The National Register.
London, England, 1812-10-11 00:00:00

SIMLY.

t.rnmn, Ave. 17.—The extreme heat of the weatleer having ob-
li;zed the Aiewhers of Parliament to request permission of his Royal
Ifighdess to remove their sittincrs from the t'',emenano de Cherece,
where they Is •(1 hitherto been held, their request was granted, and on
the I th the Parliani,nt suet in the above-mentioned College, when,
%kite the three branches were employed in their duty, an ex plreitutwas
heard iie„r thc spot, which, together with the smoke that entered at the
mia.low, and the strung smell of powder which tilled-the room, gave
suspicion of sGme treachery. Persons were immediately sent to inquire
and examine in the street; when it was found the explosion pri weeded
from u hitite of thick glass, filled with powder, nails, :'het other things,
and covered with flax, that it might not break in l's fall, 13,0 have a fall
6rect in its explosion. which appears to have been intended against the
Chamber of the Commons, the windows of which looked into the street.
It, however, did no injury, the explosion taking place so soon. 'Hie Par-
liament immediately represe:aed to the throne the horrible attempt,
mid continued its labours with the greatest tranquillity. liis Royal
Iligline.s ordered 'a ce,,tinel to he placed., and published an offer of
rewdrd of• 1090 pezzi to any person who sh.,uld discover the author of
time intended mischief.

SUPPLEMENT TO SITURD4Y'S GII:EIT.E.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
LOWSING.-Sat BEET. OCT. 5, 1612.
A dispatch, of which the followine is an extract, has been this
morning received at Earl Bathurst's office, addressed to his Lordship
by General the Marquis of Wellington, K. B.
Villa de Toro, near Burgos, Sept. 21, 1912. I i
I continued to follow the enemy with the troops under my com.
tnind, till tile 16th, when I was joined at Pampliega by three divi-
sions of infantry and a small body of cavalry, of the army of Gallicia;
his Excellency the Captain-General Castanos, having arrived at head- !;
head-
quarters on the 11th.' The enemy lied on the 16th taken a strong po-
sition on the heights behind Celada del Caniinn, and arrangements
were made to attack them on the morning of the 17th ; but the enemy
retired in the night, and they were driven on the 17th to the heights
clove to Burgos. They retired through the town in the night, leaving I
behind them some doodling and other stores, and a large quantity of
wheat and barley ; and they have since continued their retreat to Bri-
vitsca, where, it is reported, they have been joined by seven
thousand conscripts. It is like Wise reported, 013 t the. Prince of Ess-
ling his been ordered by the local Government of France to come and
take the command of the army.
'Fite castle of Burgos commanis the passages of the flier A danzon
in the neighbourhood, and the roads communicating with them, so
c'lnildcrelt.'that we could nut passrthe river till the 10th, when, we
rtfected ihat operation in two columns, the sth division and Brigadier-
General Bradford's brigade above, and Ist diviskn, and Brigadier-Ge-
nera( Pack's brigade, and Major-General Anson's cavalry, below the
town.
Burgos -Is •
situated in that division of Spain allotted to the army of
the north; and General Caffarelli, who had been here on the 17th,
11,1c1 placed in the castle a garrison of the troops of that army, consist-
tog, is reported, 0N,150.3 men.' The enemy had tAen considerable
pains to fortify the castle of Burgos, and had occupied with a horn-
work the hill of St. Michael's, which has a considerable command
over_ some of the works of the castle) at the distance of Once bun-
oral yards.