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

ARM? OF OBStItVATION IN Til,E SOVTI4.

COPY OF A LETTER FROM WATRIN, GENERAL OF
DIVISION, TO CITIZEN BELLEVILLE, COMMIS-
SARY GENERAL OF THE COMMERCIAL RSLA,
'PIONS OF THE. FRENCH REPUBLIC IN ETRURIA.
" Hiad-quartenr at Longoria, Sept. is.

" ,The Squadron of Admiral WARREN, consist-
ing. of Seven Line of baffle Ships; Three .Frigates,
and Two., Brigs, disembarked yesterday, my dear
Commissary, about three thousand men, on the right
'of our camp. After an obstinate combat of six
hours, we, have forced them, to- re.embark, with the
loss of tWilve hundred men, either killed, drowned,
or wounded. We have zoo English prisoners, and
several Officers, whom I will shortly send to Leg-
horn. Our batteries have dis Masted a. Frigate,
which only escaped by being towed by twenty men.
Seven gun-boats have been sunk, and three_ have
been taken by the soldiers. _
" This battle covers the Troops of the Republic
with glory, who, sick and in want of every thing,
were in need of all their courage_ to fight men, .;at
least double in ,number, and proteCted by fi terrible
fire from their •batteries. The English had disem-
barked their. Troops in several places. A thousand
men, proteeted by three Ships, also attacked Mar-
ciana, but the brave inhabitants with some French
and some Polanders, have forced them to retire with
loss. -

" Rely on my sincere friendship.
(Signed) " WATR IN."

THE GENERAL IN CHIEF, MURAT, TO THE MINIS-

TER AT. WAR..

"September 19.

• " Porto Ferrajoi, -Citizen Ministet, has been,
bombarded several days. The flatteries prevented
Admiral WARREN, who is cruizing off that place,
with seven Sail of the Line and three Frigates, from
entering the Harbour.
" On the i 3th inst. .apart of the English Squa-
dron stood in towards Marciana. At four in the
morning of the 14th, a great number of Gun-boats
and Transports, approached Bayence, and disem-
barked 2500 men of the Regiment of Wadeville,
some nnmerous detachments of sailors, and a small
party of Foreign Troops. At the same instant, the
besieged made a sally, and got possession of our
Battery on the right, which had prevented the
Enemy's ships from entering the Harbour.
" General MARTIN permitted the Enemy to ad-
vance about half a league from the beach, when,
perceiving a favourable opportunity, he, in his
.turn, attacked them with the bayonet. The Ad-
jutant Commandant SACK ELM attacked at the same
time on be side of the I City-. in an instant the
Enemy were completely youted. Our . Troops in,
tercepted them in their retreat, And .all who were
not taken prisoners threw themselves among ..the
rocks in order to gain. their boats.
" The Frigates (which tool* advantage of.;the
moment that the Enemy became masters of one of
our Batteries to enter the Port), could not get out
in time. Onenf the Frigates was dismasted, and
it is even asserted that she sunk. The consequence
of this afFair.is, ten Gun-boats captured, zoo Eng-
lishmen prisoners, and more than tOoo killed."

Coavu, AUG. B.—lnstead of a well-regulated
Republic, we have the most complete Anarchy.--
The inhabitants of the Country have revolted
against those of the City ; and both the one and
the other are upon their guard against the ven-
geance of the Turks,. since the sanguinary quarrel
of the 27th of May.
As to the other Isles, the following is the intel-
ligence we receive from them :—Cerigo has de-
clared itself independens—Zante has hoisted the
English Colours—Sante Maria is threatened With
an invasion by ALY PACHA of Janina--Cephalie
is at the 'mercy "of the two Factions, who destroy
it : massacre, theft, burnings, and pillage, occur
daily. Many ~of the inhabitants, hoping to fly
from such scenes, have come to seek an asylum
within our. walls. But our Senate, reduced to in,
anion, without means, without
.public confidence,
can'they avert the evils rThich surround them ? In
vain they have proposed, in order to create them-
selves friends, to Idtnit seventy families among the
Nobles : thirty-one have refused this honour.—
Trieste and Venice are :he chief places of refuge for
our Merchants. 'We are without Commerce, anti all
intercourse is cut off with Zante and Cerigo.

VIENNA, SEPT. 10.—According to letters from
Semlin of the 31st August, cited by the Gazette of
Presbourg of the Bth, every thing-is quiet at Bel-
grade; and the Janissaries, informed'of the march
of a consideiable body of Troops from Reit-7164;a to
release the Pacha ; and, uneasy lest the assistarce
from PAsvrAN Octiou should not arrive, appeared
disposed to settle natters amicably_with the Paella.
Several Merchants of Belgrade, who,' during the
disturbances, had retired to Semlin, are returning ;
and on the 31st, mcrehandize has been sent from
Semlin for Belgrade.