The Sun.
London, England, 1807-01-26 00:00:00

1806:-

" The forttne of War has ceased to be favoura-
ble to us ; Buenos Ayres, with our little army and
immense treasure, is in the possession of the Enemy.
We are reinforced, apd in three or four days will
give them a drubbing."

The objeL•tions urged at great length on Wednes-
day evening against a perseverance in the Military
Plans which were introduced last Session, afforded
Ministers an opportunity of representing, with in-
creased confidence, the benefits which may be justly

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expeeled to ensue from the adoption of is nem.
I System, and of stating the a&ual advantages- which
have already attended its operation. The increase
allowance to the Army was alledged to be un neces-
saryand impolitic. In reply it was fairly contended
that the augmentation of an allowance, which had
continued unaltered since the Eighth of Charles 11.
was essential to the ease and comfort of the soldier.
Justice required that some suitable provision should
be made for them who sacrificed their' health and
• passed their lives in the service of their Country.
The measure was recommended by expediency, be-
cause every thing which the soldier was entitled to
exped at the end of. his service would be a pledge
for his good condu&. The same consideration would
procure a better description of them, and would have
a natural tendency to lower the bounty. With re-
' sped to the numbers arising from the recruiting
system under the present arrangements, it appeared,
from the Office of the Inspector-General of Re-
cruits, that, by a comparison of the accounts with.
those of correspondent periods of former years, there
was a growing increase, small at first, but at length
amounting to an excess in the proportion of two to
one. The present Administration had fornierly ob-
jeeled to the schemes which were adopted for the
increase of the Army, because the means were op-
pressive, and the effect was not permanent. The
means which had been formerly used to augment
the Military Establishment of the Country might
produce a temporary effe&, but by their sudden and
violent operation exhausted the military resources of
the Nation, and prevented a future supply for the
Army. The present System is calculated to effect
a progressive amendment and increase of our Force
and to procure a regular, copious, and permanent
supply. The progress of this important measure
could not be expeded to be rapid ; but the experi-
ence
.of its effects, in the short period which has
elapsed, has exceeded the hopes of its proposers,
and confirmed the policy of adopting it. The very '
great reduelion in the expence of the Volunteer ,
Establishment seems td have occasioned a very in-
considerable diminution in the numbers. The Se-
cretary at War justly observed, that the present Mi-
nisters had never been accused of uttering any charge
so disrespe&ful as the opinion pertinaciously upheld
by Opposition, that the Volunteers would disband in
the event of any reduction of their allowance. •

Ministers have been accused of not resorting to pro-
per means fOr the prote&ion of Buenos Ayres ; but no
supplies could have arrived in time to prevent the
recapture of that Settlement,. Lord CASTLE-
REAGH stated that the intelligence of the destination
of the Expedition to Buenos Ayres had arrived from
St. Helena in the early part of June ; but the ac-
count was no received till June 24, and was the first
intimation which Ministers re,.:evyri of the Expedi-
tion, for which they were entirely unprepared. The
Transports left by the former Government were
not adapted to an Expedition acros4 the' Atlantic,
nor could the necessary supplies have been pro_
vided with greater dispatch than had been used
in preparing them.
The capture of Buenos
Ayres took place in the early part of July, end
the Narcissus, one of the fastest sailing Vessels
in the service, had been eight weeks on her passage.
These fats expose the fallacy of the reasoning which
has been used by the opponents of Governtnent,
and prove the impossibility of sending reinforcements
in sufficient time to prevent the unfortunate event
I which we know to have occurred. It has been
urged, in condemnation of the conduit of Ministers
in recalling Sir HOME POPHAM and Sir DAVID
BAIRD, that the jurisdiCtion of the Cape extends to
' all the Coast of South America, and that the Go-
vernor, being at the same time Commander in Chief,
is authorised to adopt such measures as appear likely
to annoy and distress the Enemy at all points within
the circle of his command : withoftt adverting to the
consequences of stripping a Settlement of its means
of resistance and defence, and the measure of di-
verting from the intended purpose the supplies and
stores of a Vessel dispatched on a different service,
it is obvious that a Commander cannot be justified
in undertaking remote and extensive schemes of con-
quest without the permission or knowledge of the
Government at home, even within the geographical
limits of his command. If such a principle should
be admitted,; and such a practice tolerated, the con-
stant uncertainty and perplexity of the Government
at home, the want of concurrence in design, and of
co-operation in Military Projets, and the extrava-
gant ardour for new acquisitions, which would re- '
sult from the unrestrained influence of ambition and
interest, would quickly evince the necessity of check-

ing such a dangerous stretch of power, and of pro-
hibiting Commanders from engaging in distant and

hazardous Expeditions, incompatible with the pri-
mary ohjeas of their duty, and not combining ade-
purposes of the En-
(pate means to complete the

terprisc and to maintain the honour of the. Country.

Yesterday His MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES at-
tended- Divine Service at St. George's giap2l, and
beard a Perron by Dr MARVIAN.

NI PAL N EWS.

From tbe LONDON GAZETTE, 71#.
.34, i 307,

Admiralty Office, Jan. 24.

Copy of an Enclosure from Rear-Admiral the [loll,
Sir Alexander Cochrane, K. B. Commander irk.
Chief of His Majesty's Ships and P;:ssels at the
Leeward Islands, to William Marsden, Esq. doted
on board His Majesty's Ship Northumberlanl, irs
Carlisle Bay,- Barladoes, 10th December, 1806.
His Majesty's Brig Grenada, St. George's,
Sufi, Grenada, Nov. 27, 1806.
I have the satisfaaion to acquaint you, that at,
day-light this morning,. London Bridge Rock bear-
ing East three leagues, I discovered a suspic'ovs
Vessel to the southward ; and, after a chase of four
hours, came up with and captured the French Sloop
Privateer Le Tigre, mounting two six-pounders and
26 men, out from Guadaloupe 15 days, and had
taken a Mail boat. I have much satisfaelion in this
capture, as the Vessel sails very fast, and has :lime
considerable damage to the coasting trade of St.
.Lucia and St. Vincent's.
I have the honour to he, Rte.
JOHN BARKER.
The Hon. Sir A. Cochrane, K. B. &c.

PLYMOUTH, JAN.24.---Arrived two French Clia93a
Marees, laden with wine, &c. from Bourdeaux, can.
tured by the Growler Gun-brig; and the Arnexican
Schooner Anita Margaretta, WATERMAN, laden
with fish, from Poole, bound to Leghorn.
Sailed the Brig Commerce, of Plymouth, FOOT.
laden with spirits, for London, under convoy of th;
Greyhound Revenue Cutter.

Arrived the Mars, of 74 guns, from Torbay ; she
will sail hence to-morrow on a cruize off Brest.
The Royal Sovereign, of 1 !0 guns, went out of
harbour yesterday and anchored in Cawsand B
after having her poop cut off and undergoing a
thorough refitment.

The Pallas Frigate is come into Barn Pool to be

refitted.

Sailed the Cesar Privateer on a cruize.
Arrived the Brisk Sloop of War from the Downs.

SHEERNESS, JAN. 25.—The Quebec Frigate, Lieu-
tenant FALKLAND, did not sail on Thursday with
the remains of the Russian Subsidy, as gxpeCted,
but which is supposed will sail to day; as the
ster for the Court of Stockholm embarked yesterday,
and was saluted on his gong on board.
Sailed the Weymouth Store-ship, \Vim's, for
Portsmouth.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 2.5.-Yesterday morning ar
rived the Wilmington Transport, Capt. HARRisoN,
charged with dispatches from Sir HOME Pormi
wherein is stated the Re-capture of Buenos Ayres
by the Spaniards. The Enemy came with a force
of 12,000 men, and, after fighting obstinately three
days, the British (only 1450 strong) capitulated on-
the 12th of August. Our loss is stated to be nearly
150 killed and wounded, and that of the Enemy 600.
Contrary to the express Articles of aipitulation',.
the British were all made prisoners and marched
into the interior part of the country, among whom
is Gen. BERESFORD. The Wilmington sailed front
Buenos Ayres the 4th November.
Arrived yesterday the crocodile Frigate from a
Cruize ; and to-day the A'rgns Frigate from Cork.

Sailed yesterday the St. George, of 93 guns, Capt.
lIERTIE; to join the Channel Fleet; Lavinia Fri-
gate, for Plymouth ; Jamaica Frigate, for Guern-
sey ; Skylark Sloop, Capt. STUART, for the Downs,
with Convoy ; and the Sprightly Cutter on a
Cruize.

On Saturday we received the New-York Papers to
the ,Bth ult. They announce that the Bill for Sus-
pending the Operation of the Non-Importation A6t
received the sanction of the President on the 23d,
and that
.the Secretary to the Treasury notified that
ail goods whose entry had been suspended might be
entered.

Intelligence was received on Saturday at the Ae..
miralty, that two Dutch Indiamen and a Dutch Fri-
gate have been captured on their return from Batavia.
They are richly laden.
The Emperor ALEXANDER signed a Decree on
the 15th of last month for the formation of a Volun-
teer Militia in Russia. For this purpose, the whole
Empire, with the exception of some of the Northern
European and Asiatic Governments, is divided into
seven districts. Each dismal is to raise one army,
and to form a separate command of this descriptiun
of force, which will amount altogether to 2,000
men. The Governments which do not raise men,
are to contribute to the expence of arming this
Militia, and furnishing accoutrements, stores, &c.
It is said that a very extensive and furious Instil-e
raation has broken out in the Island of Grenida.
King Louts has issued a decree, from his resi-
dence at Cie Hague, prohibiting the exportation of
brandy and Dutch gin from Flushing.
With the Dutch JoUrnals which came to band
yesterday to the 21st instant, we received a separate
slip of printed paper, by which we are informed of
a-most dreadful calamity that has befallen the city of
Leyden, by an accidental explosion which took
place thereon the iQth instant! A great part of the
town was destroyed, and upwards of 2,000 persons
are stated to have been buried in the ruins, of whom,
however, 500 were shortly after dug out alive.—
The Paper to which we allude, is dated the 17th,
and contains several notes upon the subje& from the
distressed survivors, - which we shall give the first
opportunity. At the top is an engraving represent•
nig the dreadful fate of the numerous victims.

BIRTH.-011 Sunday morning, in Upper Sey-
mour-street, the Lady of .TaxEs CORNWALLIS, Esq.
P,. of a Daughter.

From the LONDON" GA7,ETTE, Jan. 21., 1807.

rfrar-feice, z 4, tgo7.
4th 'Regiment' of. D,:;2oon• Guards,. Thomas .Want
Gent. to oe Cyr .by puri.hase. Webb, pro-

• •
rnOt .‘; - , . . ,
~ .
sth Re; ineut of rnc;t,. Lieutenant Robert, Ragu'eneni Doh_
oii t.. he Ciiptain of a Company, by purchase,. vice C; iren,
who r•,:tires. •I,:.,iisig,ix Niiichael M4)owu tL,' be Lieute-
Dant, without purLhase, vice 13• Ates, who resigns. f,lin
N:wiroot Wv id.; Gent. to ire Ensign, vice Nl`Don.igh:
fohn Pigot, i;ent. tone Eiisign: without purchase, vice
Croher, promoted. ,assistant -Surgeon Thomas 'Hogg',
fr—ni the 70 Foot, to be Surgeon, vice MiNtation, de.

• w "
Ditto,.Ensign and Adiutant-W;lliam Betts to have the
raid: of ,Lieuteli.on. Ensign ('a.rick to. be Lieu.:
ti.n;,llt, ViLt, Barnard, p.rottioted. in the 4th Garrison Bat-
talion, George, Whit,,, Gent. tribe Frisign,.vice Dillon.
16th Ditto, Ensign Frederiek:,:Viiier'-to be Lieutenant, .vice
Datiser, deceased. Ensign Sirritgitt, A Ileyile .13art. front
tae II Foot, • to. tie Lieutenanti via: deceased.
Felix _O'Hara, Gent. to be Ensign, vice :liner: John.;
Hanitury Gcni: to be' EtisiAn, vice Callow, de,
ceased.
ISO -Ditto, fames Grueber. Gent. to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Ord, promoted'.
32.11 Ditto, Assistant-Surgeon William Walters, .from•the-7tli
Fcot, to be A ,sistant-Surgimn;
3;tn'DittO, S_lnalwell. to be Lieutenant, vice
Meredith, deceased. ' 'Eritrani Rad.clitle, Gent.• to be. En-
sign, vice banks, deceased, - Yorke, Gent. to beiin-
sign, yice Shadwell.
38tli Ditto, Andrew Todd. Gent. to he Fn,ign,;by.purchaSe,
vice Hickins, promoted in the West India-Regiment.
39th Ditto, Ens,,,ti Richard •Necdhain, from thei.Sth FQot,
to he EnsiO, by putcha,e, vice Cuppage, pronioted.
44th I)itio, Ensign Andrew Donaldson to be Lieutenant,.by
purchase,. vice Kennedy, who retires.
6. th Ditto, Captain. Tiloolas
•Farrar, from Hatf_.pay of the
s:h Foot, to be Captain .of a Company,. vice Souter,-who
c,.i.l.anus. join, Sprectier,.- Gent, to he Ensign, vice
Cave, appointed to Inc ist Garrison Llatiali,!n.
67th Lie,neriant lulin Littler, front the toll Light
Dragoons, to he Captain of a Company, by purchase, vice
76th i',ittt). To -be Ensigns- John Potenger,. Gent. rice
iione, I-irony:tea in the ibth Richard Lon ;fie:d
'Geo, Flanagan;
,promoted in. the Stn West
Indi‘i Regiment. (pint iklansell, Gent vice M'Kinft•ii,

pn,moten in the 801 'Vv'est India Regiment
first i into, John Elwes, Gent. to be Ensign, with-
out porch4se. vier Dudgeon, promoted.
72:1 Ditto, Captain S. Jackson, trorn the 3d Garrison Bat-
taln'n, to be Captain of a Company, vice Vicary, Fn.
moted in the toth Royal Veteran) Battalion-.

73;.;Ditt;;Cainatn I. Murray, friiin Soth Foot, to be
Captant of. a Cotnpaii, vice Kenny, who ex‘lianges.
lieutenant Alex. Gray to be Captain of a Company, by
purchase, vice Pearson, promoted. Ei.Jigit Anthony Bub-
back u.; be Lieutenant vice Griy.
B,,th Ditto, C',-.ptain Eyre, Evans Kenny, from-the -734 Foot,
0 he Captall,l Of a Con-wady,. vi, e Murray, who ex,„
chances.
Sist Ditto, Ql?rter-rvlaster-Serjeant Peter Baker to be ()lat-
ter. Nl,str..., vice Varethorpc, dece,:secl.
9.st Ditto, %Valiant er, Gent: to be Ensign, without pia-
vice I. Campbell, whose Appointinent:has nut.
taken pliiCc. '
92,1 Ditto, iit“ign folin Horn to be Lieutenant, without war
vn.e Hunter, who:tesigns.
93d Ditto. Alex. Nluirhead; -Gent. to. be Ensi?,-ti, by per...
clue, vh.e 11.,-dderick-,.. promoted.
95th Ditto, tValter Clerk, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant,';',
by purchase, vice Crawfprd, apiointeal to'the.' tat Light
Drai;oons,
,6th Ditto; Ensign iohn W. Campbell to be Lieutenant,
• vice I- Lining, deceased. %Valiant Carrington, Gent. to
• be Ensign, vice Campbell.
6th West India Regiment, .Ensign John Robertson to be
Lieutenant, vice -Rains, deceased. George Cochrane,
Cent. to he Ensign, vice Robertson. Serjeant-Nlajor lOtin
Scott, trout the qiith Foot, to be Adjutant, with the Rank
of Ensign, vice Rains, deceased. •
7th Ditto,' Ensign Richard. Edwards to be Lieutenant, vice
Hardie, deceased. Ensign R. Elea:wit to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Francheville, wlio resigns. Quar-
ter- ~;.titer-Serjeant Stewart Maxwell, from the 37th Foot,
to be Ensign, vice Ffennell. john Salmon, Gent. to be
vice
Bth Ditto. To be Lieutenants--Ensign fames, Flanagan,
from the 7th Foot • • Losign Donald tl/P,Kiiti• tr.mn
ditto. Ensi;.m Thomas Ciosbie, vice-Mongol], deceased.
Icte.luch:unp', deceased.
To It:. .11, Gent. vice Crosbie.
Watteviil2.'s Regiment, Serje,nt.Mujor loseph.Mermet to be
Adjutynt,.... with tile rank of Ensig.i, vice Zenhentier,-
-
Royal Rernondo Cortyi-ra, Gent. to be 'En,
vice Shording, whose Apponttui..ait has not taken
place. • • - , .`
ad Garrison -Elttalion-, -Surgeon Benjamin Johnston, froin
Half-pay ottlteillth Fool,tto be Surgeon, vice Pa',Arthtir,
who excnanges.
3d Ditto, Li,' atcrant-Thomas from the 6th
I4agriOn uards, :to be Captainola Company, vice
r;-
son, appoint,':d to the .72(1.Yu0t.'
4th Ditto. !ono Thomas, Esq. late Lieutenant- Celdgel of
the 28th Foot, to be P.avin.ister.
6th Ditto-, Ensign Wijliam Gut. Isciell to Adj, tint. Sr-
jemit.Major Kettiphic, from thu.s. 13th. ,z, to .be
Qazirter-larer. . •
4th Royal YetefAn Battalion, Callytin It..try Cary, from the
'lft;C:r in Wtttallyn, to tie Captain Via Cooyany,

lotA Qiiifter-41Aster-_:rj2,:nt S,tha ?;richons, from
the 5L it Royal Veteran 114:,:lion; to be En-ion.

MEMOK N DUNI

• Thc are. superseded, viz.
7th yoot,_ tz.ti.iht-pav I:I %Volker,: ---
irli-ihrjciCaptziiii.la;a4s N. Ni.iiil4rd,arld Lieutenant Rich.
Prebton, betzr,t; absent witnGut .lci.ve.

Oninavce jaq. 22, 1537.
Ry.ll Regime/ii
rigadier,General 0 rlandw.4\lat&y ,to be Colonel- Commlncl-
ant, vice Stewart, deeeased,, Lientetutut- Colonel- V•iiljiani
Bentham to ne vice 11,1anky'. 'Major Wm. Robc
to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Bentham. Captain
Coleblook.e,ito be Major, vice:R.-inc. • • Secomi Captain H .
. P. Grant to be Captain, Golz!)rooke.
,First La.,ote •
mina atinry L. &Latin to 14.: Seeo+ia Captain,- vice Grant.
Seeonii Lieutenant' 111011115 Junes to,be l'irst Lieutenant,
vice Martin. All dated lan. 13, 1807.
R,:yal Artillery :Dri vers
Alex. Clarke, Gant. to be Quarter,Master. Dated jan. 16,
1807. . •

• . . , .
Corps of fi!ya( iiiirna,), Ayincers:
Second Captain John T. ;oties, of itte-Uorlis ot RoyAl, Enki-
- tieers, 1,. oe Aiijutant aild Quarter-tna:iter. Dated Jan. 1,
t8c.,7, ' .

Commipi9.7vin ;Le .11i:rdeenshitc s;gnei by the Lard

- .l,,ri,to;•;):t.i _ •
Capt3iti I,l,,ttray, who has resigned his Atijivtantcy, t.,
bt.--",:iiptain or a Company, vile resigitca. Dates.i
:So6: )ohn Dick, liscl., to he Captain, vice W.
A. Guidon, appati;ted to the 1.1:1e. Bated as above.