The National Register. — London, England, 1809-04-30 00:00:00

APRIL 30. THE COURT. Wednesday, at about twelve o'clock, .his Majesty ar rived at the Queen's Palace, from Windsor. Soon after two o'clock his Majesty held a Chapter of the Most Ho nourable Order of the Bath, in the Council Chamber. After the usual ceremonies, Lord Cochrane was introduced to the Sovereign, when his Majesty conferred the honour off' Knighthood upon him; upon which occasion his Lord ship had the honour to kiss his Majesty's hand. Hid Lord ;hip then retired backwards, bowing. Generals Sir David Baird, Spencer, and Alexander Hope, were afterwards in troduced, and a similar eeremony performed. The new Members then shook hands with the Duke of Yprk, and .all the other Knights. General Beckwith was elected a Member of the Order at the same time, but he being in the West Indies, the ribband will be sent him there by warrant. After the Chapter, his ,Majesty held a Levee. The following had the honour of being presented : Brigadier-General Barrow, on 103 promotion, and going on service, by viscount Castlereagh; M ajor- (hem eral tiralmin, nu his promotion; Major-fleneral the Earl of Dalhousie„ on his appointment to the Staff; lieutenant-Colonel Townsend, On his marriage, and upon his appointment to the Warwickshire Local by his father-in-law,' Sir William Scott; Mr. Robert Dundas, on his being appointed Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; Lord Francis Speocer, on his being ap pointed to the Ist Regiment of the Oxfordshire Local Militia ; Lieutenant-Colonel Sheldeu, on his being appointed to the 3d Regiment of the Warwickshire Local Militia; Major-General Stewart, on his return from the army in Sicily ; Lieut.-Colonel Bradford, Assistant Adjutant-General to Lieut.-tieneral Sir Dri'vid Baird, on his return from Spain; the Hon. and Rev. henry Lcrlje (son of Sir Lucas Pepys), on his being appointed Chaplain to the kin g ; Brigadier-flaneral Benham, 119 his return from the West Indies; Lieut. Colonel Macquarrie, of the 73d regiment, on hiS belpg appointed Lieutenaut4;overnor of New South Wales, and on hiS departure for that colony ; Major Sor rell, Military Secretary and Aide-de-Camp to Lieut.-General Sir David Baird, on his return from Spain. EAST4NDIA SHIPPING. Comp;ny's packet Georgiana arrived off Plymouth 23d April, jg 99 ; left Bengal 24th December last; arrived at Madras 28th ditto; left Madras 29th ditto; arrived at St. Helena 2 2 d February; left St. Helena 26th February, and left the following ships at that Island ? viz. —His Majesty's ship Grampus, which was to sail three days alter the Geol.- w b iana with the Company's ships Pheenix, Anne, Tigris, Surat Castle, Wexford, Freston, and pile Botany Bay ship. His Majesty's ship Theseus arrived from the Cape on the 23d February ; left there his Majesty's ship Albion, and the Company's sh►ps Diana and Ceylon. The following ships sailed from Bengal, for Madras, on the 24th December last, under convoy of his Majesty's ship Sir Francis Drake:—William Pitt, Hugh Inglis, and Jane Duchess of Gordon. The Georpana left at Bengal, the Streatham, Earl Spen cer, Sir William Bensley, Monarch, Euphrates, Sovereign, Northumberland, and Calcutta. The Travers, Capt. Collins, was lost, on the 7th Nov. at five o'clock, A. M. ou a rock detached from the Sunken Island, in lat. 15. 38. N. long. 94. 20. E. Diamond Island hearing W. by N. distance about tbret~ miles; Sunken Island, S.W. by S. distant one mile and q quarter; whole crew and passengers saved, excepting fix European sea men, three Lascars, and seven Chinamen. The under mentioned ships missing—The Glory, Lord Nelson, and Experiment. ' A flag of truce sailed from Dover Vu Friday for Calais, with dispatches. They probably relate to the maintenance of the Russian prisoners at Portsmouth, as the Admiral is about to depart from this country 1r St. Petersburg!) or perhaps Mr. Pinckney, the American Ambassador, has some communication to make at the present suoment to 14 the American Minister at POI% ' 9.53 OUR ARMS IN PORTUGAL.—The army under the com mand of the gallant Sir Arthur Wellesley, consists of Several brigades of artillery; 3d (or Prince of Wales's) dri. goon guards; 4th (or Quern'' own dragoons s 13th, Ilth, 16th. soul .10th light drigoons; Ist, 2d, and 3d regiments of drd goons of the King's German Legion ; a detachment of the ro sal waggon train; a brigade of the foot guards; 2d foot ; $d foot, or old buff-; Tilt foot, or roval fusileers; 90i tout ; 11th, 14th, 1 4:6th (or Cttuteronians), 27th, (or Inniskillings) battalion; ?itit, 29th, 31st, 2d battalion); 2Sth, 40:h, ~sth, C4Ol, (sth battalion), 71st, 7901, (or Cameron Highlanders), 91st, 97th (or Queen's Gertnaii) : :,113 4 regiments of the King's flermait Legion. 'the volunteering. is now nearly over; and the measure has been very successful both in England and in Ireland. The ardour was so great for some of the corps which halve distinguished themselves in Portugal, Spain, and eVell at Martinique, that it was found necessary to restrain volun teering into them. The 7th, 13th, 23d, 36th, 40th, 50th, s"d, 90th, 95th, and 96th, would have each of them got men to fill two or three battalions. - A letter from Holland states, that z short time since upwards of 400 armed Prussians suddenly entered the kingdom of IVestphalia, and seized the money belonging to the Crown. They did not commit the least violation of private property. After remaining forty-eight hours, they retired, having previously circulated a variety of inflam matory proclamations, inviting the inhabitants to rise and shake olf the yoke of France. This event, mlnch is pro bably nothing more than the result of great misery, acting upon 111111 of military ha hits, has been taken up very se riously by King Jerome. He has sent a courier to Konings. berg, with orders to his ministers to demand an explatia tion, and to declare that if sufficient s:!t:staction be not made for the outrage, it shall be considered a declaration of war. Bv a letter frim Carlsharrits, dated the Ifltit of .1 p ril, we 'earn, that serious apprehens'ons are entertained that in a very short time all Brit.sh shivpinc will he excln,led from the ports of Swedvn Thig pro:ohi: ion to our navigation is expected to be one of the first regulations to he announ ced after the convent.on of the approachipg diet. Accomits received from Lisbon of a late date, Wall!, th; . t General Craddock, with !20,000 British troops, had march( d to mea the French army under :ottit,.and that Genes at Beresford was covering Lisbon with 40,000 regular Portii.: guese troops,eneamped near that cay . Lord Cochrane had no sooner succeeded in his gallant en terprise against the enemy in Basque 'toads, than n turned his attention to rescue the ‘atulnished ow thy ,k -voering elements : and io bringing. away the proptv 61 the Ville de Varsovie, he would not allow even a dog to he abandoned, hut took a crying . , and now neglected little fa vourite up into his arils, and brought it away. It may be supposed that he has conveyed this fortunate, little trophy into the bosom of his family, where it ought to be e‘er cherished as an instance of his generous care. BO a still greater instance of his goodness was displayed in his hu manity to a Captain of a French 74, who came to deliver his sword to Lord Cochrane; lamentine, that all he had in the world was about to be destroyed by the conflagration of his ship. His Lordship instantly gut into the boat with him, and pushed oft; to assist his prisoner in retrieving some of his valuable loss ; but in passing by a 74, which was on fire, her loaded guns began to go off, a shot from which killed the French Captain by Lord Cochrane's side, and so damaged the boat that she filled with water, and the rest of this party were nearly drowned. There will be a further embarkation at Portsmouth immediately ; several battalions of foot will he sent to Portugal, two brigades of cavalry, one heap y and one litOit be , ides the Hussar brigade, who go as soon as they are re. ported fit for service again. Another brigade of the Gt,r man Lcgiuu will likoviszt be scut out. TILE NATIONAL REGISTER.