The Sun. — London, England, 1812-09-11 00:00:00

L 0 N D 0 IV, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1812. Corunna Papers reached town this morning to the 30th ult.—The following are extracts :-- BILBOA, AUG. 15.—The French troops eva cuated this town on the morning of the 11th, on which day and the following morning the Spanish troops and the 3 battalions which had been armed in this Lordship of Biscay took possession of the town, amidst acclamations and public rejoicings• Senor Don RENOVALES, Commandant General of the provinces, and Senor PORLIEZI, General of the Van-guard Division of the ith army, have also arrived. On the morning of the 13th, the French troop's approachcd, but 9ur Spaniards-and brave Biscayan youth, waited for them at the advanced points, keeping up the whole evening of the 13th inst. a brisk fire, which obliged the enemy to encamp in Vigona, and the fortification of Morro ; but:yes terday morning (the l oth, our troops attacked the enemy, drove them from their positions, and pursued them in their retreat to very near Zor uoso, our valiant men remaining masters of this place. Yesterdny was a glorious day for our arms, by the complete victory gained over the enemy, who shamefully fled. His Excellency the General in: Chief zmum, .has just arrived; to-night all the town and the Theatre is illuminated. To-morrow all, the young men in this town between the ages of 17 and 15, without exception, - will be enlisted. — The ardour with which our Biscayan youth run to arms in defence of our beloved country is unac countable. Already we have three battalions, composing 3,600 men, armed, but not clothed, and ready to march against the enemy. CORUNI , 7A, AUG, 26.—A person who has just arrived from . Simania, three leagues from Valla dolid,. states, that in that neighbourhood the troops which hui evacuated Toro were about 1500 ; thise I,3(l:joined 101)0 infantry, and 2000 cavalry, which is the amolmt- of this division ; its object was' to increase it-elf by, coll*lcting from different parts. • • For this pUrpoc , e it proceeded to Tordesillas, ;whose garrison had zurrendcred to us (208 men of which yesterday arrived here), thence to Veloier, Ca.stioneuca, Bernal, and laitlY, to As torga, with the same object as to the other points, viz. to free the garrison ; but they found . themselves terribly disappointed at seeing their . batteries snioaking in ruins, the city deserted, and their Soldiers prisoners and gone, with the ex ception of a few sick, 'who could not be removed. Now the Vandals are already beyond Benevente, proceeding to Zamora. The only point they oc cupy is at Zamora, and even not the city, but the citadel, which is a short quarter of a leag-ue on the other side of the river from the former. In respect to the city, this person says, that the Portuguese, under the command of SiLvntßA, with whom we are.aSNved Senor DOUGLAS is, occupy it, and that the number of the allies are. estimated at near 12,000 men j- - hat besides these, the' English, 14,00,0 strong, viz. 10,000 infantry, and 4000 cavalry, are proceeding from Aranda de Duero by the same road the French took, pur suing them ;---and that Senor MENDIZABEL was in Pancorva. . 0 Senor SANTOCILDES'S division is said to he in Tordesillas ; Senor CABRI:RA'S in tavara, part of Benavente, four leagues beyond Carvaiales ; Senor MoRENA in Vedriales, in front of Bena vente, on the other side the river ; Senor CAS TANOS in. El val 'de S. Lorenzo, two leagues from Baneza. Senors BELvEnEg Pot 'arid PAREDES, were on the 23d in Foncebadon, on their, march for Astorga, where they were to arrive on the 24th, and that Senor CASTANOS was to March on the `;sth from Villa Franca) for Bambrove, and to-day enter Astorga. OPTIC/AL DISPATCH FROM LIEUTENANT-COLONEL BENETON MAT(QIYINEZ TO GENERAL DIEN,DIZA- BEL, 'DATED VALLADOLM, JULY 30. On the 29th, at night, I was in Agales, with the divisiOn under nay command, when Ireceied information from my confidential persons, who were inValladolid, that the enemy were abandoning it. In consequence of this information I sent out three, parties, composed of seven men each, to examine. the roads from the city. Finding that some of the eneuiy could not follow the retreat, .I advanced beyond Re►iido a league and a half dis tant, in pursuit of the enemy's rear, of which, ac cording to the appearance of the field, 6 were killed, and 50 prisoners taken. I afterwards re turned to this city according to my orders. Accounts have been received by Government frOm Bilboa to the 26th August. It appears, that the French, with about five thousand men, had made an attack upon Bilboa; but .verc com pletely repulsed by the forces under MENDIZARE!L, LONGA, and General CARROL, and driven back with loss upon Durango. These defeats had so enraged General CAFFAREL'LI, that it was re ported he was resolved to send reinforcements, and make a third attack. - The. -Spaniards, how ever, were prepared to resist it, and were in the highest spirits froLt their recent successes. There was a report in town to-day, tha - t JOSEPH BUONAPARTE had been taken prisoner, but we could not trace it to- any authority. A report got into circulation yesterday evening, that Sir ROWLAND HILL had obtained a victory over SouLT. No accounts of such an event have reached town. SOULT, however, is in a situation of embarrassment, from which he will find it very difficult to extricate-himself. His only resource appears to be to attempt to form a junction with SUCHET, and a reference to the map will at once show that this is a labour of no ordinary magni-• tude. The great . rength of the march, the dif ficulty of carrying his provisions, the comMand ing situations of the British and Portuguese force, which is now disposable fe.r the purpose of in terrupting his movements, end the number of parties of Spaniards by which he will be continually harassed, leave us little doubt that he will receive by the way some striking marks of attention from the Marquis of WEL LINGTON, for which he may find himself unable to return adequate acknowledgments. Extract of a Letter from St., John's, New Brunswick, dated July 24, 1812 •—" An express arrived last night here, informing us of an Ame rican. squadron being in the bay, viz. the John Adams and Essex frigates, and a brig of 12 guns. In consequence of this hews the homeward-bound fleet of 40 sail have returned into this port." The ,Darlington. Packet, from the Leeward Islands, passed through the fleet which sailed from St. Thomas's on the 31st of July, under convoy of the imaranthe, and other ships of .war, on the sth of August, in lat. 25. 8. long. 64. 39. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 9.—Arr 7 vel the Tigre, GIL LISPIE, from Barhadoei....sailed the 22d of July ; spoke, on . tbe 4th inst. the brig Biessb/g, from Prince Edward's Island, for TOpsham, cut. .44 days, all well, who informed him, that sire was boarded by. his Majesty's ship Porrone,. who was looking out for an American frigate that was _cruiLing off the south end of the Banks of . Newfoundland, which had taken several lifiL tish vessels,, and burnt six fishing boats . ---7. The Pomone had taken several Americans, and ; retaken sever:ll English ships. On the 31st nit . the messing saw a- fleet of ships steering to the WeAward, in lat. 51. 14. long. 30. 13.. We this day- continue, our extracts froth the American Papers received yesterday. We are still in the dark as to the effect produced by the revocation of our Orders in Council, but judging. .from the state of the public mind in the United States, and the already lowered tine of the Government, we remain of opinion that the MADISONIAN party would find themselves eonr pelled to put an end to the war very soon after the revocation of our Orders in Coun cil became generally known. The minute ness wail which the American papers detail the most trifling affairs of posts and positions, ,which form the exploits of their troops in Canada, is not a little ludicrous. We are glad to find, however, from the Halifax papers, whiCh reach ed town last night, that our Colonial Govern;- ments have adopted a very judicious system of moderation, by means of which -no impediment can, in that quarter, be thrown in the way of the restoration of peace. To any persons who may have become prejudiced in favour of the institu tions of the United States.,-the outrages at Balti more will afford' an useful lesson. We there see the effervescence of Party giving 'birth to the most atrocious acts of cruelty, and nearly approaching to, revolutionary excess, whilst the eivirauthori ties and military force _tamely look on, and be come mere passive spectators of the . most gross and daring violations of law, and of every prin ciple of justice. Such are the effects of the exa cerbations of party, where there is no controul ing power to check their fury and "moderate their efforts. Thee outrages afford a sample of what must be the inevitable consequences in the United States of persisting in the war with this Country. We are sorry to see such a paper as the Morn ing Chronicle, which does not give into the Jacobin excesses' of other OppOsition Journals, venting its spleen upon Ministers, because they thought pro-, per to order the Park and Tower guns to be fired on account of the raising the siege of Cadiz. Can the Chronicle'teel no satisfaction at the triumph of our arias, unless it is obtained by the loss of our countrymen ? The raising of the siege of Cadiz was one of the results Of the prdgress of British valour and discipline in the Peninsula, and shews that the enemy begin'to despair of being able to resist this Country and its Allies. The event must he highly gratifying to British pride ; and, far froth agreeing with the Chronicle, which sayS, We never saw popular disdain pore unequivo cally expressed than it was on this occasion," we are persuaded that the real popular feeling was that of exultation. We presume that we can estimate' this popular feeling as well as the Chronicle.— The exaltation we witnessed, but heard nothing of the disdain. For our part, we shall be glad to find that the enemy continues to retreat before us, and we are sure, that when he abandons an important post, in terror of our arms, rather than contends for 'it, at the expence of a profusion of British blood, our countrymen will at home hear the consequent rejoicing with pleasure, and not at, tack Ministers for devoting a few pounds of gun • powder, in order to testify the progress of our ' arms in' the.deliveranee'of Burope from the yoke of its . great oppressor. Yesterday Lord and Lady BROWNLOW enter tained the Right Hon. CJIARLES .and Mrs. LONG, and a select party, with an elegant dinner, at their house in Cavendish-Square. • The Earl -of LISERPOOL gave a grand dinner, yesterday, to a select party of friends, at his house, Combe Wood. By letters from the Brazils, we learn the death of the Prince DON PEDRO, on the 4th of June last. He married the Prince Regent's daughter, and his issue will succeed to the throne of Por tugal. The building for reception of the fine collection of pictures, bequcated to Dulwich College by the late Sir FRANCIS BOURGEOIS, is in great forward ness, and is highly creditable to Mr. SOANE. Itwill be a very beautiful edifice when completed, and one of the chief ornaments of the country in the neighbourhood of the Metropolis. Captain TALBOT, of the Victorious, 7 d, has been presented by the Board of Admiralty with a gold medal to be worn with his full uniform, suspended by a ribband from the fourth button-hole,- on the left side of the lappel, for his gallant conauct in capturing the RiLoli, of SO guns, in the Gulph of Venice. hare been hron . ght into the Bahamas for aeljuai cation ; nor would it he just to omit the-mention of his successful interference in rescuing an op- . pressed and unprotected female of colour from slat ery. SPANISH COLONIES. [FROM THE QUARTERLY REVIEWJ (Continued from our Paper of Yesterday ) Buenos Ayres seems to have suffered consider ably under the sway of the faction which has been lately defeated. The Junta was divided into two parties, the most violent of which took the lead Svhen the revolution 'broke oat, and disgraced it self by murder and rapine :—the first in the : exe cution, of Liniers I—the second its the expedition which was sent to conquer Potosi, and revolution ize. Lima, under:the direction of wlawyer, who, in imitation of the National Assembly, waste re present the Junt , i, sa.`the head of the army.. Thus the conduct of the two principal goveth ments which the revolution has produced (for the insurgents - of Mexieo have.not yet been able to exercise any political power),:imist have Material ly checked the enthusiasm with which the Ame rican popusl-Hor) welcomed the prospect. of einan cip4tion:. tern under despotic government, and accustomed from their infancy to take little or no concern in political questions, the mass of the Creole Proprietors 'must consider themselves as placed between two evils, the Spanish and the revolutionary governments. The unsettled state. of their country, and the horrors of a civil war, in which the Indians and people of .colour are likely to be let loose upon them, must painfully agitate the bosoms of a people who - havt hitherto sacrificed every thing to their quiet and indolent habits. It is,upon the influence and support of this part of the Spanish American people, that the hopes of an accommodation with the mother country must rest. Commissioners have been named by our government for the purpose of pacification, a step which we cannot but cordially applaud. We only regret to see their detention at Cadiz, when, in our opinion, the evil which they are destined :,to remedy, is becoming every instant more dan gerous and incurable. That our commissioners will be received with open arms by a great part of the Creole population, who are at this moment, trembling between the dread of American demo cracy, and of Spanish revenge, we confidently hope and expect. But we would entreat those . who have it in their power to facilitate their ar• . rival, to consider, that the influence and numbers of this party are naturally decreasing apace.— , Feeble, indeed, both must already be at Mexico, if we may judge from the Constant effects of cruelty and revenge in civil wars. We know in deed from undoubted authority, that all the hor rors which disgraced the conquest of that empire, ,are, in our days, literally repeated. The prog ress of the viceroyal troops i marked with devasta tion and blood, and the farces which were lately sent thither by the Cortes threaten to confirm the hatred of the Americans, by augmenting the num ber of victims already sacrificed to the revenge and fury of the contending parties. (To be continued.) MAILS. • Aanyvr.n-1 Guernsey, I Jersey, 1 New-York, &c. I Leeward Islands, 1 Dublin. Due---t Cadiz, I Lisbon, I Gotten. burgh, 1 Dublin, 2 Waterford. PRICE 'OF STOCKS , mils my AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Ctinsnls 5964 j 5 perCent.Navy 91i Minium-7i! pr. THE SUN. .SOLL3I (LU IS Dleglift rALsum Aenr,AT? AI VIA NE S. PLYMOUTri, SEPT. 3.—Put in here this day to join convoy the followin9; merchantmen, yiz. t 1 Spanish ship , Zlargueritta, Momm, from 'Bueno 4 Ayres, after a passage of 98 days, with a cargo of hides ; the Spanish brig St. Ignacio de Logela , VINCENTE DE IDARRAVAN, master, from Coranaa, after a passage of 14 days, with a cargo of wool and the tnglish Schooner Edher, CLIE-rori, mas- ter, fromPoree, in Africa, walla cargo consisting of guns, ivory, &c, all bound to London. . Arrived the Fervent gun-brig; with a fleet of light transpo - rts from Lisbon, which, with the convoy, have sailed again for PortstriOuth. Put in here this day, for orders, the h:ig liant, belonging to London, DAVENPORT, Mai' ter, from Majorca and Gibraltar, last from Scull! , with• a cargo consisting of wine and cork ; sailed from Majorca On the 30th July, and from Gibral tar the 15th ult. came a running ship, and is under quarantine. Arrived the'American ship Thomas, HERBEIII' from Alexandria, with a cargo of flour, b oun d te Lisbon, captured by the Fervent gun-brig. Sailed the Speculator hired armed lugger with s fleet of merchantmen consisting of about 30 s ail; for the Downs, among them are the following' Viz.---Dart, BUTLER, ECiOard, PHILLIPS, Hawke!' P . ERCY, Lark, 1-1 ARRI 4 , WillLaln, FAWCKNER, the -Sincerity, SMITH; for London. Also sailed the Foxhound and Achates brigs of war on a cruize ; the AmeriCan brig Golden Age 0 under _license, FAIRFIELD, Master, for Peteil,i' burgh ; and the brig Richard, belonging to port, DARE, Master, for London. The home Ward-bound East India fleet, last fro"! Falmouth, under convoy of his Majesty's sh i ? Iphigenia, passed by this port this morning for,th e Downs, with a fine breeze from the westward. This morning a merchant brig, said to be 0 6 Minerva, MANN, from Palma, with a cargo' 0' wine, bound to London, got under weigh frou', Catwater, in order to join the convoy bound t `' the Eastward, but unfortunately missed stays i " the Sauhcl, and drifted ashore under Drake' island, but has not received any material d' 3.- mange, and, it is expected will be got oil' thla daY' FALMOUTH, SEPT. S.—Arrived this day Darlington packet, Capt. HAnvEv, with Ina o '' from the Leeward Islands ; left Barbadoes oii t" 6th July, and St. Thomas's on the 2d Am;as t ' passengers by her are—C. Mii.Ls, Esq. ColleetQc of the 1311114 of. Guadaloupe,l3.-Amnaztrzt,..m., I;4' Governor of St. Bartholomew, B. Lucas, laR and Mr. A. BENGRLED, King's Scretarv.-: -.3111 homeward-bound -Leeward fleet sailed frog' St• .Thamas's two days before the packet for Pg . land : • three days since spoke his Majesty's 614 Porcupine and Mutine, with about sevcote6l sail under * convoy, for Quebec, : . s h e ve sterc lsll spoke a convoy bound to Cadiz, and this mora ng. ' off the Lizard, his Majesty's ship Pompee, with the outward -bound Mediterraneanfleet ;. it now ins strong from the southward, it is expected ilft't they will put back here. Also arrived his **- jesty's schooner Alphea, Lieut. 'JONES, from t York and Halifax, the former he left on the 31 ; July, and the latter the 9th' August, with 01; and dispatches from Admiral SalvvEtt ; the lat . A c , were forwarded by express to Governme nt • r i s- repeal-of the Orders in Council was not li-n ° % when she sailed; the Northern States were Tai ., hostile to the war; the privateers have C vied in a great number, of British 'vess els ', The Aiphea captured on her passage the Airel' ic u 3 6 ship Zodiac, which she sent for Halifa x, anti t °' • Science, with salt, which arrived here this 0 ins ; she also fell in With the Mary , of Dulide en be and the Two Friends, of London, which had as, taken by the Americans, but, for want of hail f could not man them ; she took out the inas'" : the latter. The Emulous sloop of war, 1 - 8 CapLMULCASTER, was lost on Sable Island, th e saved. The Nautilus, lately captured fr o . 31 0 . 3 5 Americans, was ready. for sea, and a captaill appointed by . Adiniral SAWYRR to cominantli3ll,6e,rl.:s, An express arrived at St: Tohn's (New 'D e Wick) en the 24th July, indicating that ar 1 ; 1 00 rican squadron was in the Bay, Jo" ' lina tz : • and F..oex frigates, - and a brig and 12 gnu - ', - (o ae in consequence of this information , the ro d ward-bound fleet,. of about 40 sail, had re"nticil into port. His Majesty's ship Spartan hali l ' i bcoie her' prisoners, and - sailed in sear ch of the vessels. , t qto' - -1-13 Halifax Papers, of 31st July, saY,i&itfu day arrived his NThjesty's ship Alceste, CaPi ear ete' for Lisbon,with an elegant brig privateer, to,eo of 18 guns and 170 men; nine days out runs t lO .nothing ; also the Gossamer, Of 18 gtio'f .schooner Mary, DUGER, for Quebec , 1 -", t taken by the American privatee2 Bucks'' , v e t • recaptured by his Majesty's ship Maidstoz_ l i e :, Cie, 4 Cape Ann ; and the American privateer I'" i '*, i tY tharine, of 14 guns and 96 men, by his l ‘ ship Calibra, and carried into Halifa%• . of' ' His Majesty's schooner Whiting ova" e e 4 the 10th July, in Hampton Roads, by rican privateer Dash, of 12 gu n ; the 'll'r, o aer for Anapolis were sunk ; the crew made P eo ' 0 0' of war. - No attialt had been made up° . • -