The Sun. — London, England, 1812-07-28 00:00:00

J s p, DOLT 'tl.llL> . , GOTTENEVtGir, JULY 18.—Yesterday an em bargo was laid On all vessels here, and orders for the same purpose have been seat to every port throughout this kingdom. It is conjectured that Government are in immediate want of a number of transports, and that the. embargo will be re , moved as loon as such have been selected as will answer the purpose. Very recent accounts received from Russia state, that the Army continues retreating, and this plan is followed by the special advice of a great personage in this 'country, who, it is ex pected, will very soon take an active part against the common enemy. No battle has yet taken place. The L 4 d Nelson packet, having sprung/ her main mast, has been granted permission to come up to Gottenburgh to refit. BERLIN, JULY the 4th inst. Major Gent. li mlsEmin.ax left this place to proceed by lioningS ber, to the head-qUarters of the French army. ARSAW, JUNE 30.—The Russians arc retreat- - Ong; e every day expect a battle near Wilna, un less they.continue to retreat. The Polish and coin ! b illet' army passixl the Niemen, near Grodno. The Austrian troops, 35,000 strong, under the corn of Prince SCHWARZENBERG, are advancing by ztr ' 2 °:sk, Lublin, Sudloe, towards Brzees, upon the Bus. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM COPENHAGEN, OF JULY 3. - The price of horses at the last sale of Frede ricks} urgh - was from 1300 to 3000 crowns, for • 4 ' l ° Coach homes. .NVe have now plenty of rain, but the cold is so sowere as to make us 'doubt W hethe r it is summer. I‘II,ANE.rOIIT, JULY '2 . —Count GOTT.RP arrived er e Yesterday from Saxony ; to-day he set out to ter -Lu•la to Switzerland. brItSDEN, MAY 6.--FREDERIC AUGUSTUS, by t he grace oeGgil, King of Saxony, Duke of War s4w3 &e. &c. considering that in the present state °f t hiags, which foretell great destinies to the na _ ti rin, demand the development of *measures the • moBt wise and extensive, without Causing the least mel ay'rn any part of the Administration, . we find it requisite to form at Warsaw a central autho ti.tY., clothed with powers 'whiCh such measures Fernand during our absence ; and as we have the treatest confidence in the fidelity and wisdom of the members of our Council of Ministers, as well of their zeal for us, and the good of the cowl 11, We have and do decree— Art• 1. The Council : of Ministers, in urgent Wises, ~rbich circumstances may produce, and up= der that responsibility, which each of its mem bers owe us, will completely have the pbwers we liold from the constitution. Tile Council of Ministers will appoint to vacant Places till our-pleasure is known. It can snspend thdpublid authorities from their functions. It can 'neither suspend uor change the Mini ' aters. It shall not make any alteration in the Admini .'attation of justice. Art; 2 The Council of 'Ministers will decide 13Y a majority of votes, and in the eveht of their t • eing equal, the President will have the casting tote. A register of its deliberations shall be held,— t reg'ster shall be • regularly sent, to our Secre 'ary of State, who will present it to 113. The, resolutions' of the Council of Ministers have their full and entire execution, although L ey may not have been reported to us. • our Council of Ministers is charged with the tee_ution of the present Decree, which ,shall lie i nserted in the -Bulletin of Laws-, - (Signed) -FREDERICK AUGIjSTUS. WARSAW, JUNE 29.--The Gazette of to-day, contains an Address from the States, to his Ma jesty the King of Saxony, Didie Of .Warsaw, in iting him to ratify the resolution's, directing the l ' e- establishment of the kingdom of Pogtnd; and ° f its 'accession to the Confederation of the . - T "E PRINCE REGENT'S VISIT TO THE PRINCE • c'r CoNDE.—On Thursday last, his Royal High ness the.. PRINCE RRGENT went. to Wimbledon, a nd dined with the Prince of CONDE, to meet the e highness DE LILLE, (LOUIS XVIII.) his Royal was accompanied by the Duke. of CLA ENaE, and some of his Household. The c0m „."11.37 at the Prince of CONDE'S chiefly consisted the different branches of the House of Botoit ; among waS conspicuous the beautifulDnelless . D'ANGOULEME. There were, forty co :rs, and his Royal Highness the PRINCE RE ' PcT appe a r e d in excellent spirits, and highly - tased with the company and the repast. His I, ° Yal Highness invited the Comte DE LILLE, the • iPnce of CONDE, and particularly tht Duchess .ANGOULEM E , and they dine this day at Carlton ot aute, when it is - expected. her MAJESTY will be the party, and to whom the Duchess : D'AN nur.EmE has not yet been introduced. What 4 ff . ectin g re , ..7llections must strike upon the 10' 1 nd to render such an interview deeply inte kningl PORTUGTJESE PAP ERS, Lisß6N, • Jtity 12.:---Martriont kept retiring, collecting his stores and men, from all 'ar4j:iceat parts as much *.s Possible, and on the 2d crossed the Douro, near tordesillaS ; oar - artillery were within range, and 4.ave him an handsome salute : _many were killed by the firing: It is thought his force at Valladolid exceeds 50,01)0 men. On the 4th Lord Wellington's head-quarters were at Rueda, and an advance at Valverde. King Joseph is reported to haTe left Madrid for, Burgos, with all his plunder and 12,000 men; but it is generally supposed his kingship will prefer the Pampeltmal.oad as being the safest. In the South, General Hill having remained as long at Albuera as circumstances required, dashed after Soult and Drouct, who retired. Our army on the sth marched twenty-eight miles, but the ' French were too nimble—they were off to Llere na. Our army was halted at Bienvenida, two leagues froni filerena. \So close was the pursuit, that the enemy's cavalry only left that ground at 'eight A. M. which oar's occupied at two P. M. of the sth, at Bienvenida. ListoN, JULY' 14.—Letters 'of the _ Bth have been received from Llerena, stating Gen. Hill's arrival there on the . 7th, at four P. M. without ever having seen Smiles, infantry, and with' only once having a glimpse of his cavalry. LisnoN,, .11) - LY 11.—Marmont , and his army passed the Douro at the bridge of Tordesillas, where he , lost 500 men; this Marshal consequent= " ly abandoned the fine positions of Toro and Za mora, and was concentrating his forces in Valla dolid. The greater part of 'our troops passed the Douro without meeting with the least, resist ance; on the part of the French ; and on the 4th our advance arrived within two leagues of Valladolid. The army of Castanos and the 7th having now no 'obstacle to.contend with, will be able to ma nreuvre agreeably to the vast plans. fixed - by the' great genius of the Peninsular war. According• to intelligence worthy of credit, it appears that Mar wont intends tofortify Valadolid. In the South, affairs do not wear a less favour , able aspect. Gen. Hill having advanced upon Soult, the latter, imitating Marmont, retired. On every side the,, situation of things offers the most flattering hopes. AccoNing tci tl.l s Gallician Gazette, the French in evacuating , the "Astarias experienced a loss of 2000 trin in sick, killed . ,-or prisoners. The Spa nish troops have atlyanded as far as' Rio Seco. The fortress of Astorga is invested without the enemy being, in any. way able to receive relief. On the 2d at: 3d were expected at Almeida, 644 French prisoners,. among which is the Major of the fortress of salkunanca. LISBON, JULY 13.—We have no authentic in , telliF.-,enCe from our army in Gallicia, subsequent to the last official dispatch. of the Earl of Welling ton, in which he announced the cOnquest of Sala manca. This brilliant action, performthl in the presence of Manumit, at the head.of considerable forces, is one of the many which immortalize the great W-llington, cover his army with glory, and with admiration even the enemy who witnesses them. By it he has reitored to honour, life, and liberty, the unfortunate; inhabitants 'of that city, who groaned under the most severe oppression. Public reasons dos not allow us to analyse these and other advantages which may be expected from the future operations of the allied army in Spain ; we cannot-, however, avoid noticing, that fortune abandons the French arms whenever they come in contact with the allied legions, directed by the military genius of Great Britain. OPORTO, Jvi.Y 18.—Our last accounts from the army are to the 10th. Every thing remained as can the Bth. On the Bth a French picquet, consisting of 25 men, were made prisoners by Don Julian's troops. General' Hill's arrnys'ta tioned in Llerena arkd Villa Gircia. Drouet has retired to Cordova. General Sir Thomas Grahani and Staff proceed to England in the Dotterel brig of war; the*General returns in consequence °tithe had state of his eyes. • A letter from Stockholm says—" Four Swedish men of war have sailed for Dchroe, to convoy 25,000 men ; but, of course, it iS ached, their destination is not known." Notice has been given from the Post Office, that in future the packets between-Great Britain and Sweden,..instead,of proceeding to Anholt, or any ,neutral territory, will clear out for Gotten burgh, as usual, when perfect tranquility -übsists between the, two countries. Several persons who were suspected of having assisted General Philippon in his escape, have been apprehended, and underwent a private exa mination yesterday., at the Bow-street Office, and were remanded to-prison for further examination. It appeared froin the -evidence of one of these men, that a scheme hadbeen laid for entrapping Gen. SAR IN,Wh o was to have been invited to an entertain meat, and-then seized and gagged, and carried to the coast, in order to be transported to the French shore. The perpetrators were to have had a re ward of 50001. sterling for this base business, which was only frustrated by the, apprehension of .one of the parties, that General SARRAZID; would be executed on. his arrival in France, and to that conscientious scruple he is now, perhaps, in for his existence. It is a.-circumstance not a little remarkable, that Lorezzzo,_the assassin of the Count and ComAess D'ANTRAIGUES, was the intimate friend'of Sellis, who, after attempting to assassinate the Duke of CUMBERLAND, committed suicide. The Board of Agriculture has'adjuOged a pre : - tniuni of 30. e guineas, in a Tece of plate, with an appropriate inscription, to the Rev. JAMESWILLIS i of Sopley, near Ringwood, Rants, for his monoir on "the hest and surest means of enabling this kingdom to _supply itself with bread corn, as to cut off all the_ necessity or expediency of import ing foreign grain. -Lincolnshire Snokes.—On Tuesday last six hun dred snakes were destroyed at Roltham, near Lincoln. They were nestled in some Chi manure, lying.on One of the fields: The parish, according to immemorial custom, gave a•hallpenny for each of the -old snakes, and a farthing for every young one. JAMAICA MIL. KINGSTON, JUNE 13.—At the departure of the Bari adoes frigate from Port-au-Prince, the' siege of that place was 'vigorously continued by Chris tophe, Whose forces had been considerably aug mented, and great preparations were making by them for 4 grand attack upon it. I'etion's naval force is much stronger than that of Christophe, .but they nevertheless declined bringing them to action, which they had it lately in their power to 'do. Christophe's vessels, it . seems, are more skilfully managed than those of his rival. By the Garland we learn, that the. Junta of Carthagcna, had sent a deputation to the Viceroy of Panama (whom our previous accounts had stated to have marched a large .body of troops against thein), requesting, a 'cessation of hostili ties, until the arrival of the Commissioners, ex pected. froin England,and Spain, to Mediate be tween the Mother Country and her Colonies. KINGSrON, JUNE 11.—Arrived the Hawker ; on the 2d, ult. in Jat. 44. long 15. West, the Hawker saw a British_ frigate in chase of a French . privateer, -which there ,was every probability of her coming up with and , capturing ; on the same day spoke . an American ship from. Lisbon bound to Boston, and learnt .th‘at she had two days before been boarded by-the above privateer: HALIFAX, JUNE 19.=—Cusrom-house entered brigs, Arabella, Belding, from Jamaica, and Grace, Martin, from Liverpool; schooners, Eight Bro thers, Hilton,. and Lark, , Swaine, from St. An drews; and Brothers' Adventure, M. Herron, from Newfoundland. , • Cleared, ship Messenger, Pntzch, for St. An drew's ; brig Olive; Vandine; for Jamaica ; Sir George Prevost, Walker, for ditto ; Happyilteturn, Waide, for Liverpool ; schooners Ann, Andrews, for St. Andrew's ; and Three Sisters, for :Hifi.- machi.—Arriyed on Wednesday his - Alaiesty:s brigs Julia and Plumper, and brig Beresfonl, from Bermuda Letters have been received in town from Riga, which state; that all children and women, except those necessary for'the service of, the hospitals, &c. had been ordered t 9 quit the town, but no passport's were given to the male inhabitants,who were called upon to assist in the defence. The works of Riga, althoUgh irregular and too exten sive, had been lately strengthened. The place had a numerous - garrison, and it was. calculat:.d that to reduce it would employ ail army of 60,000 men, for at least two months, besides the chances of relief by sea., On Saturday morning Mr. Smith, jun. an Ame tican young Gentleman,_ aryived at' the Foreign Office from Deal, accompanied by a Gentleman of Deal, belonging - to the Alien Qffice . bf that place.. Mr. Cook, the. Under-SeCretary of State; not being at the' office, they prdceeded to his house, when he not being, at home, they returned to- the office, and waited till he carne.. Mr. Smith has been at St. Petersburgh, but, left that place on account -of ill health ; he has since been in Sweden; and from thence he has been at Paris. He is supposed to be the hearer of dispatches from . the American Minister at Paris, and also from the French . Government. The: Cabinet Council did not meet in consequence of the - arrival of Mr. Smith, as "stated Paper of yesterday, but was summoned by the Earl of Liverpool, in Conse quence of dispatches received on Friday evening at the Admiralty. • _ _ _ The American Government, it is said, demands the restoration of 15,000 American seamen, whose names ate mentioned, as being in - the employ of Graat Britain. They also demanded a large sum of money as a remuneration for the services of such seamen. It is a striking coincidence that the plan of operations now adopted by the Russians, is pre,- cisely that which Was acted on by the Scythians, on-the invasion of Darius Hystaspes, as related by Herodotus. " Darius crossed the Danube nearly ftt`lsinail, between that and the Confluence of the Purth With the Danube, He . marched through Scythia, Eastward, to the Tanais ; the .Scythian army, which Was divided into two bodies, retiring regularly before, him, at the distance of a day's march, filling up. the wells, and destroying the produce of the fields." . .Darius proCeeded - east ward to the bank of the River . C.)arus, which Major .Reynell takes to •be the Volga, and ,he fixes the termination of the- .march eastward, at near SaratoW ; :where .he erected a chain of forts, extending on t line of forty or more English miles. Here he turned in pursuit of the Scythians to the west, who regulated their retreat at one day's march before the Persians, and drew them on in this direction, tilt finding that the na ture-of the country, and warfare of the Scythians was such as that no impression could be made upon them, and being themselves reduced to dis tress for provisions, they directed their march to wards their bridge on. the Danube,. which the lonians had preserved for drill ; • •but it was not without great loss and disgrace, that Darius and his army, after this dreadfulfquarch of many hundred .miles, was able to recross the Danube. A singular phenomenon was witnesssed at Mar seilles, on the 24th of %luxe. On a sudden a rush of water from the sea came into the port, forming a current so rapid that it drew every thing with it through the gullet. The chairi was shut to keep in the vessels, the alarm guns fired, and the gene rale beat. The sea then retired all at 'once,.leav -ing the harbour dry and all the vessels aground.— Almost at the same instant the sea returned by leaps and bounds, with extraordinary impetuosity - , filling again the harbour, placing atioatthe vessels and inundating the quays. Afterwards every thing returned to its usual state. It .was at first believed that it was the -effect of a water-spout, which, having pumped the water from the sea a short dis tance from the harbour, had occasioned the cur . rent which left it dry, and then -having let fall ra pidly the column of water which it had left sus pended, produced the mass of water which inun dated the quays : but the same phenomenon oc curring again in the course of the day, and the water in the harbour .flowing and ebbing without ceasing, being in a continual state of Oscillation, idea of attributing it to a water-spout was given up. It is now supposed to have been produced by a distant earthquake, and it is recollected that a similarevent happened in that port in .1756, dur ' ing the earthquake. at Lisbon. *roir4y, TiIRU STICKS. ONE STICK Will serve a dog to beat, ror forward,pniipies'treatment meet, But GIILT and - GRENvILLE (plae ag - rce- That they could guide the State with 'man, And make BIIITANNIA' firm and hearty, Resist the rage of BLJONAPARTE ! whndrons potence of 'EfIREE STICKS, To baffle all the Tyrant', tricks ! And allvays will he dread the stroke, When dealt by TIiiSTLF., SHAMROCK, OAKS SOUTI-1 AMERICA. TRINIDAD, MAY 3.—The remainder of the un fortunate expedition from the Revolutionary cip-' yerninc.dt of Caraccas, or Venezuela, after, suiter 27 ing-the miseries of famine, .have , surrendered to the Royalists 2t Guiana,'at discretion. ,Miranda, it appears, had nothing to do with this expedition. He was all the while at Caraccas,. in a_ state of retirement, . • a felucca, arrived from I'oi-to:Rice, we are happy to learn that the insurgents in Mexico have been completely dispersed. They had succeeded in cutting off the co►nmunicatiou between - the c%- pital and Vera Cruz, for some time, and even nien?.ced the latter city. The Viceroy; Venegas, sent against therii an army' of nine thousand men from the city of Mexico. . This, force had attack ed the insurgents just .at the time when -the'news . was received of the arrival at Vera. Cruz . of the troops from OW Spain. The insurgent army were so panic-struck, that they made scarcely any resistance, but dispersed in every dircetiOn, leav ilig the whole of their artillery and ammunition in the hands of the Royalists. Yesterday 'accounts'.were received from Cura- Coa to the 211th of May. By these we learn, that a Government foITV from Coro, ba - Cing obtained pOs'session of NTlencia, : General MIRANDA,. was proceeding . -against that city with all; the troops could collect, in. order, if posible, to re take it. Lettei:s. from Buenos Ayres were received yes terday to the 28th Of April. .TheJtinta, it ap pears, • entertained apprehensions, thafthe British GoVernment intended to join their opponents at Monte Video. In - the thean time, trade was quite at a stand, and ships cotild not get loaded ; eta the Monte Videans, 'having the command_ of the river, prevented any cfaft passing to and froth Buenos Ayres with hides and tallow. Advices from . Vera Cruz to "the 17th of. May, enableus to state,Aliat there is no longer any ap prehension for the_security of that part e South America. The Insurgents' had been defeated on every dc6asion ; and ultimately so reduced, that there was little probability of their - being able again to make head to any extent. A town had recently been taken by the- Government forces, in which they found six millions of dollars ; the only strong place left the Ins.utents was-.expect ed to fiat every day. lit was known to,contain upwards of eight millions of.dollars. Though nn official account has been received of the destruction which the dreadful convulsions of nature have occasioned in the Caraccas, yet from,, private letters we learn, , that the melancholy events have not -been exaggerated in the reports hitherto given. It has . been already stated that.,, at the time when this fatal occurrence happened,' the people were at mass, it being Holy Thursday, and the anniversary of the day on which they published their declaration of independence, Be sides the vnst havoc of public buildings &c. up wards of eight thousand inhabitants, _according to a general estimate, fell a sacrifice on the occasion. At St. Vincents, the noise, eruptions, and flames, that issued from the crater of the mountain, gave an alarm to the people, and enable,' them to eva." cCate their plantations, and retire with their Ne groes and cattle from its neighbourhood to town, where no apprehension. of farther danger: prevailed. The Botanic Garden was not materi allyi»jured -by tile ashes, which not only over spread St. \Tincents, but, as has been. mentioned, Barbadoes, Martinique, St. Lucia, and Doininica, the vegetation of which has severely sutfered,-- We are also inforMed, by private letters, that the report of the Diamond Rock having been in flame.; is not well founded.. The hot springs of 7.\-larti nique, Doininiea, andMontserrathavebeen much agitated. Mount Soutfrier; at Guadaloupe, has a crater, at the top from smoke has continu ally issued for some time, and hence it is thought as there is a vent there and at Montserrat, no for midable eruption need be apprehended; bdt a hur ricane generally is expected-, from these circum stances, in the course of the year, YORK, JULY 26.—The 'business on the Crown side finished yesterday afternoon. Only one pri-• soner received' sentence of death, aitd that' sen tence will be Commuted to imprisonment. • Mr. Justice BAXLEY said, he should nut filially dis charge either the Grand or Petit Juries, as their - services might possibly be wanted again,. It was the intention of the Judges to continue the As sizes by adjournment, that, • if the state of the county should require it; they might resume the Assizes, and try such pCrsons as shotild be cnin mitted ; but he misted there would be no occa siOn for this. Several' of the rioters have been tried, and some of them found The York herald, to a report of the trial, has-subjoined the, folloavir paragraph :—" It may be proper here• to add, that the most perfect order and decorum prevailed in the . Court during the whole of the trials for - rioting ; and there is in the City no • tare parade, nor any thing to indicate that the county is not in a state of the most profound tan quility and security." At the Hay market Theatre .last night, a Gen • , tleman sitting cause to the Or 'thestra in the Pit, fell down in an apoplectic fit, and in an instant expired. Medical assistance was imme:liaiely pro cured, but in vain. lie was recognised to be V. \VARNER, Esq: one' of the Gentlemen U.ihers or the King's Privy Chamber. Notice was sent to his'house in Poland-street, but the body remaius at the Theatre for the view of the Curmer's. in quest. .