The National Register.
London, England, 1808-01-10 00:00:00

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. TIIE PRINCE OF ASTURIAS.
Letters received by the vessel from Holland, have furnished
ab with some intelligence from Spain. It is said, that the con-
duct of the Prince of Asturias underwent an official investigation
relative to the plot of which be was accused, before be received
the King's pardon; and in the Dutch letters an account is given
of the Prince's examination, in which he certainly appears to
more advantage than in the correspondence which was pub-
lished in the French Papers. Instead of acknowledging any
offence, his Royal Highness is said io have vindicated himself in
a very manly manner, and with considerable ingenuity. The
examination of the Prince, which took place before the Cont-
mission appointed to inquire into the Conspiracy, was very
short. Four questions were put to him, which, with their an-
swers, were to the following effect :
Q Is it true that your Royal Ilighneu has conspired against
the life of your Royal Father and King?
A. I am a Christian; I fear Cod, and cannot but shudder at
the mention of an accusation so horrible. Such a thought never
entered my mind.
Q. What use did you mean to make of the cyphers of corre-
speadence found in the lining of sour coat.
A. The cyphers you speak of were found the first day I wore
that dress. Those who made the coat can best answer your
question.
Q. For what purpose did your Royal Highness correspond
with the Emperor Napoleon, and what was the object of that
correspondence.
A. l have no hesitation in owning that I have kept up a
correspondence with that august Sovereign, but it contained
nothing pre,iiidicial to the interests of my country, and nothing
that could provoke the displeasure of my Royal Father the
Icing.
Q. Why did your Royal Highness order, and keep ready,
four horses, andel circumstances which indicated an intention to
escape ?
A. It is true the horses were ordered to be kept in readiness,
hut !hi. INas not done with the: intention of flying from Spain,
Dia for the purpo'e of joining the French army after which I
intended to make known to my tioal Father the unhappy situ-
ation tow hick the country is reduced, by the truly had admi-
nistration and despotic meal/4ure, of the Prince of Peace.

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THE NATIONAL AMSTER,

JAN, HI"


which he wished never to continue less than one hour, or to
exceed two—and that it should correspond with Lord Chatham's
notion of a battle, " it should be short, sharp, and decisive."
Box' s celebcated Gulley has just entered into a pub-
lic-house in the parish of St. Clement Danes, and consequeutly
he has not yet gone into a regular course of training, prepara-
tory to his second combat with Gregson. The latter is is pre-
fect health and full vigour of body, and be cuatiattes in careful
training, under the management of his original trainer, Rich-
mond, the black, pear Ilampstead. There are no other matches
made or in agitation. The betting regarding the contest between
Gulley and Gregson is five and six to four on Gulley, and even
betting that he heats Cregson in less time than he did at New-
market, and two to one on the first fracture.
A very severe battle was fought near Clifton, on Monday,
between two expert bruisers, ribose fame has not yet attracted
the notice of the town amateurs. The mimes of the parties
were Gore and Maddox, and the battle was for a purse of fifteen
guineas. In science it was nearly equal to that which was di,-
played by young Belcher and Dutch Sam, and the conflict w;!‘
as sanguinary as the late battle between Gulley and Gregson,
After an hour's real fighting, Gore was carried off as the victor,
he being unable to walk, and perhaps worse beaten than evil
was witnessed in a wi^ti •r.

MILITARY MOVEMENTS,

TUE GUARDS Pitalt LIMY.

HO RAFT AM, JAN. 7.—Yesterday afternoon a division of the
Ist Regiment of Foot (Wards, consisting of upwards of iOO oleo,
under the command of Lord Frederii•l‘ Bentinck, Lord TYr-
connel, Colonel Askew, and several other Officers, marched in
from Petworth in a most uncoralbrtable condition, the road. br-
ing dreadfully heavy and foul,from the late rains. The Officers
and men bore every appearance of fatigue and disorder in their
.elothes and Accoutresocut,., While stapes of.j,ny: seemed to mantle
in their faces, on again touching British ground, Sicily has
been, for a length of time, the scene of their operations, in ond
about the neighbourhood of Syracuse. Lord Frederick Ben-
tinek's dress, and particularly his hut burr proof to iii. having
literally marched from Portsmouth (the place w here the troops
disembarked), the loiter being nearly worn off his feet,' hays
ing, with a humanity worthy the imitation of ever. British
soldier, resigned Ms hen.e for the arrommtskition of the weak
and fatigued, and the animal quietly briagiog up the rear with
three little drummer boys on his back, Lords Tyrconnel
and F. lientinck dined with Colonel Illigh at Nuthurt
Lodge, previous to which, the latter, before he made t!ie
slightest alteration in his dross, saw the sick and fatigued
attended to, anti the roes comfortably settled in their quarters.
The division marched this morning for Cucktield, on their way
to Deal Barracks. This afternonc four companies more, of the
same regiment, marched in for the same route, tinder the com-
mand of Colonels Drummond, Latnbcrt, and Donson.

The force which sailed It ith Sir Samuel 'loud end Genera
Ilercsford, am:meted to 3794 effective men.—At consisted of
the Stl Foot, or Burs, 11,00 men : 11th, 1000; 25th, WO:
63d, 1460; to these were added two Companies of Artillery,
making 214 men. Fourteen artificers were also attached to
them.

The old 25t1h regiment of infaetry, tamely called the Edin-
burgh regiment, and now under the command of Lieutenant-
Colonel Ainslie, passed through Newcastle, on Tuesday se'n-
night, on their way to Edinburgh Castle. This is the regiment
formerly called Leven's 251 h, in which the story of Le Fevre,
Lieutenant of that regiment, by Sterne, originated,
On Saturday Fe'nn igh t instructions were received by the
General Officer commanding in the Curk District, to order the
disembarkation of the Infantry Regiments and Artillery, which
had arrived in that harbour from Monte Video. The regiments
and their strength, according to the return supplied by the
transports composing the fleet, were as follow Artil-
lers, Col. Scull, 615 men; sth Foot, Col. Davy, 810; 34itil,
Col. Hume, 756; SSth, ('ol, Nugent, 637; 40th, Col. Browne%
867 ; 45th. t*ol. (;arde, 112 men.
The disembarkation of the troops intended to remain for the
present in Ireland, has taken place. The sth Foot proceeded
from Monkstown, where they landed, to Kinsale, and replaced
ihe 2d Battalion of the same Regiment, which arrived here
yesterday on its route to Fermoy. The 38th proceeded
to Bandon, and replaced the Second Battalion of the
38th, which morchod to Mallow, The 30th and 45th are
•to duty it, this garriboa3 from which the Louth hied Witte-