The Sun.
London, England, 1811-06-17 00:00:00

Porte. , it,.joi.;e most sioccrcly tO tiiid that
this news is taut, neeause it will cubit.. the Em-
peror of Bussi A lo RIM his undividod attention'tt,
the contest with Francc>,. if he should be in% oked in
one and, we et et y day st e more reason to believe
that a rupture between Russia and FronCe will take
place. Sir JAMks SAUMAREZ, with the merchants
men under his cow ov, to the amount of some bun-
dred bail, has proceeded up the 'Baltic, from wileh
it is Welted, dun an understanding subsists between
this Country and Russia.,

We find by Alte accounts from Naples t hat MURAT
is making preparations for the invasion of Sicily,
and-he boasts that he shall succeed better that' he
did in his attack last_ year, becluse the hatred of the
inhabitants 'inwards, the English Is very much in-
creased. There is a proverb which says, that per-
sons, who hate a p4ensity to indulge in a certain
figure of speech shouldhave good memories. When
Mnata failed in his attempt upon Sicily last year,
he publicly declared that he never meant to make
a serious attack—that, he only intended a feint.—
Now he admit* that he was quite in. earnest' in the
attempt, and that he was defeated.

•We have been .favoured with the following ac.
count of a most gallant a6lion recently prfortned
in Spain:—

FIRST LEGION OF CASTILE.

a MY CODIN4ANDEIt,

" The Captains Don GAYETANO ESCMIDONJ
Don VENTURA GARCIA, myself, seven soldiers,
and one serjeant, in obedience to your orderi,•
set out on the 9th for INla..utee, to join the company
that was statimnd in the district of Itejar, Having
reached the village of Vidola, we learned that the
French occupied all the posts through which it was
necessary that we should pass ; we therefore resolv-
ed to • stay th4re the night.
" On the idth we set out fur the village Cabeza,
in order, to get provisions there, and a;Vait the' ap-
proach of night, that we might be able to proceed
to cur destination., At five in the afternoon a pea-
sant at the same village, and who cattle from San-
chon, informed us that there were there 85 men of
the 'horse artillery,. who were inn' crippled state
the number of those who were within three leagues
amounted to four thousand men. With this intelli-
gence my two:companions, 1). CAVRTANO, D. VEN.
TURE, arid repel'', deliberated on what was to be
done ;.and We reiolveJ, during that night, lo sur-
prise the sentinels lind the viltrige of Sanchon, and
beat up their quarters.
"4t seven in the evening we mounted our horses.,
and marched to Itobledo, halfa leave short of San,
chon, where the enemy was stationed. The Alcade
Wormed us that the number of the French was the
same as what had been told us before; but tlitst.to-
- Wards the evening a company of 66 Men, infantry,.
had arrived, and that hi was going to bring to them
the proviiiions which they had requirei ,from hint ;
we therefore ordered our horses to be fed, and sent
the Alcade to Sanchon to observe the position of:the

enemy.
" At two o'clock nn the, morning of the 1i th
he returned, accompanied by the Ajcade of Sanehon
(to give more credit to the commission he had been
charged with) a we met them an the road, They
told us that our:Undertaking was very hazardoUs to
attack 120 French cavalry and infantry and upwards,
in the village, while we ,were only i t men. We
knew well that the utmost we could do would be
to kill four or kix men, and beat up their quarters;
but affecting to have moremen behind; and acting
as if we expected them every moment, we sent the
Akade with a message to the Curate of the parish,
that he should give as notice as soon as he perceived
the least movement among the enemy ; and we re•
turned in the mean while to the village of Ro-

In less than an hour the Alcade came and in-
formed us that the enemy was preparing to march ;
and, without any further inquiry, we all marched to
Sanctm, from which the French had just set out,
having formed themselves into two. divisions. We
procured a guide, and, in order not to lose time, the
Alcade accompanied us, together with that of Ro-
bled°, who was desirous of witnessing our operations.
We took the same road as the enemy, whom we al-
'ways kept sight of, until my two companions judged
that it. was the fattest time to attack them. We halted,
and Capt,rin Don CAYETANO and I formed two divi-
sions, of which the second was put under the com-
mand of Don VENTUNA GAIICTA. On this occasion
we made more use of stratagem than of force ; at
the moment of attacking the French, Don ,CAy
TANG gave the word ut command aloud, " company,
to the left file t" Don VP,NTURA's- battalion,
g 4 Porrn' line of bottle to the lift," and I Compq.
nies, to the right file," As soon as these words of
coon rand were- gheti, the eleven men discharged
three rounds, wbicit caused ihe enemy to abandon
their baggage and take to flight, Such was the