The Sun. — London, England, 1812-05-19 00:00:00

riRTIIER ERTRACTS FRi.)M THE.' HO LT MAIL. PETEIV•TXRG, A.14111L reserve of ;guards is forming at P ker. Goner +1 Trwskolitt is bo,Ortafed COM illafider in chief of the .engineer ,corps of - the Western Army, and Major General' Foßtrrtt to the 2d Western A! my. The, army of re,e, re - forthed, is commanded by General _1 ; 0 ASSO VIENNA, AP:IL 18.—We learn from Turkey that the forces which will take the field this y,ear are much mere numerous than were employed in 1810 and 1811. T 4 diicoußt continues here at 46. Per cent. NAPLES, APRIL . .—They vhite from Gae4e that every moment fresh detailS are received of the da tbages occasioned by the tempest, which took iplace en the 15th ult. Almost all the fishing boats on lbe coast have suffered considerable damage. Ib, • °96 of these bolts two persons perished, without its being possible to afford them any succour. During the same night, some ships were driven on shore between Spuloriga and Terracina; and upon the' coast that extends from Carceglioni to Monda grone. Near Decca,, upon the coast ofOslurn, in Otranto, a French bark from Corfu for Barletta, has been c orripletcly wrecked. The hull even has been re. d uced to powder. -The crew was saved, and re ceived the most generous hospitality on ihe part of the inhabitants. Mt AN, .Ararr. I.— . —We read in the Gazette of tliis town, that, considerable purchases of cord in the kingdom of Italy, and particularly in Genoa, ace cGotinued to re made on the part of the French Go "rnment, and that in consequence, the price of that article daily•augments. CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 1.5 . --The following P "r'►aa relation respeaing the late military events have taken place with the Russians• 'in the of 13Ahn and Dtrbend, is in circulation here. relation, written in the Oriental slyie, coatains 4 kilo ws " It is, without doubt;known that our viaorious tr oops . ar. incessantly occupied, both in }winter and t illriiner, in autuißn, and spring, in disturbing the e nemy of our faith, causing him considerable harm, his people, rediscing his women 'and chil dren to slavery, pillaging and carrying off his pro 1/erlY. All those who are favourably disposed to el lr empire clearly perceive that the gates of victory open to us; and it is a truth as•clear as the sun 4 ! - ilis meridian that we every day obtain fresh ad atitages over the enemy. CHEW ALICH4N DE Russc, at the head of a tsonaiderabie corps, has had an aaionwith the 111sians from Kubbe, which, after LI hours, was ( "eided in our favour. The Russians were put to P; ; , / 1 0 00 were killed in the field of battle, and "umber of prisonErs made. The wreck- of the t '' e my's army threw itself into the fortress of where it is cow besieged by our brave lArarriors. it We expea soon to h ear o f t h e ta ki ng of Kubhe 411(1 berbend; as well as of many other conquests, I 'd the ccmplete annihilation of the enemy's army.' t 'VIENNA, APRIL 15.--1 I is reported that Count t !t•I-RdaAns will- make a journey into Gallacia. eCoa nc il o f W ar is, at present, very much oc klPted. • ' 4 2 3I tELA W APRIL 1 . A - great number of the I trs and bccupiers•having a bandonedibeir houses, E ve avoid lodging the soldiers, and others having re ttl'red an out' of the ikay'place, or inns,•wheie ti e )? gave themselves out as strangers, the Deputa tan_,(l4 °I Se rv'ee finds itself obliged, in ordei.to re cY this abuse, to'publish, thp all these subter s alsolutely be, useless, and that lodgings i 41) 11t be furnished in equal proportions by all the Nlbitants all houses, therefore, which are found k o lt . sh a l l be forcibly opened, and the 'military ia inns, at the expellee of those persons - ti lar rnder thealselves subjea to thi s punish e • 1,1 41 t1 ASHLEYS had a grand selek9ion of sacred °rt Saturday last, at Covent -garden Theatre, c'f tyas no. dramatic representation r.af account Eve.. The perfu'rinanee altogether went Pkt4t'orY except that a part of the audience ex -941 great discontent because BRAHAM; who . had i te l et :t:Q?ed in one of his songs; had lett the The. ' 44 11 . 4 e, how ever , was sum for, returned, and ef 11is YPe r i restored good h umour b y t h e excellence of i'3l"roance. °1 sy°lsupporters of the L ANCAsTERIAN System 4 i u catien had an Anniversary Dinner on Satur tlit:'; it is to b e h op e d that the friends of that ;14 1: 1 1 Which is purposely calculated to preserve Establishment In Church and State, at 1 ) ( time that it diffusea useful knowledge, will 7.11„.''s aetive in doing hon o ur to th e i r In st i tution. -11 0C 11 ., the founder of this latter system, and ho e e c.haraaer private life is in the highest de-' s nable" surely ought not td recetve a less 4)3eif distmalton than the Person_ Who availed 1 4 e °I his plan, whatever improvement may , Op ie ee ti made in its pra&icai effe6s ; and we are thatan Anniversary. Festival in support of Ot Ll tili 7 ,„ a Y be dee me d t h e C onst i tutional System of gAti t ''" would b e warm l y patron i sed by the fr i ends co untry. NA LLELEiand 71117:Pi R.CEPrii?: • The Motnitig Chronicle of yesterday gasre a :long article on : the Subject of Lord Wai.,rEsr..Ey'S diffe rences with his late Colleagues; and; on .the faith of a certain Statement,' said to be privately circa _ laced, •it charges. Mr. FEibEVAL With disingenuous proceeding ; because, at the crone that _he obsert eel try ,Lord WELLESLEY, the forms of outward and confidence, he made application to the . PaiNcn REGENT •to nominate a successor to titat Noble Lord.—This ..charge of.disingenuousness, this most false and odi ous i m p utat i on o f d ou bl e dealing agalOst 'one of - the most candid and honourable minds that 'ever lived, we must ,indignantly repel ; apd we are 'persuaded the Noble Marquis will be but little obliged to the Opposition for the consfruaion which they have put upon his statement of fads (if indeed it be his Lordship's) ; it is not indeed of the fael, as tatecl, .but of tht; , construe/ion 'put upon them,- that we complain, and we confidently believe that, the few following sentences will evince the justice of our cotnplaint.--- , Some time previous to the expi s ration of the, testriCtions, Lord WELLESLEY, we. ate, :informed, tendered to the PitINCE' his resignation ; but with an offer Or. understanding (we know not - which) -to hold,- if it should suit his Royal • 1 ness's convenience, the seals of office till-the restric lions were, aeltially expired, but beyond that period he is said to have cieelared that hecould not go on under Mr. PERCEVAL.- Mr. PERCEVAL exceedingly regretted the loss - of Lord WELLE , LEY'S name and talents from the Cabinet,, and was extremely desirous, that he could be induced to continue a. member of. it; but as his Lordsls4p adhered to his first deter mination, Mr. PERcgvAL felt that nothing could .be more inconvenient and improper than .that. a Minister should nominally hold the seals after he had virtually resigned ; he, was also aware that there could not-be a-more ill-chosen moment 'for. .'xhibiting the differences of the, Ca'sinet than. the very crisis of the, expiration of the restrictions; and, therefore,- w hen'LordWcir.EsLEy had _finally re solved to retire, nothing could bs more natural or more proper than that Mr. PERCEVAL should wish to have his successor, named, as soon as 'possible, in order to prevent, as well the inconvenience of go ing' on with a nominal Secretary of State, as the ,danger to the Administration which Lod WELLEs- LEY'S secession at the critical moment of the new sera would have created. We have always under stood that Mr. PERCEVAL expressed the greatest re gret at Lord WELLE,SLEY'S retirement, and, we are confident, - felt the necessity of recommending his successor as a most -painful -duty ; which he was oh - - liged to perfcrna, but u hich he performed with great personal reluctance, and with ail expressions of respect and kindness towards Lord WELLESLEY. These we believe to be the facts, and these are the views which we think these facts warrant. We are satisfied that our readers will think that this .eXpla nation was necessary, in reply to the- ungenerous in sinuations of the Morning Chronicle ; but .we trust that we have now done with the subject ; and that the hand of Malisnity will refrain from disturbing the ashes of the illustridus dead. ,MR. SUERIDAN.--A General Meeting of the Bur geises of Stafford,.. took place in the Town Hall on. 'Wednesday last, to consider the state of the repre sentation of the . Borougn, in the e ven t o f a di ssoG lution of Parliament. The.. Rev. H. RATIIRONE, Mayor, in the Chair. Sir OSWALD MOSLEY ad dressed the Eledors in an eloquent speech, strongly recommending Mr. SHERIDAN to their, choice.— Mr. SntRIDAN then caine forward amid the gene ral and reiterated cheers and acclamations of the' whole Meeting. The;Flonourable Gentleman no ticed the result Of his canvas, which he stated to be entire and perfect unanimity in his fairour, through all ranks and descriptions of per Sons. He had in tended, he said, to have entered somewhat at on political topics, and upon the present, most perilous state of the ,country, but the feelings ex cited by the account' bought by express the pre ceding night,.of the ' execiable"murder of Mr. , lNti- CEVAL, had so far interfered with his purpose, as to indispose him to assume at Unit. moment a tone of political .warmth; or to point;censure at eitiler men or measures. Mr. Stri.'ar DAN,: after noticing with warm feelings of satisfattion, 'an address wl , tch he received from Stafford, and to which more thin 800 signatUres were affixed, strimgfy approving a.nrctiiin he .made in the •House'ill Commons, in, support . of the freedom of - ,the Press; concluded ,by as - Suring the' Electors, that if they again elected him as one 'of their Representatives, they would. send to Parlament a man whose price is not on this, earth; to betray or desert the cause of .his country, of his constituents, for any boon or benefit which Ministers, Pi inces, or Kings can be stow on him Two Resolutions were t hen unanimous ly passed," declaring that the conduct and principles of Mr. "SHERIDAN, since he was 'elected to repre sent the Borough in L 76,, fully - . entitled him to the cordial esteem,. and the entire confidence of the Ele6tors. - A handsome dinner was afterwards provid ed at the Swan Inn, and•Mr,7Shtridati, on his health being drank, addressed the Company, pressing Electorsup on the Eleors present the necessity of examining the principles; and 'narrowly 'watching the cinndud of their Representatives, an d a f ter the Company separated, immediately proceeded on his way to London. ' We have extraaed the following observations, in which we most heartily concur, from a Paper of this morning :—speaking . of the houses opposite Newgate Yesterday, it says:---The windows were filled with speaatbrs ; amongst .• whom we were sorry to obs4ve a number of females, whose ap pearance indicated a respeaablerankin society. At such a scene; the nerves of the firmest .Man receive a .shock; how women can so far perinit their curi osity to ttiumph over their delicacy---:bow they can' put aside the fears natural to their . , sex—and, torget ting that modest reserve whi c h renders loveliness still more lovely, thrust themselves unblushingly forward to witness the last convulsive, agonies of a fellow -creature, we know not ; but this we know, that woman never looks so unatniable as when thus occupied. The VICE CHAMBEKLAIN, it seems., prohibited the performance of the farce, at the H a vi nar k e t, ca ll e d Killing no Murder, and it is therefore to be repre sented under the title of Buskin and Belvi. • Miss SMITH is gill pertOrming at Edinburgh; where—her talenti are much 'admired, and her en &igempat likely tale prolonged. • BELLiNGLifillt, THE ASSzigS/N, . . . . , The' following additional particulars of the beha viour of this extraordioary character since hii con viaion haVe. beta furnished cis by an eye-wit- tiess •-- On 'Sunday ni'ght; about eleven o'clock, Mr. Newman went into the cell with Mr. Buttery/oral, the respeBable .bool;seller of Fleet -street, whom he was very glad to see. On this Occasion he !request , ed of Mr. Newman to let him have pen, ink, and papet i , Which Mr. N. promised to bring him when he relurned for Mr.Butterwot t I), in an hour. Du ring the time he'spent with Mr. Butterwolth, he entered on religious conversation, and 1 pointed out two or three plaCes iii Scripture, -which he ar gued on, with great zeal. fie said, ,in few hours more,- he should be in a better country than for it was a miserable place. Mr. Butterworth then aske&hiM to answer one question; be said, " ten you any thing you wish to know." " Then, did you or did you not, have some other person or , •persons concerned with -you in the murder of Mr. Perceval ; I do most .solemnly declare there is not." " Pr-Ay, Sir, in what manner did you procure these pistols " I bought them on Lud gate-hill, at Mr. Beckwitli's. Mr. Butttaworth thanked Mtn, for this information, and went to prayers. Mr. Bellingham thanked him for , .his good ness, and said, " I am going to write a letter to my dear wife." Mr. Newman came• to the cell for his friend, Mr. BOtterworth, and they parted. He theta asked for a -crust of bread, and laid down and slept.about.an hour ; put his hand in his poc ket and. gave, the last shilling, to Mr. Walker ; said he wished it was a guinea for his kind a:tention : he then lay down and continued dosing till a guar terlefore six yesterday morning., .When he was let out of the ct : lls into ,the 'press-yard, he requested to have his boots on, and Wash himself, he then continued walking', aud'appeared perfei:ily resigned. tip his fate. - = - He also on SundaY night. wrote a letter to his wife, of which the follownig is a literal copy. My Blesied rejoiceih me beyond measure to heat vou are likely to be well provided for: lam sum the Public at large will participate in; and mitigate youi - sorrows.; I assure you, my love, my sincerest endeivours have ever been di reled to your welfare. As we shall not inert any pore in this world, I sincerely hope we shall do so in the world to-come. " My blessing to the boys, with kind remem brance to Miss Stevens, for whom I have the greatest regard, in conseqUence of her uniform afreciinns,for them.-With the purest of intentions it basal ways been my •misfortune to be thwarted; misrepresented, and ill-used in life ; but, however, we feel a happy pro sped of compensation, in a speedy translation'to life eternal. It's not possible to, be more calm'or placid than I feel, and nine hours more will waft me to those happy shores where bliss is without alloy. Yours everaffeaionate, "JOHN BELLINGHAM." "Sunday night, it•o'clock. " Dr. Ford will forward you my watch, prayer book, with a guinea and notes.—Once more, God be with you, my sweet Mary. , The public sympa thise much for me, but 1 have been called upon to phq an anxious card in lice." Nothing, perhaps, 'can mark more .strongly the frithtful distortion of the, man's mind than ihe fol lowing note written on Sunday night ai t 2 o'clock, and which we have in his own hand writing : Twelve o'Clock. " I last my suit solely through the improper can dua of my Attorney and Counsel, Mr. Alley, in not bringing my witnes,es.forward (of which there. was more than 00)'; in consequence,' the Judge took advantage of the circumstance, and I went of Eori - j the defence, without having brought forward a single friend—otlierwiSe I must evidently have been ac quitted. ",. " J. BELLINGHAM." 'LIBERALITY AND BENEVOLENCE OF MR. PERCE• V A L.--We bae been favoured with the following instances of independent kibera;ity on the part of 1141 - :'PuttCevAt, frOM a. quatter on which we can titbit confidently rely . ::--4t will be 'recolleaed by many, that some years -ago,. a poor Clergyman', of the natne of l'ArtsLove, died in the very aLiol preach ing a - charity sermon in Welbeck Chapel. This seemingly unfortunate man left a widow, arid eleven children behind-. him to bewail his loss. :The Elston' of .CLIICHESTER, t6i whOrp Mr. PARSLOW was weil known, immediately commenced a private subscrip- - tion for his tiv-nily. The ,result was; the payment of the deceaPd's . debts; amounting to 'upwards of ~30.01,.and the placing in the hands,of trilstees,, for. the bent fit of the widow and children, 60001. stock; but 'this was not all, most of the children were also placed in More or less advantage.6ns situations : one . being equipped as a I.yriter, arrd sent to.lndid ; ano ther to the Cluirter-lionse ; andanother, a lad ot, . was placed as a clerk in.the-Navy Office: It is not two months. since the, late. Mi. PERCEVAL gave 10, :this last the appointment of Naval . otficer of 'Bar 7 tadoes, the emoluments of which are eatirnated at nearly 20001. per annum. - - Stitne years . ago Mr. FEtnCEVAt.. named the •sop of anoi her. Clergyman' to an office, the late salary of which ,amounted to 6001. per arimitn ; and this, merely friam .being assured, -by person. upon whose word he could rely. s that I,e was a young man of strict in:egrity and ptinciple, : l and every way qUalified tor the siwation... Upon both these OeCaS OHS Mr. Paaccv4r.. received the. strongest solicitations tram persons high itt otfice to grant the places to the dependants.. Such waS the man that the ,Inunster,Beilinetarn, , ---thS self-re-, dresser of itnaginiii)i wrongs,. : --thought.fit most de-', liberately, - and no less inhumanly., to.a.ssaisinate. The late Sir FRANK STANDISH had Tong been one of the chief props of the sportive 'and' f.ishioriabl4 world, and bad passed through a long life in a state of ease and respeCtability. He was esteemed for the cheerfulness of his temper, his unaffected man ners,, his' knowledge of life, and plain good sense. CAMBRIDGE, MAY . 15.—W. Frere, Serjeant at Law, and one of the l ellows named in the Charter of Down ing Coll.ege, was on Friday last cletied Master of that SJ- • ciety, in the room of the late Francis Annesley, I.L. D.—' iev. Charles Rose, M. A. of Lincoln College, Oxford., was un the same day elated a Member of that Society.—Rev, Charles i.e Las, M. A.- Fellow of Trinity College, has- been .1 presebted, by-the Master and Fellow's of that Society, ro the 1 Vicarage 01 Darfield, in the county of York, vacated by th.". promotion of the Rey. Pugh...--" Rey. S. George Rtnn A. of Trinity Colle4e, has been instituted to the It ,'cto at Kulgalote,'Devon, orb the presentation of S. Ram, OLD BdILEI, MkY is. • George Henry Francis stood liaed for having forged a certain instrument, pur reig to, be a Bill of Exchange, to the amount of 1501. and for having uttered the same with an intent t .leffand Messrs. Haymer and Hayley, lightermen ',limn the Thames. John Haymer said, that upon the 2d day of Ja nuary last, in consequence of a message which be received, be called upon the prisoner, who pre. tended to be of a fire calling itself." G. H Francis and Son, st, Great Hermitage -street, Wapping." He asked the piisuner if he made ingeiries con. earning a' sloop called the Stephens, and of which he and Mr. Hayley were proprietors. The prisoner answered that he had, and d es i re d to know the price put upon her. The witn ess to ld hirryi 601. was the value. The prisoner answered, that he could hardly tell how to aft , as it was chiefly' upon his father's account the vessel was to be nwchased. His fatlier,'• he said, was somewhat lame, and resided at his country house in the Forest, However, `he :vould venture to offer 1501. for the vessel, provided the witness would take a Bill for three or four months.. At that time they parted, and the witness 113`iftg Consulted his partner, returned in twO - days to the prisoner, and accompanying him to a notary, per formed the trarrs'rer of the vessel. The plisouer then took froM his pocket-book what appeared to be a bill, which he laid upcm the table., sa; ing, •` I must get one of the.e Gentlemen to sign this bill;" Thomas Hayley accOrdingly put Ilia name upon it as the drawer, the acceptance having been writt , a before, This paper was delivered 'to the wi;ness 'in payment for the sloop. He afterwards discov,,,r ed, that no such house was in existence as the house of Francis and Son, at st , Hermit,!ge-street, nor could he learn, after the most flCCUrate exatni nation,,that any such a firm had ever existed. , In his cross-emmitration, he, admitted, that the prisoner, throughout the " b o l t. transadion, had nientioned his father as a co-partner with him, and that . he had declared, that without constraing his father he conld.coneludeno bargain It was here obje6ted front the Bench, t h at no fa& of forg er y w a s ' prove d . . Ther e , really appeared thrOughout the whole business, no evidence 'to' fix the prisoner with construEting an instrument con sidered as false in the eye of the law. His father might be ,really a partner, and it became the pro secutor to prove, that he Lie.ver had, else the Court would contemplate no appearance of guilt . in the prisoner. Mr. ALLEY, f or th e p rosecut i on, contended, that the elder ',Francis was represented to be a man ill • business, and an efficient partner in the firm: A most false o , :stription had been, Made to the pro iecutar, by which he was decoyed to part with hit property, upon the beliefolaco-partnership found ed in an ample fortune ; whereas it had appeared, and which he was prepared to prove to the Court, that old 'Francis was confined, and had for a lona while been in the jail of Newgate: • Mr. BARRY, for the prisoner, offered to. p!ove,. that nick Fiancis had actually been in partnership, with his son at the times when the bill of ex change, was issued. Elizabeth.Bade,n,- proprietor of the house, N 0,5 1, Great Hermitage•street, Wapping, said, that she had frequently seen the prisoner in company with ..hiS father in -the, counting-house, which ther rented of her; and• that persons were in the ha. bit of calling upon ‘c Francis and S un ," firer) 4ppearecl •upon the, 'door. The Court declared, that they were of opinion that a gross fraud had' been committed ;• but it ap peared' that such persons as those whose -names appeared as acceptors of the bill, had really ex isted in that house, which circumstance did away the guilt atta c h a bW to forgery. The prisoner was accorifingly acquitted, but was detained upon • another indionnerit. Our Readers will recoiled, that the celebrated fiditioas firm of M`Dong)ll and Co. had esia.. blished themselve3 in this very holse, and that Joseph Thomson was sentenced to be hanged last Sessions - , for having forged bills of exchaitge nu toe faith of the firm. .. .Tlieuzas ziatlve stood indiaed for haying osi falsely forged aid counterfvited upon the lace m of a bill of,exchange for 1201. 10s. St.d. the names of Smith and .13e11; . . with' an .iotent to „defraud Messrs., Carter and Strong, rope-manufadarer. cif Ainsworthy, in Dorsetshife ; and also for having uttered. the same, knowing it to be forged ; but after a patient investigation of the ,z•ca.rlsrau-ces of the case, he was acquitted. The .Haymarket Thezate; which opcned' for the season on Friday rust; seeui6 to lidve cuileaed so rd spOliA:o -a eQinpany ahogether, including 9oine of, our veicran Pcrforrnas, ast,.'proioise a Kosperous season. Era of a. letter from ~C7ptalt i John Barr; of the ship Sit - Ancliew Hammond ; tor:? Jimaica, dated May 14, 181.2, off lite St ire:--" We .re so far ail wi-1l wits - the_Gangcs, Towns, and Suspense, iin.'coinpany.;—The Flora, —, forl3ristol, parted off Scilly. By the arrival of Dinniless, you will know . of her leay. ing vs on Ont. egth . of Atiril, 'in lat. F 5. 16tig. 55. We. Sailed with 34 vess , ls, not oue cf vithich was missing this chAy: ap inclosed list of most, of 'ihe convoy, The Med ,- ay, one of tliefLet,-elnd the Barron,: a ruin] in t ? ship, Julnt , l to-d4y: --Sos pense, Shaw, Eli 2 hind, 3 f .V,•111 gtOn, ALi.xatidtlr, ] John Bail, Pacific, Sueiliam, Aledvv.iy, rough, ErriTrald, :.Prince Town, p , Ganges, Mint, W i lli am, :Oa ks, Wiiii.(l l . , lcr, Sir An-. drew H,rnrnund, PlanteryiCeres, awl :.The Bridge!, Kenna:), ar&irtci at Liveto,'.l fro•i b twrara, sailed Ist oft. in co.oßatty with `,'he Al bion and Russia COmpany, and pitted on the 4'h, ' in lat., 13. 9. long. 60. 9. On the spc,ke the Olive Bianch, of London, fiorn Sr, Cro x. to Gibialtar; in lat. n. 22. long. 53.28. out eleven days: ' Tlitt 11 , 7cOVery, Pbelps, from Cork to Lisbon, %Vas taken 12th March, by the Jun it, F:ench priva teer, of t(i grids, andc.,:rieti into Morlaix, The Noittiern L . bcrties, atiived Lvt,rnool from Ne w York, spoke the Fanny,. Watson, from St. Lucia •to Liverpool, - on the 11th inst. in lat. to. 42. long. 12. The &nab, Swaim', arrived at Li 'Verpool from New York, spoke, in it. 47. lon,; the Levi, Deatborne, from Neiv Yolk to Pc , rt4, ihOULII, dis.tress, having lost her titd.ler.