The Sun.
London, England, 1809-01-10 00:00:00

THE.EXPECTEDKEPORT.

NEV-YORK, Nov. 25.—0 n Tuesday last, the
. Committee Of Congress on the President's Message
relative to ForeignAffaris, of to the HOUSO th&
Report which will be 'found in this evening's
Commercial Adverthei.• The Report-was made the'
order of the day for yesterday, and • 5000,eopies
.were directed to be printed for the use of the Mem-
hers. It recommends, as the Rader will perceive,
a total nun-intercourse with England and France,
and all their dependencies ; and there is, in our view,
-not the shadow of doubt that the majority of Con-.
gress' wilt have the raslineis to adopt the misguided
and fatal measure. On the necessity, policy, or
wisdom of the proju.A, we have not now the dispo-
sition, even had we the leisure, to remark. Nor
shall we now inquire whether the high, honourable,
independent, and enterprising spirit of the American
people wilt long submit to the baneful dreams of au
experiuiental and visionary philosopher..
action of Governor ?v,l'Kean against William
Duane, for a libel, which hat Occupied the Supreme
Court for five d,ct:'s, teeminoled on Tu,:bcf.iy evening. ;
Ou Friday morumg the Jury brought in their ver-
Guitty.

Cbristeoing.—lti Georgia, (Vt.) a daughter of
Mr. Alpheus tfardwich, • by the name of Embargo
{lie reason given by (he father for imposing thiS ludi-
crows Udine .Upou his cad), t.ler singular,
wishes ever to
,have a /wing olvtnoritntlutn
bei)re his eyes of one of the bet pulitkai ineasurei
to enrich the country I •

-.,..,.

•
Captain WATLRMAN, of the. Mentor, belonging
tcr New York,' from a 'Spanish port in the Medi-
terranean; on his passage he was bearded from
an English Man of War, bht suffered to proceed
without any iodorsement of papers; •afterwards• he
had the misfortune to meet with 'two French Fri--
gates, and was boarded from one of them ; after
examination they were about dismissing him, when
one of his sailors (a foreigner, wno now sc'
himself a Frenchman) informed of their hawing
been spoke by the English, anti 'Capt. WATERMAN'
was required to alter his declaration,' or they would
burn his ,vessel, and he and his crew be , made pri-
soners ofivar; but he refused to make any altera-
tiort,. and remonstrated against their yielding to the
lestimeny of such a fellow, agnnst all other circutn-
atanceS,---but in vain ; . part of the Mentor's cargo.
was. taken out, the crew carried on board the Fri-
• t
gate, and in the night Captain • 'WATERMAN was,
invited upon deck to behold his ship in flames.
-[On board the'frigate‘they were treated worse than
the 'English prisoners; they were afterwards carried
into •France—marched to Brest and iMprisened—
from,thence through other, pritions to Verdun, .his
mate and some of his people 40nd-cuffed on their
march. 'At length, after a tediohs. correspondence
44,
with General A RMSTRONG. and. assurances -from him
that he had done every thing in7his power by pet
tiOnN fbr _their release, Capt. W. insisted that be
should demand it, in the name of his country it
was•finally obtained, after being a prisoner for near-
ly five months, from March to July, during, which
time he had been the tenant of thirty-two different 1:
prisons 1 [ •

Such is the treatment Americans receive at the
hands, of FrAnce—our snips plundered and burnt on
the telluw citizens cariied into csptivily
loaded with iroui,itnpriloDed nod treated like'ilitvei
while tilt': arms of our country are' turned only
against.our own citizens, and the doors of secrecy
arts eloSed upon the enormities at the universal
robber, to .whom in America we btirn incen4e as
the head of the 4‘. enlightened Government >of
France V'

The following. articles were commanicinea from
Washington to the Editor of the United Sates
Gazette':

So tar as an opinion cart bt (brined orthe rnea.
sures Whieh will be adopted, frotti the lahipioge of
the Achrtinistration and their adherents, in 6,:,nress,
there is no hope of a restoration of commerce, or of,
any amelioration of the state of our attain. The
utmost riucour is manifested by the ruling majoray,
.4,,vea in. ttjtir. ordiparY -conver&ition,
.against those.

who hae.oppe,ied, the ,'.nibargio-, and, Oven agains
thove iarts of the union in which snob opposition
has beei most conspictivs. The); even tall; faini-
Harty of matching troop: from NorthCaroltna, Vir
giuia, &e.. into the Nortl:e.ro States, and punishing
as 'traitors those who diall dare to 'call in question the.
policy of the Measures resolved upon by the govern-
'went, and a. tit to be carii.e4l'into execnticu,,;;-.
'Eliere seems in be in the ft. eJings of these Gentlemen
that rettish reseincrlent K hich is tl:e result
of confident hope .unexpectedly disappointed. .Ten
triOntlis ago they entertained no doubt that the Em-
bargo would bring the Belligerent Powers, or rather
Great Britain, completely. to their *terms. In this
exiieaation they have been miserably disappointed,
anti now seem disposed tO'wreak• their -vengeance
upon those who, fr'ont the first, predi&ed that the
measure would prove :ingitory, andivhose .predicts
tions have been fully verified. •

liousp OF 12 ITRESEN rAbruirEs.

DECEMBER 1.

FOREIGN RELATIONS. •
'The HOUSCI a-giftrt in -Committee or the whole.—
.
The first Res()!uncut undiir consideralioh In the fol.-
lowing worth

Resolved; That the:Uaitetl States cannot withodt
a . sacrifice of their rights', honOtir and indepcnt.4
once, su'ontit to the late g:diats..of Great Britain and
Ftante.

The questidn was taken on the Resolution, and
called nem. COll.

• Tln becond Resolution flaying been read in the
following words':--;•

That it is expedi,:nt to prohibit by law
the admission into the ports of the United States all
public or private armed or onatmed ships or vessels
belonging to Great Britain or France, or to any
!other of the Belligerent Powers having in force
Orders ~or Decrees violating the lawful com-
merce and neutral rights of the United States; and
also the importation of any goods,., wares, or mer-
eltandize,' the growth, produce, or manotaEture Of
the' dontinias of, any of the slid Ptht es, or itn7
ported froin any place in the possession of either.
RAdDOLPH called for a division- of the Reso-
lotion,'taking the question on each clause -of it se-
,
par ttely., •

. .
The question erns taken on the. first clause en ling
with the words " United States." Curile-a without

opposit ion.

The second clause was agreed' to by the Commit-

tee;- 44 'id- 21.
Tice third Iles()lution in the following worth hay-
. jog been read
itesolved, That measures ought to be immediately
taken
.I.or placing the coontr'y in a more complete
state 01 defence.
'rite Itesoluti,ci W 34 agleed to without opposition.

The accounts from .I.,kbon by the In3t Packet all
agree in stating, that the Government were ex-
tremely a6tive in their exertions to animate the OW. '
pie, and to intince them to tivi:e the most deter-H
mined resistance to the entrowe of the FrenCh
Portngal. The levy en-masse and the general arm-
log' were *needing with as nnich success as could
OeVexpeEted, -Several persons,:'the greater part
Frenchmen, had been wrested-at Lisbon: They
were suspetied of holding corntrainication With
Ifitmsr.t'pAtt-ra'6 army. Shinemerchants, apprehen-
sive or the return of the French, ixere'preparing to
:quit liisbori. ;It was understood'there that the -Su-
preme JCillta had arrived :it.Seville.

The has just arrived firm Limo,
bring.; account that the inhah.itantg illuminated
their tious'!i far three sticesive nights, in honour
of the gallant ',resistance, which they underitood the
Mother Country made to the French. They, as.
wi.:11" as the of the inhat,inuits of that Colony,
were unannnou.i in their deiermiltallop not to submit
to, or connect in any 'way, I,vitit. France,:
w.baievcr misfit be the issue, of . the contest in 014
, • . „ -
About a fit t night intl., the Nonlioello.fell in with Yi
the wreck of a ship, which being laden with timber,
was prevented from sinking. I'here was only ono
-Man olive on oO•ard,out.pleleyen that composed her
crew, And,. shockiug, tofelate, this wretched tving
~had ineserVed exist eoce by 'seeding on Alm bod lei
of his conlrade,s. 4p:. bad, becit upwatds of forty
,:ilays upon. the wreck; • . •

'The Dutch. national Brig Man/y, arrived at Hull
on 'Saturday morning, u.;14 C:11,101 ell on the Ist inst.
hy,the.ollysc Sloty ut War, Notth Set, after
.411 40i,en of au hour and'a ball, in which the -/Ilaniy
h;i4 four .n en killed and three wounded,
.and the
On.yx three wounded. The .holy was driven near
,the entrance of the Humber. en Tuesday night, and
brought. tip betveen Stone;' Binks and the Newsom
li'4Oy. Owing to the violence of the storm, they
were coMpelled to cut ::way her I»:iin-mast inane-
stately: on her bringing up, and, in a yery short
time after, the' fere•im.i4t wo carrietii away. Sln
monnti sixteen itt.pound c.inonades, and twoloug
brass 97pounders,att, is a ttru, Vessel., ix ith 70 men
board, and w.ts formerly a British Cun.brig, cap-
Oared bv sotne Dutch Gun-Wats in the River Erns,
a boat three years ago.

Tile LOAD MAY 94 And LAM' IVI.IYORESS hive
ii*ued upwaidi of seven bun 41.411 catct4 cat invitatit:n
to, t4V 13x11 and Sapper., at.ll,ie iVialiitrin•house, ata
i-itloy next, it being her t.adyship'4 Birth-day.
I,ltttko.—Te-clay no Court of Aldermen being
'helcl,the-Lotia-MAyotti,- ziftrr the Re.
turns. orkreti it 'to tall 3d, per peck, Tlie gitartein
444' w t ,thett be. lc vl.

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7:11.6 EDITOR at, t;IE SUN.
• ;v. •

lSjr.rudtl;LEL:lstlgaiseen ,again idled byePponymrl4;
subscriber“tpanithe delay of the 1-'rint,frpfn jos
tore of the ,sPege of Gibraltar, but these. 'critics in
ambuscade do net seem. to consider• the magnitude.
of the work in question, And tILI time necessarily
required: to do justice JO so large a Print., Vor do
they think irequiiite to inqt:tire whether, if there be
a fault i,t) the delay, it should be inypntedto.the
graver-or to the original Artist.

PALLIIT.

BRITISH THSTITUTION.-...Th0 Committee. of' Di.
reelors of this admirable.Establishinent held a Meet.
lug ott. Sattndat lot: at their Gallery: in Pall Mall; for
the purpose of adjudging theiPremiums for the best
proliu&tops of the present season.—The premium is
fifty prinneN*lieh were obtained. by each of the
following !,:t.,olfdates. G. DAWE, for his
piCture of.lttt'ngen, itt Cymbeline; Mr. W. Sus rteg,
for his excellent pifture of the Music-Master, in the
Flemish style ; Mr. J. LINNU)..I., for a Landscape ;
• Mr. S. GAHAGAN, ',his model of Sampson break-
ing his Bonds.—Our !leaders will remember that'
we gave an account of these p:oduCtions a .toon as
the Gallery wai'opened, and we are fr„ield to 60 that
our approbation of the tespeaive perfbrmanees has
been confinned. by the decision al the enlightened
Direeitotsof an institution which promises the highest
advantages to the Arts of this Country. Mr. i,tAr.rit;
who is one of the suecessful Candidates, is the
nephew of Mr. K.EMRI.R, and the husband of • Mrs,.
Su A RPE, of Drury-,lane Theatre. There were Raven'
other produdions of the preent season, of such merit,
that they must have induced the Cemmittee to ba-
lance berore they. finally decided, ; and among these
is certainly that of Deloraine crossingthe Ths'er
Neu/fight, felled The Loy cf the last Minstrel, a
picture of a high poetical character, which denotes
an ;mist of tio ordinary-reach of talents'.
Amongst th, principal improvements in the -re.
cotwruittion of Coveot Garden Theatre is to ht. that
of having the various dressing-rooms of the per,
formers on the ground floor, manrof whom, in the.
promiscuous distribution of these apartments, had
70 stepi tleqUently. to ascend, and descend, in • the
course of an evening's performance t the dressing.
rooms of the A6tors are now to Won one Woof the
Theatre, and those of the AClretises on the other.
A considerable etiantity of silver coin, of Eliza-
beth,
.James; and Charles, was lately dug' on a
.farm
called Len, in the parish of Aberrant, near Carmar,
then.. Tradition' informs us, that an encampment
stood on this.spet during part. of Cromwell's Pro-
te6iorship.

Another .King's Tax Colleapr, at the West 7eed
of the I'oWt4 is said to have been discovered to be
minus several thousand pounds. • •
At day-break. on Tuesday last, an enormous fish
was descried at half cable's length from Pcntyn
quay, steering' towards 'lll,e town, and three boats,
under the diredion of CapL lltitiN, were inarined
to attack him; the. first lte.incloied, as it were in
pond, forthed by a circular ceree fraftl head tostail,
without doing any injury. A man then courageously
cut a hole in the:dorsal fin, through which he drove
a hooked-rope. Upon teeitog this, the tith at-
tempted to put to sea, but being diverted. by,some
hard
,blows un suont„, he sheered towards the
Falmouth road. A three-inch rope doubled, .was
'then parbuckled r0u2a.,1 him, which ht instantaneously
snapped. A. hawser from the quay was next applied
to ; when, alter th,tkgiog a sloop's anchor,
tearing tip a moarstune rSt on the en ty, and staving
a . boat, he wAs: I”onght into bbnal water, and it
being ebblideolubdrie& He was afterWarda towed
mood 1-)y three ,boats, and with the tackle of a sand-
bare, and the_ exe`rtiona of twentrmen' and three
horses, he Was, drawn upon the slip off-Colonel
Heatne's quay, where he is to remain a few days for
the arntement of the curious. He Itletil9llreS 3
feet long, 19 feet round, 9 .reet high, .74 feel
' mouth; and his weight is supposed to exceed 5 tons.
Although the:general appearance and dispoaition of
this fish npproach incite towards the whale than the
shark; he is undoubtedly a tuale of. the Squalua
Genus, -being the Squalus Naximns,, the Basking
Shark, or Sun fish at Pennant. It abounds in the
Irish Channel, and on the West coast M Scotland.
It has been observed to derive great pleasure Isom
basking on the stirlace of the ocean during the heat
of the day, whence With its English denorninatians.
The 'liver of this kind, . yields on an average eight
barrels.o,:eil,. which is not.only pure, sweet, and
tit for, latTril,'ut is also much used externally for
• relieving. bruises, bnrps, and rhemnatic p.tins. It
is generally' seen in. pairs.' .Accort!ingly, the mate
of this animal was -observed in St. Keverne,liay,
Wednesday, by the in/sing/4am Packet.
MAR LEOIiOVCi rST rt charge was yester-
day made at this Office, by a, jeweller in Sydney'.
alley, LeiceStersquare, against Getnr I,i4liker, a
wutebtnan of that beat, for feloniously rectthing a
qttantity of stolen jewellery, his property. ft ap-
pealed, in evidence that the jeweller's shopmati, at
four o'clock on Sunday morning, hailed .the; ‘yalch-
man as' he was calling the hour, and handed to hini
through the area railing rt quantity or jewellery in a
paper parcel, desiring him to take eine of it until he
saw him again. 14 the morning it was discovered
that the shopman had absconded, and the shop had
been robbed. The Prisoner consulted a perstin re-
speetingi:s4te property he, had received, ‘chic,ll
made, known to the Prosecutor, and lie w,ls 'oprre-
hended. The Plisot:L4 was retLonth.ql tut- wiui:jer
examinat ion.

Bow-STlter.—Yesterttly morning Mr. APLeani
respeUable literary cli3Nizt,r, was ty.o6glit before.:
Mr. Rein, charged by I\L- Blair, a :...itirt:oll, of
Russell-street, Blooinsburi, With FendittLy• hint t
threatening letter, which liliewhie containea ehak
lenge to fight a,duel.... it appeared that the pelend-
ant had been at the Proecutor's house, in company
‘vith another person, when a dispute larose;, which
the Magistrates declined entering izno,,a'lui dispute,
however, was followed by the Wend:int in.ierting in
peipul)lleatloft, cal it 41.1 e diced Ckserver,
01 winch he',was tl,e avowed Editor, some severe
.observations tipott Mr. lihdr, and it alluded to the
disp.tte thst had taken place between thein. In ad-
dition to this„theDeatndant sent thelleter complain.
eta of to M r. "Blair.'

Milijistsizites being Of opinion that its contents
atnotinted to a chaitonge, ordervd M` I,
firld bail to 'keep the pet c: tota Mr. Blair, kun.G-
sclt Qt4l. and two sure[if,: to

POETRY.

TRANS LArION

oir-ritt LAVIN EVILuGUE 10 TILE PLAY OP Ttte ADLL.
Piii, liPOKtri tr 4 Ttat noßstkTor.v AT WES

coLLEct, ucc.

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crtsirao, .44CHINdS,

DEnt

1CT1431,?i0.
./Eieli I NU6 Ceireltuisii clever,
Is tofirrie rnost purielual eves
Vriir andyour father, with your wives,
-Waste the best moments of your lives."

ASCIIINUS.
" Dear CT,,EStrIIO I we both Are bete!"

• sniisA.
,4.0 h t what strange bights each hour 40pear
'Phis coat than auy toachman's,' biggerv, .
Makes you, young num, u monstrous figurc
Docs such a dress become a youth ?"

KsCtitblUs.

" Yes t and an old man too. In truth
You're nobody. if you're Without it
So make you no more tuns about it.
We, by the art of driving, health
And fame acquire."--lla. " With lon of wealth."

43C it NV S.

$4 Young men of spirit now no more

. • O'cr musty books of science pore:,

Pr ever waste a thought coneerning
What you Old men lost time in learning.
We prefer stage-coachmen's knowledge
To all that's taught at school or college;
Nor wish in Senates to debate;
And with Our counsel guide the State.
We'd rather guide, than rule the land,
A light barouche, with !bur in hand,

AUU nobly gain our groom's applause,
Than ably plead our Country's cause.
But happiest (and he knows his bliss
Ilappiest far or mortals this,, •
With ample share or lame, contented,
Young Cr isz Tito, for he Invented
"I"he t.ishion of,this driving age,
The coach, so like a r:oininoij stage r.

DEM4A,
" Oh ! Prodigals! Oh 1 worthless race
Oh ! times degenerate and base !
but why this dress so loose and big ?"

A4CH;NUS.

" Why does a lawyer wear a wig ?
In curricle, harouc he, or gig.
This is the right costume. Ai soon
Without his whisketsa dragoon
Could please the fair on charger" prancing,
Utz without spurs appear—tor dancing,
As we could drive undrest. But you
must join the chosen ICVY
W 110 constitute the driving crew.
Yuursclt tints Brest like us ! nor scorn
Around your Beck to sting the hotr►
And in the hindmost licat be borne
"t"o Itcliont, UeM►c 4., go you must--
Ol►! we shall kick up $1..:11 a dust !
DLit imitate, with due regaid,
The manners of a Mail Coach Guard,
And square your elbows thus. I and no
Yottr hat upon your head must AU ;
And you must undertake to iced,
'Curry, and clean each parriper'd steed,
And at as helper, and take pains
Neatly to keep the bits anti reins."

DEMF.A.

4g Is that tit °Mee (or your tither,
you prodigal young Etakehells ? Rather •
Would I, than be to Ilellotit jogg'd,
tlave all the Driving Club well tiagg'4
'With their oivn ‘viiiPs —l'd spare thok hicks,
And optually ac?urge their Drivere.backs 1"

EtILOGUE

TO Ma, 1.114,40LD'3 NEW FLAY 01

MeIN AND 1171. R.

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SPOKEN 15Y NIES. JOltnAN.
What is an Author like on that dread night
When his first five-An Play is brought to light
Why, like a culprit, trembling in his shoes,
There, at the bar he stands, and frets and stews :
,Anitious he fists-, to hear how Vastly Well
His Counseri (Mrs. Nan A :I's)
Tlto' loudest plaudits he can scarcely hear,
Tha slightest ikbillation stuns his ear 1,
An'Author's ear wondrous at a hiss
How very dolicate that organ is
A hiss t - What does he than look like !—Gadzeuks,
"You Capire conceive•howlik-ea- tout-he looks I
ceirier—his judges—faith he don't like them—
fie itreaitS their caustic cough-,and damning 1.1.,):
TitcPrry—you-,-.-and here in juslktocist sit, „.
Nature (utter .tilloy)) SVIISO (y11)1 learning (boxer), humour
(kw?. gallery), taste (boxes), and wit WO,
Freedom, Mirth, Honour, 11.13tiCS*, Truth, are here,
And Candour's honest forematt every where"
luito content, good folks—while such fall throng ye—
He doesn't mean to challenge one among:ye!
Then what's an author like ?.—thcres no.denial—
He's like—to have a fair, an I ngli.h trial
he'may be like the 'soil that pays
The fostiring hand that tries the germ to•raise
C'ondepred—he's like—he's like—Gad, who can say
What the triats!s like, it you should damn his play.

In snort—if yott to.night conderfin his pen,
like7oh,"zio t he's never like to write aisle I
And now—as brevity's the soul, of wit, wo know,
You all—inost tkely, Would like me--to go I

CouaT OP efiANCERY.--41UGUICNIN against BARE,
LE Y.--1 Itl4 c4Ufl(, Vllit* has excited sp- Lunch dis,
c,broilt)a, Will be carved by 'Mr.' BASE LEY to thi
louse of Lora, in the ensuing Sesstoo, by way a
Appe,al agithbt the Decree of the Calla of Chan

- TIM LATE ACTIONS
BETWEEN
THE BRITISH ANI) FRENCH CAVALRY.

LETTERS FROM AN OVIFICER or RANK.
SATSARAN, DEC. ea.—The British Cavalry, is eon-

du6ling itself in a way that must- meet universal ap-
probation. It has been partially engaged several
times, and each time has acquitted itself with ho-
nour. The Isth hive had three brushes with the
enemy, the twO first I mentioned in a tnruer letter,.
the latter took place two clays ago. In this Captain-
Jones and Lieutenant Sir Godfrey ; Webster, with
about 30 men, attacked: about too of the enemy,
killed 26, and made five, prisoners. The 1 title lost
six or eight Alen and horses..
Lord Paget had an atfair with the enemy's ca-
valry, at the -herd of the 15th, most 'honourable to
that regiment: The following are the details :
Flaying ascertained that General of Brigade the
Marquis de Lavalle, W.)111 700 or 805, cavalry, was
in this plate (Satifigan), Lord nigk determined upon

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endeavouring fro surprise him. For this purpose, he
ordered the , loth, with four guns, •tinder, General,
Slade, to march along the right bank of the river
Cea, and to present themselves before the town at
day-breakoo give every sort of alarm, and to push_
into the town if praolicable, in order that the enemy
might be driven into the plain on the other side.
Lord Paget marched with 400 of the 15th, and one.
Captain and twelve men of the 7th, atone o'clock
A. M. on the left bank, wilts the intention ofs,plac.
ing himself between Sabagan and Saldana.4,—AboOt,
half past four o'clock, his advanced guard fell in
with a wrote, charged it, and took five prisoners;
but the rest escaping, and fearing that they would
give the alarm, he was obliged to push on in order
to be in time to cut them off. His Lordship arrived,
exAly in time; he found the enemy, a little lkfOre
day-break, formed, without the town, and judged
them to be bet Ween 6 and 700 but froni every tes
timonyof the prisoners, there were 7.50. As soon
as, they could clearly discern us they moved off from
their left, in order to gain a bridge over a small river
nearly parallel to our line of march, and to our right.
Lord P. formed column of divisions from the right,
and trotted along parallel to their march, but a good
deal behind them.

They frequently endeavoured to' cross his .Lord.
ship's column, and he as frequently receded front
them, in order to preserve the parallel, and' to pre-
vent their taking him in flank. They changed their
direaion several times, and his Lordship did the
same, alwayi' gaining upon them 'and closing p
At length finding that they could not get off, lhiY
halted and formed ; Lord P. moved on sufficiently
to gain thvir head, halted, wheeled into line, and at-
taeked:' The rilaroh in colniim and the attack,

were perhaps as orderly and as fine movements as
ever were made. The,enemy stood firm, tired same
pistols, and received us. We broke them, killed
several, wounded nineteen, took prisOners two Lieu-
tenant-Colonels, one Captain, ten Lieutenants, about
one hundred and sixty men, one lnindred and t wen,
ty-five horses, sonic mules- and baggage.- Nothing
podia exceed the gallantry of the attack, All rush-
ed on, and so complete a melee never was Seen So
entirely were the squadrons intermixed, that it.. was
iftspossibte to disitioguiatt friend from JOE*. 1.4.4010-;,
nant-Colonel Grant is a fine fellow indeed ; hei is
slightly wounded in the head, and I believe 'killed
the Officer who gave him the cut. Jones, the Atiltl!
taut, a most gallant little fellow, has received a severe
wound in the head. I hope he will do welt. There
ire twenty-two men wounded, some verfseverely,
but none I hope dangerously. It is most unfortu-
nate, that in consequence of falling in With the pat-
roleLord P. felt obliged to push on. This threw
out the i nth, who were most eager to engage. His
Lordship had ordered them, as soon •as they bad
ascertained that the town was evacuated, to send
two squadrons to their left to a post wherta he knew
the enemy had a strong picquet ; but finding, by the
report of the pistols, that we were engaged on the
other side of the town, this, order Was negle6led,
and they rushed through it, and just came in time
to see the pursuit. Lord P. sent them , ant in' dif-
ferent dirations toguake prisoners, and they brought
in several:

We march this night to, attack Soul at Carrion
and Saldana. We shall probably overset him ; but
I cannot disguise my opinion, that the only good •
resplt to be expeded from our operations, is the pre-
serving unsullied the honour of our arms: Spain,
in oly opinion, is conquered.eeNor is it worth say-
ing—such apathy, such ignorance, such pusillani-
wily, never before existed. •
liernivetvre, Dec. 28.—Since last I wrote to
you, the cavalry has had some further suecesses.
AboUt four days age, small petiole of the filth fell
ire with a French picquet of, nine men, who all laid
Wiwi) their arms, On the same day, Lieut..colonel
kerrison in making a wrote, aaw at a considera-
hie distance one of the enemy ; he immediately ad-
vaeced with Limn, Crawford and a few men, The
French patrole, consisting of an Officer and le men,
immediately made. off. Volonel:ii.erriton, Lee( e-
t Crawford, &c. gave chem." These Officers,
whir only.two men, overtook them. Kerriion en-
gaged the Officer With great gallantry, and wound-
ed him so severely, that fin died betore he reached
' his support.. The French iitficei., in a desperate
tbrest, broke. ?Unison's arm. with the hilt of
sword. The,twelve men were taken
On the 03th, in passing Mayorga with the ca-
valry, Lord Paget heard that a panty of the enemy
was in.the town, On reconnoitering, he discovered
two squadrons without, and a stnall party in the
town. , Lord Paget ordered up two squadrons of
the loth. He advanced with one through the town.
At the gate. they tired, but did no. harm. The
enemy retreated to high-ground, His Lordship or-'
di red one squadron to attack, and supported with
the second. When within 200 yards theitrst squa- '
dren slackened its pace. Lord Paget thinking they,
were hesitating, redo through. 'them, and ordered
the charge. The French 'stbed'es very firmly, and
tired their carbines,'. hy,which we lost two horses'
killed, oee wounded. The, changeand in 'the greatest order, and the'residt se-
veral Men killed, twenty one desperately woended,
otet Otlicer,'and about one hundred men priseners,
and fitly horses taken. What Lord Paget had eon-
sidered Ittlitatitm, was, the.elfeet of theanost l et-
feel coolness. Colonels Leigh and- Anietio,
,who

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were both in front of the first arinadrOn, 'finding
the horses a little blown, checked, in order to re-.
cover- their wind. " All distinguished themsekes.
Lord Paget was loud in his praises, and he partion-
larly. noticed Captain Howard and Captain NeW,
port, who behaved most gallantly. We _had. not one
man touched. _ _ _

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Titi4 morning a picquet of one Officer and thirty
men of the 18t11, was'attacked by about 1;..n French'
cavalry. The 19111 took an (dicer and. two 'men.
They have•sorne wounded, and were obliged to fall
back, but the enemy did not attempt to pursue.
You will hear that the army is falling back.
really believe it is high time to do The enemy-
are coming on in every direition, and in great force.
We have, by our movements, made a great diver's
sion. lithe SpAniards-profit by it (ot' which I have
no expeaation Whatever)' more may be done, if not,
it will be appaNnt. to- every ono :that the Cause is
hopeless.
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