The Sun.
London, England, 1808-12-05 00:00:00

N AVA L. N EW S.

'NA" MOUTH, Dic. 3. A rri ttfl SIII3 Patriot
Schooner, Capt. Foal), from Lishon, in ten days,.
It is not understood,that she brings any intelligence
of importance.
Arrived the Elizateth, DEN SII A /it, from Malta,
last trom Falmout

Sailed the Revenge, of 74 pits, to join the
Channel Fleet; and Betsey hired Cutter, to the
Westward ; alio the Statira Frigate on a cruize ;
and .Redpole Sloop of War, to the Westward.

SHEERNESS, DEC. 3:L.:Arrived and sailed up•the
River Hi, Majesty's Ship Hawke, and Zebra Bomb;,
His Majesty's Ship Standard- from the Downs ;
and Veslal and Paz Schooner from the North Sea.

DEC. 4.—Arrived His Majesty's Gun-brigs Gal-
lant and Aggressor from the Baltic.
Sailed up the River His Majesty's Ship Vestal to
be paid otf.

Came into Harbour His Majesty's Ships Standard
and Minotaur.

DEAL, Dze. 4.—Arrived and saile4 for the River
the Melville, ROACH, from Rio Janeiro, in 54 days ;
and the Albi-n, RANDELL, from Mogadore, with
the loss of anchor's and cables.

Sailed his Majesty's Brigs Furious and Flamer,with
the outward-bound, &c. under convoy, for Ports-
mouth.

Arrived his Majesty's Ship Iphigenis from Quebec,
and remains with his Majesty's Ships as per last.

YA RMOUTH ROADS, DEC. 4.--His Majesty's Brig
Dexterous is appointed.convoy for Plymouth, Escort
for Guernsey and Jersey, and the ?elter for the
Downs.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 4. Sailed' His Majesty's
Ships Alfred to the westward ;
.Ringdove for the
West Indies ; and the Goshawk, with several Ves-
sels wider convoy, to join His Majesty's Ship Ca-
milla, and convoy for the Mediterranean.

GREENOCK, Dec. 11.—Arrived on Wednesday
the Assistithce, DONNELLY, from St. Andrew's, New
Brunswick, •in six weeks; spoke no -Ships. The
Auglitn, B.IOCHER, was arrived there from Clyde. ,
The Mary and Margaret, ----,- from Lisbon to
Ayr, wrecked near fenny, iii Sou'h \Vales ; crew
,iipp6sed to be lost. The cargo, co!!si,iing of _emolis
end oranges, is landing under the direaton of Lord
CA W DOR.

FALMOUTH, Dec. 2.—Arriv,..d the ilmcizon
Ki/ig CL-orge Cutter, .3;id Resolution,
"h aus-
port, atkP,Ell, from Lhc Coot lit Fra;,ce.

Pu ba..k the Ship Actv &.aiancl, ELDON, bOULN:I
CO NOW Soutil

GOTTL:A'BUI4GH MAIL.

SToCKIIOLM, NOV. 21 .—We have not received
anv intelLgence fruin our armies in' Finlan.l and
Norway. And must theretOre suppose, that since the
last bank of Liens3lcni, nu operations 4:1, au/Import-
ance have taken place.

A Gentleman lately from Switzerland, states, that
(he constitution of that country is to undergo a very
i!oportant change; the plan oithe new constitution
said to have been discussed and settled at the
meeting in Erfurtil. All the different Cantons are
to have the same form of Government, and a certain
celebrated General is to be at the head of their con-
federative sytem.

Leiters from Marseilles state, that King CHARLES
IV. of Spain has actually proceeded to Nice. He
was accompanied by the Queen, the young Infant,
and the Prince of Peace and his Lady, and escorted
by a numerous Guard of Honour, composed of (Dens
d'Arines. One of the largest Hotels in Aix was
hired for the reception of the illustrious travellers,.
who will pass the winter in Nice.

in consequence of leave lately having been given
by the atoinan Porte to Austrian ships to enter
the Black 'Sea. ships are expelled at Constanti-
nople, from Irieste, with rich cargws of manutlic-
tures and other goods.
•DoCtor GUSTAV us has been appointed by the Prince
Regent of Portugal, his Consul-General in Sweden,
RA acknowledged as such by our Government.—
(Stockholm Gazette, JVov. 2 1 .)

On Saturday morning La Loire, Capt, Scum*.
BERG, sailed froiit Portsmouth for Corunna, with
g,200,000 dollars on board, for the
.service of the
Patriots, and with merchants' money for Cadiz, and
Dispatches for Mr. DUFF, the Consul. M. Ai:ll.Bit-
B ERG, the Swedish Minister to the Supreme hinta,
and suite, went in her.

The iVioe, -Captain Loartic, havint taken on
board Lord JOHN FrrzttoY, and Mr. POLE, Secre-
tary to the Hon. W. VILLIERS, Ambassador to Por-
nigal, sailed on Saturday front PortStnouth for Fal-
mouth, where Mr. VILLIEUS embarks for Lisbon.
It is an undoubted fa&, that Lieutenant-colonel
PACK, of the 71st Regiment (Highland), has, since
he entered the army, been engaged in 126 actions.
Sir E. PELLEW had, at the date of the late ac-
counts from Bengal, dispatched from the' ce•three
Frigates on a secret expedition to. the Eastw: rd.

The new Farce announced. at the Hayo,arket
Theatre, under the title of A School for Authors,
is the.p.roduaion of the late Mr. TOBIN, Author of
The Honey Noon. It was said that this Farce was
wholly lost in :the fire at Covent-Garden, but fortu-
nately another copy had been kept.
• A person being htely engaged in digging near the.
entrenchments which surround the Castle at
,Botcrn,
Lincolnshire,.discovered a ginall urn, containing up-
wards of Go.ll,,man coins. One of them is an aureuc
of Nero, the others are deoarii, and sestertii of COll,
tan I ine, Augustus, And

BIRTH.—Ciu Sunday evening, in Bedford-square,
the Lady of WILLIAm Colima .Esq. of a Daughter.

ANV IIISTORWAL RECITA4

OF T
CAMPAIGN OF:BUONAPARTE IN ITALY,'•

IN THE YEARS 176 AND 1797.

PASSAGE OF THE MINCY.O, AND COMBAT OF THE

BOROHETTO.

We mentioned, in the foregoing Chapter, that
the army of. BUONAPARTE arrived at Brescia, and,
its environs, on the 4th of June, about three in the
afternoon ; but we did not speak of two circum-
stances which well 'deserve to be noticed, because
-they serve to display the petulant and presumptuous
character of this man, who then' commanded an
army for the first time, and who, at this period, was
far more fit to obey than to command.
First anecdote...--BUONAPARTE arrived at Brescia,
a neutral-141d friendly city. , The Governor ordered'
the draw-bridges to be raised, as he had done-when
-BEAULIEU'S army arrived there : this -is a fad, of
which I speak from my own knowledge, as I was
then with the General. BeAut.rEu took no offence
at it, and satisfied himself with procuring admis-
sion for some of his officers (of whom I was-one),
and a small number of soldiers, commissioned
make a few purchases for the army. 131:ONAPARTE
aded in a different manner. Finding the gates
shut, he demanded an entrance into the eity. The
Governor replied, that he had received orders from
Venice to iceeitheth shut, that he might be enabled
to maintain a perfed.neurralitY. This reply offend-
ed the young. General, who declared that he Would'
soon find means to elude the order. The Governor,
whose post was not in a state of:defenpe, appre-
hended that his resistance might ComproMise the
I Senate of .Venice, and therefore let down the draw-
bridges. The,army entered, and, according to cus-
tom, was instantly guilty of the-greatest outrages.
I had, witnessed the passage of. BE /11.7LIEWS army,
which had conducted itelf with moderation : was,
also a winless of the entrance OLECONAPAIITE, who
behaved with the most offensive arroganCe. The
occasion of my stay 4.1 this city was a severe illness,
which prevented me from rejoining the army of
BIAULIEW, to whose staff I was attached.

I thought it right to give this anecdote, not only
to prove the habitual violence of,BVoNArABTE, but
also to shew the injustice of the reproaches which he
duetted against the Senate of Venice, for favour-
hi; BEAULIEU in his retreat. The truth is, that
littAtmtzu-had always--respetted the- Venetian-terri-
tory; and he would have continued to respect it, if
Isl.l(iNAPAicrg had pot viulated it as °len as lie found
it convenient. It was not just that all the gates
should be shut against the Austrian General, and all--
be open to the French General, in- a neutral State,
equally the fitend ot Austria ,1:; France. At length,
ligAuLazt) sized on Peschiera, but this was-. not
done till the French had given him the example, by
seizing on the citadels of Brescia, Cream, and Ber-
gorna. The Commandant of Peschiera protested in
vain against this evident violation, of a pepiral terri-
tory. 13Ea,m4Eu, for this once, paid no attention to.
it, and taught the Venetians that the laws of neu-
trality were not, wade fur him alone.

The second anecdote took place at the moment
that Boots4PAIITE .was quitting Brescia. The Bene-
dictines, wherehe resided, had-provided a superb
aficl magiiificLiii breakfast, to which almostalT the. no-
bility of Brescia was invited. It was on the morn-
ing of Sunday the. 9th of June. BootstarAnTE, be-
fore he mounted his horse, took leave of fhe com-
pany, and addressed this gracious invitation to them :
" Citizens, I invite you all to Mantua next Sunday ;
I shall have the pleasure of treating you there with
a good dish" of ,coffee."

One Of the guests, more intrepid than the rest, re,
plied :—" We would wait on you, General, . with
pleasure ; but I fear that this project,w ill not be in the:
power of either of us.. We have seen your army
defile ; but we have not observed any battering
train. Without this, Citizen General, I doubt whe-
ther you will enter Mantua in so short a time."
This observation -did not appear to please Buo-
NAPARTE however, he immediately rejkiin,:d :
" What do you mean by a battering train ? - All the
artillery necessary is the sabre and the courage of
republicans; yOu 'will find it by this trial. Re-
member your promise; I will be sure to keep
mine." He then rode off, and the Nobles of Bres-
cia diverted themselves with- this rodomontade, of
which they made no secret.

BLIONAPARTE was most cruelly deceived•: he was
six months before this place, which he expetied to
carry in ,as, many days ! He discovered, at length,
that courage• and the sabre were not sufficient, to
• a town well fortified and well defended i
.and
• he sent for the heavy artillery in the fortresses of
Piedmont and of the Ripe.. If he imagined that he
should find a Commandant there as base and cow-
ardly as the wretch of Cherasco, he was compelled
to change hie opinion in meeting with a man as
firm and as •intrepid as the HerO of Ceva. This
Offi,cer continued to make the most vigorous de,
fence ; and BYQ.NAPARTE never' dared to publish an.
gccount 9f the numbers, which 'he last eilhei by the

terrible 'fire of il.e place, or Ly his assaults, nitv3,l
repulsed ; or by the frequent and destruCtive sorWi
of the Garrison ; or by the maladies which Pre"
vailed in that part of Italy. I can affirm, from t 1
first authority, that after I left Brescia, the hosPll3l
of that city and most of the churches, were croirj(;4l
with Founded Frenchmen, brought from the- vial!'

of Mantua.
For the rest, BUONAPARTE must have been firmly
persuaded of the speedy fall of that fortress, since,
before the mouth ot'Aiigust, that is, four months prt"
vions to its capitulation, he had twice announced iti;
surrender to the Directory of Paris ; and twice the
Diredory had ordained' public feasts ,and rejoicings
on the subjed ! This condutit appears like absolut'
madness, both in the General and the Diredory;
but if the Reader has any doubt Of it, he has 914
to consult the Monitcur of that day.
.It is no less certain, that this amazicg resistanca
must be attributed to BUONAPARTE it was be
by quartering his, troops in
.'Lombardy, after thc
battle of Lodi, "gave time to BEAULISu to tbr°ll
succour's into :Mantua,, to repair the fortifications'
and to send i 9, dayand:qigtit, ammunition ander
vision, without 'which this 'el t y never 6514
stood a siege which consumed 'more than half °(
the Frenchbrmy ! It was this repose, which was 66
f•atal tOIitiONAPARTE, and so useful to BEAuLl5°'
whether to revietual Mantua; or to raise strong bat-
teries on the banks of the Mincio; and render its
passagelruly difficult. This was a military error
the face of the world, and those Officers whd
derstand their business" will never aciiatßljo°'
PARTS.

-Let- us now briefly turn to the passage of the
Mincio, and the„potobat of,the Borghetto.
I shall not dwell on these two events, 'at which
was not present, being them on my march to tit.:
Tyrol, where I found Mar Shit WURMSER,, NVIIO 1/04
been appointed to succeed BEAULIEU. If We 1113/
judge of the passage of the Mincio, and its circuir
stances, by the 'official report, we shall have 3 gre°
idea of it; since BuozsArAaTE compares' it to thee
affair of Lodi. lam not far from believing it, afifti
what I colleded from the Officers who:joined°
theTyrol; and yet the army of BLTONAPARTE 1131:1°11;
to contend there with the remains of BEAut-I°/'
army ; but these remains were sufficient to WO
and fatigue the French, who had nom been consl9
derably strengthened' by the recent junction of 0113'
army of Savoy.
Another reseMblance between the !little of Li--
and the passage of the Mincio is, tt at litioNArAlt7s
makesno mention of his loss,:attboug4,he•raisesol.•
- r
of the enemy to tifteal hundred infantry, and #srli-
hurdrecl cavalry:--t" General Kti.m.s,tNc," says be P.
" had his horse wounded on,ter hiin."
appear as if this was the o,lly loss on the part olt°
French. This very silence is a strong proOf tigains..
BUONAPARTE. No one can beiieve that tiles() 53113
soldiers of BEAuLtsu, who made so brilliant a de,
fence at the bridge of Lodi, and so terrible $ car'
nage'of their enemies, had:de2(,noratec.l on the
of the .Mincio. • --

One circumstance-noticed by BtiONAPARTE 11/ tP
report, is sufficient to discredit toe whole of
" The enemy," says he, " hasten, d to pass th,!
bridge, and to break down aleh of it, It 17.''
repairing, with great difficulty, under the fire of
enemy's batteries ; when fifty grenadiers, fa °
impatience, threw themselves into the river, hl2'
tA.
ing their muskets above their heads, and having
.Water up to their chins. General GARDANNS
them on ! The enemy's soldiers believed that tbeoff
saw once more the terrible column of the bridge
Lodi, the front ranks took to flight ! The bridge
then easily repaired, and. our grenadiers, im an
of in-
start passed the Miucio, and took ppises)i°ll
Valeggio, the 'head-quarters of BLAULinu, ,4,136 bad
just left it."
Fifty grenadiers, who wade through the Minci(Y
tip to their cliins, terrify the whole Austrian airnYl,.
and put the van to flight! Flow is it
possible tti
make dupes with .such despicable stories' 111,6
simple truth is, that 13EntalLo disputed_the pass3g
of the Minclo for two days, after which, he coo"
tinned his retreat, without any molestation, to the,
Tyrol.
To hecongnr.

Marshal BRUNE, we understand, died in prisl
at Paris on the fifth day of his confinement. tV'_,
supposed be was poisoned; BEION AP,I ETR Was .S°:
much dissatisfied with him tbr travink'pllowed tl
Swedes to escape, from Stralsund-,- that he slid 11°,,
would have 'll4ll shot if be were
France.

ROYAL ACADEMY.—A ballot took place, On 511:
turday evening, for the Professorship of Anatorn)i
when ,Mr. CARLISLE Was chosen hy a majority o
twenty-five to tOur against Mr. BELL,
A 4
SPANISH ARMIES.--Some of the chief Re
OO
of the City mean to hold. a .illveting for the'purP.d'e
of entering,into a subscriptithi in Order to pruv,,loig
Clothing, &-e. for the gallant armies of Spain.
lIS
suhscription will douotless be aided hv coup ibou°
fiom the affluent all over titlgAbi); as the' c`itiso
of Spain is the cause of the civilized woad. ‘;
BRITISH INSI.ITOTIO.W.—The Sludetili Of
cellent Asylum for the Fine arts held ib"..lock
niversary 'Dinner. on Ti4irstlay at the 11131c,-,0
House. The Presi,aent of the 'RoYa I Acaden3Y. •
-atv
preient, and a coligitielahle nuinber,6f,y644
whose abilities,. tic, hosiourto