The Sun.
London, England, 1812-10-17 00:00:00

A CHALLENGE.

MESSRS. CURRIE and Co. Surgeons, 'late in
his Majesty's service, challenge the whole world to
pcurorevehaays'e where their medicine and method -If
nigalieleidnoTtnicleedesired effeet. The practice of many'
years in this particular branch. of 'their profession; has not
given rise to one unsuccessful case.
They continue to direet their studies to the treatment arid
clue of venereal complaints, and that derangement of the sys-
tem, which is the consequence of the pernicious and wasteful
effeels of a hab.t long and most unhappily pursued by the
youth of both sJces. In the one it will be found to bit the
Unfailing source of barrenness; theot her have its ravages tai.
tally developed to them by a distressing state of debility,
which if 'n.tt timely -remedied,- terminates in. inipdtentcy,
these are its remote and ultimate ell:acts, while consumed
Linn; lons of muscular paver, and various nervous complaints,
usually characterise the earlier -stages of this solitary
f persans languishing under the disorders incident to such a
habit, their treatment is simple, and has never proved unsue.
cessfUl in the course of a long,.laborious, and much extended
practice. -In .the most obstinate and complicated cases of ye-
nerealinfeedion, such as obstructions in the ifrethra, spongy
excrescences, Bard tumors, callous ulcers, eruptions, semi.
nal weakness, glects, as also •
. .-• STRICTURES,
Whether recent or of long duration, and which have baf..
fled the skill of other Practitioners, are by their present im=
proved plan of treatment, elii...etually and perthanently cured,
withoUt the Patient suffering the.. excruciating • pain and
alarming-hemorrhage which frequently follows the applica-
tion-of the lunar caustic. In the course of tneoty years
extensive praelice, in this. Metropolis, nitmerotts cases of
Strictures have been and are daily under their cafe, the total
eradication of which is edittted by a safe, certain, and eXtie.
dftious ?node of practice, superior to any other Yet adopted.
The weakness, relaxation, anti debility, proceeding from, tiffs
complaint are speedily_removed, and the Patient restored to
sound and vigorous health. But where the debility-has tot
years existed, a- proper 'perseverance in their restorative re,
'medics, after the Stricture has
,been destroyed, is inclispensa.
bly requisite to revive the slumbering sparks of life and to
, .
reanimate the constitution.,

•
Several Noblethen .ar4Gehtlernen of the first' respeaa.
have been ur4er Ili.? care of Messrs. k. urrie, and Co.
fur the removal of.cornplaints of the Urethra, Strictures, &c.
and ,having received a radical and permanent Cure, request
that relet'ences may he given to them,' as satisfactory evi-
dences.of the tiecisive.superiarity of Mes,rs. Currie and ,Co's.
pCan of treatment. Many' of these Gentlemen have had stric.
tures from !-Q. to a years, and ttad been under the care of
Messrs. Home, Heaviside, and other Surgeons of equal env-
alenr.e, who attenmted the 'auie by the' application of the
Lunar Caustic, without success. •

' Messrs. Currie and -Co. may be consulted by either se.*
with the greateSt delicacy. secrecy, and honour, at their
house; No: 167, Hatton-garden..
Patients,- in the country ere requested to state the particu-
lals or their case, age,. and general habit of living, &c. &c.
inclostng a remittance for -advice and medicines, :Vhen tne
name wits be- given or sent to any p-..rt Of the kingdom. To
ensure rhal secrecy so-essential to their undertaking., the post.-
age of letters may be eduen to the account let mr;dlcineS.
gth Ildtton-gzircitm.,

. '-LONDON,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1812.

The following Bulletin was issued this day, of
the contents of the dispatches received from the
Marquis of WELLINGTON. There was a report in
.circulation this morning, that .the French Armr
had been defeated .near Burgos,. with .the loss of
10,000 men ; but we. cannot learn that there is
'any'authority for the rumour.

WAR, DEPARTMENT.

Donning-street, Oct. 17, 1812,

It appears by a Dispatch received this Morning
from the Marquis of WELLINGTON, dated Villa
Toro, sth October, that a mine under the exterior
line of the Castle of Burgos, was exploded on the
29th ult.—lt was necessary to improve by fire the
breach which had been made by this explosion,

A second breach was made by the explosion of
another mine on. the 4th. Both were then stormed
by the 2d battalion of the 24th, under Captain
ll:Docwrcx, and our troops were established
within the exterior line.

These operations were effected without suffering

auyi very severe loss.

Absti•act of the Killed, Wounded, and Missing of the Army
under the Command of the Marquis of Wellington, in
the Siege of the Castle of Burgos, from the 27th• Septe-
mber, to the sth October, inclusive.

British Loss:-4 scrjeants and 48 rank and file killed; 1 lieu-
tenant-colonel, 2 captains, 4 lieutenants, 2 ensigns, 9 ser-
jeants, 3 drummers, and 217 rank and file wounded; 3 rank

and file missing.

Portuguese loss.-1 serjeant, and .23 rank and file killed ;
1 lieutenant, I ensign, 1 serjeant, I drummer, and 62 rank
anil file, wounded ; 1 rank and ,file
Total British and Portuguese loss.-5 serjcants and 71 rank
and filej killed ; I lieutenant-colonel, 2 captains, 5 lieute-
• nants; 3 ensigns, 10 serjeants, 4 drummers, 299 rank and
file, wounded, and 4 rank and file missing.
'Name's of Officers Wounded-43t. Lieut. Col. Jones; Royal
' - Engineers, severely; Fnsign M'Dowell, Ist Battalion 11th
Foot, right 'arm Uinputated Captain Coote, 2d battalion
24th Foot, severely; Lietit. Neville, Acting Engineer, 2d
battalion 30th Foot, severely; Ensign Nagle, 2d battalion,
53d regiment,.slightly ; Capt. Dudgeon, 2d battalion, 58th
Faot, rseverely;' Lieut. Leslie, Ist battalion '79th rocit,
Se v Lie-nt. Meyer, Ist line battalion, King's German
legion, severely: Ljent. Schauroth, sth ditto, slightly:

A Gottenhurr,-;11 Mail arrived this morning.. It
brings no further intelligence frOm the armies,
except a report that the Russian General, WITr-
GENSTEIn, bad defeated the French aihny" under
the connun nil cf Al CDONALf), and another rumour
that TORMAZOFF W3S advaneing towards Smo-
lensk, as stated in the fonowing.article:—.
• GOTTENBURGII, OCT. 10.-li is very currently
reported, that General WITTGENSTEIN" has de-
feated General
,"I,I•ACDON,ILD, and that General
ToamAzOVF, is advancing towards Smolensk.

- A Mail from Lisbon arrived this morning.--
Souur is again stated, in some of the accounts
fiom Carthpgcna, to hare' effected a junction with
.SUCHET aura JosErn, at Jumella. Sir. 11. HILL
was at Oropesa.—The following are extracts from
the Papers :

LISBON, OCT. 4.—General Him. is at Oropesa.
He has detached from his army three Portuguese
regiments (4000 men) to garrison .gdvas.
OcT. I.—lt is calculated that the French, from
the time they abandoned the siege of Cadiz till
they reached Seville, experienced a loss of 5000
men, and that SOULT'S actual force is 28,000 men,
'which is not conformable to our opinion.

On the 21-st of September, Gen. HILL'S troops
arrived at Talavera la Reyna.
The Empecinado was with -his division in

Rcquiva.

CADIZ; 'SEPT. 26.--,-Theyirrite from Reus, under
date of the 16th ing. that JOSEPH was in To:tosa.
Intelligence has ,just been received, that VI4A-
CA.NiPA has taken a convoy worth 30,000,000 of

reals.

The Regency Gazette of the ,23d and 2-ith con-
fain'three dispatches from Ilienerat 11ALLESTEROS.
In No. 1 he states that'firliradier BALUSAL at-
tacked two of the enemy's ookps near Huno, and
caused them a los's of upWards of ono hundred
men. ►

No. 2. states, from his head-quarters at Paul,
that the Castile Regii.w.ntpf Hussars, commanded
by Don ell. SSA MAYOR, bad routed the enemy's
troops situated in Alendin and Gabia.

In 'No. 3. General BALLESTEROS writes from his
head-quarters, in Granada,- that he had entered
that city on the 17th, withcitit- -the enemy daring
to fight, although on the 16th the:- made demon-
strations as if they intended so -to ; and that
sot:Lr's rear-guard having bean attacked on the

road from Guadix, by 'Brigadier BAstlAt,, Ile re-
solved to evacuate Granada, taking the direction
of Guadix.

FROM 711 Z GIBRALTAR aItRONICLE, 'Ol THE
26Til SEPTECIER. . . .

Sox.wr marched out of Granada on the 17thr
inkant, at 9 o'clock in the morning, and
_took the
road to Guadix. He is represonecl, in the Malaga
letters of the 22d, as having lost a great number
of men in his retreat. General BALLASTEROS,
shortly after the departure of the French, stop-
ped only a few hours, and set out again in
pursuit of the retreating army. Carthagena ac-
counts of the' 20th assert SOULT to have effected a
jpnetion With SUCIIET and JOSEPH, at .Turnella,
previous to that. date, but this must be understood
of the advanced guards only ; that of SOULT is
stated in these same accounts to have been at
Caravaca and the environs, for some time past.

General HILL was on the 7th,on the Guadiana.
On the other band, it appears that there are some
of our troops in Andajur, probably belonging to
General Comta's division ; and this circumstance
it was that gave rise to the report of General
HILL'S having crossed the Serena. •

A Malta Mail arrived this morning; The fol-
lowing are the principal articles,it contains :

MESSINA, AUG. 26.—We learn frotn PaICITIIO,
that the Parliament continues its' labours indefa-
tigably, and makes great progress in the details of
the new Constitution. The articles at present
under its consideration, are respecting the division
of the country into departments, the election of
representatives, &c. &c.

The Parliament holds its sessions three times a
week, and Almost always continues sitting till a
late hour in the evening.
PALERMO, AUG. 31.—A vessel, bearing the Spa-
nish flag, bas arrived in the port of Messina,whirli
brings advice that the crews of 22 Barbary vessels
consisting of frigates, chebecso. and :launches,
landed in the Island of Santioco, adjacent to Sar-
dinia, and attacked the three towers situate in that
island, Which, after maintaining a brisk fire for
six hours, they took, making 150 prisoners, partly
soldiers and: partly peasantS; the remainder of the
inhabitants fled to the heights. Two English fri-
gates have also airived there from Zante, with
troops and horses belonging to the British army.

Corunna Papers reached town this day to the
10th instant. The intelligence they contain from
Burgos is not later than the Ist, at which period
'it is stated that two breaches were made in the
Castle. We.subjoin .the only articles worth ex-
tracting.
CORUNNA, At m. s.—Dy tltie English post which
arrived to-night from Villa Toni, three-quarters
of.- a league from Burgos, .which place it left on
the Ist inst. we know that the 'castle had then
two breaches, and gas-very near its surrender;
that in Bribiesca there bad been some. fighting be-
tween our and the allied troops and the French,
in which we 9-ere victorious.

The Corunian Diary of the 9th contains a dis-
patch from Esroz Y MINA, dated Puente la
Reyna, in which he_ states having defeated Gen.
ABBE, who on the 21st August had marched from
Pampelona with 2500 men, for the: purpose of
collecting provisions, with the loss of upwards of
1000 men, in killed, wounded, and prisoners.

About twenty sail of ships sailed yesterday from
be Nore for the Baltic.

The follow.ing articles were received by the
ast Gottenburgh Mail :-- •

. RIGA, SErT.il.s.—We are to receive a reinforce-
ment of 17,000 nien,. of which 2006 are cavalry,
under Gen. Steinbill the General is arrived, the
troops ,arc expected every day..

SEPT. 22.—Our-reintorcernents are arrived, and
we row hope to succeed in driving the Prussians
horn COurhtnd, which, with the consicterable force
we now have,we may well ev.pe( t : the expedition
will be undertaken in 11. tiky (,r two. Steinhill
commands under tssen ; Lewis has the advanced
gua,rd, 415:1 Witf-jenstein nay perhaps ed.-operate.
25.—oar troops march out to-morrow;
DISPATCH FROM CPKERAI, ICUTUSOW, DATr.rs ,AUG.

29, (sEpT. 10.) . s _
The battlc of the 25th has been one of the
bloodiest of the .present times. We have main,-
tained the field of battle co:apletely, and- the ene-
my retreated :to the positina froth' 'whence he had
advanced to the attack ; but the very fie ere loss
we have likewise suffered, and especially the cir-
cum stan of most (Hit; nguished Generals being
woudned, have induced me to retire on the'road to
Moscow ; to-day my head-quarters are at Nora,
and I =self obliged to retreat still farther to
meet the reinfol'ecetnents which are 'corning to Inc
from Moscow. —The prisoners state the ene-
tny's loss to be., according to the belief of the
French army, 40,000. General Bonami is taken,
and several killed anus 'wounded; Marshal Davoust
is wounded. There are continual skirthishes with
the rear-guard. I have just received information
that the King off. Naples' corps is at ilowna,and
that General-Adjutant Winzengerode has'made a
movement towards Smolensk, to cover the road to
Moscow.

CORK,- Oct. 10.—This day, the Hon. George
Ponsonby, one of the Candidates- for this county,
.arrived in this city ; and also, Mr. Martin, the
Candidate for Kinsale. A. rumour was yesterday
in circulation, that. Lord ' Kilworth intended to
offer himself as a third Candidate for the repre-
sentation of our County, tut we bare reason
to think it totally, unfounded.