The Sun. — London, England, 1812-02-27 00:00:00

pdpERJ. • IASI! IN, . FEE; IC: —Nor a word of news. Ciu da ± lb Irigo is again placed in a respeaable state of defence, and our troops -have, In general, returned. MARNIONT., it is reported, proposes to evacuate*Sa . lamatrca in lot°. H 6 has already left that place with his army, and is now at Toro. Head-quarters are at Freynadas, where hunting and shooting, and Private theatricals, are the order of the day. A letter from Freinado, dated 4th February, states, that on that day head-quarters were at that place, and gives the following additional pat ticulars : General BONNET had evacuated the Asturias, and arrived with 6000 men at Benavente. The la 111°US MINA, having taken prisoners the garrison of Iluesca, consisting of 1000 men, was, whilst con duEling them towards Navarre, attacked, on the 11th January, by 3000 French, who attempted to release the prisoners, but his gallant divisions suc ceeded in completely repulsing them with the loss of 1500 men, in killed and prisoners. In Catalonia, the patriots continue to obtain great . advantages ; the enemy's force in that province being far from respeaahle. The Governor of Badajoz has issued an order, that all the peasants who choose to work in the for tifications shall be paid 320 reals per day. The garrison of that fortress has evinced much dissatis faction at being placed upon half rations. VALENCIA DE ALCANTARA, JANUARY 31.- 311 e enemy who occupied points on the Tejo and banks of the Tietar, have lessened some garrisons and entirely withdrew others. lalavera has a very trifling garrison. The ex- P4ditionary division commanded by Brigadier Mo- ItILL A , on the 14th inst. entered Ciudad Real, the flerny having previously abandoned it. The inha bitants received his troops as welcome guets, shew- Ing that they remained constant in the princip!es of "r just cause. Brigadier MORILLA intended at tacking the French garrison of Altnagroon ►he 16th, but the French, informed of this design, arrived with great reinforcements, so that MORELLA retired to Ciudad Real, but without other loss than that of three soldiers, and eight horses killed; and five men '"uncled. LISBO N , FEB. 10.—We have no intelligence from the north of Portugal, which indicates any move ineut of cousiaeration. From Campo Mayor, under date of the 6th, they write as f o ll ows :—" Th e F rench in Badajoi, are quite mad with the loss of Ciudad Rodrigo. The inhabitants of Badajox con ttnue to arrive here, in consequence of the great bC4re ilY of provisions;_ they state the garrison to ° nsist of 3000 infantry and 250 horse." Fen. B.—Yesterday arrived in this ea pttal, as prisoners, M. BARR/Ell, late Governor of Ciudad Rodrigo ; M. HossAcur, Commandant of the Artillery ;* and the Capiain Commandant of the fortress TLIUBAUT. To-day entered 56s soldiers and Officers, taken at the same time. It is said MINA. has entered Arragon, to co-operate with the E wpecenado. We have just learned -that Brig. tsPoz Y MINA, has routed a• considerable French c o res, near Huesca in Arragoo, in the same place 'where, he formerly performed a similar exploit. LISBONT, FEB. 14.—1 n respeti to the North of S pain, every thing remains in the same state. The Asturias Gazette says— We are assured King JOSEPH will arrive at Valla dolid —that MAR:MONT is txpezied there with Ow It te. os of the 30,000 they have demanded of Spain, for the North. TEE. 1 1. —The prisone!'s taken in Ciudad Rudrigo have arrived in this city. 4 PFICIAL DISPATCII FROM WS EXCELLENCY 'MAR.. SHAL GENERAL LORD WELLINGTON, TO HIS EX- CELLENCY DON M. P. FOIUAZ, DATED HEAD GAJAR- 72 115, FRENADA, FEB. 5, 181'2. The enemy has no troops on ttlis side of the river Tonnes. Nbtwithstanding I have received accounts from iffeteitt places stating that General BONNET has evacuated the Asturias, which intelligence I before co mmunicated to your Excellency, I incline to tioubt the doubt the truth of these communications. 4t is certain that General concentrated his troops in Oiie.lo between the 15th and 20th January, and that POIILIEK has occupied Gijon. General ALAlga put his army in motion on the vOth ult. in order to oblige General BONNET to re tire with his array from the Asturias. I heal- that there is in the Gazette of Madrid, the 'Bth of January, a copy of a letter from Marshal St/CHET to King JosErn, announcing his entrance into Nalencia, General BLAKE having been made prisoner with t 6,000 men. No movement of importance has taken place in the South of Spain. There is no truth, it seems, in - the report that Mrs. SIDDONS is to assist in the opening Of tie new Drury Lane Tneatre ; she absolutely bids a final adieu to public hie in the course of the present boson at Covent Gardi:u. PoEmir: LINES bn Mrs. SI °DONS being announced for her farettell to the • Edinburgh Stage, which takes place after her present Engagement. Soon will that voice be heard no more Which lent each bard ethereal fire, And ev'ry muse shall then deplore The passions that with thee expire. No more Macbeth's Imperial dame Shall rouse Ambition's direful glow ; No more poor Belvidera claim The melting sighs of truth and-woe— Nor Randolph's widow, greatly mild, To ev'ry mother's heart appe,l ; Or Isabella, shrieking wild, Teach iron natures how to feel. With thee we lose the polished grace, The purest language can impart; Its comment, beaming from thy face, Its text arising from thy heart. I saw thee, in thy early prime, O'er fair Edina shed thy rays, And I will watch thy fires sublime, Majestic in their parting blaze. Yes, yes, 'tis time thou should'st retire, When horses, dogs, and brutes are near; Melpomene shall break her lyre, And, with her, S IDi:lol+ls—disappear. CIVIS. His'lloyal Highness the Duke of CUMBER LAND gave a grand dinner yesleiday, at his apitrtments in St. Itmes's Mace, -to his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT, 'their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of 'KE.gT and CAMBRIDGE ; Earls FORTES CUE and DARNLEY ; his Grace ►he Archbishop of YORK, and several of the Direaors of the Ancient Concert. Yesterday the Duke of YORK %%as' confined at York House, in consequence of his sprained ancle. It is said, that the Earl of YARMOUTH will very soon make a journey to Paris, for the purpose of br!ng, , ing over his children, who have been resident in that - city ever since the peace, with their mother the Countess. A letter of a recent date from Harnburgh states, that the Ems and Weser are .full of small•cralt,which had been lately assembled in those rivers, with the object, it was supposed, of undertaking some expe dition. It is much to be regretted that the political con troversies which appear in the public prints Are con ducted with so little regard to common decency, as well as to justice and candour. But though it must be admitted that both sides are too often deserving of censure on this grotind, yet it may be truly said that the Opposition Prints are chiefly distinguished for this total disregard of the common decencies of life. They not only iinpute the basest principles and views io their opponents, but convey their im putations in the coarsest language, such indeed as would induce one to supeose that same of the writera• ttiv- scr3 dim, of society; and cannot divest themselves of the low and despicable habits which - marked their origin. Sarely it is pos sible to preserve something of decorum and civility even in the warmest discussions. We see in the Senate that tins regard to decorum is in general maintained, and when it is violated, the speakers by no meani help their arguments, but rather excite disgust than coat icton. We make these observa tions, however, without the least hope that they Will produce any effect, though it is certain that Newspapers would be read by the public with more respect and confidence if they were not so often chartherised by bitterness of spirit and outrageous scurrility. A very numerous Meeting of the Merchants, and other inhabitants of Bristol, was herd last week, on the subject of the approaching expiration of the East India Company's Charter. The business being opened by the Mayor, Mr. M'ADam, in a speech of considerable length, expatiated upon the neces sity of the'out• ports of the kingdom insisting upon a participation of the trade in future, and concluded by moving a string of Resolutions to this effect, which were carried unanimously. - A subscription was entered into for aiding the purposes of the Meeting. An accident occurred on Tuesday, in consequence of the fashionable rapidity of driving, which might have been attended by serious consequences. The coachman of ALBINA, Countess of BUCKINGHAM.- smite, in coming from hen Ladyship's. house in the King's Road, was elosely followed by Lord 11twicE, in his Curl icle,who drove a pair of blood horses. In neatil Pimlico turnpike gate, his Lordship made an effort to pass his opponent,.and the Dowager's coachman not giving way, they came in contact with great violence, and completely jammed up the gate way. Both were throe n from their seats, but did not receive much injury. One of Lord HA.wices horses was knocked down by the force of the stiock, and the other was much injured. Lady BUCKINGHAM SHIRE, who was writhe carriage, vk as much alarmed, but, we are happy to state, received no ii jury.— She was handed from her carriage by Lord MOUNT TORT and another Gentleman who were passing at the moment, and taken into Mr. Hast(Ew's house, opposite the gate, where Lord HAwite followed, and apologised to her Ladyship. His Lordship's. curricle and horses were taken, in .their injured state, into the King's Mews adjoining, and the groom dispatChed for a pair of fresh horses. Tuesday se'unight, two sportsmen, looking for a hare near the parish of Seething, Norfolk, found a fox, and Reynatd being unable to evade his pur suers by flight, resolutely (aced a brace of grey hounds, and keeping them at bay, made good his retreat to Sir THOMAS BEAUCHAMP'S !hicks. Two days after, he was again accidentally found by some Gentlemen coursing in the viciuily of his former abode, and again fairly conquered the greyhounds; when a mastiff coming to their aid, the fox seized him so fast and' resolutely by the jaws, that, not all the exertions of several persons assembled could make Reynard quit 'his held, nor would he )ield the palm of vitiory over his canine assailants until their masters kilted him on the si:9l, who, bein4 in at . tile death, bore away the brush. I.ll' PERLAL PAI Ll,l - k MOUSE OF PEERS. WEDNESbAY, FEB. 26. The LORIJ CHANCtiLLOR sat to hear Counsel; thiS day, on a distin& branch of the Roxburgh Cause, relative to pecuniary matters, and confirmed the Decree of the Court of gessinn. His Lordahip then intimated his intention of Speedily appointing a day for the final judgment 'of the HoU:se with re speEt to the Titles, Dignities, and Honours, of this long interesting cause. The Insolvent Debtors' Bill Was read a third time. The Exchequer Bills Funding Bill was brought up from the Commons, and read . the first time. The Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and atter some Public Accounts had been presented, their Lordships adjourned: HOUSE OF COMMONS. WEDNESDAY, FEB: 26. Mr. WEIITBRE,AD, in the, absence of his Hon. Friend (Mr. Creevey), postponed the (1106011 . te speaing the Four and a Halt per cents. A Message from the Lords signified their agree ment to the Lords' Amendment Aa. Mr. SHELTOI.I (Clerk of the Arraigns) presented a,copy of the record of the - conviaion of Benjamin Walsh. CAPTAIN TOMLINSON. Mr. Caott.cg said, that in a conversation which took place. yesterday respeaing Captain Tomlinson, there were some inaccuracies in the statements on all sides. 'As the subject was one• which affecied the cbaraEter of an Officer, he !bought it right to avail himself of the cattiest opportunity of putting the House in possession of accurate information. For this porpoie, Ise shouA move for a copy of a letter from the Solicitor of the Nay to the Navy Board, on the subject of the result of the trial of Captain Tomlinson, at the Old Bailey, in the year 1810. He thought it would appear Irom this do cument, that the acquittal, ,thoui, , ,ll not perfectly honourable, wai much more favourable than had been stated. Mr. ABERCROMBIE agreed that no tirde should be lost in doing justice to the character of an individual, but he thought it would have been better to post pone the motion until his Honourable Friend (Mr. Brougham) was present. Mr. CHOKER said, that though he wished for the presence of that Hon. Gentleman, still, as his mo tion went not to obstruct, but to further the ends which the Hon. Gentleman had in view, he did not think it necessary to pOstpone his motion. If any other papers were deemed necessary at any fu ture period, he would be happy to agree in a mo tion for their production. _ _ _ The motion was then agreed to, and Mr. CrtorcEa brought up the papers. Mr. WARD brought up the Ordnance Estimates for - the year, which were ordered to be primed, and taken into consideration in the Committee of Sup ply, on Monday sennight. An AO'Count of the number of Commercial Li censes for the last two years was presented. On the, motion of Mr. N. VANSITTART, the Committee of Finance in Ireland was instructed to take into their consideration the Debts of Great Britain and Ireland, and their proportion to each other. Also several Reports of the Committee of Inquiry in Ireland, were referred to the same Com mit tee. Mr. GALBORME presented a Copy of the Letter of the Chief Aaron of the Exchequer, containing the opinion of the Judges on the case of Mr. Walsh, together with a - Copy of the Free Pardon granted to him. The .Committee on the Local Militia Bill was postponed to Friday next. DELAYS IN CHANCERY. Mr. M. A. TAYt.ow, After a short speech, in which he stated the delays in the proceedings of the' Court of Chancery, and argued on the expediency of investigating into the subject, moved fur a Com mittee to inquire into the copse of such deiay. It was his intdrition, after this Committee was ap. pointed, to move that they should be instructed to search the Lords' Journals. The motion was agreed to. On the names of the Committee being read— Sir S. Romuor moved that the names of Mr. Simeon and Mr. Edward Morris should be-omitted, upon the ground of their being Masters in Chan cery. The Master of the Ras was in the Com mittee of last year, but had suE, , gcstedthe propriety of his being discontinued upon - this. The CI-lANCEIALOR of fIIC EXCIiiQUER lamented that a person so well qualified to Supply the Com mittee with practical informnion, should have with drawn his assistance, and it was for the purpose of supplying his place that Mr. Simeon had been pro posed. He could see no reason for excluding the two Gentlemen alluded to. Mr. SIMEON defended the conduct of the Courts, which he said, had acted with all pcs&hle expedi tion. He cared not how the present questi,:n was decided, as he vtould rather be oft the ,Committee than on it. After a few worth from Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Wilson, Mr. M. A. Taylor, and Sir S. Romilly, the motion was rejected without a division. Mr. BROUGHAM moved for some additional ac counts of licenses. AdjourueJ. Yesterday a Court of Do-et:tors was bola at the East India House, When the under-tuentioned Corumandets took their final leave of the Court pre vious to departing for their respeaive destinations, viz :--- City of London, Capt. Thomas Jenkins ; and the Sir iliiam Leustey, Captain A. Gledstane, for Madras and Bengal. Capt. W. PATTERSON I.V3S sworn .into the com mand of the ship Thomas Grenville, consigned to Madeira, Ceylon, and Bengal.—The Court adjourn 'ed at six o'clock till to•morrow. A company of artillery which has been stationed at Portsmouth for some time, have received orders to embark. They are destined for the Peninsula, and will sail initnudiately. POLICE. MANSION-Housi.—Yesterday, Mary Peck, whti hands charged with stealing a qiiantity of linen, and setting fire to the house to prey,nt dn,co‘ery„ wag again put td the Bar, when Mrs I\•! ., rchwt, t!.'e laundress, told his Lordship that rare prisoner Work.; ed for her ; that on the sth of July sot- was alarm. ed by a person calling In her to takv care of her child, that lief room Was on fire ; that she ran to the room, and saw the prisoner standing by a chest otraWerh - , the Contents of which were on tire, hut she w:is'nor attempting to extinguish it, although a pail of water stood in the room ; that 81 'e with proper assistance put 'the fire out, bur trussA nine' shirts and a shawl, which had beers in the drawers. The prisoner said they were burnt, and she having abSconded, suspici,in was . entertaincd that she had taken the thins, and set the room an fire They afterwards found that she had• ple.i g ed the shirts with different pawnbrokers, many of whom appeared, and produced shirts pledged by the prisoner, and the owners proved them to be, their property, entrusted with Mrs. Matchant to wash. The prisonerdenie.d setting the house on fire ; but upon his Lordship asking her what she had to say about stealing the shirts, she made no answer.— She was fully committed to take'her trial flir 1110 of f ence. • Slaper and Pathsugy a Cellarmtin and an Excisci• r 11 3 .11, who have undergone two examinations, bAorei the Lord Mayor, charged with stealing rum fr o m the vaults of Mr. Chaptnan, of CrUtchedfriars, wte again put to the bar, and fu4cornmitted to take their trial. The Exciseman was taken into custody coming from the taults with two tin cankters; Limning a gallon of rum, concealed under his clothes, which he said be had from the prisoner Sloper. BOW-STREET.—Sunday " morning, when die fe male servants of Mrs. G. who resides in the neigh bourhood . of Go er-street, got 'up to their work, they found a - light horning on the Stairs,' and thde the door leading to the area wa3 open. An investi gation took place, when a number of atticles of plate were missing, consisting of silver table and desert spoons, &c. The footman confessed, that about an hour after he and the family were gone to bed, which 'was about one o'clock, he got up, dress- ed himself, and went out-, and meeting with a' fe. male in. Plcmtree•stleet, St..,Giles's, he brought her home with him; and that she having left thti house before he awoke, he had no doubt that si° had stolen the plate. Although Mrs. G. had a very high opinion of the footman, he Inwing lived four years with her, this was not, a satisfactory account, and application was made at the above Office. Ad— kins attended at the house, and under all the ch cumstances he thought it right to take the footinatx into custody, and he was examined before Mr. READ, but nothing transpir e es to contradict his statement. On Tuesday evening, in consequence of private information, Lavrider and Vickery - ap prehended the woman in St. Giles's, with - part of the stolen plate upon her : she underwent . an exa mination before Mr. GRAHAM, and was commit:ed for further examination. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--A man who stated Ilia name to be George Smith, but who has gone by many other names, has undergone two examiria , - tions at this Office on the charge of disposing of and uttering forged notes of vationi denominations. The prisoner hes been long searched after, and the charges against him already entered are eight in number, at the suit of different persons, on whom he had passed notes of i 01. 51. and 21. There are also charges against hitu of disposing of divers forged notes. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday James George Wheeler, Charles IV/teeter, and Sarah, his wile, were charged with forging Bank Notes and coining base money, at their house, in the City-roaj, v , h ere they were apprehended by the Police Officers Hull and Limerick. Mrs. Wheeler was seized in the at. tempt to throw into the tire a bundle of the notes, just fresh and moist, after being recently impressed, _by Limerick, while Hull was engaged with one of the men in a scuffle. A quantity of genuine and forged notes were found mixed together, as well as genuine dollars, three-shilling tokens, and eighteen. penny silver pieces, intermixtd with false coin ; all of which, about sixty pounds worth being genuin e , was offered for hush-money to The Officers, which they refused. Seven•two-pOund Bank Notes were . seletled by the Solicitor fur the B ink, to ground the prosecution, and Saturday. se'nnight is fixed for a, final - hearing. UNXON.-HALL.—Joseplz Heafkins was yesterday brought' before the Sitting Magistrate, charged by the turnkey of the King's Bench' Prison w i t h con , veying ropes and scaling ladders over the walls of .pta prison to John Henry Dickner, who is confined in the prison for a debt of 8001. in order to facilitate his escape. It appeared, that in consequence of in formation having been received by the turnkey, of Dickner's premeditated escape, he, with the officer, proceeded to search his .apartment in the prison, whew, concealed in a box, the ropes. and ladder were found; and circumstances arising which threw suspicion on Healkins, he was taken Into custody, when he confessed having been employed by Dick ner to procure the ladderand ropes, and tf , at.he got them of a ropemaker in, the City. The pri. , oner was also charged on the oath of Francis, head clerk to Air. Joseph Green, .01 St. Martin's-lane, Cannon_ street, on suspicion of having been concerned, with ()diets, irr.stealing a bill of exchange for 'OOOl. He was committed for re-examinatioia. There now resides in Cawsand, Devonshire, man who had not slept in a bttd for thirty yeiirs. Ile was a sailor in his youth, and untortundie. ahf ways refused an asylum in the workhouse, living on the misenible pittance of twos-pnce or three-pence a Way, earned by tarrying pitchers cf water. He indignantly preferred this to hying n the bounty of others. In tie coldest night of winter he would 'sleep. under a bOat on the beach of C;iwaatid : at: other tinics he took refuge in the cliff's of the rocks apd couched himself .ith t-he raven and the otter. He reaclitd his seventieth year, and sonie persons carried him by force to the workhouse ted and clothed, and warmly bedded, he.siept for twenty. four hours, and acknoWledged he has felt, for Cut 'first time these 30 yeirs,what it is to be comfollable, 4 %