The Sun. — London, England, 1807-01-24 00:00:00

P' kb justly deplorea man who, amid the endow ments of a mighty mind, was peculiarly gifted with those qualities which fitted him for e g otiation in difficult times. To a, vast, comprehensive, and Cultivated understanding, he joined the most inti mate knowledge, of the various interests of Europe, a suavity of manners, and a spirit of conciliation which engaged Foreign Ministers to..trust, while his probity and known honour insured the confi dence of their Masters. Devoid of guile, he had nothing equivocal in his condu&—nothing ambi guouS in his language. He moved strait onward to his objeet without turning into the paths of crooked policy or left-handed. wisdom. There was nothing' counterfeit in' himhis affability 'flowed from the heart—his natural greatness required not the aid of assumed arrogance to give him conse quence—.he was too great to be haughty, too wise to be cunning.—He was one of the few Statesmen who knew the value of that adage which, though homely, is true in politics as in morals, that " hones ty is the best policy." ' Far be it from me to at tempt his praise—it would require powers gigantic as his own to do him justice.—Were he living I should he silent.—l never received favours at his hand—l leave it - to those who have :to treat his memory lightly.—l speak of him as a man' -who loves his Country must do, whilst deplOring the loss - of its-greatest ornament.' Here; the Right Hon. Gentleman stated, in proof of the efficacy of the new measures .mentioned,. the fad of one BatS. talion of Reserve producing offera,of 329 men for general service in six month;, , which was more by 257 than the offer madein six months be fore. It was. not fair to ask what bounty was given. That was a question of finance. But the men got by this-measure were all forth-ceming whereasahose got by the additional one were not.— The Right Honourable . Gentleman had made qua., lity as well as quantity one of the benefi c i a l charac teristics of his Measure. The advantage Of quality was obtained. Of the men raised under the Additional Force Ad,' one half went . away, - not as . deserters, for they had never entered into the service, which it was necessary to know and to dislike .in order to be a deserter. He should describe the offenders as robbers, with whom those whia threw such tempta tions in their way must be considered as being in league._ Every one of the Recruits under the Addi tional. Force Bill Dada wife and six children. They reminded him of the- wandering Arabs he had once Seem It was said nine tailors were necessary to constitute a man ; but it:would take annteen of these to. make a man. Next ...te , theEstini,inaux, they were the sharpest beings he had ever seem—, We shouldoppose to the enemy. ahe same descrip s Lion of trcops he should bring against, up, It was certain the enemy would ,invfde withbi4 r e gular army, and therefore we should h,iVe a reguhir:army to oppose 'him. He conspliin en led .the spirit of the Volunteers in coming.t.Orward for the : defence .01 the country ; but be condemned the system claraining enforced with respe& to them. fie instanced a stos ry of a 're g iment the. American in 1776, to which henirriself was Adjutant. This :reziment had received 176 new recruits,, who he, as Adju 'taut to the regiment, began to train in the slow for mal way. But - his Colonel, an experienced officer, recommended to him rather to teach the men toload and fire He bad so inStruded them ,•,and they proved ViEtorious. If the enemy had invaded as,ear ly as he threatened, we would have been exposed to much mischief by being taken sty prematurely.,— We witeted light troops to act l>eliitid hedge s , and to take advantage of their knowledge of their coun try. In case of a landing, he advised the Volunteers to barn their books and haste to their native vales, in obedience to command. He ought, as a Milita ry man, to .apolo: 6 ize ter speaking at such length on a:military subject It seemed military. men we re particularly unfit to speak on military snbjeets, and )'et one never sent his. watch to a sho;Nuaker to be repaired ; tibr though .Herace said every wise man was a good .shoemaker, it did not folloW that , every shoemakrr possessed the 'satue convertible skin.— The eyes oflUr es epe •ere 'fixed on the House as up on the last -prop of the expiring liberti e s of mankind. The last hope of the preSsa-yation ~of the remaining rights, and the last prosp ) eaof future deliverance, rested upon the measures that shoal be adopted, in this co::l,try. .1-15 thersJiire conjured tile. Housenot not to sacrifice inoments s.o precious toveity jealou sies of party in terests--noi , to ; h their attention on getting in' th,:ioselves, and key l,itfg 'others. out , :but to c in devising the best means of keeping Out the enemy, The enemy, hated. us because we were a.10 ) . ,i, free, .contented, and , 'happy nation and b!Giu,.,. %vero determitted to be so. H s ha- treu t,.t.:r-ture were 'under those circutaa !ancc c<ilk d . upon to conic! forward to pro- tent out- ices ,from r.:vishers, our chilUreri from murdervri, our propertis spoilers. Flu there fore again recommended, - tananir.aity,in this i.aduous The .81 - itit;li people, if titaanimouslyi deter :4;ll their lives kt deleoce of British Liber ty, ht.: Colonel WILDAIR acquiesced in almost every. opiuio►► held by the Houourable Generzil who.s.poke last, under whom he had the honour to serve ; and with I►ini he concurred in approbatiou of the ry Systetu adopted by the Right Honourable Secre tary Windham), by the operation of which, his owu obseniation !waved to him a number of ex- icellent Men had already bean raised. Lord EL4NEYentcred into some observations up - on what had fallen, in the last day's debate, flout a Noble Lord (Castlereagh), respecting the discharg ing of men from old - regiments. - He should take-the liberty to hint and advise, that when men .wereso iuiist od, care should be taken to mark down theiregiruent from which they were drawn. SuCh a practice would tend to, prevent the frauds which some Ge- &men seemed to apprel4md. Colonel ,11ATTLIE,IF felt reluaant to acknow ledge that men, unfit in any respe&, had been ais_ charged.froni old regitneuts, and had beep inlisted 11110 uew. Mr. GEORGE JOHNSTONE would not allow that any application could be made to him of the phrase quoted by the Honourable General (Doyle), voiis - rbus demandons rien. He never had asked, or nerei: intended to ask, any favourirOm atiy . Adtui, miqralion : he aspired only to deliver the opinion which his judgment might diaate, and : he had , dOne more when he approved of the arguments urged on a former occasion by a Noble Lord . (Castle reagh), all of which arguments he Ithew to be Jou - ndgcl in fad, and to be contained in the Papers taiappon tilt! [Mlle ry ministers. He at t e n d e d alq., to what was urged in reply to them ; and here he discovered nothing but conjeaure. Mr. ROSE could not listen . with patience to, the praises lavished by sonic Gentlemen upon the ener gies displayed in the measures of the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Windham) and his Colleagues. Where were those energies . to be found ? Was it in ;the measures adopted - to secure the conquest of Buenos Ayres ? There was -no difficulty in finding Transports for that purpose;'• yet nearly six months elapsed from the time they knew the Expedition was undertaken, and the time when they sent out any succours to . maintain the conquest. As ill founded were their claims to the praise of economy in the public expenditure. This would appear oven from the Estimates before the House; which, after a very minute and detailed examination, - the Right Honourable Gentleman sheaved had exceeded those of the year 1805, :by the sum of more than 475,0001. Mr. H. THORNTON had much to applaud, and yet not a little to censure in the military - mei3ures of Ministers; but he feared they had done little or nothing to guard against the immediate danger of the country; that danger was raorelniminent -and formidable than they'seemed tcAmagine ; yet they had diminished the Militia—they had diminished the Volunteers—and they had neglefted the Training Bill; all of which means were- those to - be relied upon for the defenceof , the country. • Mr. „JACOB went into a variety of cletaih of all the circurnstances• which attended the- conqueSt of Buenos Ayres---qnere particularly of -the powers with which Sir Home Popham might, be. suppOsed to: be entrusted. On the conduct of Gene al Beresford he bestowed every praise—for no praise could exceed the merits of his condu6 on' that 'oc casion: but in what ensued there might be some thing to .regret. If the conquest .ii-ak-of the value attributed to it—why -send out so. small if reinforces rnent 'to secure it, When itwas kn(Avn ' with what danger and risk the acquisitiow had' been made with so , small a force ? He was not ; however, prepared to say that any . mater ial time had been: lost in sending out- that reinforcement. This cbnquest was dear in his'eyes-- 7 not ohly on account of its intrinsic value, but also from the contemplation eof the gallant and, generous condu& displayed towards the inhabitants by the General who took it, floW, different from ‘i that „of the French .Gencial who took "Lubeck— betweep, which and the condud of ,General toid the; Honourable Gentlernah cohld, not refrain froindras.v ing . a,tpost. tnarked and striking contrast. Lord 11F.N,qi PETTY went over a variety of state,. mews to prove, that our force had.increa..,ed, while economy . had been attended to. Sir JO4IN NEwroRT said, that in pursuance of the .economical pans otYAlinisters, thirty-eight of fices in the Irish Customs f- had been abolished, and . • PL.ht 1/114 declared, that the abolition of ailuded to by-'the. Right flop. Baronet, bad b,::en suggested by Commissioners appointed during the late Administration.—He then pfneeed 7 ed:to make sonic ObSerViltioAS on the,total quapy of the military measures lately adopted, and asked was the Army at kesent in the state, in which the Country was : satisfied with it, or in the state in wlaicli the ieight lion. Gentletni.ta tvon)d have ken . . satisfied with Tt,,had he remained in opposition ? Sir 3 0} I\ DOYLE explained, and Mr. , WINDUAII repeated many of the observations he made in the last &bate. . • Cc)lOnrl WILDAIR, Mr. Rosr., Mt. BATHURST, tordeASTLEREAGII, and Lord ilowicß, also «litter ed into briefexplanatiotts after which the iteSch k . tions Were put and agreed to. The SECRETARY at WAR Llbtained leave to bring in a Bill to punish Mutiny and Desertion,. On the motion of Sir JOHN NEWPORT' various accounts of the number of. men obtained by the ordinary recruiting, .frOm 'lBOO to the present year, ,were ordered. Sir JOHN NEVVFORT gave notice, that in the Committee of W i iys and Means, on Monday next, he move for a million of Exchequer Bills fqr the service of Ireland. Adjournea at HALF PAST THR2 O'CLOcK ‘lliS, morning. . HAMBURGH- PAPERS. BANK'S OF . TIIE MAINE, JAN. 3.—The jkusaiaq • • garrison of Co:berg harasses continually tilaA try as far as Stettin.. 06 the I 2tll of Decen.lber a corps of that garri4on fell iii with a.detachment which had-left Stettin, and made prisoners a LieuteL taint and 25 men. •An Austrian - Gazotte,. in an article dated. Lem buigh, Dec. 2, sfates,, that the French Minister had arrived there, that:.--day from Jassy, 06 the 26th November the Russians, to the number of 75,000 Men, entered Moldavia; 16,000 men, commanded by Gen. MicHt.sort, have advanced to, lissy their plan appears to be to cross the Turkish, Terri tory, and to enter Dalmatia, for the pnrpose of car rying on Their operittions Italy. ALTONA, 9.--=They write from Vienna, un der date of the 20th of-December, that M. Motg.i. TEssaneu; Chamberlain to his Majesty the Emperor NA.PoLf.badarrived there as CoUrier, and that his missiOn Was of the greatest importance. HANIBUkGH., JAN: A letter from 'War saw, dated December 25th; states, that there are between! the big and the• - Vistula 70 or 8.0,000 French troop' s;and - 12,000 Niles ; but that 'Within a. fatnight that number would.be increased to 150,040. A field bakery has been established, and the trans port of.provisionS from Austria is also considerable. The Russians have left tbO . .iidg ever since the L;th , and• taken a position behind the Narew. villages between those two ij ers hate suffered niuch. —The'flead-quariers of the •Rossian ArniY I: were at Grodno ; it had received considerable. forcenients, and a Reserve had arrived at The Bug and Narew are covered with ice, which has enabled the iceavy artillery to pass over and all the farriers • are severely wounded. Private letters from Berlin state, that Breslaw had not surrendered, and that this is the cause which has . prevented the establishment of the post between Berlin and this city. LISBON, DEC: 13. - -A Ship has just arrived from the Brazils, which brings an account that Buenos Ayres has been re-taken from the English, who were driven out by a Spanish levy en- masse from Monte Video. The English• Expedition from the Cape had Arrived, but had not made a landing, and afterwards put into Bahia, in the Brazils. The English were obliged to leave'behind them all 'their baggage. The number of SpaniardS by whom the English were driven out is said to have been.Bo4o. WARSAW, DEC.: 27,—Dispatches, dated from Sockeekzyer, the 26,th .of .December, at seven in the morning, bring adVice that the 'Enemy have been, cut. off and defeated- qn all sides every moment prisoners are ',brought in. have • taken, all the baggage and artillery., It is impossible that they should again -forth in line ; our army is pursuing them without 4llowini,-; them a moweni to breathe. Private letters.say, that. the Grand Duke of BEft; With the cavalry under I;is has. thrown himself bet Ween the Russian advanced,- gt_Lird.and their main body. 13FtfernN, 6.—The Paper called the Tele-' graph, contains tho tollowing - . ' • Official Letters from. the Grand - - - Artriy, dated Soliaon;•the -29th - aD@certiber; bring the.folluitig, advices . . . • • - .r. ".'We have during the, last four days_defe,itekthe Russian .-`i.rniV, which has been .. pursne4 tet Gatro- Ica kth, and 'obliged to abandou its.artiltcry and ba,gt• gage. The badness of the-roads,, and- 'the - of the season, have determined 'hi.ilikitisty the Em- peror td go into wintrlnarters: t, " The, campaign . may, in•fACl, te, consideTe r end id. . We Wave taken more. than 10;000, prisoners , . and•so pieces of cannon. The -Eruper?i-. attacked the .Enenty in their cantonments, Without.. its he4lg: possible for.them to.colleatogether. r, , " The .Army . of the Enemy is -itultibted .for, its preservation to the badness of the rdadi; reqdqre4 impassable V the incessant rains, and also to tlie - s4 ! critice of the whole of its artillery and baggage. " JAN. 10.- 7 We daily eiipeCt the arrival here of - the Emperor of the Vrench, who, according to sotnq accounts, proposes to pass. the winter in this city, anti i to'others, will only stay few days, • and (Aen Pr9c.eet-1 to PrPsden.." PULTUSK, DEC. 31.—T i tle Russian Arfny .has been deteked iii .several battles near Czartipw9, Naselsk, Viuxsomb, Lopaczitn, Golynaln, and f'ul tusk; with the loss of eighty pieces of canUolla 1260. baggage-waggohs, and I,t?OQ, 4ieu wounded,. and taken prisoners. The French are a 4 Ostrolenka, Nudenburgh, and Wellen,burgn, cONSTANTI . NOPLE, Nov. 9.—The eJspv!(;ted,Eng-t Fieet, wider the orders of Admiral Lo.vis, consisting of sevn Ships of war, arrived in ;he Dardanelles abobt the end of November, and-the Admiral. himself 'entered our Porton the 30th of November, on bord the Canopus. He was re ceived by the Ottoman iVinisters with, ;he utmost ; distinetiOn; A Frigate and a Brig ar e a l so l y in g here. • MAILS. . -7 • ARitlvtn, - sG,ott9burgn DuE--4 Lisbon, . WltcrtuO, , PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DA•Y AT TwELys cec.k.box. Consols Til E SU N. SOLEM QUIS DICYRZ . Et":-ItTM wyD.EAT ? LOJV D N, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1807. This .norning we received, by the Gottenburgh Hambargh Papers to- , the- 9th , Th e winter, it is at length admitted, has set in with great severity in . Poland, and the rivers are sufficiently frozen to bear heavy artillery. The Russians, as we stated sorne'days ago upon private information; have. ~ retired. towards. Groduo, .where - they have taken a very strong position, and it is admitted in the Ham burgh Plipers, that they are con's i tanti reCeiving rein -r • fbrcements. The communications between the Cabi net of Vienna, and BUN APARTE ate very frequent, and wehave stroiig reason to bcpevc that they will soon as- Sumo" a decisive shape. M. MoNT E CLU lEU, Chant ber -I.ain to IloNAriiim, 'has been-sent to Vienna . upon : a Missibn Of 411e.utinOfft-importance. The probabilny ; : ;5 of a, rupture between 4ustria and France gp44 rise to , a report which was circulated yestei t tlay alrer,.oon just in time to have an effe& upon_ the funds : It was said that Government, had • received Dispatches from Lord HUTCHINSON, nve been pnt In requisition, at Warsaw, I to rough-shoe the horses of the French cavalry.— ' From the 3d to the• 15th December 460- Russian 1 Prisoners were brought to Warsaw, F( of which 1 ilO We stating that Austria bad ifeternained to take an ig . " part in the war against the French, and that lila' Archduke CLtARLES 'gad marched, with 100,0° men, to join the Allies. We should be happy to have it in our power to confirm this intelli• gence ; but we are enabled to state, positively , ,that at a late hour yesterday afternoon no Ales' senger from Lord HI/TCHINSON had arrived at the Foreign Office, nor had Government, we 1; 44 belie, received any such intelligence as that which we have alluded to. We4o, however, entertain strong hope that the Austrian Cabinet will see 044 only policy, hut. almost the necessity of taking a part in the war againSt.France ; for if BoNArmaa should succeed in .his present enterprize, Austrio will cease to exist as 'an' independent State. SAN-vE _writing-4he ahos-e, we received the fol' Jawing important Intqlliger.ce, for the.authenticj of which, however, we do not pledge ourselves; (P,RiyATL LETTER.) • " Tossiilcuv. JAN. 17.—An esiafette has arrive ( ' at Lubeck from "Kocnigsburgh, by sea, with ad' vice that that city had been • illuminated, and -7e Deurn song in all the churches, in consequence of a decisive viaory having been obtained by th° Russians over :the French on. the Narew. They arQ reported to have lost upwards of 90,000 men. The head=quarters of the French, it is asserted, have been &Who ' ve& from Wi - IrSaw to k .1' i . Tile accounts of the Re , capure of 14;ietios Ayre s are varieus :And contradiCtory. vernment has received dispatches :from - , the Bri• , tish Consul at' Nei.v-York, which ' Mention, that , ... I letters weie received 'at that place, fronkthe . l - fa - .7 vannah, dated '.tire;Bth November; announcing . 1 . .thAt „otticial.intelligence - of' the fief had reached t 1 7 6. - t latter place.: Two thousand of the E4emy, accordl' ling to :this -aCeopnt, had embarked in sm a ll. Croft and Boats, with one Frigate, couirriande.: by Doll 1 SA . N'rf.AO:O-LfN,C'EItS, and had suc,cceded in surpriz . Thg the British :force..at Boeilos Ayres. This ac. -count - we•deem 'very - :.iraprobable. The Lisbon Mad i_ 7 frtates, that accounts had been received at the Bra' . '"Iils" .'ofi.ilie -' same • import, as our Readers will .tee its :-:another rut of this ,Paper. The Wil' tarn Transport, which left - the Cape of Good mope ou the 6th of November, was stated to have brought intelligence that a Tunsport had reac hed that place froth Buenos Ayres,. which place she kit early in September, at which.periQd the Settlemeat was in ocr possession, without any expeaatioa ai anattack. - ‘ ,WO wish vfe could corifirtn—thase satisfaadr , tidings, but upon inquiry we find that the Trail , ' port arrived at the Cape early in §eptember a and pro 4 bably left Buenos Ayres in July. - Thu New-York Paper, of the 26th, DegerilberA Contains two accounts of the re-capture of linenQs . Ayres,: the one dated from the 1 ayanu4lll Novc&P 4 ber 26, the other from Lima, thud Septembore ,They both concur in stating, that Buenos Ayres was re-taken on the Igth of August by Don SA,Drr.taGO J.JINcERgs, with a force of about 16 or 16c10, mell• This is obviously only a repetition of the Acoaurit from the kfavaanah, in the New-York Paper of tb. 2oth,. The Madrid Extraordirary Gazette of the.2so , I?eceniber mentions, - in positive terms, the reTcar ;tiro of .4Aerios, Ayres; but gives no particulars, SUN OFFICE, TIAREE O'CLOCK, P. M. WE' stop the Press-to state, that we understand that Intelligence has just - teen received of a .Battle baying been fought between the Russians and the -French on the • 3 1 st tilt. It is stated that BONAPARTE had manoeuvred for several" days, for the purpose of turning the corps under the command of Gen. BENNINosEr4J and that at length a general a&ion took plaCe, which was contested with , great Obstinacy for several hours, an 4 finally terminated in the total defeat of theTrencli, who are stated have lost several. thousand men in killed, wounded, and prisoners.•il The French, it is added, have retreated toward . ; Breslau. We have not at present time to ascer• tain the truth of this report, but the article troth Berlin, in'the Mail, stating that BONAPARTE W expeEted in that City, and that the Campaign wag at an end, tends strongly to confirm it. Fowl' o'CLocx.—We again stop the Press t° §tAte, that the above intelligence has been received Foreign .Office. .! • ,Thetßattle was fought on the 07th, .23th, and I .Wult. The loss of the Trench is estimated at 40,000 ; men.. . • LONDON ; Printed by R. HARRIS (of Illd.tictt-cou r , r : 1361;v -street), and published by W. A. S CRIPPs ( o f SOO ° Moulton-streetl, at the Snit-Office, 112, Strand. at ti \`i ton ( i A U 6 Il 6.11 1- „bc a l i) Hal 0 utly 1 41i '~Y j BHA t V . ll V o „ ()_te U, 4~li~ • Ti tor . ~. .4 lIIS u t ktld l a y sli ti la,,th re o - t ; th tz L