The Sun. — London, England, 1811-12-13 00:00:00

AIA.I '4 ASAIVID.-a Dublin. Dug —t Cadiz, z Guernsey, a Icr. sey, I Brazils, 4 Waterford. VitiCE 01 STOCKS THIS DAY ♦T TWILVI O'CLOCK. cOLIS, for Opening . 63} I Red. Ann: .. •6z • • THE SUN:' FALIVM AUDLAT-i*.,'•* 144 LQNDON, DECEMBER 13, 1811. Account's, we Understand, were received this morning, stating the loss ot the Saldanha frigate, on the North-Wcst Coast 'of Ireland. The Com mander (thelion. Captain l' i koKetquAm), and the crew, are Supposed to have perished on this melan choly occasion.---This unfortunate event is said to have happened on the 4th instant, off Lotighswilly. A letter has been received from Corunna, dated trie 3,d instant, which states, that some inea.ware of grew importance was prepatig, and indeed on the point .oibeing carried into execution; The army ander I.he French General D'OrtssigNe had quitted the vicinity of Astorga, where it had ,continued some time, and had, as was supposed, proceeded with the intention to join MARMON T. The latter, according to report s had sent a strong detaChment towards' Valencia, for the purpose of aiding Suc LIE? in his operations. Gijon. was still in the hands of the enemy, bur :was thought that they did• not intend to remain there. Indeed it was understood 'that they came there (Or the purpose of covering the operations of D'ORsaNN&s troops, and preventing any annoyance iron) ADADIA, in case Chat General should be inclined to quit his SUItiOLI with, such a It appears that General SitiTijoiLDEs had been ordered to' proceed with his troops to Gijon, . to be in readiness for any opportunity of, harassing the enemy.. The vessels, which, as Ave stated, had quitied Gijon .on the arrival of the enemy at tha t place, had encountered such adverse weather, that •. they bad found it necessary to enter the port of Luauca, and, we are sorry to add; were all seized by the French. The-Party stem riot only to have loft their tem per, but all regard to decency, when they lost their Iropetiof corning into otlice. • They first, in the most reprehensible milliner, endeavoured to identify themselves with 1110 PRINCE It GENT, and assured the PuhVrc when that Illustrious Person first assumed the reins of Governmeat, and expressed his deter mination, of retaining his MAJEIiTY'S Ministers, that his Royal Highness was determined slat Niuisters should try wish how srtrail a portion of Royal Confidence they could perform their task.", Alter such an assertion, with regard to the l'arNcE iCEGLNT, it Wad natural to suppose that they would not be very delicate in their language towards Mi nistcri, ithey were alternately assailed with abuse and ridicule. "We cannot," said the Morning Chronicle last February, " view the melancholy and tidji ulous situation in which the King's Miniver,'tore placed in, this moment, without feel ings or real nod undivided pity. Ministers without coil tiJence, ►hc jest of Windsor and of Carlton House; distrusted even by their own retainers, who consider them as only in upon sufferance i llow con vVe then, in .eummytt liumanity . , refuse them our sincere cont . pasit'op i". atie6lation of compassion for the. situation- of Ministers, which . was only Olculated to excite a smile, has been most happily illustrated by the bitterness and rancour with which the Ad -.ministration has been ever since attacked. As the peiiodapproaches when" the iestrietiobs upon the Regent are to cease, the Party seem to become more, and more irritable: whether. they think (`tat their chance of coming into Power is ra.'. ther faint; or that they cannot bear to be,tuld that Mr. Paricavia, whose situation they pretended to pity, possesses the confidence of the Regent, whether ei titer or both of these causes may operote.upon their inelings.we do not know„--but certain it is, that. they arc becoming daily more iotottiverate, _and 'ore unguarded in their language. A report bay ing been circulated, that sothe. Noblemen and Gen; timer), whO are supposed to be honoured with the l'ittNem's private friendship, were 111,ely tojoin the Admin4tration, the Party immediately took the alarm ; they called, the report a caluinny upon those Noblemen and Gentlemen; "These noble and ho. . _ reusable persons," says the Paper , :in question, "are undenbtedly the personal friends Of the PitiNCE Rs . *l4l-, and 'have enjoyed the high honour of his fa 7 •iirociety,,but we are sure that his Royal• n ifigh• J‘o4.is too frank and noble in his oWn . nature to ex• eothat'lint one of thenn s4Oilld sacrifice the piTtilic !principles - of the , , Rnown sentitne . nts tif,bis‘beart, and - the solemn det. lalions le h a s ma d e , • i'Vr the insigniticantobjett of a place, EVEN WIT SHOULD BIL-FOSSIRLE that the Regent himself had seen reason to change his opinion 'on the very which had before recommended them to his tto►icc."---" We are 'sit'rej . that co hope *as ever entepained by Ibis Royal Higlines3 that the union subsisting arbung the Members of Opposition could be.btoken in any one of its links." That is to say, 'that the Opposition are determinQ to force them selves into office in a body, and, in etTeEt, to deprive /110,ExeeutiVe Power of the right of choosing its own Ministers, by stigmatizing every than wl,o is independently,- and. throw off ,be trammels of a Party. We shall resume this tubje6l. AS a Morning Paper of yesterday, which seems disposed to let no opportunity of attacking Mini sters pass without obServation, 'and which is little inclined to put any favourable construction upon the measures of Government, has animadverted with severity on the omission in the last Gazette of an offer of reward for the discovery of the murderers of the MAtzrtfarnily, it is necessary to say a few,words on the subject. At the moment when the Gazette of Tues day was necessarily put to press, we have reason to believe that there was strong ground for hoping that evidence would be fOund 6ufficient to lead to the conviction of all the parties concerned in that most horrible transaction. This persuasion may well account for the de;ay in offering a pardon to'an accotuplice, and a reward for the . discovery of any of the otrander4. It is well known that such offers of , reward are usually published in the Gazette, at the same time, with an oiler cif pardon also, when it is deemed eiqedient that the latter offer should be propdsed. eQnsistently with this rule the ad.. vertisement, which was posted through the town ) esterday morning, wonid actually have been postpon ed till-Saturday next, btit for the'urgency of the case and the enormity of the guilt, and we understand that the King's Pardon will be offered in the Gazette of to-morrow night, if no other disCo very should take place iq the mean time. As Goveinment, therefore . , have varied from-the usual course on the present occasion, it would. have been more Flat and liberal if its opponents had given Ministers some credit for a deviation from a general practiw, wliich evinces their anxiety to diicover the perpetrams of so diabolical a crime. An express was received last night from Windsor, at York House, stating ; That. his MAJESTY ri2mained much in the same state as in' the mottling." 'l'L•e Ps rt.= PkEGENT on Tuesday evening took a warm bath, f►om which he found so much benefit, that yesterday his Royal Highness was able . not only to -set his loot on -the ground,-brut to walk up and. down stairs at . York House, with the aid only of a stick. His Royal Highness transatied business with the principal Ministers yesterday from one till near three o'clock. Great numbers of the Nobility, and and other ' persons of. distinction, lett their names yesterday at York House. His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT has begin pleased to appoint to-morrow, at three o'clock. to receive'the Loub„MAyou. and Corporation of the City of London, , with' . their Address, relative to stopping Distillation from Grain. Yesterday the DUke 'of Voltx. and Mr. ADAM transsdcd business with the PRINCE REGENT. His Royal Highness the Duke of Suss had on Wednesday a most violent attack 'of his complaint, on account of. the • change in the atmosphere. His Royal Highness's Physician in Ordinary, Dr. FNYEB, passed the whole night with him, end such was the violence of the malady, that at moments a fatal termination was - apprehended, as the respiration was greatly interrupted, with some very alarming symptoms; his Royal Highness,' however, is -some what recovered. Yesterday the CitaKellar of the Exchequer &tire a grand dinner at.his hohse iti.Downing-street, to the Spanish and Portuguese Ambassadors, the two young Persian Pun es, Marquis Nilet,LOst.trir; Earl of Liv,ertrooL, and a large patty. • Yesterday the Earl-BATtroßsr gave a grand Ca binet dinner at his house in .Portman-square. • This day , the ellAbiCELtOlt of the ECIIVAILiJER Will give a grand dinner to the Foreign Ambassa dors, at his house in Downing-street. Sir JAMES . HALL, Bart. M. P. hai been elected President of the Caledonian Horticultural .Society, id the •room of the Earl of Ditxurrtr. Dr. En- A. G. HUNTER,_E3q. Dr, MINOAN, and Sir GEORGE Bart:were eleaett Vice- Presidents. Yesterday ,a Court of areaors was held at the. East India House, when Captain W. llnwititY was sworn into the command of the Lady Carrington, clestined _for Bombay and Bengal. The Court. ad six' &chick till this day. A great bustle took place yesterday afternoon, -sat Kennington, in consequence of a post-chaise, in . which were a young Lady and Gentlernan.luivirig' - been stopped by two Gentlemen. Froin'the con versation and warmth of 'the "parties, the populace soon, undersiend that the young Lady had eloped. from her fripecis in the city, and u crowd was col- , vtilio pressed so close round the chaise as to obtain a view of thp fair fugitive, that it was some time before'she could be removed from the chaise She %vas at length, however, put into a Gentleman's eau - loge, and conveyed away by her friends. The yowl Lady 'had left her home in the morning, 'ow 'a visi# to a. friend in Surrey-square. An snonymouS letter •was soon after delivered to • her mother, in forming her of the intended plan of elopement, which, was consequently prevented. The gallant is au'Offieer Dragenna. The bOdy'ot. an. elderly . man was found flaming 'in the ThaMes,- near Fulhatxtßridge,-ye , iterdav morn.; - Jog, by two . watermcn who were, going down the River. The deceased was very respeaably &eased: From the .appearance of the body , it' had lain in the water some days. It , was'convqed-te a workhouse to be owutd. NAVAL NEWS. PimytstouTir, DEC. the (Iteeit wean of War, to join ilia squadron off &est ; the Rkin fri gate, Capt. LCOLM, on acruize in the Channel; the Bloodhound gun-brig, on a cruize to the West ward ; and the 8 trombolo bomb, tor Cadiz and Gib ralinr, with a small convoy consisting of transport forCacifz; and tl►e Danishbrig Treacle Bkodres' , BRAG, for Naples; also sailed the Pensumento La Guira, MANUEL BERNARDO PEREIRA, Maser, for Perham buco,, in the Brazils. The Royal Sovereign man of war, which arrived here a few days since from the squadron off Toulon; went up Hamoaze this thy. Gibraliar man of war, lying in Cawsand Bay it is expeaed, will go up the harbour in order to be docked; having received damage by striking on a rock a few days since on the Coast of Fiance. DEAL, Dec.led his Majesty's ships Valiant, Poisliers, and Edintriiik, on a cruize off le 'fowl. Came down from the River his Majesty's ship Tarrior, and remains. Arrived several transports under c •nvoy a his Majesty's ship Daring, from Harwich. - PORTSMOUTH, DEC. le.--Arrived thF Speculator ugger with a convoy of outward bound ships from he Downs ; his Majesty's ship Comet from .New 'oundlaud, last from Plymouth. • GRAVESEND, DEC. 12.—Sailed the Thomas, lILTLas; Royal Charlotte, PENCH and Neptune, DONALDSON, for India ; Orb, H►LL, for Gibraltar ; Harmony, WootwALL, for Demerara; and Adven ture,for 1 ,7 • 3 WALKER,Iav . The Irlam, KEVSER, from Barbadoes, is off the port; sailed the 6th ult. By a vessel which arrived there that day from Guadeloupe, the following re port was brought :—That Captain MARA, cotn minding the French brig L'inipeyaiiie, of four teen twetitay-four pound, carronades, and sixty seven men, from Nantes, had landed some arms and ammunition at St. Bartholomew's, and sent a a Proclamation to Guadeloupe; it was said, he pro posed cruizing off Porto Rico; he sheWs Portuguese colours, ha Pot tuguese Papers, and had .decoyed two vessels. MARA, is a Member of the I.egion of Honour, and 'a partizan of the. Minister of Marine, and his Mission to the West Indies, is supposed to be of more moment than merely csp tilling British vessels. L'lmperatrie is a small or. vette brig, 'abd has a bust of Maria Louisa under her bowsprit. SHEERNESS, Dec, t t.—Just after', twelve o't;lock last night. the alarm was . given of a fire having broke out in the Dock-yard, and immediately the crews of the . various vessels In the harbour • repaired to the spot, when was . found to proceed frein, a mooring lump, lying in Powder Monkey Bay, hav4 ings by some means taken .fire. Owing to the prompt assistance afforded, more .pArtlenlarly' from the Officers- and men of, the Raisaiiarle, it waS speedily got tinder wtthwirdbing - mutrinjilrlr. The exertion and activity di•pla.red on this occasion by Lieutenant RIVERS ( fi rst of that ship), we more . especially noticed, froth the circumstance of his having„ . lost: a kg, ye underitand; in the glorioui a&ion of Trafalgar.-41thr. day, James Myatt Henryand .Monttgue „ received their - punishment , through the fleet lying at to pilLsant to their sentence, for having (riitto stir up a mutiny on board the Fawn '6199 of , war, commanded by the Iion.GgQ,UGB ALFRED Cao'Frorli . By pftyate letters received froM Charlestown we have an account o f his .'Majesty's sloop. if:nucleus having detained a French brig, and finally condemn ed her as a legal 'prize on board ,ber..Were patcbei ,from the ,French Consul at Charlestown, 'addressed to the -Minister of Foreign -- Affairs at Paris; Most important 'Circumstances have trans pired .by the interception of those dispatches, and a British naval force had been dispatched to pro tett British property, sitklated in that quarter of the the more minute' particulars of which, we apprehend, will shortly be made'public. Letters .received in town yesterday from Fort George, state, that most 'tremendous gales of wind have recently beers experienced in North Sea's: A frigate had come in, which represented the sea to be, covered almost every where with wrecks cat shipa, some turned with their keels upWards. One ship of about 700 tons, was found a wrack, And the Cap tain and two other persons drowned in the cabin. in , the pocket of the former were found thirty gumeas. 'On Sunday night fait, as the family of Mr. B—, a Gentleman of independent property, in Knights bridge-place, ere retiring to ! eit,•t h er - were a i art h.: ed by tht. , report of , a pistol, which proceeded fronf the bed-roomof Mn. B. On knocking, no answer was returned, when the on ,door, was opened, and the tinfortunatt , man lyia,g. the foot of the : bed, covered with blood: Mr. Yensott,- a burgeon, was 'Sent for, and examining for the wouhd, it turned out that spilt& ball had.perforated the left cheek; •and had talcen .a slanting dire6tion.and cariied-away the 'jaw, without tiarnhging the jugulac vein. It is eonjeOured, . t hat sonw,tte l vere .family afflitlion had so depressed the mind of Mr. B. its to cause the rash Strong hlope4 ate entertained that the wound will not PrOve - fatal. ..Mt. B. is Go yearti'ai age, and has'nine children. 1131?zif.7 1 1'1? VA LENCIA, Nth. 4.—After the publication 0 yesterday's rep art, the fire of our batteries redoubled on the side of the river. In the environs of El Grab (which is.occupied by the enemy) It was stilt brisket, au,d Atte Itill..P.Aties of peasantry .bebave4 with great gallantry, and even crossed the rivet is purit-of those who attacked the line ph the side on f Mont Olivete. While this wa s p assin g , and tb Staff of the French army was reconnoitring frorn,lbe tower of St. Miguel de los Ruges, all this neigh bourhood, Generals MAIII I 6, Vit.t.acassPAau and. Oritsro's Divisions were attacked at .Manises, but; they gloriously :repulsed General ARMS, who conducted the attack with 6000 of his be trool*• killed and wounded many of the n ' , took a few pri* sorters, and captured a number of knapsacks, t"'"' kets, &c. At sunset, our people get fire to several buildings on the left' ank of the river , , and also to Mg° Murviedro-street ; they are yet burning. the moon rose, the firing recomth e nced, and it I ° l ' ed until ten in the morning. To tbis moment t hey have erected no work ; but it is p ositive that WY have brought a quantity of baskets for making P: pets. The best order prevails here, sod Otli: 9- e lat ral's serene and cheerful looks, nuke 44 48 something favourable. ~~ e YESTBRDAY% 1141)0111% MOST EXCELLENT SIR, This evening our light parties dislodged the e _ i °s. my from the Mill of la Trinidad, and dislodges as f a r from all the houses contiguou s to San Pik), Murviedro-street. The'troaps.under the carll2l/' of Lieutenant-General MARI likewise ago/040a from a house belonging to a Frenchman , ‘ 11) ‘ 43 they had fortified on the othe r side of the river, 004 0 0 which has been burnt. Not hin g else has 11461 to this moment, nor have the e nemy fowacle4thelt works, which I state to your Excellency for f"r formation, by command of his Excellency Don J. . . (Signed) "Thijiggi VALENCIA, Nov. 7.—We have nothing gel° since Friday evening. —The French, however, 04 throwing no doubt to aa against the battery DA Real. l‘" up works behin d St. Juan de 14 too , has taken 1100 prisoners at Huesca. ALICANT, N0v.12.--,The alarm of,the feirr i ' M comp l e t e ly• subsided in this town, and the met " chants whO, from apprehen,ion, had ret i re d - iato the country, are returning. All aCcoun f r° Carthagena agr ee in represen tin g the disease .0 nearly extinct there. • - Since the fall of IVlarviedro, nothing new hot ° c ' curred with respea to V al e ncia . SITCHIBT Wa4..fet down before-it, and BLAKE is inside its wilst.onll' an army far more numerous than that of thecae'', .. , :: 1 . 00 Gen. nOCIIR is very act i v e in prornotingdeOr! from the c i gl s Fiench army , by means of his-offliWrie•l: ' The - amber —at...thuse—wiso -a abandoh, . i ate'd of atandard,',ls more numerous than any idea . ( i r • in% ''' it ; _three hundred have been countedvo tiiii on, one day. You tnay easily conceive, t it ' y /0 must •be a most destruaiva species of‘war!!! j ' e , the' e nemy, whose force thereby sustailis 4 000 r. the. withoUt producing a tlerrespoeogl°. ' the,part of; their adversaries.: `. ~..„.,.' ~ ' Do' GIBRALTAR, Nov. 0.---LOrd ''W113'11•:1, ' t hcii TINCK came in on the i fit h. rush., lil . ..ill Am ' s 11,11 frigate, and on the loth again sailed' for SiciVi ~ to campaign in this part of Anditusia apPo ~,,,•- 0. • an-end. -,General BALLasfrauos.is..eolueoico ralos,' , where he has established his heaci•V3Cro and has . cantoned his troopc in the aelght4lol, towns and villages for the twO-fotd parr 56 % l A D lowing o them some rest, and organizinglhis.4.ld, Viet, which amount to upwards of 4000. te en' ‘v i ) The l'arifa di vision' h as retorped to tha;:°44o Colonel SKIIRRETT, from Vegir, w hich h° 1 1- i hA if cupied, but was obliged to.ahandon, 0011 proach of a superior enemy force. BLAKE. GIBRALTAR, NOV, to. EXTRACTS FROM PRIVATE I..gl*llt• MAJOR-GtINERAL ROCHE TO WS ' 00 1 LIEUIRNANT.GBNEBAL COIr*"" AlicaOt. trWbciss I e.country to the westward ,of this, al' tl Lurce ItH4sive,continties to suffer se"rel/ fray effeahs of the yellow fever, which, I tiro fu l cautions say, has spread over the whul of the vl lllO 5O , province of Murcia, in which city alone 6 ° °° have died. Here owioi;to the extraordlol taken, we.a . re totally free from 0 11 ;',PC once of sickness. T ISF :FROM TuE 13 alTISii CO . 143111. AT CARO ACI-v OCTOBER 516. Pe ° If I am , sorry to say that the conogions to with vviiich this and the neighbouring tocio4 n ief been for some time afflicted, continue I °r iv Although in this city their violence NO SOO 0 a bated, y tS in o t t i h t e t hgciirstiyeyvoeicisi,mhalituyercit.cianii°tirninueiY, r°0L1;::t113:11 'GIBRALTAR, Nov. oc lil t hat pushed as far as.Utrert;and is levying lionVille.s and An making n A lgegsirraeluliseliti6lien;fiGti3entneteh:e,:iteti7ti;:°,ii lected 2000 cues.%