The National Register. — London, England, 1811-07-21 00:00:00

THE THE ARMY. Marshal Beresford has arrived at Lisbon, on his way to Eng land. s I he reinforcements destined for Portugal are to be sew off vith the utmost expedition. A numberof transports are • rrived zt Plymotrh, under convoy of the Diadem, of 64 guns, to take out the cavalry waiting at trot place for embarkation. The first to embark are the 4th, or Royal Irish Drago it Guards, of which a considerable part has been for some time at Plymouth, a.id C•e ren - -a!nder marched in on Wednesday. This fine regiment is tipvk ards of 80 I strong. The b'th and 7th are expected daily. Eight troops of the €23 d Light Dragoons, under the command of Lit utenant-Colonel the Earl of Portariington, are to embark forthv, ith for Portugal. The Royal Horse Guards (Blue) arc in daily expectation of receiving orders for Portugal. On '1 hursday last, the second battalion of the 3d regiment, or Old Buffs, and also the second battalion of the 7th, or Royal Fusileers, marched into Plymouth, for embarkatiois for Portu gal. Both battalions are composed of fine young lads, and will prove a great acqnisitioo to the Combined Army. The two regiments of Life Guards are to be augmented four troops each, and expect immediately tope employed on service, as cuir.e.siers. General Campbell's fine regiment, the 91st, are to embark immediately for Portugal. The 2.3 d Light Dragoons, which distinguished itself at Talavera, are again fit fur -ervice, and expected to go out with the first reinforcements. The .5-:th re giment is coming home from Jamaica a complete skeleton, hav ing suffered so much from the clirrute. Barracks on a most extensive scale are to be built in Mary -le-bore Part., for the 2d Life Guards. and ground sufficient fur the two regiments to exercise in is to be enclosed. MISCELLANIES. CORONATION !---In the lease of a house in Parliament-square; lately leased, we find the landlord has stipulated that, in the event of a coronation, his tenant shall cede to him the temporary occupancy of the v% hole front of the house ; as an indemnifica.. tion for which, pending the ceremon_y, the said landlord engages to give said tenant the sum of 301.! During the ceremony of the . coronation of their present Majesties, the front of one of the old houses in the Broad Sanctuary, and recently demolished, pro- duced IX01.!! AQUA 11C EXCURSION EXTRAORDINARY.—Saturday after noon, about five o'clock, a labouring man, employed on the works at Millbank, undertook, for a tiifling wager, to go on a ladder from the llorseferry-stairs, Westminster, to Vauxhall stairs, on the opposite shore. The ladder, which was about 16 feet long, was towed at the stern of a boat, which went with the tide, and he completed his task in niinutes, th ugh not without much difficulty, as, from his weight, the ladder went several times under water. A well has been dug at Purleigh, near Maldon, in Esex.— It was begun on the 9th of March, and water was found on Thursday se'nniAit. '1 he depth of the well is 234 feet, being 132 feet deeper than the Monument is high. The water ruse 252 feet in the space of 14 hours. A dreadful fire took place at Konigsberg, on the 14th ult.; between three and four hundred houses, and an immense quan. t:ty of merchandize we tie destroyed. A boxing-match took place on Tuesday, on Moulsey Hurst, for fifcy guineas, and a subscription purse, between Powers, a first-rate pugilist, and a man named KEIg, an alleged novice, but one who proved in the sequel to be nearly a match for antagonist. At twelve o'clock the combatants appeared, v ith their se. onds ' P. Jones and J. Clarke for Pnw rs, and Richmond and R. Hall fur King. Betting nine to four on Powers. Our limits will not permit us to enter into a description of 'the rounds; suffice it to observe, that as much sanguinary resolution was displayed as was ever known on a similar occasion. Powers found King a courageous man., and a good right-hunded hitter, in the early part of the combat, and was compelled, with all his science, to change his system as early as the sixth round ; for this supposed novice . hit straight and well with his right hand,rand hli is superior strength ndered the change in Power s's system necessary. The great object of Powers wai to hit and get away during the latter part of thst battle, for he was opposed to a man who did not appear to feel the effects of punishment. — Betting became about six to four in the 26th round, for although the left side of the head of King was a punishment in itself for a spectator to view, yet Powers had his allowance, about the neck and body particularly. After 46 rounds had been fought in 57 minutes, King had no chance of winning, and the Gen tleman who hacked him induced him to resin, when he was yet anxious for a contin4nce of the combat, in opposition to his atrvngth and feeling. TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE. DOWNING-STkEET, JULY 16. 45 1 7 A dispatch, of which the following is an extract, was on Sunday received at Lord Livcrpo4s Office, addressed to his Lordship by Lieutenant• General Viscount Wellington, dated Ouinta de St. Joao, 20th June, 1811. The enemy moved forward his advanced guard consisting of about ten thousand men, to Los &ntos, on the morning of f the lab. Upon this occasion Lk atenant Streenuwitz, of the 21st Light Dragoons, was sent out by Majar-General Sir William Erskine to reconnoitre the enemy, with a small detachment of the od Hussars, and ad Dragoon Guards, which distinguished them st lves in an attack upon a superior number of the enemy, and took some prisoners. I had arranged that the c,ivalry and 2d and 4th divisions of the allied British and Portuguese army, and the corps of Spanisla troops under General Blake, should collect if the enemy should advance to interrupt the sieve or blockade of Badajoz ; and I went to Albuera ou that night to superintend the movements of the troops. I also moved, on the night of the 13th, Gen. Hamilton's div:- sion from the blockade of Badajoz, with an intention to stop the enemy in case the army of the South alone should havamoved forward. On the 14th, in the night, Lieut. Aylin t of the 40th regiment, who had been employed to ob::erve the movements of the enemy, arrived at Albuera with the account, that the advanced guard of the enemy's army of Portugal from Catile had entered at noon the 13th, which confirmed the other accounts, which I had received of their progress up to the 12th, and as from "I'rux illo they might have been at Merida on the 15th, and in commu nication with the army of the South, 1 determined to raise the blockade of Badajoz, and that all the allied troops should cross " the Guadiana on the 17th. This was accordingly effected with out difficulty or loss of any description; and Gen. Blake had like wise crossed with his corps at ittramenha on the 17th. Since that period, the allied British and Portuguese army have been encamped in the woods upon the Caya about Torre de Mourn, having their right upon the Polite de Caya; the 3d and 7th divisions and Brig.-Gen. Madden's cavalry being in Campo May Jr. And the troops which had been under the command of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Brent Spencer on the frontiers of have crossed the Tagus at Villa Velha in _proportion a; the enemy have cro-sed that river at Alrgarez. The whole are now upon the Caya, between this place and Arronches. The eneroy'i advance have appeared in the neighbourhood of Badajoz this day, and I conceive that their who,e army will be colt er,d to-murow. 'I he enemy have collected upon this occasion all their force from Castile, their whole force from Madrid, arid what is called their Centre Army, and ail their force from Andausia, except ing what is absolutely necessary to maintain their position before Cadiz, a'id that held by Sebastian' in the Eastern Kingdoms of Andalusia. The enemy have abandoned Old and New Castile, with the exception of a small garrison in Madrid, and have risked every thing in all parts of Spain, in o: der to collect this large army in Estramadura. ATIONAL REI ASTER. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, JUNE 16. A Copy of a Letter from Rear-Admiral Sawyer, Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Ships and Vessels on the Coast of North America, to John Wilson Croker, Esq. dated on b' and the. Africa, at Bermuda, the lick June, encloses the following. His Maysty's chip Lille Belt, May 21, lat 56.63. N. long. 71.49. W. Cape Charles bearing W. 48 miles. SIR-. 4 beg leave to acquaint you, that' in pursuance of yone orders to join his Majesty's ship Guerriere, and being on my re turn from the north.vard, not having fallen in with her, that at about eleven A. M. :',Pay 16th, saw a strange sail, to which I immediately gave chace; at one P. M. discovered her to be 4, man of war, apparently a frigate, standing to the eastward, who, when he made us out, edged away from us, and set his royals; made the signal 275, and finding it not answered, conc:ude.d she was an American frigate, as he had a Commodore's blue pendant flying at the main ; hoisted the colours, ant made all sail se,nth, the course I intended, steering round Cape Hatteras, the stranger edging away, but not making any more sail. At half past three he made sail in chace, when I made the private signal, which was not Lnswered. At half past six, finding he gained so considerably on us as not to be able to elude him during the niut, being; within gun shut, and clearly discerning the stars in his broad pendant, I imagined the more prudent method was to bring to, and hoist the colours, that no mistake might arise ;—and that he might see