The Sun. — London, England, 1812-07-04 00:00:00

FRENCH K°tcsaERG..TUNE TZ rnptror `ester = t / aY : eviewed, in the pain_ of Konigsberg, the :/ - th F cilvis'on of th e I st cor ps tl'arniee. Several Po• 348 b ! . ebriments, which formed a part of it, were in the finest order. His Majesty expressed to Prtnce ~adzi it his satistaction with the sth regiment, which that Prince formed., • SEMLIN, lI,Ly 30.--L-We are inforthed that the Inovement of the Turkish arniy continue. The be ad -quarters are vet at Sehunda. The Grand Vizi er is to set out from thence when the Asiatic 11. ° 0 1)s, who are in full march, shall have joined • the army. Several corps have arrived on the right bank of the Danube, • a - ad occupy it from Widdin to zistovva. Viesta, JUNE 11.---The armies in the Duchy of Warsaw are: in continual motion. A great Part of the French and auxiliary troops have assed the Vistula. at Grauderitz, Thorn, and loch, and approached the frontier-. General gossniecki, commanding the advanced guard Oft the Grand Duchy,-has advanced towards Terrespol, .1" l a the Bug, opposite . Bizese. The Saxon troops siave taken the same direction, and General Reg- . • tier is beyond the Wiepez. DRESDEN, JUNE 11.—The head-quarters of the l'ireroy of Italy haVe been removed to Soldau. GERONA, JUNE 14.-The French army in Spain and Catalonia has just obtained the most brilliant 811eces3. Marshal Sachet ; Duke of Albufera, has d , e , f eated the - eneniy near Alicarit ; General Ma .,'lett liftbeaten Lacy, and.the Baron de Erolles, brigands- Montserrat. Gen. Henriot has pursued the more than twelve leagues from Lerida, 'and taken frointhem them the only piece of eau °o,n, they possesied. General Lamarque's division f in taking Milans Sanciloni ' • he saved iinnsulf him se lf i n his shut. General Expert has L a lien 80 prisoners, almost all olficers. Among t p Uena is a Colonel, a Lieut.-Colonel, and Milans's S ecretary. There is a sensible amelioration in the situation ° L f. Catal on i a . 'The Catalonian is recovering from : 11 , 8 Prejudices. - The torches of fanaticism are ex . `' u guishing, and hatreddirainishing. The whole of '''-n3Purdan, a part of the department, and the Ter, alld mouths of the Ebro, are submissive, tranquil, an d happy. In the country in which, for the hest time, we have penetrated, the inhabitants do _ "t fly at our approach, they feel that their only e nemies are those who Wish to ruin them by en caging them in useless contests. War is at .pre , 4ei lt an art, the combinations of which are vast and profound. To attempt to oppose poor coun tr.- men to the most warlike soldiers, the most ex p,erienced officers in Europe, is .to compromise 4!lefti insane;,--to sacrifice them as victims. 4 'le chiefs of the insurrectionthe Members of tZieJunta, who are too enlightened not to per- Zve the inutility of their efforts, in fact no nger carry on war but against the purses of the tredulons Catalonians. Wherever they go they I° 'Pose, they even make private indivials arbit rarily contribute. What sums have they not 'awn from the inhabitants of Catalonia. • MADRID, JUNE 6.—Among the prisoners taken at Q•artania, was Don J.•de Prudes, Private Score tary to General Ballasteros, and the bearer of tl any important documents, which Government Fill proba!_lly publish. The Madrid Gazette yes terday gave a memorial from Gen. ,Ballasteros, adires3ed to the Editor of the Cadiz Gazette, and 'n which this General, haughtily and severely, °xpresses his unfavourable opinion of the Duke del Infantado, Maim:is Villa Vicencio, and Don F. o. Dotneli, members of the Regency. Ballas `°ros maintains, that the Duke del Infantado has h'iren proofs of incapacity asCommandcr ofan army; he, b . reproaches O'Donnell with having a brother in .11 -ingJoseph's ser6ce. Every where the ambition of a man, who wishes to place himself at the head of is apparent: be indirectly reproaches . the ' l .egency with leaving his army destitute of every Liir.g.-1-lere the Editor of the Madrid Gazette Observes, " that Ballasteros has never wanted a ny ing since collections were made for him in Eng land and Mexico—at the time he carried off 'all he t let—cattle, corn, money ; and succeeded, by his to ruin a district Of his countrv,,with ?lit doing the least injury to the French." An Individual, who escaped from Cadiz, draws a de- Plorable picture of the insurgents situation. The It egencv is absolutely without money. Officers, .and even G ener al s , are obliged to go from honk L° house .to beg wherewith upon to subsist. 'tinder pretext of building barracks for their !Pops, the English have exhausted the immense "Pots of' excellent shipLtiniber which was in the ‘.araccas arsenal ; they have taken away wood to the value of 8,000,00(11. A Gentleman arrived in town yesterday from Jatlenos Ayres, who is amongst the most recent '''rivals from that place. He states, that at the time of his departure the inhabitants of that town were in the greatest confusion, in consequence of I nformation having reached the Junta, that Ge eral with 12,000 meti under his c ommand, was advancing with great haste against t hem. He had aleady passed Jaittry by several .regues ; a nd th e whole force which the Junta ''ad at hand to oppose to his army did not e xceed four thousand men; the main •body of the Buenos Ayres troops having crossed t he water to attack the Monte Videans. The ...greatest h armo ny is stated to subsist between the v iceroy of Monte Video and the Portuguese. The Portuguese troops still continue within the territories Of Monte Video, for its prbtectiou 4 .P 0 0 of them 'are at Maldonado; 1500 posted at t ue outside of the city of Monte Video ; and the remainder are in the interior, waiting the result 4)l Goyineche's attack on Buenos Ayres. , Melancholy Event.--Two well-dressed young ;omen, of a certain description, Who were in the it of the Opera House, on Tuesday last, having Quarrelled, high words arose, and brie of them '` - ' l s SO affected by something uttered'by the other, .that she fell into strong convulsions,, and,. it is s aid, actually died before she could be removed 4 rom the theatre. The other was struck with 3 !leb hor ror by w hat s h e had o c cas i one d ; that, °Lie also was taken' out, in the most alarming sta te. • OLD BAIT,pIr, JUL 3. Thonins Bowl& was. capitally indicted, for wil fullyoualiciously, and - feloniously firing a loaded hlunderbusS. at William ]3urrowes, on the 30th of May last, at Alpert,on, in the parish of Harrow. This trial lasted from ten in the morning until seven in, the - evening. The first 'witnesswas William Burrowes, who stated, that be is a far Mer at Alperton, in the parish of Harrow, and a hay-salesman in St. James's hay-market.' He usually passes from his own residence every market morning, by that of the prisoner,- ou his way to town ; and about seven in the morning above stated, he was travel ling towards London, in a chaise-cart, over the canal-bridge, near his house, and the forge of a blacksmith, named Jones, - when he observed under the shade of a tree, close by the, road-side, and, at about twenty yards from him, the legs . and thighs of a man . , whom he took to be the pri soner, and, when he came within 15 yards of hint, the prisoner raised a blunderbuss, took deliberole aim at him, and immediately the witness stooped down in his cart, and requested he would not fire. The prisoner immediately exclaimed,— " your eyes take that," and tired.—The wit ness instantly found himself wounded in the head, neck, and back. lie fell forward in the cart across the shafts; and his horse, affrighted by the report of the piece, ran away with hi'm. Wit ness. had no previous quarrel with the prisoner ; had, some conversation with him the Wednesday before. There had been some trifling dispute be tiveen them on account of the witness having lopt some trees which he did not know to 'l)e prison er's property. This was about the middle of March, and nothing had passed between them personally on the subject of those trees. Cross-examined by Mr.KNApp.--Witness said he had observed nothing in the prisoner's 'manner, conversation, or conduct, on the preceding Wed nesday ivlign he conversed with him, to give him reason to think he was not right in his mind ; nor did he ever declare any opinion that a statute of lunacy should be taken out against him. He had, some time ago, borrowed of the prisoner about 2001. for which prisoner called on him ra ther suddenly. - He paid him the money with some expressions of resentment ;, but the 'prisoner would not take the interest, which albounted to about 31. or 41. Henry Jones, blacksmith, said, that on the morning stated, he met the prisoner on the bank of the. Canal, near his house; with a blunderbuss in his hand, on foot, accompanied by a boy, his' grandson; named Bargain, on horseback. He told the witness his blunderbuss would not hold the priming, and wished him to go :to :shop and put it in order. Witness accompanied him to the forge, where the prisoner laid it on the vice-board, and told him to take care of it, as it was loaded, and on full cock ; he told the wit ness he only wanted to shoot a dog withit, hut did not wish to let the boy know,' he hoped it would fetch the dog dower. He 'then went out, leaving the blunderbuss there, and walked up and down the road till near seven. He heard him tell his grandson, that, !be : Waited to see William Burrowes, as he wanted him to purchase a load of straw in, town, and save himself the journey. The prisoner returned, and took away the blunderbuss, and posted, himself. close to the opposite ditch, under the shade of :an elm -tree, which concealed him from the view of any per son coming from the bridge. In a little One af terwards, when. Mr. Burrowes came over the bridge, and was within a short distance, of the prisoner, he raised thd blunderbuss to his shoul der, and tired at him in the manner already described ; on which Mr. Burrowes fell in the cart, and his horse ran away with him. The.boy dismounted ; and the prisoner, in endeavouring to mount the hors 4 e, dropped his hat ; but he picked it up, put it on, mounted, and galloped off over the bridge, calling to his grandson, " Never mind ! damn your eyes, follow me !" Jane Jones, wife of the last witness, and Mary Anne Bond, both eye-witnesses of the transac tinn, corroborated the foregoing testimony ; and produced two leaden bullets, with the hat ofßur rovVes, perforated by two shot-holes, which they picked up on the spot where he wasjwounded.— Mary Church had immediately afterwards found the blunderbuss beside the .ditcb, where the pri coner had thro7.-n it ; and it was identified by Jones, the blacksmith, as the one he saw. Wm. Sheppard, a stable-keeper, of Bolsover street, knew the prisoner and prosecutor. In March last, the prisoner said to him in the market, St. James's,---" Damn that .Burrowes's eyes, I'll Burrowes him before _long : he sha'nt live to the end of June, if I was to hang the next moment." Witness said, " Mr. Bowler don't take away a life, because you can't give it again." But. the prisoner answered, " d-d if I. don't be the death of him before the,middle of June, if I was to be hanged the next morning." Witness acquainted Mr. Burrowes with what Bowler had said ; and he answered, " I don't fear him, he is too fond .of his own life to take away mine." John Earner, brother-in,law of Mr. Burrowes, proved that he _apprehended the prisoner, who had absconded, on the 6th of June, att his own house, and brought him to town ; that the pri soner, on the road, entreated him not to take him from his own family; ..said that aS,he was a rela tion of Mr. Burro Wes, he could do :a great deal, for him ; and that if he _would 'suffer him to re, main confined with his daughters and grand,- children, he would give him ten, twenty or thirt thousandpounds. The witness, however, briought him to MarlhOrough , street Office. Mr. Withers, , attorney and son-in-law to the prisoner, proved, that the dispute between, the prisoner and Mr. Bnrrowes about lopping the trees was adjusted without any law-suit. Tic said that he had a fit List July in his hay-field, .and fell from his hone, and that from that time to the present he appearedmuch deranged in his Memo.- ry, intellect, temper, and deportment, and parti cularly since March last ; that he was in the ha bit of rising at two or three o'clock in the:morn ing, breakfasting at four or five, playing eards with his housekeeper 'till nine or ten, when he usually dined 4porr meat half raw, and sometimes scarcely, warmedlliroug,h, and going to bod again at three o'clock; that • he one time proposed. to this witneSs,to &ince for him while he played'on the gridirOn. - He seemed, to be much oppressed with an apprehension that he had committed . ' some Mistake in purchasing his land -tax, which,ren dered him liable to be exchequeted, and deprived of estate ; and be could not be persuaded to the ;:nttrary, although no such mistake existed; and sw - , one time he gave the witness a blank check on , his banker to fill up -At his discretion, for any - sum that might be necessary to save him from the consequences of his - supposed ytistake. lie talked of leaving the. country, and said that it was owing to tt: conspiracy between Mr. Burrowes and some of his neighbours, that he was to be exchequered. Tlid witness, however, admitted, on ilk cross-examination, that the prisoner was allved to manage his owh affairs, and that not witastanding his threats, and the apprehensions of leis friends for the destruction of tits own life, he was f allowed to - shave himself ; and that no steps were taken to restrain him as a person de ranged. Witness; refrained front'stich steps through motives of delicacy, but he thought his wife sent for a medical man to attend biro. - • Mr. Winkley, a, school -master, of Harrow, swore, that, consequesce of directions from the prisoner, he waited ,on him between five and se ven in.the evening of the Wednesday previous to the Saturday on which the fact wa,; perpetrated, to take instructions for 'altering his will. He took those instructions in the presence .of two .of neighbourk, drew the new will on the follow ing day, and waited on the -prisoner in lze pre ;-0.4,0f those witnesses on the Friday kftemoon, when be, declared it was all right, and executed it duly in the presence of two other witnesses', wlio signed their names, and all those witnesses de posed, that the prisoner appeared to them; throughout the whole of this transaction, to, be perfectly 'collected, and in a state of mind quite capable of transacting the business he was about; in fact,' they saw nothing the matter with him. Here the evidence closed on the •part of the Crown. .The prisoner said nothing in his own defence but a considerable number of witnesses appeared to prove his insanity fro; the time he had the fit and fall in his hay4iehl, in 1811. - Mr. Hyatt, an apothecary, of Ealing, was the person who attended him, and deposed to that ef fect. He admitted, however, that he had not ad vised his friends to proceed to a Statute of Lu-= nacy, although he attended a consultation On that stibject a few days before thit unfortunate event, and -he had it fully in his intention to re commend such a proceeding. 'He had always considered the prisoner to be a violent and pas sionate man, but never so much so as since July, 1811. Dr. Ainsley had visited the prisoner in jail since his apprehension, on the I ith, 12th, 13th, 15th, 27th, and . 29th of June ; and comparing the symptoms of his derangement with the reports of Mr. Hyatt and.his, friends, who had seen him during the last year, was convinced his derange ment must have been of long standing, and- of the character of the derangement arising from epilepsy ; be was persuaded that his derangement continued down 'to the present moment, with some variation for the better, ,or worse, at times Mr. Warburton, who has been many Years in the habit of attending on insane patients, said it is a characteristic of insanity arising from _epi lepsy, for the patient to conceive strong anti pathies, and desire of vengeance, against.some in dividuals for imaginary Causes, and even against. their dearest friends, and not to be sdsceptible of persuasion to the contrary, although rational and collected on every other subject.. :He was quite convinced of the prisoner's' insanity, and that he himself could not be deceived by appearances, merely assumed. Webbe, surgeon of New Prison, was of the same. opinon. Mrs. Hsyden, the prisoner's housekeeper for twenty years, sustained the testimony of Mr. Withers,. about the prisoner's unseasonable' hours of rising and lying down, his dining in the.morn-. ing on raw meat, his playing cards, and his fre-.., quent threats to destroy his own life by hanging, drowning, or cutting his throat, or by a nice jump" from the top of the hopse into. the farm yard. • But although- she admitted she had at nights taken awayhts pocket-knife and garters, to prevent fatalities, yet.lie 'transacted his own bu iiness, always shaving himself, and had his razors in his bureau always at his own command, and the keys in his own pocket; .and that the very bliniderbuss always stood in the corner of his room, she did not know whether loaded.or not In other parts of her evidence she 'grossly con tradicted. herself,' and swore directly contrary to all the witnesses examined upon the subject of the will. Charlotte Pearson, a servant under his house keeper, and who had lived seven years in the f:.:- mily; was in total variance with her mistress on many material points of her evidence.. , Mrs. Withers, the prisoner's daughter, bore testiniony to his derangement. • - Mr. Charles Holsship, Clerk of the Petty Bag- Office, in the Court of Chancery, produced the Statute of Lunacy obtained against the prisoner, Under the Great Seal,.and bearing date the 17th of June, 1812, with the decision of the Jury, that he was deranged since the 30th of .March last. Sir SIMON La BLANC now' summed up the evi dence for the 'Jury With great perspicuity 5 and concluded by stating; that the poiat for the Jury to consider in thiS case (for the fact was proved beyond all doubt), was, whether, at the time the prisoner Committed the fact, he was or was not in such a state of mind as to be able to distin guish between rig ;t and wrong; or Under the influence of any illusion towards the particular' object, which rendered his mind at the moment insensible to the Mature of the fact he was about to commit ; for if he was so influenced, he could not be deemed responsible to the law but if the Jury should. think otherwise, it would be their duty to ,find him guilty. The Jury retired at seven o'clock and aftei• deliberating some time, returned their verdict— Guilty, . . Richard Read, Thomas Dardis, George Green.. away, ,john Davis Saintsbury, and James Browne, alias Leaton, were convicted of feloniously having in their possession; . without lawful excuse, certain. forged notes, with a guilty knowledge. CAMBRIDGE ; JULY 3. 4 At an ordination holuen hy the Lord Bishop of Bristol in Trinity COliege on Sunday the following Cr entlemen were or...aine,l Priests.-3.. B. 'Campbell, GeOrge Edis Web ster, Richard Ward, Edward Peacock, Feliows of Trinity College ; John Orman, B.A. of Trinity College. . , D6acons.---Peter Paul Dobree; Fellow of Trio. College; John Lamb, B. A. of Corpus Christi ,Pollege; John Field, ILA. of St. John's College; Matthew Slinger, B. A. of Christ College. The Rev. James Gurrev; late Fellow and Tutor. of Corpus Christi College, was on Tuesday last elected into the Preachership of the Char'zer- House. The Rev. Wilfred Clark, M. A. of St. Peter's College, has been presented, by the Governor of the Charter-House; to the valuable R r ctory of Castle Camps in this county, vacated by the death of the. Rev. Fyge -Janneey. The Rev.:John Gilbert, M.A. has been insti tuted to the rectory of Cantley; hi Norfolk ; and the Rev. 11:1. G. Edgar, .M,A.• has been elected perpetual curate of St. Nicholas, Ipsviich, void by the death of the Rev. J. Covte, The statue of ,the late Right lion. William Pitt has been erected in the Senate-House, and is generally allowed to be equal to any piece of scuip-' tune in the university, not even excepting the' tatute of Sir Isaac Newton. The price paid to Nolte kens wa.s,3ooo4guineas and moya than double that stun was subseribe44or the statue by the members of this university soon after the death of Mr. Pitt —The block of marble cost-the artist ,800 guineas. . , . BRISTOL ELECTION.-lye are happy to find that the tumultuous disposition of the populace bad subsided yesterday, and the election proceeded in a regular peaceabl' manner. s - ' • State it the Poll on Thursday night, JOY 2. Davk 391.... Total 837 Huut ' 81 , Majority • _.-:-.689 Polled yesterday at Half-past Three o'clock. Ravi-i , 2 ,23 . . Hunt , l3 At a General Meeting of the THE PITT CLUB," held yesterday at the London Tavern, Lord ELDON', Kr. CIRTWRIGHT, M.P. Mr. HOU, BLON, M.P. Mr. R. IL Awls, Mr. DAvis, M.P. Mr. JAMES A. PARK, Mr. 11. W. SMITH, Mr. CALVERLEY, and several other Gentlemen, were admitted Members. LYCEUM.--The new farce of Highgate Tunnel, or The Secret Arch, was repeated last night before a very numerous audience, and very well received. A more ludicrous performance:altogether has sel dom been ;represent ed. HAY-MARKET.—The pleasant Comedy of Size Stoops' conquer was represented last night at this Theatre; before a numerous and elegant Au dience., - MUNDEN performed Hardcastle with great humour, and was particularly able in his angry moods with 'Young Marlow, which was well sustained by JONES. • MATHEW' S NY's very divert ing in Tony Lumpkin ; and Mrs. Gißns, was very natural and sprightly in Miss Hardeastle. KEMBLE is not gone direct to Dublin, as stated - , but to Liverpool, where he is to perform a few nights.. It is certain that he quits Covent-garden but not on account of a difference as to Salary. — He has for some timebeen solicitous-to part with his share in that prop arty. A few nights since the house of Mr. Npllekens, inMoitimea-street, Cavendish-square, was broke open, and robbed of plate, medals, jewellery, bank-notes, and cash, to a considerable amount. METEOROLOGIC. BY R. B. lIILOSOPITICAL INSTRUY T4ezmorneter. F.i . t 2 cr, I . ,"1.1 29 90 30 10 29.78 Cloudy Rain ;t three Cioudy Fair days are In July. BIRTH. Yesterday morning, in GrosVenor-square, between fourand five o'clock, the. Hon. Mrs. .lenkin,son, of a Datighter. MARRIEb In May last,at the house of Lordlifillianißenthielc, George Graham, Esq. to Mdlle. A. P. C. de Calvi, daughter of the Chcv. Paul de Calvi, late Colonel of the Regiment of Ver mandois, On the .14th ult.- 4 Fort George, Scotland, Captain Gre gory, to Frances, second daughter of Henry RObert Church man, Esq. of Hanover-square. On Tues'day the 23d ult. at Camberwell, Mr. Glover Mon ream, -of Meopham, Kent, to Miss Martin, daughter of Mr. oseph Martin, Silversmith, Borough, Southwark. At Cheltenham, William Powell. Lorymner, Esq. of Per thyre, in Monmouthshire, to Cecilia, the second daughter of thsiate Henry Addis, Esq. of London. On Tuesday last, at St. George's, Hanover-square, George Jackson, Esq. to Cordelia, eldest daughter of -C. Savile, Esq. of Park-street, Westminster. !AL JOURNAL, ANKS, BENT MAKER, STRAND. Weather. ---- • Rain Do. Fair Rain Do. Do. Do. DIED. On Tuesday the 9. 3 4.1 ult. hi KeTington-square, J. Waller, - . St Masse'burgh,- in the 29th year of her age, Mrs. Kerr, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Kerr, al Ceylon Regiment. On Saturday in Niar3hani-street, ,Westalingter, aged 7.2, Mrs. Speed, widow of the late Jolin Speed, Esq. and daughter o 1 the late Colonel Will iamAyan. OfOlonti.ty cvenimr, at his house. in Edgers, re-road, after a lingering illness, Elizabeth, the wife of Edward Langley, Eq. - - - 'the same day, at Lilley, Herts, Mrs. Sowerby, , wife of John Sowerhy, Esq. of Hatton-garden. • On Toesdav last, at the Grange , near East Grinstead, Sus sex, Mrs. wife or Charles Birkhead, Esq. aged .57 years. . The same da.y, at Rosenau, in Datchet, Lieutenant-General Charles Baron HuropesCh. On the 3oth ult. at Suuthsea, near Portsmouth, of a de cline, in the 19th year, Georgiana, second -daughter of the late Colonel Dacre. On the 3d inst. after two days illness, at his house in Fen-- church-street, in the 13th year of her ale, Anne, wife of Wiiiiaia Borradaile, ,Esq. of Stieathatu, Surrey. 1• P Raja rair Do.