The Sun.
London, England, 1807-10-20 00:00:00

flying over us every instant; About twelve a 3rl
cirried away our mists -and bowsprit; so that nothing
reamLoci' but clear decks and a bare hull ; we lay
lashed until two in the morning, when a sea parted
oilt cables, so that we did not know what to do.—
L spoke to Capt. Cameron, and persuaded him to
jump overboard, that in five minutes we should be
all .to pieces on the beach, and murdered by the
wreck we immediately unlashed ourselves, and
jumped overboard, where I held paw., CamerOn by
the head for some time, until the Flick or Mr. Alit-
cbell laid hold of me by the leg, at whiCh time 'I
was obliged to let go Mr. Cameron to clear myself
at; length a sea hove me on the shore, where I crawl-
=ed upon my hands and knees; not being able to
walk, until I was clear of the sea, where I lay until.
half,past sib the next morning, almost dead, no per,.
' sop being there to assist me. I rose and went to-.
wards the,.hills, but being so weak from the blood
lost from a dreadful wound J received on my head
and several parts of my body, so that I could not go
any farther. At length a Spaniard took me up, and
dragged,tne to his house, where I lay for some time
bleeding ; at light they sent for a Dottor, who dress-
ed my wontidi, and ordered me to be put to bed.-,-
In this situation I lay several days, until I was a lit-
tle recovered, when they took me from thence, and
put me in prison, where I remain, naked, half-stary-
ed to death, and eaten up with dirt apd yermin—bo
one to assist me--the English Agent was once. to see
me, and told me he could notossist me, as' the Spa-
nish Government had me in their charge, and only
allows, Ad. per day, which. acarce keeps me alive.—
I should be happy to be able to relate verbally to you
all this, but I am afraid it will be a long time, as I
am kept so close confined. 'I should have sent rati,
this account before now, but had no opportunity
-at length a friend hai offered to deliver this to our
Ambassador at Lisbon,, to have it gait to you; &c.

As the Expedition against Denmark has been the
subject of so much acrimonious censure against our
Government, and hturheen represented not only as an

unjustifiable attack upon an " innocent, neutral, un-
offending" Nation, but as "wholly unexampled among
civiliZed Nations, we are happy in being reminded of.
a precedent drawn from the condua of the Danes
themselves. The PRINCE of Hesse, as our Readers
may remember, marched against Hamburgh in the
year 1801, and made a forcible seizure of that free
.
and unoffending place. And here it may be proper
to present an EXtraa of a Letter published at that
period, gitifing an account of that most 'scandalous
attack.' ,
•• tintnews.un, p. —Our city is now In ptrse!cp.
sion eta Danish array under the command of Prince CHAilLss
of Heist: A Deputation was sent to him on his approach:
having heard whet they had to urge, the Prince gravely pull-
ed out his WAtCII, and, looking at the hour, said, Gentle-
men, it is now eight o'clock : to home, and convoke your
A Id .:rmen and Citizens; deliberate upon what reception they
think proper to give me; meanwhile, depend upon nay being
before your gates by eight o'clock to.morrow."
The despotic arrogance of this declaration appears
in a still more atrocious point of view when con-
trasted with the terms of the summons 'addressed
by the British Commander, to the Governor of Co.
penbagen, in the recent Expedition :
" I cannot," says his Lordship, " omit request-
"ing Our., Excellency to take into your most se-
" rious consideration, the present situation of the
" City. For God's sake, Sir, consider coolly, wile-
t they resistance will not be the ruin of the place
" you wish to defend."
A little before day-break, on the 29th., the Da-
" tikh besieging army had already colleaed' before
the Altona Gate, with a train' of sixty pieces of
heaq ordnance, a great number of ammunition
" waggons, baggage, src. . ,
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The letter adds that "the harbour is blockaded by
" nine Danish Gun-boats, and not a single itiglish
" Ship remains. The inhabitants of the Ci!y,
,or
Lubeck refused, ,for six hours, to surrender-that
town to the Danes,' and, it, the 1-esistance; the
" place wafrexposed to aL severe can
Such were the proceedings of Denmark against a
neutral City, from which she could have nothing
to fear, and w•hich had given, her no ofince,
and the place was, of course, obliged to surrender,
least it should have, been doomed to suffer a bom
bardment that would have buried it ashes. The
Danish forces remained in posSession of Hambutgh
and Lubec till the 22d of Mayi frequently levying
Contributions on the former. But it is essential '0
,state the reason given by the Prince of Heise, the,
Danish Commander, in his declaration on leaving
the place, dated May 20th, 1801, as that reason, so
far from testifying that unotfending spirit of neutra-
lity of which Denmark has boasted, that it was an
aft of direct hostility against Great Britain, '
"This change, of circumstances having taken place, the
ticantsio)nenismraermkov)
medofordretrhethpertocit,tipwahtii.enh
oinfdisthced
Vrisleits imperial'
City of llamburgh, by his troops, whiCh bad :vo other.abjea f
than the interruption of the. English navigatios and contweree
and his ,Majesty, In determining on such a measure, only
yield:d, to the pretoie of imperioor circumstances.

It now only remains for us to advert for a ma-
Lira to the different motives which aauated the

Danish attack upon Han4bargh, and the British
Expedition against Denmark. The former was
charaeterized ,by tyranny, plunder, and •liosti ;
towards Great Britain. The latter originated iii
the absolute, uecssity of self-defence, to antici-
pate the- intention of a foe Who has avowed
a determirration to destroy, and; to -prevent; him front
compelling au insidnons Neutral from becoming the
open Ally of that foe, and assisting him with all llis
means to accomplish his objea. We cannot coil-
elude Without a remark or fix° on the different 'con-
du& which the Danes have experienced from us, to
what they would have reason to expe6t if France had
obtained possession of their, country. . The cautions
forbearance and respeet with which the inhabilaut`
of Denmark were- treated -by our countrymen, as
-toon,as hostitities.were at,au .end,-.otaght to convince:
. them of the difference between a visit .froni the
French and trot-it the English. If the French fad
succeeded in a similar attack upon Copenhagen, ar:i.
the Danes had presumed to express any discontent,
at the behavionr of their conquerors, or had beets -
rash enough to insult them, under any provocation,
instead of conciliating restrie.tions upon the. French
.troops, the latter would doubtless have been indulged
with ample licence to avenge themselves on the pre.
perry and lives of the unhappy Citizeqs, We, Can-
not therefore wonder, that, according to report," die
panes have requested that the British Forces maY
continue in Zealand, in order to exempt them as
much
,as possible from the rnineus aid of French
protection.

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YeSterday morning the Duke of YORK 'transaEted.
buiine?s with His MAJESTY; afterweirds Fits M
Es.tY; The DUke of Yoit, Princesses SOP/lI,A, AtPl',
Lit,T.ST,A, and 4MELIA, accompanied by .Lacly TIIYN Dins
QeflerßlS FITZROY and CARTwittoirr, and Colonel
TAYLOR,' rpde i 4 Windsor Great Park, and returned,
at twelve e,clock.
Yesterday Sir SIDNEY SMITH had st iOna,illtav
view with Lord MuLtitia.vg at the Admiralty.
It is certain that the'Guards are immediately com-
ing honie from Copenhagen. • They .are the only
troops as yet recalled. Provsiotis are gone out suf-
ficient for the subsistence of the remainder till the
middle of December.

Tlie biclekado of Cadiz is raised for the moment'
Orders, we understand, were transmitted .some days
ago to Admiral PURVIS, who
,commanded on that
station in the absence of Lord COLLINGWOOD, to
proceed with the whole of his squadron to Lisbon,
for the purpose of facilitating the removal of -,/tritish
persons and property, and suppressing any attempts
which might be made to'preveut the government
from withdrawing.to the Brazils.
Nq accounts have been teceived- from Lisbon of a
later date than the 7th instant.—Clne letter of that
date states, we understand, that the populace, had
broken out into ads of riot on the preceding clay
the object of it Was to prevent the sailing of the
Portuguese Ships, and the emigration of the Royal
Police is said to have shewn .no very
great inclination to check or put down the rioters.
A Letter from Hamburgh of the 30th Aug, says,
" A private of the Spanish regiment of Zamore was
executed here on .the.,26th, for. robbing and mur-
dering the poor man on whom he Was billetted:--..
The Ftench speak of the Spanish troops, in the
most disrespeaful terms, alledging that they were
for the greater part galley slaves ; the Spaniards are
not more courteous, and the most cordial con-
tempt and.hattod subsists between their respeair4
corps."
When the Emperor of RusstA, issued his late
Manifesto, in which he declared that he had rejeAed
all plans for the auginentation of his dominions at
the expence of his Ally, be, in tact, published .a
circumstance which was a gloss insult to himielf.
for it was absulutOy treating him with,,worse thou.
contempt even to propose.. to: bun the spoliatioa
of any part ofthe territories of his Ally. The Bus"
sian people, therefore, instead ,of -respeCting their
Emperor for this declaratiOn-of.self denial, must at
thy. best look on lute with pity.'for having redUCC4
t.andllisgraCful proposa4 .nor can they be inclac 0
to thi4lVery highly at his understanding for not
cautiont*ncealing a circumstance so' much 6101-.
WO 'ol*er his CharaCter in the eits,of his Sob'
jets, ti.nd'Of all. mankind.

VOLUNTEERS.—=-WC have to state, for the in'
formation of Members-of: Volunteer Corps, the cir
cumstances in which they are placed with regard le
the approaching Militia Ballot. Volunteers are 1.13:
ble to be drawn, as well as other individuals, but
the ballot will be suspended, with respect to theta,
as long al they continue elfeßive inetnbers of thee
corps ; but it' the persons drawn at any time cease to
be etreaive members, they are immediately liabla
to be claimed by the Militia. To constitute an ef.
fe4ive member, every Volunteer, must have excl.-
ciiecl eight days within the tour months preceding
the ballot, or sixteen within the eight months pre,'
ceding,, which must be certified by the Commana.
ing Ottigy ; and it is to be obsetved, that °Hit:arse
well Op/gates are to be subject to the same retPl;
he penalty for an individual making
false clalin is .:361. and for a Commanding (nicer.
-making,a. false certiticate is 2001.
The Loyal Britons Volunteers, commanded by
Major LE.:,ocat, in the absence of -their olonel,.
ALEX. DAyisozs, Esq. had yesterday grand Fiela
day in Hyde Park, preparatory to their being re"
viewed by-the Commander in Chief.
Yesterday the Loyal
Whitecha pe l Volunteer
commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel HARDY, With au
attached corps of Artillery, marched, to
Forestearly,in the. morning, where they bad A gr‘.,lo
field-day, after which the Colonel entertained "
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' Corps at the Bosh on Epping Forest. •
the
i;
A ont Coni; a fortified town .of Piedmont, 404
night. orthiy bth the shock of ap earthrluake
very sensibly felt; it* duration was nearly" ea botir
ancl,a lialffiloring which time it .was
sr
It does not appear that it was attended with a) ?
, ticular (lamer.
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