The National Register.
London, England, 1819-07-19 00:00:00

J ANT ICA PA r E RE.

(Frorn the klngsion Ga::::tte, May 22.)
As soon as intelligence ass received at•Caitliagena tbrt :Mac
gregor had taken Porto-Bello, A Council seas convened to consi.
der of the propriety of despatching a force to retake it; Lut
Lifter they had deliberated tor sonic time, it was suggested thi.t
they had no vessels capable of coaveying such it force, and the
.idea wa, thzisfore ebandoncsL

thee women, whose husbands were either killed or taken pri-
soners at the recapture ill PUitO•Belil), ri children, we° were
brought there in the alfialltY, were sent on Thursday to the
public hospital of this city : one of theta was wounded in the
?is:2k by a musket ball ; aunt ter is the wife of a ',rioter, s f the
name of Gott, whom Lir Grego: itruaght with Mtn froth Er.-
g'eud, with a few printing materials, and who was wounded in
his apartattnts, made prisoner, and matched to l'anania. llia
wife and Ow other women were marched out of the man slagg
with the soldiery ; kit after proceeding a few toilea, thee beixone
Euigued, an.l sit down on the road side, refusing to proieed
turther ; upon which it was deemed expertion'. to send then' back
to the town, aunt they were permitted to depart in the Cosrfarter.
This person, wi.o is inteliigent, states. t.utt on .hearing some
firing on the morning of the Attack. site looked •oet of her
window, which was on the pariale. when she saw the Spanish
troops let! into the square by the Alcalde of the place, whom she
knew, and who had rented:led in the town after its captare by
lkl‘Gregor, but who 11,014 it late the night before, after having,
however, supped each the English officers Tae Spanish troops
having overcome those oe the English s.ddiery who were exercis-
ing in he square. entered the different houses, among which was
thief of her husband;. they tired thtough the doom, then broke
open the room in which they were, stahbed her husband in the
arm ; but en their making signs that they were unanued, they
desisted from further violence, and made ii: husband prisoner,
but showed 120 incivility wluitever ta ilCroth. Site further ftpre•
terms, that the English troops had been it a state of initiborsli-
nation, hindering on mutiny, fir many days previous to the re•
minute, (non the numerous diaappointnients with which they
bad met, having bent clntost starvoLfriou the moment they eat •
barked in England; that many of the •otlicers had already sent
in thidr .comuissions to :14•Gtebor, expossinj their determina-
tion to quit his.sieraire.,-, and it was pretty generally surmised
among them, for some days before the atitick, thr.t M'Gre or
himself intended to decamp clandestinely, for it was stated that
he had obtained zed packed up several boxes of n:oney, whiz),
he hc.l rent no board the Item. This, perhaps, accounts for the
celerity of his mut:at on that memorable occasion I
The Indepentleut tt.4 wee still kept flying at Porto-Dello, as
a decoy to vessels bound thither to joie Gtr Gregor.
The fang sucrees of Sir Gregor WA invidg I.) the infamous
enduct or a cowardly Governer, who abuodooed the place with •
out firing a shot. Titis won, however, who fled with his money
and plate to Chagres on that occasion, was immediately ',laic
prisoner, and sent to Panama under a strolg cocoa of troops,
where he would be tried bi-, a Court-martin!, for his cowardice.
Gen. Osoria, who arived in the Sapph7rl, is to proootd from
thence to Spain with despatches, giving an account of the re-
capture of I 'min- Bello.
Extract from the Kir/gaiety Jamaica Chreni.le of the 40titnf
May.—A letter dated 17th ult. at Aux Cayes, states—••:We ate
anon the qui eiste here, on exeunt of an itch/cirrus nisesocre dirt
osi.turred the night bet Ore hut, about two leagues from town. Six
persons lift the; in a borge fur Alquisso, a little town to wind-
ward, who wuceeaaniledtluringthenightby Eve aimed men in a
small open boar. The men were literally cut to pieces by those
ruffians; two women escaped. Their object was 601 dollars in
spade, were. on board the barge. No discovery has yet
taken place."

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