The Sun. — London, England, 1811-12-05 00:00:00

; k 't. '1 NAVAL NtWS. PLYttc4l TH, Dec. 3.—\Ve yesterday slated the I °4 (l.f . the ship Brilliant Star, belonging to this . 7 Port, ..I`T, Master : she sSiled from hrn ecu Sunda 24t'h ult. .t l ' 111 11 9 t., wit io,ut convoyiwi ~?,, eopsistittgof '695 hhgs. of British - pilchards ! ititit4 Ibu r) and - 'other articles, hoUnd to Cadiz, Gibraltar , 204 . --AN, and 'on the following meriting, - 'about t hree o'clock, during a very thick fog,' she struck on a Ceck, near Ushant„ when the utmosr and mast vigorous exertions were made. by the crew' to re move her ; bur 'unfortunately all attempts proved fruitless, and- in. a short time she , became a com plete wreck. . Captain KRAFT then took to t 7 e lau nch, there being . no alternative, having viously been :enabled to save .tram the wr.:*c a small quantity of provisions and water ; : of , the latter ankle the quantity being so. small ,tlint it ‘ll3i entirely consumed on the .9.5 th, the boat then about at the mercy of the waves, and on an e nemy's coast. On the following day a French k hover in, sight, when,it was almost' immediately tack her, but a breeze sprung up, which she tozli aa~ani„ and escaped,• leaving the unfortunate crew in a state of despair, being in rflomett , tg rexpectation of a winter's gale, which would I:6 decided. their fare; but providentially the-wen er continued fine, which was the only cireun. Pa nee that gave them the least, hope of a deliver :ace fro n t' their awful situation, being desti utu of that indispensable article water. On the t °ll "wit,g day, to their great joy, : a British frlytte wd s discovered cruizing, which turned out to be 16 148 .iesty's ship Rhin, of 36 guns, Capt. MA . O C°l4l , • by which they were picked up, and straitly after wards sent on board a Dutch schooner, bound !ngand,.then in company, which had beenpre , 'l / 4 /%I Y detained by the IVintrod hired armed cutter, and IS called the Belisarius,. bound from Nantz, !kb a cargo, which vessel is arrived here, as stated 14 Our last, Several French pinnaces were dis ',red about, the wreck a few hours after she was .4baitdoned. The Brilliant Stitt . was , a beaiktilbl Ve „, t of 365 tons burt hen, captured and biought tlto this port about two years s ince, on her voyage f r°i n nourdeaux to the Isle of France. .7, BY a vessel arrived here this day from,lMorlail, ' 4 O Dave received the following information, that a r Q ngtetlr DUTACHE. '.who was carried over in ,the git 'Os George cartel , frotio Portsmouth, was almost ir n l ihtuiately after landing at .Morlaix, taken up and" 0 1 , 1 v. (kir some alleged act committed against the overnment, He had been for some time p r . l'"Me in this country. The French schoo ner :" te er Le F are t ai lying at Mort:Aix, principally .qatine,l with Americans, Irish, or English. lh e Unicorn f r igate has detained and sent in here this d ' I Y the Americ.in schooner industry, DItNNIS master if „ ln Newloqndland, with a cargo of nsh, I N to Bourdeaux. Put • b to here thi s day, by contrary winds , Or d brig Frende Brodres, BERG master, from o cr ` 11 " 111 , vii.th a cargo'ot herringi, boOnd to Na. - F t '; a" the:Portuguese ship Pensamento LaGqera, 'IRA master, from London, in ballast, bound ct p eulawbuco. Attired the ,Swift, WEST, from, Sunderland' ; 1 1 11 aovea, and Union, STAIN, froni Wales. 4114 11 e licasta frigate takes convoy to I'ortsinuu,tlt, w ill sail to-morrow. • • 1 ) 0 -l 'AtouTtr, Dec. 4.—The Cherburg h st i es. hon , at St. Helen's. Some few days ago /' Were teased by tWn.Freneb line of batile'ships, witigatt, and two brigs,who taking ac vantage of the ding well in's hore; put out and maticeuvred 1 4 . -a " ) tew miles6ll he shore, but. on two - OP our they ( at that tim e the only part of the squadron tr t e) m aking up to them, they made a_ litisty for re ellerbUfgh,.which they reached in soretY• hea'd el ?" 4 -Tie,ipt.FLNLAY, has brought into Spit toe, fine prize: she is from Baiaia, laden with t e and cochineal, and Mounts 1 4 gulls , ile. 'hisPer has likewise sent in a. good p rize, a r e ; al)iu te. laden with cotton and Spanish wool . Sailed his Majesty's ship Dapper ,on a cruise. Dec.- 4.—The' outward board and 115 410 aJ r 3 1 ships a s p er l a ,t, all remain ; also a i'vtr, e 4e "Cia that have come down from •the P A , ''t4(TUTH Dac. 2 —Sailed . the :Darlington 114:liet with a mail for Lisbon and Ca diz ; and the for Malta. r t , Nvith 6, the IVa!Hingham' packet frotn Libor? B pe . : mail, , sailed - the 25th November; and the e ' .9 Packet from Cadiz with email, Laded tha 4tll ttle rr °4I P o * Y 30.—Yesterday afternopn sa iled hit, tb rli,s4t3‘B . l b l l) Sytille, Capt. U PTO N, on a cruize to B Qualatardi fltr rrlmlthe ~.:~ . ~, StYN .oFtleE, Tli 63 O'CLOCK. We stop the press to state, that'Dispatches were ibis tnco'ning received from Lord WRCLINGTots, dated th ?orb ult. but theydo not, we understand, cont.tin a:;y intelligence of importance. Accounts have been received from Cadiz, dated the 22d ult. which state, that the French General had found it necessary to' send a large body of troops against BALLESTgROS, who had, in conse luence, retreated in good older, and without loss. We have' received some more American Pipers, floto which we have made the following Ex traas NiAik-Yoax, Nov. - 8.--"Extraa of a Letter from Washington, dated on Morday last have/ conversed _with many Members of Congress, who have just dome in from various , parts of the . United States; but they all seem at a loss to pre.. di& what .vlll . be done during the Session., Several of them .ba've expressed an opinion, that it would be wise to abandon the Merchants altogether, and let them legislate for themselves. They say that the varinu # ft attempts to protea commerce have, and always will, prove useless, and worse than useless,' far it has prevented the usual revenue, and left our Treasury pennyless. For my part. lam of opinion; that something . w ill be done to enable the Mer chants to manage their own affairs in their own way. There will be an exhibition of more inde pendence in the indhidull Moll; .rs, than 'at any former period since the JeGesonian reign." A.Letter from Washington, to the Editor of the lineman's Journal, observes, " Mr. CLAY, who is appointed Speaker of the House of Representatives, considered the most able man in the horse, extept RANDOLIII, His election Was agreed on in caucus last evening, pro bably to prevent the election of Mr..MAcoN, who, is undotibteclly the most tit for that• office of any one 'on the democratic side of Abe House ; but kis independence was an insuperable objection to 11 1 ,. 'They feared be would not plaCe on the standing committees the suitable thorough-going tools of Ad ministration. They !cued Mr. RANDOLPH would be at the bead. of the Committee of Ways and Mang, or Foreign Relations. CLAY'S election was most unexpected." TRENCH PAPERS. (RECEIVED LATE LAST NIGHT.) [FROM THE moNrximt.] Retards on the a,pcounts from Sicily, given in lie English jOutnals What passes between Eti i :,land and the, Govey ment or SA:Ay. it. the table ot the Wolf and, tint, Laird). All discit.;sion'on this subject would their. ,tore be puerile. France neser had greater enemies "I the 'Court of King, Ferdinand, and t het e never was any Morc.tioscly and 'blindly attached to• En gland. The Prince who reigned in Sicily•lias lost a 11 ,. .ingilom tor having been faithful to his alliance .with EnglAnd. The English a're , detested in Sicily.. The English I tlpracter dues , »oi sy'lipathise ci ith that ; ( 4 4; any oltier people. It the English drive King Ferdinand from Sa.ily, _they will do what will be very ,agree allo, to Fiance, .brit cottiraty to their,true 17(),96:cupysnutii pashii ~Lut never large:cow - at ies, • is what Lidr, i n terest, well. understood. impotion , lY demands. To forget that plincrple is to •e. ideal the gulph alre , nly open under the Ilritish: Isles.. Fifteen thousand men . whiOt En4iiiiid now re l.ains in .Sjcily, joined to 20.000 Sicilians, form a ' force of 35,000 'men. When England shall he mis froi of Sicily, .her 15,000 men will he insufficient for ,the , polite .of the country, • She can .derive no adv : at,i4tge from them—Sicily will , cost her much. The English Adminisrration is.tne most expensive, and the worst ot all Administrations. The climate, the assassinations, and-A he daily deaths, will dlniiiiiSh the,.population . of. England, arid the expences to which the English will;beirtft., in S oily, will be a new source of depreciation io their exchange. The following six Mit'XilllB, extracted from the English, Otficiat Papers, °tight to: be read, .reiread, and meditated upon by all Kings :—. • ' I. Our Treaty of Defence with the . .King of Si cily is -trot a conttict with artindividual, but with a public I . onqth;rfart, invested with the royal .chniac - ter--with she first Magistrate of Stagy. The King of Sicily levying taxes, and sus pending the laws at his will, iv not the sante King 'with whim we contracted. HI. We are bound in nothing towards this thurper. IV. The -Antisocial Usurper of the Government of Sicily is . hostile ; he must be conidered,as a Ja cabin in nature. V. Does nut the justice of the British Nation -reciiiire that the Government which publicly pro ' fess - c 3 Jacobinisin should be deprived of the power of doing hartn.l • ; VI. The Nation- which provides the means of • d e fence "fpr a country, is .the. political proprietor of this chtuntry. We are proprietors of Jamaica, ba cause we defended .- it. ii.ve--wU• nut convequently,. the right to, consider ourselves the proprietors of Sicily It would in diverting to make a collei.lion of maxims of s English. politics. To the six which we ..sia have given, should be added a dozen which were given respeCting the atrocious atfair of Co. ,penhageo, two at the waylaying of the tour Spanish frigates; in short, twenty upon the systom of laws pnoiked with nentrabi; nund witti America. Thus might be united, six score state maxims, which would serve as a . monument ot the s pirit o f justice, the ,equity and Morality of the English Govern ment. • - . • 'itSiiON AND CADIZ MAILS: Ltsum, Nov. 0.--Accordiog to letteri from the li!emtejo, received by the cOilrier of ye,terd3y, the Guerillas have taken a convoy of cattle, coin pu;ed of 100 cows and 390 sheep, which were con du&ing to. Badaj6z, and made the said capture very near the walls' of the fortress'. NO v. news from the army. No doubt the account of BA LLESTlinOeg second ‘icEtory is by this time known in'Ettgland. It is said it was on the, sth instant : : he had Quot) Own; the erwmy 2600, nad were a part of..the force of 1 •:14.,:0rps which had so unecetatintably fitht St. R orie , and where the rear had ben cut t by BALLEs- TEROS about the He has now Inktql all linir pin - 7 stores, mulei, and tog4lgt. 4 , amd quite di9percd thc The Fcerch Cornin:inder arrived at Sr,ville, wllttre SouLT•put him in nri:sr, and ho kill6l bitusdf. DAJAESTIMOS .arrive man. VAI-.IINCIA D'ALCANTARA, Nay, 12.---The French have occupied Merkla, where there is a garrison of 1000 infantryand . 2oo itorse. it is to be hoped that with the aid °flour allieq, we will, again renew the scene of I::lrarda The .tear of the French iy so great that they bate byrieadoed the streets, of that city, in7which they have placed eight pieces of artillery• Throughout all the country at littigns, an extraor dinary agitation is 'observed. , • VALENCIA,. 4.—The enemy have pt last presented themselves before this cq. • . - On the Lid they appeared with about 3000 men upon the heights of Patern3, is front of Quatro and Maines, which points the General in Chief of the 3d Army, D. N. MAHI, with'his tioups,, and some belonging to the 2d army, covers, . They did not approach nearer•the banks of the river, .and at night retired towards Liria, from vt hence they came. Y'esleclarthey were seen i along all the front from Gr4os•to the heights of Paterna....At this last point ti!ey presented them Selves itr force, 300 infAntry gild 5 . 00 cavalry, with eight pieces of at In the afternoon they puehed forward strong par ties upon i the banks,of the river, and opened a very briik 'fire 111)0a OtlC'troops'. '" • In the neighbourhood of goo, they suffered a tire from the cannon of our 'flying squadron and some musketry,ltept up by the 'country people, supported by pat ties of horse.. In trout arSan46,epli'4 bridge, and St. Vicente's battery, it was observed that the enemy were wolk ing:ittlivine mir. 1 . and honks. The fire of our ar tillqy obliged them to abandon them, and the same happetied'.this inorning. The' ie,r . atcst order and tranquility reigns bele.— It is impossible to form a ceirrs4 opinion of it wit out.witueSsing it. - VALENCIA, OCT. '29.-4:::1h the 25th in the morn ing, we attacked' the, enemy; the fate ut arms de cided in theik favuuk. On the night of the st.ne (Jur troops again oeoppied their positiow; upon the right of: the'Turi, and 'on the 26th, in the after noon, Mitivi . e . diu eaOittdate4, I,vhi'.:ll at bro;d: of day . the'f - Pat‘u;ing morning had the tri-coinnie) fin fly ing .itip.itt h.—We will eiityr a little into pnti:- culars 1:11e. Castle of .14Invietlio, placed :it the i kitiOnn of the two avenues, by'Which the e;teni) pre.ein directed their in'i'asion, Was the bastion oi this kity,d6m. Esety endeavour was therefUre recltti.ite to prevent them obtaining possersiuti of it, 'since, ‘ kilh,nl it, tily could not carry their projens exccution. : . Onr #niv, in C , a6eq'ietlCe of tl.o avoided fi battle, ,the stte‘ccFh of .which tippeated du bious, hod retired to this position, to better its dis position, wait tointot cements, .and remain till the enemy had weakened themselves in the to.bge of the castle. Thelirench . coinmenceltites'iege witfi that impetuasity %%Heti marks their char,i6er, and .ihe lot evvi gloriens rvsistartee of the tortress wits equally deterinined, as weil as the measures adopt. ed by their Goverim; The artily was organised with aa iv ity, forced by the.latse ex pedit ioftary ciivii!ons Of , NIA or. Ist the wine time, the diviions of -the ENIPVCI NA. no, DURAN, and MINA, attactid, the garrisons of Arragott, distracted . 1 enerny'Sforces in that king.: don't, retarded' the • .artival of the reintofeementS Kltieh came and threatened ibecapital, andinquieted above int:ilium Sucnaft.. The people of the Serrania and Onda, lkketvi N, intei rupted greatly his communication with Tortosa. Scarcity hegan to be felt in the enettry't; ramp, klud, uth,ugh necessity, they were obliged to be delachni tb protect a convoy` coating from Saragossa. In this butd were thing 4 on the tad inst. An alarming fire broke out on Soriday night in the coacti.hotsse of Mr. Varrel, at Stretton, near Marlow, which wa, oecastonrd by a candle b e ing tbrowu clown -amongst some stral.v. The out. lignses were all destroyed, and the dwelling•house sustained ennsiderable dairagl. Several heads of live stock weal destroyed, . and the loss is estimated at soool. POLICE, BOW-STREET.—On Saturday evening, between five anti six 0'604, a fire was di , covervd in the bed 109m of Mrs. etederita. Hath, a Spanish lady, who It s .i.s:litititry about two years, in Lower Brook-street Alra..H. was sitting in '„ er drawing-worn• :at the tirne when was given t she ran out in the greatf!;t donSternation and aiiiiin;there being a !odd k:,rock at th e d oor ; hauc e.vi by the kind a!,ention of some respectable • composed, and by their exer tionsthe tir o *Vas, eiinguished, after burning the bed:3 o d sz.ol of the room, ,tic, . the time the property in the lower part of rite house wai,bcing rtNnovei for security, Mr. 1-I's two children ts vie taken care of by Pedro Caster, a youth aboui eighteen years of age, Mrs. El's con yin, who re,uh:J with her since she has been in this country. Juit the fire: gas, got under, Mrs. H. inquired for the ~afety of a large tin box, which was in her bilj-rooin, corli4inia , 114 ih•llars; 44 rir.- dollars, and 70 pieces of valuable silver plate. Et cry pet ion ,Wini• 1111 assisted in getinT4 the tire: trust b e i ng all of the highest respeoability, declared that they had seen Hoch thing in the room, nor had it s been • bra:ight dawn stalls. . . Every peiAtde inquiry watt made respecting the box, but no trace of it could be found, - rind the con it4nts being of considerable value, to formatimi 11 sent 6tl with all speed to, the Pat)tic Office, Bow ,ii et, when Mr. ItitAD dispatched Taunton to (Mike ;11qUiriCS,,aUdiu exert hinnitd I fur the recoytry he property ; which the officer accei'dingly During that night and on Sunday, he searched the servants, their boxe.,&c. but Could nut find any thing of a su9picioas tlature, _ at Sunday evening, after Taunton was gone, it Was , discovered that another writing-desk, very lunch resembling her's had been trolosiiuted in it 4 pl,u.se,' Which contained Spanish, Eogfish, and other ertins,lu a consir:erable amount. Mts. Fl, had sonic conversation w4th tier cou*n, Pedro Cartier, and from his, langu:Ne. and'tnanneli.., she susi l eoed ha 'Anew sometinnita conveying the property away; she in 'consequent* went in consult a gentleman w ho fesi,!es a shor,;4l4iance front her. During 14'7 lib• sence from , liouter,Pedr.6 Casner got out of 'a W (.I.a . tv, anti made his escape nom the hoh•e. Toon ton Was seta •tor again in conSequeoce, aria lie went to Mts. H's house, early on NiondrY mot nthg. Nu . person there could give him the least io formation or even suspicion of what had b. .come of hint ; ho'w. ei,er; in conversation, he learned that ho had b w m, at a school since he had been in Eng,land ; Tonnton ! „ in consequence, Wen: allsOtqf the Sellulars,nnti tounCi one who 1 / 4 va4 stid intimate w i s h R.d ro Who told lihn ll,' knew tha't Cosner 'vi'sited a female in the neighboorhoitd, Of the, City florid,. but neither % knew the nu , / e of the street, the hoo.e, or the name of .the letniCe : however, he accothp:mied the Uth . cer, and pinte{l'out. Tratalgas.striici r m i d T i i nntoui by perseverance and inquire, learnt •that there Were two (Inuits in the “Feet, where leniales reside,•who saw compimy, lo r d at the first house he called :it Was se fortunate as to .meet the young gentleman in company some girls. 'On seeing: 'L union ter: Ihe room, knowing his person, he instansiy took a small peillca , :, and slabbed himself in th throat. The utt r seized his hand to wrest the .knife Calm 1)1.1., but he so Violently resisted, that both their hands-sere severely cut, before the kn•fe Could bre got.. from Casso . . Taunton' found anther knife. upon hint, which he'had doubt, hail he used, it in , stabbing hit»self,' would have proved. fat d. A surgeon was called in, and there is erery reason to believe that then wound which Castler infitiled on hiniself wIII s'i . ron be cured. After Critter prp perly 'secniod,' 'rollmop searched the 'house, and totind the, box ;Ind,desk, contaiiilog the whole of she valuabl . , , ptiiperty, except a trifle he li. ad expend ed upon th•.! . giYis. He also found a watch*, a purse, v c ) .Rtaining three gnineas, twelve hall-guineas, t Welve sete s stilling pieces, :cct., in the desk were oven• teca dollars, three halt dollars, eighteenhall-guineas,' Anuety-four seen shiliung pieces, .nrid a number of otln:r . e9ins. Ue hari told the girls he was going to return to Spain, and, would lodge with them fur, a few ddys previous to hi's sailing. oo.4'vlonday evening he noderwent an exam;na4 ion before , n, when the above circurnstances were prokrl.ogl , ( nAhint; and it iy strongly sniped. !,!, that althotQll ire was cherished 'and supportA Iheoii,onof relations,. and lei to their I.Wle, he ,v,is hase.enoogh to set fire to the pre. havitig„previoudy conteyed away the pro. petty. , Tt , e examination ;acted upwards of two bouts, alley ~ yqucil he W 3,5 committed ler a .Iv.ating. IT N tON HALL.—Joseph BuQ Jones, Jornes fig)bert 1d cst, and :Min( yrsierOay op. f.re4t-ndett Collingtrooin, ittg K , .m.:,tret.t., VD suspicion Of I);ivin,, ,, been concerned nolmiLtmg, htlvrgl fyolvad robti,eri',.i and bur ;• Lir , OtArgts ;1(t!. , (.1y against,t hem ; bat , on occuant Pt tne iil)it-nee .1 a witn ess , they were courrnitte,l for ro.c xamin a ti on ; • Tuesday the Lord Mlyor and Sheriffs went in stite to Guildhall, to hold thv first Oomt of Alder. men in his Mayoralty ; after w bleb, his Lordship gave en elegant dinner io such Aldermen es attend. cad the Couri, and a select p:irty of plivitte friends. The Band of the London of which the Lord Mayor is Colonel, ent.,rtained thein with music ditfltig he'Vre 3 her. • The sevetll performers who belonged 'to the Winter TFfteititri.is;Aind air now ditienwiged have,' it is said, beenli'llviie.d' te join - hn-ir intrreots with the otheraOlialinrs lot a third,Thvatie in the.metro. It is very probable if the applieJtion. should h. ~ oeoeSsivd, many othet.p , rinrinets wt. tla be ti.tripti-d rhertrilelve3 jil IPALISO. The in.hgoitudt: of the metropolis, wit di is every thy g, and its vast increase of 110;,0im, 0 ,,, dovd to fender a third Theatre riveci, this dramatic age, and would put .414 end u$ thuge itiferii;r amusements of Ci .4iinibtrmititre, hut whirl& seem only to iniSWA tendency to ttthr ehildren - tO habits of dissiciatir4, Who might be broJglit up to - useful euiploynii.iii 'fliesday right Ntlit yesterday mornieg, in con , e. ( pence of high wind, t number c . 113fte 1 / 4 1 irom their cables, below Bridge,<iy which they sustained a good deal of injury. -- Severdi cr.itt unit wherries drove from their wigging.. some of which 'were stove and sunk.