The Sun. — London, England, 1812-01-02 00:00:00

GENERAL ORDERS, BYLI • EUT. GENERAL SIR SAMUtI, AUCEIMUTY. G.O. Ilead,Quartcrs,'Weltevrede,, Aug. 29, The Commander in thief having received is he reports of the Officers 'commanding the several Di- v ''iorts ,employed in the late attack of the enetny's as sembled forces, performs a pleasing part of his d uty in expressing to :he ,gall tut army he has the' . honour to command, and to the Officers and seamen I f the Royal Navy, and bittalion of Royal . Marines, t w ho, by the kindness of. the Hon. Rear Admiral "toPford, were .placed under his orders, his highest a .Pprobation and admiration of the ardent zeal and ir resistible bravery which marked their conduct 'tiring the whole of the recent operations, and par heul;lrly in the decisive: assault by which, on the korning of the 2Gth inst. the strongly . loctified po-. sßiuu of the ertemy, at Cornelis, was carried, and !heir army completely dispersed,. their Commander • 1 t) Chief, with a few cavalry, saving Inn - hell by a Precipitate fliftlit, while ,a latge proportion of . his G enerals, Staff-officers, and troops, were rnade.pri *otters in the aCtion and pursuit. • . both ardent gallantryw as universally displayed, '9th .by the European and native ttoops, the Com ittoader in Chief can only particularize these whose ra nka4cl situations of particular. trust in thecourse '" the attack, rendered their conduet.prolninent. To Colonel Gllespie, who commanded the prin. tittal attack, and to Colonel Gibbs, - who headed the sk 'et'od column Of the corps under that Officer's or a , "Ts, it is impossible to say too ritual; • but the Corn 'blander i n Chief will confine himself . to the public, ti claration, thst those Officers fully pet fortned every service which he had expected to derive from their ! ell -know-1s gallantry and cooduCt,' • displaying th roughout ihe.attack, that heroic spirit Of enter-. P ri ze which proved Clem worthy to command the gallant troops they led. To Major-General Werherall, the Commander in CliiCt offeis his cordial thanks, for the great assist ahce he .has constantly derived from hiS zealous ex ejtions, a s w e ll during the last attacleon thE eosi, h 'n of Cornelis, as in the various .operations by 'hick it was preceded- • • Th'' fi=ll success of the several attacks led by Co "el Wood, of the Bengal Native Infantry ; by Lie utenant.Colonet 'William Macleod, of his Ma 3",tY's 6gth Regiment, who fell in c:oxidotAing,' his v°lllinn with that disiinguished gallantry which had ev er marked his :nog career of active, -military ser vlee and by Major Yule, of the 20th - Regiment. of .n c lei , gal Na t i ve Infantry ; a tta c k s e xpected only to • ~'straCt and divide the attention of the enelny, is ; 4 1 e best p roof of the abilit y 'and en e r gy with .which the se officers conducted we divisions entrusted to there direMion. The pi ., ininently meritorious exer. ° l-1 8 of Lieutenant-Colonel Adams, of hi, Maje:sty's • -- s t `.th, commanding the left brigade of the line, of 4-4 ' et itenant Colonel A. Macleod, of his Majesty's 5 9th --Li eutenant Colonel Ny.ison, ot_ the 14th— ile.titernint Colonel Catnoth Il e a the 78113—Alajor k lalar, of the 140, commanding the Tight flank bat talion—l‘lajor Bode:, of his Majesty's sgiti-, r z l alor Grant, of the 4th Beneal Volunteer Balta. : 4-- -Capiain Forbes, .1 his Majesty's 78th, coas t a ncling the left flank battalion-Maj .r Dalton, If ol trnanding the Bengal .Light Infantry Volunteer a ttalion—Captaits . Fraser, commandlng a detach ment of.the Beng a l Light Infantry Volunteers,-- 44 Captain Gall, of the .Governor Generil's body , Z", a rtl, have been ieported to the Commander ire i iet in terms of strong ilpplause,; and the con r!Liet,ol Major Travers e of his. Maje-iy's 22d Dta pi,;°", and Captain Noble, of the Horse Artillery, - 11 4 the detaclitnet.ts under their conimand,in their a ger and animated pursuit and dis e ersion of the 4aeillY, when the road could be cleared for their ' J oyce, merits every chtnna , ndation. The Co mman d e r in. Chief thinks it proper to ex press lets satisfaction, ar the support he received from all) lie officers of his Staff ; but he deems it particu -0 Incumbent on him to mark his public appro ti,"', of the active one gs and gallantry of Captain e l ' 4 soo, and Lieuten nit Blackiston, his Aids-de eq., whom lie had permitted to act with Colonel t ll , l , e Vk, on the morning of the attack. Colonel I,'espie has " also rvpot led the conduct of Captain 1 1 4 Y I "r, Captain Thorne e and the Offic,rs particular ,,aitactied to his Staff, as highly meritorious. he Comil!ander in Chief requests Captain Sayer, • Elie ten=or Officer of the detachment, and all the b‘ gl eers and seamen of the Royal Navy, under hiS t i?aland, ac-ept his thanks for the . able and ass!stanee rendered by he naval detachments, uth th e momen t of their t disebarkation tO join' t ci ti 4 ntly, and assist in the batteries. The eager'ex elens of 'toe cops of seamen, when permitted, at it earnest request to leave the batteries, and join pursuit of the enemy, gave the most satisfac th: Proof that British sailors, though not acting on ti t element peculy their .own, are, 'in every 116 4 , 414 ms ready, able and 'happy, to oppose with Q''lt and etied, the enemies of their King and . e t tnfry • tig Commander in Chief laments, in common t~ll trh whose army, the many brave men who b1, 4 ' 11 the late arduous attack ; but it. is ever a; - 1 311 - : 1 4, consolation to the serviViog fiends and:re t's of a gallant soldier, when lie:meets that fate es sooner or later is'common to all men, in the aA~ el) 4 tiott of his noblest duty, and dies with honour, iri` tli °se we mourn have done, gloriously support (' t h.e cause of their beloved Sovereign and Weil o Le .„ • (Signed) P. AGNEW, Adjutant Ueneral. 0, night last week as one Hall, of the Ro u tda .ke t 31 `in of Yeomanry, had been out with his Inns atio„'4ll(l was returning home, some' hat intoxicated, tw nine o'clock, through Aupgin-street, Dublin, scarce up with him, and pushed hint from in e giving him, at the same time, some insult -414, h guage, and calling him ".a. blind gunner.', sbe,7rritating hitn, he exclaimed in a passion, " to tl i ; You that I am not, I.shall shoot ihe first man ob, e conies near me. Almost at that 'nutrient he ing rd a young man of the name of By rue,.com „,,llP behind him. " Whci are you :"..said be, the - i ; i at liave you got to do here? are you following fret s 11 . Y Int said be was going about his urn buSi ton' a nd Was trnubling ThiS did not ins te nt flail, w h o , tiatea by irritation and liquor, an tly ItiVell e d his piece, and snot Mai 'dead.", SPAIIV. EILTRAtTS FROM THE.EkTRAoRDINAAY GAZETTE OP THE PROVINCE OF SORIA. SPANISH OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE TAKING OF CALATAYUO. EXCELLENT SlR—Agreeably to what I informed your Excellency, in my letter of the 25th ult. we carried Our plan of attacking Ca!atayud into execu tion, although the whole of the troops destined for that expedition had not joined. On the 26th, in the morning, the city was sot-- rounded by our valiant troops, who immediately marched to take the positions pointed out for them, but not without some opposition, because the enemy, who expected us, opened a brisk fire from all the places of attack ; but; despising and answering this, the different corps advanced towards the heights ; • the enemy, in considerable number, occupied 'the commanding one, called Castillos, which was diffi cult to be taken without great loss. Nevertheless, - as I ordered possession tope obtained of ii at . any cosi, this being an indispensable measure for the success of the undettaking, it appears the troops from the different points, •by a combined move ment, marched so rapidly to the- attack, that the enemy were dismay-d, and precipitately fled in dis order ; but our troops, ,imitating the example of their' Chiefs, presented me, in every respea; with . the most grateful speetacle. With the velocity of lightning they pursued them, and death was the just punishment of those who would not surrender ; some who enteredttlye city eventually experienced the same fate ; and few succeeded in joining the principal corps in the Con vent das Mixes. In consequence of this, we tie carne masters of the city, and the convent was im mediately invested. I then, in conjunction with. Brigadier the Empecinado, ordered the cavalry to - remain in the points they occupied, and regulated • the service of the infantry. Every hiclivid'ual of the army disputed (or the honour of entering the shy. The enemy had in this first affair 50 killed, and 60 made priSoners: This viaory gained, we wished to send stllog of truce, but they would not receive it, arid we, therefore commenced the siege by setting some houses on tire. We then sent another flag of truce, which was received, and sent b.ick with an answer, that they were resolved upon an obstinate resistance . , and absolutely refused to admit any men. ' Having no artillery, it.was requisite to have re course- to mining ; upon which we proceeded with the utmost atiivit,, in defiance of difficulties, which appeared :insurmountable;'- whilst Some of our cat valry advanced to the other side, in order to draw •lie atteutior of the enemy towards the capital, our infantry took 353 prisoners, with an officer, in a fort:tied country-house. The mine being prepared, another flag of truce, was sent, propOsing such terms as humanity, and the noble, sentiments which charamerize the nation de-' maid, mai admitted, but a surrender refused in terms becoming in hon.urable Chief„ notwith s anding the vvi-hes of the greater part of the Officers and troops, in consequence of which the mine was sprung, and produced considerable effect, but was not sufficient to warrant an assault: Another invitation for a surrender, made on the more log of the 20th, .being refUsed,' obliged us to Form projects for new mines. Advice being receiv ed, that from Port Fransno were coming 200 French iotantry and 50. horse, a force was sent against them, which completely defeated them, taking prisoners the Lieutenant-Colonel whO commanded, and some prisoners. The . construetion of the mines was carried on ..with acclivity, and was direOted towards the tower; but before it reached the foundations it burst, and - burst another, which bad .•uch' an effect on Ate building, as well as in the loss of the people it buried in the ruins, that the enemy, notwith-. sanding the enthusiastic valour with which they defended themselvea, could trot continue their resistance, and agreed to a capitulation e which wad necessary to us, on account' of notices we had 1-e -ceived of the rear arrival of reinforcements for them; and, ir; consequence, at nine in the mining of the 4th instant-, the capitulation forthe surrender of the place was signed. [Here follow the conditions, by which the French Officers, eiiil and military,•with their arms, bag gage, and servants, are to be sent to the French ad vanced posts, on their parole of honour, and the' soldiers to remain prisoners of is aro] Immediately the treaty was signed, I gave the necessary instructions for its execution ; the troops of both divisions were immediately formed, they de filed and laid down their-arms, and the Convent and its effe&s delivered up to Commissionets named for that purpose. • The prisoners were condu6led by an escort of ca valry and infantry to the town of Manual, and whilst we were making some dispositions relative to the effects found in the convent, various advises informed us that the enemy's troops coming from Arragon, Navarre, and even Catalonia, had united in Alt - nunia. , As our troops, in consequence of having some killed, wounded, and sick, and escorting the psi soners, scarcely amounted to 2700 infantry and 300 horse, I thought it right to retire to Arica, to take advantageous positions. This retreat was accorn-• plished on the morning of the sth, on which day the eeeNnkentered Calatayud. In the morning a brisk fire was kept up between our advanced par ties, till their horse, advancing in considerable force, were attacked and driven back by ours. The following morning we learned the enemy had agaireabandoned Calatayud the preceding n ght, either in consequence' of our movements, or be cause they kared . some surprise from Colonel Espoz y Mina, hr consequence of which webave again returned to Calata ud.• .The taking of the town was the pure work of va lour, and that of the NI, of art.and perseverance in, our , labours. The .enemy's Joss consists of , 7!40 men, of which 600 are prisoners - , and ours only .of 'eight - soldiers lelled, and three Officers, three set . - jeants, two corporals, and twenty-five privates wounded. '.We-found in theconvent 3600 reals, a quantity of'grain; inany weapons, and some cattle. Head-quarterS, Dua, 001. 18, 1811. J. DURAN. - To - the Superior junta of the Province 01 curia. TnnrAnn have had several conferences; the subject of which is not tnowu.. It is certain, however, that the Mill,istrs have assigned to the former, fqi the,support of his artily, the oft of ,the province. of Toledo on the right of the Daus, the district around Talavera, part of that of Avila, and a tray` of copotry in the vicinage of Madrid, on the side of Poente.' Arno roz iS to be the immediate agent, under the order; of ,Marmont, in order to prevent ,the nullity of his Office from being-perceived.—The Guerillas do not lose. sight of us. Toi_cbo, Nov. 3.—Xesterday an ediet was pub- fished, impiirting that the army of Soult should subsist themselves wherever' they might march to, and that no rations should be provided tor their use. This is a fresh proof of the agreement between the two Marshals before they separated at Badajoi. VALENCI•A, Nov. 10,—According,to credible ac cout,ts,.we learn, that the enemy has lost in Arra., got) 4500 men, victims oft he unequalled patriotism of Mina, Etnpecinado, and Duran. If these• Gen erals should succeed in taking. the (.1500, whom- they have blockaded in Darroca, the capital of that pro vince will sOon be again in our poV'er, unless Su.- cilar should fly to relieve the garrison nuw sta tioned there." THE STOLE,N - tHILD, The following account is extraaed from a Morn ng Paper : It is 'roe that the infcit sou of Mrs. Dellow, of St. Martin's-lane, Catitio:i-stre.ei, who was stolen on the 18th of November, has at length been re.- covered. The extensive circulation of hand and postiog bills, minutely describing the child, and offering ',o reward of one hundred guineas for his , recovery, caused great ineffectual vigilance in the country on- iii the latter end of last week,- when a woman at Gosport observed a neighbour of her'a' in possession of a boy, bearing the marks described, and answer ing to the age of three years old. She , immediately thought it , was Mama, Dellow,. who . had been•so long missing; the more so,,as• she had reason to believe that the pretended another had never borne a . child. She communicated her .suspicions to the nearest.Magistrate,.WhO sent for Mrs. the pretended - mother. The moment she was interro gated. on the.subje6t, she confessed the whole affair, and motive for the robbery, ; her husband, who was a gunner on board one of his Majesty's ships, andbad• saved a considerable sum of, money for a man in his station of life, was extremely partial to childl - en, and had often expressed his most anxious wish to haYe a little darling, as he used to term it.' His wife, nor less anxious to gratify him in this respect, wrote to him while at sea, that she .was in the family-way. The gunner, highly delightd that he ,had obtained . his desired object, sent home the earnings of many a .cruise, amounting to 3001. with a particular charge that the intant should be well rigged, acid want for nothing: if a boy, so much the better. The next letter from .his hopeful wife, announced the happy tidings that his first-born was a son ; and that she would name him Richard, attei his father. The husband expressed bisjoy at the news, and counted the tedious hours until he should be per mitted to come home to his wife and child. At home he at length arrived, but at unfors- innate time, when the dear Richard 'was out at nurse, at a considerable distance; change of air being ne tessary'to the easy culling of his teeth. The husband's time being short, he lest his home with a heaVy heart, without being able to see his offspring ; but he was assured that on his next (tip to GOsport he should have the tehcity he had so often pined for, of claiping his darling to his bosom. It was not until November last that he was at liberty to revisit , home, when he had again the mortification to find that his son, whom he expeeted to see a fine boy of three years old, had not yet cut his teeth, 'or that he was from home on some other pretence. The hus band, however,_ was not to be pacified thus: he would go and see his son, or his son should come to him. Mrs. M. finding hiro deterrnined, thought the latter much the best way ; and accordingly set off to fetch the boy. The Metropolis occurred to her as the market best calculated to afford her"a c., l lu;ce of children ; and passing down St. Martin's-lane, she was struck with the rosy little Citizen, Tommy De.llow, and at once determined to make him her prize. vie was playing with his sis ter at the green-grocer's shop door, into which Mrs. M— went,' with the double view of pur cha,ing some apples, and carrying 'off the boy.— She made much of the sister, caressed the boy, and gave him an apple. The children being pleased with her attention, she asked the little gill to show her to a pastry-cook's shop to buy some cakes, whither she took both the girl and tl e buy. She got clear off with the latter, and left the gill behind ? M---- supposing' all his wishes realised, was made truly happy., It is no exaveralion to say, that poor M felt a parental affedion fur the buy and that when the imposition was discovered before-the Msigistrate, he was grieved to the heart at being obliged to part with him under all the circumstances of the trans.: attion. • - The Mlgistrate at Gosport immediately acquainted Mr. and IVlrs. Dellow with the discovely ; and stated to them that tkeir child Was salt!, and ready to be delivered to its parents. On Monday the fal her set off for Gosp , :43, and tie next day receivLd liii lost child. It, he could feel any diminution of his joy, it was on account of M-, who patted Frith flute Dellow with a sor rowful heart, and excited the commisetation of all who witnessed the .scene.' As tor Mts. she was lodged in the 'House of Corretion, at Gas port, for a thy or two; and is expeacd by the coach this morning, to undergo an examination at the Mansion-house. Mr, Dellow and his boy arrived in town yesterday morning. The bOdycf an interesting young woman, re spectably dressed, was picked up yesterday Morning, floating below Putney Reach 3 in her pockets were some silver, and an address . to Silver-street,, St. James's, which led to a knowledge of her. The body was owned yestetday, and the deceased, who was an upper servant in a gentleman's family at Knightsbi idge, had not been heird of since ChriSt nias Day, when she had 'leave to go out. No ac count bow she got in t h e w ater has yet transpired. POLICE. Grfif..b4ALt.---Yesterday JOlin Murphy. and .141 i • Illint were chargeo with tobbin,f, Ma•tr, It rt •N‘ a poor chairWortir.u, in St. Bride's parish, on Toes rlay :tight. • Greenhill, a watohnianof St. Bridt's, stated, that at about a quart::, pa , t el,,•ven, on •Tnc'sclay he was alarmed by the cry of murder n r ar Stone cut,ter-streer, Gongh-Square, and imm-diately, , rart towards the place, nit() inr:t the prisoner iltint, whom he took but he rescued from hitil by .Tv,ral ethei - s.. At , a nua . rter` before twelve, lie wls again alarmed by :the cry of twirdet, froni the same (iutit-irir, and coming to the place, he saw a wOrnan lyin4 on the krotnicrat the: end of.Gut‘powde,r•-alley, surtouuded by set coat persons.' He Teamed titer she had been knocked down, and cruelly tie ted by sound Int.n jot wolked oir.. 2 A yOut.ig pointed ont Murphy as one'ot the assailants. l'i7dirphy:ran but . was pursued by this yottit inan and taken.' Hunt came tip at the won:tent, and . boing reco;rized by Grcenhiil as (he l')-rsori.-jit , t before reficued, he barried hiintoth? iyatch-hou•-e. Margaret Rainey' sta , ed,..that-its she NV ;Ii reteming . I ome from her day's weik to lie; lane, she as tract by five or six tnt'n, two o t, were the pristine:l . s. One of ;hem desired onothk.ir to feel her pockets, and \ti - v if she had any gin money. 'She declared •lhe had nyte ; Opon whic= one of them knocked her down, and put - his to, r upon her breast, while he and one of his co nions tore off her boiMe.l and shawl, and one of her silt:Qs, arid another Lilt her pocket tto o her !kith., Witch was a -tlnee-shiirmg I;ieee, I;t,' licit 'she li.nt received for her day'; work. ghe,cried out, l'o'th watch fui' assistance, and one of the meti s'.vort.; ha would murder her ; another called to his compa- , - nion„to hill lte• outright. They left her almost naked and she was poilive the prisoner; were two of the men. . . A Mr,.1167,0rg corroborated the wonisn's testi mony, and ,pr& ed tle il,;ritity of the prisoners. 2 The prisoners soleM•dy denied all knoWledge of the tcaniaaion, and prdtested that they had nzvei• 0-en Mach other, nor the vt otpan; belore they were br,mght to the wirch'-house. Hunt described him self cs a shoe Maker, arid Murphy; as a jOUille bAcher, living in Carnaby-tnarket. He acknosv'- !edged, however, to have ofErred the woman a pound note - . to withdraW her charge at the watch- 7 house ; but this, he said, Was to prevent his name being exposed. The prisoners wete known to the Police Oftict;rs. Itont had been frequently brow ht before; and Murphy. was recognited to have been, about months since, one of Iho , e who the Cl'y ()dicers in SmithficH, when be made hi es,•ape. , •, - Murphy begged to be ~t int to .New;gare-; and said,' that ma men bad before been c4.1,t for death on his 'woman's' evidence:—They t'vere coniniitted. TrIAMeS Tuvsday last two persons Ix ere charged with having in t;ter pos-e•i sion certain quantities of grain, without being at:L I LO give 'a sattSfadory . account hoW they came by thaw. It appears that- the Lord M3yar 'is entitled to half a peck from each sort of grin in every strip ( . 4, vessel entering the port of London, or to sixpence for each such sort and it haS been 6astoniary on account of its preventing trouble on the one -- hand,,and of its advantage to the oWner'or ennsignoe on the other, to pay the sixp,;nce inwead dt deliver ing the samples. •1,- Office's of the Police have diScovered, that some of the ship agents hate been in the habit of paying the.sixpeUces at •the Mansion Hause on count of the owner; and insteid of charg';ng such ' sixpences, have, tinder pretenee of taking the sam pies actually and originally for the Lord M iyor, but in fat to convert them to their own rice, taken ii: discriminately from the first sort the) with the vessel, cunsidetably more than the Lard Miyor would bave been entithrl - :16 (had the,sixpences nut , been paid)'for all'the-sorts put together. • The Magistrates;adjourned time examination. MARIBOROUGH-STEEET. --;-De7/124S CUltfiOr and Owen Connolly were charged with counterfeiting the coin of the realm. The Ora rs u ent tb die house of the prisoner Conrinr,' No. 6, Surnine 'street; Hatton 'Garden, yesA:rdaymornittg„ and the door was opened by Connor's wife in hjs absence. The Officers searched the house, and found a room fitted up with a furnace, crucibles; roller., moulds; and other apparatus for making and 'colouring bas - coin. Trunks:add packages were tout,d, one con taming nine dozen-counterfeit sixpences, and articles. • The Oa - i,ers waited for Connor, and oa , se:itching . him, found a quantity of Counterfeit dollars, not ctloured. Connolly arrived Sow- after the other, and on 'turn was tound one bad dollar.::— COntior said the contents of the trunk belonged '0 a licensed hawker, whO lodged at his Louse,, but who was now in the country. . - SHAD ''ELL OM CE.—YeSlefday, .Tokit Munroe, who was brought upon Tue,clay,chrgcd by One o f the Tdrukeys Newgate, suspicious expres sions at' the Wheatsheaf public 'hons . c.. was again brought up bit it being proved that the' words were uSed in ru..'t drunken conversation, he was disc!)argtd. `The real name of the marderer, sOjOttly ethibitei in ignominious spectacle, was Marphy, not _Hu was born near Banbridge, ationtlea miles from Down Patiick; county of:Down, Ireland. He has been a satlocon board the Henry Addington, Nottingham, and Dever Cattle' East Alter coming home in the Nottingham, atou three. )cars ago . , lie• wass•nne time in St. l'honias's Hospital on ack.ouot of a had lrg. He sailed in the Dover Castle, Capt: G dttct RictiAabsort, in April 1809, kind returned in Linuary. 18:0; in (Ins voyage the . unfortunate Timothy Nlarr *as the Captain's servant. • L , stly, he engaged hicns:.ll ou board the Roxburgh Castle, • Capt. J. BEVAN, .to the Bra'ils and West and in this ship he re turned on the _d of Oc.ober last. It may also be mentioned, that in the interval of h:t being onboard the Wye: and Roxburgh Castle, be was impressed ' on board a man'of war, but from which he got oft' in a few weel:s. Monday night q child, five years of age, belonging to Mrs. Arundale, satin-stitcoer, of No. 3, In (lie City-road, being left alone during the momentary ab,eace of its parent, was so deploiably burnt, by its clothes torninuoicating with the Lire, as to la* dvath in a few houri;