The Sun.
London, England, 1812-09-07 00:00:00

THE BUN.

SOLEM QUIS DICEItE FALSUM RUDE. T

L 0 ND 0 N,

MORDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1812.

The town was yesterday thrown into a state of
considerable agitation by the arrival of French
Papers, and of letters from the French coast,
which contain
.a report that BUONAPARTE had
been severely, if not mortally, wounded. We'
should pay very little attention to.: an unau-
thenticated rumour of this kind, if it; were
not for some circumstances which give probabi-
lity to the statement. The Frencb Papers which
we received yesterday, are to thelsltk, instant,
and do not contain any official nevkfrom the
armies in Russia, but the minor Papers cid the Ist
state, there had been a succession of actions, com-
mencing on the 14th ult. in which the Frencliwere
uniformly successful ; that on the 18th they enter-
ed Smolensko, and that on the 19th there was an-,
other action in which the Russians were again re-
pulsed. The first observation that naturally
occurs upon reading these accounts is, if, the Rus-
.sians have really sustained so many defeats, if the
French have really taken.SmolenskO, how does it
happen that no official account of' these splendid
successes are given in the French papers ? How
does it happen that the details of this important in-
telligence should reach the Journal de
,l'Empire
time enough to be inserted on the ISt inst. and-
•, • ..„
yet that up to the 4th there. Should be no Buile-
tin in the•Moniteur? This, at least,.is .strange.—
The Bulletins which appear in the Moniteunarek
always signed-by BUONAPARTE himself. If it -were
true-that
.he was Sa.severely wounded, the non-
appeara.nce. ...of. the Bulletins might be ac-
eounte& for., There is another „circumstance
.which is not unworthy. of .notice,,3hem, were two
extraordinary sittings of the Cowserviativ.e Senate
on the 31st 2:.agust and the lit September, but no
account of their proceedings:transpirekr ,NOW, if ,
the accounts from the armies which appeared in
the minor French papers on the Ist September are
genuine, they must- have reached Paris 'on- the:3lst
Aug. which was the day on which the first extraor-
dinary and secret meeting of the Conservative. Se-

nate was held. 'On the other hand, we think it

our duty to observe, that the disasterS in Spain,
and tardy rogress in Russia, may account for the
extraordinary meeting of the Conservative Senate—
'a
new
.levy of conscripts may be wanted—i-{r
money, or many other matters. It has happened
also on former occasions, that the MOnit:eur was
not the first to announce French successes ; "for
instance, the battle of Austerlitz, and the story
. of BUONAPARTE meeting the Emperor of GERMANY
in a mill, were first published in the dros,
and sent afloat in a boat, from which circum-
stance it was very senerally-discredited. Upon
the whole, our opinion is, that there has been
some very hard fighting.,—that the French have
got Sinplensko at': the expence of a dreadful
slaughter on their side,-L-Land that; the Russians
. have retired, consistently with the settled plan
upon which they set out: while their armies are kept
entire, " every forward movement made by the
.French will make their retrograde so much the
more diSastroUs. It must he reniernbered, hOw-
ever, that the,reportedsticeess-oftheßussiansfrom
Gottenburtil is stated to- have been on or about
the 20th ult. • -
_

Cadiz and Lisbon Papers arrived on 'Sa.turday
night. We have made sonic interesting extracts
frmn them, which will'lii.fountl in -.4 ..tubsequent

column.

The Order of the Day to the Freneh troops',
dated Port St. Mary's (in 4:11e. vicinity:of Cadiz)
he 18th August, was to the folldAvliig. effect ;77-;

" SpLDIERS,

It is indispensably necessary to march, in or-
iler to revenge the misfortunes which have be-
fallen the Imperial Eagles in another Province;
getting rid of what can be sold, and calling in
the persons attached to the army."

The East India fleet has arrived at Falmouth,
under convoy of the Iphigenia.

STATE OF THE KING.
Yesterday the following. Bulletin was shewn at
t.James's Palace.

" Windsor Castle, Sept. 5, 1812.

" His MAJESTY has continued nearly in the
same state since the time of the last monthly
xeliort."

vn Saturday. the Princess CHARLOTTE of WALRi
arrived at Kensington Palate, at half past four
o'clock, from Windsor; dined with' her Mother,
and returned at half past seven.