The Sun.
London, England, 1810-09-29 00:00:00

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The men of the 24th Portuguese regiment, on
the 2gth ult. entered the French service; and on
'the 4th inst. nearly the whole had deserted and
joined at head-quarters.
" A division of 6000 militia, under Gen. Mu-
" LER, is at Chaves; SILVEIR A icon the upper banks of
the Douro, and Gen. TRANI'. in the neighbourhood
of St. J. de Pasqueira, so that if the French get
'near Vizeu, they will be, flanked by the militia, who
are very good troops.

"_Ttte French now have the whole of their force
in the vicinity of including ItE9NtEit's and

JoNofs divisions; it is-estimated at about 93;000
men. The latter is with IVIsssENA, who can .bring
69,000 troops into the field : should be advance
against Lord WELLINGTON, his, Lordship will, no
doubt, retire to the Punta de Murcella. We every
hour expect to hear of this flaying taken place.
" It is satd that 8000 troops Irons France have
entered Navarre.

" During the last four months JUNOT'S division
has experienced a loss of upwards of ten thousand
men, by desertion, -sicknesi, and the swoid.
" About 3500 troops have been sent from Sal.-t,
manca to the Asturians.

" We have just learned that on the 6th bur ad-
vanced posts were at Franco.a, and Lord Wzo.ING-
TON near Vizeu. •

The KING, accompanied by Princesses AUGUSTA
and SOPHIA, attended by Lady ELY, General FITZ-
ROY, and 'Colono TAYLOR, rude on horseback in
Windsor Paik on Thursday morning. - •
Dr..PoPe went fiom his litise at Staines, on
Thursday, to attend the Princess AAIRLIA at Wind-
sor, who, we are sorry to say, has hod so much of t
relapse, as to recoire the Doaor's constant attend-
ance, as well as the Physicians from London occa-
sionally. The Royal Family at Windsor daily visit
her Royal Highness.
A Gentleman who quitted Holland on Monday,
describes the situation of the merchants there as
most calamitous. A Decree Lis been published by
BUONAPARTE, assigning one-fifth of any commercial
property concealed, to the Informer wha•shall
dis-
cover it, an 4 one-tenth to the R,venue Officers con-
cerned in the seizure of it. The consequence
that servants in the closest connexion with the pro-
prietors bad turned Informers, and a large quantity
of effees that had been buried was brought to light.

Lieutenant-Colonel LEITH 'has arrived in to-wn,
charged with dispatches of great importance from
the',Governor-General of India. He came passenger •
in the William Pitt, extra ship, which left Madras
on the Bth of May, when every thing was in a state
of the greatest traequirity. •Lord MINTO was pre-
paring to return to Bengal.. An Expedition had
been tined out for the Isle • Bourbon, of the suc-
cess of which no doubt was entertained.
• The detachment under Colonel CLOSE had re-
turned •to cantouments, and • the, general state of
Hindustan was perfealy satisfaaory.
By letters received from the ffilltam Pill, last ar-
rived from Madras, we learn, that Colonel Close,
who bad purstiedMeer Khan beyond the Neerbud-
dab, was returning with his army to his former
station, being unable to come up will) ti.e fugitive
Chieftain, who, though • now deserted by almost
the whole of his followers, would easily find mean's
to coiled them again upon a favourable opportu-
nity.—Before Colonel Close's army had crossed the
Neerbudnah, t woregirnents.of native cavalry, which
composed part of the expedition, intended to de-*-
mand an increase of pay. . But :Colonel-Close, hav-
ing teceived intimation of the design the morning
before the.river was to be .forded, ordered some or-
tancrements to be made, which.plaeed the native ca-
valry between the Europeans, and in front ot, the
'artillery ; and then gave his order s for the, cavalry to
cross the river, The cavalry bcing thus placed ih a
situation so entirely commanded, went forward iri
-obedience to the orders 'of their Commanders,' ith-
out preferring their intended demand. It it, how-
ever,' believed, that Colonel Close had found it ex-
pedient ultimately to grant, an increase of one rupee
per mouth, and a seer of rice per day. The miter-
tonate system of appealing to the, natives against the
European Officers, has necessarily giVen thein a high
idea of their own strength and importance, and has
laid the foundation of many extravagant pretensions
not yet putforib. The following case is said to have
occurred in the British camp in the course of the
expedition in • pursuit of Meer Khan. A Lieute-
nant• Davidson had placed 'a Subandar native
officer whose rank corresponds with that of Captain)
under arrest. • The Subandar, while a p:iioner, fol
lowed the example of Captain Quarter-Master-Ge-
neral Munro. in the proceedings which led to the
late general disturbances, appealed to Colonel Close,
and preferred, being still a prisoner, a complaint
against Mr. Davidson, alleging that he had Made
use of the Company's grain to teed, his (Davidson's)
•horse. The Subandar was released from his arrest;
Mr. Davidson was brought to a•Court-Martial, and•
suspended. for three months. The result of this
trial had produced great discontent among the Eu-
ropean.-officers, and rendered Colonel Close very
unpopular with them, from the supposition of his
lending himself to the system of degrading the'Eu-
rope= Officers, and raising the natives to level
with thern, or rather, to a superiority over them.—
Several Officers of high rank and charatter bad re-
signed their appointments, in consequence of re-
flections cast on them by those in authority. Among.
those, we understand, is Captain Sydenhani;.. late.
resident at Hydetabad, who has taken offence at an,
allusion made to him in the general orders, publish-
ed by General Gowctie and Lord Mint°, on the ac-
quit'tal of Colonel Doreton, " in the most horiuur-
able. manner."
Mr. Munro PARKE:-.--We. have been favoured
with the following copy of a letter to Lord MOIRA,
upon the pleasing subject of the• safety of tire above
enterprising traveller :—.

" Fenchurch-bilildings, Sept. 27. at°,

"My Loran,—ltatioids me. Particular sa iota t ion
to be enabled to acquaint your Lordship, that 1 have
received authentic information 'from a very' particu-
lar friend of mine, lately arrived here from Moga--
dore, that Mr. Mango Parke, the African tiavei-
ler; was seen ,about • the month of March last,
eight days journey, or about 120 miles east of Tan-
buctoo.

Some slaves from -Wangara,. who were lately
conducted to Mogadore for sale, passed Mr. Parke
on their journey, and it was. reported by the natives
in that part of Soredan, where those Wangaruni
slaves saw Mr. Parke, namely, eight days east •.of
Timt uctoo, that he was a spy come to inspea their
country, and he had two Christiaris with bitn;
." I have the honour to be,- &c. &c.
• " JAMES G. JACKSO►N." -
" The Right Hon. the Earl of Moira,. 5;.." •