The Sun.
London, England, 1812-12-31 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

PLYsOUTH, DEC. 2J.—The following' vessels;
from the Mediterranean, part of the Kent's con-
voy, came into, Ilamoaze yertoday, viz. the brig
Maria of Dover, GOODS, master, the ship Dienia,
of London, CAat.Tog, master, and the ship Prnitlis-
&,,
berg-, of .London, JAI:AUSTIN, Master, all from
Malta, last from Gibraltar, bound to London, with
cargoes, which consist of wines, silks, oil, rags,
'and fruit, and are undel• quarantine.
.This morning the Niemen frigate, Capt..lsYti,
made Signal for'the fleet, bound to the eastward,
,to get under weigh, and shortly afteiwards the
homeward-bound Mediterranean fleet (With the
, exception of the brig Three Friends, Wan.Ey, and
two or three others that were bound here for or,
ders), that 'put in here last' iveek by contrary
winds, under convoy of the Kent, together
with 'several merchantmen from the. West Indies,
Lisbon, Cadiz, Ireland, .&c.. and a few coasters,
in all about 80 sail, weighed anchor, and stood
to the eastward for .their respective -destinations,
with a favourable and fresh breeze from the west
north west. _ •
. .

Arrived this morning the American brig &pe•
dition, belonging to and from Philadelphia%lfith a
•
'cargo of cotto►i, bound to Bourdeaux, captured a
few days sipce by the Briton frigate, Captain Sir
Tnos. STAINES. The Expedition has not brought

• -
any news.
Arrived the. Conquestador man of war, fropi the

Channel Fleet; the Leonidas frigate, from the
coast of. Ireland ; the Neptune, Hoc,G,
ing, to Montrose, from Dundalk, with provisions
for thi4 port ; the William and _4nn, LITTLE, from
Lope; Charle.qown, WILLIAms, and the :gory,
from Fowey ; and the Ant, PEAm, from
Penzance.

Came down the harbour and anchored in the
Sound, the fiohpyr, frigate. _
Arrived this afternoon the schooner Eadajor
from the Mediterranean, last from Scilly : this
vessel was raptured on her passage by a French
privateer,,and afterwards given tip to the masters
and crews of some British vessels, which she bad
also captured, who were taken out of her by the
Pickle brig of war, since arrived here, as men-
tioned last week.

A repoit has been in circulation here this day,
that the Belle Poule frigate has captured :a French
frigate. We sincerely hope it may prove correct.
Captain DACRES, late of the Guerriere frigate,
with his officers and some of the crew of the
Darbadoes frigate, lately lost in the West Indies,
arrived here this day in the Leonidas frigate, from
Ireland, they having arrived there in the Africa,
64, from America.

'Sailed this nioKning the Nienzen frigate, hay-
ing under convoy a fleet of nearly 100 sail, amongst
them are the homeward-bound Mediter:anean
fleet. •

DEAL, Dec. M.—Arrived the, Sprightly cutter,
with 15 sail of veSsels under convoy, from Dart-
mouth ; the Royalist sloop of war, Capt. DowNIE,
with the Reese French privateer, with 68 men on
board, which she captured early this morning off
Dover. , The privateer came out of Boulogne last
evening ; had made no captures. , '

• Put back by contrary winds, the Providence,
East Indianian.

Came down from the River several- ships, and
remain with a large fleet-of outwardonnd:

NEWHAVEN, DEC. 30.—Mr. ADF.Y, , master of
the Catherine of Sunderland, landed here last night
with his crew, and stay, that his vessel was cap-
tured yesterday by threFrench privateers, about
a mile and a half from the shOre,-between trighton
and Shoreham. lie also reports, that he saw two
other • vessels taken, • which he supposes were
colliers.

PORTsmouTa, DEC. 30.—Arrired his Majesty's
ship Venerable, -from Corunna ; Prevoyante,.: from
the Downs ; T.,:tliant, from of.l Cherburgh ; Arie•
men, with a convoy; from Plymouth; Northumber-
land, from ditto. Also the Holly, with dispatches
from Newfoundland.

Sailed his Majesty's ships Savage and Misletoe

on a cruise.

LEITH, DEC-. (418.--=The Forward gun-brig sailed
front Leith Roads on Thursday for Sheerness, to
be
On Friday night a marine belonging to the ilda
want, 50 gun-ship, fell into Leith-harbour and Was.
drowned ; the body was got in a very short time
after the accident.

,priin-ros6 sloop of war tailed yetterday to
the .z.io uthward.

Remain in the RoalsAdan2aittflag-ship', Ferret,
Rift?man, and Siwlce,s,lcops pf war.
'fhe•smack:E/iz4 arrived, at „Leith yesterday,
''end. the Swallow this norning.

ti/oNArARTA's Ov6RTuntB TO TAA

RUSSIANS.

The following has been given As flit substance
of what passed bctweo LAnatstotc, *ll4 was
bent by BiIoNAPARTt front Moscow, to fritite
KliTusoFF, in order to ensuart the latter into a
cessation of arms, and to lead-, if possible, to such
a pacification as would have. ended in :the sub-
version of the Imperial throncot Russia.

tat,RtsToN was• methet] by Prlnce KITTUSOFF,
in the midst of all his Generals., He ripened the
conference by saying, that he bad been sentto de-
mand •an armistice, and to beg the Prince to trans=
mit to his Majesty a . letter frOrti MIONAPARTki
,which would contain proposals for peace, in or-
dei• to cause the cessation of that horrible effisPin
of blood, which had been shed with so much des-
peration and barbarity.
The Prince replied, that hewas not authorised.
to receive any proposal either for• peace' or ar-
mistice ; and that unquestionably lie would not
receive any letter addressed to his Majesty that,
besides, it was.bis duty to 'declare, that the Rus-
sian army was in possession of too many advan,
tapes, td throw them awry by an armistice, of
which it had no need,
LAVRISTON observed, ti“lt the war must 'one
day come to a termination, for it could not last
for ever, especially in the barbarous manner in
which it was conducted. • - •

Prince KuTosof.y. replied,. that harharisM had
been introduced into hostilities by the Frencji re-
volutionists, and followed up to the greatest ex-
tent by BUONAPARTR himself. It was true, that
the war could not be eternal; but peace could ne-
ver be talked till the French were beyond the Vis-
tula. That RuSsia had not provoked the war;
for the Emperor, by falling.with all his forces on
the magazines and troops in Poland, might have
annihijated all the preparations of BUONAPARTE
im the ,other side of the Vistula, before he
was in readiness to commence it; but his :Ma-
jesty wished neither to disturb the• existing tran-
quility, for.to be the aggressor, and to the last
hoped to preserve peace : that BUONAPAIiTIT
bad entered Russia even ;without a declaration
of war, and devastated a great part of the em-
pire : " that be had nothing to do but to get out
of Moscow how he could, since he camethither
without being iriVited ; while, on our side, it be-
came our duty to do him as much mischief as pos-
sible : that when be proclaimed the campaign
terminated at Moscow, the Russians viewed it as
only commencing; if he did not know this alrea-
dy, he should, soon be taught it by experience.
LIURISTON.2—`` Since, then, there is no-hope
of peace, it will doubtless be necessary to march;
but in departing, it will again be necessary to shed
the blood of men who are always brave; since your
armies are marching on all sides."
• " I again' repeat to you," replied, the Prince
" you, of course, will adopt such measures as you
,can; iaLorder to get off,—and we, to prevent-you.
For.the rest, the time will come; perhaps, when
we May arrange matters for your departure, should
that b the only subject of di,:cussion."
LAURISTON still uttered complaints with regard
to the bitternesS and fury which had been excited
in the. people, in order to banish all hope of ac-
cowmOdation, by attributing to the 'French the
Conflagration and ruin of Moscow, while the in-
',
habitants- themselves were the authors Of that ca-.
The PrinceE replied, that it was the. first time
he had ever beard of complaints being made
against the enthusiasm, and devotion to their
country, of a Whole people who defended their
homes against an enemy by whom they were at-
tacked, and who, by so doing, had excited that
animosity and fury now complained of, but which,
on the contrary, could not be'too highly appreci-
ated and extolled. " With regard to the burning
ofMoscow," said the Prince, " I am too old—l
have had too much experience in war, and possess-
ed too much of the confidence of the Russian
people, not to be daily 'and hourly informed of
what was pasiing in Moscow. I myself ordered
-the destruction of some magazines;' but from the
ariival, of the French at Moscow, the Russians
destroyed nothing but the stores of the cart-
WrigAtsi when you adopted the resolution of seiz-
ing them, by distributing the carriages at your
'pleasure :• the inhabitants caused very few confla-
grations. You proceeded systematically in the
destruction of that capital, fixing the pa-ticuhir
days, and marking out the quarters which were
to be set on fire at different periodi. I have 'had
aii exact account of the whole; it has been fol-
lowed with.precisiOn ; and one.proof that it was

not the inhabitants 'who ruined Moscow is, that
you destroyed with cannon-shot the houses, and
other edifices, built with too .much solidity, hurl-
iug balls 'against them amidst the flames. Un-
doubtedly.we shall endeavour to revenge ourselves.
Our conference. is. closed... •

Certainly LAuttisTor had no reason to be satis-
.fied with its issue. the French had been long ac-
castorned. to arrange matters of this sort in a tete
a tete, or by an amioable interview ; but here
More than 30 persons were witnesses, on the one
hand,
.of the dignity of the Russian Marshal, and
on the other, of the cringing meanness of a low
fellow cominissioned by a Brigand,

N :7.

Tilt; VOICE OF Lit I LOVE,
A Dal surig with di-stifiguiSliel applause by Mr. Bit
at Drury-tine Theatre:

WRItTEN BY alit. PALMY.

How sweet at close of silent eve
!Mc harp's re3ponsive sound,
How sweet the vows tl:at ueceirk
And de..a. cty virtue cr-.)wa'd;
now sweet to sit beneath a tree,
fa some delightful .;rove,

But ab ! more soft, more sweet to me,
The voice of her I love.

liletie'er she joins the village trap,
To hail the new-born day,
Mellifluous notes compose each strain,
Which zephyr; waft away;
The frowns of fate I cahaly heir,
Iu humble sphere I move,
Content and blest whenc'er I hear
The voice of her I love.