The National Register.
London, England, 1814-05-01 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL RRGITTER.

Esti SrA:,nort called to their Lord-hip's recoil( ction, u,a. o.c.
House stood summoned on► his motion, for Monday, on a subject of the
Jast important*, as it velated to the ruhj'•ct of Civil Liberty; and when
suci► c►tcuntistances wooli he brought before the House as would call
ite tilt most serious attend •n.

Lord Ilot.t..vvrt then, pursuant to a former notice, moved the Order
of the Day for the second reading of the Dulwich College Bill, and on
which a discussion ensued.

It was then read a second time, and referred to an Out-d3or Com-
mittee, which uons ordered to sit on illonday. To which day their
Lardships adjourned.

HOUSE or COMMONS.

moNDAY, APRIL 25.

A new writ WM ordered for Roland:J.4e, in the room of N. Noel,
wSo has accepted the Chiltern Iltnirtreds.
Air. Horner presented a petition frorn Angtistus Cove, complaioing
of onore‘t,ion whit7ll he hid suffered under the Proptit-tors ttt the GrAnd
Junctinn Canal, and of i juftrnent gi• en against hint in a Court of
Liw.—Ordered to lie on the table.

Sirsll. MILDM Ay wished :to know if G',vernment I•md received any
infor,ilation re.pvcting stio Lavin ertion of the free people of colour in
the ',Lind of eirenarla; and if a Proclatoltion of G .vernor Ainsl:e had
Itt.cti received (Alio 1' since been removed to. stat;ng,
that if the fit oaarav NeJroes dii not return within a fixed period, he
would order the soldiers to de.troy their women and children.
Mr. Goer said, that lie . had received no information as to
the first part of the qty•stion. But ,in consegnence of a paragranh
t.:.ich he lvid seen in a tiew.rper, he had written to Govern 'r
for An ex id Illation of that Proclainati 41.—Sorno papers on t;.4 ,object
were moved for by Sir IL Nliblonty, and granted.
Sir II Parnell presented at Petition from the Freeholders of Queen's
Comity, Ireland, airmist the Corti Laws.

Lord A. IN tt.roN wished to know the nature of the proceeding
whioh the lion. nart. meant to pursue ?
:sir IL P 4 RN vr.t. said, it Nag his intention to move eerthin resolu-
tion+, arid then for I,ave to bring in a fill. funneled on these resolu-
tions. Ile also intended to propose a lower minimum, ;nice ror corn,
in consequence of the present low price of breud.—The petition was
so-tiered to lie upon the table. _ . .

Mr. Tt tnN Ey wished to know the course hid, it was intended to be
pursued, as to the delay or resumption of cash payments from the
bank ; alter this country 2.1ia1l have enjoyed six montbm id race, wile-
Oct a Committee would not be appointed to inquire • into the
subject ?
Mr. VANSyrrsnr supposed that sis months would be too early to
revert to cash payments. What steps might be adopted, however, he
could tint
The anise went into a Coniinittee• on the Corrnption Blond Bill;
and some discussion ensued, Pori aintndnients moved ; us the Bill now
.t.onds, the only otre.nce to wl.ich corruption of Mood is to attach, is
that of high treason.

The Simple Contract Debt Bill %VIP read a second time.

TUtqlllY, APRIL 26.

The 11111 to rernlate the expo-glees of Candidate.* a' Election, with re-
ference to non•resnient freemen, WWI recd cetit.rt tittle._

ATr. Seiiealit C.Kilev was heard on behult of Mr. Wiight, against the
Clerpe Penalties S:e.pention Bill ; and Mr. Brand sittend-
mew which was negetived, and flip fell. wi;11 suing verbal alterations
only, was ordered to be repeated on Monday.

WEDNEST)IY, APRIT '27.

S .me conversation ensued het 11 M:.. ,Vltithread and Arr. Vansit-
tart, relative to the ct ssimi Cluntlaloupe and Norway to Sweden—
the latter Gentkruan st.:ted, that the cession both of Uutsdaloupe atol
Norway to Sweden, was still open to futute discussion and arrange.
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sieginfilßee to ',Ropers, whether they resided in their own pari :es
or rou. rur this purpose, leave oring in a Judi, tor -
the Better Iteptilaw!, of the Pour. •
• Mr. Lockhart and Mr. Whitbread spoke in commendation of te-e
ideas, and it Bill .was permittedlo be brought in, and read a hrat
timo.
Serjeant Oxst.ow rose to move for leave to bring in a Bill. to
repeal the sth of Elizabeth, called the Apprentice Ball, which Bill had,
been considered by roll writers ou political economy as a disgrace to
our s'atute book. He ably argued on the impolitic and injurious ten-
dency of the law as it now stood, end said be bad the satisfaction of
saying, that from the manufacturing towns he had received letters trout
some of the most respectable mechanics, coinciding entirety with tis
♦-ideds on they subject. His 13111 would take away the unnecessary and
.cruel penalty of 40s. rr month. He then moved fur leave to bring in
a Biil, to repeal a Orr of the 511) of. Elizabetl..—After a short discus-
sion. the 13111 wam brought in, read a first time, and ordered for a secut d
reading on Fritlay. the 1.3.1 i of May.
Mr. Couarrczy obtained leave tiobring in a 13111 to prevent Frauds
in Auction:..—Adjourned.

THURST)AY, APRI4 !8.
SLAVE TRADE.

Mr. Rose, obtained leave to bring in a bill for registering as Bri-
tish ship, sh.ve vessels taken and condemned.
Mr. WitrtlittlEAP expressed a hope, that in the pending Congress
all the Allies would publish a decisive declaration against that tie-
fatiOns tr,aie, the slave trade, and that each would follow
np that declaration by efficient Rog ; but that, at all events England
%eonld use its utmost influence to produce this desirable end. The
fon..MemLocr stated that lie knew some speculators were actually
prepering to re-engage in this trade, npou the eaieulation, that they
would b afforded all opportunity ofpursuing it upon the restoratioa
of p..5.ce. •
Mr. FIIEEMANTLE, adverting to the late melancholy events at
Toulouse and Bayonne, said it would be a coesolatioo to the reli
of those %ho had enhappily tell, if they knew that Governmer t
had is.iucd every effOrt to prevent !be useless loss of valuable lives ;
he therefore moved for the production of all such documews at
would .chew what 'tops were taken by our Ambassadors or
commissioners will' the allied arinie, item the vlst of Marcia to 0:e
(.1 April. to communicate the transletums at Pors to Lord
Wellingtou —The motion was agreed to, and the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUOR spoke in a confident tone, that it would oe found
no steps had been left untried to forward the information alluded to,
Mr. PASCOE GRENFELL rose to make a motion respecting thy
,'Sinking Fund ; the limo. Gentleman' was of opinion that the present,
mode pursued for reducing the National Debt, namely, by the
Conitniesioners coming into the market and purchasing stock was
not the best system which could be deiived for that object and t::c
advantage of the Public. He believed also, that it the loans were
smaller, there would be mach more competition, and conseptently
better terms gained for the public : with the view of giving the
.tittject a toll eonsideration, he moves! for " an a: count of the
money expended by the commissions for the rednelion of the Na-
tional Debt, as also of the average price at which the debt was
j retirement."

'lnc CH A NC 1.13.0 R of the EXCHEQUER saw nothing objectionable
in the motion, :n►d thought the House was indebted to the Hon.
Gentleman for tl►e ideas lie had throve,' out.
Mr. THORNTON remarked, &it the fond., were now at least seve:i
per cent. lower than they woe berate the abdication of Buonaparte
had been known. • _

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The CHANcEr.r.ort of the EXCHEQUER in explanation of this eir-
cum•tatice said, the depre sion of the funds way caused by-the ex-
pectation of a loan, the amount of had been considerably
exaggerated.

FRIDAY, APRIL 29.
NOR ‘VAY.
Mr. W. WvNNE said, as the motion of which he had given notice
would. take up hot very little time, perhaps he might be allowed to
makea now, before the House proceeded farther with the On'er,.
He wished it to be understood, the object of his motion %I:3g out
to empire what was doing how with respect to Norway. it al he
wished to know•was, whether we were now in a %voe pence ter
war with that conntry ? The Chancellor or the Ex;•iirquer had said
when the snhject was last mentioned,
that had never
recognised Norway as a kinudom. He (bt r. Wy appreLecid:ut
this would not necessarily atrect the situation of the two en,iiiitite•
and decide the question whether or not the3b were at %var. I..nglan,

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lilt, not recognise the Fcgoeit 1.70.). rot, fthe Iv"' 6".
/ions Wmalitiii ov,t+t. 'there months. They all knew the
eessfoil or Norway to !Sweden had been guaranteed by this country
Sind lift Allies. Whether the Norvfegians would submit to this ar-
tangeinent, was another question. All he wished to ascertain at
present was, whether Ministers had decided on the line of condnet
to be adopted. If British ernisees had been instructed to suffer' no
!applies to proceed to Norway, that was an act of hostility, and
the question trotild be answered. For this reason, he proposed to
move that a copy of the instriterions giver to cruisers off Norway
should be produced; lnit set he did not wi,ll to load the table wadi
beeless papers, -if he could get'" yes" or " no" to the question, he
wished to have answered; be should not pies:: the motion.
The CrtAaCELLott of the ExcitteivErt was glad the Hon. Gen
tleman bad taken the.courSe he had adopted, as it was desirable to
ovoid a premature diactendon on the subject. He had certainly
Ml* no difficulty in statiirg that this country, in conjunction with
the Allies, had issued orders for blockading Norway.
conversation ended here, and the How immediately pro-
ceeded to the other 0 dens of the Day.
SIMPLE CONTRACT DEBT BILL.
On the Order of the Day being read for the House resolving it-
self into a Committee on the Simple Contract Debt Bill,
Mr. Serjeant BEsT opposed the Speaker's leaving the Chair, and
Mated his objections to. the Bill at considerable length.
After a discussion, in which Mr. Preston, Sir A. Picot, Mr. Ste-
phen, Mr. Lockhart, the Solicitor-General, Mr. D. Giddy, and Sir
S. participated, •
Toe House divided—For the Bill, 6.1 ;.For the Amendment, 57
Majoritc4 24.
. the Bill was then committed, and ordered to be reported on
!timidity next,—Adjouined. to Monnday.

LONDON GAZ fiTTE EXTRAORDINARY.
TUESDAY, APRIL '26. .

WAR DEPIRTMENT, DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 26.

Ainjor Lord William Rucsell arrived last night at this Office bring-
inr, a Di'pateh from the Marquis of Wellington to Earl Bathurst,
of which the following is a copy : _ _

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• Tonlouge, ‘prii 12.
Mit Lnitn—l have the pleasure to inform your Lordship, that
I entered this town this morning, which the enemy evacuated
during the night, by the road of Careassone.
The continued fall of rain, and the state of the roads, prevented
The from laying the bridge till the .morning of the Bth, when the
Spanish corps, and the Portugueic artillery, under the immediate
orders of Lieut.-Gen. 1)on Maaual Freyre, and the head-quarters,
crossed the Garonne.

We immediately moved forward to the neighbourhood of the
town : and the 18th Hussars, under the immediate command of
Col. Vivian, had an opportunity of making a must gallant attack
upon a superior body of the enemy's cavalry, which they drove
through the village of Croix d'Orade, and took about 100 prisoners,
and gave us possession of an important bridge over the river Ers,
by which it was necessary to pass, iu order to attack the enemy's
position. Col. Vivian was unfortunately wounded on this occasion,
and lam afraid I shall lose the benefit of his assistance for some
time.

The town of Toulouse is surrounded on three sides by the canal
of Lamtnedoc and the Garonne. On the left of that river the suburb,
which the enemy had fortified with strong field-works in *out of
the ancient wall, formed a good :de do pout.
They-had likewise formeda tete-de-port at each bridge of the canal
which was besides defended by the fire in some places of musketry,
and in all of artillery from the ancient walls of the town. Beyond
the canal to the eastward, and bvtween that and-the river Ers, is a
height which .extends ns far as Montrutiran, and over which pass
all the roads to the canal and town from the easiward, which it
defends ; and the enemy in ndtlition to the Me-de-pont on the
bridge: of the canal, hid fortih: d the heirdit Kith. fiveredoubts,
connected by lines. of intrenehments, and had with extraordi.
mry 4W:retire made eery preparation for defence., They had
likewise broken :IA
.the bridges over the ors within our reach,
which the light of their piention coola be apploaehed. The toads,
however, Arie2e in I:tedoese being in.pyacticable thr cavalry
or artillery, and nearly so: for im;intry. aS reported to your Lord-
ship in my dispatch of the Ist in-t. I had no alternative, .excepting
to atlark the enetb•y in Isro;itlaide
m position._
It wai necessary, to ove,the pontoon bridge higher np the aa- ,
roLee, iL.order W shorten the eQ;anuirlication with iiictita-Gen, Sir

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Kowland gill's corps; as soon as the Spanish corps had paced : and'
this operaikon was not effected till so late an hour on the 9th, as to
induce me to defier the attack till tic,fidlowing morning.
The plan according to which I deternriried to attack the enemy,
was for Marshal Sir W. Be-resford, who Was tur the right of the Ers
with the 4th and 6th divisions, to cross that river at the bridge of
Croix d'Orade, to gait) possession of Montblanc, and to march up
the left of the Ers to turn the enemy's right, while Lieut.-Gen.
Don Manual Fr3yre, with the Spanish corps under his command,
supported by the British cavalry, should attack the Front. Lient%
Gen. Sir S. Cotton was to follow the Marshal's movement, Major-
Gen. Lord E. ,So nerset's brigade of hussars ; and Col. Viviirr's bri-
gade, tinder the command of Col. Arentsehild, was to observe the
movement of the enemy's cavalry on both banks of the Ers beyond
oar left.

The 3d and light divisions, under the command of Lieut.-Gen.
Sir T. Piston and Majot-Gen. Charles Baron Ahem and the bri-
gade of German cavalry were to observe the enemy on the lower
part of the canal, and to draw their attention to that gnat ter, by
threatening the fete-de-pant, while Lieut.-Gen. Sir R. Hill was to du
the same oil the suburb on the left of the Garonne.

Marshal Sir W. Berestord crossed the Frs and formed his corps in
three columns of lines in the villages of Croix d'Orade, the 4th divi.
sion leading, with which he immediately carried Montblanc.—He
then moved up the Ers in the same order, over most difficult ground,
in a direction parallel to the enemy's fortified position : and as
soon as he reached the point at which" he turned it, he formed his
lines and moved in the attack. During these operations Lieut.-
Gen. Don Manual Freyre moved along the left of the enelly's posi-
tion. on which height the Portuzuest artillery was placed ; and
Major-Gam. Ponsimby:s brigade of cavalry in reserve in ibe rear.
As soon as formed, and that it was seen Marshal Sir W. Here:-
ford was readv, Lieut.-Gen. Don Manual Freyre moved forward to
the attack. the troops marched forward in good order under a
heavy fire of musketry and- aoillvry, and skewed great spirit, the
General and Staff being at their head ; and the two lines were
soon lodged under some banks immediately under the enemy's en-
trenchments ; the reserve and Portuguese artillery, and British caval-
ry, continuing on the heights an which the troops had first formed.
The enemy, however, rcpith;ed the movement of the right of Gen.
Freyise's line round their left flank, and having followed up their suc-
cess and turned our right by both sides of the high road leading from
Tolonse to Croix WOrade, they soon compelled the whole corps
to retire. It gave me great satisfaction to see, that although they
suffered considerably in retiring, the troops rallied again aq soon as
the light division, which was immediately on their tight, moved ;
and I cannot sufliCiently applaud the exertions of Lieut.-Gen. Don
Manuel Frevre, the Officers of the Staff of the 4th Spanish army,
and of the Officers of the-General Staff', to rally and form them
again.

Mendizabal, who was in the field as a volunteer, Gen.
F.spellata, and several Officers of the .Staff, and chiefs of corps,
were wounded upon this occasion ; but Mendizabal continued
'in the field. The regiment De Tirarei De Cantabria,mider the
command of Col. Sicilio, kept its position under the entrenchments,
until I ordered them to retire. .
In the mean time Marshal Sir W.Berestord, with the 4th division,
under the command of Lient.-Gen. Sir L. Cole, and the 6th division,
under the command of Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. Clinton, attacked and
carried the heights on the enemy's right; and the redoubt which
covered and protected that flank ; and he lodged those troops on
the same heights with .the enemy, who were however, still in
possession of four redoubts and the entrenchments and fortified
houses.

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The badness of the roads had induced the Marshal to leave his
artillery in the village of Monthlane ; and some time .elapsed helot e
it could be brought to him, and .before Lient,-Gen. I)on Manuel
Frcyre's corps could be reformed and hror4bOatiC to the, attack
as soon as this was effected the Marsha! (oatinued his movement
along the ridge. and carried, with Gene red Pack's brigade or the eth
division, the two principal redoubts and. fortified houses in the
enemy's centre.. Thr.enemy made a desperate effort from the canal
to regain these redoubts, but they were repul.ed wish considerable
loss ; and time nth division continuilw its movement along the. ridge
of the heiqht, and the Spanish troops continuing a correspo4diug
movement upon the _front, the' nemy were driven iron the two rt.
doubts_ and entrenchments on the left, and the whole range of heights
were in our possession. We did not gain this advantage, however,
rt ithont severe loss, particularly in the brave 6th divi,ion.,
Coghlan, of the Otst, art officer of great merit and promise, was
onfortnnately killed in the ilstack. of the .heights;". Major. Gen. Pack.
was woonded), but was enabled to remain in the tick' and Co.