The Sun. — London, England, 1812-08-14 00:00:00

sllt IL POPHAWS EXPI:DITIO?.Z. ItITRACT OF A LETTER FROM A DIILITA.RY OFFICER. -- - " Castro, July 2-2. `` .j .1. l eft th e . Venerable, H. POPHAM'S tlag. t cup, on the. 11th, in the morning, and expected. i ' i b k e in ?ortalegr e th a t day, and shortly after in oa ; but, we cannot command success. After ;tole ra bl y b ard and hot day, and a cold night; we e treazed o ver t h e mounta i ns to Valmaseda, and gendizabal, Renovales, and I, rested and made 4 g (3 9(1 breakfast and dinner ; after twenty-six , , ours of fatigue an d f as ti n g, you may suppose we le tolerabl e appet i tes. O n t h e , 19th we reached t d"na and made some excursions towards Bil -I°a alid Vittoria. On the 20th we returned here, c aving Orduna on the 10th, at six o'clock in the z'a 7 r ening-;--we reached Valmaseda at seven, having eci through the enemy's picquets. At Valma leda we pro used to res.o We bad finished .a t ° d supper, relished by fatigue and fasting, and .lati just writt en p ar t o f a letter, giving some ‘jcount o f our procee di ngs , w h en our orderly i r agcnns announced the entrance of the enemy :Ito the town. We mounted inuneiliately, and °.ok a hasty leave of our hosts ;. and, after a fa ligu.ing journey of sixty miles, arrived here, hap thnt we were not on the road to France as pri- ~" The greater part of my baggage fell into the :,"eroy's hands, including my clothes, and eighty. lars sent to me with them from on board the enerabte—and, what I regret most of all, - a great abet; of letters, say 40 or 50, which had ar rived for me from Corunna, where they had:been 4 e etunulating for sometime: .r do not know from I , l P l ° ll l they are, much less the subjects of them. tie enen l y w id be sure to make the frost of them ;* Nit I trust there is nothing which they. can turn tither to my disadvantage or that of the service. " We yesterday got an intercepted letter from uenerat ~oulier to General Caffarelli, announcing t he Capture of my' bagg=age and of the letters,. to nether• With the correspondence between the ex-Peditien and Generals Mendizabal .and Renovales am sure they will make the most of the story; therefore hope the letters from Contain will them but scanty materials." At a public dinner which took place on Satur. day last at Birmingham, on account of the expi ration'of the Orders in Council, the Chairman, in toposing the health of Me.. BROUGHAM, said, it is the health of a man on whose character it is la vain to lavish words, for it has burst upon his °lll 1 -try like the meridian sun, xVhich •blesses • ;14 it dazzles, the world." The extravagance of is panegyric might be thought: to .have more of nt he bombast than the sub/inte if it not so ob linusly an effusion - of humour. It may indeed .be 4ipposed that the Chairman intended to divert the wfili a covert irony, partieularly , when be s aid that " it was in vain to lavish words on such' a, A lan, as Mr. BROUGHAM certainly is the greatest dealer in wor d s that Parliament has ever known. 4 5 the Chairman was somewhat too bitter in his 1 2: (0 Y when he compared Mr. BROUGHAM to Ile meridian sun, and talked of his blessing and ,snz‘ing the world!! ! ! It is seldom. at public a ueetillgS that Chairmen are so jocose and satirical. Occident.—Oa Wednesday evening, about nine s'elock, Mr. May, the-Clerk of Union Hall, was tuformed, that the report of a pistol had been b eard to come from the house of Mr. Hebb, to uacconist, Borough High-street, and that a large ~colvd was collected about the house. Mr. May, i mmediately proceeded to the spot, where be found 4 number of persons, all of whom were-fully per suaded that murder had been committed.--On .entering the house, which was in utter darkness, and full of smoke, he, however, soon discovered the cause of the alarm.. Mr. Hebb and his, family, 4 appeared, 'were gone to Vauxhall, end had left The house in the care of an apprentice boy, who, Ilfter having shut up the shop, proceeded to amuse . himself by making 6onie fireworks with some gun- • Powder, which he had procured from the soldiers employed by Mr. Hebb to work in the manufac .ttrY. Whilst thus employed, a spark from the 'vandle fell into.a canister containing near a pound of powder, which immediately exploded with great force, and caused the report that had so much alarm e d the neighbourhood. The windows of the " - hop were all ; broken, and the candle driven into the wainscot 3 the boy was thrown down and much Scorched, but on Mr. May's entering the Sh op, he so far recovered himself as to run into a neighbour's house, where he again dropped down /n a fit, and was in that situation conveyed to St. '4oatas's Hospital, where he still continues. On Wednesday night, about eleven o'clock, ;everal butchers' boys • belonging to St. James's Market assembled opposite the Arthur Club Sub scription House, 'in St. James's-:street, which was brilliantly lighted. They annoyed the passengers with squibs, crackerS, and serpents.—Mr. Foot, has the superiniendanee of the Subscription lionse, on coming out, . was struck 'in the face by One -of the serpents. -He instantly struck the Inan who threw it—a rittg was -formed, and being 'ov'erpowered hy numbers, Mr. Foot very pru dently retreated into, the house, which was as !sailed by the mob' with stones, and two large . I:niares of glass were, broken. Several watchmen came to the spot, but their interference was of no avail. The mob tore one of the watch-boxes down, • and set fire to it in the middle of St. James's-street. After it was consumed therdispersed. It was past twelve o'clock before the ueighboUrhood was re stored to tranquility. Last week a most melancholy accident happened at the staith belonging to Messrs. Todd and Co. of Hull. Whilst a cask of currants was lowering ',Srum an upper stoly, for the purpose of being put on board a Gainsborough sloop, the rope of the . crane broke, and the cask, more than half a ton 'weight, fell upon two men, one of whom was em ,P toyed in loading the-vessel : one Of the poor fel lows, Robert Williams, a labourer, had several of his ribs shattered in a most dreadful manner, and leg broken so shockingly as to require Mithediate . 2 lnptitatiow The other, a Mr. Stewart, master of another GainsboroUgh sloop, lying'near, was. :&st- struck on the shoulder, and then on the leg,. Which received a dreadful compound-fracture, and "WaS otherwise shockingly lacerated. Williams "died on Fr:day morning in gFent agony, his. ribs having, , upon elcamination, been found,thy the viatence - the 'fracture, driven into his lungs 1 1 ir. Stewart was reported, ,on Saturday mOrningi' to be in a more t'lv.„.4rable state than onTriday; .& 1 / • [trßOVi THE JOUR AL DE VARIS, Gr• ACTOUSt" 6.; PRISONLItS OF W.U.. PreviouS• to continuing the recital of the trails of inhumanity which have alWays marked the con duct which the English Government, and its agents, have observed to French prisoners, it will be proper to notice an expression of Lord Castie reagles, in that famous sitting of the 26th June, in which the hypocrisy and bad .faith of the British Ministry even astonished it most zealous partizans " Lord Castlereagh compared the conduct of the 'French Officers under the old regime, with that of Officers under the' new, and much regretted that men and times had,changed." The sincerity of these regrets is'not doubted ; and we feel pleasure in doing this justice to the Noble Lord. This once he not only expressed his own wishes, but those of all the Ministers who conducted English policy since that moment in,which regenerated France resumed those rights, and that rank, to which she was entiled among civilized nations. Undoubtedly those times no longer exist, when effeminate officers brought with them all the luxuries of cities, and pre 'sented themselves upcn the field of battle, dressed With that gaudiness which would have served at Vers4iilles, or the Opera-boxes. Those iietits rnaitres warriors, who knew how to brave death, knew not how to fight, and were frequently van quished by fatigue before coming into action. These are the men, Lord Castlereagh, whom you regret, and not the, Marine Officers, who, is the war of 1778, humbled the British flag, and whom your Ministry landed on the coasts of Britanny during the revolution;7aFor us, we regret having lost them; but, fortunately, there are no forming in our ports, under the prote.ei ing inflilence of the Genius of France, numbers of ve men, who will one day make you suffer for your pride and cruelties. Console yourself, Lord Castlereagh, the times are passed, never again to return, when an English Commissary insolently de , mandecithe demolition of the Ott of Dunkirk, — when an imbecile and timid Government allowed you to insult its flag with impunity, and dared not revenge your multiplied injustices. Call to your recollection the conduct of your Ministers, in the wars which have occurred between France and England during the last century. Was it not one of the 'first points of your policy, to take all our merchant-vessels before your intentions were sus pected of being hostile ? And did not Lord Chat a hanr, more frank than his colleagues, haughtily' say in the Senate, " If we are just to France, we are lost • Alas ! if, when you were guilty of the first act of initstice, France had had. recourse to reprisals, the first time you detained French vessels which sailed upon. the ocean on the faith of treaties a -a-if when you first buried in your prison ships the unhappy prisoners,, your's had been subjected to retaliation, you would, without doubt, have, practised that moderation which now, in yotnamouth, is an insult to humanity. You still take advantage of that sentiment of generosity, . the principal character of the French Government ; but do you pot fear that yonr words, coldly ironical, will arouse its •indignation ? Hitherto, to ycu has been reserved the honour tof the infernal machines, and flo sting prisons. Has the idea of a just and terrible reprisal never occur red to your minds ? This last thought Must have struck all those who have read the detail of all the atrocities committed upon . the'Freneb. soldiery, who,' by an express 'capitulation, had their li berty guaranteed, and who, at the orders of the Agent of the English Ministry, were thrown upon a . desert.island, and for several days exposed to the horrors of hunger and thirst. After 40 days passed in the island of Cabrera, the Officers were taken away, to be put in prisop at Paitna.- . -- Ittonethately on their arrival at that prison, they were wished and plundered. -Nevertheless, pro- . positiOns,were made to the French soldiers Who remained at Cabrera, to induce them to enter the English service ; they were rejected with con tempt. the attempts of the English emissaries were vain—nut a single Frenchmao would betray his country. The cruelties were 'doubled to punish them for their devotion to their Sovereign. The execrable Agent of the British Ministry organized 'a revolt, which had fortts principal object, the massacring. all. the,French Officers. He even Appeared in the midst of the seditious, distributing guineas and haranguing the mob. Already "had an English Agent at Valencia violated All the rights of hu manity, by exciting tliednhabitants of that city to destroy all the,French without distinction. The Agent at Malagatad pursued a similar line of eon,' duct.. Monsters !' whom the nation that has pro duced them should disown—whom humanity m a pels,---and who would only be protected by the most perfidious of Governments. Never have there been seen among the savages, not, even among the most ferocious Africansi such examples of cruelty. These are, nevertheless, the men who now talk to us about honour and moderation,—who boast of the ameliorated situation of the French pri soners. Let Messrs. Baring, Calvert, and all the other defenders of the British Ministry, go to Chat ham ,and Tortsmouth,—let them interrogate our prisoners, interred alive in their floating prisons ; and these unfortunate men will tell them, " whilst your countrymen, whom tht chances of 'war have conducted to France, are . fudged even in the barracks of our soldiers, in places Where the air is most salubrious, we here breathe a poisonous atmosphere. IVe are often, even at the caprice of your stibalterns, who shut upon os the hatches, and interdict us from .all communication with the exterior air *. Whilst. the prisoners of your nation divert themselves at 'Verdim and Valenciennes.,—whilsth they establish theatres, organise racgacourses, and give themselves .up to all those exercises which can .be useful to their health, .or soften,their. captivity ; we have ,a ,space of 30 feet, which serves as a proMenade to several hundred individuals. We are' exposed to the insults of your agents, who behave with a bar barity unknown,except in Englund. Report these words to your Parhanaent, and if you arc as generous: as you pretend to be, demand in our favour the first By a refinement of cruelty,. the French soldiers, who barb not been accustomed to the sea, are heaped up iu prison ships, and, the sailors sent to the interior of Scotland. • kr.cW how much they are •drihonoured - by their Cloveruniott. Theu yoz! may tatin3fim'attuti9n. —of .. itizitio,e',—Ond these words - williiothe in your motith,wOrds without meaning." Ul, llulii .-Liar ~. - r ne following remonstrance has .been sent by Geueral Renovates to General Ropet, wilb com mand's the French foyce at Bilboa, in coasequeuce of the bad treatment Inflicted .upon the Spiinish Patriots " Head-quarters, Orduna, July 19, 1812. " GENERAL,—Nothing is'now heard in the pro vince of Biscay but the sighs and lamentations Of people'of the first class, arrested without any other crime than having relations who bravely de fend their national rights. This ferocious' co lumn, headed by Mouton, carries destruction and desolation with it wherever it proceeds ; it is traced by the blood of the innocent ; the roads where it marches arc covered with. the tears of the unfor tunate ill'-treated peasants. Who is it makes war, General? The unarmed peasant, who, borne . down by contributions, suffers the greatest misery and privations, or the soldier with arms in his 'pads ? " When, for the security of a fortification, or td prevent an insurrectitj, some few people of respectability 7are,, for a short time, put into pri- On, the act may be attributed tb the rules of mi litary precaution; but no law justifies the invasion of the peabeful cottage,. or the private dwelling of the respectable inhabitants, or that the inmate; of the former shoUld be tortured by the bayonet, by lire, and by stripes, and' the" latter by arrests and insults, the most disgraceful, even to blows.' ". Unfortunately., General, you have for some considerable time trod the Peninsula, but you have not yet penetrated the character of the Spanish people.: as proud as, they, aro bravo, they are not to be intimidated by prisons, nor' by the gallows if generolity does not conquer them, it at least softens them; in a word, General s ," let Mouton ;follow his system of terror, Renovates, as sm Of ficer and a' Spaniard, swears not to yield a point unto him. May and Naudet, and the depot' of, prisoners on board 'the ships of the English, our 'allies, and a great number of families --connected with Spaniards unworthy of the name, are with;-. in my 'power and g at my disposal ; and you may be assured General, that at this very moment, I am going, to ask, for twenty-four Officeis, solely destined for the just vengeance of the itibabitants of this( province, who Would willingly and pati o ently endure any insult or injury, convinced-that those Officers will cease to exist the very 'moment that a Mouton or a Cambrou shall commence to , . display theiracts of. cruelty, alwtiys . the offspring of cowardice. What a miserable - yengeance' l Are not my troops sufficient to engage your attention rush upon diem with' the bayonet; but let- the clergy man, the peaceable farmei, and the precioi;.s -fair sex, winch has so 'much infl&mce over the (heart of man, live tranquil, uninocsted in dicir dwellings.• Throw open those horrid gaols, faithful wit nesses of the p.triotisin of those, who, without any other crime than that of having a relation, a son, or husband, defending their national li berties, are loaded with fetters, when they.der serve to be'decorated with a civic crown. if you do not, General, I shall put in prison all the re lations of those unworthy Spaniards who have de r . serted the defence of their country, and . I shall give their property to be confiscated for the bener . tit of the nation. " Let us throw of the veil, General., If you seek war and the knife, the provinces of Biscay, which, Without flattery, may title themselves 'the Brave of Spain, will willingly. meet .you half way in this species of warfare. COrreet, General, the evils of an ignorant policy, 'and be assured, that the day is not tar distant, when the town in which you now are Will be conquered and taken by us ; and then, at the head of 10,000 brave iliscayans, as he has hitherto done, so will he then fulfil his duty (and first of all towarls yourself.) " The General ItEs °VALES." The following is a Russian official account of the attacknacle by tbe Prench in Dunaberg:— , " REPORT.-Nu. ~ On the 30th of last month; (July 11,) at 1 o'clock at noon, the ) enemy appeared on the heights of the fortifications, about two or three wrests from Gate Halennen. In order to !dis cover the force of the enemy, I detached from the fortress .three squadrons of hussars, who, in the space of half a day, killed two, and took twelve prisoners of the enemy's picket guard, stationed on the 'heights. On .uur side there was none either killed or wounded ; only the ear of one of the horses was hurt. It was. un derstood from. the prisoners, that the enemy's force cOnsisted•of . two regiments of cavalry, and one of yagers ; that they carried with them two small pieces of cannon, and belonged to the corps of Gen..OtTniNoT,.and to the division of Gen. LA GRANGE ; but the other regimeats, which amount; ed to 24,000, were expected to arrive the next day. - Theyarrived, however, at four o'clock in the 'afternoon, attacked the bridges of the fortress higher . up towards the hills, and continued the engagement from six o'clock in the evening till ten. Although the enemy made great exertions to pe netrate into the fortress, he Was constantly re pulsed by a sharp fire from the battalions in re serve, and a constant discharge of artillery from the fortress and the vicinity, He, nevertheless, .ha rassed us during the night by his sharpshooters,and thiS morning, at break of day, the canonade was renewed. Yesterday, lam inclined to believe, the loSs of the enemy was considerably greater, than ours, itrie exact amount of which, howevdr, oil 'account of the unceasing -cannonade, I have pot had timeexactly to : ascertain, of which l have the hotiour , to apprise your Excellency. " Alajor-General 13t.ANow i Commander . of Dunaberg'' -'. .. . a The, Ck. P. riot which lately took place At Mar gatc, on account of the enforcement of the\ toll of one peany, for *talking_ on the new pier at that place ; though suppressed, is likely to injure th!,.-coneorn; at least for some time, as the visitors and inhabitants of the town are adopting • an-, other promenade; in Order to avoiAl ►he impost. bott!,4,T or c Ttr, Auc% t X.-PARTE ROLis,ERQ, iN THE MA.l_ r~r ;; D Eiio. -This*cas an application,on oldero; to have tly' standing in the name of be; rapt, and another trustee, for her over to her. It appeared, that; in',Oetober ISOI - , the execu tors of Mrs. Boldero's late father paid over to Mr. 'and Mrs. Boldero, on their receipt; the sum of 10,0002. bequeathed 'to Mrs, Bolder° by her father; and that, on the same day, the money so • paid over was laid out in trust for Miss Boldero, in the 'name of her father, and of another' gentle man., as her trustees. Mr. RICHARDS; in support of the application,. now ,contended, that the payment by the execu tors, and the investing of the money it; the name of the trustees, having taken - place on the same day, were to be regarded as having been done unico confrxtu anti as being partes ejusderti At all events, if.the pctijoner was entitled to the whole' soul so paid _over, yet, it was obvious, the payment being made on account of the wife, that :-he was entitled to 'have had a settlement of the sum made ; -tv'oich, it was; submitted, might still be cone.--fit had betnt alleged, on the other side, that Mr. Boldero's house, or him-self individuallo, were bankrupt at'the Cele the settlement of the money in question was made : so far, however, was this from being -the case, that Mr. Boldero swore 'that the Company was then solvent, and thathe'llinself was, at the time, worth upwards of 25,0Q01. Sir SAW EL ROMILLY confessed, on the part of the assignees, -that thiS was a hard Case on Miss Boldero. The question, however, was this—' 'could Mr. Boldero, . who was clearly, .in right of his wife, entitled to this sum, be.alloWed to give it away, without cause or consideration of any hind, to the prejudice of his creditors ? The vriei no doubt, might i .etthe same time, have demanded , a settlement ; but instead of doing so; her -bus band and she had ,choten to dispose of it altoge ther ;, this, too, they had done in a way which , could not he allowed, and which could not now be yectified, the money haiiing got into the hands of the husband. The LORD CHANCELLOR said it must be ex trernely-difficult for ttke Court to give effect to such an application as the present, the agreement or contract on the part of the husband;going, so infinitely beyond what the wife could have de manded or insisted on in a Court of Equity. - Here the husband gave up all, which he could not have been required, nor would any Court of Equity have compelled him to do: Its Lordship wished , that every inquiry should be made into the cir cumstances attending the present trust, for the Purpose of ascertaining how far the executors, by whom the mones.,w3s paid over, had interposed fo; the benefit of the . wife, to preserve, her ennity to her ; and if they had refused to give up to • Mr. Bolder° the . legacy in question, unless he made a .settlement of it, upon tier, or upon her . fam ly. Mr. Mot TAGUE'hoped that, in the mean time, the assignees would be prohibited from makineany dividend ; which was agreed to. Mr. RICHARDS said, he was afraid he could throw no additional...light on the subject, except the,single tact, that the receipt for the mone,y was signed, both by Mr. and Mrs. Baldero. lie also submitted.that, if compromise could he entered into, such aoneasnre would he highly proper in - such a case ; and, as in other similar ease f., that . • the one half of the sum claimed would be a rea sonable ;cOmpromise. The LoitD CHANCELLOR said it would be proper that every inquiry as to _what passed between Mr. Boldero and the executors, at the time the money was paid, ought to be made ; and his Lordship recommended, if possible, that a compromise should be effected. EXETER, AUG. 12.—The corn harvest has corn , menced generally in this neighbourhood, with the most .favourable prospect of an abundant crap. Fu the memory of the oldest inhabitant the corn fields never appeared finer, or more luxuriant, the ears are remarkably large;. and filled with . most excellent grain. Np sunit, rust, nor mil dew is discernible any where. The weather dur ing:the last week has been unusually fine, and there is every reason to hope for its continuance,. which will enable the farmer to reap his.goiden fields, and dispense the blessings of plenty to all around. • On Wednesday last a sharp contested battle was fought on. 'Yarmouth iDens ; between one George Dodson,- - noted bruiser, and a man named Thirkettle, a.baker, both of Yarmouth; but after severatiounds, Thirkettle yielded to his ar:tagonist. Dodson has challenged any man in England, e...ectpt ; SMITHFIELD MAgKET, At'G. 13. This day's market was not well supplied with dill - erect hinds Of cattle : Lamb is .cheaper Mut ton is dearer 5 Beef, Veal, and Pork, sold at last .prices, and the trade for the most part was some wh.at tlat. The sales in the Hayiriarket *ere nrit lively ; Hay obtained last price 3' Straw and Clo ver fetched .better prices.; The undermentioned prices and numbers .are a . correct statement. To sink the'Coiral, per Stow; of . 81b. Beef, 5,. oa: to• 6;. oa. Mutton, ss. od. to 6s. od. Veal• ss.o(i. to 75.005. 1444 b, 65.,0d. to is. 6d. Pork, ss. 6d. to 65.. Eid, Beasts, 650. "41 - le4p and Lambs, 6,500. Calves, 1 W.Pigs, 250. SMITIIVELD HAYMARKET. Hay, 41A04.. to 51,10. Straw, 21. ss. to 31. 23. Clover, 51. los. to 61.155. eQ2N7EXCIIANGE, AUG. 14.—T0-day we haVe very short supplies of Wheat, and the sales made are naniea at little fluctuation'; Barley and Malt are each rather dearer; - Beans of eaoli desciiption likewise 3 Oats continue a rising article ; and Flour without variation, but owing to the present gran cy supplies of most articles for the few sales effected, prices are cqnsidered almost nominal. Wheat -- - 955. 1265. 130 s. Tick Beans - - - 7:35"..793.'. Fine ditto - - ls2s. 1565. Oats - - -, - 583.635. 665. .11 ye , ' 80s. 88s. Poland ditto -, - eBs. 695. barley - - - -60 s. 68s• Potatce ditto - - 70s-.•715. Malt . - - - -90 s. .983. Rape ?• . ;:ed - (:)1.. - 5(l. White Pease (boil.) 725. 78s. Fine Flour - -115 s. 120 s. Grey dittu - - -78 s. 78s. Seconds - - - I los, 11.5'.:, DEASI3 - .- - t.' -765, bls.