The National Register.
London, England, 1811-06-02 00:00:00

THE NAT

tificial phraseology. You have said, 14 the Catholic will destroy
the Church"—That is the burthen of your speech. Echo upon
echo—repetition on repetition—" I think, and I think"-1 know
you do thinA, but you thin/c grossly wrong! and you have given
no proof of your thinking either in theory or in practice.—
Hear ! )—You, in the persuasion of your rectitude, conjure up
the horrid image of bigotry and immorality, and thus in the
name of God violate his precepts. I have thought proper to say
thus much because I see the Right Hon. Gentleman has assumed
an higher tone in bigotry than he has even done in politics; and
I must farther tell this intolerant Minister, that it is nqt.in the
declamatory tone of any bigoted earthly power to defraud my.
country of her civil rights, or prevent her from obtaining her
religious liberty. pie may have spoken eloquently, but though
he has stated no reason to Parliament agaiiist my motion, he has
stated many good ones why he should not be the Minister of a
population four fifths of which are Catholics."
strangers were. then ordered to withdraw. A division took
place, and the numbers were—For the motion g3..—Against it
146.—Majority 63.—Adjourned at five o'clock.

LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.

SUNDAY, MAY 26, 1811.

DOWNING-STREKT, MAY 95,1811.
pispateheA, of which the following are Copies, Were this day
received at the Earl of Liverpool's office, addressed to his
Lordship by Lieutenant-General Lord Viscount Wellington,
K. B. dated Villa Formosa, Bth and IQth May.
MY LORD—The enemy's whole army, consisting of the 2d,
6th, and Bth corps, and all the cavalry which could be collected
in Castile and Leon, including about nine hundred of the Impe-
rial Guard, crossed the A;tieda at Ciudad Rodrigo on the 2d
instant. •
• The battalions of the 9th corps had been joined to the regi-
ments to which they belonged in the other three corps, except-
ing a division consisting of battalions belonging to regiments in
corpsaioing duty in Andalusia, which division likewise formed
part of the army.
As my object in maintaining a position between the Coa and
the Agueda, after the enemy had retired from the former, was
to blockade Almeida, which place I had learnt, from intercepted
letters and other information., was ill supplied with provisions
for its garrison, and as the enemy were infinitely superior to us
in cavalry, I did not give any opposition to their march, and they
passed the Azava on that evening in the neighbourhood of
Esixja, Carpio, and Gallegos.
!ley continued their march on the 3d in the morning towards
the Duas Casas, in three columns, two of them, consisting of the
2d and Bth Corps, to the neighbourhood of Alameda and Fort
Conception, and the third; consisting of the whole of the
cavalry and the 6th, and that part of the 9th corps which had not
already been dratted into the other three.
The allied army had been cantoned along the river Duas
Casas, and on the sources of the Azava, the light division at
Gallegos and Espeja This last fell back upon Fuentes de Honor,
• on the Duas Casas, with the British cavalry, in piropottion as
the enemy advanced, and the Ist, 3d, and 7th dpisions were
collected at that I lace; and the 6th division, tinder Major.
General Campbell, observed the bridge at Almeida; and Ma-
jor-General Sir William Erskine, with the sth division, the
passage of the Duas Casas, in Fort conception, and Aldea
t)'Obispo. Brigadier-General Pack's brigade, widi the Queen's
regiment front the 6th division, kept the blockade of Almeida ;
and I had prevailed upon Don Julian Sanchez to occupy Nave
D'Aver with his corps of Spanish cavalry and infantry.
The light division were moved in the evening to join. Ge-
neral Campbell, upon finding that the enemy were is strength
in that quarter; and they were brought back again to Fuentes
de Honor on tile morning of the sth, when it was found that
the Sth corps had joined the 6th on the enemy's left.
Shortly after the enemy had formed on the ground on the
right of the Duas Casas, on the afternoon of the 3d they at-
tacked with a large • torce the village of Fuentes de Honor,•
whiLh wzls defended in a most gallant manner by Lieutenant-
Colonel ‘Vilhattis, or. the sth battalion 6th regiment, in coin-
iariel of the light infantry battadons belongithr to,Major-Ge-
rcral Pictun's divisions, supported by the light infantry aat-
taliun Major-General Nigluingall's brigade, commanded by
Major Dick of the 42d regiment, and the light infrantry battalion
in Major-General Howard's brigade, commanded by Major
M‘Donnell of the 92d regiment, and the light infantry bat-
talion of the King's German Legion, .commanded by Major
tally of the 3d battalion of the line, and by the 241 battalion
of the Sad regiment under Major Carr. These troops main-
tained their position; but having observed the repeated drams
which the enemy were making to obtain possession of the vil-
lage, and beteg aware of the advantage which they would de-