The National Register. — London, England, 1811-12-22 00:00:00

. • tish squadron off Hielm island ; the Danes were defeated with the loss of four gun-boats. 8. The Lord Barham, of 74 guns, launched from Perry's doek-yard, Blackwall. The Thames and Medway Canal was opened. 9. The Bank issued a new silver coinage. of :is. pieces 11. The Thames, Capt.Waldegrave, destroyed ten feluccas in the Gulf of Policastro. 17. Five Sicilian Princes arrested, and banished Sicily. . 19. Lord Stanhope's Gold Coin Bill passed into a Law. The Prince of Wales packet lost on one of the Bahama Isles. 21. The Thames and Cephalus sloops, Captains Napier and Clifford, captured in the Porto del infreshi, on the coast of Ca abria' eleven gun-boats, an armed felucca, and fifteen merchant vessels. 22. At Banken, in Lusatia, 125 houses were destroyed by fire. 25. The fifth Session of the British Parliament was prorogued by Commission. The Legislative Body of France closed its Sittings. 26. Lady Skeffington died, after an illness of live years. The boats of the Active, Capt. Gordon, captured a French convoy of 28 vessels, and three gun-boats, laden with grain, for the garrison of Ragusa. 27. Marquis Townshend died. 29. The Duke of Devonshire died. SO. James Belcher, the celebrated pugilist, died. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland issued a i'roclamation for the suppression allimblic meetings in Irtiami. The boats of the Amazon attached a convoy of nine ves eels near the Penmarks, destroyed one, and drove the. remain der on shore. One hundred and ninety-seven Bankrupts were this month Gazetied. CHRONOLOGICAL T . BLE 20. Two French rr ivateers cut out froM under the Ix:aeries of Chipiona, by the boats of the Columbine sloop, Ca ptain Westphall. the Infirmary of Greenwich College nearly destroyed by fire. Seventy-seven Bankrupts were this month Gazettied. OcroBER. 1. Lady Mary Corke, only remaining daughter of the great Duke of Argyle, di d. 3. La Hogue, of 74 guns, launched at his Majesty's dock yard, Depl ford. 7. Mr. Sadler ascended in a balloon from Birmingham, ac companied by a Mr. Burcham. 11. The first stone of an intended new bridge over the Thames, to be called the Strand Bridge, was laid. Le Vice-Admiral Martin, French privateer, of 18 guns and 140 men, capittred by the Fortune.- and Siskianha. 14. The Ranger, Capt.'Ackhohn, burnt of Rose Head, by the Hirondelle French privateer. The Russian army, under Markow, crossed the Danube, and defeated the Turks with great slaughttr. The Pomone frigate lost on the Needle Rocks. 15. Emanuel Colleve, Cambridge, nearly destroyed by fire. 18. The Maidstone frigate, of 36 guns, launched from the King's-yard, Deptford. 23. Le Petit Edouard, Fr..nch privateer, of six guns and 40 men, cal tared by the Plover, Captain Campbell. 25. 'Pie. French, commanded by Soult, defeated the Spaniards, under Blake, near Murviedro. 26. The strong Spanish fortress of Saguntum surrendered to the French. 2R. General Hill; with a comparative small force of English and Spaniards, defeated an army, of six thousand French, com manded by Girard, in the province of Extremadura, when 20f1 French were killed, and 1000 taken prisoners, together with the it cannon arid baggage. 30. [.'Olympia, French privateer, of 16 guns and 7B men, captured by the Quebec, Capt. Hawrayne. • One hundred and twelve • Bankrupts were this month • Gazetted. NOVEMBER. 1. Mr. White, proprietor of The Independant Whig, tried fot a libel against Ministers, and acquitted. 7. The Right lion. Augustus Earl Ludlow died. 9. The Exchequer Chambers, Edinbuigh, destroyed by fire. 10. Le Dunkerquoih French privateer, or 14 guns and 56 men, cartured by the Leveret sloop, Capt. Willis. The 1. , cost gun-brig and Skylarkca sloop, one, attac and the remainder on shore. 11. Serious riots broke out at. Nottingham among the ,tacking weavers. le. The Bacchante frigate, of 38 guns, was launched from the King's-y.lrd, Deptford 12. !)r. Sheridan, one of the Catholic Delegates, acquitted. 26. 7 he Duchess of Marlborough died. !rt. The pewder-nail?:, at Waltham Abbey, blew up,by which several persons lost their lives. Oi.e hundred and fifty-one Bankrupts were this month Gazett ed. DECEMBER. 3.•Th.blication of dispatches respecting General Hill's bril. hirer . victory over the French General Girard, in Spain. 5. fresident Madison's Speech on the opening of Congress, op November 5, rec. ived. 'S. Mr. :Harr, wife, child, and servant, murdered in their house in Ratcliff, about twllve at night, in a most batbarous manner. The murderers escaped. Ladies in Spain form themselves into Juntas about this time, for the purpose of providing tki patriotic troops with clothine, &c. 17 News received of the capture of Batavia, &c. by Gen. Anchmuty: It took place on the 24th August. Izt* Friends of religious liberty and Catholic emancipation dined toge her at the Rotunda, in Dublin. 20 - . More horrid murders in Rateliff-highway;--those f Winiamson, wife, and servant. One of the inmates escaped 1:7 letting himself down into the street by means of bed-clothes tied together. —. One hundred and twenty thousand of the French Cor scriprion of )812, called out, by ,an extraordinary meeting of the Senate Imperial Decree. 23. Lora Fingal and Netterville arrested in Dublin, and Ca ic Cem•rittee dispersed. 28. Jilin Williams, apprehended under very strong suspicions of being one of the mnrelerers of Marea and Williamso's fa milies hung himself in the re-e x amination cell of Cold Bath fieles pi ispn. One Hundered and Seventeen Bankrupts &netted this mouth. AUGUST. I. The Sir Francis Drake,, Capt. Harris, captured a natavian privateer, of 8 guns, and 33 men, a schooner, of 6 guns, and coasting vessel. Three hundred and fourteen houses were destroyed by fire in the town of Paesnitz, in the circle of S•onz. 3. The boats of the Quebec, Lieut. I3lythe, captured four French gun-boats, off the island of Nordeney. S. The Belliqueux and Sir Francis Dral;e :lekroyed, in Bantam Bay, a French privateer-and two gun-boats. 7. John Mills, Esq. the only survivor of those who were con fined in the black-hole, Calcutta, di. d. S. Five Catholic Gentlemen, Delegees of the Irish Conven tion, were arrested in Ireland. 11. The French army, commanded by Shutt, obtained a vic tory over the Spaniards, under Blake, at Baza. 12. Mr. Sadler ascended lion). the Meimaid Gardens, Hack ney, in a balloon. The foundation-stone of Hi4hgate Archway was laid. 16. The strong fortress of Fiber: s surrendered to the French. 18: Le Heron, of IQ guns, and a large convoy of merchant vessels, captured by the Hawke, Captain Bourchier. 24. Capture of Batavia, &c. 25. The Diana and Semiramis, Captains Ferris and Richard son, entered the. Gironde river, captured the French brig Teaser, %I 14 guns, destroyed le Pluvier, and brought out five other vessels. 29: Mr. Sadler ascended from the Mermaid Gardens, Hack ney, in a balloon. 30. Serious disturbances broke out in Tunis amontthe Turks, who intended massacreing the Bey and his family, but we're de feated by the Arabs with immense slaughter. '1 he'Arabs had 2000 men slain. This month the Comet first made its appearanrq,bin One hundred and nineteen Bankrupts wiri this month Gazetted. SEPTEMBER. 6 The boats of the Havannah, Captain Cadogan, cut out from under a battery near the Penmarks, six French coasting vessels. 8. The Hotspur, Captain Percy, attacked seven French brizs off Cherbourg, and succeeded in sinking one, and driving two on shore. 9. Sir W. M. Milner, Bart. M. P. died. The Turks crossed the Danube, and defeated the Russians. 20. The Naiad frigate, three sloops, and a cutter, attacked a division of the French flotilla, consisting of twenty-seven sail. off Bouhgne, and captured La Ville de Lyolls praam, of I'2 brass guns, and 112 men, having the French Commod9re on board. 21. The Sceptre, Captain Ballard, eaptured on the coast of France a French merchant sloop and five chasse marees. 25. Le Mouclie, French vivatter, of 14 guns tun down by the Hermes, Captain Brown; Y 9 Frenchmen went down in In r. General Ballasteros obtait:ed a victory over the irench, eoxinianded by Regnaux, at St. Roque. . • ._ .. _ -., ' "- " ~~ ~-~-~,