The Sun.
London, England, 1808-11-14 00:00:00

STriIIIFORD, Nov. 11.

At the Quarter Sessions of the Peace lOr-lbe; BO-
,rough and Soke of Granthnut, on MonOwlast.,`ii.
Reed, of Denton, was indi6ted fur stealing two
:ducks, the properly of Mr;.,Tyler, of place,
and sentenced to Seven years' transportation. - This
was the second time within twelve months thar":ll
had been brought befure the Court Igg 6iinflar
otFence.

The highwaymen who lately infested the eastern
part of Lincolnshire, and committed thet obbeties
near Horneastle and Boston, made theirappearanti
in the neighbourhobd of this town last week; and bh
Friday evening the 4th robbed Mr., William aid-
more, of Morcott in Rutland, on his 'return from
our market. ' Mr. Prichnore had got as far as
Ream. when ,the• two men overtook him. •He,
like the other persons who • have 'been stopped
by them, took them- for a Gentleman and his
servant, as one rode about twenty yards before
the other, and was mounted on a blood horse.—
The Gentleman entered into conversation with
Mr. Pridmore about the slate of Stamford nitu-
ket,-and demeaned himself very civilly until they
arrived at Foster's Bridge, when he 'suddenly turned
towards Mr. Pridinore; and sternly asked " De you
know who lam ?" Being answered in the negative,
he rejoined " I'll let. you know theni". and imme-
diately, with dreadful imprecations, lie presented a
pistol and demanded Mr. P.'s money, . The latter,
in the alarm of. the. instant, involuntarily took hold
of the barrel of the pistol, which the robber imme-
diately discharged :,, fortunately the nuzzle had a
dire ion which occasioned the shot to pass across
Mr. Pridmore's breast without doing .him any in-
jury. The other robber then rode up, and the two
succeeded in
,pulling Mr. Pridmore from his horse,
which they turncd loose. They then renewed the
demand for money, and obtained a canvas purse,
having in it upward,s,of 101. in cash., . Having asked
Mr. Pridinore for his pocket-book, and been an that he had not one,- they rode back towards
Ketton, and in-a few minutes met Mr, Wiggiri.ton,
of Manton, butcher, whom they attempted to rob;
but his horse fOrtunately springiog forward, he
rode awiy, and they fired atter him without edett

One of the_
,as of genteel appearanceo
little Pitied -po;;;.iand of thin viag."
he wore a -drab`kre'At coat, an Oil-case coverwd hat.,
-and was ninnnted on a yellow bay blood horse. :,The
other is abOut five feet eleven inches high, has 'a 'fresh
Complexion and dark hair, wore a -daiX brown great
coat, appeared like a servant, and rode, a cLi k-bro n
hotie: They dined at. the Old',SalEatiOn Inn, in
Stamford, on Friday, and left the honse abOut live
o'clock. A 'reward of SQI. for:, their apr
prehension. The M-:igistralci, at Bow-street, with
whom the Gentlemen in' th'e-CO:n.l,nision fi- the
County of Rutland. have commnuit:ted on the
subjea of- theie-maranders„ hue ntunated that a
gang of ten or twelqr, known .bighWaymen, 'of
whom the Police OffiCers had been long
have lately lett London, and are supposed to be
Iributed in parties the country,,,, Mr.
,Pre,tty,
Tanner, of Moreot, having a large;Stim of money
about him, had passed - oler Foster' liridge -a few
minutes before the robbery of Mr. Pridinor2, and
heard the report of the pistol.
On Saturday evening Mr. .JarneS- Lightfobf, of
Kirton Fen, was stopped near Bo ton by two armed
highwaymen, who Ribbed him of 331.: 12,;. and
his horse, which they drove before then) towards
Boston.

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At the fair at this place on Thesday there was an
Unusual number 'of store beasts and sheep, and near-
ly all were readily. disposed of. Fat stock Were,
heavy of sale. The horse fAir was small the shew"
principally of the cart kind. Black wits sold
,at
great prices.
On Saturday evening a servant to Mr.' Webster,.
of Dean, in Northamptonshire, drowned herself 'in Jt
Mond. 'Disappointed love is, supposed to have oc-
casioned her to destroy hirnself,,

' As Many of the fefVent well wishers Of the •glor
rious CatisCt• of the Spanish 'N'aiton. seem to'apprer
Mend that the first' great disaster that may befit' th,:ir.
' grand army now assembling, inay break the 1301 e
• spirit hitherto so successfully displayed all over the
peninsula, and',,asthat appielienlion plainly appears
to be.chiefly4Loundecl upon:ltte efroiteovii idea, !hat
the -oppnso,on"':Of Spanish patriotislit to
treaeh4ry IfaS,'lbeett occasioned I:iy 6ircnnitatices,
merely incidegil; and is not the result of feelings
intro ately blended with the national *charaoeriqf
that Much' injured ptfople, we beg leave to reeet.;
these alarmists, for the correction of their. error, to
a , Pamphlet seleCed from Ar raft' s Spirit of :#lO.-
liures. This work, tvas.Written in November 174 h
and published by the unforttitiate and heroic PALM,
of Erlangen, at a time wherfanirjorte publicl);"lLts'•-,
, serting that the Spaniards would. scion be towd,
from their lethargy, and oVer.Wh4ir 'their oppressors.
With terror and d:sthity,, coUrd'nOt, kat ex:pect. to be,
treated as a wild Visiontry..,,Spain,dnd "Poriugal pp-
peared to be irrecoverably" last,. tid iNTAi.Or.roN was
almost generally thought to have totally-}destroyed
What little of national spirit might have been left in
those devoted countries. :But .4.4kuir was, (5f a 01.;
ferent opiniOn.,. After hiving tracedti;edegradatiOri
of the Spanish' *peopAej'io its oi7ginar cause, and
placed
.their national,chara6ter in a properipoint, of
view, he anticipitates,. from 'the . nature
~of &is
country, and the. charaEter of the inhabitants, the
approach of better times. He says, .page <243. in
:be original, and page i l in the translation:—
' "'The time of redemption. will come, nor is it
distant. .Spain
.will be obliged'Yo...recover, life and .
strength by her -own exertion,. and 116Urish more
gloriously on that account: POrt4al remain-Iff
state of servitude, as she deserves ; for, sena:ate-4
frOm* Spain, it iS ati .e.cresence dna sound bod Y..
The priests will 1)e stripped of their glory, and the
'kings of their thrones, if they will not take the
Management of the helm irr their own hands. Then
• the Spaniards will again beconie What. they once
were, one of the most a'clinired and' poweriul.iiii-
tions in Eur,:pe.".
Speaking of BtfONAPARii, and his relation to th 6
French et,ooe-, says, (page t0())—:-
" Id° not belie,ve that any Frenchman, howeier
iersatilb and 'amiable he might have been, could
have succeeded so quickly and effectually in gaining
the French people, as Nikilotii"oN. The stern,
and treinendoUs NAPOLEON, -appeared as -a
foreign power, as omnipotent late, totally lade.-
pendent of them, but intimately 'COnnetc.ted with
thei.nation by--the recollectiod' cit- his uncommon
feats.' They have not as yet been-chpable of feeling
the littleness which he betrays ; they 'behold, only
the dreadful power of which he is the ! represeuta-
tive ;_and Frenelt levity-is-by- his apparent greatness
prevented :frotp. giving room to sober reflection.
They hate him,' but also tear him. This is -the
charm that fixes-all daggers in the scabbarcll,,ancl ter-
ror. prevents them from seeing how 'safe-it would be
to strie the blow.".

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It was this; passage that Was alliedged by PAL:4'6
murderers as the leading ground of the sentence of
death pronoun Ced upon hint by the hired 4ecu-
lioners of thl.yrant.

„ •
MADAME MARA.—This once celebrated singer
has, according.,to the Gertaan Papers, retired. to au
estate which she has purchased in Poland. During
her late residence at Moscow, her companion Florio
was involved in 4 very unpleasant atLiir. A letter
signed Richard Fioria, written ,in. French, and filled
i with nveCtives against
.the ,Russian Government,
was put into the post-office at St. Petersburgh. The
person it was addressed. to handed it over to the
Police. Florio was apprehended at Moscow, and
conveyed prisoner to St. Petersburgh. Hence, how-
ever, he was speedily released, his name, being not
Richard, but Charles, and it appearing that he
was totally ignorant of the French language. The
Emperor ALEXANDER, on hearing of the circum-
stance, made Floiio rt present of a handsome sun of
money, .over and above the .expences he had been
put to in his journey from Moscow.

Ac.
LATIta-n:ION.-The' following- specimen of this
figure of speech appeared in a •Provincial Journal :
" Died, in the flower of her age, Miss Mary. Har-
rison, daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Harrison;
of Whiddoti Bridge House.—lf •bouridless benevo-
lence be the basigof beatitude, and hatniless hutnis
lity the harbinger of a hallowed heart, these Chris-
tian concomitants_ composed her chara6teristic, and
conciliated' the esteem of her cotemporary ae7
civailitances, who mean to model their nianners, by
the mould of their. meritorious monitor."