The National Register. — London, England, 1811-07-28 00:00:00

and of his Majesty's people, .his Royal Highness will be enabled to lay before his Majesty, in the history of these great achieve ments of the British arms through a series of systematic opera tions, so satisfactory a proof that the national interests and the glory of the British name have been succe‘sfully maintained while his Royal Highness has conducted the Government of the United Kingdom. Then a Commission for proroguing the Parliament was read : after which the LORD CHANCELLOR said, MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, .- .- By virtue of the Commission under the Great Seal, to us and other Loads directed, and now read, we do, in obedience to the commands of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on belial . of Him Alajesty, prorogue this Parliament to Thursday, the 22d day of - .\ugust next, to be then here holden ; aid this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Thurs days the =d day of August next. HOUSE OF ( OMMONS. TUESDAY, JULY 16. The SPEAKER, on his taking the Chaii, read a Letter from Lora Wellin;ton, dated the Ist inst. stating that he had com municated the Thinks of the House to Marshal Beresford and Cap?aitt-General Blake, and expressing his satisfaction at being chosen for the purpose. His Lordship's Leiter tontaine 1 an assurance of General Blake's sense of the honour conferred upon him, and enclosed a Letter from Nlar , hal lieretf ,rd to the Speaker, in which hr stated, that having informed the Officers, Ste. of his Army of the favour ihey ha(l received, he had to de sire that he (the Speaker) would assure the House, for him and them, that their approbation was felt as the most grateful pnssi ble remuneratiost of their services, and would act as the most effective stimulus to future exertions. • A Message from the Lords was received, announcing their assent to the Gold Cuin Bill ar.d to the Militia luterchange Bill. Mr. WHARTON brought up the Fifteenth Report of the Corn tnissioners of Military Inquiry. CROKER brought up a copy of the Minutes of the Court- Martial held on board his Nlajksty's ship the Dart, statiuned off Barbaclues. Lord COCHRANE gave notice, that he would take an early opportunity, next Session, of moving for an inquiry into the conduct of the War, particularly as it regar.b.d our Naval Forces, and further, for a Select Committee to Inquire whether such an arrangement might not be adopted with respect to that service as would reduce an expenditure of sixteen millions per annu►u 1.0 ten.—Adjourned tid to-morrow. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. • . WEDNESDAY, JULY 24. Between three and four o'clock the Usher of the Black Rod entered the House, and summoned the PI: AK ER anti :'....eothers to attend in the House of Peers.—On their return, the SPEAKER sitting in the eti-rk's chair, while ae Members st ronthl the table, read the Prince Regent's Speech, for which see'thel.o:ds. The Members then dispersed, and the .•.iession ended. TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE. DOWNING-STRLFT, JULY 23. A Diratch,of which the following is an extract, was yesterday morning recelvf.d at Lord Liverpool's Office, addressed to !,:s LordThip by I di ntcnansisGeneral Viscount Weilington, dated Quinta de St. Joao, 4th July, 18i 1. Since I wrote on the ‘27th of June, the enemy have withdrlwn the grcat force which they 11:td in the reieiliAlrhuoti (it B-:da j;)z. Lieut.-mint-General Sir Stapleton ( wton rtconnoitrtd, with a part of tl - .e cavalry, along the X€vora and tie as far as Alonti, , o, on the ed instant, and f)und no troops i.,- cepting a 5111 all body of infantry.and cavalry at Alontigo ; and near Baclai:z the cavalry belor,ginv to the garrison 'By all accounts the Army of Portugal are on the right'of the Guadiana, between `-lontattOes and ,'e; - ids, keepin4 a small post at Nlontig. ; and the arniy of the South on the lett of that river, extending their left towards Zafra. The enemy have withdrawn front Badainz their train of ar tillery with which the place was taken, and have sent it to tht southward. _ A part of General Ponnet's troops, whose evacuation of the Asturias has been cwllirined, have game to Leon ; and I have a report from Genera; Silveira, of the '2sth June, stating that the eikemyfied, on the 19th, evacuated Astorga. By accounts from Valladolid it appeals, that Marshal Bessieres had quitted that 4C9 place on the loth, with all the troops he. - could collect, and went to Rio Seco, from whence he moved, on the 15th, towards Be navente. The Guerilla force appears to be increasing in numbers, acts• vity, and boldness is all the nOrthern parts of I have no authentic accounts of General Blake'. movements since the 27th of June, on which day his head-quarters were at Alusno, in the Condadu de Niebla, acid his advanced guard un. der General Ballatteros, at El Ce►ro. ADMIRALTY OFFICE, JULY 23. Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumarez has transmitted to John Croker, Esq. a letter from Captain Pater, of his Ma• jesty's ship Cressy, giving an account of an i,ttack made cif Hielm Wand, on the sth instant, by a Datish flotilla of seven teen gun-boats and ten heavy row-boats, on a convoy under the protection of the ships and vessels named in the margin! The enemy were defeated without the loss of any of the convoy, and four of the Danish gun-boats were captured, maurting each one lung twenty r four pounder, and four brass howitzers, and having on board together 120 men. * Cressy, Defence, Dictator, Sheldrake sloop, and Bruizer gun-vessel. BANKRUPTS. Thomas Motley, Isaac Hardy, and Wm. Heard, of Bristol, ironmongers. John APGeoch, late of Chester, liren-draper. George Swinburn, late of Catteikk, York, innholder. Jcr.sph Bond, late of Lloyd's Coffer he use, underwriter. ]Mathew Warren, of Furze Hall, Essex, mei chalit. James Lade, of Stock, Essex, grocer. Richard Reddish, tit. James s-str,ct, wine merchant. Alexander Henry, late of Fin , bury-silitare, merchant. Peter Becker, Dover, mealman, d ;der and chapman. John Patton, of ‘‘'altharnsthow, nwreliant. th-orge. Burton, of the New City Chatnb.Jrs, insurance-broker. CERTIFICATES—AunusT 13. William Greenhow, of Mancht•gter, merchant —William Ilig;;inhotham Goodw in, 1 pool, timher-merchant. Berry, late ..t Barn2,l , :y, I.lk, i ,;r:,,:t.r.—John Berry, of Norwich, printer.--V Ilibm .Pretynian, i.f Whiteci.artel High-street, cooper.—George Lap aik, of Bi•hopsgate-strett, chresemorgter.—. bel Cruimiclt, of Castleton-Moor, Lancaster, corn-dealer.—Samuel Pale, late of St. Martin's Chutch-yard. St. Martin'i-lane, dealer.—James Bitigh:T Orry, late of (I: est Grimsby, Lincoln, grocer.—Richard raw, of Stoke-u, ou• Trent, Statiord, merchant.--l'atrick gwall, of Ludgate hill, grocer.—John Greig, of Charl-s-street, Hampstuaci-road, baker.—Thornas Rowlandson and JoseilA Bates, late of Cheap side, merchants. _ • SATURDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE. DOWNING-STREET, JULY 27, ]Bll. A Dispatch, of which the following is an extract was on the 254 instant received at the Earl of Liverpool's Oilier, addresst.d to his Lordship hr Li•Aitenant-General Viscount Wellington, dated Qui:lca de St Joao, July 11, 1811. • T"e enemy continued in the positions reported in my dispatch of the .ich ica. rt, till the 7th, when they moved a large body of tavalty and about two battalions of infantry fr 'm Moutigo to wards the Xvvora, and from thence upon Villa de Rey, Le " Roca, and A:buque;-que. The object of this movement was .apparently to cut off our , ,cleticlanc tit s employed in observing. the enemy on that side; in which, however, they Oid not succeed, Major Cocks having retired with ~ 1 1 his dt•tachments upon St. Vincente, still keeping communications open with Arronches and Portalegre. The e'7emy's troops retired from Albuquerque on the Bth, and Major CoLk!, :twain entered that town with his parties oss, the slole day. . . The army uf Portugal are again in the same position on the right of the Guadiana which they occupied when I addressed your Lor.lship on the 4th instant. • General Blake made an attempt to obtain possession sf Niebla, on the night of the 30th of June, in which place. the enemy had a garrbon of about three hundred infantry. Lam sorry to say this attempt failed, and he remained before the place till the 24 instant, and then retired towards the Guadiana•