The Sun.
London, England, 1808-11-21 00:00:00

SPA2VISH PAPERS.

CORtYNA, Nov. 15.—General BAIRD and his
Suite left this place yesterday Morning for the army.
-The cavalry have not commenced their march. The
Transports which brought them otit sailed yesterday
for Falmouth. 'lt'is confidently stated, that General
BLAKE has been, superseded by the Marquis DE LA
ROMANA.

CoRONNA, NQV..l2.—The day before yesterday
the Prince of WALES'S Regiment of- Dragoons dis-
embarked in this port. It is impossible to conceive
a finer corps of men and horses than this regiment.
(Corunna Diary, Nov. 12.) •

_ .
SEVILLE, O. 2l.—The Foreign troops of the
French army, 'who were made prisonerS in the bat-
tle of Baylen, 350 in number, had all enlisted in one
of the Walloon regiments of Spain.—(Oviedo Ga-
A 7
zette,l 2VOV. 5.)

SALAMANCA, OCT. 29.—The Corregidor of this
city has given public_ notice to the inhabitants that
a corps of; 10,000 English troops is to pass through
this town, and. inviting them to give these gallant
troops , that cordial reception which all good and
loyal Spaniards constantly receive in England, and
which in every point of view.if due io our noble and
generous Allies.—(The same Paper.)

OVIEDO, Nov. 3.—Letters from Villaroayo, of
the 28th of last month, state, that on, the 25111 the
army of the left, composed of the troops of Galicia
and Asturia, fought a very sanguinary battle, in
which the enemy was defeated with very cons:der-
' able loss in killed, woimded, and prisoners; the lat-
ter are said to amount to 800. The further parti-
culars of that important event are nut yet known.—
(The same Paper.)
MALAGA, OCT. 12.—His ExCellency L;eutenant
General REDING, our much respected Governor,
left this town on the sth, considerably regretted.
That gallant warrior, the Conqueror of. Baylen, is to
take the command in Chief of the army Of this kin,Y-.
dom. Before his departute,he was presented by the
grateful inhabitants with a beniniful sword, on the,.
hilt of which is the following inscription :—" The
grateful people of Malaga to their•Governor,-Gene-
ral REDING, the deliverer of their native country,
„and the conqueror of the French in Baylen.".—(4la-
dricl Gaetta, you. 4.)
BADAJOZ, OCT. 28.—The capital of Estremadura
had yesterday the honour to receive the conquerors
of JVNOT. At two o'clock in the afternoon arrived
. here the 7 Ist regiment of English troops, command-
ed by General HOPE ; the people received their be-
nefattors with expressions of theutMost gratitude'
and joy.—(The same Paper.)
VILLLAFRANCA;OCT. 24.—0 n the 21st the regi-
'nient of Savoy, from Valencia, arrived at the head-
quarters here, and the day before yesterday the
sion of the Marquis LAZAN entered Lerida. • -
The situation of-the inhabitants of Barcelona, en-
slaved and oppressed by the tyrannical yoke of the
enemy, becomes every day more distressing. The
contributions are no longer sufficient to satisfy the
avarice \of their plunderers, who have recourse to
domiciliary visits, and pra&tice their robbery under
the colour of policy ; of this nature • is the follow-
ing decree.

The:General of Division, LECH', Superior Corn-
mander,
decrees as follows :
Att.r. I:. No person, of whatever rank, shall
keep in his -house, or any other place, a greater
quantity of rice and oil than shall be sufficient tor
the consumption of his family alone for two months,
without giving intOrmation of it within three days
to the Commissary General of the Police.

11. Such quantities of rice and oil as may be found,
not having been notified to the Commissary General
of the. Police within the said time, shall be seized
and taken from the concealers.

111. Whoever shall discover and give information
to the Commissary Geueral of the Police, after the
said term, of any quantities of rice and oil, shall re-
ceive one-fifth Of the quantities so discovered as a
reward, and his name shall not be made known.
Iv. The Commissary General of Police shall fix
the price at which the said commodities shall be sold
during the said two months. .
V. Every pt•rson who shall be discovered to have:
sold rice and oil at &higher price than that at which •
they shall be fixed during the said two months, shall:
suffer a fine of 25,000 sueldos.

(Signed)
Approved by the, General .Commander in Chief,
.Barcelona, 051,..`15,1808. - • DUHSSME.

WALSH AND NIPETT7S BANKRUPTCY.—Saturday !,1
the second.meeting of the creditors under the aboxe
commission took place,- when Mr. REYNOLDS, as the
inforffieti th'e Court, that the • Cornthis-
sioners- had ed the Case ofthe clainiant s .with
regard to the Lottery, .and as AVAcsti.and Nisßer-r!I
• did contra with Government, and had the 50;000 .;
ticket' "in their-possession, inia \that the original sub-
esaitlerswereto participate in.protitandloss,in-propor-
tion to their respettive shari4 *On the
-tbicy considered the. original subscriters in this re-
spea as partners, and therefore could not admit them ~
to proVe their debts. As to those to whom Sub-;
• scribers' shareS were transferred; they could not in
the present. stage of the •business; allow them tos.
prove. As to stock claims, it appeared.to the .Cona-
tniSsioriers necessary that they shonld:44e;investigat&l:
lion) hooks. The printer's claims, being conneeted,
with the Lottery, muSt- also be defeired ; and. as a
petition to the LORD CHANCELLOR), Gild the investi-;
gation of those intricate accounts could not probably be'
decided for some time, the meeting ;:vas adjourned to'
Dec. the iath. Mr. PAGE, Messenger, was pro,
fornia appointed the provisional Assignee. Mr.
CliAnnisHs then stated that, in the interim, claims
might be sent to Messrs. SaiiTH and :TiLsotq, the
Solicitors to the Commission, that they might be
enquired into, and those intricate accounts be inves-
tigated in another place. Some trifling claims were!
. proved, and, the meeting bra ,e up. •
Five recruits, belonging tb 'the 2d Battalion of the:
"11 th Regitnent,, at Maidstone, some days since in-
veigled a servant girl of that town into a meadow,-
called Barrow's -Field, where they all with the
brutality, violated her person—fortunately her,
cries brought several persons to the spot, and three
of the ruffians were secured and. committed to Maid
stone gaol.
.;,,
Friday morning, early,. the _premises of Grome
Parker, Esq. on .Tower-Hill, were robbed of .501)1.
by thieves . who gained assess by boring a lioW
through the window.

L.ltl" REPORT

COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. TS.

RUNNING AWAY A WARD

Sir SAMLIVI, Et)ALLLLY informed the Court, that
Capt. Plyirdey, under contempt for, running away
with a Miss Castles, a' Ward of this Court, and mar-
rying her at ;Gretna Green, was ready tO make. a
proper settlement upon Mrs. Plyniley. fic also ob-
served; that with respect to the rank
,in ,life and si-
tuation of the parties, there Was no material dispa;-
city. The parties had met at a sister of the Captain's,
at Teign Mouth. Mrs. Castles, the mother of the young
lady, resided at Exeter. While on the visit the yoUng
laxly was ininced to go on a matrimonial ex-
cursion to Gretna Green.. These tvere the short
facts of the case. Capt. Plymley is a Naval Officer.
The Loan CHANCELLOR ordered that Captain..
Plymley should be committed for the present to his
Majesty's prison of the Fleet.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 19.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved for leavq.4o-filp.',
a criminal information agaipst Mr. Sampson,a Ma-,
gistrate of the County of Devon, 'for having,
.as.it
was alleged, from improper motives, refused to grant
a licence to a Terson of the name of Downing, to
continue keeping a public-house at Colleton, which
had been a public4ouse for upwards of sixty years—
and against the contluet of its occupier there was no
complaint whatever.

The Court, after hearing the detail of the circutu-
siances; granted a rule ►o sne,A cause.

MuItAT, it is known, during the period of his Go-
vernment in Spain, sent out instructions, conunis-
Mons; &c. to all parts of the Spanish trausmarine
possessions—some of these have been intercepted by
our cruizerS, and some are known to have failed to
produce the desired etre6l, but there are others, the
results of which are unknown, and which are look-
ed for with some solicitude.

Lieutenant-Governor LE MAR CHANT, of the Royal
Military College, at High 'Wycombe; has set',ouc,on
a special military commission to Portugal.
The Danish Papers state; that, there are between
40 and 50 Swedish Officers, and upwards of 1100
privates, prisnners in Norway. The,frontier distriets
have suffered exceedingly from the war.
FIRE.—An alarming fire took place on Friday
night last, of riagen ha tn, in Essex, 'which, in little
more than two haus,, consumed the, whole of the
stabling, barns, and outhouses, with seven ricks of
corn and hay, and what is an *ddition to the cala-
mity, seven•fine horses were burned to death. It
raged so furiously, that it was been for twenty miles.
round; each spectator thinking it close to him. It
appears to have arisen from the carelessness of a horse
keeper, who had left a lighted candle in an unguard-
ed situation in the stable. The' loss is very heavy,
and we are told is notinsured.

' Yesterday morning early, the premises of Mr:
iri Red Lion-yard, Red Lion-s!'reet, 'Clerke.n-
well-green, I.vern forcibly entered, and robbed of
property to the amount of upwards Of ";061.
The small-pox rages at present with uncommon
violence at Wellington, lietley; Ste. In the neigh-
bourhood of the latter place, 21 children are said to
'have died in one week ot 'that diSeaSe.

. . .
Two negroes were lately executed at St. Vincent,
for the murder of a runaway slave, whose body, after
they had perpetrated the horrid deed, theY had
buried ; and nearly 18 months had elapsed berbie it
was discovered,Thesagacityof a dOg led tot he know-
ledge of the spot where the torpse was interred; and ,
the men, upon hearing the circumstance, were so'
terrified that they voluntarily delivered themselves '
up to justice. . • .
. .
A parcel containing Bank notes, to the amount .
of 'souol.' which was supposed to have been stolen
from the Ipswich and Norwich, Mail, it has since
been discovered was put into theiliath.Mail by mis- •
take, and has been returnedl,safe.

'Qn Thursday evening, as Mr. Platt., of Kewsroad,
Richmond, was travelling in a post-chaise, on his
Way to Hackney, his trunk; containing several ar-
tides of considerable value, was cut froth the chaise,
near Threadneedle-street, with which theyillaS
made their escape. .
• Six men were lately killed, and two dangerously
wounded, by the explosion of kul air in Golclen-
hill•Colliery, Staffordshire.
It aftbrds us great pleasure to observe that the au-
thor of the ff Military Mentor," a work of extraor-
dinary merit, his announced three Volumes of E,4-
saysiun theMOFlern,.Artot War.' .No. work could be
More seasonable or patriotic at t time when the sal-
vation of bivil theiety depends on superiority of tac-
tics and inilitarfla.), • ,
BUONAPARTL—THE EXILE— AND CA RTER
The Corsican run off; from Spain—the Exile
on at:the Haymarket—nnd such is the run
after the present. popular. Lottery, th,tt 'all those who-
hare Jun out, are running to. CAUTER's, No. 8,
Charing Cross,,. where. Fortune's Wheel is sure to
run round 'in their favour.

CoiN-EXCHANGE, New. 21..L,-The expeaed sup..
plies of Wheat are at length arrived in abundance,
and sales are very dull, at a reduaion in price ,of
about ss: per quarter on fine, and more On inferior ;
Barley ready sale at last' prices ; . Malt likewise ;.
Pease and Beans of the two kinds fiu6tuate but little ;
there are scarce any arrivals of Oats, and the few at
band are dearer ; Flour. about ss: per sack-cheaper.
Wheat 645 a 745 a 90$ od Tick Beans -68 s a 745 od
'fine ditto (new) 9zs z. 945. od Oats - 38$ a 42 a 46a od
RYe - • sis a 599 ekl Poland dittu 47s a 48s od.
Barley - Os a szt: od Potatoe --s a 495 od
Mali - E,2S a 89,., Rape Seed . 451 a 481 —Ed
White Pease x3os a 1405 od Fine Flour Sos a 855 od,
Grey ditto . 56s a Ozs od Seconds 75s a Sos cd
Beans • - • 765 a 22a od

SMITHFIELD MARKET,'Nov. zr.
This day's market was well supplied with prime
beasts, and the she** of eattiv. in other respeas. was
considerable; Mutton is cheaper than our last re-
port ;-- Pork and Veal are dearer; Beef supports last
price, and the trade in general was tolerably" briS.k.
The sales in the Haymarket were pretty lively; Hay
and Clover have fallen in price since Friday's mar-
ket ; Straw sold at last price.—We Subjoin an accu-.
rate statement of the prices and numbers

• Iv sink the Offal per stone of 81b.
Beef 4s. od. to 4s. Bd.—Moi ton 3s. ,vl.: to 4s. 6d. —Veal
ss, od. to 7s. od.—Lamb os. od, to f;s.94.—Pork ss. 6d.; to,
o'ir. •

• Beistt, 2,6oo.—Sheep, 16,500. 220.—Pigs, 250.
Hay Sl. os. cd. to 61. 6s. 'od.-.-Clover 61, ootod, ta 71.
7bs, od.—Straw ;1. 12s. od. t 0 d, 184. Qd•

Rom tit,, LONDON GAZETTE, Niaf.

At the Court at the. Queen's Rllace, tho 16t ,of
November, 1808, present the KING'S most .87i.•
cellent Majesty 'in Council:
His Majesty having been pleased to appoint Sir C.
Brisbane, Km. Capain in. the Royal Navy, to be
Captain General arid Governor in Chief of the Island
of St. Vincent, Bequia, and such other of the Islands
commonly cafled the Grenadines, as lie to the North-
ward of Cariacou, in America, he, this day took
the usual Oaths appointed to be taken by the Gov et-
notsvof his Majesty's Plantations,