The National Register. — London, England, 1812-05-03 00:00:00

MAY g• A vessel arrived at Falmouth in eighteen days from Cadiz, which she left en the 10th ult. She has brought the confirmation of the capture of Seville by General BALLASTEROS. Some accounts have been received from Corunna to the 12th ult. ; t'll*y are not of much importance.—Espoz Y MINA, he Guerilla _leader, has again defeated the French under CAFFARELLI, who had 200 killed and 700 wounded or made prisoners. General PORLIER has had an action with General DUBETON, near Torrelavega. The latter lost 120 killed and wounded. Farther accounts received on Thursday from Port Mahon. to the latter end of March, mention that a squa droll of observation had sailed from thence a few days previous, occasioned, it is said, by the expectation of the Toulon fleet putting to sea. The fleet, it is added, was ascertained to consist of 13 sail of the line, including four three-deckers any( several frigates, well manned. The British blockadiq fleet was not inferior in force. Farther intelligence from the Mediterranean fleet is expected by the Warspite. As soon as the official notice of the capture of Iladajoz reached town ; Te Deum was sung in the Royal Portu guese Chapel, in South Audley-street,and the Portuguese Ambassado'r's residence was illuminated. Lient.-Colonel CHARLES' MAcLEon, who so gallantly fell at the head of the 43d regiment, in the late storming of . Badajoz, was a native of Kent. He was the eldest son of 'Major-General MACLEOD, • Pt...rim - ant-General of the Royal Artillery, and had .not attained the 28th year of his age. • By an American . gentleman who was conveyed from France to the Isle of Wight by the Hornet, we are in formed that Capt. HENRY took his passage in the Galen from the United States, and has reached Paris. We be lieve he obtained his. card of residence from the Police Department on the day the gentleman .we allude to left the French capital. • • It is stated, on the authority of letters from France, that the mission of the American . Minister,JOEL.BAttLow, to the FrenCh GovernMent, \vas not likely to prove suc cessful. It was YesterdaY .reported in the city that he had demanded-his passports, and was preparing to leave Paris. • There has been. a foolish report of some persons having been sent to the 'lower. It originated .in the following circumstance :-L-Four *French prisoners who had made their escape, were taken in Hampshire, carried from thence to Alton, and from that place conducted to the Police Office at Westminster, whence they ,were sent down to the Thames Police Office. It is'understood, that two farmers are ;triplicated in their escape, after whom inquiries are. making. It is said, that one of the prisoners is a French General. Letters from Minorca, dated the 13th of March, state, that the war in Catalonia is carried on between the French and Spaniards in the most sanguinary style, no quarter being given on either side, and the Spaniards are so active as to cause great destruction among the French parties they.meet with, constantly, if the enemy are too strong, retiring to the mountains which are rendered impreg nable. It is said, on the authority of letters from St. Peters burgh, that all the British Naval Officers who havepeen residing, during the war with England, in the interior of Russia, have been invited to St. Petersburgh, and ,many of them have been engaged in superintending the fitting out of the Russian ships of war. AT. RterlSTrit. THE NATM7 - --I e 77 Friday a General Court was held at the East India House, and from the discussion which took place, it ap pears that Ministers intend to propoie to Parliament, that the existing restraint respecting the Commercial Inter course with China should continue, and that the exclusive trade on Tea should he preserved to the Company for the intended term of their Charter; but that the Import Trade from the East Indies should not be confined to the'port of London. The Hornet is arrived at Cowes from Cherbourg, with dispatches for the American Minister, and a Gentleman, who came over in her states, that BUONAPARTE had left Paris fbr the North, and that all the ports in the Baltic were to be garrisoned by French troops. The Hornet sailed from Cowes for New York immediately after land• ing the dispatches. Letters of the 16th inst. from Carlscrena state, that Sweden and France were so far at war with each other, that captures were made by the vessels of both nations whenever an opportunity offered. The Swedish frigate Chapman, Captain Kr.vvr, had captured three French privateers, between the 9th and 16th instant, and carried them into Carlsuona. On Sunday evening Serjeant REYNOLD, of thertth Regiment of Foot, preached at the new Methodist Cha pel at Skipton, in full military uniform, to the largest.coa gregation ever remembered in that town. MISC.EL LA N 'Tuesday, the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, held* their Annivvrsary Dinner, when their Noble President, the Duke of Norfolk, took the Chai:., and Nv a I supported on the right band by his Royal Uighur:Ss the Duke of Sussex, and on the left by the Earl of Mountnorris. We were happy to see many other noble and distin guished persons present, amongst whom we noticed the E . arl of Rom ney, the Earl of Radnor, Lord Dundas, Sir .Robert Pell, Sir Watkia Lewes, &c. The funded debt of the United Kingdom on the Ist of January, 1612, was upwards of 817 - millions; unfunded debt, 52 millions ; Exchequer Bill outtanding. 43 millions.—Produce of permanent taxes last year , 35 millions; war taxes, '22 millions: whole amount of money raised within the year, B.i millons.—Value of stamped dollars issued by the Bank from Feb. 1811, to April, 1812, .£1,447,469. 4s. 6d. Drury-lamtTheatre is nearly roofed, and the workmen are making a rapi, progreAs in the interior. It will be one 'of the most convenient Theatres in Europe, and is ad::irably calculated for the accommodation of the public. _ . Anoiheir banking-house forgery, to the amount.of £3OOO, has been discovered. Oats have fallen in Ireland from 365. to 28s. per barrel, in conse- querfce of the Bill now before Parliament for stopping the distilleries. Last week, a writ of inquiry was executed at the Pownsball, Plymonth, by the special appointment of the Under Sheriff of Devon, for ascertain ing the damages in an action brought by Mrs. Bentley, wife of Corporal Bentley, of the Royal Marines, against Lientenahr Gibbons, late the Commander of the Alphea schooner. The plaintik was ordered to be fastened to a buoy, where she was left for some time in a most dange rous situation. The Jury gave her a verdict of .CSCO. Sir • 74 , - ;car y, Gibbs is to succeed Sir Allan Chambre, (with a prlmise of the fi rst vacant Chiefship,) as a Puisne Judge of_ the Court of Com mon Pleas ; Sir Thomas Plumer to become Attorney-General, and Mr. Garrow Solicitor General to his Majesty. Ministers seem at length determined to adopt the most vigorous and efficacious measures for the suppre,sion of riot and devastation in the manufacturing districts., For this purpose the military are in motion, and proceeding iti all dfrectlons to the inland and northern counties..'-. Detachments of cavalry and infantry, with field-pieces, passed throtigih the metropolis, and different villages, on Thursday morning and • took the road toßarnet. • Sir J. A. Craig, late Governor in Chief of British North America, and who is said to have had the correspondence with Captain • Henry, died on the 12th of January last, in London. The Bankrupt Bill, brought into the House of Commons as amended, declares the seats of Members, who shall become Bar!krupts 2 vacatit, whose coMmistion of bankruptcy shall not be superseded, .and who do not pay the whole of their debts under the Commission, or sati-f) their creditors to the full amount, within twelve months after the Commis sion is issued.