The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-11 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, SEPT. 10.—Wing E.—Passed at the back of
Goodwin Sands the Jan Joseph, Hewell, from Dantzic, for
Rouen. Remain his Majesty's ship Ramillies.
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 10.—Wind E.—Sailed the Grecian,
Hoibrow, for Lima.
PLYWWTH, SEPT. 9.—Wind E.—Arrived the Elizabeth
and Sarah, Dunbar, from Archangel, in 28 days.
FALMOI7III. SEPT. i'l.--,-Wind E..—Arrivect the. Fnincii
Freeling packet, from New York sad Halifax s sailed the 9th
ult., and from Halifax the 10th.
Lavittroor., r.T. o.—The Royalist, Ashbridge, from
Liverpool to Miratniehi, has put into ditto I
to
shifted her ballast. The Regent, Clivie, from ditto to ditto,
has foundered at sea ; crew saved.
Nosurrt Stitztass' Stair. 9.--The Esther, Brown, when
coming in, got upon the Herd Sand, but with atisiatauce
was got off with damage.

St. Omer's has not yet recovered from the ra-
vages and devastation which followed the Revo-
lution. This city, like Brussels, wits once Ow
favourite retreat of English people of kiniall for-
une. It is now in a. state of ruin and wretched-

THE LONDON JOURN.A.:4S.

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.ga:-.lracts from the 311».14inrrapers,-S9temberll .

[MOILNII!JO eon.]
According to some accounts the siege of Pam-
plena had commenced under Marshal Lauriston,
and two of the suburbs had been carried by a
brisk attack. it is very doubtful, however, whe-
ther that Commander will long be able to keep a
sufficient number of men together to surround the
place and to, carry, on the operations of the siege.
The same cause which put an end to the progress
of the Allied Armies in France, at the beginning
of the Revolution, is now acting in Spain against
its ruthless invaders, and the land betrayed by so
nuinY of her child ren,fintis defenders in her climate
and her fruits. To soldiers, overpowered by the
heats of a burning summer, the refreshing abund-
anceof autumn offered dangerous temptations. That
they have not been resisted by either of or
men, is proved, not only by the death of General
de Conchy, who fell a victim to dysentery before
Pampeluna, and the illness of Major-General
Guilleminot hom it has attacked at Port St.
Mary's, but by the following passage of an Order
of the Day issued by Marshal Lauriston on the
`27th ult. to the troops ,by whom the siege of the
former place is to be undertaken, 64 The Marshal
sees with pain that a multitude of soldiers eat
fruit in large quantities, and already begin to enter
vineyards. His firm intention is to maintain
the discipline which has hitherto honoured
the ' Prench Army in Spain. He will cause
plunderers to be punished with severity : but
he takes no less interest in preserving the
health of his soldiers, and putting them on
their guard against dysentery. lie recom-
mends Colonels, Captains, and Surgeons in par-
ticular, to watch over the food and the clothing
of their soldiers. And he orders that from the
Ist of September soldiers shall wear nothingtbut.
cloth trowsers day and night, and shall put on a
capotte (or great cons) in the evening, and when-
ever the passage from heat to cold might occasion
a sudden stoppage of perspiration. Colonels will
give frequent returns of the number of their sick,
the causes of their illness, and the number of dy-
senteries and diarrhreas which may break out in
the camp in order that necessary precautionsmay
li
immediately be taken to arrest the progress
of the c it at its birth. The Marshal reminds
all the soldiers of the army, that at the moment
of commencing a siege which will, do honour to
their courage, those who in disobedience to,the
present order, should by their own fault cause
themselves to he sent to the hospital, would justly
pass, in the eyes of their comrades, for cowards
mho ran away 'from danger." As the French
army is scattered into small bodies over the vast
extent., of Spain, the prevalence of such a com-
plaint amongst them might, if it continued or in-
creased, deliver them up helpless into the hands
of the Coostitutionalits•

ty T 11003.3
The best lwformed of those (...'orrespontleats
Whose letters from Paris we have seen during the.
last 24 hours, agree with us completely in ascrib-
ing extreme ambiguity to the official statement
respecting the most important part of the Traci.,
dere question, Niz. the precise amount of success
obtiii„,d by the In,,,iegers. Doubts are in coast'.
quence expressed among the Paris politicians, as
well as by ourselves, whether the French have
merely gained a landing-place on the Trocadero,
or whether they JAV,e •carried all the forts,vpv.
twined within the peninsula, including thOiti o'tt
St. Joseph and of Matagorda. The terms of the
dispatch, we must repeat, are much in favour of
the fornwr supposition ; and, 111 that case, it is as
yet physically impossible for shot or shell to fall
within the lines of Cadiz. In the mean time, taking
it far granted that the whole western face of the
Trocaderc• were fairly occupied by the French
troops, it may be worth considering whether an
attack might not be made in such a quarter as to
supersede the necessity of a bombardment from
Matagorda, and the probability of Ferdinand's
combustion and explosion by a shell of Bourbon
&iglu. Mutates, which stands between Cadiz
and the Isla, is a point to which Victor, the pre-
seet War Minister, is said to have directed his
attention during the former siege, and at which
be bad resolved to effect a landing, had the ships
Of this county not prevented him. If the Puntales
be welt repaired and fortified, the Duke d'An-
gouleme cannot venture to make his attack in
front ; but Victor's opinion is now asserted to be
in favour of a landing somewhere between the
Cortadura and Punta leS ; thus getting between the
army of the Ulu. and Cadiz, rendering the Cortadura
and Puntales lodes, and reducing Cadiz to the
strength! uud resources of its own garrison. We are
riot enough acquainted with the localities to pro-
name upon the wisdom of such a plan, or on the
secrifice of life,(great, no doubt) by which the
success of it must-be purchased.—Thu killed and
weeded of the Fiench in the action of the Tro-
ceder° barn not been estimated at Paris to fall
ehert of 1,500 or '2,70Q0 men ; and if the future
lenses be but in proportion, it will not be easy to
maintain beroafter that Boonaparte excelled all
other French Commanders in contempt for the;
lives of his troops.