The Sun.
London, England, 1812-08-05 00:00:00

FRED CH PAPERS.

MORLAIX, 3ULY 20.—The last news -received
here from England announces that they are ex,-
trcmely apprehensire of a War with America.
The troubles which agitate the interior of,Eng-
land are of so Serious a character, that three
camps have been. formed in the 'environs of Bir-.
mingham and Manchester, and in the county of
York. The encampment at Manchester'-consrSts.
of 10,000 men. The partizans of the Ministers
attempt to exaggerate the force of Russia, in or-
der' to persuade the people that that Power will
retire victorious from- the struggle into which
British influence has precipitated it. Bat in spite
of all the manoeuvres of Ministers, the people
cry Out loudly for peace. This desire, which has
just been warmly expressed' by several Membels
in the House of Commons, has resounded through-
out the kingdom.—(Moniteitr, July 27.)
CASEL, Jvii 18.---7-We hear from Crodno, of
the 11th, that the King of Westphalia set out ()::
the Gth. All thy army had quitted the environs
of that city on the 3d, 4th, and sth, to push on
against Prince .Bagration. His Majesty arrived
at Brelitza on the Bth, and set out on the 9th to
go to NoWogrodeck. The light cavalry must al-
ready be at Mer, cutting up the enemy's rear
guard, from which it-had taken 150 prisonfts:

Liipzic, JULY 16.—Numerous
,forces are tra-
versing at this moment the country between the
Oder and. the Vistula.

The head-quarters of Prince Pon iatowsky were
on the 6th at Rggrod, in the Polish province of
Chelm.

- .Punts, JULY 26.—The Empress came on the
22d to Paris, to visit the Queen of Spain. This
day, ater mass, she held a Levee, and afterwards
received the Ambassadors.
BERLIN, JULY 11.—A11 the letters which have
been received froth Konigsberg, Elbing, and Me-
inforni us, that several numerous corps- are
a,tually on their march through Eastern and
-Western Prussia, on their way to Gumbinuen and
the • Niemen, to reinforce the grand.armv„ which
pow covers all liitbuania. The Decree of tLe
:Count of frogendorpt, Governor of Konigsberg,
has prevented the disorders which might have been
the, consequence of the movements or a great
army. No military man dares to depart from the
route pointed out ; the other roads serve for ttie
intercourse of
,the inhabitants, and the country,
-in the midst of war and its vicissitudes, is as tran-
quil and as-secure as in full peace.
'Accounts from Konigsberg state, that great
consternation.prevails in Livonia ; and that the
'Rusian 'General Behr, who has the command
there, has been obliged to call upon the inha-
bitants not to suffer themselves to be discouraged,
but t 6 co-operate in an effectual manner in the
measures of defence which he prescribed. 4-is
positively stated, that in Livonia and Esthonia it
is in contemplation to make a kind of general levy,
and to arm all the inhabitants without exception.
They do not seem at all well disposed to take up.
arms. Besides, if this general arming were ,or-
dered, it is not very clear when or how it could
be carried into effect ; for the French army ad-
vances, rapidly, and will probably be in,Livonia
before the organisation of the militia eould he
.completed. All possible exertions are making to
strengthen the works 'of the fort of bunarum4dt,:.

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THE SUN.

SCILEM OAS DI( E 1 E.FAL51731. AUDI:AT ?

L 0 D O. N,

\VEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1812.

A Heligoland Mail arrived this morning ; the,
following is the only article of intelligence it

brings :

I{ELIGOLAIW, JULY 30.—The Britornart sloop
of war, and Thresher gun-brtg, with tall the boats
that could be spared from the squadron, have
sailed for the Ems, with a view to attack a
convoy of 20 vessels laden with naval stores,
which are blockaded bi one of our gun-brigs in

the river.

Boston Papers to the 30th June have, reached
town. They contain some very strong and spirit-
ed Resolutions, of the inhabitants of New York
and Boston, against the war. Thep also,con-
tain a most eloquent ad4ress from Mr. RANDor,rin
to his Constituents, in which he strongly insiun-
ates, that the war faction are under the immediate
influence Of France, and -.declares, that he will
not, during the continuance of the war, attend
the Meetings of Congress.

We this morning 'received the following letter

from Liverpool :

LIVERPOOL, itu0..3.--By the Alice, which ar-
rived here yesterday from'Quebec, which placeshe
•
left the sth July, we learn, that the Canadians
were fully persuaded that war with America was
ineVitable, and were taliing measures accordingly.
No vessel was to leave Quebec, after the Alice,
without convoy.

,No further intelligence has been received from
:the Peninsula; consequently we are unable offi-
. cialiy to confirm the • statement which 'we yester-
day published from the Corunna Courier. There
is-nothing-in the account its.elf which-is:calculated
to, excite any doubt, except the circumstance of
the battle being represented to have' been fought
near Satinianca.- Lord IVELLINGTON; we know,
was ,near sixty miles in advance of Salamanca,
consequently -if. the battle was fought near that
place, he must hav c preciously retreated. It was, we
• know, the opinion of several Officers in Lord WEL-
Litco-roN's Army, that MARMONT NVOIlld risque a
•
' battle to save Valladolid, on account of the large
magazines which it contained, and which he bad
of the means of removing. But, if this account
.be .true, Valladolid was not only not in- im-
mediate danger, but the Allied Army must have
been'in ,retreat. This circumstance may -excite
a,slight doubt, but it by no means convinces us
that the account in the Corunna Courier is not true.
,It is to be recollected, that the account in the
Corunna Paper is not given in a light unauthentic
manner; it is-glven with official authority, and
therefore Ought not to ,be questioned but
upon strong grounds. _The-dispatches from
LordWv.r.moTorz-which appeared in the Gazette
. ,
of. yesterday, state, that MARMONT had been
joined by General BONN-AT,- in consequence Of.
which MARMONT seems to
.have abandoned his-
plan of retreat, andto have determined to advance,
for he immediately began to repair the bridge over
the Douro, which he had before broken down.—
.
This part of his Lordship's dispatches tends v.i'.ry
strongly to remove any doubts' that might, exist
about a battle being 'fought near Salamailea.---:

..MARmotcT, thus 'reinforced, may have adv.ainced,
and I_,:(.lrd liriLLING:roN may have -retrevted until
cf;nie'to 4 position_in wilic4, he knew,he could
fi!-,ht to advantage. It is also •stated,. that Jo-
S£l7l-1 BT:TONAPSItTE; „ -with Gencrals-Jouitn.A.N. and
O..FARREL, had left Madrid with ten thousand
men, aid had. advanced •to Segovia-, so .ghat

they were upon the right flank of the

lied Army, and would; if it had advanced, have
, littn - in its rear. It is therefore highly
pro-
bable that utider these circumstances Lori+ WEL L
,LINGTOINT may have judged it prudent to retreat,
ancl that a battle may have been fought near to
Salamanca. We have thought it right to state
s'.wetiv the different observations that ocekir
to' us respecting the probability • of
.the news
froto Corunna, and ive leave it to our readers
to EU' rm their own conclusion. It' is stated,
' in our Portsmouth wetter, that an Officer
bad arrived there with 'Dispatches • from Lord
WEL LIt:GTON, c9ntaining an account of this vie-
_
tory. This we apprehend to be.a mistake. The
Sr/bit has certainly arrived at Portsmouth from Fer-
rol with the news, bat she did bring any Dispatches
- from Lord WELLINGTON ; the Captain indeed,
- sates, that General CASTA:4O9 had received di4•-,

pater:es tram. Lord IVELLlNGTox,.anncuric fig
tin
victory, A letter to that-effect from the (2,aptain
was reeeiir'ed- at Lloyd's this morning, but of
course he could only §peak from the report which
be heard before'he sailed:

A writer„in a Morning Paper Of this day, ad-
verting to Lords GREY and GRENVILLE, says, their
" conscientious. obstinacy Would have left us with-
out/any-Ministers, had not others been found less
scrupulous."' 'That the Noble Lords were obstinate
can. admit of little doubt.: How' far their obstinacy
was conscientious- is best known to themselves.
But what was the motive of this " conseientions-
:obstinady?" Why, fippanntly an insatiable appe-
tite for power, that would:not leave to thePRINcE
REdENT any of his friends in situations not of a
political nature, and who therefore could not have
interfered in 'the operations of government when
in 'office, more than when out of office. Yet no-
thing would satisfy the Noble Lards but the whole
of the frolisehtild, and therefore t%iir " conscien-
'tious obstinacy" induced them- to lose the oppor-
tunity of promoting what they pronoupced vital
interests of the Empire, becausq_they could not
obtain that object. It has been_ the practice- ih
the Morning 'Paper. alluded to, to style the present
Ministers the,Household Ministers ; but surely the
epithet is more characteristic ~of' those who gave
up the opportunity of supporting'the national ho-
nonr and interest, and
,introdueing measures
which they deem essential to, the tranquility of the
State, 'merely because , they were denied the
Household. .But the writer whose lucubrations
tve have noticed, proceeds in a kind of bantering.
vein to propose 'an Administration compounded of
the most heterogeneous materials, and therefore
it is possible that he was-merely ironical when he
denominated the'' obstinacy" of Lords Git.RY and
GRENVILLE " conscentiOus."

This day the PRINCE REGENT will hold a PriAy
Council, to receive the Recorder of London's Re-
port, &c. -
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the
Secretary of State.'s Office, in Downing-street,
which, sat nearly two hours. ,

Sir JOHN WARREN will h'ave town for Ports:-
mouth in two or three days,'and proceed to assume
the command on the'American coast. Sir JOHN
BERESFORB, who Was. some time Commodore on
the Halifax . station,- will accompany Sir JOHN'
WARREN in the Poictiers, of 74 guns.
• On Monday accounts were received of the loss
of the Encounter gun-brig, in the Mediterranean,
;when in company with the Tuscan, in an attempt
to cut out some
,enemy's craft ; she unfortunately
grounded, and was obliged to be destroyed. One
vessel was 'taken.

Government, it is said, dispatched on Monday
10,000 stand of arms, with ammunition and flints,
to Corunna, for the use of the Guerillas.

Last week a detachment of Horse Artillery,
.consisting of 300 men, and 200
,horses, marched
from Woolwich to Portsinouth, under the coin-
mand of -Lieutenant &Rum, where they were
immediately embarked. for Spain, to join' the arMy
under Lord WELLINoToisr.

A detachment of 100 men, of the 87th Regi-
ment has embarked On board the Morley trans-
port, for the Isle .ofF6.nce ; and a detachment of
the 22d Regiment are also tb embark on board her
this day.
PAVEMENT.—The 'condition 6f the metropolis,
in almost all parts Of the town, was never so bad
in this respect as it is at present ; independently. of
the inconvenience Which attends the'operations of
the Water-works' CoMpanies, there is hardly a
street in which there ' are. not deep holes,, and
other dangerous inequalities, whkh are:incrcasing
everyday. •It is not .for want of complaint and
remonstrances that the town remains in this de-
plorable state; fOr the public -prints. in „general
'have very laudably endeavoured to.:drav attention
to so very ryprehensibie a neglect. : • -
Mr. Ilerve„ thc benevolent Projectr.;r of a new
Institution for the relief of diatress in the middle
ranks ,of life, delivered a Leetnrc last Week in Pail
Mall, when Mr. Christie liberally allZtted his
room for. the purpose. The audience amounted
to about three hundred persons, among whom
were many 'Ladies ,of fashien. The discourse
vas eloquent and. impressi-;-e, anti strongly excited
the feelings of the audience'.--. Squibb alto, .
on -Monday last, opened his room with the same
laudable view, and• Mr. Herve made another af-
fecting- appeal to' the hUmanity of a mime-coils. and
elegant aiLco

A new comedy from the pen of .3,1 r. Sk Er
'is said to ,be one of the forib-
coining noyelties of, the flaymois:et Theatre. this
Summer, ande. new farce from 14,11.. of
..'port speaks \'
Mr.,LEWIS has moon to pride. himself on the
success of his new opera, Rich and Poor; .f.ue
it has keen uncommonly attractive. It-
howeyei, be ackndikledged, that the success has
beep in no small degree promoted by the general
excellence 'of:the perfornrnce.
The LegiSlative Bodies, of France, who are
mere passive instruments of the. Usurper, have
been' whimsically. styled the repositories Of the
deaf and dumb. There is, however; more of lin-
Mour than truth in this designation, as they must
be for ever on the alert to hear the 'slightest die-
tittes of the Tyrant, and 'not. receive them in
m silence, ,hut with the -oSt hyperbolical homage
to. This wisdom and virtue ! .
Lewes Aainual.Pri4e Cattle Show On Wednes-
day was respectably, but not numerously attended.
The Earl of EGREMONT preSICIVAI at dinner.---
Among the Nobility and most distinguished agri-
.
culturists 'present- were :

. . ,
The Dolce of Dorset, Earl of - Egremont, the Earl of Chi-
chester, Lord- Whitworth,, Lord Charle3 ':.iotnerset, Sir Jon
Sebright, Mr. Elhnua, Zic.