The National Register. — London, England, 1811-10-27 00:00:00

THE N to know how they came by it. There being a- that time, how ever, no other men in the house, she was induced by her friend to restrain her curiosity from prudential motives. Soon after, how ever, two neighbours 'came in, and being informed of the cir cumstance, they immediately asked them were they got it ? The man who ,held it replied—" We have just picked it up on the road, hut you are welcome to have it—we don't want it:"— " No (said the querist), I must have a more satisfactory account of t . le transaction," and immediately seized him by the collar, while his neighbour recur d the other fellow. Both instantly betrayed signs of fear, and their spirited assailants proceeded to search them. Horror instantly usurped the place of suspicion, when from the pocket bf one of them was brought forth a pair of ears. with the ear-rings suspended from them. Little doubt now re:flained that some unfertninate calamity had happened to the other young woman ; and while one of their: remained in the house, to prevent 'the escape of their prisoners, the other, accom panied by the young woman.went in search. They had proceeded about half a mile, when, casting a look into a ditch by the road side, the young woman beheld t' :e lifeless body of her friend, with her head completely levered from the trunk ; the blood still slowly issuing, and her carless head lying by her side. Under these cirurnstances, the pris• n iers were removed to the county goal, to abide the issue of a Coroner's Inquest." CAUTION •ro Post...soy s.—Monday se'nuight, John Mat thew:, the post-boy employed to convey the mail from H gbarn Ferrer , to Wellingborough and Northampton, was convicted hef.•re the Rev. William Lockwood Maydell, Clerk, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for that county, of having left the mail on the road, while he went into an adjoin• ing ale-house to drink, and was committed to the . House of Correction in that town, to bt. confined to hard labour for one month, pursuant to the statute of the sth Geo. 111. cap. e 5. TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE. B N K RUPTC lES ENLARGED. John Henry Hughes, of Manchester, cotton-spinner, from Oct. 26, to Nov. 5, at ten, at Guildhall, London. Robert Williams, of Oxford-street, china-man, from Oct. 26, to Nov. 5, at ten, at Guildhall. Nath„niel Bunn, late of Wickham-market, Suffolk, miller, from Oct. 15, to Dec. 3, at eleven, at tke Crown Inn, Wood bridge, Suffolk. Thomas Hopkins, of Cross Hall, Morley, York, merchant, Vol , le, at eleven, at the Black gull Inn, Gomersal. Edward Ellis, of Canterbury, hatter, from Oct. CG, to Nov. 5, at ten, at Guildhall, London. BANKRUPTS. John Ross, of Bedford-street, Covent-garden, silversmith. .1) eph D'Agular,. of Liverpool, merchant. Thomas Hall, of Hart street, Grosvenor-square, coach znaker. George Seller; of Kingston upon-Hull, merchant. William Byre :Royston, of West Leigh, Lancaster, cotton spinner. James Jones, Peter Bromfield Litherland, and William Pen ford Bei ks, of Liverpool, meraanti. James Ball, of Newcastle-under-Lyme,Stafford,grocer. Robert Hunt, of Whirecros-street, victualler. Thomas Winn, of Pririces-street, Hanover-square, jeweller. Edward Harri. , , of the Precinct of St. Catharine, dealer. Erlward Simmons, of Deal,Kent, grocer, dealer. CERTIFICATES--Nov. 12. - . Joseph Welch, of Birmingham, brass-founder.—Samuel Hol land, of Liverpool, Lancaster, merchant.—Richard Reddish, of St. latnes's-stre *,, 1 London, wine-merchant.-13cn • Feniin Stroud, of Poole:" linen-draper.---Jabez Goodwin, of Iciy-Atreet, Cierkenwell, bAker.--Wi:liam Lucas, late of Bis hops-L'astle, Salop, currier.-- Benjamin Bowen, of Harrow, Whitwell, of Bethnall-green, soap-mantt- Lcturer.—John Whitaker, of Salford, cotton-twist-dealesti— ;An Fleming, of Blackburn, L:incastur, cotton-mmufacturer.- -Milliam Beaurain, Lte of Union-street, Bishopsgate-street Without, money-scrivener.—James liamper, ot High-street, Southwark, hoser,—John Leigh, of Liverpool, merchant ory of Cottenham, nurseryman, -rCharles litadsdale, of Livvrpool, hoot vla shoe-maker. SAT'URDitY'S LONDON GAZETTE. BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED, Preph Van of slon-sqoare.Whitechapeljeweller, from Oct. 49, to Dee. 10, at ten, at Guildhall. William Brig tly, Widetatp-street, Bishortgate-street o printer, from Oct. ad o t. Dec. ;ft, at eleven, at quildifau, REGISTER. • BANRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Josiah Saxton, of Manchester, cotton-twist-dealer. BANKRUPTS. Richard Needham, of Old Broad-street, auctioneer. William Cockburn, late of Cheltenham, upholsterer. William Price Evans, of Pwllhell, Carnarvonshire, draper. Frederick. Le Mesurier, of Lloy ds Coffee-house, merchant. Richard Field, of Yaitling, Kent, dealer. William France and James Bennett, of High-street, Shore* ditch, tallow-chander. Thomas Sisley, of St. Peter the Apostle, Isle of Thanet, Kent, merchant. William Henry Tempest, of Vauxhall, Surrey, haberdasher. Francis John Dupont, of Watford,,H , rtfordshire, draper. Hodgson Brough, of Camberwell, Surrey, mariner. Katherine Beeston and Mary Briggs, late ot Margaret-street, C a vendish-square ' mi, CERTIFICATES—Nov. 16. James Hamilton, of Broad-street, merchant.—William Ar nold Ludlow, of Andover, Southampton, wine-merchant.—Ste• pheniCl ment Webb, of Bath, money-scrivener.—Jams s Highett, late of 'I rimsaran, Carma thenshite, coal. merchant.—James Cooke, of Houghton Drayton, Southampton, miller.—Richard Ragg, of Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant.—J Hodgkmson, jun. late of Short-street, Curtain - road. S horeditch, scavenger.—Da. vid Williams, of Cardigan, shopkeeper.—Samuel Barnett, late of Long-alley, Moorfields, victualler.—Andrew Clegg, ot Fails worth, Lancashire, machine -maker.—Aaron Lara, of the Mina. ries, haberdasher.—Richard Bayly, of, Kennington, Surrey, merchant. —J ames Welsh and J Sexton, of New Compton-street, St. Giles's in the Fields, calico-glaziers.—Tlunnas Holme, of Liverpool, house builder.—Leonard Smith, of Austin-triars, merchant: Thomas Halliday, of the Old South-Sea-house, Broad-street, merchant. This Gazette contains a copy of a letter from Capt. Vansitp , tart, of the Fortuner, dated at sea, Oct. 11, transmitted by Vice. Admiral Thornborough, announcing the capture of the famous French privateer Le Vice-Admiral Martin, of 18 guns and 40 men, by the Saldanha and Fortunte. Le Martin.had been only four days out from Bayonne, and had not taken any thing. This Gazette also contai-s the appointment of A. S. J. Baker s Esq. to be His Majesty's Secretary of Legation in America. THL ARMY. ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OTFICE, AEGIOSA, OCT. 2, 1811. GENERAL ORDERS. No. I.—Tbe Commander of the Forces is desirous of drawing the attention of the army to the conduct of the 2d Battalion sth Regiment, 77th Regiment, and the t.llst Portuguese Regiment. and Maj.-Gen. Arenchild's Portuguese artillery, under the tom. mend of the Hon. Maj.-Gen. Colville; and of the 11th light Dragoons and Ist Hussars, under Maj.-Gen. Alten, in the affair with the eremy on the 25th ult. No. 11 —These troops were attacked by between thirty and forty squadrons of cavalry, with six pieces of cannon. supported by a division consisting of fourteen battalions of infantry, with cannon. The Portuguese Artillerymen were cut down at their guns before they quitted them, but the second Battalion sth Re. girnent, attacked the Cavalry which had taken the guns, and retook them; at the same time the 77th Regiment were attack ed in front by another bedy of cavalry, upon which body they advanced and repulsed them. No. Ill.—Whilst these actions were performed, Major-Gen. Atten's brigade, of which then only three squadrons on the ground were engaged, on the left, with numbers, infinitely F• perior to themselves. These squadrons charge IF d, repeatedly, supporting each other, and took above 90 prisoners ; and noS, withstanding the iminethe superiority of the enemy, the rst would have been maintained, if the Commander of the Forces had not ordered the troops to withdraw front it, seeing that the action would become still More unequal, as the enemy's Infantry were likely to be engaged in it, before the reinfcircements order ed to the support of the post could arrive. No. IV.—"Che troops then retired with the same determined spirit, and in the same good order with which they had main: tained their post. The 2d Battalion sth Regiment, and 77th Regiment, :n one square; and the 21st Portuguese Regiment in . another, supported by Major-General Allen's Cavalry, and the Portuguese Artillery. The enemy's Cavalry charged three faces of the s,,tiare of the British Infantry, but were beaten off; and finding, froM their repeated fruitless efforts, that these braVe troops were not to be broken, they were content with following them at a distance, and firing upon them with 'heir •Artillery , till the troops joined the remainder of the 3d division, and were afterwards sepported by a brigade of the 4th division. Ahhough the sit rortugucse Regiment were not actually charalOky t