The Sun. — London, England, 1812-09-02 00:00:00

, ! . ;7., I G,,eruscy, 1 jersey, 1 Gotten- 'I( tk,nl, #7ll IN T ;.3 ILA " I _,J • SOLEM QUIa DICERii FALsum AuDEvr? L 0 N D WEDNESDIY, SEPTEMBER 2,,1812. - An account has been received, that the under mentioned outward holm& ships for China,•were left on the sth June last, by his Majesty's ship Vole e, iniat:22. S.,' long. 27. under convoy of his Majesty's ship Theban, viz :--- • • Cirencester, Narquis of 1 - 10tly, Elplanstone, Wexford, Alnivick Castle, and Bombay. The Vo lage was to touch at the Cape of Good Hope. The fotowing: intelligence was this' morning received a,loya"s Cape of Good Hope, June 14, 1612. For these three days past we have had exces4iye bad weather, with a heaVy N. W. gale. This morning two vessels were unfortunately stranded, one a detained Portuguese vessel, the other the Discovery brig, belOnging to this place. From the situation in which they lay, it is supposed they cannot be 'got off.—No lives have been lost,. and I am happy to say the weather is now abated. The Mary, arrived .at Dartmouth on Monday from the Cape of . Good 'Hope ; sailed about the 28th of June ; on the 12th of June, AA_ miral STOPFORD dispatched the Eclipse sloop of war to St. Helena, to takethe trade for England' About the 18th ult: four days before Making . the Western Islands, Captain' lawm saw ! a fleet of 11- sail, four of them large ships, and more were to leeward, WhiCh he took to be the liidiamen. ksloop of war, which- Capt..lnwiN supposed to be.the Eclipse, made signals. • - . The Providence sailed from the Cape of Good Hope for . St. Helena and England previous to the 12th of June. , • A Gentleman, - who left Paris on the 27th ult. states, that the 13th Bulletin had appeared in the, Moniteur, but that it contains no news ; the Tench bead-quavters still remained at Witepsk, but thp.t. BUONAPARTE intimated an intention of advancing. After due *deliberation, some of the City Patriots ..+ tai-,, s th; thought that it would be proper for a Meeting of the CV?"11:023 COU;ZCIL to take place, in order to manifest their satisfaction on the 14e glorious victory of Salamanca. For this purpose a Court is to be held to-morrow, and it is to. take into consideration the propriety of an address to the PRINCE REGENT on the occasion. All this is very proper, but • somewhat tardy, as the' City Patriots are generally much more alert when any event of a different nature occurs, and when they conceive that it may be employed as means for exciting public discontent. On such. occa sions they lose no time, but call meeting after meeting, whatever may be the subject, in order to set their orators in motion, and produce long de clamatory harangues on the folly Of Ministers, and the ruinous tendency of their Measures. But op sl!bjects which diffuse , pleasure all - over the country, and which admit of no misrepresentation, the publicspirited Reformers of the City are lan , guid, and hardly • can be brought to " assume a virtue if they have it not." If we may presume to tread in the steps of a certain Morning Paper, and " prognosticate prophecies," we will venture to say, that the Meeting of the Common Council to : morrow, will not be confined to a mere exprestei-on of ,pleasure on the glorious vic tory alluded to, or of congratulation to the PR NCE itEGENT, 1 011. SO _splendid a triumph of Briti6h.prowess and military skill, but that some Party' alloy will' be found to with the patriotic eN.ultation, which the Itieeting will, of course, avow on so gratifying an oecasion.—We s:iall, 'be glad to find purselves mistaken, and if nothiO, but the pure are of public spirit,, and a zeal for the national glory, shall appear in the proceedings of (3-niorrow, we shall most cheer- fully acknowledge our error, and donfess ourselves, in th is instance, to boas false prophets as the City Pa triots have generally proVed themselves to - be.„when they have predicted ruin and misery to the coun try, if Government has been so blind and so ob stinate - as. to neglect measures of policy which they have recommended as essential to the interest - • aa.klory of the gm pire: Whatever inay be thought of The Privateer which 'has been launched , from the Lyceum Dock, it must be acknoWledged that, SP far .as theatrical a nlity is concerned in the representation, it 'may rank as a first-rate • it is said that a Statue of Mr. SHERIDAN, and a busi. of Mr. WHITBREAD are to embellish the new Drary'-lane Theatre.. A bust of each would be v pry approiiriate, as it must be acknowledged that have both employed their heads very •, ,• _ _ ingeni- NNV !ill . , NEWS. , 1. PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 3 I .--Arrived the B6uttoa, - Gratitude, 3,ENEItcs; Active, LOirEB- Lliza, L. John and William, I-lAmSoN; Mary, TnomAs . ,±`Tritoiz, TY AC K, Speenlator,'Box.r- DEN, ..4uspieious, LOVERING, and the 31ercury„. ADAMS, from Wales, cubit laden ;..the . .Chanzpipia of Wales, IIEwiTT, from Scilly.; Medina, DEN, from' Cowes ; the:Supply, WALTON, Ann and Jane, SORLERS, and the Betsey, FARROW, fi'OBA Sunderland, coal-laden ; John Byrkin, SANIERS, and the Bee, WILLIAMS,i from Oloucester.;. United Sisters, fITEBB, from, Bristol; Nancy, JO LLY,' ROM' Bideford 5 and the Three Brothers, DOWN, from Exeter. , Sailed the Queeit man of war to' the Westward. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. I.—Arrived • his Majesty's ships Dolphin and Abunckozegfrom the Downs, with several others. Sailed hi's Majesty ls ship Pioneer for the Downs. his 'Majesty's ship Narcissus is appointed convoy for the West Indies and the Coast of Africa, and the Muros sloop of war - to NeWfouraand. DEAL, SEPT. I.—Arrived his Majesty's ships ships Warrior,' Idas, and Gannet, from a cruize off Flushing. Sailed the sloop of war with the out ward bound for Portsmouth. vessdr, tailed the Neptune, has arrived from Cadiz, which she left on the 9th ultimo. Letters received, by her state, that an expedition, consist ing of 2,500 Biitish and Portuguese troops, and 4,500 Spanish, had sailed for Ayenionte, to rein force General army. . It was reported; that the 'expedition from- Sicily had effected a landing, but on IThat part of the Spanish coast Was not stated.' The following communication was made to the collector of the customs at Hull, by a.person of the name of Henry Sandford, and is dated Cromer•, the 2,Bth nit.. . " This morning, about five o'clock, it blow- , ing a gate from the N.N.E. a stoop was .seen' to go down between Trimingbam and Mundslev; about one mile from the shore ;. and in about 'lO minutes her_ mast went away, and left n otb Moo ire seen except some small pieces. At Trimingliani; a sinall brat came on shore about six o'clOck, there is every reason to suppose belonged to=her. Qn• the stern of which is marked, outside ; ouch packet, of Hull; (blit the first letter appears to be defaced, which looks like L, - and would,malie it Lonth,) and. on the inside, George Lampha. As none of the crew have been seen ,or heard of, there is Much reason to fear they have all suf fered. - ' The Wexford, Marquis of Huntly, Elphinstoa, ,AlnwiCk Castle, Bombay., and Cirencester, bqund to China, which ,sailed from Portsmouth on the 25th of March, were all well on the sth of Juno in - lat. 23. 25. S. long. 27. W. 'The Glatton‘ parted on the 28th. Of March, and had,not joined. We are sorry to announce the loss of the Attack gun-brig, jiiiputenaut SII4mONDs , , after a most gal= lant action with the Danish gun -boats, in a calm off Anholt.. • Assistant-Surgeons to Dock-yards are, by the direction of the Lords of the Admiralty, to. be ta ken from the list of Naval. Surgeons. A Patent Metallic,Life Boat, on pneumatic and hydrostatic principles, That will neither sink nor overset, yet serve all the ordinary purposes of ships boats, either for rowing or sailing, was tried on Monday, at,London Bridge, on the ebb tide,.ll ur 7 ing the time of the greatest fall, with a crew on, board; and filled with water ; when she. passed through with the greatest safety, and discharged a portion of the water, purposely put into her. — Those life-boats are described as being made ef malleable iron, lead; and tin, one of twenty. feet long, and six feet wide, drawing oncly teninches water„'with twenty-five persons, and to possess valves, that without pumping oc personal aid, discharge all the water from them, which valves...act occasionally as - pneumatic or, air valves ; they are hydrostatically ballasted 'with confined water, taken ins or put out at pleasure. THE ARTS.---We ate' glad to find that our pre diction respecting HOPPNER, son of the late inge nious artist, is likely to -be,veritied, as he promises to follow the steps of hisfatner, and to possess a full share of hereditary excellence.' He has nearly finished.twollortraits of the late Bishop of OXFORD, one for the family of the departed Prelate, andthe other for the University. The likeness is exact, and the'picture is altogether marked by the higher quai:ties of the Art.—This very promising young Artist, hoWever, seems chiefly disposed to trace the steps of his. father, in the representation •of fenvale oeatity and elegance. The last number of a certaic IN - orthern Review gives a description of an African King; for the obvious purpose of bringing contempt on the character of a-Monarch. The insidious democracy of the publication alluded 'to has a - ppeared upon many occasions 5 but it has made a more open and &ring - avowal of. its objects since a QUAR TERLY WoRK came forward for the purpose of detecting.its sophistry and counteracting theten dency of its pernicious principles. At. the late dinner given by the LORD CHAN CELLOR, in honour of the Earl of WELLINGTON; by desire of the PRINCE REGENT, his Royal High=. pegs proposed the health of Lord WELLINGTON, and requested that it might be a bumper toast. — As the g,lasses were rather large, Sir WILLIAM GRANT, Master of the Rolls, did not quite fill his, Which induced the Prince to say, " no day light ft.) Lord WELLINGTON:' :"L'ir WILLIAM readily filing i his glass, said, he wished his Lord ship liad had more 'day-light at Salamanca, as ,the victory would then, if possible, have been still greater. Mrs. JORDAN is engaged, for a few nights, at Plymouth, where she is to make her first ap ,_ • • . 1. 4t... FA. 7 4 111140 ( _Vi1,11,171 ;iL'O'ki.'E - iri)titdii i.,iitib [FURTHER EXTRACTS.] Letter Imperial Highness the Grad Princ'( , .ss Ca tharina Pawlowna (sister to ,the , Ertglercirh to the Minister of the liome bOpartnient; with thy. Emperor Alexander's, Answer. " Doi - ledge Alex-a,ndroWtsCh—At a time when &try Rt6siatt .subject is inspired with love for their Otive country, and devotion for its Monarch, which have awakened their ardour for the greatest sacrifices, at a time when to repillse the enemy, and preserve the general safety, it is necessary to Make great Sacrifices and use every exertion, I have not been able to repel' the feelings of my heart in taking an active part in furnishing - the Means of supply 'for our warlike preparations. " After having applied to his Imperial Majesty, my beloved Lord and Brother, for his approbation and permission, I lave to turn to you, and through yotir assistance, carry into effect a purpose I have, conceived from the most unbounded zeal for the honour and welfare of my beloved country, and from, the tilogt affectionate love. for its Monarch. It is piny wish to raise,on my hereditary ctltates, a certain number of warriors, to whom separ‘ate re gulations. Will be given by' me, and whOm I will arm and n:aintaia at my Own , expense. The rais ing of these inen is to be 'effected in the following manner.—(llere follow the regulations to be ob served in raising this corps, - Mild' is to eonsist.of 1200 men, and form a distinct regiment. "‘I .have not the least doubt. but that, aceord iilKtothe instructions you gill cause to be given, this conscription be. performed with the. greatest success, -and that those who shall. be se lected for the defence of their religion lend coun try Will., by their. distinguished zeal,. soon become equal•to old warriors. " I remain your's, most sincerely, " E. KATERiNA." Ansiver of the Emperor Ale*ander, in his own hand-writing I receive this proposal with the most gra►e ful thanks. (Signed) " ALEXANDE.7 On the 27th July (N. S.)' the Nobility,' in the Government of Novogorod, 'resolved, as scion as possible, to raise,lo,ooo nien ; (the wholu Govern ment. consist.% of only Three hundred and forty thousand souls;) and7that the mercantile interest in that Government should raise a-suhsbription of above two hundred thonsand rubles for • the de fraying the expenseS of the war ; Without _doubt the Nobility and Merchants in other GOverninents 'Will, for their own honour, and for the defence of their -possessions, use every means which - honour, necessity, and.affection for their codutry and the throne will point out to them. The chief Procu rator of the Government Senate has offered his salary; of two thbusand rubles a-year, tOwards.the expenses of the war, which : the Emperor has ac cepted with. thanks. In the GoVernment:of raSow the Nobility have contributed '124,800 ru bles for clothing the yagers, and the towns 26,205 rubles for baggage waggons. ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE. .This impOrtant establishment, which produced so many of the heroes of Salamanca, is about to be removed, we bear, from Marlow and WA. Wycombe, to the new College,at Sandhurst; the Cadets having been directed to return thither after their present vacation. The late General Le Mar chant, who fell 'So glorionslv in leading hiS bri gade, to a . charge, directed by the Hero of the Pe ninsula, was a long time Lieutena,iit-Governor'of the Institution; and was Very instrumental in pro moting its., establishment under the illUstrious Commander in Chief,' who was its patron, and on whom 'it .'reflects . the highest honour, while it is of the greatest advantage to the -Country at Ane senior department; the' objes±. of which i's to qualify Oflieers . f4 the arduous and important duties of the Quarter-MasturGeneral's.Statf,, is tO be removed to Farnham. he last examination at High Wycombe tool- place on Thursdlay last, when Lie'utenairt Sumner, the only Officer to be ,examined, appeared before a Supreme Board, of which nis.lloyalHighness the Duke of Kent wrap President ; Generals Calvert' and Hope, with the 'Deputy „Quarter-master General, Members, who were pleased,. after a strict examination in the dif ferent branches of study, to declare their perfect satisfaction of his being fully qualified for the Statf; and, as a special mark of their approbation, to recommend him, to the notice of his,. Royal Highness the Commander in Chief. 'When we reflect on the nature of this Institution, and the great number of excellent Officersjt has produc ed; we cannot but foresee the greatest advantages likely to be produced by it to the Conntry, at a ' tinee when militarj knOwledge May decide on, the happiness or misery of millions of our fellow:-crea tures, opn ressed' by the Military DesPotof the Coainent. • EXTRA.CT FROM THE GAKRU-:ON OKDERLY BOOK OF THE AOYAL REGIM E NT OF ARTIL . I6IIIIr, WOOL-7 NVICII; 29TH -AUGUST. Major-General 1 eitArastY .bas the honour to communicate the, folL:nv,ing Letter to the Regi-: meat' : • " Slit, Carlton House, Aug. 27th, 11)1(2, I am commanded by the PRINCE REGENT to address myself to von, for the purpose of express , the high sense his Royal Highness entertains of the inimitable appearance of the Horse Artil lery, and of the. Battalion under arms at Wool wich, and conimanded by you, on his visit -to that Garrison, as yell as the great precision and ex pertness With vvhich they went through thir se veral exereisesin the course of that ". His Royal Highness fullysensible of the great exertion and indefatigablenttention Which `it must have cost yourself and the o,i ceps of the Garrison, to have rbrought.the.m to that extraur-: &wary state of and teacline.fis'hick _he witnessed, and which, as his Royal Highness' ex . - pressed to you in the field-, absolutely'reuder :Jam a fit example to 'the Whole Army. " With great respect, " I have•the honour to be ; Sir, • Your most obedient bumble servant, '(Sizned) " B. BLOOMFIELD, Cal. and Aide-de-Camp." AIUNGO PAT IN. . the following is an interesting extract from ' Peri9dicat pu?licatiOn The last accounts of Mr. Park; from hims&f, were from .Sansanding, on the Niger, whence he transenitted his Journal to the Government. The Institution are about to publish this immediately, for the benefit of his unfortunate family: Along with Mr% Park's Journal, will be published that of haf.le,'a native Mahometan, who hair ing accompanied him :to Sansanding,"was after wards sent by GoVernoi Max Well to • procure sonic account of his fate-4-he returned to . Sege-. gal, after an absence of twenty and , Made his Report in writing. Frani it we extract the following acconat of Mr. Park's death,. : as given:ft) Isaac by Aniadit-Fatounia, who accom panied him from Sansanding On board a large sifliponer- 7 rigged canoe,. in which he, had under taken the navigation of the river to its' mouth A 'flatlet. -Fatounia accrompan ied him till twoor three days after he hid reached the kingdom of Lla'ousa. Next day,'' stiys be, " Mr. Park departed, and I dept in the village (Yaour.)' Next morning I -tacit to the King - to pay - tny respects to him :on en tering the house, 1 found two men, who came on horseback, they were sent by the Chief of Yaour.— They said tothe King,. we are sent by the Chief of Yaour, to let y(lii know that the white' men went awav, without e:iving you or' him (the Chief) any thing—they . have a great many things with them, and we have received nothing from them : and this Ainadee-Fatouma, now before you; is a had man, and has likewise made a fool of yon both.' 'flub King immediately ordered me to, be put in irons, •whia was accordingly done, and every thing I had . taken from me—some were for killing me, and some for preserving my life. The next morning early, the King sent-an- army to a village called Boussa, near the river's •sidc—there is before this village a rock, aeross.the whole breadth' of the ri ver—One part of the rock is very high : there is there a large opening in that rock, in the form of a door, which is the only passage for the water to pass through ; the tide current is here very, strong—the army went and took possession of the top of this , opening.. Mr. Park 'came there 'after the army !tad:posted itself : h enevertheless at .tempted to pass. The people began to attack him, thro%',fing lanceF.,,pikes ,arrows„and stones. I`,lr.rark defended , himself for a long time : two of his slaves - . at the stera of the canoes, were killed-- 7 e-tey threw every thing they had 'in the canoeinto the river, and kept firing; but beine-. ovtrpowered ifs numbers and fatigue; and unable to keep up the canoe against the current, -and noprobahility of escaping, Mr. - Park took hold of one . of the white nien, and jumped into the :water—Martin did he sawn,- and they were drowned in the stream in atte4ting to:escape.' The only :slave remaining . in iholinat, Seeing the natives persist in throwing weapons at the canoe, stood up and said to them— ' stop throwing now ; von see nothing in the ca noe, and nobody but myself—therei,ore cease. Take rue and the canoe, but don't kill me." They tools possession of the canoe and the Man, and carried them to the King. I was kept in irons three months, the King then released me, and gave me a fern ale slave. I immediately went to the slave taken in the canoe; who told me in what manner Mr. Park, and all of them bad died, and what I have related above." lAax.—A Concert having 'been advertised to take place at. the Pavilion, in Hans-square, SR-Jane— street-, on Monday, some nlischiev6us fellow :vent round to the butciacr*, bakes, pastry-cooks„, a L xiwi - ne-merchant, in that nei ;; i►bouirhood. anti ordered a profusion of good,things to be delivered at the Pavilion, which were . earrieU accordingly, to the great:annoyance of the managers. of he con cert. Letters Of invitation were also sent round to several respectable inhabitants, begging the ho nour of their presence at the s Cohcert, and stating that, as t it was to be performed by G-72fle.itzeil Amateurs, no charge would be made, and likewise a good supper given. is needless to add, that much' disappointment and discord prevailed in. consequence. On Monday last a pugilistic cowtest, took plaee at Redinarley, Gloucestershire, between Ford, of Bristol (who a short time since beat King, a can didate for fame ,n the neighbourhood of the me tropolis), and a Gloucestershire man, of the naive of Davis, for a purse of twenty guineas, They set-49 at half-past nine, in a rope ring of forty feet, and fought for two hours and ten mi nuts, during which time they had eighty-twllt: rounds of as hard fighting as was ever witnessed; when both being 'horribly beaten, the • spectators interfered, and the purse was divided by mutual , consent! Abrahams seconded -Ford, and Dick Yarnold seconded Davis. Ur~Thursday"last, as the servant of Jam es Smyth, Esq. of Chart, was retarning home from - Maid stone, about 'nine o'clock ‘ in the .cvening, he Wa St stopped in the Su Ro ttun ad at the top of Lord Roinney's PArk, b a sngle footpad, 'who seized his horse's bridle and demanded his property, the servaet i esisted an.;lsiyore he 1 , :-ould not be. rohbed by a slrigie man, and hal thf. presence of mind - to take from his pocket a pint hot aild presenting; it as' fire arins, What rpliii Postmatt !'' upon 'Which the fellow immediately made his es cape into the opposite woods. it violent storm of thunder and lightning, ac comp;inied by-very heavy,Liit, Was exPerienced the - ;neighbourbood of Cirencester; theafter noon of Thursday last. Theliail,sione.‘i were of all extrac.r(tihary size ; and broke a- gre-;.t.manyy panes glass in the b nreen-housJamesJaes Musgrave , 14.14. of-Barusiey Park : the damage is estnnated upwards ;RV.- At Coln Rogers, the . grains were beat out of the - standing corn, to the extetA. 6r three-fifths of the crop. I Mr. 2.lillington's loos` alone is supposed to - be fm - triy . ' 21 4 01. -Several" stacks of wheat Were set file to by the 'Olt:ling in „afield at 'Down Arnpney, bet. were prevented from heingconsumedby soine'',vorkinen being at ban d • , - A very profitable manufacture is .uoW carryOg on in the Metropolis of Children's cattls. The pur chasers are captains of .hips and seafaring itelb.. Who ridiculously imagine that the posses-Sion ot, one operates as a charm against shipwreck; . The average- price of these.. is 15 guine as " Notwithstanding the name, and for the - sjPe r .: f stitious, the child's caut cannot be a charm ; f o is seldom take n f rom a h uman su bject ; bull it is' generally apart of the integument of lambs, dress" t. ;