The Sun. — London, England, 1807-01-16 00:00:00

NA tAL NEWS, JAN. 15.—Mr. VICK, one of the kilig's‘ Messengers, and two foreign Messengers' With Dispatches, came from London yesterday, and tnbarked this morning on board the Lark Packet, Capt. DELL, and the Diana, Capt. M f tcnc the former has on board the Gottenburgh Mail, and the Diana the annsli Mail for Heligoland. The Brigantine Quei•ee, Capt. ANNARD,.,,with .a Cargo from Quebec, is ordered for London, and sailed from he;ice this morning ;- as also the Thetis, Capt. BALFOUR, with coals for Oporto. Sailed the Aggressor Gun-brig, and the Argus Revenue Cutter, on a Cruize; also the Badger Ek cise Cutter for Yarmouth. FALMOUTH, JAR. I3.—Arrived the Brig Salerno, Capt. DUDGEON, Ship Choice, DUNN, the Ann, BALL, and John, WRIGHT, from Liverpool ; His Majesty's Brig, Scorpion, of IS guns, Capt. STAxn- PIELD, from a cruize ; Xivire , COOPER, from Bris tol; John and Thomas, PREWHEELER, from Neath; and Three Brothers, PALLING, from Plymouth. Sailed the Manchester Packet, DAVIS ) with Mails Of the 6th, for New York and Halifix ; and the - Prince Adolphus Packet, BOULDERSON, with Mails of the 6th instant, for Jamaica, Barbadoes, and 113 cliced Island. DEAL, JAN. t 5. This morning the Seahorse Prigate and a Store-ship sailed from the Downs for P ortsmouth; also the Castle Eden East Iridiarnan ; t he latter is since put back, and remains in the D owns With the Ships as per last., PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 15. -A—Arrived His Majesty's Tips Modeste and Cracker from the Eastward. titAt il A rt a, 13.—This day His Majesty's sloop Termagant was paid wages, when the great tBt Past abet . Crew received a leave-ticket to go and see their friends, after hawing been absent from th em upwards of six years on a foreign station, 41 4 on the most naive service. It is with heartfelt taiisfa6tion I have to state the truly patriotic. be ll'avinUr of those gallant seamen, which ever distill-. gliishes Englishmen, in generously coming forward, and requesting they might be allowed to follow the ample of their Officers, by giving up their respec ttYe shares of Prize Money that arose from the c apture of a Genoese Vessel, taken by the Cutter of the said Sloop, under the command of Lieut. En ,LoiEs, after an obstinate but spirited resist -4.4te, to three of the brave fellows who were des lipY wounded In bearding besides the nett Illce eds of the sale of the hull,' there was a bag of S p a nish, d o ll ars f oun d i n h er ca bi n which amounted " 3 a considerable sum ; this is the second aa of aelleiosit of this sort that ha s b een ev i nce d on board the Termagant, :Lusa. It EgNock..LAS. O.—The Gabbart Jane, Jonw itGiaeou Master, lying at the back of the Eist tl aY Shade, and having on board 105 bales of mt. b , 90 barrel s o f as h es , 17 hhds. flax-seed, 3 barr e l s ';jef, and 3 barrels apples, for Gl asgow , was discover .' • to be on fire, about one o'clock on Saturday morn , dig. The bell rang and drum beat, and imme ()fat* every assistance was rendered, by means t o th e engines an d o th erw i se ; b ut we are sorry add, th at , notw i t h stan di ng every exertion, dama ge sustained will be very considerable.-- t o I s iS believed to be the first instance o f th e ki n d , t oh a llY extent, on this river. How the fire was corn -6,l7icated has not yet been sati s f a d or il y account ; or, • artAkßAbOggj NOV. 22.—Strong indications are given at Martinique (according to circuitous. Unts from thence of a l ate d ate ), o f the expec '• f or -C li of the speedy arrilval there of a' powerful , ee from France, of whi c h th e F r i gates and Cor bv-e`te3 lately dispatched from Roch e f ort were only. : P . r ecursors, and would hav e f orme d b ut a small Ilad they all success f u ll y reached their destine . 1 , 6 11 t is stated, that the. force a6tually still ex tr„ ed at that Island consists of seven Sail of the hoa rd under Admiral L'ALLEMANII, and that on five ard these and some smaller VeSselS are embarked li thousand troops, all in a state of perfeet readi tvess to 'slip to sea whenever the absence of our c at e ch .flld Squadrons off' the Coast of France shall kel"trn an opportunity of quitting their faSt t, venturing on the main. So immediL 111 -r kt anxiously is their arrival' looked for at atilt) oh ,::%„,, .that the most extensive preparations ••• already been made at Fort Royal tOr their re aiiPti°4 the invalids and convalescents have been. pr sent to St. Pierre's, and considerable depots of t z t 4 .ns made in all, the garrisons. It is pretend tuo that this force is not sent out merely for lb', Purposes of defence and security of the Bite fib3;rlB Possessions, but that they aaually meditate am! offensive operations against the British Islands,b r • ,!nsinuations are even given that their objets will' tinikovn passont) to pay us a visit oh their way to Mar the l tk • Although we cannot make any pledge for the !ecara'ay of these statements, we yet have no _ 4 ion in relying on the fa&, as far as relates to, txl_tuagnitude of the force, and its being actually i i. „.ected cii s IV • Izid)6o latesty's Ships Canada, &Italian, Venus, and 4 4,i n .' n enes, have sailed on a Cruize ; as has the 11 4 , 11 bel . Brig, with the trade for I3erbice and Sur kitel': and the Morne Fort un i S c h ooner, with dis- Th o ‘ fr om the Commanders o n th e stat i on.— /i'le-'1;437"/""nleflaNd, FiaL . -ship, remains iu Car- ranEIGN IN7ELLIGEYCE, FORTY-FOURTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. • , WARSAW . , DEC. 21.-" Yesterday the Emperor in specled the works of Praga, where eight fine re doubts, with palisadoes, bastions, &c. inclose a space of 1500 wises, and form, upon the whole, the "intrenched camp. '" The Vistula is one of the largest rivers in the '..world. The Bug, though considerably smaller, is still larger than the Seine. The bridge over the Bug is'Completed. General GAUTHIER, with the 25th and 85th regiments of Infantry, occupies the tete de pont, which General CiIASSELOUPE has fortified with great skill ; so that the tete de pont, which is nearly 400 toises in extent, together with the morasses and the river, inclose an intrenched camp which is capable of covering the whole army upon the right bank, and:proteaing it from any at tempt by the enemy. A brigade of the light 'ca valry of the reserve has skirmishes with the Russian cavalry every day. " On the 18th Marshal DAVOUST felt the necessity of strengthening and improVing his camp upon the right bank of the river,. and 'likewise occupying a small Island at the. mouth of the Urka. The enemy perceived the inconveniency of this post, and a heavy fusilade immediately commenced between the ad : vanced posts ; however, the conquest of the "Island remained with .the ,French. Our loss consisted of a few wounded. The .Officer of the Engineers, CLOUET, a young man of great promise, received a ball in the breast. " On the igth, a regiment of Cossacks, assisted by the Russian Hussars, endeavoured to surprise the picquet of Light Cavalry at the tete de pont of the Bug ; but the picquet had taken such a po sition as secured it against any surptise. The first regiment of Hussars, and a Colonel, with a squa dron of the 13th, immediately coming to the assist ance of the picquet, the enemy were thrown into confusion. In this trifling affair we had three or four men wounded, but the Colonel of the Cos sacks was killed, and thirty men ; twenty-five horses fell into our hands. There are no men so wretched and cowardly as the Cossacks; they are a-scandal to human nature. They pass the Bug, and violate the .Austrian neutrality every day, merely to plunder a house in Gallicia, or to com pel the inhabitants to give them brandy, . which they drink with great avidity. But since the last campaign our cavalry is accustomed to the mode of attack made use of by these wretches; and, notwithstanding their numbers, and their hideous cry on these occasions, they await them without alarm, as it is well-known that two thousand of these wretches are not equal to the attack of a squadron of our cavalry. " Marshil, AUGEREAU passed the Vistula at Utratta. General LAVESSE entered Plonsk, after drawing out the enemy. " .Marshal..SOULT passed the same river at Vi zogrod. " Marshal BESSIERES was at Kikol on the 18th, with the second Corps of the Cavalry of Reserve. His advanced.guard is at Serpez. There have been several affairs between our Cavalry and the Prus sian Hussars, of whom a great number have been made prisoners. The. right bank of the Vistula is quite cleared. " Marshal Nay, with his Light Corps, supports Marshal BESSIERES and his right at the same time extends to that under the command of Marshal the Prince of PONTO Coavo. " Thus every Corps is in motion ; and if the Enemy remains in his position, a battle will take place in a few days. With God's help, the issue cannot be uncertain. The Russian Army is COM manded by General KAMENSKOY, an old man about 7.5 years of age. The Generals BUXHOWDEM and BENNINGSEN command under him. ;a"General I . l llcßELsots; has beyond a doubt pene trated into Moldavia ; and there are 'accounts that he arrived at Jassy on the 29th of November. We are assured that his Generals took Bender by storm, • and Put every one to the sword. Here behold war declared against the Porte without reason or pretext ! but at St. Petersburgh it was thought that the moment had arrived when France and Prussia, the two Powers who had the greatest interest in preserving the independence of the Porte, being at war; was the most: fav o u ra bl e per i o d for -sub jugating the Turkish Empire. Still the events 'of one month litiYe defeated that prOjea, and to these events the - Porte shall. be indebted for its pre servation. " ThefGrand Duke of BERG has a fever, but he is better. .The weather is as mild as at Paris in the month of Oetober, but rainy, which makes it in convenient. We have taken measures for the deli very of a sufficient quantity of wile, in order to support the vigour of the troops. " The Palace of the King of Poland, at Warsaw, is a fine edifice, and well furnished. There are se• veral noble palaces and private houses in this city. Our hospitals ate well established, which is no small advantage.inlhis country. The Enemy seems to. have a number of sick' ; they also lose greatly by deserters ; and of the Prussians we hear nothing, for even whole corps .of them have deserted, to avoid that continual contempt which they might expel among the Russiana.7 HAMBURGII,. Jaw. IL—The Queen of i Prussia is very. ill of a nervous fever at Koningsberg how ever, not dangerously ; and the Court is preparing to leave that place. The difficulties the Royal Family are put to, to keep open a communication by letters, appear from. theAltong Courant, which contains the two following advertisements His Highness Prince AyouSTUS of Prussia, who is a prisoner of war, informs his sister, her Royal Highness the Princess-LOUISA, spouse to Prince ANTHONY B.ADZI VIL, that he has withdrawn to Nancy." Berlin, Dec. 24. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin cess FERDINAND of PRUSSIA, inform her Royal Highness Princess Louisa of PRUSSIA, spouse to Prince ANTHONY RADZIVIL, that they are in good health and felicitate themselves in consequence of the commencement of the recovery of their eldest son-in-law, from a nervous fever." Died, on Thursday morning, the ath inst. at Mi chael's-place, Brompton, MrS. SA RAN NEALS'" ift of J. E. L. NSALSON, Egg. S'UIiREY SESSIOA'S. Mks. iiAR RiNGTort. Yesterday; •hetord Mr. KENRICK anti a Bench of Justices, at the Quarter Sessions for the County of Surrey, came on the trial of Georgiana Courser, otherwise called Georgiana Barrington, for picking the pocket of Henry Dunn, on the 23d of Decem ber last, in Blackman -street, in the Borough, and taking from him a guinea and four shillings ; about the hour of twelve at night. This case having beem noticed in. some of the Public Prints,. excited' considerable curiosity, and caused the Court to be crowded. Mr. MORRIS stated to the Court and Jury, as fol lows :—" This is an 'lndio - talent against 'the. Pri soner at the? Bar, Georgiaria Courser,. for , • stealing from the Proseautor, Henry -Dunn. 45: in silvery and a guinea in gold,- his property. The circumstances of this case will be' very short ? and, I.•believe,,in your apprehensions, conclusive upon the guilt of the PriiOner at the Bar. • " Gentlettieo, the Prosecutor is • a journeyman carpenter,.. and on the' 234 of Decemberlast, near midnight, he was returning home from Crutched friars to Stockwell; with pair of boots. under one arm, and a bundle under the other : he: was accosted by the Prisoner at - the 'Bar,' in Black man-streeta,:She came up to, and - asked him where he was going he told her he was 'going home, She put her arm into his, and then immediately took an opportunity, of picking ,his pocket of:4s. and a guinea. He purr , sued her, never lost sight of her from the instent,.. she first accosted - him-to that of her,apprehension, which was by St. George's Church, some little dis tance from the place where she accosted him. On her being taken into custody, the Prosecutor stated, before she was, searched, What he had lost, to•the Constable of the Night; . that he. bad lost 4s. one of which he particularly described by certain marks which it had, named the;letters which were: itnpress ed on it, and that he had one guinea, which was - a new one. On the first search, the 4s. were found in her pocket, but not the guinea ; but the Prisoner was observed to stoop several times, and to put her hand to her mouth, and then to• her pOcket. - She was searched again, and then the guinea was found in her pocket, and it was moist, and some crumbs of bread about it ; so that it was highly probable that the guinea was in her mouth at the time of the first search. The silver being examined, one of the shillings was found to be marked precisely as the Prosecutor had described it. When these circum stances shall have been proved to you, I am afraid,. Gentlemen, you can entertain no doubt whatever of the guilt of the Prisoner at' the Bar." Henry Dunn, examined by Mr. MORRIS, swore— " I am a journeyman carpenter; I was going along Blackman -street, in the Borough, on the 23d Dec. last ; I saw the Prisoner there ; it was either late on the 23d, or early on the morning of the 24th of Dec. last ; I was going home to Stockwell ;* when I saw her she accosted me by asking we " where I was going ?"—I replied, " I was going home;" she instant ly took me by the arm ; I had a pair of boots and a small bundle under my left arm ; she began, to un button my small-cloaths; I found my pocket opened, and instantly 1 put my hand into it, and missed my money. I had before in it one guinea in gold and six shillings in silver, four of which were lost, and the other two were left. Instantly I putlued the Prisoner, Who was never out of my sight from the time she accosted me to the time of her being taken. I have no doubt that the Prisoner took out this mo ney. I pursued her Bor 10 yards, took her, and charged her with the theft, and gave her in charge to the watchman.--She was searched, but before she vas searched, I gave a description of the money to the constable; I described one of the shillings- be ing marked with a large letter B. and a small letter e, and a small letter d, and all upon the same side of the shilling.--I described the guinea to be a new guinea. She was then searched, and 4 shillings in silver were found upon her, and some halfpence ; I knew one of the shillings immediately, I found it among the others; 'I can positively swear to it.— There are the large letter B, and the small letter e, and the small letter d, on it ; there was another search made, but nothing said in the hearing of the Prisoner before the second search, nor did I observe the Prisoner do any thing before she was searched again. The four shillings were left in the care of Mr. Robinson, the constable of the night. When she was searched a second time, a guinea was tbund in her right hand pocket ; that 'vas about two or three minutes after the first search ; that g4nea was a new one, and had th e same appearance as the one I lost. She was then given in charge of the watch man ; and the next day taken to Union Hall, where she was committed.--I saw Mr. Harman, another witness, at the watch-house." ' Cross-examined by Mr. NOLAN : he adhered to. his examination in chief; said he was as sober then as he was at the present moment, having drank no , thing that night but a h are o f on e pi nt of . and added, that the reason why'he . knew the marked shilling so well was, that be bad that day taken it in change for a seven shilling piece, and had scru pled to take it at first, thinking it a bad one.—After, the PriSener had left him, she was only walking, and did not attempt to run away. George Harman corroborated what the Prosecutor had stated about the marked • shilling ; of the Pri soner being searched, and four shillingS being found in her right-hand pocket ; one of them was the shil ling described by the Prosecutor, marked with the . large letter " B," and two small letters " e" and " d ;" and the Prosecutor knew it again immediate ; lv when put on the tabl e i n t h e -W atc h-h ouse. The . Constable of the night asked the Prosecutor if them was any mark on any of the money which he lost ? and the Prosecutor said ;there was, and described the shilling before the' Prisoner was searched. On the Prisoner being searched the first time, only four shillings and some halfpence were found in her pos session ; but she stooped and appeared to put her hand to her m o uth, as if - she were about t o ta k e something out of her mouth.' The Witness said, " she has got' the guinea in her mouth.".__" Lord, Sir," said she, " how can you think anything of that kind ?" and immediately put her hand to her mouth, and then ;to her right-hand• pocket.. The Witness then said to the Constable of the Night— " Now she has got the guinea m her pocket." The Constable of the Night then got up from the table and searched her—felt for her pocket, and was some time before he could find it, she having taken it up under her arm • 4 at last she dropt ti to•rier sid and 1 Then the guirietf*A4 Found in her pocket, moist; With cruMbS upon it. This witness was erciSs.:examined b'y Mr. i‘tor:HlN, but did not contradi& himself in any thing. Mr. Robinson, the COnstabk.-. of the night, edt+o; borated every circumstance which was stated by the two former Witneses i as to what took place in the watch-house; and a4ded, that as lie was taking th 6 Prisoner to Union Hall, she offered to give up the money to the Prosecutor, on condition of his agree ing to settle the matter w;thout going before the Ma g istrate, a od.th is she . did. without anything being said about her confession. • • The :money was. then produced in. CoUrt, as taken fl:c 41 1 the' Prisoner; and - the , Prosecutor positiv.ely swore to, the.shilling,tuarked " di': to be his---hee believed the rest to he, his but the marked shilling he swore positively he. knew to bo his. , Me. NOLAN took an Objeaion to the Indiame.nt i more from professional duty, to giire r ,the . P,r);soner every.possible chance of there being,stimethiog in its than, frqm any !confidence of success.. The point wat t this :t—This indidment stated that: the krisoner,lo . o taken from the Prosecutor, four pecesof,the coin of this realm, called shillings, and it was iocurntlent , on; the-Prosecutor to prove that they were piecesw44/ had. been coined at his Majesty's Mint, whereas.i etas notorious that neither of them were so, they Oe-, ing, on the tare of them, most evidently piecetof silver, .which arecommonly.calle4,Trish Shillings ; as to:the guinea, .it was out of, the,,queition,:becausq the Proscutor 'could not .swear to Mr. MORRIS was about to reply, wizen he was stopt . _ ThetuAtiippktr, who said that the Court was clearly of opinion that the money ,produced was to be taken to :be good .coin,. unless the contrary ap peared. He. &nil - lined up the whole evidence with care, and•,.left the-case to, the. Jury to determine; who, after a share .deliberation, found the Prisoner Guilty. The Learned PHAUMAN then spoke as follows " Prisoner lit • the Bar, you have had a very impar tial trial, and you have been found guilty, upon the most, ,clear and satisfaaoty . evidence, of stealing from the Prosecutor the money.-stated in the India ' meat. It is not the practice •of the Court to sat upon, any thing which it cannot regularly know by evidence laid before it, although there may be mat ters which it knows in another vvay, but . that makes no ingredient, in the punishment which the Court ni-i flials upon: delinquents, nor has, it any such effect on. • the Court in ordering punishment on you. In some of the public newspapers it has been stated, in the most improper manner, that • a notorious elia luau would be tried here this morning ; it ispyo per for me to say, that whatever foundation there . may be. for that. assertion, it has nointhiebee on this, Court in pronouncing sentence upon you--which is, that you be transported to the Eastern Coast of New South ; Wales, or to such other . place as His. Ma , • r jesty, by the advice of his Privy Council, shall he' pleased to declare and appoint, for the term of seven years." This, we ar e t o ld, i s either the seventeenth os , eighteenth trial of thi s offender. POLICE. MAssiox-RousE.—Yesterday a young woman was charged before the LORD M VYOR with pri vately stealing, in the house of Mr. Webster, a watch-maker, in 'Change -alley, five gold and silver watches. From the evidence of Mr. Webster it appeared, the Prisoner had lived servant in the house, and by that means found an opportunity to commit this robbery. Mr. Aldridge, a silversmith, in Aldersgate-street, produced two of these watch, , ,, which, he said, the Prisoner brought to hiM, pretending to be recom mended, for him to value the watches, saving she lived with her mother, but was under the necessity, of selling the watches, as she was obliged to go to the sea with a child which had been bit by a mad dog, &c. &c. Mr. A. told the Prisoner he was not so : good a judge of watches himself, but would get them/valued for her, and advanced her a little money in the mean time, as she pretended to be in distress. • • The Prisoner did not deny the fia, but as the pro- . perry is not alt found ; she was remanded for fur ther examination. Edward Cooper, late a seaman of his .Majesty's Ship Achille, under Went an examination before his Lordship, on a charge made against him by ,one of the Secretaries of the Patriotic Rind, for an attempt to defraud that Institution. It came out during the examination, that file prisoner had applied at Lloyd's in the morning, stating himself to have been wound ed at the battle of Trafalgar, and produced a forged certificate ofthe alledged fa6t, purporting to be he hand-writing of Captain KING, of the Achille ;,oit . comparing which with . some papers found on his • person, the hand-writing was proved exaolly to cor respond, and ; not to be Captain-Kmo's. While the officers were searching him, he made. a violent at tempt to destroy the papers, We understand that he has defrauded several publicans, by' borrowing money of them- upon the faith of' their being re imbursed when be should receive a donsiderablt sum for wages; prizet.money, Ercc. which he stated to.be due to him. Fit was committed to Bride well for a month, and to be twice whipped for the offence: PUBLIC OFFICE, HATTON-GARDEN..--YeSteid3y Jane Earle, alias Jenny Giles, was committed for trial, for stealing in the shop of Mr. Thwaites, in Holborn, a quantity of printed cotton, his pro. , perty. It appears from the mortality bill for the city of Glasgow and suburbs, for the year 1806, that such are the blessed effects resulting from the vaccine, or cow pock inoculation, that, during the last year, 15 children only have died of the small-pox- 7 -in the year 1797, the number 'was V3l. On Tuesday the 13th inst. the State Lottery com menced drawing, when N 0.24,49 0/ the First Drawn Ticket, entitled to 20,0201. was sold at Messrs. HAZARD, BORNE, and Cds Office, Royal Exchange„ in one Half, one F ourt h, one Ei g h t h , and two Six teenth Shares, Tickets and Shares, warranted un drawn, are selling as above. The Second Day of Drawing will be on Thursday next, the 22d inst. and on the Monday following the First-drawn Tic ketwill be entitled to 10,0001.