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

COWES, ISLE OF IfTIGIIT.-A4lg. 20.

ROYAL YACHT EQUAD RON INTELLIGENCE.
Arrived, August 14—Aurora, Le Marchant
Thomas, Esq., from' Ryde ; Minx (yawl), Lord
Londesborough, frgna. Hull. 16 -- Capricorn,
Vice-Commodore C. R. M. Talbot, Esq., M.P.,
from the Western Ports and Ireland. 18—Coquet fe,
J. H. Stnyth Pigott, Rm. from London, to lay
up. 19—Drift, F. R. dagenis, Esq., from the
Eastward-, fair Brownsea ; 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., from South-
ampton ; A.nacondra, Capt. PhillimOre, and Dryad,
Lord Cardigan, K.C.B. from Southamptm.
Sailed, August 15—Zara, Commodore the Earl
of Wilton, for the Western Ports. 16—Minx
(yawl), Lord Londesborough, for the Westward.
7—Lancashire Witch, Lawrence Palk, Esq., M.P.,
for the Westward. 19—Capridorn, Vice Commo-
dore C. R. M. Talbot, Esq., M.P., for the East-
ward •, Firefly, Sir Henry Oglander, Bart., for
the Westward; Beatrice,.John E. W. Rolls, Esq.,
Derwent, Charles Lee, Esq., for the West-
ward. 20—MaggiP, S. R. Block, E-tq., for South-
ampton.; Constance, Richard C. Naylor, for the
harbour, to lay up.
The following yachts have been at the station
during the week :—Zara, CommodOra the Earl of
Wilton ; Capricorn, C. R. Talbot, Esq., M.P. ;
Titania, Robert St.-aphenson, Esq., M.P.; Minx
(yawl), Lord Londesborough; Osprey, Col. R. W.
Threy ; Derwent, C. L?e, Esq. ; Beatrice, John E.
W. Rolls, RAI. ; Firefly, Sir Henry Oglandcr,
Bart ; Maggie, Sir R. Block, Ef,q. ; Drift, F. R.
Magenig.

REDUCTION OF RENTS AND ITS EFFECTS.—ThiS
town has not teen so full of company these ten
years ; there art but three unfurnished houses un-
let in the whole town, and it is a little curious two
Of these are nearly, if not quite, the best in this
neighbourhood. There is very little doubt but
the great increase in our fashionable visitors has
been occasioned by the great reduction in rents of
the houses—in many instances amounting to nearly
one-half what used to be charged. The following
are at preient residing here :—Lord and Lady
Mount Charles, L)rd and Lady Willoughby de
Broke, Lady Jersey, Lady Cletnentina Villiers,
Lawrence Palk, Esq., and family, Lady Jas. Gra-
ham and family, Henry Thorold, Esq., and family,
the Hon. H. Tracey, George Barker, Esq., Lord
A. Churchill, Philip Percival and family, the Hon.
Capt. Denman, R. Lambert Turner, Esq., the
Count Edmond Batthyanye, Giles loden, Eq.,
Mr. Sergeant Clarke, the Hon. Mr. Douglas, the
Hon. Capt. Petro, the Rev. E. Golding, Capt. Du
Plat, &c. &c.

•
SOUTUAIIIPTON, Friday.—The screw steamer Alma-
gayer, Captain Castilla, arrived here this morning from
Corunna, Santander, he., with eight passengers 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 watchin'tker 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 clrcle, according to
their respective longitudes. The clock which has been
registered, will save captains and others much trouble.

BATTLE OF FUENTES .b'ONORO.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Str,—Captain Brialmont's notice of my protest
about the Light Division squares at Fuentos Onore
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 Light 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
never a prisoner, aud, in fact, did not assume the
command of the division 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.C.8., Sir F. Love, K.C.8., Sir
E. Cast. K.H. ; Lieut.-Cols. J. Cooke and Dun-
das; Major J. P. Hopkins; Charles Sawyer, of.
Heywood-lodge, Faq., formerly in the Cavalry ;
finally, Sir John Kincaid, whose letter you have
already published. All these letters are ready for
publication if you can and will give them space ;
VW-, 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 by a charge that day !
Two 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.