The Sun. — London, England, 1812-03-07 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, MARCH s.—The body of Admiral Sir CHARLES COTTON, late Commander of the Channel Fleet, is to be removed to-morrow morn ing, from-Stoke, on board his Majesty's brig of war Pel°r us , . Commanded by Captain llowLey, vessel i s now in Hamoaze. We understand the Procession will be as follows : field Officers Of Marines, Guards, and Artillery, Marine Band, Chaplain of the Fleet, - Captain Rowley,.of the Petorus, Officers of his Ship, Adinirals, Physicians, and Surgeons of the Fleet, Secretaries to the Commander in Chief and late Admiral, _ ... . Captain of his Majesty's ship Salvador del Mundo, PA LL SUPPORTERS*- Six Admin.ls I THE BODY Six Admirals CHIEF • MOURNERS : Admirals Sir Robert Calder, and General England, General Officers, and Admirals in Seniority, Post-Captains and Field Officers, Commanders, Lieutenants. T wenty, fi ve mi nute guns w ill b e fi re d f rom eac h shi P in commission in Hamoaze and the Sound, while t h e procession is going from the shore to the pe loras the latter ship is to continue firing minute g u ns from the time the procession enters the Dock yard gate, until the body is erinbarked on board her; and t he yards of each ship ate to be manned, un cover ( u• We understand, Sir CHARLES'S remains are to be remov e d to Cambridge for interment. 41t rived the Edward, PHILLIPS, from :Waterford, with a cargo of wheat for this poit, and the Provi dence, BRowN, from Wales ; also arrived the Ran- Zer: WHI'PEHEAD, from Sunderland, aden with coals for this port. The chasses maree Friends, belonging to Bristol at? the Fre nc h pr i ze , L' i li m e e ), R IDE R; Master, th at sailed f rom h ence a f ew da y s s i nce , sp li t h er sails,‘ and became very leaky . during a" storm in v its and Bay; near that port, and was deserted by her" Cr ew, The F r iends has been since tov‘ ed la here h 3P - Batne .boats belonging to Looe. C ame, clown the harbour and anchored in the of t 'nd, after having been refitted, the Myrtle sloop War, • " a ro for Lisbon. 0 A L , MARCH 6.—Arrived his Majesty's ships m us, Volage, and Ferret, from different cruizes. —alne down from the . River, the Bombay India -411(1 tw o ship bound !o Jamaica. put back.the Levant for . Malta, being out four d ays Pn -aTsmourn, MA RCH 6.—Sailed his Majesty's 4 t h h i Ps. Royalist fur the Downs, Zephyr_on a cruize, e Ferret for the Downs'and Leith. I)r oped down to St. Helei , s, the Fissuard frigate. ISLANDS OF SCILLY, MARCH 3.—Arrived the Csod m , Aent, MORTIMORE, horn Cork, bound to Fal mouth and Plymouth, with. prov isions. Ca me. i n hi s M a j esty ' s s l oop F avor ite, Captain F °4ll E 9 , from Plymouth, with t o privates belong 01g to the 2d Royal Veteran Battalion doing duty at l a Garri son ; also came i n t h e C rane, o f 18 guns; 4cl S e veralwessels (transports) bound to Ireland. ~t is much feared that the sloop Ranter, belonging t° this port, THOMAS, master, has foundered in gale of wind, in her passage from Cork bound to p att unoth she having sailed from Cork five weeks al lice ' and no account of her arrival has been re ttiveci. P ALMOUTH, MARCH 4.—Arrived the Eliza packet, i n 24 days, with a mail, from New York ; a tld the Ememline, LULL:ODRA, from Monte Video, i .4 100 days. By the Eliza we learn, that no apprehension of a w a r. between England and America was enter tattled at New' York ; that so great was the de- . nia nd for seamen for the merchant service, that 35 and 40 dollars per mantis were ()tiered, which had nine of the packet's crew to deSert, and go tut ° the American merchant service. 13 Y the Emmeline, fr om Mon le Video, we learn that iz44 o , the Governor, had gone in . a frigate to New s P ai n, brit for what purpose was not ascertained. • when the mail left Falmouth, there was a ship of War arid her convoy returning, supposed to be the sjDtegle, le, for Cork. NAVAL APPOINTMENT9.—Lieut. John Hawkins t o t , the Licata sloop, at Sheerness. Lieut. George Rorie to me Ocean, at Portsmouth.. Lieut. Charles Walker has te.en promoted to the rank of Comm,ander. Lieut. Thomas williains to the Duncan. Mr. Win. Koopman to be Pur. Zr of th e M a id a. Li eut. It o l 2ert B rer et o n to the Asia, at bhathain. Lieut. (oho Wardell to the Magnificent, at f l Yinouth. Lieut. Walter Wyndever, to command the ,Ifl aytkopia cutter, at Sheerness, lately recaptured. Lieut. we to the Trinculo, at Sheerness. Thursday night, between eight and nine o'clock, the shop of Mr. Kennet, a respe6table linen-draper tp Blackfriars-road, was fired into. Not less than six slugs were picked up behind the counter and window, as..four large squares of glass were pierced through ; fortunately, at that time, no one was be knd the counter. A young man in a sailor's dress, \\`'` w as seen to have fired, and run down Edward- LISPOIV PAPERS. L 1530% FEB. 23.-.--We have no news of ilnport ;nce.;' Head-quarters remain at Freynada : some divisions of the army have come into the rear to re .fit—in other respeas every thing remains in sialu quo. EICTRACT OF AN OFFICIAL DTSPATCR FROM LORD WELLINGTON TO DON MIGUEL FOHJAZ, DATED FRENADA, FEB. 12. I have received no details of the movements which Gen. ABADIA hal- made from Galicia. I be lieve he intended attacking Astorga, but retired to Villa Franca in the beginning of the present month ; and General CABRERA, woo had advanced toßaneza, retired upon Puebla de Sanabria, in con sequence of finding the enemy were in force in Be navente. I conclude that the right of the army of Portugal has marched from Zamora to Bena- vente. The detachment of the Conde de Amarante's, troops, 'which oocupied Puebla de Senabri a, wi►en Ge- neral CABRERA marched upon Banesa, has returned to Portugal, in consequence of the Spanish troops having arrived there. AA HO L MAIL. OFFICIAL REPORT Of the Governor of Stralsund to the King of Sweden, re speding the entrance of the FreniAt into Swedish Pone_ STOCKIIOL.M, FEB. 21 lloy,ilMajesty, about 14 days ago, received by an opeii bo3t, . which ar rived at \stad t , the following submissive repot t . (tom the Commander in Chief and Adjutant-Gene ral, &c. Mr. Peyron. SUBMISSIVE REPORT. • My last report was of the 47th ult. and was for warded by the Counsellor of Justice, Mr: Luing gren-; it inforthed your Majesty of French troops having enterered in Swedish Pomerania. The oc currences which hake taken pike by this proceed ing I shall submissively lay, connectedly, -- before your Majesty. So early as the 23d, the report bad reached ustrom Mecklinburg, that Swedish Pome rania was shortly to be occupied by French troops, but this report being industriously circulated by the Officers and men belonging to General Friant's di vision, I considered it merely as a feint, intended to cloak some other purpose ; and also that, if an army of your Majesty's ally intended to enter the, pro vince in an amicable manner, I ought to have had intimation given me, though, at the same time, such a march into Swedish Pomerania was not re garded as being improba,kle, considering the instruc tions priVately transmitted on this head to the Vice- Governor, Count.. Mornetv In the mean time I snit my Staff Adjutant, Lieutenant Von Schwart zer, to Damgarten, with proposals to.the Frit•ch Commander in Chief, in case of the troops entering the Province. LETTER A. On the entry of the troops, Lieut. Von Sch wart zer punclu illy discharged the commission'intrusted to him, and received the most friendly assuri..ces that no hostility was to be feared, but that it was done merely to make invebtigatiotr; concerning the vast quantity of colonial produce said la . ,be _here in the'country, and that this .wa; . the sole purpose of his coming. I having- myself paid the most pane tual attention to all the instruaions given regarding the Continental system; was perfedly coin inced that no illegal depot or magazine of prohibited goods was to be found ; and likewise fully b e lievin g that this was only meant as a ,step to march further on through Gripswald and Wolgist, I impatiently waited the arrival of these allied troops, more parti 7 cularly so, having no orders to proceed to hostility against them; and besides which, all the opposition that I could make against such a powerful division of troops would be totally ineffeaual, as explained in- my submissive proposal of the tst instant, I therefore, in the night between the 26th and. 27th, caused the four guns and ammunition, which were still remaining at Stralsund, to -be, transported over to Rugen, although that the defence of - Rugen,.. which by reason that it might be approached over the ice at every point; requiredan equal if not superior force than that of the assailants, who had it at their option to choose the place of attack. On the 27th, when there no longer remained auk doubt of the di vision of Friant being in hall march, in several co lumns, against Stralsund, I sent the orders marked letters B. and C. to the Commander of the advanced posts, and intended removing my head-quarters to Rugen, immediately after having a cimferenee with General Friant, whom I still considered as an ally of Sweden, and a too precipitate departure would have resembled a flight, and - shewn a suspicion of the amicable intentions which, according to all my . instructions, I was bound to believe actuated this Majesty's high ally. _ - . The arrival of General Friant was preceded, by some hours, by that of his Chief of the General Staff, Colonel Coilieke, who then first brought me the. General's :compliments, and announced his entry, being likewise commissioned to 'request my assistance for obtaining quarters and plovkinto for the troops. I immediately made the reset vation contained in my private just' uaions, regarding pro : visioning the troops ; hut whom was answered with ". C'est noire usage-et nos orders .qui le pays au nous sommes fornit lout."—" It is our custom and our orders, that the country in which we are shall find us with every thing needful ;" but at the same time gave me the assurance, that every thing should be done with moderation and good o-der. Mean • while the troops arrived, and; 'as- I had caused picquets to be. placed, without the town gates, the columns were detained until my consent arrived for their marching into the town, and the guards were set ; but without coinpromising your Majesty's rights. No guard was composed'by .French troops alone. At length, towards evening, General Friant ar rived, who, together with the Brigacht-Generaf, Gtandean, was quartered in the Governor's house., At eleven o'clock in the evening, he made me his first visit, when after some elucidation concern;ng the purport of, their entry, and further assulanecs .• - 1• ,eNirr I:lave perceived by my preceedingt that I was ac tuated by the same friendly sentiments, and that in consequence, it. was my duty to inform him, in con fidence, that my instruetions prestribed me not to permit the troops of any foreign power to take -Pos session of Rugen ; that I had given Orders Conform able thereto, and•that I hoped he would not insist on a matter which might cause hostilities to ensue, and which would certainly disturb the goochundea standing which at present existed. between both our Governments. After several things having been said on both sides, which I shall reserve, to ; some future time, when I shall have the -honour of re a pealing them verbally to your Majesty, he aria nounced to me that I was his prisoner of war; or in his own words " douner :consigne (give me a guard). Against superior force I had no other re medy than to protest ; any recourse to arms would have been insanity, and would have been of more evil tendency for your Majesty's interests, .more especially as the. General declared, that in case of my making any opposition, he had orders to make the whole detachment prisoners ; by which all the artillery, ammunition, and_stores, (however small) would have been lost to your Majesty. The un pleasant and most distressing circumstances which now solely threaten myself personally, saves, all the other possessions of your Majesty in this province, at least for, the present, arid it often happens that evils may be averted by gaining time. Having been deprived of my liberty in the man ner before described, I conceived it best to , resign the command to my next in rank, the Colonel 'and Knight Von Normann ; and although Gen. Friant. offered me a travelling pass to Stockholm, I con sidered it my duty to await . your Royal Majesty's gracious orders respecting my furore proceedings; being besides convinced that I may be of use by . giving good advice and counsel to my successor in the command, and in some measure contribute to the welfare of the province. After the art of violence perpetrated on myself, another immediately followed, - which was, the put ting seals on your Majesty's Custom-house ; and as all these-proceedings, in my opinion, transform this hitherto allied army into our avowed enemies, I deem it incumbent on me to inform the Royal Po meranian Government of this my opinion. - On the . morning of the 28th, a column of about 2000 men was drawn up en the Tee,. between Fahr, and Alte Fahr, and an Adjutant, by name Gobert, want dispatched to sum Mon Lieut. VOL) - Kohler, of the regiment Von Engelbrechsten, who, with 48 men, had the guard at Alte Fahr. Lieut. Von Kohler replied; that; according to the purport of his orders, he was to prevent the arrival of all foreign troops in Rogen, and should therefore find himself sander the- necessity of oppoiing force to force. The column then halted, and Adjutant Gobert returned with the report from Lieut. Von Kohler, of his condo 1, •and requiring instruc tions how he was fur'ther to a&. 1 answered bins, that my captive sitention had deprived rue of the power to direct his proceedings for the present,' bUt that the sole - advice which I was yet permitted to give was, that the French column should remain stationary so" long as the Coinmandaat of Rogers, Baron Boye, could be informed thereof, and the French troops gave assurance of their amicable in tentions, on the one han t, and their much superior strength, together with the facility of attacking Ru gen at several points, on the other, rendered all op position useless. Baron Boye's line of conduct would, doubtless, be prescribed by circumstances. Whereupon the Fiend) troops entered upon duty in conjunction with those of yopr Majesty. On the same day, at noon,;General Friant caused rue, by hid Adjutant, Captain Gobert, to be inform ed, that I should rennin without any constraint no my person and actions, that the measures and steps which had been taken to secure toy person, 'me dormer one consigne, proceeded from my positive denial to consent to their taking posa session of Rugen. In consequence of this informa tion, I repeated the communication of my orders, in hopes Of being still able to effeEt something be neficial for your Majesty's setvice; and, although there now remains no more than the appeatance of a joint possession of Pomerania and Rugen, with regard to my weakness and the number of the French. troops, yet there still remains a chance for your Majesty so long as this partition is not ert:irely done away, to be freed it either by political or mili tary means. Colonel Normann, at Gripswald, to whom I had given my direCtions, on the evening of the 231 h, transmitted me an attestation of his ill health, sign ed by two physicians. - • At the visit which I made in the evening to Ge neral Friant,el requested to be informed, whether the report delivered by .him to ,tile Prince of Elia muhl, concerning taking possession. of Pomerania, was consistent with that it was my duty to transmit to your Majesty, when he was- so obliging as to . shew me' his memorandum book, and, as it differed from mine in some small particulars, be gave ,me his word of honour to correa it, end particularly in wbat'concerned 'toy own person, on which occa sion, the expression, 4 ` Prisoner of War," Which I had used in mysubmisiive report, wri totally ob je:ted t.) by him, and merely l'obligaiion d'etre in aay. (the obligation of remaining inactive) was de clared to be the meaning of the -violence that had been used to my person. - Which repot I have the honour, of submissively making *to your Majesty. • (Signed) L. B. PEYUON, your Majesty'seCommanding Adjutant-General in Pomeraeia. G. V. HENNIGS. Head-quarters, Sfralsund, lan. 30, 1812. f LETTER A. Mr. Schwarizer, Adjutant . of ilur General Staff, remAin where you are, as the French army is en tering into Pomerania, and say thus un my behalf to the Commanding Officer. The Commander of the tifoons in -Pomerania, Arlio knows that we are the Allies of. his M.,jefry the Emperor, cannot imagine to himself Chat this march is taken-with any inimical interest. Nziver theless, as he has not had any intimation thereof from his Majesty the King, his master, he finds himself under the necessity of protesting against such an hostile proceedingc He therefore wishes that would, before he proceeds any further, declare his intentions; and that he will in the mean while•aa justly, and, treat a .Swedish territory and I its inhabitants in. a friendly manner.. You will transmit me whatever answer you may feheiVe, and you will follow the corps which is marching tow irds Stralsund. But , should this corps declare itself is a hostile manner, ,the .out-posts stationed at. Dam. garten, in Dorss, and in Trebsees, will be ordered to return - to Stralsund. Should this corps declare its having any other destin3tiop , s, such as marching through the country, investigation, or . the like matters, the out-p'&3"ts are to remain where they are. (Signed) B, PEYRON, His Majesty's Adjutant-General and Commander in Pomerania. G. V. HENNIGS. Headquarters, Stralsund, 26th lan. iS.z, at seven o'clock in the forenoon. LETT.T.I2 B. TO THE COMMANDANTS IN STRALSUND, IN GRII'S. WALD, AND THE COMMANDER or THE Ot. POSTS IN RUGEN. All the out-posts in . Bogen are ordered not to permit any allied armed officer or soldier, or any other unknown person, to land in Roger!, without his .having a .pass from the Commandant at Stral sund or Gripswald, but severally refuse him en trance. No foreign troops shall volantaray be per: milted to land ; and should such be at to force, then to use such means of defence as_tht , y may have in their power. (Signed) L. B. PEYRON, His Aiajesty's Adj. Cen. a‘nd Commander in Pomerania. licad-qua:rers, Straltund, lari. 27, 181,z, G. V. HENNIGS. LETTER C. TO TilK COMMANEER OF TUE OUT-POSTS IN RUGEN. According to' reports received from Trrbiees, there exists no doubt of Frencloroops having talte'n possession of Swedish Pomerania. You will please to extend your lines of defence - principally from Alte Fahr to. Monchgt:th, and suffet ; nothing to remain unobserved along the coasts adjoining S.{-e- dish Pomerania. You will inform the Coinniandi:r of the Distria, M. Boblen, that the magazine which' was first intended to be established at Wittau, is now removed to Moachgoth: By (:)iumand, (Signed) G. V. HENNIQ3. The Chief Adjutant for Expedition, .D. J. LONGB. Head quarters, Stralsund, lan. 27, am. The direr ions which were issued on the 24th Of April last to General and Count Carl Morner, "and afterwards transmitted in general special orders to his successor, the Commandant and Adjutant- General Peyron, ate, in substance, of the following import : INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE DEFENCE OF POMERANIAN AND RUGEN. General Count Horner is ordered to repair to Pomerania, and there take on him the office of Go vernor,Gential, and the command of the troops which are in that province, and -- in the island of Rugen. The Imperial French Government has already caused it to he declared to his Majesty's Ministers, that if au English force should threaten the coasts •of the Swedish territories, the' Imperial troops will immediately receive orders to March into those pro- . vinces kr their defence. [Here follow the detailed instructions, which are too Ion!: for insertion ] PRIVATE 1/v.ISTRI.I,CTIONS- fn case of any corps of French troops having en tered Pomerania previous to General Count Mor ner's arrival there, the General has to require an explanation of the cause of their taking such pos session, and likewise to declare, that it is contrary to the article in the Treaty of Peace, by which France guarantees the integrity and independents of the Swedish possessions. If any French floods, or those of Powers in a 1.., liance with France, should request permission to en ter Swedish Pomerania, the General Count Mtn-- ner v+ ill reply, that by his Royal Majesty's orders, suet) steps and measures had been taketi, as had placed the King's German 'dominions in a perfect state of defence, and that every thing that his Ma jesty the Emperor has a right to exped from a faithful Ally, and who is firmly 'devoted to his cause, shall be performed against the common ene my ; but shouter an English forte, too greatly su perior, make its appearance, in such case he will not delay requiring assistance of the Imperial troops. In case of a . corps of French troops having already entered Pomerania, this must not prevent General Count Morner from taking possession of the pro vince with Swedish troops. General Count Morner must not suffer any fo reign troops to enter the Island of Rugen, unless he has his Majesty's orders for so doing, or that a too powerful force of the enemy should require a speedy aid from the French General. (Signed) CARL. JoHug. Muste,-!-The Third: Subscription Concert of HARRISoN, BARTLRMAN, and GREA:rOREX, place last night at the Hanover-square Rooms, and was attended by a very numerous and elegant au - - dience. His Royal Highness the Duke.of CAM BRIDGE, .and the Earls FORTESCIJE and DARNLEY, Diredors of the Ancient Music, were.in one of the Royal boxes. We have not witnessed a .Selection more approved, nor a performance more applaude,f, this season. Madame CATALANI Eccomi piunta," HARRISON in " Gentle Lyre," and B;vit- TLEMAN in " 0 Lord, have mercy upon me," en raptured the audience. Miss DARBY sang " lute lice Ch'io surto " in good style ; and little KING, in the scene from King Arthur, gave great promi4e of future excellence. .The Madrigal, " Die 4 - tof, fond: Man," composed in 1613, and HARRISON'S Glee, " The De,erter's Meditations," met a gene ral encore. The fine 'Chorusses, " Great is Jeho vah," by MARIRLLO and GRSATQREX.; " Let none despair," HANDEL; and " Gloria in Excelsis," • NEGRI, were sung with appropriate expression ; and the Overtures to Esther (HANDEL), and" La Clemetrza di Tito," by MOZART, displayed _the powers of the Band, which was led by Mr.WEICH. SEr. with his accustomed excellence. i ne perform. ance terminated by eleven o'clock. Yesterday a Messenger *•as dispatched to Cadiz, and carried a Red Riband to Mr. HENRY WELLES LEY, our Ambassador in Spain, as a mask of the PRINCE REGENT'S approbation of his services.--A splendid star and badge were, at the same time, sent as a present by the Marquis WELLESLEY ti) his brother.