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ground is open, .and I discharged the peasants after explaining to them the object'of our being in this.country., . . \ • • v I cannot conclude this long report without; certifying to your Lordship my great satisfaction with the conduct ,of the Officers and Mdn which • I have had. the honour to, command- on thig-.bc-' ca$ion, and to recorpmopd to your- Lordship’* notice Captain Krauckenbprg of the ist Light Dragoons. , ; , I have ihe honpur tp.-be, ■ *. i>.» • ,Frie.d. v. JD.,cc.ken,-, Brigadier-Gen. Lieutenant-General the Right Hon. Lord Cathcart. .* i" ' .1* ■.i .!'• *' ; . Head-quarters, bp£o?:e Ccjpenh1Sept, d,- t 8 cpi >* , i; .. ^ , .. My L ord \.,,y. . *v .[ Having ^ra^edr to your Lordship tin my dis­ patch of„fh® jthp,preparation. of- force which was assembling^under Lieutenant-General Gasten- schiold , .ancl; my, intention of .detaching a -force : t o disperse them before they'.should be in a state to .untevtaka. any enterprize; :I have now the greatest pleasure in transmitting the report I. hgve Received from Sir Arthur Wellesley, to whom,., with the..assistance of, Major-General Dev Linsengen, and -Brigadier-General S tew a r tth a t service was entrusted. i: i \ •«.• The ,Major. General marqhed, on;?the 26th of ,1ast month tp.,.^qes]feil4rJKrofti;^iid proceeded ; on : thp. following day, ,to .attack