The Sun.
London, England, 1808-12-28 00:00:00

AMERICA,

NEw-YORK, Nov. 16.7,The following is an ex-.
traa of a letter, dated Point Petre", Guadaloupe, to a
Gentleman of Savannah :
" Yesterday all the town was in an. uproar, in
consequence of our descryin twenty-Qoe.sailof ves-
sels standing in for this port, which were supposed
to be enelities. Alarm guns were fired, and every
one turned out', eager to meet the enemy; but they
proved to be 16 sail of transports, full of provisions,
from. B.onrdeaux, under convoy of l'Atalande and
ilicilienne of 44 guns each, with three English
prizes, carrying 36, 24, and 20 guns, richly laden."
The following is an extract of a letter, dated Nat-
chitoches, Aug.

You heard, no doubt, of the French General
D'ALVIVAR, who passed some two or three weeks
ago, through Opelousas, on his -way to Mexico.—
He has been stopped at Nacogdoches; to consequence
of orders received by the Commandant of that place
(twenty days . before his arrival there) from the
Commandant-General SALCiDO, and will be obliged
to remain there until further orders.—The French
General took it in high dudgeon, and wrote to Gen.
SALCEDO, in these terms :---,-" Sir, you may. for a
moment impede my- progress in the country, but
you will not be able w prevent my going to Mexico."
D'ALmivAR told a friend in Nacogdoches, that he
was going to take the command of 12,000 -troops,
at Camp Jalapa, near Vera Cruz. Thereare seven
or eight French Generals on their way to that coun-
try. All the offices of Government are now filled
by- Frenchmen, to,counteraet (as it is said) the plans'
heretofore formed by the late Prince of Peace."—
(Orleans Gazette.)
SAVANNAH, OCT. 6.—Accounts from St. Mary's,
by the last mails, represent that place as very un-
healthy. Letters from thence state the prevalence
of a disease, attended with every symptom of yellow
fever. Though the Faculty did ❑ot consider it con-
tagious, most of the inhabitants, we understand,
had deserted the town Find fled into the country.—
The following is extras ed from a letter received by
last mail, dated on Friday ,
" The fever has raged here more violently than I
ever knew it in Georgia. Although it was at first
conceived to be very panial, it has extended to at
least one-third of the inhabitants. There are now
said to be forty-eight cases, of which nineteen---are
black 5 and fourteen, exclusive of this number, have
been interred. The town is nearly deserted."

MAILS.
GOttCllbUrg:l. DUK-..f Gottenbburgh,
Dubtio, z Waterford.

THE SU N.

SOLILLI QUICDVCIIRI /AL3UZ.I AI;DILAT

L 0 N D 0 N,

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1808.

lit is with extreme regret that we announce the
loss of His Majesty's-Ship the Jupiter, of 50 guns.
She was, we understand, wrecked going in►o Vigo;
but we are not in possession of the details.

There is no part of the conductof the Opposition
Writers which is more illiberal than the attempt to
excite invidious rivalry, and sow divisions among
our Officers. We have noticed several by these at-
tempts, wi.h respect to Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY
and Sir JOHN MO ORE. The friends of the former
arc too liberal to indulge in any such mischievous
comparisons, and we wish we could say the same of
those who pretend to be friends of the latter. As to
the gallant Officers: themselves, we are perinaded
that they must lodk with c ontcmpt on such despica-
ble attempts to set them in opposition to each
other, and that they can be actuated only by a noble
emulation to distinguish theMselves in supporting
the honour and interest of their country..

An Opposition Paper amuses itself in imagining a
conversation between Lord CASTLEREAGH and Sir
ARTHUR WELLESLEY, and favours the public with
a speech ot 'the former. In a day or two, perhaps,
we shall , find the Paper allUded to, reasoning, we
beg pardon, animadverting, upon this invented con-
versation, as an aEtual occurrence which it ,had
faitlffully reported, and drawing the most alarming
inferences from its imaginary premises.
But another organ of party, which is obviously as
hostile to Sjsr ARTHUR WELLESLEY as the other is
favotirable to Sir JOHN -MoonE,. adverting; to the
condua of the former in Portugal, says, that he was
" precipitate." It is strange to apply this epithet
to an Officer who so fully carried his plan into exe-
tution7-3 plan that has been approved by the best
authorities, and which, if properly followed up, in
the opinion of the same authorities, would have ac-
complished the complete overthrow of the enemy !
Not precipitatiou then, but prompitade, coolness,
spirit, sagacity, and• decision, are the genuine fea-
tures of Sir Aturnoß'S military charaaer.

The Duke of CUMBERLAND arrived at Windsor,.
on Monday evening, to join the Dukes of KENT and
CAMBRIDGE, in spending the Christmas holidays
with their MAJESTIES and the PRINCESSES.
YesNrday afternoon, at fOur o'clock, his Royal
Highness the Prince of WAI,ES arrived at .Carleton,
House in his travelling chaise and four, from a Christ-
mas visit to their MAJESTIES and the PRINCESSES at
Windsor.
; Letters from the coast of France state, that Bonn:
deaux and the neighbourl jood ekhibit the appearance
of being the theatre of afloat war, from the number
of troops con tinuilly pa:iiing that way .into Spain.
'The farmers have no to fiver than 15 men billeted
upon. each of them ; ana the roads are completely
j (.?!-9 up by the trawort artiNry,
r

SECOND EDITION♦

MPORTANT INTELLIGENCE ',Rog SPAIN.

"Vrg arc at length enabled to communicate to our

Readers some inielligence from Spain, and we are

happy to say that, as far as it goes, it is of a satisfac-
tory nature.
The Orestes Sloop of War has arrived from Co-
runna, which pine she left on the 14th inst. At

.hat time it was known that the French had advanced
:owards Madrid, and that they were in possession of

the Escurial ; but it was reported, and generally be-
lieved in Gallicia, that the French had been repulsed
with great slaughter in an attack upon Madrid.
Government have received Dispatches from Sir
Jonx MooRE, dated the Bth inst. Sir JOHN, we
understand, states, that he had not received any
positive intelligence of the progress of the French,
but he had received accounts that Madrid still held

out. Sir Join also adds, that he was taking [llea*
sues to &feel a junEtion between his own Army And

hat of Sir DAVID

This is, we have reason to believe, the substance
of the Dispatches from Sir ,Tontt MOORE ; and the
accounts from Corunna state, that be had- pushed on
a corps to Zamora, for the purpose of facilitating his
iunEtion with Sir DAVID BAIRD. When this.}unc-

ion shall have taken place, there will be in Spain an

united British Army of 40,000 men.
The Army of the Marquis De Rom...NA, which

s at Leon, a►uounts to 00,000 men, and is daily in-

creasing.

It gives us great pleasure to find that the reverses
which the Spaniards have sustained have not creased

any feelings of dispundency ; on the contrary it has

roused them to greater exertions.
From the whole of this intelligence, we are
strongly inclined to believe that the accounts in the
French Papers, of Madrid having capitulated on the

4th inst. is unfounded, because we can hardly suppose

that if that event had taken place on that day, it would
not have been known to Sir J. Mooch, at Salamanca,
on the 811.1, or that some account of it would not
have reached Corunna by the 14th, and our opinion
upon this subject is strengthened by the circumstance
of our nothaving received lately any accounts from
France, containing • the details of the surrender of
Madrid, for we know very well that when BUONA-

PARTE obtains any great success, lie always contrives
to give us very early information upon the subjea.
Upon the whole, we consider the intelligence
from Spain as extremely gratifying. 'There is, we
have no doubt, before this time, in the North

and in the North-west of Spain, an united British-
Army of 40,000 men, a Spanish Army of above
20,000 men, and, daily increasing. In the South
(even supposing the French to be in possession of
Madrid) there is the Army of General CASTANOS,
which by the confession of the French Bulletins,
amounted, after the battle of Tudela to 31,000 men,

principally troops of the line, a force which must be

continually receiving reinforcements from Andalu-

sia, Valencia; Murcia, Catalonia,. and Arragon, in a

word, from the whole South of Spain.

CSpt. THOMAS FORREST, of his Majesty's Ship
Prometheus, tell in on Nov. 29, with 34 vessels,
part of a dispersed c ,nvoy from StockhOlm, under
protetion of the Alert Brio. -of War, which he
brought t►+rough the Belt, ai7d -saw them 20 leagues':
to the westward•of the Scaw, when he left then-Lail
well on the 3d inst. under protection of the Snipe
and Acute Gun-brigs, and returned to the Baltic.—
The Prometheus was the first British Ship of War in
the Belt this season, and Capt. FORREST immediately
destroyed the telegraph on Sproe Island, which in-
terrupted the communication. between Funen' and
Zealand. This was of very essential ,service, and
his appearance in the Belt at that time prevented the
embarkation of the enemy's troops to Zealand.
A considerable embarkation of troops is, about to
take place at Ramsgate. Ten thousand additional'
stand of arms are also immediately to be shipped at
Woolwich.
Lieutenant DAwsoN has been promoted to the
rank of Commander, from the date of the cap-
ture of La Piedniontaise, and was appointed by Sir
EDWARD PELLEW to a Post-ship, La Dedaignuese,
of 36 guns, in which he sailed in May last, in
charge of the China Convoy,
CORN EXCHANGE, DEC. 28.—There are to-day
tolerable supplies of grain in general, but owing to
the_Thatues navigation not being quite clear, very few
buyers attended; the Wheat and Oats that were sold
rather gave way in price, Out in other articles there
is little variation, and the prices are again considered
almost nominal.
On Saturday next, pecember 31, Three Prizes
of Twenty Thousand Pounds must be drawn, being
the Last Day of Drawing.

THIRD EDITION.

SUA-OFFICE,

THREE O'CLOCK., P. X.

We stop the Press to state that French Pape(

have been sent to Dover in an empty boat, con!aln-

ing the Bulletins from. Madrid. to the 7th instant-

These state, that One of the Suburbs and thelidtito

being stormed, Gen. M0nt....0,11e forward to propose

terms;. BuoNAPAaTE was ,extrethely insolent in ,hi;

language to him, upon which call the• Spanish ArrlV
left Madrid for the Sierra, and the'inbabitnnts were

allowed to surrender. ,

it seems by the Jimiletios. that the ,Spaniar4'

I.ad made a bold resistance.

iltiotiArAnTa had detaeltedlarge patties of cl4`

valry towards Portugal.

NAVAL NEWS.

PLYMOUTH': Dcc. 24.—Sailed" the
Frigate on a cruize, to the Westwefd,
Arrived the Mona, of London, J. Trompsos'
Masters from, Jamaica, laden with coffee, cottcP'
&c. for London ; the Brig Charlton, of Poole, I'
BRADDY. Master, from Newfoundland, laden Willi
fish, bound to Poole; and the Brig Mary
Capt. HARE, from Gibraltar, laden with raisins,
&c..bound to London.
This morning at eight o'clock, the signal for
punishment was hoisted on board the Port Admirarg
Ship the Salvador del Mundo, and also on board the
Parthian, of 16 guns, laying in_liammaze, for th*
execution of James Smith, late Master's Mate o£
the latter, for the murder of Capt. BALnEgsr°l4'
her ComMander, and at twenty minutes past 111/16:
o'clock he was executed' at the fore-yard arm of th°
7.
Parthian. •

SHEERNESS, Dec. 27.—Sailed up the ItiverTbarliel'
the
his Majesty's Ship St. Fioren::.o, to be paid 00-;
Chaile4ger, Capt. RYDEA, for the Downs. It
tO
supposeJ some material damage has been dose I
•
the shipping. down . the Severn, as great quallt ilB
,
of wreck, &c.. has, floated past the Nore with. t'o
flood tide.

MS...MEMO
of
FALMOUTH,: DEC. 25.—The Orestes Sloop
War h arrived frocn• Corunna is eight days ,
brings an account of the British army, having jolt) 11 ;
and that Madrid was not possession of the Free
on the 4th.

The Jupiter Man of War, and a TransVr, t a
b a
lost in Vigo Bay.
The Lady Pellew Packet has been dispatched fr°°
Corunna for Lisbon.