mai, 1814, à 6 heures du matin.

Je viens de recevoir des lettres du Général Clinton de Mequinenza le 7 Mai, dans lesquelles il m'apprend qu'il se trouve des difficultés dans l'évacuation de Tortosa causées par le refus du Général Robert de marcher par la route que lui avait indiquée le Général Copons.

Je crois, M. le Maréchal, que, puisque ce sont les troupes Espagnoles qui bloquent Tortosa, c'est au Général qui commande en Catalogne à fixer la route par laquelle la garnison doit passer; et si votre Excellence convient avec moi, je vous serai bien obligé d'avoir la bonté d'envoyer au Général Robert des ordres qui mettront fin à ces disputes. J'ai l'honneur d'être, &c.

'Le Maréchal
Duc d'Albufera.'

To Viscount Castlereagh.

WELLINGTON.

'MY DEAR LORD, 'Rabastens, 17th May, 1814. 6 a.m. 'I received a letter this morning from the Duque de San Carlos, dated at Valencia, the 4th, but dispatched the 11th, in which he enclosed me a decree, of which the enclosed is a copy, dissolving the Cortes; a second, abolishing the liberty of the press; and others nominating himself to be Minister of State; Lardizabal, the late Regent, to the Colonial Department; Salazar to the Treasury, and Macanaz to the Department of Peace and Justice. I have not time to make any observation on these measures; but communicate them to you immediately, as they may be interesting to you. • Believe me, &c.

'Pau, 18th May, 1814.

'MY DEAR LORD, I enclose a letter from Mrs. Hay, the widow of the late General Hay, who fell at Bayonne, in which she requests some provision for her family, of which I enclose the list. Your Lordship and Mr. Perceval have so frequently attended to the requests which I have been obliged to bring

forward of this description, that it is scarcely necessary to apologise for making them; and I will only add to Mrs. Hay's letter my testimony of General Hay's merits as an officer, and the expression of my sense of the unfortunate circumstances under which he fell.

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'Pau, 18th May, 1814.

I have the honor to enclose a letter from Lord Castlereagh, in which his Lordship has informed me that the Emperor of Russia had been pleased to confer upon me the Grand Cross of the Order of St. George; and I shall be very much obliged to your Lordship if you will lay my request before His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, that he will permit me to accept this mark of His Imperial Majesty's favor.

'Earl Bathurst.

. SIR,

'Believe me, &c.

"WELLINGTON.

To His Excellency the Minister at War, Madrid.

'Mondragon, 21st May, 1814.

I have the honor to enclose a correspondence which has taken place between Mariscal de Campo the Principe de Anglona and General Paratell, which the former put into my hands yesterday, with a request that I should forward it to be laid before His Majesty.

It is my opinion that General Paratell has very little, if any, cause for complaint against his Commanding Officer. The Principe de Anglona had no official information of the events at Madrid, even to yesterday; nor any of the contents of the Madrid Gazette; and, in strictness, he would have been blamable if he had made any communication to the army of His Majesty's decree of the 4th of May, without having some better authority for such communication than the Madrid Gazette.

In regard to the reports in the Universal and other newspapers, they are below contempt; but I must observe that, in proportion as there was foundation for such reports