The National Register.
London, England, 1808-10-02 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGIgTER.

OCT. Q.

Our army remains sin the frontiers of Nal/al-re, and is prepar-
ed to combine its operations with those of the Austrian, Galli-
ciao, Castilian, and Andalusian armies. We have no doulo
of a favourable result from these combinations, aided by the
English, and supported by the enthusiasm n ith which the
whole nation multiplies its means of defending its glory and
liberty.

Ala-onto, SRPT. 7.—There were at Tudela 6000 of our
troops, and 16,000 alined peasantry, when the krrztgonese Com-
manders received advice from the Chief Alcade of Soria, that
20,000 French were advancing under the command of ( ieneral
Nonce, to enter the kingdom of Arragon. It therefore be-
came necessary that our troops should retreat to Saragossa,
where, according to the letters from that place, every prepara-
tion was made for sustaining a second siege. The gate of Santa
Engracia was the only point which excited any degree of ap-
preheosion, as it was in ruins ; but the utmost exertions were
to place both it and Monte Torrero in a state of defence.
The advanced guard of the A rragonese was within three leagues
of Sara4ossa ; that of the French was at Gallur, seven league-
from the city. We were under some apprehensions for that cele
orated bulwark of heroism, when at one o'clock yeAterday NI.
Boron, Aide-dc-Camp to general Palafox, arrived here with
iutelligenee, that the French had retreated to Tudela. lle fur-
ther states, that the people of Saragossa entertain no alarm,
should the enemy return with double their former farce.
lu consequence of the ads ices Irma Arragon, a Council of
General Officers was held here; and in order to protect that
kingdom, it was determined to send uir a courier extraordinary,
with orders to general Blake to take an advantageous position ;
but that skilful officer anticipated the necessity of the intouled
movement, aud before the express reached him, he had already
posted his army on the spot fixed on by the Council of War--a
circumsiance which has forwarded the system of operations, and
given general satisfaction.
CADIZ, AUG. 30.—Yesterday arrived here a vessel from
Monte Video, in eighty days, to procure a supply of arms to be
employed against the Court of Brazil, the Prince of that coun-
try having summoned Monte Video, and the whole of that dis-
trict, to surrender to the Portuguese arms. Not only was the
bearer of the summons put under arrest, but his master was given
to uuderstaud that his summons would be answered by 17,000
warriors.

Claim's DE r.os CoNnrs, SEPT. 4.—The whole of the
(I:dial:to army is concentrated in this place. It marches off at
four in the afternoon, and kill continue its route the whole night,
it; order to come up 1% ith the enemy. It is imagined that thi'
overation is taken in concert with the armies of the other pm-
, and that all of them ►•ere to be in motion at midnight.

THE GOTTENBURGiI

l.t:I rr, It I'ILO II IN Jr.sr ill I: KING OF SWI.:DL:N TO TIII:

I.ItOR OF It CN".I 1.

Honour and humanity enjoin me to make the most forcible
rentonsirances to your looperial 'Majesty, again•t the numberless
rue Itie. and the injustice comtwitted by the Russian troops in
`,k%edish Fittland. These proceedings are too iv cll known and
co,itirined to require from me any proof of their re,ility, for the
blood of the ill-fated victims still cries aloud for velivalice
a4aitist the abettors of such enormities. Let out your Imperial
:uitiv•ty's heart be insensible to the representations w hich I
hind myself compelled to make to yon in tor Willie of in faith-
ful subjects ill Finland. BO %V hat is the object of this war, a•
nitjust as it k unnatural ? It is not I suppose to excite the
'from..e.st aversion for the Itaissian name. Is it criminal in my
'objects in Finland, not to have suffered them-ekes to Ito sedurial
from their allegiance., by promises its fake a• tit.• principles on
which they are founded? I)eies it become a'4 4ov-tovigil to to:I he.
loyalty a crime? I conjure your Imperial Nlajesty to put a stop
to the calamities and horrors of a war, %% latch cannot fail to
brio* down on your own l'erson, Foal your (leivernment, the
curses of Divine Providence. Half of m . dominions in Vinland
are alreatly delivered by env brave limos',' troops. 1 our
fleet is shut top in Baltic l'ort, tv 'thou! the hope of ever
getting. out, any otherwise than as a conquest. Vottr flotilla or
has terellll •110ailleil it very, sever*. defeat, and my troops
al'e. this moment landing in Fittlatiet, to reinforce those ho
point out to them the road to honour and glary.
linen at my Dead tittarter, Sept. 7, ISOS.
(.412,14.41) Gl•sr 41-17 g A noir!, rc.
1101T1'N n Snumarez, in conionc-
tan, with A lintral Nuticklpar, has., prop' sett to the Russians to
thrbear hos.Eities against Baltic l'ori, oil condition of uric-ball

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the fleet being given up to the combined Heet, and the f.;rmer
would then allow the rest of the Itus'sians to return quietly to
Cronstailt The Russian Admiral replied, that he would sooner
loom the whole of the fleet than -urremier any part thereof; but
that he thou ht he could veutitte to enter into an agreement to
di-mantle the ships in Baltic Port, on condition of a promise
from the combined fleet to cca-o hostilitie.. This proposal of
Nnuekhotrs was however equally rejected ; and, on the depar-
ture of the courier from the fleet, one tire-ship was ready to be
:Nit in, and several more were preparing. Sir J. Saumarez wa►
employ ivg for this purpo,e a -loop of war, and some other of
hi. small craft.

NI r. Edward ',Thornton, his Britannic Majesty's Mi•►i=ter, left
zttiek holm yesterday, the I Ith of se•ptember, to join Admiral
tiattmarez, and perhaps in eight or ten days we may have more
or ws of an interesting nature.
KO\ INGSBERG, SEPE. I3.—The Emperor of Russia and the
Grand Duke Constantine, are es peeteJ here this week, on their
way to Enfurth, to meet Bonaparte ! This remarkighle event
gives rise to much conjecture; but all agree in comlcianing the
conduct of the Emperor. There is still great mov'•meues amongst
the• troops in Germans'. There its been some skirmishing tie-
tween the Swedes and Norwegians; the former h:►ve taken three
pieces of caution and forts or rift v prisoners.

PROVIN(

NTII I.V %CR lut I.Tun t Rrronr.

The harvest has now been fully secured in alumst every p
of the kingdom, and nothing scarcely remains out, ey cep! a few
beans in the more northern districts, which will soon he housed.
In threshing, out, the oats and barleys turn out very favoto ably,
in most of the northern countries ; but the heat- in some place s
are found rather light, and not to s iehl so well, havite been
infected with the mildew, which did not fulls show itself before
they were cut. A great breadth of land has this year been
prepared for wheat, in different parts of the Island, ard even
in the northern counties much of this grain is already put into
the ground in the most favourahlecircumstances. The ad vantage
of early sassing in three districts, begin now to he better under-
stood. The wilatoe crops are now beginning to he taken up in
most places, awl from their appearances wcubi seem to turn
out well in all those parts in the mirth, w here they are much
grown. In the south they still prohably- not he so favourable
in their produce. From the treat akin lance of grass in the
meadows and pasture lands, both sture and I:Melting stork must
be carried on well, and the prices t:w 1 tiler he kept somew hat
dawn. The fine refreshing slitm er. ha ye likewise brought
forward the turnips of all kinds, !mire favoarablv than was
expected. The weather ha, (mount,' so lute, that all sorts of
labitur has gone on with murk dispatch, during- the whole
of the month.
The harsest in the North of Seothful, we are happy to gay.
h7ts been one of the eadie,t ever te:nembered, anti the crops
have been unusually heavy and mitionclint. The productive power
of the soil in ate hir;hett sittwfi.wm kw., liven astonhliiiio
OH-
proved by the jinlicioth the of lime, %chid, exists in the ni.iun-
tan!, in great quantit

A 11 tr To F It 11 I: IR 4. Vn the weather hag become ev-
trentely favourable for taking up potatoes, it is most earoystiv
rtapiested tam every. exertion should be made to secure a crop of
such esstadiai constaphaire to the lath-I-wore of t Lir country.
w yyr 0 si•l, r. welotts.lay, live genteel-bilk.-
lug 111C11 came to this town., anti repaired 10 the (!ttor4e Public-
house, where they ordered a dinner ; tan of them went oat and
aired a pleasure-boat for the afternoon', amusement, and as they
,poke 40od Ent.,,lish„ were not sit-pected. Ater dinner They
proceeded to ,-ea and stifled round Ihe liay. :'flee being ore' tto
hour, they di•coered them to he French °dicer-, confined
:he utan and boy iu the boat, and bare away for the French
coast ; it came on a calm; they in consequence took the small
boat that was a-stunt, with which they rowed allay. and gave
op the yacht. The next morning they ware fallen iu with hi the
Prosperity cutter, ut ;%larrnev, about half c!iannel over. the
Captain of w hick secured the boat mil prisoners, anti ga% e then
over to the charge of Captain Wit kiuson, of ta,. Greyhound
It ex enue cutter, who lanthal than here on rsdav owl
It appeared they had `woken (10.0 r porole, at Wine:loton, -did
one of the filicers confessed hi. having been there three to fair
times to recommitre the harbour Previous to the attein beieg
Made of escaping. with his comrades. A few evenitsro afterward
another boat was taken out of the harbour ,by ow ut twe
Frenchmen w hu had escaped from Odiitatu ; he had dot a fell

THE NATIONA

leigues from Portland, when the Daring gun-brig arrested his
progress awl towed the beat nack into Portland Roads. Her
Commander was taken and secured by the vigilance and activity
of Mr. Rohiliard, a Gentleman of this town, who fell in with
him on the road between this place and Chick well. There ap-
pears to he some want of precaution at the places of these Offi-
cers parole, as well ai in this town and harbour, and it is to be
hoped that proper cent inch will be fixed on the Pier, as is the
case at Guernsey, and not to sutler any boat in the night to pass
without strict examination.

On Saturday sennight, the Beeston packet, Captain Jewitt,
at her pa,sage from Hull for Gainsborough, struck oa Whitton
Sands, in the Humber, and almost instantly upset. Mrs. Dewitt,
and two young children, by the shock, were thrown into the
river, and all must have inevitably have perished, had it not
been for the prompt assistance rendered by her husband, and
three men who put off from a brig (as also some people belonging,
to the W hitgift Packet), which fortunately happened to be near
them at the time. Mrs. Jewitt had only a short time previous
to he accident, put another young child (a h% in) in the cabin
bed, which unhappily perished, its there was not a possibility
of extricating it, the cabin immediately filling w ith water.
A most melancholy accident happened at a coal-pit, near
Rimbleworth, Cumberland, belonging to Messrs. Walker, by
the explosion of sulphureous matter common in pits, called the
fire-damp, which unfortunately killed four persons, viz. George
.ilugue, 1' homas Hague, John .Jervis, and William Firth; the
Iwo !'ormer were father and son, and what added to the distress
of the scene was, they were found locked in each other's arms—a
striking instance of parental and filial affection in the agonies of
death.

MI:A NS OF CUEINSING iTOVSF,S,&r. OF RATS AND MICE.—
A pima, which grows in abundance in every field, the dog's
tongue, the eptogfaiNtim dfil:ittale of ',humus, has been found by
Boren xto possess a very valuable quality. If gathered at
the period w hen the sap is in its full vigour, bruised with a
hammer, and laid inn lititve, barn, granary, or any place fre-
quonted by rats and mice. those destructive animals immediately
!I'M their quarters. The success of this method, M. Boreux
says, is equally speedy aad iufallible.
On Sunday se'nnight, a female child, who had straved from its
parents eight days before, from the lodge leading, into Ditcham
Woods, in the parish of Charlton, in Hampshire, in search of
some companions who was gone to look for nuts, was found dead,
kith one of his eyes picked out, about seven fields from its
home. The poor little creature was about two pmrs and a
half old; and having lost its way, worn out with anxiety and
the want of food, it laid itself down on a fern cock and died !
It must have been exposed to the dreadful storm of thunder and
lightning. on Monday se'nuight.

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