The National Register. — London, England, 1809-04-09 00:00:00

TH4 NATIONAL REGISTER. 1..Y3 TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS AND THE PUBLIC. The Proprietors have beep informed, that some gross im positions have been practised on the Readers of Tilt; N lIONA L REGMER ;—such as exhorbitant and improper charges having peep demanded for the Portraits and Monument which have been issued with the Paper to all the Newsmen and to the Public; and that some Per:olls extended their Imposition so far as to litter the Price of the Paper 4 all which abuses the Pro prietors had not the least knowledge of until the intimation w as given through a Subscriber. As it is the intention of the Propri ietors to distribute GR &T IS all the Portraits of the Ircle Beaparhes of the Royal Family, &e. they would be glad to be advised of the liairtes of the Perstins who have practised such Impositions, so that proper measures may be adopted to prevent a recurrence of such misconduct. A Portrait of his Royal !Ugliness the DUKE. OF KENT, engraved by Scary Eti, from a Picture in the possei:•ion of the Princeis Amelia, will he delivered art.4rts on Sunday, April 23. The Portrait of the DUKE OF GLARE - 4 CI; will be given in the course of the ensuing Month. To secure early and Fine 'lmpressions of the Plates, imine iate Orders should be sent to the Office, No. 11, Catherine street, Strand, or given to the Newsmen, the Clerks of the Roads. and Booksellers, throughout the United Kingdocu. It will be seen hy the Paper of thi; day, that a rowsicizrable improvement Ivpheen made by the insertion of I, loyd's List and the Loutlop 114rkets, which will he, for the future, regularly iwerted. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Lotlban, SUNDAY, APRIL ft, 180 a. frOLMCd;. EVENTS OF THE WEEK. it is confidentll• stated that the French army in Gallicia* ommanded by Sonit, is retreating from that province. It is supposed, that 'their whole force, in the North of Spain, will take a defensive position in C4s.tille • and that no offensive operations will be undertaken, unti l event of the Austrian war be decided. This statement completely refutes the account, contained in the French Papers, of a s;glial defeat sustained by the Marquis de Humana, with the loss of 5000 men left dead on the field. Letters from the head-quarters of the Marquis prove that his army was 120 miles from op scene w here the action is said to have taken place. iloN,-MArtc“ 24.—" Don Pedro Zulaiber has this moment received a letter from his brother, the ()thee' . in Oviedo, inform him that last night arrived there a captain of 14 Rom:ma's :rrnv, a division of which would halt last night in Congas de V. 0.4, another of 18,6 C( men at Villafranea del Ilierro, and the Tost of said army was left at Lugo, or near it, where it had in tcreepted the whole plunder of Gallicia, which the enemy was Tetiring with. 'The Tetreat of the ! French from that province pin* credit."• • Every communication, lately received from Spain, whe ther of a private, 'or a public, nature •has a tendency to rekindle the hopes which the first exertions of that gallant peopie so generally diffused . They ner? 4tinned by their 1 pf. reverses, which were al severe as .unexpected ; and the treachery of Sfylflr of their leader 4,, together with the meapanity and cowardice of others, . snapped the great c h pin of union, which could alone give thent arty eertr4intv reOitlg ,tne accumulating forctt•of ttie,: 4 nvatiPrs. .! Vie prldiotad, sitoorne rnonthv ago, when every week terrified S6itlC fres4 at,:ouht of the dis:Wery 6,1 Instairked, 7 ; APRILS. that though their armies might be dispersed, their provin ces overrun, and their cities razed to the „e-round, their will would remain inyincible, and their hatred of the inva ders unsubdued. We have not been mistaken—for a people, who are unanimous in their resistance and hatred to an enemy, imbibe, in proportion to their reverses, new sentiments of abhorrence ; and to be subdued, they must be, in a great * measure, exterminated. What appeared, at first sight a calamity, afforded. the only prospect of success ;—deprived of the presence and councils of their rulers they were forced to have recourse to them- , selves; so that every member in the community wa bronght to co-operate in a cause, which then became truly national. Thus a community less addicted to war, aud with more circumscribed resources than any other g r eat state on the continent, had opposed an effectual resisl lance, hail, in fact, baffled the. intrigues and the utmost exertions of a man, who, with the effect and rapidity of the whirlwind, dissipated the armies and subdued the pro-' vinces of Austria and Prussia,--two great military states, supported by the resources of the Russian empire. These countries fell an easy prey, because the inhabitants looked' up to the wisdom and energy of their toverninents, to or.; divary expedients in a case of extraordinary emergency —when these were found ineffectual, they had no other resource in reserve ;. and they submitted, to *ilent' despon dency, to a calamity, which their vaunted establishments, formerly their pride and security, bad not been able to avert. The Spaniards, whose military force was completely in competent for their defence, a considerable part of which, through the imbecility of their former government , h a d • been detached to promote the views of the enemy, were forced to adopt other expedients to repel the invasion. This resolution and this necessity have enabled them to resist the utmost pressure of the enemy's strength. Their preparations have` not - abated, their confidence in the Ohl. ? mate success of their exertions has increased, instead of having diminished ; and, from one extremity of the Penin-: sula to the other, the natives are making the most virroutt preparations to secure this desirable object: .• . • We have sum a letter from Alicaut, though not of a very recent dale (the 15th of Feb.) which increases its interest; it gives the most satisfactory account ..of the vigorous preparations made by that city, in' common•with every city and town in the south. EVecy man, capable' of bearing arms, was constantly exercising himself in the use of them. The citizens had already formed a well-org anised corps of 3000 men, which, were it •not for a defi ciency of arms, would have been much more numerous. They look anx iously for a supply , from this country ; • and 'as plaint has been frequently repeated, as it has been - heard for these three months past, it is most unaccountable that preparations had not been sooner Made Ily•our Goverliment to Comply with so ~ : msonable a demand. • The accounts from Valencia contain intelligence equally satisfactory of the preparations made in that city. The spirit of the citizens is as unabated as when they forced Moneey to fly precipitately from their walls. They seem determined to imitate the glorious example given by the Saragossans. When we look to the North, we find the same motives of hope and encouragement. The Asturians have already quitted their mountains, and have had .some successful rect. ! counters with the enemy. The Gallicians are imitating; the general example, and have cut to pieces several small detachments of their invaders. Among the latter a most malignant fever is said to make dreadful ravages ; and so very far from being able to execute their threatened inva sion of Portugal, they are almost unequal to the task of keeping' possession of Gallieia. On the frontiers of this prob ince, It on,v4 is stationed with a considerable force ready to take aclvan' of •f - 'able occurrence which may otter. Th, in that direction, %chi, Itage of any favourable o,ccurrence le Portuguese have also a large Corps, ich is daily increasing in strength and • V