The Sun.
London, England, 1808-08-25 00:00:00

BOIGLARY AIID ROBBERY r!!'

Whereasion.the -night of the 20th of July last,
a numerous gang:of French and Banditti bur-
glariously broke, into.the Royal Palace of the city of
Madrid, where they concealed themselves until the
2701 of the said mouth, and:then secretly departed,
laden with immense booty, having stolen from
thence all the plate, and every portable. article of
value, taking the road to France ; all patriotic Spa-
niards are hereby requested to be aiding and assisting
in the apprehension 9f all or-any of the said Robbers;
and whoever apprehends all or. any of them, shall
receive the thank.s and blessings 'of every person in
• Europe. Said, banditti were headed by a feroCious
rutfiau of the following description He is about
5 feet-7- inches high, of a meagre, -squalid aspet,
saffron. coloured complexion. He was, when he
escaped,
,habited in a royal robe, which he is known
to have
,stolen from .the King's wardrobe at Naples.
He is .4, broi her of the noted thief who has committed'
numberless robberies all over Europe, murdered
Millions of the human race, and IN ho was lately at
Bayonne, where, it is supposed, he tarried ‘for the
purpose, of receiving the stolen goods which his bro•
ther was-!o bring from Spain. •

r. - FOR 711 E SUN.

THE DUKE OF Yoßk.
Spithead, Aug. 10, aoB.

EDITORi

At a time when so much appears in the Daily
and other Papers,: about cur illustrious Comthander
in Chief, evidently written by those who possesi
neither knowledge:-Of the subjea,or fads they write
'Abut, it may 'not be deemed intrusive in a British
Officer to-ofl-1,,f a 'few observations, for the consider,-
mint) of the public.
It has been stated that the Duke of York has al-
most invariably been beaten in the different ,actions
he haS fought. This, I most positively deny, and
call on'his bitreresten:-.:thy to point out on what day
a British Army, under ' his command lost near a
thousand men in priSahers, and I believe every °lli.;
cer will that no serious defeat could have been
sustained wilhout„ sustaining that loss; or it it.
could; the General who retired with 60 ilije loss,
deserved more credit -than the victor. J. will, how-
ever, adinit, that :the • vi;..tories and 'hard-contested
battles which he has,gained, have hitherto produced
no great national 'a,ivantage ; but for this neither ha
nor his armies can be blamed, as it arose from the
failure of the Allies, on other parts of their tQC/
great line•of :operations, extending from the North
Sea to the Mediterranean.

His Royal Highness the DAe of York seems to
have been Most blamed Where he deserved the
greatest credit, viz. at the Fielder, in the year
It is 'true that the British Arspy (at that time vic.,
torious) might have continued a few months longer
in Holland than it did, but the only possible C0115C4
quence that could have arisen from its continuance
there, or advancing to Amsterdam, would have been
its intire loss to this country, as the French bad at
that time above 300;000 men in the field, and the
Allies about 250,000,-extending, as I have before•
mentioned, with s few intervals, from the Helder
to the Mediterranean. Soon after the arrival of ins
Royal Highness in Holland, the Russians were su
verely handled in Italy and the Tyrol, the Austrians
and them both beaten on the Upper Rhine, and the
Archduke. who had made a movement in
order, to co-operate with the, British, obliged, in
consequence, to -retire;. thus situated, almost the
while of the French Force could-in a very short time
have beerrAimight;36l bear against the British Army,:
only anionatpg, to, about •!.>s,ooo men, including
auxiliataf The 'French Commander in Chief in
that eountri saw .so well the critical 'situation of this
small- army, that be at firsCbtfered a suspension of
hostilities• fora few Weeks, if the Dutch tz;vy. a;4stores in the arsenal were riot taken away from the
Helder=tOrms disdainfully rejected by his Atuyal„
Highness,,:w)hQ,preferred running every risii,-suoner.-;
than a(Yree'-ib terms so disltdvant eons to bi-
try';--rat th6::*-tine time `be-cOi4cl not but be
aware of the advantage,if.not the necessity,
pension -of tiostilitie's until Ms_ artLY re,earbarkerd
(a 'measure W;hlChliad requr:iite from the
circumstances whiCh had' taken "place ju Germany) a
lie, -therefore; 'at cast, agreed Li.) give up
_a, ;corr.,
Dutch and French Prisoners,
,provided hostilities
did not re-coinmetice until every British soldier bad
re;einbarked—terms so very disadvantageous to tire
French,• that' they never Would have agreed to,
had they not suffered yery•severe 'losses in North
Holland ; and what censure would not a Britis.b.
tierali have deserved; WO„ for the Hltry ct.eosidera-.
-tion of a few prisoners, refused to agree-so terms,
under the existing circumstances, so favourable, al'
lowing his enemy to have been ever so
and of this fad every professional soldier must bo
aware.

- The success of the French armies may almost ex-
cluiliely be attriLuted to their having, by an incon-
ceivable celerity of movement, colle&ed, on some
partioular point, such avast force as to bear down
every thing that- the Allies could bring against theta
ai the place they,,4o.tnded to attack. Such is the
principle they
_hav”cfed upon, and the same that
they willif9fl6\ti in`Spain,, for although Buonaparto
seems at triTi irn9ment only employed in strewing
himself like a puppet to the French Nation, yet. his
mind is otherwise occupied, and he has issued or-
ders for the collecting of such:a powerful army, as' .
he hopes will be able to crush the Spaniards, and ,
our Forces In their Country. Would to God he may
be decejsEchion,Lthat very large •British army may
be sent'toW tires rave men, fighting for every tiling
dear td tlfeuielves and us. This powerful army
of his once beateit-lid every thing is over With him
—but 19 etied every possible exer-
tion, and, like.htiA, leave not a man, behind that can
be bieful there, trusting the defence of the Country,
in the interirn i 6 the Voltinteers. It may be relied
on,' that, at this moment, he Will go even so far as to
say-to every culprit ip France, go and be victorious
in Spain', and your crimes will be forgiven, and you
shall return 'again to the bosom
,of your Country,
with gloiv) or become proprietors of the country
you congder,- SUcfh is the latighage he will hold out,
and it cannot fail.tb have its eilea.

AN OFFICER.

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Saturday morning Lieutenant DALTON, of the 4th
Dragoons,' undertook, fora considerable wager, to
walk 15 miles within the space of three hours. The
ground was measured at' Up-street, *on the Margate
Road, and he accomplished his undertaking in two'
hours and three quarters. The- -odds at t►'e Loin-
mencement were three to one against

. The pitiful party- writers who have disgusted theit
readers by theierepetition satnent?tes, like the
Starling, .respecting the delays attending the depar-
ture of Sir AK,THyIi WELLESI_EY, '-were venting
their splenetic tears that IVlinisters-ivtibld -be equally
negligent in atternpfing to liberate the Spanish troOps
in Holstein,l;at vine; moment when' the joyful news
of that event
.arrived in town ! • ,
Juractai. PUN.--A cause was recently tried at.. the
Cornwall Assizes, respeoing, some
_leather small
cloaths, whin "induced, One of the Judges to say
that it was the first time he had heard of cutting a
sitit from a pair of breccheS.
Ceitti-EXCHANGE, AUG. 9.s.—The supplies of
Wheat Mils thiyiklre short, and the general sales are
nearly,*(4lrtittat4tVrices quoted; new llye tor seed
about 5 ;per quarter ; Barley and Malt rather
lower; White Pease- likewise; Beans of the two
• kinds vary but there are !alp supplies of
i-Oats, -in : parkr,foreidn,- and, 'excepting pi tine Sam-
. pies, this. trade 4,,,q,Wtcd cheaper; Flout is a Itte
dearer.

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