The National Register. — London, England, 1809-01-22 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. JAN. t 2• Trip foilowing correspondence reached us yesterday af ternoon t—, CoRVNN A, JAN, 6..—The retreat of the English army is con firmed. At le•nictnek yesterday, the army had assembled Lugo, with the exception of General Frazer's division, which had made a considerable advance towards Vigo, but was ordered to fall back to the assistance of the main body, a battle being hourly expected. Benevente has• been burnt, and the French threaten Astorga with the same fate. At both these places th' F.aglish prisoners have been murdered by Buonaparte.— Previous to the assetullly of the English at Lugo the ca valry which covered the retreat, assisted by the flying ar tillery, had thrice repulsed the enemy, consisting of •.1.000 cavalry, and rendered it completely incompetent to act again by itself. co au N NA, JAN. 13. The wliple of the English Army effected a retreat to this place and its vicinity, on thp 11th, in the evening. tieneral Bere , ford, however, occopies the heights near Burgos, with a corps of ahout 5000 men, oho are pits efilplq 3 pd in fortifying that position. Whilst at Lugo, Sir J. Moore drew up his army in order of battle, invitiag ttie attack, %villa) was 'however declined by him. JAN. 1. The staff equipage of the English arrived here on the 7th, but the head quarters of that army are still at Lugo. On the aftentonn of the tith, the enemy made a paitial 'attack no tbe English position. but were repuked with the lOss pfi sooabout men ; that of the English being but. trifing. The sea batteries here have been dismantled, iq order that they might not furnish the enemy with me ins cif a n noyance. The enemy have two columns on their march to Portugal : one for Lisbon by Estramadura and Elvtts the other had reached Zamora on the 15th, on its way to Oporto. The Nonpariel schooner arrived on Wednesday at mouth from Cadiz, from whence she sailed on the Sth inst. She is said 'to have brought letters containing an account of a defeat sustained by the Spaniards near Barcelona. Letters from Alicant of the 24th December; and from Tarragona of the 1911), state the 4atue fagt.• . We have grounds, how pier, for disbelieving the authenticity of this statement` because we have authority for stating that no such event was known on the 4th inst. at Cadiz. On the contrary, the opinion was prevalent there at that time, that Barcelona was on the point . of surrendering ; and that the enemy were not in competent force in Catalonia to contend with -24..'"Jhe Patriots. The followint letter fr o m C a diz, d a ted an. 4; gives some satisfactory information relative to Spain : " Bonaparte left Madrid on the22d December, with 19,000 pen, in two divisions. " The Marquis de la Romana had dislodged the French from Palencia. W hen the laSt actoutits . were received front him, his head-quarters were at Carrion de la's C;indes Wl' army amounted to 32,000. ,tf The Dt4lce of I afantado's army consisted of 31,000 infantry and 3000 cavalry, the van of which occupied Terancon, 40 miles from Madrid. It amounts to. 12,000 men, and had been recently reinforced by 4000 picked .troops. " We have very good news frolocatalonia. " Three officers, belonging to the Duke of Infantado"s army. have been shot, for uttering ex pressions calculated and designed. to dishearten the soldiers. This ismie of the perfidious arti fi ce which the French employ to excite insubordination, and to avail themselves of the •confte4on thus iitroduced among the troops. This was actually the case with Castinos's army, and was the sole cause of itsdispersion. One of the Colonels in that army stated in a letter, written immediately after the etigake- Ment, that it was defeated entirely in consequence of the causes just mentioned, and that this statement was confirmed by the continued arrival of many of the officers and soldiers at Caro lina and the places adjacent. The army of Somosierra was in the same situation ; so that it is' to disorder and insubordination in. the ranks of their opponents that the French are indebted for the progress they have hitherto made. But they will no longer have the henefit of such .an auxiliary, as a system of rigorous military discipline has been established, and • all those Com manders, whose principles were suspicious. have been dismissed. Among Oelwis Galluzu, who suffered the enemy, to the tumlber of 8000, to penetrate by the bridges of A szoisispo and . Almaear, though the latter Was fortified w,ith, tweive 24-pounders, and fitaciuuß pieces of canner; of smaller calibie, -and. warded by a late of 9000 men. . TM; olScer u already in StvklAc k ni are , . also Cavallo', and his Aides-de-Camp, Armentero, Montusa, Pinillos, itmtalde, and Aguirre. They are all of them at the C.)nvent of St. ('eronimu, to which ihey were escorted by the any:o Carnbinerrs, :mother 13rigadier-General has also ar- • rived there, who was sent thither in custody by the puke of LifautadO. " In La Mancha the French rowing parties have suffered severely. In one town only, 200 cuirassiers were taken, and put tq death." latelligunee from Vieppa, states, that a new Revolution had broke out in the Capital of the Ottoman Empire. The Janissaries who have shewed a manifest aversion to the introduction of European tactics, and who eagerly wished to recover that influence they lost through the firmness of m BAIRACT+R, have given at last 'vio lent proofs of their steady determination to resist every attempt to salutary *reform, and excited 4 general. revolt, which raged from the lath to the 16th November, through all the streets 'of Constantinople. They made a violent attack on the starters, occupied by • the troops, organised in the Epropean m4nuer, and succeeded, it is said, in cutting them all to pieces. On the 19th, the dead body of an unknown Mussulman of rank that had been destroyed, was found in a subterra nean vault in 1.1 n: Palace of Sultan Mahomet. It was shp posed to be that of Mustapha Rairactar t who, however, as IS believed by well-informed persons, has safely effected his escape to Rudschuck, The Grand Seignior Mahomet has now appointed Mahn met Aga provisional Grand Vizier. The exiled Said Aly is again appointed Captain Paella, and °haled Effendi re mains as Minister for Foreign Aft - airs. The Reis :Effendi, and lOaja Bey, also retain - their former rank . It appears that the French have evacuated Berlin at' lad. Previous to that event, Davoust, who command's thst French force in Ger.nany, addressed a letter to St. Hilaire t;overnor of Berlin, in a nauseous strain of affected mora' lity, in which this fellow, the accomplice in the murders' rapine, and devastation, ofhis Corsican master, speaks oy Frei! :1; respect for the property and independence of thf cuutries they occupied I A circumstance which accele-e rated the departure of the enemy was 4 secret association organised precisely on the same plan as that during the disorders in Ireland. We hope its object was different ; and that the yooths of Prussia had entered into these s,,lern4 and secret engagements for the purpose of exterminating their savage oppressors. A packet, the Pownshtnd, is arrived at Falmouth frem the Brazils ? after au uncommonly quick passage. She galled from Rio ,Janeiro on the 2d of December. The commer cial intellig ence received by her is of some importance; the politica ranch .More so. It is said that the markers of the Brazils have been almost glutted with British merchan dize, and that the Goiernment has not given the facilities to commerce that were expected. We shall not on the authority of over-sanguine and disappointed spectators, presume. to arraign the policy of the emigrant Govern ment, which we are persuaded will acquit itself of the debt Of obligation that is due to England. If we were to listen to the clarnours'of speculators, we should never know year's repose.. The Morning Star of Plymouth, which was appointed as a Cartel to carry over about twenty Franch Gentlemen and Ladies to Morlaix. On Saturday last she went op into Mill Bay for the purpose of taking them on board—a cot which belonged to one of the passengers was in Mill Prison, and was to be taken to Sandy Cove beach, to be taken on board. A potter being employed on the occasion, took the cot with its contents on his back, and had not pro ceeded far before he felt-something move within which so much alarmed him that he itnmediately threw it off his 4 back and made off. Some soldiers beim' , witness - to the transaction, and seeing the porter escape with so much agility. proceeded to open it, and it proved to he .a French prisoner very securely sewed up, with a hole made for him to breathe. Ile.was taken from the cot, and guarded to his former habitation in Mill Prison. On 'tnesday Bread rose One Penny in the Peck Loaf. Al [Z