The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-12 00:00:00

2d of this month, Copt;ln D. Pedro Ferrer, in mak- their departure, ere to be exempt from the opera.
ing an observation on the height of Montjuich, re- tion of the Non-Intercourse A&.
marked, that the sentinel of the Tower of St. Juan •
hart approached nearer. He likewise noticed, that If the principles and sentiments of the party who
behind the elevation of Roca tour or six pieces of ;
aspire to the offices of Government aro to be'es'i-
cannon were planted towards Domeny. -
Within the last few days the discharge from the mated by the language of their literary retainers,
bombs has been slackened, but the grenades and nothing could be more fatal to the Constitution of
hall, have been otherwise. These have been princi-
this Country than the return of that party to power.
directed against some bulwarks, the firing from .
whiehconsiderablygalled theenemy.The zeal andcool The chief paper of the party on Saturday last, in
deportment of the garrison, united to ale patriotism answer to some observations respecting the conduct
of the inhabitants, places Gerona beyond the reach
which the Emperor ALEXANDER ought to adopt at
of danger, until further assistance can be obtained.
The enemy may look in vain to conquer a people y this critical period, when BUONAPARTE seems de-
who wish only to die with honour. termined to extend his despotism over every guar-
GERONA, AUG. 4.—ln the dispatch of the 3d,
ter of the world, says, that it does not " despair of
from the Governor of Montjuich, the Cominam!ant-
seeing the Emperor ALEXANDER driven into Sibe_
General of the Vanguard thus expresses himself :
" The enemy has descended the fosse on the right ria, to reign over the wolves and bears of its desolate
side of the ravelin, throwing therein a eortion of regions, and of adding one more tothe list of the seep-
the counterscarp, and protecting the road they have
ired fools of Chrisiendom, who by the just decrees
made from the fire of the casde by embankments.
The battery they have erected in the To. er cif St, of Pt ovidence have been hurled from their thrones,
Daniel consists of two cannon and one mortar. One to expiate in ignoble obscuiiiy their want of virtue
of the cannon has been taken from -the haat ry, con-
sisting of two pieces, which they and wan! of .ease." The word Jacobin has been
had on the ruin,
of the same tower. Besides this, they have a maw treated with contempt by- the Opposition Writers,
battery blow the tower, in an angle, with two and they have frequently direoled their ridicule
frows, tee one towards the castle, al d ti,c other
against those who attempted to revive it, but we
tewards the tort of Calvary. According to the ac-
counts received from the guards of the castle, tile apeeal to the common sense and common decency
party which this morning attacked St. Daniel of mankind, whether the passage we have now
sisted of 1000 men." quoted does not savour of the . notions and feelings
Capt. D. Marios Antonio Iglesias communicates
the following, respecting the transaCtiona in the of the JACOBIN Coos at the most furious epoch of
night between the 2d and 3d instant : democratic violence. For our part, we conceive
"To-night the enemy has been employed in open-
, that such sentiments and such language as charac-
-- a CUilitliLjUlCatloll between the buildiogs of Pee-
set, although the artillery of the bulwark of So terize the passage above stated, are sufficient to jus-
Pedro has greatly incommoded hioi. At a quarter tify the revival of the term Jacobin, and the most
past five a coluem began to ascend Moetjuich, to
emphatic application of it to the Opposition Paper
observe winch, I approached Dearer the tower of
contained it. When such words as " do
St. Juan. The discharges of the enemy were pro-
parly answered, but I was obliged to withdraw with- not despair of seeing," are used, we may fairly pre-
in the fortress on account of leis superiority. He
• some that the writer actually wishes for the event he
has lost four or five men. With 'a Salvador Repoli
mentions. And why does he wish to see the Em-
peror AesxaNnza driven into Siberia ? Because
the enormous strides of BUONAPARTE are likely to
alarm his jealou.y ; because he may hence be in-
duced by a sense of national interest and safety to op•
pose the extensive and unprincipled projeCts of ag-
grandizement which the French Tyrant is labouring
to carry into effet, and because, if the Emperor
ALEXANDER should really become sensible of the
I danger which so nearly approaches him, " hopes
may yet be entertained of the salvation of Europe."
Would there be any thing so very criminal in the
Emperor ALEXAKDER if he should pursue stich con-
duCt, that he ought to be called a '' sceptredfoul,"
to be " hurled from his throne," and be " driven into
Siberia ?" Every man of sense and liberal feeling
must be shocked at such language, which can only
issue from the hard heart of a Jacobin. have
often noticed the lenity R
Which —UONAPAIITE has ex-
perienced in the Paper alluded to, and the manlier
in which his most enormous acts of ambition, ty-
ranny, and oppression, have been glossed over, but
we hardly expelled that it would lead to such daring
and shameless impiety as to represent his flagitious
invasion of other States, and destruction of their ti-
gitimate Governments, as " the just decrees of Pro-
vidence." Here, again, we have not only the fu-
rious .democracy, but the impious excesses of the
JACOBIN CLUB. According, thtn, to this daring
interpretation of .the designs of Omnipotence, the
victims of BUONAPARTE'S insatiable ambition are ail
" sceptred fools," who have been justly hurled from
their thrones, and ought to be driven into Siberia ?
We hope, for the sake of their characters, without
any view to political interests, the heads of the Op-
position will reprobate such language of their parti-
zans, for otherwise there is not a reflecting man
in this kingdom who would not consider their re-
turn to power as a certain omen of the destruCtion of
that Constitution which has so long rendered us the
pesTle upon earth.
happiest and freest

was severely wouoded.
" Since I have been informed that the enemy
ativanced to St. Daniel ; I did not arrive in time to
prevent his approach, but 1 was sufficiently early to
kill a great number of his people, and to prevent
several of our wounded from falling into his hands.
We should have done the business more effedually,
if the French bad not so greatly out-numbered us,
particularly when we had joined the party under D.
Man in Ferran, who fought with his accustomed
valour against torces ten times gretver than his own,
co.upelling the enemy to measure back his steps
with great loss. Every member-of my small com-
vany has concluded himselt with the gallantry of
InL: sons of Mars.-

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•OCIM QUIS DICISX FALSUM AUDRAT?

L 0 N D 0 N,

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1809.

A letter from Dover mentions that our troops hav-
ing evacuated the Island of South Beveland, it had
been taken possession of by the French.

Having inserted the Proclamation of the Ameri-
can Government, announcing the resumpl ion of the,
Non-intercourse Aet in only a part of our impression
of yesterday, we again insert it this day, together
with the instruaiols sent by that Government to the
Ports Of the-United States for the execution of the
A(it, whir: : has by the effeet of the Proclamation
bet:a again enforced. The repDrta in circulation yes-
terday, stating the proclamation to be violent, appear
to be unfounded; it is merely a dry formal AA,
which appears to have followed, as a matter of
course, the refusal of the ;Iritish Government to
san&ion tht arrangement made hv Mi. Kr':E. By
that arrangement, certain stipulations Wert made
Mr:ERSKINE, in consequence of which the opera-
i f the Non-Intercourse 'act was suspended by
be American Government. The Briiish .Ciivern-
inent having refused to ratify those stipulations, in
consequence of Mr. ERSKINE having exceeded or
a::,ted contrary to his instructions in Making them,
and this refusal having been communicated to the
American Government, the latter, to mah,tain
it. own consistency, has adopted the measure of
placing the relations of the two countries on the

W.:: have read with unfeign,:d astonishment a pa-
ragraph in -a Morning Paper of tiiq day, accusing
the Secretary of State for the War Deyartment of
concealing certain parts of the dispatches fk9m Spain
—of concealing them, not only from the publift, but,
as it should appear, from that high PersonageNl:or
whose information they were written.
With this latter part of the accusation we will not
meddle, and we trust that our reasons will be felt,

same (outing in which they were previous to
the arrangement made by Mr. ERSKINE, and
has dune su without remark or. comment. We see

without being ,particularly, stated by us; as to the
former, we might perhaps content ourselves with
observing generally, that, of the dispatches in ques-
tion, extraEts only were professedly given to the
public, and that it is by no means the duty of a
Minister to publish every important or interesting
Letter that comes into his Office, or to explain to
tie public the details and motives of any movement

twilling, therefore, in the Proclamation which can
present any obstacle to an amicable adjustment of
t cliderences between this Country and thc United
St;:tc:.* The question remains in the. sane sta;e in
which-it stnod.previous to -Mr. EaSt(litiL,:i arrange-
ment.

If any irritation has been produced in Arne-

of it British army ; it is quite sufficient that t!,e
Ct;lntry should have a general idea Of the situation
ct of airi abroad, saving always the right of P.ir-
liament to petition the crown for such further in-

r ca by a•atisapprehtnion of the conduct of t;ie Bri-

tislt Governmunt, in its reftial to sartelion ;he e:lrgo-
rnents entered into by Mr. ERSKINE, we 1)i);;:
doubt that the mission of Mr. JACKSON Will Ctii;::C-

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I formation as may be thought necessary.. ,
But a (luestion arises out ot• the remarks of The
rimes, which really stariteS. us. Does the Edit9,-
1
pretend to have salt the letter of which he speaks so
confidently He is uot,--perbapi, so much in the
habU as some of I)is contertiporaries, of adv,atici:g
grave assertions lightly, 40 we are rca4
1

wally remove it, by a satist.36!3ory
According to the instructions isst.::::d to the cal.
kaors of Customs in the Ports of the United Stair,,
13!ilish Vessels which sailed before the-Proclamation
of the American Government had beer, known'at
the respeaive ports horn whence they had taken