The Sun. — London, England, 1812-10-15 00:00:00

GENERAL ELECTTON. To the GE: , :TLEMEN, CLERGY, and FREEHOLDERS of the COUNTY of BEDFORD. cENTLEiWEN 7 TAKE the earliest opportunity to Thank you, ' foiihe.l-lonour you have - conferred upon. me, and the. confidencei..you ~liave -placed. in . me 7 by ',electing me one of your RepreSentatiVes in Parliament. . In accepting my Services, you have made, ch - oice of one ft - nly attached to theliiirlits of the PeOPfc, and the principles of Civil and religious Liberty, a zealous .friend,to Parliamen tary Itsform, and a decided enemy to corruption. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your l'aithfui Friend,' And obedient humble Servant, TAVISTOCK. recifotcl, Oct. 14, 1812 TO COPPESPONDENTS. We have received the article of our old Correspondent front Ipswich, and shall. readilrinsertit if he will permit sus to omit what he says respecting certain scribbling " nvoon itous n,". whom we hold in the utmostdetestation,, and whose name never shall.dis zs n'race.our Paper. • •-• • As so. much has been said respecting the rejected Addresses !offered to Drury4ane Theatre, we shall most readily admit. any of them which may be sent to Its, with Or without the name of the a'ilthor,, that the • public may fairly decide whe . therthe Committee were not" charm'd b r the whistling,Of a name" in giving the preference to that which was spoken. MAILS. ARitivEr-4 W a t e rford. rh=r-1 Cadiz, I' Lichop, 1 Guern- C'onsols . sey, i Jersey, 2 Gottenburgh, 1 Dublin. PRICE OF STOCKS rius DAY AT TWEIA'D O'CLOCK. 582 i I Red. Ann. 5714 T E SUN. SOLEM QUIS MCERE, FAPSUM AUDEA'r L 0 n 0 N, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1812. Paris Papers reached town last night to the 9tb instant, containing the Twenty-first Bulletin of -the French Army in Pussia, dated Moscow, Sep tember 20. From ti'is dot ument we learn, that the conflagration of that city 'continued till the 20th, hut a fourth of the hot3es, it is alleged, remain. "Three hundred incendiaries," the Bul letin says, " have been arrested and shot." Thus coolly is announced an act of the most wanton barbarity ever perpetrated. Three hundred pa triotic inhabitants of Moscow, endeavouring to save their city from the grasp of an invading enemy, are put to death in Cold blood, with a cruelty 'unheard of in the -history of civilized nations ! This Bulletin, like the two preceding ones, equally betrays the disappointment and chagrin of BOONAPARTE. He has no boast to make, no hint to throw out of anticipated success. A quantity of ammunition (most probably grossly exaggerat ed), and'some wine and brandy are stated to, hae been found, but not a word of the most essential - article, provisions ; and the Bulletin concludes by stating, that the weather is becoming rainy, and that the greatest part of the army is in barracks in Moscow. This concluding sentence shews that the French can advance no further. The rains once set in, it is impos6ble tor the army to march, nor is it easy t. 9 imagine how they are to obtain supplies .at Moscow. BuONAPARTE, it is evident, is COM pelted abruptly to terminate the campaign; but we hope, when the frost has set in, the Russians will compel the French to learn a lesson of a winter campaign which will not be . quite agreeable to the latter. BUONAPARTE expecting, .45 in former instances, to terminate - the campaign by dictating peace, has rushed, into difficulties which now beset him on all sides, and place him in a most perilous situation: He re mains where he is exposed to all, the rigours of the climate during the winter, and the attacks of the Russians upon his own benumbed troops,which will' be little short of destruction to the latter, whilst to retreat is almost impracticable, and, - were it possible, .would involve the loss of his military reputation, which alone supports him. It is highly probable that, as 4 did in. Spain, he will quit his army and return to Paris, leaving his Generals to extricate the troops from the dangerous situation in which he has placed them, and thus seize the pre - test of throwing upon thetn the di - sgrace.of the failure • Since writing the above, we have received Paris r Papers to the 11th - instant. Tile following. are extracts ARMY OF PORTUGAL. PARIS, OcT.lo.—Two thousand Spaniards, who preceded the English Army, having, on the 20th Sept. attacked the posts of General GounnEa's brigade, near Prodanos,, that General collected a part of his brigade, and marched against the ene ..my he, in . his turn, ,attacked them, and carried at the :charge several strong positions, in which the enemy bad established themselves. The s ol- Biers of the 118th and 119th regiments overcame F • all the obstacles of the ground, succeeded in dis • iod'ging them, and forced them to retire upon • Villafranca. One hundred and fifty prisoners were taken, General GOUTHI2II praises the conduct of the pope, eic. Ecc. FPANKFORT, OCT. 4.—Tcv—tiy was celebra.tel here the success of the French arid allied army iii They write framiVilna, that the national guard of that town is : already well clothed; well disci plined, and full of honour and patriotism. It lip _ pears now on parasle. The number of individuals of which it is composed amount to 1200. All the prisoners are confided to their care. ' WARSAW, SEPT. 22.—Upon - thelgreat intelli gence of the taking - of Moseow, our town was il luminaed for three nights. WeIRSAI,V, SEPT. 20.--A 'fresh considerable transport of Itussians has .arrived here coming from Brzesc,, in Lithuania. Gottenburgh Papers to the 7th instant reached town at a late hour this day, containing the fol lowing accounts from the Russian General Prince Kotrrousow ,PETERSBURGH, SEPT. I6.—The last accounts :from Prince KouTousow are of the II th Sept. That General was still occupied in organizing and collecting his troops after the bloody victory that he has gained. He is now strengthened by the recruits from the Government of Moscow, 'and we -may soon expect to hear of a new bat tle, which will most'prol3ablx, be more effective than the former, and the consequences of which will be decisive. The battle of Borodino will for ever be remark able as the bloodiest ever heard of, and several Generals write, that the battles at Austerlitz and Eylau were mere child's pfay in 'comparison with this. There is hardly a family in St. Petersburg to befound which does not miss a relation, for the regiments of Guards, which usually compose the reserve,. demanded, with loud voice, to be brought into fire, and but few of, their officers have escaped wounds or death. Five thousand men have been fully employed, three whole days, in burying the dead, and carrying off- the wounded; both amongst those of the former and latter descrip tions were found one-third more Frenchmen than Russians. Prince 13.1GRATIO:1, since his ar rival at Moscow, has been under the necessity of undergoing a most painful 'operation, which was performed by the Emperor's body surgeon. It is not expected that he will be able to take his com mand again in less than two months. The Medusa has arrived from St. Andero, which place she left on the 7th instant. The intelli gence she brings is, that Burgos had not our rendered on the 3d, the siege being then going on. The Spaniards were, about to attack Guetta ria, in conjunction with our squadron. WINDSOR, Oc r. 14.—Monday being a very wet day, none of the Royal Family moved out of the Castle. Yesterday Princesses CHARLOTTE of WALES, AUGUSTA, and SOPHIA, took their morning's air ing on horseback in ths Great Park. The QUEEN, Princesses ELIZABETH and MARY took an airing to Stoke and back. This morning Princesses CHARLOTTE of `''AL E S and AUGUSTA took a ride in the Great Park, but the rain coming on they soon returned. By the last accounts; from Lisbon, we under stand that Marshal BERESFORD was recovering froM his wbund. The heat of Lisbon had been found too intense for hith, and he had ;moved into the country to facilitate his recovery.. These accounts add, that the excellent and able Officers the Earl of DALHOUSIE and the Hon. General STEWART had arrived, and immediately set off for Head-quarters. - Should the projected Expc. , dition to some vul nerable part of the French coast take place, it is nipposed the 30 sail of the line, composing the North Sea fleet, now 'in the Downs, wabe em ployed to carry the troops over'; they could ac commodate 24,000 Soldiers for a short passage, which, with their marines and small-arm men, would form a force of 30,000 effectiVes, a force which is deemed fully sufficient for a grand dash, should retaliation for. the shocking outrages and devastation, which the French have -oceasioncdlin the country of our Ally, be deemed advisable. The Sligo Militia marched from Chelmsford on Tuesday last, on their route to Norman,tlrcs,s.• A celebrated ancient writer, named Varro, reckons up no less than 288 different opinions of philosophers, "respecting the chief source of hap piness in this sublunary world.—The gainers, or even the sharers, on TUESDAY NEXT, of either of the £20,000, or other of the great Lottery Prizes, will be fully content to leave the other 257 opi nions of happiness to the philosophical world, It is not necessAy that the public should know . the names, of the persons who formed the Commit tee, that decided on the merits of the poetical Ad dresses which they invited - by advertisement, but, it is certainly incumbent on them to clear them selves of the imputation of having, without'besi tation, fixed their choice upon an Address, be cruse written by one Lord, and recommended by another. Bow-STREET.-Fitzgerald, alias Madie, the man brought from on board the Ceres, at the Nore, upon his own confession of having been guilty of the murders of Marr and Williamson's families, is now beyond all doubt proved to be innocent of bath those horrid crimes.—From the result of the investigation _ made at the instance of Mr. Read, it appeared, that at 01;Z time the above murders were committed, Fitzgerald lit;: xervine on hoard the Albatross transport brig, employed in bring ing bullocks for the army and nun/ froin Tangiers to Cadiz. SEPOND E3qTION _ . SUN- OFFICE, . a .+~ TWO O'CLOCK. Government received dispatches this d:ly from Lord CATHCART, of which we have just . been favoured with the following official communi- cition : FOREIGN OFFICE, OCT. 15. " Accounts 1-ave been this morning received from General Viscount CATHCART, dated St. Petersburg!), Sept. 22, and stating to the follow- iug effect : Marshal Prince Kura 50W having withdrawn his Army from before Moscow, the enemy- en : - tered it on the 14th. But the Emperor of RUSSIA has determined to persevere, and refuse every overture to negotiate, direct or indirect. " By every account the French lost 40,000 men in the battle. of Borodino, and retreated 13 versts. Two days after the battle, EUTUSOW retired a short distance on the Moscow road ; he then en- deavoured to find a position more tenable near nricow ; but, such not being to be found, he it- tired, after a Council of War, to a strong posi- tion, leaving the enemy to enter the city. " The position taken up by the Russians is -• nearly 20 miles beyond .I\loscow, near Podolik and Wakedesk. " The communications of the enemy on the side of Smolensk are menaced. Thirty thousand men arc near Twer. " The Militia of Kalouga and the surrounding countries are kept in their positions. That of • Moscow is with KUTUSOW. A battle in the new position seems inevitable at hn early clay. TORMAZOieS corps -would be near 100,000 men in a few dap. " The detachments from Riga and Finland were moving to join WITTGENSTEIN." NAVAL N E WS. rLYMOUTIr, OcT. 13.—The Seqjlower brig of war that sailed from hence on. Sunday night last, having under . her protection four transports with troops on board for Corunna, and a few merchant men for Spain and Portugal, was recalled by sig nal, and in consequence put back, with her con voy, into Cawsand Bay, ,which was occasioned by the arrival at this port of a detachulynt of troops from Berryhead, soon after the fleet got, under weigh, which were ordered to embark im-- :mediately on board one of the transports, and this morning they again sailed for their respective destinations: Arrived last night from Torbay the sloop Chance, belonging to London, MACKENZIE, Master, from thence, with a cargo, bound to Gibraltar, put in here in distress,' having parted from an anchor and cable, - and received considerable damage dur ing a storm in the Bay whereby she became so leaky as to render it necessary that the cargo should be immediately landed ; also arrived the Medusa frigate, Hon. Captain BOUVERIE, from the 'Coast of Spain, with Dispatches from Sir HOME' PornAm ; the Reindeer and Foxhound brigs of war, from a cruize 3 the Providence, CLEVERLY, from Southampton ; Dispatch, SATTLEY, from Wales ; and the Champion, of Walas, HEWITT, from Penzance. ' Sailed the Fairy brig of war on a cruize ; and Wasp brig of war to the Westward, CH&THAM, 'OCT. 14.—Carne up to Long Reach his Majesty's ship. St. Albans, Cipt:DEVONllinti with French prisoners taken at t,iatainanca ; they were brought .up by the boats belonging to the Prison-ships, and put on board•the Sailed down the river and anGhored at the Tore, his 'Majesty's sloop Forester. His Majesty's ship Ramillies w z as undocked, and the Cokqueror and Thunderer docked. Lieutenant STEVENSON is appointed to the com mand of the Sampson, vice-MoNNir.x. Ship; in commission and fitting at' this port, viz. :—/ilulgrave, Victorious, • and Ramillies, 74 3 r. _ and the Arab 18, DEAL, OCT. 14.—Arrived the Royalist sloop of war, driven in . from her station by the stormy south-west wind.—Also arrived the Gambier cut ter, with a contoy, from Exmouth. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. I4.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Partrhige from off Cherburgh ; the Hope. sloop of war from Lisbon ; and theCypeite sloop of war froth Halifax. TI.IEATIr ICAL ADDRESSES. From humorous work supposed to consist o Borne Probatiowry Addresses rejected by th Drury-lane Commi i ttee, we have taken th:: fol lowing, which is attributed to &LG. LEWIS, ES(i. FIRE Alkil) ALE. Omnia trans format sere - iu miracula rental. ViRGIL. My palate is, narch'4 with pierlan thirst, r • Avay to l'arnasr.i)s beckoti'd: List, warrior (111:nes„ while iny . l4.y is reheared, I Aing of the singe of Ntisi Orery the first, And the birth of Miss Drury the second. The fire king one d•y rather ai4Jrous felt; He rnonnted his hot copper Tilley; His breeches'and boots :-ere of tin, and the belt Was made of castirou, for far it should. melt With the beat of the cooper colt's Sure never .was skin half so scalding as his ! ' When in infant, 'twas equally horrid, For the, water when hr was .hai,tized gaVe a fizz, And bubbled and simmei'd and started off, whizz( As soon as it sprinkled hio forehead! , • Oh then there was glitter and fire in each eye, For two living coals were the symbols ; His teeth were calcin'd, and his tongue was so dui It rattled against them as though you should try To play the piano in thimbles. From his 'nostrils a -lava sulph Ureous : flows, Which scorches wherever it lingers, A snivelling fellow he's calrd by his foes, Fur he can't raise his paw up to WO: his red nose For fear itshould blister his fingers. His wig is of flames curling over his head, . Well powder'd With white smoking ashes; He drinks gunpowder tea, melted sugar of lead, Creamn of tactar, and dines on hot spice gingerbread, Which black from the oven he gnashes, Each fire nymph his kiss from her countenance shields, 'TWould soon set her cheek-bone a frying: • He spit in the Tenter-ground near• Spital-fields, And the hole that it burnt and the.chalk , that it yields Make a capital lime-kiln for drying. When he open'd his mo•lth out there issued a blast, (Kota bone, I do not mean swearing,) .But the noise that itthade, the heat that it cast, I've heard it from (those wh, have seen it) surpass'd A shot manufactory flaring. He - blaz'd.,and he blaz'd as he gallon'd to snatch • • . His bride, little dreaming of danger; His.whip - was a torch, and his spur was winatch; And over the horse's left eye was a patch To keep it from burning the manger. And who is the house-maid he means to enthral. • In his cinder-producing alliance? . 'Tis Drury-lane Playhouse, so wide and so tall, Who, like other combustible ladies, Must fall -If she cannot set sparks_ at defiance.• On his warinine-pan knee-pan he clattering roll'd, And the housemaid his hand would have taken, 'But his hand, like his passion, was too hot to bob, And she soon let it - go ' but her new ring of gold" All melted, like butter, or baCon. . Oh, then she look'd sour, and indeed well she might, For Vinegar-yard was before her, But, spite or her shrieks, the ignipotent knight, Enrobing the maid in a flame of gaslight, • , To the skies'in a sky-rocket bore her. • Look ! Look! 'tis the ale king so stately and starch, • Whose votaries scorn to be sober, die popS from his vat,likell cedar, or larch; Brown stout is his doublet, he hops in his March, And froths at-the mouth in Odober. . - His spear is a spigot, his shield is a „ bung - ~ Ile taps where the housemaid no more. is, When in at his magical bidding, upsprung A second Mi3S Drury, tall, tidy, and young, ' And sported in loco sorons. ,Baer;, lurid in air, for a second regale, The eindvrliii4, Lot With To Ery,igc-stri34 1 4 .1. qt Lot, the monarch of ale, With uplifted ,picot and fai7cet, pa:11, Thus chided the monarch of tire:, " Vile Tyrant, beware4)f the fernient:lbrewi. "1 rule the roast here dash,tbe wig "If, spite (4f you: marriage, with old Drury, you " Come here with your tinder-i>ox, courting the new, " 11l have you intheted for bigamy." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, Mt. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14. The Town Plate of 501. for 3-yr olds, ist. 41b. 4-err olds, tist:" 41b. 5-yr olds, Bst. 111 b. 6-yr olds, 9st. Ili). and twed, 9st. 41b. T. M. M. B. C. To be shewn and entered the da! - befOre running, littween eleven and one o'clock. t trance 3gs. The winner to be sold for I'2sge. if demanded , &c. &c. Sir J. Shelley's b. f. Stingtail, 4' yrs Mr. Blake's Accident, 3 yrs Gen. Grosvenor's eh. f. Guadiana, 3 yrs Mr. Fletcher's lEscrdapius 6 yrs ' Ld Sackville's br. f. by Dick Andrews, 4 yrs 5 to 4 on Stingtail. The First Class of the Oatlands Stakes of 30gss each. B. Dl' Mr. Lake's Venture, 3 yrs 6st. 131 b 1 Gen. Gower's Anastasia, by Trumpator, 3 yrs ist. 21b.. = • • Mr. Ladbroke's Hamlet, 4 yrs est. 61b 3 11. of Rutland's Sorcery, 4 yrs 9st 8 to 1 sigst Ventare-2. to I apt Sorcery. Gen-Groirenor's gr. c. by Quiz, darn by Delpini, 2-yrs old, 7st.'4lb. rec. 20gs. from Mr. Batsun's f. by Hyperion, out of Frisky, 3 yrs old, 9st. 81b. Y. C. 100 gs. h. ft. D. of Grafton's Joe"Miller ' Bst. Sib. rec. 45gs. from *' - Wilson's Lady Sophia, Sst. A. F. 100 gs. 5 Mr. STEVVART, the Traveller, formerly an Aid de-Camp to the Nabob "of AncoT, has received a sump due to him from the latter, amounting to -14,0001., The THEATEE.,—K very 'extraordinary circuit' -stance took place last night at Drury-lane The . ; atre, after the representation of the Comedy 0 The Hypocrite. A Gentleman arose in the Pit for the purpose of addressing the audience. The c oo" -fusion which ensued prevented him from beiug beard, biit •in consequence of repeated calls that he-should get upon the stage, he mounted to that place and reneWed' his, attempts to be heard. HOLLAND 'then came for ward to announce th e play, and remained some tine on the stage f°' that purpose, but neither he nor the Voluntee r Orator couldobtain a 'hearing. At length ItAY:4O:' 9 carne forward and signified, that if th'e audiencei *ere'disposed to hear - the Gentleinan wool' 2 s ''readiry give place To him. — .This declaration wa t we l received. The stranger, even then, could no ' gain atearing, and after some minutes of eonfusie two peace-officers appeared, and the Gentlem O eras removed from the stage. On the commen ce ; Meat of the farce, however, The Dee-hive,) t he storm was renewed. PENSON, in his &allot', character, could not be heard„ and ItAvyto:"t came forward again. He desired to knoW thi wish of the audience. He was asked why th stranger was .removed, and he respectfully ail swered that it was his duty to remove whatec e tended to disturb the entertainments of the r'rhe titre. He retired, and the farce then proceed with some interruption, which gradually st'vr and, quiet was at last restored. It aPPI I , thht.the stranger was a son of Dr. .131:0 1 /. t a tej that his purpose was to recite an Address Tell t b6 1 4'hisfather, or himself, in order 'to sbecv a c it w4s;superior to that which the Committee j !( - )'pie - d, and which was delivered on the ope n cif the Theatre.