The Sun.
London, England, 1810-12-13 00:00:00

1

AND 3UTH OF NOVEMBER.

BY A LOW Rof TRUTH.

Since the 14th of September, thr Official Journal
of Butonaparte had not indulged in any of thosei-
rulent attacks, diElated by hatred, vexation, and
shune, Its silence was attributed to harpy
chang"e produced byi be terrible truths contained in
THE SUN of the 3d of Odlober. Vain hopes! The
natural disposition sedum admits of change
rant,, certain age accuitipli ;
Le vast: est imbibe, Petufli: a pris sun pli.

Yost-say, then, General Buonaparte, that it is
wi,lied to deliver the English from your
thefe is only one way, and that is, by being just,
and exchanging the French for the English, the Spa-
niards, the Portuguese, &c." Why, this was. the
very thing that was asked of you by the Flan of
convention, presented to the British 'Commissary to
your.agent M. Demoustier. The rejecliou of pro-
pwlitions so equitable and so advantageous to both
na loos belongs to you. We know ) our motives ;
they mark ail the blatluess of your inmost thoughts.
Why did you not mention them in your elequeet
and impartial notes in the Moniteur ? So enucb
Modesty might even give occasion for surprise to
your numerous admirers; and disincline them to-
wards you! You wished to, dupe the English Mi-
nisters, since you could not corrupt them, like the
Cobentzels, the De Gallos, the Hauzwitzes, the
Romanzows, and so many otherS, who, dazzled by
the glitter of your diamonds, have had the base-
ness to lose sight of the honour of their masters'
thrones, and the infamy to lend themselves to the
execution of your plans of conquest and. destruc-
tion.

The Sovereigns only followed the advice of their
Ministers, in the consoling Lope of diminishing the
calamities of their faithful subjects. Their inten-
tions were honourable, as the blood which flows in
their veins is pure.- They were obliged to yield to
the political tempest which the Frenlh Revolution
enabled you •to organize. England alone smiles at
your impotent rage. She does more : she fights
you with glory on the Continent.' You have given
laws to eighty millions of Italians, Germans, Prus-
sians, Poles, and RussianS and an English army
opposes a respedtable barrier to the torrent of your
devastation, which it cannot penetrate. Your vete-
ran bands appear to fly at the sight of those English
colUirms., 'your contempt of. which has only served
to heighten their glory. You choose to avenge upon
the priskiners the affronts which your armies have
received in Sicily and in Portugal. As/we have
long known .you, we will proceed to make up fur
your s;lenic, and 40 umask your perfidy.

[To be continued]

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

4,-04Ve.hipoe-rnany apalogies-to make to our Correspondents
for an apparent negletEt of their respective favours. We
can only Mt:ad-W.:at of ro,;in; i,ocasioned by the pressure of
temporary matter. it is still our intention to insert such
of their Communications as are not quite out of date.
The Letter from A FRIZNO TO NIS COUNTRY, at Deal, is
received, but we think we shall better fulfil the laudable
purpose of the Writer to submit it to the attention of Go.
verninent; than to insert it in our Paper.

MAILS.
D L I LiSboll, z Dublin, 3 Waterford.

PRICE OE STOCKS
THIS DAY Ar TwitLve O'CLOCK.
67i I Red. Aim. - . . 66

Consols - -

rEiE 8 UN.

SOLIIII QUIS DICAKS FALSUM AUDZAT ?

L 0 ND 0 IV.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1810.

" Windsor Castle, Dec. 13, ato.
"His MAJESTY has had but little sleep, arid is
much the same as he was yesterday."

Signed as usual.

iiEFL),( 7/OAS.
ON THE Norn4 IN THE M.,IIITF,UIi OF THE 161'11,

One loves to believe that which presents an' agree
able pros'peet. Constancy is the surest means to
succeed in one's plans. So many extraordinary
things have been Witnessed during during the last 20
years, that we may look forward to every thing, per-
haps a change fOr the better in Buonaparte. In or-
der to attain that- object, we ought to persevere in
giving him- the. necessary •correctton—wise advice,
and useful Counsels. It is, above all, necessary to
avoid confirming his • errors, by combating him
with the powerful arms •of frankness and impar-
tiality. • . , .
No reply had been made to his Notes on the Ex-
change of 'Prisoners ; tbe coarseness adopted by
Buonaparte an that occasion had only inspired the
most profound contempt. One would suppoSe, that
while hunting in the forest of. Fontainebleau, be
bad been stung by one of the vipers which abound -
there, and of which the species is represented by
Naturalists as living only by poison.
The Note of the 23d November, on the affairs of
Portugal, appeared morirmoderate. There was no
more talk.ot tiriLArg the English into the sea. It
427.-t. it" upon the respeEtable position occupied by
Lent Wrliingtot.', and the precautions taken to se-
cure the rear of the French army, by the fortifica-
tion of Sai;tarem, and by the construetion of two
taes•de-port on the banks of the Zezere.
As 'o the Notes in the Moniteur of the 2gth and
30th of •November, they contain a.,btilliant eulogy
.on the skill of Lord Wellingion, the bravely of his
army, and.the devotedness of the Portuguese. They
attempt to palliate the faults of Massena, the mis-
takes of :'his Grnera's, and the disorlers of the
troops. Buonaparte has
.either lost his writi.r, or is
n become ousual!y-neglie nt. NY edo not observe,
in these ids i:T;.dulztions, the energy, the finesse,
and the fores,,,,,ht displayed in former cries. In
short, we find, more or less, in them, pretensions
the most extrAvagant, accusations the most fiali:Ll-
- lcus, lies the. most impudent, and calumnies the
most absurd. . .

Letters fruits Ilit) Itiie.iio state, I lAt General
LIN MRS and four of Ms.-associates, who had been
taken prisoners by the new Government of Burnes
Ayres, hate teen trjediOr a conspitacy against the
Independence of the Country, and for an eventual
submission to JOSEPH BITON A.PARTE. Oil proofs of
t
their guilt being produc- , they weie convicted, and
were executed on the 2 .16 of August last, at a place
nearly half way betweef Buenos Ayres and Cor-
dova.
2 ..,'

• We have received Dutch and Paris Papers, the
former to the 6th aria the killer to the 2d inst. ; but
they bring no 4,:vs. Some private letters from
Holland, however,'represent the distress of that un-
happy country.;as great, almost beyond endi)rance.

It. is stated in a Morning Paper, that an Ameri-
can vessel has arrived at Portsmouth' from the 'la-
ps, which sailed three days after the Jaspr. W
ark inclined to think that this must be a mistake, as
our Portsmouth letter does not mention the arrival
of any such vessel. His Majesty's ship Manilla
has'arrived at Falmouth from Lisbon, but she sailed
before the Jasper"

Both Houses of Parliament will meet this day
pursuant to their last adjournment. Tl'e mode of
proceeding which will be proposed will depend en-
tirely upon the result of the visit of the LORD
CHANCELLOR and Mr. PERCEVAL to Windsor this
day, and as they bad not returned wben this Paler
was put to press, no authentic information upon the
subjel could be obtained. Our contemporaries.
ntAy indulge in speculations, but the fatt is precisely
as we have stated it. •

The want of inteligence from Portugal, has de-
prived the Chroiziae, for somo days, of its favourite
amusement, viz. that of censuring the conduct of
Lord WELLINGTON, because he Las periumed all
that he undertook, and more than most people
,tliought it was possible for him to do. But, in the
absence of news, the Paper alluded to has thought,
proper again to have recourse to predictions. When
AIAssENA iuvaded Portugal, both he and his master
threatenedthat the English should be driven out of that
kingdom. The Chronicle gave full credit to their as-,
. sertions, and immediately propheSied that Lord WEL-
LINGTON would be driven from every. post, and cum-
pelled at last to embark and leave the enemy in quiet
possession of the country; a ndit was at the same time
uncommonly 'facetious upon some of the papers that
ventured to state that Lord WELLINGTON meant to
retreat upon a post where he could make a stand
against the French Army. MASSENA'S retreat,
however, after remaining a month in front of the
osition of the Allies at Torres Vedras, without dar-
ing to attack them, having falsified the prediction of
the Chronic*, and-spoilt all its jokes about strong
positions, it became necessary to take a new
ground, and accordingly Lord WELLINGTON,
whose business it was to act on the defensive,
is blamed because he did not become the as-
sailant ; in a word, because he has not captured
that Army, which ~we were told four months ago he
could not face. We are also told, that for two months
all operations in Portugal will cease, but that in
February, MASSENA will_ be so re-inforced as to
make " the protection of Lisbon, much less the
deliverance of the Peninsula, hopeless." We have.
very little doubt, that this patriotic predi6lion will
prove just as well founded as the one made by the
same Paper on the 11th of August last, which we
quoted a few days ago; and that in the month of
February, the Chronicle will again be under the ne-
cessity of postponing the complete triumph of the
French in the Peninsula for a few months.

The Hope, GEo. GREIG, Master, of Perth, from
New Brunswick to Plymouth, put into she. Scilly
the 28th October ; on the Will she was plundered
by a [french brig privateer, of rigging, sails, stores,
Sze. and the following day was boarded by the
Charles privateer, of Bayonne, the Commander of
which Uttered to supply Hope with any thing she
was in want off. As soon us the Chuiles was known
to have been captured by the 'Amelia frigate, the
Committee at LLOYD'S sent to Mr. GskLIG for an
affidavit
,of the treatment he received fro al the Corn:
mander of the Charles, and on receipt thereof, a few
days since, transmitted it to the Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty, and they have had the
pleasure of being informed, that in consideration :of
the circumstance, their Lordships have been pleas-
ed to give an order for the release of the Commander
of the Charles on his parole.

We hope that such a mark of liberality in that
department of the Government, will have the effeCt
of good treatment on the part of the French priva-
teers to British vessels which may fall into their
power, as- they will thus be assured that such praise-
worthy conduct will meet its' reward in this coun-
try, should the fortune 'of war, make them our
prisoners.

NAVAL
.14EWS.

Pev.'"JrnY.ru, Dtc..ll.—We stated yesterday that
the ship Nuitia:,. arrived here from Quebec, fell in
wial the Wreck. of the bask Aurora, of London,
Captain FLECK, in the Western Ocean ; the,follow-
lug are the 'particulars :—The Aurcru, on her pas-
sage from Quebec with a cargo of timber, bound to
Sheerness and Chatham, encountered a very heavy
gale of wind on the 22d of November, in lat. 51.13.
N. lung. 32_. 30 W. in which all her boats t; .ere
stove, nearly all their provisions, and every article
on deck washed overboard, and her bowsprit sprung'
when the hardships of her unfortunate crew com-
menced, the only article of peovisie:. left being a little
bread, sufficient only to supply their wants for
the short space of twenty-four hours, then at the
long distance of 1000 miles from the Land's End :
but, alas! on the 26th following, after enduring
all the hardships imaginable, for four days, for
three of which they had been without food, and
reduced to a most deplorable state, being almost
deprived of raiment, and their limbs frost bitten, a
more terrible gale of wind than that experienced on
the 2,2 d, came on, in which' the vessel fed over
on . her broadside, which accident released, from
the horrors of an expeacd but untimely end,
the Ist and 211 Mates, two seamen, and two boys,
who were washed over-hoard and perished ; the re-
m.rinder of the crew, consi,ti'ng of the Captain and
three stamen, were obliged,' for the preservation of
lite, to cling to the side of the wreck, in which
situation trey rermineti eight hours, during this
period the main and mize.n.masts, foretop-mast
and back-stay went by the board, :soon after
which she again. righted, but was full of water;
however this afforded another retreat for the
unfortunates, being then enabled to get into the
fore-top, where after some hours, they secured
themselves from the violence of the sea ; the
decks of the vessel then blew up, and strange
to tell, these men endured. all the horors of
starvation for the further space of seven days,.
when on the 2d inst. in lat 47. 50. N. long. 23. 00.
the Muida hove in sight and bore down on
the vessel, not perceiving at first that any of the
crew remained on board, button nearing her, some
men were discovered in the fore-top, and in conse-
quence a boat was immediately hoisted out to bring
them off, who had for eleven days- been kept alive
by sucking the ropes, which afforded them the water
gathered there during the heavy rains. One of
them appeared in a dead state,- and the others were
senseless and in a most horrible condition ; no intel-
ligence as to their hardships could be obtained from
them until within three or four days previous to
the'Maida's arrival here, when they gave an ac•
count almost incredible to believe, but -which
was actually the case. Two •English merchant
brigs hove in sight at the 'time the crew were
in the midst of their sufferings, to one of which
Captain FLECK held out a red handkerchief, which
remained flying some hours, but this only tended
to increase their misery, as no notice was taken of
their signal of wretchedness, and both vessels pro-
ceeded on their course. During the gale, in which
part of the crew were washed overboard, one of
the little boys, of respectable connexions, clung
to the Captain ; the latter could have saved him,
had he been enabled to gain a rope, but that was
impossible, and they were both separated by a most
. awful sea. The Captain and his- seamen are ex-
tremely iil, and no hopes are entertained for the
recovery of one of the latter ; it is expected that
each of them will be obliged to have .a limb ampu-
tated, in consequence of their sufferings by a most
severe frost, that came on during the time they re-
mained on the wreck.

- Arrived this morning the Duke of Moritrose
packet, Capt. BLUETT, from the Brazils, with Mails
and Dispatches, the latter from Lord STRANGFORD ;
she also brought an Officer, charged with dis-
patches lot the Portuguese Minister at Cadiz ; and
left the following ports, viz. Rio Janeiro on the 16th
Otiober, Bahia on the 26th, and St. Salvador on
the 29th following. PrAlous to the Duke of
Mon,trose leaving Rio Janeiro, his Majesty's schooner
Misletoe, of B,,giins, Lieutenant RonclT RAMSAY,
arrived there with dispatches from Buenos Ayres,
the substance of which Was reported to have been
a disturbance at the latter place, and in consequence
his Majesty's ships Foudroyant, of 80 guns, Rear
Admiral the Hon. M. Da COURCY, Captain R. T.
HANCOCK ; and the Porcupine, of 28 guns, Captain
ROBERT ELLIOT, then at Rio de Janeiro, sailed for
the River Plate immediately ; his Majesty's ship
Crocodile was left cruizing off the latter place; the
Duke of Montrose, on her passage, spoke the ship
Royal Sovereign, of Greenock, from London,
bound to the Brazils, about the latter end of
Oaober, nearly on the Brazil; coast, all well ; also
.
spoke about a month since, cruizing, his Majffsty's

ship EoLs, of 32 g-tir..s, and shortly after spoke 05
American ship from Cadiz, in ballast, bound to
America, all well. The Mike of Montrose fell in
with his Majesty's ship Scylla, of 18 guns, C:tpt•
ATCIUSON, last Saturday, cruizing to the weiewari
of Scilly, by which ship she was ordeted on to this
port. Two packets, One of them said -E6" be the
Princess Amelia, Capt. Moortsom, trOrn'Falrnitith,
touched at Bahia about the 20th October, but ire-
ceeded on immediately.: The !frlairla, arrived' here
f;otn'Qnebc•c, Came a running- ship, and sailed 00
the sth November ; left loading,' here the following
ships for England, viz. lio,yutist, Larlk Jane, Ranger,
and Minerva. The frost had set in very severe,
it seas feared that no morexessels could leave

that pit this season.
Arrived,the Constant gun-brig, of 14 guns, fron)
Basque loads, and the orig Friendship, of North
Shields, D. M`CIAAN, Maser, from Quebec, Witb
a cargo of timber.
Sailed the Piercer gun-brig for Basque Roads.
Went into barn Our his Majesty's ship dimsterdang
of 32 guns.

S,liied the 111orrislown hired armed brig, with 3
convoy fur Wales.

By the _Duke of Montrose packet, .inte;ligCnce 11
.received that General LINIERS haviog been detetl
in corresponding with the French, had been arrest'
ed, tried, and shot in Septetub,.r

FALMOUTH, DEC. 10.-Ai rived his Majesty's ship
Manilla from
,Lisbon, in i 9 days ; she &ailed wi it
:he Dolphin and 22 sail of transports, with Frorc-6
prisoners, deserters, &c. parted. with the Dolphin and
12 sail sometime ago, and with the other' to sad ill
gale. of wind off this port yes zerday.
L'Ai&le and convoy remains. •

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. t 2.-Arrived -his MajestP
ship Belette from the Leeward- Islands. It 113
blown a gale all day, yet part of the convoy
the DOA ns, under the lir, pid, Goshuaik and 1
na/do; have -got into harlicut'; also the Huml..Cl.
armed ship.,
Part of the West-India fleet have returned: it a 5
feared considerable damage is done amongst
One ship, the estet, GLENDALE, was ran foul Qi
by another ; the Nestet has returned. . . .

The John, of Newcastle:, Capt. BEI',TIE,:3S trll4ll
about eleven o'clock on Monday night.otf the Cary,
and re-taken by the Linnet sloop of war at ice
o'clock the next morning. It is said the John four t
the Frenchmen an hour and half before he suriviv
dered.

DOVER, Drc. 12.—The Rosario sloop of or
has captured and sent in a very fine French lugger
privateer, called le Marnelake, of 16 guns and 63
tnen which she fell in with off Dungeness. Tbe
privateer mistaking theßosario for a merchant vessel'
attempted to board, in which several Frenchmen
were drowned. Another privateer, at a short d's'.
tance, was preparing to assist her consort, but fir'Lli
ing the discomfiture she had sustained, had no bc'sh
for a nearer inspedtion.

LYMINGTON, DEC. 12.—Put into our Roads (114
tile
West India and Lisbon fleet, under convoy 04. •
Naiad and Galatea frigates.

DEAL, Drc. 12.--Sailed the Theban frigate or
a cruize off Beachy [-lead.
but be
FIVE O'CLOCK.—It s.ill blows a gale,
shipping appear to ride out all very well.

Letters have been-received by a ship from CP4tet°'
to the•sth, from that port, and from Paris to „tb„,6
2d instant. The French Papers are not liter t"'f'-e
the 30th ult. and contain no news. The Prit,',l,
advices confirm the failures in the French caint'ai
and inform us that' the colonial produce taken fro
Americans, and deposited in Antwerp, Fraelunn',;
and Cologae, to a large amount, was to be solci
the 3d of this month. A Gentleman who ~ was Pas
senger, adds, that no news had.arrived either., 11.-
Spain or Portugal.
5'
We have received the following letter, dated le
terday, from H-trwich " the. Master °ted
neutral vessel arrived from Holland, we are infern'o
that a requisition 16s been made in that country
_it
7000 met), to man the Freud' Elect in the Schelu
that •a ship .of the line and two frigates sailed
the
Helvoetsluys „some time ago, but the ship 0' „d
line, from her draught of weter, got on shore, 3`",s
was. obliged to return to Helvoetsluys. The frig3,r;,
are supposed to have sailed north about, for the u
je6t of their destination.
A Letter from Port -au-Prince, dated 12th Sc!"
tember,,says—,, An attack was made about the 131:.
of August,' by the army of Christophe,. on the Mao
Gen. kreillard,.who succeeded Gen. Lemarre tit!)
command- of that place,. repulsed the enerilY Vi-51
great loss; they left on the field Goo men, alP°rl/4"
whom were four Genet al Officers." Yirj
The body of Mr. SINIEON was found yesterda
cot
digging the ruins in Lisle-strce!. It was ju a rPbet
shocking state, and the
where his remains were found. Mrs: StMeOW5
has not vet been discovered. . '
r
An Hibernian being lately found guilty pace was still very dy.
demeanor at the quarter sessions; was asked by
ac'
Court, if he had any person to speak to his do
I 4°
tcr—" Please your honour," says Pat, • i
know any one here, but I can find sorneiwwP
you'll let me go out for half an hour.