The Sun.
London, England, 1812-12-09 00:00:00

VICTU--ILLING-OFTICE,

• Dec. 8, 1812.
THE COM3:7ESSION.LRS for VICTUALLE G
His M...I.TESTY'S NAVY do hereby glice Notice,That
on Tnesday, the 2.2 d instant, they will be ready to receive
Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat far Three Hun-
dred Tons f MUSCOVADO SUGAR, to be anetrerable
to Samples (of ..et less than Two Pounds weight each), to
ke:produced with the Tenders; and to be delircred in the
original Packages,: at .the rate of from Secenty to Eighty
Tons per week, into his Majeet!ls Victualling Stores at Dept-
ford; etnd also for the Still-4y -(9u Sella tige Contract)
One Hundred and Fifty Tons of BUTTER, and Two Hun-
dred and Fifty Tons of el-MESE, to be deli.:ered, one-hall
Thereof in One Month, and the other half in One Month' of-
' terirards, into his .114esty. 's Victualling Stores at the Ports,
and in the proport-ions undermentioned, via.

Butter. Cheese.
Tons. Tuns.
Deptford
Portsmouth • 50
Plymouth .. so • 60

150 Tons

230 Tons.

The whole to be paid for &, Bills, payable with Interest,
Ninety Days after date.

The Conditions of the Contracts may be seen at the Seere-
tarys' Office:
No regard mill be had to any Tender in which the Price
'hall not be inserted in words at length, or that shall not be
delivered to the Board before One o'clock on the said Tuesday,
the 22. i/ iratant, nor Unless the Person toho makes the
Tender, or sonic Person on his behalf, attendi, to answer
when called for.

To EAST and WEST-INDII, AMERICAN, and RUSSIA

MERCHANTS. •
P. HEATH., of Nottingham, informs the
eft' • Merchants of England, and Traders in general, that
for the convenience of sale, he has placed his JUNIPER ES.
SENCE of PEPPERMINT, and other Medicines, in the
hands of' Messrs. Shaw and Edwards, 66, St. Paul's Church-
yard.
This Essence is a safe, effectual, and pleasant remedy in
Flatulencies, Gouty and Chohay Pains in the Stomach and
Rlwels, Indigestion, HySteries, Sea-sickness, 'Nausea 'atten-
dant on Pregnancy, Relaxation and Lassitude arising Irons
atmospheric heat, Want' of Appal*, Injuries from hide-.
meat Weather, the abuse of Spirituous Liquors, 'and in the
spasmodic *affection of the Stomach and Bowels, so common
to Infants, adapting the dose to the urgency of the case. As a
Family Medicine, or for the Army and
,Navy, it be found
a valuable acquisition.
Juniper Esstaice of Peppermint is so well known as a valua-
ble Family Medicine, that the principal object of this Adver-,
tisement i, to guard purchasers against the natnerous conn-
terfQits which are prepared by Pruggists, &c. especially if the
order is for Exportation. "['he 'only caution J. P. Heath can
give, is to see that J. P. Heath, Nottingham, is engraved ou
the-Government, stamp. Sold wholesale and retail„ :by Shaw
and Edwards, 66, St.. Paul's Church-yard„in baths 25.. 9d.
and is. lid. • • •

BY.THE KING'S PA FENT.
DR. NORKIS's FEVER DROPS.

THE experience of more than half a century has
so fully established tile reputation of this invaiti,nie
Medicine,
.that it is now unii.f,:ess,ry to expatiate on its effi-
cacy in every species of Fever, particularly tit.: Searle: and
Typhus Fever, also the Yellow or Putrid Fevers ; they have
never been known to fail, when administered agrecablo to di-
reaion ; in the Mew, es, Small- Pox, Teethingo• and most
Disorders incident to Children they arc an infallible remedy ;
the decays and discomforts of 'advanced life are under their
immediate influence, .they immediately stop the progress df
a fresh Cold, andare particularly adapted asa genial Restora
five. •

- The Family Bottle, 225. sold at the Dodor's House, No.
ao, Lower Brook •street, Grosvenor-square, where orders t
exportation areduly executed Smaller Bottles, I Is. and as.
gd. wholesaleand retail, at Bacon's, rso, Oxford-street, and
by most respectable Venders iu Town .
Also Dr.NO IS's celebtated ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS,
with ample Dire Lions, ot".. the Box.
C UTION.— Observe that the ‘vprtts "Thomas Norris
Moore" are engraved oh the Government Stamp round the
Lottles ; no others are, or can be, genuine.

ARRIVED-1 Malta, 2 Waterford. I Gottn-
, burgh, I Brazils, I Dublin, 2 Wa.terfotd.

PRICE OF STOCKS
TillS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. ,
Consols 61i Gill Red. Ann

THE
.. SUN.

SOLENI 'QUIS IIICEIti: FALSUM AtiDEAT ?

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY., DECEMBER 9, 1812:

The 4ctire cutter has arrived at Harwich from
, Gottenburgh, but this vessel does not bring any
intelligence of a later date than that which arrived
yesterday. PrinceKonoviKv, Minister from Russia
to the King of Sardinia, came over in the Active:
'he'confirms the accounts . which have already
reached us, and is clearly oc opinion, that not a
single Frenchman will escape from Russia.
deed it is almost impossible; after the perusal of
the dispatches contained in the last Gazette Ex-
tra Ordinary, to entertain a doubt of the entire de-
structionofthat immense army which entered Russia
last June. In a conversation wh cb BUONAPARTE
had with the King of Sax-oi!:v at Dresden, just
before the former joined his Army,: the King ven-
tured to express an opinion that the Russian cam-
paign would cost the French a great many men.
The unfeeling monster replied, that he knew
it, but added, that he could afford to expend
• (depenser) 25,000 men a month ! ! His expendi- •
ture, however, of human, lives has outran his cal-
culation ; for since June be has lost, upon an ave-
rage, very little, if at all less than 50,000 men a
month. It remains to he seen, if he escapes out of
Rtissia, whether France and Germany will still
pour forth their population to promote
.his
,ambitious views, or to gratify his implacable
'resentments. Although the accounts received yes-
terday from Gottenburgh were not official, -we'
think they are extremely probable ; indeed.
we are only surprised that the foreign troops
in the French service did not lay down their
arms before ; they have been 'exposed to the
brunt of every battle, and when the retreat
commenced they were left in' the rear, to sustain
all the attacks of the pursuing Russians. The un-
fortunate son of 3-OEPIIINE was left with this
devoted portion of the army, while BUONA-
PARTE, AluaAT, and BERTHIER t,avelled in I

their coach," and with the fav9urite Itnperial
Guards. There seems to .be no doubt that
BuoNArAttTn, determined to sacrifice the .divi-

sions of the Viceroy, DAVOUST, and NEI-, to his
own safety, otherwise he would not have divided the
cavalry from the infantry and thereby left the latter
completely exposed to the attacks of the Cossacks.
In fact, when those corps were attacked on the
9th of Nov. we find that they were, as the Vice-
roy had predicted intis letter, almost incapable of
snaking any resistance, and 12,000 of them were
]tilled, and 3,700 taken prisoners. It is impossible
that BUONAPARTE must not have foreseen their
fate when be left them without cavalry, and
%%ten he knew that, in consequence of the loss
of their horses, they were daily destroying
their artillery. But this calculator. in. human
Mod thought that the time :which the Riis-
Flans would employ in slaughtering the main
body of his Army, would enable him to. ef-
sect his escape with his chosen few. In that ex-
pectation, we trust, that he has been disappoint-
ed. His only chance depended upon the,rapidity
Of his movements, because the Russian cordon was
:becoming every day more compact around him.
.1f he had left Smolensko soon after the llth Nov.
and had passed the Russian lines, he might cer-
tainly have communicated with Paris by the 3d of
this month. It may 'appear strange, that a man
who certainly has displayed such great military
talents should have ventured upon such an expe-
dition, without having made a more accurate es-
t:mate of the tesults. There can be no doubt
that IhJONAPARTE relied upon being able to terrify
.the Emperoi of Russia into a peace ;i his Mistake
in that speculation, and the burning of Moscow,
have caused his ruin. The risk he ran was great, but
then the object he had in view vas a great one ; by
imposing a peace upon Russia he would have coin-
pleteei.his continental system, and have cut us off
irom all intercourse with Russia. The success of
ibis plan would have deprived us of naval stores
lion) the .North ; and if the Americans had also
si ceeeded in the attack which he Catised them to
in; ke at the same time upon Canada, the conse-
qi ences to our Navy might have been most se-
rious.

AMOng the other letters intercepted by the.
Russians, was one from BUONAPARTE to the Se-
cretary of State, MARET (called in the French
Papers the Duke of Bassano), in which he desires
Lim' to Expedite couriers to Austria, Bavaria, Wir-
teniburgh, &c. with positive orders for all 'the
troops in these States to march to his relief. He
also desires that the march .of these troop may
be mentioned kn all the foreign Gazettes, and its
the accountt their numbers should be greatly mag-
nified, and even doubled. We are inclined to
think that the Tyrant's orders will not be so rea-
dily obeyed as they would have been a few mouths
ago. Like Glendower, he may call spirits
" fram the vasty deep;
" But will they come ?"

A Malta Mail arrived this morning, but it
brings acipew.t, -

•
The report of the defeat of SOULT has been
vain revived, and it is added that he has re-
treated towards France. the Intelligence brought
Lv the Beagle certainly gives some strength to
this rumour.

PL'fMOUTII, DEC 7.-Put in here yesterday the
ship Reicca, belonging and bound to London,
WORTS, Master, from Malta and Gibraltar, with
a cargo consisting of wine, cream of tartar, oil, &c.;
sailed froni Malta on the I,oth October, and from
Gibraltat;_on the 2Gth ,November, came a running
ship, and is trader quarantine:
Alto arrived .the Sully Ann, Pitgu.s, Ceres,
LONGMAID, John, OLDRLEVE, and the Blue-elicit
Lass, 'loco, from London ; the Two Friends,
MAnnicK, from Southampton ; Diligence, c*AP-
.
MAN, from Truro ; the Unity, CROSS, from Cowes ;
the Havant, GALES, from Arundel; and. the Ant,
V crroßy, from Lyme.
Arrived the Superb man of war from Ports-
mouth, and the Shorpshooter gun-brig from a,
cruize off the Start.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. B.—Arrived his Majesty's
ships Venus, -Bellona, Bellerophon, Ramillies, and
Thistle, with a' convoy, from the- Downs ; and
Pyramus from off Havre.

His-Majesty's ship Tweed got under Weigh this
morning* to proceed with a convoy for Madeira,
but was recalled by signal, and remains.

DEAL, DEC. B.—Sailed his Majesty's Ships
loyal ;Oak, Theseus, .Bellona, and Va/iant, for
Portsinouth, to relit ; Success, Freya, and six
•
transports with French prisoners for Lcith.

HARWICH, DEC. 0 —Arrived the Active.cutter,
,
GREC-SON, from Gottenburgh ; has brought his Ex.-
caency Prince hOLLOSKY, who is going Envoy
Extraordinary from Russia to Sardiniz. Ilk Ex-
cellency confirms the accounts already recei-ved,
and states it as his firm opinion, that not a French-
man will get out of Russia.
Sailed the Auckland "packet, and the Lady Fran,
ces, for Gottenburgh ; and the Lord -Nelson for
Heligoland, all With mails.

,
YAumotmt, DEC. Active, of Hull,
LATTIMORE; Master; from Wisbech for London,
with potatoes, was driven on .shore yesterday on
Caister Beach, and will be totally lost.
Atrived the...ctive, of London, WINLAY, Mas-
ter, from London.

FALMOUTH, Dac. B.—Arrived the Lady Pelham
packet, with a Mail from Malta last from Gib-
raltar in six days. Also arrived a man of war brig,
and made signal of convoy for Portugal and the
Mediterranean, and a ship sloop of war supposeci
from a foreign station. Also arrived a brig from
Messina, for Loudon, and is put under quarantine.
The Marlborough packet, for Lisbon, has gOne
into the roads, and, with the Lady Emily, for
Malta, and the Sandwich, fbr Cadiz, still remain.

esterdarthe DUKE of .3.r.oT;iz held a Military
Levee at .his office in the 'Horse Guards, which
was attended by a number of Military Officers.
The Duchess of YORK arrived in tcwn yester-
day, for a few days.
Sunday the Vrineess CUARLOTTE of WALES, ac-
,companied by Lady DE CLIFFORD, attended divine
Service' at St.,.George's Chapel, Windsor, and heard
a Sermon preached by die Honourable and Re-
verend Mr. STOFFORD. ,

This morning the trial of Mr. Hunt, of The
Examiner, for a libel, came or. in the King's
Bench, when he was found guilty.
SountAmp-rox, DEC: 5.-4)ied,..on Sunday last,
aged, 70 years, Mr. 'William Lakeland, an officer
in the excise, a. most eccentric character. This
person died worth near 40001. the whole of which.
is funded property. He lived latterly so very ab-
stentious as to deprive himself of the common ne-
cessaries of life. He died without making a will,
and often, on having been requested to make one,
observed, that he no relative in the world,
and that his property, at his decease, should de-
lve into the hands of the English government,
under „which he lived. Some respectable gentle-
men, of this town, hearing of the deplorable state
in which lie lived, a few days before his decease,
dictated by the feelings of humanity (though well
knowing be might have rendered.himself com-
fortable, in consequence of his property), codes-
vonred to render his latter days cornfortable, by
frequently. attending him, administering to him
the sustenance and necessaries for a person in his
situation, and occasionally sent a few bottles of
wine, &e. the whole of which they, found,, after
hi& decease, remaining in the same state as sent;
on inquiry," they Were informed, by the people of
the hatise where this penurious man lived, that
on his being requested to partake of the articles
sent for his comfort, his answer was, " No, I
shall get better soon, anal then it will be worth
something to me." A very voluminous assort-
ment of letters and paperS of his have been exa-
mined, but not the least satisfactory knowledge
could be obtained from-them: .

CORN-EXCHANGE, DEC. 9.—We had a good
supply of Wheat to-day,• the sale of which was
dull, and .the principal part held at Monday's
prices ; Rye, Barley, and Malt remained sta-
tionary ; floe Oats.-were much in demand, and
very scarce,, hut a great many of a quality scarcely
saleable at any price ; of New Tick Beans we had
a gobd supply, and the•salei heavy ; Boiling Peas
are looking upwards ; in other descriptions of
Grain no alteration.

Lord Chnn!)erletin's• • f.yfire, hvremter 8, 181 .4..

Notive is hereby Kiven, that the Lert.e intended to have
been held by his !loyal liighues the Prince llto-ent, at Carl-,
tun-liouse, on Thursday, vi pt;stparied till 310;7(lay next, the
14th ihstaut, at two o'clock. •

lrar:Pgice, Dec, 8, 1 SIQ •
BREVET.—Capt. Thomas Kennedy, on the Staff, to be Ma-
in the Army. • - •

The King's German Lrgion.
Ist'llattali•on of Lightiaantry, Hermann Meyer, Gent, to be
Ens gn, Vice Henstq., pronmed.
Ist liatLalioil of the Line.
To be Litintenants, -.l7:nsigi,,,Cliarles.Wevlie, vice Aiever, dead
of hi, AVoilads. Ensign. -Meyer, Tice tot:liner,
killed in action.
Tu be Enlig.n, Serjeant-Major
promoted

Wolff*, vice Einem,

Mr..itoßANntrm.--Ensign Johnson, of the. 89th Foot, who
wacSnperseded, as stated in the Gazette of the 1 7th ult. is re-
instated in in; rank.

The tip puilituit,lt of tisign John Thomas Carroll, of th-e
Limerick City ,filitia, to be linsign; without purchase, as
stated st the Llazette of the ‘2lst April, 161, has uut taken

ERRATA in the Gazettes of . the 6th October lasi* an i 1 Ist in-
stant.-53 Foot, For Volunteer Ember, from the sth
Foot, to be Ensign, &c. read Voluntea Charles "label.;
from the sth Foot, to be En iyu, &c. •
BuEvEr.--For Captain James F.Faulton, of the 95th FoOt,!to
be Major in the Army, read Captain James F. Fulton, - of
the 49th Foot,-to be Major in the Arne)-. •