The National Register. — London, England, 1813-08-15 00:00:00

5 22 Since that time letters are said to have been received in town froin General GRAIIAAr, dated the 27th and 29th ult. of which the following has been given as the substance: 44 In that or the 27th, Sir THOMAS !t;l(eS hishavkg just received intelligence intim 1.01 WELLINGTON. that Soma was pressing upon the light Gf the Noble Marquis with thirty-live thousand men ; his Lordship having with liko at that time only the divisions of Ge nerals PAKEN H 11, Pitt Nt; LE. and (I,rts cosi, but yet occupying a strong position ; and bileg wall aware that Sir 11. HILL, with whole division of ten 000 men, was tin a coining up, his Lordship was detci mined to, exert liitn‘elf fiir the preservation of this posi tion, even under the existing disparity of force. The whole of the 26th was spi nt in efforts to this effect, the enemy incessantly at tacking; When, in the eve!iing, General HILL joined. and so in• creased the force multi. Lind WI:LUNG roN, that the latter was no longer in (lamer of Is. jug ov erpo were d.” From that of the . :9th it appear-, that ' 4 Sir r. (RATTAN hear iah a cannonade at a distance, and 'meet lain of the issue of au affair upon w !deli his otvo safety depended, determii.ed to raise the siege of the place, and accordingly embarked his bat terng train, as less capab:e of a speedy rviwival in ease Of an vnieNency, though the turn continued to maintain thowelves in the trenches ; but, un- luckily, 200 Portnguole remaining too long in a deserted tart of them, ‘v re male pri , •eners by tlie garri•on.—ln this indeciive state things continued till S's THOMAS received itthiligelleC on the even in: or c4Btli of the dereat of SouLT, iu consegticnee of which the ai title! y was re-landed, a:RI the siege of St. Sebastian YeS1111101." A 'l-r the battle of the 28th, Sou LT iS stated to have taken up a position close in front of Lord WELLINGTON, and to ILtve received reinforcements to the amount of 10,000 men under General VI LI.AT T E. I..ffi'd WEL I. 1 I'GTON is also re resented as having Keen powerfully reinforced, and another action was expected by his Lord , hip himself; as he intimated to Sir T. G RAH.% Nr, in a letter dated the evening of the 28 b, from the scene of the battle of that day in the Puerto Mayor, or great outlet from Spain into France. We are harpy to undcrstlnd and to slate, that our Commander found himself so • ireumstiincecl at the period of writing this letter, a, to in spire him with the fullest confidence as to the future—a con fidence which induced Sir T. Ci it Ait Am to resume the sus pended opera ions of the siege of St. Sehastian's with in creased diligence and vigour. New-Ymk Papers to the l tttt n't. arrived on Monday, containing a variety of important intelligence. It appeals that the expedition under Sir .1. 13. \V A RREN, which sailed lately from Bermuda, inrde an attack on the morning of the 2 , 2 d of June upon (:'ranev island, near Not folk. A landing was effected at one print ; but the other attack having prov ed unsuccel.sful, the detachment which had of the de halkation was withdrawn. On the 2:,th a descent was made by the Fame forces at Hampton. The enemy at this place made an ineffectual resistince, and the town was taken. lemaining some time in it, and destroving the public stores, &C. our troops retired. The next visit by our troops -.as expected to be pan! to the town of Hichmond. The ; ;neatest consteina•ion lths been spiead along the whole of the American coat. These Papers also confiim the farther iJefeat of the ene y's army in Canada. It appears that a Colonel BoEttsT t.sAt had marched from Fort George with nearly six hundred men, uli , ) wet e attacked by our troops, • nd all of them taken. General DEA ituou N 'ass, the British and Indian force did not Ex( ectl Sto men. He blames Colonel BoRESTL ER highly, in a dispatch dated Fort George, .lune '25. He adds, that the British fleet had again arrived in his neighbourhood. The followinz interesting account of the attack upon Craney island, together with some of the subseum?nt pro ceedings on the American coast, has been received from an (Alice': on itoai,l the fleet at the time :-- Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 7, 1813. ~e morning, the marines v.ere landed A TJGITST at Pig's-point, Virffinia, alumt two wile. below Clancy Island, which is notified, and commands the passage to Norfo:k : it was afterward. found necessary to storm the ou which were &,;) picked nun, and thirty '24-pounders, flanked on its eastern end by Id large Ameriran gu n boats, and the American frigate Constella tion laying behind then' ; men, and the boats of the fleet, were put under the command of Captain Peelle!, of Majesty's ship San Domingo. Captain flio , dohett, of the Ihadcm, was ordered in Id. boat to :rail tie• n to the attack : it was ab o ut eleve n n• e j n -, : k in toe foie:y.on ; Ile advanced! a!tort iy yards a-tread of the rest, and alter tieing about two under dig- file of the enemy's vt-ty heavy batlctirs and guil-boat., his tto.dt took the ground aboot 1(3) yard. frond the n of their gun- : tllt re x‘as too much water and mutt for the men to ,tale on shore., and tined. %Al.ieli were astern were very soon *tin k by Vitit ‘1 1 11•11 (! sails of the first boat : the fue of arapc and cau;s!er at i'.:• ti , :a• was tremendous ; and while Captain Hau. LI dt eta• to save the crews of the boats winch woe sunk. min (Iv erml, up, he received a canister shot' in his lett titeid, hr ;.e' t rl as long as poisjhle, but sunk at la •t fit In the ;di: , ; zue boat. immediately gave up. the atlat Iv. :oat retreat d. won .l ed Captain ordered himself to be pat n.to a Ati;iii iiEd was carried twelve miles to the Diadem, tie ship die co:cdo hat. ing frequently fainted from the loss of Moo strati'. o' 'los kind is a desperate thing to do at ri;,ht, out ill the of the day it requires some strong Helves : we ate slid to have io.t 110 men that day. " On the 25th we attacked the Awn iran camp at Hampton, took and destroyed it, and killed about 300 Amerieans : lost 49 men. We embarked again on the t7tii ; the fleet %%a- then Lgy iota in Hampton-roads ; some part had gone up Jane's's ri%er to wa,er. The next attack it was soppoz:ed would be Baltimore, but it is ap prehended that it will not succeed ; indeed, we begin to t<<ie k tie are too late, and have allowed the mei leans too much time to col lect their knees, to be i.ble to do any thing. Our force coosi , ,ted originally of only t!,000 bayonets, which is bombs dimmi-hing. forgot to ti 11 you, that when our boats were sunk the Americans came down mid shot the men swimming in the water ; but the brutes got punished for it at Hampton. Our force consists of marines, part of the 10_d regiment, which we got at Bviniuda, and two com panies of foreigners. " Sir J. ft restOrd is blockading the American ships United States, Macedonian, and Hornet sloop, in New London ; he has with him the Poictiers, Mdid , tone, and a brig." American Papers to the 14th ult. a:lived on Friday. They contain an account of a very serious insurrection of :he Negroes in South Carolina, in which from 3 to 400 whites were massacred. A battle afterwards took place, in which 1,200 Negroes were killed and taken. Nine thruisand men were immediately raised to protect the State. The Ameri can details of A dinii al WARREN'S late attack, which, of course, most a rosslv and shamefully exaggerate the facts, are also given. Pi esident MADISON continues seriously ill.— The measures of the American Legisla•ure, for providing ways and means in support of the war, proceed but slowly, in consequence of the formidable opposition of the Fede ralists, or pacific party, in Coogress. These Papers bring no further intelligence of the proceed ings of the squadron under Sir J. B. WA RREN. A flag of truce had been sent to the Admiral, remonstrating against certain barbarities alleged to have been committed by the forces under his command. We have no doubt that thee complaints of cruelty against our brave men are devices, of the American Government to excite a spirit of national hostility against us, and that there is no foundation for the cha , ges bi ought against them. A remonstrance has been addressed by the Legislature of Massachusetts to Congress, in which the impropriety, im policy, and injustice of the war, and the necessity of peace are ciposed with - a clearness of demonstration, a strength of argu ment, and a temperate dignity of style, which are now seldom found in such composi!ions. A mong other i poi tant facts, it is stated that arms have been refused to the inhabitants of M.is sachus,ets to defend themselves against us, whilst chains of posts have bete formed, useless against invaders, but fallai4:ll Ou the ::!".d of June THE NATIONA L TITGISTF,R.