The Sun. — London, England, 1812-09-23 00:00:00

posiibie for miottt and DA/AttAtt to ioiire, consequence of one of General HILL'S divisions Laving cut . off their retreat by Los Pedroches. , A 'dispatah .his arrived, which obliged SOULT anti Lis party to pack up in great baste. AUG, 23.—A1l those employed in the Commls 4ariat and Police have set out. MollTAus had disposed his march for Cordoba, but suspended it in consequence of having been informed that some Spanish troops had, entered that city. , They have destroyed the Maestranza, the manufactory for saltpetre, and fortification of the Carteja. AUG. 24.--To day the Juramentados and French Party set out. AUG. 25.--This eyening the enemy were ready . to march ; they have thrown into the Tiver.all the Powder and saltpetre ; to-morrow we expect to_ e free from them, . Tottno, AUG. 14.—The enemy have to-day, retired precipitately from this city, to the greet . joy of the inhabitants. GUADALAXARA, AUG. 16.—The garrison of this place, which capitulated with the Empecinado, amounts to seven hundred and seventy-five men. "--The expressions. of joy with which the in habitants of this neighbourhood received the Spanish troops who -delivered them front the bar barouioppression of the enemy, are indescribable. among the prisoners are some reneged° Spanish Officers, - who have distinguished themselves in, the service of the pretended King. TRuGILLo, AUG. 21.—1 t appears that the l'rench who have been in La Serena, and overrun . The villages in that vicinity, have retired upon.)3e-, licazar. ' „ CADIZ, AUG. .27.-It is said that the allied i rmY has made 1500 prisoners in Toledo, and that t he garrison of Gnadalaxara, consisting of 900 t hen, has surrendered to the Empecinado. On the 2 6th in the morning the enemy evacuated Seville, Srst rendering all the artillery useless. GUM).&LAXARA, AUG. 17.---This place has sur rendered tO ifie 'troops of the Empecinadp, after a fruitleSs resistance.' The whole number of pri- toners amounts to 775. Nothi n g- can exceed the joy manifested .by the, *nhabitants 'on the entrance of the Spanish troops into this place; there were. continual illumina tifts.."*. .banquetings, and all the proofs of joy Ivhich a loyal people can give. • Amonk'the•priSoners, it is worthy to observe, ere RoxAs, Ruiz, and another Of, Seer, who have several times deserted the colours of th eir country `; ..iid'who, While they were in the service of the pretended King, conducted them- , s elves in the most infaMousmanner towards their tountrymen, CADIZ, 28.—The accounts which have to=y been received from the capital, and which "me down to the . 19th August, are of the most Pleasing and satisfactory nature. They all con cur, that the greatest order and propriety of con duct reigns amidst the excess of joy With which all hearts abound. ' The loyal and faithful inhabitants 1141 e preserved, amid t4e most cruel oppression, a Patriotiim and integrity which must do them et ernal honour. They write from Ayarnonte, of the date of yes* te ,1 ou the 25th, in Seville; by ,order of 13 111,T, a number of cannon bad been spiked, Nisket s broken„ and a great quantity of t r enades, and gunpowder ; thrown into the river,. h• lei' appeared to give ceutainty to the report Mat the enemy would itnmediately . The officers of police bare already gong with a °nvoy, escorted :by the Dth regiment of infaytry, and have obliged the inhabitants to purchase the beat which they could not carry away. We are a ssured that a division of General HILL'S forces has advanced by. Los Pedroches, and it. is also "'led that there are allied troops in Cordova : fit is so, DROI3ST and DARRiCAN cannot make 4 ` ) ( 1 c1 their retreat.' . • . 'war/bor oug h, Admiral COcts.suaisr. hoisted h is flag. in the ' w ar/borou g h, at Portsmouth, on Monday last. • THE ARMY.--A Circular Order has been trans )itted to all the - General Officers commanding on ?reign st a ti on s, s i gn ifyi ng the'. Commander in fo n ief's v eumand, that the bounty to be , given to s rei gn e whose period of service is expired, and Rho are willing to re-enlist, shall be fixed at four ttlineas. • • On the 25th of the present month, the new re :ruiting system will be extended to the West- I l District, comprising the counties under the Innuediate command of LieutenantlOeneral EN G -16,111). The 12th Light Dragoons have gained the high- S t credit for their great bravery at the battle 'of 1/4 alamanca. In one charge, the enemy were "'lllpletely panic-struck, and fell almost at their a pproach. • We understand that all the 'They Horses belong -I''g to the ~ .'avalry of the German Legion are to be 1111Jilediat-ly transferred to the Prince Regent's own • • r e g iment of. Hussars. The 0 ricers ccinmarding cavalry.:.depots and l'avalry re4iments, have• been recently- ordered t ° furni s h t h e men under their cOinniand with Beery article of equipn.ent necessary far foreign service. \ C\O • THE THEAIne brettm. - Last vnglt, for the first time, an Opera, en titled . The Spanish Patriots a Thousand Years ago, was represented at this Theatre. DRAMATIS PERSON.E. ' . - Nlr. RAYMOND. Alonzo Mr. Pm urrs. • Don Guzman Antonio ...... Ramiro. Mr. PYNE. Mr. .1. SMITH. Pedrci Sancho Mr. KNIGHT. Claia Silvia L T iol3ute .. Mrs. HARLOWE. FABLE. After the .battle of Xeres, which confirmed the invasion of the Moors, Don Pelagio and his fol lowers retire into the mountains of Asturia, where they pot only successfully' resisted the power of the Sarazen invaders, who ,had overrun the rest of Spain, but established themselves in the kingdonii of.ASturia and Leon ; thereby laying the, basis of that energetic and indefatigable patriotism by which the Moorish usurpation was graduallrre duced, until finally extinguiShed in.the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella. After the battle of Au . - sena, in which the MoOrs were defeated, Pelagio, the Gothic King, is supposed by, his people to have been borne off a captive by the flying foe, while in reality his life is attempted by Don Guz r man, - Who hopes by his death to .attain to the va cant sovereignty : he believes that by the assist ance of Ramira, his confidant, •he has effected the death of the King; but not having been chosen, his successor, as be had expected, be favours the , notion of his captivity, and . enters info secret cor respondence with the Sarazens, by whose aid, and the promotion of internal intrigues and divi sions,- he hopes in time to accomplish the object of his ambition; meanwhile limiting the powerS of .Alonzo, the chosen leader. 91 the Spanish peo ple, and restraining the progreSs of his arms against the invader, from consideration for ;he life of the captive King. , From this period;'cloWn to the time when 'the action of the piece com mences, Pelagio lives -retired, and disguised as a hermit, his life having been preserved by Ramiro, under the sacred 'obligation of an oath, never to quit his: solitude; or discover himself to his sub jects, without his (Ramiro's) consent. Don Guz- - man, conceiving his traitorous plot ripe for exe cution, -by the -divisions and- corruptions he. had secretly , fomented, invites the recruited strength of the invader against his country; but, *lva- - ling to hazard the risk of battle, he seeks, by a fabricated:letter, from the supposed captive, Pe lagio, his people, to induce submission to 'the. Sarazen force ; but, previously to this -message being .delivered to the assembled Chiefs for their determination, Ramira, offended with on Guz man, forms the resolution of communicating to ..,Don Alonzo the fact of Pclagio's retirement, and the circumstances which led to it. - They proceed to the Hero's retreat—prevail upon him, still in disguise, to attend the meeting. He rallies the declining patriotism of his country—leads -his ,people .against the assailing foe—and the action terminates in the- discomfiture of internal treason, and the total rout of the barbarous invader. The loves of 'Alonzo and Donna Clara, the supposed daughter of Don Guzman, but actually the dough ter" of Pelagio, as explained in the last scene, fOrm. in auxiliary- plot, which . serves as a vehicle for. several songs, duets, trios, &c. From the foregoing account of the fable, our Readers will perceive that the Author of this' piece has availed himself of the situation of Spain since the perfidious invasion of BIJONAPARTE, and applied the events of a distant period in.. Spanish history to the state of the country at the present moment. This Wan allowable privilege of a dra ,matie writer, .as the exercise of it is calculated to excite an interest beyond the intrinsic qualities of his work. In the piece before us, the 'fable can hardly be said to begin in the first act, which. con sists of little. more than dialogue ; but in the second the action commences,:and from that period the dialogue chiefly tends to the advancement- Of the story. The characters have nothing-uncom mon.. .That of Pelagio is .• the principal.. The others are such as are .gencrallY-found in dramas of the same kind. The .story is not liable to 'any essential objection on the whole, but it is by no means probable that Pelagio, - conSiderMg his 'pa triotism, should have retired into religious soli tude; without-making a 'secret effort tii'rescue his country from' foreign Oppression, even though hound by an oath not to discover himself as the Monarch of his people, or that a dependant on one of the. Nobles should have exacted- such an obligation from 'his Sovereign. No reason is• given why Clara, after having escaped from the tyranny of her supposed father, GuzMan, in male attire, 'should not have revealed herself to ,ber lover, 41onzo, when she must have been assured of his affection and fidelity. There is 6: want of poetical justice in suffering such a wretch as Guzman to ,escape„ after he had been convicted of an. attempt to murder his King, and to betray hii Country, and possessed no quality that should entitle him ,to pardon, 'or even lenity. But the plot, such as it is,' in bearing reference to portant events which have happened, and are still pending in Spain, comes home tq the feel ings. The sentiments in general are loyal and patriotic, though perhaps somewhat too often re peated. The Author is an Irish Gentleman, named CODE. The music was composed by Sir JOHN STEVENSON, a'arusician of well- , known me rit. The Airs, Duets, Trios, &c. arc composed with great taste and feeling, and were in general,. much admired ; but it is not precisely of 'a dra matic character, and some of the Songs did not exactly suit the powers of the Performers. The Music; however, was highly applauded, and seve ral of the' Airs were encored. The Perforiners ex erted themselves with' great zeal and:ability.— RAYMOND, PHILLIPS, and Miss KELLY, particu larly distinguished themselves. PYNE sung in a . very pleasing manner, and ex.eciittql the divisions with great neatness. A Pas de TrOig:WIIS so ad mirably verformed .by MiSs • LUPINO;Miss FlAxxl sox, and Miss Chins, that it was universally encored. The Opera was received, throughout with great applause, by a numerous audience, and . announced for this evening, 'not only with warm approbation, but without one dissenting voice. - . OD) tAILEt, SETT. 22. George Pen otherwise qeorge Porter, stood at the bar, indicted fOr having feloniously stolen a mare, with a chaiie and apprOpriati t har : ness, the property of John Ilichards 'The prosecutor deposed that he was a ship builder, 'at Gosporti in • Hampshire; and the pri soner at:the bar was employed by him in the ma nagement of one of his vessels, Which carried beer and water to his,lVlajesty's navy "He had a chaise and harneSs taken' away from his coach-house, and a mare from, his stable; on the sth day of July 5 he immediately' , departed in search of his property to LOndon,,,and , gaVeinforniation of his loss to the : Office at BoW-Sireet. About eight days after wards, the prOperty Was brought back to him by certain Officers, and which he immediately recog nized to be that.whichhad been carried from his premises. The' prisoner had been' fifteen months in, his employment, and he had :nothing to. say. detrimental to his - character, save in the present instance. John "Taylor deposed, that he was a working . man, at Fulham, and happening one day to.be iit a neighbOuring - public-house, the prisoner at the bar appeared there, endeavouring publicly to dis pOse chaise and harness, which the witness purchased for six guineaS: :He reckoned himself a bit of a judge, and did. not think the price he gave at. all unfair or unreasonable. He could not recollect under what name the prisoner disposed of them. - - `Jenkins, a_ ltackney-coachman, of Mary-le bone, purchased tbe.mare from the prisoner.on the•Bth day of 'July. He informed the . witness' that his , naine was, George na . ..Porter, and that he was a farmer at . SOutinnills, s and that he was compelled to part With' the mare ,beeause of the scantiness of grass upon, his pasture, Which compelled her to overleap the fences, and graze on the fields of his neighbours. tie paid fOurie s ea pounds for the mare, - and afterwards, on inquiry, found' thatno Filch persdn the prisoner bad de scribed.occupiedl,and at Southmilll., George Watson, an Officer of the Police, took the mare at Mary-le-bonne; and found the'ehaise and harness at Fulham, all of which were proved by the prosecutor ;to be his property. The prisoner, in his defence , maintained, that finding long intervals of leisure inhis employment, be bad resolved to deiote them to his own amuSe ment; and happening, while this humour, to meet a Yorkshire man called : James Mason, he purchased the chaise, mare, and harnesS from bith, with which:he made a jaunt to London, where he publicly disposed of them. He lamented that all his searches after James Mason bad been fruit less, who had gone back to Yorkshire, and would return again-in a fortnight, leaving the prisoner nothing, save his receipt for the money, to vouch for his innocence. The Jury immediately returned a verdict of-- Guilty, when the prosecutor interceded on the prisoner's behalf, stati.ig, that lie was not con versant enough with the law to know whether or not this was a capital offence. Ile hoped, however, the punishment would fall 'short of life i for he believed this to have been the- prisoner's first crime. . . , . . . Thomas 'Wright Was capitally conVicfed for having . tolen a Copper - pot, value '2O shillings, froth the shop. of Mr. Lewis, a broker, near St. James's-square. • _ _ James Gibbons and Ann Gibbons were both acquitted of an indictment,.charging them with 'having robbed Andrew Grubb of a silver watch, with gold chain and seals, somewhere between the I . ast India Tap and Bromley. It 4ppeattd, that the prosecutor contrived to intoxicate himself at the • East India Tap public house, from which he departed without knowing where he was going. He awoke in the Mulberry public-house at. Bropley, and immediately missed his watch. Neither- of prisoners had been in his company; so far as he knew. A rawnbroker said,, that, the female •priSoney pawned the watch, which the prosecutor claimed as his, for 20 "shillings. Her husband, the other prisoner, came afterwards to redeem some lesser articles tint of pledge, when he caused him to be apprehended,' emkavoured to effect his escape, but was immediately secured. • Ann Owen was cErpitally convicted of stealing' a gown, value Ss. the property of John Hohne. This poor young creature was with child, and had a little boy in her hand, which induced the Jury•to. recommend .her very strongly to mercy, which the Bench. informed them should be at tended to. William Smith and Aka. Macdonald stood at the bar, capitally indicted, for having, on the night 0 . the . 20th of August, a s saulted the person of Robert Brown, from whom they took. a silver watch. . . Robert Brown said; he was a servant in the Fox public-house,• at Islington,. and the prison ers, who were backney-coachmen, resided in the same house: . About twelve o'clock at night, on :the 30th of August, they : entered his apartment,. along with a coachman who was to sleep with him all 'night Macdonald set down a candle which he-held in his had, and threW himself on the top of - the witness, and struck him on the sides.--- , Smith leaped on the top of Macdonald, and one Of them pulled the bolster over' the eyes of tIK witness. In this position they held him for some time, and. *hen. they departed, he found that he had been rObbed of his watch,' and an empty lea thern-purse, which was in his breeches pocket. He alarmed the house, and on searching, he dis covered his• parse deposited in the crown of Mac donald's hat, and the watch was found on the edge of an ale barrel in the court-yard. 'Philip White, who slept in the same apartment . with the last witness, described the affair in the same manner; but be looked upon the whole, at &it, to be a mere joke, seeing they had a lighted eandlein the apartvent. . Thomas Leedman, keeper of .the Fox public- 7 house, said, that Macdonald. was- in the habit of skylark;s7 with the prosecutor. The prisoners had partaken of six or eight bottles of wine along with some of their companiots on that day, but they were not intoxicated. • The Jury returned a verdict—Acquitting Snifth, and finding Macdonald Guilty, t~ I Mli/DLES'IIIC SESSIONS, Sthit. BITYING GUINEA'S'. J. Davies and '8 Levy were indicted for guinea B.-• The circumstances of ti.A! case Were follow :—Suspicion exisling that the practice el) . guinea's vas carried on to a tonsideral - ,!e extent, a person named Hatfield was employe() „ia conjunction with Humphries, the officer, with the Approbation of the Solicitor of the iWnt, endeavour to dete.ct some of :N ; and one morn ing Hatfield met the defendant Levy, who is dealer in old clothes, in the Haymarket. Levy asked bin) if he had'any clothes to sell ; YT=:tii~ iii in reply, said, he had not, but asked Levy it he would buy any guineas ; Levy skid he would, and it was' agreed that they should meet in the course of half .an hour, at the. Lion and Goat; in St. James's. Hatfield then went to. Humphries, and communicated these circumstances to him . ; and Humphries marked three guineas, --which welt: given to Hatfield; they then proceeded . togethr to the place of rendezvous, where 'HuMphries continued out ofsight, and Hatfield Went into the. house, where he fOund - Levy,' and with him the other defendant. After some conversation . , Davies agreed to purchase three - guineas at 255. each, and they were accordingly delivered to - hint :to soil a§'-the transaction was complete, upon a signal be ing given, Hutaphries came in, and !Davies was immediately secured; but on Humphries attempt ing to search him, he called out `.` thieves,"-and said the officer wanted to rob him. He was, how- , ever, seen - red, and on Aarching him, the marked guineas werefound in his pocket. • Tie Jury acquitted .Levy, but found Davies Guatu. The CilnuarAii, after animadverting on the mischievous tt:idency of the offence, sentenced hiM,to be imprisoned for six months in the House of-Correction, and at the expiration of that pe riod to find security for his good behaviour for months longer. - Emanuel was also indicted for a similar of fence, and being. convicted, the sentence of till -Cdurt was the same. • POLICE. GuttintAt.L.--Two girls of the town Were yes• terday charged with hiving picked the pocket of . a Gentleman on the preceding night, near Little' Green Wick, of a watch... The complainant stated, that the prisoners ac costed him, and kept him in conversation about three. minutes:. on their departure he missed his watch,• aytd ha;ring given an alarm, they were stopped by the witch Man, when the watch was delivered up. • The Gentleman who was robbed al s o complain. ed to the worthy Alderman (Sir Jvhn Earner), that he bad birnself been - kept in custody the whole of the night; because he bad refused to leave his watch in the care of the - constable of the night. The constable and the watchman, in vindica tion of their conduct, stated, that when the Gen , tleman got, possession of the watch, he said that the girls,, might go about their business, for be .wontcl not take any farther trouble about *ern. Upon . being . taken to the watch-house, he still persisted in this determination, refusing- to give up,the watch, and conducting himself with - great impertinence ; 'he bad, therefore, been detained. fir JOHN EASIER observed, that nothing could be intie improper than keeping in custody a Gen tleman who had preferred a charge of robbery.— Altthat . Could . be expected was, that the Gentle man should give_his name and address,: if be.did not think proper to prosecute, that was his own affair. lii the present instance, he thonght the officers deserved to ka prosecuted for au act of op, pression, which they were by no means justified in committing. • The - compiainanf declared his intention . to try the question ; and having expressed a wish .not to .prosecute, the prisoners were sent to .Brit!ewell, as disorderly charactCrs. SHADWELL:— , -Tho,mas • Caley, residing in the. neighbourhood' of Bethnal-green, was yesterday brought up - for examination before the Sitting Magistrates, charged with selling and passing off a quantity of forged Bank notes, to the: amount of 40/. consisting. of notes of the value of 11. each. The Bank Solicitor, together l. With.seyera Clerks, attended, but the examination .was con. .ducted in private. Notice has been given, that application will be made to Parliament in the ensuing Session for leave to bridg in a Bill for making and main taining a road. from Westminster-bridge-road, at or near to Amphitheatre-row, to Vaux,hall Turn ,. pike. . CAMBRIDGE, SEPT. 20.—Yesterday died, at his seat at Long Stanton, in this county : in conse quence of the wounds which he received by being thrown out of his enrricle the preceding Saturday, Sir Thomas Dingley Hatton, Bart. He succeeded to the title upon the death of his brother, about twelve months since, had but just completed the family seat for his residence, and was actively ern ployed in promoting the enclosure of his own and the tvv,o adjoining parishes; in whi,:la lie bad i lirge property. Sir Thomas . having thus so unfortu nately died without issue (never having been mft rie4 ,the title _becomes extinct ; but the estates, which are considerable in this county', and in Nor folk, devolve on his two maiden sisters; is his, co-heiresses at law. CORN-ExcHANqp, SEPT. 23.—T0-day the Mar icet has few tresy arrivals of Wheat, but conz•i derable supplies on hand, mostly of the new crop, the trade heavy sale, and rather gives way in price, very little Fine Old at the highest *quo tation ; Rye rather lower; Barley,likewise ; Malt at little variation Grey,Pease am! Beans of each sort fully at the late advance; the supplies of new Oats are considerable,; ,and this trade quoted at a small declension in price ; no alteration in Flour. 'Wheat - • 755.• 965. 1465. Tick Beans - - 945. 297. Fine ditto - -150 s. 1555. Oats - -•- - 545. 58s. Rye - - 631.66 . Barley - - - 545: 60s. Potatoe ditto - 675. 68 . Malt - - - -90 s. 965. Rape Seed - - - 601. 661. White Pease (boil.) 80s. 86s. Fine Flour -115 s. 120 . Grey ditto - - 765. 82s. Seconds - - - nos. nu, Deans - • t 955. 198 s. ,