The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-22 00:00:00

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.-Aug. 20.

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
Arrived, August 14—Aurora, Le Marchant
Thomas, Esq., from Ryde ; Minx (yawl), Lord
Londesborough, from Hull. 16 °apricot n,
Vice-Commodore C. R. M. Talbot, Esq., M.P.,
from the Western Ports and Ireland. 18—Coquette,
J..H. Smyth Pigott, Esq , from London, to lay
up. 19—Drift, F. R. Magenis, Esq., .from the
Eastward, for Bro wnsea ; Sapphire, the Right Hon.
T. M. Gibson, from the Eastward ; Nymph, Sir
John Bayley, Bart., from Portsmouth. 20—Dream
(yawl), George Bentinck, Esq., M.P., fiom South-
ampton ; knacondra, Capt. Phillimore, and Dryad,
Lord Cardigan, K.C.8., from Southampton,
S)iled, August 15—Zara, Commodore the Earl
of Wilton, for the Western Ports. 16—Minx
(yawl), Lord Londesborough, for the 'Westward.
17--Lancashire Witch, Lawrence Palk, Esq., M.P.,
for the Westward. 19—Capricorn, vice Commo-
dore C. R. M. Talbot, Esq., M.P. for the East-
ward ; Firefly,. S:r Henry Oglander, Bart., for
the Westward ; Beatrice, John E. W: Esq.,
Demerit, Charles Lee, E:q , for the West-
ward. 20—Maggie; S. R. Block, E,q., for South-
ampton ; Coast Ince, Richard C. Naylor, for the
harbour, to lay up.
The following yacht; have been at the 'station
during the week :—Zara, Commodore the Eirl of
Wilton ; Capricorn, C. R. Talbot, E-q., M.P. ;
Titania, Robert Stephenson, Esq., M.P.; Minx
(yawl), Lord Londesborough ; Osprey, Col, R. W.
Threy ; Dement, C. Lee, Esq. ; flea rice, John E.
W. Rolls, E4q. ; Firefly, Sir Henry Oglander,
Bart ; Maggie, Sir R. Block, Esq. ; Drift, F. IL
Magenis.

REDUCTION OF RENTS AND ITS EFFECTS.—ThiS
town has not Lem so full of company these tin
years ; there are hut three unfurnished houses un-
let in the whole town, arid it is a little curious two
of these are nearly, if not quite, th 7 best in this
'neighbourhood. There ii very little doubt but
the great increase in our fashionable visitors bas
been occasioned by the great reduction in rents of
the houses—in many instances amounting t i nearly
one-half what usel to be charged. The following
aie at present residing ben :—Lord and Lady
Mount Charles, Lard and Lady Willoughby de
Broke, La iy Jersey, Lady Cletnentina Villiers,
Lawrence Palk, Eq., and family, Lady Jas. Gra-
ham and family, Henry Thorold, Esq., and family,
the Hon. H. Lacey, George B trker, Esq., Lord
A. Churchill, Philip Percival and family, the Hon.
Capt. Denman, R. Lambeit Turner, Esq., the
Count Edmond Batthvanye, Giles Loden,.
Mr. Sergeant Clarke, the Hon. Mr. Douglas, the
Hon. Capt. Potre, the Rev. E. Golding, Capt. Du
Plat, &c. &c.

SOUTHAMPTON, Friday.—The screw steamer Alma-
gavar, Captain Castello, arrived here this morning from
Corunna, Santandar, &c., with eight pacsengors and a
small cargo. She is now in graving dock, for the pur-
pose of being cleaned and painted, and leaves for Havre
and the Spanish ports on Thursday next.
NOVEL TIMEPIECE.—A watchmaker of Newport has
in his shop-window a timepiece of peculiar construction
and recent invention, showing the hour not, at Greenwich
alone, but in all parts of the world. The names of
places of note are arranged in a circle, according to
their respective longitudes. The clock which has been
registered, will save captains and others muoh trouble.

BATTLE OF FUENTES VONOBO.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

, Sir,—Captain Brialmont's notice of my protest
about the Light Division squares at Fuentos Onoro
compels me to give a positive contradiction. He
has been misled, among others, by M. Thiers,
whose historical falsifications as to the British
troops in the Peninsular war require no other no-
tice than that they are contemptible falsifications ;
they refute themselves.
Capt. Brialmont is apparently a historian of fair
intentions, but he is grievously in error here.
I did not say the Light Division squares were
the only squares presented to the French Cavalry,
but that they were the only squares presented by
the Light Division, the distinction being made be-
cause the rifle battalions of the division were em-
ployed skirmishing in the wood of Pozzo Velho.
Fournier's charge was clever, but not made
against the Light Division • it was against some of
the Guards under Colonel hill, who had stupidly
extended, instead of concentrating, his men before
the French cavalry. The official States of the
Adjutant-General gave the colonel and 14 men as
prisoners, and from those States my numbers were
taken. As to three regiments of Guards being
sabred, the Guards mayanswer that ridiculous non-
sense as I do the equally ridiculous nonsense about
the Light Division.
The question between M. Brialmont and myself
is this,—Were any Ligkt Division squares broken ?
He, on the authority of others, says that two were.
I, as an eye-witness, assert that they were not even
charged ! The world will desire testimony. Capt.
Brialmont has given his, and very poor it is. He
'acknowledges that one authority asserts that Gene-
ral Craufurd gave up his sword. Yet Craufurd was
inever a prisoner, and, in fact, did not assume the
command of the divisimi until after it had retired
to the new position and resumed its' formation of
columns. "It was Col. Hill," says another autho-
rity ; but Col. Hill ...was of the Guards—not the
Light Division !
On my part I offer the written testimony of the
following officers, testimony now lying before me
Gen. Sir G. Brown, .G.C.B. ; Lieut.-Generals Sir
T. Brotherton, K.. 8., Sir F. Love, K.C.8., Sir
E. Oust. ICal. ; Lieut.-Cols. J. Cooke and Dun-
"des ; Major J. P. Hopkins ; Charles Sawyer, of
Heywood-lodge, Faq., formerly in the Ca.valry
finally, Sir John Kincaid, whoso letter you have
already published. All these letters are ready for
publication if you can and will give them apace ;
but, as some contain private matter also, I could
much wish that they would write short statements
for your journal, declaring succintly whether my
version is correct. To enable them and others to
•do so I again assert that no Light Division square
was broken at the battle of Fuentes Onoro • that
no Light Division was even charged. I will go
further. No British or Portuguese square was
broken bye charge that day !
Tvio 'corrections to my first letter must here be
made:—General Love tells me that to say no French
horsemen approached the Light Division square is
an error, because a colonel—Lamotte—and some
Dragoons being captured by our cavalry, were es-
corted to the rear, past our squares. Col. Dundas
tells me the Chasseurs Britanniques were not
charged—the French cavalry passed their line with-
out charging, and received their fire in doing so.
W. N. NAPIER, Lieutenant-General.
Aug. 21.