MEMORANDUM.

To the General Officers and Heads of Departments.

'Toulouse, 15th May, 1814.

1. As soon as intelligence is received here, on which reliance can be placed, that the fort of Figueras has been given up to the Spanish troops in consequence of the convention of the 19th of April with Marshal the Duc d'Albufera, the troops belonging to the 4th army, now within the French territory, are to break up from their cantonments, those of the 1st and 2nd divisions from the blockade of Bayonne, and from the cantonments at Ascain; and those of General Mina's division from the blockade of St. Jean Pied de Port; and all these troops are to march by the regular routes into Spain; the troops under Lieut. General Freyre, and the 1st and 2nd divisions being subsisted by the British Commissariat till they shall have passed the frontier.

2. When these troops shall march, the 3rd army must move by its right towards Tudela de Ebro, so as to leave the cantonments open.

3. The infantry and artillery of the British and Portuguese armies, and the Portuguese cavalry, must, at the same time, be put in motion to descend the Garonne towards Bordeaux, with the exception of General Le Cor's division of the latter, and the Portuguese cavalry and artillery, which must be put in motion directly upon Bayonne, to march by the regular route to Boucaut, and thence into the Spanish frontier at Irun.

4. The brigades of infantry of the Portuguese army at Bayonne, and those of General Le Cor's division, and those in the British divisions at Bordeaux and in that neighbourhood, and the cavalry, will follow directly the movement of the Spanish troops.

5. The brigades in the British divisions are not, however, to separate from the divisions till it shall be convenient to send with them the mules attached to those divisions which are to march with them, with such Spanish and Portuguese women and servants attached to the British regiments in the divisions as it may be intended to send away.

6. These women and servants are to be victualled on

the road till their arrival in Portugal; and the British Commissariat Officers will arrange with the Portuguese Commissariat Officers for this purpose, and the account will be settled at the general adjustment.

On the arrival of the Portuguese troops within the Spanish frontier, General D'Urban will arrange their march to the Portuguese frontier according to the directions he has received; and he will receive from Sir Robert Kennedy orders for the delivery to the Portuguese Commissariat of such portions of the magazines at Pasages, Vitoria, &c., as may be necessary for the Portuguese troops.

'He will apprise the Portuguese Government of the detail of these movements, and he will arrange for carrying off from the Spanish posts all the sick, convalescents, and stores which remain in them.

7. When the Portuguese troops shall be separated from the British infantry, the latter are to be cantoned or encamped in the neighbourhood of Bordeaux, in the place most convenient for their subsistence, till the vessels arrive to take them away; when they must embark with every thing belonging to them.

8. The infantry of the 1st and 5th divisions, and Lord Aylmer's brigade, still at Bayonne, will either proceed to Bordeaux, or embark in the Adour, or in the Spanish ports, as may be settled by the officers of the navy. But, at all events, these troops are not to quit Bayonne till all the Spanish and Portuguese troops shall have passed; till all the stores and sick there, and on the Adour, shall have been embarked; and till the bridge shall have been taken up, and the vessels and stores belonging to it shall have been sent out of the Adour.

9. Measures must be taken forthwith for the removal to the neighbourhood of Bayonne of all the sick and wounded of the allied army at Tarbes, Pau, Orthez, and on the Adour, and of the Spanish and Portuguese sick and wounded at Toulouse, to Pau, in order to their being prepared for the final evacuation of the country.

10. The British sick and wounded at Toulouse, and on the Garonne, must go down to Bordeaux by water, as well as the artillery and stores belonging to the army still in this part of the country, as soon as the horses of the cavalry

and artillery march, or as soon as the infantry march, if the infantry should march first.

11. As soon as the French Minister sends to Sir George Murray his approbation of the proposed route for the march of the British cavalry and artillery horses through France, they are to commence their march according to what the Minister at War shall settle.

12. All the public hired mules attached to the cavalry must be left behind, and the Commissary General will arrange for their return into Spain, either with the Portuguese troops, or singly, as may be deemed expedient.

13. The memorandum of orders for the march of the cavalry is to be strictly obeyed by the Commissaries attached to brigades and regiments; and, as these gentlemen have lately too often disobeyed the orders of the Commander of the Forces providing for the regularity of giving receipts and making payments, the Commander of the Forces now gives notice that he will be in a situation hereafter to ascertain whether these orders have, or not, been obeyed; and any instance of disobedience will be reported to the Treasury, with the earnest recommendation of the Commander of the Forces that the most serious notice may be taken of it.

14. The Commissary General will fix upon an officer to go to Almeida in Portugal, to complete the settlement of the accounts of the muleteers, and to pay them all the arrears due to them. He will make public to them this arrangement, and the name of the officer; and he will take measures with the Commissary in Chief to insure to this officer a supply of money to make good these engagements. 15. The Captains of companies and troops, the Paymasters and Surgeons of battalions and regiments, who have heretofore received an allowance for the purchase and keeping up of a mule in the public service, are to be permitted to sell those mules at the moment of the embarkation of their regiments respectively, on their own

To Admiral Lord Keith, K.B.

" MY LORD, Toulouse, 15th May, 1814. Having received the orders of the Secretary of State to collect in the neighbourhood of Bordeaux, for embarkation, a corps consisting of about 12,000 rank and file of British infantry, a regiment of cavalry, and six companies of artillery, with their ordnance and equipments, I have directed that this corps should be collected accordingly; and by this time I hope that many of the troops have arrived, and all are on their march.

It will rest with your Lordship to make known to Lieut. General the Earl of Dalhousie when the ships will be ready, and the troops will forthwith be embarked. It will be desirable, however, that Lieut. Colonel the Hon. A. Abercromby, the senior officer of the Quarter Master General's department attached to the expedition, should receive the earliest information of the number, size, and capacity, of the different vessels allotted to transport cavalry, artillery, and infantry, and ordnance and ordnance stores, in order that he may be prepared with all the detailed arrangements of the embarkation; and I request your Lordship to give directions accordingly.

'I have no orders or instructions from England of the destination of this expedition; and of course when the troops shall be embarked they will be at the disposal of your Lordship.

I am upon the point of setting out for Madrid; and have to inform your Lordship that I have given directions that the infantry and artillery of the British army should break up from their cantonments on the Garonne, and proceed to Bordeaux to embark, as soon as accounts shall be received of the evacuation of the Spanish fortresses in Catalonia and Valencia. These troops will then embark at Bordeaux, in the vessels which I conclude will be sent for them; and the Quarter Master General will by that time. have arrived at Bordeaux; and I shall be obliged to your Lordship if you will give directions that he may receive such information as may be necessary, in regard to the number, size, and capacity, of the vessels destined to carry the troops

home, to enable him to make the detailed arrangements for the embarkation.

I have the honor to enclose to your Royal Highness an extract from the report of the King's Advocate to the Secretary of State on the subject of the property and stores captured at Bordeaux, by the troops under my command; in consequence of which I have given directions that the tobacco, salt, and colonial produce of all descriptions in store at Bordeaux, and under the charge of the British Commissaries, shall be delivered up on payment of the duties recently laid on these articles by the French Government, or on giving security for the payment of those duties. I have the honor to be, &c.

"His Royal Highness

the Duc d'Angoulême.'

MONSIEUR,

To Comte Jules de Polignac *.

à Toulouse, ce 15 Mai, 1814.

et je n'ai

'J'ai l'honneur de recevoir votre lettre du

nulle objection à faire à l'établissement de gendarmerie dans le district occupé par les troupes sous mes ordres.

J'ai l'honneur de vous envoyer une lettre que je reçois de M. Mallaret, ancien Maire de Toulouse.

'Quand je suis entré en cette ville le 12 du mois passé, je trouvai que M. Mallaret avait quitté la ville, en conséquence, je crois, des ordres qu'il avait reçus de ses supérieurs; et ayant trouvé convenable de nommer une personne pour remplir les fonctions de maire provisoirement, et ayant consulté les principaux habitans de la ville, j'ai nommé par

*Afterwards Prince de Polignac.