The Sun.
London, England, 1806-07-17 00:00:00

FOREIGN "INTELLIGENCE.

VIENNA, JUNE 26.—The execution of the Tmty
of Presburgh, and the Peace which was to foll Ow.,
havens length taken place. The Russian Forces that
landed at Cataro havd received positive orders to re-
embark ; and the Austrian Troops, who were-to
receive' that place from their hands, a&ually got tu-'
der weigh from Trieste on the 17th inst. On the
other hand, a Courier, who arrived here on the same
day from Paris, has brought to our dourt the official
assurance of the approaching match of the French
Grand Army of Germany for France.
M. D'Ounam, having learned that affairs were so
far-arranged, and having received from St: Peters-
burgh -his final instruCtions, went from hence on the
23d for Paris. From this mission a reconciliati6n•
between the two Powers is generally expeeted. In
the interval, the Austrian Government • wishes to
avail itself of the first moments of repose to re'.
establish its affairs. Among other things, 'the Go-
vernment bestows particular attention upon the Army,
IS to be regulated under the auspices of the
Archduke CHARLES. ,
The Austrian Officers on leave- of absence have
received orders to join their respeCtive COrps without,
delay.

BASLE, JUNE 30.—The complaints urged against
the Court of Vienna by several of the Swiss Cantons
are upon the point of being adjusted. Baron Ca uNPI-,
rEN, the Austrian Envoy, has declared, in the name
of his Sovereign, that His Majesty had- determined
upon doing justice to the claims of the Cantons, re-
lative to Swiss property,sequestrated,in Austria, ac-
cording to the usages in such case made ail provided.
HAGUE, JULY Royal Dec'ree of the' 7th
states, that His Majesty, being wiling to spew a
mark of his favour to his faithful City of Amsterdam,
has ordered the ancient trophies of vi&ories obtained
by sea, and deposited at the Hacrue, to be removed
to the Town-House at Amsterdam, it being His
Majesty's wish that this City should increase in that
pre-eminence and respe& to which it is entitled. •
PARIS, JULY 8,—His Holiness has nominated
Cardinal CASSONO Secretary of State, in the room
of Cardinal GONSALVI. Cardinal CASSONI is known
to have been the POPE'S principal Minister for the
Temporal Government of his States ; he was also
created Cardinal by the present Pontiff.
Notwithstanding all the assurances we receive,
lative to the a&ual Negotiations bet .veen our Gu-
vernment and
,that of Great 'Britain, hitherto it is
not in the power of any one to say noV.- far the work
is., advanced, nor what are to be the conditions of
the Peace. Buth parties seem studiously to COll,
the particalars of the Negotiation; and it is very
proly.ble that the.Preliminal-les of Peace will an-
nounced before we know any thing certain of the
Negotiations.

ST. PETERSBURGH, JUNE I 1. The troubles n
the Frontiers of Persia appear to turn to. onr advan-
tage. The two merchant vessels belcoging to n.e
Manufadory of. Alexandrowsky have- sai.ect 111
C'ronstadt for North America; loaded with 11:issian
pioduce.and merchandize.
In consequence of per Mission given,'. the Grand
Hunter, DEMETRI Ds NMIASKIN, has left Russia, .
with his Lady, for the purpose of travelling.
NApt.Es, JUNE 24.--On the t 441 inst the powder,
Magazine of the fort of Civitella was struck by
lightning. The vault of the building was blown' up;
as were' hotne.other buildings. Sev,eral places in the
neighbourhood received some damage ; one wo-
man Was killed, and a number of persons were
wounded..

NEW-YORK, JUNE 14.—A letter from a respea-
able Merchant at Curacoa„ to a Gentleman in Bos-
ton, dated May 6, says-- MIRANDA'S scheme of
making a revolution on the Spanish Main, is entirely
frustrated; be only escaped by the superior of
his Ship. Two of his Tenders, laden with all kinds
of ammunition, and 60 men of his troop's, have Ellen
into the hands of the Spaniards ; he himself timght
fora quarter of an hour, with a Sisanish armed Brig,
near Porto Cavell° ; but Le was obliged to cut his
cables and run.

After touching at 'Jacque*l, to solicit assist-
ance from the Blacks, which he tOuld not get, he
came to Aruba ten days ago, gave t 000 dollars for
a pilot, and went from hence to Bonaire, where he
remained two days to prepare for action,, and, pro-
ceeded further to:the Spanish Coast, incompany with
two Schooners. He fell in with two armed Brigs
,near Laguira, who engaged him, and captured: the
two Tenders. Every individual there L under arms,
and well prepared to receive him.
,He fought with-
out colours. This information was received by our
Government here ; and it is since confirmed from
every part of the Spanish Main."
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• .
NEW YORK, JUNE 14.—We learn by the Brig
Resolution, from Trinidad, that a few days before
She sailed, Admiral ComiasNr. dispatched his Son,
,in: the .Tason Frigate,' with the Flying 'Fish Tender,
to cruise for MIRANDA off the Coast of BarcelOna
and Carraccas, and to give hint assurance, that every
;assistance in the power of the British Squadron
should be given to forward the suCcess'of his En-
terprize. The Plying Fisk had returned to Trini-
dad, and the Lilly Sloop of War had been sent
to replace her. No intelligence by the Tender had
transpired; but the prompt sailing of the Lilly
gave rise to much speculative opinion. No account
had reached Trinidad, of the capture of MIRANDA'S
two Schooners. A report prevailed, that che Ar-
mourers employed at 'Cumana by•the Spanish Coe;
vernment had been apprehended and executed on a
charge of having rendered unfit for service the mu"-
kets that had been entrusted to them to repair..

The East Devonshire and Northumberland Mi-
litia will relieve the Royal Cheshire at East-Bourne,
which is to march to Lewes.
A Fitth Edition is•announced of Mr. SUR n's Win-.
ter in London. Na Novel has been read With such
avidity since Miss BURNEY'g Cecilia, five thousand
copies having been sold in less than three months..
The young woman of genteel appearance, who.
called herself Miss Hope, &c. and who was sup,
'posed to be the same who'travelled thecoutitry with
'a -man who represented himself as a Capiatu in the
16th Dragoons, by which tine he defcande:d
gigtrates, has been taken into custody for pasting
fi&itious notes in, the vicinityofth," Clifton,
Her depredations on the property of tra,lespe,,ple
the metropolis was of great magnitude, but she ‘44lf:s
not appear to have been levying contributions in the
country many dayS before she was deteded.

LZTV Rt;PPRT.

COURT OF K ING's BENCH, jilLy c 6

SItTINGS' AVTER TERM, BEFORE LORD ELLENBOR*OVGH

AND “ECIAL AT ,GUILDHALL;

THE KING V. BROWN.

This was an indietinent for perjury, on the infor-
mation of Eknry Halsey, Esq. of Henley Park, in
the County of Surrey against the -Defendant, for
his steward.
Mr..GAßaow, Mr. Woon, and Mr. Serjeant 01,1--
ELow, were of Counsel for 'the Prosecution. They
stated, as was alsoalledged in the itiiiktment, that,
attracted, by
,an advertisement in the Newspapers', in
the Defendant offered himself as- a person
versant in the management of the farming business,
in tile buying and selling 9f cattle; in the valuing of
land; and in agricultural affairs in general, and in
which, in -a sweeping clause, he' professed himself
ready to be useful in every respect, so far as lay in
. power, Mr: Halsey engaged him,' on trial, for
ooe month, at the rate of three guineas; at the ex-
piry of that month, at one guinea per week; af-
terwards at one guinea and, a half per week ; and,

finally, at one hundred- pounds per The
original engagement took place in the beginning of
July, 1790, and the final rise of salary in the year
t 799. • FroM the period of the Defendant's enter
ing into-the service'of Mr. Halsey, till the year 1800,
'appeared that he had regularly-exhibited. his ac-
counts to his employer; from that date,, however,
though often 'impgrtuned to , do so, he _never gave
him any' farther satistialon than could be collected
. .

from a disjointed scrap of paper, which he occasion-
ally furnished to Mr. H. unifoEmly,evading the ex-
hibitng of any.reglalar account. In this way he
wenton.till November, 1804, when Mr; H. being
convinced that the Defendant could not have pos-
sessed himself of less of his (Mr. FL.'s) property than
to the_ amount of 10,0001. filed a bill against him
in Chancery; and had since got judgment against
bun for 50001. for Which sum he was now in prison.
In his answers to the interrogatories before the

Master on these points, the Defendant swore, in
opposition to printed charges in the Bill, that he had
'nut originally eno-wed with Mr. H. at any small speci-
tic salary; that hee had not engaged to superintend his
tythes at Farnhain '; and that, to the best of- his
knoMedge'and belief, he had- not at any, alter pe-
riod engaged to 'accept of the salaries specified in the
Bill filed agAinst him. So far ,the contrary, the
Defendant, in his answer, claimed a quantum meruit,
Which he rated at wool. per annum, besides several
sums for specified 'services, amounting to -10001.
5001. and 2501. On these different ads of per-
jury, ps they were charged to be, the inditinient
was laid. • .
• Mr. Townshend, the Gentleman who, at Mr.
Halsey's
,request, originally conversed with the De-
fendant, proved that he was originally engaged on a
trial for a 'numb, at three guineas, and that.for that
sum he engaged to'do every thing in which he could
be-useful. .Mr.- Halsey himself also proved, that
s.ome time after the 'expiration of the month of trial
he engaged. the Defendant at a ,guinea -per week,
which he afterwards raised to one guinea and a half
per week, and, it.) the year 1799, to 1001. per ann.
He (Mr. H.), at the time the Defendant came into.

his service, had a Steward, who lived at Farnham,
' who .superintended his tythes-of that Parish, and who
did not quit his service till-Christmas, 1796. He,
however, repeatedly took the Defendant thither, even
during the month of trial, to shew him the mode of
conduCting business there; regarding that as part of
the duty which he had- undertaken to perform. -In
addition to this evidence there was'also produced the
books, kept by the Defendant himself, in which he,
iii numberless instances, credited himself with his,
Salary of one guinea, one guinea and a half per
week, and one hundred pounds per annum.
-Mr. RICHARDSUN, in a very lngenious address to
the Jury,- insisted that the Defendant could not, in
any of the counts in the indiiiment, in which he
swore to the best of his recollection or belief, have
committed the crime of peijury, as it was impos-;
sible, at the distance of ten years, to say whit his re
collection on' that subject might have been. This,
therefore, threw- aside six of the eight counts in' the
indictment ; and the only two which remained were
those in which the Defendant was charged with Lay-
ing 'orginally -engoged to perform his duty at a small
stipulated saary ; and with having taken on himself,
in that agreement, the management of Mr. H.'s
tythes of Farnham. That the Defendant could not
originally have taken on himself the burden of per-.
forming the stipulated service of Mr. H. at any given
.sum, the Learned Counsel contended was 'apparent
-from this circumstance, that, as the Bill in Chancery
could not be filed for the purpose of knowing what
was the sum at which the month's trial was to be
entered into, but only for the purpose_of ascertain-
ing the after terms of the engagement, and these
terms not being immediately settled, - but following
afterwards, it Was impossible to say that'the Defend-
ant originally 'entered into such an agreement.—
Again, as to the charge of the,Delendant's having
falsely sworn that he did not then undertake the
management of the Farnham tythes, this, the Learn-

ed Counsel contended, it must besapparent he did
not.then, in the beginning ofJuly, when it was con-
sidered that another person was employed as Steward
over them till Christmas foll Owing.•
Lord ELLEiagoitoo.ca laid it 'clown to the Jury,
that six Out of the eight counts in the indietment
must necessarily be laid out of their consideration, on
the ground stated by the Counsel for the Defendant,
particularly as the incliamenf did not there apply,
in so far as it did not give a negative to the assertion
of the Defendant, that, " to the beSt of his know-
ledge and recolledion," no specific salary was then
fixed, but only asserted the fact that .53aCh salary had
been fixed, without giving a negative to the Defend-
ant's kndwledge or recollection. As to the other
two remaining counts, the Jury would judge, fst, If
the original engagement with the Defendant, When
a provisional service only was entered into, could be
said to warrant the charge, that a certain small sa-
lary had then been fixed; and of 'course that the
Defendant, in denying that charge, had been guilty
of perjury ?---2d, It would be for the Jury to'consi-
der the print which he thought most seriously de-
served their consideration, whether the Defendant,
in swearing that he had not engaged to superintend
the tythes of Farnham, had not been guilty of per-

jury, having engaged; ,as Mr. tr. had sworn, to do
every thing for him in which be-cOilld be useful,
The Jury, afar retiring-for about a "quarter'of an
hour, returned ti verdia a---Noi Guilty.