The Sun. — London, England, 1807-02-27 00:00:00

:Wariaw, and the 'neighbouring villages, afforded a strong testimony of the unusal severity of the 3aion, being nearly filled with the wounded, and among them a number of Russians. t` On the 26th and 27th, after a very bloody Con flia, the French forced the position of the Russians oti the Narew, and compelled themid fall- back to- Wards Ostrolenka; seven miles to the Eastward‘of Pultusk. - Here the latter suffered Most in their ar tillery and baggage. Pultusk and ifs environs re ceived considerable damage in the conflict; the old town Was burnt ; Ponacki, Lacki, and . Otter - villages are nearly destroyed. The dreadful weather and the imp:iNsable state of the roads, added to the calamity of the numerous wounded, prevented the French from following up the pursuit of the Russians ;—the army stood in great need of repose.. Among other 'Circumstances which prove that none of these affairs were decisive,-is this, that both parties claim the vic tory. The failure Of provisions is in a great measure removed, as the Court of Austria has permifted one half of the stores in Galicia to be disposed of to the belligerent Powers. It is now very FObable that both armies will go into winter quarter. The Rus sians will establish their head-quarters at Grodno,io that their advanced guard may remain in the neigh baurhood of Byalystock." Another private Letter from the Vistula, dated Jan. 4, says,—" The whole French Army is going into .winter quarters for the present, and probably into very close cantonments. Where the, Russians are now is uncertain ; but we know that they made a very obstinate resistance at Puitusk, and disputed every inch of ground with the ai - iyoner though they were at length obliged to giveaway to the valour and military skill of the French:, A great part of their artillery remains sunken about Pnlutsk, from whence the continual rainy. ,weather will not permit its re moval." . Letters froth Lublin, of the 2d of January, state, '" that Gen. BENIkGSEN'S troops upon the NareW were attaCked.on the E•ith, at several points at. once ; but ''notwithstanding the valour they displayed in detend 7 , ing themselves, they could not finally resist the fur • 'Of the enemy, though it cost the latter a greatnumber 'Omen; for when the French saw the RteisiatAline was broken in one part, they rushedon with such rapidity. -that a number of them fell by the,quickneSs efitheir own firing. At Pultusk, which had been very hastily fortified by the Russians, the battle was not less se- Vere and fatal than it: ether places; and towardsthe . • levelling the Russians weracompelled to iriake'a par kial retreat. Night at length put an and the affair . . The Emperor NAPOL,EON had endeavoured. to carry - his favowite plan of operation into etfeEt, viz. that of - - surrounding the enemy:; . but this plan prove4Avan . tageous to. Gen. BENNINGSEN, and completely failed: • Impatient to learn why the Corps that was to.erfeCt thisManceuvre•had.not Succeeded, and where it was, ' the Emperor, in - spite of every danger, and the - darkness of the night, rode in quest of it through the .wildest part of the country, and at length discovered' the greatest portion of it sticking in a - morass. General BENNINGSEN, in the mean while, having learned the situation of that wing" bf the arnry, sent it a reinforcement, ' and - at : day-break, on the - 27th, the aetion was renewed , with redoubled fury. On this occasion, the Empe nor NArOLEON sunk into a slough, in the midst of a shower 'of 'balls from - the enemy, from. whence he - . was liberated by one of his. Mamelukes, who pulled hilli from his horse, and carried him off the •, • rpdt. i-iere - the Russian artillery - had a full scope, - . "'while: the French; partly retreating, and partly stick . .: it* in the mud, Could effed little or nothing'; and itoW the:' Russians near Ostrolenka, notwithstanding the .obstinate,, opposition they experienced, began to he the yianrs, and to drive the enemy at all points. Here the French cavalry Suffered most. After this victory the Russians.withdrew to their first positien, and the French to the Vistula. The loss of tholltus isians is stated 12,000 killed and wounded, oCclusive - a - prisoners ; but that of, the French at 16`,:ttocy.=-- :Five French Generals were made rhfo them Young •Szona, the Emperor's AdjutariFlCe-: beial • and Gen. RAPP lost an arm. But besides: this, the right wing of the French army had been etreinely unfortunate. Some vessels, with 60,00 d rations of bread ; sent up the Vistula ) returned to War Saw on the 2d of January. " On the Bth of. January, Marshal BERNADO*E kvas • at Lobau,. three miles and a half South•O' 9S terode, and twenty from Konigsburgh. In Po 'V, all the elements seem to hive conspired agahi l s 'the French, and compelled them to undergo privations beyond all example. The bridges upon' the Bug, the Narew, and the Vistula, have been Carried hay by the ice, &c.. According to letters from Ain/itch, Marshal MASSENA is appointed to command the Allied Army." EXTRACT OF THE MINUTES OF THE SECRETARY- OF STATE'S OFFICE, AT THE PALACE OF WARSAW; 25TH QE JAN. 1807. " NAPOLEON, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, &c. our decree of the 2 Ist of November, which declares the confiscation of all * English , merchandize, in w4atever hands they may be found ; in our de cree of the 15th of December, which orders that all EngliSh merchandize or property inHambirgh and th,e Hanse Towns should be sent into France': • \Ve have decreed and do. decree as follows , ‘: Art. i. The merchandize subjc to confiscation, under our Decree of the z tst of November, will be deposited , i ip a indgazine appropriated to t h at pur p ose, under t he cust o d y a French Custom-liouse'ollicer. Art. z. An inventory will be taken of them, whjEltwiii. be addtessed to our intendant General ; a copy, of %*ish :he., will transmit to our Mittistet'Orrinance. "- Art. 3. Colonial produce, matcrials.of the first necessity to the 111411111iidariCS, line stuffs; and articles of costly work manship, shall . be sent to France, under the diredion of our Minister of Finance, and g.ubjed to his disposal. . a'Art. 4. Provisions, 'liquor's, stuffs fit fOr the use orthe army, and other. useful articles, Shall be plaCed.in the'Mili tary Magazines. • " Art. 3. The more bulky merchandize, such as iron, -wood, enals, Wer, ail & earthen-ware, shall be solti.on the spot where they are sequestrated. . " Art. 6. The prOduce of the sales made in the leiritbr)i. Of the army sh3ll toe acl , l,:ci to the general acconn . t.offpntfi-, buttons; and that of the sales made in France t o t:le sink ng fond. " Art. 7. Our Minister of Finance., and <int.. Intendant.' G arc e.lurged with the execution eii . this Dectre„.. (S;;::.t. , 1) " NAPOLEON. " Py OrTer of the rtip ierar, the .'..o.ta:y of St::t,:, ' " lIUG I; ES B. MARET. .. ('0,,%) ~ i Ix ho:-taint .... .f i lg. Aulah , " DARU.." N D 0 11, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1807. THE Gentlemen who intended to contrast for the Loan waited upon Lord GRENVILLE this morning, when ' he stated, that the terms upon which the Bidding was to take place were,- for every 1001 . they were to have 701. Consols, and 701. Reduced. The Bidding is to be in the Five per Cents. and to take place on Tuesday next. The amount of the'Loan, we understand, 6wbei6Millions f o r , Great Britain and Ireland. WE feel great pleasure in stating, that the dif ferences which unfortunately subsisted between this Country and Prussia ;bay now be considered as finally adjusted. Mr. JACKSON, who arrived on Wednesday morning; brought over the Treaty of Peace, which we'have no doubt will be immediately formally ratified. . YESTERDAY Lord FOLKSTONE presented a Peti— tion from Mr. PAULL to the House of Commons, - which stated, that Mr. SHERIDAN had tampered with the Witnesses which he, 'Mr. PAULL, intended to call Th support of his Petition complaining of an undue EleCtion for Westminster. The Petition was ordered to lie on the Table, and is to be taken into . further consideration . mt. Monday next. Mr. IDA 14 expressed the most earnest desire that the subject should undergo the fullest investigation ; at the• same time .he Was anxious that the earliest day . should be appointed for that purpose. 1 We yesterday mentioned in a part of our Impres sion the report of three Spanish Frigates having been Icaptured by. Admiral MußßAv's Squadron on their voyage to La Plata. It would afford us great plea ; sure to be able to confirm that report, but no jigence whatever had reached the Admiralty upon !. the subjea when this Paper was put to Press. The Court Martial that was to sit on the trial of Sir Ho= POPILNI on Monday. next is postponed till.the Thursday following. _ _ Yesterday we received New York Papers to the. I.Bth ult. The Slave Bill had not passed on the 1 it - h last.' The charge of treasonable proceedings against Mr. BURR is revived,, and an opinion generally pre vails, that - he meditatcg the subjugation of New Mexico, and the separation of the Western country from the United' States. A considerable degree of 'alarm prevails in consequence. The At prohibit iug all commercial intercourse between the United States and St.. Domingo has been extended until next Session. By the appointment of General \VHLTELOCKE to the Command in Chief of South America, there is a vacancy in the valuable office of inspeaor-General of theltecruiting Seriice. We hear, however, that OoVernment have determined on abolishing this of . Ace entirely, as very expensive, 'the business of it to r be,done between the other ..Publie Officers, as was .custernary till within these last few years. .Recruits and detachments are going out to all the regiments under Generals ACHNIUTY, BEEOPORD ; and CRAUFURD, by the Ships now under dispatch at Portsmouth. Thomns Coxu, - Esq. late Member for the Coun ty of Norfolk, was yesterday chosen' Member fur Derby, without opposition, and was carried in tri umph through the town'. . . . ,4 - . The reason assigned in some oldie private Letters Prom the Continent, for the removal of General KiorissKoi. from the Chief Command of .the'Rus sian:Army, is, that his intellects were impaived.— , The following Letter respelling that Officer is from the Banks of the Elbe, dated 14th February " Generals BuxnovoEN and KANi;NSKOI have retired from the Polish scene of warfare.. General BUXHOVDEN, it is said, will take the command in Turkey. Concerning General liitmlNsisot,,very strange reports are in circulation. Some of the Pa pers say, he is returned to St;Petersburgh on account of ill health.; . while private accounts add, that his disease was a fit of insanity, which broke out in the field of battle suddenly, and, in its consequences, proved very disastrous to the Russian. Army.-- It is teported, , th a t , h e entered the field stripped to his shift, over which he had.liung his ribbons, stars; tc-. This was considered merely as an imitation of SuWARRow. But he now committed a variety of excoses., which threw the army into confusion. It was this, they say, which occasioned the seeming retnissness of BUXI-10VDEN, in not coming to the as sistatice of BENNOIGiEN, and through -which the. French were saved from a total defeat. 7 A Letter from Elsineur, of the t oth, says, « about six days ago the French Forces in Pomerania at= tempted to cross from thence ro the island of Rugen, in 30 vessels; but they were vigorously attacked by some Swedish gun-boats, which 'destroyed 28 of the4n.• This intelligence was received fr o m I s t a dt and Landscrona, atlielsingberg, and from 'thence at Elsineur." Various reports will, no doubt, be circulated on the supposed innocence of the brutal murderers of Mr. STEEL, who have suffered for that offence ; it may be necessary, therefore, to caution the Public, against lending too credulous an ear to such fallacies.. It.was yesterday asserted that Hanfield, befo r e h e ivas discharged from th e New Prison, had made a deposition of the innocence of the men xvlio were convicted principally by his testimony ; but there is ' no truth in such representations, as the last wordt of Hanfield, when he left Clerkenwell Prison., were tho most solemn avowal of the ,truth of his evidence. ECOND- EDITION. SUN.OFFICE, THREE :O'CjeOcK, WE stop the Prefflo insert the following intelli gence, which we this moment received : " GOTTEM3URGH, FEB. 9.—Off accounts have been received to-day froM• Stralsund, which contain intelligence that Marshal MORTIE;CS Army has returned to Swedish Pomerania, which it has en tered, and taken Wolgast. When the accounts came away it was within a niile and a half' of - Stralsund, . . and consisted of 17,000 men. • " There had been several trifling affairs 'betwten the French and Swedes, in which a feW men have been killed and wounded on both sides." . ;v; '','l , . . . Ar.tivtil -Itpubtia, :. Vl:twit'ok4.i...i)'s; , r - ,.. , 1 G0tt , .: 9 1 1 i(1 1. 4i, 1 , 1 i Lisbon, t Dublin, t l Vlatt•glo?cf: f' f 'i PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AIC TWELVE WitLOCK. Consols 152 THE SUN. SOLENT QUIS DICERS FADS UM AUDEAT ? NAVAL NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, -FEB. 26.—Arrived the Resistance Frigate and the Nereide Frigate &Om a Cr4iie. Sailed- the Dreadnought, of 98 guns, Spartiate, of 74, for the Channel Fleet; l'Espiegle Sloop, for Cork ; the Captain, 'Ganges, and Revenge; of 74 guns each, with the following East Indian-len under Convoy, viz. Scaleby Cast 4, Captain LOCK, Not tingham, CAMPBELL, True Briton, CLARK, and Britannia,. BIRCH, for Bombay.and China ; Alfred, WELSTEAD, for St. Helena, Benco . olen, and China; Duke of 4'fontrosc, PATERSON, Admiral Gardner, EASTFIELD, and Castle Eden, for Coast and Bay; Cumberland, FARRER, CtifflellS, WELBANK, and Henry Addington, KIRKPOLE", for Coast and China; also the Eliza, Ciptain ALEXANDER, for the South Seas. • DEAL, FEB. 26.—Sailed from the Downs, early this morning, the City of London and the Worcester East Indiamen, with many other outward-bound Vessels, Coasters, Colliers, &c. under Convoy of the Solebay Frigate, for Portsmouth ; Savage Sloop. of War, for Cork, and Otter on a Cruize. .Came down from the River this morning, and sailed through the Downs without stopping, the Diana, GOODCHILD, for Africa, and United King dom, for India. Came down frop:t the River the William - Store ship, Gen?ral Boyd, for Trinidad ; Diligence, MID-. DLETort, for Malb; and the John and Thomas, FonsTEt!, for Cork and Jamaica; and remain in the Downs with the rest . of the Ships as per last. SHEERNESS, FEB. s.. ) 6.—Arrived from the Dawns His Majesty's Ship Princess Boyd, and will proccel to Chatham to be paid off. Came down from the Rier a Tender with Vo lunteers and Impressed Men for the Fleet: Arrived the Dexterous Gun-brig, with loss of masts ; and the Charger Gun-brig. Passed by a fine new Brig fOr Chatham. Arrived His Majekty's Ship Dauntless. POETRY. WRITTEN IN WINCHESTER CHURCH-YARD, AT THE CLOSE OF THE lIAAIPSHIRE ELhCTICa, NOV. 1806. The Curfew tolls the knell of Patting votes, The dismal herd return in silence home; E'en the poor wights who lately turn'd their coats, And leave the Chairman and G*** . ** R*** alone. Now fades the - glionn'ring prospea on the sight ; The'White-Hart-Yald a solemn silence keeps; Save where old P-11 soothes his brother Knight, And their lost Cause lit broken accents weeps.' 'save where on East-gates melancholy Tow% The drooping Club does to the Moon complain Of such,.who, Whigs in heart, have crutli'd its power, And put the final stroke to R"*'s reign. I , or him no more the Forest's heath shall iurn h t)r busy Agents, with assiduous care, Wait with impatience foi his blzat niturn, With open mouths, the Treasury gitts to share. Ofi did his pockets to their wishes yield, . Their firm decisions his assurance brcike ; How of ten o'er their heads the sword did ►weld ? bow'd the Country under C**,**!'s yoke ? But * now with dirges dire, in sad array,. Through Cuflitell's Church-yard lately was he borne ; Approach and see the Rose that liv'd to-day Plac'd where it should be—next its kindred Thorn. L~PI24PII. Flue rests kis head upon a lap of earth, A Rose to fortune and to fame well known ; Fair Sciehce bear:l'd not on his lnunble birth, And deep contrivance mark'd lii:n as ber own. Low was his cunning, but hisi'labs well laid.; Fate did a.recouipenc'e as largely send : No Jobber came but be was amply paid; He gain'd his objeel-btit he got nu friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties front their dread abode; They, unexampled, near their Thorn repose, And were he here, this troth he'd " vow to. Cod." The new Piece with the odd title of " Inzist/efoi a. /4" which was represented last year at Stanmore Priory, is soon to be brought forward at Corenf- Garden Theatre. LASzA has cortSposed some for it. The Piece itself is attributed to the Ifon. Air. LAmeE, son of Lord INlLLBotrznr---so.thai it have the full support of the ftshiohtible . wh.ttever deciiiou tj th,: ..lII' REPORT. t3U.RT OF ,ri.lNG's BENCH:FEB. 26. WELLS _V. PARKER. This \r .s a tarn action on a.chaige.of usury. Tie. DeLndant is a Pawnbroker and Silver'swit!l iii Fleet-street. • r. Gikanow stated, that a Mr. Tuther, who would,give evidence in this cause, having 'become embarrassed, applied to th e M anag i ng Man of the . Defendant to know if his Master would a.;,:st taking-up-a...Hi for (501. if he should leave goods as a security. He was desired, to leave the goods ler in .spedion, and to next day ; in consequence of which twenty-two p:Obs ofirish linen, value 1071. and six pieces of printed cotton, value. t were depo sited. The'money was advanced; and it will be seer; that aeliargenf interest enormously usurious was made. It could not be- contended, that for the ads of the managing man-Mr. Parker was not - responsible : iu deed,the.testimony would- shew, that the .Defendant joined in the. very.ads to complete this otnnce. To prevent evasion ; the la w was caut i ous i n fi x i ni t h e principal with the transadions of his servant, other wise the penalties would beeluded in a thousand wal s'. Thus stolen goods might be received by means of a cupboard turning on a pivot, the goods might be laid on' the shelf, and the money be paid yr:lli - out any living agent ; and' so the changes might he mad , , as with that little' mechanical contrivance of tile !nazi and Woman by which fair or foul weather aic Pre,- dided. Mr. Tuther, thinking it probable that, a time would come .when the Defendant . would called to account for this instance of oppression, kept a memorandum of what passed ; ,end although he ci,J not set clOwn Mr. Parker's name, the Jury would ilk', mit he had„seleded a very apropriate • one, was'nb.other than Sir FranciiGripe ! Mr. Tuthev . , - ; Trustees had recommended Lis coming here, aeyd would not receive the Money which Might be covered on this occasion for himself, but he r,- honourablywould apply it to the b ene fi t o f all. his Lis:lin - 4s. • After Mr. PAAKE, on the part of the Defendant, had examined the witness as .to his interest 10 ill,: result of his own evidenCe; the Learned Counsel t oo k n ohie&ion to- Mr. Tuther's competency, which was over-ruled by hts•Lordship. Mr.. Tuther then deposed to the fa&s stated in the opening of Mr. GARROW, On the 14th of May, 1805, he made the deposit Ofgoods, and on the t sth he received ()Oh _in a check upon the Defendant's banker. On the 23d ,of the same month he with drew the cotton, paying 81. and, further ten shillingi interest for the loan in the interval.. On the 29th of Angei4 fie applied for a farther loan, and having de;• posited sixteen quantities (not whole pieces) of tie 4; he received 34)1. for which be had tw o d u Oli cates for . fsl. each. With the former he bad no duplicates:. Fearing-the linens would be forfeited for want of timely 40 - Cation, be went on the 26th of November to re deem theni, when he was informed that a month or two could make no difference if he paid the interest. Then he paid 51. 45.. for interest, which was at the rate of ,4d. - per month per pound, from the 3d of :Way to the 23d November, or 175.-4 d. per iiionth. On the Ist of February, 1800, he went again to redeem the Irish linen and dimity. At this time the two loans retrninijig tnsettled were, die-one of the other of 301;on which the amount was made up the same as before, •constituting an account for interest of 51. 2s. of which, however, •he only paid 51. William Tuson,-the Banker's Clerk,. was called to prove the payment of Mr. Parker's check for (Jul. oil e7.e i sth of May, 1805. Mr. PAIIKE, for the Defendant, reminded • the Jury, that they were sworn to give a verdi& accord ing to•the 'evidence, and not to admit it.' to be at all 'varied 'by their opinion of the condu& either of Mr. Tuther yr the' Defendant,. these transaaions. the ground of several, technical objeAions, which it is not material to explain, the Learned CounstA disposed of- all the counts excepting' ,the Niir and fourth, and the applicability of these . de-. pended on the opinion the J ury should entertal on these questions :—Whether. the renewal of the fir , A loan were to be considered as an independent trani a&ion ? And whether, which was indeed more pro per for his . Lordship's consideration, the time stated in the count, of six months, could be understood to apply tothesix months and thr ee d a y s , f rom the ..e,3tt of May• ro fhe 26th of November, which was the time of forbearance, as on the latter of those two dates the interest.wo paid'?: • ' - Lord ELT.ENBOROUG;i said, that with respeEt to the first of the questions, just stated by the Learned CounSel, he must say, that he considered it as a new contra& ; with.respe& to the last, the forbearan ce must be understood to' c o m mence from the 'time when the Defendant was out of his money to the 26th . of November ; -and if the interest of only months were paid, instead of six monthi and three days, it was only a rough way of settling the account. As to . the interest exceeding 5 per cent, certainly . the sum paid greatly exceeded lawful interest ; but from the legal (Net - lions stated, the penalty could only apply to the third count. Verdi& for the Plaintiff 1.r.;61. SMITHFIELD MARKET, FEB. 27. This day's market was 'but thinly supplied with different kinds of Cattle ; beef . and Veal are rather cheaper than our last report ; Mutton and Pork sold at last prices, and the trade for the most part was not very, good.—The sales in the Haymarket were somewhat dull ; Hay and Clover obtained better prices than Monday's market.; Straw has falie6 1:1 price.— We subjoin a corred statement of tile prices and numbers: siok the O( per stone of 81b. Beef 4s. mi. to 04.—N1 Litton 4S. oti. to . ss. 6d.—Ve2l 6s. od. to 7s. cd.-1.3:1110 os. cid: to os. od.—Pork ss. od. 7s. od. • Beasts, 57o.—Sheep and Lambs, 273o.—Calvcs, S 7. Pius, 470. 51\IITHFIELD• HAY •M.AR KET. flay 41. tos. to I. 55.--Clover os.. to 51. xi's. --Straw 2i, 155. to 31. 35. There ;s now living, on Si. James's Back, in 13!is tol, a woman named Mary George, who was horn at Lecibutry, January 6, 1694—baptized the With ue June, 1607—her youngest child was bOrn when sne "was'ai years of 'age ! and she has walked from Glou cester to liristol in one day, within the last 7.years. She was nine years old when King WILLIAM die:, and says she recolleits meat at id. per pound, at Bs. per cwt. ; and that. Queen AN'N wai ed by a pair of stays.