The National Register.
London, England, 1809-09-03 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

DIVIDENDS,

Sept. '22. haste ILLk^r, Dudley, Nt nrceßter, linen-draper, at twelve, at the
Sw iu Lin and note!, iioi-stree, Birmingham.
25. Ed% artl Stan:aim', Yockotrcet, Commercial-road, floupfe.ctor, at
twelve, :it
Supt. 20, Willi:LIB Prigs, Ipswich, S letaaller, at eleven, at the White
Uncle, ll)swicb.
ti p. io .1.4 e tin Go npert
hell, Lw,don.

shopkeeper, at ten at Guild.

Sept. 114>p:this, Leman-st met, Goodman's Fields, silk throwers, at
tr.), at Guildhall.

Sept. Yi. Th(nna. Je:min and Dick itlFollJenn ings, Spading, Lincoln, bank -
eq. at tell, at the White ILO Spalding.
Sept. Thomas tiuittod, Cravea-street, Strand, whit-merchant, at ten, at
Guil_ _

0-t. 7. John Henry Schneider, Buw-lanu, London, tnercbaut, at eleven, at
(Aladin% •
Sept. 2t. Anthony Call rns, Mile-end-road, Middlesex, ship-owner, at twelve,
at Guildhall.
Set. 21. Henry William Lawson, Liverpool, draper, at eleven, at the Catlin
Lion, Dale-attott, Liverpool.

Nov. 11. John rrell, llai 1 atone, Kent, itunin.tager, at tweA.:, .tt
han, London.

John %Lite, Cravan•bui!!in;s, City-road, .nerchanf, at ten, at
Guiidbail.

Nov. 11. Roderick Niackeuzie, King'i Arms-jard, merchant, at twelve, at
Gu1149.a11.

Oct. I. Thomas Hohnea, Horsham, surrey, nurseryman, at ta eive, at Guild,.
hall, London.

Oat. I. Joint Fermer, Lawrence-lope, wholesale linen-draper, at twelve, at
Guildhall.

Oct. 7. /James Arbonin, Hart-street, Crutched-friars, wino-rolikbant, at
twelve, at Guildhall.
Oct. 7. John Baster, Strand, Middlesex, tailor, at twelvelat Guildhall,
Loadou,

cr.wriFICATES —SEPT. 19.
Joseph nankin, Holloway, Middle-iex, builder—Joseph Dodds, Alslertgate-
struct, roldouith—James °tries, Bungay, Sattolit, slaapkeepor—Chsrles ilks
Birmingham, stationer.

S.IILTRIMrs LO.l DOA GIZETTE.

Downing-street, .`rpl. 2, 1809.

A dispatch, of which the following is a copy, wig, on the
30th ult. received at the Office of Lord Viscount C st'r 'h,
our of his Majesty': Principal Secretaries of State, f om
;PliPral Lora V iscauut Wellington, dated Dek•ytos; fith Aug.

MY Luau, Deley toga, A .8, 1809.
I apprized your Lordship on the Ist inst. of the dxstoce of a
French corps towards the Puer to de Banos. and oft e probable
embarrassments to the operations of the antis', hie,. iiu “At
at Plasencia would occasion ; ano these eml;arrassme ..3 ita,viug
since exissed to a degree so considerable, as to oblige us to fall
`back, and to take up a defensive position on the Tagus, I am in-
duced to trouhle you wore at length w Winn account of what has
passed upon this subject. When 1 entered Spain. I had a cora-
mi!utcation with General Cuesta, through Sir Robert Wilson
and Colonel Roche. respecting the occupa.tion of the Puerto de
Banos and the Puerto de Perales, the former of which, it was at
last settled, should be held by a corps to be formed under the
Marquis de la Reyna, to consist of two battalioas from General
Cuesta's army, and two from Bejar; and that the Puerto de
Pestles was to be taken care of by the Duque del Parque, by
detachments from the garrison of Unclad Rodrigo. I doubted
of the capacity of the garrison of Ciudad Rodrigo to make the
detachmentuo the latter, but so little of the eff-mtual occupation
of the former, that in writing to Marshal Bereiford on toe 17th
July, I desired him tw look to the-Puerto dePerales, but that I
considered Banos as secure, as appears by the extract of my let-
ter which 1 inclose.

On the 20th intelligence wag received at Talavera, that 12,000
ratioos hail been ordered at Fuente Doenos for the 213th, and
24000 at Los Santos for the same day, for a French corps,
which it was believed was on its march towards the Puerto de
Banos.

General Cuesta expressed some anxiety respecting this pasts
and sent me a message to propose that Sir Robert& Wilson should
be sent there with his corps.
Sir Robert was on that day at Talavera, but his carps was i 2
the mountains tow ar)s Escalona ; and as he had 'already made
himself very useful in that quarter, and had been near Madrid,
w hic'i I was desirous of keepio.; up, I proposed that a Spanish
corps should he sent to Banos without loss of time.
1 could not prevail with fleneral Cuesta, although he cer-
tain! v admitted the necessity of a reinforcement whet' he pro.
posed that Sir Hobert should be sent to Banos ;- nod. he was
equally sensible with myself, of the benefit to be derived to the
cause, from sending Sir Itobert h:ic id Escalona. At this time
we had nn former intelligence of the enemy's advance, than
•that the rations were ordered ; and t had hopes that the enemy
might he deterred from advancit.g, by the intelligence of our
success on the 2Sth, and th:a the troops in the Puerto might
make some defence ; and that inaltr these circumstances it was
nut dcsirahle to divert Sir Robert Wilsou from Escalona.
On the 300, however, 1 renewed my application to Fileiserat
Cuesta,, to send there a Spanish division of sufficient strength, its
a letter to iteneral O'Donugnue, of %% 'zilch I inciose a copy, but
without ellect ; and he did nut detach (;en. Itaiisecourt till the
inociiiii4 of the 2(11 4,ft.er we had heard-that the enemy had enter!.
ed Bejar, and it was obvious that the troops in the Puerto would
wake no defence. Ott the 2:1 we received accounts, that tlw .)nealy.
had entered Plasencia itt two columns. The Martinis de la lieyoa,.
*whose two battalions consisted of only 6(.1;) tarn, w only it).
rounds of ammunition each tuna; retired from the. Puerto and
tenni Plasentia, without tiring, shut, and went to the bridge of
Almarez, which; be declared that he intended to remove ; the no-
nillions of Briar dispersed without 119,.;:ing any reei-aa. The
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