The Sun. — London, England, 1811-12-02 00:00:00

MM LS.' AR R Lt)- - t Lisbon, 2 Dublin, I watertigd. Brazils, W4tertorti. ' l'ltiCE OF sTot..:" Tills DAY r TimcLv C o'000tc:; Consols - - 631- Oinniurn dis. • t 4 • TII E S U N.' 1101.6 A QUIS VA4SU.I4, AUDS/ILT LONDO4V, „ MONDAY, DECEMBER iS 1. , . . Whave this day the'Satisfactient to 1.1 before our readers the official details of General' HILL's most I , brilliant and gallant exploit, It would be improper !f: , for us to detain our readers from the perusal of the General's perspicuous and. modest narrative, by any , comments' upon this achievement f we shall there i; fore only say, that General HILL has, if p ossible, A .. added, by his conduct upon this occasion, to the very • high reputation which he so deservedly enjoys.— tiore skill in combining, or more promptitude in making an attack, we believe never were displayed. ill' —lt adds infinitely '•to our satisfaCtion to find, that .i, the annihilation of the Enemy's .force- was eacted ;, ti. , : with scarcely any loss on our part. ~. , This morning were received Lisbbn Papers to the loth nit.; but from the great length , of the Gazette Extraordinary we pre under the necess ity of post . porting tbei l i contents till to-morrow, We feel the most sincere pleasure in being able to 'state that our sick troops are rapidly recovering. The followlng ',Bulletin was yesterday sliewn al St. ;allies's paloce :--• ‘:. , WINNOR dASTLIIi '/110/. 30, 1811. MAJESTY continllsoo6iiy in, the, same state. 4l k'HA !JOWL " M. HAILLIE. .4 W. fIEfIERDEN. ,10 1 (11.1.18. . :i % 4 .1 L 1,18." ;.,:' PRINCE ItEO OATI.4,NVS, SUNDA? EVENIfi9. 7 7- ritiNCE 14oetvr has gained considerable strength in his 411Cle %vithin the I,lSt two days. His 'loyal High lieSs, however,- is not enpetted to reeati to York Bovt.e before the latter ~nd of week, by which titne the surgical attendants litiaene the s t r v A vs o f t he lea c n have recovered their proper tone. Colonel I\7l`NlAttoN Can doiNp,at,:for.ir, and Laving laid several Government, dispatches before llghtless, returned to town in the even ing., , Numbers of the Nobility, &c. are daily thalt log, their visits of inquiry, several of whom have been favoured ,by an interview with the Pattsce Itatervr, in his own apartments. His Royal High ness never appeared in higher health or better spirits. Yesterday, Lord ST. HeLENS and Sir GEORGE OsBmlNE were the Lord and Gluon) in waiting at I fat lkindOV;r, Sr. James's Palace. Saturday thi Duke of YORK, after (Milt% with the Qualm, set oil for Oatlands. On Friday, Sir Triosus' PLemeter, the 'Solicitor General, entertained all the Judges of. the dttierent Courts, ‘ together with the CIIANCELLOS of the Elton:note, wAt a sumptuous dinner, at his house in Guiltord-street, Russell-square. ' , Yesterday the Hon. Mr; AaatrrntroT arrived at his house in Downing=itreet, trOi.Hougliton Hall; the seat of Earl Ctrot.mosineLi 4 t, in.Noriolk, where be has been on a visit. This day the Earl and C o Mitess . CaotstormuLtY and family intend leaving Houghton Hall- for Owl mondeley ()aide, in Cheshire, where they intend residing uritil January. The eletlicin for Shrearsbury is likely to .be se ' vete!) , con•ested ; the Hon. Mc:Saws ruts set otf on Saturday to renew his canvass for that Borough. Major-General. GRREN, Oile.:Of the . early pro moters of the American llevoletion,diedat Shrews bury, United States, the 14th of September. Sevelal 'letters were received in town an Satur day ham Lisbon, brought by , the .111crlabar trans . ppt t, afier,a tedious passage of five. )weeks. _They are of 'old dates, and contain no in t ell i g e nce what. ever.-- The likilitbar had on board , 200 eickati.: wcitinded of the voth regiment. Detachments of the il.th ,end 20th :Light Dra goons, on Monday, marched trom Maidstone to the Isle of Wight ; tie former embarks for ,the East Indies, the latter tor Sicily. . . Two troops of 'the. tplt Light - Dragoons have marched into Stamferd, to be stationed there daring the winter. A cletschrriinf .of the t sib Foot is eapeeed to • enibark at Plymouth, in a few days, : for Gibraltar. An augritentation of ng ,intn,is immediately to be made to. that usetut body of men, the Royal Artillery, The Lords of alp Admiralty have replied to the Agents of. the West India-colonies, that they would not sanotion the intro;d4ing of Corfee into the vie walling of the Navyv:,•. . it is said to he the intention of Government to keep a strong squatlron in the Cattegat, to the lareit'. period the weather will permit. Admiral Hope, who has hoisted • his gag on board the Ardent, will have the .command of it. The East acionnts from lodic statp that- the forces from the different Vresideneids composing khe di t i on agaiasf Batavia, had AucimlttilullY rendez votised, according.to .appoiutwqt,, in the Strait& of Malacca. t air ade - Paper states, ,that four regiments of infatitry and' casairy have arrived within the l ast months at Quebec, destined to reinforce the Wa s h garrisons Oita Niagara. Monday, th .11th inst. atr)ut twelve o'clock at mon ,. a wcudcock was seen:l. - The wing over the back part of Mr. Spurway`s. °use, in Milierton. Desonshire, %Oki) immediatilvdeseended, and flew Im o hialochen, where:'4t was , t4ll, •by Cine of the -servant3, whilst endelyouritig- to Wake his -. The bird. Was in high con boargli. NAVAL NEWS. PLYtelOl.7Tli, Nov. 24,—Arrived the Neptune ten: der from Dublin, with, impressed men ; the Plea sant Hill, Wear., froni 13,-ptlord, with . .stores ; the Conco;:d, BUSE, the Dove, ROBEETS, and the Aerial, STANPOLID, from Wales; the Heart qf Oak, WELLS, from Gloucester ; Ann, W liITTINGRAM, from Yar mouth ; and the Ti icon, Notormv, from Bristah , • Nov. The . lidnger, belonging and hound to London, from the Brazils, with a valuable cargo, was captured some d, , ys since by a French ptiiateer, and shortly afterwards was fallen in with and re• captured, a few leagueitp the westward, of Scilly, by his Majesty's brig of war Recruit, of six. teen guns, which vessel was bound hum Ports_ mouth to Halifax,, arid took.. the fiat/ger on with . her, until•she might fall in wit h' a vessel bound to England to take charge of her. . The Strombolo bomb, in the Sound, takes con voy. to Gibraltar, and w ill sail on Monday next, provided the wind proves favourable. • His Majesty's ship Unicorn has detained and sent in here this day the American vessel Jane from. Bid : . timure to Bourdeaux, with a cargo. Arrived the Dotterel sloop of war, Capt. DANIELs, in eighteen days from Lisbon, with General HILL'S brother and Prince D'Aaesuseno, as passengers, the former bearing dispatches from Lord WaLLINoroN, which contain the particulars of Gcneral'HlLL's late gallant exploit near . Merida. No accounts had reached . Lisbon, when the Dot terel sailed, of the fall of Saguntuin: • Two chaise* and four, lull of oflicers, have just, left this place for London. ' General . .RENAui;, the late GoveA uor . of Ciudad ROdrigo, has also arrived in the Dotterel, and is ex pected to land in the course of the day,. The Dotterel fell' in' with 'the *Undaunted mer. chantman, of London, for : St. dhristoplicr's, in Lat. 47. 40. N. LOng. 6. 1g: and supplied her with a qnatitity of shot, having,expended all her ...awn in an action with a French - schooner privateer, a few leagues' from the Edystone Light-house ! :whichshe beat off, alter an action of one hour and -twenty minutes, within half pistol shot': the Undaunted , l:4ci vile man severely wounded: Sailed the Resolute gun brig for Cork ; and the ~4nn tender for Bristol. Arrived his I.l , l,ljesty's ship Cadmus from the coast of France; the Integrity, Buck., from Yar mouth; and the ,dimphirm, BRAss, from Sunder land. • rORTSMOUTit, DEC. I.—Arrived the ilgincourl with the residue of transports that sailed with her on the 6th ult. from Lisbon., having on board sick and convalescent officers and tnri). Arrived the Canoius, Capt: IN6Lis, from the Mediterranean : she is under quarantine Also arrived the Dapper gun-brig, having under Convoy the 59th regiment fruen . Guernsey.. The hapetueux is dropped down to St. Helen's, waiting a wind to proceed io the station off Cher- Arrived yesterday his Majesty's ship La Pique frrim the Eastward, and the Virtue from Guernsey. Sailed the North. Star and Ganymede for the Downs, and the Mariner on a cruize. The Manilla was ordered away on Friday night by telegraph. Our town has been thrown into great alarm by the shock of an earthquake which has been experi enced here, EttmouTit, Nov. e•29.—The Nocton and Dar lington packets are gone into the Roads, and Will sail to.morrow, the former, for Gibraltar and Malta, and the latter for Lisbon and Cadiz. MAL; Du. I.—Arrived several ships from,the River, and remain. . • Tits -BRITIsH NAVY:—Aceording to Itteltst re tUrth, there are now in cotninission 744 ships of . war, of Which 154 are of the line, rf trom 60 to 44 guns, 150 trigatel,..l4s. sloops of war, 6 bombs and fire ships, 154.iacrned brigs, -.36 cutters,_ 6( schooners and tuggers.; Besides.which, there are in repairing and building ships of various, descriptions, which make the total amount t 00 0 .,/ of which .253 are of the line. • ' ' • The British Naval Force in the ,American West Indies, and South Ainericapainounts to 10 t vessels, of which 7 are of the line,. E frigates, and 51 Sloops and brigs. . Sir James SAVSSAIIEeII- squadron, notwithstand ing what has been stated on the subject, had not quitted the Baltic so late as the tgcb of November; at which date the Yislary wa) lying in Wing° Sound, and was not expected to take her departure tor England till about the 3d of December. The convoy from Hano, under Admiral RaYuot,us, had not arrived, though hourly expected. - .TIM convoys, one from Leith, and another from London, arrived on the isth. The Francis Freeling pocket, in a late voyage, observed, near the Little Bermudas, two .rocks, half a mile in diameter, and feet above the wa ter. They must have been lately thrown up, as they have never before been observed, though dangerous to the navigation of vessels; they are black in appearance, and bear marks of volcanic 1 lIE` •0 . 'DO Y : G.IZ ,I'TE L:A7'11.101(D IS-:iftY ~ Mt2NDAY, DECI:MIILH 2. ~~ Downing.sireet, Dec. 1, 18 1 1. Captain Hill Aid-de•canp to Lienienant General Hill, arrived this day at the . _Earl of Liverpooli Office, with a Dispatch , addressed to, his Lordship by General Viscount Wellingion,. dated Frenada, fitli November 18 11, . of .which the. following is an Et irati. informed your Lordship, in my dispatches of the 23d and 30th of alober, of the orders which I had given to,Lieutenant-General Hill to move into Es tieMadura with the troop, under his command, and with his progress, to the 26th of Oclober. Ile marched on the 27th by Aldea del Cano to Alcuesca, and on the 28th, in the morning,sur prised the enemy's troops under General Girard at Arroyo del Molino, and dispersed the division of infantry and the cavalry which had been employed under the command of that General, taking Gene ral Brune, the Due d'Aremberg, and about one thousand three hundred prisoners, three pieces of cannon, Ste, &c. ; and hiving killed many in the a6tion with the enemy, and in the subsequent pur suit. General Girard escaped wounded ; and by all accounts which I have received, General Dubro coskie was killed. I beg to refer your Lordship for the details of Lieutenant-General Hill's operations to the 30th 06tober, to his dispatch to me, of that date from Merida,. a copy of which. I enclose. I have Ire quentlyphad the pleasure to report to your Lordship the zeal and,ability with which Lieutenant-General Hill had carried into execution the operations en , trusted to his charge; and I have great satisfaction in repeating my commendations of him, and of the brave troopi under his . command, upon the present occasion, in whiCh the ability of the Geivr i! the gallantry and disciplineof the Officers- and troops have been conspicuous. I send with General Hill's_dispatch a .plarvof the ground andof the operatio9s on the 28th of Oclo ,, byeaPt'ain Hill, the General's brozher and Aid .de.Catnp, who attended hihi adion, and will be able to give your Lordship any further details which you may require. I beg leave to recommend him to your proteclian. MY LORD, Merikii, Oct. 30, att. In pursuance of the instru6lions which I received from your Lordship, I put a pot-4;on of the troops under my orders in motion on the 2. '2. LI instant, from their cantonments in the neighbourhood of Porta legre, and advanced with them towards the Spanish frontier. On the 23d the head of the column Teached Al bugnerque, when I learnt that the enemy, who had advanced to Aliseda, had fallen back to Arroyo del Norco, and that the Spaniards were again in pos. ses,ion of Aliseda. • On the Q4th, I had a brigade of British infantry, half a brigade of Portuguese artillery (six.polsoders); and some of my cavalry, at Aliseda ; and the re. mainder of my cavalry, another brigade of British infantry, and half a brigade of Portuguese six• ' pounders, at Casa de Cautillana, about a league distant. On the 9.5 th, the Count de Penne Villarnur made a reconnoissance with his cavllry, and drove the enemy from Arroyo del Puerco. The enemy re, tired to Malpartida, which place he occupied as an advanced post, with about three hundred cavalry and some infantry, his main body being still at Ca ceres. On the 26th, at day-break, the troops arrived at Malpattida, and found that the enemy had left that place,- tithing towards Caceres, followed by a small party or the 2d" Hussars, who 'skirmished with . his rear-guard. 1 was shortly afterwards informed, that the whole of the enemy's force had left Caceres but the want of certainty as to . the diredlon'ire had taken, and.the extreme . badness . of the weather, in duted ,me to halt the Portuguese and Briti+h troops at,Ma)partida for that uight.--The Spaniards moved on to Caccres. Having received certain information that the enemy bad / marched on Torre Mocha, i put the troops at Malpartida in motion on the marning'of t he tith, and advanced by the roadleading titik Me rida; through Alden del Cano' and Parla de Don An - tonic), being a shorter route than that tollovred by the enemy, and which afforded a hope of being able to intercept and bring him to anion ; and was here joined by the Spaniards trod! Caceres. On the march 1 received information, that the one• 'my bad 'only left Torre Mocha that morning, snd : that he had again halted his main body at Arroyo del Molitor, leaving a rear-guard at Albala, whick was a satisfadory proof that he was ignorant of the, movements of the troops under my command. therefore made a forced march. to Alcueica that evening, where the troops were so placed as to be opt of sight of the enemy, and no tires were 11. par dts least, lowed to t , )e made.. On my arrival at. Alcuesca, h a p ti % .. 4il.4. l ic o xi c i. : 6, ; : tiiiiisr,...ii:ll:lpeg.ipdtilt.toteli4prilic,dine:datl,teuttaeotg:uel oen ofi f r, t A i rtlioleyointletli:elolpoiltilnioos, • that the enemy was notpxoitirinellguy r il i ' s iis e g , gli n : i t o ra 6 ce at ,:kfie s fiib , in)ng ; and t4e necessary dieposit oPgibint to 4edoii,- before 7714,e1;efotroi;eitoti)LAIrrpiousyeo. ore he should march le t* Ippt:of one extretoiry of the del Moliuo is situated at tlte SierraOf Mr,„,;,.nclisi. 1: he l ltl dri , o?ntain eurining froin it to the rear, in the - T fqr.fll ri) la crescent, almost every where inacpessible, the tiro points being about two miles asunder. The ,TrltiXillo Road runs round that to the Eastward.: - . 7 • ' at right angles . . The road leading from tlie eov.4 to•gerida-runs, .!' with that from Alcuesce;•siel'the road to Nied II; . , . . t, 0 pas:es betiveen those tre'rrusillo ;.. and Merida. Tlie ground over Which the' trop'' ) t el o iilY su t::ff : bad to manceuv re being . a plain; 'thinly eestte‘ed' with oak and cork trees , my Objeet.Of eiiiiteco v " - 'H ' '' place a body of troops so h s to Cut off then . i r °l ' *''' the enemy by any of. these roads. - •''''' . OPP''',; The troops moved from th eir Bivottsek cuesca, about two o'clock in the ' nio° 9°' ralng" of' the gBth, in one column righ t in front, dire A":„ royo del Mohacs, and in the followitteariVt l.'W., jor General Howard's Brigade of ~Infeatiy. 'o 4 ' battalion 50th, 7isti‘and 92d Regim'ents, an c ''''' ~, Company of the both), Colonel Arilson''s3lV6', (Ist battalion esti), 2d battalion- .3ith,"a'ail'id b3tt"'',...,.:. null 39th, and one company o f the 0010, 6th ?et' tuguese R e g iment of the Line, an d 6th Olca'. 1, dotes, under Colonel Ashworth, the SPahi'l) l ''' fantry under Brigadier-General Mo. Mirr7G" neral Long's brigade of Cavalry, od iluoars, gth , and ,13111 Light Dragoons), and the Spanish vale ,ulider the Conde de Penne Viliatner.., 'lf he . )1 1 ' 10' 1 :. ed in this order until within half a' 011.16-6 fer f ,i?wn of Arroyo del Molina, when ea - a ct -. of • dividtd..iudo li 19w ridge, the column closed, and tlitee columns. Major-General , Howard. bl'il. ,i 4na three six-pounders innier Lieuteoarit•Calar".... Stewart, supported tiy • Brii3 cher. ',GeCleii.4 Milt4llo , . t w ig ' le, the infantry', tire left; Colonel, Wilsoo s 0 Poriu;uese Infantry under olonel AShisll)llb; "s. ' lt tt0,..,:r sit-lioUnders, and a howitzer, the rig , , . ~, Major-Geti.eral Howard ,' and ' the aviliy, l'it' centre. o(raio and As the day d'a%'ned, a violent stortn , thick mist carne on, I.lllder COV.Ct Of whleh the ciu; Itimns advanced in . the dire.6tion, and in the et ,which had been -pointed OW to them. l'he left cut; "nu under- Lieutenantolettel Stewart inarchri..i, the 71st, one company 01:01 Area upon the town, Guth and the 9,2d.regiment at qu arter dist a nce . , .. l w al -the? risr, the 50th in close column somewhat in , • , the guns as a reserve. . Generto .. K. oard, The right column under Niajor- , ‘. having the 39th regiment as a reserve, brolte„oF '7, ' na 1)3 ' .. the right, so as to turn the enenly's left i i! , • sliet 1 ° iog gained about the distance of a csopon'; ._,ii, that flank, it marched in a circulq diced)' p u o r io the further, paint of the crescent on ills In ° -above-mentioned. General Sir 4 ` l " The cavalry, under Lieutenant-. 0.501 .fliem Erskine, moved between the two eelleittia : iirfantry ready to act in front, or MOO TOO . of them as occasion mi g ht require. • ree'i'c'ea The advance of o ur columns Was hhile vary n e ar, - ty the enemy un til they approachdd 0 which moment he was filing 00 of the to'nolur o f the Merida road; the rear of his colorful, sh . ~.,, 'II ID " his cavalry, and part of his baggnge, bring st ill ige ,. one brigade of his infantry had marche d for l'“ &hitt, an hour before day-light. ._ a into ! I ' . The 7 list and. 9 2 d R e g iments charge Whcr° ~ ~p r y town with c h eer s, and drove the enemy 'e-i i heir at the point of the bay h a ving a f onet, W ° m e n cut down by the enemy's cavalry at infantry i.'il' r the extremity of it, formed into twosq°3ld•i which had got oat ° , with the cavbaylrythoent. iii:eeirt,ll.l:elt.plet:::flisol::::: Vbsted between' Atte. Merida and .Medelliu sl*4' fronting AICUCaCti. ' The . right square being 10re: within half musket -shot .of tlic town, l° g 3/11 , st walls of w hid) we rd promptly lined by lb. ° 71 ti ,. Light Infalitry, while'the 92d regiment file ,loot °be . and formed line on their right, perpendiculsr I° t o enemy's right flank, which was much 4000ied 0, the well directed fire of the 715 t . ,. It) the ril i e : l lle - i:"ne, one wing of the -50th. regiment occliPleu,'; trn, and secured the priMners, and the other vilf'S.: i ong with the three Six•pounders, skirted 0101 4 , k i, . _ s;de ( f . it, the artillery, is-sOoti as Witbln r'C' tiring with great etlea• upon the oritotes' ... 1 eis lid liVhibt the enemy watt thus occuPie--- °„a 4jAhl, Niajor-General Howard's G&W c, Enoving round the. left ; arid 'our ca valor saline/111,e _'it:" crossing his head cif their column, °° l efr , t re , eitcmy's cavalry from his infantry, °billing 1,30! Peatedib and potting it to the route, lb° '?4, Light Dragoons, at tha SgtllB time toa- O s tt . ei situ ot the enemy's artil l ery. 00 0 of the cl° . 1 II