The Sun.
London, England, 1812-01-23 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

• PLYMOUTH, JAN. 2 1 .—Last night or f 3117 this
morning a robbery was committed on board the brig
Mary, Capt. WILLIAMSON, which vesssel is dis-
charging her cargo, consisting of coals, at this Port.
A silver watch, belonging to the master, together
with a pocket•book, which-contaiiled IAL in notes,
and some of the ship's papers, were stolen ; the
watch was taken fiom under' the pillow, in the bed
where he slept, and thepocket-boolc from his coat-
pocket. The robber had, ati.ensy admittance, as
unfottunately the cabin door -was net secured.—
During the 'night, one of the crew belent;ilig.
to • the smack Friendship's Increcse, Pyrruci,
Master (lately arrived here from Yarmouth,
and lying along';•ide' Foxhole Quay), heard
footsteps on deck, when he looked up, and inquired
who was there, as he then discovered a tall man,

who wore a long great coat, examining papers; the
robber instantly escaped without booty, and has
not since. been heard of. The palters were those
belonging to the. vessel. In all probability this is
the same fellow Kho committed the robbery on
board the Mary.
It was the Mutine slOop of war that arrived hem
yesterday afternoon, not the Martin; the former is
from the Brazils, but we cannot learn that .she ha 4
brought any news.

Arri%ed in Cawsand Bay the American ship.
Faster, 'rosy master, from Charlestown, after a
passage of 49 days, with a cargo, bound to Ports-
mouth, and is expetled to s a again immediately
for her destination ; also arrived the Neptune, be-
longing to Liverpool, BELLMAN master, from
Drogheda, with a cargo of provisions for this Port .;
the Dispatch, naval transport, MURRAY, from Ports-
mouth ; and the Portuguese schooner Minerva,
BELEAN master, from Lisbon, after a passage of 2(3.
days, with a cargo of fruit for this Purt ; no news.

DEAL. JAN. 22.—Anived the Carmarthen front,
India, Mary from the South Seas, and the Friend-
ship from Detnetara.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 22.—Arrived his Majesty's,
ship Linnet from a cruize, and La Pique frum the

Downs.

Sailed the Royal Oak
,and Vent:ratle for off Chcr-
burgh, and the Helicon for Plymouth.

BRIXFWI-QUAY. JAN. 2 .—Saqed iJis Mijestx's
c—nterland, and Faivn, kir their
station off the Bass Island.

FALMOUTH, JAN. 20.—Arrived the Darlingto,s
packet with a Mail from Cadiz ; and die liindra,
HOCKING, horn Madeira and St. Michael's, 35 day;
from the latter place, with the joss of an anchor and
cable.

YARMOUIiT, JAN'. 22.—Sailed 'the Providence for

Cork.

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Admiral MORRIS is to be employed in the fleet
under the orders of Admiral Sir JAMES SM./MAR/3Z.
Admiral DE COURCY is 10 be relieved in lii
command on the Brazil station, by Admiral Moto.
SON, who will shortly sail for Rio Janeiro for that.
purpose.

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have,
been pleac,ed to appoint PETER fluotres, late
Secretary to Admiral RUSSELL (and late Purser cif
his Majesty's ship Courageux), to tile Lir Ho4tl-,
the beautiful new 74-gun ship lately launched AL.
Wool wick.

Four sail of the line being_ to be laid do*n, by
the names of the Britannia,' Princess Chn-loqrt
Hawk, and Agincourt, the vessels already hearing
these names are in future to be called the Princess
Royal, Andromache, Buzzard, and Bristol.
The extra ship Baring, TEMPLER, arived at thl
Cape of Good Hope the 23d. October last, and ,A
to sail from thence the 27th of that month.

The Aral•ella packet, which brought the Lisbon
Mail received yesterday, spoke his Majesty's shiP.
Leonidas, which had chaced, on the 14th inst. (;4
Scilly, a French schooner privateer, of 18 guns;
but the privateer, by superior sailing (at!,:r
ing her guns overboard), escaped. The Duke of
Kent was at Lisbon, and expeded to s.til the 5'
instant.

Mr. OLDMIXON, the young Officer, who is [vele
(lolled with so much honour in the la,t dispatches
respecting the cai.ture of Java, is a son of Mi°
GEOUGE, formerly. of Diury-Lane and the 1-1.,Y,
market Theatres, who untried Sir JOHN 00:r
MIXON, and has for alloy years been the chief V 0
cal Performer on the American Stage.

LISTON, ii, seems, has caught the rage for prov Tie
cial ranthling, which several seceders from 1,
London Theatres have found so profitable, and d°.,
not, we understand, join..the aiyrnarket Compol
next seast.n.

The following instance of French barbarity is
traded from the Gibraltar Clironicle:—
" Upon retiring from Igulada, in Gitalonil, tb(
French, on the loth October, in order to save the'lla'
selves the trouble of removing the sick and v, 000
ed, dug up ditches, into which they thrust,
buried alive, all those whose cure would, in
opinion of the doctors, have required a long tia)ei
'There was among them a Lieutenant-Colon,
whose intreaties could not, any more than the Ic't
mentations and supplications of so many
wretches, seftcn the; hearts of his barbarous 0211
panions;.:

C,

err litzDEC. SucnkT has weakened Ills
a' W.
/1.137 sending .a corps of from 5 to 6000 men
to Artagon. fr
Up to the loth not only had the French made no
Progress in their designs against Valencia, but had
ueell dislodged from some important points, which
oar troops were fortifying. We are assured Gene-
a' Lea,/ has an army of 15,000 men, and that it
l latigMenting in a wonderful degree.
I)EC. 23.—The Cortes have sanctioned the aboli-
-I°ll of the Salic Law.

appears that General BALLESTEROS, having
lanced upon Oger, for the purpose of reconnoi-
4rin g, Was attacked by superior forces, and obliged
Dfall back with the loss of about 300 men, the
greater part dispersed.
Die. 30.—The Ex• Regent, LARDIZABEL, leas
embarked in this port, and has been allotted the
%liters of S. FERNANDO, where he remains in a
ftate Of arrest, under the custody of the volunteers.
11)ao. 27.—We knew that on the 19th inst. the
%ents relative to Valencia, were talked about in
io a manlier very favouiable to our cause;
()121.-r was preparing tejnicings for the conquest of
that city, when he received intelligence, that on
113 e gth, four thousand French entered *Valencia
;4'd were cut off. We are yet ignorant whit
foundation there is for this; but we are cer-
tain that on the Bth no event of impor!ance had
taken place in Valencia—that aClions daily took
lace between the Guerillas and the enemy—that
the General in Chief had the best hopes of being
able to frustrate the designs of the enemy—that the
troops had the greatest confidence in their General—
and the inhabitants were resohitely determined to
defend their homes, and revenge the country.
The French troops, particularly the foreign ones,
are extremely discontented, but without resolution
to chew it. Many of them have feigned being
to avoid leaving Seville.

General Cu;STA is dead, and has been succeeded
bY General OToNN ELL.

FROM THE REDACTOR GENERAL.

bEc. 26.—The Captain of a vessel, who has ar•
rived here from Melilla, in fire days, states, that a
Courier,comingiromValencia, sailed at the same time
:With him, and_ was the bearer of accounts, stating,
/hat on the 9th inst. the enemy attacked the Spa-
alish army in the vicinity of Valencia, and were re-
Pulsed with the loss of 14,000 men; in consequence
of which they retired.

C1,1)1z, DEG. 25.—We are able to positiv-ely state
Illat as, late as yesterday morning the enemy had not
accomplished their design in seizing upon Tat
The greater part of the inllbitants had abandoned
their homes ; the Allies were resolved to defend that
Point to ihe last extremity, but a
_place of little or no
aitacked by very superior forces, can-
rlot fail of being taken, unless the enemy's attention
is called to some other point. We much fear
that the vigorous resistance intended.to be made,
Will :inset er no other purpose than that of sacri-
ficing vi,:-.tims worthy of a better fate.

The general report is, that on the loth, SU'CLIET,
With the whole of his forces, attacked Valencia,
and was repulsed.

MonTaineuEs, DEC. 13.—One thousand French
\infantry, and 400 horse are in Don Benito; in Me-
'ida,: about 800. The peasantry abandon their
houses in consequence of the ill treatment they re-
ceive from the soldiery.

Nine thousand French have arrived at Sireula,
and demanded in Cabeza de Buey 20,000 rations.
We are ignorant of the direaion they intend tak-
ing, but is is said it will be towards Cordova.

DEC. 17. The French are at Olivt Zouta, -col-
lecting contributions. It is probable they will re-
turn to Don Benito.

FIFTH ARMY.

DEC. ig.—Tbe intelligence we receive from the
head-quarters of the Fifth Army, is as follows :

The Duke of RAGUSA. (MARMoNT) has removed
his head-quarters to Talavera de la Reyna, where
sotne forces are colleoled.

FUENTES DE ONORE, DEC. 18.—The prepara-
tions which are observed leave no- doubt that sonic
movement will soon be made by the allied ai
Our troops are organizing and disciplining with
much'activity, and will soon form an excellent di-
vision.

This morning a report was circulated here, that
General BALLASTEROS had been beaten, and owed
his escape to his' hurse ; the latter is certain. The
Governor has received a letter from the Lame Gene-
ral, dated yesterday, at Los Barrios, in which he
says, " the enemy sutler great privations, and have
a great number of sick, of whom many die; they
also lost many men in the action of yesteiday. My
troops fought with determined bravery, and the
enemy did every thing in their power to kill ine ;
but it pleased God to preserve my mic.lJ de-
fated them complet* in every point." .

DEC. 20.—We have•learoe,l in wb't •-a:iher it

was that BALLESTEROS was on L.e

killed or taken in Ogen. The General had marched
to that place to attack 800 of the enemy who had
advanced thither.- He had come up with them and
was engaging them on the plain of Taritfa, where be
had obliged them to form a jun&on with the main
body of their army,' when perceiving that two

strong columns of the enemy were advancing,
towards him, he ordered his troops to retreat,
the General remeining in an inn at Ogen to
take refreshment. On coming out of the inn on
full gallop, accompanied by the Brigadier MONTES,
the Aid-de-camp GUEVIERO, and some Ordenanza,
he found that the enemy had greatly advanced
(having outflanked the mountaineers by the retreat on
the left) and posted themselves on an eminence which
commanded the left of the road along which the
General must pass. When the Ordenanza came up,
they began to open their fire, and to shout—the
Spanish General! advance ! But that Noble Ge-
neral, and what -is snore, true Spaniard, BAL LAS-
TEROS, gaining rising ground on the right of the
road, escaped the danger, Heaven preserving
his life to add to the despair of the execrable Corsi-
can, the torment and rage of his vile slave SOULT,
and the honour and consolation of his country. An
Officer of rank who accompanied him, was taken
for the General, and a heavy tire kep► up on him,
which killed his horse, but this was the only ails-
fortune which occurred, as the Officer escaped on
loot, though pursued, and afterwards joined his Ge-
neral in safety.