The Sun. — London, England, 1812-05-15 00:00:00

rnl , .".e in Ilirming,hlm nr in'ihe neighbouring dib not ; I, make ho stwernews hnt wl,at my memory AnJ my reason impress po 11 m e [To be continued Conscilt. OF STOCi;.S. THU; DAY AT TIVILVIO'CLOCK. 6o a 6c f Red. Ann. . 601 T F, S 13 N. SOLIM QUIS DlCiltt FALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, rLUDAY, MAY 15, 1813. A rumour 'has been in eircolalion, for a day or two, that BUONAIARTE left Paris o❑ ill,. sth inst. for Dresden. We have, however, reasan to believe that there is noloundation for the report. PracEvAt's FUNERAL—An article having arpeared in a Morning Paper, intimating the inten tion of some of .Mr. PERCEVAL'S fliends to attend his funeral, we are assured that 'it is the most earnest wish and request of Mr. PERCEVAL'S Family, that the body may be suffered to be accompanied only by the p +ll•bearers and some of his relations. The remains of Mr. PERCEVAL will be interred at Charlton, in Kent. The funeral procession will set out from his house in Downing-street, at —eight o'clock to-morrow (Saturday) morning.— We learn, that the friends of the deceased, from regard to his m , •mory, intend to go into mournirg for a fortnight (commencing to-morrow), as was done in the case of Mr. PITT. Our Readers, we are sure, will peruse the follow ing L-qter with indi,;nation and horroi : " NottinOam, Tuesday, Twelve o'clock at Night. " No sooner had the news of Mr. PERCEVACS 'murder been received in this town, than the most enihlsjastic demonstrations of joy of the most hor rible description were evinced. The bells were rung, bonfires were lighted up, and a tumultuous crowd of people assembled in front of the guard room, with drums beating, flags flying, &c. Here they stood shouting a:al huzzaing, and expressing their , avage joy by their gestures. In this perturb ed and threatening state of the town, the military drums beat to arms, and the troops being assem bled, the It.iot A 1 wis read, and the most energe tic measures were adopted by the General to pre- Serve the public peace. These measures, I_ am happy' to say,, hive been effectual : it is now half past twelve o'clock, and all is quiet." Yesterday his Royal. Highness the PRINCE RE GENT was pleased to appoint to receive the Addresses of the o.vo Houses of Parliament and the Court of Aldermen (upon •he assassination of Mr. PER. CEVAL), which was so little known, that several pesos %%hose business it is to attend the Court were not present. A party df the Life and Foot Gua:ds attended at Carlton House, the same as on L-•vee days. The House of Peers arrived at two Cclo. k, attended by their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of YoRK, CLARENCE, KENT, CIINIBERLAND, and Sussex, the LORD CHANCELLOR, and about 80 Peers. There were only the Bishop of EXETER and three others present, the two Archbishops and the other being at St. Paul's Cathedral, at the meeting of -the Sons of the Clergy, as also the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, as President of the day. After the PRINCE had received their Lordships Address on his Throne, they retired : and, at three o'clock, the Speaker of the House of Commons, attended by about 230 Members, presented their Address. The Lords' procession consisted of 56 carriages, led by the LORD CHANCRI,LOI4. The Commons' procession consisted, of 146 carria§es, led by the SPF etK ER. At four o'clock, the Lord-Mayor, and about se venteen Aldermen, the Recorder, the Sheriffs, the Remembrancer, the Town Clerk, the Mace, the Suotd of State, the City 'Marshals, the Lord-Mayot's carriage (drawn by six horses) zrrived, and the whole of the City State was observed, the same as if it had been the whole of the Corporation, except the State carriage, which is under repair. ills Royal Highness being again Seated on his Throne, the Lord-Mayor, &c. were intrnduced . into his presence, and the Recorder read the Address. They were all most graciously received, and had the honour to kiss the PitiNcp.'s hand. The Members of both Houses of Parliament.ap peared in mourning; those in military and natal uniforms wore crape on their arms. The Letters and Papers from L►sbon, by the want of regular communication with the Spanish army, hare said very little regarding its movements. — We were yesterday favoured with the tollouing, frGin zn Officer of rank under the Count of PENNE VILLEMUR Castillejo (Andalusia), April 15. "'You would have heard - from me befiire, but for the long and laborious march through Portuga! which. we have been obliged to make. Lord WELLINGTON ordered our division to ad vance in the diredion of Seville, in order to compel SOULT to weaken' his army near B tdajoz. Thus in structed, we proceeded through Portugal and Anda 4usia to the very wall: of Seville, where we had an obstinate skirmish. Our regiment had to contend w • ith the garrison of Seville, consisting of 1200 men, and three pieces of artillery, we being only 800 strong. By a military manoeuvre we drove the enemy into the city, where we kept him blockaded cltitin4 three days, until we received Lord WEL.- LANGTON'S command to retire. Our Lis in killed and wounded was only one Captain and about 20 rns.n. The G-neral is well pleased with us, and ha written a flattering report of our conduit to the Government. I hope, within one or two-mouths ; t.e e will not be a Frenchman in AndAlusia." TTIE TRIAL OF kELLIAGIIAM. OLD BAILEY, FRIDAY, MAt IS. In the Memory of the oldest man living this Court was never so crowded. Every rank and every de gree of persons assembled to see and hear the trial,. of the Assassin Bellingham. At. nine o'clock, the Marquis WELLESLEY, ac companied by several distinguished personages, took their seats on the Bench. An unusual assemblage. Of the Gentlemen of the Bar appeared, and every avenue to the Court was closed up by thousands who could not obtain admission, and, disappointed, were obliged to go away. Several ladies of distin gui,hed rank came at a very early hour, and occu pied seats prepared for their reception in various parts of the Court. So great was the press, that a great number of . eminent persons of both Houses of Parliament, were compelled to intermix indiscriminately with the multitude in the body of the Court. At to o'clock, the Duke of CLAREISrCE and the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE of the Common Pleas, ac companied by the other Judges, viz. Mr. Justice GROSE, Baron GRAHAM, and the IlEcoanua, ap peared, and took their seats on each side of the Loji /3 MAYOR, and immediately the prisoner was pro duced and placed at the Bar. At this mo:nent a deep horror was visibly depiCled on every counte nance. Even Bet ngham himself seemed dismayed. But in a few seconds lie assumed the same species of deportment which he all along displayed. Mr. GARROW called on the prisoner to plead. Mr. ALLEY addressed the Bench, stating, that he ought not to plead, being insane. Mr. ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, the usual mode for the prisoner to pursue was to plead. Mr. GARROW. This is the stage for the prisoner to plead, and the only stage. Mr. ALLEY said, " My duty is to state, that the prisoner is in that state that he ought not to be • called upon to plead." The COURT.—He has no right to Counsel till he pleads. The visoner being called upon to plead, he com plained of the prosecutors refusing him his papers, which were necessary for him. ThqATTORNEY-GENERAL and Mr. GA RROW both declared that he had an offer of copies of those papers. , Mr. ALLEY then stated,' that as his instrutitions were to the insanity of the prisoner, he should con fine himself to that. He then proceeded to move, that his trial should be put off for the sole purpose of producing witnesses. He then read an affidavit of Ann Billet, stating in diret terms the insanity of the prisoner, and that several witnesses who knew the fa&, but that they were absent and could not at this day be brought to London from Liverpool and •else where. The Learned Gentleman then appealed in forcible terms_ to the hurnanity,as well as justice of the Court, to let the trial stand over till a more dis tant period. Here the ATTORNEY -GENERAL and Mr. GARROW interfered, and said, that in Arnold's case, the Court restrained the Counsel (or defendant from proCeed ing with any observations, restriaing him merely to the reading the affidavit, which was accordingly put in . and read by Mr. SKELTON. Another affidavit was read, made by a Mary Cl irk, of Newgate-street, to the same effea. The AfTORNEY-GENERAL contended, that this was a contrivance merrly to impose on the Court and delay justice. He put it to the Court that the prisoner has been four months in town, transaeling every species of business, and he did not call any of those to shew that he was in that deranged state of mind they would describe. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then adverted to the observations made by the prisoner himself respe&- ing his papers, from whence he deduced that the prisoner was in possession• not only of a sane but a masculine mind.• Mr.ALLEY, in reply, maintained that the prisoner was entitled to have his trial put off. With respell to the circumstance of not procuring those in town to testify to his insanity, he said that every effort was used to procure the attendance of such persdns, as well as Doctors Simmons and Munro; but that one stated the impossibility of his appeatauce to day, and no answer from the other. The Court then consulted for a short time, and Sir JAMBS NANSFIELD pronounced the sentiments of the Court respecting the application, and said, that the affidavits were not sufficient to induce them to put off the trial, particularly as they did not spe cify whit induced the prisoner to go to Russia, and Low he had been occupied since his return, and how his mina had, been regarded since his return, now two years. The motion was therefore refused, especially as the affidavits did not state that at the lime when the crime was committed, he was insane. He was then arraigned, and at the arraigning was allowed to challenge any of the Jurors if he thought fit. , Here the Counsel for the Cron challenged pe, remptorily one of the Jury of the name of Brown. Mr. At_LEY objefird to the tight of the Cro*n to challenge, unless in cases of High Treason, Mr. GAHRow reviled, and the obieetion Was A Mr. Btosi was then objeacd to by the 0 - own, and not disputed by the Counsel for the prisoner, and the Jury were sworn ; on which Proctimation was male, and the Trial proceeded. The. Jury was then sworn, and•consisted of the blowing persons : Abraham Lee William English Daniel I ley wood John Waters Whittington Charles Russell Julia Kennington lianes Osborne , Thoinal tiggins James King Lee Waters George Gayton. The indielment was then read by Mr. SKELTON, Clerk of Arraigns, and Mr. ABBOTT opened the pleadings, stating, that John Bellingham had com mitted the crime of murdering the Right Honour able SPENCER PERCEVAL. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then addressed the Jury. He began by saying, that the painful task devolved - on him of calling the attention of the Court and Jury to the case of, the prisoner. He conjured them to consider,. that justice, and not vengeance, to•day, was the ohjeet of this prose cution. He adverted to the prisoner's life and habits, and on the soundness of his mind in every transa&ion of his life, being seleded by others to 'tans let their bu siness, as well as manifesting and exercising a com plete knowledge of his owl. He ,went some years ago to Russia from a house. in Liverpool, .and whether by his conduEt, or miscondu6l, he could not say, but he was imprisoned there, on which occa sion he applied for redress to Lord G. L. Gower and Mr. Sharpe; .but they could not interfere with the Government there, and he returned here, and went into business, and found persons to join him, and employ him, in Liverpool, as well to manage his own. as to conduet their affairs. Then he took it into his head that he was entitled to remuneration, and sought it from Government here. But no foundation being estabhshed that could warrant their consideration of him, his claim was rejected. He then endeevoured to appeal to Parliament, but no person could be found who would undertake the task, conceiving that he had not the least claim or right to any relief from Parliament. He then applied to Mr: Percevai himself, who found that • he had no just ground of claim, and, of course, resisted his suit. From that moment the desire of revenge arose in his mind, and murder was the crime he resolved on. He has been reel *dent in this city for four months, and the whole of est time has been occupied in preparing himself for ttle horrid set. He informed himself of the times When Mr. Perceval was in the habit of going to the , House of Commons, he provided himself with pistols, balls, and ammunition, and even had an alteration made in his chess, by the addi tion of a pocket , extraordinary, to contain one of the pistols so provided. lie placed himself in such a siivation as was best calcula:ed not on ly to commit the crime that he had in view, but also to elude the possibility of prevention , for he took his station immediately within the outer door of 'the lobby of thb House of Commons, a spot precisely suited to meet every Member as he came in, and perpetrate the deed without You will hear from the witnesses the account of this tragical event. They will detail the particulars of this murder. Is he, or is he not, gu Tsy of the Ito rid assassination, is the simple question for the Jury, and on that you will decPe ? In adverting here to the bloody deed, the Attorney-General noticed, the manner in which the prisoner always conducted him slf to show that he was always compos mentis, and completely so at the time that he committed the foul murder. From these topics . the Learned Gentleman adverted to the wicked machinations in contriving and planning the clime. He then appealei to the good sense of the Jury to say whether, he-' cause the whole course of a man's lite was perketly eational, that it could only be irrational when th atroCiousnes of the aft was such as to induce men so chink that nothing but a madman would or could commit it ? This he maintained should not be concluded. Suppose that it had pleaied Goo, for the sake of the large family which Mr. PERCEVAL had left, and for the sake of the country, to snatch off the Wan in the very moment of uplift ing his hand to commit the murder. Let me see pose that on the, same morning he had made his will, that his representative had tried to set aside the will on the plea of ins:linty, and adduced the atternpt and contrivances he had made, as- the proof of it, would it be said, having in every other re spe& shewn hiniself a rational man, that this being the only irrational riel, should the'refore be esteemed as sufficient evidence of his having no mind ? Be cause he had done this one aet, which was an tt of madness, was it to be inferred that he was de ranged, merely because- he had committed so at to cious a deed, that no one else would have com mitted it ? if so, theti the consequence would be, that the magnitude fF cr:ine would to an 0 0141 for it. The I_ earoexi Gentleman then stated thelatT the case, as it applies to sane and insano pero n4 clearly demowiirating that the cognizance of fig h . and wrong was alone which the laW regarded IP the criterion by ,which it considered persons resP° ll - . sible to the law for their ass, distinguishing bet wee° criminal and civil incapaci!y, and this reasonTng" applied -to the prisoner, ad Hog that a man maY be incapable of managiog his own affairs, that may even be deemed expedient to deprive him' the power of managing them, yet that man is n' t. thereby discharged from his - criminal ass. He 5 5 1!,' this is the anti:wily of the' first sages who b 1 written on criminal law, and who laid it dusx l4 that a man, though incapable of condu(ting civil affairs, is criminally respo:sible if I ' 3° a mind capable of disiiouishing between and wrong. There had been cases, two Of whic h ' as the most prominent, he should notice. The 6 1.7 is was that of Mr. Arnold, for the attempt to eold et Lord ONSLOW, in 1723. The defence set Up "61 that'Arnold was out of his mind, and the defen e° set up and proved was, that he was to a cell& e2 '7 tent unmanageatale even from his r hitdhood, of his life showing a deficiency of unoerstanding, a" that he was not capable of managing ei, her ott' et people's affairs or his own. But it was prOve4 t 6 l he had taken op a causeless resentment against Lo u ONSLOW, had made preparations for the deed, ...a, it was held by the Judge, that notwithstanding .deficient understanding, if he was capable of guishing between right and wrong, he was clOr i l answerable. The Jury found him guilty, and lte was executed: The other case was that of Ferrers's Steward. He had taken up an untouo de suspicion against him, and had resolved upon potting, the unfortunate man to instant death. He ova' preparations, sent for him to his house, Prat every other person out of the wry, took hirn a priva - e room, and shot burn. It was prutea that he was afterwards insane, that many of his rC lations had died insane, that his Solicitor was so CO tr' vinced of his insanity that he refused to aS .(01 him Medical men swore he was insane, his re ly '' lions declared that-they would have taken out 3 " 'fir: mission of lunacy, bus were afraid of their motikesi' being misrepresented. His Peers, all the Peers f, the kingdom, declared with one consistent voice, t" he was guilty, and he was executed. These the Attorney-General applied to the present, taining that if even insanity in all his other aaS boa §a• been manifest, yet the systematic correSil with which the prisoner contrived the mar cle ;- of Mr. Perceval, shewed a mind at the it tl/ capable of distinguishing right and wrong l , Here there was no deficiency, as in the cases he b $ cited, and therefore the must insist, that if the - 1 1 thought with him, they must find a verdi 3 , Guilty. He concluded by expressing his satigf ac*. tion, that this was an as not conne&ed with 311 /, other person, but confined solely to the prisone r a; the Bar. The first witness called was General Isaac coyne, who was examining by Mr. Garrow wh etl our Reporter lett the Court. (We shall stop the press to. insert the conchlsi c° . of the Trial arid lie Verdict.) of. The Hors!. Go r;Js stationed in the vicinil . Blackjriars Bridge. We are happy to atm° once thesaf- a rriksi Lieutenant-Colonel BLAK ENEY, and sercral 011/ wounded otticeis, at Portsmouth, from Lisbon, °.,• who, we are gl: d to hear, are all doing Well. tenant-Colonel BLAKENEY is that gallant and exC. e d , lent officer who,commanded the 711), or Royal zileers at the battle of Altauvra, and also at storming of Bad ijoz, • Fie was severely ‘-t oun dea l ) both places, and veturned home - on account of , health, which is much injured from his great eo' dons &ring the late campaigns. A detach.uont of the 5 tst Light Infantry - 1 • marche,l from Ospringe. to embark for Portugal' s _; .n Haymarket Theatre, acc.tr ling to al l °f t ,' ' cotaits,:s likely to open with great, eclat. GRANT: wbo was 'So • oddly ssufil.rtd to quit Cove, ll i: Grrden 'rhea , atter prpt ing:liiins-elf ar. gpeO a ` ) successor to Coax s in Sir Pertincrx, i 5 enroll'_ among the summer corps, 24 well as Mr. 1"s 31 ',;1 1-- the lateldinburgh hero, otheis of prov itlC,- repute. MaTnEws returns to f.rmer stati on the H tymarket, but we are.„sorry to learn that `eras t • . TON is to employ the summer in a tatn'.le SE: Provincial Theatres. r On'W - tdnesday evening the Right Rever e nd ° rd • Bishop of ELY tell down in an a, o d leaic fit , at' a suddenly expired. Tire death of this,distinguis h- , scholar be sincerely regretted. He was in soc' pet ka health, that Lady, M, s . DA:4I,IER, a at the Concert of Sacrtd Mosic`w hen tuelamdlw. ly event toa place. A few days since, as Wi!arri Gray, of Di )ver ' ri;•plog . to pieces an 'old jacket th it he had I U r chased, for halt-a-crown, and w:hich he bad % , °, 1%- !or two )ears, to his great sue rise be on" cr 5 a patch that had been placed in one aft the slc evc c i wo ten-pound, tt.vo fiie-pound, and two t.wo-1,°"1/ Bank of England notes. OLU lIAILF.V.-ITe4errlay James G9l/ %Avis Cl " tally cony imcd for stealing a gown, a tea-caddy, a' iri other articles, the property 014Thornas Horkins, r his dwelling-house ; as NA as Joseph Melralf e, Ivy stealing a (201. Bank -note, a ca e oil surgeons t ps trtt' merits, &c. the property of William Barton, 41 ' 1 (1. , .% 01;Di-house. \~ 1