The National Register.
London, England, 1819-07-26 00:00:00

DESPATCHES OF GEN. MACGREGOR.

7.f.zior Bczent, of the corps of artillery of General Macgregor,.
arrived in town en Thursday, with letters front the Commander
in Chief, dated St. Andre, May 28. in which it is stated that
Gen. 3lssegregot took with him from St. Andre (the depot), to
Porto Bello, two complete uvops of the Lauren,. de Jfacereni,
all veteran soldiers, from the fftb, t2tlt, and iGeh 9riti.h Lancers,
Flue
well armed and
.equipped, and mounted at Porto Bello.
The General, conceiving it to he impossible for him to be attacktd
from any other quarter than from the high road of Panama, sent
• his outposts and picqueta in that directioa, under the command of
aj.Baal win .of the I .streets. This officer and his men were cut cal
from the town and In cede prisoners, at about 5 in:les' distance from
• l'oato Bello. The enemy came down to that town unperceived,
through the woods which Rank it closely on each side. The two
companies of Lancers would hs:re been sufficient to overthrow
the Spaniards that surprisA the town, had they un opportunity
of charging on the large wide sqoare Ind in the streets. A con-
sidenible quantity of specie was found at Porto Hello. Five
thousand doubloons u, gold wercdiscoverri in the cemetery a few
days previetu to the recapture. Macgregor owes the preservation
of his life to the bravery and presence of mind of one of his Aides
do C 1.41111, Cornet Colelough, Belfast. This young man slept
in di, next room to Gen. Macgregor, and upon hutting the rush
of mot ascending the stairs seized a brace of pistols and his sabre,
and met the assailants at the stair head, just Ipfore the door of
.Macgrcgor's room. With the two 'pistols he had the good luck
to ;rill a Spanish Colonel and a Captain, and he thrust his sabre
throughahe body ofa third. All these three rolling down stairs
itopoded the advance of the rest. Macgregor in the mean time
leaped out at die window. Culclough received a ball through the
tat hand, had time to follow Macgregor, and got sa.e on board
the sloop of war. It was Comet Semple, of the famtals. (son of
I aml•S:anple). whit) volunteered to swim off to. Macgrcgor's ship,
faun the tort, with the message from Cl.a Rafter. Elc meat nobly
sa am back with the answer. had, after all, returned to the stop,
and is now safe oral well id St. Andre. Meior Re ant left Pond
Bello on the day preceding the re-capture. in charge of a quantity
of artillery and stores for the fortifiattions that are erecting at St.
Andre. Macgregor had about I,GOG men when Major Recant
left him. The Prins, and the Henry, with 270 men each, from
Ireland; the Taraptula, from London, with ISO veteran cavalry
and horse artillery; a large ship, of 130 tuns, with 450 men.
tram Ireland; the Samuel. from London, entirely laden with
anna and animanition ; and another vessel from Dublin with
gaq men, anti the Lively Ann, from London. with 48 veteran
officers, and 1 to picked soldiers, are all expected with impatience
at St. Andre ; besides, 1,000 men from New York, and about
'ion met' (torn Jamaica When the whole is collected, it will be
• considerable force; and, in theonurse of a month, the anny will
Mod at Santa Fe di Bogota, which :a a shun distance from Cars
thagens, the capital of New Granada."

Lady Elizabeth Montague, second daughter of the
Duke and I)uchesc of Manchester, will, it is said in
the fashionable circler, soon give her hand to Lieut.-
Colonel T. Steele, of the GUallhl/4 Bea of the Right
Alm Thomas Stecia.