The National Register.
London, England, 1811-12-22 00:00:00

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tish squadron off Hielm island ; the Danes were defeated with
the loss of four gun-boats.
8. The Lord Barham, of 74 guns, launched from Perry's
doek-yard, Blackwall.
The Thames and Medway Canal was opened.
9. The Bank issued a new silver coinage. of :is. pieces
11. The Thames, Capt.Waldegrave, destroyed ten feluccas in
the Gulf of Policastro.
17. Five Sicilian Princes arrested, and banished Sicily. .
19. Lord Stanhope's Gold Coin Bill passed into a Law.
The Prince of Wales packet lost on one of the Bahama
Isles.
21. The Thames and Cephalus sloops, Captains Napier and
Clifford, captured in the Porto del infreshi, on the coast of Ca-
abria' eleven gun-boats, an armed felucca, and fifteen merchant
vessels.
22. At Banken, in Lusatia, 125 houses were destroyed by
fire.
25. The fifth Session of the British Parliament was prorogued
by Commission.
The Legislative Body of France closed its Sittings.
26. Lady Skeffington died, after an illness of live years.
The boats of the Active, Capt. Gordon, captured a French
convoy of 28 vessels, and three gun-boats, laden with grain, for
the garrison of Ragusa.
27. Marquis Townshend died.
29. The Duke of Devonshire died.

SO. James Belcher, the celebrated pugilist, died.
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland issued a i'roclamation for
the suppression allimblic meetings in Irtiami.
The boats of the Amazon attached a convoy of nine ves
eels near the Penmarks, destroyed one, and drove the. remain-
der on shore.
One hundred and ninety-seven Bankrupts were this month
Gazetied.

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20. Two French rr ivateers cut out froM under the Ix:aeries
of Chipiona, by the boats of the Columbine sloop, Captain
Westphall.
the Infirmary of Greenwich College nearly destroyed by
fire.
Seventy-seven Bankrupts were this month Gazettied.
OcroBER.
1. Lady Mary Corke, only remaining daughter of the great
Duke of Argyle, di d.
3. La Hogue, of 74 guns, launched at his Majesty's dock-
yard, Depl ford.
7. Mr. Sadler ascended in a balloon from Birmingham, ac-
companied by a Mr. Burcham.
11. The first stone of an intended new bridge over the
Thames, to be called the Strand Bridge, was laid.
Le Vice-Admiral Martin, French privateer, of 18 guns
and 140 men, capittred by the Fortune.- and Siskianha.
14. The Ranger, Capt.'Ackhohn, burnt of Rose Head, by
the Hirondelle French privateer.
The Russian army, under Markow, crossed the Danube,
and defeated the Turks with great slaughttr.
The Pomone frigate lost on the Needle Rocks.
15. Emanuel Colleve, Cambridge, nearly destroyed by fire.
18. The Maidstone frigate, of 36 guns, launched from the
King's-yard, Deptford.
23. Le Petit Edouard, Fr..nch privateer, of six guns and 40
men, cal tared by the Plover, Captain Campbell.
25. 'Pie. French, commanded by Soult, defeated the Spaniards,
under Blake, near Murviedro.
26. The strong Spanish fortress of Saguntum surrendered to
the French.
2R. General Hill; with a comparative small force of English
and Spaniards, defeated an army, of six thousand French, com-
manded by Girard, in the province of Extremadura, when 20f1
French were killed, and 1000 taken prisoners, together with
the it cannon arid baggage.
30. [.'Olympia, French privateer, of 16 guns and 7B men,
captured by the Quebec, Capt. Hawrayne. •
One hundred and twelve • Bankrupts were this month
• Gazetted.

NOVEMBER.
1. Mr. White, proprietor of The Independant Whig, tried fot
a libel against Ministers, and acquitted.
7. The Right lion. Augustus Earl Ludlow died.
9. The Exchequer Chambers, Edinbuigh, destroyed by fire.
10. Le Dunkerquoih French privateer, or 14 guns and 56
men, cartured by the Leveret sloop, Capt. Willis.
The 1., cost gun-brig and Skylarkca sloop,
one, attac
and
the remainder on shore.
11. Serious riots broke out at. Nottingham among the ,tacking
weavers.
le. The Bacchante frigate, of 38 guns, was launched from the
King's-y.lrd, Deptford
12. !)r. Sheridan, one of the Catholic Delegates, acquitted.
26. 7 he Duchess of Marlborough died.
!rt. The pewder-nail?:, at Waltham Abbey, blew up,by which
several persons lost their lives.
Oi.e hundred and fifty-one Bankrupts were this month
Gazett ed.
DECEMBER.
3.•Th.blication of dispatches respecting General Hill's bril.
hirer. victory over the French General Girard, in Spain.
5. fresident Madison's Speech on the opening of Congress,
op November 5, rec. ived.
'S. Mr. :Harr, wife, child, and servant, murdered in their
house in Ratcliff, about twllve at night, in a most batbarous
manner. The murderers escaped.
Ladies in Spain form themselves into Juntas about
this time, for the purpose of providing tki patriotic troops with
clothine, &c.
17 News received of the capture of Batavia, &c. by Gen.
Anchmuty: It took place on the 24th August.
Izt* Friends of religious liberty and Catholic emancipation
dined toge her at the Rotunda, in Dublin.
20-. More horrid murders in Rateliff-highway;--those f
Winiamson, wife, and servant. One of the inmates escaped 1:7
letting himself down into the street by means of bed-clothes
tied together.
—. One hundred and twenty thousand of the French Cor-
scriprion of )812, called out, by ,an extraordinary meeting of
the Senate Imperial Decree.
23. Lora Fingal and Netterville arrested in Dublin, and Ca-
ic Cem•rittee dispersed.
28. Jilin Williams, apprehended under very strong suspicions
of being one of the mnrelerers of Marea and Williamso's fa-
milies hung himself in the re-examination cell of Cold Bath-
fieles pi ispn.
One Hundered and Seventeen Bankrupts &netted this
mouth.