The National Register. — London, England, 1811-04-14 00:00:00

i - Tiffi N A' that his Majesty is not yet restored to such a state of health as to be capable of resuming the personal exercise of his Royal Au thority : That his Majesty appears-'to have made material pro gress towards recovery, since the passing of the Act ; and that sll his Majesty's physicians continue to express their expecta tions of such recovery. (Signed) C. CANTAUR, ELDON, • E. EBER, ELLENBOROUGH, WINCHELSEA, W. GRANT, AY LESFORD, LORD WELLINGTON'S LETTER. On the copy of a letter writtea by Lordellington to Earl Liverpool, dated Oct. 27,1310, being brought up, Mr. CANNING took the opportunity of adverting to the desponding sentiments held by persons in that House, relative to the affairs in the Pen insula, and the abuse with which it had been fashionable to load the Portuguese; he trusted these insinuations would now be silenced for ever. The same unkind and disparaging expres sions which were formerly applied to the Spaniards. It-was unkind, and it could produce no good effect, for Gen leinen to represents the f:paniards as worthless auxiliaries. Notwith standnT what had iately occurred, hi. was firmly of opinion that sureess would filially crown the exertions of our allies through out the whole of the Peninsula. • HUCK OF STOCKS. 3 per Cent.• Reduced 6134 S.Ter Cent. Consols" 6.1 .4 yer Cent. Consob Boiiii 5 per Cent. Navy Annuities.. 0"N1 Bank . Long Annuities l7; 3-113 Indi Bonds t'9i. 80s. pm. 1 1 :,..e!:e.luer BilL, :kl. tis. Bs. pm. c onsols for May 65 . 4; 7 he abcoe are tisc (0 _Funds now c i.v,t. THE NATIONAL ki,,,JIISTLI. LAYMA ?./ " on Good Worits," in our next. 31.01113.)1I, - SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1811. TI-IF. K:NG. Bulletins of his Majesty's health issued since our last publication : WINDSOR CAst LE, APRIL 6.—His Majesty continues to go en favourab'y. APRIL 10.—The King continues to go on favourably. DISPATCHES FROM LORD WELLINGTON. Dispatches were on Friday night received from Lord WKLLINGTON. They are dated from Couvea on the 27th ult. Our :lrmy still continued iii, pur suit, and the enemy in full retreat. No general action had taken place ; but incessant .kirmiches between the advanced guard of the pursuing, arid the rear guard of the retiring army. In these skirmishes the superiority of our horse was inva riably proved, and the enemy have received as con vincing a proof of their inability to withstand a charge of our cavalry, as they have received of their inability to resist a bayonet charge of our infamry. On one of the days of the ret rea t, we believe the 24th, the Light Dragoons were favoured with an opportunity of charging a regiment of Hussars. 46 They dashed at them," says a private letter, '' in the first style, and almost in an instant the French. horse were broken"--inany were cut down, two or three officers and about 40 privates wete taken, and the rest dispersed. Lord Wei,- :LIGTON was to he in Celerico on the 28th. MAs sEsA was „be.ycind the Coa. It was reported that )ie would halt there, but we are more inclined to that he will not stop Lill he enters Spain, nor think himself safe till he has got to the borders of the Agueda. Devastation and slaughter, useless havoc and murder, continued to mark his retreat. The pro. spect before our advanced guard was always that of burning villages, of plundered cottages, of mur.,. dered peasants—the roads were covered with the dying and the dead, with cannon, baggage, and ammunition, which the enemy could not carry off ; with mutilated cattle, with every thing, in short, that could create horror and disgust, that could make the heart feel sentiments of indignatim against the barbarous enemy, and of pity for the suffering and ravaged natives. Not unfrequentJY, how!!ver, the latter were able to revenge upon the invader the cruelties lie had committed, l i i some of the villages the peasants had cut off detachments of the enemy and put them to instant death. In a military point of view, say the accounts from. our Army, MASsENA's retreat is conducted with great ability. His, rear is always compact and solid, and his. movements are not more remarkable for their promptitude than for their sagacity. This praise must not be refused him; but it is our con. solation to know that it is still a retreat. The more talnts the enemy displays in making it, the greater tribute does he , pay to, the skill and science of. the British General, and the courage and discipline of the Brit:sll Army. We have no means of forming any very, accurate opinion of the enemy's loss. The manner in which he has covered 'his line of march, has occasioned his loss in prisoners to be less than it would -otherwise, have been. • SUCCESS OF MARSHAL BERESFORD. A dispatch was also received on Friday night from Mr. STEWART ? our Minister at Lisbon, dated the 30th ult. informing. his Majesty's Ministers ot, Marshal, BERESFORD haying, on the 25th, attacked the enemy with his cavalry, and defeated them with the loss of 600 killed and wounded.—Campo. Maior, which had only four days before fallen into the hands of the enemy, wa.s evacuated, and they were pursued to the very g: - .tes of Badajos. AU their corps atilt were on side of the Guadiana have been obliged to cross it. The last advices from Marshal BEttEsFoaD left him at Elvas. SouLT, who had moved .southward after the surrender of • Badajos, has halted near .Llerena: Meanwhile the Spaniards are not inactive is the Southern parts of Spain. General ZEyAs, who de. lendcd the bridge.of Sand Petri so gallantly, has landed with 600() men from Cadiz, and reinforced . BALLASTEROS, who is near Avamonte. The latter had previously surprised the French General RAMON at Palma, and . taken from him all his baggage, artillery, ammunition, and 500 prisoners. Some partial success has been gained over the enemy at Medina Sidonia ; and we trust we shall soon see them as humbled before Ckliz as they have been • before Lisbon. ATTACK ON I\NHOLT. The attack of four thousand Danes on the Island of Anholt, where they were defeated by three bun ('red and fifty Englishmen, affords another proof,. if pros were wanting, of the supe r ior prowess of . • our countrymen. The possession of a barren islan.l3 4