The Sun. — London, England, 1812-08-29 00:00:00

Mr. Seeretiry Pole, to the 24th ,of June fol- lowing!. " This prolongation, however, appears to have been quite unavailing ; for, on the 27th of Au gust,: Mr. Pole, stating: the Report of the Comp t rolfer. pf Army Accounts of the sth of August, they are still outstanding--; - and . 'observing, that sufficient time had been already granted for their production, requiredthat they be furnished, without farther delay, • "On the sth 9f September, 1810, periodical reports weredireeted to.be , made on the Ist and 14th of every month; fromtwo Clerks of the Bar rack-Office, of the . progress .made in prepating these accounts, which, it appears, was carrying on under their Management' Lord Tyrawley was apprised of these instructions, and was again re quired, the 13th of October, to' use every possible exertion for the prompt preparation of these ac- Counts. " All these CoMmunications, , hoWever ; failed in _their object ; fcir, on the 23d of 'February, Mr. Pole wrote, .that the Lord cLicutenaut was not inforined that any,effectual progress Was made towards its accOmplihment, 7 --that he did 'riot feel himself justified in permitting any farther delay, and directed the completion and delivery before • tke 24 of April following. " The orders for reports from the Clerks em ployed were renewed on the 22d of Mai'ch, " 1811 . " Another prolongation of the time of delivery to the 24th of August, .1811, in consequence of the death of Mr. Courtnay, one of these clerks, and an urgent application of Lord Tyrawley there upon, was granted by a letter of the 22d - of May; but SirEdw. Littlehales accompanied it by an observation. from the Lord Lieutenant respecting. the importance and magnitude of the account; the prolonged period of more than seven years since it - should have been furnished, the .. .repeated as surances made, and latitude„ in point of time re peatedly afforded; and the consequent eNpeetation that they would have been forthcoming at a much earlier date; and directed that this farther exten . ‘sion should be considered as conclusive. " The continued forbearance of; the Irish Go-. vernment appears to haVe again.failed of its effect; foi, on the 29th of October, 1811, the Crown • Solicitor was'directed to call on the :Attorney-Ge neral for his Opinioil . as to measures tor compell-, ing the parties responsible to prodnee these ac counts for_ final settlement 5 and in a sechedule of papers accompanying that order, several letters and reports are specified, copies' of which c.ze trans ' witted to your Committee. " Lord Tyrawley was apprised of.these instruc tions to the Crown Solicitor, in a , very full and explicit letter, detailing the grounds on which this measure was at last resorted to : and it appear - ing to your Committee, from one of the papers before them, under the hand of :W. - Hughes. the Accountant, (No. '27, in .13384 : that the whole remainder of accounts are promised to be fur nished by the lst of July, 1812, they forbear to do mote at present than to impress upon the atten tion of the House, andof the Executive Govern ment of Ireland, the necessity of attending to the performance of this agreement ; and in n detault thereof, they 'venture to express their confident expectation, that no further delay will be suffered to impede the issuing of such legal process, as maycpmpel the delivery of the accounts, and the ,payment of whatever balance may be due to the • public." But the most monstrous of all, is what follows : —Lord 3 yrawley receives an allowance, is late . Barrack -Master General, of 2,000/. a-year. Mr. Cuffe's allowance, as late Treasurer of the Bar rack Department, was 4001. a-year, until the time of his death, which happened lately. Both these allowances ha -e been paid. out of a grant an nua"v voted by. Parliament along with tire Mill tar Estimates." (Thinner) 's case follows, and is die iast in the Report. This man is a defaulter tollie 'amount of nearly 80,0001.'; and we cannot help noticing, -with the strongest reprehension, that hiS irregu larities were stated by the Commissioneri of Audit to 'the Lords of the Treasury-, so long Ago as Au gust, 1808 but that their representations " were not sufficiently attended to." We think, in com mon honesty, therefOre, that the Lords, of the Treasury, through whose neglect Chinnery's de falcation became So great, should be ansnerable for all the sums otherwise lOst to the public, after the representation made by the Auditors of ,Public Account's. • ' • ' MAILS. • liartrvEn-1 Gottenburgh, 1 Dublin, 1 Waterfor& Doe-1 Cadiz, 1 Lisbon, l'Guernsey, 1 Jersey, 1 Gotten burgh, 1 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. • C ois 5871 I Red.Ann.....594 I thuniltm.... Gipr. THE. SUN. JULIV.:II QUO; 11.)1 - CEItE PALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, iATURDAY, kTJGUST 29, 1812. This morning a Gottenburgh Mail arrived, but it does not bring us any information of a later, date front the Russian and French Armies than that of which we.are already in possession. The following are extracts from it : RIGA. AUG., s.—The General Count WIT:ro EN, STEIN has, on the 30th and 31st of JUIY, atDwor Jakibora, between Tolotzk and Sebeseb, tot Any defeated Marshal OUDINOT'S corps, 'and purSued, hitnto Polotzk,' where he will be under the ne cessity of returning back. over the Dwina ; 3,000, men, two pieces of artillery, and the greatest part of the baggage, have fallen into the. victors hands. Count WITTGENSTEIN iS now in pursuit of MacnoNALD, to liberate Courland and Livonia from their . oppressors. This victory has 'inspired our troops with redoubled courage, for thekardour for the liberty of their native country is great, and as this ardour goes hand in hand with valour, no witly scraped together from several nations, aud differing in their religion, manners, and opinions, shall are to oppose our disciplined troops, who are animated by patriotism; .and not compelled by force,' and whose most ardent , desire is to be revenged-of their enemfes . . The enemy is on the western bankiof the Dwina, at the.distance of 20 Ixersts from the fortrefis of Riga ;' his force is estimated at about. 15,000 men : Gen. GRAND JEAN'S Corps is at Jacobstad, on the ;west ern side of the. Dwina, and is endeavouring to to throw a bridge across the said river to Kreutz burg. 'Riga is in a most excellent state of de fence, and has certainly no danger to fear. The Commandant, General ESSEN, hits detached a number of troops to attack the light wing of the Prussian army, and 'cut off the Prus sian General, GRAWERT, from Mietau, in which place there, is • but a vent inconsiderable gar rison. On the 29th July, the corps of Genera l BARCLAY bE TOLL)", and Prince BAGRATION, joined each other on the confines of the Go vernment of Smolensk. Throughout Russia glows_ a patriotism Which has but few examples in history, every citizen offering himself to become in somewise useful the State.—The youth vie with each other for the glory of becoming the defenders of theirnation. Hus bands. fly to arms, and leave their wives . and children in the joyful hope of releasing them from the power of their tyrants, andall appear United . in the same sentiment, that when their native country is in danger, all private interests should be sacrificed to it. We have at Riga received the intelligence, that the inhabitants of Germany are now wishing to see that moment arrive Nvben they shall be enabled to throw off'the yoke under which they so long have sighed in vain ; and that they are waiting with impatience for an oppor tunity of so doing is not to be wondered at, they having so i long been . used as tools in the handt'of the disturber of the world. • STOCKHOLM, A u G. 1 1 .—Their Royal Highnesses the CROWN PRINCE and the Dnke of SUDERNIANIA departed from this city for Orebro this day at one o'clock. Their Royal Highnesses intended pass ing the night with the Counsellor and. Knight ROTIIATT, in Carl Guslattstown. LODERMLSE, JULY 9.—The recruits supplied by this place have thi§ day been dismissed to their homeS, after having encamped for 18 days in the vicinity of this town, to exercise in warlike mancenvres. During this time we have enjoyed theiTiosifferfect satisfaction at seeing a new-raised corps; within so short a time, attain an extraordi nary readiness, and at the same time feel an incline -nation-for their new profession. Our native country may entertain great hopes of such warriors: For the voluntary teachers it must be a source of real pleasure. to see the pains they had taken rewarded with that obedience and respect which was without exception paid them by the youths. It is an. assurance for their fellow-citiZens, that under" such Commanders, the defenders Of their native soil will never forget that they have to combat in its defence, and it will be a comfort to an indulgent Government, that they will not- in vain be called to battle, when 'their country's welfare requires the assistance of their valour. We yesterday stopped the press to state, that a Letter had been• received from Captain MAL cOLn, of his Majesty's ship . Rhin, which is cruizing off the coast of Spaih. The Let ter is dated the 14th instant, and contains the following postscript :—" More glorious News from Lord V4LLlNGTON."—Government have not received any intelligence, nor is, there any arrival from the Peninsula. Notwithstanding all that has been said in ' this and other Papers, to detect the misrepresenta tions and expose the sophistry of the Morning Chronicle on the Sicilian Expedition, it has to day returned to .the subject, and now 'appears to exult because, as •it alleges, that'Expedition Was a feint."-F;Jell, if 'a feint accomplished' the purpose intended, ought notihe Chronicle to be . satisfied that there was no sacrifice of Four eoun trymen on the occasion But the Chronicle asserts, that Lord NVELL'IN'o•rox Was not acquainted \vith this feint, or, as, it afterwards denominates it ; this joke. Indeed how dues 'the Chronicle know that his LOrdship was kept in ignorance ? It is more probable that be Was not only fully apprised of the whole intention:of the Expedition, but of all the circumstances subsequently connected with it. 'But if the ehroii irie, before it asserts, were to inquire, it would have known that Lord WELLINGTON did not expect the co-Operation of the troops from Sicily till the latter end of July ; and he well knew that SUCI•IIiT; ap prehending such an expedition, would be . • • vented froM sending any strong support to IVAR.- MONT, or the intrusive King. SUCEIgT was prevented,, and sent but a small pumber, who joined the latter before the glorious victory at Sa lamanca. In answer to the assertion of the Chro-. nick, that Lord WELLVTGTO*4; _despairing Of the promised Co-operation from Sicily, resolVed, on the 24th' July, to retire toWaills Portugal, we : shall only olrei-ve,' that. previous to that day the enemy had passed his whole army across the Dowd, and his Lordship retreated, because by retiring„ upon Salamanca 'bcfrnstrated - tht intention of the , enemy to cut off his communication between that place and Ciudad Rodrigo. - A few words . more. It cannot be the Military Critic, who usually favours the Morning Chronicle with his sagacious_ remarks, but some bungling substitute who has manufactured .the paragraph of to-day as a reply to our observation on the expedition to Catalonia, , which is stated to have sailed, and trusted that every good effect had been, and would be, produced by it. Such a tissue of falsehood and misrepresenta-, tioni of ignorance and absurdity, runs through thv whole of it as' must make the Military Critic' ccofn ; pletely ashamed of his auxiliaries:: A few dayA„ more, perhaps, before the "'prognosticated prop , ! : phecy "bursts the womb, will aflord the best an swer to the splenetic effusions of a disappointed party. We deem them unworthy of any further notice at present. PRINCE REGENT'S VISIT TO WOOLWICH. At an: early hour on Tuesday, morning a vast concourse of people were assembled round the Re . pository on Woolwich Common,' in expectation of the arrival of his 'Royal Highness the PRINCE REGLNT whose intended visit .had been generally reportediorsinne preceding days. A party of the ,Flintshire' Militia,.fornied a line from the road, and kept the space clear from the crowd, assem bled in all direetions round the Repository ; where a guard of honour, conimantled by a 141:jor and three subalterns, of the Royal . Artillery, Were drawn up to receive hisßoyal Highness. . • • Numerous grouper Yashionables• enlivetled the scene, attracted as well by the beauty of the day as the expectation of the illustrious REGENi''S. visit, and the novelty of the scenes prepared for his inspection. Ten troop of Horse Artillery were sent to line the road, who waited the arrival Of his Royal Highness, in order to escort him to the'Rcposi tory gate. The appearance of his servants with his orderly, leading hiS Royal Highness's horse, preceded about half an hour hiroWn arrival, which was announced Abopi three by a royal salute fired from the battery, and " God save the King," from the Flint Band. At the gate he was received by General LLOYD and other General Officers of the Royal A.rti and Engineers, among whom were Generals RAM= SZY, BOOTHSVICR, lII:DDLESTONE, FADE, &C.&c. Colonels GRIFFITHS, BINGHAM, CUPPAGE, &C. Majors LLOTD, Buciulzrt, Wast, &c. Isis Royal proceeded through a lane famed by crowds of Ladies, Officers, &c. to the Guard, and, after returning their salute, mounted his horse, and proceeded to the inspection of the dif ferent 9bjects. . The Prince was in 'toll uniform, looked ex-. treniely well, and was accompanied by their , Royal flighnesses the Dukes of CUMBERLAND and CLARENCR, and attended by Colonels APINIAnoN, BLOOMFIELD ) &C. ' . A representation of the attack of a bastion, andvarious other military mauceuVres, Composed spectacles with which his Royal Highnets ex pressed himself highly pleased. A cold collation was Preparing ; however his.. Royal Highness declined partaking of it. After leaving the Repository; he proceeded to , the review of-the Horse Artillery, and declared' his, satisfaction of their discipline to the Com manding Officer. He then saw the Foot Artil lery march past in review order, and expressed himself particularly ratified with their discipline 'also. His Royal Highness departed about half-past five, to dine with General CONGREVR, at his house at Charlton. Yesterday afternoon, at half-past four o'clOck, his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT, accom-.. pOnied by his brother the Duke of CUMBERLAND,,' passed through Oxford on his way to Ragley Park; the seat of the Marquis of Hertford, whom he in, tendS to honour with a visit. , A Special Court of Directors was held at the India House, on Thursday, to resume t'he consi deration of the cases of the " self-dismissed Of& cers, - as they are denominated, when the rest Ora. don of Colonel the Hon. ARTMIRSENTLEGER, to his rank in the Madras army, was .carried, after a long and warm discussion, by. a majority of 12 to .7. The Court postponed the consideration of the cases of the other Officers, to Tuesday thclst of September. • It is asserted,. in letters frOm the Brazils, that several establishments have been • erected for - the spinning of cotton by machinery, in . Which the pro jectors are, stated to have succeeded much better thou in the United States. The eight troops of Life Guards ordered for foreign service will not march for three weeks or a mouth to come. The new appointments for the' men cannot be completed till that - period. The Royal Horse Guards (Blue) are to march totowtf, when four troops of them will be brigaded with the Life Guards ' • the whole brigade will then be reviewed by the PRINCE . REGENT on Wimbledon Common : shortly after which, they will march to Portsmouth for embarkation. We understand that a new regiment is immedi ately to be formed in Canada, from_the-Sootch emigrants, to be called the Glengary Fencibles, to be commanded by .Col. BAytiEs, - .Adjutant- General of Canada, and CoMMander of the Nova Scotia corps. Nothing can be a quarter proof of the high es timation in which the Marquis of WELLINGTON is held by the public, than the extraordinary demand for the patriotic song of " Arthur the Brave," a Second edition of which is just published, with .an 'additional verse, written on the glorious battle of Salamanca. This song was introduced with the happiest effect at the Masquerade at Vauxhall, -1.-*7 - 1 7:7 r i4 Th yrrl 13 UN-- nALI' :AST :WO O'CLOCK. ri rril4re ate several reports in town, some of 'ttaiVil are so confidently circulated, that we deep it . our duty to stop the Pfess to announce them. Letters from Gottenburgh state, - that 5 Expres's had - arrived at that place from_St.Peters' burgh, Which it left-on the sth inst. That City had been illurninated•at eleven o'clock at. n ight, in consequence of a signal 'victory which the Ras siansAiad obtained over the French Generals Mac' DONALD and Ot:DLNOT, who had lost all their baggage, artillery, &c. &c.. after three•days hard lfi - ghting.—General Count WITGENSTEIN is said to . , .. il lnie been wounded in this great contest. ~ : z iknerther letter states, a dreadful battle bcd ,beeif . ffinght with the Viceroy of jtaly, in whirb ,the ItusSlans bad also been triumphant that tVo Vieeroy had. been wounded, his Aid-de-camp and that he lost 15,000 inen,,and a great quantity of artillery,. &c. It was positively af firmed on 'Change this afternoon, that account! of the latter action, had appeared. in The Peter.g. burkh Ggzette of the sth -inst.; and that the ene imy had loSt 3000 killed, 1000 prisoners, and 70 pieces of cannon. According to this a c co un t a l s o, . . • the . Viceroy had been wounded. , The on this occasion, it is said, were corinnan:!,eil Prince lINGRATION, and that /lONAz.Att - 2 . 2, hintisaf had comManded in person. • It would, be highly gratifying to us tr to,add, that Goveramerit had received -a liar of these glad tidings. , : :.7.,..... ....NAVAL NEWS.; PLA:I%IOUTIf, AUG. 27. , ---Arrived the Patrtorz , SWALLOW, from Dart Mouth; Mary . Ann, Lose 'MAID, from Fowey ; Wad. the-Joh4t, STOKES, fry Exeter, . . Sailed the Peter ,and John, cartel, FERwri. master; and the Union, cartel, HARRIS, Waste, li6th for Morlaix, with released prisoners and It • few passengbrs. Also sailed this day the Magnificent man of Iwo to the westward; the Bloodlwand gun-brig of cruize; the Mary, TREMAYNE ; and the Plitt, for Petersburgh. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 2S.—His Majesty' Pontpee gives instructions to vessels Portugal and the Mediterranean. Sailed his Majesty's ships Tenecks and iranci,grr with a fleet for Halifax, Eie. GRAVESEND, Alio. 28.- , - - -Arrived the Nalt, , sti4 - 1 LAWSON, from Greenland ; " Saluador,. from Sialf? and the Thomas OWEN, tram Dominica: Sailed the Grenada and Lord Well - in-font frit ' Malta; and the Venus, STACEY, for Opcirto. • _VEAL, AUG. 28:—Arrived his Majesty's sbre it Egnrite from a cruize off Flushing. Came 'down from the River his l'Cisie‘= , tP schooner Pioneer ; and the Defender from :4. from off the North Foreland. YARMOUTH, AUG. 28.--Arrtvtid this ..tnrnirt:g the Chanticleer front a cati;.o.e. The schooner, priz.e : ,. to: the truiatio, is arrtlr in thelfiaven, and the ..ev.l,ierican ship, taker. same time, in the Roads. ' _ The Prince of Wales., of 98 guns, Capt., Doug" 'as ; Al&ed ; of 74, Captain Hof ton Triicv,:, (If • 718 ) captain Baldwin ; find C'eaost, of 13, LanternSteNtOrt, sailed .sterday from Portsmouth Wit- 4 a: large convoy, for Lisbon, the coast of Portut,2 l i Cadiz; and,the coasts of Spain, and islands of the ,Mediterranean. The reinforcements going out to' the cavalry regiments serving under the Margai! of Wellington, amount altogether to ak.ut 30‘; men. _ _ Heroism of an Irish Tar.—National bravery 1 10 never been more strongly exemplitied, than in th' late sanguinary contest betiv'ten the. French sill? Ti'icoli and his Majesty's ship Victoriovs. AinGrv-J:ft many others we shaft" "only select .the following' which deserves to be held up to public admirll tion, although the individual, the subject of was not endowed by nature with high birth e r fortune,' nor adorned by 'edification with those fic quirements indispensably - necessary to form the " great man 4"----James Mily, an Iriihman, common seaman" on bo'rd the Victorious, ahout an_hour before the cesSation of the action; ll . ° 73).vock _at his quarters on the main-deck - with 'snot,, Which carried away the entire of the le"' thigh:, An.high up that a porti9h of the hip Ica ; toit, and shattered the, right to pieces' izn his way the' Cockpit,, he observed that nne of the guns close* to the hatchway was run out , 'arid' that the nten were nearly in the act of firing; , he immediately desired the seamen who were car" ring him down to stop, which_ they did,, when b e , begged of the men to let hith:fireind hoPc t ;. they would allow him.to. have one shot •more the Frenehmen before he died; ' after doing villicht, he added . , ," he would die content.' •.' reque s ,' was granted, when he very contentedly perniitrea.. himself to be carried down, exclaiming on' Ladder, "-Fight on, my boys,, fight' on, foryou.r. 4.11 A Countiy, until you die."' U 'his :vat h die" cockpit, he said to the Surgeon, je:ku4w you will do all you can for Me, but 1 al` 5,, . know tKre is :nothing in your . power:' than'llaifan hour after, his gallant-soul left tu - • world for anotinr.