The Sun. — London, England, 1812-01-21 00:00:00

MAILS. AR~tvita Lisbon, t Malta, t Guernsey, t jersey, t Ja maica, t Waterford. Dua—t Cadiz, z Guernsey, a Jersey, 'Waterford. STOCK'. THIS DAY AT TWiLv o'C LOCK. Consols. 62i u Red. Ann. • 63 We this day received Jamaica Papers to the 23d of November inclusive i but they contain nothing interesting. The House of Assembly his passed a bill impos ing a double duty on all articles of grain imported from America. We are happy in assuring our Readers, :that ac counts from Windsor this day state, that his. MA.7 JBsTY is better. This morning we received a Malta Mail, from -which -we have only room to make the following OXtraets : GIBRALTAR, DEC. 21.--The Malta packet brought an authentic account of a successful landing effeaed at Pelinutus, on the coast of Naples., about the latter end of 061ober, by 250 men of the 62d Regiment, under Major DARLEY, who had embarked at Me- Jaz zo, in his Majesty's frigates lmperieuse and Thames, vnd fifty marines, commanded by Lieut. Prros ; and after staying two days on shore, reiwbarked, and returned to Melazzo with their prizes. TII E SUN. SOLIM QUIS UICIAL FALSUM AUDIAT ? L oNDpzv, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1812. ANOTHER LETTER, SAME DATE. General BALLESTEROS wishing to reconnoitre the position taken up by the French troops which lately retired from St. Roche and los Barrios, in a westerly direaion, set himself in motion on the 17th inst. and on the next day, after driving in the enemy's out-posts at Ojen, came in sight of their main body, which he found encamped between Vejer and Medina. Upon bis approach the French came out to meet him, but the General having obtained his end, fell back in the afternoon upon his former position at Los Bar rios, highly pleased with ,the conduct of his regular troops, but rather dissatisfied with some of the Guer rillas, which, having cowardly given way, en abled the French to intercept the direct road by which he was retreating with the vanguard, and laid him under the necessity of going a great way about to rejoin the remainder of the division. His loss was inconsiderable, no more than six or eight /tilled and wounded. The General has since been in the garrison upon a visit to his Excellene ) ) , the Lieutenant-Governor. From Tariffa we learn, that the small body of our troops stationed there also marched out on the morning of the 18th, pushed as far as Puerto Llano, and returned about one o'clock P.M. It is. added, that the enemy have advanced towards the pass of La Pena, and that, in the evening of the 17th, they fired upon our gun boats from a small piece of cannon which they had brought with them. Yesterday and last night a most heavy firing was beard in that direaion from the garrison, supposed to have proceeded from oar shipping, which being enabled by the easterly wind to resume their station off the Pass, have probably attempted to dislodge the enemy from that position. Several letters have been received ' from tlee neighbourhood• since the retreat of the French : they bring very dismal accounts of the havoc made at St. Roche by their troops. Algesiras experienced a milder treatment, probably owing to the inconsi derable number of the detachments which entered it (200 foot and 40 horse), and to the proximity of Green Island, and of several ships of war. All the provisions in the town, however, were plundered and carried off—the Officers taking a more aetive part in the operation than the men themselves, and accordingly the latter bitterly complain of the for mer, whom they are not afraid of calling plunderers and freebooters. Upon the whole, both Officers and men appear heartily tired of this war, on ac count Of the great hardships they have to endure, constantly in the field, without being allowed one moment's test, and never able fairly to bring their enemies to action, although constantly surrounded by them, and exposed to their sudden attacks. The following is stated in those letters to be a correct return of the forces which LAVAL and BAR ROES had at St. Roche and Los Barrios, during their stay there, viz. 3500 foot, and 400 horse, under LAVAL ; and 4500 foot, and 200 horse, under BARROLs. Their line extended as far as Pedrigosos end territory of Tarifa, which the General of Bri gade, Ptnsuaa, occupied with 1500 men, when they retreated, and on reaching the environs of Veges they eti - eaed a junction with the division Of 5000 men, which was there ; 6Ut LAVAL is re ported to have subsequently proceeded to Iqualeja, on his way to Granada or Malaga. The extra ship Carmarthen, froril nombly, dfA rived in the Downs the 213 t instant : sailed from St. Helena the 20th November, in company with the country ship Blieemoolah, from Bengal, and the Mary, WHALER, which ships are also arrived. The Biteenzoolah touched at the Isle of France, in consequence of having sprung a leak . ; sailed from thence the 1 Ith Oaober, and arrived at St. Helena, 1 5I h November. The Union, FRANKLIN, arrived at Bombay the 24th July. The Princess Amelia, Taunton. Castle, and Hope, sailed from Madras, for China; the 4th of Sep tember. The ships from Madras had arrived in Sau gur Road, viz. :—Castle Eden, Carnatie, Rose, and • Metcalfe. The faculty of writing and publishing falsehoods, through the channel of the Monileur, is become so habitual to BUONATARTE,.and so familiar to his slaves, that scarcely a creature in Paris now believes one iota of those tirades which are known to - be the produ6tion of this person's elegant pen. It is not for them, therefore, that any contradietion to his effusions is necessary; but as there are not wanting, in our own country, a certain description of persons who atieta to believe whatever this ignoble and un dignified Barbarian may think fit to publiih, pro vided it be injurious to the honour and the interests of Great Britain, we feel it ourdoty to expose the malignant and diabolical falsehoods contained in the Moniielir of the 91h of January. BUONAPARTE there says, " that 3000 soldiers, mu tilated in the British Service, have received, for their recompence, banishment from England, a guinea, some tattered clothes, landed on the Continent, or precipitated in the water up to the middle; that these men bad abandoned their flags, to serve in England ; that the greater. part of them are Aus trians, Bohemians, Prussians, Westlibalians, Hano verians, and Rusilans," &c. We have taken some to ascertain what the real faas are which have Occaiioned those repeated and angry paragraphs in the French and Dutch papers on this subject, which evidently haVe given great annoyance to the Tyrant ; and we pledge our selves for the, truth of the following statement. The immense number of deserters from the French armies in Spain became so embarrassing to the Spanish Government, that they requested to send a part of them to England. Among these de serters were about 400 native Frenchmen, BUONA• PARTE'S own conscripts, who were perfectly willing, but, very properly, not allowed to enter into the British service. They could not in justice be.con sidered as prisoners of war. They were, therefore, at !their own particular and urgent request, set cn shore on the coast of Holland, where they hoped to meet with more kindness than if landed in France. There was not among them a single German, or Bohemian, Prussian, 'Westphalian, Hanoverian, or Russian. We repeat, they were native Frenchmen, deserters from the French armies in Spain, where hundreds are every week following their example. The Corsican threatens to publish the interroga tories put to them ;—to be sure he will, and publish also his own answers to those interrogstories.' The faCt is, we have no doubt, that the greater part of these (not quite 400 men, which he magnifies into 3000), have escaped from his grasp, to tell upon the Continent the miseries and deprivations of the French armies in Spain. This, we firmly believe, is the cause of BUONAPARTE'S annoyance.—lt is a source we can always command : and - Vve hope 'and trust that, by the vigilance of our Government, it will continue to flow in upon him, in a constant and plentiful stream, until the swarms of Frenchmen set loose in this country shall have been drained to the very dregs. The insolence of these fellows is unbounded, and nine-tenths of them are vipers which we are cherishing in our bosom : but, unless we are much deceived, their reign is nearly at an end, and the skirts of the Metropolis will speedily be freed from French Spies and French Traitors. It now and then happens that a 'soldier rtr's'ea man, or marine, when discharged from the service from age or infirmity, wishes to be sent to his friends in Hanover to pass the remainder of his days with them ; but his departure is a voluntary aEI ; he is equally entitled to, and hundreds of them equally enjoy, the benefits of those noble Institutions, Greenwich and Chelsea Hospitals. Every person so discharged receives, in faa, an annual pension for the remainder of his life, from 81. to 181. a-year, according to length of service, or wounds received therein, and every possible measure is taken for the payment of these pensions ; but it is trot those half dozen of men ; it is the Frenchmen that stir the bile of the Despot of France. Yesterday the Duchess of YORK arrived at York House from Oathinds, where her Royal Highness had a select party to dinner. ,-- The account from Windsor yesterday of the state of the KING was, that he continued in the same state. A principal clerk in an eminent house in the West end of the town has absconded with property to a very considerable amount since Saturday last, and has nut yet been heard of. LONDON: Printed by IIOMAS WOOD, of No. 35, Maiden-lane, Covent-garden; and Published by WILLIAM ARMI GE It SCRIPPS, South Holton-street, Grlsvepor. squar At the Sur; Ormics, No, 112, Strew(, wham Advertisements, Orders for the Paper, Leiters for the .Editor, (post:paiil), must be i:thiresseti. NAVAL rit/V3. From the LONDDJV tAZE E, 2t, 1812. Admiralty-Ogice, Jan. 21, 18 I . 2. Copy of a letter from Captain Taylor, of his M?.jesty's snip Apollo, addressed to Vice-Admiral bit Edward i'el lew, Bart. Commander in Chief in the Nleditcrrancan, and transmittcd by the latter to john - Wilton CrNei, His Majesty's ship'; pal SIR, Mula, No-veniber r 6; rEtt Last night, Cape Mola, bearing N. E. one hup-' dred miles, after a chace of nine hours, the Edouard French polacre ship privateer, pierced for fourteen guns, had only six mounted, lour of which' were thrown overboard, a crew of one hund red aau twenty-three men, and coimpatided by Jean F. Mordeille, a Knight of their Empire, who, in former vessels, has been a very si,iccesful cruiser against our trade.. The privateer is eight days from Marseilles, quite new, copper-bottomed and fastened ; h. d made ceptures, but appears to sail remarkably fust. I have . the honour to be, &c. B. W. TAYLOR. Sir Edward Pellew, .Bart. &c. PLYMOUTH, JAN.. 20.—Carne in his 'AL-jesty's ship Conqueror froM the Mediterranean ; Piuebe from Batavia; La Forte -French ketch, in balhst, prize to the 0. P. privateer; - Sceptre man of war from Basque Roads; and the Martin- sloop of war from the Eas►ward. • Sailed the illaidstone frigate on a cruize. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 21.—Arrived the Misktoe from a cruize, and the Dasher sloop of war from Batavia, with dispatches, aid sailed again for the Downs, with a convoy. The Violet is - appointed: to take. convoy to • Guernsey. The Hyperion was this day relepSed from qua- rantine. DEAL, JAN. 21.—Put back by contrary winds his Majesty's ship San Dominp. Remain several homeward and outward-bound ships by contrary wit As. Arrived his Majesty's ships Rinaldo and Cracker from a cruize; and the Tortoise from the. River, and sailed again fvr Portsmouth. DOVER, JAN. 20.--Passed by for the River the Carmarthen, Eist Indianian, from Bengal and the Mary, WHAI.ER, if 01 1 4; St. Helena also arrived the Sarah and Elizateth, - LEwis, from Oporto.; FALMOUTH, JAN. 19.-116 ived the Adveranre pac ket, with a Mad, from Malta. She is from Mes sina 64 days, Malta 67, from Girgenti 54, from Cagliari 50, and from Gibraltar Y 5.. By her we learn, that the French had began to bombard Ta riffa with 18 pieces of cannon, and that the town had suff'ered much by it. Arrived the Prince Ernest packet from Jamaica in 57 days ; the Express packet from Si. Thomas's, in 35 dap ; and the 4ralelia packet front Lisbon, in 20 days._ The Report of the Committee of the House of Lords, appointed to examine his MAJESTY'S Physi cians, is printed. It does not differ in substance from that of the Committee of the House of Com mons. Dr. HEBERDEN considers his MAJESTY'S recovery improbable, but riot hopeless. He does not expect the KING will recover. Dr. MoNRo considers the present mental health of his MAJESTY insane; his recovery very improba ble, but lie does not entirely despair. _ . • Dr. SYMONS says, that his . MAJESTY'S mental health is much deranged---71iis recovery improbable, but not hopeless. . - -- DICIOHN WILLIB SRI'S, that his IVIAJEs:rY:,s men tal healtbis'in.a high.degree of derangement, and his recovery very improbable, but not impossible; has not an expetlation of recovery„ Dr. BAILLIR states, that within the last two or three-days (the examination wai on the i4:1)) his MAJESTY'S mind has been entircly lost in error; does not expect recovery. Sir H. HALFORD deems recovery very improbable. Dr.R.Wicus considers recovery all but impoisible. Mr. Bust( has been returned, after a sharp contest, for Barnstaple. Sir DeIASSEH LOPEZ u ent to the poll with him, after Lord RENDLESHAM, and sn , ral other candidates who presented themselves, declined. The numbers were to to i6B. _ Captain HARRIS, who arrived with the dispatches from Java, is the son of Mr. limrats, tiro cli& Proprietor of Covent-Garden Theatre. This Offictr, though young, is well known for gallantry and naval Wednesday the West York Regiment of English Militia marched into Cork from Monkstown, v here they had disembarked. Mrs. C. KEMBLE was to close her engagemeot at Edinburgh, on Saturday last ; her performances were very attraaive during the whole of her engage- - ment, and the Manager, as well as herself, must have profited much by her talents. The kdinburgh Evening Courant, which is distinguished for liberal and judicious criticism, sore ample testimony to the merits of her performance. Three Roman tombs have been discovered at the village of Crems, upon the borders of the Rhine, which, from the arms and more inan 200 medals found in them, were supposed to have contained the ashes of some warriors. A singular. .circumstance yesterday occurred at the OldTailey—a man was indicted for the commission of a rape, and his wife, for assisting and abetting him. DIED. On Sunday last, at 13rentford, in- her B,th year, Mrs. 111.:ry Sherwin, raiC of M;tiltham Estes Shcr.will, Esq.- late of. Weston Green, in the Co , inty or Surrey. On the 19th inyt. at Stainford.hill, Mr. Robert Ilo , „varkt, 7,e.1 73. _ - - - • ~ • .• The same d:u, in Church street, Hickuey, Mrs. Kceys, wife of Mr William Kee.) , s, 4g,et1.74 years. On Sunday List, in Loug.acrc, Mrs. Bromfield, wife of Mr. Thomas Bromfield. The same day, at licr father's house in Upper Guildford- Street, Anna Maria, wife of Edward Trant Bontein, Esq. and daughter of Dr. john Sims. The same evening, Mrs. Southall, wife of a working, shoe-maker, in Mansion- muse-row, KennurAton• ' - ne, was delivered of three boys, all of whom, with toe ni. oer, are likely to do well. Lately, at Bromyard, in the County of Hereford," Mr. Edward Williams, of the Hop-pole Inn A few days ago, John Dixon, Esq. of Kensington, an mi. nent Artist. ICE Ci YESTI S / CKS I ndi i Bott • ds, 17s. 'Ss. pr. Exclieq. Bills, 37d. per day, 3s. 4s. pr•-3id. per 3s. 6s. pr. Odmium, dis. Imperial 3 pv:r Cent. Ditto , Ant,. Coiis. for 27th Feb. 62i B k Stock., 231 Navy s per Cent. 94 ha Irish s per Ce!lt. 4 PerCPnt. 7 8 1 t 79 3 per Cent. Red. 63 3 per Cent. Cons. Bank t.. Ann, tf.; s—t6ths India Stock, 'GLtITY; GREEN FENNEL. IN THE STYLE or I_UBGitN SIMPLICITY. Young 'To M had a best coat—a smart Nankeen waistcoat—; A teat pair of black, Spanish pumps ; lle knows that his mother will make a great pother, If over the kennel he jiton ps. 'Twas morning, 'twas Sunday, znd surely on one day A lad may give over hii pranks; He trudg'd off to chapel, deyourioA an apple, Fotr which he gave grand ,papa th;nks. lie cline to a kennel, choak full of green fennel, • The water it ran in a flnod ; Says he, who'll discover it, now I'll jump over Souse he went into - the mud. His Mot her she thntnp'd him, and Hannah she purnp"dhillij iii,Surday cioaths taking away ; And when, in the .1 - iolidays, others had jolly days, G;lve him no peg-top to play. A'trick that for fun is meant, brings its own punishment, I'onuny is left in the lurch, Stripti'd of his Sunday deaths, sent in his Monday cloaths, Crying to afternoon church. oxroßD, JAN. 18. On Tuestl#, the first_day of Lent Term, the (oh- lowing gentlemen were admitted to decrees M.isters of Ares.—The Bev. J. Harris, of St. John's College ; the Rev. C. 'Williams, of Ne-Av College ; and Mr. T. C. Hiucks, of Brazen-nose College. B ichelors of Arts.—The Rev. F. Rawdon, of Exeter College ; Mr. J. Eagles, of Wadham Col lege; Mr. .N. W.:Senior, of Magdalen College.; Mr. J. T. Drake aid Mr. J. Foley, of Bri.iz':m-nose College; and Mr. D. G. Davis, of Pembroke Col lege. On Thursday, The Rev. J. Maddy, M. A. and Student in Divinity, of Jesus College, and one of his Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary, was admit ted Bachelor and Dr. in Divinity. The Rey. J_ Bond, M. A. and Student in Divinity, of Corpus Chri,ti College, was admitted Bachelor of Divinity. The Rev. J. W. Niblock, of St. Edmund Hall, and Mr.G. Hornby, of Brazen-nose College,were admit ted Bachelor of Arts. Yesterday, the Rev. J. Bond, Bachelor in Divi nity, of Corpns Christi College, and Ciraphin to the Cainbtidge, was admitted to the de gree of Doislor in Diviwy. The principal inhabitants of Old Bond-street have adopted a plan for the security of thetnslves and their property during the night, which we hope will be followed by every parish throughout the in2tro polis. Two patroles are to be sworn in special stAles. They are to be _provided with a cutlass, quarter staff, a rattle, and a great coat. They are to remain on duty from the preent time till the 3d of May, unlts,s Padilment should in the inreru devise a more effe‘ttual plan. .They are not to in terfere in p; irate quarrels or broils, which may be employed as means to draw them from their day, and .are not to leave the street during the allotted LOW'S. Mr. GEORGE SILENCE is the treasurer ; and the subscription is only a shilling a week ... irom each inhabitant, which it is supposed will be a sufficient fuud. 'CORN-EIiCIIANGE, ,JAN. 2.2,- I Ve hive to-day considerable further arrivals of Wheat, and be trad'a again extreme -heavy in sales, at sumewbat lower pt ices ; Barley likewise lower, excepting fine ; 'Wit and White Pras scarcely 1-zeeis their pike, as also Beans of each description ; we have likewise con siderable fresh arrivals of Oats, and this trade i,i quot ed cheaper; Flour is heavy sale at Mondays reduc tion of ss. per sack ; a very few sales made at the top price. Wheat 545 a 72S a roes' Tick Beans (new) 4os a 475 Fine ditto - - tc6s a 1 as , Ditto (tine uld) -46 s a szs Rye - - - scs a 5: - , (Ws - -24 s a 2.3 s a 3.5 Barley - - 3-is a 4.! , k l'oland ditto - 32.5 a3O Malt - . -76 s a a 45 Potatoeditto - 375 a 391 WhitePeas,boilers 7es a zs i Rape Seed - - 6,1. a 6st. Grey ditto - - 545 a 6 c s Fine Flour - - qos a ",54 Beans . - - 485 a 565 1 Seconds - - - 805 a 90.8 BIRTHS On the cth inst. at Swansea, the Lp.,ly of S. B. Emil. '''Esq late of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, of a still-born Daughter. On Sunday morning last, the Lady of I. Zimmer, Esq. of a Son, in Nottio.ghant place. On Monday last, at - Walthamstow-House, Essex, Lady Wigram, of a Datiner. The same day, at his house rn Welbeck-street, th‘.. Lads . of Colonel Francis Dillon, of a Son. ill A It 1? 1 It 0 Yeste-ciay, at Sunttiiiig. t;iil , i,erks, Lieutenant-Cotuna, Robert gist Regiment, to Aliss Antial),:lla Walker, of titat HIGH WATER AT LON Morning, 29 min, after 9. DON BRIDGE TO-MOR.. )IV. Evening, 54 min. after 9.