The Sun.
London, England, 1812-02-25 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 24.—Sailed the Partridge
and tie Porcupine. -
A ship is arrived at St. Helen's from. tie Medi-
terranean, and is placed under quarantine : she is
supposed to be the Diligence store-ship.

DEAL, FEs. 24.—The wind appears inclinable to
get to the Northward, consequently the coasters and
colliers are proceeding to the Westward.
The Dart, CRISSEZJT, for Buenos Ayres, and se-
veral other ships have sailed; but the East Ind:a-
men wait for convoy.

Arrived the Earl of Leicester, CRICKING,. from
St. Michael's, in It days.
The Lyndon packet, -, for Rio Janeiro ; the
Stranger, -, for Jamaica, and several other ships
have lost an anchor and cable each.

NAVAL A' PPOINTMENTS.—Cap6in James • Green,
commanding The Sarpedon sloop, has ben promoted to the
rank of Post Captain; Capt. lames Tomkinson to the M us-
quito sloop, in the room of Capt. Bell, promoted to the rank
of. Post Captain; Lieu!. Christian to be Commander ; Lieut.
Stone to the jasper sloop; Lieut. J. Kirloy to the Ocean,
of guns, at Plymouth ; Lieut. R. Borough to the Norge,
of 74 guns ; Lieur. Geo. Morrison to the Cherokee sloop at
Leith ; Lieut. john Young to the Asia, Captain Scott, at
Chatham; Lieut Dutton to be Commander ; Mr. George
Monk, and Mr. W. Adams, Midshipmen, to be Lieutenants.

It said that Admiral SAWYER is ordered to
,cruise off rue American coast.
• The diaeon'sloop of war arrived off Dungeness
23d Feb. left Bengal 6th Orr. and St. Helena Ist
January. Marchioness of Exeter, Union, and .Car-
nalic, to leave Bengal in December: Monarch and
Euphrates sailed from the Isle of France 22c1 No.
vember. Cumberland, Henry ilddington, and Essex,
arrived at Pr incept Wales Island the 22d August.

MRS. SIDDoNS.--A fine Engraving is just finished
by CARDON in his very best manner, as a Farewell
Print of Mrs. SfDDONS, in the ,charaeter of the
Tragic Muse, from the celebrated piatire by Si,
JOSHUA RBYNOLDS, tlOw in the possession of WM.
SMITH, Esq. M. P. and engraven by his permi.sion,
expressly r the next Number of La Belle .elssenz--
blee ; to be published on the first of M.ircli next.
Independently of the other pradtical and‘higiay
finished EmbelliAments, which will be given it) the
same Nurrilier•-h-Pers-ns who obtain early iwpres
sions of the print of Mrs. SIDDONS may consider
aernseives fortunate, as it will ever be considered
one of the finest Prints of the present day, and al-
ways be estimable as a correct and poetical repre-
sentation of the most celebrated actress of the age.
This Number will' contain copious and very inte-
resting M ‘rooirs, bingraphical and critical, of Mrs.
SIDDOWS, with other literary articles of temporary
and classieil import ; the Song, the Prints of Fa-
shion, and outline Sketch of Drury-lane Theatre,
which are also to be given in this Number, will
possess very commanding and superior attrattions.
The Public, in any part of the kingdom, who may
be anxious to obtain fine iMpressions of this num-
ber, may procure La Belle Assemblee on giving iin-
mediate orders to The Booksellers, in any part of H
the (Juitetl Kingdom.

ROYAL ACADEMY.-.-.-Mr.FLAXMAN last night gave
-his second Lecture on ScuLetruttc.-He observed;
that this art may be traced back to the earliest pe-
riods, as is evident in 'rue BIBLE, where, in the
Book of Exoaus, it is stated, that it was not'only
eniployed for purposes of 'ldolatry, but, by the
DIVINE COMMAND, was used in order to give effi-
cacy and force to objects intended for pure devo-
tion. Toe Professor then directed his attention to
the progress of Sculpture in Egypt, and offered
many striking arguments, and illustrations, to prove
that it was in that country always connected with
religious purposes, according to the prevailing my-
thology. Mr. FLAKMAN occasionally advetted to
the improvements which the art bad derived from
Greece, but recurred to the Egyptian style of
Sculpture, and evinced great historical research, as
well as deep reflection and probable inference. It
should be observed, to the honour of Mr. FLAX-
MAN,- that a spirit of religious fervour, devoid of all
fanaticism, breathes through his discourses, and
while he descanti on the beauties of Art, he ne-
ver loses sight of the great Author of Nature. The
room was crowded with Students and Amateurs --
A large portion of the Academic Body were present,
and; in the absence of the President, Mr. TURNER
took thc.i. Chair, to which his professional merits,
theoretical and practical, gave him lull pretensions. -

Mr. GRAHAM, the Magistrate, has‘made 3N ab-
stratt from all the statutes relating to the Theatres,
froth the time of ELIZABETH, and through the fol-
lowing reigns, down to those passed in that of
GEORGE the Second, on the power assumed by the
Lord High Chamberlains, of granting licenses for
erecting or opening new Theatres within the City
and Liberty of Westminster. Mr. GRAnasi has
elucidated the subjecl by ingenious remarks and
solid reasoning, tending to prove that such power
has been at times assumed without authority, and
can afford no protection against the penalties of un-
repealed Acts of Parliament. He has printed this
work for private circulation. But though the argu-
ments of this Gentleman, who has had a long
experience in theatrical tua:ters, are, of course, en-
titled to particular attention, and have an evident
reference to the new Theatre opened, or intended to
be opened, at the Pantheon, yet we consider that
Theatre in a political light, and view it with con-
cern, if not alarm, as a nest for Foreigners, at a time
when the Empire is overrun with ALIENS of various
descriptions and of suspicious character, and when
too we have already an establishment of the same
kind, which is Sufficient for all the higher orders
who may have too retitled a taste for the legitimate
and rational amusements of their own country,'
The 21st Dragoons, which have been -at the
Cape for some time, are to proceed to India to re=
lieve the 22d:Dragonns.
The x,l Battalion of the 40th regiment, which has
been in Ireland for years, is among the reinforce- 1
meni s for -Pod ttgal.

BREAD.--There was no Court of Aldermen this
day. Th-e Lord Mayor, after inspectii)g the returns,
dfdtired present prices to reataih.-Quartern Leaf
s. 4id.

SP .42‘18il PAPERS,

tFItObI THE CoIiUNNA GAZETTES.]

Gtios, JAN. 28.- On the 13d, the Freneh eva-
cuated Gijon, having embarked in ele‘en loggers all
the property taken by Bonnet from the vessels de-
tained at Luanco and other ports, hich had pro-
ceeded from England and other quarters. Three
Colonels, fifteen officers, and 150 French troops,
embarked at the same time; and, escorted by two
gun-brigs, they sailed on the .morning of the above
day for Santander, in two divisions ; and, in the
afternoon, the 'last of them was seen off Llanes.
It then blew very bard, and increased to a perk&
storm during the night, so that though they endea-
voured to reach the port of St. Vicente de la Bar-
quera, only one gun-brig tocceeded in entering the
harbour ; all the test were lost, with all the people
on board, except one lugger with 17 men. Seventy
Spani,h mariners, and 123 French soldiers, perished
in this shipwreck; only 27 of the latter being saved
with the gun-brig. Some partisans of the French,
who had left Gijon with them, were also lost.
CORUNNA, FEE. B.—The last Bulletin of. the hilt

Army (that of Gallicia) details the movements
made by its divisions on the lines of Orbigo, and the
principality of Asturias, in order to attack Bonnet,
• before he should be able to leave theprincipali7.—
The troops appeared to have undergone great fatigues
with that constancy for which soldiers of liberty are
distinguished.' The great fall of snow and rain had
made the roads almoseimpratticable; and the French
would have been attacked in the lines of Orbigo,
had not Bonnet arrived on the 28th ult.- with the
troops under his command. The French troops sus-
tained considerable loss in their march by the pass
of Pajares.- Our flying coluMn harassed the ene-
my on the, road to Pajares ; -and one
,company of
the chasseurs of Leon alone put to flight the ad-
vanced guard of the regiment of Growler, taking
from them time horses, one mule, and a prisoner.
The Comman&r-in-Chief, accompanied by his
staff, made a reconnoisance of the fortress of As-
torga, from which the enemy durst not sally out;
on this occas;on the tst regiment of Rivero, and the
hussars of Galicia,sheaved the .greatest coolness,
within musket shot of the etremy.
The attack of the 3d division on B3neza has been
suspended till the movements of the allied army are
known, •

The troops, together with the auxiliaries sent by
the Junta, have been regularly Supplied, with _daily
rations: 4411 the 30th, head-quarters were at
Rignejo.
According to a private letter received by a person
in this city, Senors Mendizabal, Mina, and Longa,
have routed the French in Sanguesa, infliGiing, on
hem a loss of MO men.
•CAMPOMANES, FEB. 6.—General Los Ala and Se-
nor Barcena, though placed at distant points from
each other, and though the weather has been dread-
ful, have not ceased to pursue the enemy in his re-
treat from the Asturias, Several parties of our troops,
namely the chasseurs of the Crown, of the Queen,
and of the Monterey, came np with the enemy at the
pass of Pajares, on'the-261h of Jan. The chasseurs of
.Monterey on that occasion engaged a tunttalion of
1 I 8 men who covered the enemy's retreat, dislodg.
ed them, and compelled them to abandon Weir am-
munition, muskets, and other etfeels, end to resire
to Busdongo, about a league from Pajares. On this
occasion, the enemy lost six killed, and carried off
twenty-five wounded. In their whole, march, it is
calculated that they cannot have lost fewer than
one thousand men, besides a great deal of property,
which has been found buried in the snow. From
Pajares to Roola, their men were forced to drag 'the
art diary.

CASTROPOL, FEB. 7.—The French, in their eva-
cuation of the Principality, have log many men and
horses, which were found at the pass of Pajares, and
along the whole high road of Leon, as far as Robla,
where General Losada now has his headquarters.,
On leaving Oviedo, they committed various rob-
beries, and plundered several houses, setting fire to
the Convent of La Vesa.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM CADIZ, DATED FEB. 3.
" An expedition sailed a few days before the
date of the above letter to Caribagena, under the
command of Colonel Lambert, of the Guards,
being composed of the entire of the 67th, and the
Watteville regiment beside's Spaniards.—At the
time this expedition sailed; the troops from Ta-
rifa, with Colonel Skerrett, were arriving. The
news of the day at Cadiz is, that 'the French have
only 4000 men on the opposite shore, in conse-
quence of which, it is in •contemplatiop to send
8000 men, to co-operate with Ballasieros in ex-
pelling they entirely from that quarter. The Garty-
mede, Capt. Purvis, is expected to take the new
Spanish Ambassador to England. 7
By another private letter,' which may. be depend-
ed on, we receive the intelligence that the day after
General O'Donnel had been elected one of the Re-
gency, he issued ciders for all officers in Cadiz,
to join their respeCtive regiments, or to account
for their not doing so by the 29th ult. By this ju-
dicious proceeding, the Spanish army was supplied
with 635 officers, besides their servants, who were
not fewer than 2000. This augurs well for the
new order of things.
A letter of the 7th inst. from Gibraltar, states,
that BALLASTEROS had been ent off' from Los Bar-
rios by a division of the enemy, and that be bad
previously sent 'a messenger into the garrison, re-
questing the Governor, CaNirBELL, to furnish his
troops with provisions, of which his troops were
nearly destitute. All the British troops had quitted
Tariffa, and the Spanish General, COPONS, was left
to protect the place. No effort had .b:en used to
repair the works of the fortress, on the supposition
that the enemy would not again attempt to return.
Sir HARRY NEALE arrived at Portsmouth on Fri-
day, in the Boyne, 98, Capt. JONES, from off
L'Oiient, where he has been 26 weeks. Two sail
of the line (one of them hearing an Admiral's flag)
a few days since endeavoured to get out of that
port, with an intention of going to Brest ; but a
gale of wind suddenly came on, and it was with
g rear difficulty they were saved from going on
shore. They have not moved since. Sir HARRY
sent a flag of truce into L'Orient to learn the tate
and condition of the Laurel's boats' crews; and was
informed that 94 men and Officers had been made
prisoners, and two men had died.

L
teilEttAt. CfMajOi%Gendhl efiAtptith, at Ciudad
Rodrigo.—Lord WELLIN3TOi, to testily his high
sense of Major-General Cunereon's great and dis-
tinguished meiits and setv:ees, determined that he
shbuld be interred in the breach which he had so
ably and.hcroically asaauhedi as the hlzhest honour
he could confer upoh him.
The light division assembled before the St. Fran.; cisco Convent, where their late beloved Cotnmand,4
lay, at twelve o'clock, on the 25th January. The
sth division lined tne road from thence td the breach:
The Officers of the brigade of Guards, of the Cavalry,
and of the ad, 4:11, and bth divisions,, with -I,,vrtf
WELLINGTON, and the who!e of the head-quarters
at their head, General CASTANOS and all his Staff,
Marshal I.3soosroonand all the Portuguese, moved
in the thourninl procession. He waiborne to his p1:1(!ii
of rest on the shoulders of the brave men whom he,
had led to victory. The Field-officers of the light di-,
vision officiated as pall-bearers ; Alajor-General
CHARLES STEWART (Adjutant General), Was chief
mourner, attended by Captain WM. CAMPBELL, ant
Lieutenants WOOD and SHAWE, Aides-de-Camp' It,
their late glorious Commander, and by the Stafroi
the light

The cer'emony was as awful as affeEting, as 9.6blinte
as possib!e, and well calculated to inspire fteli,gi
of the most exalted nature : and if any other senit-'
tent but that of the most poignant grief
have found place on this melancholy occ.!si,n, it
wo,ild. certainly have been envy at such 41) cud, s.c)
wept.

- •
The breaCh of Ciudad Rodrigo is the morwant
of this rOmirable rnan, btdewed with the tears ac4d
decked with the praises and blessings of tile who'll:
army.

NOTTINGHAM, FEB. 24...--On Thursday the ware-
house of Messrs. TRENTHAM and Co:- WitS-
robfar
of six dozen and five pair of silk, and ten pair of
cotton stockings; Meists,Woulley and pre-
mises were also robbed of considerable 4)i-operty.
The houses of Mr. thaithwaite, Mr. Coldbani, and
others, had bzen robhed in a similar wiy. The
robbers entered Mr. Burton's hou.e in the -middle of
the day, and carried • off a large mahogany dining,
table undeteaed.
On the 2 I st, Mr. HEItGY'S house was entered by
the window, and 5 warp-lace frames wet e broken.
The Luddites, as they call themselves, openly s:ty
that they only wait till the assizes are over, before
they order a number of coffins to be made. They
are in the habit of sending intimidating letters to
those whom they wish to terrify. We I.nveli-e-
-ceived some specimens of those produalons. One
of them runs thus :

" Mr. BEEDLES.---.YOU seem fully determined t 4
a& contrary to the law which was pass't by Edwa,d.
Lud, in the second year of his reign, in making that
condemn article called the single ()less, to the a:ter
ruin of our trade. I have laboured fur the
good of my fellow-workmen, but such p;:ople vo-
lating the iaw, in open defiance shall be punish ac-
cording to the following resolutions, agreed to by
the most determined of my officers and men
(The following is the Resolutions)--.-that every
man shall do his duty, on pain of death,
" Resolved, that such people violating the law
shall have seven days to consider of• it, as it is 3L.Zrercl,,
that one master, and one joururyman, shall be shot
as a warning to Others.
" I do expect you to give proper notice to Edward
with in 7 days, trona the date hereoli of your• lull de--
termination.

Signed and seal'd by? 15th Day of Feb:.- in the
me EDWARD LUDD 1 year of Lord 1812.
" N.B. You have barr'd your door, it )ou don't
comply we shall break the bar of your head."
They likewise inflame th;:ir spirits will, barbarous
compositions in rhyme which as they express it they
order to be sung on the nexr general smash dapi.--
They give notice that no regard will be paid to lace
frames working single press at full price, or plart
frames working under .the stated prices.

BALLYNAHINCH, (IRELAND), FEB. 17.6.-...011 the
evening of the fair of this place, on Wednesday last,
the spirit of party, which had for tome time before
appeared rather menacing, broke out beiwecu beve.
ral persons of the lower orders of the people, wit°,
styling themselves Thloshers' on the one side and
Orangemen on the other, proceeded to assault each.
.other with the utmost violence: They alterowely
ran
up and down the streets several times, pursuing awl
.pursued, armed with stick., hrzzaing and shouting;
after which, the attack became more serious, by
severaL vollies of stones being thrown in every
direaion, and au attack made oh- some of the
houses, the windo9is of three of which were wreck•
ed'by the throwing of stones ; when
.o,vo shots A
erg
fired from one of these houses, by which one mars
of the name of Mieallister, from the parish of
Louglianisland, was killed-co •th spot, and another
trout the saute parish dangerously wounded in the
groin. Two other men lie dangerously ill frau'
bruises. received from bludgeons and stones, and
several others have received like damage, but Dat
clangero;isly,

This morning the CHANCELLOR of the Etena-
Ert sent notice 1.10, the Stock Excliange, that h
would be ready, on Smunday morning next, to con-
Irma for the sale of 20,000 Ticke•s, to be drawn ita
two Lotteries, in May and June next.
The American vessels Hound, Bee, and the Re-
lecca, have been taken by Cmusrorvik; and con-
demned, for attempting to viol tie its paper blockade'.
Such of the crews as were negroes were condemned
to imprisonment for life, as was likktaise an Arneri,
tican supercargo,

A vessel arrived in 03ober at St. Jago de Cuba
with near 300 perions, who escaped the slaughter

of their iellow-citizena at Tarragona.
Sunday morning A young man of the name of
Watson, a gl3zier, undertook, for a wager of tot.
to go on toot fmm Whitechapel Church to Rom,
ford and back again, the whole distance being 23
miles, in three successive hours; he started at six
o'clock, accompanied by two persons on horseback,
as umpires, stopped to bait at Ilford, then proceed.
ed on his journey, and reached Romford at twenty,
minutes after seven o'clock : after refreshing and
resting himielf about ten minutes, he started on his
return, and after bailing upon the road, completed
the whole in four minutes less than the given time.
A • great many bets were depending upon the issue„,
and a griod deal of money -.vas wbri and lost ; bets
were, at his starting, three to two. against .

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Z i IT'

RE. Pr .T'LT.

COURT-OF K;SG'S BEN-Cif, Els. 23.

LLVY SOLOMON.

This was an at.tHn of i•linder. The rilainOlf and
defendant Vk ere botl: d,•.;;ers in waiches and Jewels,
at Eaton, near •Win icor. In the. rPonth of De-
t ember, 1809. Cie plaintiff had the shutter of his
Siaop broken, and several watchtls and Iri;ikets stolen.
This necxne matter or co:Ner,,ation among his
neighbours ; when one night, shortlyatter the tob-
bery, the defendant said in a, Tradesman's Club,
th:it the plainidf. house had peter been rubbed,
hut that he hut zolibed to rnseif. This assertion the
defendant reps aiel st,.eral other occa.ions, add-
ing, `that he was in his room awake when the sup-
P6seit rohbei V was comum,ted, and he saw the
plaintiff hand away omn goodS.
Mr. GARELoNT, for the defendant, adverted to the
apiorr being delayed for three years, which pur-
Posed to have for its object the vindication of the
Plaintiff's character, to winch he a•!,:ed, it was not
brk,ught in the" county where the parties were
known, but in London, where they were not known.
Verdict for plaint di—Damages 51.

BLUNT V. HANCOCK.
1115 was an action upon the warranty of a horse
sold by tile defendant to the plaintiff for 1151. The
plaintiff had a trial of the horse in Hyde Patk, where
it went its paces well, and leapt d a five-barred gate;
bat the hist day the purchaser went ow hunting,
the annual's lainetfess diScovered itself, and Lotd
I.I.,BNBOIZOUGH observed, that the soft gravel of
Itntten-row was greatly too favourable to the paces
of any hOrie. The defendant called Mr.. Jeffries,
riding-tvaster to the Dragoon Guards, and two
l'nlgh-riders, who testified to the soundness of tite
horse• iUr. Jeffries gave 1. for the horse, .and.
sold it to the detendatit afterwards for 801. This
was six weeks before the lameness of the animal,
and it was perfectly sound then.
Lord ELLENBOBOUGE observed, that Mr. Jeffries
I°ltt the horse to the defendant for less than be paid
f"r it, :keep included; and tlie plaintiff recovered a
%ercliCt for the price be paid for it and keep-1401.

DUBLIN, FEB. Ig.—John Keegan, the school-
-master, Avid) Thomas Quartermo, Owen .riciams,
John Byrne, and James Byrne, appeared at the bar,
when Mr. GREBNB proceeded to.iptumte, that his
Majesty's •A, torney General .authortsed him to say,
that no prosecution-was intended against- the pri-
soners, and that it was thereforo his wilt that they
shoilld be discharged by pr:Aclamation. ThL. Otti-
cer of the Court proceeded accordingly with the
usual formalities to have ti,em, discharged.