The Sun.
London, England, 1801-10-01 00:00:00

LONDON, OCTOBER r, 1801.

WE yesterday received Paris Papers to, the
29th ult. ; and we stopped the Press to notice, their
arrival, and the most important part of their con-
tent's. They are more interesting than most of
those which we have lately received, as they bring
us General BELLI RD's account Of the CapitUlatiOn
Of Cain', and of the motives and events whiCh led
to it. This, however, after the publication of our
own accolnt, will be read rather as a mater of

curiosity than of interest:.
The .efforts of the brave Defenders of Pgrio Fer-
rate have, if we may give any credit 'to the French
accounts, been produaive of events of more impoft-
' ance than could have been expeaed; A letter from •
the French General, WATtiN, dated from Head-
Quarters at Lonkano,- gives an account of a landing
'having been,effetaecl'onthatParrof the ISle of Elba,,
by 3000 men from Admiral WARREN'S Squadron.
These Troops,' the-Trench, he says, compelled to
re-imbark;, after an obstinate engagement of six
hours, with a loss of itoo killed, drowned, and
wounded, and zoo PrisOners„ This event took
place= the ta.th. On the preceding slay 'General
;MURAT states 'thlit Zia.yence, on the same Island,,
was attacked by zsoo of the Regiment of WADE-
VILLE, together with numerous detachments of
Sailors and some Foreign Troops ;' -and that, at the
same moment, the. besieged made a sally, and got
possession of a battery belonging to the besiegers.
The result of this, attempt was not more fa;'ourtble
than that of the former : 209 Englishmen are stated
to have been taker, Prisoners, and rood killed.
However sceptical we are disposed to feel .our-
.selves as to all -Statements made by the French, and
thougii perfeCtly justified in with:-helding r,ur belief
4roat them in most cases, we think 'it very possible
that an attack may have been mac e on the French
Forcs in the Isle of E:ba, in which the immediate
advantage may not have been on the side of the as-
,ailants. We say immediate, because as neither
General \VATRIt -nor General I\ll4Ar'say ariy
thing of their own loss, it is not possible- to esti-
pate how fay they may have been weakened, even
by their success. But having admitted the possi-
:of an expedition against the Republicans not
,having been eginpletely successful, we leave it te..
Alur Readers to judge what degree_ of credit-is to be
attached to their statement of killed-and-wounded,
a point in which they have always been guilty of
exaggeration, and in--which the Shame of- frequent
dete.ffion does not appear to have produced any amend-
Inent. The CorpS employed on this'service must,
,use conceive, be that of Cotin E and theSwis's Troops ;
and it is obvious, from the mention of the Regiment
of WADEVILLE, consisting of z, Soo men, -that a
large proportion of them were foreigners. It is
,therefore probable- that in _the loss which has been
sustained, exaggerated as, it is in these letters, we
have to regret but v4:ry. few of our own country-
men. We await however with some anxiety the
details, sati.sfied that they will present us with a
very different view of the affair front shut Vzhich
the Republican Generals -have thought fir ro corn-
municate.

The recognition of the KING of ETRURIA, has
riot been confined to the EIvIPEROIt Of
,GERMANY:
We find the KING of PittissiA acknowledging the
title, and the Port has of course not dared to resist

,such, examples.
The Revolution in Hollanti occupies a tirge por_
tion of one of the MG:rite:as: as our Readers are
alre,dy in, possession of the main fuels of the late
Revolution at the Hague, and a's our Extrafts from
the Paris Papers occupy so large a portion of our
preceding; Columns, we are under the necessity of
postponing both' further
,Details, and the obsevva-
tions to which they give rise, 14;161 to-tnor;ow.

The Hamburg Mai, due yesterday arrived last
night. It 1123 brought 1.1 scarcely any intelfkgence
of which we were not before in possession. The
resolution of Mcwou,' ;o hold out in the Ciarrjkon
of Al9-andria, is
,repeateti-.in a Coustautiaajile ar.
tide Of the zsth of Augut, and probably will be
so until the fall of that place.
Mr. PAGET had arrived at and was pre.
seated to It4PEttiIt.JVIA3EsTr on the'.l6th
Wt, by Lord iVliwro, who was to leave Vienna in
a feW days, on I;is return to London.

This }Warning arrived a tail: from

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