The National Register. — London, England, 1809-10-15 00:00:00

THE NkTIONAL REGISTER. •.". J. Lis army. A' this moment he has not 18,(0t) men under arms, out of the 40,000 which left the ports of England. The Aluaitenr, of Sept. 30, after giving the following intelli gence from an English paper, has these notes The whole British army has quitted Spain. Sir A. Wel lesley has his head-quarters at Elval. (1). at is said this retreat is occasioned by want of previsions (2). The French have re turned to Madrid."' tale (1.) This is certainly a great F 4 (Test , and the Briti-h people owe mull) grati!ude to Lord Wellesley, .for having de stro.s el a part of their troops ; for having comproini!‘ed the glory Of their troops; for iyaviag tied si%ty len.gne, pursued, sword in haod; in flue, for loiving shaudoned their allies. The Kiog of Eiigland has rewarded the c great services, by conferring on Cen. Wellesley the title of Lord Wellington, Visrimo; Talavera. Why does he not give likewise to Lord Cualliain the title of Luke of ‘Valehereii? Thi, reward would be as well merited, a• thathirii has been gra n ,-41 to Sir Arthur. We hope that the knalish General, who, in the course of this winter, trill hc driven into the Tagutz, and force) to evacuate Portugal, will receive tlw tills} of Duke of Lisbon. Thus the French %t ill find, in the genealogy of the English Generals, the list of their itteceszws. Note (2.) It is imPaisihle to find a worse excuse, when the tag army had, be:ii4d it Seville, Lisboa, and the sea, that Its retreat was occasioned by the want of provisions! It is im possible to sport more with the public credolitYr- The English fled From the French bayonets; and the French troops, far from returning immediately to Madrid, pursued these fugitives as far as the heats would permit. The Moniteur of the fOth of September, enntainle an article extracted from an Evening Papei , on the failure of our Expe dition • against Antwerp; in w hich 'it is said, " that the armis tice concluded on the Danube couta not but have a powerful in fluence on the issue of that Expedition and makes the follo lug remarks on• this :assertion --`• What a miserable excuse! What have the affairs of the Danube to doswith the expedition to the Schelde I" Can it lora moment he supposed that France stood in need of the army which is in Vienna to defend herself piainst the English ? The Et gliqh Expedition failed. because it. was extravagant; it would atm° have failed, had the -French been defeated at Wagrain. Ntty,• it would in that case have snore CAWliiiiily failed of success, beean4e an unfortunate event vviiiski have d mh!ed the energy of the French in the interior ; it Would have failed, hecauqe, in Net, fools only could attempt a similar. expedition in a month and a cliniale where epidemic fevers carry of noesiniety of the army. Uad it been underta ke" in lbe month of,May, the chances. against its success would have heel) far le* considerable, because that time of the year tta dread of maladies was to he entertained. The Cabinet of St.,Jnmes's, actiugin a difibrent manner, cli--plited the uttnbqt ignorance of circumstances, in a case to which it attached So ninth importance. The expedition was absurd, because Flush= lug could not be suppebed to be taken hut after a long siege, car ried on in the midst of inundatioul beentise, after the reduction pf Flushing, it was necessary to dirert further operations against BaAa l ,• Bergen-op-Zoom, and *Lino ;* and- 110eattse no attack on 09 strong place of-Antwerp could be made, but nfteeprevious• sieges to the namber of three. which Must take up at' lealit three months; and because it was not recollected that the coterth bat jx of the 11Thu / erns of all th e army which remain hi Franre., form an army of more than 100,000 men, exclusively of the' ;national guards and Bens d'artnes of the neighbouring' depart-: . " /DOM• Ip less than• eight days a corps of 4000 horse Wag' litssembied at Antwerp, while all the cavalry of Lord Challinm'S Army did run exceed 1-000. Let not the English boast of their hOlding..the key of the Scheldt : shey cannot hold'it. 'Any force which may he desoned to de fend that place must in the end be lost to go g lanci s either h. capitulation or silliness; and la the former ease. gee shall t.e more Oan indemnified for the loss of 4000 men who cupitulate6 jn tushing, not 1000 of whom were french. King has issued an edict, w Welt silver in ingots, to Ins a•declh if the Mint, and to deli‘er op all nverted into money : one fourth•of paid immediately on the ilPthet 11-fourths in four months after the and silver, with the additiotrof one, ) 4 Y WI Af A reward acnirr, PIZOVINCI4 LS. OCT. 15. CHESTER SUMMER ASSIZES. I /424 luso. OPT. r 6 —The 0 4 . .,...• :. ' . dt of plate and i..,„ • • ' !., , r -41)c Master ni ..p., ,• 1. t --,---: : 1 4%, i t • 44 ,, iiil*- isr;? 10 be it, tv't•l % :4 i.' " ~,- ' 1. .. : 41 7 1 i "pg tli re, a tt; r . l ..._,-,• A -. I :is ate and •-- 1-, I -' , es b,l ) . 1 ‘ . •? . itr • PA• - - 4.. •-. . - •4* ii., s • 4.4.1,•, ~ . • • .. ..- _ • • ; - .0 -- , 1-,. - -A—, LEES V. WEAVER. This was an action of truver for a female, of the designation of Miss Michael. Mr. Toping stated the cause to the Jury with a ronsiderahie olegree of loontior. It appeared that a person of the name of Woodcock, claimed the exclusive right to this young creature. lie hail two other females, over whom he possessed so abs o lut e a dominion, that it extended even to the right of selling them by auction, or b) private contract, just as, an African to rehant would sell hi{ slaves. Iles.He.4 Rachacl, he had a Miss Tidy, and no les' a persoonee than Lad v Rad Hid, Miss Tid 1 , and Lady had all seek their best daisbut the two latter, parOcalarly, wero: defliotag into the vale of life, an d h a d cmf ,if e c te d luequivocal sYmploms Of sterility. Mr. Woodcock Or•rrfore deieroniord to ges rid of them all ; and, with that view, agreeahl - . too the cu.tiirn of this country, he put lialters round their neeko., it , ;de..rried them to the public market, just as the lower orders 0.1 sato people in London tarry their wives for 3.0 - . to) Sinittiffirl mutt.'. They were put up to sale by Nit . , l'rince an auctioneer. Loth Williams was first offered for sale, butato one wo.rld hate unv thing to say to her; and even Rachae) and IMP. 'Faddy were briUght 0. The auctioneer fiodiag the bidders hart no •pirit, betninoght him of a ver y ex relleut expedient. He gave them a droller, and plied them ifierwards with a Irmle of wine a-piece. He then remounted the rostrum, and Lady Williams, Miss Tidy, and Rachael, all sold at very high prices. The Plaiotiff pun based Rachat), the nefendatit. had Lady Wiliiams, and, somebody else got Miss ; Tidy. The parties were renvey ing the different punt hales home, but, elated by the libations with u hie)) the auction had been accompanied, they stopped h' the way, and renewed their de votions at the shrine of Bacchus so deviluilY, that they, neither' of them, knew ilar;Jar.l from Miss Tot • , or either, froth Lady Williams. The re-alt was, that thy Defendant, Mr. Weaver. who had bought Lady Williams, carried of Ratline), the law rolly-purchased property of Mr. Lee., the Plaintiff. The De fendant, even npo») the return of reason and sobriety, was so well pleased with Rachael, that he refit-ed to return her. The Plaint off was not willing to give up Rachael for Lady liams ; in fact, Lady Witham., within a very days, met it pre mature death ; she had the In i,fortuve to be gored by a hull in the side. The Defelulant, how ever, refused ,o part with chael, and the preseot .ietion was brought to recover possession of her. The witness for the Plaintiff clently proved that he had purchabed Rachael, and that the Defendant had afterwards eloped vy ith her, leaving Lady Williams in her stead. The Jury, cousequentlY, ikith hardly a moment's hesitation, returned a verdict for the Plaintiff. It appeared that Rae'mei, Miss Tidy, and Lady ,Williams, were th eee crams, of very ancient faistilies, .and all of thew lineal descendants of to. The wheat harvest being nearly concluded, the following may be considered as an impartial statement of the producer—Wheat on the.strong lands, short of quantity, but good in quality. Ou the light and cold lands, a fair crop as to produce, but mnch airected with the smut. Surne strong latids, hich last year pro. lueed four quarters on an acre, doer* , not tliis year average more than three; but with respect to weight the quality is consider ably better than that of last year. Or, the w hole, from the variouci net ()tints, the produce may be estimated at about I.Bitr short of w'tat is termed an average crop,• taking the medium of an average crop at three quarferi ;la acre. We have to record Is o melancholy accidents which happened in tugs adjoininc parishes in II olderness, last week, to tw o • your; friends. In tke morning of Thurslay, as _the maid set . - Vanvof Mr. iearne, at Flinton, was milking a caw, another Craved orr one , she was engaged with, w Mich sli pping ;mays the fore font of the other came, bt ith All the weight of the a ni upon the body of the young woman, and was pressed into her bokrelS;,when she was taken op nearly the whole content, of the hndy came out, and though every surgibal nssistance. was :4Tonled her, she languished till the next dal, and 'died of the thortitiratiort. The other had been upon the tide oVa corn stark forking shenves ; her foot slipped - , and intesmiug down she•fell upon the prongs of the fork, which entered • her bowels, tod•when• Ihe fork was withdrawn a large portion of the in *stifles followed; they were carefully returned and the woisti4 securNf rtat sitt •vas must et' petted to SUrvi►e, OW 64