The National Register.
London, England, 1809-04-30 00:00:00

EAST4NDIA SHIPPING.

Comp;ny's packet Georgiana arrived off Plymouth 23d
April, jg 99 ; left Bengal 24th December last; arrived at
Madras 28th ditto; left Madras 29th ditto; arrived at St.
Helena 22d February; left St. Helena 26th February, and
left the following ships at that Island? viz.—His Majesty's
ship Grampus, which was to sail three days alter the Geol.-
w biana with the Company's ships Pheenix, Anne, Tigris,
Surat Castle, Wexford, Freston, and pile Botany Bay ship.

His Majesty's ship Theseus arrived from the Cape on the
23d February ; left there his Majesty's ship Albion, and the
Company's sh►ps Diana and Ceylon.

The following ships sailed from Bengal, for Madras, on
the 24th December last, under convoy of his Majesty's
ship Sir Francis Drake:—William Pitt, Hugh Inglis, and
Jane Duchess of Gordon.

The Georpana left at Bengal, the Streatham, Earl Spen-
cer, Sir William Bensley, Monarch, Euphrates, Sovereign,
Northumberland, and Calcutta.

The Travers, Capt. Collins, was lost, on the 7th Nov. at
five o'clock, A. M. ou a rock detached from the Sunken
Island, in lat. 15. 38. N. long. 94. 20. E. Diamond Island
hearing W. by N. distance about tbret~ miles; Sunken
Island, S.W. by S. distant one mile and q quarter; whole
crew and passengers saved, excepting fix European sea-
men, three Lascars, and seven Chinamen. The under-
mentioned ships missing—The Glory, Lord Nelson, and
Experiment. '

A flag of truce sailed from Dover Vu Friday for Calais,
with dispatches. They probably relate to the maintenance
of the Russian prisoners at Portsmouth, as the Admiral is
about to depart from this country 1r St. Petersburg!) or
perhaps Mr. Pinckney, the American Ambassador, has
some communication to make at the present suoment to
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the American Minister at POI% '

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OUR ARMS IN PORTUGAL.—The army under the com-
mand of the gallant Sir Arthur Wellesley, consists of

Several brigades of artillery; 3d (or Prince of Wales's) dri.
goon guards; 4th (or Quern'' own dragoons s 13th, Ilth, 16th.
soul .10th light drigoons; Ist, 2d, and 3d regiments of drd-
goons of the King's German Legion ; a detachment of the ro sal
waggon train; a brigade of the foot guards; 2d foot ;
$d foot, or old buff-; Tilt foot, or roval fusileers; 90i tout ;
11th, 14th, 14:6th (or Cttuteronians), 27th, (or Inniskillings)
battalion; ?itit, 29th, 31st, 2d battalion); 2Sth, 40:h, ~sth,
C4Ol, (sth battalion), 71st, 7901, (or Cameron Highlanders),
91st, 97th (or Queen's Gertnaii) : :,113 4 regiments of the King's
flermait Legion.

'the volunteering. is now nearly over; and the measure
has been very successful both in England and in Ireland.
The ardour was so great for some of the corps which halve
distinguished themselves in Portugal, Spain, and eVell at
Martinique, that it was found necessary to restrain volun-
teering into them. The 7th, 13th, 23d, 36th, 40th,
50th, s"d, 90th, 95th, and 96th, would have each of them
got men to fill two or three battalions.
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A letter from Holland states, that z short time since
upwards of 400 armed Prussians suddenly entered the
kingdom of IVestphalia, and seized the money belonging
to the Crown. They did not commit the least violation of
private property. After remaining forty-eight hours, they
retired, having previously circulated a variety of inflam-
matory proclamations, inviting the inhabitants to rise and
shake olf the yoke of France. This event, mlnch is pro-
bably nothing-
more than the result of great misery, acting
upon 111111 of military ha hits, has been taken up very se-
riously by King Jerome. He has sent a courier to Konings.
berg, with orders to his ministers to demand an explatia-
tion, and to declare that if sufficient s:!t:staction be not
made for the outrage, it shall be considered a declaration
of war.

Bv a letter frim Carlsharrits, dated the Ifltit of .1 p ril,
we 'earn, that serious apprehens'ons are entertained that in
a very short time all Brit.sh shivpinc will he excln,led from
the ports of Swedvn Thig pro:ohi: ion to our navigation
is expected to be one of the first regulations to he announ-
ced after the convent.on of the approachipg diet.

Accomits received from Lisbon of a late date, Wall!, th;.t
General Craddock, with !20,000 British troops, had march( d
to mea the French army under :ottit,.and that Genes at
Beresford was covering Lisbon with 40,000 regular Portii.:
guese troops,eneamped near that cay.
Lord Cochrane had no sooner succeeded in his gallant en-
terprise against the enemy in Basque 'toads, than n
turned his attention to rescue the ‘atulnished ow thy ,k-
-voering elements : and io bringing. away the proptv 61 the
Ville de Varsovie, he would not allow even a dog to he
abandoned, hut took a crying., and now neglected little fa-
vourite up into his arils, and brought it away. It may be
supposed that he has conveyed this fortunate, little trophy
into the bosom of his family, where it ought to be e‘er
cherished as an instance of his generous care. BO a still
greater instance of his goodness was displayed in his hu-
manity to a Captain of a French 74, who came to deliver
his sword to Lord Cochrane; lamentine, that all he had in
the world was about to be destroyed by the conflagration
of his ship. His Lordship instantly gut into the boat with
him, and pushed oft; to assist his prisoner in retrieving
some of his valuable loss ; but in passing by a 74, which
was on fire, her loaded guns began to go off, a shot from
which killed the French Captain by Lord Cochrane's side,
and so damaged the boat that she filled with water, and the
rest of this party were nearly drowned.

There will be a further embarkation at Portsmouth
immediately ; several battalions of foot will he sent to
Portugal, two brigades of cavalry, one heap y and one litOit
be,ides the Hussar brigade, who go as soon as they are re.
ported fit for service again. Another brigade of the Gt,r-
man Lcgiuu will likoviszt be scut out.

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