The National Register.
London, England, 1813-07-18 00:00:00

TUE NATIONAL REGISTER.

the 3d day of June, near Salon, and • immediately invested Tarra-
gona.
" Lieutenant-Colonel Prevost had been previously detached
with the 2d battalion of the (i7th and a part of Roll's and Dillon's
regiments, to attack the Fort of St. Philippe, upon the Col de Ba-
in,7ner. He was joined there by a brigade from the Catalan Army.
Captain Adam commanded the squadron sent to co opperate with
Colonel Prevost ; and the great exertion of the troops and seamen
employed upon this service under the direction of very able
Officer. overcame the difficulties presented by the situation of the
andfort, al obliged the garrison to surreoder, on the morning of the
7th. Lieutenant Dellattre, of Dillon's regiment, awl one Spanish
Officer, were killed, as were six soldiers, and :37 were wounded.
" In the mean time, Sir John Murray had commenced Ow siege
of Tarra,:ona, but having inelligetice upon the I t-.?th. that a strong
body of French troops had advanced from the side of Barcelona to-
wards Villa Franca and Vendrill, and likewise that Marshal
Suchet was upon his march from Valencia, Sir J. Murray resolved
to rare the siege, and the troops were embarked immediately,
without any loss of men ; but they were obliged to leave in the ad-
vanced batteries some pieces of heavy ordnance, of which the car—
riages were burned." _ _

The artillery left behind at Tarragona, •we arc informed,
was the identical train with which Laid WELLINCTON re-
duced Bajados. They were sent back to the Tans, em-
barked there for Alicant, and taken from thence with the
expedition, under the direction of a distinguished Officer
of Artillery, who had been promoted for his tnetit at Ba-
dajus. This train was supplied with 300 rounds to each
gun, and it wa, attended by one company of British, and
three of Portugue,e artillerymen, in number at least SOO.
The Madrid Gnt.ate of the 27th ultimo, contains General
C sTANos's official di,patch notifying the peat battle of
Vittoria. The inte!ligence was no sooner received in the
pani,h Capital, than it produced the same burst of enthu-
siastiejoy and exultation there as it did in this city. I llumina-
tions took place for three successive nights, Lull-tights were
exhibited as many daNs successively; and the produce of the
latter was divided between objects of charity, and rewards
for military service : part was given to the Hospitals, part
was assigued as marriage portions for the dmghtet F of disabled
soldiers, and part was bestowed on the most distinguished
followers of the EMP EC,INADO.

Four thousand infantry, and 1200 cavalry arc ordered to
join Lord \V eit_lNGToN's army in the Peninsula, to replace
the killed and woundM in the ba:tle of Vittoria. They will
he landed at St. Ander. • Among the regiments destined
for this service is the it',4 hussars, and detachments of the
j3th.and 14th dragoons : the latter arc now on board of
transports at Portsmouth.
Accounts from Sa,agos•a mention that the French Gene-
ral CL A USET., Commander in Chief of the North, had ar-
rived the Ist of the prevent month, at which time the vic-
tory of Vittoria must have been ktwwn totim, and tlumgli
the account must have reached Paris some days pievious to
the publication of the List French Papers received, ye they
continue silent on the subject.

Report says, an expeditivn against the sonth coast of
France, aditiniti2; the Pywnees, and comprehending as ob-
.jc.cts of attack the ports of 13a.,.0nne and ry,tii deatiN, is in
contemplation. It is .to be cumposcd of a mixed naval
and military force; and the whole, it is said, will be corn-
mantled by Admit:it Sir G. (CLLILa, %vile) has lou been
stationed on the above coast.

An article in the Ga:ctle (IC fiance, d iterl Vienna, the
47th tilt. states, that a rumour prevailed in that City, that
the Congress Was to assemble at Gitsehen, and that the
French Minister MARLT, aud the Ministei s of other
Powers, were expected there on the 26th. ether rumonrs
mention that it will be held at Prague. According to the
1:1tfo: aeconnts from the latter City, the Emperor of Au-
st"alA continued at Gitschen. •

457

On. Monday intelligence was received at the Admiralty,
that Commodore ROOO eas, in the American 1' irate Pres i-
dent, had put into Bergen, in Norway, having proceeded to
that latitude with the view of intercepting our Greenland
ships. Orders wen. immediatly sent to Admiral VOUNG, 'off.
the Scheldt, advising him of the circumstance, and directing
him to detach an adequate force in pursuit of him.
On the 10:11 ult: the Spanish schooner Veloz Pasagera
arrived at Cadiz from Lima. She brought 1,800,000 dollars
for the merchants, and 5,500 for Government,
Letters and papers from the River Plate, to the middle of
April, and advices from Rio Janeiro to the 16th of May,
have been received. The consequences of the victory of
BELGR ANO over the troops of Lima, were, that General
COVENLCIIE had retreated from Potosi, and the peorle in
his rear had joined the Revolutionists ; and the whole of
• Peru was expected to be governed by the laws of Buenos
Ayres. The miseries attendant on a blockaded city were
such, that by the last accounts the people were escaping
daily from Monte Video to Buenos Ayres. Some time ago
the Governor and Cabildo of Monte Video protested against
the tardiness of the Spanish Government in furnishing the sup
plies necessary for the support of the city ; and declared, that
unless the Cortes would send out a considerable reinforce-
ment, they would surrender the place on the lst clay of June
last. Ire consequence of this protest, the Cortes dispatched
the corvette Sebastiana, to announce arch intention to send
off from Cadiz in 15 days, a reinforcement of from 2 to
3,000 men. The Sebastiana arrived on the Bth of April, at
Rio Janeiro, and sailed from Monte Video on the 12th.

In Lubeck the merchants have been more severely de: t
with than at Ilamburgh ; for at the latter place the Frew h
requested only a return of certain articles of stores and other
goods in their possession, hut at the former they entered 0 e
warehouses hy farce, and put the French seal on the me
chandise.

Sir F. Gont.o, Bt. and Mr. BurtKE, of Glinsk, on'Wedn
dly waited on hfr Royal [Ugliness the Princess of WA r. :.t
Kensington Calace, with the Con;Yratulatory Address of tl e
Roman Catholics cf Ireland. Tier RoS•al Highness wto
gracionl/4ly pleased to receive the Delegates in the most cot •
.descending manner., and returned the following Answer to
the Address:— •

" I receive with the iliglieqsati,fAction the testimony of affection
for Inc, awl :your loyalty to the'Crfmn.

" The people, of whom you farm so large a part, Ilaye ever
Ltecti.diAinguiAled by tiiiirgeneron4 spirit, ;end :your body upon this,
as on (leen•inni, slim') that it yieids to no ela•s of his
Majesty's subjects in attleiimetit t.) the true principle of tl,e Co:1-
stitatii;2:, and regard for the honour of the Clouse. of Brunswidi."

On Monday, at a Coutt of Common Council held at
Guildha'l, the thanks of the Coui t were unanimously voted
to the Marquis of WELLINGTON, and the brave Officers
and Privates tinder his command at the glorious battle of
Vittoria. It was likewise unanimously a7;reed to place the
bust of his Lordship in the Council Chamber. The ftee-
dom of the City, in gold boxes value 1002;s. each, were
also oidered to be presen.ed to Sir T. CRA I 1 Am, and Sir
Rows. Ntt Hit. L ; and also to Captain BROK E, of his Ma-
jesty's Isigate the Shannon, for his gallant conduct in the
cature of the American frigate the Chesapeake.
Wednesday a very proper example was made by Mr Naroc,
the Magistrate, at the peptic Office, Bow-street, of the hackney-co;.e
man driving. No. 335. Ho was taken from Covent Garden T eatre
fe* nights ago to go to Welbeek-street, when he insisted upon st. ti
tare being only :Zs. The Magistrates, with 's view of stopping fat
impositiotis of this nature, convicted the co4cLinan in the penalty of

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Ttilt NA

THE
MINISTERIAL. CHARACTER
OF THE LATE

REV. WILLIAM HUNTINcTON, S. S.

OP

NEW PROVIDENCE CHAPEL, GRAY'S-INN-LANE. ,

'Tis moral grandeur marl the mighty ;
Now little they who think aught great below !
All our ambitious death deti•ats but one,
AU Li that it crown•. YouNo*.

J JP,IP sa../..

.
EWA has :ascended ; hut, were is the Elisha to whom his mantle
bas itevolved ? Aithotigh satisfied that he was " beloved of his Ged,'•
sent as .4 api opliet on iwir earth, and ' not without honour,' eveo
'in hiq own country, and in his own house,' WILLIAM HUNTI NG oN
does not appear to have found, .amidst the various schools of prophets
and during a long We, -one qual6fied to supply his vacated eminence.
lie hai ictt flOOne like* •to kr.etbd in his steps. I praised. the dead, saith
the Y., iirle man, which are already dead, #4OIC than the tiring which are
gat digit e.

Huntington has constituted an era in lhe modern church, notm Wt.
*tainting his peculiarities and eccentiicities ; a circumstance that
would alone render his decease an event not destitute of importance,
While together with the names of Whitfield and Wesley, however,
the UMW of linutington, althotph, otherwise antagoniit to the lat-
ter celebrated preacher, seems likely to be commemorated in future
times, still, unlike both of those preachers, he, having established no
germinating bodies, has died without making any religious provision
for the contionance of that congregation whose founder he

putably was. Choosing that his " doctrine and reputation should
stand and together,"—tleit '' it never " shonla " he the Coal-
lie:aver and Co." t —isolated in our world of profession, through the
whole of his life, he has, finally, left his flock as sheep having no
shepherd. With hint, therefore, all dies. Cease from man, whose
breath is in his nogrils ; for wherein is he to be accounted fill
WILLIAM HUNTINGTON, S.S. (whose family-name was origi-
nally- Hunt :), %vas born iu the Will of Kent, about the year 1733.
His parenti4e most have been miserably abject, since, says he,
I was eery fond of feeding my little ones, when I had wherewiffai
to teed them ; beeaiu'e Pk new how much I had suffered when voeng,
through my parents' poverty." Am.ther of his ,tisadvamages he at-

tributes to Iris birth place. Being, he adds, " none of the most polite
- parts of the world, I retained a good deal of my provincial dn.le et ;
and many of my expicssions, to the ears of a grammarian, soundrd
very harsh and uncouth."
" When I was about scven years of age." says Mr. H." I l!card
person say—tha; 60,.1 took notice of children's sins ! The wonder_
(iii ~%ot-kings of my mind, upon these wolds I shall not descant (in;
neither shall I me titiifil the tua::y trials I undcrueti-t at the bar army
own cow cience, while the impression thielt upon my mmd. I also
remember to lime once heard a person say,-that all timings were pos.
sibie with God ; which words 1 secretly t: easnred up, rind pondered

*Vitle, hereafter, tlw !Rev. Huntington's Epitaph on him-
sett', dictated by him, a few days prior to his decease, uhenee these
exprOAintis ate literally taken.
t Dod cation to fly. Bahl; of Faith. References will in fit ire be
made to thi4. p.uduction, without troubling the reader with their dc-
• kootl/4-ledgelit.
" lii. teal tvirt-e was. Hunt, and not liiintinLrion; but havina the
twofoitinte to find there w•ts an illegniuinte chi ri sworn to. him, he
. maje ea;a:le trio his [votive Ware, and then 'lige(' his name.
This mas previously to hi, Clsiou, impressions : yet, let me ask, wilt n
the eon, ictinn Of'in wit., hrotiOn home to I.IS heart, wou'd he not 114ve

return! crql 011, deceit, it he Larl been a truly converted luau ?"—Cor-
rispourfccc:' with Onesintits.
This attecriore y,l veil•A%. 11 the sole view of bi,,gropltical illustration,
and withcstt the least de•igit to rli,partige the churueter of the I)eivirted
Minister of Providence Chapel ; .who, if it be fact, would doubtless
Class it ati,ong those " lollies of, iris youth," for one of winch 4, turty
puuudi: ut true tiate, " dcAuttuded" of hire.