The Sun. — London, England, 1812-09-07 00:00:00

MAILS. Itaittri D--1 Cadiz, I ListhoT!, 1 Brazil%, I Dublin, 1 Water terford. I )trt:,--.1 Cadiz, 1 Liston, 1 Gottenirargli, 2 Dub e Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TwE LIT. O'CLOCK. Consols 6O C Uranium THE BUN. SOLEM QUIS DICEItE FALSUM RUDE. T L 0 ND 0 N, MORDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1812. The town was yesterday thrown into a state of considerable agitation by the arrival of French Papers, and of letters from the French coast, which contain .a report that BUONAPARTE had been severely, if not mortally, wounded. We' should pay very little attention to.: an unau thenticated rumour of this kind, if it; were not for some circumstances which give probabi lity to the statement. The Frencb Papers which we received yesterday, are to the l sltk, instant, and do not contain any official nevkfrom the armies in Russia, but the minor Papers cid the Ist state, there had been a succession of actions, com mencing on the 14th ult. in which the Frencliwere uniformly successful ; that on the 18th they enter ed Smolensko, and that on the 19th there was an- , other action in which the Russians were again re pulsed. The first observation that naturally occurs upon reading these accounts is, if, the Rus .sians have really sustained so many defeats, if the French have really taken . SmolenskO, how does it happen that no official account of' these splendid successes are given in the French papers ? How does it happen that the details of this important in telligence should reach the Journal de ,l'Empire time enough to be inserted on the ISt inst. and •, • ..„ yet that up to the 4th there. Should be no Buile tin in the•Moniteur? This, at least,.is .strange. — The Bulletins which appear in the Moniteunarek always signed-by BUONAPARTE himself. If it -were true - that .he was Sa.severely wounded, the non- appeara.nce. ...of. the Bulletins might be ac eounte& for., There is another „circumstance .which is not unworthy. of .notice,,3hem, were two extraordinary sittings of the Cowserv i ativ.e Senate on the 31st 2:.agust and the lit September, but no account of their proceedings:transpirek r ,NOW, if , the accounts from the armies which appeared in the minor French papers on the Ist September are genuine, they must - have reached Paris 'on - the:3lst Aug. which was the day on which the first extraor dinary and secret meeting of the Conservative. Se- nate was held. 'On the other hand, we think it our duty to observe, that the disasterS in Spain, and tardy rogress in Russia, may account for the extraordinary meeting of the Conservative Senate — 'a new . levy of conscripts may be wanted—i-{r money, or many other matters. It has happened also on former occasions, that the MOnit:eur was not the first to announce French successes ; "for instance, the battle of Austerlitz, and the story . of BUONAPARTE meeting the Emperor of GERMANY in a mill, were first published in the dros, and sent afloat in a boat, from which circum stance it was very senerally - discredited. Upon the whole, our opinion is, that there has been some very hard fighting . ,—that the French have got Sinplensko at': the expence of a dreadful slaughter on their side, -L - Land that ; the Russians . have retired, consistently with the settled plan upon which they set out: while their armies are kept entire, " every forward movement made by the .French will make their retrograde so much the more diSastroUs. It must he reniernbered, hOw ever, that the,reportedsticeess - oftheßussiansfrom Gottenburtil is stated to- have been on or about the 20th ult. • - _ Cadiz and Lisbon Papers arrived on 'Sa.turday night. We have made sonic interesting extracts frmn them, which will'lii.fountl in -.4 ..tubsequent column. The Order of the Day to the Freneh troops', dated Port St. Mary's (in 4:11e . vicinity : of Cadiz) he 18th August, was to the folldAvliig . effect ;77-; " SpLDIERS, It is indispensably necessary to march, in or iler to revenge the misfortunes which have be fallen the Imperial Eagles in another Province; getting rid of what can be sold, and calling in the persons attached to the army." The East India fleet has arrived at Falmouth, under convoy of the Iphigenia. STATE OF THE KING. Yesterday the following. Bulletin was shewn at t.James's Palace. " Windsor Castle, Sept. 5, 1812. " His MAJESTY has continued nearly in the same state since the time of the last monthly xeliort." vn Saturday. the Princess CHARLOTTE of WALRi arrived at Kensington Palate, at half past four o'clock, from Windsor; dined with' her Mother, and returned at half past seven. NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUT,H, Sift.. s.—Arrived the brig Prin cess, JOHN STEPHEN'S, master, from St. Thomas's, with a : cargo, consisting of rum and sugar, bound to London, last from Sicily; sailed with the • fleet .under Convoy of his Majesty's ship Chei - ub ; the sloop William., •belonging to this port, WIL- L/AM TREF...BATHER. master, and the ilbOpiqOrittiOy SAMUEL Tonga; master, both froM -•" . ! . . with cargoes of paving stones, fOr his Majesty's Dock-yard, at this- port; the brig Susanna, TuomAS ALLEN, master, from Cork, With prOv.i sions, and the . Two Brothers, nA 4 .I„ master, from Guernsey, with a cargo, both bound to this port ; and the Ann and Elizabeth, CLEAR; from.Cnwes. His Majesty's brig of War Zenobia, that arriv ed- here on Thursday last krom Lisbon, has cap tured an American ship laden with flour, an the Fervent - gun brig, Lieutenant HARE, has also captured 'an American vessel with a similar cargo. The Epervier sloop of war, lately arrived from the Mediterranean has been paid off at this port. • The Wasp, a new sloop of war, has been com missioned at this port by. Captain EVERARO: '• The Clarence man of war, Captain VA,NSITTART, is ready for sea in Harnoaze, and only waits for men. His Majesty's ship Melpomene, Captain i:\LCON, is fiftingin Hamoaze, and will proceed to Lisbon, with troops. !A regular channel of comunieation by packets to COrtinua has beOn announced at the Post Of -fice ; the ship Queen Chdilotte, belonging to this .port, Capt. TURNBULL KIRI:NESS, sailed this morn ing for Falmouth, and is appointed to carry out the first mail that has been made up for that port. It was the Macedonian frigate, Capt. CADON, from the coa:A . of France, that arrived here on Thursdy , afternoon, and not. the _Rhin frigate, as . i.vas erroneously rtated ; the • latter is cruizing on. the coast off Spain, with the squadron under the command of Sir liO:4E POP , . . The French sloop that arrived here on Thurs day afternoon last, is the Enzelie, in ballaA,_ cut out a few days since by the boats of - the Strenuous gun-brig.' Arrived his Majesty's ship Laurestinus from Portsmouth ; the Nimrod hired armed cutter from the Channel fleet; • the sloop, .7fermaid, GREGORY, from Dartmouth ; Friend's Goodwill, JAE.vIs, from Cowes ; cork Rump, SNAIE, from I...ymington ; Dolphin, NUTTER, from Chichester and Ports mouth. Sailed the schooner Bess, belonging to this port, KENDALL, master, for Gibraltar, with a cargo ; and the brig Louisa, belonging to this Port, ARMSTRONG, master, for Dublin. Put in here to join convoy the following vessels, viz.: brig Richard, belonging to this port, DARE, master, from Madeira ; sunning ship, in 14 days, with a cargo of wine ; the schooner Dart, 131/T -. TER, master, from Limerick ; and the Edward, PHILLIPS, from Cork, both_ laden with provisions, all bound to London. Sailed the shit tender for Bristol. The Speculator hired a\zned lugger, with about 20 sail of merchantmen, for the Downs, are de tained at this port by contrary . winds. The following ships of war are at this port, exclusive of guard-ships, prison-ships, &c. viz : Boyne, Colossus, LaUrestinus, re'ac donian, Niobe, Zezzobia, Foxhound, Bramble -. calorie, Speculator, ,Clarence, Bittern, Pirasantfi Reindeer, Melpomene, lf - asp, Fury, Seaflozver, , Bloohound, and Tigrei ; the Nimrod, hired cutter; Endeavour, hired brig, Maria; Neptune, (Ist) Neptune, (2d) and the Eli zabeth Unders. • • FAL.NIOUT Sfri". d: =Arrived this evening the. Lord gobart packet., With 'Nils, from the Brazils, 56. days passage from' Rio de Satieiro;ancf 4§:from Bahia ; also the Fox packet, Capt. TILLEY, With m ails, from Cadiz., vhi(iii she left on the 2Gth ult." The.enemy continue to bombard the city from five to six times- . a day, but with littleeffect.. The Fox left lying at Cadiz his Majesty's ships - Hound, St. Albans, Btna, Racket', and Stately. - On- the 10th, his Majesty's ship Standucrdsailed with trans ports from thence on an expedition, said to be to the westward. On the 14th, the Dart cutter ar. rived there with dispatches from England, and proceeded for the Brazils : on the same day sailed his Majesty's brig - Rebuff for the Me diterranean. The Tozonshend packet arrived at Cadiz on the 20th ult. : it Was - said,...that the expedition which sailed from Cadfi 'on the 10th of August, under the command, of General SKERRET, and Captain FLEMMING i ' of the Navy, had lauded aboUt 5,000 troops "at lle rebla,,and which had proceeded from thenee to Niebla, which garrison theFreoch bad abandoned on their approach, previonsly destroying' it a large ,quantity of stores and grain -were found there. This packet also confirms the landing of 20;000 Enoioi and Spanish troops at Alicant on the lOth August, which had gone into the interior: 'The SRanibli.Gen. O'DONNLL. with 12,000 troops, had been defeated a few days previous, by 3000 Ficnch; his army was dispersed in all directions, one regiment (the Walloon Guards), consisting of 900 men, had only 79 men and '2 officers hir ing. General ELI() was appointed to -the com mand, and O'ONNEL was ordered to be put un der arrest, and sent to Cadiz for trial. • Put in here this evening, by contrary winds, his Majesty's ship Iphigenia, with six IT,aA• India men and five whalers under convoy, viz. Lord Forbes; - David Scott, Lady 'Lushington, William Pitt, .Retreat, and Tottenham; Rebecca, Concord, Eliza; Ranger, and PrOvidence. They bring. an account of the death' of HoLKAn, the Indian Chief. Sailed the Marlborough packet, BULL, for Lis bon, and Manchester packet, with mails, for Co- runna. CHATHAM, SEPT. 5. =Came up the river to be paid off his Majesty's Thetis. Ships in commission at this, port, viz :—Victo rious, of 74 guns, in dock C; 'the Diomede; of 50 guns, and Success, of . 32; are fitting as troop ships ; the Thesis, of 36 'guns, is stripping to be paid off ; the Forester, of 18, and the Thistle, of 14 *gtint,,, are fitthQg for sea; the Mulgrave and • Arab are riggi►►g by -contract. NAVAL ArPOINTMENTS.—The Flamer, Lieut. - and, at Sheerness, takes convoy to the Baltic; the Thetis, Captain nyillll, •at• Sheerness, is ordered to . proceed to Cheat ham; and terra be diionar.tled . and paid off. The Nitnr<A, Captain :Mitchell, in Sheerness harbour, will be reailY'Ati pro- , ceed to sea to-morrow; the Appelles sloop, 'Captain •Robb, is just commissioned.at Sheerness; the Alban catter,Lient . : Key, _ is refitting at Sheernessithe Victori:us, Capt. Talbot, in lock at Chatham ; the • Fore:ter,' Captain Kennedy, is ready for .Wa. atChathatu; the Diomede, 50, Capt. Fabian, is fitting with 'all possible dispatch for fhe ,reception of troops, at Chat ham ; the Thistle sloop, Cap=ain White, in. Chatham harbour, iSlittin.gfor_t:ervice in the - Ctiarimil ; the Success, 'Capt. Bar clay, is in a- forward state in Chatham harbour, fitting for troops. • • THE THEATRE.--A Comedy, entitled - Tho tiiants a Guinea?. was represented. 'on Saturday - la St at the -1-la.yrriarliet Theatre. This 'Comedy • was brought forward some years .ago at Covent-Gar. , 'den Theatre, but as 'it was at the • t.ime- when Master Bifativ had-bewildered,thetoWn;and- no thingtbeirdes himself experienced any attention, the play was but coldly received. "It wg4,--Aow ever, written by, Mr. COLMAN, and may be , 'Tsro•- perly ranked among his most diverting:as - 25 infecting productions. The fable has .no mere improbability than is usual on the stage it may indeed be said that the events are such as' might very naturally happen, and Which may be pronerly admitted into " 010ioniadeq,of teat . is : a' due mixture. of the funnorous and pathetic ; and though they arc at times blended in, the.same. 'scene,-the one does' not counteract the other, but excites ,an agreeable agitation in the mind., by the alternate influence of merrimenfand..sympathy. The chief characters Were v•-ell, cast.' ..8a7f0.1,-d; A military ',.offieet, who has suffered many - M - 111e , tions, which have rendered him apparently yui santhopie without iinpaiting his humanity,- was sustained with good sense and, feeling by TERRY. Torrent, a wealthy old Gentleman; with is ,in , ,,pet' tUOIO in feelings benevolence,, and who re joiees in the , misfortunes. of others. because-they afford him an opportunity of relieving theM,. gave full scope to the talents of Mtr'xpbr., who ren dered the part very conspiCuous. .The.nio di vetting, character of the whole, however, was- SOlomon Gundy, a, whimsical servant, 'who hatt . improved his ei4ucation at Dunkirk,. , wlience he returns wits bad French, which he sports - on -all occasions, and with the 'most ludicrous Confusion ) , was performed by MATHEWs, with irresistible effect upon the risible muscles. Jong. sup ported the part of a spendthrift \ Irish treirenet with ' strong and active .humour ; and Mrs. Glass in Fanny, the daughter of - Ba)-ford, who. had been lost to himfrom infancy, was intei‘estitig awl affecting. The rest of the characters were. respectably supported by EYRE,. Gaova, .and leis wife, and BENNET. I.!c Comedy, as it de,served, was • received with .great applause, and ~was announced for repetition to-moriow With`.l,S4t . t!, warmest approbation. 'lndeed the reeeption...Ny4s' se very favoimible that it would doubtless have 'been •repeated 'this evening, if JONES were not obliged to attend Covent-Garden Theatre.:,There was a numerouS and elegant 'auditory. On Wednesday last detachments . from the Royal. Cheshire Militia relieved the ShroPShire, doing duty on board the prison-shipS in Haraoate. , On Friday , last-a .reinforcement of tbe Cheshire Reginient MilitiaMarche:i to,P4Et month, to assist in the . duty of that ; depot . Bartholomew Fair exhibited on 'Saturday night a scene of riot -and confusion which.. has: r seldoM been exceeded. The influx of.pei'sdns of scrirtions was immense, and at ten o'clockevery avenue 'leading to thelarir was. 'crammed with. An impenetrable mob. \i ho. in the interior of the Mob could'act be extrir,,ated, ' and thOse •whO Were outside were in the most in iinent danger - of being crushed to death against. the booths. SeVeral females. fainted .and we re trodden tinder 'foot; others forced -.their way, on the top of the crowd, and crawling on their beads, were rescused from their perilous situation by the performers in their booths. We lament to state that many. serious accidents occurred ; several limbs were broken, and one or two lives were lost. .The most distressing scene .that . occurred, was that of a fine child,,about atwelvemonth old, Laying . been suffocated in the arms of its mother, The.. unfortunate woman did not di scove r the hap less fate. of her infant, until she reached Giitspur street; when she rent the air with the most frautie shrieks, SPANISH AND PaITITGUESE PAPERS. FROM THE TELEGRAI7O rORTUGUEZ; OF 18TH AUG, COPY .01 7 TWO INTERCEPTED LETTERS FRO:J DILNISTER trilQUl.io TO ASANSA. " Laht j s, J• • 25. " tt seas supposed the bend-quarters of the 7 -. King, our Lord, would have been established in Fonteviros, but they are :fixed in this, place. It appears that this movement: was ordered in copse quence of various disp , ltclies received - from Blasco' Sancho. Tic English. army, driven back to Sa lamanca, had taken. positions upon the heights of St. Christovas, and was durrounded by that. of - the . Marshal Duke o - 1 Ragusa, which passedthe 'Formes - by Alba de Tormes. On the 22d there yeas a gu neral battle under the most favourable auspices.--. :The French artiilery caused infinite damage to the enemy, and Genzral Mocwa had_ seized tipon the most formidable position of the allied army,.when 'the Duke .of . Ragusa was wounded, and carries . out. of the battle. General lionnet, to whom, the command devolved, experienced* a similar fate.-r. These two events, and the perplexity occasioned- for vant of directions previous to another Getieral taking a command, deprived . the French army of the himour of that victory,which it had a right to expect'. Although the loss of the enemy was greater than that of the French army, they latter ;passed the Tonnes, and again retired upon the Douro. _ " If circumstances had retarded the passage of the Torrues for only two -days, the French army of Portugal would have been reinforced by :the troops which ,his Majesty was conducting, and without doubt the English army would have been destrOyed, and all Spain at on c e liberated." SECOND LETTER. - Segcivia, 527th July. " The King, oar Lord, arrived this evening ,in this city, .in which :his,head-quarters are eita blished. The coming of his Majesty is attribnte'd to dispatches received from the Duke of itagusti, by.,one of his: Aid-deLtiamps, in order to talk about. a communication with the Artpy. of Portu; gal. The : English prisoners, ivishont allowing for desertibil, calculate theloss of the Allies at 10,000 men." • • LISBON, AUG. 22.:---The Regency of Spain, it orderd to . anginent their arinies . , have ordered a - recruiting of 50,0110 men, in the foltOiVing pro portions;. Catalonia,-6,000. 4: left part of .Arra.- gon, 1,000; in th . e free, part of the kingdom of Videncia, 4,000 3 prOVince3 of Cuenca and Gila- , dathcara, 3,000; part of Arragim, 3,000 Mar- , 3,0003 Mancha, -14003 - Jaen and free part of Grenada, 3,000 • Estrauadura, 6,000; (as tells Vilna; 8,000; Gallicia, 'B,OOO ; Asturiv, 1 3iooo'. ••• - • • . • The garrison of gastello de Niebla has destroyed ; she fortifications, and retired to Seville. LIS/561N, AUG. '`2, ; 2.---rJoseph BuOnaparte has, it ' 3 ii'sftitt,'Crcissed the Tagus to join Sachet. Lord William Bentinck is reported to be Off Vak lerleia,..,and Roche and Freire, who attempted tc-9 faironr his lauding, were, it is said, attacked b:;) 1 Stichet, and defeated with the loss of 3000 mei , • ThereliS every reason to believe that the British arinv afterwards landed at Chelches, twenty- ni des . iorth of alenCis..* Things remain in st a tu q uo with General Hill: We have this instant been informid, that on the 10th inst. Generat Maitland was at Alicant, his force consists of 16,000 men, of whom 7000 are British. The remains of Marmont's army are at Lerma. Our information from Cadiz comes down t o the 14th inst. All doubts lia:e ceased respecting the des'tination of the English expedition under .I.n:rat Maitland; On the 27th July, after ccillect int; 10,000 English, two -Spanish siulis oiefe fropa Alicaut, and the other from jorca, add a third, composed of EngliSh, With Por tug4se'artillery,, which sailed from LisbOn; pro' ceeded from that port, and disembarked on tire' 30th July; in Villa Nova de ,Sityes, a point be" tween Barcelona and Tarragona. This intelli gence is and froin these 20,000 'men , joined to General Lacey's army, the most bril liant success is eXpected, which may lea& to Oa emancipation of Catalonia.: .oti the 16th of July the powder magazine7of the fortress ; of Lerida blew up, and the French garrisOn, consisting of 600 men, perished. I-ROM THE SUPPLEMENT TO THE PORTUGVES S TELEGRAPH OF AUGUST 19. At this time the siege of Cadiz is . raised. Soult, on the 12th and 13th, held Councils of Warre . specting the measures requisite to be adopted. lis Excellency Marshal Beresford, on the 15th, -was considerably better. • • II‘i'TRLLIGENCE FRAM, OVA A'AIES. • On the sth, more than 600 Juramentadoes had deserted from the French, and joined- us in Sego- Via. King Soseph, abandoned : by . his ,f;ce - "0 5 ?.klarmont - and Soak, took the resolution' of flying to Suchet, "in 'Valencia. The eiPedition Cadiz,: consisting of. 7,000-. men, - has disembarited at Huelva, in . t be, county of Niebla. AUGUST. 13. 7 - 7 -Yeiorkia'..disembarked in this city, VrenchlyrisOners; taken in the 4attle of the 22d of July, 4S officers, and 46 ST .20.—We are - assured that the French have raised the ai.tge oF.Cadi• - Aud. 7.-1-li§ Excellency the EO : Ambassador has communicated a copy of the di s pateheof-I..K.!rd :Wellington to his Britannic P l 7 jesty Secretary of-State, containing the particii.- Jars of the, battle :of Salamanca:. The Secretary, for: War Affairs piesented himself -in the HA of the Congress come,:'-! :said he, " to gjl' e , your Majesty an account of the complete route °.,` Marmontyby the victorious arias of the T-I?e.(.;opgress-and the People inanifestc tilt most extravagant joy ;, "LOng live the Sa"' tion re-echoed from 'the: galleries " Lon e live the !immortal Wellington ! Long live cu t great !" and it vas immediately voted that a deputation should wait on the English Arab": sailor with the congratulations of the Cortes, to which his Excellency was pl e a s ed to reply es l ows I am above_ -measure gratified by tu attention - of the gress ; and I hope this s ucces , will be followed by Con stillgreater and that the re i suit of the wh o l e will the entire ddiverY the Peninsula."