The Sun.
London, England, 1812-12-26 00:00:00

ship Ringdove from the West Indies; and fly
Woblverine from the Mediterranean;
The Noolrerine is the vessel that was yes'ter•
day stated to have the Purser of the Macedonian
frigate an with an account of that vessel's
capture by the Aniericans but no further ac'
•
count has been reCeired this morning.

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FALMOUTH, 23.----Sailed. his MajestO
ships Andromeda and Revenge, with the Lisboa
and Mediterranean..convoy; and the Francis Free'

ling packet for Bermuda.

Arrived the John o' Gaunt, Ann, Dorothea, and
Rox7nogh_Castle from the West Indies;. parted froill
his-. Majesty's slips Ringdov and. Favourite dth
inst. in Lat. 49.30. N. Long. 9.0'. W. forty-three
sail then in company. - A brig from Trinidad, oue
of the convoy, foundered at sea; we cannot leara
her name, orthe name of her commander.

YARMOUTH, DEC. 25.----Sailed the Desiree fri-
gate; Captain-FAY:: _:An, for Portsmouth, frog'.
thence to the American coast.; and the Starling,
Lieute a NA?iEn, to the Nore.
ter,;-,ed the Success (armed en flute), with pi'
soners, for Leith; Leveret froM- a cruise in the,
Sleeve;--Vixen, from Harwich; and chanticleer,
from a cruize.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER ritum. AN OFFICER OF SO
ROWL AND HILL'S ARMY, DATED NOV. 30.

" At last. we have got to a halting place, to
Celebrate St. Andruw's day. You know' what a
rapid March we have made out of Madrid." The
army did not dream' of giving:up that capital.
the poor inhabitants were thunderstruck. Our
march the two first days was prodigious t vre
hardly halted --for thirty hours, and durrig al;
time, and even for sonic time-after, the men had
no rations issued to them : as the Marquis of WE
LINGTON has,institnted strict inquiry into this,
you will' by and' by hear all in England. We
length joined the Marquis of WELLINGroNts
army, and at the old glorious ground of Area'
piles, we made a stand. The whole allied army;
etwsisting of about 80,000 men, .was drawn. out ill
order of battle. The French, who had mustereil
every thillg Vertinsula, underiiing JoSEKI
Marshal SYULT, and .TouttnA (except those
who hang upon our Alicant expedition), had, ill-7
chiding. juramentados, 100,000. There never
Was a grander sight' than.the two armies, whop
for the first time after' :they had mustered every
thing in the ;Peninsula, stood opposite each other.
However, with his superiority Mounseer w
afraid, and availing himself of his superior .o-
vally, he chose rather to turn our flanks. VO
kept annoying us as we passed,- the plains, and
-threatened to cut off our supplies (scanty as they
were) and to get between us, and Ciudad:Rodrigo.
Our cavalry is quite done up—we bed at last none
for duty but those two noble regiments the betty,'
Germans, and the two German Hussar
ments they held out t,ili the' last, and did: the
duty. In cavalry and engineers we are conf&sS;i
edly far behiud our enemy, it was never so clearlY
shewn as in:this campaign. You will hzive beard
that Sir EDWARD P.AGI.,'T was taken when dis-
mOunted, aud no one with him hut 3 Spanish
dragoon ;. I dare sq the French will make a five
tale of it. how much the army regretted tb;it
etiquette, of any other cause, should deprive tho.
courftry, a! such a 7noment, Of tke services of such-
_men aSir-Joun Hoi,F., Sir DAVID BAIRD, (3etle7.
ralF-EKGusos:, and Lord PA Ea'. We shall not
gO
intoour old- grOund in front of Bad;,.ioz, until
another campaign., if we are to have another
campaign in this' country. Next to the Marsha"
of Nl7t.t.iNcro-s, our General has most the coil"
fidence of tke army—we love and adoie

DEC.I9.—,At an ordination held h 7
the Lord -Bishop of Lincoln, at Buckden, this
week, the following, Gentlemen .were admitted--
Deacons : Messrs. Babington, Belgrave, Cotton,
Arnold, and Bright.—Priests : Messrs. Hughes,
Hill, Vale, .CrAbe,, Edwards, Morgan, Wright,
Barfoot, and Lockhart,—At an ordination by ti.e
BishOp of. Norwich on Sunday last, 12 Gentlemol
were admitted to Holy Orders as Deacons, anti
23 received the full ordination of Priests.
Amongst the former number was Thbmas Hard-
Wicke Rawnsley, B. of Exeter College, Oxford,
son of I'. Rawnsley, Esq. of Bourn.
On Monday sc'nnight, a private soldier of the
South Devon regiment of Militia, quartered ill
Sheffield, undertook to run ten miles in the space
of one hour. The ground chosen for this arduou4
attempt was the first three miles on the Peustone
road, from Gibraltar-street. He started from
Birlev Bar about two o'clock, and, had nearly
when, losing one of his shoes, he 'relinquished the
task.

SaturdAv evening the Bath .Mail Coach wa
upset at North Petherton, between Bridgewater'
and Taunton, by which accident, Mr." Robert
Carpenter, an eilinent grazier .of Somersetshire,
who was upon, the box with the coachman, was
killed on the spot. The coachman was much
bruised ; but the guard and four inside passengcri
escaped unhurt.
On Saturday, :.Mr. Woodley, a farmer of the
parishof Lovaton, purchased 201bs. weight
of gunpowder at -Ashbaton, look it in a bag to
the shop of Mr. Chalk-. blacksmith, and while
waiting for his horse. untied the mouth of the
bag to put in a stone for the,purpose of balancig
the weight, unfortunately a spark of tire from the
anvil communicated to • powder, which instant'
ly blew up the house and another adjoini*7•
(;balk, his apprentice, and three children, were
htiried in the ruins, but. were dug out .without
sustaining material injury. Woodley had an .001
broken. The crash was tremendous, and the
shock was felt-throughout the town. . •
Wednesday night last, between the, boors of
eleven and twelve o'clock, a fire broke out in a
furze house belonging teMr. Pridham, baker, at
Topsham, which at first threatened destruction La
the whole town, but by the prompt exertions t)t. ,
the inhabitants was extinguished with 'no otl4r
damage than the burning'of the out-house, whoe
the fire was first discovered. There is •es'ery ree-
son to believe that it was maliciously set on flit