The Sun. — London, England, 1811-01-28 00:00:00

~. ~: , faAJN. et' the infantry could only be "exceeded by the per severance with which they worked. • The artillery,' on_ thee - part, had surreitunted ex- cessive coilimually, increasing difficoliies' 'conveying the oesieging artillery to, the lett bank. The navigation of the river ceatiged every day; and was eXtreinely.difficult. The of the bat teries was briskly opposed by a tremendoes from the garrison, : which croehedeeety thing, pare tieelatly do the right bank. The battery, No. 1, within 50 toises of Fort Orleans, was ,erected iu Open day; and completely exposed, tinder cover of a vigorous And contin6al tire of musketry aimed at alie oleo - 11. 1 e etobrasures. • General ValC.te, .offieers_ end men, displayed an iedelatigable zeal., The soldiers of .the eraiu, limed as catinoneers;" a Captain of the Artillery end' a Lieutenant c i f the train, were, wounded. On the .::eth, at day-break, forty-five guns, in tea batteries epee both sides of the river, opened a fire, which itt tw'o, hours acquired a decided superiority, and soon siltneed all that .rtf the front attacked. The bridge was cut' on the same day, and on the next, morning was entirely broken ; in ceps quence of which the enemy was under the necessity of era. cuating in the oight the ate de, pont , of which we took possession., 00 the.3oth, the castle was the only part of the garrison from winch a tire was kept op, and on the. n Ist ,our firebecarne" slack, as it was , not answered. The parapets were iee'elled, the em brasures not in a stete' to receive guns, and two bre il. lies were eemtnenced near fort Orleaps. In the mean' time General Roguiat pursued his brilliant- career, completed the descent and passage . of ditch, and began to mine the scarp of the. bud;' or; the place: It was io this stile of things, that on _the morning ,of the t st ,Jatitiary a , A bite Rig was displayed from the castle, and imuiedritely upon this signal, hosti. teieine every. where ceased, the ramparts were cave ed with a cr ,w 4 o f soldiers and of 'inhabitants. Teo officers w,tii . e }Lie oftree•e Made their appear aoce, end . were •cre ou, .ed to toe : they commtmi . eased a letter:from the Governor, who had lantho. ' rised them to make proposals to me. .The Adjutant, COmmrandante Si, Cyr, Negues, the Chief of , my Staff, carried toy answer to the town well the basis of a capitulation. ,He found in the GoVer • nor, a Weak Man surrounded by two, or three Chief's, who div.ded the ate!,ority between them, and who 'demanded that tfey 3hoold be, sent to l'ar lagelei teein t",•eir item , diate surrender, or offered to serrendee conditionally ~in" le 'days, if not re. live( ci before the expiration of that tirn ; follow ing up toy tostrereions, he rejected every thing dd . - facie from What. Watt conta:ned in illy, answer, ;we elbiired th'em no longereo display the white file, it it was itot merely 011 . d Silitply 1 . 0 Piplilliate. U 1 on his return !Iv :Soldiers reedised the news with joy, atid, with loud cries demanded tlie. assault . ; _I pm ' tnised it to then) ut) tire foltosehA day.' The fire of bombs and howitzers recbtnenenced ite the night on • the town and castle ; the mite is celitiptied ;heir la beetrs. 'On the me rnieg of the 641 a new battery in 'bleach, raised with, extraordinary rapidity in the Vcred•Way' against the counterscarn, of the ditch, was batter ing at the distance at t e toms ; the breach was lion , ly eirlatged. Three white flags were die played - at once ; I ordered the firing tti Le,every where redoubled. At two (Aka: every thing ; wee ready for the tiesaelt I I ordered a brigade of Gen.' Hafispe to . be under arms iii the great line. of -the .ireocles, and fbrmed in*.coluthn the beled cem panieS of theelturds of the: trendies icemount the breach: Flags of truce niade,their appearance a-new, but I forbad one to. be received, except for the put pose of deliverieUg to our grenadiers, us the first est- Iniinary; a gate of the town. They hesitated ; I advanced, followed by some Genetale and other Officers, nud I ordered the draw•britiges . to-be let dewn.• The soldiers obeyed 'me; I entered ; I - • made theti) lay down their aims I reproached the Officers nod the Governor for their conduct the • evening . before. The faits, endelertnined and stir. prised, tedoptea 'the part of submission. ordered the grenadii.Js to enter, and at four the afternoon a garrison el ,84000 eaten defiled as prisoners df sear, , deposited nine colours, of which' one was presented by King George lodic town of Turtosa, and imme diately took the road to Steragossa, under a 'strung escort, Aber d a ys of siege, , 11 of trenches opened, and c i te of cannonade, we are thos masters,of the for tress of Tottosa, which delivers into the pewer of the Emperor 177 pieces of artillery, 30,000 balk or bomb24, • 400,0u0 caitridgoi, 9,000 tuusl;cts, &c. I have the honour to transmit :o yout Highness the different inventories, with a view rind plan of the town and of the attacks, the jotirtral at the siege, and the documents furnished by thit,, Chiefs, which rniiite' `the force, of the garrison, including ,the hospitals, amount to 9,000 men, of whom 392' . are oflicers ; in' that .nutob , r is a number of artillery of the ma, 4rte, which was two years at Brest ;Hutt t he at-, ficers of. which Jame declared to me, •that stratohed by the fate of arms front the anarchy which deso ' fates their country,,they nil , form the wish of com batingithe English, whom they tegard, us its true authors. Our loss during the siege amounted to 400 men, and that of the. enemy to i,200: Your Rigliness, wilt co isider it Wiling when you learn . that the fortress tiled 25,000 rounds of:cannon, and we sOO9. I cannot close this relation, Monseigneur , with out repeating to your Highness how touch 1 have hold'rreatant to be satisfied with the distingtlished con , dud of the Generals of engineers and artillery, Ito .gtiiat ,and Valeu. I am -with respeB, COUNT SUCURT licad-quyters at Tor!osa, lan 4. 1811. TO H'l4 ,SERCNE.HIGIINESS THE PRINCE OP NEIM CIIATRI., MAJOR•GI3NERAL OV Tti,E ARNIE, IN Camp, befoN.Tortosa, Jan, 3, 18 NIONSVIGNEUB, I have the honour to.transtnit to your Highness the Journal of the siege of Tortosa. Your Highness wil aed train it, that, in. 13 days alter 'opening the .trenches we have reduced A very strong fortress, de. fended .by a garrison of 9,000 m o n, and 177 pieces of cannon. Thu enemy. defended hintselt to thOslatt ie,oxtrennty the covered way was croworet .honi. the did of artillery on the 7i It night'of , the ,trunc'oes being bpetveti tht ditch wtisvasSed and the miners so to wolf on the 12th night : circumstances never before cxernplitied in any slege: The engineeis:.,have served with. enthusiasm.: I. have hadlive and a greater timber wounded, all excellea officers. The General in Chief, Cow.:t Suctwt, solicits rew.nds for the otiicers and corps of engineers. I n. 0.0. to beg your Hii,hness .10 give ' than your favourable attention, itr order that his Majesty may deign to grant those rewards,' which they have merited tt tile expellee of their blood, and by their c h-,!al for:the Ealiwydr. 1 am, &c. • . ROGU 1 yr, General of l3riga - le, COurinand:ny of the Eogineciiat thc - iege of Toi toad. [Here follows a journal of the s iege, occupying nine colUtunsof the ilitiniieur of the 19th.] HAMBURGII, JAN 1 .-A—The.• weather has been exceedingly cold tor the list is days, the wind has been comically in the east, .'altd there is no. sotiw Upon .the ground. The . Elhe ,is now passed in sledges, alti og.hbetwevn Al+ona and Graoshrouch the ice is broken in three 'plaCes. ReAnur's tht'r inonieter was.yJsterday thurning ten degrees below 0, and at noobv it was only 7. - • .COPtiNiinGe.s • , JAN. 4.--,The frost has set,in with So much %iulence, that if it cuotititics the Soul will soon be frozL.n.' The course at exchange Was yesterday at J2O. VIUNN A, JAN.4:,—According toletters from Will lx.hia, the negociations between Russia - and the Porte appear to take a trivour`able! turn, and the of peace is seemingly not very distant. Count uepliew of the celebrated SuWarroW, who hitherto resided at Trieste, without any public em • ploytnent; is now at Bucharest, conduGlitig the tie gociatiODS. • MILAN', JAN, I 0.--.,ACCOrding to the. Bulletin of this day, the Pritices , , Vice Queen; lad some rest in the. - 11;licte ii.as been no chatile in her disorder for the last three days. The conscription far the kingdom of Italy for the year•4lB t t is .to, consist ut 1 b,uUU men. ; It . i's o be taken from the s Coro b - tween:ltie Ist. ot . January sad the 3 ist ot 11:!cettiber,'1790, elusively. , , VIENNA, JAN. CokitS, of exchange upon Augsborgn is quoted to-day at The reason is not krt li t not ek etl fipUll CIo Of (1)18 unex pettd fall, and we with impatience . fur the. result of ta-niorrow's change, COPENUAGEN, JAN'. B._ The frost contioncs, and persons go.on the ice frOrn the CLIStOIII-11aUSe to the Three e l ownsiiattery. Betweett the vith and, eolh ,Dectsinber a great nuntbey of ves6el.•tvoe v:rvckqd in the Catteg,at, near Skagen. On the bth tind (Mt the Sogrid may be said to be entirely coveted with Ice, We • IGacu f(011 'Alva that,. the English shjps, stationed there, ere. drivel) into ttie . North Sea. . HAMiSURGII,JAN. —One of .our townsmen, ‘v•iie has jut arrived from a journey in Sweden, se latesi that' the deciaraiton of war,: tfte intercourse -between England and SiAteLirt) Cot,. miatn ,W3r the. same tliat the packet-boas arrie regularly Gi,itentiagh, and . that on the t, t itti ult. - the day of tits depiti lure, letters and. news papers wev received from Londori,• to the I 6th. The relations between the two ceuntrie4 are 'not confined to correspondepee. .Gott'eut-urgh, is the entrefot' of a very 'netive comTerce, which 'has never ceased to take place, :Under the, dir.tction of the old Consul of J. ngland, Mr. Smith, and through the inedintu of a man of the name of Peterson, an Englishman, It;sidetir at Varjo, an isle situated 'in the bay two miles Irwin Gottenhurgh. Every day St,vecli•di boats repair to that isle, to carry to the English thew dilferent,artices, such fit► pitch atm tar, hest) meat, spirits and,provisions of every hind, They take,biick , colonial puoduce and English/Merchandise, which, 'deposited at Gottcm , ' , ale soon after introduced 11110 the interior of the ,country. The irmeller of whom we speak kngws:of a num berof caigoes of colonial reduce that have been sent to Helsingborg and Maitime, • On .the 151 h December lie saw a convoy of 6o waggons, loaded with indig••, set out twin Gotten burgh. On. the Vial,' 500 earls, laden with collet, and sugar,. sot Hon' 9n the rand NUtkOvpilig. In - 911 the very day of his departure, a second convoy of colonial produce and English goods was , dispatched tor the interior. . ••• ; • Englidi Cruisers l ermit nil ships destined for Sweden, to pas , ) fr,:ely. They lavour.the coast ing trade, and give he inlet ruption to the fisheries. Bevities, the English abound ar (.:ottenourgli; their alarm is CilS:iipateti'; they their ordi nary husineSs, andPVen their tulle cif atrognoce and of : irony ; and one wOul.l be. tempted ty,hdiete, that at no time did •a better undersialiZttng subsist between the two Governments. . LuiiELK, JAN. 4.—A .convoy or .about 150 834 from England, partly under the Plussian itag,..and destined , for the Baltic,. anchored on the etith' of December, in the Bay of . Gottenbergh. Many cif t h ese resets are loade.ci with,Colenial . produce ; the' others are in ballast. •The.latter had deposited their freights, of timber in • Six other ships from Londe!), Under' the riussian flag, had anchored, some *days befortt at Carls:no, near, the Bay of Guttenburgli,.and soprt utter set sail for Memel. INITLI,LIGENCIi FROM THE ARMIES IN SPAIN : .- , Paris, 141. 89. DIbTRICT OF THE _ARMY OF THE SOUTH. &lion OF Conz.--The Duke of Benno, de. sirous ot having. the whole ot his flotilla united in the canal of the Trocadero,. where it would only 'be between fiye and - six - bundi - i4cl wises trout the isthmus which joins Cadiz to the Continent,: had a lready caused the flotilla to be conveyed tram San ',near As far as - Rota and Port St, Aridly's. Several glorious actions had beets sustained by this flotilla, but the most difficult remained: in be undeitaken. it was necessary to pass within (,) wises of the fort of Puntaler, Which is upon the istbnins of Cadiz,, and surrounded by a numerous ,groupe of floating barteries and the enemy's` gun-boats. It was the r e. tore to„he lealvd that .the French . flotilla would !Alf fer considerably in attemptiug*to dotible point MI- a gorda. The Duke'of Bellow), therefo re , reolveJ to cQflcey h by_land from the river san Pedro to the T, ocadero. The flotilla was dragged acrhss this space of .500 toises upon rollers, to the:great satis fattiOn of the army. By the.thh of December; all the' bcatii belonging to the flci ilia were in the Tro caderni. 'That instant our fire opened. Red-hot talk and shells were di:charged agaiost the town. We succeeded- in throwing botnb-shells of twelve pounds to the distance of 2050 toises, and howitzer shells or eight pounds as far as 2 tbo toi , es. Con= siderabte uproar. prei;alli, ; they are in great agitation there.; the gates are shut, .and it is only *jilt the greatest precautions that any commu nication is kept up with the suburbs. The'seaicity " In extreme, and the yellow fever makes great ravages. . DIST . RICT 01? THV ARMY OP TIIR NORTH. The Duke of Istria has arrived to take the com mand of the army of the North of Spain. ASTURIAS.—On the 29th of November, in the morning, the insurgents tnarched forward to'•attack the advanced guard of General Bonnet, Cnntinauded by General Valletaux. Ihe enemy, to the num bet of 6000, succeeded at ,fir,t in gaining a: f e W cokes of ground, but were uhimately compelled to give way, and were puraukl as far as Belmont and Mirantlit, the roads to which Ouch were cut ered with the slain. ARMY OF CATALONIA. U.. the t 3th December, two ships of the, line, a frigate, and about four or five mote En&tsh vcssels, appeared off Polamas, an landed 900 Englishmen with four field-pieces, to the Westward of the Putt. In the mein time, a, frigate,', cotvette,. and brig, 0.30e.f0r the other side, and Jarkded 200 men, 'in order. to tape pot.seion of the port. The Chief of •Bytt.thou Emyon, of the third corps, who had prilted his battalndi on the heightS, seized. the 'favourable moment to tall 'upofl the enemy, broke their fine, 4rov.; them back upon, the walls of the town, viiierecl the platy pell'mell wiih then), and punfied them to their boats. Ot t he 1100 Engl4 that disembarked, - . 800 were killed or ta-. - kt:71); and it is t?Ot (Wile ceriain that so rxiapy its 300 escaped. Fire Qtficers, including Captain James, belonging to one •of the frigates, several midsl):pmen, and . 150 suidicrs have beef marched ,prisoners for Perpig nan. • "portatiun ni tiny pit-coal into I-1014nd, osnit is tt•e puxluci of the Fietich empire.' The .Grand'Dukc of Frankfort has i,suetl.o de' crve,s for levyio.g a-Jonscriptioti to coindleto coo, iingem 'of 1800 mcn. It corolireheod‘ AU trout) to 25 ye,irs, without exception' of rat or " 1* ploi mow, • - • - AR itlv Leeward Islands,- 3:Dublin, t W , lteric irl !) L--1 Lisbon, t ‘Vaterfau. PRICE OE STOCK THIS HAY. I' TW .VL OsGVICI4.. Como s - ..... 16140 . S __..-- L'U_NI)OIV, , If!ONDAY, JANUMIY n 5, 1011' -"; • • •• Viimiug Castic, lan, 27 , 14 " . " HIS MAJESTY CO9litllleS iti the Sallie 111111'S, 00 Bri 1() wtre icial ~ a lunt rr; iisrepre )pear ;realer )ne of tl 10)v m e ►or a 14, in any ( erratiea place. Ind iho 'loui, f war be, that pi away. np:m Loi :. ARMY OF ARRACON. On the tit J:innary,,• after thirteen days ,of open trenches, Tprtosa atiti, its fortsstartendered it disc:ro• The garrison,. eneisistitig.,of ()boo wen ? in c!uditig 4DO officers, i!Z" staid of onlouts, 1.92 pieces . „f,tr►►ltery,of cartri!_lges,. 10,000 muskets,- 200000 ‘veight of powder, 600,000'.' weiglii of fead, mind a great quantity of inovisious it/ti) ilatlliS. ,The lldk. of Taromito • initiediately rriarelleo upon l'artv,Ona, ttlct only strong place ternahung to the insurgents hi ail this part ot.Spain. (ritty:vt Tb e fiMpwing letter has bern addressed Cap - tail) to the Eliza1)011 indiantan, to his Excellt:l 7 .ey the•l‘linisief. of: Marine and,Culnuies.. , " Punkirk, lan k 8. • ," MowstiGNEOtt The merchant vessel; the Elizatieth, of which I had the command, was of 650 tons burthen, and sailed from Loridon the. 25th of O'L;tober, 1810. Though- not belonging to the East India Canyon'', she was bound to Madras and Bengal. • , - • " anchored* at Cork; in Ireland, from which place we -sailed on the 19th of December. After havitqcsustained much damage froin a gale of wind, we got on ground amidst the sand banks in the road . of D ol oo r t is and our vessel went to pieces in view 'of that coy, on the 28th of last December. There ' were on board 380 stetsons, of whom 30 were pas 'sengeri, 250 lascars (Indian sailors), and 100 sea men; out - of this number there were ,but 22 saved, including myself. We were Made prisoners of war. " Although having suffered shipwreck, and hav ing been saved from its perils by our own unaided etfo.ts, (it not being possible for the praiseworthy efforts of the marine to afford us any assistance from. the shore), we are satisfied to consider.ourselvelras prisoners of war, but our unhappysituatioit, ,and the circumstances which , have led to it, induce. a hope that your `Excellency will permit of our being exchangcd, fat an equal number of French prisoners' at the disposal of the British Government. * Deeply 'impressed with gratitude. towards the -brave inhabitants of Dunkirk and the IVembers of its Naval Administration, ,who most generously sup plied us with every comfort after our ,suffering, we, particularly reiriust that in case pt compliance, we, may be :exchanged for seani en iff that place, ir there be any such in England. I should consider myself eminently fortunate in being the instrum en t of their . liberation'. It is the only tivay by, which I may be able to rectify my: warm gratitude to the I people of .Dunkirk, without whose prompt and,ge ne..ollS assistlime we should all have perished. ‘‘ Your Excellency will pi-n. 1114 no. to submit to'', your native stich • means as apreiir to me bt.st caleu-. kited to forward the exchange. St an di ng r a t h e r hi gh in the e•ititliattOn cut the Admiralty, I have no doubt Of success in a pn ceeding dictated by sentiments of gratiiude. I require, lit the - tifst place, pen toissioil o proceed,to London, in order to negociate the ex change. tpledge my word of honour for my re turn, and.otir moreover a personal or pecuniary se. curity.—Secondly, to bring to Dunkirk, or:any other place your Exceheney may please to appoint, twenty two French prisoners of war, born at Dunkirk,'and of equal rank with such of my crew as have been saved:Thirdly; to condul, these latter to England. A detail of the generous tissistanCe afforded t,xs by,the people'of Dunkirk, will, I have no dpular, make a dOe impression on the Admiralty„, and on that I ground my sangitil;e hopes of the success of my uti dertaking. (Signed) R. W. tASTW4CK. PARIS, ha. decree, signed by his Ma jesty the Emperor ou the gth inst. probihits the itn- before." . . . : ..---.. • _ I , Windsor Castle, lan : 2 3, i s ": "ilis MA3SSTY is lather; better td-ci , iy 111311 ' ryasyesterday." . . • Sii,tv..d ai Ilia'. • The LORD dIiAbiCELLOR Hlld the en ANGELI;(v the IF,XCLIEGLUER•Werit •to Windsor on S 3 tti rdl had an interview of an habr"aod a half's With his MAJESTY. „ II We are happy in finding, from I'll the that haV‘e'tranSpired TespeLling this intervia, ti it It it i'as of a , VERY GI3.ATIFY;NG NATURE., to be supposed that we can 1 ossibly koOw ticulars of that interiiew, but the public 04 V.' . mired that it Will be given to the Elouso , Wild i; most .solemn eia4litude, by the Loan Cilit4cP" We understand, however, ing from thisinterview;which we are P'redat'e A ill allord very great pleasure to the publ i pl ali.• 01 is a full confirmation of what we state' : a 4141 , e ;if a g9 , as to ant vident, and, cettainlY, 3 % . 'erY. able improvement in,his NIAfEsTY's sight. , Th0p, 3 1,, Bice observed, it is intp.oo'e „ ! Its to give the. 1.4!pil- Of Allis most interestit4;, ing, yet Ave . think it necessary to say, pity on which, we are .disposed to rclY , , NI.A4ItTy, - alion the entrance, of ' 1- L ' . !; ormt..ria and Mr. PERCI:VAI. , the following " A a t , gla d I . ;.'"; ; 1 ,01,,,re., 4 ,,,,,,LL0kt, and I ; tun happY .!' 11)at : can see , your teatureS alillnst as we" did" I cannot see Mr.-P , nCEvA AO li . " " L ;1 a I observe his back to the window." . 11 1.1,1 ro ll a i c i l e t h in t g la tl i t l e in s g vi o c ; d i his face, have added; " Aye, now Ihisge(r 2AajrLl-'11'vOle; featutes distin6lly." Some more A merican Papers have belo u ," :, by a vessel. which, we •understand, br" 4ll patches' to Mr. PINCICNEY. Thtit America appear .to have taken atilt - i ll at 114 et: bility is of a rupture with Great Britain. .-) ev ` . 0 0 t o tbo titions have - been-presented by. thern g ress, ' the great loss, and incrni'e.lb'io they would safer from the die& of ay.:l° l ' l l ; f t Law which is to take p l ace on the e j of Fe b 1 ,0 0 By a letter from New York, of the 18111.1)/1,4 ber, we underst a nd, .that the . Secrelai-7 to 10 01 inky, Mr. GALLATIN, lies recomme nded , , t pt f 1a goods ordered in England. from America,, 1/14$ for prior to the 2d NoveMber., a lthough ' rr° , l ,,p+ l ter the 2d February, should piit fail vies,% of. the Non Intercourse Act. \ s l e li : c ier an application has been made, to Pla" 1 11 same circumstances such merciondizo as .15 ' 10 0 been ordered a n d p a id for, by American ' l ' i ,t in London ana Liverpool, prior 'to th e rect .o the intelligence of the Presidebt's 1, the 2d Noveaiber. • , . S rt ) i O n O r° e C ti t' e n 6l ie l t :fi tS in ib e r n t ) lie h a r r e nl a Yllo: 7: : :':belkve '° expedted to sail . to-morrow unties ti' ° Rear-Admiral Sir J. YoLE.c. fe• Yesterday ilioniteurs to the town. They contaitt so:Tie c i ct:,: j l, itIL the French in Catalooiii; will turu out t o b f, %cr y Olt ru St aPPear rather singular s to 11. after all ti contemptueti6 1,;t16:, ; „7 : ,, have heard' applied t1.1' .. the Ret . e:' ed 9000 men ! Of tl,e fin:t of the. I:1; 1 44 1 it we fear there is no room to tiOnh: ; "'''' Aro ty that 4Nrin the Acpo siege isAtp, olfel ,ort infor o e s e a d ploye, , vest Tarragona. 'ft is stated in an linglish expeditign has chnipNielY I I ()us' ono ( dvati rue C this in ih Inkst deter claus the i e enc e Hou Cee( eon tha of; t tha cut to , ofh cot tts;