The National Register.
London, England, 1812-08-02 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

thm.e repo ttd in his former letters, and inserted in the Gazette of the
in4t, nt.
On ine 'id, the squadron under his orders being off Guetaria, an
attack was intended lo be made upon that place, and two companies of
Royal Marines were landed tinder Major Williams, accompanied by
Geieral Carrol, for the purpose of reconnoitring ; but some parties of
the ec,e;ny bein.2 discovered crossing the bills, and the guerillas, whose
„peration had been expected, being engaged widi the enemy in a
different quar,er, the phut of attack was relinquished, and the Marines
iebatwked. but without loss.
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The guerillas had been employed in an action with a detachment of
the eatn►y, conducting eighty prisoners Asturias. One hundred
and thiriy of the enemy are stated to have been hilted, and fifty taken,
who had left ,votinded on the field of battle ; and the Spanibh pri-
s;Aers were liberated. _

Uu ti:e 6111, Sir Rome Popham arived off Castro, were a 24-pounder
and a company of in rifles, had been landed hy Sir George Collier,
Itom the sin velhante, to rt,•ist Colonel Longa in au attack on the
place.
[ 'formation was, however, received of the approach of two
thousand liVe hundred liench troops, who,e arrival obliged Longa to
retire, and the partie, 'mirk(' from the squadron were again re-em-
barked without loss. In the evening the enemy were seen marching
into the town.

On the 7th, the enemy were driven from the town by the fire of the
squadron, and to. k po•t on the hills, and preparations Here made for
landm4, and attack on tli• castle on the following morning, which
aceord;oely to-k place nn the Bth ; when the commandant of the castle
siirrecihied with one bundled and fifty men, the remainder of the
force having ii.arched towards Larido. Twenty-six guns of
elttllT of sizes were found in the town and castle of Castro; those in
the turner were withdrawn, and the latter was put into a state id. de-
fence, and garrisoned by the marines and Spanish artillerymen of the
ir;s, Cquain Chris:ian.

On the 10th, the squadron proceeded off Pncrta Galletta, to co-ope-
rate in an attack upon it with the Spanish troops under Longa ; and on
the 11th much firing was kept up ttL;ainst the h.itieries ; but the enemy
being tomtit to be stronger than the spaniards bad expected, the attack
was abandoned. During the morning, Captain Iditye, of the Lyra,
Lulled with a party of marines, and knocked off the trunniths of the
in the liagona battery, and destroyed one mounted on a beiizlir.
Oa the 12th, the Venerable anchored (,11' Castro, which had been
f?tibly attacked by the enemy the evening before ; one of the Imperial
lin ads was wounded, and brought in a prisoner.
Oa the 15th, the enemy's mu% eAble column having been drawn by
2 feint to Santnaa, from whence it could not ;each Um:tat-la in less than
law dais, another attack was intended to be made upon the latter
pr.ce, iu concert ..rich the guerillas under Don Gaspar, and with the
Prowis 'd wie of the battalions intilcr General Mina.

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Early in o,e tenening of the 113th, one twenty-four runider tinder
I cotenant Groves, and a howitzer tinder Lieutenant Lawrence, of the
marine intilleiv, were landtd from the Venerable, and monn:ed on a
11:11 to the westwar.f. of Guetaria, under the dnectimis of Captain Mal-
(uNu, Of he Rhin, w Idle the Honourable Captain i'mvre landed with
No guns (one shalt t wemy•four pounder, and one twelve pounder
c4fronade) limn the )fedusa, end, after many difficalties in drawing
nt,un up, mounted then on the top of a hill to the eastward. The Ve-
Ilurable'.: gnus began firing at noun, and continued till sun set, when
thoe of t.!e enemy on that side were silenced ; and the Aledua's were
pit ur feadinesi to. open ou the following morning. During the night,
ho'vever, intelligence was received of the approach of a body of French
which afterwards proved to be a division of between two aid
three thous mad men, that had just arrived at Saint Sebastian's, from
France, and was immediately sent forward by forced marches to
Guetaria.

The uncertainly with respect to the enemy's force, and the dispo-
sitioa of the guerilla's to oppose their advance, prevented the re-em-
barkation of the guns and men landed from the squadron, until the re-
treat 01 the Spaniards, after some skirmishing with the superior num-
bers of the French, i,i which the latter are stated to have suffered se-
Captain Bouvrie then destroyed the two gnus from the Me-
u4sa, and re-embarked all his men, and every thing belonging to the
guns, Captain Malcolm was detained longer, by a message brought
to him by one of Don Gaspar's Aides-de-Camp, stating, that the enemy
had been beaten back, and urging him to remnant in his battery ; find-
ing, however, that the enemy was advancing fast, he gave orders to
ri,enibark, and brought off his party, with the exception of three mid-
shionien a.id twenty-nine men, who were taken l riseners, but fortu-
nately without haviwg one man killed or wounded.
,Sir Home Popham had sent to propose an exchange of the men
taken on this occasion far sowie of the French prisoners on board the
3(lliddron, and was in hopes of succeeding in this proposal.
The Spaniards lost %Captain of artillery, and had a serjeant and tea

mtn badly wounded. Those in want of surgical aid were received on
board the Venerable.
The detachment expected from General Mina's army arrived t e
morning after the action, and joined Don Gaspar, having marched
eighteen Spanish leagues in two days.

ropy of a Letter from Lieutenant Thomas Warrand, commanding his
Majesty's schooner Sealark, addressed to Admiral Sir Robert Calder,
Bart. and transmitted by the latter to John Wilson Cruker, Esq.
His Majesty's schooner Seaiark, July 23, 1812.
St it—l have the honuar to inform you, that on the Vlst instant, when
cruising off the Start, in the execution of your orders, at eight A. M.
a signal was made from the signal station, of an enemy being is the
S. E. quarter; alter running for three hours in that direction, I disco-
vered a large lugger under English calours, ch 'sing. and firing at two
large merchant ships steeling up Channel, which I be:ieve were West
Indiamen. On the lugger discovering the Sealark to be a cruiser, she
altered her course to starboard, and made all possible sail ; bnt finding
the schooner gaining on her, she shortened sail, hoisted English colours,
and cleared for action, and wore repeatedly to endeavour to get to
windward of the schooner; but fearing she might escape if she had so
done, I was determined to lay her on board, which I accomplished
between her fore and main chains, when an action commenced, which
lasted one hour and thirty minutes, during which time a most severe
fire was kept up with great guns and musketry, the enemy using hand-
grenades, &c. ; when, perceiving that she had taken fire, I then di-
rected Mr. James Beasn:, the Acting Master, to hoard her, which I e
did in the must spirited manner, and carried her. She proves to be t'
Ville de Caen, Captain Cocket, of sixteen guns and seventy-five met
belonging to Saint Makes; had sailed front the Isle of Bas the day lit-
fore; had taken nothing, and is the same vessel ‘s Inch had beaten or
the Sandwich lugger some time shier. I ant surly, Sir, to acquaint you,
that our loss has h, en very severe, having had seven men killed (amongst
whom was my clerk), and myself, and twenty-one men wounded, se-
veral of them dangerously. The enemy's loss, as nearly as I can col-
lect, has been fifteen killed, who, with the Captain, were found on
deck when taken po .session of ; and sixteen wounded, most of them se-
verely. I beg particularly to recomilitad to your notice the steady.
brave, and good conduct of Mr. Beavor, the Acting Master, with the
Pilot, awl every other petty officer, seaman, and marine, engaged in
this arduous and unequal cantest. I enclose a return of the killed and
wounded. I have the honour to be, &c.
TIIOMAS WARRAND, Lieut. and Com.
Admiral Sir Robert Calder, Batt. &c.

A List of Alen Killed an.l Wounded in die Action with the French
Itigg-er privat,.er 1.0 Yille dc Caen, of 16 guns, Captain Cocket, of
I ottlatt(l, '2lst July, 18IV.
Killed.—M.. John Purne!, clerk; Joseph Cuttano, able seaman;
Thomas Morgan, marine; Isaac Gould, able seamen; Joseph Hill,
ditto ; A lexander Brodie, ditto; John Barglehole, boatswain's mate.
Wounded.—Lieutcnant Warrand, commander; William Birket,
quarter-master; Dane! Brade, able seaman ; John Harris, ditto ;
John Robinson, ditto ; John M`Minis, ditto; Thomas Dunsford,
ditto; Heath, marine; Richard Grifli:lis, able seaman; John
Phiter, o,dinary seaman ; Thomas Asliky, ditto ; George Sales, ditto ;
Williams Evans, able seaman ; John Millwright, ditto; William
Robson, ditto; Gracious Gain, marine; James Cumings, gunner's
mate; James Jackson, able seaman; Thomas Bradbury, ditto;
Henry. Johnston, ditto; John Wakeham, corporal; Mr. Alexander
Gunn, midshipman.
(Signed) T. WAR R A ND, Lieut. arid Corn.
I. BL ESS MAN N, Ass'st. -Surgeon.

TOrtuToN-orircr, DOWNING-STREET, JULY 17.
His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the.
name and on the behalf or his Majesty, to appoint the Right Honour.
able General Viscount Cathcart, Knight of the Most Anaient and
Most Noble Order of the Thistle, to be his Majest)r's Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Imperial Majesty the Ein•
peror of RuNsia.

BANKRUI"I'S.
S. Dicken, Ellerdine, Salop, dealer, to surrender, Aug. 8, 11, and
Sept. 8, at three, at the White Lion, Manchester. AOOgees, Mr.
Entwisle, Manchester, and Messrs. Mill e and Parry, TOle.
J. Thomas, Welshpool, Montgoinerystiire, woollen-manufacturer,
Aug. 13, 11, and Sept. 8, at eleven, at the Royal Oak Inn, Welsh-
pool. Attornies, Mr. Davies, Kingston, Herefordshire, and Mr. Pugh,
Bernard-street, Russell-square.
M. Barter, Red-lion-Court, Fleet-street, victualler, Aug. 4, 1.1.
and Sept. 8, at eleven, at Guildhall. Attornies, Messrs. Whittons,
Great James-street, Bedford-row.
1. timile, Kemerton, Gloucestershire, draper, Aug. 19. !O. and
Sept. 8, at two, at the Rein Deer inn, Worcester. Attonaies, Mr.
Gillana, Worcester; and Messrs. Cardales and Young, Gray's Inn,
London.