The National Register. — London, England, 1811-08-25 00:00:00

40 0 11111 1 •11■111ftlip 41.• ordered to reinforce the French in Badajos place, upon knowing General Mgmont ,Diary, July 24.) MAGAS ON THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OE ASTORGA),. JULY I. Our head-quarters are established in this place, and our advanced parties pushed forward as far as Benevente, without . the enemy daring to molest them. Bessieres has but few troops, and it is probable he will find himself obliged to abandon all these points. We shall shortly expect to find Leao free from the 3,500 troops who garrison it. in Orhigo they have five pieces of artillery. ,Numbers French desert daily. On the 28th there was a trifling action between the advanced posts, when we took 10 prisont.rs--(Lisbon Gazette, Jul!) 24.) VILLAYRANCA DEL VIFRGO, JULY 6:—The French guard the bridge of Lea() with 2,500 men. We expect they will shortly retire, because they are wanted at Ciudad Rodrigo, This latter city is in great want of provisions.—(Spine Paper.) AMERICAN PAPERS. RELEASE OF AMERICAN PROPERTY. BALTIMORE, Joey 17. Whilst, with every good American, we arc bound to rejoice at even a remote appearance fsti the release of any property of our fellow-citizens, held by Buonaparte in sequestration, we are sorry to • find that the amount designated in use intelligence furnished by our Correspondent at New York, does not embrace a greater class of French spoliations. The cargoes not covered by licenses, which arrived in France after the Ist of November last, consisted almost exclusively of fish and cotton, transported In small fast•sailing vessels, which would not admit of stowage .to any valuable amount. All the property, therefore, promised to be restored, does not amount probably to more than one hundred thousand doUars, certainly not to two hundred thou sand dollars, for the release, should it ever be converted from the promise of a faithless despot into a fact, is confined to such American vessels as arrived in France subsequent to the Ist o f November, and which have been su fortunate as in the passage not to have become obnoxious to the operations of the Berlin, Milan, and Bayonne decrees. Nor dots the promise inelude the restoration of what was seized under the Rambouillet de cree, amounting to more than forty million, of dollars; it dues not even contemplate compensation for the many valuable ves sels and cargoes burnt and sunk under Buonaparte's orders.— Should, therefore, the full amount of what is now promised to be restored, be really extricated from the tyrant's gripe, it can not be considered as any fair pledge of good faith, but rather . designed for sinister purposes, to answer as the bait of further delusion, and to gain an opportunity of practising deceit upon a larger scale. For let it be carefully remarked and remembered, that no re . laxation or change in the French decrees is promised or hinted at. They remain, the solemn and repeated engagements to the contrary notwithstanding, in full force against as the funda mental law of France, never to be changed till England makes concessions, which she never will, unless she becomes indiffe rent to her own safety, and ready to surrender her Govern ment, her liberty, and every thing dear and inestimable to her inhabitants, into the hands of her revengeful and impla cable enemy. . We are disposed to consider this aspect towards a partial re storation of seized property, as having two objects principally in view:-Ist, to give colour and countenance to the co-opera tlng acts of our Government in the Continental System to which we have become parties in form ;—and 2d, to confuse, obstruct, and, if possible, prevent any settlement of our differences with Great Britain, to which the Freed' Government was invited by the departure of Mr. Foster on his mission. A little time will verify these suggestions; and should even . so inconsiderable an amount of property really return to the bands of its owners, it will be a cheap proof of Buonaparte's love, which will not fail to swell the hopes and quicken the zeal of his numerous retainers in and out of the Government. In the most favourable point of view, it can be considered as but a very trifling acknowledgment for the condescension ex ercised towards him in confiscating both British and American • property to a larger amount, under the retrospective Act of the last Session, commonly called the Non-Intercourse Law. And so we have another example of the cunning tyrant alternating • his treatment between chastisement and blandishments, in or der more certainly to secure compliance seith his will, but in both cases taking care to render the discipline costly to us alone. It is said, we know not on what authority, to be now in agi tation among many Protestant Dissenters of this country, to join the Catholics in Petitions to the Legislature for the removal of all political disabilities on account of religion. AMERICA. The American Papers contain the following intelligence from Sou:h . America, which is of a More recent date than any which has hitherto reached this country. " By the arrival of the ship Northern Ztikertres, Capt. THORN DIKE, from Monte Video, a letter has b ee n r e c e ived at the Exchange Coffee-h )use, irorn -r. ...arrnew BRIDGE, dated 20th May, giving.a detailed account of the military transactions in that country. By this letter it appears, that on the 17th and 18th of May, another battle was finight betwen the Royalists of Monte Video and the ludpendents of Buenos Ayres at Piedras" about nine miles distant from Monte Video; whictl terminated so decidedly in favour of the Inderndents, that the few of the other party who survived, fled to the city, an d took with them all the cattle, horses and sheep they could collect in tVir retreat. " As the besiegers are without heavy cannon, and the city of Monte Video well fortified towards the land, it was expected the inhabitants would be enabled to defend themselves, unless a strong spirit of disaffection to the Royal cause should manifest itself ; in which case the whole country must fall under the sway of the Independents, of which the Buenos-Ayrians are the leaders. " The American trade has been subject to every vexation at that place. Vessels from Buenos .Ayres, even though arrived at that place previous to its being declared in a state of blockade, were, on their egress, liable to capture by the Monte Video cruisers, and sent in to pay a heavy export duty, which had al ready been paid at Buenos Ayres. Sales were very dull, and effected with difficulty, while the duties were unreasonably high, and the produce of the country at a most exorbitant price. We furthermore had every reason to fear ' that if the intestine dissensions of the Province had not rendered it inexpedient,that the American property would have been confiscated, as the in vasion of Florida was known, and tAused much invectives from all ranks of people,' and in fact the propriety of the measure had been agitatt.l. by Government." SUMMER ASSIZES. CRIM. CON. CORNWALI..-BODMIN. FOOTE V. BAYLAY. Mr. Serjeant Lens and Mr. Dampier, Counsel for the plain tiff. Mr. Jekyll acid Mr. Egsfuril, Counsel for the defendant. Mr. Serjeant Lens stated the plaintiff's case. Mr. Foote is a Captain in the Navy, and married Mrs. Foote in the year MOO. In the year 1809, they came to reside at Saltash ; about three weeks after their removal to Saltash, Capt. Foote went to sea, leaving his wife and five children at that place. Some years pre viously to this, Captain and h I rs. Foote had formed an intimacy with Capt. Baylay, the present defendant, who resided also at Saltash, as a private Gentleman, and who engaged to pay every attention to Capt. Foote'b children during his absence. Soon after the sailing of Capt. Foote, it was observed that Capt. Bay lay was very assiduous in his attention to Mrs. Foote-, and that he frequented her house very much ; upan which Capt. Cook, a mutual friLnd of Capt. Foote and Capt. Baylay, spoke to the latter, and informed him that reports were in very general circu lation respecting the attention shown by him (Capt. Baylay) to Mrs. Foote, and requested him, as the friend of both parties, to discontinue these attentions. The defendant upon this declared that his attentions to Mrs. Foote were perfects) innocent, that he had never taken so much liberty even as to kiss her, and that his designs were ..vhally void of crhiinality. Some months af terwards, Capt. C'ou'a spoke again to Capt. Bayley on the same subject, when Capt. Baylay appeared dispkased at the inter ference of Capt. Cooke, and repliA rather nasti!y, " that where he had gohe once to Capt. Foote's house, he would now go twice." Capt. Cooke told him he bad better not do so, and left him. In this situation things remained until Capt. Foote returned tO Saltash in the month of January last, at which time it did not ap pear that he entertained any suspicion of the impropriety of his wife's conduct, till Mrs. Foote quitted her house on the night of the 20th February last, and went to that of the defendant, where she continued until the next morning. A iter waiting for therre turn of his wife to a late hour, Capt. Foote went to the house of Capt. Burkhead, a triend of his, whom he called from his bed, to assist in searching for her. They searched for her In vain, when not finding any truce of her, Capt. Foote and his friend retu rned i home. Early on the following morning, accomp an i ed by Capt. Burkhcal, he repaired again t..) the house of the defendant, and THE NATION A L. REGIsTER DS would not entyr tte I SOUTH had retired,--(LisboTi • 33