The National Register.
London, England, 1808-09-19 00:00:00

NK RAT PITIES LNLARC ED.

Isaac Gear, Old (Ira vel-lane, St. George's in the East, victual
ler, from Sept. `?0 to Nov. I, at ti.n, at Guildhall.

John Ft) \t:►rlhoron4h-str►•et, Carn,b)-market, victual-
ler, from Sept. 20 ti► ()Ct. '.25, at ten, at (;uildhall.

BANK ItUPfS.

John Wojia2,-ton, Ilrighthelmstone, cheesernonger, to sur-
render Sept. 21, Oet. I, and at ten, at Guildhall, London.
Attornies, Messrs. Aleock, Boswell, and Corner, York-street,
Southwark.

William Biekerstair, Nottingham, haberdasher, Sept. 24,
Oct. 1, aii:l 29, at ten. at Guildhall, London. Attornies, Mr.
Seymour, Nlargarei-street, Cavendish-square; and Messrs. Cold-
ham and Enfield, Nottingham.

Joshua Watts, 11'hitecros.:-4treet. St. Luke, grocer, Sept. 24,
Oct, 1, ;tad 29, at tea, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Mitchell,
Union-court, Broad-street, London.

Frctlerick. Francis Illttnr ell, Coleman-street, insurance-
broker, Sept. ‘2l), at one, Oct. 1, and 29, at twelve, at Guild-
hall. Attornies, Messrs. Palmer, Toinlinsous, and Thomson,
Copt 'f hrogotorton-qtreet.

William George, and William Bennett, Liverpool, hoop-
makers, Oct. 4, 5. and 29, at one, at the Globe Tavern, Liver-
pool. Attornies, Axeroft, Liverpool; awl Messrs. Blake-
lock and Mak inson, Temple.

DIVIDENDS.
Oct. R. .Tolto Lucy, Liverpool, inerellant, at onc, at the Globe
Tavern, Liverpool.

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AL REGISTER.

SEPTEMBER 19,

Nov. 26. John Wilkins and Thomas Lacey, Basinghall-streo,
factors, nt eleven, at Guildhall.
Oct. 10. William White, Birmingham, tailor, at ten, at the
White-Bart, Birmingham.
Nov. 15. William Thompson, Dean-street, Southwark, alid
Ebenezer Leadbeater, Lambeth, merchants, at twelve, at Guild-
hall.

Nov. 15. John Bowman, Water-lane, brandy-merchant, at
one, at Guildhall.
Oct. 8. John Abernetbie and Francis Henderson, Lothburv,
merchants, at twelve, at guildhall.
• Oct. 14. Rees Evans, Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorgan, shop.
keeper, at eleven, at the Bush Tavern, Bristol.
Oct. 10. John Tankard, Birmingham, factor, at twelve, at
the Stock Tavern, Birmingham.
Oct. 10. George Watts, Chichester, hatter, at two, at the
Fleece Inn, Chichester.
Oct. 10. Thomas Daily, Chichester, linen-draper, at two, at
the Fleece Inn, Chichester.
Oct. 29. Jonathan blunn, Market-street, Hertford, straw hat
manufacturer, at eleven, at Guildhall.
Sept. 28. John Battershell, Portsmouth, ship-chaudler, at
one, at the Royal Oak Inn, Portsea.
Oct. 26. John Cole, Cockhill, Middlesex, tailor, at etc ten,
at Guildhall.
Oct. 20. John Crowther, Barkisland, Yorkshire, corn-draler,
at eleven, at the Old Cock Inn, Halifax.
Nov. 25. James Grierson and Andrew M`Kenzie, INtan-
chester, calico-printers, at three, at the Bridgewater-Arms
Manchester.
Sept. 21. John Marshall and John Longcake, Workington,
Cumberland, mercers, at twelve, at Mr. Brooke's, Inuhultlea,
W hitehaven.

CERTIFICATE, Oct. 8.
John Owen Parr awl Thomas Chase Patrick, Suffolk-lat,e,
insurance-brokers.

TO OUR READERS.

We are obliged to omit a very interesting Miscellany, in conse-
quence of the length and importance of the Pulitical subjects
that have reached us during the last week.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER..

Lonbon,
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1808.

POLITIC4L EVENTS ON THE WEEK.

We have the mortification to lay before our Readers
the degrading Convention signed between JuNToT and our
Commanders. We will not discuss a single article where all
arc equally censurable. In going through the vast field of
the possible, we cannot find an excuse, even a miseraflc
palliation, for this ignominious transaction. Had the Com-
mander in Chief, instead of signing; this Convention, re-
turned home with a few thousands of our army, after hav-
ing lost the rest under the walls of Lisbon, in unsuccessful,
but honourable efforts, to compel the French to an uncon-
ditional surrender, we would have thanked him for his
confidence in British magnanimity and resources;--had he
in the smoking ruins of that capital, torn from the plun-
derers their booty and their arms, and put them to the
sword, as a peace-offering to the myriads of victims immo-
lated to their frenzy, crimes, and ambition, whilst we re-
gretted the action, we would have defended their conduct.
Had they even, in violation of all the laws of nations, been
guilty of the atrocity of disregarding
the engagement they.
had solemnly made, and sacrihcing afterwards the whole of
the French army, we would have received the account
with less horror than we did the intelligence of this conven-
tion. But when we see an army of 3'2,000 men, conducted
by Generals who had as great reputation as any in the ser-
vice, after half their number had gained a complete victory
over the combined force of the enemy, in a pitched battle,
reduced to sip a convention with the enemy, in which ese-
ry article is favourable to the latter, in which they are per-
mitted to carry ofd' their plu4der, their arms, their arid-

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