The National Register.
London, England, 1808-08-21 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

of the lightt•bie:. fhe dashes fotlowed in rapid succes►+ion, Rua
some of them were been to explode in star• of 6re, similar to a
rocket. Many houses were struck and damageeb v the lightning.
A w +man waS killed, and several per'smis were struck down.
Many horses, rattle. and ►heep, were also killed. A rick of bay
was burnt at Cr.uxdington. A girl standing at a door with a
comb in her hand. the lightning struck the back of the comb.
sinned it, and curled op some of the teeth, without doing the
least injury to the girl. By the torrents of rain which fell, the
waters were swelled to an amazing height, and walls, hedges,
bridges, and trees, were carried away. Some smelting mills
weir t nearly swept awn, with large quantities of ore."
There was lately putcd in Bell's Park, near Glasgow, a stalk
of oats, full an inch and a half in circumference, and having
upon it 360 grains; and in a field at Crass-my-loof, a stalk of
oats was pulled, on which were 304 grain.•.
Learned dogs and pigs have formerly given much amusement
to the public ; mid in all probability we shall soon hear of
learned ••at,•, as there were last week sent to the master of an
academy in Moinnouth4itire, a hamper containing twentrthree
living cats, the mask of whir!, was so harmonious to the passen-
ger,' that the coachinao was obliged to take them from the roof,
and leave them to be Nought on by thr next stage. to the great
riortiticatiou of their owner, who anxiously eayected their
arrival.

TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE.

Dowaing-strett, August 16, 1808,

A Dispatch, of which the following is a Cops, has this day
been received by the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Castlereagh,
one of his Ntitjests's Principal Secretaries of State, from Lieu-
tenant-C;eneral Sir new Dalrymple, K. B. dated Gibraltar,
Jul)
Al v Lon:), G;bealfar, July 24,

I ite !tele a report from Captain Whittingbani, containing the
details of a complete victor, °hulloed ou the 19th instant, by
Cem.r.,l Castanos, over the Freud' corps commanded by Gene-
r:ds Dupont and Wedel ; and I take the liberty of congratulate
1 lig peir Lordship upon the glorious result of the day.
have the tumour Who to state, shut I haver received a letter
from Getier.il Cast:mos by the same Courier. expressing the se-
ti,faction he has received from the services of Capt. Whittiug-
ham. 1 hose the honour to he, &r.
11, W. D.guirmpia.

The Viscount Castknight 4r, Sc.. kr,
SIP, Ilesl-Quarlsrs, tursijsir, July 21.

I had the honour to ioform yotp, in in letter of the 17th July,
that in a council of war, held on that day at head-quarters, it
was resolved that the division of the Marquis De Coupigny
should joia that of Major-General Reding, and that the attack
upon Bayley 4hould he undertaken with the united force of the
t►ro itivi,lowt, whilst the third division and the reserve should
occu;►v the attention of the enemy by a feigoed attack upon
htiletiar. Major-General Reding entered lias len on the morn-
ing of the 18th,„ at I.llle o'clock he met with little opposition.
The enemy retreated.toWards 1,.n Carolina. Tice MRior-Gene,
ral wrote to the Commander in Chief for orders, either to ad-
violet. against Anelii;:tr, or to pursue• the column which was re-
tiring upon La Carolina. General Castatios ordered him to ad-
vance upon Andujar without delay.
Oa the 19th, at tw•o in the morning, the General received in-
f►rutatiu:t of the retreat of the French from Andujar. Lieut.-
General Penn, with the reserve, was ordered to advance home
diatelv towards Baylen. The French began their retreat at
nine O'clock P. M. 18th July. A letter from General Reding
informed the Commander in 'Chief that he intended coinmencing
his march from Boyle': towards Andoj•ir at three o'clock A. M.
19th July. At two o'clock P. M. the advanced guard of Gene-
ral Peru's division came tip with the enemy. At this moment
ail expre,s arrived from Major-Geiteral Itedinn.z, to inform the
Lieatenont-General that he had been engaged with the division
of Genera! Dupont from three o'clock in the morning till eleven:
that he hail repulsed the French, and remained master of the
field of bottle. The guts of tilt. advanced guard of Lieuteunnt-
&item! Pena's division had scarcely begun to fire when a dog
of truce arrived to treat upon the, terns of a eapitulatioi. Toe
discassiosi did not last long.
General Dupont was told he must surrender at discretion.
Lieut.-General Pena halted and formed. his division upon the
heights of Utnbla, distant three miles from Ilaylen: betweea
floor and five o'clock Gelitral 4asterieks Aide-de-Camp to Bo-

naparie, ass sent by General Dupont with orders to treat Irk*
General Castanos in person.
At nine o'clock P. M. Mejoe-Geoe.ral Reding iuf.ormed the
Lieutenant-General, that dun the truce he hail beep treacher-
ously attacked by General Wedel, who was jsst ermine from Im
Carolina with a reiuforeensent of six thouaai.d men ; and that
the battalion of Cordova had been surprised and taken rine •
togetherwith two field-pieces.
The negotiations lasted till the evening of the 10th, and the
glorious result I have the boncoar to inclose, as also as exact as
account of the killed and wOuuded on both sides, AS I have bee*
able to collect in the hurry of the moment.
The French themselves acknowledge the bravery and stead!.
oess of the Spanish troops; their drinness, constancy, and per-
aevernnee, wader the greatest possible privations, are worthy of
the admiration of the world; .pankulorly when is is remem-
bered that half the army is composed of new raised levies.
The Marquis Coupigov is detached with his divisioo to take
iminediatepossessioo of the passes of Sierra Morena.
General Castarios deserves the highest praise for ois well cone •
ducted pi .1, and for the cool determination with which he hos
carried it into eseention, in spite of the popular clamour for an
humiliate attack nn the position of Andujar.
Whilst the negotiations there carried on, Gen. Cassano, re.
ceived an intercepted dispatch from the I)iike of Rnvego to
Dupont, ordering him to retreat immediately epon Madrid, as
the army. of Ciallieia was rapidly advancing.
This determined the General to admit the capitol:ohm of
General Wedel.
FRF:NOtt roach.

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Di vi•ion of Dupont ..........SOOO rank aad
Div Um: of Wedt I .6000
• . • SPANISH FORCE.
Reding .. WOO
Coiipigny 5OOO
Pena, , woo
Jones SOW
V 5,000•

Nearly 5000 of the French killed and wouuded.
From WOO to MO of the Spaniards killed mid wounded.
TERMS ov CAMULATION.-•The division of Gilt. Dupont
prisoners of war. The divisien of Geoeral Wedel to deliver up
their arins till their arrival at Cadiz, where they are to he em-
barked and sent to Rochefort.
There no longer exists a French force in Andalusia.
(Signed) S. fru try.voicair,
13th Lt. Draponu.
N. IL The division of Gtocral Dupont is aims to return ttb
Frauce by Rochefort.
• Of this total one half peasantr:-,

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Dotrnintc-Street, August 16, 1808.
By letters received from Lieut.-Colonel Doyle. at Comma,
and from Major Roche at Oviedo, of the Bth and 9th instant,
addressed to V iseount Casilereaxh, one of his Nlajests's princi-
pal ..!.erretaries of State. it appears that various letters, front
respectable authorities at Madrid, t nd tiLo public Gazettes sad
been received, boat at Corumia said Oviedo, stating, th it on
the '49th ultimo, in the evening, the French began the e• v cu ation
of Madrid. I'p4/1/ the SOth the evacuation continued ; and,
upon the Slst, Joseph Bonaparte. with the rematodor of hie
troop, quitted the capital for Seacovia. Thi4 mensure vreut at-
tributed to the Vreneb having received the liceouot of the sur.
refuter of General Ditinnies at rn• in Andalusia. -
The French carried w ith theta ail the artillery and ammuni-
tion they could trod means to convey. and spiked she cannon,
and damaged the powder they IA ; trey also plundered
the palaces and tae Treason. ; they were followed by the Spa-
nish Ministers who hati acted under the French, and, iwevetal,
by all the French woo had settled iii busioessat Madrid. Upois
the la of J uly it was believed there was not a Freueuinau re-
maining in the capital. .
Admiralty Offier, August 16, NM
Copy of a Let'er front Vice-Adotiral Lord Goil.ugaeoed, Cent.
mander in e;:ief of rd. Majesty's Ships and Ve.,els is the Medi.
terranean, to the lion. IV. W. Pole, dated on board Ms
Ocean, off Cadiz, July 25, 1808.
St have the pleasure !ts acquaint you, for the informa•.
don of al. Lords Commissioners of taw Admiralty. that t
French troops tinder Geiwral Dupont, consisting of about
want surrendered themselves prisoners of war ea the 20th 142



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