The Sun.
London, England, 1808-12-16 00:00:00

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in Lean. We ]earn by letters frotn
7r met; are armed and sent oti from that-.phiee.
ith Anthost activity, to reinforce the array in.
viciiiity Sotnisuri. They are all in high . spi-
and-determined to give the French a ,ivai•in
fare to curry the ipsulent plan
o,execuitol► watch they seeru to !roe couceived.
Sotne letter.; state, that NAPOLPOIIII'cis r: turned
to I'll Is, it,-coti:7eriuetitce of intenigettee reeeivt.d trt,,n
tit-it Capital; they a id, that the att.sian
his -departure trona Cartlragena, teevi.‘e.d
irtst.rs from t.is Court, and..he promised us very ta.
y.s,..riible tidings within a short time. Altiaoug,h
thi4 pi. ceof intormation h.-! true, yet we must
!Mt sale otmetve:: to be lulled into a state of inglo•
vily, uut hunate the energy of Arra,gon, Madrid,
• Hid other parts, if we wish to attain the desired

attention of the whole world h. fixed on us.
I. is uta‘'eriaily t4ettted that our &ids should'keep
kith our a..sertions, and that, true to our na,

dignity ;loci honour, we .should•readity sat:67
our Jives to ward off the ignorniniotis yoke uith
s loth we are thrt,atened:

The night before List, arrived in this port the
Eihiish. Packet called Eliza, and brought us letters
Anil English Newspapers up to the 22d.-4Corrinna
Dec. 2.

, . .
OVIEDO, Nov. 21.—The consequences of the at-
tacks of the -I nth -and l ith inst. at.Espinoa de los
`Motitenos, although They proved unfortunate, on
account of tilt loss of our intrepid General UCeveclo,
hive nut turned out so calamitous as they were re-
presented by timid or ill-informed , persons. The
etielny, according to intelligence which has reached
u;,. has advanced to St. Vicente de la Barquera,
I6o°- men strong, with some horse, but .retreated
"soon after they 'previously attacked some of our
troops, who behaved well on the occasion. We
lave neither any paiticulars nor official accounts of
'the action, but this is certain, that the Marquis de la
•l tfm;ina. soon after marched with the 4tti division
to rekicchpy the position of Columbus, By order of
the Supreme Junta, the General iii Chief Of the
Army of Reserve is also marching with the troops
who appear "necessary to cover Columbus and other
important points. The troops dispersed, in conse-
quence of the above attioa, are rallying, and on the
point,of rejoining their banners and CMOS, to`dis-
-.play again the same valour as they did in the attacks
of Bai naceda and Espinosa. Their great -gallant
behaviour, deserves the more admiration,, it the state
of hunger and the extren.e abandonment be, consi-
dered 'which several corps found themselves.
Our loss in Officers wick soldiers, in point of nuts-
ber, are very small, but extremely painful, on account
or the deaths of the t ‘.vo gallant Generals, Don \Tin-
::::nte Muria Auvedu and Don Gregorio Bernaldo .de
Clueru,,in wnom %,‘ ere united man uncommon de-
gree, intrepedil, mil iary experietice, and the most
agent patriotism. Yet their severe' loss ought out
to uispirit A.sturians, as They know full well there
ate others sub exi.11:.16, properly qualified to lead
Lima on to victory and g10ry.77-COznedo Gazette,
fzto,)
Listsow, N0v.16.-..The army Which is organiving
in this country, pursuant io the order of the likgency
Governinrst, wilt be composed i. 16

Itileu & horses
Six battalions of chasseurs, of 628 men each - 3,7(38
cv, enty-tour regiments of int:Autry or t33o•rnen each 37,200
Tv, eve revnents of cavalry 0f7,1:.S
594 nleo
.1. arty -tiglat regiments or WAWA OA ito3 men' 5z,848
100,944
7,r28

Total amount ot men
' and horses .
And four regiments of artillery of 6000 men..- (Co-
riviiia Diary, Dec. 2.)
TODELA, Nov, t I.—By the information which
has been given by a spy to General Castanos, we
have learned, that the whole number ot the French
that are ILI Navarre, amounts to 25,000, and that the
reserve is composed of 6000 Dutch 'troops, whom
Napoleon had brought under prLtext of forming a
paid ot honour for his brother Joseph. • -
Ihe nead-quarters, it is said, have been trans-
ferred to Cinli*gO, thrde leagues from this city.
At seven in tile evening, orders were given for the
troops who are here to march out at ten, in order to
be at break of day in CapartoSa, which point has
been attacked by the division of Senor Mare, who
yesterday marched to Sabada. Other divisions w;11
pass the river over bridges, and attack Lodoso in the
rear.

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MADRID, Nov. 19.—According to advices which
we believe to be authentic, we _learn that the thad
brother of Senor Palafox had taken the command of
the army of Tudela. In concert with his brother,
they met on the 12th at day-break, Palafox himself
LodoSa, and his brother by Rancesvalles. The
forn,er took the bii(!ge of Lodosa. The French
fell back upon it; but tied at the first discharges...—
The dragoons of Pavia- and Farnese pursued them.
They kilk-d a great otunber; the action concluding at
two tit the afternoon, When the head-quarters were
established ;it CapaqoAo. Twelve pieces of cannon
its ere - alien;‘ and. the French lost 49 prisoners, and
about 5600 10!1ed. The brother of-Palafox likewise
routed them cts,7upletely.
Our troops in loth armies base suffered a loss of
from ioo to 1000 uen in killed and wounded ; that
ct the ent...My is nest less than 1.5,000 in killed,
sounded, and some pfa;Oners.
• Orders hate been b 0-11.tev, that if buhesrue and his
troops, in Barcel,,na,do tat surtender by the 20th,
they shall-be lint to the sword. The castles have
been bath red for, these last-)Z4 hours on the side
et Ll.,bregat and .Besos.

'EVANTIAGo, N v. 14.—The last tvrt of the Eng-
lisi‘ division tuch had remained here for some days
ri:,.rched yesterday, and the day before yesterday, to
!tt duethon of Lugo, to join the rest (..f the trt,ops
hat are at, their march to Burgos, which city will
be. the head-quarters of an army of 60,000- innn,
composed of English, Portuguese, and Spiinish

• By a communication made to General Sir David
,Baird, it is known that the firEt division of tha
troops under his command had arrived at Astorga
-A;; ;1•-e likewise assured that the English cavalry,
*Well disembarked Corunaa, instead of coming to
this Lily, will proceed (lirealy to join the army,

Letters florn Heligoland contain some distressing.
of the ctatii:sge.occasioned by a seyere gale.
ott the 7th instant.

LAIL REPORT,

COURT OF KING'b BENCH, Mc. is.
DAVIS AND ANOTHER U. NOTT AND ANOTHER.

The Plaintiffs are lodorsees of a Bill of Exchange
for 3501. and the Defendants the Acceptors ot it ;
which bill became due in May, 1806, and the Plain- •
oft? names were not upon it. On the formal proof'
being guile through ot the hand-writing, &c. o(the
Th.: ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated, on the part of
the Defendants, that his Clients' defence to this
action was, that the bill was founded in usury, which,
like gaming, vitiated every bill of exchange; even
in the hands of a bonaiide holder, which he did not
.deny t hese plaintiffs. to be. Therefore, if he should •
prove the. usury-, of course the Plaintiffs* could not
repo% er. To support this case for the Defendant,
called upon two persons who were well known in
.tuoney.-and bill negotiations, of the names of Park
and Nugent, whose testimony was, that in the
ojiginal concudion of this bill, there was upwards
of 101. per cent. to be, paid on it by way of bar-
gain. .

Mr. GARROW, after these Witnesses were ex-
amined, treated them as persons not.to be believed
by-a Jury in a Court of Justice, unless their testi-
mony was corroborated by some other, and that
credlate evidence ; and here their testimony was
Wholly unsupported; and as they had lived so long
by impositions on mankind, what they said was to
pass for nothing, unless it was supported by some-
thing else, in a Court-of. Justice.
Lord XLLENBOROLIGH; summing, up the case to
the Jury, observe& that he certainly should not ad-
vise them to pay the same attention to the evidence
of men who were constantly doing these aals which
-are, mala prohibita, and living in -violation of the .
Laws of the Country, by, taking extortionate interest
for the loan .of money. and
,thereby ,oppressing dis-
tressed individuals, as they would to. Witnesses of
unimpeachable diameter; at the same time, these
Witnesses who -had
.been examinedhad,demeanect
.themselves with decency and decortim ; .they had
given. evidence not inc nsistently with each other;
they had answered all the questions clearly. and dis-
tinctly.; and, theretbre, their evidence was not to
.be thrown away,. and to go for nothing in a Court
of Justice, merely because they were engaged in
some illicit praelices; for if that rule were to be laid
dOwn, it would greatly palsy the administration of
civil justice,, and would, in some measure, put an
end to the administration of criminal justice. It
*would palsy the administration of civil justice, be- I
cause, perhaps, there were but few persons who, if
the history of their lives were truly set down and
published, in whose condo& there would not be
found some flaw ; for there were but few who had
not, at some time or other, done some iinporper or
immoral ad; and if that were to—be 2 reason against-
believing them, there would be but few competent
to give evidence a Court of Justice. This dis-
tinction would, in a great measure, deiroy the ad-
ministratioo of criminal justice, because almost one- 1
half of it depended on the testitnony of accomplices,
Confirmed, as it must be, no doubt, by other evi-
deacei and, therefore, it the Jury belieftd-these
'Witnesses, the Defendants were entitled a
Verdict for the Defendants.