The National Register. — London, England, 1813-10-10 00:00:00

~F OCT. le. 251 TTIE NATIONAL REGIST affairs against SUCH LT: Of the latter, the following Bul letin issued by Government, contains a correct account. We shall only add, ..hat h appears frOm Lord WM. BEN- Tri4ciCs account, that his Lordship was deceived by the fal s e repo' ti, into a belief that part of SuctsEr's army had been sent bark to France, whilst, on the contrary, he was collecting a considerable force, with which, on the I ith ult. he approached the position of the Allies at Villa Franca. Ili, Lordship was infei ior in numbers, having been obliged to leave several divisions behind from want of provisions and means of transport. lie thought himself secure, however, be hind the pass of Ordal, which is very strong, and was occupied by ale advance of the army. But at twelve o'clock on the night of the 12th the enemy attacked, and after a most obstinate resistance carried that pass, and took four pieces of cannon. The troops by which the pass was defended were dispersed amidst the mountains. There is no doubt, however, but the account given by SUCH ET is grossly exaggerated, as his Lordship states -- " 1 can dive no exact return of our loss, but I hope it will eventually not' be considerable; I have heard of two thou sand men .having joined Colonel MANSO, near San Sadurni, among whom are two hundred of our own troops, and great numbers have already joined fro.a different parts of the coast, and are hourly coining in." The extent of the British loss,. as far as it is known, is contained in the following Bulletin. WAR DEPARTMKNT, CT.T. 6 " Dispatches have been tee( iv( d from Field-Marshal the Marquis of Wellington, dated the 'nth ►ilt. enclosing reports of Lord Win. lientinek of-the 15th and 17tle of September. From these it appears, that the enemy having eollccted a very considerable force in front of his Loldship's army, made an attack early on the morning of the lath ult. upon the advanced guard, posted at the pass of Ordal. The advance consisted of the -id bait. of the filth regiment, the Cal.►brlan free corps, four rifle companies of the King's German I.egion, a brigade of Portuguese artillery. amounting altogether to I too men, and three Spanish egimertd, who foi !Unit ral laws made a most gallant and ; occessfid resistance ; but being overpowered by the numbers opposed to them; were fore( dto gibe away. The loks sustained w ill,. it is bt hewed, not prove ultimately very cowitlerable, as many of those men who had been conipolled te. shelter themselves in the mountains had siece rejoined the army. The rapid advance of the enemy rendered it necessary to abandon two field•p i eces and two mounta►n-guns. On the 14th, Lord 'Wm. Ilentinek deemed it advisable to retire to Vendrells, and from thence to the neighisourhood of Tarragona. '1 he retreat w•aa ef fected without any loss, notwithstanding the attempts of the enemy's stiperior cavalry, which were intiforinly repodsed by Mt. charges made .by the t titli li_►lt dragoons, and the hussars of the King's German Legion. 'the enemy finding no impression could be made, retired on the 17th behind the Lob►egat." Nantes of Offli:ers killed, Wounded, mut Missing. glit dragoons, Capt. Hinson.—Yd batt. 97th regiment, Litut. and Adj. Iraylor.—Roll's Rifle Company, Lieut. Segesser. Wsiusiton—Cieneral Staff, Colonel F. Adam, severely, not dal geronsly ; Lieut. Campbell, marine artillery : D A. A. severely, not dangerously.—litimswiek Humus ! Lieut. Sehaeflir, Cornet Miebe• lor. and Cornet Alder• (since dead).—Portiumese Artillery, Urn,. T. F. Madeira, slin'itly.-211 Batt. 17th Ret t. Lieat,Col. Capts. 111:11 and Vin lsor, Lients. Macpherson, Drewo, ftlauby, Talbot, and Shea, severely, not dangerously; Assioant Stir , •i Fitzgerald, sliwitly.—Calabriati Free Cor a 's, Lieut . Tatman. Rifle Company, 4t h German Legion, Lieut. raatle, 'severely (since dead) ; Lieut. liackineister, ditto 111111;ING —`.?d Ratt. 27th Foot. Lieut. Steele, Disivi Latham, hew) eiy wounded.— Calabrese Free Corps, Capts. Oliver. amid Ch. iacul, and Lieut. Vita. Sunday the following Bulletin was exhibited at St. James's Palace "Lim Niajesty continue.; in a tranquil and comfortable state, bat wi Mout any anatetneut ()Ibis *border." THE PLA6UE The prevalence of an infectious fever at Gibraltar is unhappily sta ted in letter% thence and from Cadia to the 19th ult. containing the fol lowing official par►iculars : " Oo the 6th two Jew petters were taken ill, and died fifty hours afterwards. •' On the Bth, a soldier of the garrison threw himself from a window of the barracks in a delirium. one of the symptotus of the lever. " The state set the !Mc aud deed is as follows : Date. 111. Dcad. . September 9 6 • • • . • • • • • • 3 10 1, 4 • 11 4o 3 " 12 30 4 13 32 2 14 33 4 1.3 .10 3 114 43 3 17 43 3 18 JO 4 •••••• am••• 33 deaths. • On the lath Rept. four servotits in the family of Major Moore of the Velegans. were taken ill, which left no doubt in the minds of medical men that the diorder was contagiows or epidemical. " A Proclamation was pubtished declaring the garrison in a state of infection, and directing that no more clean Bills of health should be granted. " Tiir inhabitants immediately caught the alarm, and about 4,000 of them quitted the garrison. Ail the poorer classes have been or. det ed to the neutral ground. 44 The windmill to the south bas been converted into a Lazaretto, aild all persons %% re removed to it immediately they were infected. The town has in en divided into 4 274istrictm, anal the south into seven sale di% isions, with a Committee to superintend each, and to make daily re tarts to the Board of Health." The Captain of the Serapia store-ship states, that the medical men were in sanguine Lopes that the disorder would soon be en. tirely exterminate:l. We learn with satisfaction, by a letter from a most respectable quarter, (WO as late as the 17th nit. from Leghorn, that the plague has wholly disappeared in Valette, and that its ravages were mu c h d;minished in the villages tor the island of Malta. The information was brought to Leghorn .by a vessel Which had arrived from Malta on the 15th of last month. Dr. Rowley was consecrated Bishop of London on Sun day last, in presence of the Queew and Pt inCCSSPF, at Lambeth. A solemn service was perffiruied on Thursday morning in the Catholic chapel, King-street, in honour of the late Cen. Moreau. The chapel was hung with black, and filled with a very large assen , blage of gelato , ' Dersohs —The Russian Ambassador and suite; the first Minister of Louis XVIIL Count DTscares,and all the Noblemen belonging to Monsieur and the Prince of Conde. Madetnoil.eile Minya(' was there attendiAl by ter Governess ; she about 8 years old. A mor i : the company present were also the Duchess of Devonshire, the Countess of Besborough, the Bat one , As De Stael, Lord Melbourne. the thin Mrs. C. Lath. Mr. F. Fos•e , &c. A Specil General Court of ProprieterA r.f East India Ptock. was he'd ‘Vedne,day, when Peer Moore, i.sq. M. P. submitted his motion for increasing the salaries the Chairman and Denuty Chairman of the Court of Directors, 50A!. to !boo!. per annum; and th..t of the Diree , ors from 3001. to 11.001. per annum. A del ate of great leowh took place. which ended io the aprointtnent of a S. lest Commiteo of 21 Proprieters, to consider and report on the f): ped;encv of making the nroposed augnientati rapt. Layne', of the 99d grenadiers, the brave :end hu. mane french Officer who nobly snatched from t' , e brolk o f destruction, at the imminent harard of Ins own lif., 1W) Eottli l / 4 h Officers, at the siege of St. Sel - aoan's, was restored to libe•ty almost a , soon as he reached the depot a 4 gavenny, and has received his passports to return France. ■ ber: Se . f.