The National Register. — London, England, 1812-01-26 00:00:00

56 THE NATIONAL REGISTER. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS AND i HE PUBLIC. The annual Index to this Paper, together with the Chrourduo, is Now ready for delivery to Subscribers, at the trifling charge of Three- Pence; a charge rendered necessary in under to i::sure punctual de livery. Anxious to comply with the repeated entreaties of some of our best friends, who wished to be per-Acted occasionally to advertise in a Newspaper that circulated, tokiii : t, both Sun lay aad Monday, nut less thin &AA) copies, WC have so far acconinicek.ted this cle:ctiption of our pisons ; but equally anxious not to sacrifice the gratification of our reaciilig patrons, we have, at the same tiara, and since the com mencement of this year, enlarged the columns of Tile NATIONAL R eGisTma to such an extent as considerably more than compensates fur the space occupied by its advertising customers. ANIICUS 1):4 fall to be convinced, upon a closer inspection of our paper, that it contains more than any other paper, nearly six columns, extant; and that, therefore, the Proprletors stand perfectly exonerated from the complaint he has thus urged. The Policy and Consequences of the present War, shall be continued in our next. TliE NATIONAL REGIS /'ER. SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1812. WINDSOR, J. 25. By a letter from Windsor, we have the satisfaction to he enabled to state that His MAJESTY is again become composed, in consequence of which, Her MAJESTY is expected in the ensuing week, to resume her friendly al ties. The Council under the Regency Act, consisting of the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the Duke of MONTRoSE, Earls WINCIIELSEA and AYLESFORD, examined the physi cians in attendance; the result had not transpired when our account left Windsor. DEFEAT OF THE TURKS, WITH THE LOSS OF TWENTY THOUSAND MEN. Two Anholt mails arrived last night, bringing intelli ence from the north of Europe, to the 18th instant. The reports which generally prevailed, on the authority of private letters, of peace having been concluded between Russia and the Porte, appear to have been unfounded, as another desperate engagAnent is said to have taken place on the Danube, which terminated in the defeat of the Turks, 20,000 of whom laid down their arms to the vic torious Russians. The particulars of this affair have not yet reached us, but it is mentioned in terms so unequivocal in the foreign papers, that we are inclined to give it credit. The King of Sweden, is stated to have again taken upon himself the reins of government. GALLANT ACTION. JA N. 26. The Gazette of last night contains an account of as g.a. lant and glorious an achievement, on the coast of Naples, as any which we have ever had to record.—lt appears 'hat in the early part of November his Majesty's ships Impe. rinse and Thames, having a detachMent cf . the 62d rt gi. ment, consisting. of 25Q men, under the command of Mayor DAHLEY, on board, made a spirited and successful attack upon an enemy's convoy in a small port near Naples. Th e convoy consisted of thirty Vessels, moored under the pro. tection of a battery of ten guns, which was defended by a brdy of WOO men. Regardless of the disparity of num. bers, the British troops, reinforced by about fifty seamen and marines, landed under the fire of the enemy, stormed the battery, drove the enemy before them, spiked ;di thl guns, destroyed the stores and ammunition, and bronunt off the whole of the convoy. Thus in every quartet /,1 :he globe we find our brave fellows displaying the same cihnntless intrepidity, and overthrowing. ever y. opposition to their conquering career. PENINSULA. Dispatches from the Peninsula, completely favourable nougit comparatively unimportant, will Le found under the head of last night's Gazette. We are, at the same time, happy to learn, through letters which reached us late List night, that, owing to the convalescence of the allied at my; Lord Wellington can now reckon upon at least forty•tlu British soldiers, who are able to meet the enemy in the field of battle. NOTTINGHANT•RIOTTNGS. Our corresF);l,ience t; orn NottirgLtto, received yester day, is, we much re;!rt.t to sav, of the most uppleasing snrt. Deptedatir , ns are c arvied to such a length, arias fry m impunity, that it is iv.ired they will speed:ly call fur the active interfetence . of the military ! -*, •,'y_fi, NIMPAtAIf TOTAL SURRENDER OF THE ISLAND OF JAVA. The intelligence brought by his Majesty's frigate Plxele, which arrived at Portsmouth on Sunday last from Bata. via, puts the cap to the climax of British colonial conquest in the Eastern Seas. The unconditional surrender of Cent'. ral JANSEN, and the few followers who accompanied him in his flight after their disastrous and dreadful defeat at Fort Cornelis, has secured to the British .arms the midis.. puted possession of the Island of Java, and completed the extinction of every spark of French power or influence in the Indian Seas. Whatever may be the intt insic value of that settlement to this country, the relative importance it derives from the expulsion of the French from any footing in a quarter so convenient for the annoyance of the Bri. tish trade and possessions in the East, wade it an object the highest moment to acquire, and renders it a position of the greatest consequence to retain. The Phcebe, which brought the dispatches from General Sir SAMUEL A un- MUTY, dated the 21st of September, touched at the Isle of France, the Cape, and St. Helena ; from which latter island she sailed on the 30th.of November. The passage from Batavia to Portsmouth was remarkably quick, having been pe: formed in less than four months. The dispatches .were published in an Extraordinary Gazette, and will be found in our preceding columns. LISBON MAIL. A Mail artived op Thursday from Lisbon, bringing- Letters and Papers to the 6th instant. By these we learn the advance of General HILL with his corps into Spain.— On the 25th tilt, (Christmas-day) he bloke up from Port a legre, and proceeded in the direction of Albuquerque, Los Navas, &c. towards Merida. His advance came up with a party of the e; , emy on the 29th, near .Los Navas, and in an affair with them, killed 25, took 15, and wound ed 20, with a loss of only two killed, and one Officer and 20 w(,unded. The enemy abandoned Met ida on the ap proach cf the British General, and that city was conse quently taken possession of by the force under General HILL, and large magazines found in the place. In this movement, so prompt, active, and unexpected —conducted, by so enterprising a General, towards the scene of his recent achievement—it is easy to discover plook of a determination to chant;ethe character of the campaign, by compelling the enemy to provide for his safety by fi,ghting for his positions; or'to withdraw from a contest to which he is unequal. The advance of General y 'SY'. I' 771 Eg