The Sun.
London, England, 1811-07-23 00:00:00

LLTTER
,moat tiVNIC.II or TINT 25TH OF JONIi.

!, Our Government has given a denial to the re.
quest made by the Mechanist, 'M.r. BtxToany, who
is arrived here from Augsburg!), for taking. an aerial
journey in a paper Mongolfiere.7

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TUESDAY, JULY Q 3, 1811.

it ffindsof.Casile, July 273, )8 ! 1.
His MAJPSTY continues much in the same,
in which he was yesterday.

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Letter; and Paper, have been received from Ca.
dis to the 2d in tans. No CVCIIIS of importance had

tiecul red there.

We have continued our dxtraSs fromthe Lisbon
Papers which arrived yesterdisy. Though limy con-
tain no ne NS of importance, they sire not defic!ent

in intcrot,

Ilkis atio'nl;ng an Anliolt strived,
•
klnge no new importance:.

Parliament will be plorogietl to=morrow by coin-

MiSsiott.

A Morning Paper which always indulges in the
most, gloorly speculations tespeding the affairs of
tin? -Peninsula, has this day again ei.deavoured to
Oath! its readers by desciihing our atraitie in that
.•
quarter, as being itt the most disastrous state, • 'We
confess that we almost despair of beiniable to relieve
the habitual despondency with which the. Writers

in that Paper seem to be depit s.ed--:4 despondency
which seems quite as great,after the most* bfelliant
success of our arms, as it is when our affairs op-
pear to wear an unfavourable wiped... Whets R N A
was upon the point of entering Portugal last summer,
With I 10,000 men,
.and LORD WULLINGTON had
not above 25,000 BOtisk troops :to oppose him, the
attempt to defend Portugal was represented,by the
Paper to which we aiealluding•as Most. chimerical
and absurd; Min.istpswere assailed with every-tertn
,of hproach, for roking our army., Oere, and the
greJtest apprehensions were ,expressed that our *gal-
lant suldiers would .110 t be able t,, reach the sea-shore
time enough to'eScitoe. consid,!ring the great dis-
parity. of torce of 'the opposing armies, we were
not surprized thav*AituSe who aver alivayS gloonly

were not thou sanguine ; yet me flattered our-
stAves that the tottte of B,ns3co wo.dd have, in
some, degree' allayed tlaL:ir hpprehethions ; but they
commuLd unabated. Whet) IJAssFNA remain-
ed quietly before our line ikt Tortes Vedrita, 'ikith-
-9.11t at tempting to drive us into the sea, so tar from
derivtug any Onsolation from it, the Paper in ques-
ii,,m tuund out a new cauie..oi misery,.,vit. that it
was more injurious to usthan if we had, been',forced
.out.otPortugai. 'When AilAsszNi ietired. to San-

tarem, it was, a Print---a plan to.-diaW,
.the
General out of Ills strong position, and. to ovrwhela
t 1 Mies. When it was found ibat MAssuick re.

mair►ed ivadive at Santarem, without out•manctuv.

ring the 'British General, or destroying his ArMy,
we ventured to remind our :op' ponent.of the failure

of his prediEtions ; but we were told that
MAssawk was Only: _waiting till The roads were
dry" and hard, and then he would accomplish
his object. IDalv wait till February," said .
th„; Paper in' qtae3tion, " and then the -Trench
will Come on with such an accumulation of force,
as will aender the defence. of Lisbon hopeless."--
Well, February cam; and the. French did no-
thing—March came, .and the French—ran away.—
We must, confess,. that just at the- moment
that the French were flying, with, loss and dis»
grace before the Allies, there was a short suspen-
sion of gloomy, predictions ; but they were soon re-
newed, and have continued, without intermissionA
to the present day. As soon as it was known that
alter hi* defeat at Albuera, was determined
to coiled all the disposable • forde in the.Northi,
Sontb,' and centre at Spain, to make one great ef-
fort, the Paper • in, queStion told us,. that it would
be in vain to think et resisiing•the immense 'French
force that would be collcOod, " that it would
amount to 75,000 men with firelocksin their hands,
independent of a reserve. lett at Ciudad Roderigo,
sufficient to watch an, army in the North;" that " a
general action was inevitable, if Lcird \YELLING.
Tom determined" to keep the position he had taken
near Elves; but it is thought that he willAeel it
necessary' to retire within his former lines et TOrres
Vedras, in consequence. of the immense superiority
of the enemy in nutnetical strength, particularly ca-
valry." 'Well, Souvr colleded.these 75,000 men
with ,firelocks in their bands,—he advanced towards
the allies, with this immense supoiorily,..rhe recon-
'noitred them, and he retreated; Lord WELLINGTON
not only waited for theenernY; but-notwithstanding
their immense superiaily,detached 9000 men from his
Army on a'dis-60t expeditien, So complete a failure
on the part of the French, (after the astonishing-ex-
ertions they had inade to
,colleot a force to oven
whelm the Allied Army), 'we should have thought
would, in some degree, have relieved the despot).
dency of the Writers in the Paper to which we have
adverted; but althOugh the very 'reverse of their pre-
dictions has occorred, .they are this .day quite as
gloomy as if every thing they had predicted hat!
come to pass; atul, what is still more singular, seeM
-to pride themselves upon the. superi'.r ,sagaeity
whi'el*they have sheWn when discussing the affairs,
ot the Peninsula !

Yesterday accounts were received from Charleston
to the tad tilt. at which time tile arrivarot neither
Mr. PINKNEY nor Mr. Forrau had been lIIMOUtit:Cd.

It toted that Mr. 111.4coir, Member
of Congress of that namei• had been aeleded by the
Presidenr to proCeed to England on
a particular
Mission, the subjett of which wits Supposed bythe
merchants to relate to the atlsir of the Preiidelit
frigate and the Lille Belt. - - ••,

MihdldrfeßaOnNdngouhtteirt:jSeiltrt}e.: oCfniknm4l3ol-riGca7aetridal
arrived at Liverpool on Plitlay, in the Arnoriven slop
Susquehanna, from Phihtletploa,