The Sun.
London, England, 1810-09-11 00:00:00

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1810.

There is something unaccountably capricious in
Btrosirauxi's ccindt36.l to the Americans; but he
knows from long experience that he may insult them
with impunity. We mentioned yesterday. that Mr.
POWELL, the AtneriCan Secretary of Legation, had
sailed from. Dover far Calais,•in"a fl ,g of truce : it
appeais; however, that be was not only refused
permission to land, bat all the batteries opened
upon the flag of truce, and endeavoured to sink her.
The following is the letter whiCh we this morning
received from our Dover Correspondent
Do v E Rj gEPT.I afternoon, Mr. POWELL,
the American Seeretary.of Legation, who yesterday
evening sailed from hence to the coast of-Trance;
returned to this place; the enemy would not per.,
mit-him to land at Calais, but threatened to fire upon
the vessel, if he did not immediately tetura ; he, him-
ever, endeavoured to etl4:4 a landing at Boulogne, bui
there he met a' similar reception ; and upon Isis
attempting to sail into the hatbour, was greeted
with a heavy firing of shots and shells, threatening
to sink the vessel if he did not retire, which he at
length did, and providentially without the crew re-
ceiving any injury.",

Mr. ADAIR, the British Minister to the Porte,.
arrived at Malta on the 29th of July, from Con.;
stantinople. Mr. ADAIR had been treated with the
most marked distin&ion by the Turkish GoVern-
ment. The alarm ',occasioned by the successes of
the Russians at thecomrnencemen t of the campaign
had in a great degree subsided, and the recent advan-
tages which the Turks have Obtained, will, we trust,
remove all danger; The Ganymede frigate sailed
from Malta on the Ist of last month, with above 96
sail of merchant vessels under convoy fur England.

Diach Papers to the 2d inst. reached town yes-
terday. .TheY contain some very vague details re:7
speaing the progress of the war between the Turks
and Russians. The Emperor of Austria is making
a very considerable redu&ion in his ,regular army
whether from motives of
_economy, or.vvhether in
compliance with the hints of his Son-in-law, we do
not know. The landwehr or militia, is, however,
it is said, to be considerably increased.

IVIASENA has addressed a Proclamation to the
people of Portugal, in which he employs both threats
and promises to induce them to submit to the do-
minion of .BUONAPARTE. The French have once
been •.masiers- Of Portugal, atid therefore the Por-
tuguese can very acct irately appreciate the value of
a French General's promisei. With_ respect to his
threats, we do not think they will produce any •ef-
feet. MASSENA says he has 110,404 men under
his command, which, he says, is sufficient to
overwhelm -Portugal; but. the PortUguese_ will
very - naturally be inclined to ask Why he
has not already. done. it ? 'why be has .suffered
the whole summer io elapse :Without makirig,
even any serious impression-upon their frontier ?
and why he has remained.in a state of inAilivity ever
since the .fell of -Ciudad Roderigo t • The l're'ncli
General esserts that. the Engiish ariny 'is unable to
'stand before his froits, add .1.61. 16 'Portiigue.ie do

ncrt l;.nowlapw to use the bring wilia are, put ink'
thelr, liands. What then impedes the progrpts of
the Freiih army ? shy have they, rot realized -.lltro-
NA.t;ftipes boast ofdrlifing the Englitill.into, the sea,
..-andjedticed Portugal to subjetlion ? The a are
,:nuestion3 which MAssENA and the, Moniteur will
hod ditfiail _• • •

Gni'eminent have received offjciolaccount of
the 'pliant exploit performed by the Thames frigate
. .
in the Mediterranean, the details of which we have
given in a subsequent column, in a letter from Mes-
sina.

EXTRACT OP A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER ONBOARD
H. M. SHIP EDGAR, DATED. WINGOE SOUND, AU-

GUST, 23.

" Cruizing off Heilem on the' td instant,
we recaptured a very valuable. Ship, frotn one of the
enemy's Privateer Boats. We saw the Ship heave
too on the enemy's firing at her, and take the Pri-
vateer in tow: We irntnedidtely made .an..
satrin
..pliace, and the Edgar sailing astonishingly well, we
soon gained upon him ; on which he stood an for
Seyer Island, and on our tiring at him, attempted to
rim on shore ; but the shot 'from our, bow-guns fly-
ing over him, the Privateer judged it time to start.
We'fired a, few shot at him, when a heavy fire of
shot and 'shells was opened on us from Seyer Island;
notwithstanding which, our Launch; under the com-
mand of .Mr. FELIX, our 3d Lieutenant, put off in
chase of the Privateer: The enemy now. directed
their tire npon.her : she passed- the Battery, how-
ever, in tt.e most gallant manner, and came- up fast
with the enemy, but who had unfortunately sr; much
he start, as to ..'nab,e hit to run on shore, wider
Liner of field-pieces. The Launch being recalled,
a heavy fining was :opened Avon her, from every
point, to-which the enemy had transferred field-
pieces, during the chase, but she fortunately escaped
without any damage, except one shot through her
sails. We rived here, with .the homeward-bound
trade, 01. the. 7th, and that and the convoy for Eng-
land 'have been detained, by foul winds, from .that
.period. We have so little communication with the
shore, that we have no news."

On Sunday last the- Deputies from the Caraccas
had an interview with•the-Marquis WELLESIEY,. at
tipsley4louse, preparatory to,.their. departure for
South AmeriCa, They proceeded yesterday to Ports-
mouth, in order to embark on board a British vessel
of war.

The Deputy from Buenos Ayres and General Mx,
BANDA 'had atterWards interviews with the Noble
Marquis, who in the evening proceeded to the isea-
coast, for the benefit of his health.
A great many more letters frorn the Spanish
Ministers Of JOSEPH to the French Ministers of
NAPOLEON and to Duke of SANTA Ft,. at Paris,-
have been intercepted: There are also 'some from
the
.French .9enerals in Spain. They almost'. all
concur in drawing a most striking picture of i),e
deplor.tble slate of the. French interests in that
country. This they chiefly attribute to the opera-.
lion of the new system of measures which has;
been adopted. in Spain, in consequence of express,
orders from BUONAPARTE. There are some of these
dispatches which also chew that the French army
sustained a severe loss during .the siege of Ciudad
Rodrigo ; besides which they afford proofs that..
the adherents of JOSP.PII seriously believed there
was an intention of an attempt to assassinate him, or
to make him a prisoner.
A letter from Gibraltar, of the 21st ult. states;
that within the last eight or ten days no fewer than
1500 deserters from the French had entered the for-
tress. They are described- to be very fine lo
melt, and to be either Swiss, Pules, or Germins.--,
They'readily enlisted into the British service, to'en
ter on duty either in Malta or Sicily, fur which
Islands they were -immediately embarked. They
were in a ragged condition; and all of them declared
that the Army of Andalusia ~had received no pay
during . the last seven months. The following are
some of our letters
•
" GIBRALTAR. Aua. x3.--We are little ac,
quainted with the interior of Andalusia, on account
of the French giving us much obstruction ; but, as
far as we can learn, all thing; proceed therein ibe'
best manner. It seems_ from the delay, that the
pliin of raising the siege of Cadiz has been abandon-
ed. The besieging army is 18,000 Strori."
" SAME DATE.—Letters from the tast contain
faVovrable news. The whole of Arragen is.in arms,
as well as great part of the South of Castille.—
O'DONNELL has 14,000 men at -Tarragon4 and the
relief .of Tortosa is to be attempted. At the .time
of the date of the last,advices, every exertion w•is
making to forward the expedii;o3. The French
have more than 10,000 men before the place, but
the garrison is strong. I. have seen a paper printed
at Valencia; that contains •a lonr,, of suocestul
attacks made upon the French wherever they ap-
pear. Ai Boja, a very hard battle • Was fought,
though the numbers %%ere sinall, being Only 55
Spaniards and 70 Frenchmen, but 27 of the enemy
fell, and the rest fled, or were taketi. If the ac-
counts are not exaggerated,- . they cannot pursue a
better plan to rid the country of Frenchmen."

A fish of the short lirodon genus, one of the se-
cies of sun fish, Which had been taken in Tenhy.
Bay, hai been
.exhibited in Swansea. It weighed
about'yolb. and measured tour feet from-fin to fin,
and two feet ,eletien iut hes in ;length. These tiSh
have occasionally been taken on the Western cost
of the kingdoni..
To-day, the Lokn MAYOR oixiered the price of
Bread.to be lowered sd. per peck.. The quartern
loaf un Thursday will be