The National Register. — London, England, 1812-07-19 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 446 MR. P E C EVA L. We are happy to find that the public so perfectly coincide with us in opinion respecting the excellence of the feeling ah Tiibute to the Memory of the Right lion. SPENCER rER CEvAL," and we trust that a second specimen of its merits, will not be less gratifying to our readers than the one lately given in our paper. " From what a pinnacle of worldly bliss, Great Statesman, art thou fallen ! how fair to sys:sak And erring judgment, seemed thy tavonr'd lot A few host hems ago ; crowned with the jo\ . l, 'lle sweets of life, unmixed and unalloyed ; Placed at Oh- thither truiden by AinbiCon's voice, lint to the Soreiei.ai's cal! Obedient); thence, shy band with steady teal, The nation guided—and agilinst her foe.i, With gentle yet resistless strength, her cause Upheld—while grateful Albion, who in thee, With all a parent's inido lseheld the pure, Unhlemisli'd probity, the patriot Zeii Tie admired virtues of I.sutcnseal Fitt Reeiv'd, with love and e , mtidence shy worth Requited. The calin scenes of domestic life, No less, did Fortune's aleple bennty gild ; Thy softer hours, with love and peace were bleu", And the sweet sunshine of domes , ic bliss Was thine.—thine was a tathere extacv When he beholdii a hopeful progeny, Favour'd by Heavins indulgence, with each gift Parental fondness could lime crav'd, around Him rising —and, in fair variety, To his delighted gaze, Virtue's nth gems Disclosing.—Perceval ! these joys were ev'ry character thus richly blest, As Statesman, husband. father, friend helov'd ; In manLood's prime, with health end fortune smiling, in one dark moment art thou snatcli'd away, Asti all thine honours levelt'd with the dust. TUESDAY'S LONDON GA'ZETTE. ADMIRALTY OFFICE, Jurir 14, 1812. Admiral Lord Keith has transmitted t /John Wilson CroLer, Mq. letter from Capt. Sir Home Pophatn, of his Maje.sty's ship the Venera ble, dated near the bar of Bilboa the 25th of last month, giving an ac count of his proceedings subsequent to the surrender of the French troops at Lequilio, as stated in the Gazette of the 4th inst. In the afternoon of the 20th the enemy had collected about eleven hundred men in the neighbourhood of the above plnce. but on healing from the peasantry that two thousand men had been landed from the English squadron, they retired ; and intercepted letters were trans witfed to Sir Home Popham, by which the Commandant of Was instructed to prepare rations tor a French General and two thou sand _ix hundred of the Imperil Guards. On the 23d, in the ohm- noon, the squadron being on its way to co-operate in an aw:di intend- I ed to be made by a Spanish General upon Bilboa, and the witld being unfavourable tier g etting round Mathieu, u part of the squadmo fetched the anchorage ofßermeo, and parties were prepared to I otd by six in the evening. The enemy were found to have retired leaving a small . magazine of provisions in x I Allied convent, which was taken posses sion of, and distributed to the pour, and the ships in want of water were completed. The battery on the hill of Bermco, consisting of five eighteen pounders, was destroyed, and the guns rendered useless, and • alt the fortified plce4, of which the enemy had possession, were blown up. On the 2.4 th the Venerable arrived off Placencia, where partici from the 11.1:n and Mod isa w^re deqroying the works; 'and some of his Majesty's vessels wese immediately dispatched to commence the operations of dismantling the batteries, and destroying the guns on each side of the inlet, below the bar of the Billion river. On the 25th, at, dawii, parties of the enemy were seen advancing, and at five, entered the destroyed batteries of Algorta, but soon retired front thence on the squadron's utaliing a disposition to stand up the inlet. Tlley afterwards formed on the plain, and were lound to consist of two thousand men at Algona, while tour hundred vette sent to Puerta Galetta. Three of his Majesty's dips closed. with the fort at the latter plac:., silenced it, and drove the enemy from it. . 4 ,ir Hume expresses his r chief, that the ene my's corps was the ono for which rations had been ordef ed at Guernico, and which nas therefore cbmiletely divested from its original desti natiQn. JULY 19. Sir Boole Popham concludes, by commending the val and exeitimis of the officers under his orders on these several occasions, in all which the squadron has not a single man hart. In the afternoon of the same day, Sir home Popham landed at Al. aorta, with the Captains of the sqnad run ,Peneral Car. of and Sir Howard Douglas, and a detachment of the Royal Marine force under his orders • but as the country was particularly close , a n d calcula• IA tor a surprise: they re-embarked before night. The castle of Galca was do stroyed by Captain bloye ; it consisted of eight eighteen end fz:.l-poundeis : the guard-hou-e and gun-carriages were burnt, and the trunniens off the gulls. The batteries of Algona and Begona were destroyed by Lie u tenants Groves and O'Reilly, the former mounting five 113. pounders, 11:11 the latter 6,111. On the opposite side of the inlet, the butteries of Quersas, and Xebiles, mounting eleven guns, It; an i t Tl-puundcrs, %sem tleAro . ) ed by Lieutencints Coleman and Arbutbnut. I i i Jr BANKRUrrs. P. Haley, Plymouth Dcck, cabinet-maker, to surrender Aug. 4, 11, and 23, at eleven, at the Auction Mart, Plymouth Duck. Attor ney, Mr Rone, Plymouth Dock. T. Orange-stir:et, St. Martin's in the Fields, ea , ;renter, July 18, 28, and Aug. 23, at ten at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. l'a:ton, Hatton-paten. W. Cuslett, Caerph7lly, Glamorganshire, shopkeeper, Ang. 5,6, and '25, at eleven, dt the Crown Inn, ricith) r ythil. 11e)srs. Jt•nkin:;, limes and Abbott, New Inn, London ; and Mr. Meyi ick, Mcrthyr 11. Phil hps, No . 10, Green-street, Manchester, war t h,,u...eman, July 18, at ten, 22, at nine, and Aug. 23, at ten, at Gu&thal!, Lou don. Attorney, Mr. E. IsAacs, Bury-street, St. Mars-Axe, 1). Alder, late of the Last lndia-chambers, Leadentiall-street, titer. chant, July IS, '2B, and Aug. 25, at ten, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Clutton, St. Tlvanas's-street, Southw.irk. I. Robinson, lluddersfild, Yorkshire, merchant, Aug. 11, 12, at the Saddle Inn, and 23, at the Stvan Inn, it littddersh:ld, at ten. Attorneys, Mr. J. Battye, Huddeistield ; and Mr. Battye, Chancery lane, London. T. Wilson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grocer, July 21, and Aug. 6, 2.5, at eleven, at the George Inn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Attorneys, Messrs. Atkinson, Wildes, and Mackarall, Chancery-lane ; and Mr. J. Bainbridge, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. J. Chatterton, Eccles, Lancaster, Hour merchant , July 27, 29, arid J. Aug, 25, at ten, at the Bush Inn, Deausgate, Manchester. At rorneys, Messrs. Foulkes and Creswell, Manchester ; and Messrs. Longditl and Beckitt, Gray's Inn, London. S. Hunter, Macclesfield, Chester, irontounder, July 29, at five, 3C‘, at eleven, and Aug. 23, at thrae, at the Angel Inn, Macclesfield. At torneys, Mr. Nurbury, Macclesfield ; and Messrs. Sherwin and Hall, Great James-street, Bedford-row. J. Bayley, New Romney, Kent, corn merchant, Jtmly iO, 31, mat Aug. 20, at eleven, at the Guildhall, Canterbury. Attorneys, Mr. Webb, Folkestone; and Messrs. Lgan and Waterman, Essex-street, Strand, London. J. O'Brien and T. J. Lynch, Bloomsbury-square, Irish linen mer chants, July 21, 23, and Aug. 25, at eleven, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. G. Murton, Gray's Inn-square. J. Hancock, Haymarket, shopkeeper, July 21, 28, and Aug. 23, at eleven, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. U. Llhs, Abingdon-street, Westminster. S. Johnson, Nottingham, hosier, Aug. 6,7, and '25, at eleven, at the Punch Bowl, Nottingham. Attornies , M es s rs. Kinderle y , Long, tuv.3 Austen, Gray's Inn ; and Mr. Percy, Nottingham. SATURDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE. AD7.IIfiALTY- 01 TICE, JULY 18, 1812. [Ttansinitted by Sir James Saumarc:.] His Majesty's ship Dictator, in the Sleeve, July 7. Stit 7 l have the honour to inform you , that y esterda y evening, be ing oil Manioc with the brigs named in the margin*, the mast-heds of the enemy's squadron were seen over t he rocks ; and Capt. Robil hard, of the Podargus, in the most handsome manner volunteered to lead bo lo the squadron m to attack them , he havin g a man on board sof ac... quainted with the place ; and as neither the m asters or the pil either ot the ships conceived themselv es e q ual to the charge, I did not hesitate to accept his kind offer, well knowing that the British flag would meet with nothing but honour in such hands. In the entrance of the passage, the Podargus unfortunately to ok the ground; by which circumstance I was deprived of the valuable and gallant services of her Commander during the remainder of the day, and was, in consequence, obliged to leave the Flam er to her assist ance; bat in Capt. Weir, of the Calypso, I foun d ever y thing that could be ‘N is bed for, which, in a great measure, made up for.theiloss which I had sustained in the Podargu s and /lamer. By halt-past seven, P. M. we had arrived within one mile of the enem), who were running inside the rocks un der a p ress of sail ; the Calyps:!, which had also grounded for a short tim e, was now leading us throuo this tme,