The National Register. — London, England, 1812-04-05 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. APRIL 5. SAT UIWA I'S LONDON GAZETTE. WAR DEPARTMENT. DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 2, 1812. Dispatches, of which the 'flowing are extracts, have been received from the Earl of Wellington, addressed to the Earl of Liverpool. Elvas, March 13, 1812. I moved the head-quarters from Frenada on the Gth, and arrived here on the 11th instant. There are none of the enemy's troops in the field in Estremadura, ex cepting that part of the sth corps not in the garrison of Badajoz, the head-quarters of which are at Villa Franca, and a detachment, consist ing of about a division, linfiv.i General Darican, whose head-quarters are at La Serena. The enemy have made no movement, and I have heard cf no opera tion of importance singe I addeesqed your Lordship last. According to the last accounts, Marshal Souk whs in the lines before Cadiz. Camp before Badajoz, March WO, 1812. According to the intention which I announced to your Lordship, I broke up the cantonments of the army on the 15th and 16th instant, and invested Badajoz, on the left of the River Guadiana, ob. the 16th, with the 3d, 4th, and light divisions of infantry, and with a brigade of Lieutenant-General Hamilton's division on the right. These troops are under the command of Marshal Sir William Beresford and Lieutenant- General Picton. We broke ground on the following dpy, and have established a parallel within two hundred yard • of the outwork called the Picnrina, which embraces the whole of the south east angle of the fort. The work has continued. ever since with great celerity, notwith standing the very bad weather which we have had since the 17th. The enemy made a sortie yesterday from the gate called La Trinidad, on the right of our attack, with about two thousand men. They wt re almost immediately driven in without effecting any object, with consi derable loss, by Major-General Bowes, who commanded the guard in the trenches. We lost upon this occasion a very promising ("Meer, Captain Cuthbert, Aide-de-Camp to Lieu.enant-General Picton, killed; and Lieutenarit-Colonel Fletcher was slightly wounded, but I hope that he will soon be able to resume his duties. I have not yet got the re tarns, but I believe that our loss since the commencement of these operations, amounts to one hundred and twenty men killed and wounded. On the same day that Badajoz was invested, Lieutenant-General Sir Thomis Graham crossed the Guadiana with the Ist, 6th, and 7th .divi sions of infantry, and General Slade's and General Le Marchants brigades of cavalry, and directed his march upon Valverde and Santa Martha, and thence towards •Llerena; white Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill, with the :).(1 and Lieutenant-General Hamilton's divi sions, and Major-General Long's cavalry, marched from his canton ments near Albuquerque upon Merida, and thence upon Almendralejo. These movements induced General Drouet to retire from Villa Bianca upon Hornachos, in order, I conclude, to be in communication with General Darican's divibion, which was about La Serena. I have heard from Sir Thomas Graham and Sir Rowland Hill to the 19th instant. The former was at Los Santos and Zafra, with General Slade's cavalry at Villa Franca; and the latter at Almendralejo. Lieut.- General Sir Rowland dill took three officers and a few hussars pri• loners in Merida. 1 !lave reports from the neighbourhood of Ciudad Rodrigo of the 17th instant. The enemy had sent a small detachment to Bejar, principally with. a view to plunder ; but there was no appearance of any immediate movement. The 6th division had moved from Talavera, through the Puerto del Pico, on the Bth and 9th instant ; and the 4th division, on the Slime days, from "coleclo through the Guadarrama; and the first dyrie.ion only remained on the Them, near Talavera. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 411812. Notice is hereby given, that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent will hold a Levee at Carlton House, on Thursday next the 9th of April, at two o'clock; and on every succeeding Thursday till further notice. BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED. John Sexton, of Stanmore, baker, from April 4, to April 13, at eleven, at Guildhall, London. Charles Say, of Newington-Butts, haberdasher, from April 7, to April 13, at ten, at Guildhall, Londo BANKRUPTS. WiPiam Dickison, of Sunderland. Durham, innkee . per, to surrender April 21, 27, and May 10, at eleven, at the rridAe Inn, Bishop/rear mouth, Durham. Attornies, Mr. 131ackiston, Syniond's-Inn, London; and Mr. Thompson, Bishopwenrmouth. George Stockes, of Oldswinford, Worcester, nail ironmonger, May 4, at five, 5, and 16, at eleven, at the George n 1, I'ewdley, WGrcesttr. Attornies, Messrs. Watt; and Constable, Symcild'b-Inn, Chancery-lane, London ; and Mr. Robins, Stourbridge, Worcester. CERTfFICATES.-A PRIL 25. William Rowthan, of Moulton, Lincoln, grocer.—William Ball, late of Newcastle-apon-Tyne, vintner.—Joseph Thomas C;rittor, late of Boston, Lincoln, wite-merchant.—James higlvton of the Strand, hatter.—RicLard Southall, Samuel Southall, and Benjamin Southall, late of Dudley, Worcester, nail ironmongers.—William Barnard, of Lloyd's Coffee-house, underwriter. COURT-MARTIAL. A General Court-Martial was held at Chelsea, on the 20th an d 21st o December last, on Lieutenant Scott, of the Ist Royal Tower Hamlets regiment of militia, but the issue was not promulgated till within the se few days. It decides two questions of great in , p.rtance to the army. The charges were brougut by Cobalt! Beaufoy, of the satne regineelit, and were as follows : Ist. Far disobedience of ibegimental orders, dated 24th and 25th of October, 1811, in not attending the Captain of the 'Alta, at head-quar ters, Hackney, at guard—mounting, at one o'clock, and at eight o'tiol at night, op Wedoesday, the 6th of November. 2d. For repeatedly breaking his arrest, On or about the 12th, on or about the 13th, and on or about the leak of November, 1811. The prisoner had notice of a third charge, which was withdrawn, viz.:-- For not occupying a billet on the Horse and Groom public-house, in Marc-street, liackney, when to Lint by the Quarter-Mastvr, Grant, of the saine regiment. The prosecution was cum:i:led by counfel; the pris . oner defended himself. After evidence had been adduced by both parties, the Coon was closed for-near three quarters of an hour, wt:cn 6cmencc WAS adjudged as folluw•s " 1 he Court having maturely weigh:ll and comidered the whole of the evidence offered to it, together with the prkoner's defence, is of opinion, as to the first charge, that the prisoner did not attend at head quarters on the days and Cities specified in the chante. and he is there , fore, to that extra!, guilty of a disobedience of the orders therein specified. " As to the second charge, the Com t is of opinion, that the prisoner did, on the days specified, go beyond the h;undaries of the parish of Hackney, to which his arrest was limited, only a few yards, by passing too and fro between the lodging he had before occupied, and the head quarters of the regiment; and that he did on those days continue to lodge within the limits of, though at a very small distance from, the boundary of the parish of I lackney. But it is of opinion, that he is not guiky.of breaking his arrest, within the intent and meaning of the 27th Article of the iii h Section of the Articles of War. " The Court do therefore adjudge, that the prisoner be prirate:v admonished by the Colonel of his regiment to pay Strict attention to 1 orders in future. " The Court cannot close its proceedings without ob?erving, that the facts brought forward by Colonel Beaufoy, in support of the charge., are of a vexations nature, and too frivolous to have been made the subject of so solemn a proceeding. And is is farther of opinion, that theimn. duct of Captain and Adjutant Peyton, in employing non-commissioned 01Bcers to watch the prisoner, is highly reprehensible. (Signed) " C. B.WoccAsToN, 1). Judge-Advocate. " E. I)eS/11( w, Lieutenant-Colonel, President." By a letter from his Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, to Lieutenant-Get eral Sir Harry Burrard, trte following order took place on the sentence:— 4 ‘ His Royal Highness the Prince Regent having approved and. co- • firmed the same, was afterwards pleased to command that the adnu i don awarded by the Court should be remitted." • • The power of enforcing obedience to•frivotous and vexatious order $ is then:tin - id determined not to exist in the British army ; and alsis , • the arrest necessary to the admitiistratioti of its justice, is not to l eqn;- vocally or unnecessarily limited. And this, instead of inducing any thing like an insubordinate spirit, must inspire a more perfect resptct for a service in which every individual is protected in his duty. There is a prevalent opinion, in many regiments of Local Militia, that the men are entitled to their clothing at the expiration of the pe riod for which they were originally enrolled ; but Mr. Secretary Ryder has given directions to inform them, through the medium of their Commandants, that it was never the intention of Government, to give them up their clothing, whichis the practice in the Regular Militia, whose servitude is for five years; and that the few days the former ar• assembled together, cannot possibly entitle thou to that indulgence but that the other necessaries, distinct trom the clothing, at the ex; n ration of the period of traiming, will become the ah4olute property v. the men fur whom they were proritled. IP , . , 903 F I •