understood to be La Valette, with about 400 of their men, escaped across the river to Fort San Christoval; but that being also invested by our troops, they all surrendered before two o'clock, which completed the conquest. The moon arose about midnight on a scene of slaughter too dreadful to contemplate.--Humanity shudders and recoils from a sight so melancholy and terrific as that which here presented itself. Thousands of brave men lay weltering in their gore, many of whom were breathing their last farewell to this sublunary world.

I would not check the tender sigh,
Nor chide the pious tear,

That heaves the heart and dims the eye

For friend or kinsman dear,

E'en though their honoured relicks lie

On victory's proudest bier.

But I would say, for those who die

In honour's high career

For those in glory's grave who sleep

Weep fondly, but exulting weep.-CROKER.

In detailing the operations of this important night, Lord Wellington expressed himself highly satisfied with the conduct of the 4th division, under Major-General Colville, and

and of the light division under Lieut.-Colonel Barnard, in their attacks at the breaches, where the obstacles opposed to them were acknowledged to be of such a nature as to render it necessary to call off the troops for a time from the assault. The 5th division also ceived great praise for their gallant perseverence; and in speaking of the 3d division, Lord Wellington paid them the high encomium of saying, that they, as usual, maintained the distinguished reputation which they had acquired, and by their success against the Castle very essentially contributed to the reduction of the place. The royal artillery and corps of engineers, also, whose services were so essential on this occasion, were respectively noticed. The services of Marshal Sir Wm. Carr Beresford, of the Adjutant-General, the Quarter-Master General, of Don Miguel Alava, of Lord Wellington's own personal staff, and of the staff in general, were acknowledged, and, with the exception of some excesses which were committed by the troops in the town after the storm, Lord Wellington seemed highly satisfied with the conduct of the army altogether, acknowledg ing that he never saw troops victorious over

greater difficulties. Captain Canning, of the Guards, the aide-de-camp appointed to carry the dispatches to England, set out for Lisbon, and Brigadier-General O'Lawlor, of the Spanish service, left the camp for Cadiz. The town and fortifications of Badajos having thus surrendered, the troops of the several divisions were re-assembled as soon as circumstances would permit, and marched out to their respective camps; Brigadier-General Power, with a Portuguese garrison, being left in command of the town.

Return of Killed, Wounded and Missing of the Army in the Storming of Badujcs, 6th April, 1812.

GENERAL OFFICERS WOUNDED.

7th. When the news of the fall of Badajos arrived in Elvas this morning, a feeling of sorrow and regret as well as of exultation spread itself among the Portuguese inhabitants, many of them having to lament the fall of some dear friend or acquaintance. In the afternoon the French prisoners, in number about four thousand, with General Phillipon at their head, under an escort, were marched in on their route to Lisbon. The people were so exasperated at the severe losses our army had sustained in this trying siege, and at the sufferings to which their country had been so recently subjected, that they could not refrain from insulting them, but they endured all with that air of unconcern so common to the French soldier.

8th. The prisoners marched for Lisbon. Head-quarters were still in camp before Badajos, but as it was expected they would be removed to Elvas in a few days, preparations were consequently making to receive Lord Wellington and Marshal Beresford in the most distinguished manner. By directions of the Portuguese Governor, General Victoria, triumphal arches. festooned with laurels were

erected at the Badajos Gate of the city, and in the "grande placa," and the guns on the ramparts were to fire a salute on the occasion.

12th. Head-quarters moved into Badajos to-day, and the divisions were all again in motion. Marshal Soult having (like Marmont at Ciudad Rodrigo) arrived too late to succour the town, fell back upon Seville, pursued by a large force of cavalry and infantry, under the command of Sir Rowland Hill, while the rest of the army, which had been brought from the North of Portugal, marching by Campo Mayor, Arronches, Portalegre and Niza, repassed the Tagus at Villa Velha, and obliged Marshal Marmont (whose army had penetrated as far as Castello Branco, and plundered some towns and villages in the Sierras des Estrellas) to fall back, beyond the Agueda, by the road to Salamanca.

I had almost forgot to mention, that in walking round the ramparts of Elvas one evening, I came to the grave of Major-General Hoghton, who (it will be remembered) fell in the battle of Albuera. He is buried on one of the highest batteries of Elvas, which commands a most extensive view of the sur