The National Register. — London, England, 1812-01-19 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 44_ • SPAIM Alicant Diaries have been received to the 6th of Decem ber, from which the following article is extracted Alicant, Dec. 5. 44 We have received various accounts with regard to the situation of the important affairs of Valencia; but, those which appear best founded, and most authentic, agree in relieving us from the anxiety produced by the apparent slowness of proceedings; convincing us that there is Nothing mysterious in it, but rather that it is calculated for more com pletely displaying, on some future day, those eff.)rts which, we trust, will lead to glory and triumph. 44 We know that the reinforcement which was supposed to come from Madrid, and had arrived at Requena, has been obliged to re treat, notwithstanding the marching out of 2000 of the enemy to facili tate its junction with Suc re r's army; and that the divisions of Senors LAMAS and 13AssEcoult r have placed it between two fires, so as to render its escape difficult. We now learn, that the above reinforcement is the same which SOCKET detached from Valencia to Arragon, with the object, it is believed, to restrain the rapid progress of the Est eteiNADO and DURAN ; and the new route assigned to it was only to induce a belief that reinforcements were on their march to him.—Upon the whole, affairs seem to present an encouraging aspect. General FREIRE, with $OOO men, has advanced to the vicinity of the Valencian army, and is acting with profound skill in accomplishing the orders of the Com mander in Chief. SUCUET must feel considerable alarm; for it will be difficult for him, with 12,000 men, of which his army is composed, to resist effectually more than 30,000 combatants. 41 The numerous deserters who come over to us say, his troops are dy ing rit' hunger; and that the little bread which they have is of had qua lity, and as black as pitch.' It lA said that MINA. has repulsed a colunm of 6000 of the enemy who had marched from Panirluna to reinforce Svc"' ET ; and it is added, that the greater part of them were ra w troops of the last conscription." LOSS OF THE ST. GEORGE 'AND DEFENCE. We are grieved to state, that all doubts respecting the fate of the St. George and Defence men of war are at length removed, by the unhappy confirmation of the loss Of both these ships on the 24th ult. off the coast of Jutland, with the lamentable addition, that of the two crews, con sisting of 1380 men, not more than eighteen were preserv ed from the pitiless gulph. The advice of these afflicting events was received by the Anholt mails, and the particulars are as 'follows :-- COPENTIAGEX, DEC. 31.--Advice ha; been received here of the English ship St. George, of 9S guns, commanded by Admiral Reynolds, and the Defence, of 74. guns, Captain Atkins, having, on the morning of the 24th of De cember, been stranded on the coast of the Barony of Ryssensteen, in the district of Ring liovbing. The crew of the first-named ship is said to have of 850 men, and that of the last, 530 men, exclusive of Officers. In half ;:in* hour after that the Defence struck, she went en .tirely to pieces, and the whole of the crew were drowned, with the exception of five seamen and one marine, who tavtd themselves on pieces of the wreck. The body of 'Capt. Atkins came on shore by the sea. In the afternoon - cf the following day, a part of the St. George's cabin and stern flame, on which a number of people were standing, was perceived from the shore, a piece of the mast being cut away, a number of people got upon it, of lvtiCh it is supposed ' but very few can have escaped, as the .des and current, vvhich ran strong southerly, with the -wind at N. N.N. ' WI. washed the people off it before they tobtild reach the shore. Some endeavoured to save them :selves bn a raft, but who, according to report, had pe rished. Accounts had likewise been received from Lemvig, 'efating that the St. George was entirely sunk, and only "iisfetie men of her crew saved. The ship was above 8O) fathoms off the shore. The sit men saved cut the Defence have on exam inatiOnlleclaiied, that the first came of this misfortune was :the St. George having last month lost her masts in a gale of wind, when. off Lolland, in the Belt, and consequently *hen she cafte* into the North Sea, could not easily be brought into stays, or keep up with the fleet, which JAN. 19. came out from Wingoe near to .Gottenburgh on the 16th of this month, and consisted of three ships of the line, viz. the Victory, of 100 guns, Admiral Saumarez, Commander in Chief ; St. George, of 98 guns, Admiral Reynolds ; Dreadnought, of 98 guns, Vigo, of 74 guns, Admiral Dixon ; Cressy, of 74 guns, Orion, of 74 guns, Hero, of 74 guns, and Defence, of 74 guns, beside some other smaller ships of war, and a fleet of about 150 sail of mer. chant vessels. As it was blowing a heavy gale, Admi. ral Saumarez gave orders for the Defence and Cressy to keep close to the St. George. The Hero and some other smaller ships were directed, as the wind was against them, to return back to Wingoe with a part of the mer chant vessels which had left the other ships of the line, and sham' their course for England. The St. George. De fence, and Cressy, kept the North Sea five days in a dread. ful gale from the W. N. W. West and Scuth, but at length had to combat with a terrible tempest from the NW. until they were lost. Whether the Cressy has been strand. ed farther towards the Southward, or has got clear, is not yet known. The Hermes, Captain P. BROWNE, sailed on Friday from Portsmouth, with a convoy of transports, for Co. runna. The letter received yesterday from our Correspondent at Portsmouth, contains the following paragraph : " Pox rSMovrtt, JAN. 16.—Three of the unfortunate Hero's convoy have arrived here this week, viz.—Wolgac, Diadem, and La Nymph ; they now form part of the convoy going out under ie Furieuse, Capt. Mounsey, and Zenobia, Capt. M'Kenzie, to convey arms, ammuni• tion, stores, &c. to the Mediterranean, for the use of the patriots on the coast. The Masters of the above ships were well acquainted with the strong currents that set in on the coast of Jutland and Holland, this time of the year, and, by hauling their vessels well off, they saved their vessels front a similar fate to that which befel the unfortunate Hero. They write from Sweden, that there was every prospect • of a good undersstanding between that Country and England ; and that the French Charge d'Affaires either had quitted, or was on the eve of quitting Stockholm, and the French Consul, Gottenburgh. Dispatches were on Friday sent off for Cadir, with propositions for adjusting the points in dispute between ! our Minister and the Spanish Government. 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