The Sun. — London, England, 1823-04-17 00:00:00

t ' ►,+ ; r, Int U!- tinily affected to limit their wishes to a moderate ' alteration of the Spanish Constitution. But they have recognized as their Spanish Allies and Con federates - the very men whose rallying cry is a Viva el Rey absolu, i " and the French Goverir meat themselv es a re at this moment the n itrument s of a violent and tyrannical French Party, whose constant exclamation is " 6 The Altar and the Throne," but which to their mouths has been proved by their actions to mean, "Fanaticism and arbitrary Power !" Now, although by every principle ofjustice (con s• sidering the facts of the case which we have just recapitulated) every free people are bound to maintain, if it be in their power, the insulted, I wronged, and oppressed Spaniards, who have not only to coutend against the fanaticism, the ignorance, and the rapacity of their own country men, but against the fanaticism, the bayonets, and the ambition of the foreign Power which is attempting to overwhelm them ; yet it is never theless true, that. there are numberless considera tions of prudence and of policy which might well induce a third party (England, for example), to pause, before she committed herself in a quarrel which might involve her in hostilities with half of Europe, and in which, in the event of failing to accomplish the ostensible object of her inter , ference,the Power of Spain herself,—of that very country which she had endeavoured to protect and to save, might be turned against her. We admit the full force of this most serious con sideration. We admit the necessity under which this country was placed of weighing well the consequences of her resorting to arms on behalf of a divided people, against whom, as well as a gainst the original aggressors, she might soon find herself obliged to contend. We are ready to do justice to Ministers for the wisdom and Prudence with which they have abstained from rashly committing the country to the contin gencies of such a struggle. We even applaud the policy which has determined them in the first instanc e t o o b serve neutrality, and to keep the Empire committed to their charge aloof_ f rom the vortex of a conflict, which, from the novel and eictraordinary features of its character, may be attended with c on ti n g e nci e s aot easily foreseen, and with difficulties and dan gers not easily to be overcome. A neutrality under such circumstances, however, ought to have been perfectly loose and unfettered. However strict its observance, for the sake of our own ho nour, throughout the period of its continuance, the count r y oug h t to have been left free and at liberty to take part in the conflict, if at any time she might so determine, on the ground of the °r iginal aggression, f the original outrage against the rights of independent ndtions, and against the interests of civilization, which France has dared to ! )e en entirely Perpetrate,—and ought to have unshackled in her right to enter Into the War, at ally moment of her own choice or convenie nce, witho u t b e i ng called upon to assign Y other reasons or motives for her conduct t han those furnished by the intrinsic merits of the cause W hi ch she might think fit to espouse, nd without the necessity of appealing to any t hing but th e protestations which she herself had I t r h o m the first utter e d, aga i ns t th a t i n j us ti ce w hi c h e mi g h t at length thi n k fit to resist. To a neutra .,ity like thi s , no prudent or rational Englishman, 1 2°t eveu the Spanish Constitutionalists them 'elves, could have objected. But the neutrality to Minist e rs hav e pl e d ge d th emse l ves , mann. T n . a tely ties up the country , in such a mann er , t " .4 ` She may b e com pelled to witness the accom pli of an act of iniquity, which, during its Progress, may be attended with circumstances Which Would induce her to make every effort for its co unteraction In this respect, we are com pelled testate our conviction—and we state it with s lln a o reofgri e f t h an of reprehension,--that Ministers e " co mmitted an u n skilf u l, a n injurious, perhaps R iatal error,—that they have gratuitously fettered their own hand s , an d strengthene d t h ose o f t h e aggressors, ,wh e n they might have distracted the councilstn of th e enem i es of Spain w i th d ou b t, an d i ght have reserved to themselves the right, if e Y at any time thought proper, of inter. i to repel th e i r aggression, and to drive invading l eg i ons from the Peninsula issue w ith discomfiture and disgrace,—that they _,. voluntarily descended from the high ' o ' l _ 4 , honourable ground which they occupied tyhheavper,ogress of the negociations,—and tpploulme-iritd-icngtghese which by an act of precipitancy, g iven have pl ace d t h e i r own f u t ure tent Po wers, instead o f preserving to themselves th e absolute coutroul ov er t h e i r own f uture con duct! The unfortunate e c rror to which we allude, o ntained in the last d dispatch of Mr. CANNING t h O i l IARLES ST UART ( N o. 43 of the Papers), w th ,atch he i nstructs the British Ambassador at r c ei ‘: c o l t i irt o f the T u il er i es to make known to the ti ments Uovernment his Britannic Majesty's sen assuretaakte p th r e eire trt of the negociations, and to ," This frank e y Possity Cabinet ofany alo ne the Planation upon the points on which perhaps Itritain that Sp a i n can be collision of France with Great oPprehended in a war between France and dieLtYtour Excelieney will represent to hi. de Clutteaubriand, ar e 44 2174,1: earnest desire to be enabled to preserve in °aleto alteration and undeviating neutrality • a neutrality not Jun interest. ofthdVrae are party, ro lo'rg as the honour towards s ß e r i equally respected i by both." C( A ne utrality not liable to alteratitin so long ar e lee equally respected by both parties !"—The Woo s / s ) —and not only the interests,—but, l oCrl tei r e sPecially and emphatically,—the honour pd b eat Britain,--have already been compromis- P ew .' the existing war !—Her INTERESTS are di and may eventually be most seri (6e'Y Injured, and her lionouit is notoriously and LP I Y involved by the very origin of the contest, t s.‘ ak u e Y .,.. ti lePrinci i d' es on which it is avowedly uuder itrofenr-and by the objects which one of the parties alenc"edly intend s t o accomplish ! The com atrueent of h er act of aggression by France, ~,u , " 2" c directly a t our honour.— m Its consu. n e c annot fail, even i n spite of France r. l , .....f h tf .. ) most seriously to affect our interests ! as t i p ,' right which . these facts, (humiliating theses are)) unquestionably gave us, Ministers ti te r . ,Olest unfortunately suffered to slip out of "ands! W e can take no step for the vin- M e e tt ati9 a of our character,—we can adept no s ures for the protection of our interests)— ttnless France shall by some new outrage furnish us with an excuse for the abandon ment of our neutrality,—an act of impru dence with which, considering the extent of the field in which we have already given license for her perfidy and ambition to range, she is not likely soon to favour us ! With the determina tion to be neutral, it was not necessary that Mi nisters should do more than declare that it was not their intention to enter at present into the contest, but that at the same time they reserved to themselves the right of so doing, if in its progress circumstances should arise to alter their views. The gratuitous admis sion that our honour and just interests are as yet untouched, and that the war commenced by France contains nothing in its own character, —nothing in its nature or in, its origin,—nothing in the principles on which it is founded, or in the purposes for which it is waged,—that could jus tify us in becoming a party to it,—was utterly uncalled for,—was giving away a right which we had clearly acquired from the language held by us during the negotiations, or rather a right which intrinsically belonged to or had grown out of the nature of the case itself, what ever our language might have been ! Even those who might be inclined to doilbt that our right of interference was inherent in the case, will be ready to admit that we had acquired' it by our attitude and tone in the negotiations. All parties, there fore, must equally admit and equally lament that we have voluntarily surrendered the incalculable advantage of being perfectly unfettered in our conduct during the progress of a most mo mentous war. But that the right belongs to the case itself,—that we are compromised in our interests and in our honour by the nature and inevitable tendency of the confiict,—that our conduct ought under all the circumstances to be determined, not by its doubtful justice, but by the considerations of prudence, and of policy Which bear upon the question,—that the impelling motives to our entering into the war are clearly and unequivocally indicated by the dictates of imperious justice, and by a sense of what is due to our own dignity and safety,— and that the restraining motives, which hold us in a state of inactivity, are solely of a prudential na ture, —that the question, in short, is entirely one of calculotion and of comparative power, between ourselves and those with whom we might have to contend, can be proved by the declarations of Ministers themselves; and to that part of the sub ject, therefore, we shall hereafter request the at tention of our headers.—( To be continued.) The Paris Papers of , Tuesday state that the Duke of BELLurro has returned to Paris. lie alighted at the Howl of the War Department.— Count BitusErrE, formerly Minister Plenipo tentiary from Austria to Madrid, had arrived in the French capital, and was to set out in a few days for the head-quarters of the army. A Cabinet Council assembled on Monday evening, at the house of M. de VXLLELE. It appears by a letter from Perpignan, in the Constitutionnel, that MINA had fixed his head-quarters at Vich, and formed there the centre of his military and administrative operations for the Pro vince of Catalonia. The Political Chiefs of the four Provinces of Catalonia had had fre quent conferences there with the General.— On the sth instant, a convoy of provisions arrived at Roses from Cadiz and Alicant, for the supply of Figueras, in which place, including every species of troops, there would be a garrison of near 5,000 men. Considerable anxiety appears to pre vail at Toulouse with respect to the reported ad vance of MINA on that city, and the Echo du Midi, an ultra journal of Toulouse, labours to re move the fears entertained of such an enterprize. That paper says, as quoted by the Journal du Commerce," Many persons imagine that the move. meats on the part of the Constitutionalists of Cata lonia have no other object but that of forming a line of defence. Others, led away by ill-founded fears, or under the influence of criminal wishes, see in them projects cif aggression; but it is more rea sonable to believe, and that opinion is very gene rally adopted, that they are intended for the dis persion of the Royalists, who maintain them selves advantageously on the side of Solsona, and to prevent their re-embodying in France." It was believed at Perpignan that the advance into Catalonia of the troops under Marshal MONCEY would take place in a few days, but the period was not fixed. The Moniteur of Tuesday contains a Royal Ordinance, conferring the dignity of Minister of State and Privy Councillor on Viscount Di jeon, 6 ' as a special mark of the Royal satis. faction." The Monitcur also contains the following brief and important bulletin ! TEtEGRAPHIC DISPATCH. BAYONNE, APRIL 14. " His Royal highness the Duke d'Angouleme is in good health. " Our operations go on marvelously !" The Funds on Tuesday were as follow :—French Five per Cents. closed, for Money, at three o'clock, 84 f. c. ; for ac count, at fotir o'clock, 84 f. 80 e. ; Neapolitan, 72i ; Spanish, 341. ( From the Etoile of Monday evening.) NEWS FROM THE ARMY. Head-quarters at Ernani, April 11. The Duke d'Angouleme this day moved his head-quarters to Tolosa, where he will probably remain two days. The advance guard was beyond Villa Franca. The Spaniards eagerly welcome an army which they call " the Liberating Army." His Royal Highness the Generalissimo has inspected the di vision which has just covered itself with glory, at the taking of the heights of St. Sebastian. He has nominated Lieu. tenant-General Bourke, Commander of St. Louis; he has made two Chevaliers of this Order, and four of the Royal Order of the Legion of Ilonour. Several other promotions also took place. The Prince's position, when he received the officers, was within cannon-shot of the place. The noble justice, the sang froid, and the valour of the Duke d'Angouleme, electri fied the French soldiers. The brigade commanded by M. Laroche Jacquelin, keeps the field. The French traitors to their King and country, which were in St. Sebastian, have escaped by sea. OPERATIONS OF THE FRENCH ARMY IN SPAIN. PRIVATE LETTER FROM PARIS, Arm 15. g 4 I transmit to you the proclamation of the new Spanish Regency to the Spanish nation, and some important intelligence from Bayonne, Tolosa, and Valencia. " The four Frenchmen who were taken prisoners in the affair of the Bth, have been tried by a court-martial, and shot, The Duke d'Aff gouleme has had a very narrow escape. He went to distribute military rewards so near the guns of St. Sebastian, that if he had remained half an hour longer, the French Army must certainly have been deprived of its General." The following is a French account of this ad- venture, contained in a letter from Bayonne of the 12th : " You know already from the official bulletin what has occurred at St. Sebastian : our young voltigeurs displayed, under the glacis against the fire from the citadel, an ardour which it required great efforts to moderate ; but the following fact is probably not known at Paris:— " Yesterday his Royal Highness the Duke d'Angouleme, having been to reconnoitre St. Sebastian, and having distributed crosses of. honour to the soldiers who had distinguished them selves in the first affair befote the fortress, his appearance was observed from the fort : a 24-pound er was immediately ordered forward : but the Spaniards were so slow in mounting it on the battery, that the Prince had already set off on his return for Etnani, when they fired it off; it was most fortunate that they were so slow ; for the ball - leased right through a house, and struck a platoon stationed behind the b u ildi ngs , precisely on the spot where his Royal Highness had been distributing the decorations : fifteen men were killed or wounded. " 4 It is pretended that the French refugees have withdrawn from St. Sebastian by sea.' " In addition to this French letter from Ba yonne, I have to inform you that the Spanish Royalist Chiefs have, it is positively asserted, broken off all connexion with the old regency.— Longa is resolved to enter Spain to fight on his own account. What lie means by this determi nation is, probably, that he intends to plunder the French as well as the Constitutionalists. 64 The Holy Alliance Ministers are about to set out in a few days for the camp of the Duke of A ngou leme. His Royal Highness will thus have both the Regency of Spain and the repre sentatives of the great Continental Powers at his table. " Thu affair before Bayonne was much more serious than the official bulletin states. We can not yet have the Spanish accounts, but reports from the army make the loss of the French troops 300, instead of about .1,0.-1 now give you the " PROCLAMATION OP THE PROVISIONAL JUNTA OF THE SPANISH GOVERN- MENT TO THE SPANISH NATION:- " Generous Spaniards !—After thrieYeai; of public cala niity, brought on Our country by . the rebellion of some guilty sons, the day of peace at length rises for you, and with it the happy , influence of order and justice. .Europe, affected by your misfortunes, and fatigued by the cries of sedition, calls with all Its prayers for the termination of your calamities; and a generous descendant of St. Louis is crossing your frontiers at the head of a faithful and glorious army, to assist your efforts, and accomplish your wishes. " Spaniards! it is no longer that hostile standard which formerly threatened your liberty : it is thelianner of peace, borne by valiant warriors. This banner is destined to heal the wounds which anarchy has made, to cover with its protecting shield those brave men who are about to restore the throne and the altar, and to deliver our unhappy King and his august family ftom the captivity in which they are held by a handful of re bellious subjects. _ . . " This eminent service which our allies are rendering us ac quires a new lustre from the disinterestedness and generosity which govern it. Your Government attests, on its honour and truth, that no sentiment of ambition or interest mixes with this noble resolution ; the common danger arising from the mischiefs with which the revolution threatens Europe, has given to poli tical virtue its ancient lustre and chivalrous character; and it is consoling to humanity to see the resolutions of cabinets, and the Councils of Kings, offer sublime and repeated examples of that policy, whichhas not for its object increase , of territory or interested treaties, but the consolidation of the principles of justice and of the foundations of society threatened with uni versal dissolution. " Spaniards! Europe renders justice to your loyalty. It knows that it is one of the virtues which most ennobles your character; it is far from confounding your generous sentiments with those attributeti to you by the friends of revolution, in order to cover with the name of the general opinion of the na tion, the excesses and crimes of a f a ction. " The moment is come, when, free from the oppression which weighed lipon you, you are able to chew to Europe how just and merited was the opinion which she hid formed of your sen tiraerits : let ua not leave to our armies, and to those of our sil ca , the glop , of our deliverance—the whole nation is inte rested in 'lancing in the great success—but never let the energe tic expression of its will be sullied by any one of those excesses at which honour and generosity revolt. " Spaniards Your Provisional Government declares, that it does not recognize, and that it considers as never having exist ed, the political and administrative acts of the Government erected by rebellion, and that it establishes, therefore, provi sionally, that administration of the State which existed before the violence of anarchy in 1320. " The edifice of anarchy thus destroyed, and the King, our master, restored to liberty, then the institutions may be esta blished which circumstances advise and require, and which his Majesty may deign to grant. " The Provisional Junta of the Government of the Spanish nation recognizes only in the King the origin and seat of the Sovereign Authority, and, as a necessary consequence, does not admit in the political system any modification which is not made directly by the King, by t p h t e tt a o d u vi o c i e i of those wise men whom he may be pleased to consult. 44 Spaniardst. th e experimen t w hi ch you have made ought to awaken all your vigilance, anti to the insidious and deceitful suggestionsy of revoylouutriognu.ard against " Our King, alWays disposed to secure the happiness of his people, will find, no doubt, in our ancient laws, in oar usages and customs, wise provisions which, combined with our cha racter, and in harmony with our manners anti our wants, will fix, in a stable and advantageous manner, our future destiny. " Spaniards ! For you the glory is reserved of extermi nating the revolutionary Hydra which, repulsed from all the states of Europe, has come in seeking an asylum to strike our native land with sterility anti calamity, Let the most perfect harmony be the device of our noble cause ; let there be only one will where there is only one wish anti one interest--the' safety of religion, of our king, and of our country. By the Provisional Junta, (Signed) " EGUI4, EltRO, CALDERON. " Bayonne, April 6." Wednesday evening, the 26th ult. a party of insurgents, under the command of Sempete, oc cupied the suburbs, and on the following day commenced a heavy fire on the city, which they attacked at four different points. They held it thus in a sort of siege during three days, at the end of which they withdrew to Murviedro, in conse quence of having learnt that succour was approaching. Their operations did very little damage ; many of the grenades thrown by theta did not burst, and the injury caused by those which exploded was trifling. A few persons were wounded.-- The troops in the city were very few, barely sufficient to the maintenance of order. The militia behaved remarkably well, and no interruption occurred to the public tranquillity. The assailing part are estimated to have lost above 100 men. It appears that the peasantry in general have sided the insurgents. Due preparations are making against another at, tack, and some buildings adjoining the walls have been pulled down. APRIL. 11.—His Royal Highness the Duke d'An gouleme arrived this morning, and was very favourably re ceived. Ile will remain here two days for the purpose of allow ing the 2d corps (that of General 3Iollitor) to conic up, which will take the great road to Navarre, form on the Ebro near Logrono. In the evenin i fth„e were illuminations, and danc es after the manner of the asque provinces._Some men of Que. satin's division arrived here several days back ; and one of them having committed some v i o l ence , wa s kill e d by the peasants, which caused a report that two of our soldiers had been assassi. nated. It was feared when General Quesada followed, that this affair would provoke his vengeance ; but, on the contrary, he commended the action, and issued very severe regulati ons t o prevent similar excesses. The alarm, however, was such that the inhabitants did not venture till our arrival to open their shops. Our presence restored them to confidence, anti every thing now wears the appearance of peace and security. Th ere i are many disaffected i n di v id ua l s who areincreasing in their en deavours to destroy t h e cor di a li ty which subsists between the soldiers and the p e opl e , b ut the majority are for us, and we have the clergy of all denominations to a man on our side. We have this morning received by the Brazils Mail Rio de Janeiro Papers to the 12th Feb. They contain a Decree of the EMPEROR, ordering Portuguese subjects who arrive in the ports of the Brazils to give securities for their good behaviour during their residence ) and in the event of desir in; to settle permanently they are required to take the oath of fidelity to the cause of Brazil, and to its Emperor. Another Decree annuls the pro hibitive commercial system, and substitutes in its place an import duty of twenty-four per cent. on all foreign goods, including those of Portugal. The only exception is in favour of English goods, which are to pay an import duty of only fifteen per cent., in conformity with the Treaty of the 19th February, 1810. There are also some particular regulations re specting imported wines, spirits, liquors, oils, and vinegars.—To-morrow we shall insert the Decrees at length. We have received Papers by a Hanaburgh Mall this morning.; but their contents are utterly de stitute of interest. tFROM A CORRESPONDENT.] STOCK EXCHANGE, Twelve o'Clock.—Consols opened at 761,, at which price they remain steady, with a flat market.--Several Ex presses have arrived from Paris. One of them has come direct from Madrid. On his approach to the French lines he dismounted and passed them on foot unnoticed. He has brought intelligence to the Spanish Ambas. sador; and he reports of the affair at St. Sebastian, that the loss of the French was not less than from 4to 500 men. He also brings some accounts from MINA, who is said to have defeated a party of the Army of the Faith, sup ported by a division of the French Army, and that a number were killed and wounded on both sides. Accounts have been received from Tales which positively state, that the Russians have a force in that neighbourhood of not less than forty thousand men ; and the whole of the Russian forces assembled on the confines of Persia are positively stated to be not less than one hundred and eighty thousand men ; but most of these troops are in a wretched state, almost with out clothing, nor having received any pay for a length of time. The object of the Emperor ALEXANDER in having so large a force in that quarter of the world is rather suspicious ; and it is thought that his view is either to awe the Per sians, or to indicate some hostile intentions on India, should England take an active part with Spain. FOREIGN Mutt( ET.—Spanish Bonds opened this morning at 312, went down to MI, with little doing. In the House of Coinmons last night, Lord A LTIIO ItP'S Motion for the Repeal of the Foreign Enlistment Act was negatived by a large majo rity. We can only refer our Readers to the in. teresting and important debate to which the motion gave rise. NVe have been compelled, by the pressure of important matter, to omit for the last three days our usual extracts from the Leading Articles of the Morning Papers. knowing how acceptable that feature of our Paper is to our Readers, we purpose to resume our daily ex tracts to-morrow, and to continue them without future interruption. The chasm caused by their omission during the last three days is the less to be regretted, because the Morning Papers, over whelmed like ourselves with the great pressure of matter, have reserved , little or none of their space for the original remarks of their Editors. ARRIVAL OF TILE KING.—His MAJESTY AT.. rived at Carlton House from Brighton at half past six o'clock yesterday evening, we are re joiced to state, in perfect health. His MAJESTY, as we have already announced, will hold it Levee on Monday next, and a Drawing-Room on Wednesday. Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office, which was at tended by all the Cabinet Ministers, who con tinued in deliberation till past four o'clock, except the LORD CHANCELLOR, who left about half past three. On Tuesday night Mr. the King's Mes senger, left town with dispatches for Spain. Sir CHARLES 11AmpvLne, we are glad to hear, was yesterday considered in rather an improved state. A beautiful Steam Packet (George the Fourth) is now plying between Cork, Ilfracombe, and Bristol ; it leaves Cork every Tuesday, and Bristol every Saturday, and with the most adverse wind completes the passage in about thirty hours. By this channel the London Newspapers some times reach Cork before they reach Dublin. All the English newspapers by the last con veyance from Southampton, were seized at Havre and sent to Paris. On the 7th inst., about a quarter before nine o'clock, there appeared at Brest a luminous meteor, which emitted a most brilliant light. it left after it a circular vestige, visible a consider. able time after its disappearance. NEWPORT, (ISLE or ‘VionT), APRIL 12.—At the Gene ral Quarter Sessions for this Borough,on Friday, we are happy to state, there was not one cause for the Court to hear. In the case of Moser Long, convicted at the Suffolk Assizes, of a - burglary, in the house of Mr. JOHN PECK, Brockford, a curious confession was made by the prisoner ; from which it ap peared that he entered by breaking a pane of glass, marched about the house throwing open all the doors, lay down on a bed and slept, he supposed above an hour; came to another bed room, and again lay down, but in a few minutes got up again, and " squatted down " upon the stairs ; went into the kitchen, and ate a candle which he found there. He after wards took up a parcel of bank-notes and laid them down again, thinking them letters : seeing something which looked like a desk, he opened it, and putting his hand upon some Wick and white stripes—to his great astonishment and terror a noise proceeded from them, and ho ran away as fast as he could. This was a piano forte. The Court was convulsed with laughter at this confession, from which, and other circum stances, it appeared that the prisoner, who was an inmate of the work-house, was a man of very weak understanding, hut capable of distinguishing right from wrong.---(Chelmsford Chronicle.) L THE ARMY. NEWPORT (Istr OF WIGHT), APRIL I2.—The Vectis Light Dragoons, under the command of Sir Le T. W. Holmes, Bart. M.P. of Westover Park, finished their exercise on Fri. day last, received their annual pay and afterwards partook of a good dinner, served up by Blund ell, in a style which did him credit. The 40th liegiment, General Lord Charles Fitzroy, Colonel, now at New South Wales, have had orders sent out to them to proceed to India, and to be completed to the usual establish ment when in India. The additional Officers have not yet been Gazetted, but the supernumerary men (nearly 400 Y are at the depot, Isle of Wight, ready for embarkation. MERCAN'T'ILE SHIPPI NG. DEAL, Arita 16.—Wind W.S.W.—Came down from the River last night and sailed the Equity, Seeton, for Havanna," Heart of Oak, Robertson, for Demerara ; Sceptre, Pearson, for Prince Edward's Island; Percival, Forrest, for Pictou ; Ptirsuit, Milne, for Jamaica ; Earl Moira, Allison, for Que.! bee. Arrived to=day and sailed for the River the Underwood, Remington, from Demerara; and Regard, Caise, from Almeira. Poirrsmou'itt, APRIL 16.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Borodino transport, from Cowes, for Gibraltar. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 15.—Wind E.—Arrived the Louisa, Jacob, and Lawry, from Charente. Passed by the West „India Packet, Munroe, 72 days from Jamaica. PALMOUTII, APRIL 15.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Camden packet, from Rio Janeiro—sailed the 11th February. Sailed the NOrway ship Ned Eloin, O'Neiss, for Arundel. Yesterday a Court of birectors was held at the East India House, when the following ships were thus timed, viz.:—the Florentia, Abberton, and Orient, for Bengal; and Fame, for Bengal and Bencoolen—to be afloat this day. The Royal George and Rockingham, for Bengal—to be afloat the 10th of 'lay. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, A Pim it:. This being the first day of Easter Term, their Lordships did not take their seats till near two o'clock.—Mr. Justice Hot, HOYD sat for some time to' hear motions of course, before the arrival of the other Judges.—The tisual report of the state of the covicts at Sheerness, Portsmouth, and Chatham, and a re. turn of the state of the Penitentiary, were read. ST. MARY, NEWINGTON. The Solicitor-fieneral moved for a rule to show cause why a mandamus should not be issued, directing the governors and guardians of the poor of the pariah of St. Mary, Newington, tco call a vestry for the purpose of electing eight persons as the officers of the poor, and twelve others as governors, in the place of the present persons in that office. He moved this on the au thority of a local Act of Parliament passed in the year 1814, in confirmation of a former Act in the reign of Elizabeth. He stated that several tnandamuses had been granted on former occasions. If this were not granted, the parish would be un der the necessity of remaining without officers. Ile therefore hoped, that on considering these circumstances their Lordships would have no difficulty in acceding to his motion.—ltule granted. HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY', Aral t. 15. CAPTURES ON TUE JAMAICA STATION. Lord STOWELL gave judgment to-day in the above cause, the facts of which we have more than once laid before our readers. This was a question of interest, between Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, and Captain Carter, in certain prizes taken by the fleet on the Jamaica station, so lone ago as in the year 11114.—Sir Alexander Cochrane now clannins• to share as Commander-in-Chief of that station ; and his claim being opposed by the actual captor. The fans in this case were, that Admiral Brown, who had the command of ti e fleet in question under Admiralty orders, died on the 20th of December of that year. No Admiral being present on the sta tion to succeed to the command, it was assumed by several officers successively, all of them, however, inferior in rank to that of Admiral, until the arrival of Admiral Douglas in the month of May following. The claim of Sir Alexander Cochrane was for the flag eighth, on the captures made dor, ing this interval. It was interposed for hint on two grounds ; the one, that he assumed the command of this fleet under or ders and instructions from the Admiralty (and this ground alone was that brought forward by Sir Alexander himself) the other, (which was adduced by his Counsel, and was to be found neither in his plea, nor his evidence), that, supposing it were even without any direct orders from the Admiralty, Sir Alexander Cochrane had a right to take upon. himself the command of this fleet, acting upon his own authority as Admiral, and subject to his responsibility in that capacity. There Were many reasons, the Court thought, that must discourage it from admitting this last proposition.— Sir A. Cochrane himself did not venture to chum on such a ground, and no portion of the evidence applied to it save one, which denied it—the evidence of Admiral Douglas.. It would he a rule, as far as the Court could judge, likely to be attend ed with occasional public inconvenience and danger. The Government alone, in which the law had placed the dis tribution of the naval force of the kingdom, could adequately judge of the proper disposal of any part of it, according np the general nature of the exigencies of public service. An Ad, miral at a distance, confined ton particular station,could form but a very inadequate and limited idea of those exigencies, bounded, as it must be, by facts and circumstances occurring within his own immediate observation. The Court, therefore, was rather inclined to hold that the contrary 9f the proposition which had been advanced must be the rule, and that such an assumption of command as the one in question must be the exception, if it were a splendid exception, and mochas might be justified by the exercise of a sound discretion, acting with effixt on great and ur gent necessity. The papers before the Court referred to the ge neral rules and regulations of the navy; but these had not been produced before him, " and I (continued his Lordship) should be worse titan war, if I were to state what I consider the rules should be that ought to direct the Admiralty upon so momentous a sub ject." His Lordship went on to state, that he confined this case, as Sir Alexander Cochrane seemed to do to two or thre considerations only--" Did the Admiralty authorise him to take the command of this station, in such a manner as to en title him to the flag share of captures made by Captain Carter. Did Sir Alexander Cochrane assume such a coin , mand ? And, if the Admiralty did not originally au diorite him, had they given that subsequent kind of appreba. , don, which might be supposed to sanction his proceedings ? ll k • Lordship then stated the bearing of the evidence upon each of these questions; and referring to the various instructions received from the Admiralty, by Sir J. B. Warren (Sir A. Cochrane's predecessor), by Admiral Brown, and by Admiral Sir Alex. Cochrane himself: and adverting to the fact, at the time of the expedition to New Orleans, Sir A Cochrane, sailing to his own destination, only passed through the limits of the Jamaica sta tion,-his being the Halifax station, his Lordship held, that the orders of the Admiralty were not of that definite and. dis tinct character that Sir Alexander, though he might hava sumed the command of the Jamaica station, could properly he considered as the Commander-in-Chief; and that it was a fair inference that the Admiralty and Sir Alexander Cochrane thought differently upon his right to that character, inasmuch as both Lord Melville and Sir John Hope, Lords of the Ad miralty, had failed to confirm the appointments to vacancies in the Jamaica fleet, which had been made under Sir Alexander Cochrane's authority and had, on the contrary, directed Ad. miral Douglas to make out such appointments to all vacancies occurring subsequently to the death of Admiral Brown. On all these grounds, the Colin was of opinion that Sir Alexander Cochrane was not entitled to the flag-share of one-eighth, as claimed by him. OLD BAILEY. CIITTI o AND MAlMlNG.—Velterday, Trapp was indicted, under Lord Ellenborough's Act, for assaulting Charlotte Rooks, with intent to kill, or to do her some grievous bodily harm. The evidence for the prosecution was the same as detailed. in the report of the case front Lambeth-street police-office, In our Paper of Monday last. ror the defence, the father, mother, and sister of the prisoner deposed to their belief, that the prisoner was of unsound mind, which belief they grounded chiefly on the dejeetion of his spirits for some time past, anthhe constant anxiety they had 01. served in hint to be alone. His conduct, also, they stated to have been incoherent in many instances of We, The RECORDER., in summing up, observed that to renee: the plea of insanity available, the ',nonce must be shewn to have been labouring under that atiliction at the moment when he committed the act for which he was under trial. The Jury retired, and, after an absence of nearly an hens., returned a verdict of—Guitry. At.t.tir who had conducted the prosecution, then rose and informed the Recorder that the,proseeutrix bogged of him to i ecommend the prisoner to merry, he Jury strongly seconded the recommendation of the pro. wombs.