The Sun. — London, England, 1812-12-26 00:00:00

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CX T a Nomerotis MEETING of Noblemen and Gentlemen, convened for the purpose of considering of id Si.4...ription for the REDIEF of the POOR SUFFERING INHABITANTS -of the different GOVERNMENTS of RUSSIA th; origh which the Frenclh Armies have paSsed :in their to -.atrocious Invasion of that Empire, held at the , Crown end Anchor in the Strand; the 23d day of December, 1812, His Rpyal Highness the Duke of YORK, in the Chair; • rt e. , !vt anid un , mously, That this Meeting views with the stroagest, sentiments of admiration and gratitude, the heroic constancy displayed by the Russian GovertinientandNation, in a conteSt, in which not only their 6\ll honour and independ ence but the best Intel ests of this country and of the civilized world are deeply involved; and feels the warmest sympathy for the great and unmerited sufferings brought upon the peaceful inhabitants of Russia by an unprincipled invasion, attendeil by circumstances of the most atrocious violence and devastation. _ _ Resolved unanimously, That this Meeting feelit to be their duty as Men, as Britons, and as Christian's, to:contribute, by every means in their power, to'telieve distress so aggravated and so undeserved. • • - .• • " • , - Resolved unanimously, That a subscription be opened for the relief of such of the inhabitants of Russia as bat ;suffered in cOnsequence of the French invasion ' • and that the produce of the subscription hip remitted to his INtikiiisty:s Ambassador, at St. Petersburgh, to be by him applied' ib aid ,of the sub scriptions there raised for .the. same purpose, or otherwise, as his Excellency may thank most expedient and effectual. Resolved unanimously, That ti. Committee be appointed for The m nu:gement .Of the said - subscription, and that the follow in;; gentlemen be members of the said Committee,' The c ltight Hoii, Georgeßose J. Julius Angerstein,,Esch The Right Hon. Chas. Long J. C. \Veguelin, 1% , f1• The Right Hon. John Sullivan James Broaden, F;sci. Thomson llonar t Esq. William Wilberforce, El. William Henry Hoare, Esq. John Thornton, Esq. Sir Hu - gli Inglis, Bart. Samuel Thornton, Esq. A. H. tintlnifland, Esq. Robert Thornton, Eq. Et:in - and Esq That, three be a Quorum, and that the Conunittee havo au-, thorty to add to their nordier such na►ues as they , may think fit. • Res:dyed unanimously, That Samuel Thornton, Esq. be re quett-d-to undertake the ofliee of Treasurer to-this subscrip tion, and to manage.the remitance theteefTtinder .the.direc tiou of the Committee, and that books he opened to receive • the nrnnes e Snbscrincrs at the Bar of this House, w Jere a Gentleman Nvill attend 'for tliat 'purpose daily,' from -Ekren till Three o'clock,' and the Money subscribed may be paid there, or to the different Bankers - of London and Wernminster, under the title of " Crown and 'Anchor Subscription .for the Russian Sufferers:" FREDERICK, Chairman His Royal Highness the Duke of York having left the Chair, It vas moved by Mr. Samuel Thpr nt on , and resolved unani niouSly, That the Thanks of this Meeting be given to his Royal' Highness the Duke of York, for his truly noble and - philanthropic conduct upon thiS occasion The following sums were immediately snbscrihed : The 'rin^eßegent.~ . The L ❑!ke of ork Lord Live! p.)01 Lord BucLinghamshire Lord Castlereagh Lord Hl.rrowb3 , S. and 3 . .. Thornton and Co Thomson Bonar and. Co. John-Marley, Esq Lord"Sidtnouth Mr. Set; cant Pell Lord Kenyon ... Sir George Warrender. Bart. Sir Hugh Inglis, Bart. . Itobert r thoiit Esq The Right }Pin. John Sullivan The Right Hon. George Rose .- - The Chancellor of the Exchequer John Julius Angerstein, Esq. John Angerstein, Esq., Mrs. John Nwrer-ttein • William Wilberforce, Esq. .... 105 0 0 .... 105 0 0 .... 105 0 0 103 0 0 200, 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 103 0 0 e 2 10 . • 0 100 0 0 52 10 0 52 10 0 52 10 0 50 9 0 .. IN 0 • 0 .. 105 0 0 .. 100 0 0 .. 50 0 0 . . 50 0-0 .. 50 '0 .0 _ . Ascough Bonclierett, Esq . 50 0 0 The Right Hon. Charles Arbuthnot Thomas Ferguson, Esq. lO 'lO 0 .1. W. FL Parkes ' Esq. W. A. Wagner, Grosvenor-row, Chelsea ' John gtoddart, L.L.D ' , , The Times Journal . :- lO5 0 _ 0 Matthew Martin„Esq. . I I - , 0 Thomas Wells,•f o 'sq . 5 5 0 Lieutenant-Colonel Bathiirst• . • . 100 0 0 . A. RobertsOn, Esq. Gerrard - street 4 2 0 Admiral sir John Orde • • • 26 -5 _ 0 . . . . Mr. - Jaines Putman Henry Jones, Esq 1 1 0 The - tilarquis Of Hertf.a,l Edward Orme, Bond-street 2O 0 '0 The Rev. Wecdon Butler . 5 5 0 The Marquis of Headfort l'os 0 0 The Right Ikon. Richard Ryder 32 10 0 Mr. Toisias Gainsford ,'ll- Frederick Baker, Bart , 52 10 0 MAILS. .AitraliEn—l Dublin, 2Waterfor4. Due-1 Lisbon, I Gotten burgh, 1 brazits, 1 Dublin, 1 Waterford. THE SUN. SOLE3I QUIS. DIOERC I'AL3LTM . AUDEIT ? L 0 N 1) 0 N, ' - SAURDAY, DECENIBER 26, 18.12. . . • We are extremely anxious to receive.the Rus sian account of the operations of the Russians and 'French, during the last days of No-vernber, be canse we have no doubt, that it will appear that the loss of the French has been greater, infinitely greater, than BUONAFARTE thought proper to ac knowledge. The account of the battle of Berisina, is very confusedly given, and those which relate to the subsequent movements,we hive not the slightest 'doubt but that they will turn out to he very The Bulletin is drawn up with, the intention of inspiring a belief, that BUONAPARTE did not quit his army until they arrived at Smorgonia : we are strongly inclined to suspect, that be left it immediately after the battle of Berisina, a:;companied only by his Marshals, and by his sacred squadron," as he impiously terms them, Of officers. The battle was fought on the 28th November; on the 29th, the French army arc stated to have remained on the field of battle; and then — we are told, that on the 30th, -the head-quarters (not •the army) were at Plechnetsi, .on the Ist of December at Siaike, and on the 3d at Moloditchna. It was impossible that the ArMy, even if it had been in a good condition;could . have moved with so' much rapidity The "head-quar ters" must be understood as being those of Buo- NAFARTE and 114 Marshals, and his corps of ca valry Officers ; the main body of. the Arniy was . left behind, NyithOut a leader, without oflicers, vvithout cavalry and without artillery. There is souiethir,.. , very mysterious, in the ,account which -? litioNnliAßTE gives of .his sick and wounded; he Crroi)eotgs.. by what means ? the army itseqwas in full retreat to Wilna, flying as fast as its worn-out state would permit, without horses, and. without waggons, as BUON.,iPARTE expressly tells us ; how then were the sick and wounded to be for Warded to Wilna.? INlarch they could not, "and. means ; of transport there were none. The fact; we haVe no doubt, will turn out to be, that they Were abandoned to their fate. It will be recollected that much surprize was felt at the great disproportion between the number of officers and men that were taken pri . soners, when. NE Y and DAvousT were defeated; but the 'difficulty is easily solved. BUONAPARTE foresaw, very soon after he left MoseOw,...that he should lose the greater part of his army, and he be . .gan veryearly to send away his officers towards Po land, not out of "any, humanity tOWards them, but because he knew that it would : be more easy to procure men than to, make officers. The German Papers, it Will be recollected, told us sOrne weeks ago that a number of officers:had arrived there, I upon leave of absence, from the French. Army.-- , Leave of absence !—ls it to be supposed, that in the- condition which the French Army was, that BN NAPARTE would have parted. with his Officers with any other view but ' the one which werhave mentioned? The usual proportion in the French Army is One Officer to twenty-five men ; but among the prisopers of NEY'S and DAvousT's Army there wag" not UDC Officer tO 100 men: 13VON:\FARTE afterwards took as more decisive step : finding his dangers increase, he collected between band 700.0fficers, formed them into a corps, and with them escaped, leaving the army (if :army it- could be called) to its fate. Is there to be found in the whole annals. of scar an instance in which . a Genera, when his Army was in a cri tical situation, separated his • officers from his soldiers, and formed the former into a corps by themselves ? ,Can it be suppose I that BUONA PARTE would. have adopted such a measure, unless he-had considered the army As irretrievably lost ? No ; we are convinced that the unfeeling monster deliberately abandoned the wreck of hiS army in the way that we have described. We shall, we suppose, be censured by The Chronicle, for applying strong epithets to this man, but.when we recollect; that since the 20 1 th of last June, he'has caused the death of little less than half a million of human beings, it is impossible to speak of him with mo deration. The Party indeed, will not apply any4arSh,terms to the Tyrant : no ; they studi- • ously, both in their speeches and writings, give him all his usurped titles. They know that their oivn, Government have not acknoWledged •him as-. Emperot of, France, and yet they always style him " the French Emperor" or "the Emperor of, France." We recollect that some years ago, the Party never spoke of the Emperor of Austria or the King of Prussia without calling thedi despots, but then they were in alliance with this canary, which is quite sufficient to secure to any Prince or Government the abuse of these patriotic' gen tlemen. We this morning received the following letter from Bermuda, dated Oct. 28 : " On Sunday, the 18th inst. the Poictiers fell in with the American sloop of war Wasp, having possession of his Majesty's brig Frolic, which she had captured about two hours before, after an ob stinate resistance on the part of the Fro/c, and a hard-fought engagement of 45 minutes; • both vessels were talten' by the Poictiers, and ordered for this Island. " It appears 'from the most correct statements we haVe been able to obtain, that the Frolic, When fallen_ in with by the Wasp, was in a very dis abled state. Having suffered severely in a gale of wind, and having her main-yard on deck, for the purpose of fishing it, her inain-topmast sprung, and being unacquainted . with .the exist ence of the American war, she was totally un prepared for the contest ; yet . , notwithstanding these untoward circumstances, the vessel was fought till her mast and bowsprit were gone, her First Lieutenant and Master killed, the Captain and Second Lieutenant wounded; and 65 of her crew killed or wounded, when she was boarded by the Wasp, and her colours were struck by the crew of that vessel. • The gallant manner in which the Frolic was defended, when attacked by a vessel every way her equal, and rendered doubly her superior by good condition, reflects the highest credit on, the captain, officers, and crew of the Frolic, who thereby enabled her convoy to effect its escape, and perhaps accomplished the ultimate capture of both vessels by the Poictiers. " The boatswain and boatswain's mate of the Waip were recognized'as deserters from his Ma jesty's naval service : the latter from the Cleo patra; r and the former had been Sir J. P. BORES-- FORD'S coxswain, when in ttie Cambrian ; they NAVAL NF WS. PLYMOUTH, Disc. 24.—=The Kent man of war, with a fleet of merchantmen, from the ?ieeliter pinean, cOnsistipg of about 20 sail, put in here last evening by contrary_ Winds, and .are under quarantine ; 'they pased by .this port on Tuesday evening, and had' proceeded beyond the when the wind, blowing fresh from the Eastward, obliged them to bear away fOr Plymouth. The fleet,, _on the passage, experienced very bad wea ther, and we understand" several have sustained damage in their spars and sails. The greater part of them went up HamOaze this day, 3, - vhere they . will remain until the wind becomes favourable for them 'to proceed to their respective -des tinations. Aniong the fleet are the Betsey, NEALE, from Smvrna, with a cargo, consisting of 'raisins, madder root, &c. ; the .brig Orient, of tristtil, GORDON,: Master, front Gibraltar; with. wine and raisins ; the brig George, of London, WIHTE, Master, from Gibraltar, -with currants, blacklead, hides, _gum, cork, &c.; and the Hebe, of London, Gu.vrcrt, Master, from Maltd, with oil, cream tartar, rags', and silk, all bound to London ; the schooner - - Rocet, N . 7 Lt: • , - from Gibraltar, with a cargo of Wine, bound to this port foe, orders. The Orient is in distress having split her sails during a gale. The Betsey, from Smyrna, sailed thence 43 days since, in company with th.l ship Neptune of and for London, Captain Cvit'x,Es, laden with fruit, &c. and. parted' patty on the folloWing day, since which she has not seen her. About four days since, off the Lizard, a French frigate, said to be laden with stores, and supposed to be from Havre de Grace bound to America, was fallen in with . by the ..ilbicore sloop of war, HeLi con brig of war, and a gun brig, name unknhwn, who attacked her in the most gallant style, 'and continued in chase of the enemy, who carried a press of sail, and 'made every endeavour to es cape from, her little assailants; who appeared to have the advantage in sailing, and kept up a well directed and galling fire upon her stern and quar ters, •which did ' considerable. execution ;, it was therefore expected thdy would' ultimately capture her. The above intelligence was received here by. one of his Majesty's schooners that witnessed the chase, and which arrived here last evening. The following are among the. Mediterranean fleet which arrived here yesterday, viz. the trans port brig wittiuii, 79), of London, FORD, Master,,from Minorca, Alicant; and Gib raltar, with condemned steres,. bound to Ports mouth ; the transport James and Henry, of Lon don, BAILEY, - Master, from Gibraltar, with re turned stores, bound to Portsmouth ; the ship transport Ann, of London, RICKENSON, Master, from Gibraltar,with returned stores,-bound to Ply mouth ; • the ship transport Metcalf, belonging to Hull, LAWSON, Master, from Messina, Malta, and Gibraltar, with sick and wounded soldiers, and invalids, from 'different regiments, bound to Portsmouth ; and the brig Jobson; of Fowey, SLADE master, from Smyrna and Gibraltar, with a cargo, consisting of fruit and madder-root, bound to. London, which sailed. from Gibraltar on the 6th inst..the fleet then consisting of 30 sail, a few of which were bound up the Bristol and Irish Channels, and have proceeded for their destina tions... Caine down the harbour and anchored 'in the Sound, after having been refitted, the Revolution naire frigate, Capt. WooLcomßE. The Niemen frigate, ,Capt. PYM, is appointed convey to the -Eastward, as far as .Portsmouth, and will sail. to-morrow„ should the wind prove faiourable. Arrived severalcoasters from the westward ; the Northumberland man of war from the coast of France;- the Traveller of Dartniouth, UPHAM, master, from Dundalk ; the Four Friends of this port, BALL, master ; and ;.he Industry of Llanelly, BELL, master , both from Dublin, all with cargoes. of . provisions for this port ; the King . sbridge, PEPPERALL, from DAItITIOUth Martha, TAyLOR, from Looe ; Lamb, MELnuksn, from Wales, culm laden; Industry, BANATT ; and -the Betsey, PE:lttAm, front Exeter. Sailed the schooner Richard, belonging to this port, CUMING, master, for Bilboa and • St. Ander°. His Majesty's ship Kent, 74 guns, from the Mediterranean, that arrived here last night, pici ed up at sea about nine days since, the English brig Three Friends, S. WHILEY, Master, from Messina, London. She had been plundered, it is supposed, by a French privateer, that had captured and after wards abandoned her. She is laden with fruit. Only a dog was found on board her. DEAL, DEc. 25.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Clarence, Cornwall, and Duncan,_ on a cruize to the westward. n- A -..:„-,11,:, I.lniectv'c ship Ringdove from the West Indies; and fly Woblverine from the Mediterranean; The Noolrerine is the vessel that was yes'ter• day stated to have the Purser of the Macedonian frigate an with an account of that vessel's capture by the Aniericans but no further ac' • count has been reCeired this morning. --I FALMOUTH, 23.----Sailed . his MajestO ships Andromeda and Revenge, with the Lisboa and Mediterranean..convoy; and the Francis Free' ling packet for Bermuda. Arrived the John o' Gaunt, Ann, Dorothea, and Rox7nogh_Castle from the West Indies;. parted froill his-. Majesty's slips Ringdov and. Favourite dth inst. in Lat. 49.30. N. Long. 9.0'. W. forty-three sail then in company. - A brig from Trinidad, oue of the convoy, foundered at sea; we cannot leara her name, orthe name of her commander. YARMOUTH, DEC. 25.----Sailed the Desiree fri gate; Captain-FAY:: _:An, for Portsmouth, frog' . thence to the American coast . ; and the Starling , Lieute a NA?iEn, to the Nore. ter,; - ,ed the Success (armed en flute), with pi' soners, for Leith; Leveret froM- a cruise in the, Sleeve;- -Vixen, from Harwich; and chanticleer, from a cruize. EXTRACT OF A LETTER ritum. AN OFFICER OF SO ROWL AND HILL'S ARMY, DATED NOV. 30. " At last. we have got to a halting place, to Celebrate St. Andruw's day. You know' what a rapid March we have made out of Madrid." The army did not dream' of giving:up that capital. the poor inhabitants were thunderstruck. Our march the two first days was prodigious t vre hardly halted - -for thirty hours, and durrig al; time, and even for sonic time - after, the men had no rations issued to them : as the Marquis of WE LINGTON has,institnted strict inquiry into this, you will' by and' by hear all in England. We length joined the Marquis of WELLINGroN t s army, and at the old glorious ground of Area' piles, we made a stand. The whole allied army; etwsisting of about 80,000 men, .was drawn. out ill order of battle. The French, who had mustereil every thillg Vertinsula, underiiing JoSEKI Marshal SYULT, and .TouttnA (except those who hang upon our Alicant expedition), had, ill - 7 chiding. juramentados, 100,000. There never Was a grander sight' than . the two armies, whop for the first time after' :they had mustered every thing in the ;Peninsula, stood opposite each other. However, with his superiority Mounseer w afraid, and availing himself of his superior .o vally, he chose rather to turn our flanks. VO kept annoying us as we passed, - the plains, and - threatened to cut off our supplies (scanty as they were) and to get between us, and Ciudad:Rodrigo. Our cavalry is quite done up—we bed at last none for duty but those two noble regiments the betty,' Germans, and the two German Hussar ments they held out t,ili the' last, and did: the duty. In cavalry and engineers we are conf&sS ; i edly far behiud our enemy, it was never so clearlY shewn as in:this campaign. You will hzive beard that Sir EDWARD P.AGI.,'T was taken when dis mOunted, aud no one with him hut 3 Spanish dragoon ;. I dare sq the French will make a five tale of it. how much the army regretted tb;it etiquette, of any other cause, should deprive tho . courftry, a! such a 7noment, Of tke services of such _men aSir - Joun Hoi , F., Sir DAVID BAIRD, (3etle7 . ralF - EKGusos:, and Lord PA Ea'. We shall not gO intoour old - grOund in front of Bad; , .ioz, until another campaign., if we are to have another campaign in this' country. Next to the Marsha" of Nl 7 t.t.iNcro - s, our General has most the coil" fidence of tke army—we love and adoie DEC.I9.—,At an ordination held h 7 the Lord -Bishop of Lincoln, at Buckden, this week, the following, Gentlemen .were admitted- - Deacons : Messrs. Babington, Belgrave, Cotton, Arnold, and Bright.—Priests : Messrs. Hughes, Hill, Vale, .CrAbe,, Edwards, Morgan, Wright, Barfoot, and Lockhart,—At an ordination by ti.e BishOp of. Norwich on Sunday last, 12 Gentlemol were admitted to Holy Orders as Deacons, anti 23 received the full ordination of Priests. Amongst the former number was Thbmas Hard - Wicke Rawnsley, B. of Exeter College, Oxford, son of I'. Rawnsley, Esq. of Bourn. On Monday sc'nnight, a private soldier of the South Devon regiment of Militia, quartered ill Sheffield, undertook to run ten miles in the space of one hour. The ground chosen for this arduou 4 attempt was the first three miles on the Peustone road, from Gibraltar-street. He started from Birlev Bar about two o'clock, and, had nearly when, losing one of his shoes, he 'relinquished the task. SaturdAv evening the Bath .Mail Coach wa upset at North Petherton, between Bridgewater' and Taunton, by which accident, Mr." Robert Carpenter, an eilinent grazier .of Somersetshire , who was upon, the box with the coachman, was killed on the spot. The coachman was much bruised ; but the guard and four inside passengcri escaped unhurt. On Saturday, :.Mr. Woodley, a farmer of the parishof Lovaton, purchased 201bs. weight of gunpowder at - Ashbaton, look it in a bag to the shop of Mr. Chalk - . blacksmith, and while waiting for his horse. untied the mouth of the bag to put in a stone for the,purpose of balancig the weight, unfortunately a spark of tire from the anvil communicated to • powder, which instant' ly blew up the house and another adjoini*7• (;balk, his apprentice, and three children, were htiried in the ruins, but. were dug out .without sustaining material injury. Woodley had an .00 1 broken. The crash was tremendous, and the shock was felt-throughout the town. . • Wednesday night last, between the, boors of eleven and twelve o'clock, a fire broke out in a furze house belonging teMr. Pridham, baker, at Topsham, which at first threatened destruction La the whole town, but by the prompt exertions t)t . , the inhabitants was extinguished with 'no otl4r damage than the burning'of the out-house, whoe the fire was first discovered. There is •es'ery ree son to believe that it was maliciously set on flit 1