The Sun.
London, England, 1811-04-16 00:00:00

GEIIIIIAN PAPERS.

Lowne ELBR; MARCH 15.—1 n the three new
Departinents, the 30th Light infantry regiment will
be rei ruited, and young volunteers will be permit,
ted to enlist•into it. Many young lath. of 14 and
upwards ewer voluntarily ►nto, the French marine
service.

A sugar-baker at namburgh has had his utensils
taken away, as well as his stdreot sugar, on which
the tariff was in part pail, and, partly not, because
he hAd made'a false declaration.
',At •Harritiurgh, and in Altana, three ladies have,
within a slion time, poisoned themselves.
In two VCSielg which lately arrived at Copenhagen,
there was discovered a great quantity of English
cotton goods, which were wrapped up in cotton-
wool, .

BANKS nP THE MAIN,,MARCH 9.7-According to
the Gazette de France, a, large detachment of the
Nassau contingent is destined lot, Spain, ,to complete
tfir Nassau troops there. „
At Frankfurt, those merchants who had not paid
,the tariff' on colonial produce have been .threatened
with tnilitatty escution.
r.

RXTRACT! OE! .ALETTER PROM ST, THOMAS, DATED

JANUARY

. .
" Report this marnink from Porto Rico mentions
the arrival of two frigates and three brigs of war off
St. John's,.sent ut by the Junta with 300,000 dol-
lars for'the fitting out and maintenance of smaller
vessels, la aA with them in preventing all intf,r-
course Willi' the Spanish Main, in conseqbence of
he different provinces having iefused to abey•the
ordinances' of the Junta.".

Ag MIONArAIiTII in his hite.official Ripers accused.
the l3ritialt Army of ha, hy devastm.!d t'ountry,
wherever they bad ocCasion I,it p-mOving in Portu-
gal, it is to be.hoped that some means Kill be lid:. o
'to let the French people knOw the horrors of %,hick
the Tyrant's .solotefs, under the command of IAsL.
SaNA, hate been g9ilty in thei- rewat from Smi-
lareth. Sortie method might.b:! pUt iil piaMiCe to
disperse an accuunt Of. those 'ho'rors on the Fo.nen
co?st ; and though perhaps the Frenio Peoph!
general are prepartri .to expect all•pos.sink a ro
from the troops of such .a Tyr,,rit, to tertile vom-,
ninud of on of . Lys instruments, yet they"will.lea to
to dictustany reficmi,•ns wh:ch may be i':ist
the Biltish 'troops, when they find that ih,ir own
deg-nerateounttytnett could be guilty of suei,
wanton hattarities, 4

BoXING EVIItAoRDINARY,--rt has been before
glared., that hi s: invitation McilineuX and .Rich,
mattes had oto 134-ming am, a town where pugi-
-I,,in is huh' in high estimation, and .w hiss( there the
ceowds aSiel'bied to see rt man .01 colour, ;who had
he,coniv so .tor.oiduble amongst our native professors,
was.excessire. The pugilists, after having received
the,caids-ut, -most' men in the faecy at Birmingham,
tusk a
,eireult to Nottingham, where setting to was.
the ord,,,r. he day. This country boasted amongst
themselves of ,belpg able to produce a man who
would bok with any matt in the kingdom, and after,
the ebony professors had set to with some amateurs
of I.ollSiltlii.q)a.; 'a
dire& challenge was sent by this
man, whose 'tame is Strieg, to light either. of the
blacks.- Here the honoer of the, boxers was at
stake, 'and Molinemr, at the request of a Gentle-
man ,amateur, offered to contend with' the country-
man with the gloves, in a FiVes Court; form. This
aruicable set-to, was in a minute reversed) and Moli-
nevi tetind, himself engaged in aaual battle' with a
man, six feet in height, of proportionate strength and.
make, aed one who hod the whole country.
A. very sharp condiA ensued, and the exchange of
hits .st rte. awful, even withihr.giove4. After about
ten rounds, in which the Mack had a decided ad.
vintage in what Crib had over him (science) the
Nottuighareshire chani,:ton gave in, after having
been hit down in almost every rotind. The Blaeks
arrived in London yesterday laden with treasure. .
A sad accident happened yesterday morning.to
one of the livery servants of her Royal Highness the
Princess of Wales. Whilst riding', at a Stuart ire!,
'through the turnpike at Marsh-gate glad; heath,
his horse was jammed in between a hackinl catch
driving tad the same way, and a cart comingag.iinst
him, The horse sprang with high spirit, and ths7
engaged itself ; bat dashed the right kg of the rider
against the cats wheel, by which his leg Was dread:-
fully frattured; Tee young Man, whoSe name is.
Green, about ie. years of age, was instantly con.
veyed ini&;the house of Mr, Foster, a surgeoufr to
Mount-Street, Lambeth, where he fainteg, add ie.
maitted rdrnwit-,setiseless while his leg watt under
operation.., being a et:input:lrd fracture, no opinion.
could then.,:be formed as to the probability of his
.recovery.,:
A, Aillgujar "Mt dreadful accident occurred a few
days ago,- on board his Majesty's ship illeedarrs':—
.a sailor having over-reached himself, fell from the
'main:•toe", just as'ille sentinel Was pas,ine.heneath:
pitched directly on the point of the bayonet, and was
WerMly ems tiled. The violence of theshock wrested
the piece from, the rums oft the sentinel, and threw
it, with its ,wretched Wither', over the gunwale
bus the pohr fellow found, iu one instant, a death
blow and'ar grave.

ilttilAciffr terrna ianbi AN .O.FFIC.IIII OF ;114

2.3 D 11EGIMBtfl

" 'I homar, March .17, iB►r.

" Allow the Ist itt'statit the Frrneh began to tutivit
their sick -and bag,4ti.,..; tontino.,d to fi -
til the 5111 at 1114111, ht. i Our. tight d;vison en!ered
Santarem, and tituod it t acant, but ticarly d2molisliL
ed,,it being sat on fire. At day-light on the sth, W*
marched from A‘evras de Lints' to Cartaxo; .but
from the strength of Santarem, and not having exati
information, whether the enemy Tad abandoned the
place or not, his Lordship was cautious, anti' we re•
turned to our old quarters for the &gilt. We agalti
marched at day•nteak on the dth, and entered S-n;.

taremin the evening, where we found the divfsioti
above mentioned 'had felt tticir-way the night before.
Our second day's march was to Golegao, wheve eat
found boiled beans left by the enemy, who had
quitted early in the morning,
". The third 'day' we reached Thom* in the
evening, and found 'that Ney had only left it in itle
morning—est, olose did we follow them up, by hard
and long marches over the worst roads in the worp;
The next night 'wet took op our abode the open
air, in constant rain, and had nothing tQ cover us
but our great coats and blankets—hard times !
From this ground we had a forted march of I hirp,
miles, and found nearly the whole of the British
army assembled on a.large plain near Pet-libel-a-our
division, with the light diVision, became the ad-
vanced guard of the- army. Pomba' we came
up with the enemyi and drove them out that etren
-but not till they had set it on fire and destroyed
it completely. From this town, they posted them-
selves very judiciously on a ranle of heights, with at
broad river and a tnarab in their flout. Nntwitti-
standing these obstacles, it was determined to at-
tack them, and' although we had marelied thirty
miles, its being nearly dark alone prevented us froni
doing it immediately. Every disposition Was made
to do it at day-hteak,,but they decamped 'the
night, leaving lerge tares.burning in order to deceite
us ;We came up them on a plain, close open
Redieba, whereCthey nude a atauds and a very
smart akirmish ensued: Ney
.commanded.
line and artillery were posted on the ridge of a hill;
from whence he threw a vast deal of round shot.--e
Our cavalry in Ide several desrerate chattes,
or no effeet. Our diVisiouliled into the plain, cots
sivingut the fohowing regittiettis
Ist Lille, 3d natl. I/7th, 401 h; and, gap),
and e3d Portuguese Regiments. 2,1 Line", i 6th
Porß n, :guese Regiment o the• right ; 23d Welsh
Fuzileets, and 711..Regintent, 2d battalions. Tile
Light Coinp.iiii‘!,s 01 the right nilade'(the Ist Line)
were thrown-Out In froar„ kn:a. skirinishtet, T. 4
enemy's attilletry'Tlayrd.pn us, in high style, :t‘ed
many shot passed rery cleae to me. Our first li
lost about *o:l.e. it killed and woUnded. To hale s,-eatus deploy' and Mitch in line, as we did, }•t-,1
nave been hiuly Pleased. I tiev.er saw bet ter. Ti a
troops were tit tiellighest spirits, and to 4.) j,35. 11,4
to the Pottuguese, they equalle i Cis. When per first
line had approached wig het atanut 4tlo yards, ,allll-
- fitiug, nut matching-steady as ii rock, in ordi-
.liary time, the ent-oly'f! Itilatthy began to retire,
'double- quick time, and the arellery and 'cavalry.
(iet6 a.ed the;r ex,.ittpk. fi.rtnyd
very ad'vantageons giout.d, in rt.lar of-the to). :n
.wat in His Lordllrin detached 3 (I-v shunt
tonut-11:11 thenly,,,Y;lo c,t4:411-3 officers and )400101i
and killed awl wuanded abou, 2.50. Our 14. ii Wttl
40: Wellington has shewn hintutte
skillui General, *Ney hes ma, ceuered with
great judgment. It was a beatniful sight, and evety
hint bu regular, as ait.a review to St...Lunea'a Park
Tile next day we had another ,Nkirmiah at Cun,..,
deiea, which was ,very warm. Oui division did t
fire, but was detached over the mountains to ti; '
left ,of tole .enetny,, lind.,had as hard a 'Match As
ever we experienced., Wu had. ao climb the matt •
ilttjicult places,. a`nd what with the' heat of Hie
weather, and being without provisions,' I vas
pearly 9chaueted. About four we entered a lovely'
little
,place, Panella, and marched on for, Espiii-
bel, where we arrived about six P. M. and tumid
that General Nightingall's brigade had passed close
to the plabe where llegnier was posted with 300(1
men, to prevent, our out ilasiking Ncy. Everyman
town was full of Indian tom bread, which
was very acceptable to General Nightingall's bri-
gade: The enemy bad eben cut wood ibr fires)
and brushwood to hut themselves, which fell to .
our lot. Regnter, , hurried ,over. the. mountains as
quick as he .eotild. 'fin the isth, at three P. M.
we received tt• dispatch from the Commander id
Chief, ordering us to march for the relief of 'llada-
jok, bat- that lace sea fallen it is said by treuhery.
1 witch we had been in time to have saved it. On
receiving the order, we marched until dark, whet!
we slept on the ground, and• a rainy night we bad
of it. Yesterday we marched info this town about 7
P.M. having performed a march of 35 miles. ti'o
halt here today, and to-morrow move on towarei
Portalegra: Marshal Bcresford gees with as. It
is supposed Massena is retiring on the ',Pante de
Murcella, not being able to pins by Coimbra,: art
.the
bridge is destroyed, and CoiOnel Trent is there with
.15,000 irregulars. An orderly book was round,.
,containing an order to burn every town through
which the: tear-guard passed
,Our being without
provisions was not "owing to any neglect ; the rapid
marching was tho tole cause. A. slitp bilicuit lasted
me fir !cur days, when 1, was necessitated to eat
;1.--isthWatalstiliharkse3rnu;
'boiled Indian corn
To,day, however,
fir its t,avir
salt fish and fre.h. beef Soap fee chimer, with
bottles of wine between four au. Dow I have
stood the fatigue and continually sletepeig out, I aut
astonished to think. Toank God, iii tft: ~t
all lam well. On the road born t, eitateei,
CA* a great inany dead Frenchmen, tract a vast nurrt-
' bet of horses. mutes, and as This retreat
equal to a victory."