The Sun.
London, England, 1812-03-25 00:00:00

OFFICIAL ARTICLE.

The Government, which can never consent that
tnistortunes should be hidden, has ordered the late
evews at Valencia to be pubhibed, convinced that
these reverses, far from abating the spit it of Spa-
niards, will only induce them to adopt such mea-
sures as may keep at a dis ance those which in fu-
tune threaten them.

His Excellency Don J. BLAKit, under date of the
mb, from Valencia, says—that after the loss of the
battle of the QCYII December, and his army being
incloSed in Valencia, there remained no other hope
than that arising from the etThrts of the troops and
inhabitants; but that finding affairs were growing
worse, he determined to make a sally, in order to
save the works from the hands of the enemy, who
had passed the Turia. This was carried into
etied on the night of the 28th ; but time difficulties
of the ground, and the firing of the Guerillas, de-
tained our divisions, till, charged and cut off by the
enemy, they were again found to retrocede, and
shut themselves in Valencia.

The troops returned in good order to cover the
fortified line, and although another sortie was in-
tended, obstacles of consideration prevented it.
The enemy established their works against the
line, and continued them with great activity by St.
Vicente and Mount Olivia, so much sci, that on the
4th of January they were advanced wit 100 a few
krises of the fosse, in consequence of which it was
requi,ite to abandon tie line, and take shelter in the
city, an operation which was that night executed
with the utmost order, bringing away part of the
artillery and rendeting the remainder useless. On
the sth the bombardment commenced, and was
continued, with, much injury to the town, on the
tith, 7th, and Bth. On the 001 SUCUET sent in a
summons, which was refused till the Bth, when
General BLAKE, seeing the consternation of the
people, the evils that threatened the city, and that

there were no hopes of succour, entered into a
negotiation with the enemy, proposing the evacua-
tion of the place, on condition- that the gar-
rison should march where it pleased, which SucnEr
refused, when the General finding himself in the
utmost extremity, without provis;ons, and that the
enemy had constrt.cted mines before the gates of
Vicente, and a battery in breach in La auarte, I
determined, in older to spare the place, to capitu-
late, and, 'in a Junta of Generals, the following
terms were agreed upon.

[Here follow the terms of capi!u!ation, which are
already knowa.]

NAVAL NEWS.

PLYMOUTif, MATICH 23.—Arrived this morning
at two o'clock his Majesty's ship Ayaden, of 32
gnus, Capt. T. EaswoaTu, from a cruize to the
Westward. On the 14th instant, in lat. 47. she
fell in with five sail of French line-of-battle ships
and a brig of war, by which she was chased a con-
siderable time thew were three sail of ontward-
bound East Indiamen in sight during the chase,
to whom the Nyaden continued for a long time
to make signals, in order to warn them off the enea
my's squadron ; the vat) ship of which was at one.
time so near the Aryaden, Gat the latter kept up a
continual fire until she had 'so far out-sailed die
enemy as to be wit houtethe reach of her shot'. The
Nlladen is a very superior sailer, and to this circurn-
stance may be attributed her escape. Tilt.: India-
men took the alarm, and stood away under a press
of sail from the French squadron, from which
it is hoped they escaped. The above squadron
did not appear as if proceeding to any parti-
cular destination, as, when the Nyaden first
discovered them, they were under easy sail, . a:;d
appeared to be cruizing ; it is therefore supposed
that their object 'was to intercept the outward-bound
fleets, that sailed from the Eastern Ports, a few days
since. Since the above period it has blown. a tre-
mendous gale of wind with a heave, sea, durieg
which the Nyaden was much damaged in her sails
and rigging ; it is therefore supposed that the
enemy's squadron must have been also injured by
the storm, which has been very severe. The
kyaaen, -on her passage to this port, felt in with
an English brig of war, which she ordered to pro-
ceed immediately off Brest, with intelligence to the
Commander in Chief of the squadron there, of
the enemy being at sea. The Nyadera on her ar-
rival here, had only a week's provisions onaboatd,
when she was ordered to be viEtuailed immediately,
and fitted for sea with all possible dispatch. It has
blown a very heavy gale here all day, and shortly
after the Nyaden's arrival, the storm began to in-
crease, which, it is feared, will continue some hours-.
The Dryad frigate, Cipt. GALWAY, in Hamoaze,
has received orders to proceed to sea immediately.
Arrived this morning his Majesty's cutter Entre-
prenante, Lieut. P. Wreetams, from the Mediter-
ranean, Gibraltar, and Cadiz, with dispatches from
Sir EDWARD PRLLEW, and is under quarantine ;
left Gibraltar on the 2 Ist February, from which
place she also brought dispatches, and from Cadiz
the 23d following. It is reported here, that the
Enteepaenerete hasbrought the following iotelligence,
that on the 20th February, General ...RA LLASTEROS
returned to St. loch, weer a desperate engagement
with a French force near Malaga, ite which the lat-
ter were defeated with a loss of 300 men, in kill, d
and wounded ; among the former, it is said, were
two Colonels, and the Governor of Malaga. A
number of spies, the greater part of whom are
Frenchmen,. have been apprehended and lodged ;it
prison at Cadiz. Fifteen thousand Frcnch troops,
it is said, were marching towards Tarifa, to make
an attack on that place. The Entreprenante has
had a very stormy passage, but has not received any
material damage.

Arrived this morning the Providence, BROWN,
from Wales; sailed from thence nine days since,
with a fleet, the greater part of which were much
damaged during the late pies, and have put into
the Western Ports. On the 16th inst. off the
Land's End, the Providence discovered a schooner in

distress, about six miles from the land, and immedi-
ately bore down to her assistance; but the unfor-
tunate vessel foundered before it could be rendered
,her or the crew ; the latter, we lament to state,
perished. The Providence, however, cruized near
the spot, when a quantity of her wreck together
with part of the cargo appeared, it is therefore sup-
posed she went to pieces immediately. The boat
wag afterwards discovered full of water. It is sup-
posed she belonged to Fowey, and that she was
called the Ceres, LANGMEAD master ; these latter
particulars we give for information, but cannot
vouch for the truth of them.

BIRTHS.
On the iBth inst. at Aberdeen, the Lady of Lieutenant
Colonel Black, of a Son.
On Saturday last, in Harley-street, Mrs. Stephen Thorn-
ton, of a Son•

MARX/kO.
On Saturday last, at St. lames's Church, Clerkenweli,
Edward Bedwel! Law, Esq. of Southampton-row, Russell.
square, to Miss Eliza Mary Stedman, eldest daughter of
Mr. Francis Stedman, of Baron street, Penronville.
On Palm Sunday, at St. George's, Hanover-square, jc.
nathan Moon, Esq. of 06, New Bond-street, to Charlotte
Denslow, of Islington.
On Monday, at Clapham, Surrey, Mr. Thomas Pickle,
jun. of Clapham Common, to Miss Anna Broadhurst, of
Battersea Rise.
Yesterday, at Mary-le-bonne Church, the Right !inn.
Lord Charles Townshend, to Miss Loftus, daughter of Ge-
neral and the late Lady Elizabeth Loftus.