The Sun. — London, England, 1812-07-20 00:00:00

• r:„ITITT 7 GITTI": PAtERS. LI "oN*, Juty s.—On the 25th ult. the allied troops stortn.ed and carried, the outworks of the -.ent Forts in Salamanca, with the trifling loss of only two men killed, when the French ca ., Pitnlilted. Our fire had set'ihekbattery on fire. ° I I the 30th our'head-quarters were at Fuente la IVAiImoNT bas, nth-NI 'in two columns, one by • " 11 Valladolid road, which it is supposed will be by BoNNET's corps, and the other by the o a. Hut continues bevonacked at Albuera; Lis advance at Santa Martha. lestetdav behig- the ; 'anniversary of American Ind ependence, the American residents in this city g a ve a splendid dinner to. their own people, ,the. Fo reign Merchants, &c. &C. Lts73ox, !UNE 4.—We know for certain that The Fort of Salamanca is in the hands of the Allies. • • CASTROPOL,. JUNE 16.—This moment, eleren in the morning, I have been assured that the ' Ni thclie of the enemy;who are collected in Oviedo, Fill evacuate this province by the mountain. • P EFERRADA, .TUNE 17.—The head-quarters are r emoved from thissplate to Audinhuela. On the 14 th, towards night, some Spanish battalions ap proached .Ast - Orga,' and on the 15th that place ° Fefled its fire, but with-out doing any datnage.— ... ° l l the lfith-a French drummer, Who deserted to 113 , reports that there-is a great want .if provi %ion-s in Astosga. enemy's sarriion consists of 1000 men.— 'General CISTANHOS is in Corunna. PROVINCE or BußGos.—Heaven outinties to protect the operations of the regiments of this l ar "ince:-in a most singular manner. In addition tt, the different actions fought' by MERINO, in the -n th of April, he on ate 9th May fought another '* the vicinity of Burgos, with seventy dragoons, 0 , 1 which five only escaped. _ FROM THE GORUNNA DIARY. , The enemy evacuated Oviedo .(the capital of the Asturias) at 4 o'clock in the af,ternoon of 15th, and took the road by the heights of Pa 34res; they took with them all their sick and 'rounded, who were able • to walk, and left those \ ' 1) , 1)( ' could not, and some effects in that capital.— ‘: e are in expeptation o f 'th e t o t a l evacua ti on o f le Asturias by the enemy. T his determination of the enemy was occasion :4 by the loss they sustained in the action of In 4risto onthe 10th, the total a m ou n t of which was 4 tuen in killed, wounded, and prisoners. We ar e assured that our troops are pursuing them in th Nib retreat, n Y a letter from Penfertada, we know that our tr o ,, 1)s are before Ast orga , an d have besieged that r a ce. The enemy made a sally, and w ere driven ha ck with considerable loss. On the 18th it was 'lirotnoned, and was supposed would surrender the arrival of General SANTOGLIDES, as there * ere but a few troops and a short quantity of iro visions in it. With grief I have to relate the - e ath of the gallant D. tiREGORIO CRUCHAGA, , a - "nd in command of the troops under ESPOZ and 'A, tn conseguenee of amputation. ToLED o , JUNE 10.—On the 4th, entered this ti tY the Preach Genoral DARMAGNAC, escorted by •°'"le Soldiers; we are ignorant of the object of thi s oneNpected visit. On the 6th, in the afternoon, entered, here an • tt( l)ntant o f JOSEPH, and. an Oikcer of his Guard f I ° ll l Madrid, from whence they assure us that 1/ ' a ggons, &c. are coming laden with provisions, escorted by some infantry and cavalry ; 1.10 wag ttlns have been ordered by the 10th ; the enemy, ' ltr e fortifying themselves in Aleacar, where there I ) : 11t a Weak garrison. On the 6th; a convoy from Madrid arrived here -Wi th wood, to construct a bridge, biscuit, &c. ‘-0rt , ... A 1 by 400 infantry and 75 horse. L;sio'a, JUNE 29.—Bidifferent channels, none of th6rn official, we hear that Joszrx has left Ma drid for Burgos. tIC ANr JUNE I.—ln the vicinity of Castell the re has l a t e l y b een a s ki rm i s h , i n w hi c h t h e French lost upwards of 150 men in, killed and . oiihd td. NOTICE PROM GALAGIA.BONNET retired from t he Asturi as , an d had on the 21st. Jane joined = l R 2 s-tox-r. The grois of the Spanish army as • In Santa Catalina, a-league from Astor thewhich, on' the 20th, had not surrendered : - paniards are nevertheless masters of Leon, Ivliich Pro • v . mee General LEUIAU has entered and -s tr e'Yn all the French fortifications in \Bane s erit e , baneza, Rio Seca, &c. &c.} .AIARQuIttLz has entered Palencia. junctio n b etween S OULT and MARMONT i S talkedAi 9EI: It is likewis'a reported that 10,000 and Sicilians have disembarked in Cata- Aor k i a. • • • 443)301 4, . JULY 4.—According 'to intelligence, ciatei June 2&,. from Cadiz, deneral BA'LLESTRROS defeated, on the 233 of that month, in the same place of Bornos, Geneial COURROUX'S reinforced division. The illustrious MINA writes froth Navarre, that at last his friend CRUCHAGA 'had died after ampu tation, and states, at the same time, that he had in.tereepted'an official dispatch from BERTH ER to JOSEPH, in which he 4emands twenty batta lions from Spain for the `war in the North : it also states, that no troops from France have arrived on this side the Pyrennees. Accord ing to letters received by the Courier of yesterday from Badajoz, the French have ,withdrawn their artillery to Fuente deMaerhso, and that they cut and destroy all the corn which they cannot carry off. The 6th army has invested the Astorga. Lord CATHCART will set oil on his Mission a fewdays. HiS Lordship will proceed in a fri gate from Yarmbuth, and be accompanied by two Messengers. Vice-Admiral Sir .S.•SmITH hoisted his flag-on Saturday •afternoon,. pit Po:tsmouth, on board the Tremendous, 121, Capt. ROBERT CAMPBELL, for the Mediterranean. Sir .SIDNEY is appointed se cond in command-on that station, in the room of Admiral KEATS, who, we are sorry to learn, comes home from ill health. Sir SIDNEY will shift his flag to the Hibernia, off Toulon.. The Tremendous will sail. in a few days. - . . 2 • .• • • We hear that the - Swedish Messenger who ar rived in the packet from Gottenburgh- on Tuesday, was the beaver of-a Treaty which Mr. THoßwros had concluded, and which was brought for the ra tification of the Britisth Government. Russia had acceded to it.--The Messenger has taken his de- _ part ure for Sweden. . • - - At the date of the latest advices from Poland, EUGENE BEAVHARIiOIS, with the fourth and sixth corps.of the army, was preparing to advance to wards the Niemen, in the •direction of Grodno, where the. Russian General TuamAssow was sta tioned with the th4d Army of Observation, while ,JEROME BONAPARRE, with the fifth, seventh, and eighth corps, had . quitted Novogrod, with the supposed object of penetrating to BialliAock and Braesz, where Prince BAGRATION had fixed his hea&-quarters. Letters from Koningsberg, of the 4th instant, confirm the intelligence of the revolt of two:Prus sian regiments, one of infantryand another of ca valry, to the Russians. They were attached, it is said, to the force which passed the Niemen on the 24th ult. at Tilsit, under the command of Mar shaf Macdonald ; Forming the advance, they ac celerated their march, and had got considerably beyonp the ground they had been, ordered to take up for the night, before the Marshal was aware Of the circumstance. Still supposing their for ward movement to have resulted from some mis conception of his orders, he dispatched an Aide de;camp, with orders for them to halt. They unanimously refused obedience, and continued their march. Upon the return of his Officer, the Marshal sent a body of cavalry in pursuit of them ; but they were Unable to make any impreSsion upon the fugitives. . _ A considerable military force was assembling in the neighbourhood of Copenhagen, on the 26th ult. ; but-whether for the purposes of offence or defence is not stated, either in the public or ,pri vate accounts. Two divigious of the Neapolitan troops (about 8000 men), •vho had received orders to march to Germany ; through 'the Tyrol; have been coun termanded, and remained, on the 16th June, at Verona: The inhabitants of Poland are in a state of star -vation, owing to the number of troops quartered in their country. The Archbibliop of MALINES, who was ilien-! 'tioned in, the French papers as. having been ; ap pointed to an important Embassy,. is residing at Warsaw. It is said that he is 'authorised by BuONAPARTE to make some propeials to the Diet, in his name: , 'Fire-engines are attached to _every corps in the French service in Poland. They are emptoyed to convey water to the troops with more expedition than I#y manual: labour; through pipes, extending ,sometimes a.mile, in length: Quebec Gaiettes to the 15th of May' have been received. The preparations for attack on the part of the United States had occasioned considerable bustle among the military, and led to the adoption of several defensive measures, among which were. an, enrolment the inhabitants on the frontier districts, and the raising of two volunteer regi nients atQnebec and Montreal. S.o gkeat was ihe scarcity of forage In the neighbourhoOMOT Quebec in May, that the inhabitants had.resarted to the miserable expedient of taking the thatch of their barns, to prevent their cattle from perishing. The latest advices from Bt. Domingo state, that CHRISTOPIIE was still laying siege to • Port-au- Prince, and that two of his regiments, thel9th and 14th, 'had dOsetted to PETION. The Cork Chronicle states, that a Mr. ITPnEa sox, who, according to the_ description' given of hire, appears to be a Roman Catholic Clergyman, has. been sent to the Continent on a special mis sion; authorised by his Majestyis Ministers, for the purpose of obtainin.7 the consent of the POPE to a security for.the Crown, in the nature of the Veto, upon the choice of the Catholic Bishops, as a condition of the emancipation of the Catholics of the British Empire. Friday evening the French fragedy of ,11fithri4ate was performed by a company of amateurs, at Hard wicke-house, St. James's-square, before the Prin cess of IVAtu, Princess SOPHIA of • Glouc.ester,\ the Duke "of GLOUC ESTER . and about 200 of the principal Nobility and Gentry in town.. The play was got up in the most 'able manner,'and,notrin--. ferior in all its characters to. the performances of the regular companies ,of the London Theatres and the novelty of the tragedy in french was highly 'gratifying •to its royal and noble visitors. After the performance, the company sat down "to supper in the Library, served up in the most sumptuous manner., rifiE Iti6ißA. The following letter, which bas excited - great attemtion in Ireland, was addressed by this Nc>ble man to the Earl of FIN . GAL, in consequence of the proceedings of the rgregate Meeting of the Catholics-ou the 18th of last month, h Dublin. TO THE EPJ OF FINGAL. " Mr LORD, . LAndcn, .Tube 23, 1812. On my return from a.`tour into Sussex; I have found the Irish papers, containing the pro ceedings of a Catholic Meeting, With reference to recent political transactions here. To forbear advertence to the sentiments expressed on that occasion might appear on my part a disregard of opinion, little compatible with the respect which I truly entertain for your Lordship„ and the pei sons over whom you there presided. On that count I trouble you with a few remarks. " The uniform tenor of a long political Career, during which I had constantly opposed a bar to ' my own personal advantages by the tenaciousness with which 'I had insisted on the conciliation of Ireland, involving specifically the removal of. Ca tholic disqualifications, might have secured me against the suspicion .that I could, without any conceivable temptation or inducement, at once abandon - a principle so perseveringly maintained. This is not stated in any tone of complaint ; fot nothing has passed.which I can vieW captiously ; but it is fit arid equitable that your attention shOuld be recalled to'factS which •bear so power-. fully on the present topic. - - When it is protlaimed, that yOuretract yeyur confidence front toe, you only withdraw' that Which I never solicited. 1 bad no demand upon the Catholics as a distinct body for any alcuow:. ledgments. 1 *never attempted to make a party of you. The linel have lot so many years pursued was,dietated by a sense of the justice due to a . large portion of my countrymen, and by a con viction that the fulfilinent of such justice_ wasane cessary to the weal of the British Empire. Yet, although this principle was operative, with Out any reference to the good will of those who were to he benefited by it, and would secure the conti nuance of my best exertions, . howsoever thank less, I should have lamented, had the declaratiori of your Meeting been more deliberate than I can suppose it. I have been honestly proud of the generous gratitude exhibited at various junctures by so large a portion of my countrymen, for my humble efforts in their behalf ; but I was so, -be cause I thoUght their applause the result of their judginent. Were the confide tee of the Catholics of Ireland indeed so inconsiderate and so fleeting in its nature as ycur late proceedings mightim ply, the possession of the loss of it could not affect even the vanity of any . man. It would, however, be most unfair to take the casual effer vescence of a public assembly in so grave a sense. Nor can I be revolted by the error of a glowing disposition in any individual, h6wever unjustly it May bear upon me. It is only the selfish manage.; merit of cold calculations that can be permanently disgusting. In the vexation of an apparent retardMent to your hopes, you have not allowed your, can dour a due exercise upon the motives of my pro cedure. 'The practice of stipulating- for changes in the Household, if, indeed, it May "assume oo Innen of prescriptive custom as can entitle it to be called a practice, has been - tong deemed by me improper in the formation of a Ministry. The grounds of ,my objection have acquired. additional strength from repeated reflection. ; I consider it as indecorous, at leastaif not unconstitutional, to make any requisition for places in the Household. At the same time that it interferes uubecothingly with the appointment's made by the Sovereign, it proclaims a view to votes, little reconcilable to the attention we 'profess to pay to the ilurity of Parliament.—The plea, that an ostensiole con nection between the Cabinet and the Great Of ficers of . the Household, . giVes -effective strength to a 111inistry, is manifestly idle. They, upon Whom such an appearance is supposed to operate, are WO near the fountain head of information, to be influenced by those exterior . signa.—They twist be perfectly "competent to'know, Whether the-So vereign be repugnant to, the change of-the House hold Of or . indifferent. In the latter case, the_ wishes. of the Adininistraion are as efficiedtly Catried by private representation as by, demand ; land much more decently. Tn the former case, though the:Sovereign may acapriesee, every body will infer a latent dissatisfaction, the supposition of which, will counterbalance any spew of support front the connection of the Great Officers. .The :Ministers must fed this ; therefore; they Wont& iii this case, (MAY palm upon the public an exhi bition of the Sovereign's confidence, which they themselves know to be hollow and delusive. On sUch tortes, they must, in fact, compound to ebn auct business; with a direct, hut private convit tioni • that there is riot between them and the - Sovereign the essential confidence, indispensable for the public welfare. '' If secret influence be feared, is it really throargh the possession of an Office in the House- , hold that it can alone be exercised ? And if the. indisposition' of an. individual to the Miniatry be' apprehended, is that indisposition likely to be More active, when a natill-al consideration of the risk of losing Office, must tend to restrain it:, than when the person is freed from the checl a and instigated to virulence, by the: pro-vocation of having been turned out ?—And - what species . Of .Ministry must that be, which is to start. with an avowal of its. fear of secret influence which is to satisfy itself with a security so wretchedly in sufficient, and Which cannot repose itself 0.1 the legitimate resource of throwing up the, reins. of Government, if it at any time finds itself counter acted by underhand intrigue ! Such is the true portraiture .of a constitu tional practice, (as it has been described) which common sense must ridicule, which ought to be held incompatible with the frank pblicy of a Bri tish Minister, and which manly feelings should not stoop to contemplate ~Even were it granted, that this could . be adMitted 4ts a 77onstitutional practice, stilt it would be one, which like every other, must be open. to be governed, by a whole some discretion. The' conduct of Lord Grenville, in not. stipulating for _ the removal of the Lord Chamberlain; and the Lord Steward, on the for mation of the Ministry, ,in . 1806, must prove that the' principle was;. in his- judgment, liable to pliancy and subject to consideration of c:reum stances. Now, if ever the consideration of cir cumstances could influence the exercise of.: uelt: pri,tiCiple, it ought to have been done so c , n the late occasion, for reasons which must be too pro minent in your mind to require being indicated by rne That the Noble Lords with whom I was ne-. gociating, acted upon other. motives than what they deethed constitution:A, and thence imperious, I never surmised. It is not in their ho;iourible characters to adunit consciously any but a 'worthy impulse. But there is an intoxication in the no tion of party triumph, which prevents attention to the collateral effects of measures The Noble Lords did not,appear to me to set the inevitable consequence of, what they urged. For ,myself, ai 'least, I must Say that I conscientiously regarded their proposition, as requiring nothing less front me than that I should subscribe to the humiliation of the Throne. c• I need not expatiate on the impossibility of my' acceding to a measurc - , , which I contemplated as S 6 irrecOncilable to the sacred trust which I was endavdiiiin to discharge for the public benefit. Even a measure whiCh I had always so earnestly at heart, as the uniting all my fello -, y subjects in a bond Of 'coalmen interest, was not to be ated at the price of an unworthy compliance.— The cause of the Cathblics stat - 0 , 1 too dignified in its intrinsic jittice to be advanced by petty chaf; % _ . feting; hut I persuade_ Myself tbere•is ii“t a re spectable.nian of -our, Communion, who wouid. have Wished the to prOmote his a.dvantag,es ar the expente of a step debasing for myself and injurious to the country. _ That the removal of the Catholic Disabilities h id beenthe ground on which I immovably stob;l_, is teStified.by Lord Grey and Lord Grenville, in their minute of our _last conversation. The ex planations on that point were "most minute, and their-. Lordships have _recorded their entire satin= factibn at what bad been provisionally settled on that paramount subject. 1 ?rave in no shape coin promised that point. My receiving the honour of the Garter, affer .tiictinistances which are in the knowledge of you all, might well have heeri derstood as a testimony borne to the ingenuous conduct of an Illustrious Personage on the pre eminent question of giVing to British Subjects,- Of every description, an equal interest,in the wofare Of the state. Events will best tarnish the com ment; and can alone do justice to the benevolence of his wishes. g i I have the honour to remain, With sincere respect, my Lord, " Your Lordship's most obedient and Very fumble servant; " MoirtA.'• tre Earl of Fingal." An order arrived at the Royal Barracks, at Chatham, on Friday, to select two companies, Who are to form a part of a battalion of seven companies of marines, to be'employed, it is sup-' pose 4 on the coast of Spain, BCAIXG.—A desperate battle' was fought be t Ween the Life-guardsman and Burrow ; on Sa turday, at Coombe Wood. Thirteen rounds were fought in 17 minutes. Shaw sheweti off some good. science upon the head of his antagonist, who.certainly is not so good as when he fought Molineaux. The Life-guardsman, by Fives Court sparring, has beconie,. if not a Belcher, with the gloves a seientific man, which he had an oppor tunity of displaying on Saturday to much advan tage. lie has adopted the mode of fighting suc cessfully practised by Cribb, that of retreating and hitting. His left hand is very effective in thus re treating, and the game of his. antagonist threw every thing.in his way Above all, the Guards man fights with great temperance, not to ssy jollity,.and from his length, Weight, and strength, will We esteemed very formidable. If he be, as represented, a bad in-fighter; he is a- long left-- hand hitter, and he beat this 14. stone game man; till he. could not see his way cput of the ring, in 17 minutes.—Paddington Jones seconded the win- - ner, and Richmond the loser. A female, named Anna Gagerin, was beheaded at Munich in May Last; It appeared that she had for some time inaintaiued an illicit intercourse frith her Maiter and having conceived a violent hatred against her mistren, attempted to destroy her by superstitious means. Failing, hoWever, she, one Sunday, 'CACI] the: husband was atchurch, enticed her mistress to the brink of a dry Vr:ell, 45 feet deep, tbrid precipitated her into it. The .poor woman was not found 'until two days after, when she was takeu out, and lived sufficient time to expoae the hypocrisy of hzr servant, who had pretended immoderate grief at her loss. SMITHFIELD mAr,Kr,r, JtTL' 20. This day's iNfark , ,:t had a middling supply of prime Beasts, and the show of Cattle in .=. r eneval was pretty good ; Beef, Mutton, Veal, and . Lamb, were dearer ; Pork sold at' last price ; and the trade. fcir the most part N.1 . 0S somewhat brisk.—The sales in:the Hay Market were rather lintely ; Straw, and Clover, fetched last prices.—We sub join -a correct statement of the prices and Qum.. hers : ••. To sinlf the OEI, per Stonc of slb. Beef; 4-s. 4d. to (is. Id. Mutton, 4d. to es. ed. Ve4 o •55,04. to 7s. 6d.' Larub, ds. od. to 7s.Gd. Pork, rri. Od. 114.. Beasts, 1510.. Sheep and Lahibi, 15,600. Calve..., 110. Pigs, 230. SMITHFIELD HAYMARKET. • Hay, 41. 15s. to 61. Os. Straw, 4 21. 10s - . to 31. 10s. Cloyer, 51. 10s. to 71. CORN-EXCHANGE, JULY 20.—The qrrivals of Wheat to 7 day, with the,quantities Oa hand, :hake considerattle supply the trade again heavy sale, at a reduction el 'about 4s: and ss. per'quarter from Friday's prices, and Bloke' on second and or ilinary ; Barley and ].+l - alt are each .rather lower; Peas and Beaus of eachdesitiption at tittle fluc tuation ; Oats a arc here in good supply, and sales • in this trade are likewie_;named at 3ittle variation : --Flour at late quoted prices. Wheat - - 8&s. 120 s. 186 s: .'lricl. Beans 4 -, - 6.93. 7AC.. Fitie,ditto - - 1428. ;475.. Oats - - •4 . -50 s. 5 , 25 . . 555. Rye,.._ . Sus. 87$. -V.yianj ditti) '- - t6c. .;ss„ Barley - - - - Zsiis. 64-is; l'otWoe ditto ... - COs. —.3. Kat - - - -87 s. 955. Itap6Vticed - -•- :01. 781, 4 White Pease ',boil.) 775. S4S. Fine Flour - -115 x. 120. Giey tiitto ' - - - 7N. 77.• .S.:ccni.d.s , ..2. - -- 1104.115 4 .. Beaus - - - ' - 70- 775.