The National Register. — London, England, 1809-09-03 00:00:00

SEPT. 3. f,,.' w a: ular3 of a dread!ui a. c . d , za are contained in a letter fro:n au inhabitant of Dom:it:it to his friend in Was go w , ?tag. 17 I have to relate one of the mast awful and the most melan choly ,:cidei;ts that ever occurred i;i 'hia part of the world.— Weduesday, ittiag the fair-day at Tani, the ferry-boat, in sio:, from VIA side to the south side, sunk, and the whole tro hoard periAted, amounting to upwards of l'2o persons, among w: re Sht-r:ff M'Cullock. Mr. John Leslie, merchant, and Isabel, his sister, &c. There w .re upwards of 20 fin the town, and 63 from the parisit. it is easier for you to conceive than for rue al describe the :LA fail situation of the whole town. The w h,)le (-bur it.,ant is one scene of graves; and all yesterday carts At 're employed in carrying the dead bodies to the town: Ft 4' of ;I).•se belou4iag to the town have been yet found ; but I am aopeful a number will be found this day, as *e have got a pet, aid are going to try what we can do. Ihe boat was over loaded, and, ;is , 00n as they left the land, b:.gan to sink. The blame has been much laid on Sutherlawl, the ferry-man on the soutii side, who has suffered, as he h:ippened unfortunately to tie ' .1s si le that fatal morning. -The day wiry quite calm. Good God • o t<< ha4oc in one partsh—w hole fatuities have perished !" S;•EEPING GUARDIANS. , —A curio n us kind of frolic, if it at be so denominated, was played :it Shepperton,' k, on the night of Monday last. The orchard belouging to Mr. Porter, which was well stocked with fruit, had been, r. bbed, in order to prevent furthe: - depredations, t,‘ o steady men placed to ;itch tae premises at tiight, with loaded un:!ei busses, and a hut, built with trusses of straw and hurdles, was ere , ::ea for their accommodation.---0,1 Monday night some heedless wags set tire to the said hut, and the watchmen, who were fast asleep, escaped with some difficulty, and left their blunderbusses, tne contents of which exploded, to the terror of the village. A reward has been offered for the apprehensiou of the incendiary, hot there is no trace at' him. The following is recommeudei as a cure for the complaint in the bowels :—To t%ro large spoonfuls of brandy add two of wa ter, and as much Turke7 rhubarb as will lie on a shilling : to be taken three times a day. The 20th next Month, the State Lottery will begin and end Drawing, the Whole in One Day. Four Prices of t'ke,,MX). Only b,0.10 NumberF, four "l'ickets of e‘tcb Number, by which will he g•ii:ied x Pri4e of IS0.00V; by three (Litt.) .E 60,000; by two ditto i tt0,000; ditto 2.,,000;" and by all the Capital and other Prize: in proportion. Not three Ii! - Ink4 to a Prize. Ticiets and Shares are on Salc by KICHARDSON, and CO. Cornhi/i, and Charia4Cross. No other Lottery wig be Drawn this war. TUES.Dir's LO.►'DO.N GAZETTE. BINKRUPTCILS ENILIRGED. , 119afit Fennell, Bath, marble mason, torn A ue, .46, to Oct. 14, at eleven, at the Bush-taven), Cora street, Bristol. Thomas Hart, Bristol, wharlinger, from Sept.:►, to Oct. 21, at ten, at the Bush 'aven', Core-street, Bristol. BAINI KRUPTS. WILLIAM ILINSEY, Oxford -street, coach-maleer, to surrender, September 2, at eleven, 9, and October 10, at ten, at Guildh.ill, Loudon. Attoruey, Mr. Wi A/Beckett, Broaj-street, JOHN OLIPHA NT, Flow-strect, tailor, to surrender, September 9, 10, at ten, and October 10, at eleveu, at Guildhall. .Attoeney, M. Alllama, Free man's-court, Cori'bill. THOM AS WEAVER, Cheltenham, Gloucester, innkeeper, to surrender, sept. 13, !t, ar Oct. L(, at eleven, at tho Hop-market lan, orce,ter. Attornirs, Mc. Wettcs, Worce.ter, and Mr. James Platt, T:tutieicl-court, Temple, Luu doil. THOM AS M. 4 jun. Thurßhy, Cumberland, merchant, to surreltler, Sept. I'l, 19, and Mtober in, at teveo, at the Blue Bell Ina, Carlisle:, Atturities, Mr. Eirkett, Bood-eakirt,ll'.i lbrook, London; and llr. Pearson, Carlisle. J Olt N KELM', :Thowditch, dealer and Chapman, to surrenikte, September 16, t, and OcAuber 1,0, a: tauven, at Guildhall. Attornel, right, Dow- THE NATIONAL REGISTER. DIVIDENDS, Sept. '22. haste ILLk^r, Dudley, Nt nrceßter, linen-draper, at twelve, at the Sw iu Lin and note!, iioi-stree, Birmingham. 25. Ed% artl Stan:aim', Yockotrcet, Commercial-road, floupfe.ctor, at twelve, :it Supt. 20, Willi:LIB Prigs, Ipswich, S letaaller, at eleven, at the White Uncle, ll)swicb. ti p. io .1.4 e tin Go npert hell, Lw,don. shopkeeper, at ten at Guild. Sept. 114>p:this, Leman-st met, Goodman's Fields, silk throwers, at tr.), at Guildhall. Sept. Yi. Th(nna. Je:min and Dick itlFollJenn ings, Spading, Lincoln, bank - eq. at tell, at the White ILO Spalding. Sept. Thomas tiuittod, Cravea-street, Strand, whit-merchant, at ten, at Guil_ _ 0-t. 7. John Henry S c hneider, Buw-lanu, London, tnercbaut, at eleven, at (Aladin% • Sept. 2t. Anthony Call rns, Mile-end-road, Middlesex, ship-owner, at twelve, at Guildhall. Set. 21. Henry William Lawson, Liverpool, draper, at eleven, at the Catlin Lion, Dale-attott, Liverpool. Nov. 11. John rrell, llai 1 atone, Kent, itunin.tager, at tweA.:, .tt han, London. John %Lite, Cravan•bui!!in;s, City-road, .nerchanf, at ten, at Guiidbail. Nov. 11. Roderick Niackeuzie, King'i Arms-jard, merchant, at twelve, at Gu1149.a11. Oct. I. Thomas Hohnea, Horsham, surrey, nurseryman, at ta eive, at Guild , . hall, London. Oat. I. Joint Fermer, Lawrence-lope, wholesale linen-draper, at twelve, at Guildhall. Oct. 7. /James Arbonin, Hart-street, Crutched-friars, wino-rolikbant, at twelve, at Guildhall. Oct. 7. John Baster, Strand, Middlesex, tailor, at twelvelat Guildhall, Loadou, cr.wriFICATES —SEPT. 19. Joseph nankin, Holloway, Middle-iex, builder—Joseph Dodds, Alslertgate struct, roldouith—James °tries, Bungay, Sattolit, slaapkeepor—Chsrles ilks Birmingham, stationer. S.IILTRIMrs LO.l DOA GIZETTE. Downing-street, .`rpl. 2, 1809. A dispatch, of which the following is a copy, wig, on the 30th ult. received at the Office of Lord Viscount C st'r 'h, our of his Majesty': Principal Secretaries of State, f om ;PliPral Lora V iscauut Wellington, dated Dek•ytos; fith Aug. MY Luau, Deley toga, A .8, 1809. I apprized your Lordship on the Ist inst. of the dxstoce of a French corps towards the Puer to de Banos. and oft e probable embarrassments to the operations of the antis', hie,. iiu “At at Plasencia would occasion ; ano these eml;arrassme ..3 ita,viug since exissed to a degree so considerable, as to oblige us to fall `back, and to take up a defensive position on the Tagus, I am in duced to trouhle you wore at length w Winn account of what has passed upon this subject. When 1 entered Spain. I had a cora mi!utcation with General Cuesta, through Sir Robert Wilson and Colonel Roche. respecting the occupa.tion of the Puerto de Banos and the Puerto de Perales, the former of which, it was at last settled, should be held by a corps to be formed under the Marquis de la Reyna, to consist of two battalioas from General Cuesta's army, and two from Bejar; and that the Puerto de Pestles was to be taken care of by the Duque del Parque, by detachments from the garrison of Unclad Rodrigo. I doubted of the capacity of the garrison of Ciudad Rodrigo to make the detachmentuo the latter, but so little of the eff-mtual occupation of the former, that in writing to Marshal Bereiford on toe 17th July, I desired him tw look to the-Puerto dePerales, but that I considered Banos as secure, as appears by the extract of my let ter which 1 inclose. On the 20th intelligence wag received at Talavera, that 12,000 ratioos hail been ordered at Fuente Doenos for the 213th, and 24000 at Los Santos for the same day, for a French corps, which it was believed was on its march towards the Puerto de Banos. General Cuesta expressed some anxiety respecting this past s and sent me a message to propose that Sir Robert& Wilson should be sent there with his corps. Sir Robert was on that day at Talavera, but his carps was i 2 the mountains tow ar)s Escalona ; and as he had 'already made himself very useful in that quarter, and had been near Madrid, w hic'i I was desirous of keepio.; up, I proposed that a Spanish corps should he sent to Banos without loss of time. 1 could not prevail with fleneral Cuesta, although he cer tain! v admitted the necessity of a reinforcement whet' he pro. posed that Sir Hobert should be sent to Banos ;- nod. he was equally sensible with myself, of the benefit to be derived to the cause, from sending Sir Itobert h:ic id Escalona. At this time we had nn former intelligence of the enemy's advance, than •that the rations were ordered ; and t had hopes that the enemy might he deterred from advancit.g, by the intelligence of our success on the 2Sth, and th:a the troops in the Puerto might make some defence ; and that inaltr these circumstances it was nut dcsirahle to divert Sir Robert Wilsou from Escalona. On the 300, however, 1 renewed my application to Fileiserat Cuesta,, to send there a Spanish division of sufficient strength, its a letter to iteneral O'Donugnue, of %% 'zilch I inciose a copy, but without ellect ; and he did nut detach (;en. Itaiisecourt till the inociiiii4 of the 2(1 1 4,ft.er we had heard-that the enemy had enter ! . ed Bejar, and it was obvious that the troops in the Puerto would wake no defence. Ott the 2:1 we received accounts, that tlw .)nealy. had entered Plasencia itt two columns. The Martinis de la lieyoa,. *whose two battalions consisted of only 6(.1;) tarn, w only it). rounds of ammunition each tuna; retired from the. Puerto and tenni Plasentia, without tiring, shut, and went to the bridge of Almarez, which; be declared that he intended to remove ; the no nillions of Briar dispersed without 119,.;:ing any reei-aa. The 4 , 70 4 4.. 44 .4.,P'" "ton tfr Of