The Sun. — London, England, 1812-10-30 00:00:00

the incbgo-makers of Terra Firma attach much weight. There was published at St. Dotningo, some years ago, the following criteriop to ascer tain invariably the. Correct fermentation of the in digo : ‘‘ It is only Tequisite to write on white paper-with the matter , to : be examined If this ink be of very high colour, -it-is a proof that' the fementation is not pat at its true point. The ex perinient is repeatedsyery quarter of an boor, till it is f,4ceived that theliquia has lost its colour." This was .pronounced .an infallible index to .spew the true point of fermentation, This test had its time and its mode; but the. planters returned to . the use of the silver cup. (To be continued.) , • 11IAlLS. A IitIVEII--2 Dublin. • CIIT 1.1-1 (7adiz, I Lisbon, 3 Guernsey, 3 Jersey, Gottenburgb 1. Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS Alts nmr AT TiVEI.VE C Locx. Consols . 58} Red. Ain& 57 ?, i i j .Otnnium Si THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS PICERE FALSUI AUDEAT L 0 N D 0 N, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1812. We are very happy to have, it in our power to c "ntradiet the report which was circulated, that several merchant vessels had been lost in the Belt., for it appears that the Captain of the Clio, in his letter of the 20th' inst. addressed to Vice Admiral °TWAT, mentions only one vessel '(a . brig) being lost, by getting on Shore on the coast of Lange land. , We. have extracted from the‘ French Papers an article . respecting Russia, which, if BUONA- PiRTE was not now fully eMployed, we should sus- pect to be the - production of, In p-en. In this article the - Russian Government is abused without mercy, not for any ao).f..aggression against France, but because the Emperor of RUSSIA lu.d the presumption to aspire to independence. Great pains are taken to convinCe the people of France, that the•Frencli army in Russia is: quit.e.in a corn .... .• fortable situation. " Two-thirds,:' says the Writer of this curious piece of reasoning, " of Moscow is, destroyed, but that cannot endanger the exist ence of our legions, as soMepersons, adopting an opinion totally destitute 4iffciluidatiOn, might for a inomell -believe. Suppose'jParli v turnt ; could the army which ocenpied the Beauce, the nais, and Picardy ; in short;:the provinces from which it' derives Subsistence,—could this army want provisions ?,—Certainly not. Very Well; our position is exactly similar to. the case we have' now -put." If 'the people 'of France can see. no diirerenee between an army passing the winter in the vicinity of Paris and that of Moscow, their reasoning poWer must be defective indeed. Yesterday morning the Duke of CLARENCE ar riV,,ed-in town from Bushey Park, and had an au dknce of Ike PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton house. Lord BitowNtoW is expected in town to-day.' Adviees were, received yesterday from Basque Roads, which afford the hope that, an opportunity 1611 soon present itself to 'our. seamen of distin guishing themselves there. A French squadron, consisting of..one three-decker, five 74'.5, three frigates, and some smaller ships of war, are said to be lying in the roads, as yet under the protection Of a strong battery, but not at a greater diStance than two gun-shots from the British squadron, which had come ,to anchor in the same roads. consisting of one three-decker, .and three 74:5. The enemy had more than once evinced t a disposition, to face this inferior force, but :the wind, it was thought, had not hitherto exactly fa voured their intention. ,They are probably very difficult to please in this respect; however, our brave fellows were - only desirous, that the enemy N.o . tiltl leave the batteries ---they might have all the .a.ivantages they could wish,' either from the state of the wind, or from their existing superiority force. Extract of.a Letter, dated Cronstadt Harbour, Scpt. I returned• last night from St. Pe tersbnrgh. Every body in Russia seems to join hand in hand against the common tyrant ; and, ii the IT,:nperor is not ..over-ruled by the, peonle about I:ut, it Will be impossible for BUONA:PARTE ever to m;ak:... head against _Russia. The last bat tle Was dreadful the .Russiaus had 40,090- killed and wounded, the French and Poles near - 60,000. , heard a letter read' from the-Russian Comman der in Chief to the, , Admiral here, AILTLLEit ; be they fought hand td hand three.days, and it scents as if neither would retire while a man re wained on the field ; eighteen Russian Generals killed and wounded ; Prince BAGRATION lost his ; lie was oue of their best ; BARCLAY DE I:oLLY behaved gloriously. On the -ilth day the ;French retired ten miles, when the Itussians, .-inding themselves so weak,and that reinforce - Inuits were coining up in the rear, retired to meet them, and are at this moment about-twenty miles trom i‘loscow. It is expected, the French will flit another battle, as IiaJONAPARTE said to his soldiers, after the laSt----` Soldiers, this is--the.first battle I ever fought and was not victorious ; you must wipe - away the disgrace with the blood of the. -Russians.' I saw my friend, Sir Ro.xi“iT PORTER, who cline from Moscow. last week ; he says the town is perfectly empty, that is, bare walls ; all the movables removed, in cast the. French should get there. All th.: Russians wish to be soldiers ; thcy have at present 500,000 men in arms, and might have 500,000 more in six months. I brought the news of Madrid being .taken, and was only fourteen clays from Yarmouth. Sir ROBERT WILSON and Lord TYR9ONNEL are gone to the army." NAVAL NEWS. PEMOUTH, OCT. 2S.—ailed the Stork sloop of war,:•with a convoy, for Portsmouth. YARMOUTH, OtiT. . the, gale on the night. of • the 27th, and morning of the 28th, several vessels have suGred in addition to those men tioned yesterday.; aiming:it others, the Union., rlintnAcx, of and from Shields, bound to London, with coals, was driven on shore to the southward of the pier, and it is feared will become a wreck. The Stirling, ELLIOT, front Newcastle" tO.Lon don, coal laden, is put in with the loss of,main mast and bowsprit, and is otherwite much da maged. The Mary and Jane, STNCLAJR, is put in with the loss of anchors-and cables. The. York Merchaii t, TAB . , "With oats and seed, was driven' 'on shore, but shicegotpff, and into the harbour. The Endeavour, IticnEs, .which was driven on shore also, is brought into the harbour. Tons AY, OCT.27.—We have blowing wild wea ther again, with variable winds from N.W. to S. S. W. accompanied with very, heavy rain. Arrived here front Portsmouth, and at present remain, his Majesty's ships Semiianzis and Castor, with several brigs, coasters, &c. bound to the Westward; the Munk William, of Leith, CocFzRAN, master, having discharged her cargo, is refitting and repairing the damages she received on the 30th ult. in missing stays, and driving . -agaiwit the Berryltead. The Minerva ; ROWI'. BALL, Master, which sailed from hence at the sanle, time for Lis bon, is also refitting her damages received in the late tremendons storm, in which the violence of sea broke offthe tillerin her rudder head, broke down her liulwark, rails, and staunch,eons, filled 'and carried away the jolly-boat from her stern, broke the gripes of the long-boat : and washed her overt!)eleerails, shiftedher cargo, and as the wreck of her foremast-yards, &c. were near breaking through her bottom;they were obliged to cut away sails, rigging, - 8:c. In this distress an American ship discovered them,- and towed them for forty-eight hours, until his Majesty's ship Foudroyant fell in with them, When the American cast them off, and the FoudroLait sent them assistance, and her launch to take the crew, expecting they were sinking ; however they remained on board the 'Minerva, and with great exertion brought her up Channel, till she fell in with three sloops, who towed her safe' in here. OcToßEß."2B.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Se miramis for the Cape of Good Hope, and the Castor on a cruize. FALMOUTH, OCT. 27.—The ships in the Roads remain as per last. The Princess Mary packet parted her cable in a squall, at 1 P. M. and drove off the Middle Bank ; she made a signal of distress, let go another an chor, and brought up iu safety in the Channel. DEAL, OCT. .9.—Sailed the Henry, Wit.soN, for Gibraltar; and the Union, for Cadiz ; and several coasters. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 21.---Sailed his Majesty's ships fengeur,Princess'Caroline, and - Ulysses, for off Cherbourgh ; Favourite for Plymouth ; and 411 a, for Guernsey. POOLE, OCT'. 29.—The Duro, TUCKER, from Halifax, bound to this port, was captured on Fri day last off the Ram-head, by a French privateer pierced for 18 guns, but only 16 mounted, and 120 men, she is called the Sans Sotiei ; -she sailed the day before from Morlaix, in company With three others ; Captain' TUCKER and alLhis crew (except one man left on board the Duty) lauded at Sidmouth,.ha . ving been permitted to quit the privateer when , near the Isle de Bas, in a boat, and they fortunately notwithstanding the late heavy gales, crossed the ChannPl in safety. It understood, that many America:: priszteers are fitting out, and may soon be expected to issue froni the ports of France. • NAVAL ArrolxTmENTs.---Coptain Sir F., ,11. R., l'ellety, to the, chnimainl of the Iphigenia frigate, at Ports mouth, in the room of Captain Curtis; Captain it. Kinah, to the ectnmaad of the Etna, in the room of Captain 'Maples, removed to, the. Pelican sloop.—Lieutenant C. Tamil, to the Beagle sloop; Litmtenant C. R. Moorsom, to the Superb, • of. 74 touts, fitting at Portsmouth ; Lieutenant ltnlridges, to the Helicon sloop at Plymouth ; Lieutenant It. Anderson, to the India;) sloop, at Portsmouth ; Lieutenant . , R. Gambier, pro-- Muted to the rank of COrinuander.—Mr. Edgeoinbe,• to he Purser of the Indian sloop, at Portsmouth ; W. David son; Purser of the SL Albans, to. be Purser of the Culloden, of 74.gnns.. Thc.Foudroyant, of 84 guns, llon..Rear Admiral DE COURCEY, which lately arrived from the I,lra zils, brought home an immense quantity of specie for the merchants, and on Goverinnent account, upwards of 130;000/. in bars of gold; doubloons, half, joes, and piastres. There is on board 20,0001. for our merchants in 'London, which - Was lAnded, and sent - off by the waggon.' ‘• . A new frigate has been launched at Deptford, called the Bal'oisa, in Commemoration of the \lC tay obtained by Sir THo'mAs GnAIiA.) 7 L Captain SHIRREFE is to have theOnturnand: The body of poor Burke, the lamplighter, who fell ever the ballustrades Blackfilars-bridge, on Tui!sday night, was picked up last night near Wapping, and conveyed to his disconsolate family. POETRY. The tyansiation of Or,id's Metamorphoses, on Which Mr. °AGFA is proceeding, promises to be: the most poetical as well as accurate that baS yet appeared in our language. We have ektrauted from it the following passage as a proof of the general . spirit and fidelity of the woik. THE STORY OF BOREAS AND ORITUYIA. Renowit'd in' war, with virtues all his own, Now brave ERECTITITE mounts th' Athenian throne,. .Forth from his loins - .a matchless offspring pour; Four were the monarch's sons, his daughters four. Two of the maids with equal beauty fraught, Young Caimset's and haughty BOILEAS That pins the blooming Panents•for his bride, '' • To TEgktts this and hated Thrace allied, ''• Long- bent in 'vain to charms Witkpatient suit, preferring arts to anus; lint when soft breath -avail'd not, roaring forth In . strains of ire too frequent with the North, Slave that I was! fitly scorn'd he cried ; Why did I east my native arms aside, Power, rage, a threatening voice, ablustering-air„ . And stoop to feeble, inefficient prayer? Force is my attribute—by filmes I urge Big lowering clouds, and shake the curling surge, Toss the light bark, uprooted oaksassail, • Freeze drifted snow, and beat.the earth with hail, •f• When 'gainst my brother winds loud war I Wage, High Heaven my theatre, the clouds my stage, to furiously, in driving discord ntix'd, • ; We seek the fight, that echoing .Heaven betwixt, 'Tis I with, when in hollow caves I storm, Piere'd by - nay mighty arm, asunder parts, Rolls the big thunder, and-the lightning darts : And heave 'gainst rocks above my giant form, Sap craggy mountains, level plains o'erthrow,. Shake earth anove, and startle ghosts below,: Strength is. my weapon, strength my sole resource, - Then why bend suppliant ? Why not snatch•by force, • in accents harsh - as these stern BORDAS rav'd, ben high in wrath his icy 'pinions way'd ;- Wide o'er the world the fanning tempest past, AJM di:;tant Ocean sltiver'd in the blast. Now dim vest aloft the king-disphiy'd, • • veil'd in darknesss, seized-th'idlrighted maid. Fana'd by the speed, his tires shinedoubly bright.; Nor stays,the ravisher his giddy iiigbt, . 'Till far from Athens borne his mantle lowers In northern shies, and sweeps the Thracian towers, With procrrant womb his Oasvnvaa there , Bore to the - King of . Frosts a twin-horn pair, Fair as her lovely self no silver wings Yet veil'd their shoulders, like their parent Icings. CALAIts and Z.Erttus in their youth appear'd Untledg'd, devoid of feathers as of hvard-: r . Bqt pinions now their riper age besp,,A, And yellow dor. - n o'erspreads each nautly cheek: Titus pitied, they join the Argonauts of Greece, -To seek in distant ;taints the golden fleece; , And dauntless launching from the Thracian shore, Stcui with bold prow a sea unknown befere. THE ,ARMY.—After being quartered in Bantry and its dependencies, for above two years . ' and a half, the :.;d Garrison Battalion marched to Cove, the end-of last month, to garrison the torts round Cork harbour. The 2d Batt. 39th Regiment has removed from Weymouth to Exeter. Tuesday the Ciare Regiment left Woodbridge Barracks for Ipswich, and, were yest4day re placed by the 5-Ith; from Ipswich. The 60th are expeuti:d at Woodbridge - on Saturday from Nor wich. Saturday morning the' Oxfordshire Militia marched out of Bath for Bristol, there to be sta tioned as before the Election; and on. Saturday night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, part of the East MiddleseX Militia arrived at Bath from Bristol. _ . _ In consequence of the removal of the Royal Military College from Marlov - Sandhurst, the Senior Department i)f . that Institution is to be transferred from High. Wycombe to Farnham,. in - Surrey, tea miles dietant from the .Junior -De partment. MAILROBDERY.—It is not the least extraordinary circumstance connected with the robbery of the Leeds mail 7 coach, that an interval of three days should pass without the occurrenceof , a single fact that can lead to a discovery of the robbers, or throws any light upon that mysterious transac tion, except the foilowing, if it can be considered as of that description. On Monday, about noon, we understand, that the guard, accompanied by two. Bow-street of ficers, set out- from town for the-place where the robbery was supposed' to have .been committed, On . reaching Bedford, they obtained infoimatiOti that three raen.of.a se.spicio , us appearance, with a light'earavan, had been seen in that and.other towns on the route of the - niail:coaCh, fin. several days preriottS the robbery.. . The officers •pro-'_ ceeded northwards in the track of : the caravan, bat had heard no further tidings . of it so late as yesterday morning. A report has been prevalent' in . :the city this morning, - that all the hags, with a considerable part of the letters and property, had been fqund in fields near the road side, about mid-way be tween Kettering and Iligham Ferrers. This re port, however, is nnlonnded. annotincing the robbery, We stated that the gnarl( declared, that he . was not more than.five minutes in the act of leaning over the root and conversing with the coachman ; .and that; in this interval, .the sixteenliags• were ' abstracted ; but whether he nflirinett,the s-amein his deposition be fore the Lord Mayor, the examination being O vate, we have . not the ofaszertaining; - It is said, that the guard travelled by the side of the coaoimari, on the box, betweth three and • four iniks, and that on ,returning to the dickey,' he discovered I ,le robbery—a ,c,tpry more consistent with probability, than the. one he. told on arriving at . the Post =office on Tueillay . morning. If Cookr., .the Actor, had left any property be hind 'him, some difficulties might. hate attended the disposal 'of it, for be 'seemed to consider theatrical and matrimonial engagements With .equal indifference; and there are several forsaken dames who bore the honour of his, name, and might have asserted their respective pretensions to the ritancel But, doubtless, unwilling to be the cause of controversy after 'death, he lived hi such a manner as..to afford no ground fdr Dosthuthous litigation. -•- 09 :Monday, evening, _about eight o'cloCk,. as' Mr. Iliginbottom, a tailor, was passing through, a court leading fromMardour street i to nerwick street, he was-attacked by a gang of robbers, con sisting. of three or four, who hustled him, knocked him doWn backwards, and rifled hiS pockets or three Bank i o:i . -England 'notes, • sonic silver, and other property, with which -they made their escape. An alarm was given by Mr. Higinhot tom, and the .robbers were pursued, but to no purpose. •AisLAist DEFENCI re Wyborg, in Jutia-A, " am sorry of being under the disagree' abler and painful necessity of. transmitting to you; fore the information of my Lords Commissioners'', the Admiralty, the particulars of the capture his Majesty's brig, the Attack, late under my cool' mand, in an action with the Danish flotilla. .In pursuance of the directions of Capt. Cnv THA:st., of his Majesty's ship Harnadryacl, on Star, ..day, the 16th instant, I proceeded off Rangers Fiord, for the purpose of recalling thelVran,O r and Hamydryad's barge and cutter, and on Tac s ' day the 18th instant, having performed Wit service, and taken the barge in tow, and being on my return,to join the -.t.lit'adron off Sa,er, eleven o'clock p. m. Forenin;,s bearing W. N. W. about six or seven miles, with light airs from 0' E. N. E. enil at iuterval. Cahn, we observed two boats, which I silpposed to he gua 2 vessels, in that direction., I cleared far action, in about 2 0 ' ,minutes they comnievic'ed n very hea , l cannonad nnon:us.• Owing to the ilarlT.ness of the nigh I could not then as: t.i-tai a. th: I)unal-, 'bat f:ronithe heavy tire appa!•enkly froid twelve. gun-v‘._- , s:4•!; . - iiinnet.liatelY rctilrned • their fire, wy: continued erigaging until forty minutes pn't one o'clock, when they ceased firing, kind, as, I have since f o und, were . joined by another diviSt4n Of gun-vessels, who 1 had 'observed firing at the 1 , Vii.vi.,9,1/iT ; light breeze springing up, 1 immediately endea voured to avaii- myself of the opporrunit, ( o eius ing the Wranp,ler, and Out the sweeps, nod Ordered the. barge a-head to tow for that p.frpos-e, but owing to a strong current from the S. i . and ' it,again falling calm, I found it inipraCticahle. • I shortly after• lost sight of the Wrangler. - We employed ourselves in knotting and, splicing the rigging, the sails, standing and running rigging, being entirely cat to pieces. the main-hoom shot, • away, :the gaff down-, the foremast and bowsprit "nearix gone, two guns dismounted, arid a runilier of shat between wind and water. . _ At.ten minutes past two the IN-holahaving form ed a csescent upon otir larboard beam, bow, and quaxter, and by so doing, k &ping. us between themselves and the shore; then commenced the action,with a heavy fire of - round, grape, and gre nadots, within pistol shot. 1 con' inaed engaging . them until twenty minutes past 3 o'clock, when it being still quite calm; the brig.a complete wreck, quite unmanageable, and in a sinking state, I was reluctantly compelled to surrender to their very superior force, conceiving any farther resistance, when there was not a possibility of an escape, *could be a vain sacrifice of my brave crew. • I have to regret to state the loss of two lArave men killed, and twelve wounde:i, several of them dangerously, a list of whom 1 subjoin ; and I have fo : th3Tlk,tbe Almighty no more of thew fell, under severe .a the. As to the loss of the enemy, they s:liou.sll., avoided my gaining any informa tion of t ic _ _ When the force opposed to ns is coniider , 2d, 14 gun-vessels, mounting two 24-pounders and tv , •:) howitzers, and a complement of from 6 to it) men each, besides four large row-boats, carrying s‘yi vels and howitzers, and I having only 4cJ tmn, in chiding the Hamadryad's boat's crew; Mr. Couny, the master, with eight men, having been previously captured, whilst roWing guard off Hifdam, and an Officer and six men being with a prize in Eagland, 1 doubt not to prove to the satisfaction of my King and Country that I had no alternative left. And if it is possible a doubt can exist of my not maintaining the honour of the British flag to the utmost,_ rbeg leave to transmit the Danish Ga- • zetteTaccount of .the action ; where the enemy, trotivitli - slanding their national pride, with candour Adthit.that. we obstinately engaged bent for nearly s four When I hailed to inform them we had struck, the colours being twice shot away. I Should be extremely remiss in my duty, did not recommend to their Lordships notice, in the strongest terms, the spirited conduct and able as sistance I received from Mr. CHARLES HEAL, Mas ter's-mate of the Harnadryad, and from Mr. G.. Tharki; pilot of the, Attack, who received a se vere contusion early in .the action, but kept his station to the last, and the conduct of the whole of the seamen and royal marines'of my brave little crew, was such as met my warmest appro bation ; never did 1 witness men in better spirits. • I have the honour . to be, Sir, your obedient hitmble servant, R. w. SIMMONDS, Liettt. & Commander. To Sir J. Sanniarez, Bart . K. B. Vice-Admiral, &c. Petran of Killed and Wounded on hoard his Majesty's brig, ) , .'ittack,'iii tiction with 14 Daiii,h gim-vessels off Furitness, • on the night of the Isth August, ISM • Kith. Daridson, gunner's-mate of the Attack; Wiii.,Shrowder, seaman Of the Hamadryad. WOuruled.—Mi. Gvorge Harper, pilot, a severe contusion; landivau of, the Attack, dangerous wound ed ; • Edward l..ightbourne, ordinary. ditto, ditto, data ; Nathaniel Philhrooke, able ditto ' ditto ; William t;iay ley, boy, ditto ; Samuel Brown, able ditto, severely weunded ; .L.;sepli Mothers, seaman of the Hamadt yad, ditto; James Endoll, ditto, ditto, ditto; James M' Kenzie, marine of :the Attaa, ditto ; Geoite Withers, boy, ditto, ditto; James Mealy, marine, ditto, slightly wounded Thomas Wilson,. ditto; ditto'; Andrew .1;*ell, (Inuter-master' of thti'Ma madryadovrist broke ; John Ev , ers;,ii,i.aini.ut, ditto, slightly. R. NV. SIMMOND.S, 'Lent. and Commander. General lIIJiLOP left town yesterday for Ports mouth, where he will embaik on board the Jaca trigate, for India. T.be'Party Prints have objected to the spec hes dflivered- by Mr. CANNING at erpool, and n(i.svonder, for those speeches were mark .4 by loyalty attachment to the Constitution, aversion to..the hasfy,patching up of peace, and a vigorous 'prosecution of the war, against the enemy of all peace but .what may forward the endS of 1111 am- . bition. 131 r. TALBOT, who performed at the Haymarket Theatre during the summer,. is gone to open the Belfast Theatre, of which, We he is Pro prietor. The nature of the dramatic entertain ments at the Haymarket Theatre did not 'afford scopelorthe talents of . this Gentleman, who is an actor of original merit,: and would have been t main prop to 'one of the Winter Theatres in the metropoli's. He was some years ago at Drury- Lane Theatre, and his performance of a part in the play of De Montfort way, so far as it admit ted, as-complete an osumpCon of character as we ever Witnessed. His forte is legitimate CornedYl and-,-h ie u isperfz and spirit.mancewasalw 4s marked by dud went,g''