The Sun. — London, England, 1812-07-21 00:00:00

- - AL A 1 t PLYMOUT H , J ULY 19.—Arrived the Amentan brig Java froni Gibraltar, in 14 days. FALMOUTH, JULY 18.—Arrived this day the following packets, with mails and dispatches : The Adventure, Captain SAMPSON, from Ma deira and Rio de Janeiro, 58 days from the latter, with two passengers, and about 10,0001. in cash no news. The Eliza picket, Capt. STEVENS, from Cadiz, in 17 days no passengers. The Waisinghanz, HonART, and Queen charlotte, MIDGE, with dispatches, the former in 19 and the latter in 12 days, from Lisbon.—The Lady -drabella, with, mails, from this port, arrived at Lisbon in six days. The Princess Elizabeth was to sail about the 17th inst. and may be hourly expected. DRAL, JULY 20.—Arrived his Majesty's brig Forrester, with several West Indiamen from the westward the whole are sailed for the River. A l4 O arrived his Majesty's ships Furious, Peacock, 4 111 Folkestone, from various cruizes. PORTSIrOU,TH, JPLY 20.—Arrived his Majesty's sh ips Dilig - ent; from Gibraltar, the Strenuous and B Peculator, with a convoy from the Downs ; the Misietoc 4 with a convoy, from Plymouth ; ant:the Zromedary from the East Indies. • Passed by his Majesty's ships - Piedinontaise and debar from the East Indies, with the ' following chips under convoy Preston, Devonshire, Baring, William Pitt, Northumber land, Eufope, Streatham, Hugh Ingis, Plicenix, Lord Melville, a . 1141 Walmer Castle, East Indiamen ; Cyrus, Atlantic, and In dispensable, `whalers; and' thti ship. St. Vincents, from Ja taaica, with her top-masts damaged , and in tow by the Wal tier Castle. The East India. fleet left St. Helena on the 17th GI May, with the following, viz.: Cambridge, Huddart, James, ' Sibbald, Sir William Pulteney, Devaynes, Ocean, Maitland, lia rieston, and Genctal Stuart; under convoy of his Majes_ tr . .; ship Phaeton, and may be expected daily. Passed-up Channel the armed ship Wasp from Smyrna ; and arrived at the Motherbank, the ship Echo, SMART, from Jamaica. His Majesty's ship j ilooli has just come into harbour. 'We have extracted the following article from a lespectable Irish Journal, entitled The Patriot, of _Wednesday last, as it contains a curious fact, and I s honourable to all parties concerned in it : TO the EDIT OR Of THE PATRIOT. : c 1y hiserting the following statement, you will much oblige several friends to the principles and integrity with which your valuable Paper is cendncted. " On the Ist of June last, I received a letter 4 rorn Francis Freeling, Secretary to the General c ost-Office, Londo', informing me that I bad, in the course of last winter, refused a letter, whi c h, Navin been returned to the dead letter office, was found to contain intelligence of some importance, and that he was ready_ to deliver the letter, with its contents, to any friend of mine authorised to l'eeeive it ;. or he would send it•to me by post, if I referred that mode.. Accordingly, I requested .1 11 _e would sen d it t o me through this channel,,. as being the' most expeditions. In the course of a -levy days I had his answer, with the letter inclos- Led, which contained .a hundred pound Bank of -tngland note, and the following words : "DEAR AVERELC, - Ist MoUth, - 15th Day, I SW. " From some intimations of thy faithfulness, t here inclose thee tool. to he laid out, as thou shalt judge best, upon - the Voorest of the Missionaries in Ireland, - who' instruct the peo )le in that Language, • __ • " FARE THEE WELL." . , • • • I cannot .possiblY trace whence this bounty !lath came, but I adore the gracfous care of Pro= Ildence in sending .this most seasonable relief to that useful Charity, for which it was designed ; and the more 'se, as I had refused this letter from the supposition that it was sent only to put • to the -expence of postage (as I had before l'eceiv ec i several. of that. description) and hence it' had been in the Post...offiee -near five months.— ' lle•.care and pains.also, 'which Francis Freeling, the Secretary of the Dead Letter Office, took to find me out, and-to send me in my retirement, this 111 O 1 ily, which might be concealed and enabezzled., 'without a possibility of, : detection, . excite in my 41 ind sincere' hankfulness for that integrity of Principle, the Gentlemen are possessed_ of, who tit the PUblic Offiees l ander Government', a proof to me that they act as under the iufluence of that Ilisdom th at comet h f rom above, and . I feel hap py in taking this oliportunity of returning them, s well as the .unknown generous Donor of this bounty, my most hearty thanks. AD. AVERELL; , • .`` Salem . Collage, July 1, 1812." BUONAPARTE exhibits a singular proof of the i ndependence of the nations of Europe, when the ' Present Sovereigns, as they are called, of Naples Rad Westphalia, as well as the Vice-Roy of Italy, `" obliged :to join his armies, and act under his eoniniand. It should be remembered, in order to 1 11 ew. the consistency of the Corsican, that when ‘'' so savagely revenged himself upon the late Duke of BRN'SW I cx, b y refusin g to bet his remains be deposited with hi s - . ancestors, ,th e c hi e f r eason a lleged agliinst,the. unforturnite Duke by the ysurp i er - WaSY that being a Sovereig,ii Prince, he • egyaded himself by accepting a command Ruder • t 4 . 1-cing of . Prussia. - The Foreign Corps, in the t pay of Great Britain. . are stationed as' underinentioned :—Regiment de Iqeuron, at Malta; -Regithent de Watteville i at ; Regiment de Rolle, at Sicily . Chasseurs 4s ritannique, at POrtugal 5 Corsican Rangers, at the loni an I s l es ;. Sicilian Regiment,' at Malta ; kireeli Light Infantry, and Dillon 7 S Regilfe at Sicily. CADIZ MAIL 13ADAS OZ, JUNE 9.3.—When General Hill Was momentarily expecti.kg the enemy, .and was re solved to give them a good reception if they dared to attack, - or had the bravery to present diern selves, 'he found, that on the 21st they began to fall back by the road of Solana. Four English regiments of cavalry ; the Coade de Penne's divi sion, and the 6th and 11th battalions or Caca dores, with some flying artillery, pursued them that way; an equal force followed by Xeres ; and 'by the centre. General Hill, with the remainder of the army. CAniz, JUNE 26.--4 t is said that Souk has col lected 20,000 men, and that his vanguard was, on the 17th inst. at Santa Olaila. CADIt, JUNE, 24.—The Iris frigate arrived the day before yesterday from Vera Cruz and the Ha vannfth, with produce, and 95,000 dollars. She has brought accounts from New Spain. The re mains of the rebel.MorelOs's corps were block aded in Quautia, and were shortly expected to surrender. CADIZ, JUNE 29.—The desertion from the French army is very considerable. - On the side of Estremadura, Moult's army, coin posed of 18,000 men, on the 22d, bad advanced to Santa Martha, and 'after sonic reconnoitering, on the 23d retired. ALGESIRAS, JUNE 23.—0 n the 21st, in the afternoon, marched fromthis place for Los Barrios, all the cavalry which was there reviewed by Bal lasteros. They manoeuvred to the satisfaction of this General. The first battalion of Spanish Guards to-day marched fromthence ; the head-quarters continue, in Los Barrios," with the third division; the first is in San Roque ; the movable column in Hova de Malaga : .the regiment of Ciudad Real has marched from Tarifa to 'join the, army. All the troops 'are in the best possible disposition for the new enterprises which -are shortly to take place. The enemy continue in their positions of BorhoS and Villamartin. On the 11th, the movable column of Hoya Malaga, which was in I.'unquera, retired. On the same day Leval and Rey, with 3,500 men, entered. SANTIAGO, JUNE 17.—Generals Santocildes and Giron have, with their troops, marched towards Castile. It appears, that they are acting in con cert with the well premeditated plans of the Earl of Wellington. FURTHER EXTRACTS. CONFiDtIsIIAL INTELLIGENCE FIIOM SPAIN. ESPOZ and MLNA's division was, on the '27th May, in St. Vicente, attacked by 2000 infantry and 150 horSe ; but the valiant corps, worthy of that Chief, drove them back with great loss. The division of Iberia, under the orders Cif LoNGA, has marched in the direction of Potes, to form a Junction with General MENDIZABEL. SALAZAL'S cavalry has done the same, leaving the infantry in Legoa 'Negro Padilla. PllllO is 'also in -- action with the ! - arne object. - In Vittoria are collected 10;000 infantry, with nine pieces of i battering artillery; which came from Pampelona, and arc, according to the French, to proceed to Ciudad Rodrigo: The person who gives this information informed.Esroz and MINA, that in Bayonne, where no reinforcements for Spain were expected, there were only 400 in . fantry. In Burgos there was a garrison, consisting o f 4000 infantry, of which, on the 26th May, 2000 set out to exact contributions from ate neighbour ing plains. By order of the Duke of RAocrsA 600 mules have been exacted flout Valadolid and Palcaera. General BovE's cavalry eras foraging in the plains in the Valley de To►relobaton and Mora. CADIZ, JUNE 24.—1 t is said that the satrap SOULT I is, with 8000 troops, going against Gene ral HILL. As these, with the other troops he has collected, compose a respectable corps, the allies', who had advanced to Lierena, fell back, and are on the celebrated fields of Albuhera, preparing for new triumphs. On the 19tILTune we had covered, our lines in Albuhera, and were. expecting an ac tion the moment the enemy's forces appeared. SOULT will in vain attempt this diversion in Estreniadura. It is in vain he .attempts to draw the attention of Lord WELLINGTON and restrain him in his plans. Gen. I,iILL has sufficient force to baffle SOULT'S Views ; 5000 Portuguese have marched from Badajoz for Albuhera; 500 En glish cavalry have entered that, place fOr the same destination. These 700.herse come from the in terior of Portugal, and the amount. of General army leaves us in no doubt as to his being able to distroy SOULTIS plans ; besides, he con tinues to receive reinforcements. It is said that SOULT bad collected to the amount of 20,000 men, and'that on thi_t 17th his advanced guard was in Santa Olalla. It is report ed, that on'the 9th, JosErn set out for Toledo. On the 23d June, in Los Baryos; the fourth tinny took the oath to the political constitution of the Spanish monarchy. DUEL.--;--Yesterday morning, it is said, a duel, took place-between a young well-known - dramatic` writer and a General, in consequence of a differ ence which took place bet Ween, them at a recent fete at'Craven Cottage, Fulham.. The important cause of - this dispute was on the subject of the dance called the Waltz„ the General having praiSed it . in high. terms, and the Author having bitterly reprobated it as leading to the most licentious consequences.. A shot took place on bOth sides, but neither party was wounded ; the seconds in terposed, and.the matter ended' With an, apology frnrn thp nonprni • • WINDSOR, JULY ID, Vesterc6y theQuEEN-and PRINCESS ns, andPiin cess CIIAR‘LOTT, dined with the Duchess of BRuisr swicK, at Frogmore, and spent the evening- with the Duchess. 11 .er;11CCSS cRARLOTTE drove her beautiful greys thrdugh the fr pleasant ride, accompanied by Lady Dr.CLIFFORD. • This morning the QUEEN and PRINCESSES heard Divine Service performed in the Castle, by het Majesty's Chaplain., The Duchess of 13RuNswicK heard Divi►ie "Set- Nice performed at Frogmor i e Lodge, by the Hoir. and Rev. Dr, LEGqizt, Dean of Windsor. Princess CHARLOITTE 'went to St. George's Chapel, and heard a Sermoii by the Item. Dr. HEATH:: The QUEEN and PRINCESSES spent the evening with the Duchess of BRUNSWICK. - Yesterday the Earl and Countess of cHOLMON DELEY gave a grand dinner to the Duke of .Dy .VONTSIIIIiE Lord GWYDIR, Lady WILLOUGHBY, the Countess. of Ca.NYNGRAM, the lion. P. - D. BUERELL, Mr. H..BURRELL,:Mi; NEVILLE, Mr. DE Roos,' and Mr. MONTGOMERY, at Egremont House, Piccadilly. Last night the. Marchioness. of HERTFORD gave a magnificent entertainment at Hertford House, Manchester square, which was attended by all the distinguished fashionables in .town. Yesterday evening an account was received at the East India House of the. safe arriva of the folloWing ships off -the Start Hugh Inglis, Preston, .Baring, l.'hcenix, William Pitt, De vonshire, Europe, Streatham, - Lord Melville, Walmer Castle, -and Northumberland (extra ship.) ' The only ship of war now" remaining to the Danes is the Phenix frigate, so nth - ned as rising from the r►iins of the Danish navy, and which is now lying in the waters of Copenhagen. EDINBURGH, JULY 18.. Rudolph Blatter, Charles Hivert, and Agust Petry, French Officers, who lately made their elopement from Dumfries,. in violation of their parole of honour, have been traced and appre hended by Mr. Denovan, the superintendant of Police at Leith. They were sent off yesterday morning, under a military escort, to the depot at Valley field. Monsieur 'Petite, the French prisoner of war who was apprehended and lodged in the jail at Mortrose last week, escaped from thence. on Sa turday morning, ha'ving unscrewed the locks from three doors that confined him.—He was furnished with the necessary implements by an old woman, 'an inhabitant of Montrose. The Cracker gun-brig sailed on Tuesday on cruize.—Remain in the Roa6, the Adamant flag ship, and Cherokee sloop of war. A woman in North Leith, yesterday, put an end to her existence by hanging herself with her handkerchief. We have heard no reason assigned for this rash act. Another of the Mew hurt by the blowing up of, the powder-mill near Roslin, we are sorry to hear, is since dead. We stated in a former paper the proceedings of a fieneral Court,Martial, held'in Edinburgh Cas tle, on the 16th of April, for the trial of Adjutant Hugh Canieron, and Adjutant Alexander Mac donell, both of the second regiment of Inverness shire Local Militia, at the instance of tbeir Com manding Officer, Colonel i'vlacdonell, of Glen garry. Both Officers were found guilty of the principal charges: brought against them. The Court.sentenced the former, to be cashiered, and the latter to be dismissed from the 2d regiment of Inverness-shire Local Militia, .which sentences have been approved of, and confirmedby his Royal lligtness the PRINCE REGENT. VAUXHALL.-The Masquerade which has been some time announced took place l)iit night, and, notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather, attracted a considerable number of visi 7 tors. The place was thinly attended at first,• but it is altogether so-well calculated for an amuse ment-- of ,this nature; that -'before supper a great many Tersons assembled,. and among them we= a variety of characters, several of which were supported with great spirit and huniour; The place - Was decotated in the most beautiful style, : and excited a vivid , conception of all the splendour of Oriental magnificence. But the visitors had 'not only full reason to be de-. lighted with what was' intended' to gratify. the sight, but the more solid entertainment of 'an excellent supper, wines, &c. ; and the scene was . altogether so attractive that the company did not think _of retiring till' a 'late 'hour in 'the morning :. _ Mr. SPKERRELL,, of Watling-street, has pub lished a correspondence which he has had with . .Mr. BROUGHAM, on the subject of the allusion made by-the latter . „ to the expunged *evidence in the Committee on the Orders in Council. In this correspondence, Mr. APKERRILL distinctly de nies the expressions imputed to hint—namely, that " The people had .enough--that they Often had a great de :l more than they had a right to. When they had good wages, they had three times more than enough—and that oatmeal and water was good enough for Englishmen." He declares that the imputation of :these. words' to him, is ". a deliberate misreprdsentatiOn and falsehood." Mr. .I\lllinitHELL states, that he has obtained a literal copy,from the short-hand writer of the ac tual expressions which he dill use. The depot for prisoners of war at Perth is now nearly completed, and is expected to be imme diately oCeupiedbyFrench prisoners from England. These extensive buildings are, we undeestand, to contain 7000 prisoners, with the troops to guard over them, as also accommodation for the sick, and lodgings for the several Officers of the esta bliShment, forming altogether the greatest es tablishment of the kind in Britain. This exten sive work has given employment to a great num ber of people dUring its progress ; 'not less, we are informed, than from 'lOOO to :200 having been daily at work since the commencement of - the building'. BREAD.---Ther ' e being no Court of Aldermen to day, the LORil-MAYORy after inspecting the re-. turns, ordertld the preseAt prices 4,1 t) continue-- loaf 20d.- LITERATTjEr.. It has been our practice occasionally to notice works of merit in literature, aud , as a producti,ni which has 'just issued from the pen of Mr. MAN, under eie title Of POETICAL VA(JAIUg.S. poisesses ranch original humour, we are induced to present to our Readers •the following extxact from it. it is, as they will perceive, a kind of parody on The Boat Song in The Lady of the Lake, a poem that is too excellent to receive any injury from this si?ortive effusion, which may be consi dered as a sally of humour, intended merely as' such by the author, and which, we doubt not, will be received in that light by the admired Poet of the North. - , ILINQUET SONG'. tlail•to our Chief ! now he is wet through with Whiskey; Long life to the Lady come from the salt seas; Strifre up,. blind Harpers; high to be frisky ! For what is so gay as a hag full of fleas ! Crest of O'Shangbilashane ! • • That% et Potatoe, plain, Long may your root every Irishman know ! Pats long have stuck to it, Long hia god luck to it; Whack for O'Shauthuashane !—Tooley Whagg Ho! Our's is an esculent . lusty and lasting, No turni,o, nor other weak babe of the ground; Waxy, or mealy, it hinders froth fasting .Half Erin's inhabitants, all the year round, • Wants the soil, where 'tis filing,• Hogs', cows', or horses' dung, Still does the crest of .o,'Shaughnashane grow; Snout for it, Ulster Men, Till the Bogs quake again, Whack for O'Shaughnashane! Tooley Whagg Ho! Drink, Paddies, drink to the Lady to shining! ' - While flowret shall open, and Bogltrotters So long may the sweet rose of beauty be twining,, -- Around the potatoc of proud Mara eygig ! While the plant vegetates, • . While whiskey re-ereates, Wash down the root, from the borax that o'erflow; Shake your - shillalahs, Boys! Screeching drunk, seream your joys ! • Whack for O'Shaughnashane!—Tooley Whagg Ho s Time rolls his course ;—now seems in haste, And now seems slow . —as Cooks roll paste; Rolling out rows from human dust, Soon to be broken—soon as trust: All under time, to ruin falls, Like i3larneygig's now moulder'd We have seldom had occasion to reaonitnend to . the notice of our readers a work of such great and peculiar interest as tte Memoirs of the Princess Royal of Prussia, the beloved sister of FREDERICIi THE GREAT. These Memoirs, written With her own hand, were bequeathed to her First Physi cian, the Privy Counsellor, M. DE SUPPERVILLE, and are now first pUblished from the original Manuscript in the French language. They contain a variety of anecdotes and important facts hitherto quite unknown , . We understand. the Minden, of 74 guns : built at Bombay, is now fitting for foreign service' at Portsmouth, and intended' to proceed to India, under the command of Capt. SaaNt,' to receive the flag of" Vice-Admiral , Sir 'SAMUEL HOOD, the Commander in Chief of his Majesty's squadron in the Indian seas.' The Salsette, and several other highly approved frigates of a superior class, had been built at Bombay ; .but the Minden, being the first ship of the line that has been constructed out of the limits of the United Kingdom, may be said to take the lead in the foundation of a new era in the annals of our' naval architecture. Two new docks, formed for the reeeption of ships of the line of the largest class, were, in 1810, added to the accorinnodations of the naval yard at Bom bay.' They were constructed under the superin teudance of Major COWPER of the Engineers, of immense blocks of granite, dove-tailed into each other; and,combining their capacitywith their syin metry, and probable durability, are thought by competent judges to be unrivalled by any similar works in the British dominions. In one of these, the Minden was built, about two years ago; and on her arrival in this country attracted the atten tion of professional men of all classes—Naval officers, and Ship-builders, as well as men of science in general, in the first ranks of life,— Being entirely the handy-work of native artificers, under the direction of JAMSETJEE BOMANGEE, Parsee, also a native of that country, and Master builder for the Navy and- the Hon. East India Company at Bombay, and constructed entirely of the wood of that country called teak, the curio sity of connoisseurs was unusually enhanced; but those to whose immediate care that branch of oux national defence is confided, had a serious inte rest in ascertaining the properties of :.his mag nificent specimen •of JAMSETJEE'S skill. The Minden has accordingly been surveyed by the pro- per officers at Portsmouth, by order.of tbeLords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Their report does - not gratify any local partialities at the ex pense of truth and sound policy, but represents her•as an unexceptionable man of war, in every substantial requisite ; and whilst it confers ho nour on the 'builder, his work stands , a proud monument of the inestimable importance of our Indian possessions, which produce,. from the depths of their unfathomable forests, coMparative iy tinhalloWed by the axe hitherto, au accession of strength to the mother country, at a time when she is alarnied at the rapid diminution of her own materials of shiplbuilding, and threatened with . a scarcity, 'at no very distant period, of her justly • celebrated native oak, the only resource of our Navy, until the .?ilinden and the Bonibay Docks have now cheered the pro spect of the "Statesman and the patriot, with a noble specimen of the forests of Western India, and of the science and skill of our Indian subjects in the improvement of them to the grand national purpose of adding strength to our marine, at a period when all the arsenals of the Continent are subservient to the views of the enemy. The pub lie will'be gratified to learn, that, in pursuance of these advantages, the keel of the Cornwallis, ano ther 74, was laid in one of the riew docks at Boni bay, in- September last; and we. understand,the Navy Board nave recommended the building of ships of the same class to be followed up at that settlement, under the direction of Commissioner JOHNSTONE, who proceeds thither in the Minden. We understand that positive inforination was received by the Transport Board, °I . /Friday last, of the' safe arrival of General Pniataaok on tie French coast.—Thus, notwithstanding all the vigilance and exertion used to prevent the escape of this parole-breaking Officer of the--Legion of Honcor!—be has ultimately completed his eriana,:e_