The Sun.
London, England, 1810-12-03 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

1113101/TH, DEC. L—Sailed the intelligent gun-
brig on a cruize, and is again put back.
Sailed the Walsingham. packet; ROBERTS, with
for Lisbon, and the Litre Portuguese man of
IsPar brig, of I 8 guns, for Lisbon.
arrived hi Majesty's ship Goree, :of 18 guns,
4114 Halifax.
Sailed his Majesty's ship Seine, with a convoy of
merchantmen for Portsmouth.

B§led his Majesty's ships Min, of 38 guns, Capt.
4Lco ; and Abercrombie, of 74 guns, Capt.
°' W. FAuts, for Lisbon, with 'a battalion of ma-
-4" from the Chatham, Woolwich, PortsmoUth,
4rld Plymouth divisions ; also sailed the spauish ship
h
Camle,. for London.

Atrived the Carteret packet, Capt. DAVEY, from
ka rtinique, Dominica, Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis,
st• Kitts, Tortola, and St. Thomas's, and last from
alinonth, where she landed her mails ; also \arrived
She Prince Ernest packet, Capt. PETRE, from Fal-
ln°9lh.
Went up the harbour his Majesty's ship Helena,
1"f 18 guns, Capt. WoRTU.
Sailed the following packets, viz. Ann; Buirrow,
/41r1h mails for Cadiz, .Gibraltar, and Malta ; Duke
tf Bent, Capt. Co'resworrrx, with mails for Her-
Ruda and New York ; and% the Francis Freeling,
eaPt. BALL, for tli4 Leeward Islands; also sailed
the Morristown, hired ar rued brig with a convoy for
\Vales, among the fleet are the following vessels,
viz.

- .
l'hcenix, Taylor ; Gratitude, lenkina ; Boulton, Sanders;
4(edruth, Moyese; Speculator, Bowelen ; Villers, Dalton ;
Bedford, Nicholls.

Sailed his Majesty's ship Helicon, of 14 guns, on
cruize ; and the Janies and Elizal•eth, GUSWELL,
for LiverpooL

His Majesty'S brig Jasper, of 10 guns, Arrived at
Falmouth yesterday, with mails from Lisbon, seven
days passage. MASSENA'S army being driven to ex-
tremes for want of provisions, not having had bread
10r six days, commenced their retreat, on the 13th
Listant, after destroying all their heavy- artillery,
and leaving behind them all their heavy baggage.
:They halted on the 17th, and as they were closely
161 lowed up by Lord WELLINGTON, with 70,000
troops, eager to engage the enemy, unless they again
retreated, a battle was considered inevitable in a
day or two. The bead-quarters of the French
zrtny were at Santarem, per last accounts from the
rtriy. The desertions frotn the French army are
itumense; his Majesty's ship Dolphin with 35
transports having French deserters on board, sailed
from the Tagus for England the day before the
Jasper his Majesty's brig Zenobia, of 18 ,guns,
was lying at single anchor, ready to. start with the
first news of a battle.
Instructions have been given to his Majesty's
'ships and vessels cruizing, to order all commanders
of packets they may fall in with, to proceed on to
this port.

Colonel DOWNIE embarked on board the Ater-
trombie on Thursday? which ship sailed this morn-
ing for Lisbon.
Three cartels with infirm and sick French pri-
goners have sailed this week for Nlorlaix.

POTSMOUTET, DEC. 2.—Arrived yesterday his Ma-
jesty's ship Tisiphone from Yarmouth.
• Sailed yesterday his Majesty's ships Donegal,
.4evenge, and Goshawk for a ci uize off Cherbourg.
'This day arrived his Majesty's ship Aiobe from
off Cherbourg, and his Majesty's ship Spire from
the Downs, with a convoy of outward-bound mer-
chantmen.

FALMOUTH, Nov. 30.—Sailed the Prince Ernest
packet, Capt. PETERS, for Plymouth, and the Eliza,
RUXTABLE, for Bristol.

The Tyriun sloop of war is now laying here'
giving instrations to the outward-bound Cadiz,
Lisbon, Oporto, and Mediterranean vessels, which
will sail at the arrival off this port of his Majesty's
ship Magicienne, with the remainder of the fleet
tiom Plymouth.
General HILL, with 13,000 troops, had crossed

the Tagus, in order to cut off the enemy's retreat,
via Abrantes.

DEAL, DEC. .9...—Sailed last evening and this
Morning the whole of the outward-bound, under
convoy of the Zephyr and Humber.
His Majesty's ship Sophia has recaptured and sent
into the Downs the Fountain from Quebec.

Arrived the Lord Strangford horn Buenos Ayres.
Sailed the Redpole, Cretan, and Skylark. on a
cruize ; Christian VII. and Theseus for Ports-
mouth 4

The 600 Royal Marines destined for Lord WEL-
LINTON'S army in Portugal, sailed from Plymouth
on Wednesday, in the Abercrombie, of 74 guns, and
the Rhin, of 44, for Lisbon. They, embaiked in high
spirits, and gave three cheers. Colonel DowNis is
oo_board, with dispatches.

411E110441V' tiIPBRS.

israw Yoi, Our. 2g.—Extract of a letter dattd
Carti►agena, Sept. 15.—" I have to mention Oat a
dreadful scene of blood has taken place at Quito.
This province, being mach oppressed, tried last year
what the Caraccas effected in the pVesent, but the
neightouring provinces not being ripe yet to join
them, they were induCed again to acknowledge the
authority of the Vice-king of Santa Fe, who had not
•only promised them to forget their op-position, but
also that they should retain a Provincial Junta. But
the ViCe-king, again reinstated, kept 1,0 promise,
h:d them' all imprisoned, and many condemned to
death.

" On the 2d August, some of the prisoners rose
against their guards; a bloody conflitit ensued—a
battalion of troops from Lima, which had been at
Quito since last year, was let loose upon the people,
and they have murdered, of men, women, and
children, about four thousand, and plundered the
stores of the Quitainan merchants. On the sth
September, one thousand armed volunteers set off
for the assistance of Quito, and an equal number had
gam; from the intermediate provinces between San-
ta Fe and Quito viz. Popayan and Pastor. Three
days of public mourning were observed at Santa Fe,
and the same will take place here, for their brethren
destroyed at Quito. The Vice-king of Santa Fe,
and several of t►is Council are at present here in pri-
son. No blood has been shed either here or at
Santa Fe."

Here follows a proclamation from Don Carlos
Montufar, to the people of Quito, in which he calls
upon thin to rise, and says :
" Terror and death have been the measures re-
sorted to by a crtel and destroying Government:
let terror and death be tco our device. Chains and
dungeons have been the means they have used to
stifle the groans of humanity, crying for redress;
let chains and dungeons then be the fate of our op-
pressors.
" A whole country flies to your aid. It burns
with the tire of liberty.. Heroes spring up in our
streets, and already a tyrant exists not in the north
of our Continent. The bloody manes of a Morales,
a Quiroga, and a Salinas, point to their wounds, and
cry aloud for vengeance !' Let us avenge ourselves.
May the polluted. blood of those who nave precipi-
tated them to the tomb, glut the soil stained with
their cruelties and climes.

" TORRES, Secretary."

GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

MR. PINCKNEY'S LETTER TO LORD WELLESLEY.

" Great Cumberland Place, Aug. zs.

" MY Loiw,—l have the honour to state to your
Lordship, That I have received from General Arm-
strofig,-Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States
at Paris, a letter, bearing date toe 6,h inst. in which
lie informs me that the Government of France had
revoked the Decree of Berlin and Milan, and that
he had received a written and official notice of that
tai!.-t, in the following words : " Je suis autorise, a
vous declarer, Monsieur, que les Decrets de Berlin
et de Milan soot revoqUes, et qu'a dater du Ire.
Novembre its cesseront d'ayoir kur etrea."
" I take for granted that the revocation of the
British Orders in Council of January and Novem-
ber, 1807, and April, 1809, and all other Orders
dependent upon, analog us to, or, in execu-
tion 'of them, will follow of course and I shall hope
to be enabled by your L miship, with as little delay
as possible, announce to my Government that such
a revocation his taken place.
" I have the honour to be, with high considera-
tion, my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient hum—
ble set vdtit,

, (Signed) NV. PINCKNEY.
" The Most Noble the Marquis Wellesley, &c."

LORD WELI,ESLEY TO MR. PINCKNEY.

tt—l have the honour to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your letter under date the 35th instant.
" On the 23d of February, 1808, hi3/I\4,ljesty's
Minist,r in America declared to the Government
of the United States, " his Majesty'searnest desire to
see the commerce of the *odd restored to that
freedom which is neee,,sary for his prosperity, and
his readiness to abandon the system which had
been forced upon him, whenever the enemy should
retrata the principles which have rendered :t
,ne-
cessary." •

" I am commanded by his Majesty to repeat
that declaration, and to assure you, that whenever
the repeal of the French Decrees shall have a6tually
taken erfect, and the commerce of neutral nations
shall have been restored to the condition in which
it stood previously to the promulgation of those de-
crees, his Majesty will feel the highest satisfa6tion
in relinquishing a system, which the conduta of the
enemy compelled him to adopt.
" I have the honour to be, with the highest con-
sideration, Sir, your most obedient and humble
servant,

(S;gned)

" WELLESLEY."

The National Intelligencer contains a long ar-
ticle upon this subject, of which the following is an
extract :

" The British violations of our neutral commerce
have not been confined to her. Orders in Council.
To place her on such a footing in relation to our
neutral commerce, as would authorise the Execu-
tive to issue his proclamation declaring. the tact of
having so modified her Editis as that they have
ceased to violate the neutral commerce of tin,
United States, she must revoke her blockading
proclamations, which she has herself decla,-ed to
be illegal ; and as
,t he impressment of our seamen
is a violation o(the maritime rights of the United
Stales, and of course of our neutral commerce, it
appears to us that she might even. be required to
tally to abandon the practice before the prOvisions
of the Act of May last could be considered as com-
plied with."

The Natchez Chronicle says—" Just as our paper
was going to press, we were informed, by a Gen-
tleman direst from the town of Washington, that
Excellency David Holmes, Governor of this ter-
ritury, had received intelligence by an express, that
Colonel James Collier, of Washington County, with
a party of 40 or 50 men, Imel taken possession of

the gdrrison and Spanish settlement of the .Mobille.
Wo give this as we received it ; we connot vouch
for its authenticity."

WEST FLORIDA DECLARED INDEPENDENT.

[From the Natchez Week iy Chronicle, West I' ioridal
We yesterday received• by express, from our,
Correspondent in West Florida, the foiio. 'lug high-
ly interesting communication, .which we lose no
time in laying before our readers.

" Head-quarters, Fort of Baton Rouge, Sept. 24, ISio.
" SIR,-In obedience to the order of the Con-
vention, bearing date the 22d inst. I dire6ted Ma-
jor Johnson to assemble such of the cavalry as might
be,ready at hand, and march immediately for tort
Baton Rouge; I 'then proceeded to Spring-field,
where I found forty-four of the grenadiers cotnpauy,
commanded by Colonel BaHangar, waiting the or-
ders of the Convention. At one o'clock in the
morning of the 23d, we joined-Major Johnson and
Captain Griffith, with 21 of the Bayon Sara ca-
valry, and five or six other patriotic Gentlemen
joined us on our march ; at four o'clock the same
morning we made the attack. My orders were not
to fire till we received a shot from the garrison, and
cry out, in French and English, ground your arms,
and you shall not be hurt. This order was strictly
attended to by the volunteers, till we received a
discharge of musketry front the guard-house where
the Governor was, which was briskly returned by
the voltfineers. We received no damage on our
part. 01 the Governor's -troops, Lieutenant Louis
Grand Pre was mortally wounded ; one private was
killed, and four badly- wounded. We took e t pri-
soners, among whom are Colonel Delasus ; the
rest of the garrison have been reported to you by
James Neilson, Eq. who was appointed for that
purpose. The various and complicated duties de-
volving on me from the passing circumstances of
the moment forbid a more minute detail. The
firmness and moderation of the volunteers, nwho
made the attack, was fully equal to the best disci-
plined troops. Whole comp; ties are dully flocking
to our standard, and the harmony and patriOnsm
prevailing in the garrison must be highly gratifying,
to every Iriend of his 'country. Accept for yourself
and your body assurances of my high esteem and
regard.

(Signed) " PHI LEMON THOMAS,
" Commander i❑ Chief of the Fort of Baton
Rouge, and its Dependencies."
" The Hon. 1 ulin Rhva,
" residclit of the Convention of West Florida."

SOUTH AM ERICA.

JOURNAL OF THE OCCURRENCES WHICH TOOK

PLACE IN SANTIAGO DE CHILE.
[Continued from our Paper of Saturd.y .1
MONDAY, 16TI1 JULY, 1810.

•
The determination 4 the people being made
known, an ad was immediately passed at the house
of the Regent, by hick it \V S determined to go
to the Palace, and ,'bilge the President to submit.
At ten o'clock in the morning a messenger acquaint-
ed the 'people hat the Senor President wished to set.
the Junta ; on which the above decree was sus-
pended, site the deputies were sent to the Palace.
After a short interview, the President being satisfied
that any further resistance io-the wishes of the
people would. be useless, he sent fur the Chiefs of
the d,fferent corps to consult with them, all of whom
counselled and supplicated him to vesign his autho-
rity, without prejudice to his rank, pay, and. esta-
blishment in the P.dace. He accepted this offer,
and the Junta, agreeable to their last decree,appointed
for President the senior Officer of rank in the pro-
vince, Brigadier Count de la Conquista, one of the
Members of the Junta, who, upon being named, re.-
tired to his own house, amidst the universal accla-
mation and vivas of the people.

‘VEDSESDA Y 18.

The wealthy inhabitants were; ordered to-dismiss
their people, which amounted to about 4000 men,
and the Royal University waited upon the Captain-
General to pay their respects to him. A Proclama-
tion was issued this morning, under pain of death,
to any one who attempted to molest the person of
Senor Carrasco, prohibiting the use of fire-arms in
the streets, and exhorting the people to conduel them-
selves in a peaceable and
.quiet manner. Captain
Burnes was put under arrest in the barracks,- and a
Captain, with his company, marched to Valparedizo,
to bring Damian to this city, lest he should be li-
berated from prison by his friends ; but there being
no foundation whatsoever for this suspicion, the
troops returned to their quarters in the evening. At
night there were great rejoicings, and Senor Reyes
and Doctor Campos left us, retiring to their country
seats.