The Sun.
London, England, 1808-03-05 00:00:00

FOREIGN I'A"ITLLIGEACE.

rCorrttowatliti.,- —The accounts from
Stocknoltri, uluch wt re lately received, stating that
Llnssia. had declared War against Sweden, appears
to have been premature, tor though that event is
to be expected. it has not yet taken place, neitht-r
-have the Russian and Danish Niinisters left Stock-
nor the Skvedisli Mini-ter Si. liewr-burgb,
Every preparation is making in Swedish Vinland to
oppose any attempt- that may be made against it.
0:i this r!it:e the 'greatest activity provail4. The
Swethsh heet Cariscrona, consisting of twelve
Sail et the Line, is nearly ready for Sea.
Fat'. L)o.—ititelligetict has jtist arrived that the
och, to the number of .10,400 men,...are 'Para.!.
in two divisions for Zealand, and the first divirlion
was to leave Lubeck on Ihe k.'th of. this Month.
grtNAnorrit was in Copenhagen making the neees,
a y arrangements.
Vha. rs -front J-lelsinghurgh, received ,
te..-oay, state, th4t tic object of the above army is.
Pot to go to Zealand, boa to mareh through Jutland,
auo.lronithetice embark ter Norway, and by this
route enter Sweden, We arc more than ever impa-
,tie»t tor the arrival.of an English fleet to watch their.-
. 111 aivomits ceeoi to .Corroborate their be-
ing'.on the .enarchAhreugh Holstein, We have a
smin,:e report to,day that tilt: Rochetqa'Squildron is
bound hither, to eo.operate with them.
.3ANI3AWYP2.I .—Orders have been
sent by their respi'Aive Courts to- the' Russian and
Prosiaa,,Ministets: Est Copenhagen, .to rnakM
,the
strotii;est remonstrances against the ,violent ;pro-
ceAlin3s of tile 'Woes in the Baltic, and aoinst the
juri,idiction ,they bate assumed , aver Russian and
PruSsian.tihips. : •
The iMsery: that exists in these parts now almost,
begars de4Cription, particUlaily at Dint zit', 'where
the toolittiii of the Frftch daily increase; many of
the, necessaries of lita are ditlictilt IQ be get, and a
tctitttl
,want of salt is soon to be apprehended, The
poor PfI.IS4iMIS have been under the necessity
of prohibiting the qoportation of it trout ,England,
but in Russia it rs still allowed to cotne dirett from
thcnce, 7 „
f)Atil.s, FED. 2.---They write from Bonrdeaux,
tinder itie'date Of the 213th of Jauuary, that the four
Ft-each Frigates,whieh,were in the Garonne, have put
to S<!3,. as_ t+ ell as the KochetOrt Ettinadron, which
'consists al.:five Ships of the Line and two Frigates.
Fit AN ItYol6', Fen. are assured that the
treions of 'ihe.Princes of••t he. Coufederatian of the
Rhine have received orders to hold. themselverr in ma-
dines's to march at the first notice. Perhaps they
are destined tot, place the French troops in Dalmatia,
in :eae. these should be obliged •to march to India.
Aocorditig to the latest intelligence the ,Farglish
have,pos,c6,;ed themselves of all the-Islands in the
Archipelago.
.VtabtrA, SAN. .10.41ie Last. Courtier' which our
Cabinet sent to Lundon, returned hereon the 27th'
inst. and bi:nigs dispatches, which. statek.tthat ,the
British Govt-r reit:o, the offer of our Mediation,
tti, rig Inch, 'pleparatiOtis ind.eative Of the departhie
of the, English Minister are obserk..ed 4, and we 'learn
that our late 4tla-nbassw.lOr at -London, , Vrtnee.Swius.
Itt,n4aLlio.., On his way hither. A report i$ ctreta•
Wed t teat the EtWish have taken putibealoll of several
Is►crrsct sir the Archipelago. ~ •

..„.
LiAN43 OV THP.: FE Et.
that great prieets,, relative to the Ottotna'n Empire,
v ill be liOniediately put into eicecution. • Hit, Serene
llighness the Grand Duke-Of Bytivi.*lll, it iw'sald,
take pos*lsion of the Princittality.,.Of 11,1anstet,
and Jl:' the Couoties of Munich, Lingen, audj'eck'-
ierilierg.
AMSTERDAM, JAN. 30.--,Webavcreeeived
ligence that an English , Expedition, having on
board from, to to 12,000 troops, is arrived in the
Archipelago'. it iH said that it sailed from• England.
the 1.5111 of Novernher.'

CopkrnAccw„ Fitt. 6.---The French Lugger- Le
Gionenr., at ICS guns, and 64 men, commanded by
Captain Mext.erat, a Member of the Legion of Ho-
nour, bag Come in'ro Stavenr With-Ahrei English
Ships laden. wit
C9PIANIOGF-tz, FEU.' 16.—According ;to the lash
accounts from Fianve, an einbargo has been laid On
all' Sardinian Ships in the Fretioli Ports; and all
cruizers'obtained,leavuto.chate,•not only all veSsels
under Sardinian colours, but alsw all .Ships ,which .
set sail front Sardinia, or are bound for that Island,.
Wolearn by letters from Vientuy that the Russian
troops in Italy, who were under orders to re-,
turn to Ittrsat, have ..ret:eived counter-ottlers', in
consequencii•of the Emperor NAPOLEW-fiticling• it
necessary that they should for the present remain
in Italy.
from
wasyesterday read in the Meeting;-,pt the,Lc:.
gisiative Body, stating that East Friesland, and
Loi-dillip of Jererp, Carol, and. Kniphausen, arc
itibirpt»-ated with the Kingtloiti` of Holland; under
t lan it of the Department of Elk Ftiesiand- I. yet.
that part oti.,:iatit, FrieslanAl; militch is siiu*Sed West.
of the Ems, is to form, part of tho Department-of
Groningen. •

Soieum.—A,, melancholy instance. :of Suicide,
occlti.:d (.11 Saturday morning. List, A. Gentleman
of respectability from BAlk, who had beetk'on visit
at a friead's house hi- Bristol, cut his..thren, and
of licrwise lacerated hlinself,. ima shockint.suatiner.
Tb,:..imf,irtunate Gcutteinan had been-confined to hi',
room for saute days, through illness; and at tet►
o'clock on the abore morning, the ,seri'aut.giil-11ar-
nig him- groan, looked thlotigh- the keyboli3,olbk
ch;:mba door, and dist overed.hiin his
blood. :Medical assistance was procured but
the "midi, lieshart il,fri.oed on banAelf. were
Awl) a 4 to occa'iun his- almost immecliate death.-2
A Coroner's Itique-.it was held ..on the txxly
same day; M:11-.4 appeared that he had, hetbre
ith &rat Occaidons,..diseovered sttona
torts of mental derangernent.—Verdieta Idoritcy:
'lite deceased wacsoienty years of age.

, There is now living at Barkley,, in the county-of
Not, trimpton,. a horse and its owner, whose ages
„„.o",r amount to 12.1 years. Tins aged animal
w..s .00,3,2,11( by the., presellt pOSSeiflOr, Julie if,,Y),
';/ if) , a 'village ioWarlvieksl)iro, and sincelicat
tittle he has neicr used any other Itorbe.

L.lll Itl4POlit.

COURT OF- KING'S BENCH, MAktu 4.

• .GRX.GsCit THEAKEiIts
This MT° GEN ER AL opened the ease, whieb
WaSio at.tibtf for criminal conirshtlon—Wiili the
wile of the Plaintiff, an atiorney of eminence, resid-
ing in A ngcl -,court, Throcktuorton.sf reet , committed
by the Defendant, who vts Coaelumn to the Plain-
tiff. The , Learned Cbtiniel did nut expatiate at
flinch lenTli upon the nature of the ntrenee ; but
dkvelt.chictly upon the situation in which the De.
iendant was placed as servant to the Plaintiff, to
w hoth be owed every duty- of resped, and whose do.
tnestie peace he slniold have been thelaSt to invade;
Mrs. G. had been married to the Plaintiff for many
years, and he had lived with her in habits of ex-
trefn6 aß6ibii, which was interrupted only by the.
discovery of her infidelity in the last autumn. They
had had one-child, which died, but Mr. Greg:ail-I's
confidence in his wife Was unbounded.

The witnesses preyed tho marriage, and the fa&
of adultery was clearly proved by two witnesses.
Mrs.'Meade, who is a milk woman at Layton,' .
EsSex, where the 11 has a country-house, saw
the Defendant and Mrs. Gregson riding out with
the carriage last summer. Mrs. Gregson was riding
on the box with him. They were very familiarto-
Other, and he kissed her, and afterwards in takiOg
her down from the coach-430'x, he put his hand upon
her leg and laid hold of her ancle.
Mrs. Dewier was the wife of a porter, who took
care of one of the houses'af Mr. Gregson, in Angel-
Court,,' where Mrs. G. 'Slept'. When she- came to
town.. In January, 1807, a bed was put up for
the. witnesa .)„sleep there, in the garret ; ,and
on the second of January, the coachman (the De-
fendant) and Mrs. G. went up stairs together,
and came down in about a quarter of an hour, The
bed bad been made. in the morning, and nobody had
been in the house between that time and their going
up•together ; upon examining it, she found the bed,
although it had been smoothed down, had evalently
• been lain noon ; at another time het: mistress sent her
op stairs to make Mrs. Gregson'S mother's
ing that she would sleep in town. ,The coachman
and Mrs. G. were down below, but when the Wit-
ness' w.as got up stairs, she
-Leaned over the bannis-
ters and heard them come up stair, an.i go into the
dinii)g room in the dark ; there was a sota Mahe
room, and she' listened and heard no conversntion,
but could Ilistiatly hear' the parties breathe hard.
—After, this had ceased, which was hi a shott,
time, she . returned
.up stiMs to the room innne-
diately Over, • bio Caine down again upon hearing a .
ringing at the bell, and met the coachman anti Mrs.
G. running out of the roam, and observed that the
clothes of the ~latter were 'disordered. In Ottober
List, knowing that Mrs. G, and the,co•ichtan were
in the dining room, and the
.shutters wire shut and
• the candles lighted, she and her litishand went and
listened; and heard a sort of romping, from whiCh
• they both concluded that a criminal intereourse'had
ta4en place at that tin"
! •
On her cress-examination. by Mr. PONS?, she
said Mts. • Gregson 'Was very much given to drink ;
ry often intaxicated. She s:tid; she had seen .a
Genticman,.a neo,neighbour of her master, at Lay-
' t.,04, Wll4 *.:wid9vW, and a mast iiiiimate friend of
• Mr. Grevon,'wbo, as long ago as IrOcalta-q, 1807,'
had called' at Angel-court; when Mrs. Gregson was
alone. Thav'the moment he came in she pulled
down the,blind of the,window near the tire, where
Ole was sitting,.and the Gentletuan sat close by her.
The Witness ,quitted the room, but listened at the
door,,and heard a noise of the moving of the chair,.
and, from. What she overheard, she had no doubt of
criminal intercourse taking place at that time. She
then only thAight it an odd circumstance, but now
she thought it most have been a criminal inter-
course.

When the Witness was asked as to her mistress's
Infidelity with Gentlemen of her master's acquaint-
ance, she said, she could not say Gentlemen, but
she did recellect one in particular.
Mr. TOPPING, for the Defendant; said, it was im-
possible the Plaintiff could demand damages of the
Defendant for the loss of the affeCtion of his wife,
for it was clear 'she must have solicited the Defend'.
ant, and had been common to others. The slightest
damages., if any, were all that he could be entitled to.
Lord I!..4.I,ENBOROUGH, in summing up the case,
commented with great force upon the conduct of the
unknown riend ot Mr. Gregson, . who was, perhaps,
more to Wattle than the Detenant in seducing the af-
feCtions of the wife ofthe Plaintiff. Affeetions indeed,
such a woman could have none, her mind was poi.
sessed only by inordinate desires and' unruly lusts,
which made her lavish of her embraces to any one.
wantonness of the wife might therefore be some
palliation for the offence of the servant, but it could
not justify his continuance in defiling the bed of his
master, and whatever guilt attached to the wo-
man, .thei man who violated at once his fidelity to
hi 3 tnasier,`and. the honour of his mistress, Inuit
be visited with some punishment, though not
to'that Which he .ought to wirer if he had
fnund her innocent andundefiled, instead of wanton
and shametesS, courting the gaze of the paSsengers,
titi she rode on' the couch-box, and kissing openly
in' die norm -daS..." Weie she not almost entirely the
salter, nothing short of the' full damages' bbould
~siren.
'l'he Jury instantly returned a vordiet for the Plain-
tiff —Damages 2QOI. •

Cl.o'SMtit, FEB? system of ()Wine, very
new in its arrangement, has lately been adopted in
a nelthboin's.tg County, and has sound its.way pretty
extctisively into this:. A. II fe Loitery is formed by
.t Club; now excee.diiig 200 persons, who, for a cer-
tain Subscription, are entitled to. draw lots for a
nnthber of rich 'farmers' daughters ; and to whom-.
isoever, the prize. is drawn it matters not,.but the
party are bound to support the, fortunate winner—
and .a iody, sufficient to accomplish-the purpose; is
instantly ready to put him in possession of his prey.
In etie6tuating a purpose -so perfektly savage, no
barbarity.. is too gross, if the unfortunate woman..
have strength of person, and -resolution. of mind, to
•surtrale againstioug.continued violence. ,This prac-
tice, has-novviarisery to such a height, that many • Of'
the more opulent farmers are providing husbasids:fOr
their daughters at the age.. of. i Laud 12 yeas, in '
tram to secure them from violation. . . .