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... carried the main lines. At the date this di«patdi, .Colonel St Leger was encamped two miles within the gate. Colonel Leger-speaks in the highest terms of the conduct Majors and and of all the officers employed oil this glorious scrv.ce, and particularly ...

Published: Thursday 27 July 1809
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 441 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

POSTSCRIPT,

... the Danube has been received. Reports however, via Rotterdam are less unfavourable to the Austrians than the bulletins, and speak of, the French as being yet only eight miles from the scene of action. Contrary winds have prevented the Expedition from sailing ...

Published: Thursday 27 July 1809
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 480 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SCOTTISH INTELLIGENCE

... Surgeons on their examining his wound, but was in such pain he could say little. « After some time he seemed very anxious to speak me, and at intervals got out follows, Anderson, you know that I have always wished to die this way.’ He then asked, Are the ...

Published: Thursday 03 August 1809
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3546 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PERTH COURIER

... to gra ;> the substance of the case. Mr Pitt, whom we all admire, would not have spoken so lightly of him; Mr Pitt did not speak so lightly of him. When that great and illustrious Minister was recommending Lord Hawkesbury to the House of Commons as a man ...

Published: Thursday 03 August 1809
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 569 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

From the London Courier, July 29

... had joined Cuesta, and that their numbers were about 60,000 men, and were rapidly advancing towards Madrid. The Spaniards speak in the highest terms possible of General Blake, who made most masterly retreat near Saragossa, with the loss of about 3000 ...

Published: Thursday 03 August 1809
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 842 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TRIAL OF LORD GAMBIER

... did you mean at any t;me of the tide to lay without range of shot or shell ?—A. Yes, at any time of the tide to that 1 can speak positively ; we were there all times of the tide; it was the he of the springs, and there was five and a quarter fathoms under ...

Published: Thursday 03 August 1809
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5478 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL

... linperieuse to the Commander in Chief. Do you recollect what they were A. I confessl must speak more from recollection, than from any thing saw myself. I can speak to those which Were officially reported to by the Captain of the Caesar, first signal repeated ...

Published: Monday 07 August 1809
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 9540 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

the population amounting about '35; who acknowledge Smith as father and commander of them all. They all speak ..

... the population amounting about '35; who acknowledge Smith as father and commander of them all. They all speak English, and have been educated by him, Capt. Folgar represents, in a religious and moral way. The second mate of the Topaz asserts, that Christian ...

Published: Monday 07 August 1809
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TURKEY

... dock yards. The boats of the ships under that active and valuable Officer Lieutenant Hawkey (of hes spirit I had occasion to speak highly when effi Dantz'ic) have looked into very Cieek along the south coact cf the Gulp!:, without finding any vessels whatever* ...

Published: Thursday 10 August 1809
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2172 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

io not recollect any particular remark Stokes, or our Master, excepting Mr Stokes having said he had found ..

... Q. ycu knew of ary other vessels that were withheld thee might have been applied to that service ? —A. None whatever. When speak o£ the class of vessels that were present, mean that there was no vessels under his Lordship’s command, with the draft water ...

Published: Thursday 10 August 1809
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1387 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Admiral Slupfird further examined

... in consequence of it ? A. .Shortly after the signal was made, the Commander in Chief made the signal to unmoor, but I can't speak to the exact time. Afterwards the signal was made to weigh, and the fleet moved in consequence nearer to the Isle of Aix, far ...

Published: Thursday 10 August 1809
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2683 | Page: 2 | Tags: none