The Sun. — London, England, 1812-08-24 00:00:00

; .~,~.~..,,~s MAILS. vED-1 Lisbon, 2 rublm, 1 Waterfnrd burgh, I I-JeligAmid, I Waterford. TITE. SUN. SOLEM QUIS ;)ICERE FALSUM AUDLAT Dv—Gctten- L n ND 0 N, MONDAY, AUGUSX 24,1 812. 'We this day lay before our Readers the 11th Bulletin of the French Army ; it is dated a wi . Wi tepsk, the 4th inst. and we :are perdtaided 'they will read it with considerable pleasitre. It begins with .an account of, the positions of all the corps of the, French Army, and does not limit its information to those corps that-are actively employed against the Russians,- but mentions those • that are at Tilsit, ,and even at Stettin ! The next para graph in the Bulletin, we confess, appeat'S to us not a little extraordinary : instead of follow ing up the successes, which be says he has uni-. formly obtained, BUONAPARTE begins to com plain of the execssive heat of the weather, and adds, that he has dent his army into quarters of refreshment ! ! This is, indeed, a most ex-1 traordinary measure; delay is to him defeat ; ,the season is rapidly advancing ; in a very few weeks, if be doel not obtain a . decisive victory over the Russian Army, he must inevitably retreat; and. yet be stops in his boasted career of victory to send his Army into quarters of refreshntent ! Unless we arevery much deceived indeed, he has abandoned . his plan of advancing, and has determined upon his retreat. s.The news of the battle . of Salamanca, - w'iich we should suppose had reached hith about the time this Bulletin is dated, probably contributed not a little to this sudden change. We have not tirn..! or room to comment upon this important intelligence ; we can only express our conviction that his retreat will he as disastrous as it certainly will be disgraceful. The Marlborough packet has arrived from Lis bon. She brought dispatches from the Marquis NVELLINoTpx, whose head-quarters remain -at • Cuellar ; but a part of the Allied army has ad vanced to Aranda in pursuit of the cacmy. SUCHET, it is said, has advanced towards the floret with 13,000 men, to take the command of _MAnmoNT's army, who is dead of his wounds. If this be true, the French must abandon the greater part of the southern and eastern part of Spain. Our Readers will find some interesting ,extracts from the Lisbon Papers in a subsequent column. Col. ll.Nmri.Totc ha 'arrived' in la flag Of truce from Atnerica. It is said, but we do not vouch for the truth of the statement, that the dispatches he brings are of a pacific'tendency. Our dron has taken the American sloop of war the nautilus, and chased the Constitution frigate 36 hours without being able to come up with her. Yesterday, at three o'clock, his Royal High "less the PRINCE REGENT held a Privy Council at Callton'llouse, which was attended by all the INlinisters. On Saturday the PRINCE REGENT dined with :SFr. BoEum,-at Chertsey. His Royal Highness, the PRINCE REGENT visit ed Viscount .and Viscountess MELBOURNE yester day-afternoon, at Melbourne House, Whitehall. THE TIIEATRE.—On Saturday an Opera vas brought forward at the Lyceum, under the title Of The Privateer, avowedly founded on the comedy of The Brothers, one of the earliest dra matic works of the late Mr. CUMBERLAND. A Morning Paper of to-day-says,, that this comedy experienced but an inFlifferent reception on its first appearance ; but this is not the ft‘ct 3 it was supported by some of the best performers of the time, and' was represented with considerable success. The chief performers • were, WOOD WARD, YATES, SMITU, and Mrs. GREEN, who all exerted themselves very ably. The comedy was represented in the following season with success, and in two or three seasons afterwards at the Hay market Theatre, and received theie also with great applause. In its new, form, as an Opera, much curtailment of the dialogue has taken place, and some of the subordinate characters have been omitted. The plot, however, is entire, and is by no means - devoid of interest, though since the low* period when the original play appeared some of the situations and characters have furnished materials for sUbSeqUent productiims. - The cha racters retain their'formcr names, and they were very ably supported; .particularly Iroaasides, ;:y FV.VCETT; Sir Be:ilainin Dove, by LovEoRoVE; his Lady, by Mrs. SPARKS ; Violetta,• by 'Mrs. Oaos:tt ; and Sophia, by MISS KELLY. As it was necessary that a - certain number of songs should be given; according to the license granted to this Theatre, it was difficult to introduce them prOperly, hut altogether they appear with effeet. Some of them are very htimorolt , ,, and the'others b a ie more poetical merit than is' usually seen in modern gperss. Some are adapted to Ohl me lodies, and some to original 'airs, which have great merit: The opera was received throughout with - great applause, anti several of the airs were en cored. • Mr: J-GENSTONE, the actor, or, as be is gene-. 'rally styled", Jack JoHNsToNE, is now perform ing at Cork with his customary success.. The ashes of the Phcenix are said to resuscitate a new-one but with far more. truth may idoe as serted, that at this era of Lottery adventure, the ashes of Blanks can raise such .a prolific generation of Prizes, as.are capable of producing 50,0001. trona one Blank, on the sth of September. • SECOND EDITION SUIV-OFFICE, TWO O'CLOCK. We stop the Press to lay before our Readers the French account of the . battle of Salamanca. From this curious - statement in the itiotiteur our Read ers may form an accurate judgment of the reliance that is to be placed upon the French Bulletins from Russia. FARTS, AUG'. 18.---The. Army of Portugal, com manded by his Excellency the Marshal Duke de RA ousA, was, on the 2.4 th July, encamped on the Dou ro, in front of the English' army: The Duke pass ed that river on the 16th, at Tordesillas; in suite of the enemy, and after several actions, in which the French had always a marked advantage, the ene my was driven back to Salamanca, when the two armies were in front of each other on the 22d : after a cannonade of some duration on both sides, and while the Marshal Duke de RAG usA , resolved to give battle, was occupied in making his final . arrangements, he was.stricken by a shell, which broke his right arm, and woUnfled him in two places in the right. This accident obliged him to quit the field of battle; his life is not, however, in danger. - , • The General of Division,' CLAUZiL, took the command justas the action commenced ; it con tinued for several hours with 'the greatest fury ; prodigies of valour, and several, actions, worthy of the French name, were performed. Never theless, the accident which happened to the Duke of RAGUSA had, froM the first, determined Gen. CLAUSEL to retire upon the right, of the Tormes.• After alternate and equal successes, he re-crossed that river at Alba, leaving one of his divisions to cover the bridge of that place till the middle of the clay following. The retreat was effected without molestation from the enemy, whose loss was very_considerable., The French army continued their route, on the 23d of July, by Penaranda, whither they were fol lowed by the English cavalry. Our rear-guard made a su:cessful attack on them, 'forced them to make a rapid retreat, and killed nunibers of them. The army then continued their route with out any further molfstation, and haie resumed their former position at Tordesillas, and with the Douro in their front. This intelligence has been brought to the Mi nistry of the War Department by 11Ir. TABVIER, Aideclu. Camp to the Duke RAGUSA, who has been sent by his ExCellency the Nirfr Minister to the Emperor's head-quarters. THIRD EDITION. SUN -OFFICE, HALF PAST Twd O'CLOCK. No regular Bulletin of the Dispatches - from Lord WELLINGTON' has been issued, but the fol lowing, we understand is the substance of them. They are dated Cuellar, on the 4th. They state, that the French Army of the Centre, after having passed the Guadarrama, and, after its head had arrived at Venta de Santa Rafaelle, joined JOSEPH at Segovia, on the night of the 27th. The Allied Army were not diverted, however, from the pursuit of the Army of Portugal (late MAamoNT's), the rear-guard of which remainect on the Douro on the 28th and 29th, but two of our divisions having crossed the Eresma and Carga on that day, the enemy retired across the Douro, pursuing the course of their main body towards Villavancs, abandoning Valladolid, and leaving 17 pieces of cannon, with a great quantity of ammunition, their hospital, and about 800 sick and wounded. MESQUINEZ, the Spanish General, took 300 'prisoners nedirValladolid . . On the 30th our ad vanced guard crossed the Douro, and our troops were received at Valladolid with enthtisiastic joy. LordWELLINGTO . N lliOired . '64l-righcalong . ..the #Aja to Cuellar, to prevent the junction bets een the Army of Portugal and the troop under J - SEPH, and arrived at Cuellar on the Ist inst. On ' the same day, JogErx retired from Segovia, and' crossed the , Guadarrama, leaving in the for mer place an advanced guard, consisting prin cipally of cavalry. Before his departure be spiked the cannon, destroyed the ammunition in the castle, and carried off the . Churchlplate, besides levying•considerable contributions. The Army of Portugal continues its retreat to wards Burgos. Accounts from Sit' RowLAND HILL to Lord WELLINGTON state a brilliant affair of cavalry which took place at Ribera on the 24th ult. The British were commanded by Sir Wm. Easfugn ; the-enemy lost 30 me.n in killed, and a-great num ber of horses; 11 men and 40 horses were taken : our loss was only one killed and four wounded. On the 4th inst. Lord WELLINGTON had learned that the French troops, under General D'AsPA/4 had retired from Segovia by the way of San Idel e. • •frr • _ ronso. Mr. SCITA*, the,MeSSeliger, VAC) had been sent from this Country to Ainnonuce the death of, - Mr. PEnCtVAL, arrived in town this day. He brings no account of the effect . which this melancholy event had upon the American Government ; end the repeal. of the Orders in Council bad not, reached America.—Mr. SCHAW left New York on the 27th ult, • NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 22.—Arrived the brig nerva, belonging to Golchestet i J. MANN,- Mas ter, from Palma, Mahon, and Gibraltar, with a cargo of wine and cork, fdr dunnage, bound to this, port for orders, and is in a leaky, state. S,he sailed from 'Palma- on the 4th of May, Mahon on the Bth Juae, and from. Gibraltar on the Bth inst. in company With a fleet of transports and , mer chantmen, consisting of about 50,sail, under con voy of hii Majesty's, ship Alceste ; parted company yesterday, at 3P. M. The Minerva is under qua rantine; Sailed his Majesty's schooner Nonpareil fox Cadiz. The ship Nicholas and Ann,. LAND, master, that arrived a few days since, with a cargo of deais, &c. is damaged in her bottom, having run aground soon after her arrival, and her cargo is to be i landed here iniluediately,, in order to debt, the repair of the vessel. The Alceste, with the homeward-botld Medi terranean convoy; passed up Channel last night. Arrived the slbop Active, belonging to this port, TIL:t. master, •frOin Falmouth, which place she left yesterday ; at the• time of .her departure froM thence, the Duke of MarlboFongh, Post-office packet, was going hi with mails from Lisbon; and"it is conjectured has brought news - of impor tance from the Armies, as immediately on her en tering Falmouth" harbour she coimnenced firing. No intelligence from her has 'yet reached this place. , Arrived this. morning. the Bloodhound gun-brig from Annapolis; after short passage ;. she brought a messenger charged with dispatches for Government,. which contain the ultimatum of the American Government with regard to hoStili= ties with 'England, and it is currently reported_ here that war is determined on, notwithstanding the repeal of the Orders in Council. It is also said the Bloodhound brings intelligence that 150 American privateers were fitting out . at Annapolis with the greatest dispatch. The intelligence was communicated to the Admiralty by telegraph ina naediately after the arrival of the Bloodhound. DOVER, AUG. 23.—Passed by for London the Duckeniield Hall, Buss, Trinidad; Cato, MoR- Tali, Antigua; Blenheim, MILLI', Grenada ; Venus, ---, Dominica ; Ann, WILLIAMS, Gua daloupe ; Eliza, FITCH, Antigua; Resolution, HART, Nevis ; John, CLARKE, Jamaica ; London; DuNcAx, Bar'badoes ; Nautilus, RICHES, Barba does ; Eu phemia, VAUGHAN, St. Lucia Rachael, PRICE, St. Kitts ; Hero, CHRISTIE, St., Kitts,; Julius, AUTHC/RN, St. Kitts ; and others, in all near 70 sail, under convoy of his Majesty's fri gates Garland and Thetis. FALMOUTH, AUG. 21. Arrived this day the Marlborough packet, Captain BULL, with Mails from Lisbon, ten days passagp ; left in the Tagus, his Majesty's ships Impetueux . , Vice-Admiral MARTIN, the Myrtle sloop of war; Walsh:gib= and Queen Chorlotte paCkets.; the former was' ex- • pected to sail about the, .18th instant. - • Infor mation was received at - Lisbon of the death of MARmoNT, at Avilla ; the General. Officers' wounded in the action of the 22d ukimo are all doing well ; Captain Bum:spoke, •on the 19th instant, in Lat. 46. 50. n0rth.,8... • Long. 23. west, his Majesty's ship "Siotl)ainfizo, Admiral Sir B. WARRE - N'; Poietiers, Captain B4RESFORD and Mognet :brig, from Portsmoutb., out seven days. Passengers per packet, Captain IVLUNDEL, Captain' num., 434. regiment Vim:Arts, 102 d, Messrs. NO.WINIAN, • DowsING„. and GLAS- A - P.llt, merchants, YeSterday appeared off ,this potf . thqloinetyard bound Mediterranean 'fleet, consisting Of about 100 sail; udder convoy of his Majesty's ship Alceste, of 38 guns, Capt. MAxvVELf., The five folloVving vessels" hive put in, here to lay quarantine . , and the remainder proceeded tip Channel Fortitude,' LE BRUN, ..8/12(/, MAUGER, verance, PINLY, Everiinent, TRE.GARTHEN, .and Alert PATTERSON. . • Arrived at Bristol the John, HODDELt, Jamaica, CLEMENTS,- Eliza, GiEsoN , • ani the Elnicai-n, BLACK, from Jamaica : parted front the fleet on the 21st inst. at 4 P. M. in lat. 49. long. 11. sixty sail in company. The Jamaica fleet are therefore safe, and may be hourly expected. • Forty-eight sail of the Leeward Islands fle e t have arrived safe in the Downs, as is dm ) th e Mediterranean fleet, under convoy of the,Alceste frigate. FRENCH PAPEIS. Lt NTT. • BU,LLET/N OF THE GRAM) AR NI Witepsk, 4 " Intercepted letters from the camp of. Bam;fi = TICS speak of the losses sustained by his cGrps the battle of Mohilow, and of the number of 0- sertions from which it has - suffered oh the route' Every Pyle has l 'rernained in his country, so thi' t this corps, wLich, including the CossaCks of Pi ' TOW,' amounted to 50,000 men, is now ieduceil to less than 30,000. It will join .the grand army on the 7th or 6th of August, at Smolensk. " The followingis the position occupied by the army on The 4th of August " lle . ati-iparters at Wit4sk, with four bridgo on the Dwina: • The 4th corps at Sarnai, occupying Vclui, r° - rietehe unit Ousirath. ‘‘ The KING of MPLES at Roudenu, with three first corps' of cavalry. " The first corps, Commanded by-Marshal the Prince of is at the mouth of the Bere 9 ' sins, on, the Borystlwles, with two brigades °tier, this last-mentioned river, and one. bridge u pon the Beressina, with double fetes-de-pont. “Tiic third corps, commanded by Marshal at Duke of ELCHINGEN, s at Liozna. " The eighth corps, commanded by the Duke of ABRANTES, is at Orcha, with two brigades, a O , ll tete3-de -pont upon the Borysthenes. " The sth corps, commanded by Prince PONIA' TOWSKY, is at' Mohilow, with two bridges ad tetes-de-pont upon the.Borysthents. . . " The second corps; commanded by ?Marshal the Duke of:REGGto, is upon the Drissa, advanced before Polotsk, upon the road to ". The Prince DE SCHWARTZENBERG IS With • corps at Sfonim. • • The seventh corps is upon Itozana. " The fourth corps olcavalry, with a division ofinfantry, commanded by General Count MO" BERG, is before Brobunsk and Mozier. The 10th corps,. commanded by the Duke Of TARENTu:.7, is beflDunaheig and Rig:a. " The ninth corps, commanded by the Blzke of BELLUNO, is assembled at Tilsit. " The-eleventh corps, commanded by the Doh' of GASTIGLioxE, is.at Stettin. His Majesty has sent the army into quarteri of refreshinent.•. The heat 'excessively greater. than what it is in • Italy. The thermometer is at and 27 degrees.. The nights - even are warm. General SL112IENSI(01, with two divisions of the, corps of BRAGRA'EION, having been cut off from that corps, and not being able to rejoin it , has entered Wolynhia, effected a junction with the division of recruits commanded by General Tog mAzow,. and mached upon the 7th corps. Ile surprized and cut off the Saxon Brigadier-Gene ral KLENGEL, who had under his command an ad' vanced guard of two battalions, and two squa" drons of Prince CLEMENT'S regiment. " After a resistance of six hours duration,' tire greater part of this advanced guard were killed or taken. General Count REGNIER could not conic up to their assistance sooner than two hours after the affair wad over., Prince SCISVARTZENBER G marched on the 30th of July,. to join General REGNIER, and Push the war with spirit against the enemy's divisions. On the 19th the Prussian General GRAWETer. attacked the Russians at Ekau, in Courland, over threw them, took 200 prisoners, and killed a coa siderable number. General GRAWERT - much coin_ mends Major STIERN, who, at the head of the Ist regiment of Prussian Dragoons, took a prominent part in the affair. When Genera! GRAWERT had effected a junction with General KLEIST, he drov,e the enemy before him on the road to Riga, and _ _ invested the tete-de-pont " On the 30th the Viceroy sent to Welij A bri gade of Italian light cavalry; two hundred well charged four battalions of the depot, who were Da their route to Twor,: brOke them; took 400 pri soners; and 100 'wagons loaded with military stores. • " On the 30th, the Aid-de-Camp TRAIRE, wb° had been sent for Ward with the Queen's Regiment of Dragoons of the Royal _ltalian Guard, arrivej at OftsVratli, took a Captain and. 40 men prisoner', and possesed themselves of 200 carriages loa.dea with•fiour. • "• On the 30th,' Marshal the Duke of REG Giti, marched froip Potots'k upon Sebei.' pact Cienc" ml WITTGENSTEIN, whose corps had been rtitl force4 by that of Prince RF,rtx. An e ngagemet' t took place near the C•tastle of Jacoubovo. 26th Regiment of Light infantry obtained mucli • glory. The division ,Legrand gloriously bore "P against the fire of the entire of the enemy's corp s ' " On the 31st the enemy marched upon the Drissa, in order to attack the Duk.- of REGG I° ,' upon his flank, as he marched. The Marshal tool ‘ up a position with the Drissa in his front. " On the Ist of August the enemy were fool" enough to cross the Driksa, and'to present them selves in battle array in front of the 2 d cor p s ' -- The Duke of REGGIO alloWed half their corps to 'cross, and as soon as he perceived about fifteen thousand men and fourteen pieces of 0 111 ' 1°11 , over, he unmasked a battery of forty piec.e,' of cannon, which played upon them wite ! grape shot for ndariy anihour. -At the sahie the divisions,LEGßAND aud VERDIER Wade 4 r'ae.