The Sun.
London, England, 1810-10-18 00:00:00

Pe) EIGA INTELLIGENCE.

-MADRID, SEPT. 17.--Francisquet, a Chief of
Banditti, -was, on the 4th of this month, at Towel-
loso, with 400 men and two pieces of cannon. A
'detachment of the regiment of Baden, which wAs
iO that-quarter, was ordered to make a retrograde
movement, in order to attrad the enemy to Villatu7
bia: Francisquet fell into the snare, and when he
disc overed his imprudence it was tOo late to escape.
He W 33 brought to anion by 400 di the Nassau in-
fantry and Go cavalry. This atihir lasted only a quar-
ter of an hour, but in that short period the enemy
lost 180-killed, and a number of wounded. Among
the latter is Francisquet hithself. The two cannon,
and all the ammunition, fell into our hands. M. de
Kruse; who cummands the regiment of Nassau, me-
rits the highest praise. •
LEYDEN, SEPT. G.—Letters from the frontiers
of Spain, contain the following details:—
The bombardment of Cadiz is not yet commenced,
but' a brisk cannonade is kept, up against the forts
which surround it. The French continue to work
with activity and ardour, in,' fitting out the gun-ves-
sels and small boats for the embarkation of the
tr..ops. The wood. is' procured from the' forts. near.
Ses ille, and is conveyed down the Guadalquivir,
to San-Lucar-de-Barrameda, where a lard is esta-
blished.

The different divisions of French seamen whd
have lately passed through Spain to Cadiz, serve on'
board fbe gup sloops and "vessels we have mention-
ed. Several Andalusian seamen are enrolled in the('
new marine corps, which Will be comprised entirety
of Spaniard 4.. Privateers continue to be equipped
With great ze.ll, and those .which, haye,alreany been
on a cruise have made considerable captures, which
tends greatly to erwourage the fitting' out 'other:.
I;he English and Spanish officers appear to entertain
great hopes oldie siege of C.idiz being raised by-the
diversions made on several points, but whiclr have
hitherto all been lru;tless.

The troops of General Sebastiani's corps still oc-
cupy the kingdom-of Granada, and are improving; the
fortifications ,of M.ll,tga and the town of Granada.
The parties which had introiaced themselves from
Muicia, into the eastern part of Andalusiai-have
‘f.lieen driven back by the French with losS. His Ma-
jesty it still at Madrid, where the fort of. the Retiro
has been Completed.
Since the investment of Almeida a great battle has
been expected between the French and English ar7
'trues. Lord Wallington ha' taken a strong position
with his left wing oft the Douro, and his right on
Guarda, Since the, retreat of the division of thelett
whig; which occuoitid the environs,, of Pilte', that
position - fotrned an oblique line, for the 61051 remote
troops had fallen hack -a,' tar as Villa Nueva de Fos-
cia.
In the Mean time it was believed that Almeida
would not be abandoned to it, late, and that the
English would make some attempt, for the succour
of this forliess. Phis, hoWever, dio not take place,
for the English G•ne..al thought proper` to withdraw
his troops. A put •ol the right wing of the army
'of the Prince, of Esling t.as passed the Douro, near
Hermosida, and h.r directed its march towards
June Moncortio; rte corps of General Regnie.i,
which had come from Estremadura, has passed the
Tagus near Alcantara, and has proceeded by forced
marches to Idarina 'a Veillra into Portugal, for tire
purpose of penetrating by Beltoonte to Guarda. This
march-could nct be preeented by the English. Ge-
netalßegnier has joined' the army of the Prince of
Esling, and threatens to outflank the English army.
General Hill, who, with his division near Elvas,
had observed the movements of the French in Estra-
madura, received orders to 'take a.,position on the
right bank of the river Zezata, for the purpose of
preventing General Regnier from penetrating farther
into Portugal. The position 'of the English being in
the mean time exposed to great dangers, they threw
themselves between Vizeu and the Zezara, to cover
the roads leading to Coimbra and Lisbon. A de-
tachment of English and Portuguese troop§ had re 7
mained at Guarda to prated that place. The French.
army is in the pursuit of the English army, and has
made a number of prisoners, and taken several pieces
,1 cannon : all 'the country betw,:en Guarda and
Pinhel, where the English army was encamped dur-
ing the siege of Ciudad Rodiigo, is now idually
occupied by the French army,. A Frpich corps,.
under the command of General Clauzel, is marching
on the right of the Douro, against Villa-real, aud
makes great progress in that
.direttiun. The corps
of observation on the left of the same river, is under
the command of the Duke of :Abrantes.
TURIN, SEPT. 28.—The Intendant General of the
Co,torns, at Trieste has notified to the merchants,
that -Ottoman -ships Will henceforth be. received in
that port as neutrals.
VIENNA, SEPT. -24.—A letter- from Bucharest
states, that litrdschuck capitulated soon after the de-
feat of the Turks on thelth instant.

BERT E, SEPT. 2 1 .—Her Majesty the gmpreso
Josephitie arrived on the 1 t th with her suite at 13:ex;
remained there during the 1 2lb, . and prodeedect on
the 13th towards Lausanne. At is believed •thzA had it

not been for the bad weather, her Majesty would:
have visited the Salt Works at BevieuN. Her Ma-
jesty remained from the 14th to the 16th in Lau-
sanne, when she departed for Geuf. As she pre-
served the strictest incognito, the Government could
not pay her any public tnrks of respea. Her Ma-
jesty, however, received with her usual 'affability
the President of the Government, and the Inspector
General of the Military, and viewed the fine neigh-
bourhood of Lausanne.
STUTGARD, OCT. 3.—M. de Gianvogl; of Mu-
nich, has established at Augsburg a manufaatory for
sugar, from beet root, which succeeds extremely
well, and promiSes the most important results. He
manufaCtured, during last' year, ,20,000 pounds of
sugar, and the quantity this year will be five tunes
as much. The price of this sugar is 2U per cent.,
lower than that of the sugars from cane, and at the
same timeis superior to it in quality or sweetness.—
A pound of sugar from beet root is equal to two
pounds and a quarter of sugar from grapes, It is'
besides much less expensive, because an acre may
produce from 300 to 600 quintals of beet root, and
each quintal 30 pounds of juice, which will pro-
duce three pounds and a halt of white sugar,. and an

equal quantity of syrup. le residue serves tor
rum or aqua v..taa, and efter having extra&ed all the
saccharine and spirituous matter -it contains, there
still remAins a refuse most excellent for feeding "cbws,
Beet besides has leaves of a very large size, which
are inmuch,request for cattle,

This manufacture.niay_be carried on during tight
morithsof theyear, whereas that of sugar from grates
iw litnitedto a very short period, andithat of sugar
from the maple tree is scarcely of longer duration.
Such are the advantages of making sugar from beet
root, which are amply detailed in a memorial lately
published on that subjett.
NAPLES, SEPT. 24.—The recent erruptinn will
make the year 1810 an epoch in the annals of Vesu
vies, on•account of the manner in which it began,
and the disasters it has produce d.
• It is considered as a very extraordinary circum-
stance that this etupi ion was not preceded- 'by the
usual indications; every convulsion of Vesuvius be-
ing prevto9sly announced by the drying up of the
wells of' NaplesL Thisphenomennn did not take.
place on this occasion, and; to the great surprise of
the inhabitants-, Vesuvius began to emit flames on
the night of the t oth of September.
On-the morning of the iith the flames bCC3.IIIC
more intense, and the lava began to flow from the
east and south-east sides of *he: mountain. T 0,4 ards
evening the- col,flagration- increased, and about t w
light two grand streams of fire were seat to flow
down the ridge of the volcano : night produced no
change in t his state of things.

0:1- the morniug of th-t2th a hollow sound was
heard; and has always been increasing; the fire and
smoke-have equally augmented in intensi►y, and to-
wards evening the horizon was obscured: The
hteeze, usual in these parts, having blown from
the south-east, dissipated the accumulated clouds.
The mountain continued to vomit lava and. a dense
smoke, which even•at a distance was strongly sul-
phureous ; the hollow noise the sides of the
mountain continued to increase.

Curious to witness as near as possible one of the
most astonishing phenomena of nature, and forget-
ting themislotturre of Pliny, -I set out from Naples,
and at eight in. the evening reached Portia. From
thence to the summit of the mountain the road is
long and-difficult. About half way there is a her-
Mitage, which has long served for refuge and Shel-
ter to the traveller; a good; hermit has there.fixed
-his,tesidence, arid takes. care to furnish for a mccld-
rate sum, refreshments, which to-the fatigued tra-
veller are worth their weight in gold. Theenvi—
ions of thii hermitage produce the famous wine call-
ed Lachryma From the hermitage to the;
foot of,the•cave, there is a long quarter of a league
of road, tolerably good ; but in order to reach- from
thence the crater, it is necessary to climb a moun-
tain of cinders, where at every SteT you sink up to
the mid-leg. It took my companiuns,,-myself, and
our guides, two hours to Make .this ascent,; and iti
was already midnight when we reached the crater.
The fire of the volcano served us for a torch ; the
noise had totally ceased for two hours; the flame
had also, considerably decreased : these .circum-
stances augmented our security, and supplied us with
the necessary confidence in traversing such danger-
ous cound. We approached as near as the heat
would permit, and we set- fire to the sticks of our
guides .in the lava, which slowly ran through the
hollows of the crwer, The surface- of this intiamed
matter nearly resembles metal in a stale of fusion ;
but as it flows it carries a kind of scum, which
hardens as if cools, and then-forms tna,ses of scoria,
which dash against each otter, and roll all 'on fire,
with noise, to the toot of the- mountain. 'Strong
fumes of sulphuric \acid gas arise in abundance from
these scoria, and by their caustic and penetrating
qualities render respiration difficult.
We seemed to be pretty secure. in this situation,
and were, far from thinking of retiring., when a
frightful explosion, which launched into the air frag-
ments of burning rucks to the distance of inure than
1000 Moises, reminded us of the danger to %stitch we
were exposed.- hone of us hesitated; a moment in
embracing a retreat, and iu fire minutes we cleared,
in our descent, a space of ground which we bad taken
two.houts to-climb.

We had not reached. the hermitage betore a noise
more frightful than 'ever • was heard and the vol-
cano, in all its fury, began to launch a masa 'equal
to some thousand cart-loads of stones, and hag-
merits of burning rocks, with a projectile force,.
which it would be difficult to calculate. As the
projection was vertical, almost the whole oi this
'burnini mass fell back'again into the mouth of the
volcano, which vOtristed it forth . anew to receive it
again, with the exception of some fragments Which
flew off, to tall at distance, and alarm the inqui-
sitive spectator, who avoided them : as on public,
fetes, we avoid the handle of the rockets, in our
tire-works.

The.l3th commenced with nearly the same ap-
pearance ias those of the preceding day. The vol-
cano was tranquil, and the lava ran slowly in the
Ychannels whicti it had iormed during the night ; but
at four in the afternoon; a frightful and continued
noise, accompanied with frequent explosions, an-
nounced a new er11011011; the shucks of the volcano
were so violent, that at Fort de L'Uluf, built upon a
rock, where I then was, at the distance of near four
leagues, I telt,oscillations similar to. those produced by
cart hquake.
About five o'clock the eruption commenced, and
continued during gre'aier part of the night. This
time the burning matter Itiowed- down all the sides
of the mountain, with a force hitherto unprece-
dented ; all VesuVitis was on tire, and the lava has
caused the greatest losses; houses and whole estates
have been overwhelmed, and at this day families in
tears, and reduced to despair, search in vain for the
inheritance of their ancestors; buried under the de-
stroying lava.

At to at night, the hermitage was no longer ac-
cessible ; a river of tire had obstrueled the load.—
The distrids situated on the
.south-east quarter of
the mountain had still more to safer. Montn- Ve-
suvius was no longer any thing but one vast flame,
and .the seaman at a great disianee•might contom-
plate, at his leisure, this terrific illumination of na-'
lure, Scc.

ASCHAFFENBOURG, OCT. I.—His Royal Highness
the Grand Duke of Franckfort has ordered his Mi-
nisters and Counsellors of Statv to to HaWelk'

• '
Where his f iglitiess arrive this kiak i4-,en tiis
Council of State. The election 0r Menkrs, that
Sates will take plice on the nth; in tilt; principal
towns of the.fbur departrmmis, andttn the 16.;11 the
Diet Will be opened at Halal.
. ,
PARIS, OCT. 8.-;-,-His Highttcst the Pf.iiiCe Royal
Of Sweden get out from Mortfontaine the Ist
inst. for Stockholm. This Prince spent the 3d at
Metz, and WaS•to hatft arrived on the 6th Or 7th at
Hamburgh.
Bannts, a cloth manufaEturet in the Com-
mune oftharny, in the Department of the Siind
and Marne, has found out means of growing
coffee irt 'France. He sowed some Mocha, coffte, and
this trial has produced to, him this year about t slbs.
of beans, which have preserved both !then fiAvoer
and form.

M. Desfontaines; MajTOr. of Thorignj,;bas under=
taken to present. to his Eiudirnry. the Minister bf
the Interior, a sainple to trinni:.;
brit atioi her Sahiple to thi.Suciety of Agricul,uie.'l‘4%
Batniis; in the culture of this c.utree, neither etriplor
a greet). hoilse with.art hcial beat, nor gles4 frames,
nor glass covers ; liis :,ut.cli,s arises front the
mode in winci4 lte prei.ares' the soil detsighed fur this
produinion.

Lord WELusoToN, in the beginning of his dig.
patch, refers to a previous dispatch of the 20th;
mentioning the meastres' he bad adrnpted tticolket
the army near Cohnbra, and if pnssiole to prevent
the enemy from obtaining possession of it. Ton
dispatch v.as lost with the other dispalciies sunk
'11;' hen the VI-end] privateer eng:lged the Lisbod
Packet ; but it is said that it mentioned softie, skin,
mishes to have tat;en place from the I.sth, and
added, that *as the Frenuh advanced, the POrtu.
guee villages were uniformly abandoned, ancr every
thing that could be serviceable to the, enemy de..
stroyed;

Massena, it is said, was seen in every part of awe
line in the late a6tien, as well as all the other Mar-
; they encouraged the advance of the
Junot and Mortier headed some-of the colomns or
they marched towards the ridge, where onr troops
were waiting for them. They bad arttllery, but-Jew
of their pieces could be brought to bear, owing to
the difficulty and acclivity of the ground in Bur,artl,
and the feli that were, were but indifferently serf ed.
Ours, on the contrary, planted on the ridge, did
.rnuch,execinion. • The cneMy., unable to profit by
their numerous cavalty or artillery, relied;entirell
• upon numbers, aided by their discipline and steadi-
. ness, which .w re conspicuous in the order and ibis
ness with which, they ascended the ridge; no op-
position was made to them till they got near the top
01 the ridge ; they were then charged, and drivel'
back with- immense slaughter. Only one of the
enemy'l divisions reached the top of tie ridge, and
that, was soon dispossessed of it by the 88th,, the
4511 t British, and the Bth Portuguese regiments.
• • Major SruvEtt, who fell in the Nigour iife, while
leading.on the right wing of the stit teglrnent, to
repel the enemy's attack atßusaco, on the 27th ult.
which has been so favourably mentioned in Lord.
WattmoroN's dispatch, was descended of a respeet.•
able family in Winchester. It is with, extreme eort
cern that we understand he has left au amiable wife,
and four young children, to bewail the untie ely
loss of a kind indulgent husband anti father, who
hod spent 17 years of ins lite in the aelive and peil-
ous duties of his profession,
On Sunday last Perk Chapel, in Chelsea, *high
has btett repaired and enlarged, was opened for Di.-
vine Servic-. The I,ord Bishop of t4:e Diocese
preached a very excellent discourse fir the benefit ot
the Queen's Lying-in Hospital at ',Bayswater, anti
the collet ion exceeded fifty-one pounds.'
Royal Highness the Duke ut SUSSEX, President of
that useful Institution, attended elm the occasion
the crowd s as• very great ; it is suppoSed that nine
hundred personi were accommodated in the Chapel,
. and a great number assembled without the doors:.
- who could not gain -admittance: Tut Queen's Royal
Volunteer's rec.eived his Royal Highness-**itit the
hotscurs due to hi, exai,ed rank. SeeralChorusses
' were pelf°, cnett l)% a select Ccrnpany-of Siisers,atid
. his RoyaLl--liginwss the Duke ut KENT'S Baud, lit a
must exc, Lents yle.

Tuesday, the.gtir, as two young ladies, daughters
of Dr. t.) borne, ut Cork, were bat nir,g at the OA
place near the. Maid) ke; one of 'hem inc,tuttuiisly
venturing beyond her depth, and the ut itc.rendeavcur-
ing to afford her assistance, both were carried down
the stream, and in imminent danger of drovviiiit,
w hen two young gentlemen, who had also been
bathing higher up the river, hearing the alarm of
the attendants, and perceiving the extreme dan-
ger of the ladies, instantly plunged into the river,
and succeeded in rescuing them from their perilous
situation.

In the month of June last; says an Irish Paper,
a boy was angling for pike in a- small lake on the
borders of the river Baun, near Kilrea, in the county
of Derry. He stuck hiS fishing•road,in 'ground)
at the edge of the water, and 'left it there some
time. When he 'returned, he found that the
bait, which was a frog, had been swallowt.d by
a small pikes -which- had afterwards been swallowed
by a larger, of glb..weight; and both were caught at
once, with a great part of the tail :of the small one
between the jaws of the large one ! The relatoi was
an eye-witness of the fad. • .•

Surgeon Clough, of SoutlyShieldc, lately opened
an abscess on the liver of a boy; twelve years of agvi
and upwards of-one quart of matter -wai clischatgtd
from the opening. The boy has; since the opera,
tion, recovered, and is in perfea-health, 'and betora
it his life was despaired of. •
A few days since Mr. Hatchman) of Stock, in Es,
sex, •who •was upwards of 80 years of age, set out;
as was his custom once a week,-to visit In sott in
village three miles distant ; but note returning as
usual in the evening, a search was set on, foot tot
him, when he was discovered lying dead, in afield.,
about midway betiveen his sou's house and his•own.
The COroneer Jury returned a verdid of—Died ii
a Fit.

Yesterday se'nnight3 as J. crarriP, engineer, war
fastening a screw• to some part of the engine in Bed-
worth Colliery, the key slips off the nut, and l:e
was instantly thrown into the pit, winch was sixteen
yards
,deep in water. The body was not found (pr.:
til Tuesday. 4-ie has left a wife and four ciii:dtea,