The National Register.
London, England, 1809-08-20 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

AUG. 20.

=arises, and who had borne so high and honourable a character
till tae present time, should on the present occasion have for-
feited that character, and have forgAten ,his situation; that it
was their duty, if they were satisfied with the evidence they had
heard, to find him guilty, how ever painful the discharge of that
• dutypiight be; and that chara:•ter, iII.CaSQ3 where a fair doubt
*could he entertaiaed, ought to hi% e considerable weight with a
cry ; hut, on the contrary, w here the facts we're clear, and
established by- credible witnesses, however good the character of
• the prisoner might have been, up to the tine of committing. the
?felony, it was no excuse for the commission of it. And unless
.they could say, that the prkii:wr, at the time of drawing his
rhanilkerchief from the counter, w iih both his hands, as tbe wit-
ness Balle-r staled, was ignorant that the nitt,,lia w enntaiced in
it—he did not know how to state to them a ground of doubt ; the
muslin, as they Wag Arenn.iiderable btrik, and not likely to
.he contained in a silk handkerchief, wit hout its being perceived
'by the prisoner; and if they thought so, it was their duty to say'
that he was guilty.
The .Jury, after a few minutes consideration, returned a ver-
dict of Guilty.
The trial lasted an hour and a Ito.if—The prisoner is a tenteel
:man, 2S years of age. The trial excited an uncommou degree of
-interest, and the Court was extretrely.crowded.

PcnrSTRI kNISM.—The rage for pedestrianism has extended
,to (Thorley, in Cheshire. Mr. Gray, the clerk of the church, a
middle—ized man, of about .() years of age, walked last week
A4O miles in 45 hours. I le.commenced on Wednesday morning,
.sit 12, and walked live times to Wigan and back ; and on Thurs.
.tiay three times, more .to Wigan and back, and two miles on the
Preston road froru Charley and hack. In his last visit to Wigan
and back, he did not much exceed four hours. A band of music
was indispensable at the completion of this extraordinary feat,
by which, and an ascemblaze of more than 1000 spectators, this
reverend candidate fur pede;i:rian glory was attended the last
mile of his undertaking. Bets were two to one the first day
against him, but the next day they experienced a change of four
,to one in his favour.
A patridge's nest was a few days ago discovered in a plot of
grass which was cutting in the garden of the Rev. Mr.
zie, of Knockbain, containing 10 eggs, which had been desert-
ed by the mother, and from which, when taken from the nest
and laid beneath a turkey hen, were brought forth 15 birds,
which are all in a thrly,ing state, and follow the turkey as their
mother.

An affair of gallantry oteur.red at Worcester, during the
;aces, which promises to afford some profit to the Gentlemen of
the long robe. The young wife of a merchant from the City,
it is reported, was found in amorous dalliance with an Officer
of Dragoons.

On Friday morning last, between 6 and 7 o'clock a Tower
Windmill, the property of Mr. Thomls Chapman, of Chippen-
;tam, was struck by lightning on the middle bolt of the sail, and
shivered it limp 2460 pieces, which were picked up and told
from the sail. it came down at one corner, sp it the brick
work, and shivored a piece of the door. A few ounces of lamp
black that were in the mill, were scattered ahout,_and the paper
which contained it scorched, but n.o damage was done to the
inside of the

•On Saturday W. Parsons, farmer, of Dulcot, near Wells,
having some dispute with his son, respecting the sale of an ox,
which the latter claimed as his ma, he took a flail, awl after
repeated blows with it, kilied the young man on the sp.!,
A shocking instance of cruelty to animals tic:Atm-a at Itoden-
bam ; a boy of the name of VII in. 1411, between I I ;IA 15 years
of age, was committed to gaol, for having forced the end of a
cart whip into the body of mare belonging to !Ur. Thomn,
Hartland, of Bodenham, which occasioned her death in a few
hours; he had also forced the same instrument into the body of
a mare with foal, which is not yet dead, and endeavonred to cut
nut the tonane of another horse in the stahle.—lf the mare
should (lie t 1 family ;sill be inevitably ruined, as it i,, they are
in great distress, from the wanton outrages committed by this
young savage. _ _

Thursday morning the Grimsby Custom-house boat, with two
men and a woman, going olf to a vessel in the Road, was over-
&et in the limnber. The men succeeded in getting upon the bot-
tom of the boat ; and the woman got hold of the leg of one of
them, by which she kept herself above water. In this situa-
tion they were fortunately discovered by a passenger in the
.Grimsby Packet, which immediately made t the boat, and res-
cued theta from their dauger.

LOA DON GiIZEITE EA7 RAOR bLir ARY,

TUVIDAY, AUG. 15.

Downing-Street, aug. 'l5, 180).
Dispatches, of which. the following are copies and extract.,
were this day received at tiee.Offire of Lord Viscount Castle-
reagh, one of his AlRjesty's Principal Secretaries of State, from
Lieutenant-General the Right Bonn:table Sir Arthur Welksky,
K. B. dated Talavera, 29th July, 800.
Talavera de la Reyna,ly 29, 1808.
Mr Lotto,—General Cuesta followed the en2my's march with
his army from the Alherche on the morning of the 24th, as far
a; Santa Malin, and pushed forward hisadvanced guard as fares
Torrijos. For the reasons stated to your Lordship ia my dis-
rite!' of the 24th, I .moverl only divisions of infantry and a
brigade of cavalry across the Alberche to Casalegos, under the
command of Idetitenant-General Sherbrooke, with a view to
keep b: p the communication between General Cuesta and met
and with Sir It Wilson's corps at Escalona. It appears mat
General Vanegas hail not carried into execution that part of the
plan of operations n hich related to his corps, and that he was
still at Damiel, in La Nlancha ; and the enemy in the course of
the 2!th, 25th, and 28th, eollecte4l all his forces in this part of
Spain, between Torrijos and Toledo, leaving I:at a small corps
of to 0 thousand men in that place. His united ;Jut y thus con..
3isted of the corps of Marshal Victor, of than of General Sebas-
tiani, and of I or 8000 men, the guards of Joseph Luonapartes,
and the garrison of Madrid, and it was commanded by Joseph
Ruonaparte, aided by Marshals Jourdan and Victor, and General
Sebastiani,. On the 26th General Cuesta's advanced guard was
attacked near Torrijos, wad obliged to fall back, and the Gene
ral .retired with his army on that day to the left bank of the
Alberche, General*Sherhroote contiauing a Casalegoa, and dos
enemy at Santa Olalla,
it was then obvious that the enemy intended tetryth.t result of
a general action, for w hich the best position appeared to he in
the neighbourhood of Talavera, and General Carom having con-
sented to take up this position on the morning of the 27th, I or-
dered General Sherbrooke to retire with his corps to its station
in the line, leaving General Mackenzie with a division of infantry
and u brigade of cavalry as an advanced post in the wood on the
right of Alberche, which covered our left flank. The positiOn
taken up by the troops at Talavera extended rather more than
two miles; the ground was open upon the left, where the British
army was stationed, and it %SS commanded by a height on
which was, in echellon and in second line, a divisionld infantry
under the orders of Major-General Hill. There was a' valley •
between this height and a range of mountains still further upon
the left, which valley was not at first occupied, as it was com-
manded by the height before mentioned; and the range of moun-
tains appeared too distant to have any influence upon the expected
action. The right, coniisting of Spanish troops, extended
immediately in front of the town of Talavera down to the
l'agus. This part of the ground was covered by °lye trees, grad
much intersected by banks and ditches. The high road leading
from the bridge over the Alberche, was defended by a heavy
battery in front of a church, which was occupied by Spanish 'in-
f,lntry. A I the avenues to the tow n were defended in a simi;ar
manners th? town was occupied, and the remainder of the
Spanish inftntrt was formed in two lines behind the bat kson the
toads which lett from the n mu! the tight, to the !eft of our IN
position. In the cetitre, between the two armies. there was a
commanding spot of ground, on ‘t tren we had coo ntenred to
construct a redoubt, with smile ovitgrolovt in its remit. P.riva..
Cam
ier-General Alexander pbell wt is po.ted at this!,pnt with a
division of infantry, supportea in his tear by •i•tieral Cotters
brigade of &atoms, and souse Spanish cavalry.
At about two o'clock o_t Ole the enemy two'ared in
streng:lt on the Lc ft Kit's* or t!;e: .1 e, tritnitV.sicti.azi
iltention 'n auaek. (4,perat Mar!-teniic rftvision. The ;Attack,
was ma•ft. '...fore they could 6..• withdraw u taut the troup,,
consistirg of (7F.oerst Mackenz'tis wall Coly.let tir•,
gades, and (ice •r•li Anson's brt;•ade of f'avair.. 0.0 :tepp,ittcti
h' fi;eueral ne (4,• nowt- t'imr regiment,
th.t Plain between Tala,era and the .Wood, withdrew in ;104
order, but with some los-, partimiart, '. t •,:tt
lino 87th regiment and 2d baftalion 'its! regiment, in the Wood.
Upon this occasion the oiseipin:.• lc-
giment, and of the sth hartnlttan tiO'h regime::•, "1"e
cuous ; and I had particular r..;i.50.: fur being ElAlFfied with 114