The Sun.
London, England, 1809-10-16 00:00:00

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" Being unwilling to engage in this cootrovertyi
we leave the simple statenient tb the Conaider,rtioa of
our reader. We dismiss the .subjecal with this single
obaervationaathat as, for leasens known only to hitty.
self, Mr.jamea Moose did not think Wright to pub',"
lish' the whole of Sir John MoOr's Journal ;
.it is t 4
be lamented that he'should have felt- hiMself at IP
berty.to seleat for partial publication, a passage, con'
taiiting,refleCtions upon any individual.. In the pub:. ,
lication of the whole,-tliere could have-been no react
son to expel that such a passage should have beet!
otnitteda But in a seleetion from the. ,papers of 0,
person deceased, it is at least in alie power of the se'
to for to publish only what is either absolutely tie'
cessary, or entirely unobjeationable r .anct-althougli
Mr. James Moore has announced his perforrnairce
in the outset aa.Scotirroversi'3l veil as historical;
we should haVe, thought better 'of his taste and hi:
feelings, if he had cited his brother's name only
the confirmation ota hia history, and had- been core"
tented to'carry on the controversy in his own.
." At this time, our cavalry under Lord Paget were
so far advanced that they had frequent skirmitrbei
with the enemy near Valladolid, all'of which they
evinced a manifest superiority. Sir John. Moore,haa
his head-quarters on the lath, at Castronuevo, and
Sir D... Baird at Benevente. " Sir John, (says our
author), was very desironS'of obtaining the co-ope-
ration of the Marquis of Romana, who, unluckily, ,
was beginning to retire on Gallicia.. Thts proceed"
ed. from the Spanish and English' commanders beitt
inc pendent, instead of the one being subordiniite-to
the other -;" and this is. followed by .a letter tronolad
British General to the Marquis, in which the aspr,
rity of the style is rather more evident than the ge-
neral meaning. Sir J. Moore, taunts the Marquis (16
la Humana with having anncurced to Sir D. Baird
an intention of retreating on Gallicia, and for having
begun to do so, instead of occupying the Asturias,
" and thus protecting the left of the British commtr
nication with Corunna," as might have been e%
peeled from the reasoning contained in " the paper!,
which he had given in to the British Government.
Now, in the first place, we conceive that had thc
Spanish commander pushed into the Asturias,
would have been more distant from Sir John Mode
than he was ‘at Leon; in the-second place, there i 5
nothing in, the paper alluded to from which, the rea:.
annablenesa of his marching info. the Asturias could
. possibly be inferred; and thirdly, the retreat which,
he had begun' was perfectly involuntarily ; 'and 01
this he yery"nattarally., and- very civilly reminda
John in his answer. Sir D. Baird (parliamentarf
papers,) says, in his letter of the 4th of December,
from Villa Franca, " a strong and urgent app/i4:3,
tion I received from the Marquis of itornana, 0;1'11
is-using every effort to collect and organize the scat
tered remnants of the dispersed GailiCiait, Estreal3°
durian, an,d Astririan armies at Leon, requesting 111°
to remain at Astorga, for the purpose,' in the firsl
place, of affording dountenance and support to t)i°,
measures, and in the second, of endeavouring; by
coinbined movement; to etreCt a' junction with Sir
John Moore, induced Me in some degree to .dotalc
,the execution oCrny orders, and.to leave tOr4 Ek aa
with the cavalry,' and, fight trigade at Astorga, a°
in its vicinity, whilst the rernahider of the infarti
and the scores were falling back'. 'To the second
of the Marquis's proposition I could pay no Ott
tion." Such a reception of such a proposal, 11°'
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ever jnatitied.bythpeir.eurnstanc.4.4f the4lai-
'very- naturally render the Marquis sorneWlit rCf;ervc.4
in his comniunicationa to one of. the British ge:fir
rals ; but, in his reply to Sir John Moore, hel4os'
" I hasten to answer your, .Excellency's letter of Yes'
terday, by observing, that, If I entertained al
thoughts of retreating,lf. was only consequenc
of the news received horn Sir David Baird ;,other''
wise itiwas by no means my intention ;." after which
he expresses very fully his willingness to co-operat_
in any;nieasure wbich Sir John Moore should pOl°
out ; and no sooner Waa'that measure suggested 0.1°3
he cheerfully risked the whole of his disposable forc•
to insure its success.

SHIP NEWS.

GRAVESEND, OCTOBER 13.

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Arrived—the Britannia, Charters, from Cottenburgh I
Beatrix, Search, from Quebec ; and, the Hind Sloop of 101.
from Flushing,
Sailed—the Hercule, Lewis, and Atalanta, Butcher, 1'
Malta; London Packet, Holman, tor Cork ; Eliza ae.
Margaret, —, for Newry ; Catharine, Larstron, and Pre
yidentia, Sass, for Gottenburgh.
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