The National Register. — London, England, 1814-03-06 00:00:00

MARCH G. Bless us I how 'fearful of giving offence to the Tyrant, lie must be spoken of in smooth, soft language, " in holiday and lady terms," lest perchance he should take offence." This would be very well, did not this very same Courier, twelve lines lower, insert the following official declaratiGn, which, we trust, will teach it to be a little less positive in future, in order to conceal it; ignorance: " We are . requested to state that the proclamation, in serted in all the Morning Papers of this day, and in our own, from the Dutch Papers, attributed to the Crown Prince, is a fabrication ; uo other having been addressed to the French by his Royal 'Highness than the one we pu blished yesterday, dated from Cologne, February 12, 1314 (Courier; March 5.) OFFIC,I A L BULLETIN. WAR DEPARTMENT, MARCH 42 1814. " The Walsingham packet, Captain Bullock, is arrived from Passages. She brings no dispatches from Lord Wel lingtem ; nor any returns of his Army. " It appears, by private letters and verbal accounts, that the right wing of the army was put in motion about the 13th ult. and had moved upon St. Palais, and. from thence to the Gave d'Oleron, on which river the British troops were established on the i Bth. " Lott' Wellington had returned to the left of his army, and it is supposed that operations upon the Lower Adour commenced on the 23d." Lord Wellington had, it is said, a narrow escape in a re connoissance with Sir Rowland Hill, a ball from a battery having passed within a foot of his Lordship, and then killed Sir Rowland's horse. Letters from the French coast state, that king Ferdinand set off from Valency on the 22d, for Spain, with his uncle and brither; and that he is released without any condition. The following interesting intelligence has just reached us from Spain. It is a good proof of the spirit of the people of that country. Lxtract of a letter from Vittoria, dated Feb. 13 1. " This town is at present in a state of the greatest commotion; some lives have been already lost, and there is no knowing where this sanguinary tumult may end. The cause is as follows : " The " Vittoria Gazette " of yesterday, which I enclose, contained the treaty of peace signed by the Duke de S. Carlos, on the part of Ferdinand, and the Count de Laforest on the part of Buonaparte. Towards the middle of the day some waggons were observed entering the town, containing futnituie and other property, and it was found to - belong to some of the nobility, who had followed the fortunes of the French, and had fled with them to France, but who, having received a passport signed by Ferdinand, had thought fit to return to their houses in this town. The inhabitants, however, who had suffered much from the con- - tributions levied on them by the French, and being exas perated to see these agents of Buonaparte returning to en joy the fruits of the efforts made by the Patriots, and recol lecting that whilst they were suffering under French tyran ny and oppression, these Nobles were 'exempted from taxes, &c. rose in several parts of the town, broke into the different houses inhabited by families who wore thought to favour the French, plundered then) of all the property they con tained, and but for the interference of the military force, would have tnassacred the inhabitant.. " Should any event of importance take rlace, I shall not fail to communicate it:' THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 153 CAPTURE OF THE CLORINDL—The following is an extract or a pi ivate letter from an Officer of the Emotes, giving particnlars that are not noticed in the official account in last night's Gazette " PLYMOUTH SoUND, MARCH e.--T write in the mi►l•t of bluott and brains, and foetid carnage of every description. We fell in with the Clorinde on the 15th ultimo, and brought her to action at five p.m. Her first broadside carried away our masts; iu the se cond our gallant Captain received a severe wound in the arm ; his breast was wounded at the same time ; he still kept the deck, di• reefing, the attendance of the Surgeon to every one else in prefer ence to himself, till he fainted away from the loss of blood ; when he was carried down by force, still cheering his brave crew, wh• h•id by this time completely dismasted her opponent; and by seven o'clock, when the firing ceased, she was quite a log upon the water. She had not returned our four last fires, and we supposed she had •truck We therefore ceased our fire to look after what she had done; but it was so dark that we could not see her. We immedi ately set about getting up jury-masts and repairing our canvas and rigging, so as to made say, lest she should escape us in thenight. About one we fell in with her again, and gave her three cheers, pre paring for another hrnad•ide, when she hailed, ind declared herself our prize. The Dryad and Achates were then in sight, and we left her to their charge. Her loss was very great ; her Captain also was wounded in the thigh in the early part of the action. Our loss is '2O killed and 40 wounded ; ine!nding three Midshipmen anda Lientenant of marines. The Clorinde has been out fonr months on the coast of Africa, had taken 12 prizes, and is supposed to be the richest French crnizer that has been on the seas for a long time ; • but it is said she threw a great deal of gold dust overboard in the ! night. I understand that the Clorinde is now in sight, in tow of the Dryad and Achates, coining into the Sound, whither we made the hest of our way after the action. Capt. Phillimere is doing well ; his arm will, I boy," be saved.* Private letters from Holland state, that the traitor Ver— huel has fixed a limited time to give up the Texel fleet, provided the conntry continued ,in possession of its present Sqwereign. He has solemnly protested that he will burn the whole of the shipping in case measures are taken to compel him to surrender. Sixty Frenchmen arc on board the ships for the purpose of carrying into execution any orders of the Admiral for their destruction. The intelligence of Buonaparte's • expulsion from Germany was celebrated by public rejoicings in several parts of the United States of America. A British sailor who lately made his escape from A mico , , to,which be had been removed from Besancon, reached tow:i this week ; be states that several hundreds of the Briti.it prisoners had found means to make their escape, the diffi culty of accomplishing such attempts being in a great degree removed by the present confused stale of France. Letters from Old Mexico, of the 20th of October, a; prize us of an epidemic disorder which had raged in the city many months with great violence. The vigorous measures subsequently adopted. had destroyed the contagion in some districts, and reduced its power in others ; hut, up to thr! 10th of October. it was ascertained that' 26,00 p,rsong, or one seventh of the population of Mexico, had, through instrumentality, been consigned to the tomb. Wednesday, being St. David's Day, and the hundredth anniversary of the Welch Charity, in Gray's-Inn lane, tin. same was observed as a Jubilee day. The Officers awl Patrons of the Charity. after accompanying the children in procession, and hearing divine service in St. Martin: Church, proceeded to the Freemasons' Tavern, where an excellent dinner was provided, of which between 700 and SOO persons partook ; Earl Percy in the chair, with th:' Duke of Kent on his right and the Bishop of Chester on his. I LeCt. The collection was very considerable. ?V I - - w-- ~.~.