The National Register. — London, England, 1812-09-27 00:00:00

sri3T. 27. l'isuerga to Duenas on the road to Bure, , :s. This i ‘ ,/,,., 1 „ ; zi0n Iris contained in di , !..atches from his Lo! ds datc:i Valladolid the 7th anti Bth instant, brought by the Coron,:h Alail, and which were published in last night's Canto. Th e • following, has been given as a correct view of the dil‘,..ition and streogth of the armies in Spain : Lord %'VtL LINGTJN and Sol: LT were. towards the end of August, 3 , 1 n (F.:ant frntn earn other; the former with 30,000 11 Portugnese, at Valladolid; the later with about .1 . ),(1C0 Freoch and Spanish troops at Andujar. 6cne•gl ~1A IT L AND, August 17, was with 7,000 BritiAr, and 1-40ania,r!s, at INlonforte, miles Nl.'st of Ali, ant. JOSEPH; v, - ;Lil 10,000 french at,d ura- Inentados, on the 29th Augnq, at Almanza, 30 miles only from St:entT, who, • with about 14, or tit!,ooo men, occu pied St. Fein e, halt way between Alicant and Valen: A 11Ci ish corp , of about 15,000 reinained at Madrid. General with 16,00 British and Portuguese, had flit n back towards Badajoz : Da or izT'S division continued to observe hint, but wa- expected to follow SOULT. General CooKE, Colonel SK Stilt ET r, and BA t. T. AST EROS, at Cadiz, Seville, and Malaga, we , e supposed to have, on the whole, 20,1)00 men. The remains of NIARNIONT ' S army, collected at Duenas. and reinforced, amounted to about 30,000. Ge lielalS CAST ANOS and SANT °CI LD ES, butted with the Gurillas of MINA, LONGA, and Poat. I ER, might muster 20,0(10; and the French under CATAnELLI, in Navarre and Biscay, and under DECAEN, in Catalonia, with garrisons, posts, &c. might consist of 30,000. • • On Tuesday French Papers' were received to the 19t1r inst. bringing the Sixteenth and Seventeenth 3ulletins of the Grand Army. The first of - these documents is dated 1 Viaswa, Aug. Si, the latter from Gjhat, Sept. 3 0 both de- tailing the progressive 'advance of 1:1:0.N.A 1' ART E towards 1 Moscow, but neither containing an account of any consider- able acti o n. The Russians are said to be foriitjing the lines before Mosoow, and constrncting an entrenched , camp at Mojaisk, a town about forty miles in advance upon Gjhat,l ,and between it and Moscow, and there it is probable they will risk a general action, as they arc reported to have re-1 Feived large reinforcements. Paris papers recently received contain a long account of the laic events in the Peninsula, from MARAIONT. This article, the most interesting Fart of which will be found in a preceding column, is written with much more of candour than we are accustomed to look for in thedispatches of a french Commander. It is said to be mentioned in Sir R. WILcON'q dispatches, that the conduct of General BARCLAY DE TOLL!, in the battle of Smolensk°, had incurred much animadversion; and that this was the cause of that General's having been superseded in the chief command of the Russian army by General KuTusow. it is stated, that thrice kid the Rus sian army ieDulsed the enemy at Smolensk°, but that being Prepared to renew the attack ,a fourth time, the Russian Ge neral had ordered a retreat, and left the French masters of the town. Letters from Paris to the I.sth inst. it is s'aid, communi cate, that . the Conservative Senate had terminated their se cret deliberations with a consultrem for raising a new con scription of 120,000 men, in three successive levies of 40,000 each. Though the decree had not, as usual, been published in the Bulletin of Laws and the Monircur, it is stated, that orders had been expedited to the Military Prefects in all parts of the empire, for carrying it into im.. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. • mediate "effect ; and that in the departments contiguous to the capi'al, considerable pro re's l'ad already been made in raising their quotas for the first levy. The conscripts, it was understood, would he marched otT as soon as embodied, to depots in Prussia and Poland, in order to replace, whilst under training, the troops that had marched on to reinforce the gland army. Government have received dispatches from Mr. Mot:N- T() S, announcing the re , ult of the Congress at Al)°, and the removal of the obstacles which had hitherto opposed the active co-operation cf the Swedes. In anticipation of thl4 intelligence, orders had beenetransmitted for the sailing of a fleet of transports from Sheernes , , under convoy of the `f•tarling, destined to be employed in the Swedish expe- dition. The r.;overnment of the United States are making prepa rations to occupy the whole of E....5t Florida. At the date of the last accounts, orders had been transmitted to Colonel Sm * Tll to resume offetolve operatiwns againat St. Augustine, and 1.100 troops bad heel) detached from Amelia Island to assist in its reduction. Baion KINDERLAVD, the new Go vernor appointed by the fortes, bad arrived with a small reinforcement of Spaaish troops from the Ilavannah, and more were expected to folho.v. It is said, that he had of fered to surrender on condition that the fort should he oc cupied by the Americans to the exclusion of the patriots. A body of troops from Georgia blockaded St. John's. The Spat tan frigate, according to a private letter from Pictou, of Aug. 21, had tal;cn nine American privateers. The British Admiral at Ilalifax, having. nothiug left io port but a small tender, put the crew of his barge and three midshipmen on board, with one gun; flirty went in search of a privateer of eight carriage guns and 36 melt, which they captured. A letter from Quebec, dated Aug. It, says, general IfuLL, with an American army, has entered Upper Canada, and been thrice repulsed ; we seem to keep our ground, and are determined to maintain it. We have litely received a reinforcement of the 10Sd regiment, I€oo wrong, from England, and Scots Royals, from Barb doe 1000 and up wards, which, with the troops we had before in the country, and th(Ye raked here of late, with militia, Bz . c. we shall be able to make a formidable resistan e. At a mee!ing held at Plymouth (Massachusetts), a resolve was pased, that the war with Great Britain was unneees sarx, and that they would not be concerned in. fitting out privateers. A swat' fishing boat from Nova Scotia, on board of which was the eWiter, a man seventy-four yeats of age; having been captured and sent into Boston, the Bostonians raised a subscription, bought the boat, fitted her out for a three months/ vova.2:e, and gave her to the poor old man, remark ing at the same time, that they were trot at war with unarmed fishermen. In consequence of the war with America, the Governor of Jamaica has opened the ports to Spanish and other ves sel,, wilt flour, meal, beaus, peas, and all kinds of grain and lumber. A singular occurrence took place at Constantinople lately, an hundred and forty Russian pr isoners, tired, probably, of their long captivity, embraced the Mahometan religion. They were brought in triumph from their prison, completely clothed in the Turkish manner, and the pious Musselmen loaded them-with presents. Some were sent on board the fleet, and others placed in different military corps. The General of Division, Count GOUVIOE ST. CYR, is appoipted a Nanhal of the French Empire. . 601