The National Register. — London, England, 1808-11-27 00:00:00

IN° • Vi • ___-_. PRIVATE LETTEItS. 4‘COROMNAi N0v.16.,i-lt may not be wholly unintaest lug to you t o be informed. that - Sir David Baird moves the head-quarters to-day to Betatizos, - about so-fifteen miles from this, and it is understood, proceeds with little delay to Benevento. The advanced corps of the i43d - and 95th are at Astorga ; the test of the infantry are in full march, by two routs; the last of them consisting of the . 69ilf and detachments landed on the tech instant. The ships with the 7th and 10th Light Dra,, ,, ooni Ir rived on the eth ; those with th e !Rh Light - Dragoons . c ame in the day after. Th tiro first arc mottlyslanded, and reafly to march $ the latter is to disembark to = morrow. All the hors •-ships return without delay to England, it is said for more cavalry% Ettretne heavy mini ever since our arr ival, on the 13th (Maher; have greatly retarded the 'tnovenients of the troops. Now the weather is tine; and frequent showers fall during the night: It is by no means colds at the time of writing this , my thermometer %Lauds at sixty." Coavara, Nov. 15.—The Whole of our hifantry base marched from this place, except a detachment of the 00th d to guard the depots, &c. Sir D; Baird, with the advance corps, is at Astorga. Sir John Moore, with his advanced `corps, is %t Salamanca ; the rest of their divisions arc caw- toned in the towns in the rear. " Lard Paget, with the lth Light Dragoons; marched 'forward yesterday . The 10th move today; and the 15th on Monday the 2 1st. " On the 24th there will riot he any troops in Co itunna, except the above detachment ; no farther advance of troops will take place in less than three ivceks or a month. fare OF +Rh itrantrlntS fnvF. *tTd SIR JOILN MOORt FROM LISBON. 4. 1 M awl iStli tight Dt'agoous. Ist Battalions of the '2d, 4th, sth, Gth, 9th,"!(llll,Vqh, 36th, 3Sth, 42d, 52d,1 Ist,l9th, 91st, 92d, aand 05th (foie Companies), of Foot: 2d Battalions of the 43d, 52d, and 95th (four Companies' Of Foot: Ist and 2d Light Battalions King's German Legion. staff Corps (two Cumpanics.) LIST OP THOSE IN LISUON. Ist Battalioh Of the 29th Foot: 2d Battalion of the 9th and 31st Foot: Battalion of the 21th Foot. •istt attalion of the Line of the King's fletmanlLOgitln; at Alcantara ;?a Ditto, at St. intim: and 'Le h Ditto, at Belem ; and 69th Foot (sth Company). at Cateaes: LIST OF THOSE IN VOItTO. Jst Battalions of 45th, 82t1, and 91th Foot. AT ELVIS-a-40th Regitnent of Foot: COURT OF INQUIRY. FOURTH DAY; f►IONDAY, SOVEMBER 21. The Court assembled at ten o'clock preAsely, and continued In private deliberation as before, for nearly ah hour. As virtu irt the petWe without doors were admitttd, Sir Hew came forward rind expressed his tegtet, that he Should have adverted in the circumstance of the difference that appeared between a part of his original dispatch and the words of the Gazette. fie had now reason to believe; that the clisA patch had been correctly copied into the Gazette. lie certainly nevtr had the intention to convey any other mtaning than that which he had before stated, and Which appeared in the dupli tate—namely, that the Armistice negociated between himself, Sir H. Burrard, Sir A. Wellesley, and General Kellerniaa, had been signed by Sir Arthur. The Juilge Advocafte observed, that Its the hterenec bettteen the document before the Court, anti the.. Gazette was very itn nttant, he bad applied to the office of the Secretary fat the 'War Department, and found that the original was comedy trill* in the GaSeim Tile duplicate Mug sane Om after, -- fr- 1I 1 .I„,a 1 a.O. •1,111.• . • : • 4 : 141 Ig an1M1111.111.1111 " 1 " ... . and theft it was stated, that the articles agreed upon weettsignetl by Sir Arthur Wellesley. The Judge Advocate asked the E r n whe'thet they *Dula wish to have the narrative of Sir Arthur Wellesley read again.. • The Court having expresse d filch desire that it Should, i t was read accordingly . The Judge Advocate next rend ti dumber Of quittibtis on the subject of the narrative, which had been sent in writing to - er A. Wellesley. by the President , S ir D. Minilas; and which had been returned by Sir A. ikith his antwets a!!ixed to them. To ñ question, What were his orders, and w '..he objects of hiA ex.:* pedition—lie autereredi the prisiclpat ohjeCt this id,ittiaSk th enemy in their poiltionS on the tagus ; hut h 0 thid, discre4 tidnary potter to apply his force to o ther oßjects, in ease he should consider them to he most Material for the public service. Lord Moira then observed, that he hoped that Vritatey4r tines: tiotts tab Court might feel it their duty to pdt; they would he re ceived in that spirit in which . tlaiy trere dictated•;—that of mi.; feigned respect ftir every (Meet connected With tfi6 service id question: 0. Had Sir Arthur. Wellesley any chnirntinictititiri at St. Anderb, hr any part of Biscay, as to any advantage which the cottorton cause Night have derived froM his landing in Spaift At When at etiruntia I received a letter from Sir Thomas Dyer. in which he informed in.., that he had held out a prospect to this; Junta that the troops under my Cettimand ndniti be landed t" Aiturias; and he also mentioned that thit cotinnunicetinn ha been reteived by the 3 tuna Kith f•aliAfiietion--and he intim urged me to disembark at St. AA:tern,. that we might attack th French corps which at that time tract in possessiou of that citye I h..d no comittunicati:i whatever *lilt any constituted autho rity of Biscay, which I,•,*vltne was not, as 1 understood, a{ that time, in insitrrectlon egainst the I reach; Q. Whether the inference is accurate, that yOU thotight your own army sufficiently strong to drilre the 1~ real) from I,ishon and the forts of the Tapp, wit'en you jail - Ai-Al it advisable that Sir Harry Bucrard thould proceed to cut retreat Of the enemy i—A. I did. Q. You hate staled that you could have supplied the ortn guese troops with provisions; 11.1.3 it. not been for the tiefectiv arrangement of the Commissariat ! did you think that the coilip: try (-told have atforthel sudicieut provisions; proviclel due means had. been csed to tender the resources available I—A. The country atiortleil tot provisioos, except beef and wine; and 1 believe from the time when • I landed ill Pottegal, to the time when . 1 left the army, on tic '4oth of i‘eptc.ir.:•cr; the troops only received biscuit from toe Oar: I,•ird ..‘tioirtt:-.--to what extent could Tl'int and beef have been forel•hed by the country ?—A. Wit, and beef might hare been f: , ruisited alnunt at every villas. , occupied by thit tinny, sei elln for one or two days cooLiamplioti. Q, Was the J unta of Gal i;ola s cr,e to the landing of the British forces in Spain ; —A. Tre ce:o was not ile,-irous of having the en-operation of the z.iany with ti.eir min troops, under Central Blake. i also understood that the .lunitt of S r desire ille and the persons in :authority iti A:A:bill:1 had no very gre: that Ceneral Spencer's corps shot Oil co-hocrate with Castanos , a lthdugh they were desiroes that (icacral "Speticer's corps should land at Port St. Mary's; and eventeally cover titheral Castanos'i retreat, incioe he should have been defeated by Dupont. Q. Did you receive cutnivunic,ttioiii of w from the epanish Generals, and from perseni in authority it. ether part , t of Spain ?-;-A. None. Q. Was the e.ltpulsitin of . the offbeatfrom Vortegal essential to the interests of Spain ?—A. I considered the eSpulsiiiv of the Ftenth from rOrtil4ll,l as of the greatest consequence to the Spanish nation ? mid if the dispoS4leforCe of bleat Btithin iii Portttgal had been removed, the rreoth °eyeful might hav6 moved a large proportion, of his army into Spatn. Here the examinatinit of Arthur closed. . . . C a ptain Malcolm, of hit', Majeity't ship Llonnegat, teas thcd called: Q., State in general it there weic tins iliitculties in landiatt the tros, h:•rtrs, aelte...:nition, R.C. and in what those ties co n,imedl—A. Daring the time I was on the twist, there were only four or five days on which a landing Could be reade without great difficulty. in coninion boats, but bn our coining to 3loodego, we got a lirge supply of titiata of the country; which facilitated the landing very much: !ir Dalrymple then proceeded toiread the,.api cline of giveh to tht Court as the narra tive of his pititkedn from the io hie being appointed to the chief commutid ethe British army Id Portugal. 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