The Sun.
London, England, 1806-04-05 00:00:00

all menaces of Invasion. We -entirely a, prove of tha
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part of _Mr. WitsinnAm's plan which, classes the
periods of age at which the, male population is to be
trained, for twenty-six • days in the course.of the
year, receiving a pecuniary compensation for such
an appropriation of their time. ;The general limit
of this population is between the ages of sixteen and
forty. This limitation, in fad, ,cbmprehends
the whole bulk of the people who are capable of I
effedive service, in case it may be demanded by an
imperious .necessity. At the fortner' period the
youth is fully capable of military duty, and after/
the latter period the man is habituated 'tb his pri-.
vate statilln; and would be reln&antly drawn forth
for military exertion ; nor could it be necessary to
resort to persons beyond that period, because, as we
have Stated,: the intended limitation includes the:
greai mass. of -the People, and because the number
of men to be drawn froth that mass by theineur
Regulations will be Only 200,000. Upon the
whole, we 4re.disposed to think' that the new Plan
will be:found to answerall the purposes of national
security, and to give us a great- Disposable Force, if
the other Powers of Europe 'should rouse from their
lethargy, or shake off their fears, and deterrnine to
a& in such ainanner as their interest, and -indeed
existence, absolutely renders necessary..

This Inorning the Trial:of Patch, for the murder
ofiMr. BLIGHT, cotnmenciad at the Sessions-house,
in Horsemonger-lane.
The Jiliiior, Counsel: for the Prosecution having
(Toned: the indiament, Mr. GA a Row addressed the
Jury. Ho said the awful duty in which they were
engaged required their most patient attention; in sta-
ting the .fa6ts of this case, he shotild confine himself a 3
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much as passible to a MeKe narrative of the circum-
stances, inorder to enable the Jury to comprehend
wits more facility the evidence which he should
lay before them. Having stated the relative situa-
tion in which the Deceased and the Prisoner stood,
he proceeded to 'descrihe the situation.o f the pre,
mises where the murder was committed, and con-
tended, that it was .almost impossible that Mr-
CUld- , have. received 'his death from
any other hand than that of the Prisoner. He
.stated, that the Pr-Aioncr was related to a peen
in -the service of. Mr.. a-14c .in the,eat •
1.8(.13, he cane to ,see his, relation, -arid was then
taken into ' the . service of Mi. .BLIGiIT : at
first he only had his-board.and lodging,. bat he after-
s irds received a saiaLy, 'List summer r. isTricarr
and family went, to Margate, .and the Priioner c.,9n-
duated-his business in his ahsence3.. He was to havta -
one-third of the business, far which was tp pal,
125,91. Of this suin-the Priioner did in fad pay to.
Mr. B. 250 i. leaping. 'OWL 4e, for which he
gave a draft -upon a person. .of the name. of
Goom„ which waa nut paid when Mr. B. 'went,
to Margate, whirl he did on the 19th at Segtentr,
ber last,

GARRoW then detailed the circumstances :6f
the shot having been tired into the house while Mr,;
BLIGHT vas at Margate, but he said it Was evi•
dent that the shot must haVe' beet, fired by the.
'Prisoner himself, becaase if any other person ha 4
fired it, he could not,. frorh the nature of the pretniies,
have escaped. . -

He then entered into a minute detail of every thin
that took place on the night the murder was com-
mitted ; it is impossible for us to' give even
abridgment of this part of the Learned Gentleman's
Speech. •

Having stated the facts, he argued with his nstial
abiiit:Y,..tbt it iris next to an impossibility that tile.
faa could have been committed by any, other p6rson
-but-the Pris Oner.

After a most able Address to
.the Jury, he. pro:-
ceeded to calt his Witnesses, in the examination cif
which. he was procOding when our. attount -was.

sentaway

The principal Witnei3 that had'heen examined
was a .A. thc. Surgeon, wilo,described
the state of the wound, and -ale coffirersilisdi Wit
passed between the deceased 'and the Prisoner after
the former was shot.

The trial is likely to It‘t to a very late hour.

Tuts morning Government received Dispatches from
th 6 Cape of GOOd HOpe, wi»ch state, that Gen. JAN-
SEN, finding that it was impossible to defend himself
against the Force which had been detached against
him, from tile Cape, had snrrende'red
,With all the
Mops under his cominand so that the whole
of this most important Settlement is now in the pos-
session of Great Britain.

This morning. we received Paris and Dutch Pa-
pers, the former to the 29thAilt. and the latter to the
ad inst. 3 the contents of which will be found in a

subsequent column.

His MAJESTY arrived. in town this morning, for
the purpose of being present at a Cabinet Council.
.Sonit farther advices from Holland arrived yester7
day; They mention the meeting of CA.! D tell Le-
sisiaiure, but nothing beyond what we have already
stated -is-yet! known with resp'e,a -to Cie stiff jets
their deliberations. • • -