The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-02 00:00:00

of this p6': t, after au atlon of au hour and a half, 3i
ships and barks, bound for Trieste, aMong which
were 6.p.na1l armed Vessels who convOyedthe others.
Many were killed and wounded on both sides, a's the
battle was very obstinate."

PRAGUE, AUG. t 1.-our Gazette of to-day con-
tains the following article :
" His Royal Highness the Archduke CHARLES
resigned, on the 31st July, the command of the
Austrian army, which has been accepted by the Ge-
neral of Cavalry Prince JOHN of LICHTENSTEIN.
[This is followed by the Articles of the Armistice,
concluded on the 12th of July, in the camp before
Znaym.]
The following is the order of the day by which
the Archduke CHARLES' notified to the army his re-
signation of the command i❑ chief.
" ZITTAU, JULY 3 i .—Very important reasons
have induced me to request his Majesty to accept
my resignation of command of the army entrust-
ed to me. I yesterday received his consent, and at
the same time his orders, to transfer the chief corn-
mand to the General of Cavalry Prince of LICHTEN-•
STEIN.

‘‘ While I leave the army I take the most lively
interest in its fate. The perfea conviaion I have of
its bravery, the confidence I place in it, and thecon-

gam habit of dedicating my exertions to its servi,ce,
under this separation, indescribably painful, I flatter
inyself that it participates in, and returns this senti-

ment.

(Signed)

" CHARLES."

VrnNkA, AUG. 6.--7,Atnong other points whiCh
are to serve- as the basis of peace, and which ars

now negociating, One is, that the Emperor Fume:crs
Shall cede the Kingdom of Bohemia to his eldest
brother, the Duke of Wurzburg.

AUG. 9,--The intelligence that the Archduke
CHARLES has resigned the command of the army,
bas made a great imprkssion on the public : he pos-
sessed the, love and confidence of the soldiers in a
very high degree.

It is understood that the Armistice has been pro-
icinged for 28 days.
WiutsAw, At:G. 14.—The French Ambassador
to the Court of Persia, GARDANNE has proceeded
from hence, for the "'much head quarters, by tile,
way of Cracow.

Thursday her MAJESTY held a public breakfast at
rogrnore Lodge, when most of the 'Nobility and
Gentry attendecL His Royal Highness the Duke of
litttriiswicK paid her MAJESTY a visit, and atter-
Wards attended the King at Windsor Palace. The
Staffordshire Band were present, and played seve-
ral approved martial airs in the gardens.
Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, the Dukelof
CLIMBER LAND, and Princess AuGustA, accompanied
by Lord ARDEN, Lady ELY, General FITZROY,
and Colonel TAYLOR, rode in Windsor Park, and
at twelve o'clock returned to the Palace.
The Princess SOPHIA took an airing in one of her
MAJESTY'S carriages yesterday ; and we are happy
to announce that her -Royal Highness is in a fair
way of recovering from her indisposition.
It is expeeled that to-morrow the Duke of,
Bayttswrcit will walk with their MAJESTIES on
Windsor Terrace, should the weather prove tine,
and Much fashionable company is expected to arrive
there on the occasion.

The principal locket, station at Flushing, on the
left, was 300 yards in advance of the mortar bat-
tery, and within half musket shot of the enemy's
picrinets., From this station four hundred rockets
were fired, each containing more combustible mat-
ter than the largest carcass thrown from the mor-
tars. The other stations, which were in the centre,
in front of General HOUSTON'S Brigade, were also
as near as near as possible to the enemy's picquets.
Of 800 'rockets expended, there were • not more
than 20 which did not enter. the .town. , These
were fired before the range was exactly ascertain-
tained ; and, as was the case also with some of the
shells in the first instance, they fell upon the rain-
Parts and glacis. Excepting those few, there was
not a rocket fired which did not go into the body
of the town; and such was the effea produced by
them, that General MONNE. a6tually remonstrated
with Lord CHATHAM upon the unfairness and in-
humanity of rasing such a weapon, asserting that all
nations ought to be upon a par in the means of war-
fare. To this he was answered, that, as it had never
• been considered any violation of the laws of war to
burn towns besieged, it must. be immaterial by what
means that objet was accomplished.

The following is an extra& of a private letter re-
ceived by the last conveyance from Lisbon :
Since the accounts have been received here of
the movements of the British from Talavera, and
thejunction of the French troops under the command
of Generals Soult, Vitior, and Scbastiani, all the
disposable British and' Portuguese troops in Portugal
are hourly marching to join Sir Arthur Wellesley.---?
A- plentiful supply of provisions are daily following.,
and I have no doubt my next will convey the pleas-
ing intelligence of offensive operations on the part of
ele British General, who has nothing to fear in his
present situation."
A bet of a very singular nature originated at Der-
by during the races. S. S. Esq. a gentleman well
known upon the turf, leas engaged to produce a man
by next October Newmarket Meeting, to crack 250
nuts in three minutes, one by one with his teeth,
and that they shall be cracked in such a manner as
wilt with facility admit them to be taken from the
sheik. The bet is for 2,f)0 guineas. The persons
mentioned to perform this piece of jaw-ivork is a
native Of Leicestershire, residing not far from Ashby-
de4a-Zouch. Betting is sto 4 against time.
This morning, at teu o'clock, the Loan MAYOR
and the Sheriffs went in state from the Mansion-
house, to proclaim tarcholomew Fair.