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London, England, 1810-07-23 00:00:00

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termeJ I;ght, and eon! s , , 95th, ands
two regiments of the Portuguese cosadorn (marks+
men). Each division has attached 40 it some Pont'. .
guese regiments. I have Neu walla thorn in ap- I
patently excellent order, well doathed, armed, paid,
and drilled, and having an English officer or two in
each. Under these circumstances they should act
well ; a short•time will, I imagine, deCide this point.
" The first division, under General Spencer, is in
Celerico and its neighbourhood; the 2d with General
Hill, at Portalegre ; the 3d with General Cole, can-
toned
at Guarda and the adjacent villages ; the 4th.
is at Pinhel, under General Picton: the light divi-
sion is perilously advanced, and close to the enormous
French force before Ciudad Rodrigo, whose gradual
IA and brave defence it hourly witnesses. This iti..
vision is underthe command of General Crawford,U d
is in admirable condition, notwithstanding half the
troops are daily on picquet, and the remainder march
out before day-break every morning, and are turned
out by false alarms two or three times a day. I had
the good fortune to be present at two of these alarms,
during my stay at the advanced posts. About eleven
in the morning the beacons were fired, and the bugle
sounded—the regiments turned out with great cele-
rity, and marched to a height in front of Gallegos,
and formed in battalion column if quarter distance
under cover of the hill, with tile horse artillery anci
hussars in front ; the alarm was occasioned by .a large
body of cavalry approaching close to our videtter.--
General Crawford ordered Lieutenant D. of the horse
artillery, with his gun, to move forward : he advanced
and fired a few rounds, and the cavalry re. ired with
precipitation ; they were only a foraging party, and
the troops marched back to Gallegos.
" Between two and three o'clock the bugle again
sounded, and the troops marched out as usual. The
piquets were engaged and driven in. The enemy
was in great force : he shewed strong columns, parti-
cularly of cavalry. It was a fine spectacle to see
their movements on the plain between Agueda and
the Agarva, a small river two miles distant from the
Agueda, . which empties itself into that river, near
Gallegos. Ney completed a reconedisawe from the
commanding heights of which our videttes had been
disposse,sed, and then withdrew with his force,leav
ing his videttes posted where ours had been placed,
previously to the skirmish. In the aftemooon, how-
ever, we repossesed these points. General Crawford
has his piquet. till on the Agueda, but has retired
his division to Lameida (Almeida), a league from'
Gallegos. The country on the other side of the
Coa is beautiful and open, and covered with grain,
i which exzenis itself around, and grows even to the
trunks of the trees of the open woods; the banks a'
• the Coa are extremely rugged ; the river has four
I bridges and some good fords, which are scarcely
practicable for artillery below the B.tda Malos.
1 " I was at Gallegos five days since for a few hours,
and plainly saw the breach at Ciudad' Rodrigo. It
jappeared of much extent ; but I understand the
French cannot see sufficiently low over the glacis to
batter the foot of the wall, which is only an old Moo-
rish one with towers, behind which ramparts of earth
have been formed. It cannot, however, hold out
much longer, and on its fall depend our subsequent
movements."

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".! CROWN OFFICE, JULY In.
Unita RETURN KD TO SERVE IN THIS PnguNT
PARLIAMENT.
Burets of Tr,ernrir,ece. —The Right Hon.Willlatn Dun las, In
the room of M. lubald Colquhoun, Esq. who has accreted the
Chiltern Hundreds.

MILTI'ARY PROMOTIONS.
WAR-OFFICE, JULY 21 .
leh Regiment of Light Dragoons—John Gourlay, Gent. to be
Cornet, without purchase, vice Jones, protuowtl.
23.1 Ditto--Lieutenant Edward Dawson, from the 62d Foot, to
he Lieutenant, vice Dowd, who exchanges..
24th Ditto--Cornet Lord A. W. M. Hill, from the 10th Light
Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jennyns, who
retires.

2,s!ritroDoiptt,o—whLhoiettlittenpuaricihtuFreed,
veircieckEiTisemp
Prager to be Lieutenaut, vice Willitamrp
oleHmoetnoterdbCCoaipnetatl:Jeocsoelefpsha.
edCornet and Adjutant Abel Neale to have the Rank of
Henry Wade,
Lieutenant;
I enant ; Ensign Hirzel Le Merchant, front the 65th Foot,
to be Cornet, vice Prager.
to
be Lieutenant,
Se'ohxirrlite,yv,
Coldstreamhi Regiment of Foot Guards—Ensign Patrick Sandi-
iticeenstr.octok,bwe
nto be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Fortescue, who
Ist Rt. resigns* ;
hEouseixZeiihaviigtee%Sandilands.
Poet,
Regiment of Foot—Liester ant Matthew M'ole from the 523
6th Ditto—Ensign Robert Stanford to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Enry, who resigns ; M. %V. Gilder, ent. to he
Ensign, vice
Stanford;
etephen Radcliffe, Gent. to be Ensign,
sv I hunt purchase vice I.illy, pto.nnted.
Bth Ditto—Ensign M. MiDermott to he I.ieutenant, wilonit
purchase, vice leers, superseded; Richard Moen, Cent, to be
• 'Ensign, vice M`Dermott.
12th :-.)itto—Robert M'Alpise, Cent. to be Ensign, without pur-
chese. vice Leattheater. who resists.
18th nitro—Lieutenant Cide Maim II to be Captain of a Corn.
pasty, by purchase, vice O'Ferrall, who retires.
To be lieutenants—Eesign Arthur Loughlin, vice Orel, deceas-
ed; Ensign Richard Barry, wi.hout purchaue, vice Arnstronie,
appointed to the 4th Dragoons; Ensign Samuel M'Clunock,
by purchise, vice Maxwell.
To be Ensigns—John Gordon, Gent. vice Loughlin ; Edward
Casual, Gent, vice Barry.
To be Paymaster of the Ist Battalion—Lewis Tucker Sumpter,
Esq vice Drake, deceesed.
19th Ditto—Captain James 114'Nab ro he Maj ,r,bypurchase, vice
Matthews, who retires; Lieut H-nry Seple to he Captain of
a Company, by purchase, vice M`Nab ; Lieutenant Lionel H.
Hoghes, front the 3d Ceylon Regiment, to he Lieutenant, vice
Hay,'Who exchanges; Second Lieutenant Francis G 00411411,
fro:n thee e'd Ceylon Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Saun-
ders, deceased; Henry O' .hen, Gent. to be Ensign, without
pin-chase, vice Bell, who resigns.
'lst Ditto—First Lieutenant Joh.' Carry Campion to be Captain
of a Company, by put chase, vice Thompson, who retires.
22d Di. to--Z: 'emu George Hewett, front the 4th Ceylon Regi-
merit, to be Captain of a Company, without purchase, vice
Shawe, promoted ; Lieutenant ------ Dobree, from be 114th I
Foot, to be Lkurettant, vice Cockburne, deceased; Ensign J.
Byrne to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Enright, pro-
mond in the 100th Foot • Ensign J. Byrne, from the 65th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice e I
raston, promoted.
47th Ditto—Paymaster Samuel Franklin, from Half Pay of the
7th Garrison Battalion, to be Paymaster of the 3d Battalion,
vice Edmonds, who exchanges.
28th Ditto—Ensign Edward Cottingitern to be Lieutenant, vice
Harsop. deceased; Robert Parke, Gent. to be Ensign, vice
Cot tingham.
30th Ditto—Easken John Gaivey to be Lieutenant, vice Watson,
deceastti. -
31u—William Ryan, Gent, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Hewson, whose appointment has not taken place; Thomas
Milbank, Gem. to be ditto, vice Langley, whose appointment
has not taken place.
32d Ditto—Lieutenant Gem-gel:leech, from theloyal Regiment,
to be Lieutenant, vice Mole, who exchanges.
33d Ditto—Lieutenant M. R. Freeman, from the 80th Foot, to
be Captain of a Company. ..aid* °Wear., deceased ; Ensign
Arthur Trevor Hill to be Lieutenant, by ptarchese,vice Orrock,
promoted; Arthur Tr.vor Hill,' Gent. to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Twig*, promoted.
Bow.srtterr.—An infamous girl of the age of 15, 42d Ditto—Alexander inns, Om% to be Eestgn, without pur.
swore on Friday that she WAS pregnant by 4e'r father, chase, vice Campbell, whose appointment has not taken place.
and the man was accordingly committer! ; but on 48th Ditto—Joaeph Thompson, Gent. tote Eotiign, by purchatio,
ice Close promoted. -
being afterwards closely interrogated by the Lady s?d u.‘ D. ' •
to—Lieutenant Matthew Anderson,. front the 91st Feet,!
with whom she lived as servant, she confessed that f to be. Lieutenant, vice XPNeil, vs ho exchanges.
idle had swum falsely against her father, and that the 59th Ditto—Henry Hartford, Gent. to be .Ensign, by purchase,
person by whom she was pregnant was a master Lay- vice Clarke, promoted in the 86th Foot. •
lot, with whom she had li7ed servant, and who had 80th Ditto—Richard Barnard Fisher, Esq. ,to be Paymaster of
the lit Battalion, vice Robertson, who resigns; Hospital-mate
given her two guineas t • swear the child to her father. I William Morrison, to be Assisting-Burgeon, vice Morris, de.
The mistress, horror struck with the little wretch, . ceased.
took her before Mr. NAIIES again on Friday evening, ' 62d Ditto—Lieutenant James Dewd, from the lad Light Drae
when the Magistrate very forcibly po nted' out to her goons,, to be titer -Dant, vier Dawson. who exchanges.
65: li Dit to—.i Acute nar! John Cluttt r uck to Captain of a Com •
the wicked conduct she had been pursuing. After- patty, vice Dansey, deceased; Ensign S.Warren to be Lieute-
wards the Magistrate sent a ttischarge to Bridewell rant, vice Eden, deceased; Ensign Henry Johnson Pearse,
e.
for the father. I from the 56th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Clutterbuck ; En.
A printer named Beckett, concerned in the late con-1 sign
roll:ear. jlini'reszeitoubea Liaercuthenanarnt,Gheynfiurtcoh be ase,Evniscei Fraser,
gn, vica
spiracy among the printers at The Timer Office, was I Warren; Thomas White, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Le Mar-
apprehended
on Saturday,* at Weybridge. He was chant, appointed in the 13th Light Dragoons.
brought to town, and in default of bail, • was corn- 67th Ditto—Assistant-Surgeon E. Weld, from the 79th Foot, to
be Surgeon, vice Lormcr, deceased.
witted to Newgate. 69th Ditto--Ensign Alexander Mulligan to be Ueutenant, vice
On Saturday a young man employed in the Cm- Wood, deceased; Ensign -- Cuddy to be ditto, vice Yull,
toms, was tried at Hick's-hall, upon a charge of ut- deceased;
.William Ruxton, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Mulligan; I
ring seditious words. The only Witness against .IBstroofre nine, Gent.toAly ditto, vice Cußddy. h i
w Ditto— Ditto—Ensign and jutant ---- o neon to have t e
him was the prosecutor of the name of Ruthven, who rank of Lieutenant; Ensign and Adjutant John Graham, to
also holds a situation in the Cpstoms. The Jury, have the rank of Lieutenant.
brought in a verdict of Not Guilty. : 77th Ditto—Owen Griffiths, Gent, to be Ensign, without pur-
" chase. vice Keep, who resigns.
1 J. Matson, the driver of the Deptford coach, was
-- 79th Ditto—LieutenantWilliant Marshall to be Captain of a Conn•
' charged at Union Hall by J. Church and W. Phillips, pang, vice E. Cameron, deceased; Ensign Duncan M'Pherson
'with a gross assault, He brought them from the to be Lieutenant, vice Marshall; Ensign John Webb tb be
lower part of D eptford to near the Lord Nelson's, on
ditto, without purchase, vice Macbean, promoted in the sd
West India Regiment; Volunteer Duncan Cameron to be En-
Tuesd ey last; when they offered to pay whatever sign, vice M'Pherson.
was 1 ight ; but he abused, and pulled them by the 80th Ditto—Ensign Charles Curtis to be Lieutenant, without
collar. He was ordered to ask pardon by public ad- purchase, vice Freeman, promoted in the 6341 Foot ;.lames
vertisement, as well as before the Magistrates;_ oil SkeltPB. Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase,vice Curtis.
86th Ditto—Second Lieutenant John Kedge' Sandon, from the
• agreeing to which, he was discharged. Ist Ceylon Regiment, to be Lieutenant, without purchase.
Elizabeth Hope was fully committed on Saturday,
87th Ditto—William Maginuess, Gent. to be Ensign, without
from Worship-street Office, for Bigamy. purchase, vice Brackenbury, who resigns.
91st Ditto—Lieutenant Roderick M'Neil, from the 52d Foot, to
T. Stnallbonee was charged at Guildhall, on Saturday, be Lieutenant, vice Anderson, who exchanges ;Surgeon Archi-
with einbezzling his master's money. Mr. Cass, a bald Hamilton, from the 9ed Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Scott,
tallow-chandler in Fore-street, stated that the prisoner appointed to the 6th Royal Veteran Battalion.
was his apprentice, and had more than once robbed 96tuhegleittim
ent,SttrotueosnurßgoebornrtvNiVceouNlifieltafnrohm t e
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him, but the present charge was for receiving 12s. ist,West India Regiment—Major Jonathan Yates, front the 47th
from a customer, giving a receipt in his own name, Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase,vice Vs'ernyss, who
and keeping the money; he likewise had some marked retires.
2d Ditto—Hospital-Mate %Wham Dudgeon to he Assistant-Sur-
money stolen by the prisoner from his till ; but he was
geon, vice Peake, promoted la the 4th West-India Regiment.
willing to forgive him, if the Alderman would 4th Ditto—Assistant-Surgeon A. S. Peake, from the 3d West-
send hint to sea. The prisoner confessed the charge, India Regiment, to be oureron, vice Woulfe, appointed to the
96th Foot.
I and was permitted to enter the Navy.
Ist Ceylon Regiment—Anthony R. (I'Doreell, Gent. to be Se-
Twol men, rather genteel in appearance, took a cold Lieutenant, without purchase, vice eandoe, promoted in
hackney coach off the stand in Piccadilly, on Thurs. the 86th Foot.
day night, and desired the coachman to drive to Bat. lid Ditto—Lieutenant•th Johon\,Aintliill to be Captain of a Company,
tersea. They alighted near the bridge, azd whilst
IvParkeurttionirclle
be diaitto, vice
without purchase, ane ec ,
velacseetnll.imeruotrgenptroJno,hon
the coachman was counting change for a one-pound- ted; Lieutenant John Tupman, from the 21st Foot, to be ditto,
note, he was knocked down and robbed of 18 shillings vice Fullerton, appointed .0 thr. moth Foet ; Second Lieutenant
Theodore Cook, trom the Ist Ceylon Regintent, to be Vint
and his watch. lieutenant, willow purchase; Gerald A. Gisler, Gent. to
i The Clubs met with great success in the last Lot- be Second Lieutenant, without pureilase, vice Brunest, do.
' tery at Hoat•issr and Co.'s, Cornhill ; p art of the ceased. .
' £20,000 sold by them was divided among 13 jolly sa Ditto—Lieutenant Charles Ihlay, from, theh 19th Font, to be
watermen of St Catherine's ; besides shares in the . Fyivr,sitpaln.li.teuG•eennatt:tt,ovhiece
Secongdl,ietuv,ieonsenstc.
w• nigh es ; t ka
; eYrcilhas e,
Borough and many other places in the metropolis ; vice Black, promoted; William Chadwick, Gent. to be ditto,
also at Liverpool, Bath, Chester, Taunton, Leith, and wi.hout purchase, vice Lampheir, promoted ,n the ,9th Foot.
Deal. Many Clubs are now forming from Graves- siciltaa Regiment—Auran Nicht 'as. Gent. to b, Ensign, without
urcha,•t,..tl.
r, vice Stewar, pllllll.
end to Ricninond, and every other place in the king- 6th itoya Veteran Battalma —Surgt on James Scott, from the 911 t
dcim : an aiditional 520,000 in the present Lottery,
Foot, to be Surzeon, vice We. iace, &ceased.
.to be drawn October the 19th, creates a strong desire 7th Ditto—Atsirant-Surgoon %Vire Watt. rs, from the 7th Foot,
of adventuring. • to be Assistant-Surgewe vice Lido, who resigns,