The Sun. — London, England, 1814-03-15 00:00:00

ploved in ,ntivfned [ e c s !• jS of the sc.• lo.st test ; of abotit firewcOdy to an eN' Orl the S, am on4, Et a Pvhic 4 Oil tleelf by otlic; (Inys PK° Ts' arrio ish Arny , on theie reLfihieto • fi;lioweci lire CS trim/ he ll L'ictite" pleasure 4e Crow!' if, in t h is trri Val 0 , 1 ierso ns 0,5 mired se'. with 0 4 with bin''• his con' happi9e sl his coo' they qi Ce‘ re' c days._ iron C 4 / 1/ s pearalic e i tont y o •bser° its 14 1 ' zurassiP,"4 of t' , m ber Wiwi (re' rooPs g e Of t for tres .r O 1111)1 % corps yoofet ut r tvie o f 111 2 b c. e. vo l b er be t ‘ccr', 0 .‘,011 b„ot 'here ti) xed ve rf i Lke " 11 wi ll 6 )rgs, 3 00 ole; I, ms rch 12 1 1 , :bat t ol irf 'beg' fort re ) 2 o , ti t 1 S C C 04111 s (.0e oltls, a ge • I:e t i5C/ al*Cl3 b 6 : do .e ta is i Lie 3 5 t‘i ,4 5 t o 1"„ yarc' ,tre u 11)1'4' Oi itO‘ S' "g, ~tro • t 0 t b n 'f o r t l ' 6 1' felt: 3t ce love I e ll' , 3 4/ IS rie : >oll° _ ~.,., pitons, for it relates to their own WELLINGTON, rt(l leis heroic companions in arms. 1 , We kftwy that on t:.c 24th ult. Sir Jon s S division crossed the Adour below Bay °a nt', %Ind that the rir;ht of Lord W ELLIN GTOt7'4 ihnhad ten days before adv ance d t o P a l a i s anti I ' (lave d'Oleran. Supposin g th e w h o l e f orce to fi a k Q a Combined movement and advance (as we, It l . ve h eard was int en d e d) on t h e 26 t h , t h ey m i g h t ' • ILI ease hae reached Bourtleaux on the Bth ins, the di stance hehi not more than 100 miles, y , a t the rate of 10 miles a day for our victorious 1.1.413 a. 4 ait with most glowing impatience for in cligence fr om t hi s quarter, wh i ch we d ou b t not n t 'lt only he glori ous , b u t form a most ini xi°7."''lt fe ature in the history of the stupendous I " Waging for the salvaton and future hap rlness Earope. The Lord of the Admiralty have given an Act- EIP ()1.4 " to Captain J O HNSON ( a part i cu l ar f r i en d t) t r L"rci C'eliaANF.), to repair to Sheerness, and COMM:Ind of Lord C.'s ship, the Tonnant, , 11(1 t Carry her w ith a ll expe di t i on roun d to rortstu outh. Very handsome in the Admiralty Board, 4 : 0 it g'ves Lo r d C . t i me to j ust if y hi mse lf, an d -es -"t - delay the service of the ship. tQ -a Ptain Jori NsoN , on rece i v ing the temporary „i i vlliina nd of th e T onnan t y es terday, set otfianne .4telY for Sheerness. 14 yesterday announcing the arrival of the telle b Papers to the I 2th, we spoke of them as 1 , 1 , e'l w ere, nothing extenuating, nor setting down ; 111 t in malice. Not so some of our Content ;ittp 4rie s: a one party nil e yi ng an d magnifyihg our.: ."? , enee„till they made it ridiculous, and others ; It lg abo u t won d er f u l v i ctor i es and no less °Herta disasters which had no foundation be- F' ° 1 11 d th e rumours afloat at the close of last week. ite Pari s P apers (at least their prominent ex t t rae t B ) are now b e f ore our Readers, and they will 4- w et ceive th at we stated the macer most correctly . welteri said, " they claim some advantags an tile part of the Euemy ; but .wisely ab stain front particulars ; and it is universally 'r b elieved that BLocHER has beaten the ad %ersary more than he has been beaten. The only action speciEed, is stated to have taken place on the 7th, at Craone, which is half way between Rheims and Laon, and about ten miles north of the form er place." It would ache straage tvere ice dealin g with persons of or bili,th vera - •!ity, or with Newspaper intelligence, te at `id any Measure b it s f a l se h oo d, t o s a y feat e Con gra t u l ate the Public o n thi s new de of„ :4n the array of Silesia. Th e manner o f i ts an .41641-ion, and the scite of the contest, are start 'lN to spew of what quality this affair is ; but in °l ° d er to ascertain it more accurately, we must beg te fer to the preceding Report from BUONAPARTE e lejs Consort—that report which brought the ii ta ils of hit movements, &c., down to the sth. defeiled, as he said, he Allies at Lesy-sur 14cq a n d M ay, neighbouring towns on the high -1."(1, which runs almost due North, with a small 14elination to the Eastward from Meaux to Sois s"s, he delivered Rheims, and pushed his Head a"rters, on the sth, : o ll ery afloat ten or dozen miles from tli;lt City, towards Laon,— :` Without the treason of the Commandant of uiss ° ll s, who Opened its gates, tits Allied Army Was k st." From this statement it appears, that re.%'inus to the sth B UONAPARTE was una b le t° Poisess himself of Soissons, or of the command °f the great and, direct rote from the North b t6p aris. Ik, therefore, turne d o ff on hi s right w A " l ' el als, which . is more to the east than to the aortic .of his capital, and vapoured about the deli tar4nee of a pl ace hot only of less consequence Soissons, in a military point of view, but al so at neatly One third greater distance. front Paris, bei ng 94 miles, while Soissons is nor 70. Rheims Was undefended by the Allies, a proof that they 4ttached no importance to it :—at Soissons, on The other hand, they lull successfully op tased the Enemy. BuoN.xl-.1 I.:rz had then, as w e ye stated, his head- quarters at I3ery-le-bac, oc 111135'ing the road f rom Rh e i ms towards Laon.— 141Citett, at the same time, was at Soissons, oc 7 °ll PYing the road from that place towards Laon, 'Wh ich miglq be supposed the apex of a cone, on the opposite sides, of which the hostile armies were tan ged. The relative situation of the armies Was altered by these operations. The French no longer faced to the North, with the Allies re treating in that direction, and facing while they Pack to the.south. The French, after the sth, Were upon a line looking to the west, and the A dies on a similar line, whose aspect was to the east ' B UONAPARTE'S right wing was on the side f Laon (north), and his left on Rheims (south), and the gallant BLucctErt hatLhis right oaSoissons (south), and his left stretching so fai• to the east as to co‘cr Lace. It was with this rearmost force that the acticm of tte been rdtiot Craone, a village about three nines from Bery le,gac, where the Corsican's head-quarters were oa the sth. This, it will not be denied, is no grpat proof of the overwhelming and rapid ad oruce 4 : the Great Captain t neither are the re snits 4:ll7Ads pretended victory of a very disheart ening kind. Two thousand prisoners (for the filo- , niteur has rounded into this specification the original vague- " grand nombre," though ;t has not taken an equal liberty with the " plasieurs," pieces of cannon,which are said to have beentaken) , and several pieces of cannon is a small achievement which the mighty Ruler of a mighty Empire should_ order the cannon of the metropolis to ce lebtik'pr with discharges of artillery. And the • ~people, to use a common adage, seem to have been aware that there was " great, cry and little wool," for the funds did not rise a single cent in consequence of the glorious victory, the news of which, by the way, it is curious enough to observe, took three days in travelling about one hundred miles to the Capital ! We should not be surprised, from this trifling indica tion, to learn that the right of BLUCHER'S force, acting vigorously on the offensive, had not played the Tyrant another slippery trick, and proved to his discomfiture that there was nothing like flight in the retreat of the gallant Army of Silesia. This opinion is greatly strengthened ,by the entire silence of the French Papers on the 11 th, the day after they had announced this victory at Craoue, not only upon that subjest, but upon another important event too doubtful]) mentioned to deserve credit, that Prince SCHWARTZENBERG had been repulsed at Nogent and Moutereau.— We:rejoice in this side-w:nd information, that theiniain Allied Army had again approached so neat' 'the quaking Capital. From Italy th French Papers also furnish the comfortable inform icon that BEAUHARNOIS is journeying with speed towairds Genoa, if not into Piedmont, through Tuscany. This news, it is true, Is rendered a little palatable to the Pari sians, by the accompaniment that he had had a brilliant affair, and re-entered Parma—Parma ! on the right of the Po, and about as near to Ge noa as it is to Verona, where this Hero was so very lately defeating Count BELLBGARDE ! ! There is a story of 8000 men crossing the Alps to join AUGEREAV. We do not believe it, and sure we are they cannot be spared from any other quarter which the Despot has to defend. There are also some gossipping stories about what BLuc use a ndothers of the Allied Commanders have said relative to the rising of the peasants. — Among these there is a singular and comprehen sive confession, viz. that " the . flame (of resist ance) MAY spread to Paris." The Parisians then, are not inclined to sacrifice themselves and their City, (should it be assailed) to gratify the humane fancy of the Usurper, by attempting the bloody experiment of fruitless resistance. We have given some interesting extracts from Dutch Mails to the 13th, among which will be found an excellent address by Gen. WonoNzow, and another by the Frtnch King's Brother. To aid the latter with arms, it is proposed to enter into voluntary associations throughout this coun try. We trust the conflict will not last long enough to enable them to be sent. The CRow's PRINCE was still at Liege on the 28th. His troops are, however, far in advance, and some of them took part in the action at Craone. General MAlsoN, with a small force, has been beat near Menin : he came from Lisle. A treaty has been concluded between Persia and Russia. LORD WELLINGTON'S Axmv.—Extract of a let ter, dated Paris, 10th March .—" Our letters flora Bourd-aux, of the 4th, say, that WELLING TON, with his English, Portuguese, and Spa niards, were within 15 leagues : we expect them here in less than two days. The Allies have re taken the positions which they occupied round Paris, and we are in a very great state of alarm ; as for business, it is not thought of." Extract of a letter, dated Paris, March 11 : " We are without any news for these three days, which gives us much uneasiness. The army which attacks the south side of Paris is v er y strong : the army which attacks the north side is very strong ; the one opposed to it is also strong : but that of the south is feeble and bad. We fear every thing. Bourdeaux is in the hands of the enemy since these 48 hours." Letters from Vienna state, that ANDREOSSY, the French Ambassador at Constactinople, has art fully notified to the Divan, that his Governm . ent, having recalled its troops from Dalmatia and Al bania, the GCAND SEIGNOJA might now take pos.- session of these provinces in his own name. This is a contrivance for embroiling Austria with Turkey, which we are persuaded will not prove successful. • The dispatches brought by Mr. MILLS, the Mes senger, from Lord CASTLEREAGH, were dated the sth instant. The Noble Lord vas then at Chau mont : Sir CHARLES STEWART was with him.— Viscount CASTLEREAGH is occasionally at that place and at ChatillOn. Mr. MILLS came by the Hague, and also brought dispatate4 fxoul Etui of CLANCARTY there, NAVAL NRWS. VAfiNitltJtHi 14.--4 Th Saturday last French lugger privateer we' observed between. Lowestoff and Southwold to capture several vessels. A boat with 19 hands was immediately launched from Lowestoft', and succeeded in re capturing the Ann, of Newhaven, laden with Cm= her, which is now in this harbour. The French men, on 'perceiving the boat coming off, took to their .boat, and. pulled out to sea. Another of the vessels (in ballast) was retaken by the Soutbvtold Custom-house boat, and carried into that port.--4 His Majesty's ship Portia, and the Princess of Wales cutter, are gone in quest of the privateer. DEAL, MARC!] 14.—Arrived his Majesty's cut ter Olympia, after seeing her convoy to Ports mouth. The Rosario sloop of war has a signal for convoy to Portsmouth. Arrived the Folk ztone hired cutter front the Roompot.—Wind N. E. PORTSMOUTH, MAnctr 14.—Arrived his Ma jesty's ship Leander from the Downs, also about . a dozen sail of merchantmen from ditto. Sailed his Majesty's sllips Imogene and Sprightly, with a convoy for Cork, and the Dexterous sloop of war on a cruize. The only convoy at present ap pointed is his Majesty's ship Archer for the Downs.—Wind easterly. PLYMOUTH;MARCH 12.—The Barbara sehooper, which arrived here yesterday front a cruize, spoke the Hannibal man of %vat. on the Bth instant, in qncst of two French frigates, which had sailed the preceding evening from St,, Makes. FALMOUTH, MARCH 12.—Arrived a few coasters from Padstow, Waterford, and Wales. Sailed the Prince Ernest for Passages. The Walsing ham packet, for Surinam, is gone into the Roads. Wind N. E. DOVER, MARCH 14.—Arrived to-day off this port the Henry Wellesley East Indiaman, Captain TREPLE : she lett Bengal the 24th of September, and arrived at the Cape the 7th of December, at St. Helena the 3d of January, and off the Scilly Islands the sth instant. HARWICH, MARCH 14.—Arrived the Auckland and Lady Francis packets, with mails and pas sengers, from Helvoetsluys. On the morning after the action between the turotas and Clorinde, the Dungarvon schooner was seen far to windward ; but on guns being fired, and signal hoisted, she came down imme diately ; and. on the Master being requested to keep between the Eurotas and the enemy, he most handsondy promised to " stick close to her, and, in case of thick weather, to fire guns to spew the situation of the enemy.'' The Lords Com missioners of the Admiralty have directed him to be paid the stun of fifty guineas, as a mark of their approbation of his conduct on that occasion. A returned Cartel from Morlaix, which'arrived at Portsmouth on Thursday, brought over the Surgeon of his Majesty's' late ship Grasshopper, which was driven into the . Texcl about two years since, in dreadfully severe weather, in which the unfortunate Hero was lost. About a fortnight since this Gentleman passed through Paris ; and although at that time BUONAPARTE'S affairs look ed less portentiOus than at the present moment, the people were packing up their most valuable goods, and hiding their treasure. It was in pub lic report that the Allies were as five to one against the force which BUONAPARTE hid under his com mand. This Cartel took over Lieutenant SHEA, of the 29th regiment, who was sent back to Prance, by our Government, for hating broken his parole ! Lieutenant S. was thrown into prison the moment he landed. BREAD.-This day the LORD MAYOR ordered the price of Bread to be continued at Is. Org. the quarters loaf of wheaten, and I I d. household. A Gentleman arrived yesterday from Bruges, Which place he left on Saturday last ; he states, that a fair being held there on that day, the French from Ostend detached a part of the garri son, in order to take the town by surprise, for the sake of plunder. There were only 60 Cossacks in Bruges, who, with the inhabitants, prevented the enemy from succeeding in their object. The Gentleman has come over with a view of obtain ing a supply of arms from Government, for the use of the Patriots in the Netherlands, who are rising in every direction to prevent the possibility of their country's being ever again placed under the iron yoke of the Corsican. CAULI NCOURT is frequently with Viscount CATHC kRT, the Earl of ABERDEEN, and Mr. TH (VINTON . Yesterday a Cabinet Council met at two o'clock, at the Foreign Office, which continued its deli berations till four. The QUEEN'S cold, we are concerned to say, is so bad that it confines her to her private apart ments, and she is 'not able to dine with the Prin cesses and the Ladies who are at Windsor. On Thursday the Prince of ORANGE held a grand Levee, which was numerously attended. Among the distinguished characters was the Duke of CLARENCE. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.-In consequence o the present unprecedented situation of affairs, Parliament, after meeting pro forma, adjourned to the 21st inst. when they will assemble for the dispatch of business. The eyes of•all are turned to this meeting, as the business then to come be fore them is pregnant with more important COn sequences, and must give rise to inure interest ing debates than any session in our recollection c.er giro rise to. For the benefit of our numerous Readers in Scotland, who' wish to pursue the Debates at full length, we beg leave to refer them to Mr. JAmrs TAYLoit.Slirru's Newspaper and Advertising Office, Royal Exchange, Edin, burgh, where they may be regularly, supplied with any of the Loudon Newspapers on the shortest notice.. SECOND . fl f' Letters keatived from_Totiftlqi did Ittaffi qtfartets of the Duke of SAO; Weibatf; &fed the 10th hist : it appdars that t LUCHER had tired oh Ladd ) Ettr pufpose of uniting himself With the corps tif I(iLt:ovr, tlis united force; in -t chiding the cOrpt of WIN Z ENGERODE, KLEISTf &c. artiounted to between eighty Mid ninety thousand men. He had been pursued Shah great activity by the French Army ; ebtimninth; ed by BUONAPARTE in person; and, on the ;lib; an affair of importance had taken Omit bc. tween his rear guard, commanded by WaTzt&dr.4 RODE, and the advanced guard Of the French Army, in whiCh Marshal VICTOR and Generals GROUCHY and LA'aill l / 4 , rete wounded. Marsha! BLUCHER baring edficentilited his fortes at Laon, was determiped tOgi've6'ittle to the Enemy, and s he was superior in force, the result was looked to with great confidence: No recent advices had been received from tbit army of Prince SCHWARTZENSERG. SUN-OFFICE, Two teclack-15th March. There has been no firing on the French coast. THE; THEATRE. The good effects of competition were strikingly evident last night at Covent-garden Theatre.-- Mr. YOUNG, who appeared in the character of Richard the Third, a few monilis ago, with a rate of ability not in proportion - to his general. merit as an actor, has been induted, by the popularity of the new Performer at the other * Theatre, to reconsider the part, and he resumed it last night with so much success, that we may fairly say we hardly ever witnessed a more masterly perk formance. Thei ; judgment, and variety which marked u ttre,sWle of his representation, evinced suchlyipfessiOnal merit as would have entitled him to a _high station in the hest days of the Stage. The soliloquies were given .with admirable skill,, and were so well managed, that, though he generally stood with his front to the audience, yet, by his varied gestures and motions, they seemed to, be the effusions of his own mind in solitary meditation. In the scene with Lady Anne there was a display of artifice, without os tentation, which was peculiarly effective.. He introduced one .new reading, which, in our opi nion, is. so just, that we wonder it was never adopted before;,wheti Ludy Anne, bearing that her beauty was the .catiie of Richard's murder of her husband and his father, says, " if she thought that she would rend that beauty from her cheeks," Air. YOUNG said, " These eyes could not endure that beauty's wreck, " You should not blemish it if I stood by. ' The distinction struck the audience, and was much applanded.,--But we have not room to specify particulars, His by-play was excellent, particu larly in his flattery of Buckingham to, his face, end sarcastic contempt of him aside.. All the pas, - sages - tbat.adm-itted of humour were delivered witiA a saturnine jocoseness, perfectly in accordance with the character. : In reading the paper given, to him by Norfolk, he dismissed it at once with contemptuous indifference, and this manner ex cited an invidious and solitary hiss in the Pit, which- roused the audience into a general and zealous acclamation. This appears to us to be the right mode, for Richard has no reason to dis trust Norfolk, and he is in the midst of active pre parations for., the ensuing contest. The bustle and animativujificr the tidings which induced him to say",—,!,yhy, aye, this looks rebellion," were finelyits swtrast with thehuthour,the energy, and the savage ; coldness of the preceding scenes, and with the gloom that increased as the battle approached. In the last scene he was tempted to essay a novelty of which we do not approve, viz, his throwing his sword in rage at Richmond, just before his death, This action, we grant, may not be inconsistent with the savage ferocity of the character, and the fury of disappointment at such a moment, but it is too pantomimic, and takes from the dignity of the scene. We have only to repeat, ,that •his performance was a masterly specimen OF-the' art, and was ratified by the warm and repeated acclamations of an audience, who completely filled the Theatre. Mr, CoNwitlt was somewhat too formal and sententious in Richmond. Mrs. FAUCIT acquitted herself re• spectably in Lad?' Anne. The Managers wisely profited by the example of the other Theatre, in, introducing the Ghosts without the trap-doors, and in a kind of aerial vapour, which rendered them picturesque and impressive. Mr. KEMBLE, we understand, returns to a se cond engagement at Covent-Garden Theatre, im mediately after Easter. Mr. and MiSS HOLMAN, with Mr. DWYER, were last month performing their most popular characters in New York. No. 2590 - 2 - - 520,000 No. 7191 - - - 000 No. 2590, drawn this day a Prize of Twenty Thousand Pounds, was shared and sold by HohN s- BY and Co. in one Quarter, one Eighth, and ten Sixteenths. Also No. 7191, a Prize of One Thou sand Pounds, was shared and sold by HORNSBY and Co. in . one Quarter, one Eighth, and ten Six teenths.—No. 26, Cornhill, 14th March. TWENTY THOUSAND AND THIRTY YOU ;-TDS.—The Ticket 5151, a Prize of Thirty Pounds, and as first-drawn Prize above .17/. entitled to the farther sum of Twenty Thousand Pounds, was drawn yi-s -terday morning about twelve minutes after nine o'clock. This fortunate. Ticket was sold in ono Half and eight Sixteenth Shares by Bisx, at 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing-cross ; where t•he Ticket 5928, a Prize of Two Thousand Two Hundred Pounds, this Lottery, was also shared in one Half and eight Sixteenths. The fortunate holders may have their Money on demand, by applying at 4, Combat, or 9, Churing-cross.