The Sun.
London, England, 1807-01-28 00:00:00

COPENHAGEN GAZETTE.

ELSINEVR, TiERN.EMAII and
sonuLT, who atiivcd here this day from Dantzic,
which they left a fortnight since, state, that the
qaTrison,composedof Prussians and Poles, amounts to

20,000 men—that no apprehensions are entertained
there of the French, and. that the latter seem deter-
mined to dire 4 their operations against ic.onizsbnrgh.

TUE Gat..ctiq. of last night contains the details
Ho‘NtA P9!H4AI respeaing the
ge-capture of Buenos 4yre,s, it apnea p that this

unfortunate event was more owing to the wrnl.
mous co-operatiOn of the Inhabitants than to the
skill or bravery of the Spanish Troops, and we fear
that the disposition which they manifested upon. this
occasion, will throw considerable difficulties in the

way of our making any permanent acquisition in
that Country.

Suez the arrival of authentic intelligence of the
Re-capture of Buenos Ayres,- a'- new' 'battery- has
been opened by the Supporters of Opposition, who
are content to encounter the perils of across-fire, if
they can indulge the hope of injuring those whom
they constantly and indiscriminately attack. A
censure. is now -levelled at Government for sanalion-
ing the trade to Buenos Ayres; but the defence will be
brief and easy. Ministers did not *concert and di-
re& the Expedition, and cannot, therefore, be expea-
ed to have been furnished with all the informatiOn
which would have been necessary to enable therri to
.
foresee that the Settlement would be so speedily re-
taken. They were justified in supposing that due
precautions would be adopted to prOte& and secure
_ the conquest ; and they might reasonably conclude
that the Captors conceived- themselves able-to -main-
, tain their post till reinforcements should arrive.
These reinforcements were dispatched with all the
celerity which actual circumstances would admit,
but could not have reached Btienos Ayres before the
recapture on the 12th August, if they had sailed on
the 24th of June, the day on which the first intel-
ligence of the intended enterprize arrived from St.
Helena ; for the passage of the karcissus, a single
Ship, and one of the fastest sailing Vessels in the
service, occupied two months. Ministers cannot,
therefore, be accountable for the success of an Expe-
dition undertaken without their consent or privity, or
be responsible for the precarious tenure of the con-
guest. They are entitled to the highest praise for,
the promptitude'with which they enabled the Bri-
tish Merchants to avail themselves immediately of-a-
new channel of trade. To what complaints would
Government,. have been exposed if this permission
had been withheld, notwithstanding the encourage-
ment which was given to speculation, andthe com-
mercial advice which was communicated in de-
tail by the -Officer who planned the enterprize,
who must have been best acquainted with-the pro-
bability of an attack and the means of `resistance, and
who was most competent to decide on. the ,pradica -
bility of retaining the conquest ? But-this argument
is not applied with all its force, from considerations
of delicacy and feeling towards those whose conduct
may become' the sable& of future investigation ; but
such considerations are totally overlooked by those
who are solely intent on prosecuting a system of blind
hostility to Government.

• We have- received Foreign Journals to the 23d
-inst. but they contain nb intelligence. The silence
of the Dutch Papers, respecting the success of
the Russians; is not.- at all astunishincr but if the
French had beed victorious, the account of their vic-
tory would certainly'r,have appeared in these Papers.

OUR Letter from .Yarmouth yesterday stated, that
the Astreci Frigate had arrived there, and that the
brought intelligence. of the defeat of the French
with the lost ,of 60,000 men: The :elstrea has ar-
rived at Yarmouth, bUt she brought:no account
whatever of any battle. NO dispatches had been
received from Lord HUTCHINSON at the time this
Paper was put to Press.

His Royal Highness FREDERICK PRINCE ROYAL
of DENNIA.RK. yesterday completed his 3gth year of
age -; and in the evening his Excellency the Da-
nish Ambassador gave a splendid Entertainment.
to Count DE WORONZOW, COuht STAH ENIAERG,
and all the other foreign Ministers at our Cow t.
Lady HESKETH, who lately died at -Bristol, was
a near relation of COWPER", the Poet, and his chief
companion. This lady has received many an elegant
tribUte from his interesting Muse.
ROYAL SOCIETY.—A Meeting was held on Thurs-
day evening, which was attended by forty-one Mem-
bers—when HUNFRRY DAVY, Esq. was eleCted to
succeed the late E. W. GRA Y, M. D. as Secretary and
Member of Council.

Monday was a day of Jubilee at Chelsea Hospital,
when the payment began of the half year's pension,
in 'advance to Midsummer next, with the augmen-
tatidn according to Mr. WIND Ham's new regulations;
by which the greater part of the pensions are increas-
ed from 5d2 per day, to pd. or Is; ;. and in cases of
extreme disability, -to. 15d. or tßd. A few of these
brave veterans, indeed, as a reward for extraordinary
length of service, will be paid at the rate of 2s. 6d.
per day. Such liberal encouragement cannot fail
to operate as a powerful stimulus to induce the la-
bouring classes of the community to embrace the mi-
proft,lssion ; as besides an increase of pay in the
progress of their service, they may look forward
to the certainty of a comfortable retreat hitherto un-
known in the annals of this country. ,

MAD Docs.—We find with much concern, as
well as alarm, that people are by no means suffi-
ciently apprehensive and cautious respeting the
present dangerous state of the canine. race, as many
doss are daily seen about the streets as if no
such disorder prevailed, and no warning had been
given. If the public are thus negligent upon a
subje& in which their own safety is so materially
interested, we hope that the Magistrates will actively
and resolutely perform their duty, and order all
dogs
.to be killed that are found at lug. cltitiri4 the
present 4-44 malady among them,

rAL NE ff'S.

F OV Til, JAN.q.s.—The:Grassiopp.!-r Sloop o£
War, of 18 gun, arrived evening froth Ply-
trrouth;- bound to the Mediterranean; she is come.
here to give instrnalions to the Veskls waiting Con-
voy here for Portugal and the Mediterranean; also
arrived the Schponer Scepfre, from London_, bonnd
to St. Michael's.

Sailed this day the Armed Brig Alorristowp, with
four Sail of Coasters under Convoy for Wales..

The Princess glizabeth Packet, from Lisb;3,.nlay
be expected as soon as the wind shifts.

The Watsinghanz Packet sailed 'last evening with
Mails for Lisbon.

The Princess Augusta Packet, with Mails f9r
Maltd and Gibraltar, sailed the 23d inst,

PORTSNOUTII, JAN. 27.---Arrived the Thisbe Fri-
gate and the Emulous Sloop of War from the
Downs. _ • •

Sailed La Vir4ihie and iimethyst Frigates, with a
Convoy of Transports for Cork. ."

PLYMOUTH, JAN. :36.—:Arrived the American Ship
Bourdeaux Packet, Cant., SPAFFOIt D, laden with cot=
fee, sugar, Bcc, froth Philadelphia; bound to Ant-
werp, detained by ,His Majesty's Cutter Pigmy. Ar:.
rived also a French Ketch, in ballast, captured on
the Coast of France by the Imperieuse Frigate.
Arrived the Lavinia Frigate front Portsmouth, and
Princess Royal, of.94,.guns, from the channel. Fleet,

3 rithe Lubec Ship V
COWES, JAN. 27.—Arr.ve— row
Anna Eliza Leek, Boni, from P4imouth,, in ballast,
with damage ; and 'the American Ship Hunter,' of
Baltimore, GOULD,. from Amsterdam, in ballasL,
Sailed the General Armstrong, SINCLAIR, for
Gibraltar; and the Eliza, NoRRIs, for Leghorn,
with salt fish.

SHEERNESS, JAN. 26.—,—.Arrived the Mrisluito
Sloop of War, Capt. JACKSON, frocn.the apkt4s,
The Musquito,. drove a French Privateer
,of 14 guns
and 70 men ashore under one of the Batteries of the
French coast, near Calais, and destroyed her. One of
the Musquito's rnen, was killed by a shot froth tfie
shore, and the First Lieutenant received a musket
ball through both legs:
•,Sailed the Constance Gun-brig.
Past by several Sail of Ships for the River, which
appeared to be Colliers.