The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-07-25 00:00:00

• she white jacket ; witness identified the g in, soil aid that the direction in which 1 suet running led towards Doneraile ; Mr. sea ideatifled him amongst a great number. lie immediately distinguished him by goiL hog his coat. Cross examined. This witnee. b he made the prisoner strip off the coat, and fosse while jacket underneath it; it might hive bees s mile from Mr. Towssend's house, sad it was between one and two e'eleek in the day when bo weremed•elshisi Here the case for the prosecatios closed, and Nancy poche was examioed for the dehisce of *Doonell. She bad been i eirvaat to Mrs. Townsend at — th;" ' and left her in conempience of: her mistress eying to the salt 'water; was standing at the hall doiie When the men same in, mad saw all that (recurred in the hall; *Donnell was not one of the men; knows him three years; dims not think Nagle was there, although hie is imatetbins like.one of the Men that was present; is positirely *Donnell was not one of those who MOO Sir Stair* With her mistress. ' Mary Fox Wit sext examined-- - She was in the house at the time. and swore positively, and rather premature: ly, that *Despoil had not been there. Owes *Donnell swore, that on the day in question ' lie saw dm prisoner *Donnell about a mile from Far-, fillywith a puree of iron, which be Was taking to 'a for in between twelve and one o'clock • saw hits ' 'insetting from the forge with irons; badinen at., a' funeral in the neighbourhood: . . • John• M'Doanell was vxmakwill for the deface of Nagle; and swore he - 10414m it work for him on•tbe, day of the attack kora. easeelsi until two o'clock; bad been trenehime gegitnitieltar Wt Nagle for tone is the woraiegokeiVwfaims be :stormed he found him atiil at work. ..ilieheel Horrigan was neansined• for the defence of Sullivan, with whom, he said, Ise-bad been at work all the day of the attack, twill hey', arrested along with him by a policeman; prisoner had a white waistcoat, bet after dinner he put a coat over it. David Horrigan was examined for M'Donnell's de fear', in addition to Nancy Roche, Mary Fox. and ()wen M'Donnell. Witness saw him going to Shushan , " with iron to make shoes for his horse, and saw bin roe turning between twelve and one o'clock. His lordship now addressed the Jury, and after stating. the grounds of each particular indictment, he went meet circutostantially•into the evidence, first pointing oat necessity of giving to this case torte most serious atone Hoe, and observing, that if, on deliberation. they were ssti.tiell that all the prisoners were milky, they ought to find a verdict accordingly; but, that •if any reasonable doubt oecurred to them, relative to the guilt of any, or all, or either of the prisoners, they wets in duty bound to give the prisoners the beoefit of that doubt, and the more particularly, as this was a case, which, if a verdict of guilty were retnrned. would inevitably involve the forfeiture of the prisoners' lives. After recapitulating the•evideoce, be made come further observations upon it, drawieg with the nicest discrimination the line of Ws. tinction which was to regulate their verdict, and commit.. ting to their intelligence, justness, and tranquil delibera tion, all the circumstances of this important case. - In brit' an boar, a verdict was returned, finding Mi. chael *Donnell and Daniel Nagle guilty, and acquite tine Sullivan. The framed Judge then, in a most impressive man ner, addressed the prisonets. He observed that they bad beets indicted, tried for, add found guilty of. one of tlio.e crimes which had so long afflicted. and go long di-gratxd the country—and for which they were pow about to pay the forfeit of their lives. The coststry stew groaning under the effect of this outrage's" Visits and it was impossible for it to remain.* its promo Ow dition--either the country will be brought to rula by inch desperation and crime, or the wretched instigators of the destructive system. will inevitably be placed in the same deplorable situation ai that is which the pri sutlers, stood at present. He commented on tits atrocity of the crime, committed, as it Sue s in the middle of day, at a gentleman's house. in the face of the world, and observed, that if the entire Court bad not been witnesses cf the repetitions of this outrage, the natural improba* of its occurrrace would furnish the : strongest gr(..4nd.; for a disbelief of it altogether. He dwelt on the impartiality, the conscientiousuese, and the great mercy of the Jury, which was no less remerkableiliao that of their very great intelligence. He adverted again to the wickedness, the weakness, sod the madness otthe infa . listed beings. who, instead of being an honour, or a ' p ide, or of any advantage to the country, must contd. to every day to its ruin and degradation. He conjored not to expect any mercy on this side of the grave ; they should be allowed a reasonable time, and he begged, of them to rnske roe of it; he geold not hold out the si omit hcp- to them that the 'mini sentence which lie vas atont to pass could be commuted, or even delayed beyond a very short period. His Lordship then passed upon the priaoners the awful lenience of death, after which thee were removed from the bar, apparently quite seosible of their deplorable situat'on. THE ading took place on the IStis, it roast. hove bees direct ed against the vine's of El Borgo ; but the idea of the' Frentishombardhig the town, if Coronet is meat, IS ridiculous, not only op 'vacant of their distance on the Ztb, ; but because they were not provided with mortars to throw shells ; and if they bad, there was no time to hiennt them. The feet is, they could not have Cann • adedCornnna, unless they had been in possession of the heights of St. Lucia, precisely tbe• same the Spanish peaty was pbsted to d efend ; and before they could have pined them, some -hard fighting must have taken plate. - The only additional letters we .have seen respecting Pleaffitir, are the followitsg. The one it seems, is fres resident in Coronas, and may be deserving respects the other, it is alleged, is dated Bordeaux; bat from its very date,is totally unworthy df (*alit. From the Bayonne papers we have received to day. though of a sabseqsent date, it is erident ithat no ioteUirince respecting Corne as, had the!) reached that place. Eifiraet.of a letter from Cornelis, July 16.—'t In eons,- guano* of its being known here that a body of the Pion*. army, consisting of from eight to tea thousand noimilimie advancing against this eity, preparations were made here with great dispatch to defend the place. The garrison, consisting of fifteen hundred regular troops, some militia, a considerable number of voluateers, and several foreign and English officers of distinction, marched out from here and.roolt up a strong position in the neighbourhood, with a view of intercepting the advance of the enemy.' &song them were Sir Robert Wilson and Colonel fight, r whose exertions in forming and` improving the troops in this place have been most useful sod eorivicuoue. The whole of the forces were under the dheafots , of Oseeral Qet-. roga. and On the 16th Iseult the Trench commenced a sodden and violent 'atm& .upon them with very great apperiority of lone; and a most desperatill and stubborn contest eommeneed. The great superiority Of the enemy, however, rendered a resistance of any long' daration impossible on the part of the Spaniards, a-. *Sty were ultimately obliged to retire within our forth!. cations, which they did in good order, pursued by the enemy, even to - within roach of the cannot', which open ed open the French forces, and caused them great loss.— In this eagagemeat, we lament to say Sir Robert Wilma was wounded in the lower part of the thigh, bat the wound has been dressed, and he is doing well. It is not of so serious a nature as to prohibit his continuing to take an active part in the defence of the place. Colonel Light, who acted in the capacity of Aid-de-camp to 136.1 neral Wilson, was so severely wounded, we understand from -report, in two places, but is also doing well, though of coarse. incapacitated from making any further exer. tions. On the retreat of the Spanish troops the enemy advanced towards the city, and have commenced a very heavy c..ononade, which is yet coutinoing.and is returned by the garrison; but from the great superiority,of the enemy weentectain fears that the French will ultimately prevaiL Their loss has hitherto been very considerable, consisting. as far as report can be trusted, of three or four hundred killed, and about five hundred wounded,— Tips loss on our part has net been mach; the olficerii flage.much exerted themselves. and several have been VOtinded, some severely. Some of the inhabitants are taking refuge on board the shipping, sod some vessels have sailed in ballast, having several puttee ngars for England and elsewhere. Up to the moment : of wilting this (9. P. 11.) the firing continues with encrearied via lenre on both sides, and the. greatest toilfu 1.... raffili among us." • . . The following are the contests of this 'letter to which we prisoner, 8011 i necessary to aboadon the exterior heights to 11Pressis, he hal b-en at- op o rol • _lardy the k' dr. Toirosend's c b ' per, from *bons ft e 'n y any . • i Net ms,tod . llol- beota. ritnrs, said, that Such-limn won dhe the poilfiona of the two a and found the tha - 1111011atthertilinfit'addlintild ff base alluded, &toad Bardeaux,Jeby 17:— • • . Acoounts brae just been 'received hers of NW of the French into Corson on the 16th, after a seams &Won, Js whieh.the Constitutionalists, coder Quiroga and Wilson, were completely a...thrown- What has bosom* of Sir Robert Wilson and his Mends 4 not correctly 'known : It Is, however, believed, that they hate not bees able to effect their escape." • MAILS. ►U. • 311111. • 1.... Goblin 0 0....R011and. • I I....Waterford 0 I•• • • & Jersey• •• •0 0.. • • Franca ....0 0 I ...Flandars .• o....Gottenburg I 0.....Pda1ta ... .. Sr. JAMES'S.—Holiday et the ergo. ' FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1523. STOCK EXCURSIVE, 12 ecLoci.—Althoogli it is a holiday at the Bank, the Steck Exchange remains open, and Consols opened at 821 to 83, at which price they have remained steady, with little-or no besieges doing. It is stated that anExpress from Paris brings the French - Funds at 91-60. We have no farther particulars that can be depended on of the battle of Coronas. FORKf ON Futens.--in all Foreign Securities there is Iscarcely any thing doing this morning, and tha Market jis very heavy. 'French Scrip bas been done 2i, but has lowered to 11, 2. New Spanish Bonds, !6;}--New Prussian, 11511.—Res sia,1144—Coloohten, 6th to ft—Danish, nothing done.— Chill, 701. We have received this morning Brussels papers to tbe 23d inst., and Bayonne papers to the 18th. By the for met we learn that the French Government has or dered the formation of several new Regiments of in fantry, and that troops of every description continue to be detached from. the Northern Frontiers to reinforce the army,in Spain. France, it is observed, has taken the opportunity of the war to augment its army: the following is given as its present effective force :—Royal Guard. composed of above 20,000 men, all chosen troops: infantry of Me Line. 130,000 men under arms : Swiss Regiments. 10,000 men : Legion of Prince Rohenloe. 3,000 men: Cavalry, 30,000, not including Officers' horses: Gendarmerie, 14,000 men. This list does not include, the Artillery, the regiments of Earopians, and the Light Infantry. The followiag are ex tracts frout these papers :- BIttIiSICLII, 18th JULT. An English Cabinet Messenger on his way from Lon don* to Constantinople with dispatches, passed -theal i ii. ibis City yesterday afternoon. July 21.—The Pilgrimage of the Patriotic Society. of Waterloo ter tlut debt of battle of that name, which was adjourned on screont of the absence of IL R. H. Prince Predirick, the Patron of the Society, has been 4zed by t h a t Pence, for Monday, the Edth of this month. FRINIIIPORT, July 16.—Prince Nariscbkin, Hi g h Chamberlain to e -his Majesty the Emperor of Hassle, • lam atatelintan. CORUNNA. The intelligence we have hitherto been able to collect resu , c‘ing the conflict or conflicts before Coruna, is will very incomplete and verse. The accounts which !mind in town yesterday were brought by two vessels one of which left Coranna on the 15th. and the other on the 17th; for though the latter sailed from that place on the 16th. he remained off the coast till the evening of the following day, when the firing, which I:+d been renewed in the morning, became more general end extended, Of tie result of this new attack no intel ligence can be obtained till the next arrivals. There is some reason to suppose that our gallant coon- Uvulae, Sir Robert Wilson, bad been entrusted with the defence of Corinna. His appointment by the Cortes to the rank of bleetenant-Oeneral, decreed at Cadiz in th-lr . sitting of tit; lst test., arrived at Carotins on the 13th. ,Qnsenga, it is said, left Coruna& on the following env for Vigo with part of his troops, this latter place b-ing in a better state thin Carotins for sustaining a siege by the French: In the absence er"Qeiroga.Slr R. .Wilsen would be the officer of the'highest rank at Corun-. no. and would therefore tike the command a the garrison as a matter of course. . in order to form. a judgment of the affairs that tare taken place, it may be proper to notice the condition and relative position of the town. On the 13th ult. Cterunisa had a garrison 143.500 men, and in addition to this, be tween 6 and 7.1)00, Spanish troops, according to the NM 'aeration in .our -Paper of Tuesday, Were posted in the vicinity at s place called Et Bingo, - near the bridge over the Mero, and in the tillages on • the road leading to St:Jago. The fact is. the positions of the army of tialicia were, at the above slam- exactly she state as those held by Sir 'Jobs" . Moore on the 15th, 16th and'l7th January. Mk . 'Wed at the time he was retreating before the French, positions which he had selected for the purpose of reverie, the erfiharkation of his troops. theerals Quiroga and Wit t : son were then daily espectior the advance of the French,' and as it is new turns out with pest reason, mid a deter mination to defend she surrounding bills- and ground between the Hero and the towk, en the principle that if none abandoned, the city Magid - be expected to a galling fire; In case the French were abli: to bring up artillery ; but with which, nevertheless, It was lie* knew& they were scantily provided. Coruna is surrounded by two ranges of bills. in the foetus of an ansplikbentre, the lowest nearest the town, and the bight/ ones about 'four miles distant. With so small a form, it world be 1 . I "..- ....',,1....1.11,r........ __ ,:_:. .: NESMAN , - yesterd sy. his 0610111141 1 !Poite.il n Counsellor of StiMoort Sib on bin way to P4 . ll.ls r ebartignel ry mission front tbs. Mu' of tberittiefiev: • " - ' 10 +6 4- The Barione papers state, thit accounts frPol Madrid my, that these is considerable fermentation in that capital, on account of the successive departure of 'troops, and a report which . is in circulation, that the 'Mud-quarters are to be reoutia to Seville -Should this take plies. j a ?try strong garrison 'MU be required to • lee' the populace in !heck, who will commit' die igrutest excessei. It is reported that Ballasteros has entered Andalusia with, 24,000 men, and that he has been jobbed by the troops of Lopez Banos, and Alava; op leaving, the country where he has been for some time, he -has thrown *Uri into Alicant and Carthagena, wad left the numerous guerillas in the country to harrass General Molitor, who occupies so extensive-a line that be can hardly un ,dertake any thing decisive. The troops that come now are for the army of Re' alive under • Marshal LUriaton; 'which is to be siege Fampeluna, Si Sebastian,. and Santona, tie soon as it is sufficiestly strong. With respect to the latter place, it seems that the troops of the Faith that blockaded it hive suddenly dispersed, aid the French general bas bees obliged to send troops to suppl'i their place. Letters froS Saragossa say that a report had been spread there of the death of Mins. at Barcelona. There 'is every appearance of this news being. false. The Bishop of Tarragona who bad; been long in Bayonne.was gone to his diocese. : • These papers contain an extract of a letter *OM . Ma drid. After describing the state of parties in Spain. and reckoning what be terms the violent Constitationalists, as having itt their ranks at.least 80,000 combatants, in cluding the garrisons of 30 fortresses, which are is their possession, the writer• then proceeds to notice the milita ry state of Spain. '" It cannot be denied," says he, "that the French army is in wbat military men call a false posit:on•,becanse any serious check might lead to the necessity . of evacuating the capital, and abandoning An dalusia. There is no doubt tbnt the force of Board.- Goalie, which is 16,000 men. including the Royalists, is sufficient for the present to blockade Cadiz ; bat it is ne cessary to keep Ballasteroa in check, who, after putting Alicant and Carthagena in *state of defence, and left a di vision of 3000 men on, the right of the linear. has marched towards Grenada with 8000 see a' another Constitutional division of 4000 MOD is in the province of Cuenca; its geerillas entered Sortie Sierra, the province of Madrid, and almost to the gates of the capital : the Royalist division of Busies*, which wis sent to combat it„ has been completely beaten near Cuenca. and it has been necessary to send French troops to support him, while others left Madrid four days ago for Ciudad Real, and Talavera, so that our garrison amounts to little more than 2,ooolnfantry and 400 horse. French troops; and a body of 1,000 men, Spanish Royalists, which le organizing, but which wilt Le hardly formed Into a regiment, unless the Duke's treasury pays the espence. Badajox is in a respectable state of defence. and the allied• eaters tref 1,500 men. which have 'tight to blockade it, has not bees able to' effect its press,. This fortress Las become the point tapped of various guerillas which scour Andalesikand Estremadura, while Ciudad Rodrigo protects the Con stitutionalists of Old Castilie,tbe guerillas of which daily attack Salamanca, Zamora, and Toro, make excursions en the banks of the Douro, and in the plains of Vallado lid, and seek merely to keep the people is check, and to harrass the garrisons and columns of the allied troop." The eouttatutications between the Portegammtablned and the Regency at Madrid are very frequent, and it seemstheeo, is an intention of forming, on the banks of the Misho, as expedition to act against the Constitutionalists of Gentile, the command of which, ll is said, will be given to . Coital Arearante.A kind of Spanish Committee of the Faith has been formed, with a view to excite an insurrection in the Pro minces of Fey and Oreuse. The Constitetiocal corps which guarded the entrance of the Asturias have been diminished by desertion, and obliged to yield, after some combats: about 700 base retired towards Poles ; the rest to Galicia. IhMlieleads leilloria and Rioja are too weak to oppose the iLepalist columns, chiefly composed of National Guards, pose of them commended by Priests.- The three provinces ing Severn are tranquil. The accounts from Arregott ;mimics the march of Molitor towards Murcia, end say It ise Minh for that General to maintain himself in so inipasivo a linee—Ballesteros hes experienced some deur; Was in his retreat, and it is said to be the Duke's plan to seed against him all the troops that can be spared, in hopes of destroying him In Andalusia. The ripen of mime s death became sore positive: , - Rotes, Milani, Llobera, and St. level inn 10.000 men at Barcelona ; it Is thought that they will Abe the place to be blockaded and go with their main force elsewhere. The arrivals from Coronae yesterday created a coosi derable interest in the metropolis; which the want of details tended to wocrease. In the uncertainty as to the final result of the' attack on that important place, our Ultra journals are sery anxious to deduce some hopes that the French hive been the ultimate victors; and one of them refers to an article in a French paper, from Ma drid, for a statement that Quiroga had been " completely " defeated on tbe . l3th or 14th; and that Ferrol was en " tend by the French on the 14th." To chew she im portance of this place to the French, we are reminded that in 1800 the Englieh attacked it in vain! The jour-. nal then begins to enumerate his points in this way— " First ; It is dear that Quiroga was beaten on the 13th " or 14tbasst. at some distance from Coronas." Now, we do not use that this is clear at all; for the article from Madrid, a very suspicions source, at beat, does not hap pen to claim Any thing like a complete victory over Quiroga. Next, if the victory bad been to complete, it le not probable that Corinna would have made any for. Sher resistance;—and, lastly, the lateit vessel from the coast announces that the firing continued ; nod was more extended and heavy, when the finally lost sight.of the. _tone. So that Corson& may yet be savedosetwithetastl- _. _ - > ~~x -- - - _- ---- r- - trill*: strong desire of oar psendo•patrlo s that it should eholkipisession of the Franc** Lo t ahaeace of tisilanr - which mien explaft *le imitter, we can only refer to pone previously ascertained facts, in order to -foiled ai expectation that Corinna ought not to be so - very easy a prize, as the anemias of Spanish independence anticipate. It is a town capable of defence. These are .esithis It suoterens troops samba to the.Constitudee r • The lababitants are understood to be also well dispose* . to tee cause of freedom. There are officers both natist., and foreign, who are deeply pledged to hazard all bat . honor, in the noble struggle against foreign.. thraldom. The sea is epos foc supplies of all Idudet and there has been ample time for the necessary pre& paragon. That such a place should be captered at the first attack is not probable. The very disposition to resist, would be somewhat attecessfol. The French force will not be so numerous, nor so well provided with the means of assaulting a fortified town, as to hope for a bloodless conquest :—and, it may therefore be coicl oder!, without any outrage to probability,tbat Coronae did not fail on the 17th. It is not that we should regard the capture of Ale important place, as decisive of the con test, nor ne•ssaterially darkening the hopes .of the Spanish liberals; but we trust it will be pertina. cloudy defended, that the invdders may purebass it as dearly as possible. Sieges sometimes devour sea as rapidly as contagious fevers. The comps-atively small force now 'morainic upon Coruna& would be able to effect but little; nor'shoold we envy them the enjoy; meat of sitting down for the summer before the walls of that town, with the guerillas in their rear, and the • cannon of the Constitutionaliets in their front. Oar gallant countrymen, Sir Robert Wilton as I Col. Lights are both represented as having bees wounded in the affair of the 13th or 14th. This might ha -! been more unfortunate, bad the Spanish forces been able to keep the field ; but in the defence of the town, .their wounds may not deprive the Spaniards of the benefit of their assistance. The advice' state. what we can hardly believe, that some "patriot officers" hare arrived from Coronas. The rave was never more pros tituted than in the application to such conduct ; if it be correctly stated—but we would hope that the patriot cause has not Isom who would abandon it, in its sup posed extremity. Yet. if there were any such men in its ranks, it is better they should fly alone, than that they should desert in the heat of action, and , disconcert others by their cowardice. The sooner the ranks of any cause are purged of traitors and of cowards, the Letter for its ultimate success. It Is not numbers, but courage, that decides such contests. LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. A astable expedient for "checking the licentiousness of the press," has been devised by a morning paper which being on the right side is always permitted to inn e without any check at all. it is sot enough that we liana public officer who can drag a printer or publisher out of his bed at midnight, and throw him into a dun , geon—that we have gangs of associated hirelings of the system, clubbing their money to prosecute, in cases where the Attorney General is ashamed to interfere—and that a ngalu system of packing Juries is kept up, is order to make sure of verdicts:—this is not enough; bat the " licentiousness of the press" wants further curbs and trammels, to save fools and knaves from the exposure of their Ability or fully. The expe dient is as notable as the intention. it was a disgrace ful extension of law on the part•of Lord Sidmoarlt, when be published his circular; declaring Magistrates entitled to hold persons to bail for publications which they might deem libellous. But the present scribe of the holy Af fiance goes much farther than this; and propose., "the "introduction of a jury, partaking somewhat of the se " turi of a coroner's, and somewhat of that of a Grand "Jury: called together at the requisition of any kosso. "keeper who might demand their interference; formed "from a listof 48 neighbouring householders, from which " twelve might be struck by the complainant, and twelve " by the accused. They might be enclosed with each of .4 the parties, and hearing them only might decide the " single question, whether or not the publication " charged as a libel was or was am really so? if the " affirmative were found, then the circulation to be in " stahtly probihited under a fine; if otherwise, the cir " culatiun to be free. An appeal to lie in either ease to " the Court of King's Bench, which might direct an issue to be tried!" How pretty and plausible all this sounds! while the true object, and the certain conse quence, would be, to destroy all liberty of the press, ex cept what the press should claim and exercise for itself in scorn of the introduction of the picked :peci.•t [system, into every parish. The powers possessed by such an inquisition would be at first but trifling.; but I t it be fairly grafted upon the system, and a knot of servile dependants upon the Minister of the day would be armed with despotic power to interdict the publica tion of all that might displease either them, or their masters. Every expedient hitherto adopted has failed to curb the freedom of the English Press. it has cons ant iy burst asunder the bands attempted to be Strewn around it. The Master of the Crown Office begins to perceive that be has lost his cootroul. The Bridge. street blockheads have been wofully disap. pointed; and the Six Acts have been of little more use to the Minister than so many turnpike bills.— This not only galls our slaves and despots at home, but the whole host, of all countries, opon tbt Continent; and they will not be satisfied until they have made further attempts to destroy what they hates* bitterly. This scribe is consequently employed to pave the way for theiot lion of new measures. I t is too roily yet, to sen d & m an ifesto from a German Diet, to pat down an English „tourist-. but this is - a. matter which may follow the mac,* of the Holy Mliance, if it eheuld not receive a moral wound in Spain. We have beings in this country who o ssold iced themselves to the establishment of an inquiei tion„:4 n ter. poral despotism, as readily as they sell themselves to reigning faction. The Bridge-street . Ulmit'sv44 fitrniNis out a list of Inquisitors, who would do as newts c edit to their office, in the roasting of bereugs,. • • Ili ege thine in Spain. - e *4a ',,,~:' .~: