The National Register.
London, England, 1812-07-19 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

446

MR. P E C EVA L.

We are happy to find that the public so perfectly coincide
with us in opinion respecting the excellence of the feeling
ah Tiibute to the Memory of the Right lion. SPENCER rER-
CEvAL," and we trust that a second specimen of its merits,
will not be less gratifying to our readers than the one lately

given in our paper.
" From what a pinnacle of worldly bliss,
Great Statesman, art thou fallen ! how fair to sys:sak
And erring judgment, seemed thy tavonr'd lot
A few host hems ago ; crowned with the jo\.l,
'lle sweets of life, unmixed and unalloyed ;
Placed at Oh- thither truiden by
AinbiCon's voice, lint to the Soreiei.ai's cal!
Obedient); thence, shy band with steady teal,
The nation guided—and agilinst her foe.i,
With gentle yet resistless strength, her cause
Upheld—while grateful Albion, who in thee,
With all a parent's inido lseheld the pure,
Unhlemisli'd probity, the patriot Zeii
Tie admired virtues of I.sutcnseal Fitt
Reeiv'd, with love and e,mtidence shy worth
Requited. The calin scenes of domestic life,
No less, did Fortune's aleple bennty gild ;
Thy softer hours, with love and peace were bleu",
And the sweet sunshine of domes,ic bliss
Was thine.—thine was a tathere extacv
When he beholdii a hopeful progeny,
Favour'd by Heavins indulgence, with each gift
Parental fondness could lime crav'd, around
Him rising—and, in fair variety,
To his delighted gaze, Virtue's nth gems
Disclosing.—Perceval ! these joys were
ev'ry character thus richly blest,
As Statesman, husband. father, friend helov'd ;
In manLood's prime, with health end fortune smiling,
in one dark moment art thou snatcli'd away,
Asti all thine honours levelt'd with the dust.

TUESDAY'S LONDON GA'ZETTE.

ADMIRALTY OFFICE, Jurir 14, 1812.
Admiral Lord Keith has transmitted t /John Wilson CroLer, Mq.
letter from Capt. Sir Home Pophatn, of his Maje.sty's ship the Venera-
ble, dated near the bar of Bilboa the 25th of last month, giving an ac-
count of his proceedings subsequent to the surrender of the French
troops at Lequilio, as stated in the Gazette of the 4th inst.
In the afternoon of the 20th the enemy had collected about eleven
hundred men in the neighbourhood of the above plnce. but on healing
from the peasantry that two thousand men had been landed from the
English squadron, they retired ; and intercepted letters were trans-
witfed to Sir Home Popham, by which the Commandant of
Was instructed to prepare rations tor a French General and two thou-
sand _ix hundred of the Imperil Guards. On the 23d, in the ohm-
noon, the squadron being on its way to co-operate in an aw:di intend- I
ed to be made by a Spanish General upon Bilboa, and the witld being
unfavourable tier getting round Mathieu, u part of the squadmo fetched
the anchorage ofßermeo, and parties were prepared to I otd by six in
the evening. The enemy were found to have retired leaving a small .
magazine of provisions in x I Allied convent, which was taken posses
sion of, and distributed to the pour, and the ships in want of water were
completed. The battery on the hill of Bermco, consisting of five
eighteen pounders, was destroyed, and the guns rendered useless, and •
alt the fortified plce4, of which the enemy had possession, were blown
up. On the 2.4 th the Venerable arrived off Placencia, where partici
from the 11.1:n and Mod isa w^re deqroying the works; 'and some of
his Majesty's vessels wese immediately dispatched to commence the
operations of dismantling the batteries, and destroying the guns on each
side of the inlet, below the bar of the Billion river. On the 25th, at,
dawii, parties of the enemy were seen advancing, and at five, entered
the destroyed batteries of Algorta, but soon retired front thence on the
squadron's utaliing a disposition to stand up the inlet. Tlley afterwards
formed on the plain, and were lound to consist of two thousand men at
Algona, while tour hundred vette sent to Puerta Galetta. Three of his
Majesty's dips closed. with the fort at the latter plac:., silenced it, and
drove the enemy from it. .4,ir Hume expresses his r chief, that the ene-
my's corps was the ono for which rations had been ordef ed at Guernico,
and which nas therefore cbmiletely divested from its original desti-
natiQn.

JULY 19.

Sir Boole Popham concludes, by commending the val and exeitimis
of the officers under his orders on these several occasions, in all which
the squadron has not a single man hart.
In the afternoon of the same day, Sir home Popham landed at Al.
aorta, with the Captains of the sqnad run ,Peneral Car. of and Sir Howard
Douglas, and a detachment of the Royal Marine force under his orders •
but as the country was particularly close, and calcula• IA tor a surprise:
they re-embarked before night. The castle of Galca was do stroyed by
Captain bloye ; it consisted of eight eighteen end fz:.l-poundeis : the
guard-hou-e and gun-carriages were burnt, and the trunniens
off the gulls. The batteries of Algona and Begona were destroyed by
Lieutenants Groves and O'Reilly, the former mounting five 113. pounders,
11:11 the latter 6,111. On the opposite side of the inlet, the butteries of
Quersas, and Xebiles, mounting eleven guns, It; anit
Tl-puundcrs, %sem tleAro.) ed by Lieutencints Coleman and Arbutbnut.