The National Register.
London, England, 1815-09-24 00:00:00

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Iti the department of the Lot and Garrotte, absurd tePorts have been
circulated to agitate the people. It has been said that the King had
fled to Buurdeaui to seibink, and that Buonaparte had landed at
'Toulon with an army of 90,500 troop..
The Police at 1),..j0n has seized all the copies that could he found of
flre Reports from the Dnke of Otranto to the King. The order for
acizing them *as transinittet,by Fouche himself.
Some partizans have lately appeared in a part of Auvergne, in that
(patter where Labeduyere's regiment was torinerly stationed.

ACTION IN IRELAND.
FROM TILE DUBLIN COIIIIESPONDENT.)
The following is Official : it is the affidavit of an eye-wit-
tless, made for the information of their Lordships the Post-
Masters-General, and by a Gentleman of respectability :
Report of the Action which took place between the Guards escort.
log his Majesty's Mail Coach. travelling from Cork to Dublin,
aid an aimed Banditti, stationed at the five mile stone, on the
plot between Cashel and Littleton, on Saturday Morning, the
ltith.instant

The coach started from the office in Coil at the usual hour of two
b'elock on Friday aftefndon, hiving foot inside paAsengers, two of
whom stopped at Fermoy, and on the outside, the.eoachnian, two
guardsni et), fhie discharged seamen, and a serjeant of the Wex-
ford regiment of militia, going on hirlotigh. The giends here re•
teived a reinforeentont of two dragoons, well mounted, and armed
'kith swords and pistols, and also one inside passenger.
On arriving at the five mile-stone, on the road between Cashel
and Littleton, and about an hour after leaving Cashel. the horse-
mien and guards were fired upon; from, each side of the road, by
men concealed behind stone walls and bedgbs. The fire was in-
stantly returned by the guards, when a very brisk action took
place. which confirmed from eight to ten minutes. On the first
fire from the banditti, the two leading horses took fright, and leaped
into a entail ditch on.the left hand side of the toad- The reaction,'
rolled to otie of the dragoons to cut the leading reins with his Sword,
it! i lie did, he himself dismounting from the coach box, with the
avid a sailor—the two latter he immediately desired to go
toi ward, and rtinove Willie cars, which lie observed were preiimisly
ict.d aeross th. load by the banditti, in order no donbt,, to inter-
cept iL L.)gs of wood, it seems, had been lashed down to
Vie tats. 31,11 the t.ltole fastened together by strong ropi.s. For-
t.!l:out ly ;;.e gallant tar had Ins knife in his pocket, with which he
itostoetZiately cm the tackle, and with the assistance of the scrjeant,
diseneaged the tars, and cleared a passage for the coach. The
c‘ii.climati was, in the meantime, employed in taking off the two
It ailt is, and In got into his box in sufficieut time to drive uu, tote
w6meist the obstruction was remover].

ti.e banditti grew bolder and bolder, calling Out Give tip, Give
e;s.'—Sunie ont to their gang " Come on, Cottle on," when.
1;.. time4y discharge.of a blunderbuss, by one of the guards, at the
bia.ler of the gang, who wall loudly calling out, " GiAe tip, Give
bp," 11;enced the fellow imthediately ; all the fire now ceased on
Loth swica; and fhe carriage drove nn to Littleton, having only the
;\ heel humid, and arrived at that village abollt half after one
It is supposed these could not have been iris than fifty men in the
b.mditti, about twenty of whom were aimed with gims and pistols,
ai.ll the rest with pikes or. pitch-tbiks. On enquiry, the loss sirs.
taii.ed on this occasion, it appeared, that one dragoon and one sea-
iroin tit re killed; and were seen lying beisstless oil the road, by the
oaeliiiiitti.ltedeant, and sailor—one guardsman wounded slightly on
the back, ohe iceman a flesh wound in the left arm, above the
; one drilgoon horse wounded, l.is lent eye being completely
destroied—Ohe dragoon hors*, and the two leading horses belong-
ing to vile snail cinielt, missing; litippoged to be wounded.. Several
tiotrks M. balls and slugs appear'. to have striiCk the outside of the
passem;eri b*lnt unartned; could render no assistance; re-
shaintii rpfiet in tit* carriage.
'Timm is *very reason to believe that the leader of the t and
two of his followeir. were killed, and several of them wounded. On
arricirix at Littleton, gh4l seeing smne infantry and dragoons; infor.
via thin Was given to them, and tic dragoons went offtopic place of
Letioti; lit oilier to bring iaek iiic bosh nt their galinnitiowsitle, Its;
k‘Pil is that of the sailor, Who it is said, had in his pocket-book,
trite.thoney; in liauk of Ireland not*a, to the amount Of 1544.
by it later artiVal ft-oth.Ctisitei) Wt hate the satisfaction

SEPT. 24.

to learn, that the sailor who fell from the top of the coach,
and was supposed by the coachman and .guards to have
been mortally wounded, received no injury from the
shots. Soon after his fall he crept to the ditch at the Mee
of the road, where he lay concealed, the night being dark,
upwards of live hours—upon the return of the assailants,
after an ineffectual effort to come up with the coach, he
witnessed from them the most savage barbarity towards
the dead body of the unfortunate dragoon, which they cut
and hacked in the most dreadful and ferocious manner;
having literally cut it to pieces: From the vigilence and
exertions of the dragoons dispacthed from Littleton, there
is every reason to expeCtl that before this, several of these
inhuman monsters have been taken into custody. Re-
wards have been .offered by the Postmasters-General Tor
their apprehension:

AMERICAN PAPERS:

We have received American Papers to the 20t1 of Au.
gust. The last arrivals brought accounts of General Jack-
-3011 being given oler by his Physicians ; the following is
eitracted from the Norfolk Gazelle of August 10 :
PHILADELPHIA) AUG. 14.
GENERAL JACKSON.

Extract of a Letter from a respectable Gentleman at Xew Orleans;
to another in this city, dated New Orleate.i 14th July, 1815.

P. S. I have opened this to inform you the Hero of New Orleans
is no more : he was challenge() by Colonel Benton, but refused to
fight Inn!, and Benton afterwards met him and shot him in the street.
It is said lim was taken by time mob, secured iu ids hou►e, and tile set
to it—show true I know not.

The same paper contains an official communication by.
the Amercan Commissioners sent to negociate a treaty of
tieace with the tribes of Indians residing upon the Alksis-
sippi and its 'a aters, who at the time of the :at i cation of
the late treaty With Great Britain were at war wits the
United States. The following are extracts :

PORTAGE DES sit tos.—None of tl►rm have as yet sent forward a
sufficient deputation to treat with us ; seteral of them have not sent
a single man, nor have we arty ground to expect they will do so.
And we have reason to believe that their principal chiefs amid war.
riors continue to cherish the moat inveterate and deadly hostility
towards the American people and government, and that war-pat tit 3
from those titles have recently started fur our frotnizni.

The Papers contain very long and rather interesting
documents respecting the Ameriran Finances and the dis-
appearance of silver and gold from circulation ; one of
these concludes with the following remarks :

The fart is that the embargo, the nowintercourse, and the war,
and the Trench and British seritiestraiinus of out property, have
diminished the suns total of the national wealth by a great many
millions, Ever since the ccnimencement of the restrictite system,
embracing a period of niore than seven years, the balance of trade
bus been sigaingt us ; that and other causes base combined, and the
national trading capital has been deplorably diminished, the balance
of artiste is still against us ; and yet foreign pikes ate higher than
ever they were before, except dining one short period of the war.
To what is this owing ? our biting- tae nine!' money t!! We red
richer than we are —luxury, skw, and profusion abound in a coun-
try from which real money is almost banished. The longer we
continue in this course the more difficult will it be to retrieve our
affairsi avid it does not require a very long period to render that
impossible."

These papets bring the European campaign doivn only
to the abdication of Buonaparte and til; capture of
Paris. They are full of speculations upon his ultimate
fate

There ivaB . geniral expectation that. a .Commercial
Ireaty with Britain would be immediately published.