The Sun.
London, England, 1818-07-30 00:00:00

THE THEATRE,

HAYtIARKET.—We are glad to find that the
protracted season of the winter Theatres is by no
means likely to be injurious to this region of
fashionable amusement ; but, on the contrary,
that it seems to have given an increased stimulus
to public curiosity, as is visible in a crowded
HOUSC almost every night. The name and the
talents of the Manager, the merit of the Per-
formers whom he has assembled, and the entertain-
ing quality of the general reprefentations, will, in-
deed, well account for the attraction of iheTheatre.
The pieces last night were The Travellers Benighted,
a piece of strong terrific interest, The Sleep ffniktir,
a whimsical drama, in which Mr. J RusseLt.
appears to great advantage, and finally X. Y. Z.
the Manager's own laughable farce, which fell a
temporary sacrifice to private difierences,but which
concord has happily restored to the public, and
added to the stock-pieces of this popular Theatre:
The whole went off with very great success. By
the way, we wish that the frequenters of the
lower boxes near the Stage would not become
such loquacious Performers themselves,
,as they
very mush obstruct the entertainment of more ra-
tional visitors.

Miss O'NEILL and Mr. ABBOTT are performing
with great success at Edinbutth. The House is
full every a circumstance in which all must
rejoice, on •account of the amiable character of
Mrs. H. SIDDoNS and her family.
Miss STEPHENS reached Dublin on Saturday
last-, and was to perform in the Theatre at night.
Public expectation was on tip-toe to receive her.
Miss S. BOOTH voluntarily resigned her situa-
tion at Covent Garden Theatre, on account of the
delicacy of her health, after a very severe and
alarming illness, wisely preferring, a theatrical
tour through the cottony, in order to combine
health, profit, and pleasure. So pleasing an Ac-
tress, with so amiable a character, must secure
favour and friendship wherever she goes, and she
is sure of a hearty welcome on her return to the
Metropolis.
Mrs. WRENCH, the wife of Mr. WRENCH', of the
Lyceum Theatre, is, from what we have beat d,
an Actress of such merit that she well deserves to
be transferred horn Provincial Boards to a London
Theatre. This pleasing Actress, we understand,
is now performing with great eclut at Warwick,
and under the protection of the most distinguished
Ladies and Persons of consequence in the vicinity.
Lady CHARLOTTE WYNN is one of her most zealous
Patronesses, public and private. In order that
we may judge of her stile of acting, which is
highly spirited, our Correspondent informs us
her last character was illeg illerrilies, in the Opera
of Git4l Mannering, in which she has been received
with very great applause.

REGISTER OF FASHION.

FASHIONABLE DEPARTURES.

The Duke and Duchess of Argyll, and the Ladies Paget, on:
a tour; Earl and Countess of Coventry and family, and Lady
Augusta Cotton, for the Continent; Mrs. Fitzhcibert and
Miss Seymour, on a tour; Right Hon. Richard Ryder, on a
tour; Lord and Lady Petre, fur Thorndon-ball, in Essex;
General Grosvenor., for Stocken-ball, in Rutlandshire.

COMPETITION OF PIPERS.—At Ike annual COM!.
petition for prizes given by the Highland Society
of London to the five best performers on the
great Highland bag-pipe, held in the Theatre-
Royal, Edinbnrgh, on the 22d instant, Sir JOHN
MACGREGOR MURRAY, Bart. who was Preses of

the Judges on this occasion, in delivering the
Prizes to the successful Candidates, addressed
them severally in very -appropriate terms. " The
qualifications of a piper," he observed, " were
not limited to his being a good performer on die
favourite instrument, and properly dressed in the
true garb nt his ancestors. There were others not
less indispeh. ',le. His conduct ought to he strictly
correct, and he must never turn his back upon
his friend or upon his enemy. The piper had al-
ways held an honourable rank in the estimation
of our ancestors, and his post was in the front of
his comrades on the day of danger. This honour-
able place had still been continued to him ; his
station on such occasions was most generally in the
front of his regiment; and there it was bis duty to
march forward with thecooldetermination of a true
Highlander, stimulating his companions to heroic
deeds by the sound of the favourite piobrach of
their country."

The Countess of ST. GERMAINS, we are sorry to
state, died on Sunday morning, at two o'clock, at
his Lordship's seat, Port Eliot, Cornwall. Her
Ladyship had been ill for some months ; she was
in her 53d year.—(Morning Post.)
The 87th Regiment have arrived from Colches-
ter at Sheerness, where they are to be stationed
until further orders.

The 39th Regiment, which arrived from Malta,
on Tuesday last, in the Downs, are at present
quartered at Deal. The Regiment is upwards of
900 strong. The detachments of the 10th, 14th,
31st, and 36th, which came on board the same
transports, are at Dover.
The present summer has been the warmest since
that of 1779. The previous winter and spring
were then so mild, that green peas were sold in
May at one shilling the peck measure. The 6( r
Inotneter was at 78 on the 15th of April, and the
hawthorns were in blossom three or four days af-
ter that period.
Many persons think Brsll will sell the two
Prizes of 30,0001. in the Lottery which begins
drawing next Tuesday; and we presume this opi-
nion arises from his having shared two in the last
Lottery which °contained Prizes of that amount,
or perhaps it is from his having sold Nine Prizes
of 30,0001. in the last 10 years, and there having
been but 13 in all during that period.
We are requested to state, that Mr. CoLBURg
has just received from the Continent, and is pre-
paring for immediate publication, The Memoirs of
Count de Las Cases, the companion of NAPoLEoIq,
communicated by himself, and comprising a nar-
rative of the voyage to, and residence at, St. He.
lena, their manner of living, and the treatment
they experienced. With an Appendix, contain•
ing a letter of Count Las Cases to Lord Bathurst,
written from Frankfort.

SOUTH AMERICA.

'We-raraetthe following acco,sto of the battle
Mnino, in Chili. from -The New York Mercantile'
Advertiser of June 29. 1818 :

[Translated for " The Baltimore Patriot."] ;
GAZETTE OF BUENOS AYRES, WEDNESDAY, 9.2 D APRIL,

P 71 ETAIL OF 7EI 1381,iTTLE OF MAIPO.

DISPATCH FI;01Y1 HIS EXCELLEN,C? THE CAPTAIN-
-01,1,11.1141. OF THF. ANDES 7O THE sunutme

G,.VEy, NM f. NT
lkioST EXCELLENtt SlR—The unexpected event
of the 'might of the 19th ult. in the Cancha Raya-
du, put iu jeopardy the lib4ty of Chili. It was,
indeed, a frightful Scene to see thedispersion of
.an army, composed valiant men, toll of disci-
pline and instruction, without being beaten.
Since. I opened the campaign, I have been so
gratified that I looked on victtuy as Certain, and
all my
.movements were always directed to
have it 'complete and decisive. The enemy, since
he abandoned Corico, did not find any position
capable of preventing our forces from mole Sting
glen io his flanks', awl thtentenin;.-; to turn him.
Accordingly both armies fell together, on the 19ilm,
upon Tatra, making it impossible to undertake a
retreat, or cross over the miver Maule.
The situation, the most desperate, became, by
an accident, the most favouratde. Our columns
of infantry did not reach us until sunset, and a:
that hour it became impossible to undertake au
attack-on the town. The army was then funned
provisionally in two lines, whilst we were recon-
noitring for the most a+lvontageous position that
it could be placed in, which having selected, I
ordered the right wing to occupy; but this move-.
rnent was badly executed, and the left was begin
ring to follow it, when a must brisk and despe-
rate attack from the enemy put in total confusion
our baggage and artillery,. which were then mov-
ing. It was Then 9 Welo.ck, P. M. and this confu-
sion was soon followed by the dispersion'of our
left, alter a larisk firing, which lasted half an boor,
in which the enemy suffered great loss, and Tn.-
selves had the misfortune to see the -biave.Gene-
. tai O'lliggias wounded.
Myself, with all time other Chiefs and Officers,
employed all our efforts to rally them, which at
first was effected under the protection of the re-
serve. Here one of the most obstinate engage-
ments again took place, but the night rendered all
our measures unavailing, and at last we had no
other resource but ao give way.
,Our tight had nut been Much harassed, and
Colonel Las Arras had the glory of conducting'
and withdrawing, in good order, the corps of in-
fantry and artillery that composed it. This was
the only _support that remained to us on my ar-
rival at ' Cl►iurharougo. I then pursued every ef-
fectual means to effect a re-union on the neck of
11,,egttletniC The head-quarters were placed at
San Fernandir,
Here I remained two days, and I can assure
you; Excellency our situation was a most embar-
rassing one. We had lost all the baggage and
materials of time army ; destitute of every thing,
we wanted every thing in order to oppose an
enemy superior in numbers and elated with vic-
tory. In this situation, I found no other expe-
dient but to fall back on Santiago, and procure
every possible assistance to accomplish the-salva-
tion of the country.
It is surpassing belief to say, that in the course
of three days the army was re-organized in the
field of Instraction, one league distant from the
city. The spirits of the soldiers were regained,
and in thirteen. days after our defeat, and a retreat
of SO leagues, we found ourselves in a situation
to meet tire enemy.—The interest, energy, and
firmness with which the chiefs and all the officers
of the army CO-Operated to establish order and
discipline, will redound to their eternal honour.
Jr is true that our forced were inferior to those
of the enemy. Many of our corps were. merely
skeletons, and we had .battalions composed of
only two hundred men.
In the mean time time enemy was advancing with
rapidity, and on the Ist inst. 1 had positive in-
formation that the main part of the army had
crossed the Maipo, by the fords of l_einguenna,
and directed their march towards the defiles of la
Cabra.
The .position of our. encampment was neither
secure or military. On the 2d, we encamped on
the Espejo. That day, and on the 3d and 4tlt,
our guerillas had much firing, and the army passed
all those nights. under arms.
-The enemy approached ns at last on the .sth
All his movements appeare,d directed to turn our
tight, threaten the capital, cut off our communi-
catitin with\ 'keep-ice gua , and secure to, himself the
communicatioa with Valparaiso.
When I observed that he had for his object the
accomplishment of this movement, I considered
that a favourable opportunity to attack him on
his march, and place myself in his trout by means
of a change of direction on the tight. This was
-the preparation to all the, posterior operations.
I immediately placed all the infantry under the

command of the well-deserving Brigadier-General
Balcarce ; the right tinder the Colonel Las Heras ;
the left under the Lienr.--Colonel Don flilarian
de In Quintana ; the • cavalry of the right under
Colonel 31artias Zapiola, with his squadrons of
grenadierS ; and that of the left under Col. Don
Ramon Ft eyere, with his squadrons of the guard
of his Excellency the Director'of Chili, and the
chasseurs of the Andes.
The enemy, -having perceived our first move-
ment, took a strong position; detaching to a
small hill a battalion of chasseurs to support a
battery of four pieces placed at this point. This
disposition Was well chosen, as it completely se-
cured their left, and their fires flanked and
.beat
-all the front of the position.

Our line, formedin close aud parallel columns,
inclined on the right of the enemy, presenting an
oblique attack on his flank, which Was uncovered.
:The reserve, charging also Apo!' the same, was in
the attitude of turning it awl supporting our right.
The hattery of eight pieces of commanded
by Commandant 13;/neo 'Cicerbn, and another of
four pieces under Commandant Plaza, wet e
ad-
Van►ar;eon'ly p!ared, and played with success upon
the enemy's position.
In (mi. columns began to move
from the skirts of the small hill which formed our

position, to march to dhargt Theznemy'i ring,
who then commenced a most stupendous fire, but
did not succeed in stopping our march. His
flank battery on the hill did us great injury ; at
the same tittle a heavy mass of• the enemy's ca-
valry, situated in the interval, came to charge the
Horse Grenadiers_, who, being formed in columns
by squadrons, were advancing on us in front.
The first squadron was commanded by Escalada,
who, seeing hinise!f threatened by the enemy,
marched immediately upon him, sword in baud.
The CoMmatlant, Medina, followed this move-
ment. The tiring also commenced from our left,
and soon the whole line was engaged, as Nell as
the Reserve, which came up at the moment the
vigour' of our line began to droop. But the
charge made by the Reserve, and by the Cor»-
mandant Towson, of the Ist regiMent of Coquim-
bo, gave impulse to our line, which fell upon the
enemy with more spirit than ever. It may be
said that hardly a brisker attack has been witness-
ed, nor a more vigorous and obstinate resistance.
The constancy of our soldiers and their heroic
force triumphed at last, and the enemy was put
complete:y to the rout.
The General-in-Chief, Osorin, escaped with only
about 200 horsemen. It is probable be will be
taken by the cavalry that pinsues hint. All his
Generals arc prisoners in-ttur possession. The
number of prisoners is 3000, and 190 officers,
%with -the greatest part of the Chiefs of the Corps.
The field of ,battle is covered with 2000 killed.
All his artillery, parks, hospitals, with the
surgeons, military chests, in a word, every thing
composing the royal army is dead, prisoner, or in
our possession. 1 compute our loss at 1000 killed
and Wounded. The force of the enemy, of all de-
act iptions, was 5300, and ours 400.

[The dispatch concltides by recommending several officers
to the consideration of the Government.]
JOSE 1)E SAN MARTIN.
Head-quarters, Santiago, 9th April, 1818.

A letter from Buenoi Ayres, of the ?sth of.
April, to Messrs. De Forest and Son, of this city,
slates, that the Congress frigate left there the day
previous, " with Messrs: Rodney and Gratia,m on
board, Mr. Bland having gone to Chili to join
the Ontario. The Royalists under Osorio, in
Chili, have been completely defeated by San Mar-
tin,
,on the sth instant, with the loSs of 3000 pri-
soners and a great many killed, besides all their
artillery and baggage."