The Sun.
London, England, 1812-01-17 00:00:00

ANITO LT 117,11 L.

In the account-which we hereunto subjoin, will
be found the melancholy confirmation of all our fears
srespeaing the St. George and Defence:—

EXTRACT FROM THE DANISH NEWSPAPER OF Tan

31ST OF DLC. 131

" We have received accounts that the English ship
St. Geor,:fe, 9:3 guns, commanded by Admiral REY-,
NOLDS, and the Defence of 74, Captain DAVID AT.
weredriven ashore on the mot fling of the 24th
instant, near 'Cape Ryssenstien, in the lordship if
Rinkiobing. The crew of the former is said to
have consisted of 850 men, and of the latter, of SL;,.
men, not including the Officers. tf,lf an hour after
tie Defence had touched the ground, the who!e welt
to pieces, and all the crew (excepting 5 seamen aLci
one marine, who saved themselves by bolding pieces
' of timber) were drowned. Capt. ATKIN& reached the
shore dead. The day after, in the afternoon, there
were seen ft om the land s!,me part of the cabin and
"poop of the St. George, upon which were standing
many men. Part of the mast was cut away, and
some men endea7oured to escape on it; but it is con-
jectured, that few, have been saved, since the waves
and the current, with the wind coming from the
N. N. W. would sweep them off before they reach-
ed the land. Some, likewise, attempted to save
themselves on a raft, but are said to have perished ;
and when the accounts came away from Lemvig,
intelligence had reached that place, that the St.
George had totally gone down, and that only twelve -
men of the crew had been saved. The ship was up-
wards of 300 fathoms from the land.

" The six men saved out of the Defence have, on
examination, declared, tha► the first cause of this
misfortune was the St. George having last month
lost her masts in a gale of wind when off Lolland, in
the Brit; and, consequentlyox hen she cams into the
North Sea, could not easily be brought into stays, or
keep up with the fleet which came out from Wingo.,
near Gottenburgh, on the 166th of this month, and
consisted of the Liaory, of 100 guns, Admiral SAC,.
MAREZ, Commander in Chief, St. George, Dread--
nought, Vigo, Cressy, Orion, Hero, and Defence, be-
sides some smaller ships of war, and a fleet of
about 150 sail of merchant-vessels. As it was blow-

ing r heavy gale. Admiral SAumAEEZ gars. orders
for the Deknre and Cressy to keep close the St.
George. The Hero, and some other smaller ships,
were directed, as the wind was against them, to re-
turn back to Wingo, with a p.f.ri of the merchant-
vess,2l3. The other ships of the line shaped their
course for England, Defence, and.
„Cressy, kept the North Sea five days, in a dreadful
gale from the W. N. W. West and. South ; but at
length had to combat with a terrible tempest from
the N. W."

NAPLES, DLC. 7.—The English have made an
attack upon the town of Reggio. The damage caused
by it hardly deserves to be mentioned ; and as the
English have no other happiness than that of hurt-
ing, they will find neither consolation or recom-
pense from that they made. All the losses,
on the contrary, fall upon themselves. They
themselves confess they had many killed and
wounded. Deserters assert, the day after the action
a great number of women lamenting at General
MAITLAND'S door the loss of a husband or son.
We likewise know that two of their gun-boats were
rendered incapable of further service, and that a mor-
tar bursting in the midst of the fire, augmented their
loss and damage. Die intelligence which we re-
ceive from the Littoral of the kingdom watered by
the Adriatic, states that the enemy had for. a consi-
der:ll7)le time left those waters. The gales which
they lastly experienced throughout the whole ex-
tent of the Gulph has caused them great 'losses,
in consequence of their having no friendly port
in which they can take shelter; thus, after hav-
ing continued in these seas the fine season, without
preventing the coasting trade between the ports of
Abruzzes de to Pauille and those of the Kingdom of
Italy, the Illyrian provinces, and Corfu, these insular
pirates have been tweed to abandon the theatre upon
which they wished to exercise their villainies.

Amongst the most conspicuous Exl~ibitit~ns in
this metropolis, for the Winter season, we believe
the Royal Menagerie, Exeter 'Change, will stand un-
rivalled. The vast number of rare animals which
have lately been procuted, with the wonderful
provement in the difftrent apartments, must exceed
the most sanguine expeCiation : it is jus,ly observed
by the most illustrious connoisseurs in this nation,
that no one need to wish himself transported to the
extensive plains and fore•its of Asia, Africa, &c. to
see the choicest produtiions of animated nature,
while such noble and perfect specimens so greatly
abound in the unique assemblage, which for variety,
beauty, and perfection, can challenge any Menage-
rie in the world. The formidable Rhinoceros, the
scientific Elephant, the finest Lion, Royal Tiger, and
Ostrich, in nature, are particithirly noticed, amongst
a number of other lions, tigers, panthers, ostriches,
leopard, hyxna, Arabian camel, cassowary, emews,
pelican, cirus, crown cranes,, vultures, and se%eral
new animals, viz. the 'Vapor or Hippopotamus of
the I\l,zw World, the Vicuna or Viguna of the Peru-
vian Mountains, the great Ursine Sloth from the
East Indies, Sc.c. all in fine health and condition, will
sufficiently prove that such an extensive variety were
never before known in one place, perhaps, in the
history of the

OLD BAILEY, JAN% 11:51

James Dixon stood indicted for maliciously shoot-
ing at Ann Earl, in December last ; but it appear-
ing that the prisoner was attempting only to frighten
away some cats which, annoyed him, when the
Wadding of his pistol struck the prosecutrix, and
that he had no intention of doing injury to her, he
Was acquitted.
John Clayton and William Jenkins were next
tried on a capital indictment, charging them with
burglariously breaking' and entering the house of
Jane Furn, in the parish of St. Jamea's, on the night
Of the Ist. instant, with intent to steal.
The facts of the case have been so recently before
tier readers, in a report from.-Bow-street office, 'an-
tler the name of Mrs. Martin's house in Bury-street,
that we do not think it necessary again to enter into
t! minute detail of the, circumstances attending the
Prisoners' guilt and apprehension. It may be re-
collected (tsar Clayton, by intriguing with the ser-
vant maid of the prosecutrix, who is a single woman.;.
found means to gain' admission into her mistress's
Louse, during her absence at the theatre, and after-
Wards admitted his -associate Jenkins ; when, after
threatening to blow out the brains of the servant if
she made a noise, they proceeded to break open
doors and drawers, for the purpose of stealing such
Property as they could find. Fortunately, however,
for the sake of public justice, 'the officers of Bow-
street bad information of the intended depredation,
and secured the prisoners when they bad nearly
completed their work.
The lacts,having been most Clearly 3obstantiated,
the prisoners were found guilty—Death.
They are both your); men, the one by trade a
goldbeater, the other a chair-inaker.
George Smith was tried for feloniously assaulting,
on the King's highway', Elizabeth Sharpe, and tak-
iog from her person, against her will, ten shillings
vinttlt of halfpence, the property of her father.
The prosecutrix, a little girl not more than twelve
Years of age, stated, that on the evening of the 11th
December last, about seven o'clock, she was pass-
log through Clement's Inn, with the halfpence in
gloestion on her arm, when two men overtook her,
and one of them placed his hand on her mouth, to
prevent her giving alarm, while the other, the pri-
!our, took from
„her tie two papers containing the
1:411-pence, and ran of. Site immediately pursued
tito, crying " Stop thief !" and he was stopt by the
.rairole in Clement's-lane ;, near to him, where be
ns secured, were found nine shillings and eleven
Pence of the halfpence he had taken from the child.
'Hese faas were corroborated by other witnesses.
_Three persons spoke to the general good charader
ut the prisoner, who it appears was engaged in a
Print-
Ing-office in Water-lane ; and on the sugges-
men ,
the LORD CHIEF BARON, the prisoner was
bind guilty of the larceny only, but not of the
ghway robbery.