The Sun.
London, England, 1812-01-30 00:00:00

sPANIsii PAPERS.

The accounts from Catalonia to the EMh are
extremely flattering concerning the state of tl,at
country. The Catalonians had made a new exc!ai-
sion into France, which they alarmed as far as the
city of Tolosa. The grand-convoy from Gerona,
11,ich set ont for Barcelona, escorted by 6000
►tt-
'fani..ry and 300 horse, had been obliged to retro-
grade.

Final Barcelona 4000 of the enemy,who made an
excursion to rob the surroundinz country, likewise
Ibund themselves °Wird to retire within their
oreress.
The enemy have already fIrM upon LAE Medsis
more than 1000 bombs, and all the damage they
haYe done is the killing of one man.
CADIZ, JA ,V. s.—lnelligtm'ce. from Estremadurt
informs us that the enemy intondei sending rein-
foreements from Tolevcr3 to Valei,cia, but the
aniveMents of Lard WELLINGTON had pie+ entt•cl this.
measure from being carried into exec ution, and
thus, on the lett bank of the Agueda, was a;jing
in favour of Valencia.

Letters of the 29th fro -11 Seville say nothing re-
lative to SOI2L.T ; we•may, therefore, presume he i 3
•
very' weak.

The partisan SIERRE Ins taken the dispatcl'e4
sent 0,1,, PUILLIrrON, Governor of Bada.foz, t•S
SOULT, athising bun of the great scarcity ut provi-
sions iu tb2t fortre:is. The Conde de PEN NB has
made a movement wish hls slit i~ion,

CAntz, JAN. 3.--Yesterday authored in this port
from Callao de Limas, after a passage-of tio days,
the frigate Cuilcia, with foul• millions ; she brings
the most favourable accounts of the order and tran-
quility of that kingdom, and of the general entiiu.
siasm of its faithful inhabitants.

The French are again cackling in La Mancha
nearly 13,000 men to attack BLAKE, according If,
what they eeport in the rear ; but General FUEIRE
is is Albuerte with considerable force. The g.n..
tisna of Madrid has been reduced to 2500 men.

A few days ago 200 men deserted from the gr-
rison of B:ldajoz, and took refuge in Jurutneaa.
Grear want of provisions is experienced in that fort-
ress, the garrison of which princip.illy consists of
Germans, Italians, and Poks.

The Cortes-have prolonged the time fur the e
portation of Cotten for America, from this place for
six months.

The depredations committed by the French in
FAremacluri are inconceivable; they have com-
pletely devastated iliac province.

' CADIZ, JAN. 3.--,General LACY is perfecily 75 3 tis-
fied wish the Catalonians and they with him ; the
enlistmert continues, and he has already -formed au
army of more than 15,000 men ; the etwrny is only
master of the fortresses he occupies; the rest of the
country is scoured by our troops. General ,LArist
lately thought of
.placing himself between Tarragona
and *Fortosa.

•
By accounts received from. St. Domingo; dated
the..23d of November last, we understand,.... that
British subjeds and property at Port-au•Prince
were perfectly safe; that PETION'A naval force Was
only two brigs, one of twenty and the other of siX
teen gnus, the former none on board, the vessels dis-
Mantled, and their crews, discharged. His Majes-
ty's ship Thalia was cruising off" there.
p.LlOter from Charleston, received in Philadel-
'phtai'mentions that an attempt was made to bola.
the French privateer brieDiligente, now laying in
that port ; but that on the representation of tire,
French Consul, the Mayor caused the ringleaders to
be apprehended and committed to prison.
l..ast Sunday week, about eight o'clock, the laun-
dry' fiftiid at Henry Smith's, Esq. of Hackney Wick,'
was alarmed, while drinking tea, by the appearance
of A man's'head At the skylight ; she tan screaming
into the kitchen, exclaiming,- " he looked me is
the face !" and after having with difficulty ex-
plained the cause of her fright, fell into strong fits...•
At thiS period Mr. and Mrs. Smith were at borne,
the butler the only man-servant in the house, ttie
coaChman and .footman haYing gone to fetch Mr.
Smith, jun. who dined in LmUott; they returned
about ten o'clock, and as the coachmArt way prepar-
ing to go to bed,- he heard the cutting of panes of
glass, as if with a diamond, in the laundry ; he in-
stantly gave the alarm to his [nester, who, with his
son and the three servants, well armed, proceeded
to reconnoitre the preruis.::..9; they divided, young
'Mr. Smith and the coachman ,proceeding .with ex-
treme candor] to search the shrubbery, the park pal-
ing of which is close to a narrow lane, for the con-
venience of foot-Rassengers to Hackney and Ho-
merlon ; the coachman, at• length left his young
master, a whistle having been fixed on as the signal
of attack; the signal was at length given,-and souu
after the coachman came running to give the
alarm; he had liter-Ally stumbled over one of the
ruffians (there were four), as he lay in the shrub-
bery, near the-ha-hal. On his rising, the'wor4
,was' given to bolt three of the thieves. sprang over
the paling, the other knocked the coachman down, ~
who had unsuccessfully aimed a blow at his head
'On tli''Coaclunan recovering from the effects of the
blow, he' perceived the fellow climbing over the
pjes, an'd manning up, caught fast hold of his.coat;
the assassin, deliberately presenting a pistol close to
his head, snapped it ; it-. luckily, however, fished in
the pan, but the fellow escaped ; the coachman, and
his young tnasfer making their way over the paling,
narrowly searched the lane, And at length discoveted
two armed, creeping softly- along the bedgef
on, being hailed, they proved to be the patrole,—
Since this attack, the elegant mansion of Mr. Smith
has been as closely guarded as a garrison; the
watchmen who nightly; take care of the silk-milli •
have been doubled, and fire-arms have b'een liberally
furnished to all the workmen. .