The Sun.
London, England, 1811-02-27 00:00:00

terraneau.

CHATHAM, FEB. 26 —Sailed down the Itiver'io
the Note tlis Majesty's sloop Sheldra4, Captaio
STE WA LET. -

DISTRIBUTION OF'PRIZE-MONEY.
To the skiip Roie, for the capture •:f the Clinsii:mhorz
privateer (in company with the sloop Cru,zer), at No. I^,
t.:letnent's lon.
To 'the sloop, Ranger, for the capture of the Crivoliiic,
Two friends, Oorathe, and ~t
No. rs.-„Clernent'

MAI 1..5.
ARRIvED—I Cadiz, i Dublin.

Dci 2 Waterford

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SOI.EM QUIS utctrct FAISUM AI.,DEAT?

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'WEDNESDAY, FT3RUARY 27, 1811.

..Wiutisor Castle, Feb. 0, ISJ I.

",.HIS MAJEiTY.S indisposition is in every respea
declining."

(Signed as usual).

We recAved this 'day Cizdit Papers to the 30th
ult. Their chief contents relate to, the determin.'d
hatred which the Spaniards feel towards the French,
and their increasing efforts to preserve the indepe.,-.
dente qr. their cOuntry. 'The patriots or A'rragon
had compel!ed
,the French to evacuate. J3enararte.—
The enemy, in all platters where they had ,ipreared,
coptinned their extortions, and SU ILI! ET, not curt-
tent with exading a contributiol of thirty-_)c rn!-
lion,i, had taken awarat Ale:mi.; firth of eve: v
sloe, les of cattle. In short, the French by all their
condua; sttern,as if they were rather diTus-2d to jct.
cethe th3h conciLite the people vt horn 1!:ey are at-
tempting to,cnslave. .The Spanish Papers al 5.,? eon.'
rain the dispatches of BaLLAsTettos, whir ticops
concluded themselvs with the greatest. intrepidity,
killing at least 2000 of the enemy, with, a small
'comparative loss themselves, and who trtreate4. itt
admirable order, the enemy not daring to annoy
them.

Mr. WA R DLE last night brought forward his mo-
tion in the House of Commons, respeaing Corporal
Cort s. We .have not room to otrer any comments
upo.: the subjeE at present, but We brg to call lb,:
particular attention of our Readers to tne I)ebm
itself; Mr. WARDLE'S motion was negatived by' 90
to 1.

Dispatches from Cadiz to the ilth lost. were re,
eeived this day•at the Admiralty, but they coniitin
.etotlthig of novel interest.

,There is no truth in the report that the Swedish
Monarch is about to leave_ this country, but kis
certainly true that the movements of the Northern
Conrts are favourable to his interests, as inoolvied in
those of his country. It is pOssible that a
fleet in the Baltic will give animation to the Nunli-
fern PoWers, and at all events secure Zealand for the
Danish Monarch, it he has really courage enongli
to resist the Despot of the World. •

'The PRINCE REGENT entertained at dinner yes-
terday all the Royal Duke-% 'Arch MbiftA, DvN-
-9A4,. HUTCHINSON, aand KEITII i Mr. SHERIDAN,'
Mr. ADAM,. Bco

'BUONAPARTE may wreak his Vengeance upon the
Press during his life,'hut it will have its full retenv,e
when the world is released frotri his tyranu.. In-
deed his hostility to it at present scorns to be the te,ult
of nothing but the wantorineSs of pride, anti
toxication of power, for such is the debased sit uat ibtt
of the Continent, that the Press in every boc•of it;
vassal SlEte3 dare not presume, on 'pain of confi!...:
tion and death, to utter a !iyll:6le in oppoqt:on t,t
any of his measures. It may therefore be int-1r42.1
d
that, conscious of the severity 'which he o::::;'vei
from the Press, and certain that it will braitd
memory with the ntillOin ticlletttian and boi-or,:!te
is resolved to avenge himself before.hand,
the friends of literature .full and Nnp:e t, ,r

CORN-EXCHANGE, Fsu. t'37.---Top day the 11
has but a scanty supply. of Wbe.4t, veiy few
arrivals., and only short remaining quantit,,':it Old
trade heavy and at little variation atom Mtpiday'S
quotation ; Barley in good supply and sMe3 hardly
at last prices; tinclatiwi 1),,,1s
Beans of" each detteripthirt likewhe ; the
g:ltt:taiosiailteie of 0315
ssnaraedneatly atrly a e
al stt
earnr ,
at
vw:le-3Lit
at late pricos.

4

SIR.

Downing sleet, Fell. 26, 181

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Fl9lll like t) -V lAJAI GAZErre., Feb. lA, 1811,

Di;p:ftch, 01 which the following Is an
,Extrael, has been
re4eivetl at the Earl of Liverpool'r; Office,
;on', d to his Loraltip by Lieutenant-t;enerat Vis.
W:Alington, dated,Cartaxo, gthuf February.

The enemy have continued in tl'e neighbour-
hood of Badajoz, and have broke ground before the
place eo 3,11 e lett of the 'Guadiana., and have thrown
some slieil4llllo th WWI). The bad weather, how-
ever, has oblipd them .to draw in the greatest part .
of their cavalry troni the. ground between, Badajez
and fat as, end the cotompnication has been
established.
General Mendizabel 'sent orders to General Ve—
nies to advance, which measure I had before re'com-
mended to him ; and General Mendizabel himself
met the troops at Elves on the morning of the 6th
instant ; they marchyd on send passed the Caya ; and.
the Infantry entered Badaj z and the Fort of Cttris-
toval, the right of the Guadiana, on the al ter-
noon of the 6th. The French cavalry retired, and
pa 544.11 the Evora, and were ouriued some distance
by the Spanish cavalry, arid a brigade of Portuguese
cavalry, under Bligadier-Gen. Madden, who took
some cattle, baggage, . but the attack, it any
was mteuded, to be made, upon the French troops,
on the lefi•of the Guadiana, Was deterred till. the
folloWiog day. , • ,
I have received
•Oenerel Sallasteros a Letter,
dated the 27th January, from which n.,appears'that
his action of the 25th was very well,rentest4 ; that
the loss of the enemy, who were much superior in
numbers, was t wo thousand men killed and wound-
ed ; and that the retreat of the Spanish detachment
was made in goo& order..
By the last accounts from the frontiers of Beira,
it.appears that a part of Cmparedesa division of the
9th corps was still upon Guarda on the 4th instant,
with an.aduanced guarA upon Belmonte. „This. was
the position he was mdered to take on the Sib of
janulry by General-,Drouet, referred to in toy dia..
patcl) of thethe•l2lG bit.
General Fob: arrived at Salamanca from Paris,
with Letters for Masseha, on the t3llt January, and
I imagine teat he yesterday reached'in,
quarters of the ;truly. He had with Mtn an escort
of bet weeo two or three thousand men.
Colonel pram, who commands the Ordenanza in
I,oviver Beira, had followed to the neighbourhood of
Bobual the detachmeutwhich escorted the Coo-
rim 'which matched from time Zezere on the 22d of
January, and .had -taken much begg3ge from them
and several prisoners. On his return, ho attacked
G neral Fo:x's escort, with a fresh detachment of
Ordent;nta, at Enxabarda, at the entrance of the
Estrada Nova ; and I ieclose his report of the 2,J
instant affair, and au" extract of his report
of the 4th instant to Marshal SntrWilliam Beresford,
and the Marshal's Letter to tne.
I hear from the enemy's head•quarters that they
state they lost tivelaundred men in tlui.effair.
There hiis:been no movement of any importance
in the enemy's army since. I addressed your Lord-
ship. •
MY LORI), Chamusca, Feb. 7, att.

T have the honour to transmit to your Lordship
the *purr of Lieutenant-Colonet Ckunt, whom
•sotne time hinci:e'l Sent io superintend and command
the ordenatyrza on the frontier of Lower Beira, and
towards Guar& The to: cc 'of the enemy, dif-
ferenity `st4ted, appears to . have been between two
and Attlee thousand, and wavunder the orders of
Genetal l oix, and apparently to serve as his escort
to enabler' him to join MArshal Nlassena. Lieut..
Colonel Grata took post at Ensabarda, near the
commencement of .E4trada Nova, . coming from to-
wards Fundao, and under 'which the enemy was
obliged to pass. The suceesis of Lieutenant-Colonel
Grant, and the loss to the enemy,• have been much
greater than c.thes the number of men that ti,o
LieuteitLint-Colonel hal with him, .or than circum-
stances. would stave' given reason to look for,
.and
will give great animmion and encouragement to
this natute of warfaie in all that part of the coun-
try. The peOpte engaged have got very con4iderr
able booty, at !title is no French soldier that has
not much of whit he has pillaged about him; and
he is always a good prize his captor.
I hair, Sic.
(S.,gtied) W. C. nviti...sroßD,
Mai shale • -

Enxitbarda, Entrance of the Estrada
Nova, Feb. 2, tfitz. •

Be lileaded to stitte to hi's Excellency the Cent,
mender that yoierday, the tat, a column
of the eueruy, under the curninand 01 Geoursd Lc
Foix, consi.liffig or three thousand cavalry and in.
tantry ire nt Ciudad Roderigo, paised for the Estrada-
Nova to juin Maisena. .I.avy tilept utt the a Ibtat
Alcaria, near Ffifidoo. _ _

0---n the tot, with eighty of the Ordenanza froth
Alpedrinha, I took passessidu or a:. height near this
village, by which they must well-directed
file v, as kept up for two hours, and only terminated
by the night ; the retrial( was eightperl killed on
the road, A very considerable- number wounded,,
and ten prisoners ; several ot" the wounded were
found dead this inorowg
,freint the extreino incle-
mency of the weather several cars with grain, an d
a considerable number of bullocks, were also taken
and, having sent parties to annoy their •front and
rear, r have, reason to think they. nines suffer con,
suierabiy ere. they quit the E:itrada Nova r we lost,
only one man, with a few hwsea wounded, amongst
them my own.
I have the honour to be,,i,ee.-
(Signed) J. GRANT,
Colontl DI Urban, Sac.

Extrad of a litter from Licutcoant Cotonel Grant to Co.
itnici rban, (laud 1. olici4o, hcb. 4, MI.

Have the goodnesi tri state to his Exeelten4 the
Marshal,that the result of • the atniir of the Ist in-
tow, t►ear Erixabarda, has been more complete than
ht first stated, it% o hunched and seven tit the ene-
tt y having been found demt on the 2d, if) the space
ot four icagues, a number of %vhAta died in cense.

147NDON Printed by KICEIAt
ar the SUN•OPPI

quenec of their wounds, and the inclemency of the
weather.. Eighteen prisoners are also in my power,
and four Englishmen who had entered the French
service,' in the Irish Legion, to effea their escape,
lowing been five years prisoners ; one of them is of
the 30th regiment, the others. had been sailors. I
have also to state that the Colonel of the 70th regi-
ment (French), also the Quarter-Master,were found
artumg the dead. The enemy lost the greatest part
of .their baggage and cattle. I transmit some of
their Papers and Letters. ,

Admiralty-Office, Feb. 2.6, 1811.
Copy of a Letter trout Captain Adderley, or his Majesty's
Sloop the Echo, addressed to Vice-Admiral Campbell, and
transmitted by the latter to john Wilson Croker, Esq.

His Majesty's Sloop Echo, Downs,
SIR, 234 Feb. ISt 1.
I beg leave to inform you, ,for the information of.
the Lords CoMmissioners of the Admiralty, of my
having, on the .41st instant, at eight A.M. in lati-
tude 49. 49. North, longitude 7. 6. West, fallen in
with the Confiance French sChoOner privateer, of
sixteen guns (fourteen of which she threw overbbard
in ihe chast), and sixty-two men, and after a chase
of eight hours, blowing hard, discovered two ships
a-head, which the chase observing, altered her
course, and we immediately succeeded in capturing
her. 'She app,,ars tube a very fine copper-bottomed
.fiotsel, sails remarkably fast, at.d is well calculated
for his Majesty's service.