The National Register.
London, England, 1812-08-02 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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bright day, notwithstanding the link gleam of Fght uad
broken in upon us. All the expeditions managed by the Noble Lord
opposite, (Lord Castlereagh,) and his method of carrying on the wai.
with Buonaparte, was like a child and Phillioon play ing a game of
chess. He alluded to th,! war which commenced. with Ann iica,
which he feared no negotiation could stop, and hoped that the Pr;rice
Regent would awake to the necessity of doing something to subst,:n.
tially satisfy the people of the country. By some accident we might
lose his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and that might be n
event pregnant with the greatest danger. Why, he asked, was there
not a provision mode which would insure the country against the
danger of a situation of that kind ? Was the Princess Charlotte of
Wales now of an age, which would enable her in such an emergency
to take upon her properly the duties of a Regency ? The Hon. Bart.
then slightly adverted to the (litre! en; political sentiments that wire laid
betore the public during the late m etisterial negociatioos, line con.
eluded by moving an Add, ess to his Royal Highness the Prince Re.
gent, expressing, in a formal manner, the various opinions contained in
ins speech.
No menthe' seconded the motion, and it was withdrawn.
A Message front the Lords announced their assent to the Irish In.
solvent Debtors' Bill, with several Amendments, to which they desired
the concurrence of this House.
The Lords' Amendments to the English Insolvent Debtor's Bill
were taken into consideration, and agreed tq.
Mr. BARII4C moved—" That an Accopat of the Amount of the
Land Tax rede:med, el Stock transferred to r !,:s Commissioners of the
stoking Fund, and of the Annual Amount of In_ Land Tax 7inrcdccm-
ed, .1.,) to the last period, should be laid before the House."
Tile Motion was put and carried.—Adjourned.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 29.
Mr. VANSITTART moved tar a writ tai the county of Londonderry,
in the room or Lord George Berestord, who ha accepted the place of
Comptroller of the Ft, usebold ; arol also new writ .or the same
county, in the room of the Hon. Ge►:er:sl C. Stewart, who had accept.
ed the place of Groom of the Bedchamber ; ako for tl►e B •rouge of
Ashburton, in the room of John Sullivan, Esq. wl'o was appointtd
Commissioner f.r India A ttiiirs. Another writ was, also or,:ered for
Ashburton, in the room et Lord Charles Bentick, who ha., accepted
'he place of Treasurer at the Household.
Mr. C. JOHNSTONE moved for severol accounts relative to Army
Agents, stating his motive to be, that some better .ieLurity slwold be
fixed upon far the payment of public money. After sc•me conversa-
tion the accounts were ordered.—Adjourned.

TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
nowt:ll4n syn kET, JULY '27, 181 g.
A Dispatch, of which the following is an extract, has been this day
received at E.q-I•l3athursi's Office, addres-ed to his Lordship by (iez-
arra' Earl of Wellington, dated Rueda. July 7, 1811 :
The army broke up diciu the •encamptuent on the Guareaa on the
flouting of the Ist instant, and the enemy having retired from Al ejos,
encamped on the Trabancos, with the advanced-guard at La Nava del
Rey. Having heard that the enemy had tit strop d the bridge of I or-
desillas, our advanced-guard crossed the Zap.irdiel, and moved open
Rueda, on the morning of the 2d,• supported by the left of he army,
while the right and centre moved towards Medina del Catnpo
The enemy, however, had not destroyed the bridge o'er the Douro,
as reported; and the main body of the army had retired upon Tordesil-
las, leaving the rear-guard at Rueda. •
Lieutenant-General Sir Stapleton Cottoa immediately attacked the
rear-guard with Major-General Anson's and Major-General Victor
Alten's brigades of cavalry, and drove them in upon the main body at
Tordesillas. As the right and centre of the army were at a cousi'der-
able distance, I could not bring up a sufficient body of tr op- in time
to attack the enemy during their pas,age of the Douro. and they ef-
fected that operation without%aterial loss; and took their position ou
that river, with their right on the heights opposite Pollos, their centre
at Tordtsillas, and their left at Simanc ,s, oil the Pi.uergt.
I moved our left to Pollos on the 3d, an.l obtained possession of the
ford over the Douro at that place. But as the lord was scarcely r ue-
ticable for infantry, and the enemy's corps was strongly posted, with
a considerable quantity of cannon, on the heights which command the
plain on which the troops must have formed after crossing the ford, and
as I could not establish that army on the right of the Douro till should
have adequate means of passing the river, I did aot think it proper to
push our troops further.
General Bonnet was at Aguilar dcl Campo in the end of last month.

ADMIRALTY=OFTIC4. JULY 28, 1812.
. Admiral Lord Keith has transmitted to John Wilson Croker, Es,q•
dispatches from Captain Sir Horne Popham, of his Majes sip
subse
aerable, giying an account of his former proceedings, rent to