The Sun. — London, England, 1812-07-09 00:00:00

T• 1 n-- 7 1 Leeward 'Tsland, Surinam and Martinique, 7. - ow-'7c)rk and Halifax, I Dublin. DUE-1 Cadiz, 1 Lis bun, I Waterford. . •PRICE OF STOCKS - T if! DAY.AT TWELVE. O ' CLOCK. 551 1 Red. Ann.. 561 56 Consels . , TUE SUN. 507,,EM QUIS 2.11/Al3l AV /kEAT I. 0 N O'..N, TiuusDAY ) JUL =`9, 1812. _ • We have just rece4-ed Portugu4sePapers, 7 from Waich we.have made the following extracti:— • LISBON, sTyNE atyltOßOTlErlayini collected their utmost force at Seville and -tor, dOva, formed a. junction near Zafra, on tliC k lpl3,. pushing their adVance into that Island on the - same night. SOULT, himself had not then left Cordova, but was hourly expected at his army : their united force 'consists of 18,000-infantry,36oo - cavalry, and 30 pieces of artillery. According to the accounts v - vich have reached this place, on the same day (19th) Zen. }TILL; witli -his corps, arrived at Albufera, which place had been previously occupied by 4090 eapitalPor fugutsc troops from Badajoz. General iiirz's Force, including the Portuguese, are estimated at 18,400 men. Accounts have been received. froth Lord WEL• LINGTON, elated Salamanca, 18th.—The French retired on Toro, - leaving two strong buildings oc cupied by a few men, to impede our immediate pursuit. LtSBON, JUNE 19.--Bythe last accounts from Lord WELLIINGTON', we know thatMARmoNT had transferred his head-quarters to Telayera.. Letters from Cadiz, of the 12th June, state, that the English had taken, near Barcelona, a convoy consisting of fifty sail. - 'VI this" morning received American rapers to the 11th ult. from which we have made the fol. lowing extracts : FROM THE NEW YORK PAPER, JUNE 11. 7C; (From the Alexandria Herald, June 8) " The House of. Representatives sat in con clave the whole of Friday, and they adjourned. till this day. Jt, is currently reported and gene believed, and we are among the number of believers, that a Declaration of War against Bng-, land has passed that body, and been sent to the Senate for concurrence. The Senate did not sit oh: Sa. Imlay, of odur4e it remains yet to be de - - tided." L'XTRAOT TO THE EDITOR, DATED WASHINGTON, JUNE 7. The House of Representatives have no doubt pnssed a - Declaration of War by a majority ex ceeding thirty votes. In this debate the Federal Members did not participate, on account, as they said, of the closing of the doors ; they are ex pected to make a formal protest. The question is before the Senate at- this time, where report says it will be defeated, on the authority of Sena tor GILES. There is no doubt but that the Ad- Ministration can carry the measure—whoever thinks otherwise, thinks wrong.—l will write you more fully in a few days. . Brigadier Genera BLOOMFIELD having been ordered to take the command of the forts and harbour of the city of New York, the duties of Governor of the state of New Jersey, it is sup posed, will devolve on CHAnLEs CLAIM, Esq. vice Vice-President. HOUSE, OF REPRESENTIVES, I‘l4l, Mr. RANDOLPH,'after stating. that be Lao. -don .to make, commenced a speech involvity, gienerally - the ' present state of Our relations with France and Great Britain. When he had been speaking about an hour and a half, a ques tion of order arose, and it was decided by the Speaker that the gentleman ought, previously to debating so much at large, to submit kis nio tlon,to the House. . After some desUltory debate and decisions on •i „points of Qrder, Mr. RA:MOT / PIP submitted the following-proposition : " That under present eh einnstanees it is inexpedient to resort to a, war with Great-Britain.— The question being taken"; that the House do now preceed to the- consideration of said resok tion, it was decided in the negative. For the consideratioia..n7 I Against it ' 62 The usual hour of adjournment having arrived, the House adjourned to MOnday. MONDAY, JUNE I. A message was received from the Presidea of the United Stittes, which was declared to be 4:f a confidential nature, and the galleries were cleare'd and doors eloSed, quarter past one The House continued their sittings with closed joors until Friday, three o'clock, when the doors were opened, and the - Muse adjourned 'to Mon lay. itt-,V.i.Vonx, z 5.—A Gentleman .arrived in town last evening, who left Washington at "nalf-put t ~so oit Tnesday. He informs ; that rh House of Reir - esentatives sat with 'doge(' doors on Tuesday ahont - are:hout, and the -Senate an hour and an half, and both adjourned. The con jecture way, that the President had recommended Letters of:NI:141w! and Iteplisals ; and it was said, the Committee of Y:oteign Relations had not then reported. " SUNE, 6.—Of the confidential message from the PRESIDENT, the National hilelligencer thus , • expresses itself : " It will 6e seen by a reference to the prOceed _ ings of Cfingress, that a message;was yesterday re ceived from the PRESIDENT, of a confidential na ture. Accompanying the messa ge , were sun d r y do cuments, embracing a correSpondence between Mr. RIYgSEL and'the British Government, much in the spirit of. Ali the . late correspondence in the same ,quarter, • 7iiichlve . shall present in our next ; as they, Irene' not • deemed to require secrecy, and. wer&by the senate ordered to be printed. Of the importance of the message. we cannot pretend to speak with certainty- 7 4nd every reader, who re flects on, the course 4 .of measures of the present Session, and the various indications of the 'senti ments of the Executive,* is as. competent as out selves to conjecture its contents."; _ JUNE 9.—A Petition to Congress against war was banded about yesterday, and generally.sub scribed. It will remain at the Tontine _Coffee house for signatures till twelve this day, when i: will be forwarded to Washington. The National Intelligencer of Saturday last Con tains the following articles : " The Senate sat a short time with closed doors yesterday, and the House of Representatives for the two last days. Report says that some mea sures of a _decisive character hadpassed the House, and has been sent to the Senate for concurrence. " The President of the United States yester day communicated tQ Congress two letters from FOSTER to MoNßoz, and replies thereto , by the Secretary of State, which have passed within the last week. Of these documents we have not been able' to obtain a perusal ; but we learn that they embrace, on the part of the 131:i -tish Minister, an amplification of Elie principles contained in the " Declaration - published in our, last, and on the part of the Secretary a nervous exposition of their real character, and incompa tibility with the rights and the law of nations: From the Alexandria Gazette of Saturday Waa.—We feel impelled by a sense of duty to our friends and country , to warn them against en tertaining delusive hopes of a favourable issue of our affairs with respect to the great question - of Peace or War.—We are decidedly of opinion, that so far as the house of Representatives are con cerned, War was• declared against England on Thursday evening last by a vote 'of 79 to 49, and that the Bill or Resolution to that effect was sent to the Senate yesterday for their concurrence:- From the Baltimore Federal Gazette WAR - IN FACT.-3 declaration of public war, without limitation or qualification,. against Great •Britain, passed on Thursday in the House of Re presentatives. The Minority, about 30, disdained to speak to the question, as, from the closing of the doors, their sentiments could not be known by their constituents. NEW YORK, :TUNE 10.—Our accounts from Washington arc by letter, down to the evening or Sunday last, at which time nothing appeared to be certainly known about the question of war or pece. ,The injunction of. secrecy is rigidly ob served. From all the hints given, it is fair to conclude, that the delay of coming to the point is owing to some correspondence that is going on between our Secretary of State .and - the British Minister. Hopes are -still ottertained that the caiemity of war may be averted. It: turns out, very:contrary, to our expectations, that the decision in the Senate; on Friday, was 17 to 16, in favour of referring - the warlike pro position to a Committee of seven. A letter fro►n Washington; dated Saturday even ing, says, " The report of to-day is, that an Em bassy is to be Sent immediately to England." The Report of the Secret Cammittee was yes terday kid Before the House of Commons. It wilbbe found in a subsequent column.—lt is to be taken into consideration to-morrow. WthDSOll, JULY B.—The KING had five hours sleep last night, and remains in the same state.— He eats his meat as regularly as he was accus tomed to do. - Yesterdayhe ate a very heartydin ner of his -own ordering.—Yesterday afternoon, Sir HALFORD and Mr. DUNDAS left Wind sor, and Dr. WILLIS this day far London ; but are expected to-morrow here again, and the eon ' elusion is, that the KING is considerably better, 'or that . these eminent men would not leave Windsor. Yesterday morning, about three o'clock, the PRINCE REGENT left Carlton,Hoirse Tor Windsor. Sunday the Marquis of WINCHESTER gave a grand dinner to the PRINCE REGENT, at his house in Harley-street; among' the company were the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, Lords PAULET and CARI:E TON, the Rev. Mr. BLOMBERG, Sir A. CLARKE, Generals liuLsz and KEPPEL. Yesterday ten persons received sentence of death at the Old Bailey, among whom was Thomas Bowler, for maliciously shooting at William Bur rowes. Five out of the ten perwas are fetuales, SECOND EDITION. 'SUN -OFFICE, • lIALF4AST TWO O'CLOCK. • We h top - tile press to lay before our leaders tie following- bfficial Bulletin, Vlach leas just been issued : . , WAR 6i.:Pmf'rmEtsit, JULY 9, 1812. Divatches have been received. from the Eat]: Of WELLItiGTON, dated Salamanca ) 18th June. The Allied Army crossed the Agueda lipori the 13th June, and arrived pear Salamanca on the 16th. The enemy, she Wed some troops in front of the town, but upon the advancing of our ca valry, they retreated across the Tonnes, anti eva cuated Salatnanca,leaving about 800 men in some forth constructed upon the ruin of sonic, colleges and convents.' -'• The Allies entered the city, but Lord WEL -14/C:GTON . had found it necessary to break ground against the fortified posts still held by the enemy. The 6th division, under Major=General CLINTON, was,charged with the reduction of theSe posts, , sud the batteries were expected to open agAnst them -.09 the 19th. MARMON'T'S army was retiring to the Pour° ; and it was imagined he meant to, take up a - po sition behind that river, between TaniOro Toro: InXstrkmadura, 41ajor-General 'SLADE'S 'bri gade of cavalry (3d Dragoon Guards and Royal • Dragoons) having - fallen in with two French re ! giments-of dragoons, under General L'ALLEmANn; . near Llera, charged and broke the enemy's line ; but having pursued without sufficient caution or order, a, body, kept by the enemy in reserve, fell upon the British before they could form, and re took nearly all:the-prisoners General, SLADE had Made, killing and nounding 20 or 30 of his dra goons, and taking' prisoners two Lieutenants and above one hundred men. P. S.--The Dispatches received at the Foreign Office from Mr:-STUART contain intelligence froin Estramadura of a later date., - • On the 13th June there Was a skirmish-of Ca valry near Llerena, in ,which Lieutenant &rap,- suwrrz made prisoners 25 French dragoons and one officer. It appears that the forces under Marshal SOULT and General DROUET having. collected, had moved -forward to Llerena and Santa in conse quence of which Sir ROW LAND HILL ,had called in all his. detached troops, and had assembled the whole - of his army at Albuera, where he was joined on the 18th by four Portuguese regiments from Badajoz, and by the Spanish troops under the CONDE DE PENNE VILLENTAR. General Itu.'s advanced posts were at Santa Martha. French Papers have just been received, which state that France had declared war against Russia. NAVAL NEWS.. FAL:got/T.li, JULY 6.--Arrived the Lapwing pack- et, with Mails frOm New-York, in 22 days. By her we learn, that the question of war had been carried in the House of Representatives, by a ma jority of 30, but much doubt was entertained of its passing the Senate. The Mackerel schooner arrived there on the 6th June, with mails from England. It is currently reported that the Cap taiti.of the Mackerel ivas killed on the passage out by one of the men falling upon him from the main—top.. Left there' the President and Essex fri gates, the Hornet sloop, and 30 gun-boats. PLY M ONT Ju LY -7 Understand th e French ship Rivoli, of 84 guns, captured some time since in the Mediterranean, by the Victorious man of war, has been spoken with in the Channel, in company with the homeward-bcund Mediterra nean convoy. The reported death of • Mrs. Hy NE, who was shot by her husband, ••as,stated yesterday, turns out to be premature,- she being still' alive, though in a very dangerous state, notwithStanding which some symptoms have appeared which make it not impos,sible that she may eventually recover s:and this, added to the composure and resignation with which she bears up under. so afflicting a calamity, leads• to the hope that the - result may be favour able. The youngest -child was not shOt a pistol, as first repotted, but taken by - the father Into the privy., where he cut its throat with a rater, and afterwards deliberately brought it ha and laid, it in fhe' kitchen ;, he then . proCeed ‘ - ed up stairs, where • Mrs.. - and . the other child were, when he proceeded to a drawer, and took out pistols, with . one of which he first blew out the brains 'of the eldest child, and in stantly shot Mrs. HYNE •in the breast ; he then ran, with another pistol 'in ills hand, ; . over the stairs, at the foot of which he shot himself through the heart, anti fell forward on the floor. It is understood the Coroner's Inquest will not 'take place on this melancholy occasion; until to morrow, in order to afford as much time as%pos sible, to learn the fate of Mrs. HYNE . The gloom and consternation that prevailed yesterday through out this town was such as was never before re membered, and the horror depicted in every countenance led the mind to the idea that some great national misfortune had happened, and which was last evening, in some degree, height ,ened, by an accident to a fine boy, the son of Mr. WATTS, glazier, of this town, about eight years of age, who fell from the top of his father's house, in Broad-street, and fractured his skull, and was otherwise so much bruised ttiat there are no hopes of his recovery. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, IIQUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY. The Bishop of ELY (Dr. Sparke, late Bishop . of Chester) was sworn, and took his seat. The Lottery Bill, the LoCal Militia Amend' thent, and the Corn,,DistilleryAmendmeut Bills, a were severally read second time, and comet for to-morrow. The Soldiers Families Allowance Bill passed through a COmmittee of the whole House, ant' was reported without Amendment. The East India Loan;. the - Pours Laws Amer'd" ment, and the Starch Manufacture Bills, were , brought up froth the Commons ' by Mr. Wallace, Mr. Lushington; Mr. Giddy; and other. -I‘l.-nabersi . and respectively read a first time. After a short adjournment during pleasure, th e ' House resumed ; when. . . The Leather Tax Bill was read a third and passed; and alnessage ordered - to be sent - t° acquaint the Commons therewith. The carnatic Debts Bill; the 5,500,0001. chequer Bill's Bill; the Muriatic Acid, and tiif Scots l'lsseSs - ed‘Taxes Regulation Bill*, were reit° aThird time and passed. • Some private business was then disposed of after whiCh theii Lordship's Adjourned. to , morrotc. lIOUSE OF COMNIONS.--,WEDNESDAY. The Poor Returns Bill Was read a third dale and passed. . - A Report of . the. Committee on the Stone Dot' tle•Duty Bill was brought up and agreed to ; the' 13111 was ,ordered to be read a third . time to morrow. • The Report of the Committee on the Isle ot Man Trade was , bronght up by Mr. KENLUCKi and agreed to ; and a Bill was ordered to !ie. brought in. The Life Annuity Bill was read a second time, and ordered to go through a Committee to-morrow- Mr.-WHARTON brought in a Bill for the better preventing of Sinuggling, which was read a first time, and ordered to: be read a second time to..' morrow. A Biit was also brought in by Mr. WHARTO N .for the regulhting of the Coffee Trade, which -Wag read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. Sir F. BURDETT presentegl a Petition from the Parish of St. Marys Whitechapeland Mr. MEI •LISII presented Petitions front Wapping au ( ' Clerkenwellagainst the Nightly VilaLeh These Petitions were ordered to lie on the tahlq till the third reading of the Bill. Sir F. BURDETT, adverting to the Petition whieh he had presented from the Clerks of the Nail Office, observed, that it was a case of very grea t hardship, and begged to know whether Groverti mem had taken it into consideration. _ . Mr. ROBINSON .stated, that those Clerks wiz° filled important situations, and whose duties were of a nature to require it, were provided with 54/11 3 ' ries suitably high; but there were others iu tl4. Navy Offices whose duty was of such a nature not to be more than mere .manual labour, and the' services of these persons was of such a nature 4 3., would not admit of any augmentation of salary. The Malt Regulation Bill went through -a Com"' mittee, when some new regulations were adopted on the suggestion of Mr. Wbarton. The Repoll_ of the Committee was received . , and ordered to bo, • taken into further consideration on Friday next , . and the Bill to - be printed as amended. The Report of the Commercial Exchequer Bills - Bill was taken into further consideration ; and; after some discussion, was agreed to, and the Bit' ordered to be read athird time to-morrow. On the Report of the Loyal Tokens Bill being • taken into further, consideration,' !, Mr. HUME insisted that a longer period shoulj be allowed for calling in of Local Token,---as they had been issued at a very great expence, and en tirely for the accommodation of the Public. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that the Tokens employed by the Bank were much bet" ter; and that if the circulation of Local Token s should at any- future period be deemed necessall':'• Parliament would then take into consideratin ° the most proper means for regulating the circulv . tion of them ; but at present he thought it was, proper that they should ,e called in as soon as possible. -GIDDY observed, that as tokens Wer e issued for a shilling which were not worth a sis . i pence, the Bank tokens. were bought up, an converted into these spurious tokens. He though t it expedient that these. local' tokens 'should be 'called in at the time, specified in the Bill. Mr. HUSKISSON said, that it 'was an undoubt ed fact that -when- the Bank token is of a value superior -to that. of the local toket 4 s, they ar e bought up for the purpose of converting Llle' into these local tokens : he thereto' e thought that 'it as ,highly necessary to put a stop to the elf' culation of local tokens ; and if this was carrie , into effect, the Bank tokens would find their way into districts where they are not at present t o .be met with. it was well known that the make" of local tokens employed agents to whom they 'allowed a commission often per cent. for issuint:i their tokens, instead of those of the Bank. Fl e . thought that before the 25th of March, 0 313 ' there was abundance of time for persons to pr °- vide themselves with Bank tokens, instead of the , local ones-. -Though the Bill does not compe l Bank to supply tokens„whateyer the want °f ' the Public Might be, yet he thought that the 13111 should have been framed in such a way a s to be compulsory on the Bank to issue their token s ' The priCe of silver having risen 'since the fir-' t issuing of the Bank tokens in 1811, so as to be now within twopence halfpenny of the real valu e of the Bank token. If any fur+. l, er rise tak e ' place on silver, he thought it wouid be necessarY . • for Parliament to raise the nominal value of .th e tokens, or they would all disappear., Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY did not tierce with th e Honourable Gentleman who spoke lasi ) , as to th e time that 6hould be fixed for the calling in °f Local Tokens :. he thought — that the persons w hcs • i-;sued those Tokens did what N 743 lawful at the time ; as those who issued Tokens nearest t4e