The Sun.
London, England, 1811-05-20 00:00:00

"liSor Castle, May iB, Ott.
" HisjbliwasrY is quite well as be was Wit.

(Signed as usual.)

The Gazette of Saturday contains the Letter of
Capt. HOSTO, giving an account of the defeat of the
French ti qual run in the Adriatic. The more we
cotnetnplaie the circumstances of this action, the
.
mete we lte inclined to rank tt with, the most brit.,

Ham achievements ole" the. war. The enemy's4oree
amounted to 11 'vessels of war; the British fiquadroti
consisted-onirbflour. The enemy had liVe heavy
fri3ates carrying more Men, more give, and of
heavier rtteiat thLtn ours ; ihey had besides a large
corvette, very nearly equal in, size and force tp any..
ofour.frigates. ,The other vesiels,belonging to oho
Frenchscdta idron were, it is true, small, but they
had it in their power to rake and to annoy our ships'
very ninth, While they were engaging, the French
frigates. The enemy,had beAdes the advantage of
the wind, whichfinabled them to .begin en-
gagement in the. mannOr they thought proper._
Under all these circutnitancres the enemy were de-
feated, and four of theii frigates taken or dcst*royetl.
We say foUr frigates, becausethe /lora, havngstruot
llcr Colouts, belongs to Ll 4, her Captain,
in vivialloji thelaws of war, made. his escape
after he had submitted.

The letter Of Captain Dome& Confirms what we.
stattil (311 Satiarday tespeetit% the capture of Figueras;
bot some doubt beelllS 10 exist respecting Gerona
and.. Hostiiiricb ; the words in. Captain .totLeres
latter ~are, the. tall of •Figtteras -has-roused the
ppaniapli, who ate arming itrull, direellons, apd
Hotztli kit and Gerona,are at this tuornettt garrison-
ed by Sp4cik,b troops:" It is not perfectly char
!tom this .expression, wlietit‘T those two. places
have aaually sitrrendered to the Spaniards, or
vrheth& they are gtirtituned by ti•,e Spat ish troops
iii the iervice of France. It stettts strange that the
surrender of a place of. such iiiipoil'at.Ce Geton:t
should only be mentioned incidently, as it is in
'CaptainBFLIAN'S Letter; on the other hand, it is
ditlfieult to suppose that the French General would
trust the defence of Gerona and Hostait lel' to Spanish
troops foretid into the French' service, unless indeed
he was cons entratin3 his troops for the purpMe of
evacuating the province altogether.

InLowing intelligence was this morning rP.'..-
ceived at Lloyci!s:,---
' The Faints, Put,Las, of sod fern Penzance, on
her passage to Gibrisittir, fril in with,. in Nr. 42. 36.
long. g. 50. (date WI inentiorhAl) a French 74 gun
ship, full of troops, steering south-west, and was
detained a tew hours.''

An dinholl Mei/ arrived this morning, :but it
brings no news of importance. The private
ac-
counts from the North 84 still of ti confused arid
eontradiaory natura. The rumours 'of war are cir-
culated with as much OolficionCe as ever; but on
the other hand, it it stated that BUONAPARTB has
arranged all bisdlfferences with ALEXANDER. rhc
'that the tyranny of BUoNAPARTE is So ex-
cessive; and, the restridinus lie has laid upon all in-
tercourse are SO severe, that the people on the Con-
tinent are almost strangers to every event that demos
not happen in their own immediate vicinity, and
therefore a is not difficult to account for the contra-
didory rumours which are so frequently circulated.
it is SiliclAbet BUOIIiPkRTE has made an attempt 'to
kidnap the King or PRUSSIA, and that his Majesty
btu) fled to Russia for proteet ion. We give this
story as it reacted us, without at all pledging our-
selves for its truth. Sorne' dlitarbancei bate' cer-
t„iniy takt:ll place in'theNort h, th9ugh, for the reasons
we have givers; vee cannot obtain any accurate details
'lmo the subjeft, A'Consid -ruble no tuber of wounded
Frenchmen were recently brought into Maritime),
but the' most profound secrecy was observed upon
the ft was however conjunured that they
„tit augoe of thoo who were wounded in the attack
vpun Colberg.

We regret vary much that we have not room to-
day, to insert the'Dekate winch took place et the
tvleetity of the Catholic Committee, in Dublin,
gkturday stork. We iloret, however, to be able
to lay it before our Resdert to-morrow, It is eri,,
from those proceel,ngs, that the resptolable
part the Auwan Catholics disapprove of the vio-

means w.bkh haNd btren'uted oliiifna petition
.for ttio.rinnoviii of the Doke of ,RIGIIMUND and
PoLz.

We have received son;e Spanish Papers, one of
which contains a Letter fruni'General LABOIZADAL,
in which he affitms that the Bpankartis were vigpr.
otisiy engaged at Barrosa. flis account is to us
utterly-inexplicablc.

Thit morning the bidding for the 1,63 n took
place at tbQ Treasury Charubcis. Our Render., will
Irecoilea that the biangs were to be iu tlie Lou);

Annuities.

The terms offered were,—

S. d.
6 Cc
- 6 is

Robots, Curtis, and Co,
Ricardo, Barnes, and. Co.
Baring, Argorsteln, and Co. - 7 4
Reed, trying, at4l' • 7 S
The offers of 141...ssrs.,1103AaTs and Co. and Ilt•
c4tno and Co. being the same, they divided the
Loan between them.
The following is 'a calculation of the terms on
which the Loan hai been made
to,t. 3per Cent. Reduced, at 64 ,C 64 2 6
tot. 3 per Ccrit. Conwis, at 6;,} - 13 o 6
241. 4 Per Cents. it 16 o 6
Long Annuity - 17 $.16 . 5 I'd o
riiscount . . . 2o q

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