The National Register.
London, England, 1812-10-25 00:00:00

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reg 'either marines or Spanish troops on board, in order to P
make an attack On the rock of Cluettaria, which is in pos.
,PCSSI( of the Ft ens h, and Yet y strongly fortified. We ar-
ivtd off the roc'; on the mot ring of the 18th September, \I
on whit 11, alai on the following .day, we disembarked goes,
ammunition, troops, seamen, C. on the batiks of a small 1
fiver called Seminal go, being about four miles distant from
the Valk whet eMe intended to elect our batteries. In the ;
course of tie night of the 18th, we got a two-gun kattely
,erected, and commenced engaging with the enemy on the
iflth, at day-bleak, ou II day we were entl loyed with
seamen draggieg guns up bilis, arta very bad oa..s, to erect
zinether battery, which wi:s to hate been within InusLet-shot
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of the Rock. -Mont twelve o'clock at night on the 19th, an r
riatun was en that a Rinnocvment of 10,000 French were
i•omieg down on us from St Sebastian, on which occasion
• wt' were oidercd to tlHible the guns, and such stores as we
could not retreat with, and to tc.--enibalk all our men, midl!
such things as we possibly could. flowever, by davlidit,
we bad almost every thing off, when we found that they had lii
been a fahe alarm given ; accordingly tile otters welt. then
eouctermanded, and cadets given to disembark men, guns, 1I
• stores &e. and we proceeded to elect batteries again. About II
noon of the 20th, however, orders weie again given to re-
embark all guns, stores, &e. On the 2;111 we weighed and
'proceeded to St. Antic!, o. One man belonging to the
Marine Artillery, who had both his legs shot off, is since
Zeut."
The Dw is frigate is .arrived at Portsmouth from the Last
Indies. She brings intelligence of the safe art ival India
a sir s A MUt 1 1100 D, on hoard the Owen Gleudower.—
The Doris left Madras the sth a July, and St. Helena on
the 4th ult.
The Neptune, with the Anniston, Royal Uharl:Ate, and
('ubalva, arrived at Bombay on toe 7th of .Nlav, ani.l the •
Coutts on the 9:h.
The Doris, en the 23d ult. in tat 14. S. N. long. 28. 11.
W. spoke his Majesty's ship Loire, Captain knows, having
.under convoy the ships Dorsetshile, Seateby Castle, Lord
Eldon, Batavia, and Cothwall, homeward hound.
The expedition which s tiled from Batavia, under Colonel
• GILLESPIE and Captain SAY it, of the I had succeeded
'in capturiug the Dutch islands of Macassar and Timour.—
Part of the 59th and 84th regiments were employed in the
!enterprise.
Another account states, that on the 21st of July the Doris
spoke his Majesty's ship Malacca, ten days from Java; and
from her learnt, that the expedition against Palambang had
been completely successful, and that the army on its return
bad been employed against the Rajah or Prince of J ACGOC•
CA T RA, who, it appears, bad shewn symptoms of dissatisfac-
tion during the absence of the troops. The force was com-
manded by Colonel GILLEsPIE, who stormed the fortress
and town in which the Rajah had taken post. The Rajah
himself was taken prisoner, together with the whole of his
property. The Rajah's force was estimated at 10,000 men,
.and his loss in killed and wounded is said to be considerable.
Colonel GILLESPIE was wounded, but the British loss was
inconsiderable. _

Besides the above intelligence from India, we learn, by an
,official dispatch from lieutenant-Colonel SsnTn, dated i2•tth
of February, that the fort of Nowanugger had fallen into the
bands of the British.

Within a few days previous to the 4leparture of the Doris
from Madras, intelligence reached that Presidency of a dan-
gerous mutiny, for the most tat and sanguinary purposes,
baying been newly detected at Travancore. Two of the
-*give corps, piaking part of the Subsidiary Force of that