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

for Spain. Not less than 50,000 pieces of nankeen
have been put in requisition by the French Com-
mandant of Harnburgh, to cover the walls of the
Government House, where a new temporary build-
ing has,heen erected for the French Officers:and
their favourite Ladies to dance in on this fesqAte oc-
casion.

The Lord Keith Cutter, wrecked in a ifOr'rn', in
the hegintiiiig.of the year, lies now readr.to:sail to
the Elbe, off Altona. The Danes are likewise fitting
out a number of Privateers to crUiie in the Elbe
and.Weser, to prevent alt communication with tnk-.
land by way of Heligoland: These vessels•are most-
ly Blankanese fishing' smacks.'

Since yesterday all the French and Dutch troops
haire'also broken up from Holstein with the utmost
haste to go to Rendsburgh, and with the report of
a defedion. on the part of the Spanish army in that
country, and of the landing of 18,090 British trOoliti
in Funen, gains more credit every hour. .
It is repoi:ted, that the British Fleet as,defeated
that of Cronsi'Adt, and that tile Russians have dis-
cuntinued all further operations in Finland.7l:-

• Advices from Franckfort state, that Letterslc have
been received from Trieste with intelligence 'that
an.oiher English Flag of Truce had arrived there,
with the news that the insurreaion•in Spain was
almost general, .and that the British regular troops
bad joined the insurgents, and were :engaged. in a
great battle with the French when the accounts:
came away. The number of insurgents is rated at
upwards bt. 309,000, who have been joined by the
iernainder of the troops of the line.
..,• The French Military Authorities at Hamburgh,
and in the North of Germany, exercise the 'utmost
severity. Executions are daily to be seen at Ham-.
burgh. Two Hanoveriansand a Citizen of Altona
have been shot in the Heiligengeist field, near Ham-
burgh, bye sentence of the Military Cornmittee, for
having, it was pretended, enlisted men for the Bri-
ti,,h service. The gens darmes continually arrest
the citizens of Hamburgh, Altona, and Lubeck,
and under some specious pretext or other to deliver
them up to those tribunals of blood which rffsniind
people of the reign of ROBESPIERAE. Thcaubhc
misery daily increases every where in the • Nort4, of
Germany. The populous and ruined city 6r Hain-
burgh is entirely deprived of that great resthli',:& of
the poor at this season- of the •var--fish.
the Drench. nor the Danes %kill' allow a fishing-1 oat
to go out, and the Blankanes.e fishermen, who lately
presented‘a Petition to the Prince of PorrriConvo,
vn the subject, were refused permission, to fish, so,
that all the fishermen in Holstein are nearly reduced
to beggary.
•
The Frenct Commandant de Place in Hatnburtll
j
bas just set oat tor Spain. lo
The reports that Austria is .about to deciAli*ar
against France, still continues;:and -are beOlotecll by:
12P !
A great number of sailors daily arrive froM'Aleck-
ienburgh, Pomerania, and several parts of Prjussi-a,
evtn Dantzic included, who are driven by larnine
and distress to enter into the French services. •

ThefollOwing articles are exeraeled from a Swe-.
dish and a Spanish Paper. .
GoTTENBUttGH, AUG. 16,—An Aid-de-Camp of
MarEhai DA.VOLIS.'"" hacbtveu at Kianittsburtth, and has,
asserted that the Fretiailad been long under appre- •
hensioLs of an attack from the Ausirians,:rwhich' •
might have been attended. with. dangerous conse-'.
quences, as they had no magazines, nor the means
of subsisting an army, while the Austrians were pro-
vided with every thing. - But now, he added, that
they have waited for the harvest, they hadhetter take
care of themselves.
ANDuJAR, JULY 25.—0 n the 23d, the pat - • ris
Army formed in two lines fronting eachothei; when
the diviSion of DUPoNT, consisting of 5100 #lcll, of
which 1200 were cavalry, and followed by 20 pieces
.
of cannon, marched through and laid dowh their'
• aims at the distance of, 800 toises. The infantry"
were as fine troops as ever left France. On the
24th, the division of Gen.WED EL, consisting of nine
thousand men, of which one thousand two hundred
"wroere cavalry, did the same. The division of Do-
-127'0 On
0 ;
its first arrival in Andalusia, consisted of
men
in Andalusia thus the French have sustained a loss,
se.v,en partial .and
alone, of 21,000 men. DUPONT Made _
four general attacks upon the 5pa-
..,11,1,511 army, and was repulsed with loss each time.—
tie Spanish artillery did wonders, and in less than
two hours dismounted 14 pieces of the eOemy's
cannon. Forty days preceding this a&ion, CAsTA-
Nos had only an army, of 3000 troops at Carniona,
and 15,000 peasants, who had run away from
olcolea and such has been the skill and enterprise
the General, that in the time above-mentioned,
be organized and dire6ted a torcr, which had-de
tented, and dispersed a fine French ariny of 21,000
men, commanded by an able and distinguished Of-
Leer.

“AblltyaGil. AUG. 1 o.—The late Ble6lor of Hesse
alas gone ink') it z hoe to Dobberan.

According to advices-frorit-Sweden, the King has
sent the greater part of his puny -to' Finland. The
troops already there or on their march are estimated
at 36,000: . •

A battalion of Dutch troops -has marched from
Altona into Holstein. Their quarters At Akona will
be occupied by Yrenchiroops.

On Thursday last his Royal Highness the PRiNCE
of WALLS, accompanied by the Duke ofCLAltz.Nrcz,
the Hogs. GEOVIL.LIBki, Colonels FREZMANTLE, •
BLUOMFIZLD, and .several Officers of -rank, visited
the Royal Military College at Great Marlow, wheiq
the two brandlies of The Institution were previously.
a3setnbled. The Gentlemen Cadets, amounting:to
300, appeared under arms, and went through' several'
tvolutioni with great 'promptitude and precision ;-
tileY were afterwards seen at their studies and at
dinner. His Royal Highness was pleased to express
Ins entire ap' probation of their military, appearance,.
am-1 the good order that prevailed throughout.
MilitarY plans and drawings .executed by the Ofßcdct§-,
POW gilalif:y.thg themselves fui the service :01110
General Staff, were also inspected, and Ms' IIoYA
iirgliness entered fully into the course-of
pursued by this branch of the Institutibp; with
which- he appeared equally satisfied, 'and'. left the
establishment honoured with every mark of hi§-311,:
Probation.