The National Register.
London, England, 1811-04-21 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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' " ft is not," they eX'eaient,d,'" Vie east Wind which has •
• Aimerifieetisp Many victim;, which has ruined sci many families
whose property is buried in the sea;—k is they who, front un-
pardonable ignorance, cciminal endotenre, cir -to speak at once
(since there Tortosas and Badajos), from infammts
tgrkcd-
ness,did not reap the fruits of themornorahle battle of cthiclinia.
The whole coast cleared of the enemy (as it, ought tQ have been),
many ships would have been'a*hored between Puntales and
the Trocadero; and cowiequentlyshelteredfrona the violenc.e of
the storm. They would hwe had more sea-room, and would
not have run foul of each other : and even if driven on shore,
the exertions for saving their crews might have been more
effectual."

The nation demands vengeance, and demands it justly. Au-
gust Costgress! if ignorance or treason are the causes of our not
Au-
gust reaped the fruits of that gfatioui day, arm yourselves
with the avenging sword ofjus ice, and let the guilty perish.
R:NiiOVAI. OP FRENCH TROOPS FROM SPAIN.
SALAMANCA, NI/tacit 12.—0 n the 94th ult. a detatbment of
1>0n1.4"4/1, on the road to Toro' took Count Salaugal,
see-
vant, an orderly soldier, and II horse chasseurs, prisoners.
On the 2e.th the videts of Don Julian appeared vrithin pistol-
shot of this city, and tonic from the suburbs some multi ate
h:eses, and carried uvvay the Intendant's servant.
tlti the same day, the General who commands here received
a dispatch from Bessieres, in wLith fie aequaints him, that he ii
authorized to celornunieate that the Ericperor has istarcbed
io,txs) men of the Confederation of the Rhine towards Poland,
where Davouse is already, .with 60,000 men ; that iito,ooo inen,
from the interior of France, are to march to the same destiny,
stating at the same time as 'the -cause, the late treatisi atid its•
trigues of the Ertperor Aleut der with-other powers. Re also
says that the war will be against Russia and Prussia, a:nd per.
haps the Porte; that in this grand undertaking Austria will fur.
nish Bonaparte with 200,000-mese—This infortuarion may be
communicated to the public as a fact; to the French it came like
a thunder-bolt, and if any thing can consqle diem, it is the idea
of returning, to Fran Ce. Some ray that a ifreat part of 'Spain will
be evacuated, and 2 military read formed by SoOnosit4ra and
Iviadrid to Andalusia. Others 'think that Andalusia will be
as..)andoned; but the beat informed, imagine that it will be to
the Ebro. At all event the superior officer*, from the mo-
ment that they learned the news, they ftvely convereed about
it, and expressed their optnion .tkatt am more teen would be
€6..nt to Spain; on the centr4ry, tbal troops wov4 be with-
drawn from it, pirticularly the Iniperial Guard quartered near
J.3u r:Toq.
On' the 21st, Gen. Gardanne, with a bumerous convoy, set
yet on the road to France.
To-day the General, who went from Asturias to command
tte cavalry .of the division of Claparade returned to Ciudad
Psodrigo, *ilk a great many Inspte-tors' and other civil Officers,
employed in the Army of Portugal, flying from the misery
whiea they saw in the frontier towns of that unfortanate coun-
try.—Corunna Gazette.
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STATE PAPERS.

POI& UG~L,.

Copy ofa dispatrh from l'iseottat Wellington, lo the Zarl of Li-
verpool, dated Pero Negro ' • rimed for by Mr. rerciwal, in the
Rouse if Commons, on fuesday last.
Pero Negro, October 27, 181 fr.
/14v. Loan-,Your Lordship has 4een apprised of the measures
which bad been adopted, to indu the it,habitants c: Portueil
to quit that part of the cottntrypaltorgh which the earmy was
likely to pass, or which it was le would becotrie tfut seat
of his operations carrying oiF with them theirvaluableßroperty,
anal every thing which could tend to the enemy's subsistence, or
to facilitate his progress.
There is no doubt tha' the inhabitants had adlifocient know-
lehe, (coin former experience, ache treatment they would re-
receive from the enerrix,; and there is no instlkceof those of any
town or v!llagehavirig*emained, br of their harissaalfed to re-
move what might. be tiksful to the Litany, whey had suffi-
ciently early intimation of the wishes of Govesnment.ar myself,
that they should. abandon their ho' ea,
atid • carry away their
property.
those who are acquairrtedwith the stature of military one.
Tistions,' with their dependance upon the usiss,ance of the coun-
try to sup2ly the wants of the army, and particularly with the
degree to'lvhich the Preach armies depend upon this ttssishlnce)
must be aware of the diitress'iehicis this systems has occasioned
to the enemy; and the 4A:racial and -private letters which have
been intercepv-d, are filkd with seta aihts of its effects ; which
bavebeen repeatecria thrtightilap • inth.
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It happened*, tusfortunately,—aiat the Indian • cos n harvest,
which is the principal support of the inhabitants of a large part
of Portugal, was oh-the getreed,st the moment. of the enemy's
invasion. This of course could not be carried off; and where
theetletny's troops Dave been, they here, as usual, destroy :d
what they could not consume ; and nothing remains*.
If, therefore, the result of the campaign should be to obli7e
the.enerny to withdraw from Portugal, it is much to be appre-
hended that the greatest distress will be felt in those &triers
through which the enemy's troops have. ;lava d ; which th, re
ere no means whatever in this country of reli:±ving.
Upon other occasions the wealthy inhabitants of Great Bri-
rain,and of London iu particular, have stepped fxward to stisist
and reneve the distresses •of foreign nations, whether sulleuing
under the eels:tittles inflicted by Pr iriaence, or by c-nel and
powerful enemy._ This nation has received the benefit of tl e
tharitable.dsposititm of his Majesty's subjects ; and there lie-
case, in Which their assistance was required in a gm....
Hgs of the pervple, or their fidelity
espotk-J, and their attachment to his
considered,
known an instance in which any
loivest order, has had cuttununi-
inconsistent with his duty to:his awn
orders be had received.
leave to reconimena the unforttinate
who have cuff: red from the enemy's
protection ; and I rt.:Veit you to
natienuing them to this_henevolvut
subjects, at the moraine, which I
that the enemy may be under the

luntry.
I hare, etc.
(Signed) WILLINGTON.
AMEMA.

Aract of a te,tter trout Wm. Pinhney, Esq. to the Secretary
of State, doted London, Dec. 14,1810.
" On the 4th instant I received fr.m Lord Wellesley a note,
of Wilk* a cera Wtarked No. I. is inclosed, respecting the repeal
of the Fretschtlikerees. The confei ence to which a invited me
took place on the nth; and in toe course of it explainedfeo him,
at considerable length, my view of that subject, and of the -
points immediately col:netted with it, Lord Welle.sley heard
ape in his usual Manner ; but coolined hitnielf to such general
tetnarks Itydprolessiotes as I 'wed not repeat to you. •
" 1-k Introduced, cf his own accord, the subjects era Minister
Plenipotentiary, and the Chesapeake
" Ou the first, he prof!s.seci to en'ertain the same disposition
and intontitni as heretofore, and declared that the delay which
had _taketi place :arose altogether from some obst Ades, of a per •
sonal nature, to obtaining the services of the ref on whom lie
particulaey wished to send to America ; that. he hoped these
obstacles would soon be removed; that he had another person
ht view if it should be otherwise ; that hi had not supposed that
delay could be considered as of a-y moment In my Govern-
ment, after the assurance contained in hi; note to me in July
last ; that these temp,rary inequalities were common, and,
when not meant to be, oiffaisive, were never held to he so, &c.
" On the second,.he informed me that he had not sent me a
paper which he had prepared upon ir, because he t:7otieht it
would he well that the new Minister -should carry out the ad-
jusunent, and consequently, that it should be pooputted till he
Was appointed. He repeated, that we should have no difficul-
ties upon it. I give you these verbal explanations as I received
them."

(No. 1.)
foreign Office, Dec. 4, IP,IO.
SlR—After the most accurate incriry I have nut been able to
obtaw any authentic intelligence a the actual repeal of the
French Decrees, to which your Notes of 25th of August and zd
of November refer or of the restoration of the commerce of
neutral nations to die condition in which it stood preciously to
the promulgation of those Decrees.
If you should be in possession of any such,information, I
should be happy to receive it from you, and for that purpose I
request to 'have the honour of a conference IA ith you at this office
to-morrow, at twes o'clock. I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) WELLESLEY.
Wnt. &c. tic.
The Diadem, Leyden, Melpomene, Let.ona, and Brune, armed
elifilite, have returned to the Taps, from Sicily. They went
for the purpose of bringing a reinforcement of four reylments
fbr Lord Wellington ; but Sir John Stuart eauld.l3ot think such
h nill#4o4 bi/Aoo‘ponstufsit with the satiny of the island.

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.was a case, t Leis' a
ettlegr4;, whether the suffering
thocauss they have espou4o
Aijesty's,itsbjects, be consideti
deslare tlut I have scarct:l
lierson in iortugai, even of the
callous with the enemy, incon,
Scivetrisn, or with the orders b
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Itwiheernehtre., beg
IntrAxion-tto your Lordship's p
consider of the mode of recomi
d4s9sition of his 3/I*sty's su
hype 'map not belay distant, tin
aibtassity of viol:ding the cow