The Sun. — London, England, 1812-12-28 00:00:00

MAILS. ARRIVED-1 Brazils, 1 Dublin, 3 Waterford n 1 bon, 1 Gottenburgb, 2 'Dublin', I Waterford. F SUN. Sr)1,1;31 (21t1,S 'DICERE FALSITI Aum.vr ? •- L.OkDON, MONDAY, PECEMBI: 28,:1812. We this morning received the following letters . , mentioning the arrival of a flag of truce from France. We do not think it at all improbable that BUONAPARTE, With a view . of allaying the ferment that prevails - throughotit,France, may make pro posals for a .Negotiation.. DOVER, DEC. 27 aboat from France, reported to, be a flag of truce. After a short con ference with. one of our brigs, she immediately returned. The tide not serving, the brig d;d not stand towards the Downs, but it is said she land ed a boat at Folkstone. It is circulation all over the town. that the ‘crew of a sloop of war having mutinied, carried her into ,a French port. , Tue vessclwas on the Dungeness station." ANOTHER LETTER, SA3Ik: DATE. ":1 boat, reported to be the bearer of a flag of truce, was seen off this morning, and after a short conference with one of our brigs, returned to France. •A boat with dispatches landed at Folk- Stone, the wind. and tide not permitting the brig to make the Downs." ANOTHEII . LETTER, SAME DATE. " It has been reported all day, that a sloop 'of war, on the Dungeness station, has been carried in'T.o Boulogne, by her crew, who mutinied•." • • We regret to say that an official 'actount has been received at the Admiralty oldie, capture of the Macedonian, by the United States, Commodore DECATUR. The United States, it seems,• was laid down for a 74 gun ship, had 24-pooucicr long guns, and 48-pounder carronades; and , 478 meg. The illacedonan is a 36 ,gun frigate, cvith. a compleuicnt of 300 mcn §he did not strike till she was a mere wreck, her masts, sails, and rigging, all shot away, and_ 104 'men killed and wounded, of which 36 were killed. Accounts have been received from the French Coast, which state that orders have been sent to SotILT and MAssENA to send one-half of the troops now in Spain into France. M.►ssENA, it iS'said, has been ordefed to repair in pe;son to Paris. -A . Gentleman has arrived in this country, who left Ostend On . Saturday ; he says it was generally reported mid believed, that BUONAPARTE was se- a ious;y, ndisposed. WINDSOR, DEC. 26.---Yesterday being Christ mas Day, the Sacrament was administered to the QUEEN and ProNcEssEs, by the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, in the Castle. The Princess CHARLOTTE of WALES weilt to St. George's Cha pel, and heard a sermon by the Honourable and IHeJerend Mr. H. STOI'FORD. The Dukes of J(ENT and C IMBRIDGE dined with the QUEEN anti' PRINCESSES, Yesterday the LORD CHANCELLOR had an audi, ence of the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton House. Tile Earl of LIVERPOOL gave a grand dinner on Saturday last, to his f',,ccellency the ,llussiAN 1111BASSAbOli; and several other tlistinguiihed For6gners, attached to the corpi diplonalique. j Several of the Cabinet Ministers, and Etfew select persons, consisting - of, 'among other, the Earl of Moira, and the Countess of LounoN. . • The. follovying communication was on Saturday posted.at Lloyd's : • " Admiralty-Office, Dec. 9.5. GENTLEMEN—I have received the commands of my Lord's Commissioners of the Admiralty fo ac quaint you, in reference to your letter of the Ist inst. tra 71smitting an applicatiOn from several Mer chants; fOr a convoy to sail' fro'ln the - more to Gottenburgh, 'that the easterly winds , having de tained the outward-bound convoys to Gottcnburgli to this very late period of the year, ,their Lord -ships feel themselves obliged to countermand the sailing of the same fill the opening of the spring. ''.l. -am, Gentlemen,_ your obedient , humble servant, 3. W. CROKER:" From an article in the French Papers„ it ap pears, that in the evening of the 17th inst. the day on which the 2!/th Bidletiw Was iAiblished in Pa riS. a violent disturbance took place at the Theatre Feydean.; The cause is said to have been the' non-appearance of Martin, the comic actor, -.rho was ill, and of whose illness no public- notice had been giKen before the commencement of the el-en ing'sentertainments: But the fact,,it is rumoured iz, that howevel Martin's absence might have been laid hold of first by the audience to express their displeasure, the disturbance became a political one. The Theatre Feydeatt has, in, a conspi einmis part of it, the bust of Buoimparte. There wa4 a very numerous audience, arid different arti elci-were thrown from all parts of the house at the fmstc ,accompanie:i with hisses and execrations.— The Police, as usual', • had its myrmidons in the theatre, but they were too few in comparison with the wholearidienee to produce any eneet. The clamour ' and exclamations against the Tyrant grew louder, and after attacking the bust in the way we have mentioned, they at length tore it down, trod it under foot, and broke it. After this was done, they did not remain to witness any the atrical representation, but immediately emptied the house. Saturday a Malta and Gibraltar Mail arrived with letters from the former place to the 21st inst. and from the latter to the 11th inst. Those from the garrison speak in terms of con-. fidence of the result of the operatiunS carrying on against Suchet, who, it is believed, - will evacuate tbe province of Valencia on the first advance of the allied force. There are letters by this opportunityfrom Con-; stantinople. The French interest, which had be gun to predominate in that city, on the first ad 7 .vance of the Grand Army to Mosco..ir, had :pro portionally declined since the iutelligehce of their retreat: • The following are extracts of letters from Con stantinople and Malta : CONSTANTINOPLE', N0v.2.-Until within a few oays, it was believed here, that; the change of mi nistry would be foflowed by .a renewal of war against Russia.. The enemy's ambassador was very active, and frequently clOsetted with the Di van. His interest had even begun to 'predomi nate; when a courier arrived; announcing that he had commenced his retreat from Moseow.— This broke whatever measures were then in agtai tion. The Grand Vizier was recalled from the army and the English, it is hoped again take the lead. MALTA, Nov. 18.—The polacca Eliza, com manded by Captain Siccoli, laden with merchan dise„ from Malta, direct - for 'Constantinople, was ,attacked off Candia by a French . : privateer ; tho' the latter was 'of superior 'force, she *did not decline the combat ; but, after engaging her for several hours, and making a Most .honourahle re siStance,.was obliged to surrender. Theinerchatits of , Malta, sensible -of the brilli ant, though unsuccessiul defence made by Captain Siccoli and his crew, made a subscription to re ward the valour of both. In, that subscription the British Company. contributed 1000 crowns, the Anglo-Maltese Company 500, the Company of Insurame of Malta 460, 'the Company of the Union 230, the Company Villviosa: 200, the' Com pany Singlea 200. The 7. whole subscription amo anted to 2560 crowns, which were distributed in the following manner.: --4o ten mariners of the crew 90 crowns each ; to three mariners wounded, 150 cror.-.ls each ; to the. family of Nos , tricomo, who was killed 'in the action, 270 ; to the second Captain, Giacomo Tabeno, -, - rho was wounded, 330 ; 4.'aptaiiii Angelo Siccoli, 500, and a sword of Oleo-able of 80' crowns', and ac cOmPanied- by a complimentary . letter to Captain Angelo Siccoli. Buonaparte, in his flight from the army in Li-, thuania to Paris, travelled at the rate of near 100 miles a day, performing the whole journey from Smorgony, where he left his Ge'nerals on the sth of December,. to the French capital; where he rived on the 18th—in less' than thirteen days.— Of these thirteen, nine were consumed in . passing to Dresden, and less than four in corning from, DreSden to Paris. The journey, in the early stages, was necessarily slower, on account of the badness of the roads; and the velocity accelerated in the latter stages', where the roads were better, and all the facilities of travelling greater. We do believe there is scarcely an instance of greater dispatch. It would appear, that, except at Walla, where he had an interview of some hours with the Duke of Bassano, Secretary of State for Fo reign Affairs ; and at .Warsaw, where. he'saw Count Porocki, and the Minister of Finance Of the Grand Duchy (for he no longer talks of the new Government of independent Poland) ; and afterwards at Dresden, ivherehe.saw the King of Saxonyhe never Once made himself known on the way. This rapidity of flight, as well as 'the secrecy and want of pomp and attendance acconi panying it, betray his alarm for his personal safety. It was the same alarm, without doubt, th at engaged hint to avoid, as mach as possibl e , th e Pr uss i an territory, and that of Austria also. He dreaded the fate of . Richard Cur de"Lion, and w ith bet ter reason. The person who accompanied him, and whose name, he.aSsumed; was,'it appears, the Duke of Vicenza, better known by the execrable name of Caulincourt, the wretch who seized the Duke D'Enghein in the neutral territory of Ba den, and conducted , that distinguished wand pro mising Prince to the mock trial which terminated in his murder.' The Duke of Vicc . az4. holds :the place of Grand Equerry in Buonaparte'S -house hold, and is Much in his favour and confidence. Ptz, , i/ism.—A pitched battle ; by wa y o f k e epi ng up Christmas gambols, was fought on Saturday morning at Grimsby Common, Middlesex, be tween Sam. Garner, a coachman, and Hardinge, a na:igator, for a purse of 20L and a'suit of clothes. After tivo hours and a half most dreadful fighting the former obtained a hard-earned victory. In the combat, eVery fe'ature, was bit out of form, besides which, two ribs were broken, and th e loser had his jaw dislocated. Thursday night Abraham Davis, , a Jew, pur chsed twelve guineas as 265. each, of a nian at a public-house in Drury-lane, Ile afterwards drank a glass of liquor with the seller, in the.eourse of which he imprudently sheaved a .bag, lilted with gold, which he boasted having purchased that day. Shortly after he quitted the house, when he was knocked down by two men, and - robbed of the money. The bag contained 65 guineas. Last 'week as J. Little, a coachman, %vim for merly drove one ,of the'Maidstone coaches, but latterly the Brighton coach, was entering the yard of the Golden Cross, at Charing. Cross, not stooping - sufficiently low, to avoid the beam of the gate-way, he struck his head against it with such violence, as to cause his death in a feW mi nutes.' •, As a Party of boys, eighteen in number, were amusing themselves,' last week, near Battle, in Sussex, by 9 on the ice over a pony! which was remarkaly: deep, it suddenly gave way, and the whole went under, and were drowned; thir teen of, the bodies were with difficulty, got out some time after, but the other five have not yet been toil Id. Gti MOnday last, Samuel Hinton and Thomas Kealey; were committed to Worcester Castle; for stealing a rump of beef, a leg of mutton, cheese, duck, lard, and five pecks of wheat, front the premises of Mr. Joseph Patrick, of Crow's Nest, in the parish of St. John's, near Worcester. The property was found concealed_in a saw-pit in the environs of Worcester. NAVAL NEWS . PLYMOUTH, DEC. 25.—Arrived the brig Three :Friends, belonging. to Lyndon, from Messina and *Gibr•lltar, w ith . a cargo consisting of raisins, oranges, &c. hound to the river ; a few days since she was fallen in with by the Kent man of war, (ar rived here from the Mediterranean with a convoy), a boat's - crew from which ship were ordered to take possession of lacr as there were not any per . sons found on boars'::. The cause of het being abandoned by the crew could not be - discovered.— The vessel had sprung a leak, -but not such as to endanger their lives ; this, there:fore, could not have induced them to desert- her; and it is sup- posed she had been taken possession of by a 'French privates, and that the Frenchmen in charge of her, on the heaving in sight, took to the:boat and endeavoured to regain their . vessel. Soon sfter tie Three Friends had been manned4row the Kent, a live dog was discovered on board her, which appeared t o b e i n a weak state ; the animal still remains in the vessel. Arrived the Pickle brig of war, Lieut FIG 6, froM . a cruize in the Channel, and has been put under quarantine, for having_had 'communication with the schooner Laddioz from essma, with a cargo, which vessel had been captured a short time pre‘lims by . a French ship privateer of 16 guns and - 180 men, called the Miguolonnaise, and afterwards given . up to the masters and crews of six or seven British merchantmen, 7 .vhose vessels had also been captured by the same privateer one of them was the • brig Three Friends, • Cap tain Wittinv, before 7 mentioned, which was or- Acrid to be scuttled, but the Kent heaving-in sight obliged the enemy to abandon her; the others, it is said, 'were vessels from the Mediterranean part of the. Kent's convoy, and a ship from the Brazils, with. a very valuable cargo, : which iverc sent for St. Maloes; - the latter was the ship fred, belonging to London, from St. ,Salradore, with a cargo, consisting of wine and cotton, CgAr MAN., Master, bound to Lcition; captured on the :13th instant. On the preceding day the Alfred fell in with the wreck Of a French privateer, of lti guns, took off sixteen a her crew, being all that.remained; tile others 'haVing perished when she upset,.which happened during a - storm ; the William, belonging to Sunderland, MOORE, froth Grenada, with a cargo, consisting of rum, sugar, &c. bound to London,, was captured the day- after the Alfred, by the Mignollonnaise, and sent 1 :or France. The brig Three Friends was fallen in with by the Kent, in lat.' 46. 51. N.long. 11. IS. W. on the 15th inst. two days after her capture by the pri- Vateer, which was coinniaaded by Capt. Nrouvr. She sailed from Messina .on • the 4th Nov. and from Gibraltar on the . 28th following. The pri vateer belonged to St. (aloes. Upwards of thirty privateers have lately been fitted out at that port; and the greater part of : ,them are now cruizirig , in the Channei,' The Pickle brig of war, whose arrival befe 'we have already Mentioned, took out the masters and crews of the captured vessels from the Badojoz, (among the -former, Captain WHILEi of the Three Friends) which aftenirarcis prbeeeded on for Guern sey ; but the former being under quarantine, pre vents the possibility of our obtaining any further particulars than the foregoing. We t!derstand, however, that. two frigates were. left *in chase of all those vessels that had been taken possession of by the Mignollonnaise, i.vith a prospect of coming up with them in a few hours. We' therefore hope for the pleasure of shortly annonwing .their rival here. Put in here by contrary winds, the brig Hope, LUMSDALE, master, from Pernambuco, with cot- .ton wool ; the brig Jarvis, CARTER, from St. Übes, with fruit; the brig . Belinda, ROBERTS, from Dublin, with wine and provisions ; .the brig Betsey, LEWIS, from Wexford, with provisions; the sloop Nan's Cow, RICHARDS, from Waterford, With 'oats and wheat ; and the brig Tr-aveller, SWAN,from Lisbon, With fruit, al bound to London. The following are the names of some others of the homeward-bound Mediterranean 'feet, not already given, that,put in here, under convoy of the Kent, and which will proceed for their respec tive destinations the moment the wind proves fa vourable, viz : the Golden • Grove, . I ::hr.t ; master, bound to Hull, and the Athill, Huou - Es, master, bound to London, both from - Smyrna, with car goes, consisting of fruit and madder-root ; the barque Scarthingall, JoHN WARE .matter, horn Malta and Gibraltar, with currants, &c. bound to London ; and the transport ship Fortitude, "Hoar;, from Alicant and Gibraltar, with condemned stores, bound to Plymouth for orders, which are under qurantine. , The Athill on, her passage spoke the Rolla, hoineward-bound, ship from Smyrna, with a cargo, all well. DEC. 26.-- 7 -Arrived the Achates brig of war from a mize in the Channel ; the - schooner Eliza, StutActrn, from Guernsey, with a cargo of whit for this port. Sailed the Sharpshooter. gun-brig for Guernsey• The RoscounnOn Militia relieved the 2d FoV 4 Lancashire froin the duty on boar , l the risen- ships this Inpr;:ing. The Royal Chi:shire Militia marched this d a y to perform th'c duty at the Dartmoor depot. Arrived the.sllip frilBam, of and for London , WINGTCYN, master,- from St-. Lucia, with a carg ° • •consisting of sugar, cocoa, &c: put in here by contrary winds: The bd illiq n , touChod at sts Thornas.'s, sailed thence on the 25th October, in rompany with the flect under c'ouvo s y of th e Ringdeve brig of war ; parted . company about fortnight since. FALMOUTH, DEC. 25 7 —ArriVed this day • Princess Charlotte packet, Captain WHITE, w ill' mails from the Brazils. Left Rich de Janeiro the . tith Oct. and Bahia on the Left at Ri ° hi's Majesty's ships Montague and Nereus with the Juniper schooner. On the 10thinstant, spoke the Atnerican.brig Columbia, from Boston for Cadiz', arid was informed that, seven days before, she wa s boarded by the French privateer . Experiment, thell Jon. W. 12. On the 22d spoke big Majesty's brig Helicon. Alsn arrived the ship Simon, cock, WARREN , from Malta, which she left on the 14th Novi spoke an AmeriCan ship, . bound to Lisbon/ having on board the purser of his Majesty? ship Macedonia, reported to have .been .taken the American sqUadron. 'I he Simon -Cock is pa l under quarantine. Arrived the brig Sceptre, Captain IhRcHARD , from Rio Jancrio, S 2 days.passage ; spoke the --..-- cutter of Guernsey, Captain BERRYMAN . , 1; few days since, all \veil, Yesterday arrived the Express packet, C a ptain . T, 7 ?2.TKINs, .from Cadii, last, from Kinsale, where she landed her mail ; nothing new. Also arrived the Chance privateer, of London, Capt. STENO, from a cruize. On the 23d, off Ushant,, foil in with a boat having on board two masters and par t of the crews of the brig Samuel, of Yarmouth: and George• and Dorothy, of Londo.), Captai o HoLmEs ; the former from Port Mahon, with wines for Dublin, and the latter froth . Limerick, w ith provisions for Lisbon; both taken off Cape Clear, on the `2lst instant, by the Miguollonaisq French sh:p privateer, of 16 guni and 15& men, belong;l4 to St. 3laloes, out fourteen days, and made nine captures, five of which she tiestroved, one sell:loner from Messina. She put all prisoners cn board previous to the 20th, and perrii:ttEd them to proceedto ngland ; on the 2lst she captured the Alert cutter, of Guernsey, with coffee, sugars &c. hound to Gibraltar, which, with the ship Conor:tree, of .London, from St. Thoinas's',' with . sugar,, coffee, ram, &c, for London; and the brig 'Regent, from Brazils, with a valuable 'cargo for London, she - accompanied to Fra.nce.--Car . fain NicusT,.. of the privateer,:: treated the prisone:s extremely well-, and at the request of Captains GnIMSTONE and noLmEs,•gave them boat, with - a good . stock of provisions, &c. to pro ceed to England. When they left (the 210 inst.) the privateer was in lat. 47.. long. 7. with het • prizes in. company. Captain NICUET had bete -ten years privateering, and not once taken : he -intended making a finish this last cruize. WEST INDIA AND BRAZIL FLEETS, CORK, DEC. 21.—The vessels composing the above valuable Fleets, made an unsuccessful effort on Friday, to put to sea, but were prevented by the extreme haziness of the weather. Early on Saturday morning arrived the Surprise frigate, Captain Sir T. I. COCHRANE, who imme diately on her arrival proceeded to take'out her stores laid in by his Majesty's ship Sybilie, Capt. UPTON. Captain Sir T. I. COCHRANE being de sirous of going out to the Westindies, had, with the permission of the Loris of the - Admiralty, ex .changed wiih-Captain•Urrox, as one of the con voy to the West India fleet. in consequence of which, we are glad to find, the Sybille will still continue on this statkm. Upon the arrival of the Surprise the whole ot' the vessels began ,to . get under weigh; as weil as their — convoy, coasisting: ,of his Alltjesty's ship Co.utherldnd, 74 guns, Captain /3.‘icrm; Surprise, 3S guns, Capt. 'Si:- T. 1: COCHRANE ;. Cherub, l 6 guns, Capt; ,in TUCKFR ; and 4,7l(nm:the, 16 guns, C4i1t3.111 PRINGLE. There being a fine breeze from the S. E. they soon got out of the harbour, and there is no doubt al' the wind still continued from that pdint, but by morning they Would have cleared the land. His Majesty's ship Cherub, Captain TUCKER, takes charge of the vessels bound to the Brazils. His Majesty's ship Sziki,lle., Captain UPTeN, and Dauntless, Capt. FARBER, take under cen7oy large fleet, for Jisbou, Gibraltar, :and Cadiz.— The Sybelle goes ,no farther than •Lis,bon.., They will sail to-morrow. The Virdgo, Lieut.' PITTMAN, with convoy, up Channel, sailed hence' on Thursday, Fut hack agai:i on Fricii y morning, owing to adverse winds. The Earl SpenT cer cutter; Lieut. BOTH WELL, ar rived here oa Saturday from Galway.