Wheels good--8 guns, 30 howitzers, 18 carrs. Sixty handspikes; 12 tarpaulins; 3,000 French flints; 10 slow matches; 100 spunges; 30 copper ladles. G. HOWARTH, Brig.-Gen. Royal Horse Artillery. Protest against Buonaparté. Pius VII. Pontiff. The dark designs, conceived by the enemies of the Apostolic See, have as length been accomplished. After the violent and unjust spoliation of the fairest and most considerable portion of our dominions, we behold ourselves under unworthy pretexts, and with so much the greater injustice, entirely stripped of our temporal sovereignty, to which our spiritual independence is intimately united. In the midst of this cruel persecution we are comforted by the reflection, that we encounter such a heavy misfortune, not for any offence given to the emperor or to France, which has always been the object of our affectionate paternal solicitude, nor for any intrigue of worldly policy, but from an unwillingness to betray our duties. To please men, and to displease God is not allowed to any one professing the Catholic Religion, and much less can it be permitted to its Head and Promulgator. As we besides owe it to God and the Church, to hand down our rights uninjured and untouched, we protest against this new violent spoliation, and declare it null and void. We reject, with the firmest resolution, any allowance which the Emperor of the French may intend to assign us, and to the individuals composing our College. We should all cover ourselves with ignominy in the face of the church, if we suffered our subsistence to depend on the power of him who usurps her authority. We commit ourselves entirely to Providence, and to the affection of the faithful, and we shall be contented piously to terminate the bitter career of our sorrowful days. We adore with profound humility God's inscrutable decrees; we invoke his commiseration upon our good subjects, who will ever be our joy and our crown; and after having in this hardest of trials done what our duties required of us, we exhort them to preserve always untouched the religion and the faith, and to unite themselves to us, for the purpose of conjuring with sighs and tears, both in the closet and before the altar, the Supreme Father of Light, that he may vouchsafe to change the base designs of our persecutors. Given at our Apostolic Palace, del Quirinale, this 10th of June, 1809. (Locus Signi) PIUS PAPA VII. Excommunication of Buonaparté. Pius VII. Pontiff. By the authority of God Almighty, and of St. Paul and St. Peter, we declare you, and all your co-operators in the act of violence which you are executing, to have incurredthesame excommunication, which we in our apostolic letters, contemporaneously affixing in the usual places of this city declare to have been incurred by all those who, on the violent invasion of this city on the second of February of last year, were guilty of the acts of violence, against which we have protested, protested, as well really in so many declarations, that by our order have been issued by our successive secretaries of state, as also in two con sistorial collocations of the 16th of March, and the 11th July, 1808, in common with all their agents, abettors, advisers, and whoever else have been accessary to, or himself been engaged in, the execution of those attempts. Given at Rome, Santa Maria Maggiore, June 10th, in the tenth year of our Pontificate. (Locus Signi) PIUS PAPA VII. Admiralty Office, July 15.-Letter from captain Samuel Warren to captain Barret of the Minotaur, transmitted by Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumarez, bart, and K. B. Bellerophon, off Dagerost. June 20. Sir,-Pursuant to your signal to me of yesterday, I proceeded in his majesty's ship under my command off Hango; when at sun-set I discovered a lugger (apparently armed) and two other vessels at anchor within the islands. Deeming it of importance to get hold of them, I anchored and detached the boats under the orders of lieut. Pilch; and have to acquaint you, that they had gained complete possestion of the vessels, which being found to be of no consequence, and under cover of four strong batteries (not before observed), supported by several gun-boats, were abandoned. It was then judged necessary, to prevent loss in returning, to dash at the nearest battery, mounting four 24 pounders (and, by a muster-roll found, garrisoned with 103 men), which after an obstinate resistance, was carried in the most gallant manner, the Russians retreating to boats on the other side the island. The guns were spiked, and magazine destroyed. Lieut. Pilch reports to me the very able assistance he received from lieuts. Sheridan and Bentham, lieut. Carrington, royal marines, and Mr. Mart, carpenter (volunteers); and that more cool bravery could not have been displayed than by the officers and men employed on this service; and, considering the resistance met with, and heavy fire of grape-shot from batteries and gun-boats in the retreat, the loss is comparatively small, being five wounded. INFANTRY. 1st Foot Guards, 1st. Bat.... 1320 Ditto...... 3d Bat.... 1100 Flank Companies, ditto King's German Legions, 1st Light Bat...... Ditto, 2d. ditto 666 725 630 950. 1000 900 400 750 Ischia, July 5, 1809. My Lord;-In my dispatch to your lordship of the 9th ult. from Milazzo, I did myself the honour to acquaint you with a project which I had formed, in concert with rearadmiral Martin to make such a movement, as although it should produce no issue of achievement to ourselves, might still operate a diversion in favour of our Austrian allies, under the heavy pressure of reverse with which we had learned at the period they were bravely but 600 unequally struggling. 775 600 $590 794 780 750 700 1600 76th Foot 77th Regiment 700 79th......... 1st Bat.......... 1000 737 1000 84th.... .2d Bat...... 864 ....... 85th Regiment 587 1000 400 406 570 The first measure that suggested 742 itself to our contemplation was a menace upon the kingdom and capital of Naples; and the army, as within detailed, being embarked, we sailed under convoy of his majesty's ships Canopus, Spartiate, Warrior, and some frigates and smaller vessels, on the 11th of last month, leaving orders to the division of his Sicilian majesty's troops, which had been placed under my conduct, and were waiting my instructions at Palermo, under the command of lieutenant-general de Bourcard, to proceed to a given rendezvous. His royal highness prince Leopold, I found at our subsequent junction, had embarked with this division. 590 600 200 Total effective rank and file 34,403 When the artillery, engineers, &c. are added to this force, the amount will, as we have already stated, be not less than 40,000 men complete. From the London Gazette.-Downing-street, Sept. 4. Dispatches, of which the follow Our appearance on the coast of Calabria, which we reached on the morning of the 13th, had the effect of inducing the body of the enemy stationed in that province, to abandon, for the purposes of immediate concentration, the greater part of their posts along the shore, when those upon the line opposite Messina were seized and disarmed by a corps under lieutenant-col. Smith, who had been detached from the fleet immediately after our sailing from Milazzo, with provisionary orders for that purpose. Major-general Mackenzie, who had sailed with me, as designed to bear a part in this expedition, returned also at my request about this period, for the general superintendance of these services, as well as to hold the general command in Sicily, which becomes a charge so important during the term of our present operations. On the 24th ult. the advanced division of the British and Sicilian fleet, namely, that which contained the British troops, anchored off Cape Miseno, in the vicinity of Baia, when our preparations were immediately made for a debarkation upon the island of Ischia; and the necessary arrangements and dispositions of boats being intrusted by the admiral to sir Francis Laforey, a descent was forced on the following morning by the troops named in the margin, commanded by major-general M'Farlane, under the immediate fire of his majesty's ships Warrior and Success, aided by the British and Sicilian gun-boats, in the face of a formidable chain of batteries, with which every accessi ble part of the shore was perfectly fortified. These were turned and successively abandoned, as our troops gained their footing. About 250 or 300 men, of the first Legere, in the first instance fell into our hands. General Colonna, who commanded, retired with his principal force into the castle, where he rejected a summons from major general M'Farlane, and held out until the 30th ult. when a breaching battory having been erected against his works, he surrendered upon terms of capitulation. As it was conjectured by the admiral and myself that the success and promptitude with which the landing upon Ischia was effected, might probably operate an influence upon the adjacent garrison of Procida, a summons was immediately sent to the commandant thereof, who in the course of the day, submitted to our proposed terms; an event which contributed most fortunately to the almost entire capture or destruction of a large flotilla of about 40 heavy gun-boats, which attempted their passage during the night and following morning to Naples from Gaeta, and expected to find protection, as well as co-operation, under the artillery of the fortress, in their passage through the narrow straight that separates the island from the Main. This important service was executed Troops that landed under the command of major-general M'Farlane, assisted by the hon. brigadier-general Lumley. First Battalion Infantry Second Battalion Light Infantry (foreign) Eighty-first Regiment Corsican Rangers Detachment Calabrian Free Corps Artillery, Staff Corps, &c...... Four Six-pounders. Two Howitzers. ...850 ..330 ...600 ...400 .150 50 cuted by captain Staines, of his majesty's ship Cyane, assisted by the Espoir sloop, and the British and Sicilian gun-boats. It is with regret I add, that in a subsequent intrepid attack upon the frigate and corvette of the enemy in the bay, the above gallant officer has received a wound, which must for some time deprive the service of his assistance. The amount of prisoners who have fallen into our hands, already exceeds one thousand five hundred regular troops, exclusive of their killed and wounded, both of military and marine in different partial encounters, which we have reason to think are considerable. Among the prisoners are a general of brigade, two colonels, and upwards of 70 officers of progressive ranks. Nearly 100 pieces of ordnance with their corresponding stores, have also become our capture. It is with much greater satisfaction, however, my lord, than any that can be derived from these local or momentary advantages, that I contemplate our success in the material and important object of diversion, for which this expedition was designed. A considerable body of troops which had been recently detached from Naples as a reinforcement to the army in Upper Italy, as well as almost the whole of the troops which had been sent into the Roman states to aid the late surpation of the Papal dominions, were precipitately recalled on our first appearance on the coast; and I venture to hope, that the check which has been operated, and which I shall endeavour to preserve, will have already, though remotely, contributed to support the efforts of our brave allies. The preponderating regular force which the enemy has now assembled in the contiguity of Naples, aided by a large body of National Guards, preclude the hope at this moment of any attack upon the capital.But our footing upon these healthy islands (which were essentially necessary to us as a temporary lodgment as well as depôt) in affording us the earliest means of information, is also a position from which we can profit from circumstance, or can move with facility and promptitude to ulterior objects; while our enemy, who are observing us from the unwholesome plains of Baia, must be kept on the alert by the uncertainty of our operations, and harassed by the necessity of corresponding with our every movement. A flotilla of gun-boats, which I found it necessary to fit out at Messina to aid the army in that narrow straight, under the direction of captain Reade, of the quarter-mastergeneral's department, has acquired the approbation of the admiral by their conduct upon this service. Captain Cameron, of the 21st regiment, who commanded a division of these boats, is unfortunately among the few who have fallen. The harmony and perfect concert that have subsisted between the naval and military branches upon this duty, and between his majesty's forces and those of his Sicilian majesty; the great disposition to concurrence and support which I have received from lieutenant general lord Forbes, and the other general officers; the able arrangements of the adjutant-general's and the quarter-master-general's departments under major-general Campbell, and lieutenant-colonel Bunbury, as well as those of the ordnance branches under |