The Sun.
London, England, 1812-08-29 00:00:00

PRINCE REGENT'S VISIT TO WOOLWICH.

At an: early hour on Tuesday, morning a vast
concourse of people were assembled round the Re-
.
pository on Woolwich Common,' in expectation
of the arrival of his 'Royal Highness the PRINCE
REGLNT whose intended visit .had been generally
reportediorsinne preceding days. A party of the
,Flintshire' Militia,.fornied a line from the road,
and kept the space clear from the crowd, assem-
bled in all direetions round the Repository ; where
a guard of honour, conimantled by a 141:jor and
three subalterns, of the Royal. Artillery, Were
drawn up to receive hisßoyal Highness.
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Numerous grouper Yashionables• enlivetled
the scene, attracted as well by the beauty of the
day as the expectation of the illustrious REGENi''S.
visit, and the novelty of the scenes prepared for
his inspection.
Ten troop of Horse Artillery were sent to line
the road, who waited the arrival Of his Royal
Highness, in order to escort him to the'Rcposi-
tory gate. The appearance of his servants with-
his orderly, leading hiS Royal Highness's horse,
preceded about half an hour hiroWn arrival, which
was announced Abopi three by a royal salute fired
from the battery, and " God save the King,"
from the Flint Band.

At the gate he was received by General LLOYD
and other General Officers of the Royal A.rti
and Engineers, among whom were Generals RAM=
SZY, BOOTHSVICR, lII:DDLESTONE, FADE, &C.&c.
Colonels GRIFFITHS, BINGHAM, CUPPAGE, &C.
Majors LLOTD, Buciulzrt, Wast, &c.

Isis Royal proceeded through a lane famed by
crowds of Ladies, Officers, &c. to the Guard,
and, after returning their salute, mounted his
horse, and proceeded to the inspection of the dif-
ferent 9bjects.
. The Prince was in 'toll uniform, looked ex-.
treniely well, and was accompanied by their,
Royal flighnesses the Dukes of CUMBERLAND and
CLARENCR, and attended by Colonels APINIAnoN,
BLOOMFIELD) &C. ' .

A representation of the attack of a bastion,
andvarious other military mauceuVres, Composed
spectacles with which his Royal Highnets ex
pressed himself highly pleased.
A cold collation was Preparing ; however his..
Royal Highness declined partaking of it.
After leaving the Repository; he proceeded to,
the review of-the Horse Artillery, and declared'
his, satisfaction of their discipline to the Com-
manding Officer. He then saw the Foot Artil-
lery march past in review order, and expressed
himself particularly ratified with their discipline
'also.

His Royal Highness departed about half-past
five, to dine with General CONGREVR, at his
house at Charlton.

Yesterday afternoon, at half-past four o'clOck,
his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT, accom-..
pOnied by his brother the Duke of CUMBERLAND,,'
passed through Oxford on his way to Ragley Park;
the seat of the Marquis of Hertford, whom he in,
tendS to honour with a visit. ,
A Special Court of Directors was held at the
India House, on Thursday, to resume t'he consi-
deration of the cases of the " self-dismissed Of&
cers,- as they are denominated, when the rest Ora.
don of Colonel the Hon. ARTMIRSENTLEGER, to
his rank in the Madras army, was .carried, after a
long and warm discussion, by. a majority of 12 to
.7. The Court postponed the consideration of the
cases of the other Officers, to Tuesday thclst of
September. •
It is asserted,. in letters frOm the Brazils, that
several establishments have been • erected for-the
spinning of cotton by machinery, in. Which the pro-
jectors are, stated to have succeeded much better
thou in the United States.

The eight troops of Life Guards ordered for
foreign service will not march for three weeks or
a mouth to come. The new appointments for the'
men cannot be completed till that - period. The
Royal Horse Guards (Blue) are to march totowtf,
when four troops of them will be brigaded with
the Life Guards ' • the whole brigade will then be
reviewed by the PRINCE. REGENT on Wimbledon
Common : shortly after which, they will march to
Portsmouth for embarkation.

We understand that a new regiment is immedi-
ately to be formed in Canada, from_the-Sootch
emigrants, to be called the Glengary Fencibles,
to be commanded by .Col. BAytiEs,-.Adjutant-
General of Canada, and CoMMander of the Nova
Scotia corps.

Nothing can be a quarter proof of the high es-
timation in which the Marquis of WELLINGTON is
held by the public, than the extraordinary demand
for the patriotic song of "Arthur the Brave," a
Second edition of which is just published, with .an
'additional verse, written on the glorious battle of
Salamanca. This song was introduced with the
happiest effect at the Masquerade at Vauxhall,

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nALI' :AST :WO O'CLOCK.

ri rril4re ate several reports in town, some of
'ttaiVil are so confidently circulated, that we deep
it . our duty to stop the Pfess to announce
them. Letters from Gottenburgh state, -that 5
Expres's had-arrived at that place from_St.Peters'
burgh, Which it left-on the sth inst. That City
had been illurninated•at eleven o'clock at. night,
in consequence of a signal 'victory which the Ras-
siansAiad obtained over the French Generals Mac'
DONALD and Ot:DLNOT, who had lost all their
baggage, artillery, &c. &c.. after three•days hard
lfi-ghting.—General Count WITGENSTEIN is said to
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illnie been wounded in this great contest.

~:ziknerther letter states, a dreadful battle bcd
,beeif.ffinght with the Viceroy of jtaly, in whirb
,the ItusSlans bad also been triumphant that tVo
Vieeroy had. been wounded, his Aid-de-camp
and that he lost 15,000 inen,,and a great
quantity of artillery,. &c. It was positively af-
firmed on 'Change this afternoon, that account!
of the latter action, had appeared. in The Peter.g.
burkh Ggzette of the sth -inst.; and that the ene-
imy had loSt 3000 killed, 1000 prisoners, and 70
pieces of cannon. According to this account also,
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the. Viceroy had been wounded. , The
on this occasion, it is said, were corinnan:!,eil
Prince lINGRATION, and that /lONAz.Att-2.2, hintisaf
had comManded in person. •

It would, be highly gratifying to us tr
to,add, that Goveramerit had received -a
liar of these glad tidings.

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....NAVAL NEWS.;

PLA:I%IOUTIf, AUG. 27.,---Arrived the Patrtorz,
SWALLOW, from Dart Mouth; Mary. Ann, Lose-
'MAID, from Fowey ; Wad. the-Joh4t, STOKES, fry
Exeter, .

. Sailed the Peter ,and John, cartel, FERwri.
master; and the Union, cartel, HARRIS, Waste,
li6th for Morlaix, with released prisoners and It
•
few passengbrs.
Also sailed this day the Magnificent man of Iwo
to the westward; the Bloodlwand gun-brig of

cruize; the Mary, TREMAYNE ; and the
Plitt, for Petersburgh.

PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 2S.—His Majesty'
Pontpee gives instructions to vessels
Portugal and the Mediterranean.

Sailed his Majesty's ships Tenecks and iranci,grr
with a fleet for Halifax, Eie.

GRAVESEND, Alio. 28.-,---Arrived the Nalt,,sti4-1
LAWSON, from Greenland ; " Saluador,. from Sialf?
and the Thomas OWEN, tram Dominica:

Sailed the Grenada and Lord Well-in-font frit
'
Malta; and the Venus, STACEY, for Opcirto. •

_VEAL, AUG. 28:—Arrived his Majesty's sbre
it Egnrite from a cruize off Flushing.
Came 'down from the River his l'Cisie‘=,tP
schooner Pioneer ; and the Defender from :4.
from off the North Foreland.

YARMOUTH, AUG. 28.--Arrtvtid this ..tnrnirt:g-
the Chanticleer front a cati;.o.e.
The schooner, priz.e:,. to: the truiatio, is arrtlr
in thelfiaven, and the ..ev.l,ierican ship, taker.
same time, in the Roads. '

_ The Prince of Wales., of 98 guns, Capt., Doug"
'as ; Al&ed ; of 74, Captain Hof ton Triicv,:, (If •
718) captain Baldwin ; find C'eaost, of 13, LanternSteNtOrt, sailed .sterday from Portsmouth Wit-4
a: large convoy, for Lisbon, the coast of Portut,2li
Cadiz; and,the coasts of Spain, and islands of the
,Mediterranean. The reinforcements going out to'
the cavalry regiments serving under the Margai!
of Wellington, amount altogether to ak.ut 30‘;
men. _ _

Heroism of an Irish Tar.—National bravery 110
never been more strongly exemplitied, than in th'
late sanguinary contest betiv'ten the. French sill?
Ti'icoli and his Majesty's ship Victoriovs. AinGrv-J:ft
many others we shaft" "only select .the following'
which deserves to be held up to public admirll-
tion, although the individual, the subject of
was not endowed by nature with high birth er
fortune,' nor adorned by 'edification with those fic-
quirements indispensably -necessary to form the
" great man 4"----James Mily, an Iriihman,
common seaman" on bo'rd the Victorious, ahout
an_hour before the cesSation of the action; ll.°
73).vock _at his quarters on the main-deck -with
'snot,, Which carried away the entire of the le"'
thigh:, An.high up that a porti9h of the hip Ica;
toit, and shattered the, right to pieces'
izn his way the' Cockpit,, he observed that nne
of the guns close* to the hatchway was run out,
'arid' that the nten were nearly in the act of firing; ,
he immediately desired the seamen who were car"
ring him down to stop, which_ they did,, when be,
begged of the men to let hith:fireind hoPct;.
they would allow him.to. have one shot •more
the Frenehmen before he died; '
after doing villicht,
he added.,
," he would die content.' •.' reques,'
was granted, when he very contentedly perniitrea..
himself to be carried down, exclaiming on'
Ladder, "-Fight on, my boys,, fight' on, foryou.r.
4.11 A Countiy, until you die."' U 'his
:vat h die" cockpit, he said to the Surgeon,
je:ku4w you will do all you can for Me, but 1 al` 5,,
. know tKre is :nothing in your
.power:'
than'llaifan hour after, his gallant-soul left tu - •
world for anotinr.

BTIITLSIT .-t"PIIT IN SPAIN.

"ramp -lei; r'uellnr, Aug. 4, IEO2

" The posit',-n of our division, previous to the
attack on the uh.was aloug the top of ridge
of hills, but so exposer! to the cannonade of
enemy (who were on a ridge. paralleVto pis; `opt
the other side of a valley, as wide ”:jitSt to be
within range of each others. artillery), that we
were obliged to lie down On our bellies, while they
nlied us lustily with round shot and shells, but
luckily threw most of them too far. In 'this state
we were kept, twenty minutes, till the columns
whiCh were moving to the right (to prevent out.
right being turned, which' was the view of Mar-
inont), had got their several. stations. All then
being ready, the attack commenced by the sth di-
vision standing.up,' and' advancing in
_line down
the bill, across the valley,' and up their hill, at the
bottom of which we met their sharpshooters, who
kept up a very sharp fire upon,us during ..?ktr
Vance, because ire never condescended to
single sbot:

r‘ From the moment we rose to ~.advance, the
fire from the enemy's guns increased upon us, afid`
when we got to-. the bottoth of our own hill, they
began .to send showers of grape and canister
amongst us, and continued it till we got - across
the valley, and about half way ep their hill, when
I suppose, 'seeing ,nothing could stop us, they
thought it prudent to remove their guns, for fear
we should get hold of them, and allewed Os to,
come in contact with their infantry, which, on
reaching the top of the hill, we found in contigu-
ous columns Of battalions, at six'. pates interval,
consisting of the 6th and ith divisions of French
infan trY.

" Till within forty yards of them, we never, but
for a moment, once sawthem. At the above dis-
tance we gave them throe cheers, received their.
iire (one of their ranks kneeling) ,returned' it,,and
directly charged; on which they immediately
fared about, and get off, but ranked again for a

short time, when ending. ns inclined idr noth7pg
but the bayonet, they set offhefori us altogether,
and our cavalry dashed in among them,. and played
the de

Our gallant-general (Leith) who lea us on in
the most brilliant style, is doing well, and we hope
will soon join us.

" We do not expect to advance to Burgos with-
out heavy artillery, which we can never get up in
this sandy country.
"-Marmont died of his wounds' on the 31st July
*t a short distance from this place."
In a former letter from the same officer, he states
that his regiment (Ist Batt. 38th) marched from
Lisbon, a distance of 350'miles, in 17 days, and
joined the army of/ Lord Wellington on the 21,a
duly, the day before the battle. _ _

THE'ATAUQUIS WELLESLEY.—We had renieutly
the pleasure of mentioning the munificence
Noble Personage to, the poor confined, debthis of
London, on the occasion of the late victory of his
brother, whereby he enabled so many unfortunate
Englishmen to celebrate the new triumph of our
Irish Hero.—We feel, however, additional gra-
, tification in recording, at the same time, .the
Warquis's liberality to his own countrymen : dur-
ing the late scarcity, he promptly commissie-ied
his agent to apply a considerable sum of money to
the relief of the poor classes ofhis Lordship' s ten an -
try, and dependants in the patish.of Trim, in the
county of Meath. A large proportion of this sum
was handed over to Jams Fox, Esq. of Fox-
brook, in that county, who immediately distri-
buted' it according to the intentions of the bene-
volent donor. Thus we see that the Marquis.
WELLESLEY not only enables the poor prisonerto
share in general exultation, but, while far from
. Ireland, he watches over the injuries of his
eve country in the hour, of want and hi the sea.
son of calamity—an example truly worthy of imi-
tation. - (Dublin Evening Post.)
The Spanish Executioners were naturally indig-
nant at the intention of their rulers to invest them
with the insignia of the Legion of Honour,as an
unmerited disgrace, very properly urging that they
as ere executioners according to law and justice;
but the French, for whom the order was founded,
are the executioners of law and justice, and the
perpetrators themselves of every species of horrjble
enormity.
Mrs. JORDAN, it seems, is.preparing some mti
nificent dresses for an' intended provineialtour.
is probable, however, that they are intendid •
to grace the opening of the new theatre inDrury.
lane. But such an actress " needs not the out,
ward aid of ornament," as' she has the powerful
recommendation of first rate comic genius.
;feu- d'esprit of Mr, Sheridan.--When Mr. Dun-
das (afterwards Lord Melville) first obtained a
seat in Parliament, his language was strongly tine,
tured with the Scotch pronunciation. Having upon
some occasion observed, that he did not conceive a
Zneasure then in contemplation to be within the
power of the House; he pronounced the word power
in the broad Scotch manner, the same way as poor.
A Member sitting next Mr. Sheridan, asked him •
ivhom Mr. Dundas could mean by the poor of the
liouse? " Why," replied Mr. Sheridan, " he
• Means the forty-five Scotch Members."
Yesterday, in. the gardens of Chelsea College,
• Captain .M‘Gulaa (whom the King of PERSIA has
appointed his chief engineer) again repeated .his
Ingenious-improvement on the method of blowing
up fortifications, -ships, &c. in the preSence of
several General Officers. The machine was sunk
et high water close to an old barge. moored Orr!
purpose, but being too near the shore when the
explosion took place, it did considerable damage
in blowing up part of the wall. The company
present expressed themseiveS highly gratified, and'
bestowed their praises on the merits of the gallant
inventor, who was assisted by that intelligent and
41)Ie Engineer, Captain MIN.-N. We .understand
atother trial will be' made on Thursday next,
'when the Commander in Chief is expected to be
resent, and ,who will no doubt honour it with
tis sanction:
• During the sailing match for the , cup and cover,
aivcn by the Proprietor' of the New Ranelagh, on
Thursday evening, a boat, in which were two
gentleMen,and a lady, upset in Chelsea Reach
'but fortunately, by the prompt assistance of those
3q the boats rOund them, the-; were extricated
from their dangerous situation, without having,
sustained any other injury than a complete
ducking.

tot ;k:

ON ASTLEY COOPER, ESQ,

Ltt Nome rare Sculptor, With aspiring aim,
Adopt the task now offer'd to his fame,
And, by the impulse of creative Art,

To Varian marble CoopEa's form impart;
For Heav'n adorn'd him, in profusive; hour,
With all ArotLo's symmetry acid pow'r.
E. J.