The Sun.
London, England, 1809-01-07 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

FALMOITTH, J. 4. 4rrived the. litittingbarti
Packet, Captair4 Gaivt, with mails, from the Bra-
zils, after a passage of twelve weelts. She touched
at Madeira, and it 44 days since.

FaRTSIVOUTII, J►lAr. •6.--- Arrived his. Majesty's
Ship Diligent, from Halifax; Avenor, from New-
foluldland and .Fedrnouth ; La Flee 4, from Cork;
and the Primrose, from a cruize.

Sailed his Nlajesiy's Ships Pheasant, fur Fal-
mouth, Defender and dint, from a cruize.

PLY lOUTU, JAN. s.—Cagle in his Majesty's Ship
Diana, from Corunna ; Eu4aprizo, GliAlf, from
Stockholm ; Victoria, FLSUP NA, from Malta; Pickle,
Scutma, from Newfoundland ; an 4 /Calor, Bola-
TON, from Tencrifle; the French Sloop Superb,
from Nantes, with provisions for Guadaloupe; and a
Letter of Marque, of 4 guns and 2 t men, Prizei to
Ins Majesty's Ship frulefiaiguble.

MARGATE, JAN. ti.—His Majesty's sthouver
Pigeon, came on shore near Kinvgate last night at
low water, and after beating upon the rocks on her
broadside, as the tide made, she bilged. Two of the/
crew are lost ; one of them was drowned—the other
perished with cold, the whole of the crew being for
nine hours lashed to the mast.

DEAL, JAN. 6.—. Arrived his Majesty's Ship
Calliope, from off Flushing ; Britomart and 17y,
from the Westward. Sailed his Majesty's Paz on
cruize.

The following is a corret statement of the British
Forces at present in Spain and Portugal :

CAVA IA 10th, 14th, Ist iSth, and loth Light
Dragoons; and 3d regiment of German Light Oragoons.
lAN r R ENvo tidal-unions of GtlaYd§ ISt. 2d, jd, 4th,
Stitt 6th, and 9th Foot, (ad bait.) 9th and 14th (ad bats
a3d, (ad bait.) 25t11, 27th (tild batt.) zBth, 2911). list (=d butt.)
Sad, 36th, 38th, 40th, 4a , 43d, ditto (ad Watt.) 45th, soth,
SS tat, sae., ditto (Id bait.) 59th, Loth, (24 butt.) ditto (sth
bait. 14, die), Vet, 74411„ 79th, list,sad, 91St, gad, 9011, ditto,
(ad bait. Wile) 97111, and 14 bait. of Ituyal Veteran;.
Gaittamls—The isr. ad, 3d, and 7tll ltattalions of the
Line; and Ist and id Battalions, Light infantry.
Horse and Foot artillciy, Engineers, Stall' Lorps, Waggon
Train, and C 0111111454114.
GENtRALOIFICtiS.—ticut.-GeneralSir Iola) Craddock,
K. 11. Lieut.-Gen. Sir (uhn Moore, K.B. Alex. M. Frazer,
Sir D. Baird, K.C. John Hope; Major-Generals Lord
W. lientinele, Hon. L. Paget, Hill lieresford,
Dyntt ; 11rig,idit s Sl,lll Disney. 4. Stuart. lion. C. W.
Stewart, Lord Paget; On. 1. Broderick, M' Farlane, 11.,
Wade, Leith, W. tf. Clinton, Vane, Anstruther, 1. C.
Crauford, Robert Craufurd.

Colonel M'atiAaftra, with the 73d Highlanders,
embarked Lit Leith, are daily looked for at Ports.
awe t h.
Yesterday the horses of the Guards were embarked
at Portsmouth, therefore tbeie will be, nothing to
prevent the sailing of the Expedition.
Wednesday-the Hon. Brigadier General CAMP-
rut.t, of the Guards, arrived at Portsmouth, and, fur
the present, he commands the hoops embarked.
Lieut. Col. WALKER, who acquired immortal
honour in the command of the 50th Regiment, in
the battle of Vittleira, has been ordered to join the
gallant band of heroes in Spain.
It is expelled that this day the Expedition at
Portsmouth will sail for Falmouth, where they will
meet the troops from Scotland, Ireland, &c.
Major-General Sftattmoms, who commands that
part of the Expedition which was to have been un-
der Major-General SPENCER, is the friend of Sir
A. WELLESLEY, and was Commander in Chief in
Sicily before the gallant Sir JOHN STUART went
out there. He arrived At Portsmouth yesterday, to
take the command of the troops latelrfrdm Rams-
gate. They arc to sail under convoy of the his, of
50 guns. General Snettattoox has apprised. them
that their service will be an arduous one... He has
accordingly given orders that no Officer should take
more baggage with him than what he would under-
take to carry; and that. no woman shall accompany
the Expedition who is not able to bear great fatigue.
The same exertions are making- in Ireland and
Scotland as in this country to hurry off the troops.
Aiernvit WELLESLEY is infusing energy into the
'departments in Ireland. The troops from that quar-
ter will sail from Coit to Falmouth, where they will
meet those from this country. As an Officer, Sir
Awrnva is looked up to in every quarter; to Ire-
land, he has so entirely the confidence of the soldiers,
that, if allowed, the whole body of the Irish Militia,
with a generous ardour peculiar
,to their country,
would go as regitneots with him to fight the battles
of the Patriot Spaniards.
`A further supply of horses for the artillary.service
has proceeded trom Chatham for Spain. A detach-
ment of the gun-drivers, consisting of forty men,
and about eighty horses of the same establishment,
are to take who them three hundred of the most ac-
tive and serviceable. horses, which have been sup-
plied for the cuntraL work, on the fortifications car-
rying on at Chatham ; from having lived hard, and
being in the habit of constant inid hard work, they
are supposed to be peculiarly suited to the kind of
service on which they will be employed, when they
arrive at the present seat of war.
A Letter from the Captain of a Transport, dated
Vigo Bay, f2bth December, contains the following
passage
Ceitunissioner BowEN is arrived here with a
vast number of empty transports to take away the
British troops ; they arc not, thank God, wanted on
that occasion. The armies are joined, and all is
going on well."
INDIA Housz.--Yesterday a Court of DireaCES
was held, when Capt. GEORGE itICHARD3ON was
sworn in.° the command of the ship Dover Custle,
cosigned to Bombay direCt, The Court adjourned
at six &dot* till Wednesday next.
Seventy-one girls and one hundred and one boys
belonging to the Sub.lcription Charity School of St.
Giles in the' Wields, and St. George, Bloomsbury,
were yesterday entertained by the E4rl at d Coun-
tess of Poursmotan, at their mansion io Lincoln's
Inn-fields, according to annual cloom. They had
a comfortable dinner, and reeeind each a donation.
of sixpence.

FRENCH PAPERS.

PROCLAMATIOt4 BY BUONAPARTE.
SPAWIABDS !--You have been lnisled by perfi-
dious men. They have engaged you in a senaOless
struggle, and you have had recourse to aims; Is there
one amongst you, who after a moment's 'refle6lion
upon all that has passed, would not be convinced
that you haw! been the sport of the eternal enemies
of the. Continent, who take delight in witnessing the
effusion of Spanish and French blood ? What pos-
lible result would attend even the success of some
campaigns ? An endless war upon yonr soil, and a
tedious uncertainty respeeing the Ate of your pro-
pertiei and byes., •
f( Within the space of a few months, you 'have
been delivered up to all the afiliflitThs of popular fac-
tions. The defeat of your armies has been the work
of some marches ; I have entered Madrid ; the rights
of war would justify me in making a signal exam-
ple, by washing away in blood the outrages offered
to me and to my nat;ori but I have livened to the
dictates of clemency only. Some men, the authors
of all your calamities, shall alome be punished. 1
shall speedily drive from the Peninsula that English
army which has been sent to Spain, not for the pm-
, pose of assistance to you, but to inspire you with a
false confidence and to mislead you.
" I had declared to you in my Proclamation of
the ad of June, that I wished to be your Regenera-
tor. To the rights which had been ceded to me by
the Princes of the last dynasty, you wished that I
should add the right of conquest. That shall not
make any alteration in my intentions. I am even •
disposed to praise all that may be generous in your
efforts; I am willing to admits that your real inte-
rests have been concealed from you, that the real
state of tbings has been disguised from
Spaniards. your destiny is in your own hands. Re-
jeet the poisons which the English have spread
amongst you :—let your king be assured of your
affection and your confidence, and you will be more
powerful and more happy than ever you have been. All
that obstructed your prosperity and your grandeur, I
have destroyed; the chains which have borne down

the people, I have broken; a tree COnstitution gives
you a limited and constitutional, instead of an•absu-
lute Monarchy. depends upon yourbelves whe-
ther this Constitution shall still continue in your_
land.

" But should all my efforts prove fruitless, and
should you not merit my confidence, nothing will

remain for in but to treat you as coucluered. pror.
vinces, and to place my brother upon another
1 shall then place the Crown of Spain upon my own
head, and cause it to be respected by the guilty; for
God has given me power and inclination to surmount
all obstacles.
Given at our Imperial Camp at Madrid, Dec. 7,
Itk)8.

(Signed) NAPOLEON.
By the Emperor. Minister Secretary ul Slaty,
(Signed) H. b. MAKUT.

MUNICIPAL SITTING.
hIALIfid, December 9, :24.

This day, at Eleven o'clocic in the morning, the
hour appointed for the opening of tile Sitting, the
following persons assetaoletA tuether
The Corrigidor ; the km:gams: time 'Alcacies ; the Depu-
ties of the Third ,Lstate ; the 11ca,ts of time Assettbly of time
blasta* ; the Procur.ttois; the Alluazil-Majurs; the Smith*.
gait Bishops ; the Vicars ; time Ludy atilt Curates atiml
ficeti Clew; the Ile3mis of time &accent Commonalties; the
Body of time Nubtisty ; time Deputies of the tyre priumakmal
curpundlOilS ; anti all the DcpUtAtIWIS the 04
Divisions of the City of Nl.ithul.

The Corregidor ruse to address the meeting, and
informed them, that he had had the honour of betng
admided to present the homage of his respect to his
Imperial and Royal Majesty, and to lay at the foot
of his throne the tribute of the gratitude of the in.
habitants ut Madrid ter the kindness and clemency
which :16 Nlajesty had shewu towards that city.

The Curreplor exper,sed to his layerial mu!
Royal Majesty the happiness 'which his presence
shed over the city, and the desire with which all the
inhabitants were animated to deserve and to justify
filial a peculiar mark lit favour.
The Corregidor, observed, that his Imperial and
Royal Majesty had condescended to converse with.
bun in the most benevolent manner, and added, that

the object of this meeting was to acquaint the 1..),136 -
ties of the City of Madrid with the beneficent in-
tentions of his Majesty. Accordingly he had to
repeat to them in the same terms he had heard then),
the sentiments of his Majesty, and the favourable tits-
positions he entertained towards the whole of Spain ;
ijdding that the fate of Madrid would depend upon
its own condua. That that would be a happy and
prosperous one, if the inhabitants adhered faithfully
to the Constitution, and acknowledged with since;
rity., for their legitimate King, Don Joseph Napo,
icon 1.; but that, on the other hand, 'Spain should
be reduced to a Proviurnvf o:ance.

Here the Corregidor drew a fiithful piture of
the good natm:e of King JOSEPH, who had employed
Iris butt offices and eutreatita lur the cunttrytition of .

that capital, as well as of the neighbouring cities, and
who treated them with the tenderness 01 a generous
father.

rf all

The Corregidor impressed upon the minds of a,
the Deputies, that the presence of the King in his
capital, should be considered as the greatest advan.
tage that could be wished for it.
Accordingly, the Deputies deeply penetrated with
the sane sentiments, and anxious to contribute their, -
best endeavours for the happiness of the inhabitants
of Madrid, determined humbly to implore his Inx-.1:
perial and Royal Majesty to indulge the capital with
the presence of the King, that city, and even all_
Spain, being convinoed of the sigtial advantages
which must be derived from the wisdonfof his Go-

vernnaent.
The Deputies insiktel, that a fresh tribute of
thanks should be presented to his imperial and Aoyal
l'll4esty, for the kindness with which he had treated 11
that City, which his triumphant arms had conquer•
ed, and for the generous pardon of what bad hap.
petted during the absence of King Joseph.
His Imperial and Royal Majesty is also to be im-
plored to extend pardon to those whom fear had in. '

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dueed to desert the City, as well as to all the pea..
sants who had tal;en up arms.
His Imperial and, Royal Majesty is also Onally to
be implored, that he will be pleased to order hit
troops to respe6t property, the holy temples, the re- L.:.

ligious institutions ; in a word, the property of every '
• class.

This bumble supplication la to be laid before Ilia
Imperial and Royal Majesty, and is to be presenied
to him by a Deputation taken from among the Ile.

presentative' of the city of Madrid.
It was resolved, in the same Sitting, that a tribute
of the most lively gratitude should he presented tsi)
the King iosarn N4Pot.gpN, whose happy'interces

sion with his august Brother, the 4Mperor of thbt
French* sitve4:;thf city of Mqdfid.

His Royal Majesty shall be humbly
to grant the f4vour of his presence to the City: of
Madit4, that under his just and beneficent gotrerwp,.,.
went, good urger, justice, and tranquillity, may I,
restored within its walls.

His Royal 'ALtjesty shall he implored tO .ernploy-
biY guyal goad ofice* with hii imperial Aro‘lior, •
that pardon may he obtained to the ela.ienta ati4
those inhabitants who have taken up acts.

The preiegt Process-verbal shall by ecesentet4 to
his Imperial and Royal Majesty.

(Here follovf keysral thousand slotaturea.)
s teas *-401100-4veeetissir 01111. -1,1444 far
bionics of the Inbaloliatsqlsrtbse pnettitem‘ *tat low,
acceded to a similar measure, which was
accompanied with a vast number. of signatures.
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pri:tors in Wile.

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