The Sun.
London, England, 1809-07-11 00:00:00

THE SUN.

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TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1:09.

The following letter may be considered as'coming
f:om an official source :

WOLKERSDORPF, JUNE 18.

" I had scarcely sent off my last letter when I
w3s informed of the details of a slight affair at
Raab, which the French call, a great victory, and
.for which they will not fail to cause a Te Deum to
be sung. This is the whole result of it :—On the
15th in the morning the Archduke JOHN, at the.,
bead of 23,000, troops of the line, and about
17,000 of the ilungarian.lnsurreetion, was attacked
by 50,000 men near Raab. The Archduke ,with-
'his troops of the line, had all the advantage of the
day, and the French lost upwards •of 2000 killed
and wounded. But the right . wing, composed
of the Insutreetion which had never seen ser-_
vice, having' fallen back with too Much preci-
pitation, the left wing was under the necessity of
retreating. - The enemy did not pursue either the
one or thy_ other, and we bave lost 1500 killed and
wounded, oud prisoners of tlie. new levy.—

It appears, e%en, !,ave since resumed the
old position, the French having retired behind the
Raab. I am' anxious to send off this account to
yota, because you will hear at the same'titue of the
departure of the Imperial family from Buda, which
has not the least conneetion with the battle, for it
took place' four days before, and this slight check
would not haye rendered it necessary.
"The Deputies, PERGEN and HARDEGq, are just
now setting off on their return, and have not ob-
tained any thing—They did not speak in the name
=of the Conqueror,t hut he had permitted then to be
the bearers of the complaints of the stomachs of their
fellow-citizens—they asked for oxen, and they were
told de,manger du mouton.

In,t he mean time we are flying over Saxony;
another of our Generals is making a promenade at
Bayreuth and Bamburgh—our Tyrolean allies are
eating asparagus at .Kempten and Mernmingen—
CHASUE.4%a of the Tyrol, and GUILA! of Croatia,
are at Ciagenfurrh—MAamoNT has passed into the
terra firma of Venice, and we have re-entered
Fiume and Trieste, where the brave English are
assisting us. All Dalmatia is in our and our gpod
friends, the Turks, hands. In theii retreat the
French left Many_ sick in the hospitals, among
whom, were' three Generals wounded in some, for-
,
iner affair."

Last night some more Dutch and German Papers
arrived,' the former to the sth inst. Though they
do not bring any news of a very important,
their contents are in general very satisfactory. The
spirit of resistance to the French seems to pervade
almost,every part of the Continent, and if BUONA-
Panig should sustain another 'defeat, or even if he
should remain much longer inactive, the whole of
the North of Germany will be in arms against
France, •
-

We 'have not such accurate mean's of judging of
the state of Italy, but from !all the accounts 'which
h.ye reached us, we have every reason to_believe
that the inhabitants of that Peninsula would eagerly
seize 'any opportunity that , afforded a rational
C lance of success to throw off the French yoke, and
we entertain the most sanguine holies, that we shall
shortly have to communicate to our readers some
v .ry otifying intelligence from that quarter.
These Papers giVe us, very little information re-
e':ting the Armies on the Danube, but w;-; confess
we are inclined to suspedi from the circumstance of
two or three days having
,elapsed without any
IVll:nitvers leaving reached Rotterdam, that the
Prench have sustained some .fresh disasfrt.

A number of reports were in circulation last night :
tl.ey were brought by a vessel which has arrived
:tom Heligoland. It was said that pnother

had been fought on the 26th, ult. in which the
French had been defeated, with the loss of bo,ouo
men, and that 20,000 Prussian troops had joined the
Austrian army. We fear'however, that these ru-
mours are unfounded. It was also said that FERDI-

NAND the Vlithshad been assassinated,

We have extracted 4om American Papers to the
tOth ult, which have been received, an account
of an attempt made by Captain BENNET, in 'Officer.
in the service of the United States, to seize a dem--
.ter in Canada, an event which is Baia to have created
some misunderstanding between the two qovern-
ments.—The other intelligence in those Papers is of
no importance.

WE are confidently assured that ealy in this
month a day was appointed for a general insurrec-
tion throughout lilnover. The excesses of the French
vtihen they first, took possession of that country were
horrtble beyond description ; and if by the severest
tyranny the people had not been kept in subjection,
their feelings would long since have broken out in
,the most furious efforts of revenge. The plan. for
'the insurre6lion, if it has bee'n well devised, might
be expeeled to lea'd tO similar
,movements in various
places adjacent, notwithstanding all the vigilance of
the French, and the terror which they excited.

. We have authority to state, that the Austrian of-
f Cial account of the Battle of Aspern will appear in
Supplement to the Gazette of this evening.
Yesterday morning M. 1)E -LA VEGA, the 'late te.
speCtable Deputy from the Province of Asturias, ar.
•rived in town. We bdlieve his of jea is'to apply to
this Government for arms.

It is with great pleasure we remark in the Dublin
Gazette a most gratifying • instance of improvement.
Notice has been given by Josh KNOX GRoGAN, Esq.
of Johnstown, in the County ofWeiford; of his
having planted within this year, 83,2451 oak, ash.
and other valuable trees, on hit estate. This Get],.le=
man has, since he came into the enjoy men:. cr his
estate, in 1793, planted 653,923 of the inc•st valuable
trees.

The ,hail-:storm • was seriously felt last week at
Greenwich, and did considerable 'dam-age to the
grass-work of the Hospivl. The market-gardens in
the vicinity were severely„injured., The weight and
size ,of the hail-stones were astonishing; some of
them which • were picked. up and measured'at the.
time, were an inch and a half iin circumference ;
unustially hard, and of an oblong form'. -
Captain Barclay was pursuing his task at eight
o'clock yesterday. morning, in high spirits. Bets are
now ten to one in his favour. The influx of com-
pany at 'Newmarket, during the last week, was
such, that a bed could not be had, and the towns
within a dozen miles were filled with the overflow.
The horse-racing began yesterday, and 'the bustle
was greater than ever. The ground on, which :the
Captain walked was so thronged, that his ft ientis had
great difficulty to keep the way clear.

By a ship which, has arrived at,Liverpool, we have
obtained a series of. Bahama, Gazettes; tli) to. the
25th May. The, following are the only articles of
any consequence iti.these Papers :
-
".NASSAU, MAY I.—The transports, with a de,
tachment of the 7th West India,Regitnent on board,
and which put to sea on Saturday, 191-Jamaica; have
since returned, in consequence of adverse winds, as
has also itis Majes.ty's.ship Sandwicla. Their ulti-
mate destination was supposed to be the Bay of Hon-
duras.

" MAY
,24.—We are informed that COI. BROWNE,
from St. Vwcents, the late Superintendant General
of the Indian, nation, has presented 'a Memorial,
stating, that a quantity ot aloe, hetnp, pitch, tar,
and turpentine, may be manufactured in the Bahama
Islands, equal to theconsumption of all the navy and
tnerchanttnen of tbe.Kingdom of Great Britain.—
This is a matter of so important a nature as it re-
spects our naval interest, that we hope every encou-
ragement will be given to the Bahama Planters to
furnish those articles, tinder the uncertainty of sup-
ply from the Baltic an United States.

" The duties a: the ,triavannah are as follow (al-
though the arrangement is .-juite concluded, it is
. not yet ptzblicly n(,:fiEd rby the Cabild-o), flour in
American vessels l u dollars; in Spanish 6 dolla.rs;,
rice, hemp, hogs lard, and the various kinds of pulse
ond vegetables, in American. vessels, 50. per cent.
and in Spanish 30 per cent. All kinds of linen and
silk goods, 22 per cent. cotton
,and woollen goods,
per cent. and municipal duties instead of 36 per
cent. Deposits of all kinds of produce of the -United
States, are liable only to 1 per cent. and the niunici-
pal duity."

On Sunday morning, daring Divine Service, a
gentle Jessica, of the tribe of Benidinin,cleganily at-
tired, did public penance in the Church of St. .Paul,
Covent-garden, for calling a Christian neighbour by
a name, which is odious to every Woman of reputa-
tion. The crowd on this occasion was extremely
great, and the fair offender against the established
rules of politeness was followed home, after the ex-
hibition, by a long train Of speCtators. •
Yesterday morning, between seven ;nd eight
o'clock, as a man of the name of Taylor, who was
gardener to Mr. Elliot, the brewer, of Pimlico, ,was
,passing through Brewer-street, apparently in ' good
health, he fell down, and was picked up by some
persons passing at the time, and asked if he had.
hurt himself: he answered in the negative. He
walked on a few paces Itirther, and felkdown again
lifeless.

We have been told that Colonel WARDLE, before.
he resolved to -resist the claim of Mr. WRIGHT in a
Court of Law, proposed to render the debt a party
matter, and suggested to Sir FkitNcrs BURDETT and
his other political allies, that•a subscription for dis-
charging this demand Upon Mrs. -CLARKE would be
a proper requital to her for the services whicit she
had rendered to the great cause in which they were
engaged. Sir FRANCIS, however, having acquired
some degree of pecuniary discretion, or, as the vul-
gar say, '4- srpelling a rat," rejefied the proposition
tat oi.ce, and all the rest of the party deetiled it most
prudent to follow his example;

NAVAL NEWS. ,

PLYMOUTH, JULY g.---A, fleet, of about 30 sail,
appeared off this port yesterday, which was stated to
have been the West India fleet ; in the evening they

were all obliged to put in here by contrary winds,
when they proved to be a fleet of transpoits and
victuallers,, from Lisbon, under convoy of a sloop
of war.

Came down from Barnpool, and anchored in the
Sound, his Majesty's ketch Gleaner, of i 0 gims;
and the Ann hired armed brig.

SHEaRNESS, JULY 9.—Arrived the Urgent gun-
brig and Deptford tender,
,with voluweers and,icn-
pressed men for the fleet.

Sailed bis,Majesty's ship Wbolwich and Lavinia,
to Deal.

JuLlr to...—Sailed his Majesty's ships St. Fijrenza
‘'and Salsette for Deal.

POSTSIVIOUTH, JULY 10.—Sailed his Majesty's
ships Sprightly, Ilardy, Gamtier, Redpole, Venera-
ble, Centaur, and Raleigh., to the Westward; also
the James, HAY, and Thomas and Judith, for Lon-
don.

DEAL, JULY 10.—Arrived from the river, and
sailed, the Fame, DUNCAN, for Jamaica.

. Sailed,, his Majesty's ships Blake; Repulse, San
Domingo, Audacious, ViCiorious, Theseus, and Den-
mark, on a cruize off Flushing.

YARMOUTH, JULY 10.—Arrived, 'the' Havoc,
tun-brig, from the Baltic; she brings intelligence that
Scßua. is not dead, but only wounded, and is for-
tifying.the Island of Rugen ; and reports that a re-
vialution- has broken out at Petersburgh, headed by
the Grand Duke CONSTANTINE.