The Sun.
London, England, 1811-09-24 00:00:00

DREADFUL FIDES 6n the CONTMEND.

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MUNO`EII, AUG. 28.7—The of this mouth'
was a lamentable day for this, to Nu. Abort ci4ht
o'clock in the evening; a. dreadful are broke ow;
and by nine the- whole town avpearrd one burning
mass. Two contents, with their churChes, the
1-,,nr
.of the parish chug ch and its steeple, and
in,ne thAri'3oo houses, became a prey 'to the flames.
VII.sHoVeiN, IN LAW,ilt BAVANIA,• AUG. 22.--.•
Yesferday , a destruttive tire consumed here 30
houses before it could be got under, and the rest of
the town' was with difficulty saved by the active
exertions of the inhabitants.

PETER:IBURGEI, • AUG. 14.—Abotit three weeks
.gig,) cl great' ti,re'llappcned at Kfew, winch hid a
vpat par.t of tile towel town in alnes.

(Jur private letters from Spain inform,ns that the
\e, tons 'wilting by Major. General Roctra, at Ali-
c,ut, to ,oniplete and. thscipline- the legiran he is
ra-intng, almost exceed credibility. If he had
hut c,o hilts and 'apointinenti tor infantry, cavalry,
and artillery, such is the. ardour of the Spaniards.to
serve ander a. British ()firer, that lie might have any
number he \o3liecl.—W,ell acquainted With their
peculiat c :,arader and prejudices-, h s mode rreat-
rng
t t:e Spanish soldiers has gaMed their entire- con,
fidettk-e; given gener4 satisfaction, and. added to this
meritorious GiAcer's well-earned popularity with the,
Spattrstt nation. This corps, called , the " Lrgion
con,is:s 01.5000 infantry, 800 artillery,
and throe troops of liors;!.artillely. 'We 'regret to
thALlttry- wa'nt of horse appointments of
ts,l r -4imeitt of .Murcia in paitictilar.,
the or,ters Ge ieral ROCHa, and in garrison
at A icalt, in appearauca and discipline, would ie-
,nnour on any Attny in Europe. , •
1111.mAr•tanct his daughter are gone to play a few
night, at. SAithampion. •Their success in town
may, .n( course, br expeaed to secure them the
Lvotir of provincial critic's.
The latU Dr. HAIN*, ii seems, had held the
tua:ion ot
.. M ester of tate Charter-House cutely 20
years on the day of his death; Dr. CHARLES RU,Ii.•
NKY otreied himsrif on a former occasion, and we
underitand that he is. again a candidate. No one,
we conce,ve, .can be' b:qter•-iin ititied for tile. situ
G.2olletuao, learn.ng, and
•expeti;,nce. r • , •

To day Bread was ordered to be advarvced ld per
peck ,t'he quarto o Loaf will then be Is. 4 id. • '
THU UAnvi ST.—The extraordinary cheapness•of
grain on the Contineot is thus spoken of in an arti-
cle.contained in thefiedgoland Mail of yesterday:
". The agricultural, as well as the cominercial state
of the Continent, we areinformed, is in a mostlic.
{filtrable coodition, In epitSeqUepeti.of the low pike.
of grain, it will not pay toe expellee of reaping ;
and su soave , places it left.to rot in tie fields. : In
Holstein .and Friesland rye is at the low price of
ids. per qtaarter, and wheat and other grain' pro.
portionably •
'lt May oat be unacceptable to those of our readers
who are not as-tionomical,• to he informed,- that' if
We were to doseend to We' bottom Of a, deep well,
We might see the Comet at nowt day. (ine. skykbe
lag clea,), fir it cooises our South owridiao about
-a quark: r past 1 Wet t:, at ao 'elevation of 83 degrees,
:passiug hot seven degrees of our zenith ; and
about a cit, irtt,r past twelve at night. it parses our,
•Isiorth' meridian, at an altitude of about seven de.
grees,, ar.skherefortx now it. never 'acts.
On Friday last, abotit,iour-o'clock in the at ternoon,
a violent tempest of thunder and lightning was expe-:.
rvocod at SMurport, very in its ettecds to.that
Which so lately devastated Worcester. Time
*dell accompanied it, broke an, immense number of
wiadowslit Stourport. It came fromi he east, and we
.hear, that in its coarse, it did Considemble mischief at
the palace oft lie Bishop of Worcester, at Hartlebdryi
where much of the glass in the house and gardens w rat
destroyed, About the samediour; the storm was very
.violent at Worcester: the principal body of it' seemed
attracted towards Malvern Hills : it was preceded. by
unusual gkom, and a thick cloud of dust, which was
'excited by a gale, the forerunner of the tempest, and
•-speedily laid by torrents of rain.: the lightning was
of a very vivid description y: but we:, have not yet
heard of any serious damage that has otictirred,
FIRM—An alarming tire broke out on Saturday
morning,' about four o'clock, in :Middle-row, Hui,.
born, %%Mai was toitunately discovered just time
enPugh.) to rescue the inhabitants, who. were in bed,
from their perilousesituatiOn. Another fire broke
out the. same night, about nine o'clock, in a'dvvel-
ling-hpuse in Newcastletstreet, Strand, which,
after doing considerable damage, was got out.

MEL

Duniatsr, sser. ig.--0a 'Dims lay last the Right.
ni. Lord Viscount CrAhley, Colonel of the 2d
Royal Surrey Regiment 01 Militia, arrived here from
1!:;-.glittid to take the command of that Regiment,
►taw sokimied at Mullingar,- The above. Regiment
wiis-,the first ..that-thmuithously_ volunkeefed
coontry.—t;tite hear that Ilk L.)rdship Is' deter,
mined to remain with heat during their stay ox
treland,

On Slturdly evening last ati a man named Ed.
word Breim3P, was:. returned front the lair •of
FettEtr,d, liis residence at Mobarnan, he was way.
laid,_ on
,the road by three men, who robbed hi4ll Of
so►tie money, the price of some sheep- which •tre,.trad'•
sold titthe fair; and ducer pair of. shoes which hc .
h pui chased there. Two of the tieripan -.1..)ra.• •
I.,roons cOming at the moment, the ruttiatiq fled. •
'h Dragoons- having continued their ropte, it is:
Supposed that Brennan was attacked:agui, as he
Was foond about half a Mile further on, speechless'
and insensible, appareinlY strangled.. lie sorviyea • •
abuni twenty hours-7-ho could give no information. •
as to h s npArderers. • An. inquest was held
.p.lt his
hoar nn Monday, When a verdict was returned of
ry
wilful murder against some person or pejsons4.m-,
knoWn.—Chin, Her: , ,•• . •
On :Sunday evening last,' as twp men named".
H'ackett and Bishop neighbours, were drinking at
a pribfic-bouse in ,Cashel, some dispute arose be-
t wee.it them, when Hackett gave Bishop so desperate
a viounit, wit ht, knife in the belly, that ho languisited. •
for 43 hours in the greatest agony and expired.---
An Inclm=-!.st was held on his holy, and a Verdict of
wilful murder brought in against Hackett, who itn.
mediatel)
Some days since the.wife of one Henessey, who
lives 'at Knockgrasson,
_near Cahn-, was found' .•
strangled in the held adjoining her own hobse.—i-ler
husband stated. that he and his wife were attackett
and pursued by three at' tour persons, thai th.ey se-
parated in their and that on his return Ite-
found his wile dead,, An Inquest was held on the
body, ind a -verdid returned of wilful murder
.against some persons unknown.-4b•,- •
On Saturday morning --a most melancholy acci7-
dent happened 'at the Old Market -Place, Cork. 74
A horse with a car d
attached to him, took head an
ran Most furiously through the streets towards
Mallow4ane, overrunning every one Who came
before him; by which, and in consequence of the_
streets being extremely crowded, many people'
have been .serionsly, injured.. One child of: four
yeari'old has been killed, and. several persons; its
general Women, 4tve had their legs and arnis
.
broken.

Since the arrival oT-theirish 'Militia in England,
the men have been allowed to volunteer iota the
The,City ut Dublin; North Cork; and Lime.'
rick have nearly finished their quota.
Five hundred and fifty French •prisorters were on
S'aturday embrrked 'On board his Majesty's ship Di-
adem, froni.the different prison-ships at Portsmouth,'
to sail fur Leith. ,'Several hundreds. order.
more are
ed to be shipped for the same destination in the
course of a few days.
'lltto,VTTA.—Yesterday the annual premiums given
by several Gentlemen to the Apprebtlees tzit Water.
men ‘vere rowed for by six CAndid,ites,.ip wheiriet,
iu four hi!3ts. The distanc,j was a mile and h dt'
'ant) the three first -were to deciJe the prin.
cipol pri2Os 101. I. and 31. 'They tarted fur the
st heat soon alter tht ce tidock trout iltaclstriar's,
bridge, which was • won by Liwts ; the sec-nd
LL:24,HAM, and the 'bird by HaNt+MSON. The
three successful yOuilts then made 41 tine display (if
their skill at the oar, in, decfdrng the lotirth,hcat,
and nothing but
,90petiiir strength in Lewis gave Info
the advant.ige over HerwcittsoN kind LIL!iiiAM. The
riuvelty of the gterti.l ekrited.the attetition of a vast'
ass ArVkige of people on the bridge the unfa.
your ode suite of the ‘Ve opOrate,l to diminish
the numbrpf-agnibie ans'iteUts, whOse absence ma»,
terially interfered wctli tne intentions of the pro•
mot,rB of the nk.g te (ger further prizes on
`this occasion, but ••.% high will be rene%yed la a few
days.
General. ARADIA has writ ten to the Junta of Gall
licia, giing.sotne pintictiLirs of the hattielf
,The intention of the eilolll V in their adv..mco
from BOnaVetlie, V. 7.48, lie. observes, to march Nl-
pldly upon Lego, which they ioneant tt, forolY', and
then proceed upon Corunna, which was to be taker'
by a soap-de-iniiiii. l the above tc..liort,..,it is
stated, that the Freneli-lost General Corsin, and the
Colonel 'of the 72d the Colonels of the i:7th, 34th,
and of the re,itneot of the Visiok, beinit wounded,
General Almdid speaks highly tit the bravery of hi*
troops, but laments their,deficiency in.equipmeinsi.
par licularty shoes. Ii seems ceitaiil that the French
have again retied bqund Astorg 6thi...r sty conot-,
quenoe ut the thremened advane, of Lord:
1(.3, or, Ilia Mendeinv, it.),;itiost Wit It General Aba«
dci look oti their let, the nuintrer of Gallician
t.%tiatttry Who were in arms.

fe(erenee to the Gl. to .01 the ifith of last
m,,oth, the following statement will explain tally
the exertions made at Birmingham fur the service
of the public.—Taking the inusket-luck fur the cri.
terion it) point of numbers, as all other materims,
such as barrelsi bayonets, riimm6sre i
rs,&nacd.olo,
iCnc6l4ll:ule.cliev:
the manufaature of muskets,
greater quantities, the weekly iiVel'ae of the sup
ply of musket-locks
.for the, year 18014 was not,
qutm 2000, since whichi by the unretnitted att. 0111,
lion of the itlsp,e6or of mall Arms, they have
increitua.; : and if .reference is ha 3
td
ifverageeciken for three mouths tea shew suet., pro..
giession, then the average,. preceding the Isl. July,
f 3 lu, is Owards rsor 5000 011.1Skef-lOCkS ;
and at this present tune, the weeklyraverage is 5700.
Previouslo the appointment of Ore, A'ssistai Inspec-
tor of Small Arms, the ainufocture tor nyishets had
commenced at the Tower, under the pr z.sent
ltitend:int, and two foremen, with arooot to en,y #
workmen, rind their numb,:irs increasie.g daily. The
breaking up of old roo,#kets had. ro,so cuinmett:;ed
11.)orie,v sto
for he til:neraptor4sTionit Teler,ittl
iofot
rie2pA, Jrsaistitiaenttniunsskp:tes.i.
and selecting sound ol.norials for the purpose of
setting up extra-service muskets. *fins selection wag
gteatly accelerated by t:.11!.1)1Qyillit non-commissioned
Officers, and a party of soldiers who received from
times the chreaion of the insvettor of Small