The Sun. — London, England, 1804-08-21 00:00:00

bUBLIN; AUG. 13. big Tuesday last, while a great Concourse of !ople had proceeded to the funeral' of a Mrs. Vaughan, in the County of Clare, a young fel-, low, named Scanlan, assisted by four or five others, rushed into the house of Mr. Hogan, of Belkelly, no person being at home but Mrs. Hogan and Miss Vaughan, the niece of the deceased ; they . seized the young Lady, and in spite of her cries, and the efforts of Mrs. Hogan, carried her off, forced her into a boat, and conveyed her to an old Castle which stands in the River Shannon, at•cessible only by a boat, and is only to be entered by means of a ladder, there being from six to ten feet water close to the walls, and the dour being ten feet above the water. They were pursued by dose who had attended the funeral, but without efFed ; they were deaf to the entreaties of the friends without, and the cries of the Lady within ; *to - the expostulations and commands of the Ma gistrates they were equally inevitable ; and it was therefore determined to blockade them. All the boats in the neiglhbouri u were colleaed and brought on shore by Major Portion to cut off the means of retreat ; and at day.bre7k on the morn. ing of Wednesday, all Major Pardon's, Captain Brady's, and Capt. Mat tin's Corps of Yeomanry, proceeded to the shore to effeet the rescue of the young Lady ; but in the middle of the night Capt. Brady bad prevailed upon Scanlan and his toll :wers to release the Lady, who was handed out on the • ladder to her friends. The parry, however, re mainedin the Castle closely watched until five in the e vening, when, hopeless of escape, and destitute of either food or ammunition, they surrendered, and are no..v in custody.—The promptness of the Magistrates and Yeomanry have thus rescued the yoting Lady from falling a prey to lawless outrage. A person has been apprehended at the Camp of the Curragh, in passing 6s. counterfeit tokens of the Bank of Ireland. He had got off to the amount of upwards, of three guinea in this way .upon poor unwary persons—happily, his apprehension has led to that of another fellow of the name of MACabe, by which justice is likely to get at the root of this de linquency. • The Camp at the Curragh of Kildare, It is said, u ill not be held longer than a few days in the next munth. SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 19. --- Our Theatre is in a most flourishing state. Cot.. Lists from Drury.lane, .EGEKTON from tine Bath, MILLS from the York, and Mrs. Le Actt from the Brighton Royal Theatrei, arc kliog here every night with unbounded applause to overflowing houses. To-morrow they are to perform in The Marriage Promise, arid the favourite Farce of Rais ing the' Wind.. The various Prizes given by GEORGE HENRY R . OSE E JEsq. were sailed for by fifteen Cutters, on the Southampton Waters, op Saturday last. The vessels being all at single anchor, started exa&ly at eleven o'clock on a signal beii'g fired from th e R ose Re venue Cutter. The distance was about ten leagues, the Cutters sailing twice round a stationed vessel at the upper end of the River, and also round another below Cad/and. The weather' proved exceedingly favourable, the wind bloWing fresh.at W. N. W. The Sally, ROBERT,CHAPMAN, was the first that went round the upper station, and the Part, Roil Ear • Gli.ss, tht second ; but it coming on to blow a stiff gale soon after, the Sally, from a press of main.. "ail, carried away her boom. The turning up of the seytral Cutters, the last time, against a strong W ind, an d e bb t i de, exhibited an interesting scene Znod seamanship. The contest in the last two ' e4 ittea lay between the Tv. Brothers, C HARLES 1 . 141 ?)441.t, and the Dart, wh en t h e f ormer; at "Itb i . Ptnved vietoriJus, idiotic three o'clock P. M. ipointed Noy, : The C 3 ptdin of' the first who arrived at the, ap_ thirdon With three, the fourth with t w o , an d a ll t h e och e three, with One . "his l au d able enterprize drew to the quays, and store, all the visitants, &c. of Southanyton ; and amungst the Gentlemen's Cattets nut on this occa. c "''" 'were Lord llot,ToN's, Lord Wi - cotaa E'S, MT. " I "lttVs Mr. N. OGl,s's, &c. &c. . . Lyndhurst Races, on Friday las:, afForded its usual abundance of Forest sports. Several Nees of ponies, nnli half-bred h orses, were run i and also a match l 'e tween two horses belonging to Officers of the 9.:ittnan Legion, which was sharply contested.— ,", a t the crack diversion of the day was the race by I'int.tpshire Bullocks (with the tips of their horns V vv ) o , .. in which three started to run heats round the hi ntile Course : the first mile they trotted nitn. 3') and 0. 1 6" ,ii.sinnult of tlla:tvig.altloped dexterously, to the aim ' were cum i n i , „arms ; but 1.11) joilytleddotl,tvr:ui.glrho just as the two fi rst leading buteo!Ti"' the Stand, neck and neck, the ocointrllietbllowitt; • Foune, they their • th a e m r a o r i s 'e h , y a' b '' o l :Co w in . se oi • rcsp e oi ve both 'k iCked up, and dismounted whole 11 , riders, to the high diversio n of the pound lock, th at ; and, in consequence, was nearly the third but. 314rting gain,a diktatcrti won the heat. On prated r the superiority of Mr. Rose's Cele. acing OX, which WOll last year, was shewn 4 dirtThearittg his comktitors. ebt,trN SMITH'S, Duchess Of Bunton's, Mr. Rose's, Mr. uf the • and most of the other Families nelgithourhoc I K , were present in caryiages• i , Southampton, it.se ems , h as been set in an uproar e"rtlin 'Y a test afrair o f ga lla ntry. An Attorney, a•Cc. o rep ort , urged his 5411 so well to.the w ife 01 gt a Surgeon, th at he prevail e d' on her to " with hi m. The Surgeon, ailatioo i s tir ca r e h rwo un d e d honour, irnintdiaiely rsued the fugitive puabscog s d s , Si and caught them in -a bedroom just as they he e l Pit out the light.ll The Lady at once, with great _'hilted and propriety, fell upon her' knees, , and ex hibited a very good representation of Penitenec... .., Tile rbusband, however, with a zeal forimitt:Spo. pile 4 his whole attention to the Laqujer• , 111.3e1l whole as to afford ground enough for the skill o f the "I 114 chirurgicat Brethrert, The , wilries Place. give 'no crtdit`to the story, or cunsither it a Oil 'uake : but the eld maid& are disposed to think 1 l '.' t a ll the truth; has not been revealed, and are uil of indignation against thefair fender. k"OALIGN .11v*7'ELLIGENOE: CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 29..--In the course of this year four Russian Expeditions have passed the Dardanelles, and proceeded to Corfu. The first, which set out in the month of February,. consisted of two Frigates, threeßrigs, and a Corvette, carry. ' ing 600 Troops. The second, composed of one Ship of so guns, and a Corvette, entered the Medi. terranean two months ago, and had on board 700 TroOps. - The third anchored here on the 27th of May ; it consisted of two Ships of 74 guns, armed en flute, and three Transports, carrying 1200 men.' The day before yesterday a. fourth Expedition ap. peared ; the two Ships of which it consisted, had , on board loon Troops. The number of men, there fore, who have hitherto come from the Black Sea, amounts to three or four thousand, which, added to !Soo in garrison, makes the Russian Troops in the Seven Islands amount to 5 or 6000 men. The Porte is really alarmed, but it conceals its fear. These Expeditions furnish abundant matter for spe. culation to the idle Politicians of Pera. They ask, what is the objet in colleting these Troops ? Some say that they are destined against Austria ; but they soon perceive that Russia . and Austria, which have common Frontiers in Germany, will not seek for them in Italy, as they might find them in Poland, were they desirous of coming to blows. — Others attempt to discover whether there may not be some secret relation between this augmentation of the Russian Forces at Corfu, and the interest which England has to carry the War to the Conti nent. . But they say Russia is sufficiently powerful to raise strong armies, and would not confine itself to warlike preparations in the South : it would al ready have sent succour to Hanover. However, be. fore it would risk its Troops in a Country which, as one mAy say, is to it another world, it would have formed and assembled its armies in Poland. It is besides knowo, that no War of consequence can he undertaken on the Continent without the, con currence_of Austria and Pruss a, and these Powers are not ignorant that War is often begun with Al. lies who often abandon the cause before it is con. eluded; that the subsidies they receive. scarcely de. fray the fourth part of the expences; and that be. tween neighbouring Powers who know each other, War is atteraied with terrible consequences, to which neither Party will expose themselves, without` good, powerful, aiid indispensible reasons. But Russia itself is at peace with France, and 'has as few motives for making war, as it has advan tages to expea from it. MAtticon: and his adhe rents, indeed, have found means to cause Russia to transmit to Ratishon a Note, unseasonable to the Ger. manic Body. By the .help of subterfuges, frivolous pretences, and intrigues of every . kind, they have 'produced some coolness between tbs. PLUO . Pausers, the good undei-staudi ng betrtvren whom, equally advan. tageous to both abrilliant p art . had enabled Russia to ad a new and 'Russia can do nothing against France, but, nvith it, might do ever] thing great and good. Will it a sec on d t i me sen d 20,000 men . to make a new disembarkatio n in Holland ? Will is land 60,000 men on the Weser, to attack the French Army in Hanover ? The result to it would be the loss of many men and inevitable debilitation. It would be advantageous only to, the Powers limi." crop!) with Rtosia, who would not be sorry to see it struggling against France, weakening its Armies, and, in its turn, exposed to all the misfortunes which Austria experienced so long alone., Will it send 30 or 40,000 men to Ireland, to defend that Country against the French ? But what would it gain by thus becoming in the eyes of the world a subaltern auxi. liary ? Besides, is it the interest of Russia to en-- crease the power of. Great Britain ? Can it be ig norant, that great part of its boundaries are washed by the sea, and that England, which rules the Ocean,' may appear before Cronstadt to dictate to is laws ? Russia, on the other hand, has nothing r6.fear hum France. Nature hat destined these two Powers to be friends, and whatever may be the bad direction given by passion to the arms, they would never engage in their enterrizes with a" great degree of interest. Men void of experience may le deceived and not be sensible of these incontestible truths. But Mi nisters, grown hoary amidst ptibtic business, as is theme with several in Russia ; a Prince, direaed by liberal opinions, by enlightened love of his sub. ~ktts, by a sense of his own greatness, will not long remain under an illusion. Passion and misun. derstandings, artfully fomenteal by malicious 1)6.- sons, may induce both parties to pursue imprudent and improper steps ; to suspend all intercourse, and even us make war ; but the misunderstanding can neither be serious nor durable bet wee* nations, who, by a sense of their respeffive forces, and of their mutual and perfect independence, must ne cessarily be brought to dispositions of moderation, , public'decen. cy, and peace. When a flower whose Capital is in the North,iit.d whose Armies, placed on the frontiers of Persia' and Tartary, are fighting against the Tartar's and Persians, intermeddles on its own account, and at. its own risque, in the .affairs of the South of Europe, it quits its propel position. However. powerful Monarchs may be, and however brave their Soldiers, they are Men—:-they can do nothing beyond the limits marked out by nature fot_ human affairs. When Russia,taking a part in the affairs of the South of Enrope, .supporti any step of either of the' great Powers, Austria, 'France, or Prussia, it• pursues a measure consistent with its position, and whieh renders it truly tespeaable ; on 'the tither hand, if it takes the lead in the affairs of Europe, it requires s the support 'of Austria, France, or Prussia ; it quits its • position, it is wanting to its own greatness; it is no longer . itseki, It ought so know' that to raise its power above, that of all othet: 'States, does not require Pro. vinces, but men: one year of War destroys more than can be produeed by several years of Peace. A durable Peace is therefore to Russia the surest means of gratifying its amAtion, and the propagation of the human specis the most urgent of its wants. We cannot, therefore, be induced to believe that the Russians will land in Italy ; still less can we believe that they would land there with six or. ten thousand men, Were they to land there will ten times the number, they would meet with tiestruetinn. idle Poli ticians, by thus forming and abaticloning their conjec• tures, come to reasoning which has no better fOuodiii.'. tho' it :wears to be somewhn more probabie.. According to them the objet of these expeditions is to over.awe the Turks. The six thousand men at Corfu, who, by subsequent expeditions, are to be increased to ten thousand, will oblige the Porte to keep its fortes in the Morea, aad prevent it from concentrating all its means to put an end to the troubles in Romelia. The result will be also, that it will not be able to compel the Greeks to navigate under the Ottoman flag, which they have some years abandoned for that of Russia. But though the idle Politicians of Pera conclude their reasoning by congratulating themselves for their sagacity, persons who appear to be more enlightened, are of opinion that the teal cause of the increase of Russian Troops at Corfu ought to be sought for in something more remote. The Government of M. Moo itril having become exceedingly odious, and the `lslands being at a distance from each other, Ru'.sia may have thought it propel to multiply and reinfore its gar risons, and to support, by bodies of Troops, the Con stitution of M. Mo c aN too and his new Legislation. The same persons however add, that in this case Russia still quits its position ; that the Seven Isles ought to be independent, under the protection of some Power ; but that if it be impossible for them to govern themselves and to exist separately, na. Lure has destined them to Austria, or even to the Porte, unless the projed of CATII ER IN C H. which the Frenchßevolution caused her to abandon, should be revived from her ashes, and the Turks be al. ready destined to retire into Asia. aNNA, JULY 19. —The Eiiigaott has annexed to his Au3triandomaitis the Town of Lindau, which he purchased along with a considerable territory ; and our Government is now making a bargain for the acquisition of Kempten. These arrangements gave rise to much discussion in Germany ; some say that it is contrary to the Constitution of the Empire to derange, by particular Treaties, the evil. libriuna of Germany ; and that the EMP s ROR, by thus acquiring new Principalities, may constrain the neighbouring possessors to treat in their t urn, . PARIS, AUG. B.—M. PG RTAL Is, jun. is ap_ pointed Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the EMPEROR to the Diet at Ratisbon, Upon the late Correspondence between the Pitt Mc of PP AC and Mr. FRERE, we have the foll Owing observations, which appear in the Motilieur- of the sth, under the head Madrid, but which no doubt have been manuft6lured at Paris : " Our astonishment is only equalled hy, nut indig. nation, at seeing inserted in the English Papers the Letters written by Mr. FR ERE, the British Minister ... at our Court, to the PRINCE 'of PEACE, with the Replies which that Prince condescended to make. This publicity is as inconsiderate as it is contrary to those rules, which civilized States make a point of observing. England alone, accustomed to pay no respect to any thing, publishes the Official Cor. respondence with those Governments with which it is at peace, and thus MS all usages and customs at defiance." After noticing , the circumstances which gave rise to the Correspondence, and which are sufficiently known, the Writer proceeds ; ' 1 Mr. FR Eke, ttlarmeit at the universal abhor. rence the British Agents were in consequence held in, began that Correspondence with the Pat NCI of PaAc I, which he concluded with .as much stupidity as insolence, and which has left no doubt whatever upon the truth of the recital given in the French Journals. He dared to call upon the Patrice of. PEACE to disavow those fads. The tatter at first replied to him with as much moderation as noble. ness ; but at length, urged by the strange manner of Mr. FRER.E.'S Correspondence, he declared to him that he was bound to account to no one fur his observations and aaions bat the KING Of SPAIN ; and that moreover the principles and conduct of Mr. FR ER E might be judged of by the public immorality .of the persons by whom lie was surrounded, and by what he had himielf attempted to do,, when he wished to seize on the Correspondence of the French Ambassador, General BE URN6IVILLe.— Thus finished the singular Correspondence, in which Mr. FRE RE acted so despicable a part. We never expeaed to see it in the English Papers. The Go. vernment of London, without doubt, wishes to give its Agents, not a lesson, but a model ; and by pub. lishing th e condua and Letters of Mr. Fasits, teach them, in a stripling manner, the principles they wish to see adopted by those- who set ve them." Sunday, se'nnight two large shins, loaded, with m ars were brought up to Lei th Roads by one of his Majesty's hired armed vessels. They were under Neutral Colours, hut it is supposed their car: goes were French property. Yesterday afternoon a Coroner's Inquest was held at the Masons' Arms, on Lambeth Ter. race, on the body of Miss ELIZABETH BURDEN, who was killed by a fall out of a two.pair of ktairs back window, The Jury,' without hesitation, le. turned a Verdia Deal*. On Sunday last as four young men were going through London Bridge, the host upset, and two of them 'were unfortunately drowned, Same day a young man was drowned at Wandsworth. a a . A melancholy accident happened yesterday about two olt . zocic ; 3 young lady, abilut twelve years of age d clossing the way near Temple Bar, was run over by a horse; her back, an arm, and a leg were broke, and she was taken home to her disconsolate parents without any hopes of recovery. Yesterday morning; about two o'clock, a yoUng Lady of great personal accomplishments, and daugh ter of a respettable Merchant . in , the City of Lou. don, in a fit of despair, threw herself out of a two pair of stairs window, at her father's 'house, and was literally dashed to pieces. On tie fatal news being communicated to !per family, her mother, w4ll whom she ever had been a favourite, instantly snatched up a knife which lay near her, and, horrid to rrlate, stabbed herself in such a manner that her life is despaired of, and the unfortunate father now lays under the influence of mental derangement. Saturday a young woman was committed to New. gate, by the Magistrate of Worship.street, charged by a Gentleman with stealing a trorp him, on DoetOr's Commons.--Webh, the horse-stealer ' , was at the same, time committed for trial : under eight several charges, CLONMEL SATURDAY, AUGUST 1.1, 180+. BAGWELL V. POWER. TRIID atFORE LORD MEP JUSTICE LORD NORBORYv This was an Afion for Defamatory Words, in which Colonel BAgwell, M. P. for . this County and Colonel of the County Militia, was Plai nt iff, antl. Edmund Power, Printer of the Clonmel Gazette and Munster Mercury, vas ,Defendant. The damagee were laid at joool. and a'pout ten o'clock on Samm day, the following Gentlemen were sworn of the Jury: Thomas Barton, Esq. William Latium, Esq. 1. P. Duckett, Esq. L. 1-1. lenlison, Esq. Peter Smithwiek, Esq. E. T. M. Butler, Esq. Denis 01/feagher. Esq. - E. Powe , , Esq. Tipperary. lames ibl Orton , Fsq . Samuel Morton, Esq. Wm. Biker; Fsq. Denis, Duane, Esq. An objeEtion was mil& by the Defendant's Coun.. self to Mr. Barton, in consequence of a declaration said to have been made .by him, that he wished to avoid being on the Jury ; and two triers been appointed by hi, Lordship, for the purpose of investigating Mr. Barton's competence, and his own testimony being tendered, as to . the fag. above stated, it was over. ruled by the Court. Mr. BURROUOIIS stated the Piaintiff's case with great force, accuracy, and animation, and illustrated the malicious objedt of the present publication, .by a reference .to other articles reflecting on Colonel Bagwell, which also appeared in the same Newspa per.. The words in , question, inserted in a Compost_ Lion signed " C6Nregltor," were as follow (4 What say the Patriot and the Soldier I that a person honoured by a Commission from long sought" (long sought from, would appear the meaning) " the most gracious and glorious Sovereign in the world, seeks to weaken the loyalty of those under his corn. mand, by with-holding that Sovereign's bounty ?" Mr. BEJRROUGHm dwelt with great impressiveness on the immeasurable mischiefs to be done by an ac cusation so heavy as this, if it were not fully and perfedlly repelled, by the effed of the.present trial. He urged that Colonel Bagwell, commanding a Re glthent in His Majesty's Service, was, •if this ac. cusation could be substantiated, ineradically .hibited to the world as a traifot,,as well as a plun derer : for it charged him, in the high situation wherein His Majesty's favour bad placed him, as conspiring ,vith the common Enemy of his Country, by alienating the minds of the Military from their Sovereign and his defence, and traitorously de_ stroying that very force, which it ,was his peculiar duty to increase'. He pressed it upon the minds of the Jury, that however wild such accusation wan; the more eminent was any man's Station, the more was he an object for observation and censure, for envy and malignity; and however he might be guarded by a shield of conscious innocence, yet the calumny, if suffered to pass unnoticed, would be whispered with confidence, and heard with ere. dulity. To vindicate his chandler, he chose'this mode of action, because in it alone could the De. fendant sustain his assertions, if they were capable of support. And he therefore preferred it to a criminal information, because in the latter case, the Defendant would be punished, though the ca , tuMny were true', and the plaintiff in this case, would not be satisfied by the punishment of /he Defendant, withunr the acquittal of himself: . Por . or against this acquittal, by a poWerfel reparattOn in damiges, all the evidende was to apply, becauSe the Defendant in his pleading, had on the face of the record justified himself in using the words before stated, with the assertion that they were true, and that he was ready to prove them, Mr. BURROUGIIS here went into a statement of the case, so far as prOof was to be giien, reapedink Thomas Hogan, James Murphy, and Michael Nagle, the men in whose names the Defendant had justified himself for saying that their'bounty -wait withholden by Colonel Bagwell. This jostificatioN, he said, Inuit be .true or false, and by its truth or falsehood, they were in .either case bpund to a strong and latal finding. They must either send away. one of the parties without a charmer, or the other without property. The Defendant, having pleaded not guilty, as well as a justification, the trial waS considcraWylle. ta m e d by the proof on the part of the plaintiff, 41sat, Edmund Power was Printer and Tublisher'of the Paper prodUced. In support of this fad; was call. „ed Mr. Nowlan, Distributor of Stamps: for the County to the ryofTinperary, who produced these Newspa. pens reading of Which Mr. Cult RAN took -1 ohjedion, as it was not proved that they were de. livered to this Office by the Defendant, of that the Defendant 'hail signed them, there being no name in writing, on the Papers, and he relied on the autho4 rity of the case of the Printer of the Northern Sian where it was ruled on a plea of not guilty, only, t h a t the printing and publishing should be ad - tualry proved against the Defendant, at the time of the' publication. Mr. Nowlan swore, that within a year he had repeated conversations with the Defendant, as Proprietor of the PaPer, on the subjea of Duties, which in that capacity he owed at the Stamp 01, ficc. Mr. CURRAN'S objections being however relied on, Thomas Quin Esq. a Magistrate of the County, was produced, who proved that the Defendant swore before him an ailidoit, stating himself to be Pro. , !victor of the Clonenel Gazette and Altiniter cosy. Mr. Quin also proved, that he had a conver. sa'tion with the Defendant pre. Onus to the publication of the composition signed "Coatrastor," in which the 11.11,:luti lit said, he was induced by the importunity of several persons in clonmel to put forth such es publication, in consequence of compttinta male re. speding the tolls and taxes brit% raised n thein. He said, . that on,recumtuentling to the Defendant not to meddle with it, the Detentlant said he could not Well get over it, as he was under a kind of ob.. ligasion to several people in Clonmel to publish it, On his cross.exstutnation by . Mr. GRADY, '.\./1 Q u i n sa id, h e hCard there were 'complaints against the cxaaion of tolls and taxes.. He could not swear that the conversation related to the Paper signed Contrarstar," and no part of that conversation re. laced to withholding the King's bounty. tie heard something of such withholding, and heard publicly that some ,of the privates complained after the con. versaiion, •but did not believe it, nor that Colonel Bagwell woultrglite' foundation for it. Hi know