The Sun.
London, England, 1807-08-07 00:00:00

STRALSUA D.

We have been favoured by a. Correspondent at
Stralsund, with the following Journal of the Events
which have taken place before that Town, :since the
Swedes were compelled to shut theinselves up in.tlie.
Fortress •
STRALSUND, JULY 15.—0 n Monday bosh t. -
ties commenced, and yesterday the :French were
only two miles outside, our gates. I stood with
Gentleman on the ramparts; near two hours, looking
on, for we could see 'every movement quite dis- .
tingly. The French drove on ; and .at length all
the Swedes (no British troops were, out), -about
8000, returned, as' hard as they could drive, into
the garrison, and we commenced 'a' fire from the
town on
.the French line ; 30 were wounded out of
the town, 2 killed, and i Officer;; • the, scene of
bustle and distresi was horrible,.
" We are now shut up in the Garrison ; there is
but little firieg.to:clay. '. The French are now regu-
larly attacking the.town, by construdiug approaches.
The King was out! great deal. I saw him, yester-:.,
day : saw all the troops Come in, the wounded, &c.
Our Friend K. was ont, and says the Swedes were
panic-struck. The transports are detatned; and pro.-
bably the troops will be sent home again ; at pre-
sent they are pushing them on to. this place,
.as fast
as possible. in about a week I suppose we shall be
bombarded,. if the troops don't make a sally ;'• and
people here.seem to fear, if they do, that the French
will get in with thein, as they have done,before at
Bois-le-Dne,
" Three regiments. of German Legion infantry, •
and one of cavalry,, are here now, about 3000 men ;
the rest in fUlt. march through Rugen, aid aboUt
8000 Swedes; it will take 18 0r_20,000 men to gar-
foam these works,. I find. The Cavalry with the
Enemy are Spanish, the' other troops Italian and
Dutch. A village was burnt yesterday,. just outside
the walls, by lightning ; we have had a great deal
lately.
" JULY 17.."4,0rd CATHCART arrived last night
at seven o'clock„ and IS .Much disappointed at our '
cooped u►p conditien," ..NOthing ne. siace;yester.
day. I have not been *able to walkw to the ramparts
t° Pt a look
.at The Vreich, all yesterday .or to-day. ,
Lord CATHCART will • now, X think, decide'whether •
we are to return or 'attack; we expeel rather. to re-.
turn.
" itiLy tee.4-Stralstind' is. .as full as it can Cram,
and we can ga. but 4, shatter of 'a mile Out of tbWn,
011. r friendS ttie French sticking so .close'. as one and
a half Englikifilles off. 'This is 'Sunday, but all
the churches; are full . of, hoties, and' the pews are.
Algid with soldiers ; bread,cheese,
Jucy French are working at their
batteries as .bard can ;. a trifling firing' is
going on to-day. The. King, • I am told, waits the
arrival of a Messenger frotnthe Emperor of Russia
before he does anything. The piques. of, the army
Ore close together,* The French are quite round
the fawn.
" JULY 20, five o'clock in the afternoon..--I have
just learned that Lord CATUcART to-morrow re-
*moves his Head-quarters to Bergen, the capital of the
Isle of. Rugen ; in all probability we shall go With
ling : it is said • the three regiments of the German
Legion now here are also to return to-Bergen. The
King also leaveiStralstind to-day. To-morrow it is-
imagined the teWn will' be 'bombarded, or perhaps
to-night. They have been sparring at each other all
Play. Imagine how full this place is, when all the
country people, their.carts, horses, &c. are driven in
from betbre the enemy, with „all'the furniture and
every thing they'ctiuld get away.".