The Sun. — London, England, 1812-02-20 00:00:00

Place is small, but strong, it in an excellent condition. I have th , t honour to inclose you a statement of the artillery which we have found ihtire. There were fifty i+essds in the harbour. —The army of Valencia enjoyed the most. perte& health, there are no'diselses prevailing in it. 1 keep up a Shia discipline. Tire artillerf and gineers are employed in putting their equipages in Puler. I have the honour to be, (Signed) The Marshal SUCHET. Statement of the artillery and warlike stores found in the Fort of Dania, on the - 19th Jan. 1812 : Blass Cannon —two tB, one 'l6, four 8, one z, and two 24 pounders.. Iron ditto —eleven 18, - 'two t 6, fourteen 12, one 8, and two 4 pounders Total 44 glans. It Tass Mortars —one, 7 inch, gibs. ; and ten, 4 inch, Ms.— Total 22:mortars. e4l,non Balls -400 Of 24, 1935 of 18, 89z of i 6, 14-.)o of 12, 72 " 8 , 27 of 7, 2492 of 4, and 8 of 2 . poundqrs. •C 'ape Shot —l4o of 24lbs. 4e• of albs. 22 Of 161bS. 26 of nibs. and 4of Sibs. weight. Carcases, 63 01 2.411i5. 6z of tBlbs. 37 of 16 lbs. 7t of !albs. 72 of 8 lbs. 4o of 4 lbs. and tj of a lbs. 3SO bombs, 357 howitzers, x 950 grenades,. 2.1 glass grenades, 9 quintals of gun-powder, 55 lbs. of musket powder, rnih.att cartridges 33,564, musket-balls 14,842, loepounds copper nails. (Signed) The Gen. of Division P. UE RT. (A true Copy) Count Silt:llLT, Marshal of the Empire, and Commander in Chief of the Army of Arnigon. CATALONIA., The siege of Valtucia fixed the attention of the English, and of the insurgent armies in the Penin sula. For the intent of relieving that place, the in-. hurgents of Catalonia re-u. ited tinier the orders. of General LACEY, _and of the Baron D'EROLES, march ed against Tarragona with an army of 10,000 men. Two vessels were moored off the town, and threw b °rnbs into it. The Spanish. Generals •sliewed the' etmost activily in collecting arms and ammuni tkn, and to form a magazine of provisions, which th e English squadron assisted in procuring for them. mineral DECAEN being apprized of the enterprize °l' the enemy against Tarragona, immediately dis patched thither the division of Lamaique, joined by a pan of she garrison of Barer-lona, undo' the orders of General MATHICE MATHIEU, 'on - the 2 4tit of January, attacked she - insurgent army, on the heights of Al tafouilla.—ln this brilliant" combat - , the enemy lost 2000 men, in killed, w,,utled, and P/iscners; and their whoL , army has been dispersed in such a manner, that it will impossible tot it to b e Fe-organized. It has lost almost the whole of its 414114 , with all its artillery and baggage. D'E-aoLss 'tail very dangerously wounded. AWAY OP THE SOUTH'. General SOULT occupied with iris corps of obser , Tatio n frontiers of Murcia. His advanced guard, on the 12th of December, pushed a strong P a rty on the camp of Lorca, occupied by two in surgent regiments. After a brisk firing, they took I ° flight, and were pursued beyond Totua, losing ac on , iderable number of men. General SALLEMAND has penetrhted on his side i nto Murcia, by Veas and Zegura. He-bas defeated 211 the parties of insurgents which he met with.- - On the 15th of December, he direeted his march ° Pan Morasetta and Caravaca; and briskly pursued a division of the enemy, which hastily retired upon licant ; he took a number of prisoners, and was Pined by several deserters. Continual rains and violent tempests had inundated the country abOut Tatiffa and St. Roche, so that the l ‘laislial Duke of BELLUNO had been obliged to delay the investment of Tariffa. The troops of General . 1344 1(01S took a position behind St. Roche. How ever, on the 15th of December, the bad wea il'er having appeared to - cease, the corps be gan to move to surround Tariffa. BALLASTEROE, tout eking the Intention of tiiis movement, came out r)1 ins camp, and presented himself at Puerto de where he found a battalion of the Bth regi ll'ent of the line; which received him vigorously, "(I gave time to General BAittiots to come up with the 43d of the line, and a battalion of the 7th of the !. and Duchy of Warsaw. The insurgents were their turn attacked so briskly, that they were completely roared ; their loss was considerable in killed and wounded ; ,BALLASTER'OS flying at the head of his advanced guard, found the high road" occupied by our cavalry, which Charged him briskly ; he owed his escape• • entirely to the swift ness of his horse, and with much difficulty reached 'ills camp at the head of the fugitives.- ' On' the 20th of December General LEVAL formed the investment of Tariffa, in which were shut up 1 500 English and 3000 Spaniards. On the 21st ` 'the English attempted a general sortie, but were repulsed ; they renewed their attai.k on the 22d, and suffered considerable loss:- The 16th regiment 0 1 infantry conducted itself with dlstinaion ; it had ail Officer and two voltigeurs killed, and seven Wounded. On the '23cl the breach was opened at the distance of 120 toises from . the -place. The besietrz artillery, contflating of several Wow of a , arge , calibre, bad arr'ived, though it had been rte - - cessary, fur its passage, to open a road over the declivity of a rock, exposed to the Are of two fri gates and • several English gun-boats; but nothing could check the ardour of the troops, though they had also to contend With all the inclernencies of the !season. On the 2gth the fire of. the battery in breach commenced, and on the 30th a breach was effect ed, which appeared practicable; and the Governor having refused to capitulate, it was attempted by ,two companies of voltigeurs, but it had been neg lected to sound a muddy ditch, which covered the front attack, and the continual rains had so moisten ed the ground that it was impossible to surmount theobstacle, and the troops retired in good order. It was resolved to enlarge the breach, and the new battery which had been constructed promised soon to render it perfedly pra&icable; but the,rains hay= ing continued in astonishing abundance, the roads had •entirely disappeared, and the conveyance of provisions was become impossible, it was therefore necessary to retire, beyond the torrents, in order to approach the means of subiistence and procure pro visions, of which there was an absolute failure. General HILL quitted fur a moment the frontiers of , Portu s al to produce a di►ersion, by marching upon Mei ids. Captain_ NEVEL7, of the inth regiment of the line, was reconnoitring at La nod with three com panies of Voltigeurs. On the 27th of December, at'eleven in themotning,, he: was attacked at La Nava by the English advanced guard, with 800 horse , and four pieces of cannon; he, however, maintained a good countenance, and immediately.. formed this square, placing in the centre some hus sars who accompanied him : the enemy could never break it, not withstanding his superiority. He I); avely supported five charges . of cavalry and the t • fire of the enerily's artillery without wavering, and afterwards retreated upon Merida, without per mitting the enemy to approach him. •The firing bad been heard at Merida; and General Dom -1561.75K1 brought ont the cavalry to receive Captain NEV EU. • The enemy immediately halted, and ceased to annoy.. our brave soldiers, who entered Merida amid the applauses of the garrison. The intrepid NEvEu biOught, back with him. his . wort. - ded ; he lost only three men.. The English cavalry suf fered c nsideiably by the tire of the square, which they several times received. REPIRT OF THE. DUKE or RAGUSA TO THF. Pitils:Cll OF WAGRAM AND NEUFCHATEL, MAJOR—GENERAL `‘ Vajladoiid, lan. i 6. " Monseigneur,—l have the honour of inform- your Excellency, that I yesterday evening re ceived accounts of the English haying suddenly united, and on the filth passed the Agueda, after having formed a bridge of boats two leagues above the place, with the besieging artillery. On the lOth the place was invested, and the siege immedt ately commenced. " I lost not a moment in marching to the relief of the place. I had collected four divisions, for the purpose of re-viatialling Ciudad Rodrigo but these forces were not now sufficient : I was therefore obliged to call 'two divisions of the army of the North, and Bonnet's division, which I ordered to quit the Asturias. These, together, amount to , nearly sixty thousand men, with which I will march" against the enemy. You may expel hippy and' glorious events for the French arms., My ariny will be united on the 2 ist. As I oldered General Montbrun to return the latter end of January, I do not expect he will join me before February. He has under his orders three divisions, • and a part of my cavalry. (Signed) " Marshal Duke of RAGUSA." SECOND REPORT. " Salamanca, lan. 18. " Monseigneur,—l have the honour of acquaint ing you, the - narnent I arrived here, that, accord ing to the accounts I have received, the suburbs of Ciudad Rodrigo, as well as a redoubt I ordered to be constructed, were on the foal inst. carried by 'surFrise. This is an unfortunate circumstance, as I always considered these works would regime a siege, and give us eight or-ten days. " Oa the other %arid, I am informed, that the first pieces of the besieging artillery only paised the Agueda on the 14th. • In waiting the junction of troops which are marching from different places, I have pushed a strong advanced guard as near as pos sible to the town, in order to have- it undursoad we are marching to its succour." THIRD REPORT OF THE SAME TO THE SAME. " On the loth, at night, the 'enemy appeared before Ciudad Rodrigo, and took possession of the Convents in the subm bs. " On the ifith, the English batteries opened their fire, at a great distance; and o❑ the t 94 h„ the place was taken by assault, and fell into the power of the enemy. „There is in this event something so incomprehensible, that I will not permit myself to make any observation on it. I have not yet receiv ed the necessary info'rmation.7 FOURTH, REPORT FROM THE SAME TO THE -SAME. " Salamanca, lan. 24 I had concerted with General Dorsenne for the jun&ion of our troops ; but the hopes I bad con ceivpd of seeing the enemy's army, proud of a first success, remain beyond the Agueda, quickly va nished. The reconnoitering partial which I dis patched informed me t that the enemy's corps which had warchad upon lainames, and which they con siaeted as the united artily, had fallen back upon the Agueda, crossed . that river, and re-entered Por tugal, after carrying away the bridges. " The EnJisti have taken away part - of ,the heavy artillery of the place, to transport it to Al meida. No. English troops have been left in Ciudad Rodrigo." ARMY OF PORTUGAL. "'On the 13th of December the Duke of Ragusa_ considered it expedient to dispatch. General Mont brun, with three divisions of infantry, a division of cavalry; and 30 pieces of artillery, to march by Al barite upon Valencia, and reinforce Marshal-Sachet. The march of General Mont: run having been un fortunately retarded by counter-orders, this General only arrived at Almansa on the 1 ith of January.— Valencia was taken Gem Mont brun continued his march towards Alicant, defeating several indulgent corps. On the 25th he arrived on the Tagus, to rejoin the Army. " The Duke of Ragusa wishing - to relieve the garrison of Ciudad Rodrigo, and leviraual that for. tress, set out from Toledo the beginning of January, with four division§ of his army, taking the direc tion of Valladolid : • but Ciudad Rodrigo had been intested by the English since the gth. Lord Wel lington, wishing to make a diversion in favour of Valencia, passed the Agueda. The redoubt and convent which delen'ed the approaches to the town were Surprised ; and, it appears; the town was taken on the lgth, the breach having been prado cable. By a culpable negligence of the Governor of Salamanca, the garrison of Ciudad Rodrigo had been without communication for two months. •Ori• ginally 1,400 stiong e - it was reduced by sicknes;, and the surprise of the Convent, to 900 meet. The General of Brigade Barrie was GeAtroor. We are_ not yet sufficiently acquainted with the details of this event to form an opinion of it. "The Duke of Ragdsa having arrived at Sala manca with four divisions of his army, two divisions drawn from the army of the North, and Bonnet's division, which he withdrew from the Asturias,. in dependently 9f the division which he had lett on the •Dgus, marched towards the English to give them battle; but Lord Wellington had already recrossed the Agueda, destroyed the bridges, .and- re-entered Portugal, after performing this coup -de-main." - Tire Moniteur of the 11 th, contains the usual monthly reports from the armies in Spain (the de teiis of .whieh we are precluded from entering upon by want of room). According to theM, • more than 40,000 English muskets were -found in Va lencia, the disartniug of the militia - of which pro vince is rapidly carrying into effect, and the whole suhje& to the Emperor of the French.—Under the headvof " Army of the South," an account is given of the proceedings against Tarifa ; and the- failure there is ateribtred to the fosses-. not having „been sounded, and 'the confirm,' rains, which rendered the arrival of provisions irtieossible. Under the title di Catalonia, there is a long re port fromeGeneral Dec:leo, in which he sayS, that having been info' med the enemy had assembled the greatest part of his forces in- the vicinity of Tarra gona, and' with the assistance of the English, in tending' to insult that fortress, he marched, against and defeated them, ,iith the loss 4'2000 men in killed, wounded, and prisoners, and all their ar t diet e. PAU, .FEB. 4.—General Blake ate; (?ei here on the 3d. The first column of prisoner, composed of 600 officers of - the geirison of • Valencia, has also arrived. MADRID, JAN. 30. 7 —The small corps of insur gents commended by- General - Alalii, since the oc cupation of Valencia, has been shut in Aiicant. T!ie greatest consternation prevails in that . town, the inhabitants fly in great numbers. It appearS the garrison consi,ts of only 2000 men, and.thlt Ge neral Freyre, with some troops, is in Requiaa.— The French have pushe.l their reconnoissances nearly to the walls of Alicant. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Right Hon. Lord ELLEN BOROUGH and Hon. Justice BAILEY. Northamptonshire—Saturday, Feb. 29, at' Northampton. L utlandshire— Friday, March 6, at Oakham. Lincolnshire—Feb. 7, at the Cast e of Lincoln. City of Linoln—Same day, at the Guildhall, Lincoln. Nottinghatrishire - - Friday, 13th, at Nottingham. Town of Nottingham -Same clay, at,t he Town Hall. Derbyshire—Thursday, 19th, at Derby. Lei-::estershire—Monday, 23d, at the Castle of Leicester. Borough of Leicester—Same day, at the Borough Hall. City .. of Coventry—Monday, 3ath, at Coventry. Warwickshire—Same day, at Warwick. CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 14.—0 n Monday the Jlev. J. S. Hewitt, M. A. and the Rev. Cook, M. A. of Clare Hall were admitted Senior FeAows of that Society ; the Rev. W. Key Rseve, M. A. was ele6l - into Mr..Diggon's Foundation ; and the Rev. 3. Horner, B. A. was elected a Fellow on Mr. Free man's Foundation. The Rev. .1. B. Buckland, M. A. Mathematical Leaurer of Si,lney Sussex College, was yesterdu elected a Fourn 'Fellow of that Society. Thursday the. electiort of a fellow of Sid ney Sussex ColL-ge, on the I?oundation of Leonard Stitith, Esq. vane oti,at a Cburt of Assistants of tlr - Fishitiongers C.,topany, London. - There_ were only two candidates, the Rev. Edward Smedley, jun. of Trinity College, and the Rev, votes were—for -the Rev. Edward Smedley, 22 ; the Rev. -- Clarke, .t2—upon which Mr.,Sriftd ley was dcclated duly elected. On Tuesday, an -inquest was held at Otley, in Yorkshire, on the body of a Gentleman wliose.name we forbear to mention, and who, on .the preceding Sunday, had put a period to his existence by a pis tol. It appeared that he first came to Orley in Apil last, 'had tlivided.the intermediate time between that ;place, ‘ Harrowgate, and Thorparch, visiting each alteinately.. He 'pointedly avoided all society, and devote-cl the whole of his titne , to 'deeds of charity, never suffering a -day - to- pays without distributing from brie to fifty pounds in the course cf the 'ln-Orn . ing„ On the Sabbath he generally confined himself fn the house, avoiding religiously every secular put suit. On the - Friday, bet Ore his death, he came front Thorp-arch to Orley. On his arrival, the pe4le at the ino observed a considerable change in him, his spirits were more depresYed. Verdi • -Lunacy . Heleft a particular requeit to be buried in the church 7yard at Kit by Ove . rblow, and he was . there interred on - Wednesday last. - Orders have be.en issued to. ballot for the LoCal Militia for the county of Middlesex. The number required for the county is ten thousand, bet weec the ages of 16( and 30. OLD BAILEr. The Sessions commenced yesterday- before Mr. jus.tice HEATH, Mr. Justice BAILEY, and Baron WOOD. Edward Proaar was indi6led for that he, being a bankrupt-did feloniously and wilfully conceal a part of his personal estate, of I he value ot more than 01. and thereby defiauded - his creditors. It ap , peered. by the statement of the opening Coun , ,el ; that the prisorvkl had the management of the co tch.v . horses at the Deli Savage Inn, Ludgate-hill, and in Purthaing corn, '&e. he been.rne a dealer and dup. 'oat), and a docket was . struck against him. At the time of his bankruptcy, he had two horses / at grass at Chiswick, which was a secret to Lis assignees ; bat after the settlement of hi; affairs he ontra6ted for the sale of the two horses, for 70 guineas,' and represented them its the property of Mr. Cook, merchant, in London. On evidence being adduced in .support of as _ prosecution, it was not satistadorily proved that 11)e two horses were w.4th more than 201. although a guard, formerly belonging to the Salisbury coach, vhlued them at 161. each'; but he acknowledged he sold them some time past, and that one of them had been fired. Mr. Justice HEATH -observed, that ;t would be•going too far to convict the plisoner, without stlonger pool' that the horses were worth 52:01., as that was nede,sary to support .the in fitta~ent.--o Aot J. Sutton was indieted for, fogging and uttering an order for the payment of' 1601. at the banking-house of Messrs. Davidson and Cu. with intent to defraud a Mr. Jackson. Mr. KNAPP ) for the, prosecution, stated the case to the Jury in substance as follows. The pi isoncy, who was the prosecutor's brother-in-law, sent a man named FThrey, with the .check in question, from a public-house in Charles - -street; St. JameStse square, to get cash at Messrs. Davidson' ` banking. house, whilst he waited his return in the street.--. Mr. Holloway, a clerk, deteCted the forgery, and accompanied the bearer of the forged instrument to_ the prisoner,. who returned to the banking-house.— The prisoner observed, he had received the check from Mr. Jackson, on the preceding night, when he (Mr. J.) had been sacrificing at the shrine of Bacchus, which - accounted . for the loose manner in which the check was written. The - -prisoner ob served, he would immediately procur , :-,1 Mr. Jack son another check, which should ly sa- - tisfy the bonkers, and he was allowcti ; and he soon after returned with another forged check, pOrporting to be • the, hand-writing of the prosecutor. ;The second forge=ry was also discover ed; alai the prisoner was delivered into the hands of Mr. KNAPP proceeded to call• witnesQes, and Fa brey, who was the tno.st important evidence, was absent when called upon his recogoizances, and the prisoner was a quitted. He was arraigned on another inditiment, cliarg. ing him with forging the second check, and - Mr. Holloway, the banker's clerk, proved die uttering; but on the prosecutor's being called, he had lost the forged check, which had been intrusted to tris care, and front this defect the prisoner was 'again ac quitted. • - Henry Overton was charged with.steating in the dwelling-iiouse of his master, M. Wassell, pawn bioker in Fleet -street, a 201. note, and four bottles of wine, in his dwelling-house. The prisoner ma= naged the business altogether, and in him was placed the - most implicit confidence. Some wino was missed, and he was suspected, and it was found in his trunk. Thenote was found in his drawers in searching for the . wine but, although the rosecu ior identified it, he - had never missed it, nor seen it from the sth,of NoVember, when lie put•it into the till, until the 2d of February, when the wine was found. Under these circumstances, the prtswiee. was convicted of stealing the wine. TlzomasTomkins was capitally conviaed of stealing plate , in , the dwelling house of his master,• Mr. Strong, of Russell-square. ,Illary Weedon, a girl of . 16 years of age, charged with haying stolen caps, and sundry other articles, to the value of 51. the property of Charles- Robin son, a stationer, in. Red Lion -street, Holborn, was found guilty of stealing under the value of 40s. but in Consequence of the youth of the prisoner, and the excellent charaaer she had received, was'recom mended as a fit object for the lenity of the Court. Wm. Melts, charged with having stolen a coat,. waistcoat, and other ariicleq, from the house of a person named Green, in which he was a lodger, was found Guilty of stealing under the value of 40$. 3IIDDLESEX SESSIOAS, FEB. 19. John 7'ubb, and Rebecca his wile, were indided at the suit of the Parish of St. Pancras, for inlaurna nity and cruelty to-their children. - • The evidence upeti.the trial, however) only went to affea the condu& of the female priSoner, against whom it appeared, that she had frequently .exposed two of :hert.hildren 'to the inclemency of the win ter, without food or raiment and that on one oe- . casion she nearly strangled the' with a leatH-z strap, to prevent the doleful cries of her offspring, when exposed to' her, unnatural tmtba- The Jury acquited the bustiand, and found the ife Guilty, when the Court sentenced her for six months' imprisonment in the fioust of Correaion. Mr. PONSONEY, we are happy to annonace, was yesterday considered in an improved state of curiva __ lescence. CORN-EXCHANGE, FEB. ICJ. .This day we h a v e some further arrivals of Wheat, with tolerable le maining supplies, fine samples nearly support late prices, but the trade heavy sale for interior ; 13m-lor bully at .fie late increase in price ; fine Malt dearer; White PcaS •Itardly at last prices ; in Grey-and:Beaus' ,but little fluctuation; there 'are likewise some-fur ther arrivals of Oats, but, from the demand, this ar ticle nearly supports the last quotation ; in Flour 1113 alteration. Wheat a 64s a 86s ions Tick Beans (new) Vs a 56s Nine ditto 114 s a t iSs Ditto (fine o ld) - 57 s a 5Ss Rye -52 s aOs Oats - 3os a 34s aOs Barley 50s a 389 P o land ditto - 3gs a 4os Malt - 84; a cos Potatoe ditto 4is a2s WhitePeas,boilers 76s a 2s Rape Seed -60 l a 651. Grey ditto - 5Ss a . 64s Fine Flour gos ysS 'h ays 54$ a 6 Q s Seceml s Ss S' 995 tk\O