The Sun.
London, England, 1812-01-13 00:00:00

sPziAllsg PAPER

El ands° of the 12th December, contains the
following remarks upon SucHET'S order of the day,
relative to the b.ittle of Sagunto :

" We thoroughly understand French paintings
and the colourings given them ; the exaggerations
they publish, and the means they adopt to deceive
the incautious. The principal fath which SUCART
states, on certain particulars are coloured. But let
us for a moment suppose it all to be true, it is nut

sufficient to tell truth, it is requisite to state it with
all its requisites; these wanting, ►here is a failure of
ingenuousness, which causes even truth itself to be
suspeelecl. Had SUCH CT been candid, he would have
said, soldiers ! The conquest of Murviedro cost 3,000
of your comrades ; to obtain that objetl, I abandon-
ed Catalonia, where I lost 5000 men, I left Arragon
without soldiers, where I left 4000 in prisoners and
l;illcd; and in the different assaults, battle of Mar-
viedro, and other anterior 0ne5,.4000 more have
perished."

These circumslances added would clear up every
thing, but it does not suit the purpose of SUCHET to
shew mote than one side of the picture to the unfor-
tunate, oppressed Sdaniards. Here you hare the
reverse of it, unhappy countrymen.

FROM THE REDACTEUR GENERAL OF DEC. 14.

Let us for a moment, reflect what we should be
under the government and tyranny of the French,
and what we inay promtse ourselves from our vigo-
rous and leg' .imate Go• ernment. United to the cha-
riot of BUONAPARTE--Vile instromems ot his designs,
destined to fight and combat in the most distant
climes, despoiled of our rights br• th" insatiable ava-
rice of our enemy, deprived even of the liberty of
speaking or thinking, obliged to be silent, or adopt
and set-% ilely approve the ideas and repugnant cha-
racter of the French, we should become passive
beings. Constituted part of the Grand Family, we
should become slaves to it, and add to the luxury
and passions of our proud conquerors.
The Tyrant, in fact, believed, that, degraded and
enslaved by our old government, he would have no
difficulty in reducing us to so humiliating a situation,
and, under the pretence of regenerating us, wished
to deprive us of our independence ; but he has
been deceived in his calculations; Spaniards are now
the same as those who, in former centuries, gave
laws to Europe. Our virtues have been concealed,
but not extinguished. If an excess of loyalty, and
love of legitimate sovereignty, did not permit us to
display all the energy of our character, at the
moment it was attempted to insult our probity and
good faith, by the most execrable perfidy, awak-
ing tram that apparent lethargy, we r -generated
ourselves without foreign assistance, creating and
erecting a Government which should direct us to pros-
perity and glory. SudJenly, and by a sort of pro-
digy we have been transformed into warriors, zea-
lous patriots, lo►ers of lihetty and of glory, inca-
pable of tolerating a foreign dominion, and deter-
mined to die rather than submit to the dreadful
yoke wished to be imposed on us. Happy regenera-
tion, which renews the days of our ancient glory !
For the future, we shall be a great, free, and inde-
pendent nwi-in. We will oppose a wise and bene-
ficent Government to the tyrannical Government of
France. The French themselves will envy our fate,
and all nations acknowledge the wisdom of our con.
selection and laws.

On Saturday Quebec Papers and Letters were re-
ceived to the 2d ult. It appears from their con-
tents, that large quantities of British manufactures
continue to be smuggled into the territories of the
Ultited States from Canada. The Custotn•house
Officers on all the frontier stations bad been doubled.
and trebled but, in despite of their vigilance, both
the temptation and lacilities were so great, that
English goods still found admission. On several
occasions, some severe contests had taken place be-
tween the officers and smugglers, which had ter-
minated without the loss of many lives. :Measures
of precaution bad been adopted by Lieutenant-Ge-
ueral Sir G. Prevost, the Governor of Canada, in
tt►e event of hostilities with the United States.
There is a considerable body of regular troops in
our North American provinces, besides a tolerable
militia, among whom the best disposition pre% airs.
Indeed, the Non-importation Act, and other recent
ineasores of the United States' Government, have
had the immediate effect of increasing the trade of
our colonies in that qu.rter of the world, and con-
sequently removing those slight discontents which
might formerly have prevailed.
A set of Jamaica Papers, to the 26th of October,
were received on Saturday. The following is the
only article of any importance in them :

" Kingston, O. 25.
" William Shaw, Esq. was placed on his trial
at the Grand Court in Spinish Town, on Wednes-
day last, chlrged with assuming to himself the cha-
racter of a British Agent, through which means a
cortespoudence under false pretences was kept up
with Rigauil, in St. D imingo.—After a minute in-
vestigation, the priitiner was found guilty."
The following is an extract of a letter, of a late
date, from Holland, which reachtd town on Sa-
turday :—" Most rigid measures are now enforced
iu this country against all persons detected in carry-
ing on a clandestine correspondence with England.
Several masters of merchant vessels have been re-
cently arrested. One of them has died in prison,
aud- another is not likely to survive many days.
—The son of one of the. most respectable mer-
chants in Rotterdam is under orders for trial by a
Court Martial, and the result may be easily antici-
pated.",