The National Register.
London, England, 1811-03-03 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL, -J;gct

DUKE OF ALBUQUER'QUE.

The remains of this distinguished Nobleman and inflexible
Patriot were removed between one and two o'clock yesterday,
front the Chapel, in
,Spanish-place, Manchester-square, after the
funeral service was performed, according to the rites of the
Catholic Church. The bpdy, in a coffin, covered with crimson
velvet, and richly ornamented with silver gilt plates and nails,
and attended by several Bishops and dignified Clergy, was put
lute a hearse, decorated with plumes and drawn by six horses.
On each side of the hearse was an escutcheon, containing a
variety of shields, with the family arras, surrounded by roma-
lings and the trophies of war, and surmounted with a ducal
cca.onet. On each side of the escutcheon was the family crest, a
Knight in full armour, with a cross in his right hand, emerging
from a circular-embottled towers—tit e motto. "Treeferre Pa-

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triam Liberis Parentem decet," which was religiously observed
by the gallant Officer, whose premature death may be cpn-
Muered us an irreparable loss to his country at this critical
period.
The hearse was followed by twelve mourning roaches and
six, in which were several foreigners of distinction, and Clergy-
men. The mourning coaches were followed by upwards of
100 Noblemen and Gentlemen's carriages, some of -which had
six horses to them, and all the servants in state liveries, with
black hat-bands and gloves.
The procession, headed by a detachment of the 15th dra-
goons, and a company of the foot guards, then moved slowly on
along Oxford-street, Bond-street, St. James's-street,
and .down Parliament-street, to its destination, minute guns
firing all the time in honour of the distinguished virtues of this
Illustrious Nobbleman.

An immense concourse of people, of all ranks, accompanied
the procepion, and the doors and windows of the different
streets through which it passed, were literally crowded
with genteel company, who manifested, by thelr looks and
demeanour, the most sincere afiliction on the melancholy
occasion.

On reachlngthe Abbey, the hearse drew up at the grand wes-
tern entrance, where the body was received by Dr. Vincent (the
Dean of Westminster), the Prebendaries, Minor C toads, and
Choristers; in their full robes, and chaunting the intioductory
sentences of the funeral service, accompanied by the kioleniu
Sounding organ. After waiting some minutes for the mourners
to alight, and form in proper order, the Dean, Pr, bendaries, !ke.
preceding the body, and the mourners following, proceeded
along the northern aisle, crossed the southern nave outside the
ohoir, and passing by General Wolfe's monument, arrived at
kienry the Se ; euth's Chapel, where the body was deposited in a
vault, called Ormond's Vault, and celebrated for its having been
the temporary repository of the remains of one of the most dis-
tinguished and successful Generals that this or any other country
ever produced,—the Great Duke of 'Marlborough.. His Grace's
remains were'afrerwarda removed to a mausoleum prepared for
their reception at Blenheim.
' The .Duke. of Albuquerque, who has so eminently distin-
guished himself in his exertions to preserve the independence of
s country, is not the . only Spanish Ambassador that has died
in this country. Don leedro Ronquillo, a man of most eminent
talents, who was successively Ambassador from the Court of
to King. James 11. and King Williamedied in this country,
in the year 09. The then Spanish residents in England in-
tended to have his mortal remains carried to Spain for inter-
ment, and therefore they had not funeral rites in tills country,
but, were inclosed in a temporary leaden coffin, cased with cedar,
ineivere deposited in Henri the Seventh's Chapel, where they
now rentality but, from some unaccountable neglect, they have
never bees removed. Don Pedro Ronquillo's frankness to King
14ffe11..4- has been eulogized by English historians, who record
him to have advised that unfortunate Monarch against listening
hPriests, lest he should have• cause to repent, when too late.
b King, tvith an air of displeasure, asked whether his Master,
the King of Spain, did not consult priests in his Administration
St. doTirnment.—" Yes," replied the Ambassador, " and for
that reason our affairs are so unprosperous:'
One of the last Cadiz Papers contains an interesting repre-
sentation from the late Muth lamented Duke of Albuquerque
to the Cortes!- From the tenor of it, it is hardly to be doubted
that thi; ethiftent filditttiented person fell the victim of cha-
grin and wounded feelings. It is e:tceedingly to be regretted,
that the full reparation offered by the Cortes, for ali the wrongs
which he suffered from the Junta of Cadiz, was not known to
him some weeks ago. It might have prevented the unfortunate
catastrophe which his friends and those of Spain have to de-
plore. In addition tO this honourable testimony from the Cortes,
the Regency, we. understand, had sent orders by the last packet,
that the Duke *should immediately proceed to Galicia, for the
purpose of assuming.the.chicf command in the North of Spain.
General Mabi was to 1141,1! been appolmed to a r,ornmlrl in
hi t: rcia.

11'AUTIC1I. INTELLIGENCE.

CoR tp. 23:—LOn Thursday the Fortune( frigate., Captain
Vatisittart, arrived in thii harbour. Whilst cruising on t;'&?
south-west coast, the Captain, descried an•enetny's privateer close
to the land, and was preparing to bear down upon her,when a
calm suddenly tot* place; upon which the boats of the frigate
were innediately,manned, to effect by lioarding'virhat the state
of the weather and the distance of the erie;ty could not enatle
him to aecOmpllth • tithertvise, when,' we lament 'to add, the
enemy permitted the boats to approach so close as that the men
were nearly in the act of boarding, when he poured in a close
and destructive' fire, by which we regret to announce a
number of valuable lives have been lost. The frigate was
unable to support the boats, being considerably to leeward; at
the same time that 'the enerity, by extraordinary exertion in
lain his sweeps) succeeded in effecting his escape. Report states,
tile loss of the Fortunee at 46 killed lied wounded ; among the
latter of whom are tbo first and third Lieutenants,and arnongst.the
former, two Mieslilpinen;and about El seamen ; but we hope
this account has over-rated the numbers. No blame, it seems,
can be attachable to the Conimander, as every exertion had been
used by him to bring theguns of the frigate tu bear upon the pri-
vateer, but without effect.

The following information is as novel us it is interesting, and
is of importance as a commercial occurrence :
On the i•ith of December, the ship Commerce, Captain Ni'eb-
ster, wiled from Sierra Leone, boundto Liverpool, and on
6th instant„ in the evening, a French private er fell in,with her
and attacked her. The Commerce sustained a running fight fot
four hours and a half, with great intrepidity, and so disabled the:
privateer, that. she was obliged to sheer off. She returned, how-
ever, the following morning, and was then. so well-prepared fee
actiOn; and .had gut to great a number of men, that the Com-
merce struck.
Lieutenant Mitten, Marine Officer, who was coming home
passenger in the C3nentercc, was permitted by the Captain of
the privateer to remain :nu board the Commerce, with two of
her crew, and twelve Frenchmen were put in possession of the
prizes-the-'altips then parted company. On the 12th, the wea-
ther being very tempestuonsi and the ship a complete wreck, in
conseluenee of the damages she sustained in the engagement.
the pri2e-master requested Lieutenant Mitten's assistance, and
also thatof his men, which he refused, unless the ship should
be given up altogether to his direction, and that he may be a!-
lowed to reivivre her to any port he' pleased. After some hesi-
tation this proitosal was accepted ; and on the l3tli, Lieutenant
Mitten and his little party arrived safe in Kinsale with the ship,
which is of considerable value, although the privateer had taken
out part of her cargo. It is but right to close this paragraph
with remarking, that the conduct•of Lieutenant Mitten, on this
occasion, was highly meritorious.• It evinced good sense., firm-
ness, and discretion,and had the result• which is generally at-
tenciaistitpoll so good a guidance. It will, we trust, be reward-
, ed in every way as liberally as it deserves.
The MercUry; Wilson, from Marstrand, arrived in the Downs
on Friday: -On Thariday night, off Dungeness, she was at.
tacked by three privateers, which she beat off, and carried away
one of their masts. They attempted to board the Mercury four
thites;bdt Were most gallantly repulsed.

An officer, who was quartered in the vicinity of Vienna, re-
turning home one night, • desired a child whom he met with a
lanthorn,to light him. The latter obqed ; but never ce:•sed
singing all the way " What is white, is not black .1 he ol'!icer
on•res.ching quarters, asked the child what he meant by that
ridiculous liong ? The child replied with great simplicity, that
it was a signal agreed on between him and some. men, when he
lighted any one dressed in uniform— The otficef gave notice to
the patrolc, and desired,the child to return with him, siting
" Black is not white." lipon -passing a wood which skirted the
road, six robbers rushed cut, and Islua an unavailing struggle
with the patrole, were conveyed to prison,
The moat dashing and desperate play: has taken place at more
than one of the club-houses, in the course of the last ten even
ings : two Noble Lords, one an English, the other an Irish
Peer, have lost . immense sums, •the former to the • tune of
130,0001. and the latter to that of 70,0001. • A -brother -.Nobicis
said to have hopped 'himself into a good • share of the former
booty I
EXTRAORDINARY SALE.—A fevv.days since m6st extraordi-
nary :ale took place, at the Whitt.. Hartr.Sittirgbousne :—A
woman, of the name of Covcney, wa led by a takeilita one
of the room,, and sold to the Whet! bithler,tagikVer*lth five
children, a lif)rqc and cart, and alt lttt lo'Orieholalif+iiittire. A
n cm- g 'N3lthelmfehlteitteiiirtiliilttl4tra,r/4.

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