The Sun. — London, England, 1811-05-21 00:00:00

e ff afr f l, 1, 'auto after the frigates., but they could - not get near them. They and the two men of war brigs . gin into' -Porta. - Perrtio. - The• store.4hipi was - C3p. - ttaeit. Thvy; were destined - for' Corfu, we boheYe, the Frencit!lien cannot, or wOl not, veal; poi tlY:tdi... The' prize h 34 on board 80 ton., of guti. v.-wder, hesid , s shot ond ;11,s. Aa ktV EA 1 Malta, .2, t Waterford, Du E—t Lis bon, i Waterford. t),. 0. I'OCKS . THIS ,Ir's AY Ai - rwitvn Consfls . 65 1 Red. Ann. - s SOLAM QUIS UICIKIL fitLISUM AUDRA.T? LONDON. TUESDAY, MAY 21, Isil. GLORIOUS INTELLIGENCE. DtFrAT 01 TILE FRENCiI ON TILE IRON. TIELS OF PORTUGAL 1 Ri;:...4PPEAR/lIVC'E'OP HIS ,1121.yESTY IN PUBLIC! ntivc..Ef wiTuouT NEW TAXES! Wz feel therOost lively satisiigion in commu nicoting•to our Readers the gratifying intelligence whiAl re4ched towti this morning tram the Peiliti bUia of t e defeat of the French. - - Although this pews . ilous not come in an alicial shape, yet we see rctsort to cntortain any 4oubt respelling its au • thtriticity. his morning the following letter was fAIitACT or A LO-rort, raom BRISTOL., DATED tOrki MAY. "Arrived tl , e Sarah, livATLitY, from Oporto, from whence Stie tialled. the t eih inst. Capt. fitiATLEY States; that the day berme he sailed from Op Olio an express racheti the. Governor of that plact•,, au account from Lord WVL►LLINGToev Of having defeated - the French tinny 'under MAs.- SENA, in an action fi)ught ne,ir Ahnei,.,,t on the 3d, 4 , ,h, awl sth of M 4, in which the :French lost 400 ell aged 70r) in' prisoners, and the Allids Ito° in kill d.- :LardNVELLINGTON was tit.:r•• 61.1 account is coofirmcd by titsfollovvin t i Irani Oporto, witioll v. received this morning, appear to kciVe no tOntil to entertain any doubt 'tv)on the' iiobjet:t. xt tppp4t . B that the French itHde.an iateinpt toibmisr reinforceMents into Atintinla, which led to an engstoement, in v hich they were Completely defeated. We are not in p.:5.. 1 - ssion of the dctuils of this action, nor of the a 11,..,t,n1 C.c. force engtigml, but tho foal of .the county ie ‘t .),Led to be little short of .5000 rnen. It 6r:colsoy to sly thattiv. British troops dis plAyol - it - tire / A and oor e‘tders will !shalt, Co.it. the Nrtuguoie troops on this occasion trfa,llt;:v.4c:,l 41,i, , high ch:trador 'tick have acqoired in this g,l4":roas fOliowit% arts the ixtlerS Which hilVe reacbeti tlfi 11011 - 1 94) . 9( 11, : O'potvra, PAIAY I I.—On the 4th intit. the enemy .'ala I);4)vi,icni, Sce. lowatds, the Eor+t r,u ot v, hICII 11130t.' a :,oine, but wore driven 11 ) ..Auti the ocon. wen; bark Lb Ciudad Rodrigo : latt a few " r,YIVII), MAY 13.--Tlle affair of dip' 41 . h was tAlowett ttie ash by, a uwst. ; glorious salon,. ii the eileits.y.losi full four 'thousand men, an, vtr driven from battle, arta ldlowea by our troo, 'PA.. 71st 01.11 itgisoeut bore a clistiliaui-!) -(1 plirt ur it. Tlie. Portuguage behaved nobly. Cesivrol et:'s vv;i9 csizaged. 11l " Theru is nu tb - ...r,tbt it:qv:44)g- tLi glorious fleWft, as it V.'45 spit by Caullol TRANI' to our G overn/v . ol)i , The regiments said to Wye mos; distinguist,.yi tlsk , ;lll , tlve!, art, tbe l fit, 2d, ,3'1,, ana 13111 CegmiroLi ; 7 lit, 7,2di - 7..013, 41d, Eiticl Ckas; *curs twlt;es," The Masco.: of the Su/ af:', is one:of the night rc t p e el e bl e „ 4 , 1 6,0 Oat pds. out (1 Ci3ristal, and -no douti whatever exists as to h+ . vertitfttY of his itatetne: Ho olnited f,n 1e4v111,2, , (lit: Douro, by it,o Gu tir Who corornkiiii(atel to bin') pe 1 f thal, bat! Jilt reulled-Opoftti Tlii4 ticdt.riitarxl,,wris oxpericd by ; i Lord WELLINIrov, whose obiervation; on the tnovetnents and intentions of the enemy, hay . e never yet cncei%;ed all tho private letters that accomratited the last tlispivbbes, both from bis Lordsivp, , and other Officers in his army, an at- to rare tte blockade of Almeida was eApea- cd to take plAct: hi this attempt MAssitirA, we doubt ntit, -three times advanced to the charge, and was three times repulsed, and this will ace , ,unt for the vast di,proportion between the number of killed, and the number of prisoners taken. Ull{. IVlaster, we understand, mentions the 7 st Regiment to have suffered severely. Since writing the ahvve, we learn that the follow ing additional particulars . . have been received at Lloyd's Extrad of a Letter from,Oporto; dated May it, att. " Between Almeida and the Agueda, battles have been longht on the 3d, .4th, and bth inst. hetwet-n Lord WELLINGTON'S Army and MUSENA, .who was. coming to reliete Almoida. On the fir it day the allied Army made from 800 to 1000 prisonet3, on the 4ith and sth there Ws severe fightn g, the result of which was, c hat Ih6 French. were cam- pefled to retreat towards Sill.iniatica,te:iving as ii it said more than, 4000 kiiled and Avoutidcd on the fide.. The official details of these glorious.successcs we suppose you will Ita“e learnt by the titne this gets to hand. Col. TR/CNT. is just arrived, having come down by water from Begua ; the \Ode of his division will be back to this place `by the i 6,11 nslAnt.• • • • t 'People hire; as you maiituagine,are naicli pleas- ed,znd we may now co“sider out elves as pontully reo tor son - le tinlo, it not for ever." „ . .The CHANCELLpic of the Excbir.aur,R yesterday upvted the Bud ; et with. a. *inch will he read wilt uttivei 'ssitigfaction. Not v, Alt the effort, ut 0111 rnyst itiveitirate enemy, Viand the looiny parti , at home, oar li;;l4ccii Ale in hiatU 01 proSperity, and our ICSOtocei' in the suwit tioutishin;,; , theLotrottieit t rook Qt winch IS, that 'the Ninnister. 114 ti• heeh.etldbied to prOirktu the whole plieiel the yeitr; and to afford a rriaitt impbrtatit aid to Ireland, without the InitUSITION OF A 6INGLE NEW TAX.- ~, The we d;C convinced, read with the fnust litely joy, the account,' which We are thisday enabled to L*s beGxe them, f!orn Windsor. His MA'JasTY, we are hapvy to say, is now , so cent pletC4 ro6l,o l dd neaitti, that he has'again appeared in public. •His MAJEgTY yesterday, for the first timerinnce his ind'Spusition; rode out on horseback ; he was j aCCoulLillied by the Princesses AUGuSTA and, and rode about an hour and a half. As soon as his M,sißsTY got on ; hurse-back, the bells of the town structt np, to announce the hiply news, and the Stafford Regiment firedaleu de juie. A vessel is arrived from New Yn;k, from whence she sailed on the 1 41h Al ril, Acciiding to the 'let ter/I .received by this opportnnity, it appears that the tate change in the Adminitration iheie 1).11 tided the minds of - the pee'ple with the strougegt hopes, that such change would 1 .CAC. to A happy Ur r initiation of differences between the United Stmes and the Britith Government. . • ' `.• By the.same conieyatice, we have heel) favoured with the folloWing communication rchuite to, the mode adopted in Anierica of fitting. out French privateers, on which,we are assured the fullest re- tutee may be placed :-- ",Blank Commissions 'from the French Govern ment are openly sold >in the United Snites, andftited up as occasion .requires; that . the vessels clear out fief baliaitt, first laying in sufficient - provision4, hind are hollowed by pilot-boat with guns and amino. whicli \ they take on - board, and proceed on their ci One. of these primeers, called the Revenge, WAS titled out at Baltimore by a Francti-• ~i- t r,h.rhet , e, for the express purpow of antioying,our trade in the Guilt of Mexico. Thair prizes-are taken, to the poiti of America, and their cargoes smumileu On abut e, and in 'ono instance to the very port Wwhicli Inc vessel was originally bound:" it was yesterday currently reported, on the an, .atmoriry of 6010 e letters . rece4o , l by the last Mail trom:Cadiz, that * Marshal Ban rSOORD had defeated ihe.French titn.her Nliactreu. bald, t h at t h e latter, iiirvilfg heti) joined by SeSAIIANI, with the troops from Grenada, had hiade succrssive at tantS•upon the peb . rtion of Morglnd BEsEsktian, in each of which cue enemy was repulsed with coast dorableloss. An account has been receive(' of the arrival in Macao Road,, kiti the 1 t and U.A.,,bo r Lit, of I hie Cuinpany' s ihips Mac ter,sca, Liphinsf9orilPAV filtd, Cu/Pleas, IPoi,i/faci, No account has ntfel) 4,:i ()i arriytit gi tb OCCO/1 il3 .1(11 it;LIS cLAI:e dowse to the 'Bth Novvalber. i~ .~~ SECO‘TD F,D " • '',(11\40F,,./c-g., Triune 'The followingis a dopy of the Letter tin Fig ATLY, a dd re ssed to his: OA re fi t Mr in London, vvinLsent his 'soil With it tot in the Treasury, this morning we' on final the transcribed it fro m, O PORT O, MAY 11, l3 I 1 .—Oue tiny mp "ilit'ilrom thence in the tvi4 Surd bad arrived from Lord VV'ito,rmoTo t 4 to t of Oporto, giving an, account of 3 ge having been fo u g ht between the Allied / li the French /under General MASSOIAp on and bth. '.-nem/eida ; that on O Alm 'French' wer e 'conipletely defeattd, wi of Font.: Thousand ,Men k:110 1 in Seven Hundred taken Priioners, besii drowned t heir retreat in crossing t which .he had to pass. Lo rd when' he , wrote hi s dispatches, said hP orsu F of the remains of the F rench Ar bide of Sainnuea. The lo ss on the Arrnios was 1,200 killed. Br' fell in t! iie;iioll, rartictifely those of w hen glintenl. Almeida had n et 111 C hu t wrote ilk di,p3tdietij b u t it i , , pected to Sqtrendat for Nh.lIlL of prumic vows The following is the article in the Br of leiteria.y, Miy :2.0; . • " 17(iiterday rven iog arrived thic Surd!, JOIN HBATLY., 1.114,51er0 in sevi o, Withthe foPowing. importag with which we are fayoured by NI Merchant, of City, in West oil- I( Capt. 1-18ATLY states, that an I (the day before he alibi) Expres 4 I'6 rd to the Govcrenl truth :- giving an nap& of ,a ge neral hao le It fought betvuten the Allied Ara'l,3lo the 3 d , 4111, and btil ioqt , near Altil th THE FRENCII WE lour '; F' C° DEFEATEI), With th e luss of l;nd, • and thul Seven il soners, besides nUrnberi drowned in . •, Lord Wkit:lisaToN gilt, that sit till across three :rivars. provisions. order from tim Gotroori ..d.,410---...r.....p.r.r......------- , , ._ ,_,—.. , ._ ~ .,.........................."" : ..,_ R 1 C LLA 141 i II Altli 1 S' of No. 4 7.‘larp-tt.court 1.0. I.=•:kvi4..pN; Yif,intql by. . , , . - • . - 0, - , trtc• , 4 ar_d Pcbtillied by ' ' f ' st, il.e Suii..Orglcy, No. 1 ie. Straod, wueto iiimertifvmew s , o r d,, rs for a y . pi, L • ,•' `' ''' ' • use 1):1 34414 " • _ .. . t+f a . . , • ~ cp.r, titers (or tau td&lGt ac. (post -f - JW, all ' • w -,4 4 1 a f sing his dispatches, h a %vas in Pors uit 4 kite French army; iowardi SAlornani nn sile side of the Allied Aur.y svfl3l' billed and wounded. Several IVO!' Particiiii.irly thaw ()( , tile- ist'lttigiCa4 ilsd no t fallen yhen 1.40 rd Wes-f•" 41 dal It was daily expeCted to surr" A clumbf.l of leiter; Avere sent Opo rto? Sctr"h after the neois reached a"isted over the Bat-ith 001 Pii°" s In the pre sait tb t ° v:11)(1: snite lll the great disis ince cf I,tbo ' ti r), of s t a tion film) tb a e sce) .010.., e s to Gover n Melt c 3l/11 "INIi-DiOpetch arrit a ver y spedify. tm'st itToetable descr iption, oo' cil (;attain IigATLEY, whose cbgfo' ve"01 'at 0i)orto, on the 1 Ith inst. 0 of (110 above i• 11' re fl'' i 541 ate 1.,,:;,:r, on ,shore,when he file Deyory the Dispatch from Lord heard`ict.t.rigl' cl`-nge• Ile sailed on ttic f°llQviillll 1 h't 8,-Ci.,lrcling II o ber r, fat' - tellialPll traq, in a gredt toes,or6, ; ber of Brili , h Generalship of ,rd 5V00•1146.r°r4t,',., noeuvre, i n ' docod NiAssas,‘ to Ws.. tillPt to relieve irneid3, is I. manded him -.-W* rg,ret to *citi' I vi'P'tickci•---For four drys the C3Pl').l wets fi4wourable, and two 0f the A0)11 d event WaS tTleo COW: 4041 Y bg:l4%ree c't e(/' !Fe received oith the 040- li, P( -ve ' ,It f il e frenc h Att.,,oeie pOt m . . near to tt.e .w0rd,...............„..........„,„,..- --- 081, eri killod 0 vre oi NAVAL *NEVVS. if AY 20 .--ArtlVed 111 S s Majesty's ship ;Oberon from a, cruize ; the Furious gun-brig an.l Speculator lugger hare been drove in , from their station, off the North Foreland. . PORTSMOUTII, MAY 20.--Arrived the Partridge (torn the Downs with a convoy, anti the Sophia from a cruize ;, the .al►ips that sailed yesterday for 11,e Bihie are returned ; the COmet takes couvoy for Newfoundland. FALMOUTH, MAN' the Princess Mary packet from Melta anti Gibraltar; iourtoin (la) s from the latter place. Sailtsol the Duke of'Kent packet for Lisbon. WINDSOR, MAY 20.—We are highly gratified in heing"able to, state to. the Public. thi,it his.. Majesty this morning took a ride in Windsor Great Park for two hours and a half, being the first tj r ate since the commencement of his .lilliaing indisposition that he had enjoyed that exercii.e.,land we scarcely ever saw the King appear in better spirits. 'We.doubt not his Majesty will continue his public rides regularly,' and that in a tew days the Terrace will be thrown open ,for the admission o f the . Public. The li.ng was mounted on ode spirted flanoveri hors-!‘, and conversed with atfablity to Lard St. Helen's, and was attended by the Princesses Augusta and Sophia,' Generals &Arnie and Garth, Colonel Taylor, Colonel D i.!sbrow, and a numerous troop of horsemen. As soon as the clrcumstance was an nouliced, the'jny was universally ditfuSed through out 'Windsor, and the Gentlemen of . Eton.Coitege e.'reeted his M...iji.sty With reiterated vitms. The bells of We Parish and Castle Church resounded with many merry peals' during ihe morning.' The re,2irrient of...Sieffrird Ililrtirt "soon after one, martli-; ed intO-the'Great Park; and fired afeu Vejoic oti this itippy occasion.' ~~~' ' :~! - '''AVOTHER 3CCOUNT.' tate on Sunday nigh!, it w3S - ,tnrnoored : about Windsor, that his Nl;ij'...ty was SO much reCOVeied i that his Doors would allow hint, atter that day, to 'appear 'in and tlrit hu a,. to ride un horseback yesterd,y. repot Ito:aught most p 4 the I.`sobilify, r.+ ,us of distim-tion, y,enfry, tind the . hill tbit,tits . in general 'tor sever:A miles round into WitAor, yestt , r,tay Mornitig, to ~view their yetter:.thle and niucti-b-, , oved Monarch. Lail) , yes..., terday morning tlw public exp eattflort was,c.altirat ed, by the King's 1.,q• urry ith Waiting giving orders, for his Majes , y's sat hurse:to be got toady. order socm spre.id.throngh the town ; and front ibis t'itne the visitors; as wall WS the MiLibitants of Won 1- r' and Eon; tioakcil 'to the Castle-yard and P.ltk in great ctowds, and some w..ited several In.uis, lest they shonld lose. the gratifying opportu-. .About aAttarter past twelve o'clock his. M ajesty's Groorns, on horseback, made their appear ! ance in the Cottle-yard, with. be Majes'y'alsyou rite white saddle hors, A.donis. All was anxiety then tor the appearance of the King. As lengitt the Royal pasi-word o.e " Sharp I" signifying the approach of, the King,, which ha..l not been Imam% for many ,montlis past,. was gtven, to the net' swan joy of" those WllO heard it.' His Majastylnincciiate. ly atter came out of the Casle, :accompanied by his beloved daughters, Cie Princeises Augpsta and So phia, with wh i ont he appeared in vet y ehteitul and pleasant conversation. They were Niterukti by, General Gwynne, Colonel Taylor, and l_„i,ly Cul lyer. His Majesty mounted his horse in a very easy' manner. His Al*jetity proCce:h.d through 14 Little Palk into the Great Park,, 'where the Roial-Parfy continued till ball past one o'clock, when they turned to the Castle, wilere 'there were crowds wa t ill- his retuf H. continued in ,conver ' cation •dutingthe wt.olst of 'hi's ride. His Majesty, On his rein! n, •was reeitiYfA by Dr. Willis, at Ilse Palace 'Gate, who corttlyal.N.l him - into the Castle. The following evref,t of a lettw . haibeen receiv ed front ah Officer serving in' the fleet under'Sir James Sautnarez, dated Gottenburgh, ,gay . 4.- 4 , The Consul at Gotienburgb is conic Off: he nye that the Russiani Wilfberrattay at Neer. with Frane:' the Empeioi means to 4glish‘coloaiar, produce 'be brotight into hie pOrts in e;iffr'shge for, Russian. 'Sweden w ishes 'to be neutral. Tile Danes, in that case, must come' to, alid'ilther be neutral, or at war with ,Fran Ce." . . _ Ttio four Companies of the Bittalion; First Chards, now, In Lgudon, rceive(l'or,lers to bald themselves hi reAliti,:a' to tbar'ch :It the shortest notice fOr Poi ittii)3Lit I), toembark . .fo; Cadiz, 'to join the six companies of the above Battalion no N • on that station'. The first Battalion eGth, first Battalion 3Qd, and the 77 , h Regiment, at present st4tio'ned at Jersey Und GUerligeY, 11Q (irdt.red to be in rodiness tor fOrelgn service, and to be itornediatkly conveyed to Ports mouth, where transports are read) , to convey them to rhea' destination. • Two hundred and filly fank and Me; With a pro portion of Officals mid' Non-Comi toi,toned Otficeri from the id lit-titmlioh at the 50th Foot to proceed to Portsmouth, where tiansivrts' are ready to convey hem to Lisbon. Accounts Irbil) Bengal state, that a dreadful fire broke out at Untnerapoors, kingdom' of Al , a, on the loth Ktrcb, lUJ 0, which eutirelyue royt< tht,l town anti' fort, including pekoe, Ic f t lO e ,oioaitatlt houses.o hab T I o ansst i e is Go t 7) nor,ln order to compel h p dered the gates to be shut; P a r t e l i d e t v l i tus reduced thect to 'the drtintdful alternative of leaping from 'be walls, or being burnt to &Mil in the streeti. About ,t coo preferredemoittg the tipelatter, titter. 1200 were :lashes to pieces in attempting 'The late Ms, BoscAviaN wss SO aMent in th eauke of benevolence, that.taitittn three.ot_ lour days of his death, ,tltpt,tgli,trunk his exhau,teld state he tri . ght lit thou in incapptge of all rip!ntal excrtion, PO'liCal address lot the Liter. 9. ,Ft4d; which was rt'cited at the last anniv4rAdly meeting,. Lord CointrittlAY wa,itt- New York on it)e*.(ith tilt. but ,b . i6 4;0(111.4'1y was thonned by all clasSes.. ~: k~.~ b'C