The National Register. — London, England, 1808-08-21 00:00:00

I IP! •S 4 ( • hi.- 61% _ll _ • ::.v M i~ -.~ ~ 1 1 ~~~v ' A UGUST V. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. . enemy's left wing. as I intended the third brigade to attack the Oak& wing, but I received at the sainr insulin information that 0 clinsiderahle force had appeared at the village of Atapika. I ordered Col. Grepenberg, the Chief of the Brigade, with two battalions, to attack them, and thereby cover the attack en the enemy's left wing. and,in the mean time the fourth brigade was Ordered to proceed.tlirough the forekt to observe the motions of . jibe enemy. col•rnel Von Onbeln attacked the enemy" left wings AO as the Itaemy had placed a number of riflemen mid infantry in the un teaped corn-Oeld, %filch ryas before them, a most desperate tattle can o ed. The Colonel, with his usual courage, advanced with one battalion after the other into the village, but as the enemy made a vigorous rcistance, and as 1 then learnt that there were no troops at Alapaa, I ordered Colonel t;reiren terg to support the attack against the enemy's left win;;, whereupon the enemy's left wing fell hack. I then immediately Pedered Count Cronstedt to attack the right wing, when the enemy at last retreated. and were pursued for half a mile *mat* Ktiortattatte I and, in order to secure their retreat, they burnt the village of Leochdale, which prevented our ar tillery from proceeding. Four of our brave officers were killed, and thirteen were wounded. and we had 140 men killed and Wounded. The loss of the pigmy callow be estimated. as they carried It was a great motpv wounded during the battle, and threw the t illed into the river awl 'Mak*, %hich they burnt. We have takes about bOO prisoners.—According to calculations made by the euemy, and which have fallen into our hands. and agreeable (o the assertion of the prisoners themselves, the enemy s force wonsisted of &X)f) men , including artillery and cavalry. Our reeve was S3OO men. C. A ibtamcnzvrz, Major•Gtneral. I d eppo, .184 the 18th, 1808. - sf smiss...- woo rma aurae% PIPARSf • PARIS, Awe. 2.—His Majesty the Emperor arrived at Tou louse op the 94th ofJuly. Is the Newspaper called The Journal of the Empire, of this lay, we read the following :—" For seine time past various re orts Isaye been propagated with regard to Spain and Portugal. t has been asserted that the English have obtained some ad- Vantages in these two kingdoms ++ bat the uncertainty and con trariety of these reports would alone he sullicieut to expose their improbahillty. It is true, that the Luglish, according to their Item custom, have endeavoured to excite disturbances 1 bat it $s also certain, that " all their efforts to make themselves mas tees of the ports and Beets of Spain, have again and train beet' Mfrustrated. We leant from nu; lientic information, t hat - they 11 4 are not in possession of (rite harbour or Beet." In Portugal they have aqt succeeded better. They have dared to make prepositions to dr Russian Admiral lying in the Taps ? but _time were rejected, with scorn and indignation." --.....;-- • raps Tif a GOTTNARtIRGH MAUL GertIVIIQRQII, Apo, $.-...A report has been current here tay, said tobave strived in . private letter% non* kanitq7- rjr, that RAIVIia is alactot In Join France in a war againsl 4 : 4 Austria, and thot a large Russian force is shortly expected in 09 PijisbclUrimpOof ltd.ningsbe l s, ---- iRELAND. At Aripagh Audio s on this 414 inst. Alec. Campbell, Brevet Major in the Army, and Capt. in the 21st Foot, was indicted fa: *be wilful intwder of Capt. Buyd„,.of the same regiment. Mr. dam', assintant-qtvgeon of the regiment, stated, that on the '231 une, 1807, they titre inspected at Nwrv, by Gen. Ker. After the 'evict! Major Casmpbtll and Capt. 111) . (1 had 1-0 sue cm:versa les' respecting the manner in which the Major bad given the rd of command, and fur i hich the thnerstll t ad corrected hint: fait. B. insisted it was not correct. Major B. left the room. In about 10 minutes he was called to visit Can't. B. whom he found sitting on a ckair, vomiting, having received a wound front a pistol hallet : in IS hours he died.— lt was then proved that the dittel took place in a small room adjoining thp mess-room i they were not aBended by seconds.—Lient. M• Pherson stated, that qn goiag up stairs he h'eard M:sjor C. say, " on the words of 4 dy• jag man, is every thing fair ?" When witness got into the room, rapt 8. replied. " Campbell you have hurried me—vou'ri bad man." This he repeated. hut at Itngth he forgave Major C. „Tile definG ;vas 'mfrely . as to character. The Jury found the prisoner guiliy of murder, but recommended him to mercy.. lie WPOWoerife4 Wr5F on Meals, bit Fettpigisi eiu lfrkic 181 h inst. A few f vetting' since, the servant-man of a Gen.lc:nau near Dublin, while in his master's garden puilin;: turnips, overheard ' , nine men no the road, close by the garden wall, inz plans for robbing the garden, w hull induced hint to put hi; h. tc k 1 „ t h e door which opened into the road, for the purpose Inure dt.tineo v ascertaining their plait. One of the fellowp then came to the door, against which the.servant was leaning, and put his !him into the key-hole, R hich was large ettou,g,h to admit it, to try tE he could have imy edict on the holt, when the servano, w ith knife he had been trinoninz the 'ups Of Ott turnip., cut oft' the first joint of th e aff linger. The fellows ran o, and the sutr errt cried . bitterly. PROV INCIA At the Pevnn Assizes an actim for crhn. (,n. hrouzht hv Lieut.-Colonel Guard, of the 45th regint-nt of foot, Charles Iloilo., Erg. of ()fiery St. M fl . q excited (011.-iderithb interest ; the damages were Lid at 10,1:00!. Mr. Serjeat Len. opened the ewe, t►•, a tairh, tin& by the. ells defier, it appeared that the Pkint iu the year IMO, had married %liss Comon, of Ki►sale, in the kingdom of Ireland, and that three chi!: , en were the fruit of this %mina : tl►at they lived together in terms of the greatest possible airection : that in November, ISM, the regiment being ordered to Buenos Ares, the Plaint ill was obliged to accotnpany it; his wife could scarcely be prevailed on to•remain as hou►e, and nothing but toe positive orders of the Commander in Chief hindered hey, from ►i►ari►Z; with her husband the dangers of the cat:limit" Lieut.-Colonel Guard having enitiarke.l at Plymouth. his discern...ol4le wife came to reside, drn•ing his absence, at Otter) St. Mary, near the friends of her husband. Here her acquaintance with the Defendant first commenced. The Lady was about tweiny•eic years of age; Mr. lodge twent%-:hree. It cam• out in dence, that Mrs. Guard was a tine handsome woiratt, of a v 01.,. tilt di-position, possessing a !evil , of in Miter., and fond o f admiration. Mr. Hodge was a haialsoore youog man. par ticularly attached to the fair sex. 'l'h-• emisequence of this inti macy was a mutual attachment; and lathe March f.diativiag the criminal connect iou appeared to have taken place, which eon. tinued, in the most open and ungw.rded inamicr, till the return of the husband. A child was the conscqueuce of this amour. On Lieni.-Col. Guard's return from abroad, a correspondence took place bet ween him and his wife, in which she t►cknow. lodged her guilt, upbraided herscli . for Cie levity of her conduct, which had brought her into this state oldisgrare, and 'eat la her injured husband all the letters of ner paraimihr. These being the principal points which came out on the• prosecution, Mr. Jekyll, on the part of the Defendant, made a ano<t exceile:a speech in mitigation of damapes. deseritied the DeleAant's and situation, the temptation placed ImCiire him. os well as toe inability of his client to pay large damages, t o•v %%ere. awarded. The J nry consulted a short time, and retuni:d a ver dict of SO )01. At Lincoln Assizes, which commenced oo Thursday a erk, Richard Long, uged 19, lately of Silk 11 ill. ug I,thottscr, charged s% it h maliciously maiming atri killw tat: r, and maint inz osier mares, the property of hi, ma-te,, L. Itohinson, of that parish, farmer, was Jet/ad/et? of kill ing the mare (oil acemett of some iniorinatity 4, but found Guilt ! ) of maimilig the others, and sentenced to Death. it peened that the promoter had no other inducement to commit the barbarous offence, thau re venge for the discharge of hi- sister a: , .cl 'matter from the sers ice of the prosecutor. ile inflicted the wouoti s with a slieep-honks which he slabbed twentyvone. inches Otto the bodies of the pour lipaTost, AUG. 16.—About tett days ago, when the fleet of transports were goiog down Coannel for Spain, three of tlie brave fellotss belon•ting to the 95th regiment, on hoard the Mary trw.sport, Mile miles south-oeo of the Bill of Porilata.d wrote Oat e Vtte. - s, which they sealed up in a bottle, and committed to the tr,ottdeil ocean fortnnntely it was wafted on shore, on a sandy beech, one mile east of Brimiport harbour, idal picked up by a Mr. Williams, who sent the letters to Brodport post-office. The dt;•ections were as follows: Mrs. Jane Cook, Colchester; Miss Sarah Countowles, Colchester; Mr. George Steel, Man chester. The bottle also contained a note, addressed to the per son who picked it up, signed Serjeant Cook. From the &tie of the above note it appeared the bottle had been toned about four days. One of the most awful thunder-storms ever remembered, has Raperienced at Newcastle ;Ind its vicinit:. on Monday se'unight ; Newcaale Paper says—" No ideii. can he conveyed's( the trasendoto looditim of the thunder, sod the Q6(0160'166 vividly'''. r ,