The Sun.
London, England, 1823-10-03 00:00:00

THE LONDON RithiNALS.

DAILY - •
Extracts from the Morning. Popers, October 3.

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At ft late body • lOC night we received ,by Ex,
pPapess =the MonilesetV.of ,Tuesday last and other
eri to thi,rlst inst. The latter are totally
'barren. At po tital or military intelligence.; the
former contains a Report frorni3aron, des Rotours
to Minim', Thtperrer, giving him, as Commander
in*Chli‘folf.the kit, the ,cletalls of the attack and
durrender of fort St. Petri. With, the general
outlin'es or the' affair we were already acquainted
this report does little more than show that they
had been correctly described. 'From the manner
in which Baron des Rotours siAaks of`the hesita-
tion and difficulty with which- twe,of his ships,
the Trident and the Guerriere, obeyed or rather
did not obey his orders to MOW.* clone =to the fort,
it may be inferred that he means to censure the
conduct of their Captains, though his blame
is not 'very explicit. It is clear, howrier, that
they were not very eager to-engager for the
positions which they took in contravention to
his commands were so very safe and distant,
that their fire did not reach the fort ; en per.
ceiving which he sent them his Aide-de-Camp to
order them to come nearer, but the action
_lves
Wier before they had 'joined ,so as to become et.
fective. appears that St. Petri was armed
with enly 17 pieces of cannon, of which, but a
few bore on the point from which the attack was
made: Though little more than one ship cane be
said to have' been engaged, yet 49 it carried 'eighty
guns, and had taken a good raking potation, it is
not astonishing that its fire should, itt. a few
hours, have nearly silenced that of We fort.
The latter having greatly slackened, prepare..
tions were made for landing and for storming,
when the garrison hoisted a white flag, and
proposed to capltulete. The terms which it
demanded were, to ,be allowed to retire to the
Isle of Leon, and to continue to serve against the
French, The, first was granted, but the second
refesed. They were required, on the contrary,
to hind themselves not to serve against France,
and finding that they had no choice but to sub-
mit, they preferred being made prisoners of ,war
to returning amongst their :friends, deprived of
the Power of assisting them in their glorious'
struggle. The chief advantage derived by the
enemy from the possession of St. Petri, is that of
impeding the easy progress of the barks, which
ccalveyed flour and provisions to ihe Isle of Leon.
It was not, however, wholly interrupted, neither
could It be stopped unless other points were oc-
cupied.

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[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
:What a curious sPeutacle this Emoire presents
at'the presontotornent! in the Seuth of Ireland
*rtit See,lgitorance and anttichy,—a people who 1
haus nothing .to..loset and consequently nothing
tf'
.fearfthe-': 41, -'an instrutnent of oppression,
but alfeifiltig;'on security either to person or pro-
perty',--the bounty of nature every where ren-
dered of Hari avail by the
u another dePravity of math—.
f
part or the Empire, Scotland, we
see all ranks concurring harmoniously. In for.
3tr4,,,Ng the. great work of improvement, in
diffuSing usefnl knowledge,. We see what
we believe is new; In the history of the
v'orfit-Htbe inpciranics of tin different towns
forming institutions for the purpose of aiding
tt:emeeives by- c,onaination in procuring for them.
seistitt a ,Ittnowlege, of those arts and sciences
which' may enable them :to .become more useful to
themselves and to their country. In Thar Chro.
mole of yesterday
,we extrttcted from a Scots
Paper aO.account: of the .formation of a second
Skliod'Of Arts in Glasgow, which contained se-
veral.' particulars calettleted to give the greatest
pleasure to every well constituted mind. It ap.
ImYB,.;from itt.o4tjhe number of mechanics who
ittended the Lertturep of the Andersonian
hi TIM, *an 4, contributed. out of Moir earn.
440 tpits':iupporq.vos no fewer than 600.' Feeling
tilasatisfied, howevtir; witit some of the regulations
of that 1'0140411,1*s not sufficiently liberal, a.
ntiMber r,f thcs. tt rlt rric have, projected a sepa-
rste institutioriT and-we are told, in a. 'Report,
010174 indivirtuais had already subscribed from
half a guinea to one gulnea"per annum; that a
literary ind•scientific apparatus •had been already
obtained ; end men of. high scientific attainments
itsd'offered- to lecture, or admit the students to
their lectures, an popular anatomy, natural
history, animal economy, chemistry, and me-
chanics, and to give instructions in drawing, &c.