The Sun. — London, England, 1812-01-13 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, J.N. 11.—Arrived the transport brig Speculator, belonging to Gdernsey, DOIt . EY, master, from Malta and Gibraltar, with a cargo, bound to Guernsey and Southampton ; the brig Prosper, belonging to this port, JONES, master, from Alogadore, and last from Gibraltar, with a kargo, bound to London ; and the transport brig Sanzuel and Sarah, belonging to London, SOMES, master, from Port Mahon, and last from Gibraltar, baying on board 145 French prisoners, bound to Ports tnouth. These vessels, on their passage, expeti enced very. bad weather : they sailed from Gibral tar on the 3 , 1 of December, in company with the fleet under convoy of the Topaze frigate, and parted company on the sth instam off Scilly. The Spe culator was ()aged to put in here, being in want of provi,ions and water ; sailed from Malta un the is! of November. The Prosper was driven here by contrary winds. The Samuel and Sarah sailed from Port Mahon en the 24th of November ; one of the crew of the latter, named Wm. CHAMBERS, was washed overboard and drowned on the 3d instant. Also, arrived the Jolzu and Sisters, TELFORD, and Betsey, MELvrts;, from Suderland, with coals for this port ; the American Lilerty, SNOw, from Ame rica, with a cargo of innber for his Majesty's Dock yard at this port ; and the American brig Eliza Holy, from LOLIdOO, BARTLETT master, bound to America. The Dreadnought man of war, in Cawsand Bay, is ordered up the harbour to be pail off. Tilt; Royal Soverei . n man of war will be undock ed next week, and tne Gibraltar cocked. Arrived the Gambier hired a med cutter from the squadron in Basque Roads; and the Dove, COOKNEY, from Lyme. Sailed the Dotterel brig of wit-, with a small con voy for Lisbon ; the Rose tender for Greenock ; the Lord Cochrane hired armed brig to cruize off Berry Head ; the Edinturgh man at war for the Mediter- - ranean ; and the Tonnant man of war to join the Squadron off Brest. Went up tt , e liarlyitir to be refitted the Rhin In gate, and Stork sloop of war. Sailed the Vologe sloop of war to the westward. YAR JA N. 1 t. -The Desire:e frigate, which sailed from hence for the Texel, under a ff4g of truce, for the purpose of miking inquiry re specting the fate o( the St. George, returned ibis Morning without hiving been able to acertain any tidings. CHATHAM, JAN, 12.—His Majesty's gun-brig Alartial is coa.missioned at this port ; and the Mu narc•h is paid off. Ship• fitting—Theseus, Horatio, La Pique, Ra leigh, Cruizer, and Martial. The Barham, a new shia lying at Sheerness in ordinary, has grounded on her anchors; she was ordered here to be taken into dock. DEAL, JAN. 12.—Sailed this morning the Rover sloop of war ; and the Viper and Nymph cutters, With a convoy for Portsmouth. Came down from the River the Royal George East Indioman, for Madras and China, and sailed to the Westward ; also came down from the River his Majesty's ships Bedford and Egmont, and re main. PORTSMOUTH, JAR. 2.—Arrived his Majesty's sliics Nonpareil and Thracian Iron a craize. Sailed his Majesty's stoop Alert, with a few ves sels under convoy. FALMOUTH, JAN. 10.-A large fleet of outward bound passed this Port yesterday evening. supposed to be the Portugal and West India convoy. The Advent tie; JAcKsiiN, from Liverpool to St. Kites was take❑ on the 2. pit of November, by the two French frigates lately arrived at Brest from Ba tavia. One of the four prizes lately taken by the Arrow, on the Basque Roads station (three only of which hate arrived at Plymouth) being unable to weather Banal!) reef, was under the necessity of bearing up through the passage Britton. She was immediately hailed by the several batteries, and fired at, but Mr, Callaghan, the prize -master, a most spirited youth, ordering his wen helow, persevered in his course, ill the most determined manner, and succeeded in carrying the vessel safely into Basque Roads. She Was frequently struck by the shot, had her sails and rigging were much cut, but happily no lives were lost. On the night of the 29th ultimo, a prize, belong log to the Pelona, gun-brig, while lying at anchor In Basque Reads, between two frigates, and her ca bles cut by a Frenchman on board, and one of the English sailors in charge of the ship, and ran ashore about two o'clock, A. M. of the 30th. On the Vessel's striking the shore, the latter seizing an axe, made a blow at the prize -master, a midshipman, with its butt end, and struck him violently on the bead. The villain instantly escrped, by leaping overboard. As soon as the midshipman (whose nam e w e have not yet heard) recovered from the stunning etreEts of the blow, he ca►led together the remainder of his crew, (four 'men) and taking to their boar, after rowing twelve hours, without sus tenance of any kind, they reached the squadron in , afely, at two o'clock P: M. sPziAllsg PAPER El ands° of the 12th December, contains the following remarks upon SucHET'S order of the day, relative to the b.ittle of Sagunto : " We thoroughly understand French paintings and the colourings given them ; the exaggerations they publish, and the means they adopt to deceive the incautious. The principal fath which SUCART states, on certain particulars are coloured. But let us for a moment suppose it all to be true, it is nut sufficient to tell truth, it is requisite to state it with all its requisites; these wanting, ►here is a failure of ingenuousness, which causes even truth itself to be suspeelecl. Had SUCH CT been candid, he would have said, soldiers ! The conquest of Murviedro cost 3,000 of your comrades ; to obtain that objetl, I abandon ed Catalonia, where I lost 5000 men, I left Arragon without soldiers, where I left 4000 in prisoners and l;illcd; and in the different assaults, battle of Mar viedro, and other anterior 0ne5,.4000 more have perished." These circumslances added would clear up every thing, but it does not suit the purpose of SUCHET to shew mote than one side of the picture to the unfor tunate, oppressed Sdaniards. Here you hare the reverse of it, unhappy countrymen. FROM THE REDACTEUR GENERAL OF DEC. 14. Let us for a moment, reflect what we should be under the government and tyranny of the French, and what we inay promtse ourselves from our vigo rous and leg' .imate Go• ernment. United to the cha riot of BUONAPARTE--Vile instromems ot his designs, destined to fight and combat in the most distant climes, despoiled of our rights br• th" insatiable ava rice of our enemy, deprived even of the liberty of speaking or thinking, obliged to be silent, or adopt and set-% ilely approve the ideas and repugnant cha racter of the French, we should become passive beings. Constituted part of the Grand Family, we should become slaves to it, and add to the luxury and passions of our proud conquerors. The Tyrant, in fact, believed, that, degraded and enslaved by our old government, he would have no difficulty in reducing us to so humiliating a situation, and, under the pretence of regenerating us, wished to deprive us of our independence ; but he has been deceived in his calculations; Spaniards are now the same as those who, in former centuries, gave laws to Europe. Our virtues have been concealed, but not extinguished. If an excess of loyalty, and love of legitimate sovereignty, did not permit us to display all the energy of our character, at the moment it was attempted to insult our probity and good faith, by the most execrable perfidy, awak ing tram that apparent lethargy, we r - generated ourselves without foreign assistance, creating and erecting a Government which should direct us to pros perity and glory. SudJenly, and by a sort of pro digy we have been transformed into warriors, zea lous patriots, lo►ers of lihetty and of glory, inca pable of tolerating a foreign dominion, and deter mined to die rather than submit to the dreadful yoke wished to be imposed on us. Happy regenera tion, which renews the days of our ancient glory ! For the future, we shall be a great, free, and inde pendent nwi-in. We will oppose a wise and bene ficent Government to the tyrannical Government of France. The French themselves will envy our fate, and all nations acknowledge the wisdom of our con. selection and laws. On Saturday Quebec Papers and Letters were re ceived to the 2d ult. It appears from their con tents, that large quantities of British manufactures continue to be smuggled into the territories of the Ultited States from Canada. The Custotn•house Officers on all the frontier stations bad been doubled. and trebled but, in despite of their vigilance, both the temptation and lacilities were so great, that English goods still found admission. On several occasions, some severe contests had taken place be tween the officers and smugglers, which had ter minated without the loss of many lives. :Measu res of precaution bad been adopted by Lieutenant-Ge ueral Sir G. Prevost, the Governor of Canada, in tt►e event of hostilities with the United States. There is a considerable body of regular troops in our North American provinces, besides a tolerable militia, among whom the best disposition pre% airs. Indeed, the Non-importation Act, and other recent ineasores of the United States' Government, have had the immediate effect of increasing the trade of our colonies in that qu.rter of the world, and con sequently removing those slight discontents which might formerly have prevailed. A set of Jamaica Papers, to the 26th of October, were received on Saturday. The following is the only article of any importance in them : " Kingston, O. 25. " William Shaw, Esq. was placed on his trial at the Grand Court in Spinish Town, on Wednes day last, chlrged with assuming to himself the cha racter of a British Agent, through which means a cortespoudence under false pretences was kept up with Rigauil, in St. D imingo.—After a minute in vestigation, the priitiner was found guilty." The following is an extract of a letter, of a late date, from Holland, which reachtd town on Sa turday :—" Most rigid measures are now enforced iu this country against all persons detected in carry ing on a clandestine correspondence with England. Several masters of merchant vessels have been re cently arrested. One of them has died in prison, aud - another is not likely to survive many days. —The son of one of the. most respectable mer chants in Rotterdam is under orders for trial by a Court Martial, and the result may be easily antici pated.", IFIADSOR, JAN. 11. to vas Earl Wrbrcitit.sEA *ho arrived yesterday, and not Earl AYLESFORD ; hOweverolie Noble Earl arrived this day, at twelve o'clOck, in his carriage and four, accompanied by the Duke of MONTROSE, BA the Archbishops of CANTERBURY and YORK, at the QUEEN'S Lodge, where Doctors Sir HENRY HALFORD, HEBCRDEN, BAILLIE, and R. 'WILLIS, were in waiting to receive them, and made their weekly Report to the Members of the Council, and, after holding a consultation, the Members of the Council walked to the Castle, and held a Council with the QUEEN. Dr. Jowl WILLIS was absent upon this occision. Atter the consultation, at the Lodge, Sir HENRY HALFORD and Dr. HEBERDEN set off for London. The cause of the Earl of WTNCHILSEA coming here yesterday, was by desire of Ministers, as the KING'S Groom of the Stole, to examine the KING and QUEEN'S Household, as to the nature of their different employments, and the emoluments arising therefrom, previous to its being finally arranged as to their MAJESTIES' and the PRINCE REGENT'S Household. The KING has lately paid more attention to him self and dress than he had done for some time past, and gave orders for a new blue coat, and has wore it within these few days. JANUARY le.-The Members of the QUEEN'S Council left Windsor, yesterday, about half -past three o'clock. This day, at twelve o'clock, the QUEEN and PRINCESSES rode in her MAJESTY'S cirtia4e ►o Frogatoie, and returned to ►he Castle at half-past two. THE THEATRE.—The Foundling of the Forest, a :)lay of extreme improbability, but containing a strong dramatic interest, was represented on Satur day last at Covent-Garden Theatre, and attracted a very nurn2rous audience. The part of Eugenia, originally represented at the Haymarket Theatre by MIS. GLOVER, was on this occasion supported with great energy by Miss SMITH, who very skilfully exhibited the alternations of reason and insar ity, and excited much applause. The charaCler of the Count de Valmont was well supported by YOUNG. It is a character that requires great exertion, and is very interesting in itself ; it lost none of its quality in the hands of this Performer. • MIS.•STEPHEN KEMBLE has wholly withdrawn from the Stag , -, though she has had many tempting offers frotn Provincial Managers to induce her to return to This Performer atrurds another in stauce to excite regret that Actors cannot transmit a model of their po,wrrs, for in point of genuine simplicity and unatfeaed pathos, she had never a sui‘etior upon the English Stage. The decreased merit of a certain Northern vehi cle of malignity, under the pretence of Criticism, is imputed, in ta German Journal, so the secession of Messrs. HORNER uud BROUGHAM,# who, according to report, were the warn ermines of the work when it first burst upon the public, and excited surprise and indignation by the boldness and severity of its comments. BOON APARTE, by ordering the suppression of the Convent of La Trappe, of which perpetual silence was one of the religious duties, has only added to the number of talkers against his eoormities, and !here were sureiy enough before to speak against him, wherever the tongues of men are not restrained by the dread of his vengeance. The crkbrated Hottentot Venus, it seems, is on a provincial ramble, in order to submit her beauties to rustic admiration. She is at present at Don caster. It is highly gratifying to see that Government have recently devoted their particuiar attention to wards the hosts of ALIENS now in this country, whose numt:er amounts to an alarming extent.—A very intelligent correspondent, who h.,s resided some time in Spain, and is well acquainted with the affairs of list country, assures us that our Rulers ought to be particularly warned against the Spa niards who come among us, many of whom, he confidently declares, are in the„interest of the Cut - my, 'lnd anxious to bow their country into his hands. This correspondent speaks in the highest terms of the Spanish people themselves, and ex presses his decided conviaion, that whatever towns BLYONAPARTE may take, and however, to use the Opposition phrase, he may obtain " military pos session" of the country, it will be absolutely impossible to reduce them beneath the Cor sican yoke. Indeed their detestation of the French, which is hereditary, and rooted in the Spanish heart, independ,ntly of their rage, on a count of the atrocities of the Tyrant, would alone induce them to strain every nerve, and make any sacrifice rather than submit to the usurpation of a people whom they hold in the utmost abhortence. Yet among those no,ble patriotic Spaniards, there are some political pat ticidt:s who have sold themselves to a furious enemy, and are endeavouring to reduce their country to bondage. Some of these wretches have found means to obtrude into this country, and we fear that even the Duke D'INFAN TADO is not sufficiently conversant with their cha racters to be able effedivally to detect and as ; ist in their expulsion. But from the increased vigilance on the part of G vernment as to Foreigners in gene ral, we trust that all due inquiry will be made, and none suffered to remain among us who cannot give the most satisfactory proofs in favour of their charac ter and conduct. These are critical times, and the interests of the British Empire are too important -a stake to be put into the least hazard, when we know that a crafty , and ferocious foe, and who unhappily possesses more power than any of our former enemies ever obtained, is bent on our destruClion,andwould not best tate at any means that the most wickt-d ima gination, backed by a strength truly formidable., could put in • plattice, to effeCt an object that forms, if not the ultimate scope of his ambition, yet the favour'te wish ot his heart. The remains of the late Mr. DINIOND, Manager and Proplietor of the Bath Theatre, were deposited on Thursday last_ in the Abbey Church of thaf,city. A large crowd o f speetators attended on the melan choly' occasion, and; by their unaffected grief, bore testimony to the distinguished worth of the de ceased. Mr. DIMOND was in the fifty seventh year of his age. He was highly esteemed for good sense, .a benevolent disposition ; and the gentlemanly urba nity of his mannerg, Yinother ATTEMPD to POP and AIURDiR. Last night, about ten o'clock ) as the female ser= vant of Mr. PRYOR-, a boot and shoe maker on Sr. Morgarees-bill, in the Borough, was entering the shop from the kitchen, she descried a man in the shop with a crape over his fa ce , p ac kin g up h er mas ter's goodi. The girl immediately .gave a loud scream, upon which the villain made at her wiih a knife, end attempted to clit her throat. Het screams brought do'n her master ) but the villain had made his escape by the shop-door, without carrying off his booty. The floor was strewed with packages ; ready to he carried 4.ff, The girl was found by her mastt-r bleeding on the floor, but her life is not considered to be in danger. She thinks she saw five men when she first entered tht‘ shop. P OL ICE. H ATTO N- GAPD EN.—Saturday last John Drewet i alias Shipkerd, alia, Walking Shaw. was brought up by John Hutt, officer s and and -resent an exa mination, bring charged by the above otficer, and others, with Dei , g concerned with four persons in steal , n27 a bullock out of a field at Islingto.,, some nights since, the property of Mr. Hale, salesman, in Newgate Market. The evidence apinst the s pri‘ son( r bring strong, he was fully committed to New , gate for trial. - Jane Williams underwent an examination, charged with felony by a sailor boy, who stated, that he belonged to a man of war, and had a ticket of berty to come on shore, on Thursday evening last. Thecircumstances stated by the boy were—that as he was walking along Holborn, he was at•costed by the prisoner, who was in company with another girl, that he treated them with some lid ,or at two dill: rent wine vaults, and then left them ; soon Atr which he missed his leather purse, containing t!nee pounds in Bank notes, eight shillings in silver, and his ticket of liberty; the next morning. he found out the other girl at her lodgings, she having given him a direction svh:re to call to see her. This girl told him that the pr soner had his poise, and informed him where to tind her, upon which procured an officer, and she was tAten into custndY. The prisoner was committed for re. examination. Bow- EET.-Mrs. Vermilloe, the landlady of the Pear Tree public house, and Turner, the man who lodged in the house of Williamson, who. was barbarously murdered, have attended at the Office within th,:se few days, together, with several other persons, by order of Mr. Graham, and have under gone private and stria investigations before that Magistrate, the result of which had caused him to dispatch Lavender, Vickery, and Adkins, on Friday evening, to apprehend a m.in of 1110 itnne of Hart, who, it has been ascertained, worked in the house of Mr. M tir on the day the murders were corn. , ninted at night, and he was seen in the company of Willie.ins between ten and eleven o'clock :, the murd:rers are supposed to have entered Mr. Mares house about twelve o'clock. On Saturday Hatt underwent a privAte examination before Mr ora‘ ha.rr, after which he was or,Jered into close con fi cement, and a roan to take Cart and s it up with him. The house in which 1-tart lodged was examined on Saturday, in the pre once of the officer:, an 1 the out-houses were also carefully be:ltched, but nothing of a suspicious nature was tonad by them. UNION•HALL.—A man, who is superintendant of the labourers at a wharf in Tofdey-street, *as brought before Cie Sitting Al igisttate by Coll:ng= bourn and Glennon, cnarged on' suspicion of the wilful murder of Timothy Donaghu, an Irish la bourer. It appeared that the deceased was a labourer working under the prisoner, and was ordered by bim to du some particular work; instead of comply , : ing, however, he made use -of some impertinent language, and proceeded so far as to give the pri- , soner a slap of the face. The prisoner observed he was to blame for ding that to a man who had it in his power to break his neck. Further words ensued, and the prisoner pushed the dec(-ased, and two others, off the wharf into the water; and in the fall the head of the deceased came in contact with the side of a vessel, and he immediately sunk under water. : The body was taken out in less than ten minutes, and conveyed to Guy's Hospital, s here every effott was niide use of to restore suspended animation, but in vain, The prisoner was com mitted for re-examination, when the result, of the Coroner's Icquest will be known, A few mornings since early, the house of Samuel Salter, E 4 of Rickmansworth, was broke open, and robbed of a quantity of plate, jewellery, and other property. SMITHFIULD MARKET, l AN , This day's Market atibrded a good supply of prime Beasts, and the show of Cattle in general was plentiful ; Mutton is cheaper ; Veal and Poi k were dearer; Beef sold at last price; and the trade for the most part was tolerably brisk.—The sides in the Hay Market were rather lively ; S raw and Clover h lye dropped in price ; 'Hay obtained List price.--; We annex a correzt statement of the prices and numbers.:— To sink the Offal per stone of 81b. Beef, 4S. 4d. to ss. 4d. Mutton, 45. od. togs. zd. Veal, ss. ed. to 7s. 2Ct. Polk, 55. 6d. to 75. 6cl. Beasts, 245. Sheep, t 4,500. Calves, 170. Pigs, SMITHFIELD HAYMARKET, Hay, 41. os. od. to 51. ss. od. Straw, 11. res. od„ to 2-1, 6s. Clover, 41. los. od:. to 51. los. ed. • CORN EXCHANGE, JAN. t 3.—The fresh arrivals. of Wheat coastwise to-day are considerable, with tap. wards of 4000 quArters of foreign, and ihe sales in general at a reduction in price of about 2s. and 3i. per quarter; Barley rather lower ; Malt and White Peas hardly at last prices; Beans, of each descrip. tion, likewise 3 the remaining supplies of Oats are considerable, and sales of this article quoted lower, excepting for fine samples; Flour rather gives way in price. Wheat 645 a 78s a toes Fine ditto - t 14s a eBs Rye sos a 55s Barley 445 a 525 Malt 4 Gs a S4s WhitePeas,boilers76s a 82s Grey ditto . -55 s a 6is beaus * . • 5;3 a s6s Tick Beans (new) 42s a 4% Ditto (line olci) - sos a 53s Oats -26 s a 3os a 3 25 Poland ditto 335 a 37s Potatoe ditto . 40a a 4?s Rape Seed • - 601. a 651. line Flotir - 95$ aOS Seconds