The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-05 00:00:00

NAVAL NEW

PORTSMOUTH, SErr. 4.—Arrived his Majes y'‘
brig Defender, with a French galliot pr.ze, from the
Westward ; the Edgar, BROWN (transport), from
the Downs for Gibraltar ; and the ,Elizabeth,
SHr►~.-
TON, from Quebec.

FALMOUTH, SEPT. *.--Arrived the Hendfa,
ROCKING, and liatella, HENDRA, from London for
Gibraltar; his Majesty's schooner Phipps from Ports-
mouth ; GOODFELLOW, from London for
Rio Janeiro; and Tortoise Store-ship from Gibraltar.
The schooner General Heslop, Timrcualt, from
Jamaica, is arrived with a cargo of cotfee, after a
passage of 44' days : an officer landed with dis.
patches.

DEAL, SEPT. 4.--Came down from the River,
the CCeSar, FOWLER, fur Jamaica.

Came in the Bold gun-brig, and Sprightly cutter,
with four sail of transports with detachments of dif-
ferent regiments from Flushing.
Sailed a division of transports with detachments
of different regiments from Flushing ; also sailed a
division of transports with 2d dragoon guards, and
d King's own, o❑ hoard, to itamsgate Fier, for
embarkation.

Cowzs, 4E 'r. 4.—The sun-brig Mazer has just
brought in here a French buy, in halla,t, as she was
con:ling:out from Havre de Grace, and is procceding
with the same to Portsmouth.

Sundry transports are alio arrived with foreign
troops, said to be belonging to the Duke of Balms•
WICK'S corps, consisting together of about 150 q

men.

ISLE or Wioirr, SEPT. 4.-,The Duke of Ilatgia,
wictt,'s Levy marched through Newport from cows
to tkcs different outposts in the Island.

The Princess Maly packet, arrived at Falmouth,
left at Malta the Col nwallis and Prince I::rne;s
packets—at Cadiz, his Majesty's ship Donegal.
which was to bring home Mr, ti4itg (whose artivat
Mrs. FxxtiE awaits at Falmouth) • also the 411 as,
Conqueror, Leviathan, and Duke ofiVontrose packet;
and at Gibraltar, the Kent, cambrictn4 audpurc/4.,
pine. Townsend picket had arrived at Gibraltar,
On the tit') ult. the Hyperion sailed with convoy foi
Enginid. lhe letters Iron' Malta are of the 2i3t
June, and state that the t»ercnants had received at;.-
counts by the Thames frigate, of the French beintt,
in possession of Trieste at that time; and that 9
their arrival there they ordered such a cutitrihutiori tQ
be levied on the town as could not possibly be pa d.
On failure, they seized and sent to the army, "
hostages, 40 (it the principal English merchants %OS,
had turtned edablisinnents there. The A.merican
Consul wal also obliged to fly. Every kind of col 9-1.
vial produce is a were drug at Malta, owing to nur
wcrous arrivals of Atnerican vessels with West

dian and American cargoes.
A letter received from an Officer on board his
Majesty's ship Bonne Citoyenne, contains the repot;
of the capture of the kinieuse, one of the French
frigates which escaped trout the Saintes, and after-,
wards from Guadaljupe. It was on the Otti

July, atter a chase of twenty hours, ihat the B,bniii
Crtyoyenne caroe up with, and engaged the Furielo.
The bnftle, v, hid) WdS of the most furious dc.script
Lion, lasted six hours and foity-hine minutes; of
the expiration of which the Furause struck, having

sustained a loss of 33 kille4and nearly 50 wounded,
amongst which was her Captain. 'rho Bt/VietCitoyenne had only one man killed, and five wor,:nd.t
ed, twct of them badly. The Bonne Citoyenne is
small vessel of her class ; but the Forieuse is cipable
of mounting pu guns. She is about six years old,.
and extremely fit for the King's service'. From the
short distance from each other, at which the ships
engaged, from 20 to 80 yards; they were, at the
close of the action, complete wrecks. At the time
when our informant wrote, three days alter the ac,
tion, the Bonne Citoyenne, will] her prize, was
steering for the Island of St. John's, Newtoundland;
but from the crippled state of the ships, some doubt*
were entertained, whether they would be able to
reach that port, The Inricuse was bound to Bay-
Orme, with a cargo of sugar, ci,tiee, and a little
cocoa. The letter from which we have extra6ted
this intelligence, was received through an American
vessel, just arrived. •
On Monday sennight a Court-Martial assembled,
at Portsmouth, to inquire into the eondua of Cap-
tain HENRY EDWARD COLUMLINE, Commander 01
his Majesty's late ship Sole&ay, and that of his Of-
ficers, and shim's compriny ; and to try them for the
loss of that ship. The Court agreed that no Warne
was imputable to Captain CoLomatNE, Or his Ot'
ficers and ship's company, for the loss of his Ma'
jesty's late ship Solebay ; but that it appeared, that,

after she was on shore, and before she was aban-
doned, Michael Grace, Thomas Jones, Charles
aid R,.ber► Stocks, seamen, belonging -t°
her, had been in a stare of drunkenness; and the
Court adjudged, that Captain C9LUMBINE, !lib Or'
fleets, and ship's company, be acquitted, excepting
Michael Grace, whom the Court sentenced to r4'
ceive 160 lashes, Thomas Jones to receive 10
lashes, and Charles Miens and Robert Storks to re'
ceive 50 lashes each, and to be mulcted, or to for'
fait all the pay due to them from the itth-of Jl,lll
last.

On Tuesday a Court-Martial was held at Ports'
mouth, oti JOHN ASHLEY, Catpenter his M 3:
jesly's ship Derive:4., for beltig drunk wben ordered
on duty, at the capture of Senegal; so that he was
incapable of, leading his men to the attack of that
Oleo. He was sentenced to be dismissed the 507
vice, rendeted incapable of serving as An (Oaf
again, and to be imprisoned six mouths in the M3P-
khatsea prison. .
Our letters from Cadiz state the arrival at ,t 1)::
place of the Francisco de Paulo, from Vera. Cra
wttlt eight trillions of dpilars up board,

DLTCH PAPERS.

MADRID, Auc. I.—Advices frbm Brlona,
dated the 25th of last month, contain the ..ollOwing
'tnielligence _ _ _

" General Pino, in consequence of orders•from
General St. Gyr, marched with :the •Italimdivision
on the .town of San Felice de Quixols, and attacked:
the enemy, who had entrenchedrAlin'self
.on the
heights which command the townyand,appeared de-
termined .to defend himself in that position to the/
last extremity. But the attack was -..,ade with such
ardour and intrepidity that the. insurgents took to
flight. In this action their cannon were-taken, and
more 4,han tiro hundred men killed. The second
reinvent of light infantry, the sixth of 'the line,
anci the dragoons of Napoleon, distinguished them-
selves the same day. General Pino re6eived.orders
to make himself master of Palamos. Ten gun-.
boats, a demi-galley, and two brigs of the enemy,
opened a terrible fire, When they perceived the 2d
regiment coming down to the coast. The General
caused the artillery to be ranged on the beach, and
a brisk cannonade soon compelled the vessels to
stand out to sea. The enemy's troops, pursued by
our. columns, hastily descended from the heights to.
regain their ships; but. the insurgents having no
means of retreat, were almost all killed or drowned.
In the town of Palamos were found 16 pieces of cam-
non, and a thousand muskets.' The taking of this
town, and 'of Sim Felice, is.of the more importance,
,as these two ports served as a retreat to the privateers
and other vessels of the enemy, which crnized and
intercepted our.convoys. These same ports will now-
afford an asylum to the French vessels, and secure
the communication of Barcelona with France along
the whole coast.. •

BRESLAU, AUG. 9.—The Russian and Polish
armies -in Gallicia are distributed as follows : the
Russians occupy that part of. Gallicia which extends
from the environs of Sandowir to the frontiers Of the
Buckowine. The Polish corps, under the command
of General Hebdowsky, occupies the environs of
San to Karezew, five miles from Warsaw, and as
tar as Pilica. That under the orders of , General
Raininiecke is posted from the environs of Karezew
to the Bug. The head-quarters of Prince Ponia-
towSki are at Cracow. A corps of 6000. Russians
occupies'Bochnia, whereare the famous salt mines
of Gallicia..

• PARIS, AUG. 12.7—The communication made to.
the Senate in the Sitting of the 'l4th of this month,-
by his Serene Highness the Prince Arch-Chancellor
of the Empire, and the report of his Excellency the
'minister of War,, have acquainted the nation with
the fresh attempt made by the English, the aim of
their Expedition, and its first results. It is known that
this Expedition is apparently only against our neigh-
bours and allies, but. their interest is so closely in-
terwoven with ours, 'and the enemy's attacld on
Zealand are so evidently connected with his projeCts
against the Scheldt and Antwerp, that the 'public
opinion cannot but be strongly engaged by these
events, and the public must be desirous to know
nut only the whole, but also, if ' possible all the
particulars of that expedition. 'At the moment
when this opinion renders itself conspicuous by
numberiess (tails of public spirit and attach.,
knent throughout all classes of French Citizens,
and by sacrifices of every description, by an unani-
mous submission to the measures adopted by the
publit authorities for the common delence, and by
a general cry of war against the English ; at the
moment when, these emotions, • truly national,
oppose considerable forces to the . enemy, .in
places which hesupposed he should be able to sur-
prise in a defenceh-ss state, and permit the Emperor's
army, while it c.mpletes its grand work, .to depend
on the fi..;elity and courage of another army, sprung
up, as it were, from the territory which u is to-de-
fend, it is of vl;ry tua[eriJl importance to satisfy that
opinion, to fortify and enlighten it, and to inform
our enemies that on this memorable occasion -.they
will see all their delusive hopes destroyed for ever,
which they had conceived with regard to, the public
sentimentsin France, and the extent of the means
of government, which relate to the 'operations on
Scheldt, shall be communicated to the ,public in
their natural order, either at full length, or by ex-
traas, according to the degree of interest and im-
portance attached to them.

COPY OF A REPORT, MADE AUGUST I, BY THE MI-
NISTER AT WAR, TO THE EMPEROR AND SING.
I had the honour, by a Report of the 31st of
last July, to render the Emperor an account of the
appearance and movements of the enemy's fleet on
the side of Flushing, and of the measures hitherto
adopted for the defence of the Scheldt. J have this
morning had a conference with the Minister (if, the
Marine,who thinks it necessary that all the troops
which can .be drawn from the garrison of Paris,
should provisionally be ordered to march to the
Scheldt and Boulogne. In consequence thereof I
have ordered Gen Hullin to order this day the half
brigades of reserve to march, one moiety to Luzan-
ber, and the other to Senlii. These troops will find
in both places waggons to convey them to their
places of destination. They. who march to 800-.
logne will reach it on.the 4th of August; the half
brigades which march from Senlis to Gbent will.he
there the sth of August, and proceed from thence
to the Scheldt. I have ordered several battalions
.ind squadrons of the second military division to
nlarch to the coast of Boulogne. .All these orders
had been sent off, when I received a telegraphic dis-
patch from General Sauzanne, informing me that he
has ordered all the National Guards of the Depart-
ment of the North to proceed in waggons to the Isle
of Cadsand, independently of those under General
Rampon, who are marching in the same direetion.
Pursuant to these diipositions, the troops employed
on the coast will in three days form a considerable
force, exclusive of the gendarmes, the companies of
reserve, and the Officers of Customs, who have also
been called out. In addition to these troops, I have
.also ordered the provisional battalions and squadrons
of the 24► h, 16th, 2d, and 4th military divisions, to
join and repair in waggOns to Antwerp with the ut-
mast speed,

" I have charged the General of Artillery, "St..
Laurent, whose health is pertedtly restored, and
who happens to be in Paris unemployed, to hasten
to Antwerp, thence to the Scheldt, and the Isle of
Cadsaud, to dire& the service of artillery, and ascer-
tain the state of the batteries. He is also charged to
insped the attilleiy of the coast of Boulogne, in the

distria of the 10th militayin division, and to give all
pecessary orders that th.e.,w.rvice may be fully per-
tor goeclii,n : brat:loes g49E,F4tsi Fairly
of the forces eti4ploye4.lbetwajlie,Suppe and the.
rtPrPnged in, thdistrict
ut the fifte4nth military div-ision agreeably—to .the
orders _ which I gave...heJo!P,,„ and, _which. I, trace,
lately renewed, to embody,; at ,a moment's no-
tice, 6000,-choice national guards, to be taken.froiti
-the legion it the nc;ighbourhood .of the coast, and
,to be marched to- the, four.-prtucipel points. of ..the
coast, .such as Havre, IFecamp, Dieppe, and St. \Ta-
lery, exclusively of a strong reserve_ destined to
march to the point-of attack particularly threatened
by the enemy. _
I haVe•also giverr'all necessary orders for the
defence:of thc. coast from I-Livre to Bayonne. I shall
have the honour to report to hi Majesty the result
of. the measures adopted to repUlse the attack on the
side of the Scheldt, as soon as the Generals shall set
out, on their reports.
(Signed)

August 23.

COUllt HUNEBURG,
Minister at War."

NAPLES, AUG. 18.—An extraordinary circum-
stance g,lve much eFiat to the fete celebrated for the
birth of the Emperor. On the 15th, in the evening,
the Neapolitan fleet, Consisting of a frigate, a cor-
vette, and about 80 gun-boats, was moored before
the city; this disposition had been made -for the
salves, which it is customary to fire on this occasion.
Four-English frigates and about 20 gun-boats, which
are cruizing- in hese seas, approached to make art
attack at the very moment when his Majesty monnt-,
ed his horse to review i 5 or 20,000 .men, assembled
on the beach of Chiaja. The King, after having
ordered the necessary dispositions for defence, pro-
ceeded to pass the troops in review. We then en-
joyed one of the finest of spectacles, but which can
only be properly conceived by those who are well
acquainted with the situation of the city of Naples.
At the setting of the sun, twenty thousand men,
drawn up on the shore of Chiaja, were quietly per-
forming their evolutions, while two or three hund-
red pieces of artillery thundered over the bay of
Naples. An immense multitude of spetiators as-
sembled on the sea shore to witness the fete, and
formed one of the most imposing scenes which can
be imagined. 'The pleasure of this spectacle was the
greater, as it was ;undisturbed by any fear. The
English not daring to approach the forts,' fired at \a
very respeCtfut distance, and it was -so little. likely'
that they could do any damage, • that they seetnecl,to
be the ships of some friendly nation come to testify
by their salutes their participation hi the general joy.
They. retired in the nig,ht. Two men only on board
a gun-boat were slightly wounded.