The National Register.
London, England, 1809-01-22 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

JAN. t 2•

Trip foilowing correspondence reached us yesterday af-
ternoon t—,
CoRVNN A, JAN, 6..—The retreat of the English army is con-
firmed. At le•nictnek yesterday, the army had assembled
Lugo, with the exception of General Frazer's division, which
had made a considerable advance towards Vigo, but was ordered
to fall back to the assistance of the main body, a battle being
hourly expected. Benevente has• been burnt, and the French
threaten Astorga with the same fate. At both these places th'
F.aglish prisoners have been murdered by Buonaparte.—
Previous to the assetullly of the English at Lugo the ca-
valry which covered the retreat, assisted by the flying ar-
tillery, had thrice repulsed the enemy, consisting of •.1.000 cavalry,
and rendered it completely incompetent to act again by itself.
co au N NA, JAN. 13.
The wliple of the English Army effected a retreat to this
place and its vicinity, on thp 11th, in the evening. tieneral
Bere,ford, however, occopies the heights near Burgos, with a
corps of ahout 5000 men, oho are pits efilplq3pd in fortifying
that position.
Whilst at Lugo, Sir J. Moore drew up his army in order of
battle, invitiag ttie attack, %villa) was 'however declined by him.
JAN. 1.
The staff equipage of the English arrived here on the 7th,
but the head quarters of that army are still at Lugo. On the
aftentonn of the tith, the enemy made a paitial 'attack no tbe
English position. but were repuked with the lOss pfi sooabout
men ; that of the English being but. trifing.
The sea batteries here have been dismantled, iq order that
they might not furnish the enemy with me ins cif annoyance.
The enemy have two columns on their march to Portugal : one
for Lisbon by Estramadura and Elvtts the other had reached
Zamora on the 15th, on its way to Oporto.
The Nonpariel schooner arrived on Wednesday at
mouth from Cadiz, from whence she sailed on the Sth inst.
She is said 'to have brought letters containing an account of
a defeat sustained by the Spaniards near Barcelona. Letters
from Alicant of the 24th December; and from Tarragona
of the 1911), state the 4atue fagt.• . We have grounds, how-
pier, for disbelieving the authenticity of this statement`
because we have authority for stating that no such event
was known on the 4th inst. at Cadiz. On the contrary, the
opinion was prevalent there at that time, that Barcelona
was on the point. of surrendering ; and that the enemy
were not in competent force in Catalonia to contend with
-24..'"Jhe Patriots. The followint letter from Cadiz, dated
an. 4; gives some satisfactory information relative to
Spain :
" Bonaparte left Madrid on the22d December, with 19,000
pen, in two divisions.
" The Marquis de la Romana had dislodged the French from
Palencia. W hen the laSt actoutits.were received front him, his
head-quarters were at Carrion de la's C;indes Wl' army amounted
to 32,000.

,tf The Dt4lce of I afantado's army consisted of 31,000 infantry
and 3000 cavalry, the van of which occupied Terancon, 40
miles from Madrid. It amounts to. 12,000 men, and had been
recently reinforced by 4000 picked .troops.
" We have very good news frolocatalonia.
" Three officers, belonging to the Duke of Infantado"s army.
have been shot, for uttering expressions calculated and designed.
to dishearten the soldiers. This ismie of the perfidious artifice
which the French employ to excite insubordination, and to
avail themselves of the •confte4on thus iitroduced among the
troops. This was actually the case with Castinos's army, and
was the sole cause of itsdispersion. One of the Colonels in that
army stated in a letter, written immediately after the etigake-
Ment, that it was defeated entirely in consequence of the causes
just mentioned, and that this statement was confirmed by the
continued arrival of many of the officers and soldiers at Caro-
lina and the places adjacent. The army of Somosierra was in
the same situation ; so that it is' to disorder and insubordination
in. the ranks of their opponents that the French are indebted for
the progress they have hitherto made. But they will no longer
have the henefit of such .an auxiliary, as a system of rigorous
military discipline has been established, and • all those Com-
manders, whose principles were suspicious. have been dismissed.
Among Oelwis Galluzu, who suffered the enemy, to the tumlber
of 8000, to penetrate by the bridges of A szoisispo and. Almaear,
though the latter Was fortified w,ith, tweive 24-pounders, and
fitaciuuß pieces of canner; of smaller calibie, -and. warded by a
late of 9000 men. . TM; olScer u already in StvklAck ni are

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also Cavallo', and his Aides-de-Camp, Armentero, Montusa,
Pinillos, itmtalde, and Aguirre. They are all of them at the
C.)nvent of St. ('eronimu, to which ihey were escorted by the
any:o Carnbinerrs, :mother 13rigadier-General has also ar- •
rived there, who was sent thither in custody by the puke of
LifautadO.

" In La Mancha the French rowing parties have suffered
severely. In one town only, 200 cuirassiers were taken, and
put tq death."
latelligunee from Vieppa, states, that a new Revolution
had broke out in the Capital of the Ottoman Empire.
The Janissaries who have shewed a manifest aversion to
the introduction of European tactics, and who eagerly
wished to recover that influence they lost through the
firmness of m
BAIRACT+R, have given at last 'vio-
lent proofs of their steady determination to resist every
attempt to salutary *reform, and excited 4 general.
revolt, which raged from the lath to the 16th November,
through all the streets 'of Constantinople. They made a
violent attack on the starters, occupied by • the troops,
organised in the Epropean m4nuer, and succeeded, it is
said, in cutting them all to pieces.
On the 19th, the dead body of an unknown Mussulman
of rank that had been destroyed, was found in a subterra-
nean vault in 1.1 n: Palace of Sultan Mahomet. It was shp-
posed to be that of Mustapha Rairactart who, however, as
IS believed by well-informed persons, has safely effected his
escape to Rudschuck,
The Grand Seignior Mahomet has now appointed Mahn-
met Aga provisional Grand Vizier. The exiled Said Aly is
again appointed Captain Paella, and °haled Effendi re-
mains as Minister for Foreign Aft-airs. The Reis :Effendi,
and lOaja Bey, also retain -their former rank .
It appears that the French have evacuated Berlin at' lad.
Previous to that event, Davoust, who command's thst
French force in Ger.nany, addressed a letter to St. Hilaire
t;overnor of Berlin, in a nauseous strain of affected mora'
lity, in which this fellow, the accomplice in the murders'
rapine, and devastation, ofhis Corsican master, speaks oy
Frei! :1; respect for the property and independence of thf
cuutries they occupied I A circumstance which accele-e
rated the departure of the enemy was 4 secret association
organised precisely on the same plan as that during the
disorders in Ireland. We hope its object was different ; and
that the yooths of Prussia had entered into these s,,lern4
and secret engagements for the purpose of exterminating
their savage oppressors.
A packet, the Pownshtnd, is arrived at Falmouth frem
the Brazils? after au uncommonly quick passage. She galled
from Rio ,Janeiro on the 2d of December. The commer-
cial intelligence received by her is of some importance;
the politica ranch .More so. It is said that the markers of
the Brazils have been almost glutted with British merchan-
dize, and that the Goiernment has not given the facilities
to commerce that were expected. We shall not on the
authority of over-sanguine and disappointed spectators,
presume. to arraign the policy of the emigrant Govern-
ment, which we are persuaded will acquit itself of the debt
Of obligation that is due to England. If we were to listen
to the clarnours'of speculators, we should never know
year's repose..
The Morning Star of Plymouth, which was appointed as
a Cartel to carry over about twenty Franch Gentlemen and
Ladies to Morlaix. On Saturday last she went op into Mill
Bay for the purpose of taking them on board—a cot which
belonged to one of the passengers was in Mill Prison, and
was to be taken to Sandy Cove beach, to be taken on
board. A potter being employed on the occasion, took
the cot with its contents on his back, and had not pro-
ceeded far before he felt-something move within which so
much alarmed him that he itnmediately threw it off his
4 back and made off. Some soldiers beim', witness-to the
transaction, and seeing the porter escape with so much
agility. proceeded to open it, and it proved to he
.a French
prisoner very securely sewed up, with a hole made for him
to breathe. Ile.was taken from the cot, and guarded to-
his former habitation in Mill Prison.
On 'tnesday Bread rose One Penny in the Peck Loaf.