The Sun.
London, England, 1811-10-16 00:00:00

centia.

" Girard'adivision of • the sth Corps, which 7 in.
formed your Lordship had been 'collected at Me-
rida, has retired from thenCe, and labs again been
cautoned in the neighbourhood of Zafra.
likewise learn, that General Foy, who bad
(ittiOanced as far al Zarza Major, in the valley of the
Alagon; with his own division, and one of the
Army of the Centre, has retired towards Pla-
centia." . _ .

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[We are under the necessity of postponing% the Liit of
Itit 1c:1 and Wounded till, to-inuirvw. It antount4 to su Wi-
t:di and 169 wounded,]

PLYMOUTH, Ocr. 14.—SaiW the bad/igen
goo•brig on a cruize.
.Arri.ed the: brig, (lope, of London, BROWNING,
1114ters from Gintaluir, iu ballast, twelve, days pas
sage; came a running, illy; and is under quaran-
tinc.—Al.,o arrived the Stork sloop of war trout
Cotk.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. fine frigate, the
Pomone, was totally. lost last night, in attempting to
Come Omagh the Needles. Shea was from the
Mediterranean, where she has been activell'employ-
ed, and has thought home Sir HAavaRL JON cis, our
;ate Ambassador tt. Persia All the crow and, 'pm.'
augers were saved by the exertions of the Tisiphone
guard-ship at .-Yarni:mtli, and the Escort. 'Thu IV-
:none was commanded by - Capt. and watt
lost by stoking on what is., termed,' the Liiidge, •at
dead, low. wate,r. . fridge is .a ridge, ex tending
tram the Needles Point across to. the Cinist.thutch •
shore. .Capt.- BARRIE was the lasi.to leave the ship.
Thti signal guns of distress were distinctly heard
here between eight and nine o'clock. .
Sir HARFOHL) JONIIS landed here about twelve
o'clock this day, and itninediately set off fot Lon.
.idom •
Sophie C3pt. LOCRY ER, . is gone down to the
-.Nsedles, to attempt saving any,. ot the wreck. that
may appear ; but troin the accounts.' have hoard,
havey every 'reason' to suppose the unforttic.ate
Poricone. is entirely gone to pieces, for althougtrt here
was not much wind, the point she struck on is
'most dangerous. .
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• Sailed *the ~4rnelia, Capt. „bray,: for the. coast of
Africa; Menelau.t, Captain PARICR/4. (iinanY for
'Sicily) -tor -Hindostan, with the Medi.
krraneati convoy. to Cowes Roads; Spi(fire, with
'.cotivoy for Cork and Western 14es.
.The Pinerale, Str HOME Yortliti,4, is' appointed
is succeed the Royal Oak, Captain IVlaccoc*, as
COMIIIGdOre of the Coerbourg squadron.

'FALMOUTH, OCT. 13.--.• Arrived this day ,the
Etizebetit packei, Capt. KIDD, with mails from
Lisbon, in six passag.
A ~kirmish took place on the 2gth ult, in which
the vticiny 700 men in killed, wounded, and
Kippers, and the British about 300. The Corn-
bmedmed Armies are gone into c4nionments; the enemy
hai• thrown supplieo into Ciudad Rodrigo. No
Tpacket was at Lisbon when the Princess Elizabeth
sailed.
, Arrived the brig Betsey, BOULTEIL, from Coil for
London, in a very till reused mate.
Sailed the Morrirturi armed Wig with a ileet of
coasters-tor Wales.
The packs is for the Brazils, Mediterranean, Ja.
maica; America, Portugal, and Spain„ ruts detained
by contrary wind.
Arrived the l'aize pacLt, with a mail, from
Sttrinam.

DEAL, OCT. 130,—Arrived his Majesty's shit
illiloiithech from 'off Flushing ; and the Jamaica Plan.
latAr.fruat• JarrialC3 the Jamaica Planter was me (.0
the missing ships she has sailed for the river.

tatION

VALENCA ba ALCAtITAIZA, Saar. '2O.- Dispatch
fort tient. Colonel POMELA to Gen. LACY

" Yesterday I marched for this place, where tl.e
6nemyi jit.gup)bOr 500., entered previous to my ar-:
rival ; I immediately determined to attack them,
and at two in the afternoon the firing commenced,
and the enemy was dislodged from their line, and
obliged to make a precipitate retreat ; they Were'pur-•
sued to Arau. In this battle the enemy had mmy
killed 'in the firsHine, and still more in the retreat.
Our lost' was four killed and five woUnded. ,

EtCrUCIAPCO, Aug. 7.

M. PON Ri.A.

The Army of Portugal appears to have received
a reinforcement of 4000 men, besides another of
hum 2 to 300.01 the tiro comes from Va►lsdolid,
and recently arrived from Prance; the latter are
convalescents front Sillarl.thea it ►ras likewise re•
ceived many horses to remount the cavalry, and for
•
the artillery set vice.
OltiklUßLA, Steer. s.—On the 31st ult. the
enemy .made their appearance about a in the morn-
ing, at the diitance of about a league from Lorca, to
the number °IVO horse and 200 infantyy; proceed-
ing to the Casa de'Meca, with a convoy of about 60
beasts of burthen which they meant to load with
grain. A signal uas immediately made► from the
castle, and our troops sallied out to prevent the rob-
bc►, and when they approached, the enemy com-
menced so brisk a tire that they obliged them to re-
tire .to their posts without finishing Ihditrg their
beasts. The firing lasted two hovers, and out patties
followed them in their retreat. ,

On the
.same morning there was an aelion be-
tween Velez Branco and Ittibio, the result of which
was, that eighty artillery men were surprised who
bad gone out to procure forage with eighty mules.
Otir parties made twenty-eight prisoners, and killed,
as many more; they also tool( thirty-seven mules
and a horse. The peasants likewise •took several
mules. At one in the afterndon of the Sanle'daY,
(the jtstj, the booty. was carried,into Lorca.. `. •
VALPINCA IYALCANTARA, 17.--;.tßelatipn
of the events of the third army. The expedition-
ary corps having united with the Army of Murcia,
General Bz.*E set ,out for Valenea, the

troops undot the or4ers of General Fasyka.'
On l ie gth August we were attacked in the posi,
tion of Raul. CludenA having left his position,

O'Dosssat,t. marched to succour him, end fought

with much glory and defeated' them. In Vertientas
the cavalry was attacked 'at the Bathe time, and suf-
fered a similar fate.

The Alivbions then took different rfintes, and
afterwaßl9 joinua in Hotta de Murcia, completing
a retreat &AR leagues.

On the 13th in the morning began to unite in
Murcia. The patriotic yarties of that kingddin, and
at the same tjme advice was received that the ene«
my had approached within cannon shot of the castle
of Lomat

Posterior to thii, Suui.T set out fur Seville with

300 lancers.

the:Lime day of the 13th, the main body of
enemy was iit Lumbreras, arid had burped the bar-
the neighbourhood of Lorca.
The French "gave indications of retreating, not-
withstanding a body of their cavalry pursued .our
guerillas clost;.to Lliu the castleof which opened
its‘fire upon them..
On the 4th, the enemy remained in Lumbreras,
and, accerling to the information of .a peasant from
Locca,ihad dispatched for Velez Rubeo, many-wag?
goes and beasts laden with grain,, with some troops
intliCAting every disposition to retire.
The loss of the.enemy, was considerable, Alia they
•darea not to attack us in our new positions; the re.-
salt, has been, that SOUL?", after having sacrificed a
great number of soldiers (or the sake of occupying a
small portion.of g.,tound, will shortly be obliged to
abandon it, or risk another battle, the, success of
which be.c.tnnot ex pea to be advantageous, on ac-
count of our positions, as well as the junction of
'the valiant MC/lei:111Si

GIF,NARAL OltDititS OF THE 15111 SIFFTEMDIM.

Theyptiant. ocidierr of the: Gin army have just co.
veied lhertiselves with glori try the valour with
which they,fought, arid the judgructit they evinced

manceUvering

Un the 25th ult. the French ermy presented itself
for thei'purpose at attacking, defeating,
,and dis-
persing us, but our troops, commanded by General.
ABADIA manceuvred with such skill in pre,ence of
the enemy-, that they drew them' to the point they,
to-give battle, and there waited fur them
with a confidence which announced viaary.
The enemy, accustomed to gain their. triumphs by
audacity, attempted to force our position; hut they
met with such a vigorous resistance that they were
repulsed, after sutfel rng a considerablelos'S in men ,
among the killed are, one General and one
Colonel, and among the wounded, three Graterals.
The infantry b itt,ilion of Reviro, distinguished it-
sal iu a Inuit particular manners, having tletoudel

for five: hours'a point-against the reiterated attacks
of four batt'alions of, the Liver. ii Gu ink The

enemy precepitately retired, leaving in our power
many Of their wounded, and provis ons for 'the army
for ;firer daya.,.

The division of Geneva! Voama; of the 7th
Army, pooessed inklf the 141t.1 ult. of the city
and forts of SarastAer, after an obsinate engage-
ment, in which our troops laye4:extraordinary
valour. The enemy suffered a loss of from .8, to GO?
wen, 100' of thenl prioniers. In this 1043 are in..
Chief, and 14 ()Akers.

The torts which detewied Santander were de-
moltshed. Our troops fought with the bayonet in
the si recto of the town, nod in no part could' the
enemy mist their vul ,ur. Ti.e best order in our,
attack, :Hid the greatest precision ip our moveffrents,
reutlered us triumphant in this glorious said).

The-G,neral in Chief, who floth what he has al-
reidy,experienced, did not expect in similar cireurn';
stances either less Order or less intrepidity lions the
soldiers Of the. fifth army, thus, with pleasure testi.
fief to them his satisfaetion.

LISZON, OCT. 5.-00 the std inst,, in the morn.,
ing, we experienced a tempest of wind here, which
'caU4ed an extraordinary agitation in Abe sea; it con.
tinned on the following day, occompanied•by a co»
pious rain. Many vessels anchored .in this rivet
suffered considerable damage, and some small boats
were lost.

. THE THEATRE.+6.The traSOrt CollC:oded Lict night,
at he Hiyinarkvi Theicre, with 0' The liehighted
71ravellers," " Duriniess Visilde," and " The
Quedrupeds Quedlinburgh "—Mr. ELLISTON ,at

the end 9it the satund ttirse pieces, vatcl
and aiaryillvd the audience in the 101143•Aitig spetch,
whah wig ireceived with very great ai,plause durft
ink its progress, and at its coticlu,ion
" LADINS AND GENTLEMEN,

ha 4 fallen to rtl lot, Isom the situation
which I hold in this Theatre, to deliver to )ou the
last' words of the season ,from the4)inprietors. As
lam sensible of the necessity of gUarding against
any misotception of the important and (as I stunt
it will be found) ititelesting marative which I !lave

to offer, in order to guard -a'g;taist any possible mis-
representationi, I have solicited of the Proprietors,
and Obtained a copy of the wards they 41811 ad-
dressed to you, which, Atli your: kitid itAlulgence,
I will now read,
" Ladies and Gentlemen—Titus say the Pro.
_pr t ors,
`‘‘ I ani desired, Ladies and Gentlemen, by the
Manager of this Theatre, to inform you, thiit on
this night they close a season of experimeel, which
'has been adopted, to save their intetests from mini.
halation, Without meaning to tictraiitr any com-
plain't against their great 'rivals, the: superiority of
whose theatrical ptivilegev such"rilials itai,e certainly
a ri:ght to'extrcise to their own irdvantage : with.
'out any intention of this nature, the Manbgers hero
beg le.tve ro stAe, that the increasing yr:Ara:44in of
perlormances,.. in what tile' c:flied: the Winter

Homes, and the extensive controol those Houses

poses over, persons engage,' in (limn, have created
an imperious necessity of establislring, gas nearly as
it has yet been found. posSible, a Company of Per-
for.neisirldcpendent of other London Play-houses,
as the, ocly,, method of preventing their property
from b..:ing totally destroyed, befot a further-means
may have been effe6ted 'to guard it.
". In, such. an -,tirdttoni .struggle, through the
.k.rtown generosity of this finetropoliS, the Managers
have met encouragetnent-i-if not to that extent
which May 'conclude to their prescnf profit, at least
in a. proportion to give them !tape', that (in addi-
tion to then laiinbie solicitatton to be relieved irons
certain restritiions), their perseverance to entertain
you, Aid, from time to Ime, an-aectunulation of
new talents, will' Crown their:efforts with that ulti-
mate-Success which ElfiliTh patronage is sure to
prailote, in censideralion. of Ott's(' who assiduously
labour to dtAelve it.
" This Tlieatre will re-open.st the earliest perloa
granted to.itt by its license.
The' Poilartners, Ladies and Gentlemen, beg
to join their most res,peetful thanks to thoie of the
Managers ; and we take our leaves undtr those
grateful impreisions' which your liberality must ever
inatlibl) fix upon our basomS." •

Tile new Farce of The Preen eyed Menai? WS
been juclicioudy cultailecl, and is, iikely to tveoms
one of ilie most attraetik;e entertainment* at diet
Lyceum. DUWTON and LOVSGAOVe Appear to
i,:it icular advantage, and the vosatility ut the lat.
ter is a.proof of utworninou talents,

• The following singular circumstance occurred on
Saturday last :--A couple Were mart led <<t a Church
at the West end of the town, tor, the third time;
the first time they were niartied, they were not of
age ; the second Itnt, toe license was filled up with
a wrong name, which rendered it ritl.essny lot
them to have .another, and go through the cere.
away again.

BURGLARY STA,IMoRIi• HtLI.,-.-The house of
Mr. Perbes;44ficti•is noted for ancient and valuable
curiositits colleiled by. the above G.:lineman in his
Continental travels, • was broken' and- entered by
thieves on NStednestby night last. Tin: rtioheo of
freed an entrance by boring it number .c,l
holes in the shutter of the litwiry %,,in(fow, and mutt
tearing away part of the wood. silificietit to ethibie
them to opt the window. it `
t:414 nut &MA/venal
that the house had bv. n beset until (nothing, wilvr4
it Was ib,curitiined that the livVer,ll eliso
ctlriels coins, &re.- had been opened, 35 %ell as
other locks in the hater part of the house. The
thieves, it is evident, ms.,st hoc been alarmed, as
'only a horn of rhillocete4 tipped g its
carried Bwa, and which hole the +'t he
gift of S. fllar in, Eq. to Joan Fortie4, Eta]." The
reioains of a candle was !timid in the library, 'slid
but for the itotithertte incident iit',l,l,ol, the robber,
would have had all CIMMVt,bo 4 lianniten,
the officer, bas been unsuccessful ittiliicuiteriag the
robbers-

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