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r 7 s ~ is '." , t..ich had repelte'd refused him any the wipatalleled injuris he Ivid throtag,h a series of years, with .ce saneilon off l lhe accredited Mt: country at the Court or; Si. te.ters- „ . en entered into a detail of the in ;ones he , u ti,-red. He was; he, said, a Berson engaged in mercantile concerns at Liverpool, % ` acct in a eres eeretis situation ; that in the year tenra he went to -Russia, on some• mercantile business of importance to himself ; and having finished thet bossiness, he was about to take his departure from Archatieel for England. At that time a ship called the -Suleure, •.vas lost in the White Sea. She was chartered for lEtieland, and by the direction orher otvners insured Lievvre coffee-house ; but the underwriters at Lloyd': refused to pay the ownets for their loss : and in consequence of some circumstances connected with this refusal and the loss of this ship, with 'neither of which he had any concern whatever, be was seized in his carriage as he was paS4ing the Russian frontier, by older-of the Military Governor et Archae gel, and theovvn into prison. -He imrne (Lately applied to the British Consul at Archangel, • and through film to the British Anibassador; Lord Granville Leresen Gower, then at the Russian Court, stating his ease. -Lord G. L. Gower wrote to the Military Governer of Archangel, desiring that if he, the prisoner, was not detained for any legel 'cause, he'might be immediately liberated as a British sehjett ; but the Governor' answered, that lie, the vesoner, was detained in prison for a legal caese, and that he had coeclutied himself ina very in !ecorotts wetter. From this time, Lord G. L. G neer, and tie. British Consul, positively declined any farther interference in the business; and be, the prisoner, was detained in derance for near ,two yea;:, in .. spite of - all. his endeavours to induce the British Minister to .interfere with the Emperor of Rossia,for - the inveatigetion of his case. At-length, h o wever, after being i bandied from prison to prison, and from :dungeon to dungeon, ; fed on bread and water, treated with the utmost cruelty, and fre quently marched through the streets under a military guard, with felons and criminals of the most atro cious deAcriptien, teven before the residence of the British Minister, who might view from - his window this dcgradiMg severity towards a' British sublet), who had committed no crime, to the disgrace and insult of the British nation ; he was afterwards en abed to make his - case known through the Procu- Feur ; wasinvestigated, and he obtained a judg ment against the Military 'Governor and Senate.— Notwithstanding this decision, he was immediately sent to another prison, and a demand was made on him for 2000 roublese alleged to be due by him to a Russian merchant, who was a bankrupt. He re fused to pay this demand' for a debt which he did not owe ; and the Senate, findirig him determined to resist the demand, he was declared a bankrupt, - and c(intinued in prison, under the pretence, that, having been applied to for the payment of this de mand, he had made answer that he codld not pay it, because a'rl his property was in England, no such answer having ever been gi . r . en by him. Under this preterce he was detained in prison. It is the custorh of Russia, that if a foreigner is declared a bankrupt, three months are allowed for all his cre ,diters in Russia to make their claims; and eighteen trireiths 'mare for credit ers resident in other parts of the world': but .notwillistanding that the three months bad e!apseil, and not 0 single claimant , ap peared; although' the Senate sent forth their'clerks to enquire of all strangers who arrived, whether ' they had any Jet:lairds against him. Still was he detained ie prison, and sent from gaol o gaol. He was finally handed over to the College -of Commerc,. The 2t)00 roubles were still demanded of him ; still Lord G. L. Gower refused to interfere in the bwi tress ; arid the Consul told him he must pay the money. He was not destitute of the Means of pay - mente but he realsted the clam on account of its gross injustice. When the. Marquis of Douglas ar ' rite:d or Russia, 'be made his case known to him, and said be only wished into be shewn_thAt the mo ney was justly due, and he would" pay it., The Marquis of Douglas made a • representation, and stated it was only desired that the justice of the claim should be shewn, and the money should be paid. This application, however, was ineffeclual, and he was still required to pay the 2000 roubles, or even 20 roubles, to acknoivledge, in some degree, the justice of the demand. But, aware that if he had done this, he should justify the condual of the Senate . and the Military Governor of Archangel, against whom he bad already obtained a legal deci sion, with an acknowledgment thatthe had been un justly treated, the necessary consequence would be, that for his supposed contumacy, in bringing a false - charge against the Senate and Governor, lid should be seat to Siberia, tie persisted in refusing to corn - ply with the claims. All this while his wife, .a young vs/Omen of only 20 years of age, with an infant at her breast, re mained at St. Petersburgb, in expaeation of his at:- rival, and at length, in the eighth month of tier I ;regnancy, disappointed of her hopes, was obliged to set out, unprotected, on her voyage for England. At last, after a set ies of six years' persecution in the m inner he had described, and after the repeated re, fu sal of Lord Gower and the British Consul-to re peat:ln his case to the Emperor, a circurnstatice oc cu.red, "which proved in a more particular degree the peculiar -ree.2lieence which lie had experienced. A Captein Gerd; .er, of a_Hull ship, arrived at Arch angel, Who had a trifling clis; ute with the Corn meander of a guarf-ship, rigout a demand IA a few aoubles for piioiage, and yet this tnan's complaita was repre,eo t,d ra ihe Emperor four tunes within a montlt by Biitish Ambassador ; while, through' a series, of six years unpartilida persecution, the eirisonereWeis not able -to obtain any interference on his behelf. At length, the Senate, gone tired out by these severities, in' 14809, he received, at inieeight, ,a discharge front his coefieetuent, aed an order to quit the tionittii - j), with a pass, which was, in feet, an itclinowledgment . of the justice of his cause. ' • On his return to England he laid a stitement of his gyievan.ces; before ihe Marquis . Wellesley, ac companied by authaptic documents,. and ,clanning some redre's for the injuries he had sustained through the.conduet of the British Minister in Rus iia ; which it,inriei it was impossible he should have "suffered, if they hal not, ben countenanced and LONDON: Printed by IHOMAS WOOD, of Nó.: 35, Maiden-lane, Covent-garden; and Published by WI! LIAM AIZMIGER SCRIPPS, SouthMolton-street, Grysveroi-sqnart-, At the SUN OFFICE, .No, 112, Strand, ' , acre 'rldverlisernents 4 . Orders for the Puper, I etters tar the Editor, &c.' (post-paid), must be.addreSect. Sanalcmel by that Meinister. The Noble Marquis was then art. Court, _and could ,contradict leis state= merit was false.; He, represented the cif corn stances, as they really were- ; and not as peesenally conc-ruing himself, hut as involving the honour of tile British Gevernment. He was reterred by the No Ie Marqnis to the Privy Council, and from the Privy' Council to the Treasury; and' thus bandied 'from o;:ie department to another, he ,applicd to Mr. *Perceval, who refused to.support his.clainese He was next advisedeto petition Parliament ; but then ,he wa- informed it .was necessary to have the satiation of ,his M.,jeSty's Ministers ; as his claim, was of a. pecuniary nature; and be accordingly wrote to Mr. Perceval during the Sestiun of I'Bll, but received for answer 'from 'his secretary, that .the' time. for presenting private petitions to Parliament was gone by, and that Mr. Perceval 'could not encourage hit hopes that he would recommend his claisns to the House of Commons. He next memorialized his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in a statement of his sufferings ; some time Afterwards, he receiv ed an answer from 'Colonel MeMalion, stating that by some accident his petitioh.was mislaid.. He then wrote another petition to his tioyal Highness, and he understood it was reterred to the Treasury, as ap peared by, a letter to him from Mr. Secretary Ryd4er, 'dated Whitehall, on the very day his Royal High ness came to unrestri&ed power ; but at the Trea sury he was afterwards told that nothing could be done,, and that he had nothing to expeate He - wrote .another memorial to the Prince Regent, but was informed by a letter from Mr. Ryder, that his. 'Royal Highness had not been pleased to give any, commands on the subject. Foiled in all his at tempts to obtain justice, he applied about six weeks since to the Magistrates at Bow-street, in a letter, stating his grievances-s-intreating their inter ference by application to Government—and adding, that if all redress was refused -him, he must be obliged to do himself justice, by taking such steps as those must be repunsible for who resisted all his. applicationS. He received an answer in few lines from Mr. Justice Read,' saying, that the office could riot interfere ; 'but he found that. Mr. Read, as was his duty, had' represented the circumstance to Go vernment; and on a subsequent application to the Treasury, ho was informed there, that lie had .no• thing to expe6t, and that he was at liberty to take stieh steps as he thought fit. " Finding himself thus bereft of, 411 hopes of reclreas ; his affairs ruined .by his long imprisonment in Russia, through the:fault of the British Minister ; his property - all dispersed for want •of his own' attention ; his family driven into tribulation and want ; his wife and children claiming support, which he was unable to give ' them ; himself involved in difficulties, and pressed ,on all sides by claims he could not answer; and that justice refused to him which it was the duty of Government to give, not as a matter of favour, but of right ; and Mr. Perceval obstinately refusing sanction his claims hi Parliament, he was, driven to despair, and under these agonising feelings, was im pelled tO that desperate alternative which he had unfortunately adopted, and for which the last an swer of the covernmeut had given him a cqzle 7 blanche. Lord G. L. GOWER was then in the Court, and he called - on hirn to contradict, if lie could, 'the statement he had made.. Mr. Perceval, had unfor tunately fallen the victim of his d.'sperate reixAut len; No man lamented more sincerely than he dill the calamitous event. He could never reflect cu .it without being ready to 'burst into tears. 11 he lead met e fecad Gower, in thedesperate resolution he had taken, he (Lord G.) should ha , e received the ball — and not Mr. Perceval. . He appealed to the feelings of the Jury,- as fathers,-!--as husbands,—as• men ; and to the affeetion which they owed to their ferni lies, and the regard they felt for the honour and in , tegrity of their charkiers,—what , they would have done under the provocation he had received. He concluded by disclaiming most solemnly all personal, or premeditated malice against Mr. Pereeval. As to death, if it were to be suffered five hundred times, he should prefer it to the iejuries and inclesnities which he had experienced in Russia. He should considler it as tine wearied traxe'ller does Cie inn which affords him an asylum fur repose. But Go ' vernment, in the injw,tice ti,ev had done him, were infinitely more crietina, than the wretch who, for deptiving the tre.-11ey of a few shillings on the high way, totteits his life to the laWs: He relied upon this, however, that is was impossdale by the law of the country to convict, him of the crime of w ilful murder, unless it was preyed that he had malice prepense towards the unfortunate Gentleman for whose death he was then on his trial, and towards whom he utterly denied all personal or intentional • malice. _ er- • Thredivitnesses were then called—Mrs. Phillips,; 'who said, she knew the f.rioner from his childhood that his lather' had died insane, and that he himself had been 'all his life in a state of derangement, 'and particularly since . he , came from Russia ; and he talked on this subject for the last three years.— Mrs. Mary Clark, who lives in Bagnio-court, New gate-street, also stated her opinion of the prisoner's insanity for the List two years.—Anne Fidghts, ser vant at she house where the prisoner lodged in New Millman-s:reer, for the last four months,. deposed,. that she thought his manner confused and deranged forsTne time back, and particularly on Sunday last : but on cross-examination of these , 4 wituesses, it ap peaiefl that none of them ever kisew any instance of his being attended by any medical person, or in: any manner confined or restr::lued for one hour by his friends on account of insanity, or . prevented from the Management of his own affairs, or from trans ? aeling busine4s with others. And, Ann pidgins, in particular, 'admitted that he had gong to attend di-, vine sers.ice both morning and evening, last Sunday, at the Foundling Hospital Chapel,.with her mistress • and her little son ; and that he attended them on Monday to the European Museum ; ,and had been always, respected in the house as a most regular and orderly persqn.- Sir JANES MANSFIELD then proceeded to'charge the Jul. His Lordship commenced by impsessing on them . the necr-ssit . y of puuing entirely out of their minds all consideration of the high charatter of the lamented Gentleman who had bectimurdered. The laws Of the cbur.tr) held out their protec tion equally to the humblest and the highest subjeat of the State ; and . it Was :for the Jury to consider the ' MC(S, independently of al) personal considerations. He then ( succincily recapitulated the clic , :..rn;tances already detailed, and remarked thereon, •not only that no circuMstarice of private injury, however aggravated, could warrant any [ruin in taking the law into his (Am hands, and taking away the life of an individual. Neither could the 'plea of insanity be of any avail in ~ tich a case, unless it could be proved that the prisoner, at the time he committed .the act, was so far deranged in his mind, as not to be capable of judging bet ween t ight and wrong. The Jury after retiring .a short time, returned verdict—Guilty. • The il1:CORDB11, at about a quarter past six, pro. ceeded to address the prisone'r. Ele commented on the enoinrity of the offence which lie had 'commit ted by the murder of one who was employed in one of the highest offices of his .country, to which, but for the crime which the prisoner had been found guilty of, his services might have proved a great blessing. For this crime there was no extenuation or defence,and it became - his duty to pronounce upon the prisoner the awful sentence of the law. Ha then passed sentence .of „ Death on the criminal, to be ex` - ecuted on Monday,morning next, and his body de livered for disseetion. Ara ivao-- , 1 Dublin, i Waterford. Dos-1 Lisbon, i ler- 'sey, Guernsey. I'ILICE ()I: STOCKS. TUTS DAy AT Trixt.vzo'cLocK. Cons(); . 11. S UN. - 6,-; 61 SC , LENI QL:IS PNLSLIM AIiDEAT ? i.LONDON,• SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1812. We this morning received Corunna Papers to . the . 9th inst. from which we have only room to make the followin , extraCis OFFICIAL DISPATCH PROM FIELD MARSHAL ESPOZ AND MINA, DATED ,ZALDUENDO, II TH APRIL, TO THE GENERAL IN CHIEF OF' THE 7TH ARMY. " On the gth inst. I attacked between Castellejo . . • de Arlaban and ‘Guarnecion de Salenas, on the - high road of Vittoria, 2000 infantry and 1.50 horse ; the result has been the falling of the cbnvoy into my power .that they proteaed. Five hundred of " the enemy were killed on the field of battle, 150 pri soners made (some of whom have Since . died), and 406 Spaniards . released. \ One hundred waggons have entered Vittoria with wounded, of whom the greater part have 'had an arm or leg amputated, in addition to those who have arrived at Salma. " There remain in this kingdom various columns of enemy's troopi, for the purpose of pursuing me. " have 'received your Excellency's official dis patch . for Col. CRUCH AGA, and the ammunition. " I.have determined that one of my officers shall &liver the prisoners and liberated Spaniards to Senor jACERA(IUE, to be forwarde,d.to Senor LO GA, that they may successively be give.k) to your Excellency. Nevertheleiis my of has orders to present him s6ll with them to your Excellency." PoTEs, Imam a shprt time this kingdom will be entirely free from the-enemy, - as the troops have in . effe6l goPe to attack Torre L'avega. In Villareaya and Medina we 'have the division of Ibe ria, which is composed of - 4000 infantry and .50W horse, and in ArdUlla-two ba4alions have been orga nized. - • ' , We positively.know that 2.500 tr.en have marched through Run' for the North, and that to the amount of 50,900 are to proceed in the same direction. • VILLA FRANCA, APRIL 28.—We know from good authority, that the French are reduced to a state of .desperation, and are taking every possible means to conciliate 'the Spaniards. `Part. of the troops which marched for the pur pose of . bornbarding Ciudad Rodrigo, have returned to Valadolid, and theremainder have been distributed among the garrisons from which' they set out. Of these, troops 2000 are abort to proceed to Burgos, and will, we are assured, continue the route for France. They find a great change in their situation; the pride they formerly manifested is completely lowered ; they hilly comprehend hOw adverse is their fate. — Our guerillas parties augment- daily, intercept all the communication:, of the enemy's garrisons in Ca. title, and prevent theni Irani collecting contributions notwithstanding the extreme: misery to which they are reduced. POTES, 40.—1 t is reported that between Mondragon and Vittoria, MIIN A. has taken in Wag gons laden with valuables, the baggage of General DORSENNE, and X 50,000 crowns in money, and set at liberty 100 Spaniards, t belonging to SANCHEZ party. The enemy are reported to have lost 1000 'men. CORUNNIA, May 4.—General CASTANIIOS is at present in Santiago, and it is believed will, on the 7th, publish in' that city, •the Constitution; with all the solemnity proper for so august an act. He will afterwards proceed to this town, where he was anxi ously expected by all lovers of order, who are per suaded of his zeal for the public cause and love of the • country. PONVERRADO, APRIL 29.—The desertion from' the enemy' is certainly great, and a general discon tent prevails among them. , • ME. PEr CEVAL'S FUNERAL The remains of this truly estimable charaaer were this morning removed from his house in Downing street. The ceremony commenced at nines o'clock, and tiselbody, deposited in a plain hearse, was taken to Charlton, in Kent. •The hearse was drawn by six horses, and was followed by five mourning coaches, with six horses each. Lord ARDEN, Mr. PERCEVAL'S brother, was in the first coach, , Chief Mourner, and was accom panied by the Seeretary and Chaplain of the de parted Cientlettan. The Lon) CHANCELLOR, the En - 1 of LrvEß root., and Mr. Secretary RYDER were in the second 'coach. Lord-• REDESDALE, Lord IPERCEVAL, Marquis WELLESLEY, the Earl of WESTMORLAND, Lord SILThIOUTH, Lord CAMDEN, and the Earl BUCK" INgIiAMSHIRE, and two or three other Noble men, whose names We could not learn, appeared in the remaining coaches. The family carriage fol lowed,, and after them were.2l coaches, in which were the pall-bearers and other-mourners. There was no ostentation or needless parade in this mournful - procession, but all was marked by motet simplicity. The deceased Gentleman ‘vas held in such respell, that many distinguished as' raders of both parties had expressed a wish to join . in the melancholy ceremony, • but circular letters had been sent to the Members of both Houses 4 1 orderto prev2nt all appearance of ostentation on an occasion thai had excited so much grief: in the whole nation, and as it was not the wish of his own famill that any magnificence, should .mark an: event so Meting in its nature. A great concourse of people attended, and it N' 34 some consolation to observe', that in all faces there was an expression of sincere deje.aion and spy' patty. A party of the City Lig.ht Horse attend" ed at Newington Putts, and accompanied the prc' cession to the Church, in 'order to testify thei r respe& for Mr. PERCEVAL, who was a Member and Ticasurer to that valuable addition to our Volentei lt defence. • BELLINGHAM, we understand, will certainly he! executed before Newgate. • JOHN BELLINGHAM.—As every particular relating to the assassin of MT. PERCEVAL 'is at present ince resting to the public, we have thrown together 3 few of the numerous anecdotes in circulation f e. spe6ting him, takihg Care-that they should be such as , possess the greateSt claim to belief on account of their apparent authenticity.--A Lady, who iS 3 friend of his farni!e; and was yesterday leaping !oW t3 ft r Liverpool, Obtellied en order from the Sherds to, be adMitted to. a ei. - nve'rsation with him and to be the bearer of any message to his I.oe jelesed to write, a : lle„ ; ing that he• would rathel °l till to-morrow (Fridry), th it he might acquaint h er with his. liberation, we:ich he confident dnticiP a !: ed, before the going out r.f 'the post: Winl 3 t 01 :i person Was with the prisoner, be received a 5 1113 „ box, containing one 50, ovu 20, and several to and-51. Bank-mites, amounting altogether to an ° a hundred guineas. We could not ascertain ' be :. ther this sum was an anonymous gilt, or came 11 , a known friend, to meet the expellees of the 1r 3 3 Bellingham himself had no money beyond w:ot y r had in his' pocket when he committed the mt-ir d ; He was a man of regular habits, seldom an' e r,, 'from his lodgings after ten o'clock, and often lir e to tea by five, after which he did not again go abrn 3 lie was punctual in his attendance on divine vv nc ; ship, and had marked out th e l essons f or Whitsnou 3 l in his Prayer-bo o k, b e f o re the corms''' sion sion of the crime. W e h ave h ear d t h at h e was e%" vagant ihis younger d a y s , an d by no means a Matt ;:„ tern of domestic happiness since his marriage, r Ti s withstanding the f e eli ng a ll us i ons t o his wife in 1 .0 . ). ' defence would seem to indicate the contrarP d. .Within these two years 'he received aiegacy of 4° from an aged relative at Brompton.' . He has la t - e i ;f had few visitors ; one Gentleman of the narn e Wilson, called on him on Monday, the day o f ,„i, assassination. This act seems to have been Precjrle fated by poverty, for he had arrived at that extre n d verge, that he :felt himself unable, on the (2cl May, to spare the payment of his month's lodgil.' 6 l which for the three preceding months be had settle regularly to a day. But . the most singular rela tiL ic , that has come to our ear,,connected with this stw c tle ingevent, is, that a person in a public party i n . t , t London Tavern, at the instant when an indistin,te ruwogr of the murder or Mr. Perceval reached the room, If it is so, then Bellieg hs ,. o has done,it." If this be true, it, is a circurn ii , alw well worthy the attention of the Privy Council. By the China, fleet, the arrival of which WC * o li tif rv e. noun on Thursday last, we, have lean following particulars :—" On the evening the 12th January, Captain C. C. MAcret NTn sic i of the Earl Balcarras, was killed by the burstiog.:, one of his quarter-deck nuns; which was rene 3n One of the Commodore's signals to the fleet. DUE,LLING.—Private information baying; m en e 3 ri t recei..ed by the Magistrates of Bow. street , t.` t General BLIGH 311(1 the Hon. EDWARD BLIGEI going to fight a duel on Wimbledon. Corm - non , v'.' 3o rants were issued againSt Om, and Lavender v i er dispatched to take them into custody, the•fortore, haying challenged the latter, supposedeto be e re speetipg some farmily dispute. The parties %!` respectively bound over to keep the peace.. ter ,- On ThorsdAy night the house of Mr. Chand'o in stamford-street, Blackfriars , road, was broke ("1" and robbed of several articles of plate, -&c. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDgE TE).MOl'' ROW. Morning, 4S min. after 6. ; Evening, 13 min. attar