The Sun. — London, England, 1812-06-04 00:00:00

-►-~ } EMTIO SUNOITICE, HALF PAST. Tw'd o'cLoct-.. The 'Amerian Gover.nUielit, we are just as= S ' l red, - , have aclopteci a measure which is equiva- lent to a Declarationof War agalusttbis Country, baring ,issued etter , of .11faxque acid Reptimil and - we - should not wonder if we were forthwith -to find; that it-has resorted to amore dirct .and f.Crralal t;" LISBON PA.I-I.itS. 28.- 1 0 n t ie l'Oth,. General 'Hill Jt 6 rupletely succeeded, in his views on the works and bridg . e. of Ahnaraz the quantity of stores end uthmunition taken kreatly exceed the expec • tation.- Our loss is 'under 1 00 killed and wounded. The enemv . had a General and 250 :.rnen drowned in attempting to escape I' 100 killed; and 300 made prisoner's. Ourlstand 6th divisions passed t hrough Badnjoz on the 20th and 21st to keep t he Pi•ench quiet during . General absence. °a the 21st head-quarters were at Guinaldo. Drouet has again retired. The 50th regiment distinguished themselves at Alnaarez. " 6 41 Di,spatch from. Excellency General the Earl of Wellesley, to Don. Miguel. Pereira Forjaz, datO Head Quarters, Fricnte de Guinaldo, May 13. " General Drouet has , removed his head-quar ters from Fuente''Qvejuna to- Hunogon de Cor- " It has been said for some time In this part that King Joseph bas been appointed. Generalis - airao of the French armies in Spain, with the ex 'eption, as I am informed, of the armies of Arra gon and. Catalonia.. I have however seen no account of this' , appointmerit ; I nevertheless believe the intelligence. tet-N . , , ,tratii 56, a B "Pinish Tnies., and the7Allied Army • ITALLADoub, , 14.—Mina iii.S.fakenBoo • men who composed the garrison of ,Brihnega.. BAttKe; OF THE 911A61ANA, MAN' 15:—Upwsr.. 1 0 of a thousand French, entered Sabugo, and de manded rations in Aroehe, which place they en tered on the evening of the 1 lth . , and left on the. morning of the 12th, marching 1111'0110 Carti gana, Almenaster s and Valverde, for the conntry of Niebla Portagnere. ALa-Azirm. MA..Y,15.--filie number, of Fittna6 and Jurementados who have lately arrived. at Ayanionte and AtielVas, is considerable. They , were ..immediately. sent to Cadii . , where_ Many :others who presented themselves. to General lasteros, with their arms•andllorses, have already arrived.. Had the peasantry:acted with more mo deration:when- those fugitiveS made ;their appear ance,. certainly, this' time; when the want of. rovisions is so severely felt by the French, deser tion would have been immense . .. , , - General Dariean haS oracle, a movement, or mi.-- litary passage, in the county of Niebla, and tool" post 'at Fluelba.*; it is to be presumed that his principal object was to collect such provisions could be found in those parts.; but we believe he accomplished little by his marauding, considering /the efficacious measures adopted by the Commaqd-, ant-General of Niebla. Some. French deserters confirm the report of the great wantof provisions experienced by Soult's troops, '-vvho are many ' months pay in arrears, and reduced to a quarter. ration of bread. If Ballesteros should noW have the goof for tune to gain a great action in this ci:isis, great desertion from among the. French, and - still greater from the Jurameutados might confidently be re lied on. The French are in S. Silvestre probably the ag6n intend to attack the Pori of Paymogo. SPANISU PJPERS. klEmen . PAPER 4 DRESDEN, MAY_23.—The Emperors of France 'and Austria are still in this city. :‘.4ajesty the - Emperor. Alexander, in his passage through this place, re viewed the 4detaelunnts of: artiliery y.rhicb were at the moment in the town. His Majesty invited the Superior Orficers and Civil. Governor to dine with him. Immediately after dinner this Mo narch departed, and arrived, about seven o'clock, at Ostrow, eight German miles from hence. Poseg, MAY 15.—His Serene Highness the Prince Viceroy of Italy arrived here 'on the morning of the 43th, and set. out agaid at nine in the evening. BRESLAW, 1\1.4 - Y 16.—His Serene Highness ar rived here'On the 13tt, from Wortenberg. The , Prinee Viceroy of Italy has departed from Glogau :for Warsaw. . It appears that a part of the troops. of the Confederation ef the Rhine wiii.proceed to that -part of Galucitt which has been• united to. the Ddchy . of Warsaw: 'BERLIN, MAY 14.—Ycsterday his Excellency the Marshs.l Duke Treviso - passed thrdugh this 'city without stopping, on his way to Cwitfin. The Duke Belluno cpunnantis the ninth corns:. MADRID, MAY 6.—Yesterday his - Majesty held a Council of the Royal Order of Spain. His - Majesty deigned Co appoint D. J. Calumny, Grand Cordon, and Chevalier D. Pedro - Gorda Navarro, Brigadier and Goyernor of the Fort of Peniscola.. PARIS, 20.—His Majesty the -King of Prussia (ac'ordin to letters of the 23'ri. from Dresden) arrived, in Dresden on the `.. 5 .3d of May. CII.ELMITZ., MAY 11 —Yeifterfl:lX, in the aftei noon Tonr thousand French and , lta;lian troops en tered till:: town,, and after reaing a day; proceed ed to., , .::rds Dreiden. . 4 - FaANKroRT, TU AY 24.--Alraost all the superior Freneh - Q:licer,- who we.re in Berlin, have left that city to repair to their respective destinations. MAY' 17.—According to accounts of a very regent date from Wallachia, the troubles in Servia increase, take 4 certain consistency, and the people openly .express their discontent at the actual state of things, anti their Chiefs. COPENHAGEN, MAY 15.—An enemy's cutter, which,on the 30th ult.. cast anchor near Ilaurweg Ogg, and disembarked tu'elve men, was quickly obliged to stand out to sea...--:-%On the 9th instant an enemy's brig, of twenty guns, wished to seize some merchant vessels in Flastrand. Roads,. but they plAced themselves • under the protection of Fort, de Get, and the brig renounced her project. ORDERS EN COUNCIL. rßom THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. (Continued fro::: our raper of YttAcid:l3%) 2. We now proced to the right of search. Gro ins, Puffendortf, Vattel, and others, on whose opinions the practice or it the forign courts of Europe . has' been founded, condemn, as Ihivfirl prize,- any, neutral thip resisting - search, on the ground that such resistance .alone alord.s a pre sumption of her being employed in an unfair trade. If a neutral were permitted. to :supply-one of the'Belligerents with the'tneaas of carrying on the War, he Would become to all intents and par poses a .patty, in that star, and could haie just grOttud of complaint if treated as ad enemy by the other, party. ,But the fact of merchant vessels carrying- articles countraband of ',war, can only be ascertained by visiting them. The inconveni ence arising to any vessel, so searched, is no More than a momentary detention on her voyage; .t extends only to an inspection of her papers, un less strong suspicions of fraud should appear. .The..right of -search for se hen is precisely of the same nature as that for .goOds contraband of. -.rar. It is an instruction, as ancient as the navy :itself, to the 'Commanders of hislliajesty's ships, to search foreign vessels for English seamen, and tO compel their masters to deliver them up, and to pay them, their wages. - - Similar instrtictions have at all times been .given by the French, to the cornet zwders oft their ships of war. The practice . is . perfectly conformable -to the law of nations. Every Sovereig,tfhas a right to the services of his sul..eje.cts _hitt if, on the breaking out o f a war , these subjects avoid his service, by running on board neutral .vessels,' which perhaps may be ein ployed in -aiding the enemy, the right would be ;a : dead letter if the power were denied of visiting neutral - vessels, and taking them aut. wherever found. This .right is, and always ba; been, thus -e.:ercised by Great. Britain. Every commander of a ship of war is instructed, The Guerillas are extremely active in all parts of the Peninsula in attempts ; against the enemy, in 331 any of which they have recently been very suc- ee . ssf u l . There has been no movement in the North. General Ballesteros, on the 14th April, sur prised and destroyed in Axrolla a column under mineral Rey. • Preel the same t o the same, dated Head-quarters, Fuente de Guivaldo, May 20. cf An enemy's detachment, consisting of near '- 0 00 men, on the sth moved. from Seville, iu the direction of Ayamonte, near which place they ar •lived on the 10th. The enemy has s . made no l'loVement of importance since I transmitted your. excellency my dispatch, dated the 13th instant." OVIEDO MAY 9.—The prisoners taken by Mina on the %it April, and some Spaniards, were restored to their liberty. We positively know, by a letter frOM Potes, that.thore than one bun-- tired prisonershad arrived there, sent by the Curate of Villasdrego to General - Mcndizabel.. . We are likewise assured, that the party of Mar . clulnez surpri,ed ATIAISCQ a... French detachinent, 14- hich was collecting Contributions, killed about 150 of them, and took a °Teat' number of‘pri , 30 aers, which arc also to be conducted to Potes, BAxxs SO,...THE GUADIANA,' MAY 23.—W0 have greatest- satisfaction' in stating,- that'on the. 19t11 inst. Oen., Hill stook the bridge of Almaraz, According to the best authenticated accounts, the '"ciny had -100 killed, -300 made prisoners, and 2 ' 5 0 drowned, in attempting ,to cross the Tejo; ar 'iong the latter, as the French General who "lumanded. Gen. Hill, having struck this bloW, (I "troyed all the works Which had been construct ", withdrawn all the artillery, ammunition; and Provisions, returned. Our Joss is very trifling, it ' - - 13 c8 not exceed 80 men in-killed andlvounded. brouet had in• the mean times.advanced With his 'divisio ns to near Pubeira de Villa Franca, t a viug his nrincipai force in De Benito, but it is stated as certain, that he has again returned. CORUNNA, Max; 18:—We know that Cura. Merin o has sm-prised 600 French, _the whole of "th e oair'ers, serjeants, and corporals of which'he kill ed, in - retaliation for the assassination of the t*o'Dc..puties of the JNnta of Soria by them. - The Iti§oners, which amount to 490, are shortly ex , P"ted - at• Oviedo.. The Curate of Villarao, has made 500 prisoners in., Poza. Mendizabel has i 'llected in Aguillar 12000 infantry , and 2000 cavalry, to-march upon Torre la Vega. We are assured that Mina has- besieged Lea t°"6, and th a t a lth ou gh the ga r ri son o f B urgos ha 3 marched to its succour, he did not desist frotn 11.4 . design. I t is also reported Duran has made 700 priion-, et ' in Soria. Abadia, Santocildes., Pol, Douglas, and anoth er E ng li s h Chi e f ; are i n S ant i ago, wait ing for Mendizabel: It appears, the object of ti i *9 13 i 1l Ati01:1, is to.forul a general plan of opera- CADIZ, ,MAY 1 6.---General Mendizabel has set out from ,Pores , for the'head-quarters at Polite Nr \ edras, where - he was to .arrive on'the-10th zrist Yesterday embarked bere,Doyle's regiment of Tiradores, consisting of 1000 men ; they are lles ined for Ba.dai oz. _ MADRID, APRIL 7.—General Guc (alias Mar quis de Rio Milano), Commandant 'of- Guadax alara, has demanded reinforcements in great haste, in consequence of from 6 to 8000 troops and patriots - ;_aving united in his vicinity.' Aram B.—lt consequence of the excessive high price of bread, at six in the morning a commo tion broke out in the great-square, which quickly communicated itself to the. smaller places., and caused a great alarm The Governor-immediately doubled the guards, distributed patroles, called the troops to quarters, and placed picquets and strong ,guards in different places, who 'remained all day and-during the night. Some persons were taken into custody, and'Commissioners appointed to inquire into the authors of the disturbance, but no means were or have been, taken to lower the price of bread, nor cease. the exertions used in collecting grain for the enemy'i army. APRIL 9.—Notwithstanding the heavy penalty, imposed by. the French upon the places which do not provide the wagons required of them, those wanted can never be punctually had, not even where the Milititry Commandant is made respon sible for them. APRIL 10.-r--Miscry, general discontent, and the privations of the enemy incre:%se..—ln ail the places where bread is kept, a guard is placed, and the loads -from the . baker's are alwayS 'escorted through the streets by the troops. • DlSTftl.9f l :i.'.lo;4.oF Pius To the_Quebee, for the .capture of- the James Cooke, at No: 12, Upper Thanies-street, for three months, from the 3d instant: To the Cephalus, for‘the ,capture of the Adjutor, at No. 12, Upper Thames-street. To the Quebec, for the capture of the. Tonkin and 11 ulna Maria Catharina, at No. 7, Adelphi Terrace, and recalled at the same place. • • • • • • .To the Quebec and Vestal,. for the capture. of thCFratv Jantina, on the . 6th, at No. 7, Adelphi Terrace, and recalled at the same place. To the Algefine, for. the capture of the Mandamus, on board, ,at'Sheernes," 3 on the 10th. itistant, and at Gunnell's Wee, for three months after. To the Phosphorus; for the Ferneijelsen, detained by the. Active, on the fits instant, at N0..22,N0a01k-street, and re called at the same.place. • • , • Z . To the Indefatigable, for the capture of the La Matilda, by the Statira 'the 6th ' inst. at No. 22, Norfolk-street, and re called at . the game place..; To the Cerberus, for the capture of the Russian gun-boats, No. 62, 65,. and 66 (in cgrupaiV with the Princess Caroline ,and Minotaur), on. the sth inst. at, No. '22, Norfolk-street, :Strand and recalled at the same place. _ _ _ To the Locust, for the capture of the French brig .Tonne Jan, on her arrival in port, and afterwards at No. 18, Cie . nient's Inn, on Tuesdays and YridayS, fo'r three months. Lord- Keith has, in a , oinplittientarY letter, re turned his. thanks to Captain Hothmn, thz-Of ficers and Men of the Northumberland. .0 Lain Hotham would not permit his men that were killed to be thrown overboard immediately, when they fell, (as ,is the custom `in. the British Navy) but to be carefully examined; as to the proliability Of any spark of life remaining, and then ordered their bodies to be corainitted to the deep in the most solemn manner, the funeral service, being read by the Chaplain. T4e custom of the Freach 'Navy is to pile the dead bodies, or those sup posed. to be - dead, on the midship . part of 'the decks., .-The British throw . every - ruart Overboard as soon as he falls. FURTHER EXTRACTS. . t. 'PARIS, .AIA.Y 29.--Two hundred. and .eighty Spanish prisoners, from, Valencia' have passed through Nancy, under an escort ; they ai:e going to Phalsbourg.s • On the 23d, arrived at the Depot at Aancy, 30 Spanish priests, made prisoners of War. , VIF,NNA, MARCFr 16:- - -tiere the price of all co lonial produce , begins to rise, because, it is pre-, -sumed, witb great probability, that in conseqUence olcircurnstanceis,- their introduction or transit will be forbidden, or at least subject to a great num ber of restrictions. Field MarShals . Fumont and - Beache i . IVI6Or-Generals Mayer., Grenville,• lunberg, &c,'.&e. who received orders to proceed to . Gallacia, have already set out, 'LEIPZIC, MAY ls.—His Majesty . the. :Emperor of the French will visit the works of the fortress of.Torgaut, . . . CARLSRU HE, MAY 22„—The troops, of tie Grand Duchy . which,.haVC joined the Grand Army ; consist of three battalions of infantry; a batta lion of chasseurs, -a regiment of hussarS, with the artillery atsaChed' to: ;that corps. According to accounts received from these corps- they .areirr ex ,celleut condition, and animated With' that scnti .„ • •, • ment of gloi y which preVailsthroughout the grand army. STUTGAR,DT, 'MAY 20.—The price of corn has fallen considerably throughout all Suabia. PLATiEN, MAY - 15;7—His Majesty • the Emperor of 'the ,French, ping of`ltaly, and his august spouse passed the•night in this town. His Mar . jesty the King of Saxony had sent hither General (lusdorf and Baron Euesen, tt receive the au:-ust travellers, upon. the Saxon fronliers. T4y made thelr entry at half-past fire o'clock, •amidst the ringidg of all the bells. Before the gatc which leacis to. the bridge be yond the Eisler, the city had caused', magpilicent triumphal arch to be constructed. Between 76,1,5 arch and the bridge, the Burgiier were under arms ; beyond the rook, the lancers of the .141. perial Guard formed a line to the Eisler, with a detachment of the cuirassiers of the Saxon Crd. TooLorr, 19.—The presence of th f s my, who 'manoeuvred this morninz befo,l 4 Gulph, did not prevent two shins, leder) w itii ; grain, proceeding from Genoa, arrivinz port, as welt, as a French vessel from Tu;lis, lads:; with drugs, &c. ST UTTQAIIDT -MAY 24 .—A: great lanral4qr of r s eneit pass through here ; who are proceeding from Mayenee and Frankfort, to the north of Germany and Prussia. After passing sozae tirric in. Lower Silesia, the Wirtemberg, troops left that prov:nce, and proceeded towards the Vistula. We are happy to hear that his goyal Highness the Duke' of CAMBRIDGE' has been vraciously 0 - , pleased to become the Patron of the Society of Schoolmasters, an institution Which, ' from its liberal and benevolent purposes,, see us well worthy of 'such illu4trious patronage.'' - ` ' When he meets with:any foreign . ship or ves sel, to send a Lieutenant . to inquire whether there may be on board of her any seamen, cvllo are subjects of his Majesty, and if there be, he is to demand them, ttrovided it does not,distress the ship ; he is to demand their wages up to the (L , ..5,; ; but he is.to do this without detaining the vessel longer thin shall'be necessary, or offering any violence to, or innny way 'ill-treating, the master or his crew.' It is haraiy necessary to observe, that,. in the present day, merchant vessels .only are intended by that instruction. It is diStinctly pointed out, note only by whorn, but in what manner, the search is to he made, If it be done by any officer below the rank of Lieutenant-4f it be done in a violent -and unbecoming manner—if the vessel searched be de i tainecl longer than necessary—or if, by the removal,even of his Majesty's subjects, slit. he distressed,.. the Commander of the King's ship- is guilty of a breach of his instructions, and becomes responsilile for any ill consequences that may .befal; the. neutral. The Ameii:an Goy \ ern ment, of all others., has the least reason to com plain of a.tly tardiness,. on the part of th; , t of Great Britain, to punish offenders in this way,. or to render ample, ustice to -- the injure:; play. We net:; scarcely remind it•-of the immediate removal of Captain Bradley from the command of the Cambrian, fon Impressing, - which he had a right to do, soe English, seamen frOm an English , - • tn ship,, but lying . Within an American harbour, be fore the President of the United States had time even to prefer a complaint—of the trial,of Captain Whitby ; by eourt-znartial, for the murder of an .Aniericarr sean.l:::l, killed by arl accidental she from the Leand,r—or of the re!r.:val of Admiral. Berkeley from his command,- tr i )C7 his c stge pent of ,the affair cf the Cheasaptrkc, and before any complaint fi.om A7'..lerica reached lEngland. P9fore tint disavowal of the British Govern rne;,;;.,. America, it might be possible for f.6„ 1 . 1 --,er'..can Government to suppose that tl - te Adn-,:_ral Berkeley was authorised. by -his ir,etructio , a,; and ComeveritlY that it was by. ci . .!::eat Brit:-..in to set up a new 'el a. 14.4: r2tlac ; i: tipr„ - )perly spoling) to revive our .. old-c;iiin to Of was. But that dis 1-,-pr'rei was the -,-ery gra. rad that such a claim v.-41 i-0;....-.j.r_t;:r.a2d to be set up; and was e , Yrressly tecoraed 7.ti a soleihs I:,'roclaination issu. by hip Ty..aif2aty' within a fe.w.Weeks after the 44ir of Chesapeake was ko.oWn it this cowl. •, try, containing- ti,e exercise of the right of search, tvhi.4-*--iSite of ,tar were specifically exemptecl." . ' • ,•• . After so plain and anxious an ex-"nn of the princips maint:lined by the British ( 40- ` , •ertirnent on this subject, it might have been ikittti, that the imputation of intending t6aet - tipbn the new chim,' as it is called, would be But as ilia only the Icreuch, as uti6lit ue tt.skecteti, still