The Sun.
London, England, 1810-08-13 00:00:00

July.

The 'Enemy's preparations (or the invasion of Si-
cily are carrying on with great activity, but their.
completion appears to have been much retard-
ed by the a6livity of our ships of war, and of
the flotilla, belonging to the British army which
has distinguished itself by various successful attacks
upon the French gUn-boats, and upon the convoys
coming from Naples and Salerno, with artillery and

warlike stores. •
. .
The formidable batteries which the. French had
construaed along the coast of Calabria, served in
genc!ral to protea the assemblage of the small craft,
and several hundred boats were colleaed at Eufem 13,
Pidmi; and Scilla.

MURAT remained encamped. with an army above
Sc' ila : his army was es, imated at 2.5,000 men, com-
manded by Generals LA MARQUE;GRBNIER, &c.
The tu'rtifications which the .British had thrown

up on the Sicilian coast ,were very strong, and were
daily improving;- and such was the spirit and
enierprize of our flotilla, and the excellence of the
troops under General STUART, that ,very little ap-
prehension was entertained of the result of an
attack. If the attack should be delayed; the
enemy's force will perish by the malignant-feretto
which Calabria is subject in the hot months. •
As we know by the French Papers that no ac-
count had been received at Paris, up to the 3d init.
of.anyattempt to cross the streight, we may infer
that the enemy did not feel himself strong enough,
to make the attempt so late as the middla of July,
by which time the fever would have commenced its

ravages. .
Letters from Gibraltar state, that the French had
wade an attack upon the little castle of St. Louis,
garrisoned by 200 Spaniards. The enemy endea-
voured to•carry the place by assault, but the garri-
son, assisted by the fire of his Majesty's ship Imneri
ruse, and some small craft, repulsed them with the
loss of above 600 tnen.
General BALLAs'rzitos, with a small division,
had penetrated into the rear of Vlcron's
and cut off several convoys of provisions, after which
be retreated without any loss.
Accounts from Malaga were received at Gibralta
on the 23d ult. which state, that the French garri-
son had began to evacuate that place, being recalled
by a sudden and pressing order to the neighbourhood
of Seville, where the Enemy's force is understood to
be much weakened and exposed.

A paragraph having appeared in most of the
Daily Papers, stating a proposal that " we should
take Spanish .and Portuguese Prisoners in ex.:
change for French, and that we should admit the
Portuguese and Spaniards to be exchanged 'first,
and our own last, is said to have been acceded
to by our Ministers, and that the arrangement,
oh these laSt mentioned principles, has been refer-
red by the French Commissioner at Morlaix, to,
his GOvernment," • we beg leave to assure our
Readers, in the'rnaSt positive manner, and from the
beet authority, that there is not one word of -truth
in this statement.

Our Readers will find in the Gazette the official
account of the aaion between General CRAWFUED,
and a &vision of AIASSENA'S Ariny, the substance of
which we stated on Saturday. The amount of the
enemy's force is not thentioned in the Gazette, but
according to private letters, it consisted of 3,600 ca-
valry and 8,000 infantry ; while General CAAWFORD
had only 4,000 infantry and 600 cavalry. Notwith-

stslidipg this immense disparity of force, the enemy
were completely repulsed in all their attacks, with
the loss we believe, of upwards of 700 killed and
wounded. We are extremely happy to find that
'the Poituguese troops displayed, during the whole
of thii severe aftiou, the greatest- steadiness and

• brat ery.
A very general opinion appeared to preyail in the
army; when
.the last Lewis came away, that a ge-
neral action would speedily take place froth the cir-
curnsrance of Lord WM.LINGTON having, concen-
trated his army. That a battle will be fought is by
no means itrprobable, but we -do not think' that
event so near as it is represented in.some of the Let-
ters. In consequence of the retreat of the British
army, the enemy were enabled to invest Almeida

eottplately .and it is not likely that ony.battie
"take place during the progress of ti.e siege.

„ .
Yesterlay morning his MAJESTY, Princesses Au-
GUSTA and Soi.ntA; accompanied. by Lady Cot.-
LY ER and General WY NYARD, went to St. George's
Chapel, Winds,tir, and heard a Sermon preached by
the Rev: Mr. NORTH EY : they, afterwards returned
to the Palace-.

Princess AmeLIA contitiues in a mending-state.

Yesterday was. tine Prince df \VALES's Bitth-day ;
his Royal Highness completed his 48th-year. The
morning was ushered in with the ringing of bells
throughout London and the country, and which was
continued during the day. The standards on the
Church steeples, the Tower, and other public build
ings, weie•displayed.
It is.'now generally undefstood that the troops
embarked, and those under, immediate orders for
embarkation; are not going to Portugal, but are
destined to make a diversion to the northward. Sir
HOME POPHAM, we understand, left to kV n yesterday
fer Portsmouth, iriconsequ nice of his being appoint-
ed to take a command in the nautical department of
the intended expedition.
An order haS been issued from the War Office,
for not more than one-fourth of each battalion of the
regular intantry and militia stationed in the _Kent
district to be employed in getting in the harvest, and
it is left entirely in the power of the. Commanding
Officer whether any, or what part of that number
'shall be so employed.
Admirals Earl NORTIIESK, Sirs R. STRACHAN and
STIRLING, were on Friday last admitted to the free-
dotn and livery of the. Goldsmith's Company, and
were afterwards most sumptuously entertained at
dinner by the Wardens of that Company at the Hall.
Mr. ROBERT WILLIAMS, juu. M. P. as Prime War-
den, presided on- the occasion, and took the Chair
at dinner, at which were present several .eminent,
Naval and Military Charaders. The Chairman,
a very handsome speech, .proposed the health pt the
new Membe'rs of the Company., and paid a just tri-
bute to the loyalty and patriotism of the great body
of the Citizens of London, among. whom, he
the greatest, Statesmen and Heroes had not disdained
to enrol themselves, ar.ct made a feeling allusion to
the immortal names of PITT and NELSON. It is
• needless to-add, that many loyal and constitutional
toasts were drank, and the utmost conviviality pre-
vailed. • -

On the 4th inst. Capt. Manby made an experi-
ment on the beach at Cromer, of throwing ilk
new-conStruEted grapple-shot, attached to a lire,
from a mortar, for the purpose of giving relief to'
vessels in diStress on a lee-shore, and w here the sea
washes far upon it, or a distance from the land. By
this happy invention, a more instantaneous communi-
cation may be formed with the vessel sand pilots ccn-
veyed with certainty and dispatch, when every other
effort is impraehcable ; thereby the lives of our brave
seamen preserved ; and the valuable property •of
our merchants and owners rescued from destruction.
In the first experiment, the grapple and 14 inch
line were projected, With 12oz. of powder across a
rope moored to two anchors, and suspended in the
middle by a buoy, upwards• of 200 yards from the
water's edge.—The grapple keeping a firm hold,
the life-boat was launched from its carriage, and
quickly hauled to the spot where the supposed ves-
sel in distress laid, and sheaved what might have
been done by the hands sent out, to save the crew,
the cargo, and the vessel, even if the supposed
hands on board had been incapable of making
any efforts
,to assist themselves. A shot at-
tached to a log-line was then thrown from the mor-
tar, along the beach, with the same quantity of
,powder, to the distance of 404 yards; %%Inch was
alloWed by the seafaring men present to be as far as
anyscases of distress upon our coasts might require.

The -following is an account, of the terms *Ton
which the_French Government is disposed to allow
-a commercial intercourse, by means of neutralyessels,
with this country. It is extracted trout an official
document, dated July 0:
• . The licenses will be granted but for such
ports as are already pointed out. The license will
remain in force for six months,
,but shall be. sub-
niitted each voyage to the inspeCtion of the Minis-
ter of Marine, with a declaration of the Master of
what he has done, and ihe occurrences of the
voyage. The license shall be delivered gratuitously.
" The outward cargoes must consist of wine and
French brandies to the extent of one-sixth of the
tonnage of the ves€el (t0..0e ascertained by the
tonnage on _which she psys her duties), and- the
five sixths to consist at the discretion of the,
shippers, .of wipe, brandy, gum,,herbs, seed, fruit,
and the product of French manuiatures and salt,
of which the exportation may not be prohibited
by the regulations of the CUstoms.
The import cargoes shall consist of timber,
hemp, raw materials, iron, bark, drugs, rice, Rus-
sia t•Illow, wax;' linseed, fi•laoil, pitch, tar, pota-
toes, shumack, dollars, lead, minium, tin, white-
lead, arsenic, dried hides in the hair, wainscot, and
•Nothing- is altered in the prior regulations
respecting.the destination of vessels."
The only objection on the part of Oyu Govern-
ment (and that. we fear is insuperable) -to this sche-
dule of articles allowed to be imported into France,
is, that .nether 'British „manufacture's nor colonial
produce are included in it. The admission of these,
we understand, is a sine qua non of the arrange-
ment.

ft is stated in the New York Papers, on the au-
thority of an America❑ Captain, arrived at New
York, that the Rainbow sloop of war had, on the 6th
of June, off Porto Rico-, a severe engagement with a
large French frigate, which escaped in the night.--
The Rainbow, it is added, had several men killed,
and sustained mush damage in her hull and rigging.
A-report was prevalent on the 16th tilt. both at
Boston and New-York, on the.authority of corn-
municatiens from the Havannah, that .disttirbances
had broken out at "Mexcio, and that the Governor,
with several Ecclesiastics, had been arrested.

Hamturgh arrespondentens have reached town to
the-ist ins!.• At Zwalt, Deventer, Zutphen, Does-
burgh, and several other places, there had been some
disturbances, in consequence of the oppressions of
,he French.

terer.

NAVAL NEWS.

PLYMOUTH, AUG. I (").—it: was not the Ptincess
.illigusta packet that arrived hire yesterday; bot the
Princess Charlotte, Capt.KErtit,'"from Lisbon, with
waits, in twelve days, overshot FalMouth on Wed-
neSday night; she has brou/ght over several passer
gers, among whom are some•Offieers from the Bri-
tish Army.
Arrived his Majesty's ship 'Shannon from off
Brest; the Dispatch, SATTLEY; and. Commerce,
WILLCOCKS, 'from Wales. • ;

Sailed. his Majesty's ships' Ulysses,• .Espied le, Sy
'Lille, and Gleaner.

AUG: 1 I.—Arrived a transport from the Coast of
Spain,- in two days ; she brings no particular news ;
also arrived his Majesty's ship' Gleaner frour a
cruize ; the Pi ince William, BIWANS ; Fiaory, , DA-
VIES; Princess Royal, J.A.11; and Princess Royal;
RICHARDS, from Wales.
Sailed the Shark cartel for Morlaix, with sidk,.
wounded, and infirm French prisoners ; also sailed
the Princess Charlotte packet. for Falmouth; and
the Harriet, WESLBY, for London.

PORTSMOUTH, Aug.l2.—Passed by yesterday
morning the Duckenfield, from Grenada; several
passengers have been landed at ibis port from her.
Came in yesterday his Majesty's ships Ullisses and
Nereus, the former frou_Plymouth, and the latter
from the Eastward ; also the Hope from a cruize
off Cherbourgh.

Arrived the -Experiment, Coonn,' from. Milford;
and the Thomas and Mary, GODFIt EY,
,from Exeter.
Sailed, this day his Majesty's
,ships Aymph and
;Guadatoupe for the Downs.
Arrived the Two Brothers, SPARROW, from
Neath.

Cattle into the harbour this day the ship Zephyr,
ComNßLL,from Guadeloupe, having French,prison-
ers on board.

DOVER, AUG.
.1 I.—Part of the hotheward-bound
Leeward I fieet, -under convoy of ,a 74, passed
by to:day for the River. • •
• A detachment of. artillery marched from hence
this morning, undei the cornm,and ofCapt.CßAuroan,
to Portsmouth, for embarkation.

SHEERNESS, AUG. 1 1.---Anived his Atijesty's brig
Elvin.

Came into the Little Nore his Majesty's brig Ban=

DEAL, AUG. 12:—Sailed his Majesty's ships Ber-
wick and Owen Glendower; the former on n erni:ze,
and the latter for Plymouih.

A large fleet Of outward-boonnd remtin, detained
by contrary winds; also several transports, with the
6th and 38th Regiment's for Ireland.

FALMOL 111, AUG. 10.—Artived 'the Carteret
packer, Capt. DAVEY, from Malta and.. Gibraltar ;
1G days horn the latter place.

EDINBURGH, AUG. 9.—On Saturday the Fancy •
gun-br►g arrived in Leith Roads. Duffing her cruize
she fell in with three cutter-rigged privateers; which'
she ehased -for a considerable time, until they_got
too near the shore for her to risk a further pursuit.
They, however, being soon reinforced by several
gun-boats, in their turn gave chase to the Fancy,
which only escaped being captured by 'the 4101 of
her Officers and the exertions of her crew, who were.
at the sweeps for four successive hours.
The Rosenbown, Hamburgh Greenland-ship, sent
in by the Rover sloop, bas been released, and sailed
on Monday for Hamburgh.

The Albion, KIDD, of Dundee, from Lisbon,
with olives and goats hides, was accidently burnt on
the 2cd ; crew saved.
On Monday a 'boy fell from the rigging of one of
the vessels in the new wet dock, and was unfortu-
nately killed on the ipot. •

GREENOCK, AUG. t o.—Extrael of a letter from
-St. John's, Newfoundland, received in this town :
" Capt. M`LACIILAN, of the Magnet, on his passage
from Lisbon to this place, about 15 Acagues to the
Eastward of 40. St.: Frances; saw, t;Too Ge top of
an island of ice, the bodies of six or eight dead men.
He endeavoured all he could to get to them in his
boat, to see and bring them to land, but owing to
Ole island being very swep,-ne could not effeCt a land-
ing, so was frustrated in his generous intention."

The following Commanders have been lately
promoted to the rank of Post-Captains
Captains C. J. Austen, Speltnan Swaine (of the
Philoinel), Francis Beaufort (of the Mbssom), Ben-
jamin Walker, Wm. Charlton, John
.Maxwell,
Philip Browne,. W. B. Bradby.—The following
Lieutenants are promoted to Commandeq :—Lieu-
tenants Henry, Wildey, James Molineinc, Thomas
Barclay, Henry Jane, G. H. Guion, D. Lawrence,
Wm. Stewart (late Flag Officer to Sir Roger Curtio,.
T. S. Groi,e, P. Proctor, G. W..Willts, Henry'
Thompson, R. Lisle Coulson; Hayes O'Grady,
Henry Weir. There were 52 Midshipinen. pro-.
cooled to Lieutenants in May, and-22 in June.
NAVAL APPOINThIgt4S.-Rear-Adilliral Otway,
to command at Leith, in the room of Sir Edmund

Na4le ; Rear-Admiral Sir Charks Hamilton, to
succeed Adinirai Otixav in the `_command in the
River ; Reat'-Admiial'.-Picknaore, to be Captain of
the Mediterianean Fleet ; Captain Bayntun, to be
Paying Contruissioner vt Plymouth, in the room of
Ad:niral I. Peileu• ; Sir Koine Popham, to the
Ve7terable ; Captain'A. Mackenzie, to the Armada;
Captain Guinn, to the Phi:o7nel Capt. J. Stewar'.,
to the Blossom.

PRIVATE CORRESPONEENCE.

Head-quarters of the British Army, A iverca, July 25,

You will be naturally anxious to bear of out
operations' in this quarter,' whic:r every day becomes
rnitre and more inter'esting. After the fall of Ciudad
Roderigo, the•gallant garrison were marched off for
France, but many hundreds of them will never reach
their destination. The barbarous enemy, according
to authentic accounts, were daily destroying those
.brave men, who, exhausted through fatigue, and the
extraordinary. exertions 'they, have made for tbkir
country's cause, were no longer enabled to-proceed
on their way. These vietitns'of French cruelty are
numerous, and will only serve, to the Spaniards as so
.
many motives for revenge. •
";The fate; ot Po'rtugal will shortly be decided.
and every thing may be 'hoped for ,from' the uncon-
querable bravery of British soldiers. They yesterday'
gave the enemy an earnest of what be may expect
from them in a general engagement. This was of
itself a smart affair, and, to borroW a French phrase,
°covered the English with glory.' It was..the ob-
ject of the enemy to cut off the division wider Gcn• ,
Cranford, and prevent it from joining the main
army. With this view -they assembled a force (of
,8000 infantry and .3600 cavalry„ which, at about
three o'clock in the morning, attacked our advanced-
guard, consisting of 600 cavalry and 4000 infantry
only, in the vicmity;of Almeida. •
" It was notZtill night that this contest terminated,-
and' when it is cor.sidered that during the conflict
the Britishrepulsed the enemy in three distinot
tackS, at the point of the bayonet, on the bridge
which passes over the Coa, you must suppose the
carnage amongst the enemy must be great. The
British ultimately retired, which was all they want"
ed. Since the British have retired-, the enemy too
investing Almeida. The two armies are now todk-
ing at each' other, as if contemplating on the awful
crisis so near at hanch The combined forces are gull
of confidence."

The following anecdote is extracted from a, very
interesting account of the late insurrect-on in the
Tyrol, by Major Muller, one of the Deputies froth
that country to • our Government : " Among the
pr4soners who were taken. at Wegschaide, was tide
son of Commandant Speckbacher, only, twelve year°
of age,.who, when ordered by his father w tetteat,
would• not. comply till he had 'shot the Bavarian
General, who was riding along the front of his awl'
The youth and bravery of this boy' having at tracte4
the nofiee and admir,:tion
.of the enemy's otticers,
he was presented to the'King of Bavaria, w!%O asked
hire,," Will you shoot any more Bdvariatts ?" TO,
youth; with all the bluntness and intrepidity hit
charac,teriie his country, not. only, replied in o'B
adirmalive, but.added, " and you too, if you coo
to the Tyrol.", . - • •

, .
Sorne commotions are said to have broken out ill
Holland, when the Dccree for annexing that coup'
try to France was published. At Zwolt, Deventer'
Zutphen, Doesnerg, and several other places, where
an overwhelming military force was not present,
the orders issued on occasion of the incorporation
were resisted by force,. and several lives were 0
conseqnence lost on both sides. At Zutphen, Jl,
persons were apprehended and imprisoned, tc);
aiding in these proceedings,-. but the prison v°
forced by the, populace during the night, 'and
men released.
Private letters from Sicily mention, that wild/
MLYRAT Was at. Reggio, he made an aquatic exc. ur
sion ; but being pursued by our gun-boats, his ve-
sel run ashore, and under the impulse oftetror 10
jumped overboard, and bad to wade to land t' t°

his neck in water.
• • On • the Ist instant his • Majesty's sloop B"e7iii
whilst Cruizing offßlankenburgh, picked up a silt'
boat, with four French prisoners on board her, was
had made their e•Jcape from one of the.prison
at Chatham. They hpd been at sea four 0)1
without any-thing to subsist on, excepting a few °dr
of wheat,.and were consequently nearly exhAeste ,
They effeEted 'then- escape by slipping down theses.,
at the head, and swimming on shore, where they
took the boat and proceeded to sea. How cuttivb,
,
it must_nave been to them to have been picked UP'
within sight of their own shore. a" r 4
On Friday the.Offiters of the King's own Sia-°.
Militia gave a splendid Fete to most of the nolliifirtyt
and gentry in the neighbourhood, at the WO'
Barracks, Windsor. •
The corps of the' 'Duke Of BauNswica 06",
quartered at Mallow and FertnoY, have receive) °r
tiers to embark immediately at Cork for Portogini;or
We haVe received letters (overland) froth
squadron in the Persian Guiph, to the 23d 0f "
, r.es
bruary last: The :desiruction of triT-pirate h'ieif
had been completed, and the ships were eql-be
to return to BoMbay by the middle of March.' era
Ch ovine, Captain WAno.vaiGuT, was to real. t"-
for another service of six months. tt
The Barbadoel, Capt. HODosoN, will sail 5-3°Fo•
from Portsmouth; for Madras. Commissional 40s,
GET goes out in her to the
..Naval-yara at 1\43";
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The Fort C.apt. PAititisa, for CJIeLl'(O
will 'sail with the Mediterranean convoy. • 0011
A Proclamation by the Duke of REGGI 0, at
land, prohibits, under the severest penaltie6l allte,
tempts, or, the part 'of the inhabitants, to enljgr`l
NATIONAL DEBT,--An account of-the Ileu-t6ith
of the Nationahbebt, from the Ist of August, it
to the Ist of. August, is to :

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Total 198,549atie
The sum to be expended in the ensuing
is 2,728,026i._ 19s.

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