The National Register. — London, England, 1814-05-01 00:00:00

' YF. 4 .1 7 . 1. Twr, NATTONAL REGISTER. plegness, he came tin - expectedly in the dark On a party of the ene my ; his horse was shot dead and fell upon him, and not lieute able to di , engage himself from under it, he was unfortunately made pri- Fon r. I !egret to say, that from- a letter I have received from him, 1 find he was wounded in two placeA, but in neither of them dan gcrously ; you will ea‘ilv conceive. Sir, that only one feeling, that of the grt atest regret, pervades all the troops at the Lient.-GeneraN tnisfort o The enemy having commenced their attack brtv.-een two and three o'clock lie the ineri.in.r, a con , iderable put of the operations took place befbre daylik , lit, which gave them a great advantage from thcir eitinbers, but whatever end they might propose to themselves by their attack, I am happy to say, it ha% hreo completely frustrated tiny elft - ted no one ohject by it. except setting time to one house i't the centre of the position, M hich, from being within three hun dred yards of their guns, the hail before lei:tiered perfectly untena ble hetbre, Illienerer they chose to cannonade it. From the quail tit of tir e or every deseiiption which the enemy hiought on ns, you And conceive our logs could not he inconsiderable. Alajor. t IL flay, vi .h 0 Wa l / 4 H ell klt(iWO to von hit !I;kie - L.ty's service has lost A most zealous and anle officer, ...di iols served a c0:v.4).1 . 0de Cult. lu tht'. arum with gte.it distinction. The 10.. ot' ;tie enemy must, how. e‘er, have he, ti severe. he left many d, ;itl behiud him, and he was lifiene al .l4 observed borying a good untidier of men. ju reL:ard to prisoucri, we bad no noportiiiiity of making a.any, from the fici;ity the enemy possessed of immediately retiring under the guns of their works. To Major Gin. iinniber anti Stopfird, and Col. Maitland. cow fivlding hi igado, a.: well as to Col. Guise, who frok the command • of the id brit...tide u 1 gictrds atler Major-Gen. Stopford was wounded, hl to GiNrc,4% my best thanks tOr their exertions and promptitode doling the Ntrair, as well a% to Lient.-Col. the Don. A. Upton. A. CI. M. G. and to Lit-la.-Col. Dashwood, A. A. G. of the Divi sion, from hotn of whom I reed% ed every wo.istatiee ; and nlgo twin Capt. 114ttet shy, my A ide-de•Canip, till he was wounded, I niml ;list) express my thacks to Lieut. Co!. M•Donala, the A. A. G. of to legit (amur' for his assistanee, he ha vihg joined me after J,ient, Gen Sir 3 ohn Hope was wounded. indeed, a'l tl . e troops through mil the •aitioledoisiitess behaved with the greatest gallantry. I am, tx:e. (Siglieti) K. A. HOWARD, Com. tat Div. P. S. I omitted to mac - t aint, that Major Gen. Rratlfirrd had moved tip one battalion of toe giall l'ottu ,, ire,e regiment of his brigade, in t;te support of o‘e hrwatle c,f the King's Gems in Legion, when Ala .tt,r Geo drove the et.emy from tit,- village Of St. Etienne, is the early pat tof the tie:ming. Col. Maitland also reports to me, that he rccr ived great a s sio ;o t ee floor Piirgityne, ra* the Royal Engineers, who had been eluiczeti with the etnistructiun uf tJu , htterent points th•fenee un the ii::111 or the pos;tion. Alajor-Gen. the lion. Ch.it les Return of Killed. Wounded, and Missing. in a sortie made by the Gar rison of Ilayi.nne, on the morning of the 141li of April. To.r. r. tiIIiTISII Loss.-1 general staff. 1 major, a car:Ons, 3 lieu tenants, 3 serjeairg, t d , ummers, 1:9 rank and file, kilted; f cents.,! t.l inajor, to elptailig, 16 lieutenant •, en- St 3 ii; 27 sericants, 3 drummers, 3io rank and file, 1 iior•e, wounned ; 1 general stair, 3 captains, 1 lit titenuilt, I ensign, 7 ser leants, (-bummers, 218 rank and file, TnTA t. Pow' unt , n6E Loss.--3 raid: awl tile ; captains, 1 serjeant, rank and file, wounded ; 3 rack and file titissiii•4. Nantes of 114. , Kitled, Wounded, and Missing tlw 14th if April.. Kirt En.—General St..ff, Maj.-Gen. IT•iv ; Pertnan , nt Staff Cterman Legion, C .pt. Bar 'n Dresclicll ; Coldstream Guards, Ist mitt C 'pt.& Lt,-Col. Sir 11. Sailliveiti, Lt. & Capt. lion. %V. Crofton ; ld Line bast. King's G. L. Maj. Cliudeli, Capt. Muller sth ditto, Lteuts. Dleyer and Keyer. War H nEn Staff, Maj. Gen. tie Hon. E. Stnnford, and Lt. St ('apt. Dawl.ins (Brig.-N.1;0.4), s!ivirt.y ; ‘..??-;(1 Light Drao. Capt. Rittcr•hy, Aid-de Camp to Maj.-Gen. lta,ward , severely ; Artillery. K 's G. L. Maj & Lt. Col. Hattnninn, slightly ; Royal Horse Artill e ry, Blaeklev, slightly ; Royal Ent:. Cant. Dickens, severely ; Lt. slightly ; Ist Guards, 3 1 b.att. J.t & Capt, Percival, and V.nie, vertly ; Coldstreams, Ist hats. Capt. & Lt Od. (.;older. Lt. & Cap'. Biirroughs,linsigns Vaehell amid Pitt, sevetely, and Lt. & Capr. Harvey, I.sghtly ; 3d Guards, Ist halt. tats & Capt‘. lVinte, West, & 3niffner, st•v , rely (ali three %ince dead); Lt. & C.ipt. Mahon, and Adjw. 1-101- bourne, severely ; Roy •al Scros, Srl bait. Caw . . .Buckley, slightly ; 38th, Ist halt. Maj. isc Lt. Col. Deane, and Lt. Dighton, slightly ; 4i th, Yet 1. Lts. De Eutgli and Kendall, slightly ; 60th, sth butt. Lt. rintnil_ toa, severely butt. K.') C. L. Capt. klin:emay, nr.d rabe, severely ; Capt. Witiecke, slightly ; Ad ditto, Capt Wineeken. and Lieut. Beline, severely ; 2d Line dim), Li. Beek, and Lieut. Fleish, ; s:h Line do. Capts. liaetnistivr and Kottitigoliglstiv. Bullish OF:mutts 11,35t140. 7 -Generai Staff, Lt.-Gen. Hun. Sir J. Hope, K. 13, and Catti. Herrie, D. A. Q. M.G. severely wounded ; bed, Lieut. Moore, A. D. C to Sir T. Hope, severely wounded; Ist Guards. 3d batr. Capt. & Ti. Col. the Hon. H. Townsend, severely .mitidad ; 3d ditto, :341 bat t. North:um ; 2d Light batt. King's German Legion, Capt. G. Wackelhagen. SATURDAY'S LONDON GAZETTB. PORFIGN-OFFICF, A rnrr. 2T. 1814. rat.] P.athurst, one of his itiajestyN principal Secretaries of State, this day notified, by cotninand of his Royal Iligliceis the Prince Regent, to, the Ministers of Friendly Powers resident at this Court, in the name and .on the behalf of his 'Majesty, that the necetratY tnr;, , ,ures it:Lve been taken, by the command of his Ro3al Highness, fqr the blockade of the ports ut Nerwa, and that froni thi4 time alt the melt...cores authorised by the Law &. Nat.() is will he adopted and executed respect to all vesm:k which way attempt to vio late the said bloci:ac!e. DANKIIUpTs. J. Knnttnn, of Manchester. cotton dexter. R. Braithwaite, of Catherine-court, Towcr-hill, ship aud insurance broker. G. Howlett and W. Hare. of Oxiord.street., saddlers. W. Wilson, Kent-road, bricklayer. • Cat ter, of Moreton, Ci:miee!,tershire, dt•Aler. • Stepttywov, of Boston, Lincolnshire, draper and trylor. J. and J. Roger‘o!), of Sotby, i n erthants. • Jaekson,.of !milder. S 'Wilson, of Totness. Drvonshire, inaitster. C. Hopkins, of Stourbridge, Wifieester•hine, mercer. P. Head, of Kiliff.ton-ispoii-flut. (It airr. W. Wayre, of Kin.tston.unon-Holl, hatter. W. Jacobs, of St. David, Exeter corn-th :der. S. Phitlipi, of Little tlie-q.•••* t, Good,nal s firl s, taylor. W. F;sher of Caidie( redfortichire, ot a l e h. F•abes, of Grrenvicli, Kent, druggist. • Sutterhy, of oi4l Mont.4goe-street, Whiteehapel, carpenter, P. It. Jones, of Binning:ham, n;alms . aetorer. • Ilichhek, of Glastonbury. Soinersetshire, baker- 111 E7PIEBDOM A DARY. MAY. -Flowerim2 May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. MILTON. 1. d Sandal! after raster.—Sr. Phillip, and St James the Less. Phill:n was lwrii i;ethlaida Galilee; preached the Gospel in Up per Asia ; and died at I fierapolis in Plitygia. where he had resided f,r some time.—Janias, culled the Less, was the son of Alpheus ;and in the y!ar 3t, m there:ilmot, he seems to have been apeoilited soperintendant of Cie c!itireit at Jerusalem, presiding there iu council, about 49 or 50 of ~ or era, and surtuntied the Just. lie was the author of the canonical epistle Cott goes nitdar the name ot Si. James. which was written about the year tit. He, nevertheless suffered tuartyidotn, during a tumult at the 1-inple early in the year til. ,ruing Lessons, for this day. are from Rtclesiasticus 7, end Jultat 1 ; Evening. Lessons, from Ecclesiastiens 9 and from Jude. Monday ----Owing to the first of May tilling on the %ebbed', this year, tt c May games, and other sports, do not begin till to-day. May is the fifth month in our year, and its name seems derived from Maid, the mother of Mercury, to %shoot the Romans offr-red sacrifices on the first of the same month ; auvt this may appear to ex, lain the custom of dressing the May• Lady, still prevalent here, begging money for ' 6 the' poor Mac lady," and other rites. Perhaps the bush of Hawthorn, or May, placed at the doors in this season, nuly denote the first fruits of the spring,•as this is one of the earliest trees that blossoms. Mayfair is held on this, and the two following days, at Brook Green. exactly three miles west foal) Hyde-Park Corner.—Somerset -house , also opens this day, for the annual Exhibition of Pal- times. 3. Titesdou, —lnvention of the ittOr Cross. I'm-talon here takes its import limn the Latin word inventus which is to filo); for it is said that St. IleleNa On this day discovered the true Cross of Christ, the groinal, mi mount Calvary. Anntiel meetine of the church missionary society, had at the and AuLliot - Tascrn. deep : Crown 6 • S 3 -.r--~---------~-.. ~=- ~....