The Sun. — London, England, 1813-12-22 00:00:00

l ; ~~e, • .• - ‘0.11.N. ' AVlti'— , l Cadiz, I ‘Lisbai, Co n runa. Dtir.=-4 Gotto 1-41rgh, Gliel . igoigni: , 2 f3u.ltssei, 2 Jt:rsuy, t Waterfi:rd. pre• PRICE OF STC fIKS ' • • : TDIA. DAY Al'rwgi.vr ..'!;Locx •,• Consols fer .631.1 1 'Omni tun ',Mali WATER- AT LONDON MIDGE TO-MORROW. galling', 34 mituites after 2. I Evening, 59 minutes after 2. I , ICI - .I(E r Lnrm AvptiAr ? LONDON, IPT , DIVESD.II; .0;CI::.17,11F;t1 22. 1815. bis . me Mfr 46. relieve as punch a's lies in our Power the xicty of those who have friends on the ocean tit a period when the deVrs of so many fearful ‘4ticksis daily reaching its, ire beg to state .that trt have cncleavoured trs collect eery syllable of connected with the. Shipping, and set apari for this, so nearly interesting in . - Igtrice, as much space as it minirei. It will ht naafi, 'therefore; nutleiAlle nsnal head of ISlA laws, Anti; should we be eontpelled to outfit i i "EzAatteii for it, We are sure the humanity of liar general readers trill Orompt tll eni to sacrifice a portion of *hat they have a tigli` to expect from us, fUr the sake of adniini "t6g comfort to thousands off - the distressed and ‘ v tetelted, % . *rlio . ;t: hopes rest upon the tempestuous, A letter froth a friend on hoard the fitiekers ontains some veil; affecting particulars relating to the West India convoy. We have inAlky another cargo of trench Pa . - as veracious as ilicir precursors, and as ho nourable .to IRlONaimerw. He has instructed hii `el ibi s to sae, that there are i GAM men at Ant ‘'ett). 'which is not true, mid if it were, there "'" .l ` ll, 't be cnow to •OarrisOu 'and 'defend this iniportant and valuable place. I%lAm:ion/cal is, re -Itirttil to be nt Nirnmegen, in no very easy poSi i.*l nny fairly be presumed, since be has a cOnntri, in his front, a victorious and tlrr farce turshing front Holland into Brabant on tHstrit, and In danger of baying his rear turned 4 a , P O 4:erflil Allied Army cro , sing the Lower Nrotrrba, asserted to be at Bommel (a lath "laud, fornfed by the Waal -anti M euse , ( ivreum), must be in as poor a predica at. /*ll had just written to this point upon .specu ,ii 3 " , When tne gratifying intelligence brought / 1 6 DIM:It Mail came to hand, and confirmed' ill our hopes. Ikrot bing-, It will be eosin from our extract's, can procced more prosperously than the glbrious cause of emancipation in the Low Catratrietr. Independently of the taking of Bum. I ntl., of the approach to, if rot the actual en. k 6 inee of Antwerp, of the capture of Itensden, / f t°en- Miles from Breda, and of the is of uuiveland; all which events appear to be authenti t‘'it'di every report is of an advantageous nature. , thirty thousand Austrians are said to have cros s ed the Illiine at Dusseldorf, thus placing l'ilAcipo- J `Lb bt:tween• two fires ; Gorcum, Ilergen.op 200rfii and the tsisel fleet, are added by fame to i'rer ' edi ng ticqui , itions. It is repeated, with in ertar,O. (....:11fidei,ce, that disturbances have broken ". i " Paril, aild that the Conscription has been , `, 11s Ie( 1 in many places-13rttssels, and in short, all "t Netherlands, are in agitation, and we have nn doubt the spirit of revolt will soon be uni l'erlill...... Nam tua Yrs agitur 'parks coin proximisardet. - _ he force of the enemy is evidently in a state tleentpiete disorganitatidA, so imiat sd that not= ; ill 'ltoding the asseverations of the Tyrant's, ThrtiaSl it is not suPposed that Antwerp o-ill re-' 't s Init., on the contrary, that the Fleet and / 1 ‘.% Wharf Will be burnt, to prevent their falling 1 nt6 , the ' hands of the Allies. -r,. it R,e erns b is to command An Army of Ry- , 1e1t.70 at Yesancoit. The geographical situation of ti‘ ' is dept prOves, tither that it i 3 necessary td .4teril Pt to ovelli.ve the Swiss, or that -13uotla- cannot depend upon their mountainous "Initry .to protect France from invasion. The 7inon 1S also central,. with the view to 11 11" reinfore wi- the army in It a ly by Piedmont or Savoy. "AT has . proceeded :to the army. „: Ihe r is u singular article relating to: nn off e r aele to Bavaria by the Grand Duke of Frankfort, ° re linquishing his dominions. in favoOr of ilu ;"1 3 g4ortanNots. This has been referred t o 4 e . Allied Sovereigns, and the construction we rrt 'you it i s f avo urable to the Common Cause, it i nllicates the daSsign of wresting all the Xing kk f f„ nn t " " : ()1 Italy from BUOYAFARTS, and o f indernni- F' " " iiria and her Relations with territorial -t,„ 7 4 sessions on the tibiae for the surrender of the "nstri • an provinces in the Tyrol,' and acquiescing I, t o the re - possession'6f the Italian Bailiwicks, the 4ana 3 „„ „ , " 1 ‘" dfirming States. The movements, on the right of OteViit.cr 111.h.e (lo not Rrpeai• tO to be of mil!taty consequence. We have neither room nor hiclinatiinl tQ , conr• ntent on the bai'e awl insulting Parr, plrporting to be the report of Mr. Nacos/ to theAmerie . Congress, and inserted in the ./ 1 / 9 flifettr. would rather be the open enemy, than live in hollow i the either with orginal scoundrel peace • who invented these Infamous shmtlers, or the Second-band scoundrel who caused them to be 'propagated— rar nob& Pratrnm ! ! , lArrson, BuoNAPARTE, and Cc. ! ! _ . A Paragraph hi another part of our impresc:ion, Mentions the extraordinary convocation of the FOreign Ministers in this country, at Lord CAs .TLEitESon's yesterday. It is impossible not to . . . suspect that propositions for a Pacific Congres:, (whether froin or to BuosrAPauTL) were the sub ject of this communication. We cannot, at pre sent, enter into the discussion of so large a subject, but regardless of the senseless imputa tion tif being advocates for interminable war, we to 'confess (and we will hereafter main tain the justice of our opinion in argument.), that we would rather see our country plung ed into everlasting h'ostility against France, than suchn blow struck at social and moral order, as Would be struck by .the recognition of the blood-stained Usiirper of France, and the san guinary Ruffians whO rank the bigheit among his folloWers, in a state of political pow s. er which would enable them again to steep Europe in hu. than gore. The Cadiz Papers, which only come down to thelith nit. contain no news. The Gqrette of last night contaims the can news, which N•e have been fortnnate e:iongh tti antiCipate.froni private sources, and lay before titir Readers. • Yesterdayrnorning the PRINCE REGF:NT'c SAci horses kit town fin the seat of the Duke of ituT- Lmati. to be in readiness for his Royal Highness on his arrival iltere. The Duke of CLAltexce was busily enraged during Monday and yesterday in making prepgrA iions for leaving England. He takes with Mini ts , r) travelling ear:iages. The Princess CIiAItLATTE Spelol3 her Christ nla‘ with the 'QUEEN and Patircessr.s at Windsor. The Duke of YOKi: held his weekly Levee yes terday, and wive interviews to it ntittiher of Mili tary ()fliers, among them were, The Earl of Athlone, General Sir Thomas HislOp, Lient.- neneral Needham, Lent.-General Sir G. Ilroornheail, General Linsingrn, Lieut,-General Sir George Leith, Co lonels Egerton, Feawick, Wade,' and Grant, the latter was 011 his return from the Army in Spain: Yesterday the Duke of Yon transacted mili tHey business with ilie PEINCE REGENT at Carlton House. YestercloyVisconnt Sinmotrn, niter transact. ing business at his Office, left town about hull past t b o'clock, for his house•, in Itichtnond Park. WINDSOR, DEC. 21.—Princess CHARLOTTE. is expected here to-morrow. Prfncess MARY is so much recovered Of bar lameness as to be able to take at, airing in her carriage. Princess.FinrulA continues indisposed. Yesterday morning . her MAJESTY, accompanied by Princess ELIZABETH, attended by Viscountess MELvtr.t.t: and Lady . C. DAMEE k took an airing in the Queen's carriage to Maidenhead, &c. and returned to the Castle to dinner. Yesterday there was a most excellent day's diversion with the Royal Hunt, which corn menced at Salt hill soon after ten o'clock. On Monday Lieutenant-Colonel GRANT arrived in town on his parole of honour, the 'vessel in which he kft Passages having been captured. .He was only a prisoner s few hours, and wailiberated on condition of bia-procuring the release of a cer-., tain French officer, abort which, we understand, there is some demur; and it it should not he agreed to, the Colonel will be obliged .to return and. surrender himself. Lord MANNEns, we are concerned to state, has been confined to his house, in Dublin, for some days past with a cold.. An order waS made on Monday, in the House of Lords, that all Petitions for Private Bills, left at the Parliament Office with the Clerk, ,within the time binned by their Lordships' order of the 11th of November last, (luring the arljoornment, be re ceived the nest sitting day of the Noose. BoosarAwra is said to hm'e issued a decree, confiscating the Dutch property •in the French funds, in cause/peace of the revolution in Hol land. • . On Wednesday last, the remaining part of the Royal Artillery, destined to co-,operate with the forces in Holland, embarked on hoard a transport at Woolwich, under the corornand .of that able and distinguished Officer, Major GoLO: Colonel Sir GEoaGE Wool) takes the command of the above corps on their arrivalin Holland, The Trafford and Mime 'Regiment of Local Militia have, through their Conmindant, Lieu . tenantXolonel .WATT, made an offer Of their ser vices to any part of Great Dritain that Govern ment may require. The Bolton Regiment of Local Militia, 300 strong, have offered to take the duty of the Old Militia in any part of England. The Bellerophon, -which has arrived at Ports mouth from Newfoundland, brings information tit the loss of the Tweed, IS, Captain MATHER, on sonic rock on that coast. Captain:MATHER :Ind Officers, with the exception of the Pa;•ser- and Surgeon, were 'saved, but 6;i of . the crew, said, unhappily peeished." Another novelty was brought f o rward last night. • at Covent-Garden Theatie, in ‘ t ai two Acts, intitled Poir,Game, or The first of Otto bar, but was 'So obi so was nut announced for future repreSentati ,ffl • nn i c n e-skirfft:it, P;cce that it , • Y.; 11, PLYstop.rn, „ pE,c. ,QO.----Arrived ..the, ; /Wm, 'Timm, from Liverpool to Limerick,.captured by an,.-kineriCan priyateer, and recaptured by his Ma jesty's ship Bellerophon. The ,ilircyallus, WaTsost, from Quebec, Young Fipderick Danish brig from . . f.egitorn forLontlon; the brig Brilliant of Liver pool, DAYENPORT,:Master, with cotton and tal 7 , were picked op. at sea, by the ilypc ries: 'lhe Brilliant brig, was fowl with her masts and sails laying, alongside, sup posed to have ,been, cut away by a French pri vateer. His Majesty's ships Hyperion and 're% left St. John's, Newfoundland, Nov. 10, with t • n fleet cif 35 sail. for the Peninsula; saw them within 45 miles of the coast.; the Kate Kearney, and Clara were with the fleet. The Hyperion re captured the Swedish ship Providentia, from Rio Janeiro to Lisbon. .The Providcntia is just ar rived. file Eugene French privateer, which bind captured the last-mentioned vessel, bad taken two others. She was erniiing between Cape Finisterre and St. MiehaePs'about 14 days since. The Hyperion is with his Majesty's ship Queen, with 29 sail of West lndiainen under convoy. The Syria, of . Dartmouth, Was captured and burnt by the Eu gene, on the isth November.—His' Majesty's ships Crescent, Comet, and Prometheus winter at Newfoundland.; the latter•was to take convoy to the West . Indies; 'and return to St. John's. The Pheasant sailedthe latter end of October for Prince Edward's Island, and would return to St. John's, and take the fleet, With the Dryad frigate, for Spain, &c. Arrived the General Kemp, JENKINs, from Que bec, with timber, captured by the Grand Turk Atutilican privateer; and re-captured by the *Re bury; gun-brig The Racehorse, for Newfound-. land, was captured by this D'ilignt French pri vateer, of 14 guns and 120, men, and re-captiired by his Majesty's ship berteent. The same CUl'Vete • hall taken 7 other vessels. Arrived the Portu guese Ail) Conciso 31inerea,. front Para, bound to L t sildm, raptured by the Eug'ne French privateer, and recaptured by .his Majesty's ship Rosamond, T ;le brig laderatigable; from Bilhoa, was run on board at last •night oil this port, but got into Yar- , mouth with damage. All the ships front the west ward have seen a great deal of wreck. Maim-mu, DEC. 21.—N0 arrivals. The horses belonging to the 10th Hussars have been arriving all day, and are immediately entharked under the direction of Captain Bowidsz, of the Navy, and Major HAVERFIKLD, the Qc.arter-Master-General. The Henry Freeing, Captain MAsoN, is hourly ex pected from Ilelvoetslays, as is the Lark, Captain SHERLOCK, from Bremeriehe. Irat,itiouTti"; itt- . --Arrfreri ibC - Prince Er .. nest packet from Lisbon, in Id days ; and the Rebecca privateer from a cruise. Sailed. his Ma jesty's ship iwita for Gnernsey, and the Eliza packet for S;angate Creek. By the Fax packet, which arrived two days ago front Coruna;, but has been Under quarantine, we learn, that the ships in that harbour experienced a very heavy gale in the beginning of the, month. Several transports drove on shore. The Ceres unit Milburn , were totally lost ; the crew of the former peri3ho. The Iphi genia, Spanish frigate, was obliged to rut away nil her toasts. The ship Unity, for Jamaica, imt into Ferrol, with. the loss of bowsprit and other, damage. She sailed from PortsinOuth under con voy of the Queen man of war ; and the Captain of the Unity reported at Ferrol that a great number of the Queen's convoy foundered at sett in til^ gale of the 2d inst. Dem., Do. 91.—Artived his Majesty's sloop Datnelless, with-a Neet of quarantiners under con voy from the Mediterranean ; among then] are the William, LIN RLATE , from Cadiz ; the War riot:, HENRY, front the South Seas ; and the Cam brian, from St. Helena. —Arrived two , Russian men of war from Portsmouth.—Four o'clock, •ar r.veil the Inspector, STURTON, front the South Seas, under jury Masts ; and the Spightly, armed emitter, with a convoy from Dartmouth.—Five o'clock. Chief part of the bomeward-boaiul arc sailed for the River. The 'lnspector remains. LymisinToN, Dee. el.—Passed by his Majesty's ship Po nione, Captain Carteret, from Lis.wn, with sereral sad un der convoy. Potersstourit, Dix. C.—Arrived yesterday a irge Kra of transports under convoy of his Majesty's ship Missietue.—Ar rived to-day his Majesty's ship lithalion from. Quebec; Hy perion front Lisbon ; and Romulus from ---. Mttsoan, Dec. tn.—Arrived this morning the Mary and Dorothy, Brown, (tant St. John's, Newfoundland, fur Dept ford, with condemned ordnance stores; sailed from St, Juhtes on the 23t1 ultimo, under convoy of his Majesty's ships Bel lerophon and Rostunornl, and the Adonis schooner, with 38 sail of merchant vessel in company. On the ht hist, part e d convoy, at day-light; nu the following day again fell in with the Rosamond and Adonis, and live of tite merchant vessels; shortly after the Rosamond made the signal for the Adonis ttktake charge, when she immediately wade sail, and was mit seen after. On the 13th,at day-break, fell in with two French frigates, which captured the whole of the Lenvoy, ex cept the Adonis and Mary and Dorothy, which were chased for upwards of two hours, hut, by their superkir sailing, es caped. The Adonis cut, away her anchors and t lit ew some of her guns overboard during t lie chase. On the 171 h ' , poke be Ahrahant.'Canspbell, and Resolution, Perry, from Waterford far. London, with provisions, whu s tated that they had seen an America% privateer, in consetinertee of which they Imre np for this harbour. General Stuart and latnily are arriad from St. John's in the first-mentioned vessel. Yesterday. an extraordinary and general meet ing of the Voreign Ambassadors and Envoys resi dent ;it this Cotitt wits held stt Lord CASTLE REAGH'S house, in St. Jamei\'s-stplarc. There \v ere present, the lidesian; Turkish, Spanihh, hind Portuguese Aulhasadurs . , and'Mr. H. FAG7t., who acts as Dutch Ambassador, together with all the Foreigti Enioys. They aisembled at eleven o'clock, trod continued in deliberation till two. Alter the brenking up of this high a‘lembly, the Russian Ambassiulor and Lord CAsyt.Erv..ion waited Ilion the PaINCR R E ovwr, at Carlton-bouse,.and and audiences'of his Royal Highness. In the eveuing messenger was 'sent oti to the Continent. WEST INDIA - FLEET. 'The . .fullowitig is an Extract of a Letter frc7l a Gent'emirs who lett this country. in the kickers. one of the West India convq, and no won board hic .Nlnjesty's, ship the Inrincible, perrorming quarfm tine of the Aititherbank, dated Dec. 19th. On the morning of the 27th ult. we. sailed from Spitheld with _a fine wind at E., which lasted till Tuesday morning the 30th, when. it died away, and a .stiong gale came on from W. N. W. ',toil we lonl. run • ;bunt 400 miles from the Lizard. This abetted on the Wednesday morn ing, alurint‘ the whole of which day we had light baffling . ‘vind.l. .TO Wards night-fall it came 'Oft to blow from the S. W. mid in- creased to a tremendous storm with a very heatry sea: The fleet had brought-to with their heads to the. N,—lnthe course of the evening many heavy seas,, struck the Rucker:, anti about one in the • morning one. went over us, which carried ' away the foremast, bowsprit, and maintop-mast. The .ship was now quite unmanageable ; the Sea made a fair breach over us, and we were drifting, at the. mercy of the- inferiated elements.' Day light on the Thursday morning brought as no con solation—the fleet was completely dispersed, and SVe.SaW around us only five or six wrecks as help less as, ourselves. Several of our men had been hurt by the falling of the masts, and the rest,,• in sullen despair, and overcome with fa tigue, 'had retreated to their hammocks, from which no entreaties r prombes, nor threats, could • bring them,— We -had *Mr two or three boys to work at the pomp, which became veryneees•sary, as the continued to ship a great deal of water.— • The decks all this time were covered with the wreck of the masts, from which no attempt could be made to clear them. When Saturtluy ciOceti itt upon us in this dreadful state, we considered evertt chance.olsaring our lives as cut off. The storm had subsided by the Morning,and the sea was more coin posed. While in the act of deliberating On what was to be done, a large ship hove in sight, stamtiag di redly for its. Soon atter mil Way shy cause - up, '- and pr oved to be the ineineibte, of 74 guns, front the Mediterranean. with a convoy, which had bees, iii: iersed in the Sallie gale in Which we had fermi, and she 'wits now looking out for them,— Captain ADAM treated its with•oll pos , ,ale kind ness, and us the R WATTS had upwards o; :00 tonsi of naval stores on board, for the 1) Eck d Antigua, he sent a number of seaincii oa hoard; to tit her with jury masts, and took her in A Midshipman and some seamen hive navig a ted her to England. We' have te n Leach reason to • fear that the Vest India fleet has sinferecl very . touch. The storm was the heaviest that , the uldist . • seaman experienced, and from the number' of wrecks Which we saw, Vast damage must hato been done. Some of those *ree'lik bari too Tr°. hahly perished. One tnily wa-.: iii 'bight - 10)4'4 dismaSted, and at a great distance. Capf. 4riAld 'endeavoured to find her on the following thiy, but the was not to be seen, • On dia. Thesdity 'horn ing We fell in with a ship,.having her topsai!ht set: We boreltown to her, and found, 'upon 'boirding her, that she had been scuttled in MO daces, and deserted by her crew. This eirednittanee a p peered the more 'extraordinary, ai she had not suffered in the' gale. • She was manned frOm the Ineinei4l44. and , brought In Upon her' hooks is the name of the Pearl, and it appears frinu her papers that Slitewas, bound - to Guadaloupe." • EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER IN THS BRITiSti ARMY, DATED' " Cantonments near Abera, between St. Jean di 4.uz and Bayonne, Nov. 30, ISIS. " it is pleasant to contrast Lord WEL , I4TWOTON'S manner of making wnr with BUOIITAPARTE'C In stead of deserted houses' and burning vilages, ruin • and desolation, here the first business of our Chief was to protect the property of the natives, to en_. coinage them to remain on their little estates, anti by. rec.viving English soldiers to be quartered in their houses, insure their safety from plunder, This country has not the appearance of being in vaded, After the first few days adviince we found_ few houses deserted—l was, in one that the Fretieia had fortified to fire on us for one night ; -on their , retiring they destroyed its beautiful furniture.--St. Jean .tle Luz, which is Lord WIILLINGTON!S head.qUarters, is now very gay ; those inhabitant-al who fled at first hare returned,.opetted their shops,_ again, and are carrying on a flourishing trade nay some of their streets even vie with Bond,. street in dashing. You have no idea. how touch BUONAPARTE is detested ire this part of Fram.e. Our coining will relieve the poor profile from the.. heavy impost and conscription about to he le. vied:" CORN-EXCHANGE, DEC. 44.--Our Market to-day was very indifferently supplied with Wheat, which canted a dull sale at 'our• list prices. Barley and Melt were looking upwards, :no way be considered Is. dearer. Tber.- being :nit trw fine Otata at market, that article win selling ls. in - advance. WI) te :rut Grey Pease, and utlivr kinds of Grain, reu►ain the game as I.i.t week. Yesterday asMr. THORTON j the Chairman of the East 'lndia Company, 'was goitl4- in his. car. tinge from • his house at Clapham, to , the East India House, in St. Paul's Church-yard one of the fore wheels of. the carriage came' otr; the horses at the sane instant took friglit, and ran away furiously the coachman was thrown. from his box, the horses made far Foster-lane, where they were turned, and dragged the 'carriage to the opposite Side of Clicapside i entering the limp door the west side of CLENIRNTt and Cu's Music, Warehouse. Mr. THORNTON sins FOTO!) , got out without recciviug any triaterial injury,: • Several persons,.wtro hire gone on mercantile speculations to holland, have taken, ainong Other things, large quantities of. our State Lottery Tic kets, which it appears by letters, recently receiv ed, have been eagerly bought tit an advance of 20 per cent. and further quantities have been ordered to be sent at stated _periods, until the i j the day appointed for the Drawing. f l th ari e " " 'r3' Patentees r do not receive considi•ralde pe cuniary advantages by the sale of the A uti-tattri thin Composition, still they have the satisfaction o!' knowing that this discoverystands lig!! on tie, count. of toe great saving and other benefits which t},..; public derive from its lice ;. and in con.egnence several Maud . ..cern-0s who have Steam Enginrs at work with the'Compos:tion, are about to f01!0..v the example of the Coach and SVa.!gon #'r:l4lo 7 tors, &c. by presenting the Patentees with apiece of Plate. • TIIE SUN.