The Sun. — London, England, 1812-11-23 00:00:00

P. 'ROCLA3i..kTIOisT -EA-IPEROII, ALEXANDER; ('‘ RUSSIA'N'S "At length the enemy of our conntry—the foe Of its inaependence and freedom—has experienced a portion of that terrible vengesnce which his ambitious and unprincipled aggression had arous ed: 'Prom the period of his march from \Vilna, Ills army, great ;n numbers,, assured in valour and discipline, and elated at the remembrance j of victories gained in other regions —threatened no less than the entire subjugation of the Russians. The system which we had thought fit to adopt strengthened that confidence. The sanguinary battles fought on-his routs, and which gave him temporary possession of Smolensk°, flattered him with all the illusions of. victory. He reached Moscow, and he helieved himself, invincible and lnyulnerable. lie now exulted in the idea of reaping the fruit of his toils—of obtaining for .it's soldiers comfortable winter quarters, and of sending out from thence, next spring, fresh forces to ravage and burn .our cities, make captives of • our countrymen—overthrow our laws and holy religion —and subject every thing, to his lawless Will. 'Vain, ,prestimptiious hope !--=insolent de grading menace ! A population of forty millions, attached to their King and country, and devoted to their religion and laws—the least brave man • of whom is superior to his unwilling confederates and victims—cannot be conquered by any hetero geneous force which he could muster, even of tre ble its late amount. " Scarcely had he reached Moscow, and at tempted to repose amidst its burning ruins, when he found hiniself encircled by the bayonets of our troops : he then tsiolate discovered that the pos session of Moscow . was not the conquest of the kingdom —that his temerity had led him 'into a snare—and that he might chosse between retreat or annihilation. He preferred the former ; and behold the consequences. [Here follow the official accounts of the de feat of Victor's advanced-guard under, Mu 'rat, neat Moscow, by Marshal Kutusow ; of the defeat of General. St. Cyr by Marshal NVittgenstein, and the storming of Polosk ; of 'the re-occupation of Moscow by Whit zitilget ode's corps, &c.] " Russians the Almighty has heard our wishes, and crowned your efforts . with success. Evs r y Where the enemy is in motion : his disordells l uovements betray his apprehensions : gladly Nvould he compound for safety ; but policy and justice alike demand the terrible infliction. The history of his daring must not be told_ without Me terrible catastrophe by which it was attended. A hundred thousand men sacritied to his frantic presumption attest your valour and devotion , to your country ; and must deter hint from a repeti tion of his impracticable design. Much, boss' s tver, yet remains to be done, and that is in your Power. Let the line of his retreat be rendered t Oemorable'by your honest indignation : destroy every thing which, can be of service to him, and, ,tour Commanders have orders to remunerate you. ender your bridges, your roads, impassable. in hue, adopt and execute the suggestions of a brave, Wise, and patriotic heart, and show yourself de terving the tbenks of your country and your so vereign. " Should the remains of the enemy's force es l'ape to our Imperial frontiers, and attempt to *inter thet e, they must prepare themselves to en- Counter all the rigours of the clinic and season, 4nd the valorous attacks of our troops : thus ha l'assed, exhausted, and defeated, he. shall for ever be rendered incapable of rimming his presump tuous attempt. (Signed) " ALEXANDEE:" 4 XTRACT OF A LtriEß. FROM PETERSBURGII,. OF _ _ OCTOBER 28. " We have not lately expected any great bat tles ; for every, thing we hear of Buonaparte's si tuation convinces us he is not in a condition to Fisk them. The occupation of Moscow cost him h e least 30,000 men. Th e ex p ense o f men must De 1000 a day, if we reckon all that Winzin gerode takes with his light troops upon the roads, Twer, Yaroslaw, &c. and General" DorOchow 0t the road from Smolensk to Mojaisk, without c ounting what the grand army take daily, and chat are destroyed by disease and drunkenness.— t'hey.find in the streets o f M oscow cont i nua ll y erench soldiers dead and dying. The desp a ir o f he French soldier is at its height. Insubordina lion can only be restrained by frequent executions, AS they found many cellars well tilled, the Wrench 41 'e dead drunk every evening. Nor is this diflit cult, their food being so scanty, and beir:g forced to eat horse-flesh, without a morsel of bread. In 'one village, the French entered and were sup-; plied with every thing, as well as forage : in re turn they attempted to ill use the women, when t he peasants rose and killed *...rery one ; a Pol e , . 11 10 spoke Russian, to save his life, told them, • t hat if th e y ill-used him, they would all he killed TY a party of Fre nc h com i ng up ; t hi s , h owever , : 4 1d no effect. The Starosta (the-head or chief of Ole tillage, electeda mo ng tl s lves) collected age, ILIII e • e peasants, and told them, that • unless they de- . 'coded themselves, they would be murdered in blood : ihey disguised • themselves in the F rench uniforms, mounted their horses, took their and meeting the party at some distance, t qarged them unexpectedly, broke them, cut part 4 pieces, took sonic pri soners , an d di sperse d t h e tst. It is said that Kutusoff gave the Starosta t he Order of St. George. !! Lauriston was sent to Prince Kutusoff to i l topose an armistice, and treat for peace. Ile ,: i as answered, that cou ld not he till the F renc h • T l ould repass the Vistula. We must, then,; , Lauriston ) reti re fighting every inch, for Vur armies are marching on ail sides.' Prince tutusolf rejoined, e th a t we h a d not i nv i te d t h em .., come to Moscow, an d th at t h ey must get b ack :s they could, or that some arrangement might be Ziltered into, causing it to be understood, that it OUId only be by capitulation ; for that our cam- V i gn, instead of being at an cud, was only begin ing at Moscow.' 4 ' This confession of Lauriston proves in what s ituation the pretended hero finds himself. Murat Went to the g advanced posts, and ask % speak to M. Bennisen. Lie requested . . armistice, and. peace for himself as Pi i ng of Naples. BennigSen only laukbed at this, silly pre tension ; remarking to 11 im, that he eonid not take upon himself even to mention it ,to the Prince.',' . , . KASAIIN, 0,50 wersts from Twer,) OCT. A few .days ago passed upwards of:2000 French prisoners through this town, the greater part of 11 , honi had merely Pigs and mats to cov*.n• their naked bodies, were w ith ou t shoes, aril instead Of hats, their heads were wrapped up in rags. Oar citizens, from motives of humanity, and 'forgetting that they were enemies, supplied them with linen, shoes; and clothing, so that not one of them left our tovvn without shoes or uncovered.— " Love your enemies, and do good to those who hate yon." The Russians, by conquering their enemies with humanity and magnanimity, twill most undoubtedly conquer them with their arms also. Of the exorbitant price Which colonial produce bears on the Continent, some idea may be formed from the fact`that a pound of Congo tea, of mid tiling quality, cost last month at Copenhagen 26 crowns. The Toulon fleet, it. Will be perceived by the following extract from a German Journal, occa sionally venture out, but do not quit sight of port. On the 22d ult. they were absent, owing to a storm, a whole day and night. We suspect that, one of these days, they will be decoyed too far, when all their manoeuvres will avail them nothing. Our blockading squadron must have a tedious, unprofitable, and tantalizing service of it : TOULON, OCT. 24.--The Emperor's squadron, which has, during the summer, manwuvred daily in presence of the English squadron, kas not dis continued its exercising and manceuvring since the weather has become more severe. On the 2lst, Admiral Emereau exercised only, eight frigates in tacking without the harbour. On the 22d, tliki enemy's light squadron ing an intention' to attack a ccn , oy, near Ciotat, the Admiral dispatched- Vice-Mmiral Baudin, with four ships, whieb,. in conjuncti on w ith th e frigates, re p u l s ed, the enemy, and secured the en , - try of the convoy. The next day the Admiral, having his flag on board the Austerlitz, put to sea, with .nine ships of the line and seven frigates ; the weather was fine, and a breeze at north-erest ; but the squadron had hardly passed Cape Sidle, when it began to blow a hurricane. Towards midnight the wind blew so violently, that it was necessary to close the port-holes, secure the gunk, and:take in every reef. In this condition the squadron kept the sea till the next clay, the storm not abating.. It was a magnificent spectacle to observe the simultaneous entry of these fifteen large ship: - ; of_ war, three of them threi deckers, all tac:ing to regain the harbour, in a narrow space, which obliged them to veer every instant, whilst the vio lence of the wind, and the heavy sea, augmented the danger of their running aground, or on bo-ard of One another. Thanks to the dexterity in evolutions which. this squadron has acquired; no serious conse quences ensued ; for a shock received by the Majestueux and Danule, by running .foul during the night, should go for .nothing. Daring this. cruize, the young.cow:eripts experienced 36 hours of tempest, such as they had Ltd no former example of, but they supported it well. The enemy's squadron' v'as seen, but at a great distance; their look-out shies might be discerned nearer. THE PARKs.---Ilyde Park yesterday presented a brilli ant appear:nce. Gaiety and pleasure seemed every where to reigli triumpLaut ; and in despite of the chilling breeze, which- blew from the east„ the throng was thickly studded with the brigh;est gems of British beauty, who vied with each, other in the elegance of Cleir costume. It would be almost impossible to describe properly what might be termed the most favourite dress, as the materials of which they were composed, their co lours and forms were almost as various as the wearers. Mantles of all sizes, spencers, pelisses, and scarfs, were intermingled.. Velvets seemed to be rather out of favour. Amongst the most dashing we observed, that superfine green cloth pelisses, trimmed la hussar, were in esteem. Halt-hoots were general, principally of fancy-co loured leathers. Swansdown tippets and muffs were numerous, and the head-dresses, like the other parts of the costumes, were multifarious. The Wellington hat is still the rage, anti artifi cial flowers almost universal. Satin caps' have also their admirers.—The Ride was most respecta bly attended by equest r i ans o f ran k an d da s h , an d the Drive had to boast of innumerable equipages of . diitinguishcd elegance. THE CHASE.—His Majesty's hounds bunted last Tuesday, when a fine young deer was turned out at Southill Park, near Swinley, for the day's diver sion. A very numerous field of gentlemen were assembled by soon after ten o'clock. The deer . went with great swiftness across the Forest, tak ing by Blackwater, where he ran through the in closures towards Hartford Bridge, when be was in taken the Flat; after a run of upwards of two hours and a half hard running. Another deer was turned out on Friday at Sunning-hill Wells for a day's diversion. The days of the Royal Hunt are changed by order of tae Marquis CORNWALLIS, the Master of the stag-hounds, instead of 'rues-. days and Saturdays, they are to be Mondays and Fridays. COURSING.-Swaffham Coursing Meeting be gan on Tuesday, the 12th inst. Four brace of greyhounds were run lip for the cup, which. was ultimately won by Mr. 'Gurney's b. d. tist.— Twenty matches were run the first day,' of which Lord Rivers won nine.,out of ten; eleven matches the second day ; and on the last . day twenty-four matches were finished, of which Mr. liamond was the principal winner. lie Meeting was very nu merously attended. A tire broke out on the 2d of September, in the wealthy and commercial city of Salonichi, in Turkey, which was not extinguished until the se, coed (lay. Four hundred houses were destroyed, besides some warehouses tilled with silks, drugs, &c. to an immense amount. The quarter in which the French iaterchants resided escaped the flames, LISBON PAPERS. LisboN, Nov S.---:General -Hill lihs removed his head-quarters Iron! A.ranjtiez more to the east Of Madrid ; on the 26th he was at BayOna; he has removed all his Commissariat, :Is well as his troops, to the r ght of the Tagus. lt :ippears that Soffit' s ,right, under Drouet, advances towards Guadainxai a ; while h s it It, directed by Villate, proceeds its;oult himself being in the cantle. ...Joseph ;.1(1 Jourdan are at Cuenca, with the advaneed'g.Ard. remains at Valencia, in ettec. the force in that gut-it-ter. now; covers Madrid, from Guada . - laxatit Araninez; and the force lately' under General BAllesteros, advancing- to join hint near Arankez..,, Nov, the midst of the confti - = slat] there lately has !teen, in respect to intelli gence from Madrid and the North of Spain, we offer to our Headers what we have received by this city's post from Madrid, dated the 27th .oc tober. On the 2.5 th instant, Joseph', with cigh•:thOu sand men, was in Cuenca ; :_ioutt4nid his ariay Fuenteduena, Tarancou,, and other points, his advanced poSts reaching to near Aranjuez • their total forces are estimated at 42000 men, includ ing 5,000 cavalry ; those of the Allies at 32,C00, J:Eiglish and Portuguese, and 14,000 Spaniards. On the 26th, General Hill bad his hcad-quarters at Cast's. de las Baia 3, his army occupying the right of the Tagus, with orders, as we are as sured, to maintain that position : they had col lected all the bridges they had thrown over the Tagus. General Elio was On the 24th in Gnada laxarn, with his division of 7000 men. On thel22;l; the division which was commanded by General Ballasteros, consisting of 7000, ar med at Manzanares ; and on the 24th at Tomil leso, extending itself to Alcaras. The second di vision of General Hill's army on, the 23d marched from Aranjtiez for Cohnenar. All our troops who were in Ipth and its neigh, bourhood, on the left of the Tgus, retired over the said river; and occupied .Aranjuez, ViHaman rique, and Santa Cruz de la Zarza. On the 21st, the .troops who were in ~Madrid, began to march out in the direction of , Aranjuez, their total num ber was prom 13. to 1 , 1,000. On the 23d, Gene ral Friere was in Quintanar de la Orden, where he had some skirmishes with the enemy. On the 25th, dispositions. were made at MArid for remOvint!: the sick to Salamanca : this news caused some depression among the patriots of that city. Fimn the North of Spain we bare the follow ing intelligence. On the 28th of October the FreaCh . . remained on the left bank of the Pi- suerga; Letters received in Salamanca from .Madrid, dated the 2Sth of October, confirm 'the intelli gence of the French having appeared in the vici nity of Araujuez, but they do not speak of the retreat of General dill. What is.certain is this, that in Salamanca there ri'ete no indications which could lead to the supposition that Lord Welling ton intended to retire' front the positions he then occupied.. According to the Redactor General of Cadiz, Conde de Bisbal (O'Donnel) was named as Com- mander of the 4 , h army, in Place of General Bal lasteros. Prilace letters state, that the Duke del Parque is to succeed him, as General of the four kingdoms of Andalusia.— (Portuguez Telegrafo,. Puy. 7.) The sane paper contains, in reply to an article of the following tenor, \Add) appeared in the Conciso, of the 28th October : " It is generally reported, that G2neral Banes teros has been deprived of the cGmmand ,of the 4th army. We observe, that this is said with so much mystery, that we do not know what to think of it, &e." • " It appears that the said General was accused of disobedience to Government." FROM THE MADRID GAZETTE OF 'OCT. 27. Oa the 19th inst. the Allied troops were situat ed on the right of the Tagus, waiting the enemy's ,approach, who attempted to surround General' Bassecourt, with from 6 to SOQ horse, and from 3 to 4000 infantry; and on the evening of the 18th this force. was'detained at the bridge of Atalagui bYthe Yaguan section of dragoons, and the hussar squadron of Arragon, who succeeded in pre veating the enemy, for more than 'three hours, from passing the said bridge ; in the men time, the other troops belonging to Bassecourt defiled, and retired in the greatest order. This operation, in which we lost some men, cost the enemy very dear. On the 24th, the enemy occupied Belinoitte, apparently With the object of covering, by this position, ihe march which they,are making by the rear towards Cuenca ; and there do not want in dications to induce us to believe, that they will proceed from thence to Arragon ; this, together with the intelligence of a large convoy having left Saragossa, in the direction of Jaen, and of the having repaired the bridges on the road from Sa ragossa to Yaleneia, confirm us-more and more in thisopinion. They write from Calatayud, under date of the.lsth instant - , that on the preceding day some French troops had arrived at Ahnunia, who took off the g,arrisou, and returned to Sara. gossa. They have done the same with the other troops who were stationed in the other points of Arragon, on this sole the Ebro ; thus allowing Don J. Duran's division to . extend itself, without opposition - , throughout the whole line of the high road and villages, and prevent the enemy - from collecting provisions f or th e i r magazines in Sara gossa. - On the I Ith inst. General Mina maintained a very obstinate action; a brisk and 'continual fire was kept up for nearly nine hours ; the said action is the one of which we spoke in our anterior num ber. The force of the enemy was from 3500 to 4000 infantry, with 320 horse ; our's was infe ',rior in infantry, and superior in horse; our cavalry could•uot attack that of the enemy, who fell back and took - shelter 'under their infantry. We can confidently state that the enemy's loss, in killed and wounded, was triple ours. On the 15th, there was another action, between Ciraugui and Marrero, which Mimi describes in these terms : " I believe that yesterday I ruined Abbe'3 fa- Last night arrived a Mail from I - I.!igoland, by which we received the folloWing reports with re gard to Demark : " HELIGOLAND, Nov. 19.—A1l accounts from the oppo4te coast agree in regard to the state of affairs in Denmark. It appears that the reigning Prince has dismissed his Alinister , from office,•and conducts the affairs of. State sote]y: by himself and his Aides-de-Camp. Under Fuel) auspkes, the mil via has been embodied and augmented be yond all former precedent, and compr::;•e: a torce of 100,000 men. Families ate , very where re moving, to avoid being drawn for or serving in the militia. Fiona Sleswick the Frencii troops 'are neaily all withdrawn to asst their conntrymen . in - the North, and the duty per formed hi their absence by the Danish The King is supposed to be firm in- his eng;,!ge, merits Ivitl4 Napureon ; and the cause of releing so large a body of men is attributed tc, the pre pari.tions lately male in ..‘veden." Wo Janeiro Gazettes to the Bth of August, have been received, and the followin: ar ticles : ", Count riblen, T:invoy Extraoraary from the Emperor of R,!ssia.to the Co:_irt of the Pr nce Regent of Portugal, arrk:ed in 'this city on th e • 24th July • " There having appeared in this cfty, among other printed - papers lately rect:Ved from linen is Ayres, a Supplement to the Gazette, entitied Extraordinaria Ministerial de Buenos Ayres, in which the Government of those provinces Dollies to the inhabi•tants the armistice entered into be tween the Prince Regent and the said Govern ment, establishing in that negociation principles derogatory to the sovereignty and independence of his Royal . Highness, and to the valour and energy of his troops,--we are officially authorised to contradict that part of this notification, which says that his Royal Highness solicited the armis tice. He assented to that measure only in fur therance of the beneficent views and wishes ma nifested by his great ally his Britannic Majesty; from a desire on the pert of, his Royal Highness to'facilitate. as much as possible the object of the mediation. of that Monarch,—namely, .the con ciliation and tranquility of the 'provinces .of the river Plate; an . 1 also to spare that etfusi,,n of blood which is so repugnant to the known humanity of his Royal Highness." We learn that the scene of Mr. W.e.L TER SCOTT'S forthcothing Poem is .laid in Yorkshire, Cumber land, and. - Westmorland 5 and the period is (luring the Civil Wars, previous to the usurpati:m of Cromwell. A few nights ago, as Mr. Barnet a respectable inhabitant of Shadcvcll, was passing by Limehouse bridge, in th e neighbourhood of th e Commercial Road, on his way home between ten and eleven o'clock, he was surrounfltd by five or six pers , . As, one of whom struck him a violent bl ow w ith a _ . .- stick, which brouglit him to the groan& He re covered, however, and being armed with a good stick, -he laid it round him ~ vith such d terity as to level one :)t them in turn, amt by 1•:- means disengaged himself from the rest, and effected his escape. A coroner's inquest ,was held on Thursday morning last, at Over, on the body of Mr. Robert Ayers, who was found drownetl in a large pond in Over Park. It appeared that the deceased lived on ill terms with his wife since the month of June last, in consequence of his having become att..clied to a voting woman of Corsham, in Wiltshire, and that inconsequence they agreed to live separate; on which occasion the young woman came to reside with the deceased. The fever of Ti.. Ayers's - passion having, however, subsided, he was seized with extreme remorse of consci ence, and unable to endure his rejections, he rose on Tuesday morning soon after six, and having tied his hands to prevent his swimming, threw himself into the pond, wherelte was found soon after seven o'clock. Surgical aid was immediately obtained, but proved ineffectual. Pecuniary dis tress formed no part of his inducencha to this rash action, as hehad, about a fortnight since, with the assistance of a Mend, made out a statement of his atfair, upon which it appeared that he was worth a considerable sum of menu•. Verdict, lunacy . Bristol Journal. !) , JITHFIEI.I.) MARKET, Nov. 23. This day's Market had a considerable supply of prime beasts, and the show of cattle, in other re spects, was tolerably gnod : Beef, Mutton, Pork, and Veal are dearer, and the trade in. ge ne r a l was somewhat brisk.—The sales in the Hay Market were pretty lively : Hay,. Straw, and Clover, fetched last_ prices.—We annex . a correct' state ment, of the. prices and number : T o sink the OM, per Stone of sib. Beef, 45. 2d. to ss. 4d. Mitttou, 4s. 4d. to 5/.Bd. - Veal, to Gs. 7d'. Lalob, Os. to Os. Od. Pork, ss, 2d. to, 7s. 0,1. Beasts, 2,C5J. Sheep, 14,500. Calves, 103. Yids, 250. SMITHFIELD HAY-MARK.:r. I-Tpy, 4i. Os. to 51. los. Str.kw; gl. Ob. to 21. 10s. Clover, SI. Os. to Si. Os. CORN-EXCHANGE, Nov. 23.—Our supply of Wheat this day from Kent and Essex was tolera bly abundant, which wentoff at last week's prices, but no surplus ; of Barley we had a good supply, and prices are 2s. lower ; Malt fully maintains the prices of last week ; w e h a d a gon d many samples of new Tick Bs•ans, which are 2s lower ; but old, Ticks being much in demand are 4s. clearer; we were but shortly supplsed with Oats, which, on the whole, were worth Is. per quarter more than last week ; Boiling and Ilog Pease remain stationary ; Floor continues the same: For further particu. lars we refer to the prices at foot, the correctness of which mast be 'depended upon. New Wheat 90s. 100 s. 105 s. Fi❑e ditto - - -140 s. ke Barley :As. 68s. Ncw Ditto - - -70 s. Malt - - - 925. 102 s. Fine ditto - - -108 s. White Pea ,e (boil.)100s. 1101. New ditto - - - • 120 s. Grey ditto - - - 765. 80s. New ditto - - 843. Tick Beaus- - - 82 s. 945. Ditto - - - 1.205. Small dint) -120 s. 1 2Gs Feed Oats - - ties. 49c. Fine ditto - - - Poland ditto - - 4th. 50s. Fine ditto - 524. Potatoe ditto - - 565. Rape Seed - - - nflt. , Fine Flour - - 11)`")s. I !at. Seconds - - - 1001. ILS i. mous column, in which was the terrible and in fernal Soulier. Th e ac ti on b egan at haa.-past nine o'clock in the morning, and finished at eight at night. Abbe abandoned the greater put of his wounded in the lanes, Sze. The Colonel of the column ‘cas killed. My loss in this action s 10 killed, anti 40 wounded : that of the enemy exceeds 1,000 men.