The National Register.
London, England, 1811-07-21 00:00:00

MISCELLANIES.

CORONATION !---In the lease of a house in Parliament-square;
lately leased, we find the landlord has stipulated that, in the
event of a coronation, his tenant shall cede to him the temporary
occupancy of the v% hole front of the house ; as an indemnifica..
tion for which, pending the ceremon_y, the said landlord engages
to give said tenant the sum of 301.! During the ceremony of the
. coronation of their present Majesties, the front of one of the old
houses in the Broad Sanctuary, and recently demolished, pro-
duced IX01.!!
AQUA 11C EXCURSION EXTRAORDINARY.—Saturday after-
noon, about five o'clock, a labouring man, employed on the
works at Millbank, undertook, for a tiifling wager, to go on
a ladder from the llorseferry-stairs, Westminster, to Vauxhall-
stairs, on the opposite shore. The ladder, which was about 16
feet long, was towed at the stern of a boat, which went with
the tide, and he completed his task in niinutes, th ugh not
without much difficulty, as, from his weight, the ladder went
several times under water.

A well has been dug at Purleigh, near Maldon, in Esex.—
It was begun on the 9th of March, and water was found on
Thursday se'nniAit. '1 he depth of the well is 234 feet, being
132 feet deeper than the Monument is high. The water ruse
252 feet in the space of 14 hours.
A dreadful fire took place at Konigsberg, on the 14th ult.;
between three and four hundred houses, and an immense quan.
t:ty of merchandize we tie destroyed.
A boxing-match took place on Tuesday, on Moulsey Hurst,
for fifcy guineas, and a subscription purse, between Powers, a
first-rate pugilist, and a man named KEIg, an alleged novice,
but one who proved in the sequel to be nearly a match for
antagonist. At twelve o'clock the combatants appeared, v ith
their se. onds' P. Jones and J. Clarke for Pnw rs, and Richmond
and R. Hall fur King. Betting nine to four on Powers. Our
limits will not permit us to enter into a description of 'the
rounds; suffice it to observe, that as much sanguinary resolution
was displayed as was ever known on a similar occasion. Powers
found King a courageous man., and a good right-hunded hitter,
in the early part of the combat, and was compelled, with all
his science, to change his system as early as the sixth round ;
for this supposed novice . hit straight and well with his right
hand,rand hli is superior strength ndered the change in Power s's
system necessary. The great object of Powers wai to hit and
get away during the latter part of thst battle, for he was opposed
to a man who did not appear to feel the effects of punishment.—
Betting became about six to four in the 26th round, for although
the left side of the head of King was a punishment in itself for a
spectator to view, yet Powers had his allowance, about the
neck and body particularly. After 46 rounds had been fought
in 57 minutes, King had no chance of winning, and the Gen-
tleman who hacked him induced him to resin, when he was
yet anxious for a contin4nce of the combat, in opposition to his
atrvngth and feeling.

TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE.

DOWNING-STkEET, JULY 16.

4517

A dispatch, of which the following is an extract, was on
Sunday received at Lord Livcrpo4s Office, addressed to his
Lordship by Lieutenant• General Viscount Wellington, dated
Ouinta de St. Joao, 20th June, 1811.

The enemy moved forward his advanced guard consisting of
about ten thousand men, to Los &ntos, on the morning of f
the lab.

Upon this occasion Lk atenant Streenuwitz, of the 21st Light
Dragoons, was sent out by Majar-General Sir William Erskine
to reconnoitre the enemy, with a small detachment of the od
Hussars, and ad Dragoon Guards, which distinguished them-
st lves in an attack upon a superior number of the enemy, and
took some prisoners.
I had arranged that the c,ivalry and 2d and 4th divisions of the
allied British and Portuguese army, and the corps of Spanisla
troops under General Blake, should collect if the enemy should
advance to interrupt the sieve or blockade of Badajoz ; and I
went to Albuera ou that night to superintend the movements of
the troops.
I also moved, on the night of the 13th, Gen. Hamilton's div:-
sion from the blockade of Badajoz, with an intention to stop the
enemy in case the army of the South alone should havamoved
forward.
On the 14th, in the night, Lieut. Aylin t of the 40th regiment,
who had been employed to ob::erve the movements of the enemy,
arrived at Albuera with the account, that the advanced guard of
the enemy's army of Portugal from Catile had entered
at noon the 13th, which confirmed the other accounts, which I
had received of their progress up to the 12th, and as from "I'rux-
illo they might have been at Merida on the 15th, and in commu-
nication with the army of the South, 1 determined to raise the
blockade of Badajoz, and that all the allied troops should cross "
the Guadiana on the 17th. This was accordingly effected with-
out difficulty or loss of any description; and Gen. Blake had like-
wise crossed with his corps at ittramenha on the 17th.

Since that period, the allied British and Portuguese army have
been encamped in the woods upon the Caya about Torre de
Mourn, having their right upon the Polite de Caya; the 3d and
7th divisions and Brig.-Gen. Madden's cavalry being in Campo
May Jr. And the troops which had been under the command of
Lieut.-Gen. Sir Brent Spencer on the frontiers of have
crossed the Tagus at Villa Velha in
_proportion a; the enemy
have cro-sed that river at Alrgarez. The whole are now upon
the Caya, between this place and Arronches.
The eneroy'i advance have appeared in the neighbourhood of
Badajoz this day, and I conceive that their who,e army will be
colt er,d to-murow.

'I he enemy have collected upon this occasion all their force
from Castile, their whole force from Madrid, arid what is called
their Centre Army, and ail their force from Andausia, except-
ing what is absolutely necessary to maintain their position before
Cadiz, a'id that held by Sebastian' in the Eastern Kingdoms of
Andalusia.
The enemy have abandoned Old and New Castile, with the
exception of a small garrison in Madrid, and have risked every
thing in all parts of Spain, in o: der to collect this large army in
Estramadura.