The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-04 00:00:00

ORDER OF THE DAY.

IVIADBuD, AUG. 10.-...,The ISt and sth corps over.'
took beyondthe bridge of Arco Bispu, the regr-g,,,,, d
of the English arm), entirely destroyed it, arid KA •
from it thirty pieces of cannon, their caiisons, a
great part of their equipage, many horses, an.t a
great number of prisoners. It is also in permit of
the artily olVanegas, and has made a great nurnt)er
dlit prisoners; it has retied into the mountains of
Sierra Morena.

(St6.led) A. BELLIARD, Governor-Gen. 111.

MADRID, Aug. 30.—PROCLAMATION or Ilia
KlNG.—Soldiers--It is i.:ark..ely fifteen ,:ay • use
120,000 enemies, couSibt(tlg of En)isii, Pori; nose,
and Spaniards, ' ho inarciied from cliffe,en, points,
rendezvouzed und...r the vi%Als of my captai.; hut
united on the 26th ot July, Qi'eadar-
ra•,a, the first and fourth colt; or the 'rt:serv;:" de.,
feated on that day the enemy U., 'the e7th he re-
passed in great haste the Alberche. 0.. the 28th„.
attacked in a position, j-udg,d unattackable,
.80,000
Men have not been dux to
.contend against 40,000
French. From that tine, renouncing their culineri,
cal projeet of conquest, they have thought out of
safety, and have abandoned the &Id ot battle.—
More than'6ooo EngliSh wounded ate in our linspi-
ta:s. The least of our corps, the first, was judged
sufficient to observe and keep in check this army,
still so numerous in spite of its losses.
It remained upon the Alberche, whilst the fourth
corps and the reserve set out on the 29th to succour
Toledo, besieged by the army of La Mancha, and
that of Madrid, menaced by the same .army, nas
forced the enemy, already within four leagues of t; e
capital, to relinquish its prey. It has repassed the
Tagus in the greatest haste, and flew to the Sierra
Morena, after having abandoned some thousands of
killed,' wounded,' and prisoners. The 2d, sth and
Oth corps are following the rear guard of the rt
my's army. These corps formed a jundion with
the Ist corps at Oropetaott on the 7th of August.
The English fly every way in disorder, and by
roads hitherto judged impraaticable to al tilley: 'The.
I,:datd 6th corps are pursuing them. Soldiers, you
hiive saved my capital, the King 'of Spain thanki
you; you have done more, the brother of your Em-
peror sees iiy before your eagles the eternal enemy
of the French name.

The Emperor well knows all that you have done ;
he will' acknowledge the brave who have made
themselves so conspicuous among the brave ; thorn
who have received honourable rewards ; and f he
says to us, I am content with you, we shall be suffi-
ciently recompensed. Jb snit.
Head-quarters Toledo, Aug. g.

.NOTE.—The Moniteurs are-- filled with reports
from different Generas relative to our operations b
the 'Scheldt. The surrender of Flushing is in.g
mentioned, although there is -a long report from
General Rousseau, dated Breskins; Aug. g. A va-
riety of letter from Count Henebourg, Minister of
War, to the Einperot, are als,.) inserted, giving aft
account of the, offensive measures already ado,.. a,
in one of.which ire says—" I have given all the no,

c -s4.srx Insirc6rons for the defence of the coast from
Pdvre 131yonoe." The latest article from, Vienna
is -Lted the 16th of August, anti gives an account
cf the
,rejoicings in'that capital in honour of the
Si-day of Napoleon. •
M. d Champagny, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
ISas bet out from Vienna for Altenburgh, in Hun-
gary, where he would arrive on the 14th, at six
o'c.l4);:k in the ercniog. On the 14th the negocin-
t:ous for peace were tpl)e.opened. The Emperor of
Austriahas tiominaW ConAt "letternicli and Count
tingent.his Plenipotentiaries.

COVERgMENT 1F MADRID-NEWS PROM THE

-ARMY,
On the 16111" the army of Vanegas stop its retro-
.
grade 'movernentk, and formed at 4-11monaciz.
On the tOth "the King united the -nth corps of the,
reserve at Dillbroa. 'The 1; th_ the King marched
towards the epeirly,„surrounded..iiiin, attackeCl,
Limarove hi.m from all strong positions, and put
him completely to tile "rout. This was an .affair of
• r
three h urs.
Thirty piec'es-O'f_ordnance, 306 caissons, 200 wag-
gons, 3000 infinite number of wounded,
and several sands olcolours, are the result of this
biiniartt day. Our*LOSs:_is very inconsiderable.
Madrid Avg. 14. •
(Signed)

,AUGUCTe.

Rein the Koniteur, Aug. :V.

SANTA OLALLA, AUG. receive this mo-
ment intellig,-nce-that the Enemy's artillery which
boMbarded Toledo, has, ,on a sudden ceased firing,
and that the English and Insurgents are retreating in
the utmost confusion to the left bank of the Tagus.
Thds 'a few days have been sufficient to confound,
and disconcert the absurd projeas of people who
carried the suggestions of insanity so far as to cen.
ceive that they should speedily render themselves
masters of the Capital, and now-deem it extremely
prudent to place the Tagus' between them and the
French arany.—(tioyal Amsterdam Gazetie, Aug.
23.)

VLENNA, AUG. 4.—AcCording to a, resolution ot,
the Prince Major-General (Prince of Neufchatel .or
Wagram), every soldier is to receive 50 sous,on the
birth-day of the Emperor NAPOLEON, and every
Officer 12 francs. -

The Frenollanny in Moravia is tnoat plentifully
supplied with all sorts of provisisna, while the Au-
striaris, in their own countryee3cperrencethe utmost
want, owing to the bad management of those who
are .to procure provisionst for the troopw.- The ut-.
moat discontentis said to prevailamoUg thol, and,
a considerable number of superior aricers have
re,anded tht-ir

1 Y

It:is now known that the corps of the Prince of
Rosehburgh, which consisted. of about 45,1/00 men,:
ba; been zo much reduced by some ►ate events,:•thaf

it has-been 'found necessary in disband it, and ii.-
cQrate th:e.r9mains with other •..

tie counties- of 'Hungary .Irave, refused to raise
their number of nAen for thelusurreEtiop.
LINTz, Austlian Newspaper con.,
tairis the follbwino• article :

fi,W4hin these last days several engagements
hane,talten place ir. the environs of Ingolina and
Delgrad, the result of y.:hicf has not been favourable
to the Servians.. CZER ?a:Geo-11GB has been wounded
severe action which was lately fought near
Tapplia • during laic abgeuce IvitLEKKo.ha4.talcen. the
chief command of the Servian army." -

FRANY,FO7, Arc. to.—Na official account has
yet bee-6 receiyed of. the reported prolongation of the
:Armistice, bui it is stilt as:tested, that on the sth
inst. it 1,-.7as prolonged. at.que d-ie. However this
nu, be, the Negotiations for Peace do
,rat proceed
as Spteoiiy as it Was suppc,sed tin would. I,.etters
from CoKnorn state, that the -Emperor of Austria,
and all she person 6 by whOrit h&is 4urrouridid, ap-
pear cx.tternely dejeeked, and the Emperor is seldom
seen in public, •

Count ntosuct-r issued, a publication, stating that
the present circumstance& rendered it indiseentably
necessary to re-organize. the Naticnal Guards of pa-
ris, and accordingly ordered the immediate. re-orgal
nization thereof.

AMSTERIIAM, Atm. .iurrender.of
it-1 is iez. sto be ascribed to the efforts 'of the be-
sieg;rlg army, than to the fife iihich was kept up
1 • •
agatnsi the fortress -with uncommon vigour by seven
salt of the rikie. was sunk.
before the tOvi?n. • '

General °S TUN was at' the head. of every
. •
tie which %Vas node,' and has deservedly obtained
the adir.ir trot only of his friends, tint also of
the English, When he stepped into the boat which
was to take !inn nn hoatd ail EtigiliS4traDSpOrt,
Loid.Cn,i'rEAm shook hands with hina, and said.
•
" Parewel braise Genz-zal."

His Aoyal Majesty 4a4 ordered, that no public
fu..likrals shall take place in Holland until the Dutch
territory shall, have been properly cleared of the
dish 2r;il that aiCorciingly all public'rejoicings,
wit/';111th It was intedecl to celebraie his Majes-
,
t}'!i birth-day on the 4th of next month, shall be
Postponed for the present,—(llaj al Amsterdam Ga.
zetle.)

PA 11 AuG. 2.3.—Her IVajeEty the Empress con-
tinues to hie private since her return-from the 'baths.
of isilairnaf.,on, and it is believed that she will not
in4ke her oppearance before the an ival of the •EMpe:.
aao;ding ;o the iast aclvices 'fro:6 Vientia;

We understand that Government have at length'
.received advices frorri Sir JOHN STEWART, by which'
it appears, that he had Made an Exiiedition .against
the Court of Naples, in order to make a diversion
iri favour of Austria; he had taken the Islands of Is-
Chiaand 'Proci'da, *Made t 500 French 'i)risrinerS, and
took a large gnantity of cannon and anictunfilon ; and
th; Enemy -had' been obliged to- aS:indoh'Bcylia,
destroying the works; ar.d teavinfall their. ord.

Dance and stores behind. The ships of war
which accompanied bim bad also totally
,de-
stroyed a flotilla force of 40 gunboats. These
events have ,been alluded to in the French Pa-
pers ; and we may remember that when they talked
of •our reducing Ischia, the French Paters said that
two RegiMents were goneto Malta. Those turn out
to be two French Regiments of 'the line, sent there
Prisoners of War.

In another, part of our Paper our Readers will
find the Dispatches of Lord CgATRA.sc and 'Lord
W.p.4,lsoTONr, which appeared' in the Gazette Of
Saturday. We have to regret that
.the force .of the
.Enamy colleCted in Flanders (aided too powerfully
by the inundations, and tlie unwholesome nature of
the climate). has been tennd tPo strong to authorize
any attempt upon Antwerp and the Ships. With- .
•
out this object, the attack pf Lillo and Leilkenshoeck
would have been a Mere waste of human life;—and
we congratulate the Country that its resources have
been husbanded with prudence, and its soldiers reserv-
ed for occasions in which their noble blood may be ha-,
z Merl wit hhet ter prospeas of success, and perm a nit.n t
advantage to their country. The pbssession of the Isle of
Walcheren, with. its fortresses, commanding both
branches of the Scheldt, is an inestimable accluisj.-:
-than in a military, and perhaps in a cot-opercial'point
of view: the disabling-, and imprisonment of the
French navy.,in the stream of that river; and the'l
occupation which our holding a military and nay.-11:'
-statipn i4ere, must henceforth give to a very consi-
derable army of the enemy, together with the severe
loss he has suffered at the siege, and the capture of_
nearly ten thousand of his troops, are circumstances
• •
so happy and brilliant, as to vindicate the return of,
this.great Expedition from any charaCter or suspicion
of disappointment, although its:yalterior objeas have
not been attained. And,tp'tle—vy. hti,rateet Ibra
very powerfut diversion has been created in fa-
your of the House of 'Austria, at a most critical
period, and chat considerable, facilities are actually.'
secured in our hands, (if ever France should venture
to divert the force she must now maintain in Hol
land and Flanders) of striking sfill harder and more.
effectual blows in these quarters, there will be want-.
ing.no consolation for not having taken or burnt a
navy that can never 'put to sea as long as Flushing
remains in our hands, 'lt may well'be duobted whe-
ther the destruelion of these ships, thus.cut off from
. _
the oceap, could have compensated or Justified the
sacrifices we must have made fOr it, had the Com-
mander in Chief and the Lieutenant-generals_of his
army seen a probability of success ; and we confeo
that iz! is with more satisfaEtion we contemplate the
• return of our army in i,ts entire and di.posable force,
••.•
than we, should have hailed a few captured ships,
at the expence of 4 Singie regiment of our gallant
.countrymen._ •

The 4pateh , of, otir viEtorious General, Lord
I,V.tu,lNGTobt,'details the causes and prpgress of t t
•
admirable retreat, .by which he has so SkVfully dis-'
appointed the combinal4ons of the firsrGenerals of,
Frane, ly 41e p4r6je6leditinalwn fat: all -these
.he
.tnust if;` theldur,..
`.of the most ,plendql; tiCt-)1-y; his prucVnce and ex-
.
-tran. idioary Curesiglit-fi4for a moment fotiaken hint.
„IF,voy, liberal arik.w3l corrstit>xt tut l h &g 1 inake
reai;allowance-o`6-r any thing ,hiav cc
'.curred contrary -to wishess-tan the
,part of thee,
Spanish forre4,4-74v their General.; -.The efforts oft
~ ale- Spanish Patriots tave Certainly' t.norWithstandipc
• r.plendid instanceiTtlihk:cou t rayy)N9t ,been Coin
mensurate to the chz.enrnstante3- in which they have
been placed ; and there is no part of the charge and ,
condud confided to The.ability -of I,,urd.Wzta.teteqpi,l.
,and his, illustrious brother, lin4 th?'.,pahinet
_`and :the
Field, more delicate than the manAgement of Allies.,
who unite to t
•nicest leelings of honour Ind. nat iOnal
spirit, charaCleristic peculiarities and opinionkwhich
ho‘trever ditlicuA t411.-tide;, it may be..impossib'w
conquer. The great-and glorious oppaturiity h?-tvc
afforded, to sffmany.parts of Spain, anthailie Capital
itself, by drawing off the whole of the French artUie,
(whether it shall be improved or negleCted,) will
• ever be atnok;st the. brightest TecolleCtions of our
history and when it-is-recorded, as it must be, in
. the same page, with the conquest of Walcheren, and
the diversion effected by pur arms in favour of Ger-
many, with the descent of Sir .lona STUART in
Italy, with the capture of. Martinique and: Senegal,
and the final expulsion of the French from. the island
dt Hispani'ala, by the fall of St. Domingo—no page
of it can be fuller of the power, the wisdom, and the
energy or Great:l3ritain.

.'tench and, Dutch Papers arrived last night,, the
former to the 27th, and the latter to the .31s't
Spanish Papers ' were also received to the "-tOth
ultimo.

An article from Paris, of the 23d, asserts, that
AuStria had acquiesced in the conditions on which
NAPOL.RONT had consented to make Peace; and sit:is
stated in the Official Journal; that CIII4IPAPNY, the
French
.Minister. for 'Foreigri Affairs, had set :out
fiorn Vienna 'for A.ltenburgh,' where he .4i,as to ar-
rive on the 'l4th uft.3 that,on the 14th, the Ntzo-

ciations for peace were to be opeped, and that ti e
Emperor of Austria had nominated Count blrtTElt.
titcrt and Count VINCENT, as his Plenipotentiaries.
These NcBociations have'not, however, yet led to
the coi►cls;ion of peace.

Where are several reports in these papers, froM
dif-
ferent Generals, relative to our operations io the
Scheldt. The alarm caused by our expedition is reu-
dpre4 evident by a passage in a letter from Count
HUNENUitG, the French Minister of War, to NA-
POLEON, giving an account of the preparations made
for defence, in which h,e says, " I have given, all the
necessary instructions for the.dcfpnce of the coast,
from HaVre to Bayonne."
The Royal Amsterdam Gazette mentions the sm.•
render of Flushing, 'and attributes it more to the fire •
from our Ships than to the efforts of the besieging
army.

The statements in these Papers, of the Main; Of
Spain, do not communicate any later intelligence
than is contained in the Spaniih Papers., A boast is
_lnade, in an Older of the Day, dated from Madrid,
of haring:deltroyed the rear guard of the English'
'Army, beyond the bridge 'n Arzobizpo, which, we
knOW cannot Ix: true. We unfortunately cannot
tnak4lie same-assertion with respect to the defeat of
",he Spanish General VANEGAS, on the I.lth ult. sta-
a Drench diSpatolt, as it appears by PANE..
-G/4 own account,' in the Spanish Papers, that he
"was rekulsed and obliged so retread towards the Sierra
Morena.

A schooner;, which arrived at Portsmouth the 24
,ingint, left the Li 924 man of war, with the home
wared-bound China fleet, off;.the ca, e, he sth of
4tirie last, • 31 deg. 12 min. South, .long: 30 d% 33
!nip, East. The schooner I•eiraratect in rough .wea•
thereat...which. time only seven• of the ship, were in
They had had 'a
gale of wind two days he-
fore, "in 'which they were dispersed, iant all had
joined except, two. The schooner fell in with ail
'American, on the 14th July., eight days from 1.41ena4
where the Essex had arrived.

On S‘atur.lay a Cabinet Council was 1104. at they
Foreign Office, which sat froni half past one o'cloCk
till -past five; :at 'which 'were preSent, the Earls ot"
Ltv4tpor„, CAMDEN, BATHyRST; Lords MUI.7
GRAVE anti c.ISTI.EREAGH Mr. Secretary Ceti-
KING,. and the CiLitN;Et..t.on of the EAcuEckumt.
Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, the but.ce
Prince:;ses AUGUSTA and SOPHIA', ac-
companied 'by Ladies THYNNE, SIDNEY, aenero
and Col. bEspRoW, 'rode to St. George'S
Chapel and heard a sermon preached by Ilr Hon-
and Itev. ...11.,..AuktAm,' and aAt.erwards.returped to.
Winctsor
Extra 4 of Letter, dated Messina, 17th July; to a
. .

• _
merchant in Glasg6v, by the Hope; PiAhcE, in one
•
month and fourdays,' from Messina :—" With rc-
speat to political events in thil quarter, you have no
douht heard of the taking of the two nand; of Ischia
arid Pucida, by. °or forces under, Sir J. STVART. As
yet, .no proSpett of his ma!:ing descent upon Naplei
or the coast. The- lostier part of Calabria, which has.
been open a Short time, is again shut against, the,
fitnish.--All must depend upon the succ:esses of
Au§tro, whence wetave no late acccountS."
LOefs from Verdun, dated the- Isr of August,

.
frrri ,o- some- of our unforttinate Countrymen there,
' ptisoners of war, state, that the British 9fscero
weie• better treated, and the children of British .LlTa-
'- viOnd.Military Officers permitied to.gct, to-'Schtiol • to
learn 'nsvigat ion anti the „wrench language. •
It is reported 'that a forplid,rble orsigreOion has
L'broXenont in archy of Magdeburg!, and that
tOuz-regiments of Westphalian troops had received
orders t.O proceedtothe Elbe, which they relockant!
ly obeYed. : •: •
Letters from the Continentmention,
"that a con-
been entered into between the Courts,
:of St. Petel-sburgh,'Sr-Ockfrolin, and Copelthrigen,
for the maintenance of peace :in the Baltic. They
also slate, that England has
,consented' to allow itm-.
-plO of provisions to be sent to Norway. An edi
to
tollowing effeet was.pnblifted on'the 26thilf
July by'the Donish Governmeot. It orderS, " That
all tiie. neutral or probable neutral holders of accepter!
bills Which had beet drawn from England upon the..
Merchants of .Denmark at the com.nencement of
the and which were deposited wi'll the Corn-
rilisioners at Altona according to a notice from
G4ernmeiri, should come forward within. a year
t to • •
Kecetve that money or-property back again: At
expiration. of ,the twelvemonth, .the articles tie-
- poitted will become the property of the Guyer nmenr.
Suc' bills as have not beengiven 'Over to the Com...
miksiohers, are how 'ordered 'to be delivered' up
within three Months, in order that the holders may
receive the benefit of the present decree."

. . .
Among the mast contemptible of the charges
Which The Opposition Writers-have brought against
Miniqers respecting the t:xpedition, is that, which
asserts that it wasidelayed.in order that some of, them
might be gratifked with seeing " the splendid spec.:
laCte'of 'the Whole armament putting to sea at once.''
As it seemed impossible that the Opposition Writers
could be so vl foolish as to give any ctedit to such.a story, if thee, had not beet). the imentosso! it, WC
should have thought that after giving it as a stroke
of humour, they would not have repeated so dull a
jest out as they persevere in this absurd chArge,
they either manifest a deploiable credulity in thu,k-
ing that the Expedition was really delayed by such'
a cause, or a truly malignant
,spirit, in recurring to,
what every man of sense and candour must at once,
treat with contempt.. "
Forty of the unfortunate followers of the Dahl,
of BRUNSWICK have been ,:ondenincd to be ~tYL at •
Lssel. In Briinswick; t 6 of the partizans of tilis,
gallant Prince ytieie multi-red in one day. At
sel also a party. of then) suite, ed as tialters; aril.pi*t‘
thptll a Lieutenant-Coloitel.

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