The National Register. — London, England, 1812-06-28 00:00:00

ItrNE 28. t routir, nothing bad been done on the subject before, but tc , that still greater and boundless would be his astonish tullt, 4 it was in contemplation to make any material ch.,11,4e in the established constitutional law of the land, that the call of the House had been suffered to be discharged. Alter a few words from Lord Castlereagh, Mr. Giles, and \lr. liorner, the Message was ordered to be taken into con sideration:on Monday. CATHOLIC QUESTION. The proceedings in the house of Commons on the Catholic Question in the course of the week, will be found of some importance. I t has been resolved that the claims of the Catholics shall be taken into consideration early in the next Sessions. This resolution the party writers have swelled into a most decisive triumph on the part of the Catholics. That in doing this they are guilty of promulgating falsehood and delusion, we shall have no difficulty in making it appear; and that their conduct is calculated to keep from the Catholics those very concessions to the grant of which the writers alluded to pretend to be friendly, we shall also be able to prove. Every man of sense canniq but see that such representations, unfounded as they are, have a ten dency to encourage that outrageous insolence on the part of the claimants, which is hardly already to be endured. At present however, we have not room to discuss this question. In our next, it is our intention to express ourselves more at length, and that which is expected to pass in the (louse of Lords in the course of the week, will perhaps, enable us by that time to take a more comprehensive view of the subject, than we have the means of doing at present. TIRE.WII OF HONOUR. The reception with which the French prisoners who after breaking their parole, .contrive to effect their escape, meet in France, forms a striking contrast with the conduct of our government, as stated on Friday night in the I louse of Com mons. Instead of countenancing or rewarding. British pri soners of war who release themselves fi om captivity by the sacrifice of their honour, a mark is affixed to their names, and they arc rendered incapable of future promotion and no longer employed. This punishment is just, for what trust can be reposed in a man who prefers convenience to duty. The betrayer of his own honour can never prove a .faithful servant to his king and his country. «'c rejoice however to find that few instances of a similar misconduct occur amongst our countrymen. --..e::>.—• DISPATCHES FROM LORD WELLINGTON. A Li,hon mail and dispatches arrived yesterday. No operation of importance has been undertaken since the date of the last dispatches; but Al AR MONT, %who had removed from Salamanca to Fonteveros, has returned to Salamanca. Our army was expected to cross the Guadiana on the 12:1. SOULT remains at Seville, where he is collectivg his troops. The Cadiz Paper of the 3d and nth iustant contains an account which we shall be happy to find confirmed, that on the 31st of last mouth, BA L L AST maos, who had received a reinforcement of 2000 British troops, attacked the nephew of SouLT at Barnes, and defeated him with great slaughter, killing, wounding, or making prisoners 5000 men. The enemy lost their military chest, and Sou LT himself escaped With the greatest difficulty. ~-r - r - ~+ ~r ' THE NATIONAL. ItEGTSTEII. o.k .0 EPOZ Y MINA is said to have gained further suc(-e:se, and to have taken a very rich convoy, beating the Governor of Pampeluna, who had come (lit of Pampeluna to protect it with 2000 men. The Governor lost big life. The Dispatches from !And ‘V ci.t.INGToN are of the 10th. The bead-quarters were still at Fuente Guinaldo. LISBON, JUNE B.—The fallowing is an extract of a letter from his Excellency Marshal General Lord WELLINGTON to his Excellency D. Micur.t. PErtrtnA 1 7 °11.1:vs, dated head-quarters, Puente de Guinaldo, June 3, 1812 " Marshal MARMO N T has again removed his head-quar ters to Salamanca; and the troops which marched from thence when he made that change have likewise returned. " The enemy's troops which, as 1 communicated to your Excellency in my dispatch of the viol ult., had moved from the bridge of Arzobhpo, and marched by the road of De leitosa, arrived at Truxillo on the 26th, whence they retired on the 28th, by the same road by which they had advanced. I have not learned that they left Arzobispo, nor that the , econd division had left Talavera." The following Notices were issued yesterday morning: WHITEHALL, JUNE 2G. Mr. LACK is directed by Mr. ROSE to acquaint Mr. EL WA t, L that under the act granting :he bounty on printe•d lineng, &-c. the exportation must he made out of Great Britain, which according‘ to usage must, in the case of the Pot t of London, be a clearance from Gravesend. OFFICE For. TRAM', JLNE, 26. Mr, LACK is directed to inform Mr. ELW AL L, that licences will be prepared forthwith Itr the protection of Ame rican vessels, bound from this kingdom to tine United States with cargoes, the property of British or American subjects. Another A nholt mail arrived yesterday. No blow has yet been struck ; and it should seem as if some correspondence had been entered into betw..ett ONA- P ARTE and the Emperor ALEXANDER. The CoO de N A BONNr. was sent on the 48th of last month, by BcoN A PA RT I.:, with a letter to the Emperor, and returned with an answer the beginning of this month. Since which, an article from B‘nlin announce , , that the Archbishop of NlEctatAN has been named to an Embassy of gie.it im portance. Private Letters state, that the French advanced guard is at Pillau. The French army d..es not exceed ttcomtu men, and that of the Russians upward. of 800,000. It was expected they would cross the frontiers into Prussia on the first week of this month. An overture of a i•zcific nature had been made by BuoNA PARTE to the '...:mperor ALEXANDER, which had been rejected. " REVEL, MAY 31• " No news frora the armies; it appears that the French we coming forward very fast, and daily it is expected an action will take place." There is a report very confidently circulated, that after the failure of the late negociation, the Opposition were in great dread of the C'etholics turning a , :tinst them, for havii•g sacrificed the great question for ." three white sticks. - a was therefore deemed expedient to send over a special am bassador ,'an old tuanmu‘'re of the party) to cajo:e the Ca 7 tholies—And the resolutions of the A:.;gregate Meeting, it it fait her rumoured, were actually draw a up in this country awl sent over to DLllihn • letter from Paris of the 20th instant, communicates the following particulars relative to the Toulon fleet, io an ex tract of a letter from that port, under date of the loth inst. . div6ion, composed of tho ship 11{)rer,Tfidillt, ; . • ~,