The Sun. — London, England, 1812-10-12 00:00:00

I 14ci tAPErtS. T 1"3 ViETH BULLETIN OF :1:1 . 1E , ARMY. 11 )seow, Sept. 17. • The Rus'Sians have celerated Delon fdr 1 11 . 1 e battle of rolotzk. Te Peums have been `sung ? the s battles of Riga, for the battle of Ostro w- b , ' i t, and for that of Smolensk. According to the tissi s an accounts - they were every where con glierors, and, they drove the French to a great distance from the field of battle. It was then amidst the strains of the Russian Te De * um that the army arrived at Moscow. T.here.they thought themselves conquerors, 'at 'ledst the popUlace thought so, for weR-informed persons knew what swan passing'.. " Moscow is the -entrepot. of Asia and of Etu Its warehouses were immense ; ever y ht,iiSe was provided for eight months with n.ece§ . - ... , taties of every description. It was only the even ing before r and the day'of our entrance, that the, danger became known. ,We found.in the house of the miserable RosToPCRIN . some papers, and a setter half Written ; 'he fled without finishing it. . e ' Moscow, one of the finest and richest cities ill the world, is no more. On the . l4th, the Rus 41anS set fire to the Exchange, to the Ba.7ar, - and; 4 :4 Hospital. - On the 16th, a violent-wind arose. Three or four htinclred ruffians set fire to the 'pity in 30 different. places at the same moment, . 1) y ordr of the Governor. RoszorcHm. lix.ths of the bouses . were built of wood; the fire. Spread with a prodigious rapidity ; it was an ocean of flame. Churches, of which ,there were 1600 `above 1000 palaces, immense magazines, nearly All have fallen a pre/ to the flames. The Kremlin Ilits been preserved. _ _ Their loss is incalculable for Russia, for her olumerce, and for her Nobility, who had left all there. It is not over-rating its value to state it I L many milliards. " Aboat 100'of these incendiaries have been' 4 Pprehended and shot : all of them declared that I lley acted under the orders of Ro6TorcutN 3 and -e Director of the Police. " Thirty thousand sick and wounded Russians Ilare been burnt. The richest commercial houses i tillussia are ruined. The shock must be consider:. Ilde. The cloathing, the magazines, and the Nuipments of the itussian army have been con- Ninecl. They have thus. lost every thing; they *mad remove nothing, because they always %ought it impossible for us to•reachMoscow, and because they were willing to deceive the people.= "When they saw all in the hands of the French, • they conceived the horrible project of destroying by fire this first capital, this holy city, the centre Qt• the. Etnpire': and they have reduced to beggery 20 0,000 respectable inhabitants. This is the crime RosTorcrim, executed by felons liberated from C. prisons. " The resources which the army had found are tonsequently much diminished however, we have tellected, and are still collecting, a number of ne- tessaries. All the cellars are untouchecl by the • 4 e, and the inhabitants, during the last twenty- : four limns, had saved many articles. They endea ‘'oured to stop the progress of the fives, but the . qo‘ernor bad taken the horrid precaution to carry , 4) ti'or destroy all the engines. "Ilie army is reco l'ering from its fatigue; it has abundance of bread,' Potatoes, cabbages, and other vegetables ; meat, alted„ provisions, wine, brandy, sugar, coffee, and in short, provisions of all sorts. The advanced guard is tweirr worsts on the road to Nassau, by which the enemy is retreating. knothei Frertch advanced guard'is on the road . to 't - ..Petersburgli, where the enemy has not a single--- The temperature is still that of atitumnr the soldiers have found, 'and continue to find, a llumber of pelisses and furs for the winter. Mos tow was the depot of those articles_" SMITHFIELD MARKET, OCT. 12. This day's' market had a considerable supply of prime beasts, and the show of cattle in other ,re -Bpects was very good. POrk is dearer; Beef, l‘lutton, and Veal, sold at last prices, and le trade in general Wa6. tolerably brisk. The sales •in the - 1 - lay-market were pretty lively ; elover • has' got up in price; Hay has fallen in price ; Straw ob tained last price. We annex a correct statement of the-prices and numbers.:— To sink the Offal, per Stone of 81b. Beef, 4s. Od..tn ss. Od. - Mutton, 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. Veal, Od. to 78.0 d. La.mh, Os. to Os. Od. Pork, ss. Od. to 7s. Orl. beasts, 2010. Sheep and Lambs, 17,100. Calves; 95. Piis 2 90. • SMITHFIELD HAYMARKET. • . Hay, 41, Os. to 51. 10s. Straw, 21. Os. to 21 . _C 1 ,9 5 0r9r 51.0 5 . t o 6i. 15... The Author of THINKS-I-To-MYSELF still fill4i it necessary to caution tbelie against being„ deceived by the Novel entitled, " I SAYS, SAYS I," repeatedly advertised, as " being from the Pen of hinks-1-to-Alyself."—An Account at large of the strange Attempts made to mislead the Public Upon this Head, is to be found in the Eighth Efii, tion of THINKS-1-TO-MYSELF; now selli9g Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-row ; Hatchard, Piccadilly; and J. Asperne, Cort,l7. Sept. 1812. . . The new comet has been visible to the naked eye in the department of the Meurthe (Franc 9), since the 15th September. Its appearance is.ffrwg.: i)TtI.TRY—LANt TFIEAsiRi. . . An event so interesting in the dramatic 'world as the opening of a-new Theatre on 'a` site: has Sig long been devoted to the Scenic •M‘i'ses, ' - iit)turally excited public curiosity on Saturd , y last, ri444. , Plight degree. At an early hour ails! the l atenn c ea . the Theatre were throngedby.acrowd of anxious visitors, and a great pressure took place? tits; soon as the dOors were 'opened. It is -Irojtistice to the Managers to state, flat all pos ..sible aririfigements were made on their part,. by stationing.`Peace-offieers , and military, wherever alert was .any likelihood of danger, and both of , those bodies exerted thernselVes . Witli'great teal.— ' Happily , AO serious mischief took , place; .a4ircum stance really' Surprising, 'considering . the number and,,anxiety.of the eroy-d , .- Many of the persons who had taken places,in the boxes were unable to proeure them "but this, thbugh mortifying to the 'parties, Was a: petty grievance, and was hardly avoidable on such an occasion. -As soon as the angel - ice were settled with some degree of comfort, , a.gq - neral burst of applause was heard, and was J se ran tiMes repeated, in testimony of a general :Atpprohitilon of the edifice, and its 'embellish mc4-0,,., • Tiiti play was Hamlet, and far 'from enterino into-a 'severe analysis of the performance, we are disposed to think that, considering the agita 7 tion of the eight, altogether it was support ed , very well. Previous,. however, to the play, the curtain was drawn up, and the avhole of the company retained presented themselves to-the audience, with the exception .of ELLISTON, who atterv.7ards came forward to delk'er the occa sional Address, which will be found in another -part-of our Paper.—Piefdre it was spoken, " God save the King." -and " Rule: Britannia " were ,sung by the Performers. The Address was then spoken. .Scvetal of the Morning Papers, we ob serve; - are severe in theitcOmments on the poetical merits of this Address, but it is not Unlikely that it was the best that Was sent ; it contains passages which breathe a poetical spirit, and,'considering the difficulty which haS always been allowed to at tend this species of composition, and of discover= ing siOnicthing new, after so many have been writ ten. on similarp:xasions, we are dispoied to think that th 4 Critics have been much too hard' upon the Noble . Author, whiise high merit as a Poet is ConspichOus in his other works. :DRYDEN, GAR 'RICK, and .Dr. JOHNSON, are the only literary characters .who 'lime been distinguished,. among; all our longsnceession of PtSets; for theatrical ad dresSes. JOHNSON wrote but five, and PoPE but one good one. Therefore Lord BYRON should be respected rather than censured for what he has done. _ _ The Theatre altogether is well calculated to gratify public expectation, and to contribute to public amusement, by the facility with which the eve and the ear are g,ratified. We have not at present an opportunity of entering. into a minute description of its beauties altogether, or of no 'tieing any detects which may attend it. The in lerior , is very splendid, tho Ugh perhaps overlaid wi*Ortraments. The'lamps on the stag&have so brilliant an effect, that they have been erroneously thought to be gas-lights. They are, - we under stand, the invention of Nr.BARTosT, of the Board . of Trade. The general aspect of the interior is, light, elegant, and pleasing.- The public are much indebted to those who have so ably, so assidnous -1,7, and so successfully encountered and overcome the difficulty of wading through such a - mass of impediments as the destruction of the old Theatre occasioned; and' of presenting to the nation, so Noble an edifice for. the performance of the chief, most gratifying, rational and useful of its arriuse- thents. Mr. ARNOLD, iint.l6' a CoMmittee,, is to be the chic( superintending manager, and_ .the practical' -directioaof the stage is allotted to Mr. RAY M D They have both conducted theinselve3 with such pdgment, and impartiality, in discharging - the same offices at . the Lyceum, that the public 'Hill full reason to rely on their experience, good sense, diligence, and the general propriety Of their conduct, in, fulfilling the duties of the very arduous situations now assigned to them. NEW PARLIAMENT. MEMBEItS RETVRNED. Ripon, Rt. Hon.F. Robinson, G. Gipps, Esq . : Grampound, lion.. C: Johnstone, J. Teed, : Esq. Fowey; R.. Wigram, W..- Rash Leigh, Esqrs. , Lestwithiel, Hon. R. Pole Carew, John Ashley Waric, Esq. Toine, T. P. Courtenay, John Wise, Esqrs. 'Bedpaitauris, T. Frankland Lewis, Esq. ' Plymouth, Sir G. Pole, Bart. Col.. Bloomfield. . , -ncvi;s.s, J. Smith, T. G. Esteourt, Esqrs. 'TiWrton, Rt. lion. R. Ryder,. W. Fitzhugh, Esq. Bewdley, Miles Peter Andrews, Esq. Beralston, Lord Lovaine, Hon. Ilugh Percy. Westbury, Benjamin Hall, , Benj. Shaw, Esqrs. Marlborough, Lord Bruce, lion. Major-General • Stopford. Great Bedwin, Sir J. Nicholls, Knit. J. H. Leigh, Es. IVotto q n B.tset, J. Attersall, J. Kibblewhite, .Esqrs. Leominster, J. W. Lubbock, J. Harcourt,'Esqrs. Southampton, H. Rose,' A. Atherley, Esqrs. Newton, General Heron, J. I. Blackburne, Esq. Boroughs of Flint; ecc. Sir E. P., Lloyd, Bart. with , out opposition. . Lincoln, J. N. Fazakerley, Esq. Sir H. Sullivan, ..,, , , c l it l r a b r o t r . ot : g 'without h,C m . Sutton, opposition. E '' s 4 . ~. tdsnford, Lord Henniker, E. Foulkes, Esq. - .0 • Esq. .(140rgh City, W. Dundas, L IGen. Phipps. .: 'hirsk, W..Frankland; R. Greenhill, Esqrs., Mr. William Allen, of the house of Falconer, Allen,.and Co. ,Merchants, in Kingston, Jamaica, was found dead, on the 20th July, in the water course leading to the race-ground, lying on- leis face, st;verely wounded, supposed to hgve been in a duel,. ,The C'oroner's verdict was—" That be died in clAcquericeof a wound through the chest, from a bullet fired by some peywn or pupas un- k now n :- Some person., On Friday night, or 'Saturday morning, the 3d inst. at Ensham, maliciously set fire, to a hay-rick, containing ten tons and up wards, the property of Mr. Attwood, dig whole which was destroyed. ; oz POETRY. ADDRVIS ON Tilt OPENING OF DrJRY-LANt THEA'fft. warm EN BY. LORD RYVON. • • - f)ne dread night our city saw, and sighed,. 1 - lowed to thei.du4 ' the Dm raa'stower of pride (me short tour beheld the ;,I=l-7ing fare, , Apollo sink, and SiLkii.:3l , FAii,-; cease to reign. who , beheld, oh sight; adtoired and mourned; - 11 7 1'a:se radiance mocked•the ....ilia itadorned? Through clonds of li,e, the riven; Like Israel's pillar, chase the night I,:opa heaven, • Saw lii long colunifi of reviilvin4 dailies • . Shake-its red shadow o'er the startled Thames, -- . While thousands;thrtinged around theburning drone; Shrank back ap pal i ; rind :a-cull:lra for their home ;' . As!4lareti the voluinned blaze, and ghastly shone , The with s lightnin„ :, s awful as their own; blackening ashes-and the lodely Usurped the Muse's realm, and marked her fall Say—shall this' new nor less ai?iring.pile, Reared, where once -rose the mightiest in our isle, • Know the stone favour Vihlick the former knew, A shrine ar SllAKSPEaßE—worth'y him and you Yes—it shall 1;e--4 - tie niagic'of that nit ne Detics the scythe of tone, the torch of dame, On the same spot still consecrates the scene, And bids the Drama be where she, hatb This fabric's birth attests the potent; spell, Indulge our honest pride, and say, Hew ziell! As soars this Pane to emulate the last, Might we draw our omens frotn the pest, Some hour. yropitious to cur prayers,.may boaSt ISames such is hallOW still tie dome 'we lust. On Drury first yoUr St On3oti thrilling art O'erwhelnaed the gentlest, stormed the sternest heart ; On DrUry, GAnaica's latest laurels grew ; litre your last.tears retiring Koscius drew, Sigh'd his fast thankr, : and wept his last ader But still for living wit the wreaths may bloom That only waste their odours o'er the tomb, Such 1 - ,,rury chtith'ed and claims,--nor you refuse One tribute to revive his -slumbering muse, Withgac t lands deck youy own MENANDER'S bead ! ibeard'your honours idly for the dead • Dear are the days which made our 9.nzrals bright, En:GARRICK fled Or BRIN4LEY Ceased to Heirs to their labours, like :dl high-born heirs, Vain of out ancestry as they of theirs. 'While thus Remembrance borrows BangnO'S glasi To claim the sceptre& shadows they pa s, And we the mirror hold, where itnaged'shiale - immortal names, embla:oned on our . hoe Pause--ere their feebler offspring you condemn; hetiect how had the taqlz,to rival then)! Friends of the Stageto whom Players_and Plays 'Most sue alike for pardon, or fur praise,. Whose judging voice and eye alone direct • The boundless power to cnerisli or reject, It e'er frivolity has led to fame, ' • - And made .us olusti that you forbore to blame, If e'er the sinking stage could condeicend To soothe the-sjchly taste it dare nut mend, • - All past reproach may.present scenes refine, And censure, wisely loud, be justly mute I— • Oh! since your fiat stamps the Drama's laws Forbear to mock us with mi3plaied ap2lause S 5 pride shall:doubly nerve the actor's powers And reason's voice be echo'd back by onrs ! This greeting o'er, the ancient rule obey'd, . The Drama's homage by her herald paid, Receive our welcome too,---whose every tune Springs front nor hearts and fain would win yolir own'. The curtaiik rises—may our soge onfold Scenes not anwort,iy Drury's days of old ! Britons our judges, nature fur our g Still may we please, king—lung may yaw preside. The Committee of Drury-lane Theatre, to invite coal. petition, offered t2Ogs. for • the best written Address. CONTESTED ELECTIONS. LONDON—SIXTH TAY. State of the poll at the closing of the books on Saturday"wa:i as follows : ti nubs 4581 Atkins t . Curtis . 4096 I Waitinuan., Shaw TiC5.l Wood Silt; SOUTHWARK-SIXTH DAY. .2130 I Burdett .1755 •• Calvert Thornton LIVERPOOL ..,2995 .2233 ...206S . 506 The Election at -Liverpool commenced on Thursday : the CandidateS were, General Tarle ton, Mr. Broughath, Mr. Creevey, General Gas coyne, : Canning. G?,neral TarletOn said he had been - their Steward for twenty-two years, and had been a faithful 'one to -the best of his judgment and abilities. "General Gascoyne sflid he had offered himself on the same principlesae had tiOne 16 years ago. He and his , brother had re presented. them 32 years in Parliament; - and his family 160 years. Mr; Brougham said he, for one thbught it was time there was a change, though Itti had no personal animosity against any of the Candidates. Mr. Cree'vey said he had 'the good fortune to be born,in the town, and if he should• be returned by the. Freemen, it would be one of the happiest days in his life. Mr. Canning said he disc aimed dill personal pretensions to represent Liverpool ; but it they returned him, whoever was the other successful Candidate, they might rely on his cordial co-operation in every thing that concerned the interest and prosperity of the town. At the close of the Poll on Saturday, the numbers were . as follows — Canning 520 Creevey 473 Gascoyne :1 4Bl Tarleton 6 Brougham . 487 • NORWICII—LAST DAT. William Smith 1544 1 P a tte ion 1221 Harvey . 1349 i - BIVSTOL,---OcT. 10. ' Bong 919 Davis Protherue nog I Hunt 256 ST.Air'ORD—LAST DAY. • lienni)wr 354 I tiGel 380 J „ . - BOSTON.—LAST n Ay. Murrell Ol I Sir A. Hume . 2o6 M*lideck TAUNTON.—StCONT ) DAY. A. Bai-inz lll I C. Graves : P. Collins OXFORD.. , --SATURDAY, 10th Lockhart • ' •` , 361 Eden Wright, tAB -I • „540 '. -- IS:OTTINGIIAISI.--THIRD DAY. . . ;T. Smith . • y 427 ( Lord Itancliffe . . 324 ILArkwrigilt • i7;3 I It.'Cromptov' , resigned. . , ~, r. 9. Sir .E.Brydgeq 389 G. Longman . 211 G..Simpipit. 2t9 • - ~ , . Souirtiv:6ll - . L EcTioic.=-(z , nNehtli Dpi})—The state.Of'.the Poll for the Boi•ough of Sotaltwatls. at 12 O'Clock this clay, AN'as As follows :--.- 'Charles Calvert, Esq. . 2142 Henry Thornton, Esq.; , I76S , ' . ~.T. B. Burdett, Esq. -; , . 516, • t rite. Election .£ Middlesex took place this moininv An opposition was expected, but no one appearing to propcse - as - a Candidate the per sorewbo it bad been announced would offer ,self, •MeSsrs: . MELLlsit and Bvsa declul'ed dilly 'election. • • GAZETTE; G. 4thdraity Office, Oct. 10, 1812 . . Copy; of a Letter from Sit.wyer to JAI° Wilf,o .crpliehEr,%. Oetik.sAia-boaiti his Mltjesty'S ship . 'Erica, tialitax, Sept. 1.5;162-. . It is tsi b Av;ttienle : 'concern I bare to request von he pieL:sed to lay beforethe Lords- Coui niissioners of the Admiralty the enclosed copy of letter kom Captain, Da6..es, of his i\Lijety' i,te silip Ouerriere, givElg an account of his hay sustained a Close action, bf near two hours, the 19th ult. with the Aniericau fi%ate Colistax ti.on, of very supeeior force; hothin guns and ii;e11; (of the latter alancisc double) when the Guernerti being totally disiarated", she rolled So deep as to renderali farther efforts at the guns. unavailinu; and it became a duty t(Apare the lives of the re nvaining part of her valuable crew, b h • auling doWit her colours. the !mists fell over the , side from which.she was aboat to be engaged, in a very fa . - voUrable posititin for raking by the enemy. A few hours :.j:ter , ;sli.e, was in no:is'ession of the enemy,• it wasfou‘id.lninossiblei t o keep her above water ; `she was thei49re a t fire to and abandoned, which i 'Wtisiytheir Lordships sbe was defend— ed to the last. _ . Captain Daci•es has fully detailed the partic;ilar Of the Action, as ‘vell as the very , rallant conde. , :t of, and ib'e support he received fKoin, the whole of his officr2rs anti ship's-company; and I am happ!! to hear he is, with the rest of the vyounited, doinc well :th have bten treated the grente!kt humanity A.;;:i ItrivinetS, ari r:lchange for. been agreed i.nl„ 1.. riuti daily expectatif4l:.tif.tl.:::it a;Tival here.' . • 1., A list bf the killed and wounded is hetewith. Sent; ',vbich, I re;llret to say, is very lege. 1 have the honour to .be, (Signed) I. SAWYER, Boston, Sept.. 7, 012 rani Sortl: In -acTritaint `bit of the capture of his .M.ijesty's -JAW .Querriere by the Ainerica:, fripte CoDst}tu.tion„,after a severe action, on the 19th Atigtist, in ratande 40 deg 20 min. N. wad. longitude 55 - d'eg. - W; At tWo P. M. being by • the wind on;the starboard tack, we saW a bail on QOT weather heam,,bearing down on 118. At threit made herunt to be a man cf .war, beat to quartcr and pre pared for action. At fOur, she closing fltlst; wore to prevent her 'raking. us. At ten ttutte3 past tour hoisted our coloars, and fired Several shot at her ; at twenty Minutes past four she hoisted her colours, and returned our fire, wore several times to avoid being raked, exchaugin4 broad sides. At five she closed on our starboard beam, 1)66r keeping up a heavy tire and steerin:.; free, his intention being evidently to cross our_ bow. .At twenty minutes past five our mizen-mast went over the starboard -quarter, and brought the ship up the wind ; theenewy then placed liioiself on our larboard boW, raking'tis, a few 'only of our bOw guns bearing;,-tinf&his grape and r,tiemcn mug our deck. At forty minutes past five the .not answering her helm, be attempted to lay is on board ; at this time Mr. Grant, commanding the foreca - 2tle, was carried below; 'badly wounded. I immediately ordered the' marines and hoarders ffom the main deck 3 the master was at this time shot through the knee, and I .received a severe wound in the hack. Lieutenant Kent was leading on the boarders, we brought some of Our bow guns to bear on her, and had got - clear of our opp(3- nent, 'when at twenty minutes past six•our forelind main-masts went over the side, leaving the ship a perfect unmanageable wreck. The frigate shoot ing ahead, 1 was in hopes to clear, the wreck, and. get the ship under command torenew the action . , butjust as we Ind- cleared the wreck, our spritsail yard went,.ani the enemy having reve new braces, &c. wore round - ixithin pistol-shot, to rake us, the' • ship laying in:the s trOrigh of the sea; and rolling, her main tlecir u guns,Rn der water, and all attempts to 'get her heforethe being fruitless;; when my officers together, they were all of -opinion.tbat , any farther resistance's „would only be a Aeedless waste of lives, I Ordered, though reluctantly, the'cblours to be struck. The loss of the ship is to be ascribed to the early ' of the mizen-mast, Which enabled our opponent to choOse his position-.I am sorry to say we suf fered severely .in killed and wounded, and niostly 'whilst she lay on oar 'how, from her grape and musketry, in all fifteen killed, and sixty-three wounded, many of them severely; none of the wounded Officers quitted the deck till the tiring ceased. The frigate prove r to he the United States ship Constitution, of thirty twenty-four-pOund . n . s tier main 'deck . ; andzwenty-four thirty-two pound ers and f‘Vil - 6g-titan-pounders on her upper deck, and forirlitintited'a \ nd seventy-six men ; her' los's ,in compaxisokrwith ours is tritting, about twenty-, the First Lieutenant of marines and eight killed, and First Lieutenant and Master of the ship, and eleven men wounded, her lower masts badly wountle"A, and stern much skattered',. afttl_ very much cut up about the rigging. The Guerriere was so cut up that all attemys to.get her in .would have been uselc%s. As soon as the wounded were got out of her, they set her on fire ; and . I feel it my day to state that the. conduct of Captain 'lull and his Officeri to - ou'r men has been - that Of a brave enemy, the greatest care being taken to prevent our men losing the smallest trifle, and the greatest attcntioa being paid to the Wounded, who, through the attention and skill of Mr. Irvine, Surgeon, I hope will do • well. 1 hope, though success his not Crowned our el fOrts, spa will pot think it presumptuous in me' to say;-the4:reu-K,.st credit is due tothe officers and ship's eanyr.,,q for their exertions, Farticularly when exposk,tki,to the heavy raking fire of the ene my ; 1 feel particularly obliged for the exertions of Lieutenant Keat, who, though wounded early . by ksolinter, eontinued to assist me ; in the Se , - cond lieutenant the service has suffered a.severe loss ; Mr. Scott, the master, though wounded, was particularly attentive, and used every exertion in.clearing the wreck, As did the ,warrant officers. Lieutenant Nichol!, of the royal marines, and his party, _supported the honourable character of their corps, and tliey 'st,itrered. severely I rinist etcymmend Mr: Snow,_gastes-mate, who CWAk f