The National Register. — London, England, 1809-08-27 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER: GENERAL ORDERS. •••••qa...Y•••• Horse Guards, Aug. 18.1809. milder in Chief has received the King's commands ie my the splendid victory, obtained by his troops ler the comaiand of Lieut.-General the Right lion. 'e.,esley, on the 27th and 28th of last month, at Talavera de la Reyna. .y confident, that his army will leatn with beennt , that the enemy, after escaping by a precipitate the well concerted attack, with which Sir Arthur ci, , llunction with the Spanish army, had threaten . 2.1 ti of July, concentrated his force % by calling to under the French General Sebastiani, and the 'V rid ; and thus reinforced, again approached the the `27th of July; and, on this occasion, owing circumstances of its position, and to the deliberate to enemy to direct his whole efforts against the Najesty, the British army sustained nearly the it of this great contest, and has acquired the glory of is•lied a French army double their numbers, not in a .tial struggle, but in a battle obstinately contested days (not wholly discontinued even throughout fug ;: ,.t ;t.), and fought under circumstances which Jamie! iutt - .1 close and repeated combat. In contemplating si clnrinui a display of the valour of his troops, has beet; gr,!ciously pleased to corn is royal approbation of the conduct of the army serv command of Lieut.-General Sir Arthur Wellesley, publicly declared in General Orders. Inlander in Chief has received the King's commands the most marked and special manner, the sense his stains of Lieut.-General Sir Arthur Wellesley's per on this memorable occasion, not less displayed in the battle itself, than in the consummate ability, military resource, with which the many difficulties ioits and protracted contest were met and provided for deuce and judgment. id of Lieut.-General Sherbrooke, second in com entitled him to the King's marked approbation. His observed, with satisfaction, the manner in which be . mops to the charge with the bayonet, a species of ch, on all occasions, so well accords with the daunt 'r of British soldiers. ity has noticed with the same gracious approbation, of the several Gener'al and other Officers,—all have uty ; most of them have had occasions of eminently )g themselves, the instances of which have not Majesty's attention. Najesty's command, that his royal approbation and he given in the most distinct, and most particular the non-commissioned officers and private men. In have they displayed with greater lustre their native characteristic energy, nor have they on any former )re decidedly proved their superiority over the inve y of their country. , however, as is the victory obtained at Talavera, it on that occasion that Lieut.-General Sir Arthur aid the troops under his command, are entitled to his .pplause. The important service effectei in an early campaign by the same army, wider the command of stiuguished General, by the. rapid tniirch on the Du assage of that river, the total discomfiture of the ene expulsion from the territory of one of his Majesty's mast faithful allies, are circumstances which have lig impression on his Maii esty's mind; and have in ajesty to direct, that the operations of this arduous ,1 campaign shall he thus recorded, as furnishing atuples of military 11. fortitude, perseverance, and 'eaterprize, calculated to produce emuiat ion in every army, and largely to add to the renown, and to the iaracter of the British notion. order of the (tight lion. the Commander in Chief, iiARRY CALVILRT I Adjutant.Geueral. lards, 13th Aug. Itio9. letter states, that two hundred of the Irish bri escaped from Flushing by the way of Cadsaud. timber we are told that the half were oteers.-- he fugitives had been brought back prisoners lo We suspect that this is an unfounded rumour. AUG. 27. • The Comman to notify to the in Spain, under Sir Arthur Wt. the battle of Tz His Majesty ing exultation, retreat from 0, • Vetkitty, iu c ed hint on the '2 his aid the cor garrison of Mt allied army On to the local cir purpose of the troops of his wii(W weight having vangt6 short and parti on two suc.esti the interveriu; brought both The King, in • and prowess of mand that his r ing under the c shall be thus pt The Comm to sicnifv, in t Majesty entert: :tonal services t the result of t valour, and mi oft his arduous by his experie The conduct inand, has eati Majesty has of led on the trop combat, which less character His Majesty the conduct of done their dut distinguishing escaped his M. It is his r... thanks shall ti manner, to thi no instance ha valour and chi ewcasion more terate enemy Brilliant, h is not solely o Wellesley, ant Majesty's app part of the cat the same disti ero, the passa my, and his e ancient and n made a lasting duced his ,llaj and eventful splAdid exam ofa spirit ore part of his or military char By in Horse-Gum A Dutch 1 Fade had est Of this nuns Five of the Flushing 1 PROV'IN'CIALS. SIMPKINS V. HUNT, ESQ. The plaintiff, John Simpkins, is the tenant of Francis Dugdale Astley, Esq. of Everly, in the county of Wilts; the defendant Henry Hunt, Esq. of Sans Soitci Cbttage, in the same county, is the near neighbour of Mr. Astley: These gentlemen unfortu nately entertain very different sentiments on politics. Mr. Heat received a formal notice, requiring him to abstain from sport ing on the lands of Mr. Astley's tenant, John Simpkins. Heed less of this, Mr. Hunt was caught in the fact of having strayed upon the open down land of the plaintiff. For this trespass, John Simpkins brought his 'action; to which Mr. Hunt not duly pleading. interlocutory judgment was signed ; and on the Sth inst. twelve respectable inhabitants were summoned on is Writ of Inquiry, to say what damage the plaintiff had sustain ed. A witness was produced who proved the trespass. On the cross-examination of this witness by Mr. Hunt, wh o acted as his own advocate, he swore thatthe defendant " had not done a farthing of damage, as he only walked about six yards out of the high road on the plaintiff's open down land." The damages were laid at 100/. The Jury, after consulting together a short time, said, that they felt it inconsistent with the oath they had taken, to give one farthing damages, when not one farthing of damage appear ed to have been committed; and notwithstanding the remon strances of the Under-Sheriff, persisted in refusing. Cuatous SWINDI•ING.—A. B. a native of the vicinity of Bolton, and of indigent parents, by trade a weaver, and of dissolute manners, while sitting in company at a public-house, fell into conversation with two strangers, who told him, that a certain Gentleman, a supposed native of Bolton, had lately died in their neighbourhood, to whose estate no heir could be found, and which, if not claimed in six months, would devolve to an old servant, according to the will of the deceased. " Perhaps," says B. " it Is illy old uncle Mather ?"—" Right," replied the two Gentlemen, "By G—d you are the heir to all ;' the spe. dons appearance of the strangerkgnined full credit w the tale; and nunihers of the inhabitants, thinking it a good speculation, contributed towards the equipment of the indubitable heir, with decent clothes, and a sufficient sum of money, in order that he might undertake a journey to Gloucester, near which city the patrimony was said to lie. Accordingly he went the journey, and soon after returned, giving a splendid account of the hall and furniture, its vast hop-yards, and also the sum ofl2o,oool.lodged in the Hank at Gloucester. The news spread; B. was dubbed Esq. his children were sent to a boarding school, and numbers who would have disdained to have noticed an honest weaver s went to worship the newly erected g?lden calf; in short Mr. D. was invited to dinners, and he also, in return, had his feastS and his friends. After B. had thus rioted on the credulity of hint townsmen, they became impatient for the pay-day, Th e Im hof last May was the time at which he was to enter upon his estate, and he commenced his journey for that purpose. After long and anxious expectation of his return, it was suspe c t e d t h at be had taken a final farewel of Bolton. The conjecture proved true; for two Gentlemen going in quest of the new Squire, found him a few days ago at work in a coal mine.—The two impostors with whom the plot was concerted have not been discovered. The sums swindled from various persons are osupipirorseeudeetolanomkournitatcoe 60001. in one year, 6001. in millinery alone WAS contracted. On Friday se'nnight a most distressing ce a t Greystock, near Penrith. A woman of tkat place, wh ose :lashand k a shoemaker, in a most deliberate manner eat the hrnat of her only child, not a old, is so shocking a mut t :.Ft• as to preclude all hopes of its recovery. She afterwards ' her own throat in a dreadful manner, nearly from ear to ear. Althbugh sc:•gical assistnnce was procured as soon as possible* we understand there are no hopes of her getting better.-mrfai about two weeks before this dr.-tdful catastrophe she appo l u e d to be much dejected and ertrelew.:. POLICE. JUSTICII•1100M, GUILD!! A Lt., TVESDAT itioslrr St AR= IMPOSTOR, A ioi-disant woman of family, calling herself Harriet lava. was brought up for her second "stropluation, *pun the charge o f having endeavoured, to inculcate a belief of her bean abandoned by most respectable family, to sshom she alleged herself to be closely connected,and that she was thensfore drives by despair, to attempt her own destructism by oplaat. It appeared, by the statement of a Mr. Kirby, that ea the n'i;ht of Sunday, the 6th init. Ile was informed by the he:ad beadle of Isis parish, that a lady is Mums hail Who dairy, and