The National Register. — London, England, 1812-02-23 00:00:00

II Igt band they will see the PRINCE on' the eve ('f in,suming the awful duty imposed upon him, attempting to recon cile men of all parties, for the general welfare of the • Empire. Condescending even to appeal, in order to attain that desirable object, to those motives personal friendship so often, so loudly professed by " those per sons with whom the early habits ef his public life had been formed. He has no predilection to indulge—no xesentment to gratify.—No objects to attain, but such as were common to the whole Empire; and if such was his conduct, he flattered himself he should meet with the support of Parliament, and of a candid and enlightened na.. tion." We trust that such an appeal will 410 t be made in vain. We trust that Parliament and the Nation will show the sense they entertain of tile arrogant pretensions of an Ari stocratical Junta, the members of which - pretending to exclusive talents, and exclusive patriotism, deny their services to their country, in a moment of the utmost dan ger ; who were ready to barter their talents, whatever they snaybe,for political inflaence,require a pledge before hand, from their PRINCE, for wheat], but ten short days ago, they professed the most unbounded devotion ; who, stepping between the PRINCE and a large portion of his Royal Father's subjects, assumed beforehand the sole merit of the indulgences which it may be thought proper to grant beFeafter to the Roman Catholics. Tlnne are their clients, fotoooth ! and from being unlicensed vdvocates, they strut between Parliament and the Patecn on the one band, and the Roman Catholics •n the other, as mediators, armed - with full powers, to enforce bedience. We might carry this subject to almost any length ; we Inslc Lord GRENVILLE what be thinks now of those mutual con cessions, &c. which he so pompously maintained were absolutely necessary ? Did the Irish Roman Catholics, by . open defiance to the law, render those concessions unne cessary on their side ? But we want room to atgne with I those prof and politi , inns, and we only w ast to induce the people at large to reflect on their conclu:a. 1 SPAIN i_til) PGRTVGAL. letter which we received yesterday from a distin guished Officer in our army, dared Fuenies d'Onore, on, the Mit ult. says, ,4 1,,1ARW),. - r was at Saiamanca when we took Ciudad Rodrigo—linding lie wr...; too late, and that to fight us after we had get it might make bad worse, he retired again t*,wards Valladolid. We shall remain here a few days, to ascertain that he is too far off to return again, and our division will Ilion march oil' to .A.brantes. Our DCXI operation wilt be the siege of Ba dajoz. I am just going to Gallegos, to attend the sale 01 poor General Cli-M.3I;I:D'S effects, who (Led five days ago._ Major NAPIER is doing well." A Cadiz Mail arrived on Wednesday, \yid' letters and pa pers .from that city to the 4 . 11 instant. `We learn from the Li , ,;bon Parers, that Earl WI:JIANG. TON had b. en created a Grandee of Spain of the first Or der, w ith the title of Duke of CIUDAD RODIt !It°. At the d ate of the dispatch, the .29th January, his Lordship had his head-quarters pt Gallegos.; but it WAS said that he rne4t r to proceed immediately to the scuth, with a divi sion of his army to -reduce Badajos, the garrison of THE NATTOIkIAL RECTSTf.R. FRENCH PAPERS. F Fsß which is represented in a very feeble state. his stated in private letters, that he had actually set out and ar rived at Abrantes on the 4th. It will be learnt with satisfaction, that Colonel SKER RETT, who so successfully defended Tarifa, is to embark with two regiments at Cadiz, to proceed to Alicant, to assist in the defence of that important place. On the 27th ult. the Couut of FEItNAN NUNEZ, Duke of MovruLLANo, was appointed to succeed the Duke del IN FAN lAD°, as Ambassador Extrardinary and Pleni potentiary to the Court of London. On Wednesday night French Papers were received to the 10th instant. They contain, among other articles, se veral reports from MA nmoNT,,,including an account of the taking of Ciudad Rodrigo. His first, which is dated Val. ladolid, January 16, mentions the advance of the English army, and the investment of the fortress, and states, that, having called to his aid two divisions of the army of the North, and BONNET'S division from the Asturias, he would have a force of 60,000 men, with which he would march against the enemy. His army would be united on the 21st, and then he observes to BEWIIIIER, 66 you may ex pect happy and glorious events for the' . French arms."— How soon and how greatly he was disappointed, his sub sequent communications manifest. His second report, dated from Salamanca on the 18th, gives an account of . the suburbs of Ciudad Rodrigo and the out-works he had constructed being carried by surprise on the 10th. These works he had expected would have required a siege of eight or ten days. The third report announces the fall of the fortress. « There is (says MAJtmovr) in this event something so incomprehensible, that it will nut pet mit my self to make - any observations on it." In the itioniteur of t.bv 11th instant. are friven. reports from th e other armies in Spain. It is stated, that mote than forty thousand English rpuskets were found in Va lencia ; the disarming of the militia .of which, however, is said to be rapidly carrying irito.efltct,.#o the whole is made subject to the Emperor of the Trench. Under the head of Army of the South," we have an ae-eount of the proceedings against Tariffa, and their failure attributed to neglect in ni-t having sounded the fusses, and the conti. nu:il rains, which rendered the arrival of provisions int. ossibl.^. A long report from General DECAEN) in Cata. lonia,,states,!that having been informed the enemy had assembled the greater part of his forces in the vicinity of Tarragona, and, with the assistance of the English in .. tifflding to insult that fortress, he marched against and ! defeated them, with the loss of 2000 men in killed, wounded, and prisoners, and all their artillery. General IiLAKI arrived at Paris on the f3d instant, and the first colnmn of prisoners from Valencia, said to consist of 1600 officers, have also reached that capital. In a let. ter from Madrid, it is asserted, that General MAUI is shut up in Alicant, and that the gartison consists of only 2000 men. The Flench troops under BoNxrcr have again evacuated Gijon, Oviedo, ard the whole of the Asturias. The . evacuation of Oviedo. took place on- the .2.`3d ult. and is supposed to have been occasioned by di•spatches which BONNET had received, requiring him to join - 11$1ARAIONT with all expedition. The new Reruhlie of Venezuela has isued licenses for, a direct trade with Tortola, and seine other of our West India Colonies. F