The Sun. — London, England, 1812-01-07 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS. MkSSINA, DEG. 3 .—The Ettglilh Whose domina tion in Sicily occ a si ons a gr e qt al diScotifent there, have lately caused a number of aittests to-take place; tvhich they have endeavoured to glow . ,oysr with the following. Proclamation " SICILIANS, "The commandant of the British forces in Si tily has felt himself under the severe necessity of causing a certain number of persons to be arrested. They were in correspondence with the enemy ; and ,their objet was to deliver up Sicily, as well as the flglislt army, her faithful - ally, into the hands of . those who Wish the destruction of both ; but their rntrigues, which were long watched, have at last been unveiled. ". SICILIANS. All who' were acceSsat y plok,Thave • npt be en'arrested, but all ot. theM ;_and it has bee n d eeme d sutficient for the 'pl'eSelit for the present to secure those who had taken the most. active part. "An interval of three days is granted to such Peraons as were engaged M this plot, and are not Under arrest, in (rider to repair their hid( by a full and sincere confession. There • are pools 'against them not less clear than those which caused the arrest_ of their princinal accomplices; 'arid it is well known 7 that English Generals are not in tie habit- of order- Ing arrests without proofs : the long patience which thty have thought it their duty . to exercise renders this sufficiently manifest. Let those, then, who are implicated in this conspiracy, present them selves ; and, by acknowledging the part which they have taken, let them facilitate the punishment of the guilty who would have betrayed weir coun try. Pardon and protection are solemnly promised to - sucn as shall manifest their repentance within the ,period above prescribed. By order of his Excellency, W. TAYNTON, Mil. Sec. Heaclaluarters, Messina, Dec. 3, Air." This Proclamation, in which, the Sicilian Govern ment is not even named, sufficiently shew , ., that the English rnti•it _.have tor enemies in that E'ohntiy, both those whom . their tv rattily disgusts, and those in ‘ vllo lll an entighienea knowledge of their true in terests induces a that this fine province Should enter into the political system of the European Continefit. _ MADRID - , DEC. 5 ,—General D'Armagnac, basing s et o'e trout Befmonte, advanced upon Tarazona, Where he defeated the corps which observed the banks of the Jucar ;. he marched upon Iniesta, vvhere the insurrectionai Junta held its sittings, and then took the direction•of Uttel. The insurt-!ent General' aissecoert attempted to tilspute the passage of the river 'Gabriel ; but the krench advanced guard., under the'orders of Gene to] St. Genis, having on the same day made its ap- Pearance at the bridge of Contreras, which was oc cupied by the enemy, the ttilops which defended it, 4f rai I of being turned, retired across the mountains to Villa Gordos where they joined two battalions and thee squadrons which had arrived from the Valetician army. In spite of the obstacles present ed by the ground, two regiments of dragoons ad vanced against this corps, and the enemy took ad vantage of the darkness of the night to retire. Some Prisoners were taken, and the battalion of Daroca Was entirely dispersed. The troops which defended the bridge of Paxaro, over which it was necessary for the artillery to pass, seeing themselves mined took refuge in the mountains. • On the 25th ihe whole division was collected at supposing that the- enemy would endeavour to defend himself at Requena ; but on the approach of the aevanced guard of the Prench cavalry, Basse court retired to Las Cabrillss, and abandoned his skli, who were taken. He was purShed as. far as Siete Agnas. This expedition has very much embarrasSed the tin ny o f Blake, who was cotnpelled to detach a di vision to las Cabrillas. The enemy lost 200 pri soners, 2000 touskets, 2000 cartridge-boxes, some Magazines of corn and clothing, 300 mules laden with provisions for Valencia, besides 300 horses. The commandant Morale:, on the 31st ult. sur prised some bands of brigands near Avilla, and took 64 prispnets. . AMSTERDAM, DEC. 27.—A violent gale from the N.W. has caused the loss of a ship of the line, and several vessels coming from the Baltic. The convoy was under the Hero, of 74 guns. The ship ran ashore on the North Haaks, off the Texcl. All the efforts made during the 24th, to get to her, were unavailing, It was only on the 25th that we could approach her—but nothing Was found but the wrecks. The crew certainly Perished. A brig called the Grasshopper went over the North Haaks. The pilot 01 the Fare! going on board, piloted her into Niew Diep, where she now is. She cat ries eighteen 32-pounders. The transport Archimedes ran ashore, but the ciew were saved. The prisoners from these two ships are just ar : lived here—they are 141 in number. Two other brigs are lost to the north of the Texel I:tut we believe the crews are saved. Other shipwrecks took place during the same gale on the coasts of the Isles of Eyerland and Terchelling, and we expect positive details relative ?o them. • AMEABERG, DEC. 14.—0 n the 12th, at twenty- the minutes after eight in the evening, we felt a iolent shock of an earthquake, which, according to itiformation since obtained, was also felt through a great part of our chain at mountains. In the morn ing of the 12th, the thermometer ` was one degree neath the point of congelation ; but towards noon 4 Mild -wind blew from the South-West, and a qu'ck thaw ensued, so that the thermometer had ri-en twelve o'clock five degrees. The ;atmosphere was very heavy, and filled with electric inattet'. On • • the western horizon were collected tempestuous clouds in fantastic shapes, Some observers, more o'er, allege that it lightened during the night, and that they heard a slight clap of thunder. The shock • was also accompanied by a subterraneou-s 'noise, re semblincr that of thunder, at first low, but whit:' ark r w ards increased in violence , and' again ltiSen 'ibly subsided. The shuck was partiCcilarly • _ egress 1,11 : 11 r 171,1 The windows and furniture wete violently shaken, and in several "houses afticles were thrown of :the tables. .Persons who were in s the open air felt its undulating motion, which was also, perceptible to the miners in their galleries, as was the noise which accompanied the shock. While the shock,. wilicit was in the direction of from South-East to North- East lasted, the barometer v4is twenty-six degrees, one minute, and six seconds ; the thermometer three degrees above the mark, and the wind was South-East. PARIS, JAN. 2 —Their Excellencies Marshals the Dukes of Elchingen and Reggio ale arrived. at Paris. BUDA, DEC. 2.—For these some years past che: mists have been endeavouring to find a substitute for pot-ash, in the manufacture of glass. The pity sican and naturalist, M. Ostreicher, it would ap pear, has discovered the proper subtance, in a na. live salt, which he calls Sal airabik notitum Hun• garicum. This. m rterial abounds in Hungary. .M. Ostreicher first introduced It with success into the 'Valeria:it:to-Sit:a, and having now discovered a che mical process by which he can separate from tt the the sulphuric acid, natrore only remaining, he uses it in the manufacture of even the finer species of glass. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 2.—The great event which was supposed to have taken place in consel‘ quence of the arrival of some officers from the camp of the Grand Viziei, and of several hurried mili tary movements, is folly confirmed. The Rtssians have passed the Danube, near Radschtick. The Grand Vizier is in that place, whither he went flow the island of Slohodse, amidst a shower of bullets aimed at the vessel in which he was. The Grand Seignior immediately ordered all the males capable of bearing arms to march for Mount Nomus. Several thousand men, commanded by Patronee Beyeaka My, sailed on the 28th of Octo ber, for Varna. The second Equerry 'of his Highness arrived here on the sth from Rudschuck. The :Mali held a a great Council on the 7th. It is not as yet known what resolutions will be adopted by the Grand Seignior, with resped to the events on the Danube. Tne Seimen Paella has beet, recently dismissed and banished io Kade Koy, a village on the coast of Asia, near Scutari, because he had not caus , :d,a Turk to be punished, who had presumed to mal treat the guard of Janissaries. PARIS, DEC. 23 —lt is known that the.med'um 'N of man is about 28 years and a half ; according recent calculations it would reach 31 and a half, three years more, if the vaccine were generally adopted : so that it is very reasonable to consider D. .Tenner as one of the greatest benefactors to his spe cie 4. ...._ . LEYBACH, Nov. 21.—1 t would appear that the English had quite abandoned the interior of the Adliatie. . .. . Maritime commerce is reviving at Trieste ; there daily arrive vessels from Corfu, Venice, Ancona and Ragusa, laden with oil, figs, and other .merchan dise. . .. : ___ . _._ The 'Governor-General of the Illyrian Provinces coltinues to visit the d•tferent part; Of Dalmatia ; that country so lit le known and till now neglected, is susceptible of very considei able .amelioration. — Next year exieritnents will be•made there with re sped to the culture of the cotton tree. The population of Dalmatia, which at present dues not exceed 35,000 50914, might be easily doubled, VIENNA, Dec. t t.—Vienna has been, for the last six months, the rendezvous of a great number of foreign persons of science and letters. M. Fischer, of Cziak, has brought hither samples-.of big .fine sugar from the beet-root. M.,f-lcinrich has communicated a method of substituting woad for indigo. The point of assemblage for strangers is the house . of M. Jacquin, the literary Nestor of Vienna. General LO:SON is appointed Commandant of the 25th military division at Maestricht, in the room of General Dustotimiu. -" The warrants tor the quarterly dividends have been received by the bankers, and the payments to them and the public in general, will commence to-morrow at the Bank. John Smith and Jean Tourney, of his Majesty's ship Kite, were tried by a Court Martial on Thurs day'and Friday at Portsmouth, for a breach of the 29'h Article of War, and both sentenced to be hung. A servant of a Gentleman in Gloster-street, Dub lin, of high character, Colonel Magrath, had a child at nurse with an industrious poor family of the name of :Reynolds, on the Broad Lays Common near Ballyruore Ensiace ; and the poor worn 1n hav ing come to Dublin for her wages, there being one year and a halt due, - tOl. was paid. '--After being at home about ten days, their cabin was attacked in the night ; the poor woman being far gone with child, the husband defended the cabin to the last against the gang of murderers. He resisted them outside so violently that they retreated to a spot of ground, thither he followed them, and continued assailing h , le he was able to stand on his feet; he at length sunk on his knee, and in this tosture he defended himself with such determined resolution that it had. sunk six inches in the earth, when at length, from weakness and loss of blood, he expired under the • unmerciful hands of the murderers ;—nor content with this, they cut his throat and dragged him back to the cabin-. While some of the parry were en : gaged in murderieg the husband, the remainder were engaged in murdering his wife. They cut ber'throat, and also the throat of a poor beggar man who took refuge for the !light. Their next object eras to rob the cabin, and one of the gang in rummaging stum, bled over a child of seten yeArs old, on which he hid his face, insuiring familiarly,•Bet ty do you know me. ,She, dreading the fate of the rest, replied no;. on which he asked, Where doe: your tua , mny t hide her money ? —The child could not satisfy th !robber, but they tooluare to empty the house of ail that was valuable.—Freemun's journal. Last week two men broke into a house in the neighbourhood of Dunfermline, and stolen watch and a pair of pantaloons. Ode of them was soon apprehended, .and after examination was committed to Dunfermline gaol. The watch was..found in his possession. Next morning, on the gaoler opening the room where he was confined, he was found quite 1 • kg. rwsPanit of his hand- POLIG'E. MANSION-lICAISE —Yesterday beltig the dap apl pointed for the re•evatination of Mrs. Harriet. Magnes, charged with stealing the infant sort of Mrs. Dellow, as particnlarly staled lb former Pavers,' a vast concourse of persons colleEted about the dif ferent approaches to the Justice-room, so as to make it difficult of. access even to the Magistrates. About twelve o'clock Mrs. Magnes was brought to the bar, and inforrned by the LORD MAYOR, that there not being sefficient evidence to support the felonious part of the charge against her, namely, with tak ing the child's clothes with a felonious intent but it became his duty to detain her- in cus tody until she should find bail in 201. to take lye - r trial the ensuing Sessions for the misdernkinewur.,....irt. taking away the child. She was accordingly_ re manded until such bail should be- entered into. 7. Many or the mist respeaable inhabitants of the Tower Ward, :excited by the very freqUent depredations that have lately occurred in their dis. tti6t, by noaurnal . plunderers, have adopted the re solution of forming 'themselves info a — patrole - , 'to scour the streets, lanes, and courts . ut the Ward by nights in order to appehend sulatciousltirkers, add prevent burglar it's and . robberies: . . Four men, named itoterts, Price, Piicsily and Goulding, appiehended by a party of Gentle= men on Sunday in'orning early, were brought- up - , Charged with breaking _open the wine cellars of Mess's. Mazur and, fugal', undo - the- Chapel, at the bottom of Queen..street, and stealing a quantity of wine. The exaiWnation continued nearly an hOtir ; and the -substance of the testimony against the prisoners was as follows :—Eight respedable householders of the Ward, four of whom are Members of the Com mon Council, Mr., Lucas, Mr: Robert Smith, Mr. Drinkwater, and Mr.'Kepling, ‘ set out last Saturday , night on the duty they had undertaken, properly armed. Four patrolled the division next the Thames, and the other four, that between Thames-street and Cheapside. Atter a diligent inspeaion, they met no persons whom they suspected, until about six in the mottling, when fourrof the Gentlemen from the,. rendezvous where they had concealed themselves, heard several men pass them qtiickly by, Who were speaking.loudly. They instantly followed them and watched their progress, until they saw them stop and knock at the door of a ,hind of eating and public house, in a lane leading to Thames-street„ which house the Gentlemen suspealed to be a place of reception for persons of imptoper. charaMer. door %vb., opened, and the men entered. The foilr Gentlemen immediately came up, and heating d bustle m the house of persons going'up and down stairs, and a noise of bottles breaking in the cellar, they demanded admittance, and got in. The first of the prisoners they mist was Roberts, whom they took in custody : he appeared to feel for semething about his pockets ; and apprehensive that he felt for a knife or a pistol, one of the Gentlemen by draw ing his hanger, taught him the folly . Of resistance ; and he was placed under. a gum - cl in the parlour: The other party of the patrole :now came up, and they all proceeded to search the .I)Q,USe up.stairs. Iu b.e.l room on the first floor they 'found done at first, only some lodge:l4 in the house ; but on quit ting the room, they received 'an intitnation that there was a strange mait'who had lust come into the room, and who did not lodge these ; and this man had just jemped into bed where a man and his wile lay ; and had said to thewife, when the Gentlemen were entering the room, " For God's sake, say, that I have slept here all night, or it will cost me my life." They then went up to . 1 he secoad floor, and, found two others of the , prisoners stripped . and in bed ; but on examining their elOtheS they fotiiid . them quite wet, and their shoes all ceVved with fresh mud, the morning having been. very rainy.. The prisoners at first said they had slept there all night ; but afterwards acknowledged they hail not been above an hour or two in bed. Having se cured these, they searched the cellars below, and found a numb-ft - of- bOttles of -wine, some bottles re- cently broken, and the wine they had cooktined spilled ; they found also several bladders; some con taining wine, a short iron crow, such as is general ly used by hoUsebreakers, and a dark lanthern. UOder the Seat in the parlour, where the first .pri soner they took had sat, they found two empty bladders ; and in his pocket, a large. clasp knife with a'bottle screw ; a similar -knife was found on another of the prisoneis. - . On examining the seals upon all the bottle corks, they found them impressed with the name of 11. Mann and Co. One of the prisoners ran off, but was pursued and taken after a long 'chase,* and the whole, were lodged in the . Potiltry, Corupter. . The patrole then .proceeded to examine the wine- • cellar of Mann and Co. under the Dissenting Chapel, , in Great Queen-street, and foUnd it had been broken open. They direilly apprised Mr. Mann, who ap peared to give evidence ; and stated, that at six o'clock the preceding evening, the cellar was ray tened and secured,by one of I3ramah's patent locks. observed two susik-ious looking men lurking . about the place at the time, and bid the patrole keep, a.sharp look-out. 'On examining_ the cellar, atter it Was forced open, -he •found 18 wine-bottles,which . he missed from a particinar•'bin, , with their corks drawn and emptied of their contents. This bin had at first contained 145 bottles, of which there re mained in it but 127 ;. nod the 1.8 ,uncorked bottles just made up,.the difference. From another bin he, misseri l 5 bottles ; and on comparing the seals upon the bottles found in the house where the priSoners "were taken, the iirtpresion exactly corresponded wit the seal- be.now produced. The prisoners denied.ail knowledge of the robbery, but gave a very lame account of the causes - which brought them to the house where they were taken. They were committed for trial,' and are to be brotight.up again,on Friday, ~to hear the depositions against them read. 'HATTo:4-GARDEN.—Yesterday two I.vell-known characters, apprehended on Saturday evening,. by Cooß, the officer, were brought up and underwent examination. It appeared that on' their being search e d , a great quantity a Edinburgh Bank-notes were found 'upon their persons, suipeded to have beep stulen. Further evidence,being necessary, the prisoners were Qtatnriinv WiliTtottAtEt,•.st it With tileastire *d that parochial meetings, for the ploteclion idclabitants against housebreakers and other thie.tss, ,are become general. A meeting has taken place it WhitechaPel of the' inhabitants of Mount 7 place k -MoOnt-street, and Mount-terrace, Mr. C. BELL in the Chair, which is likely to be- followed With the most beneficial effects. They have resolved to have additional and able watchmen, and several inhabi tants have set down their names, two of whom are occasionally to walk round the district, to see that the watchmen are vigilant, and do their duty. Alreasly - 57 housekeepers have subscribed 11. each to carry the plan into effect, and there is no doubt but that a very handsome subscription will tae made. It- is hoped that the neighbouring parishes will fol. Agile an example. -The inhabitants of Edmund-street, Battle-bridge, St. - Pancr2's; and its environs, have very laudahly instituted a system of Poiice, by alternately patrol -11-1g tht•streets every night, in which 4 hey have re cetyecl.,the approbation of the neighbouring Magi . strates, who very highly. approve and strongly re• commend the establishment of similar institutions. t A Et LB.OROUG -I-STREET.- wM r. Thomas was held lo.,bailfol.ap assault on Col. Weernys4. It appeared in evidence, that the defendant had, by mistake, knocked at the door of a house in ilus sell.square,:after,twelve o'clock on Sunday niot, 'srtily on-its being opened, v,alked into a parlour, wt ere the Colonel was spending theevening with a party: An altercation ensued, and the defendant was conveyed to the watch-house, at which placelle struck the Colonel on the mouth 7 - -- - J. White was charged with feloniously uttering a five-pound forged vote, at a public-house in Wind. ,niili•street. Remanded for another examination. Messrs. Hunt and Sons, card-makers, in Mor• timer-street, charged severA labourers in their'em ploy with conspiracy to prevent their work being executed. The .Magistrate committed the ring leader. The new Opera; it seems, Is to open at the Pan theon, notwithstanding all the reasonable alarms which have been excited by the Vast numbers of ,foreigners . now in this coun.ry, and who have ah. solutely cotrupted too many of our countrymen, besides the crimes committed by themselves. One • establishment of tflis kind is surely enough, an I we must be the laughing-stock of all Europe, to be. come and contentedly remain— " --the needy villain's gen'rat home, " The common sewer of Path and of Rome." .We hear much of the dismission and resignation of aCiors and actresses, but stitely no blame is im. 'potable f6:the amagers; for-if they appear to have hesitation in parting w•ith.bipeds they may he, . .. .. . . . . .... ,said to shey pdoubli , degree of alacrity in supply , . ing the public with . quadrupeds. 13KAHA51, who is always ready in offices of belie. volence, has transmitted a donation of 151. to the . Edinburgh klouse of ,Industry, and IA to th‘ Royal Intirmaty of that city. Mrs. C. KEMBLE, as soon as it was understood that she . was disengaged from Covent-Golden Theatre, receivtd invitations from several Provincial Mona- gers, coed with that from Edinburgh, where she is to make her appearance to-mot-NW Tit B CHASE.—The Surrey fox hounds meet on Tlinrsday at Keton Mill ; Saturday s at Oxtead Gate.—The harriers meet Thursday and Saturday, each day at Kernel —The Quorodon hounds meet' to-morrow, at Bunney Town ; Friday, at . Ayleston Town ; Saturday, at Bar"rtdon Hill--The Pytchley lintinds meet - this day, at Litt :e Harr owdeo Thursday, at Fox Hall ; .Friday, at Abingdon.— The,Oakley. Hounds meet this dry, at Chichley 3 to-morrow, at Rushden ; Friday, at Melchbouru Wood. i• 'Saturday at Milton Mill. On We:tnesday last, Mrs. Dougherty came to Carrickfergus Jail to see her husband, Praticis Dougherty, a sadler, from B.lfast, confined for, debt. She was accompanied by James O'Neill, late of C4n-market, and James Dalton, innkeeper After sa'd 'party spending the day with their friend, they took the opportunity,, when the strangers were quitting the jail in the evening, and had Dough coy dressed in his wife's clothes, and he was in 'the art of escaping, when the face was recognised not to be Mrs. Dougherty's, but Mr. D.'s, and he was' ttirned , back from the outer door into his ward,. where his wife remained concealed. The Prince de Aremiaerg, Mons. Causil, Secre tary, and' Mons. Hoig, Commissary of War, left PlYMonth. (where they had landed from Lisbon), in a post-chaise for Exeter ; Gen. Brune followed in the stage-coach, on'the outside of which were fie domestics of the Prince. From Exeter they pro ceeded to Biddeford and Ilfracombe, whence the Prince, Mons.' Causil, Mons. Hoig, and the five attendants, proceeded to Oswestry, Salop, the pH e appointed for their residence, and General Bru• e goes' to Welch Pool, Montgomeryshire. Ti,e Prince, we are informed by a Gentleman who was introduced to him and General ,Brune, has a. very youthful appearance, •is extremely affable, speaks very lightly -of his present condition, and much • more so o; politics.. They both agree in every respea with the statement of Marshal Souult to the French Government, except in the particular of the dispersion of Castanos's army, which they do not deny is false, and also in the numb. cot pri soners-taken. They acknowledge their sui prise to be unequalled, when, rising from their pillows al.d seeing the Highlanders in the streets of Arroyo Mo frishing- in with bayonets fixed, and driving :all'belOre - them, when the very Spaniards, who had the liighrbefore declared to assist them, were set'n s'iltWrig their hats and crying out Vice Englilaie. Geneial Brune had, two horses killed under in. this affray, while .endeavuuring to disengage ti.e troops. They spear in very contemptible terms of the Spanish soldiery, but say, that the boldness and courage of - . the guerillas are truly astonish'ng,. and whom all the regular armies in Europe would 'never be able finally to subdue: PEDESTRIANISM,--Mr. Mealing, the Somerset. shire'Redestrian, completed his Herculean task of gOintabiniles a day for eighteen successive clap., on altirdarat ,Horrichurch, Gloucestershire, Avon fitle l 'hundred guineas. He is, lame in the left legs_ ah is 'reduced from 14si. 81b. th 12St. 4!h, He has matt, 'ditliaty in proceeding the last two