The Sun.
London, England, 1807-09-26 00:00:00

CO PE ,I`, t.31,14T. 1.

.11EXTRACT OF A, PlilyATV. LETTER.)
"The bombardment commeheed on Wedneoay
the 2d September, at sun-set, froin four mortar hat-.
teries, consisting altogether of 30 large mortars ; zit
the same time a battery of fire rockets was-opened
on sate right, and that ,part Of the town againSt
i which they were direded was inunediately on fire
in several places. •
" The bombardmeni continued for three nights,
commencing' about eight o'clock, P. M. and conti-
nuing without interruption for 16. hours, that is, till
noon the next day, when- it 'regularly ceased till
eight in the evening.
On the . third' night the town appeared to be
in one universal blaze on the right; and about
midnight the great steeple was observed to be on
fire, which is said, by the Danes, to have ben done
by one of the fire rockets. At four in the morning,
it fell with a most tremendous crash : at noon the
firing 'ceased, as usual, but the flames spread in all
directions throughout that day (the 4th) and the
following day (the sth) ; nor was it till the after-
noon of the toth that they were at all abated.
"'Six hundred houses are burnt to the ground,
with the University and the Cathedral, and only
400 houses have escaped without some damage.—
Two thousand persons are said to have perished in
the bombardmenr; another night must have de-
stroyed the whole town,; nor is there on record an
instance 'of so much damage having been done in
SO short a time, which may be attributed to the ads
ditional implements of combustion used on this oc-
casion.
On the sth, a short time before the bombard-
meat waa about to re-commence, a Flag of Truce
came out ; of course the firing was suspended; nor
ikas it afterwards renewed, although it was not ge-
nerally known, till the morning of the 7th, that a
capitulation was concluded.
" On the 7th, in the evening, the flank compa-
nies took possession of the citadel, and a detachment
from the fleet landed in the arsenal. The citadel
is extremely strong, having a double ditch, and a
great quantity of cannon mounted; it looks direly
into the Crown Battery, which remains in posses-
sion of the Danes, as do, all the gates into the town,
which the English are not allowed to enter. •
" The arsenal contains an immense qUantity-of
naval stores and timber,' particularly fine knee tim-
ber, so much wanted in England.
" Greit progress is already made in equipping the
captured ships. The lower rigging -is already (Ter
head, and it is believed they will.be all out of the
harbour in a fortnight. Two thousand troops and
five thousand seamen are working in the dock-yard ;
and it is surprising what he 1 ies are found in the
work, from the regularity in the disposition of the
"stores; every ship has its warehouse, and every part
of the riggirg is ticketed. •
" The loss of the British on shore does not exceed
150 killed and wounded, and no more than ao afloat.
The Danish Garrison is said to have lost ado Men,
besides two Gun-b Oats, which were blown up, with
50 or tio men• in each. The greatest loss we sus-
tained afloat was in an armed Ship, called the Charles
of Zirkaldy, which was blown up by a shell, alud
about 20 persons killed and wounded It is indeed
inconceiveable how small Ourioss is, when the state
of the ground about the batteries is examined ; the
quantity of shell holes and shot grazes exceeds. be-
lief. The Danish troops are deserting to us in great
numbers, being mostly Germans."

EXTRACT Or ANOTHER LETTER.
" His Majesty's Ship Resolution. Copenhagen
Ruads, Sept. 13, 1807.

"The harbour of Copenhagen to-day presents a very
different scene from that which it did tint'. days ago.
Several of the Ships were reported last night fit for sea.
I was on shore yesterday, for the first time, and every
report I had heard respeaing the arsenal tell short of
my ex peaat ion I have no doubt of its being the first
in the world. Every Ship lies opposite to tier store-
house, 'and every article necessary for her equipment .
is close at hand. The stores are immense, some say
to the amount of two millions, which I cannot doubt.
The light Transports are loading with copper and can-
vas, the timber is shipping, aod the Ships on the Stocks
are taking to pieces, to,bt carried away. The Fleet is
in most excellent condition, and:consists of-very fine.
Ships. They bad scuttled.them alt, ready for sinking
should they deem it expedient. Not even a Gan....
boat is to be left them. • The weather to-day is
something better; the last three days have been
piercing cold. The Crown Battery has yet ,its co 7
lours flying,
as well as the Southern Blocks. An
Agent for Transports. informs me, that sixty Vessels
ri are ordered into the ,Harbour to load ; I trust a good
account will be taken of their cargoes. There is no
I. intercourse with the town yet, and I doubt much
I whether I shall be able to get a sight of it."

By the Lisbon Mail, we received the. Madrid
.
Gazette to the 25th. The zeal of the native popu-
lation of Snuth,A.tnerica to assist the Spanish force
in resisting our troops is very ostentatiously blazoned
forth. It is stated, that ten Caciques, who are In-
dian Chieti, waited upon the. Government of Buenos
Ayres, offering to bring forward 20,000 men, will;
100,000 horses,` to; as they termed it, " fight against
the rest coats." The reception they met with is very
minutely detailed, • including of-course an assurance
of gratitude from the Government, accompanied by
an expression of, confidence that their aid was un
necessary, as such disposition was made, which the
result unfortunately proves, as would be quite suf-
ficient to repel and overthrow the enemy. It is
added, that five other Caciques had afterwards wait-
ed upon the Spanish Commander with the offer of
10,000 auxiliaries, and met a similar receptiou.
Whether these statements were introduced into
the Madrid; Gazette with a view to induce an idea
of the popularity of the Spanish Government in
South America, ..an4 thus to damp any expeOatiOns
of success in that quarter, we shall not attempt to
inquire. Indeed the event which has since occurred
at Buenos Ayres renddrs that inquiry quite unneces
Cary. It wa unknown in Spain or Portugal that.
our teobp4 bad tailed at Buenos Ayres.
The ,Itfadrid dsizette contains also a letter, ex-
traLactl. liont a Paper published -at B-aeuos Avres,.
under the title of The Pabliriste. , This letter is fall
of censure of the coadntlit of General Bisitatroab. Ot
the charges we have aleeady given a 4/ittc,44.o.

rIMENICA.

t 4 •
Besroet, Ace. 10.-eeSome of our warirt bemo-
cratic Papers coeseier it a mere half-day's job to
reel Great Brielie, and compel' her to subscribe to
said, term* ae • ita ear humanity we'may cotidescend
teFer. ,Were it as easy to do as to talk, we could
inede England long ere,ethis one of the ter-
' rinarics of the United States.--Supposing, while
they. are making their calculations, we also make
a few.. e _
! In the first place, it is agreed that the war will be
on the Ocean, almost entirely e atod. on' the ocean,
let it be seriously eneeired; bow little we ran
gain, and_ how% much We mast lose. Great Britain
will not hazard her produce and manufadures
to the capture of our Privateers, She .will convoy
together perhaps an hundred Sail of. Merchantmen-,
by ten Frigates, or eren five. .Lan we capture them
No.—We are to trade to the West Indies, to neu-
tral ports, and the. ports of her enemies, says one
Paper ; but how are they to be convoyed ? Will
our inerelianta pay our Privateers for convoy ? If
they should, it ought to be remembered; that indi-
viduate in England will fit out Privateers too teach
113, and will be backed by almost one thousand arm-.
ed vessels of the Goveruthent, Our Underwriters
wutihl not demoted a premium of less than fifty per
cent. to insare to France, Sitain, the Baltic; 'or the
Meditcrratican. And What 'would they demand to
insure teethe less to the West
Indies;
.after theaCtive engagement in war on: both
sides.,,
What prizes ere we to take on the Ocean ? One
Privateer may take another bat taw American pri-
vateers will teke a single English 'Merchantman.
,far from the conntry being enriched by privateering
—so far from our Laying " seven hundred respeela-
ble Ptivateers," as the Government Paper declares,
our owners of vessels would riot tit out too. They
would want a prosped of success ; they Would rather,:
from economy, permit their vessels gradually to rot
in their docks. Men en gage not in privateering,
seamen enlist not in privateering, without an expec-
ieeon, a strong probability, of a balance of, chalice
in their favour.
'But the Intelligencer is told to say, that we are to
receive an 'income eqoal to our revenue from " seven
hundred reepedable Privateers," What ideot be-
heves' it Yet, if it were so, it is nceiticome to the
Government. How' is our civil list to he paid ? How
our national debt increased.—Aye, but the democra-
tic bawling for necessity of lowering and banish.-
ing the national debt entirely cease-, •when wecan
hire Money to ruin ourselves, to ruin the British, and
to aegrandize France. We can " hire money ; '
wehave now a " national established credit,"' and
'can hire money. We can afford to lose a revenue of
a dozen Millions.of dollars-, and •run in debt yearly
for millions. Weence could not do so. For l'rench
or Spanish insults, or spoliationS; or aggressions on
our rights, our honour, or our tel. i tory , tee fling could
be done ; not even provision made for.aefoo men.—
The case is widely ditietcut. We see it is. Eng-
land is the insulter now.
The Spaniards, backed by the French, and because
backed by the French, mly shut the Port of 'New
Or leans ; may keep • use with an armed forCe, from
territory perchased ; may carry oil our Citizens; may
exad and receive duties at the Mobile, When our
Government years aince by law eStabliSlied a enstom
house to receive duties ourselves ; May seize the
military stores of the United 'States ; may kick our
•Plenipos down the back stair; of her Ministers.; in
short, may do what she pleases ; and our Executive,
with'mule-like patience, takei the whips and kicks,
talks big in his messages, and tells his private under-.
strapperSto talk little in the House of representatives;
and all this because Spain is France, and Featice,
BONAPARTE, and Btheeretere is , at the head
of au " enlightened Government !" '
We have no idea of succumbing to the insults 'or
injuries' ofeither nation ; nor do any hut. children
and blockheiela declare -so ; nor any but children
and blockheads, believe, that those are "-tories,"
partial to Britain, because they wish to avoid war,
. if consistent with national honour and our right '.—
'Yet the whole answer, and the *hole argument of
certain democrats is, tories, tones, tories. With
far more truth could we say, Frenchmen,
French-
men,' Frenchmen..
The National intelligencer man says, we are to
make our fortunes by privateering, saonld a war
take place with Great 'Britain ; Is at its protits are to
equal the present revenue of the country from fo-
reign imports; and that this immense aunt, instead
of going into the national Treasury, is to flow into
every matt's poCket. This is a charming pidure of,
the solid resources. of a ,great country ; 'and would
be looked on with some scomplaceney, could the
agriculturist, whose surplus produkc.tions would
thereby be denied a market; could the mechanic
acid artiticer, whose labour would cease, for want of
employinent ; could the Merchant, • whose com-
mercial specolationt would entirely be suspended,
'Uelessexercised at a risk that would forbid even
the .hope of profit, be prevailed on to think as he
thinkse sal ad as he advises.
• The additional force ordered out by the Executive.
of this Coinmepwealth, is, we understood,. intended
for the purpose of preserving order, in case, cif rjote.
proceedings and disorders, and to assist the
Magistracy should such diSturbances occur. It is
often the case tht ads the most illegal and •unjusti-
fiable are committed partly through violeoce, partly
through ignorance, but mostly from the instigation
of particular seditious tempers and the writings of
Such scribblers as are constantly endeavouring to
disturb the peace at' the town, through the Chronicle.
This measure of the Commander in Chief is pre-
dent, and highly praise-worthy.
This intellipecer says, we have' " the highest
authority the case admits of," the President's Pro-i
clamatien, to prove they were American citizens.
With 'shame and with sorrow we say, we have an
Executive in whom we wish we could place more
reliance. We know not hut that they are Ameri-
cans; but BIUMIttSY says no in his Proclatnation.
Why will not the Intelligencer obtain from Govern-
ment the documents that induced the President to
believe them Americans ? They would give great
satisfaCtion.'
The inielligencr, endeavonrs to prove olteright to
protect, by our Flag, in all places; Britieli seamen,
whether guilty of desertion, mutiny, murder, or any
other crime; and tills right is to be the ClltAiu of
war. We are, however, uonfident that the. Ameri-
can people will not agree to it and a large mak,-
fity of Congress will express their disagreetneut.