The Sun.
London, England, 1813-07-31 00:00:00

13ATTI;t Oi‘

Itkl*XAClC,Cfiz A rRIN'ATE LETTER.
flatter taytelf. our operations of late ha• Vie
become in some degre'eiimieresting. I shalt there-7
fore give you a slight sketch '.to'f them. .1 write'
upon a pannier, muter a tree; with bad materials,
foi,whieb the matter must ntLmlte up,
mate left Salamanca the 2d, which the French
had evacuated a few hours stiefore
cis
arrival.
Generalljaret -made his escape just a's We 'enter7
the town 3, the 4th forded the Douro, the
French having destrOyed• the two centre arches
of' the bridge i the 7th drove the French out of ,
Palemitia ; King aoseph left it a few hours before
our arrival. On the ,E31.0,_ we expected a battle
before Burgos, but the enemy blew up the castle,
and abandoned the poSition, and concentrated the
whole of their force at Vittoria. On fhe 15th
,wst hhro at St. Alartino. Here we
.joined two other divisions of the arni.7. On the
20th ive were in a wood, within twelve miles of
Vittoria: here we were told the French arniy was
pasted,' with its right on the town; a river in •
front, and ocecupying all the adjacent bilk;
85,000 strong, with 130 pieces of cannon planted
ova ti,c heights.• On the morning Of :The 21st; wis
marched at half-past three o'clock, tieing attach-
ed to,tlic centre division under Sir Thos. Picton :
at tame o'clock we found mhe engagement had com-
menced. 'lt is impossible for me to describe the
poSition the enemy bud chosen ; it seemed cal-
;emilated to liaflle co.tnan force ; I have no hesita-
tion in saying that if the ground bad been in the
pOssestion of the British troops, and that they
had been --attacked by the French, that three-
, fourths. of their army would have been cut to
They'eanitiiiimed light well till four
o'clock, When they began to give way on their
left, and shortly twee the retreat became general.
-We pursned them fur nine wiles from the tiehl of
battle. .Aboiot half past nine O'clock, we formed
'SO ()pit (if SlitlititFolls, with the hussars in
front and dis Mounted, the enemy covered by clouds
and we with glory,•and a think wood, in which ot'e
passed the might without food fir, baggage, after a
,pleasant little ride of about eighteen hours. -Lord
Wellingtontame op just aswe dismounted ;' hesaid,
"Well done, Lite Guards, you have acted nobly
I will send your baggage up to you, make yoar-
selves conifortahle,„' we shall be. after them in the
morning;' thus amplyrepaying rts for till eve had
tali red. I rant 'sorry to tell you time French did
not stand our charge, but went right about the
moment they got is fair view of us, so that we
have less' credit firr valour, having so much for
appeWance. We haying taken a'great mummy pri-
90110$, 151 pieces of Cannon, -all the plunder of
the French, their baggage, corn, &c. the whole
of 3weolm's plate, e:mto, crown, and carriages ;
do not timink they will have the impudence to meet
us, aiaimi alter time drubbing they have received..----:.
.A squadron of my regiment wars sea into Vitro-
daring the aetiOu by Lord Wellington's order,
about four o'clock, to take possession of the
town ; they were Within twenty initiates of catch-
ing time Usmorntr of the Spanish Crown ; .t)e had
just time to make his escape and no more he
krrived at Saivatiera about efght o'clock, to which
town. we pursued him the next day ; was oil
befory oar arrival art Pumnldna.
.f 1; t 11,1;1)11
fiery; theirs is.'”als,o,geeat
not itaoCk you by is description of the grokmd weer
which we passed ' time pursuit-r it has made a
lasting 'impression ou my mind. The phinitcr
which the. siddierl gOt iK immense. King Jowpil,
after his arrival ;it Saivatiara, about 24 inde3 from
the field or battle, aS, the mistress of the house as-
sured me, had not a knife, fork, or spoon to eat
his supper with ; every thing he load was in our
pOssession. He give up the town'for fide hours
toplunder to the ruffians that fled with him ; and
I.:Assure yOu they performed the task to n(1116111-
tioni. as nothing worth taking was left ; and the
tnost,.wanton destruction of the property they
could not rerun% e,"
•

THU LYCEVM.--The Flaunted Tower, another of
the admirable •.relnpres.of the geniuS of 81.911AC;E;
was represented at this Theatre last night, chiefly
fur the purpose of introducing Mr. and Mrs. COONS,
rn Lard anal Ludy Elinor. We have no-
thing to odd to our account of their respective me-
rits on their performance in The Siege of Belgrade,
except that Mr. Couttri appeared to more advan-
tage 13,t night as an actor. lie gave'the airs in
a very able manner, partieiarly Spirit gf my
Sainted Sire.". His deportment is easy arni4en
tlernanlv; bis pronunciation IS strongly marked
by. tlae Hibernian accent. Mrs. COOKE is a Spi..
cited singer ; her deportment, however, at, an
actress, requires great improVement, for, in that
respect, she was much inieriox to the mock Lodi/
'Elinor, which 'ova.; well. performed by Miss KE.L.LY.
The Opera, , altogether, was vary well supported
and very %veil received.

ArtecnoTE.----The following whimsical circnm-
staoce is related a Mr. AsTLtY; tenor-pupil
with Sir.rotltiA ReiNot.ps, under Ilunsow, the
chief portrait painter of lli (lay. Mr. ASTLZY did
not excel in genius, but lie was a, very. respect-
able eharactetin private life, and having » hand-
some persOne‘r tised himself above de necessity
of following his profesiion by A wiiaitbv marriage.
It was the custom of
the English p glisainters. at
Rome to make little excursions together in the
cmintry. "On one of those occasions, on a Suth
pier afternoon, when the season was particularly
hot, the whole company threw off their coats, as
being an ineumbrance to theni, except pooi'
Lit Y, who alone 111 V Writ grist teilletallCe to take
off his thii seemed very unaceountable to his
companions, wires some jukes, nnole on leis singo,
iariry, at last obliged hini to take him coat off also
The mystery was then immothittly explained
for it apneared that tile hinder part of waiglcat
was made, by way of thriftiness, ma (it oat' Qt" his
nivaliietures and thus di..phlyed o trentennaug rya-
tegia on biabacie, to the great diversion ut all the
spectators.

were exbibite+l in
Monthly two fine storgeolla
the Lieerpoof Let, each measuring about
Revco fret it; 1,„a41), Tliii ;4 a very iiiiiesual dr-
eninbitance in that toren.. One of these stirrgvints
wax Citught between Lacerpool and Runcorn.