The National Register. — London, England, 1808-01-10 00:00:00

RPM' J, ^ . TIIE PRINCE OF ASTURIAS. Letters received by the vessel from Holland, have furnished ab with some intelligence from Spain. It is said, that the con duct of the Prince of Asturias underwent an official investigation relative to the plot of which be was accused, before be received the King's pardon; and in the Dutch letters an account is given of the Prince's examination, in which he certainly appears to more advantage than in the correspondence which was pub lished in the French Papers. Instead of acknowledging any offence, his Royal Highness is said io have vindicated himself in a very manly manner, and with considerable ingenuity. The examination of the Prince, which took place before the Cont mission appointed to inquire into the Conspiracy, was very short. Four questions were put to him, which, with their an swers, were to the following effect : Q Is it true that your Royal Ilighneu has conspired against the life of your Royal Father and King? A. I am a Christian; I fear Cod, and cannot but shudder at the mention of an accusation so horrible. Such a thought never entered my mind. Q. What use did you mean to make of the cyphers of corre speadence found in the lining of sour coat. A. The cyphers you speak of were found the first day I wore that dress. Those who made the coat can best answer your question. Q. For what purpose did your Royal Highness correspond with the Emperor Napoleon, and what was the object of that correspondence. A. l have no hesitation in owning that I have kept up a correspondence with that august Sovereign, but it contained nothing pre,iiidicial to the interests of my country, and nothing that could provoke the displeasure of my Royal Father the Icing. Q. Why did your Royal Highness order, and keep ready, four horses, andel circumstances which indicated an intention to escape ? A. It is true the horses were ordered to be kept in readiness, h ut !hi. IN as not done with the: intention of flying from Spain, Dia for the purpo'e of joining the French army after which I intended to make known to my tioal Father the unhappy situ ation tow hick the country is reduced, by the truly had admi nistration and despotic mea l / 4 ure, of the Prince of Peace. -z ~-~-., THE NATIONAL AMSTER, JAN, HI" which he wished never to continue less than one hour, or to exceed two—and that it should correspond with Lord Chatham's notion of a battle, " it should be short, sharp, and decisive." Box' s celebcated Gulley has just entered into a pub lic-house in the parish of St. Clement Danes, and consequeutly he has not yet gone into a regular course of training, prepara tory to his second combat with Gregson. The latter is is pre fect health and full vigour of body, and be cuatiattes in careful training, under the management of his original trainer, Rich mond, the black, pear Ilampstead. There are no other matches made or in agitation. The betting regarding the contest between Gulley and Gregson is five and six to four on Gulley, and even betting that he heats Cregson in less time than he did at New market, and two to one on the first fracture. A very severe battle was fought near Clifton, on Monday, between two expert bruisers, ribose fame has not yet attracted the notice of the town amateurs. The mimes of the parties were Gore and Maddox, and the battle was for a purse of fifteen guineas. In science it was nearly equal to that which was di,- played by young Belcher and Dutch Sam, and the conflict w;!‘ as sanguinary as the late battle between Gulley and Gregson, After an hour's real fighting, Gore was carried off as the victor, he being unable to walk, and perhaps worse beaten than evil was witnessed in a wi^ti •r. MILITARY MOVEMENTS, TUE GUARDS Pitalt LIMY. HO RAFT AM, JAN. 7.—Yesterday afternoon a division of the Ist Regiment of Foot (Wards, consisting of upwards of iOO oleo, under the command of Lord Frederii•l‘ Bentinck, Lord TYr connel, Colonel Askew, and several other Officers, marched in from Petworth in a most uncoralbrtable condition, the road. br ing dreadfully heavy and foul,from the late rains. The Officers and men bore every appearance of fatigue and disorder in their .elothes and Accoutresocut,., While stapes of.j,ny: seemed to m an tle in their faces, on again touching British ground, Sicily has been, for a length of time, the scene of their operations, in ond about the neighbourhood of Syracuse. Lord Frederick Ben tinek's dress, and particularly his hut burr proof to iii. having literally marched from Portsmouth (the place w here the troops disembarked), the loiter being nearly worn off his feet,' hays ing, with a humanity worthy the imitation of ever. British soldier, resigned Ms hen.e for the arrommtskition of the weak and fatigued, and the animal quietly briagiog up the rear with three little drummer boys on his back, Lords Tyrconnel and F. lientinck dined with Colonel Illigh at Nuthurt Lodge, previous to which, the latter, before he made t!ie slightest alteration in his dross, saw the sick and fatigued attended to, anti the roes comfortably settled in their quarters. The division marched this morning for Cucktield, on their way to Deal Barracks. This afternonc four companies more, of the same regiment, marched in for the same route, tinder the com mand of Colonels Drummond, Latnbcrt, and Donson. The force which sailed It ith Sir Samuel 'loud end Genera Ilercsford, am:meted to 3794 effective men.—At consisted of the Stl Foot, or Burs, 11,00 men : 11th, 1000; 25th, WO: 63d, 1460; to these were added two Companies of Artillery, making 214 men. Fourteen artificers were also attached to them. The old 25t1h regiment of infaetry, tamely called the Edin burgh regiment, and now under the command of Lieutenant- Colonel Ainslie, passed through Newcastle, on Tuesday se'n night, on their way to Edinburgh Castle. This is the regiment formerly called Leven's 251 h, in which the story of Le Fevre, Lieutenant of that regiment, by Sterne, originated, On Saturday Fe'nn igh t instructions were received by the General Officer commanding in the Curk District, to order the disembarkation of the Infantry Regiments and Artillery, which had arrived in that harbour from Monte Video. The regiments and their strength, according to the return supplied by the transports composing the fleet, were as follow Artil lers, Col. Scull, 615 men; sth Foot, Col. Davy, 810; 34itil, Col. Hume, 756; SSth, ('ol, Nugent, 637; 40th, Col. Browne % 867 ; 45th. t*ol. (;arde, 112 men. The disembarkation of the troops intended to remain for the present in Ireland, has taken place. The sth Foot proceeded from Monkstown, where they landed, to Kinsale, and replaced ihe 2d Battalion of the same Regiment, which arrived here yesterday on its route to Fermoy. The 38th proceeded to Bandon, and replaced the Second Battalion of the 38th, which morchod to Mallow, The 30th and 45th are •to duty it, this garriboa 3 from which the Louth h i ed Witte- SPORTING INTY,LLIGENCIS, FON-IPTUNTING iv tins:T.--The Lodge hounds are now in the highest vigour, or to speak technically, well blood ed. They closed the sport of the last year in very good sty le, notwithstanding the sky was stormy and the day far advanced before they found the fpx. In drawing the last co‘er, Baker* Pole, the bounds struck upon the drag at a quarter before two, and in a few moments the fox broke nwas, in view of the field, with the hounds close al him. His first point was up wind for Henneker Earth, across Brorkeden. Slopped out there he instantly turned down the wind for IN illow Wood. and skirting Dully, the hounds were so near him he dared not try the earth. Ile then stretched acrov, w ith a side wind, iu a line with Crome's Earth ; but the hounds again gaiaing upon biro, he turned down the whole extent of King's down Wood, for Shrubber's Earth. Here he was again bodked, and run for the earth opposite Lineted Lodge; at this moment some of the horsemen rode into the hounds and Isrnu;:lit them to a check : .Jerry, however, made a good and quirk cast down wind, and immediately recovered the seem. The hounds now went away with a good head across Newberry, Petw nod, and Skuddington, into Mr. Lake's Chesnut I'lantation. Here we all looked very dismal, lest he should go to ground in the rabbit burrows ; but, as if despising a safet i y that he did not owe to his own powers, he went gal lantly across the open country to Barling's Wood. Fearing that he was running fur Tynhain Great Earth, which was open, we sent the whipprr-M forward, at speed, to prevent, if possible, this intention. Ile had seareely reached it when the fox came up, and, seeing the whipper-in, passed on to Rascal's Mount, and thence into Tynham Osiers. After gokng half over the bed be returned, broite across tiw marsh, and run the road towards Cannon Mill,. There tie r; as nest by a labourer and turned, completely exhausted, lobo tae itedi,e. The him& being now nearly up to him, he made a last effort of speed and courage, and we killed him in view in Brian's Orchard. This chace Lsted, without interruption, ;:n hour and twenty-eight minutes, anti cootpliatly lkeitfurd's ideas of a fox chace, IP I r IF p .~