The Sun.
London, England, 1812-09-08 00:00:00

SUN-OFFICE,

ONE O'CLOCK.

We understand th'at the last accounts from Pe-
tersburgh.„ which'are dated the 15th ult. state that
the Russian Army had advanced 50 wersts, and
that the enemy had retired 80: We understand,
`also, that a letter froni an Officer ,on , board the
Victory stated, that a Courier had arrive,d, with an
account of a signal victory obtained by the Rus-
,sianS, but that, as tSir JAMES SAlntivz was at
Some distance, the dispatches had not been open-
ed. Nothing further has transpired respecting the
rumoured death of BUONAPARTE, though it, has
•
been confidently said. that he actually died on his
birth-day:

Gcivernment, last night, sent off by post, copies
of tat.t last...,,Bulletins issued, in town, in conse-
.treriA,..e of Ihe capture of ,Madrid, by the Marquis
of WELLINGTON. They are translated into French,

and are to .be distribUted along the French coast.
Firit, Semi-id, and Third Rekiments of
Foot Guards were yesterday intpected in Hyde
Park, by 1115 Royal Highness the CoifCoifMANnEß-IN-
Cdi r, their Royal Highnesses the Dukes 'of CLA-
. REN,C,n and CAtfB}CiDGE were on the':ground.—
. Folirteeti hundred'and fifty men' were drafted from
the first, battalions for_ernbarkations'for Portugal.
On
_being informed., that they were to join the
Marquis of WELLINGTON'i army they
_gave three
cheers.. One half -of them are expected to march
this • morning, and the remainder to-morrbiv. A
great concourse of spectators was assembled. in
121Ycle Park dUring the morning.
The reported death of BUPNA.P.ARTE caused ari
universal sensation in: the .City yesterday morn-
ing. The Change was crowded at an early hour
The. Stock Exchange was opened at ten.o:clock;
the first.price was 9 per Cent. tor ,Omnitun ; it
then declined to S-.T. ; at 12 o'clock it was
meuy bnyers ; and offers 'Making of 20 percent.
in the.event of the report being confirmed. .
We.,are sorry to learn, that_ in , the disgraceful
scene of confusion, which took. place at Bartholo-
mew Fair pa aturday night] several females were
trrated with great. indecericy , anq cruelty. We
really hope that some measures will be adopted
for putting an end to.this annual nuisance.
BRE.A.D.—The same as last,week.

NAVAL NTEIVS,

SErT.7.---Sailed his Jliaj,_:sty's ship War-
spite on a cruize off Flushing. . _

Came down from the River the SO ft, East
India Pilot sloop, to wait the arrival of the India-
meniglie Nymph, hired armed cutter has a
signal flying for Portsmouth.

PORT:MOUTH, KEPT. 7.—Sailed the Quen Char-
lotte cutter, with a convoy for Guern.Sey and
Jersey; his Majesty's ship Rosario has made: a
signal for the convoy bound for the Downs to
get under weigh.

DATMOUTId, SEPT. 6.—Sailed the Providen,t
and Eliza cartels for Morlaiy..

rAtmourn, SEPT. s.—Arrived the Queen Char-
lotte (2nd) from Plymouth, to be cons-erted'into
a pae4et. • ,

LEITH, SEPT: s.—The Sarpedon sloop of war
arrived in the Roads. on Friday with a convoy
fromGottenbnrgh.,and the Baltic, and two Ameri-
can Ap-
d C
brigs; the Cuba, JONES, anygnet, TR
WELL; from St. Petershurgh, for Boston, laden
with hemp, iron, &c.' the former of which is va-
lued at 40,0001. They were detained by order of
the Admiral at Wingo Sound, on the 12th ult.
T'te Sarpedon left Gottenburgh with the fleet
(about 230) on Sunday se'nnight; and parted with
the Northern and rnglish convoys, about twenty
leagues off the Naze, on Sunday last.
The Sarpedon made the signal for a convoy to
, •
the southward yesterday, and will sail on Monday.

•
NAVAL APPOINTMENTs.—Liettt. J. Wells; to the
rreya, at Portsmouth. Lieut. W. l'il‘Leod,to the Snap sloop.
Capt. J. Brisbane, to the Danneroa.rke, of 74 guns, in the
room of Captain Bissett,. remored,to'the Royal Sovereign, of
110 guns. Lieut. A. Donnadieu, proinoted to the
.rank of
Commander. 'Capt. Millie, apptiinted to the Venerable, to
comirand the Princess Charlotte yacht, until Capt. Si.z. H.
Popham joins. Lieut. J. Campbell, to the Boxer sloop, fit-
ting at Portsmouth. Lieut. T. Burt; to the Valiant, of 74
guns, in the Downs. Lieut: J: Davis, to the Fox troop-ship.
Mr. N. '.feast, to be Purser of the Snap sloop, atPortsotouth.
Mr. F. Gould, to.be Purser of the Boxer sloop. Mr. C.Ran-
dolph, Midshipman, to be Lieutenant of the Impetneux.

Twz THEATRE.—Covent-garden Theatre open-
ed, for the season, last night, with the tragedy of
Romeo and Juliet, and the pantomime of Harlequin
and Padmanaba. The part of Romeo was support-
ed with. great ability by Mr. C. KEMBLE, and
Juliet, in a very interesting. manner, by Miss S.
BOOTH. JONES was very lively in Mercutio. They
were all well received by theaudience, and CLARE..
MONT, who had been discharged, .but who has.
been restored to his station, had a very compli-
mentary notice. The Pigeon-hole•boxes, as they
were called, at the top of the Theatre have been
Closed nil., and the piers . which divided the upper
Gallery have been removed. The Theatre looks
the better for these alterations, and the performers
are certainly heard to more advantage. ' There
was a more numerous audience than was to be ex-
pected, particularly as the season has commenced
several days before the usual period.
The sublime Oratorio of The Messiah was per-
formed on Friday last in St. John's Church, Ports-
mouth, 'for the benefit of two charitable institu-
tions of that town. CATALAN' liberally contri-
buted her efforts on the. occasion, and the profits
were considerable.

Miss Munir, who appeared some years ago .at
Covent Garden Theatre, and who has now reach-
ed
,her fifteenth year, last night performed Little .
Pickle, in The Spoiled child, at thE Surrey Thea-
tre ; she acquitted herself with great spirit, and
was much applauded.
'Mrs. DICKONS has been, performing at Wor-.
thing, where INCLEDON. sung for her benefit on
Wednesday last ; she has since assisted his- benefit
at Brighton. .
KELLY iS, it seems, to preside over the musical .
department of . the new Drury Lane Theatre, and
his experience in dramatic music, as well as talents
for, composition, very well qualify. him for the ..
s itu *on . . .
According, to report, a considerable number of
Addresses for the opening of Drury-lane Theatre
:have already, been transmitted to the Committee,
andit is very probable that more will be presented.
The occasion affords: good scope for talents and
fancy, , and, whoever may gain . the laurel, the
whole collection, if published, would exhibit a
striking, and not. uninteresting specimen of the
poetical genius 'of this country ,at the present
period.
Mr.. ABBOTT, who has been engaged for 'Co-
vent-garden Theatre, has been-for some years a .
favourite performer. at Bath. He performed three
or four seasons ago at the Haymarket Theatre,
and displayed respectable talents.-
.It is said that COOKE lately wrote to the, Pro-
prietor of Covent-garden Theatre, signifying that
he should soon return from, America ; but there
have been no further tidings of him. .
FARLEY, the actor, had a very narrow..iescape
lately, at Covent=garden Theatre ; in passing over.
the stage in the evening, he fell through a trapL.
door, and sonic fatal
,Consequence,would have oc-
curred if he had been precipitated to the bottom, ,
but luckily he pitched upon his haunehes,on'the
end of a beatn, •mid-way, and was -safely extri-,
cated, though not without difficiiity.
A grand dinner was given on Friday last, at ..the
Liverpool Arms Hotel, Liverpoolin :honour of
Mr. BROUGHAM. 'Mr. Roscoa .Of course made a'
complimentary speech on the occasicp;,. --and
BROUGHAM of course made a . grateful ,auswer.
Many persons of their political principles had the
honour of being toasted, and the day. passed off
without disturbance. • , .
On Wednesday last, some persons at Manches-
ter, who profess to be friends to a Parlianientary
Reform, had a dinner at that place; Major- CART
WRIGHT, whO seems to -be travelling for popu-
larity, was present, and made a speech in return
for having had his health given as a toast: We
do not hear that the speech had A soporific effect
upon the
-company.

SPANISH PAPERS:

CORTES.-17T1i DAY.

CA.t.tz, At d'usr 11.--Senor the Marqbts of
Villafranca delivel.ed a rep!'esentation of the Su-
'perior Junta of Murcia,' in which it was asserted
that the misfortune of the second and third army
was greater than had been stated by the General
in Chiet Don Jose O'Donnel, in his- dispatches ;
that all the forces of the province bad been use
less ; that the action at Baca, which the Gazette
of the Regency lied represented as a victory, had
been nearly as disastrous as :that at Castellak
thciugh not so conspicuously s 6 : he proposed,
therefore,. that all the. Chiefs of that army should
be changed, including the Staff, on account of.
the little confidence which 'the people`have is
them. He sail the number of the enemy vt;iS
about 3,000 men and, our forces exceeded 10,000.
He deinanded a speedy remedy.
The dispatch of General O'Donnel. was read,
in which he says that the army in the acrtim of
Casten, after having gained advantages, had suf-
fered some loss, in co sequen,ce of tAvo sonadrons
of cavalry having been beaten on the left dank ;
that he'hoped the action would have no ill conse-
luences, though he sensibly felt that it had frus-
trated hrs designs. - ....
The dispatch of the same General, relative to
the action at Bata, was read. •

Senor Villannevet proposed, that the Regeney
should be requested td furl-1141 fall and accurate
lOrnation. on the whole. • • ' "

The Count de.TorrenO Proposed that the Secre-
tary at War should be sent for. • • • • •
Senor Traver, after haying referred• to vArions
notes which he bad relative.- to thin- action, and.
the' conduct of the; Ccimthander in- Chief, added,
that it was suggested he had a firm support in the
Regeney,- because his brother was aßegent ; but,
surely, said he, neither' he nor his, brother, can
think themselies secure in yontaFesence, Unless
they have justice on their side. resolutiOn Was
then reid,,,passed by the Congress in secret ses-
sion to the time of the former Regency,. autho-
rising 6en'eral BallasteroS, Who was .to go to
Valencia, to require by means' of the Intendant of
that army such ''supplies as .1.0 • might. think ne-
cessary.far the subsistence of the army, the com-
mand, of which they entrusted. to him. He
that this order of the Congress had been decidedly
for General;B . allasteros, and not for any other
Chief; but "that the present Regency having- as-
sumed the Government, they conferred the coin-
mancl.of that armyawith those means, upen Gen.
O'Donaiel ; he observed, also, that Senor Ribas,
the Intendant of that army, was 'the brothe, of
another-of the Regents 5 so thatthere existed a
kind of semi-regency without the. knowledge of
the Congress-. He proposed, and it was unani-
mously approved, that the Regency should be apa
plied to,- to send irtimediately to the Congress
the Secretary at War; with the original dispatches
which the-Regency had received relative to the
action at Castella, with the orders and provisions
made by the Regency to investigate the eauSei.of
the loss of this action, the change of the General-
in-Chief, and the destination of the former.
After some other businesshad been gone
through, the Minister at War appeared; and read
the dispatch which the General in Chief had trans-
mitted, relative to the action in question. It ap-
peared, that the cavalry, under the command -of
Brigadier-General Santistevan, which should have
between Sax and Viar, had posted itself be-
hind,Villena, without the knowledge of the Ge-
neral ; that the- first charge of the cavalry was re-
pulsed, but not the second ; in• which the infan-
try was sabred, the battalions of 'Cadiz 'and Co,
rona not moving ; that the enemy's cavalry was
checked by the regiment 'of. Cuenca, under its Co-
lonel,- the Count del Montijo, accompanied by
the General in Chief; that the enemy c.nly pur-
sued the-army to about a league and a half from
Castelia. ; that all the 'battalionS (except that of
Badajoz, which fell into disorder without being
charged) behaved perfectly well; as likewise did
the .provisional squadrons of the line, and the or-
denanias of the General ,••• that the-victory would
have been, ours; if Brigadier Santistevan had act-
ed with the 763 horse under tis command,. On the
left : he was immediately suspended. The date
of this dispatch is, Orihuela, -July 30.
That the statement of the loss was as follews :
—Killed-: priacipal• officers, 3 ; mfEcers,, 1,3 ;
,cadets', 3-a. seajeants; 16 ' • soldiers, 3.64; horses,
4.—Wounde.d : principalofficers, 1. ;, officers, 30;
cadets,. 4 ; serjeants, 18 ; soldiers, 401 ; horses,
B.—=Prisoners : ;principal officers, 3; officers, 67 ;
cadets, eight; serjeants, 102; soldiers, 2,65'5 ;
horses, 10.
He also gave in a statement of the positions
occupied in Castella by the enemy and our troi-ips,
and a copy of the instructions' given by the Gene-
ral, with one of the number of which the corps
'consisted ; as also the declaration Of an cadet,
taken priaoner; whi; bad escaped, ..which was,
that there had been hn,tiesiadispersed, altnoatthe
whole loss consisting., in killed,,, wounded. . and
prisoners.
-The &gen cy,haa :appointed Field-Marshal Don
Xavier Elio., Comm mclerainaChief of the second'
and third army, and ordered him to nominate an
officer of character to inquire into this action.
The President.—" I ask, what destination
.has
been given to central O'Donnell'' ,
The Minister.—" The organization ' of an,
army, of reserve : to Senor Cruz Mourgeon, and
in his absence to Senor Loigorri the command of
the Isla. - • • a .
Senor Traver called the attention of. the Con-
greas, to the application of the Deputation. from.
Valeneia.,to the Regency of Spain; to avoid Allis,
catastrophe, Which they Momentarily feared,. and_
. thought that this was•a case 'which required• re-,
sponsibility; not from General. O'Donnel, but the.
..It.egen.e.a of -Spain. 'He:again mentioneththe order,
ivhich. in hii-anterior'disCOUrse he'quoted) . relaa
.tive. to General •BallasterOs, notwithstanding
which 'the Regency appointed D. Joseph O'Dona
net, who dame flying from 'Valencia, General of
the 2d and 3d Armies, which the authorization
of the 'Cortes alone ga.ve 'to General 13allasteros.
He read the applications made -to the -Regency,
knd the Cortes, by.-the
.deputations from Valen-
cia. They preferred charges against o:Donnel.
who was rewarded ; at present no complaint is
preferred against O'Donnel---it is against the Re-
gency of Spain, that charges are 'preferredi

COveinfrieit bcucd to bring forward O'Dor -
11'01 the hOnour 'of his brother the Rev!it is
compfonaised; it is necessary that this investiga-
tion should be made by some individuals of the
Congress ;--:-.among the military men there are
none who. can investigate it ; all are under the in-
fluence of tile Regency. What will the astonish-
ed Congress say to the conduct of the Regency,
in employing O'Donnel in opposition to the .judg-
ment or the nation ? Let the investigation take
'place in AliCadt, and not in Cadiz, as irrthe case
of General Blake, and let it be made by deputias
from the Cortes. . -

Senor Villanueva,, for the information of
„„.i 'ern:neat, es one of
.their ministers, was present,
read paragraph from the Commission of Gqvern-
znent of _Valencia, upon the state of the army on
the 14th i it in sUbstance•said.,, that iron).- the oc-
cupition of the capital, a force of 10,000. men
have lordedsit over all the kingdom ; and now only
with's,ooo Men', and some trifling parties; that
oar arm consists of 1.0,000 infantry, 1300 hOrses,
and an ahtmdant 'artillery, in addition to an army-
of.6ooo men in Alicant : they complaini.tha.t the
inhabitants maintain an immense mass Of men
from a country. 'which' they do not defend. • • •

- . -
• Senor Traver supported the, ptopOsition ; re-
conrnended energy to the Congress, and .sai..;• it
was responsible to the nation.

FVRTHEit EN.TkACTS;

EIGHTEENTH- DAY.

The Secretary of Warpresented hirrcdf,..,fina,
14)&4 his_se4t,....yhe,Commis.si2nof War i,nct_dcata

the neces!ity ofiiivestigating the disgrace of the
-3d army-in accordhig to the established
'fOrm : it did: hot approve of the .P:'6-3DS:liattS
passed, and therefore proposed,
itft, That the Regency should iunfla
point a person of acknowledged impartial:ty,
should investigate. and report upon this act ;;gin,
within) fifteen days..
-"2d, That a copy of it should be transmitted fo
the dortes, who would examine its legality, aa
that when entirely concluded it should be printed..
3d That it disapproved of the Regency having
appointed General O:DONNELL General of arc
Army of Reserve,_ prior to Ills...being trigd and ac-
quitted. •

1-7 :1?-''.

Senor GIVALDO strongly opposed the first of
these prcipositions; quoting the success of a simi-
lar -commission given to the Governor of Penis-
cola, GARCIA NAVARRO, (who sur—
rendered that fortress), to investigate the CXCCSECS
Of the 3d Army in La
,Manchp, a Commission.
which no ageAt of NAPOLEON could have dis.,
charged more to'his satisfaction, and stated that
two °fib e Regents. had two brothers iu that army.
Sid nOY CAPMANY entirely disapproved of cimry

•
thing contained in the report of the Commission
of War,- and urged that strong measures should
be adopted in such critical circumstances.--
" What," he exclaimed,

" rout upon rout ; no
'Care : excess upon excess ; no justice : who has
the power of remedying this Your 3lajesty
alone, who are the father of the country, formed
to save the nation : it is time to think of revenging'
the country, 'badly defended in some parts. Whit
:said LUE:I:LO, vanquished by
.the Paithians, to
his soldiers, who wished to dispere;, Ia
presenting to them the head of his son
The grief is mine, the vengeance is yours:---

.TheCommissibtimishes the investigation to be li-
mited yo:the General'S.conduct, and I wish that it
.should extend_ to the time when he took the com-
mand ; I *kit the Ministers to inform us of the
Geueres liilpositions, Whether he attacked or
weAS attacked, What'were his Elrces,_ and what were
those of 'his opponents." *
The Minister said, that the General's report

read yesterday contained all, the information de"
manded, which could again be read if required.
• Senor BORRUL disapproved of the propositions
of the Commission of War.

Settor CALATRAVA supported the Commission.--*
" God forbid," he said, `-that the functions of
Government should be exercised by 180 persons ;
if the Reency is blamable, render its responsi'
bility effective."
Senor taavEr-,r-" Yesterday I offererl to pro"
that the Regency WPS culpable ; I had documenrl
-in my hands forthis purpose : your Majesty either
bas or has nOt confic once in the Regency--if you
have, proceed, if not act. I oppose the. Commis-