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

PRICE OF STOCKS
THIS T)AY AT TWELVE n'CLOIT•
53 60.598 1 Otnnitnn

!s

THE SUN.

••"11-7
sol•En QUIS DICEItg FAT.tit73l MIDEAT ?

• .. LONDON,
WEDNESDAY,
.SEPTEMBER 9, 1812.

A Gottenburgh Mail arrived at a bite hour this
day. •The following is the only article of intelli-
gence of importance which it brings :

GOTTtNilt/RC;II , 'SEPT. I.—Ccitint WITTGrg-
sTEiN Oa the 12th August attacked MACDONALD'S
Corps, defeated,. -and pursued him to the Dretia.—
'General EssEx, at Riga, ordered some of the
English gun-boats up the River; .they dismounted
three batteries, and went up as far as Neiten.

The Inssian General Px„vrow, on the'27th of
July, in skirrni*h, took 'one e'Olonel and fioq

prioners.
The King of DENMAIIK has declared, it is said,
that he will 'enter into no'negociation with Epg-
land.

A Telegrephic-dispatch reached- the Admiralty
yesterday evening, but all that could he made out
of it was the word " Astorga." his naturally
Supposed that it announces the surrender of
Astorga, hut nothing further has yet arrived.
- Lord 11.1AF.cir arrived this morning at Earl BA-
THURST'S Office, in Downing-street, With dup:l-
- Dispatches from the, Marquis of Ntri,J.l.lNo-
Tom of his entrance into Madrid. Lord MARCH
heard at Corunna,thatAstorga was captured, and
1201 of the eneinY made prisonets.

The Marquis of WE1.7./NGTON remained at Ma-
drd on the 25th ult. We understand that CLAU•
zr.r., who took the command of the remains-of
MARmoNT's army, hastened, to the relief of As-
torga, but was a day too late.

The arrival of Paris Papers last night to the 6th
instant, justifies, our caution in not too hastily .2t-
taching much importance to the absence of any
official announcement in the Moniteur of those
successes which were stated in the minor papers
to have becn obtained. The Moniteur contains the
'l3th and 14th Bulletins, with several documents
anneKed, givin g a detail of the capture of Smolensk,
or, rather, of its ruins, and of several actions in
which the French claim the victory. In the
mass of matter thus laid before us, it is

not a very easy task. to separate the true
from the false, or to discover, beneath. the
high colouring of the French artists, the real
events that have occurred. The prominent fact
is, that the French succeeded.in their attack upon
Smolensk, but certainly not without the sacrifice
of a great number of men, and after great bravery
had been displayed by the Russians. This is un--4'
doubtedly a gain, but it is an advantige which
has evidently been dearly purchased. We are -
prevented by the length of- our extracts from'
entering into a minute examination of the
French accounts, but it is evident, that they
`have obtained nothing like a decisive victory, and
that they have still the main Russian Army to
contend with unbroken, and after sustaining little,
if any, more loss than that suffered' by themselves.
It is scarcely necessary to contradict An absurd
report winch got into circulation yesterday after-
noon, that the French had entered Moscow, it
being absolutely impossible that, even supposing
they met with no interruption by the way, they
could have marched to Moscow, and the news
of their arrival have reached this country in
the!interval between the 23d of August," when
their own Bulletin leaves• their head-quarters
at Smolensk, •and yesterday, the Bth of Septem-
ber ; nor is it so easy a task as these f-hricators of
rumours would have us imagine.
These• Papers contain nothing more relative to
the meetings of the Conservative Senate. The
report.of BUONAPARTE having been wounded, or
dead, appears to have been erroneous ; it may
perhaps haveurisen from a eon fused rehtion, pass-
ing through different hands, of the wound received
by OuotlyroT (Duke of Reggio). which incapaci-
tated him from keeping the field, and which is
officially stated in the'French Papers. •

it is said, that private eletters from Paris state
the follol6ng particulars
" PARIS, AUG...5.---B.ppnnpute having tong. 1
since resolved to seize iinlmTrussia as a
.fief of
Prince, it beca:-.te petissary to
.have the sanction
of the Conservative Senate pro forma ,to that pro-
ceeding. One. of tbeir first measures has there-
fore been, formally to declare that the King of
Prussia, alias Count leuppin, has ceased to reign !
The defeats of the French armies in Spain have
produced the utmost Constcrnation-; and it is
another object of the meetings of the Senate, to
supply, if possible; the immense losseS in Spain
and Portugal, and to make a last desperate effort
in the Peninsula. With this view, the Conserva-
tive Senate has ordered all the troops of_ the line
stationed 'at Brest, Toulon, and --other important
points in the French Empire, to- march instantly
for Spain : they are to be replaced by the cohorts
of the departments. By .the French Constitu-
tion, in the absence of the Emperor, no changes
in the deitination of the 'troops of the Empire
can be ramie without the -consent of the Conscr-
ButiYe