The National Register. — London, England, 1811-06-02 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL R WELLINGTON'S TRIUMPH,' AND PORTUGAL DELIVERED. ST A MEMBER 07 THE LONDON GAELIC SOCIETY. The blow is struck, the awful conflict's o'er, And shouts of triumph reach Britannia's shore, The haffl'd Chief of France in wild dismay, Resigns the honors of his former days ; And with his legions is by Wellesley driven, As clouds of locusts by the winds of Heaven. Unlike the warriors of a nobler age, His flight is mark'd with more than Vandal rage, By peasants murder'd and by towns in flame, Their ashes record Massena's shame; The smocking ruins are descry'd from a far, With all the horrors of his savage war ; The mountain streams run red with blood And mangled bodies choke each river's flood, While Lusitania's ravaged plains declare, The flying Gaul has left a desert there. Long shall the crimes of France in meary stana Recorded with the curse of every land ; But Britain's triumph like her honour pure, Shall to the utmost date of time endure; Loud as the thunder let the cannon sound, Proclaim the tidings to the realms around, Nations enslav'd by Gaul's oppressive power, Shall shake their chains with joy and bless the hour ; The very wretches who in silence wait The despot's nod—and tremble while they hate, Shall feel some pleasure warm the torpid breast To see their tyrant in his turn oppress d, To mark his pallid cheek and haaard eye His stifled anguish and bitter sigh. In the bright temple of immortal fame Glory inscribes her fav'rite Wellesley's name, Amidst the high plum'd champions of the land, In future a; es Wellington shall stand. There too triumphant Graham shall appear Wielding aloft the mighty British spear, d at their feet the shatt er'd flags of France, He r captive Eagles and her broken lance ; Thus shall Britannia's Monarch ever be, Renown'd on ev'ry shore and Lord of every sea. The Catholic Question was debated on Friday night in the House of Commons—Mr. Grattan's Motion was lost by a majority 146 to 83. The great bulk of the people in Ireland will care little about its rejection. There are other previous paramount duties, which depend neither upon this Minister nor upon that--they depend upon the Irish gentry and great landed proprietors. Dispel the gloom, enrich the penury, cultivate the mind of the peasant. These are what the great bulk (lithe peo ple want. To tell them that Catholic Emancipa tion will be the specific is to heap mockery upon suit. We congratulate the Loyal Livery of London e happy triumph of their exertions to frustrate the machinations of those demagogues who would risque the peace of the City, iu order to give to the Radical Reformers the semblance of the sanc tion of the Corporation of London to their alarming designs, and the eclat of their meetings being per mitted to be held in the Guildhall of the metropo lis of the Empire. We are sorry to announce that an express arrived in town on Saturday morning from Scotland, with the intelligence of the death of the Right Hon. .Henry Dundas, Lord Viscount Melville. His Lordship's decease, we understand, was sudden.— He was found dead in his bed on Wednesday morning. He is succeeded in his titles and estates by his son, the Right Hon. Robert Dundas, Presi dent of the Board pf Controul, &c. . MISCELLANIES. The following Bulletin was shown on Sunday, at St. James's Palace : " IVindsor Castle, May 26, 1811.—His Majesty has not beeu quite so well this week as he was the week preceding." Tuesday, the Prince Regent held a Levee at Carlton House, which was so numerously attended as to exceed even the first Levee after his appointment. Soon after two o'clock, the Prince Regent gave an audience to his Royal Highness the Duke of Yo.k, as Command :r in Chief, the Lord Chancellor, and Earl Fitzwilliam. After which, his Royal Highness left hisyrivate apartments, and proceeded to the State-room, where the Foreign Ministers paid their respects to his Royal Highness, as also our own Ministers and Officers of State. His Royal Highuess thee proceeded to hold the general Levee, when a great number of persons, chiefly naval and military Officers were pre sented. The Prince Regent will honour the Eton Montem with his presence, which is fixed for the Bth of June. 'Flo Grand Review before the Prince Regent, intended to have taken place on the sth of June, is put off till the 7th. . COMNIEMOR A TIO N or MR. Pyrr.—Tuesday about 500 No blemen and Gentlemen, the friends of the late Mr. Pitt, set down to dinner at Merchant Taylor's Hall, to express, accord ing to annual custom, their regard for the memory of that States.. man. After the cloth was removed, the usual loyal and patri otic. toasts Were drank. The Lord Chancellor, Marquis Wel lesley, Mr. Pereeval, Lord Palmerstone, the Duke of Nlontrose, the Master of the Rolls, 'lr. Canning, Mr. Rose, the Portuguese Ambassador, Admiral Apodaca, and a long list of other distin, guished persons, were present. The first Lieutenants of the Amphion, Volage, Actfve, and Cerberus frigates, are promoted to the rank of Com manders. The following is a list of some of the articles found in Figu eras, viz. gold, 200 arrrbas ; plate, in bars, or worked, 600 arrobas ; cups, and other valuables belonging to churches, 3000; officers' portmanteaus, 1000; a package, containing nine arro bas of dollars; horses, 100; sheep, 3000; oxe.n, SW; muskets, 25..0{11; pieces of artillery, 1100 ; pairs of shoes, ;0,000; uni f,•rms, 0 Peo j military cloaks, 3500 ; a supply of rice and bis cuit; and great quantity of flour and wheat. Eight hundred Frenchmen were made prisoners. 411 to be Drawn Tuesday next, King's Birth Day.—T. Birgit respectfully recommends to the Nobility, Gentry, and Public, the prssent popular Lottery, containing 60 Capitals, all to be dr awn on the birth day of our beloved Sovereign. The Scheme contains 4 Prizes of 20,0001., are 80.0001.; 24 Prizes of are 24,0001.; 32 Prizes of 5001., are 16,0001.; 4060 Prizes of 501., 251., &c. &c., are 80,0001.—The favours of Adventurers are solicited at 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing Cross, where in the last two Lotteries, 4 Prizes of 20,0001., and in the last fifteen months 7 Prizes of 20,0001., and 37 other Capitals, were sold Bisii. _ _ Ers , ,)Nt RiteEs.—Epsom Races commenced on Wednesday, but the unfavourable state of the weather, together with a lack of sport, gave the course a very dull appearance. Thursday the course was thronged with beauty and fashion, and the sports were of the first order. Friday the course was but thinly at tended, and did not afford much sport. Yesterday the races ended. PeGtosm.—On the 20th inst. a furious and prolonged battle took place on Yate Common, near Chipping-Sodbury, between John /shale, butcher, and W. Giles, yeoman, both of Yate. The . • combatants set to at '25 minutes past eight, and were separated by the intervention of friends, at three minutes after eleven o clock ; having fought 137 rounds! Victory seemed to favour Neale towards the end of the battle, as Giles was completely blind. All to be Drawn Tuesday next, King's Birth-Day.—By Com mand of the Regent.—lmperial and Royal Offices, 1, Skinner street, and 67, Piccadilly, facing St. James's-street.—Past suc cess, to my friends, the public, fur a number of years, in suc cessive Lotteries, including the last, having sold Shares, gcc. No. 12.719, Cie last 2.5,0001. Prize, was drawn on the King's Birth Day, 1806 ; also 7,636, the only 20,0201, Prize, and 13,747, a 10,0001. Prize, were drawn the King's Birth Day, 1805 (since when no Lottery has been fixed to be drawn on his Majesty's Birth Day), induces a confidence in my distributing unparalleled good fortune, whenever the Lottery draws on that memorable day; and as the present Lottery is to be drawn on the 4th of June next, containing Sixty Capital Prizes, being 16 more than the last Lottery contained, I shall realize my sincere wishes in selling 20,0001. Prizes, The Public's obliged Servant, LUCKY W. TURN FA. In ths last Lottery, No. 6,812, a 2,0001. Prize, was sold in Sharet, and 2,763, a 5,0001. Prize, the last drawn, was sold in a wbole Ticket, at the above ()aces. ... `145