The National Register. — London, England, 1808-10-09 00:00:00

eIS TIIE NATIO TO THE r4L —.gun OF rnE _ . _ Strt,-- , -In your Number of Sunday and Monday last, you inserted a Letter, addressed to Sir Joseph Banks, purporting 10 have been received from Dublin, and bearing the signature of Henry James Washington. Tbat the name subscribed to it is a fictitious one, there is every reason to believe; and also, that these plausible appearances of authenticity it insidiously as sumes ! , are only been adopted in order to give to the calumnies it would propagate a greater degree of currency and credibilit. When liberal and dispassionate minds coolly consider the harsi,, unmeasured terms in which it animadverts on an event which has lately taken place in the Government of New South Wales, they will easily perceive, that at bottom they are prompted by conscious guilt, intended only to prejudice the public opinion against one party concerned in that transaction; and thus unfairly to prejudge the merits of the case. Surely uo good cause eau ever require to be &leaded by such means. It is, moreover, the obvious intention of the letter, by personal provocation, and direct attacks on our character, maliciously to entrap us into a newspaper altercation, and a premature discussion of time facts; upon the evidence of which, the event to which we have Winded must be ultimately judged. A statement of these facts is now, we believe, before the Privy Council ; and, however indignant we trust feel at the slanderons interpretations which the writer of the letter endeavour.' to put upon our conduct, we know too well the respect that is due to that 110; ribtmal. to allow ourselves to he instigated b) such provocations to an unrea-onable, and, as we deem it, an unwar rantable disclosure of the matter, that is to form the grounds of their . judilieni and final decision. Injustice, however, to our selves, in jtotice to the characters of the absent officers w horn this Washington would thus indiscriminately defame, we think it our duly to take the earliest occasion of assuring the public, that tile a-sections of that w riter are most gross and scandalous misrepresentatioos, and directly contrary to the truth.--We tern,sir, that having even admission into your Register such se rimus charges against our conduct, you will likewise admit our protest against their falsehood—that the poison and the antidote mav circulate through the same chaunel. N ill no doubt soon disclose the real complexion of this transactiiiii, and the true tendency of the motives of those who are now so auxiou. to discolour it. We are, Sir, your obedient Servants, C. Goner's. WM. lirvrtrlo*. VI, ( rnwn-strect, IVestminste.r. A CLASSICAL AND ORIGINAL NCWSPAPER, WILL TIC COMMENCED ON TrESDAI, OCTOBER 18, 1808, ENTITT THE INQUISITOR, 71.1%TED Qt7tßlf, ON TUE LARGEST rArtn. ALLOWED TO BE USED-PRICE/1m To be published en the Afternoon of every TUE:=DiY, THURSDAY, AND SATURDAY. Professions have become proverbial far every thing except Twrformance. The Proprietors of The Inquisitor are, neverthe comiii,•at of being able to accomplish whatever they pre e,s ; and of producing a Newspaper at once Original and Clas sical, interesting to all Orders of Society, and distinguished as much for the novelty or its Plan, as for the ability with which it will be Conducted. Such are their pretentions to the Patron age of the Public. They aspire to surpass their contem po-arie-, they challenge competition : if they succeed, it will be because they shall have deserved Success. The fol lowing will be the most prominent features of The inquisi/or i— t. Official and Private Di-patches from all parts of Europe. English and Foreign F tate Papers.--;;. Parliamentary Pe wit Gazettec, and Promotions in the Army and Navy, as well as all Civil and Ecvle.,iastical.-5. Ea'-t and West India, and other Colonial Intelligence.-6. Private Correspondence ..emu Ireland and Scotland.— 7. Agricultural Information, with ..0 Account of all New Discoveries:old Improvements —S. Ex ;.mivation of the Political I;veins of the Day.---9. The Politics i k f the Paper will be equally free fifiln the bias of Court I ntlu aad the speculative doctrines of Iteformevs.----10, L REGISTER. OCT. 9. 'wow Paragraphs —II. l'ublic Ceremonial Th e ion _ able Cif, Basiuess.-14. East India Hairs.-15. Theatrical Critieisms —l6. Critical and Scientific Notices, Essays on Manners and Literature. Pisetr', and Anecdotes, ex c .- 17. Proceedings of Learned Bodies, Patents, Botannical and other Reports.-161. Sporting and Commercial Intelligence.- 19.—Naval and Militar, bio.einents.-20. Lan Reports and Trials, Police Affairs, B:c.--21. Accidents, Births, Marriages. and Deattis.-2S. `tale of all the Loudon, Previa c al, and Scotch and Irish Markets. Orders recci‘ed at the Office, No. I I, Catherine-street, Strand, It‘ all the Nen , no-n, lerks of the Road', &e. TIIL ;NA. 110.iNAL • hit il.ollooll, SUNDAI, 0(2111kle:li 9, D,OB. POLITIC.IL rt.! li•E,Elf. Spanish Papers have been received on Friday night, to the 2d inst. The intelligence they bring is lo b liiy mg. They confirm, at the same toile, the opinion we long entertained, of the unblushing eftronterY, and of the little erodit which ought to be attached to the official statements of the Jlonileur. Th'is worthy - organ of the most NS oil bless Tyrant, published an acct nut of a decisive victory obtained by the Ex-Jacobin bearsmE, over the Spanish Patriots in Catalonia, assisted by the English. The French, however, were completely defeated, and forced to retreat to Barcelona; where they arc preparing to sustain a siege: and, under the prttext of defraying the encares, compel the unfortunate inhabitants to pay the heaviest contributions. It is impossible to repeat it too often, that the accounts in the Foreign Papers, under the coutronl of the Usurper, should be receised with the utmost caution and distrust. This system of falsification is a leadi.; principle in the policy of that detestable Government; and when we reflect how much difficulty we have of receiving information from the greatest part of the Continent, through any other medium than that of those very Journals, this caution will be the more necessary. The Spanish Papers mention, at the same time, the arrival of the Spanish troops under the command of the brave !Startling de la llomAxa ; which immediately received orders to proceed to Bilboa. It is stated likewise, that General Cu :set has been appointed Commander in Chief of Arragon, on the recommendation, and in the plaee of General PALAEOXI who has been elected Member of the Central Junta. The French have been again forced to retreat from Burgos; and a division of the army of General BLAKE has driven the enemy from Bilboa, after a severe engagement, in which the latter sustained a very considerable loss. These are the principal articles in the last Papers of a people, in whose welfare and independence we arc 50 closely - interested t--of a people, rho bad first formed the magnanimous resolution, whilst the rest of Europe 13y prostrate, in despondent resignation at the feet of a remorse less Rullian--to defy the utmost extent of his vengeance and his power—to punish the instruments of his perfidy-- to paint his crimes and usurpation in a language which only a keen sense of injury, the most unbounded love of their country, and uncontaminated moral principles, acre capable of inspiring. This generous eil'usion of patriotism burst out rpontaneously, and without conceit, in every Province, when each was totally unacquainted with Os determination of the others; and whilst an inimical army I ° f 1(20,000 men, eowhicted by officers of aclino,vl:;%ed '